Parlour Stories: Haunted Headaches Edition
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What better way to celebrate Odd Tonic's 1st anniversary than by checking back in with 3 people who submitted their stories last year... for uncanny updates and chilling new tales? Plus, just *how* creepy does Grandma's house need to be to make a grandkid wish summer break was over? Very! Have a listen...
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12 Days of Ghost Stories Collection
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Relive the screams from the 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories, all in one compilation! This deluxe 2 hour episode contains all new commentary for each story from Maxwell and Jennifer, as well as macabre music and enhanced audio!
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 12
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It's the final day of the 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! We've saved the most chilling tale for last, the story of the infamous Bell Witch. Huddle close to the firelight, it's going to get spooky.
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 11
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It's Day 11 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, explore alongside an EMT with a knack for the paranormal, as she rethinks wandering around a notorious floor of a haunted hospital.
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 10
Odd Tonic
It's Day 10 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, we'll visit an apartment with a disturbing feature left off of the listing: a child ghost.
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 9
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It's Day 9 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, we'll go to work with a contractor and an RN, whose hourly pay will have no chance of compensating them for what will be a very weird workshift...
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 8
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It's Day 8 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, accompany a cemetery security guard as his patrol of the grounds becomes more then he can handle.
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 7
Odd Tonic
It's Day 7 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, visit an art class that quickly became a lesson in haunted history!
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 6
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Join us for Day 6 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, we'll meet Linda and her friend Jennifer as they have a fun afternoon creating their own radio program. But what they record will haunt them forever.
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12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories - Day 5
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Join us for Day 5 of Odd Tonic's 12 Days of Christmas Ghost Stories! Tonight, we'll test a brother's nerve as he closes up his family home for the night. Is he really alone? Or is something waiting for him to turn the last light off.
info_outlineMeowing nuns, deadly dancing, and a fever for flowers! Get swept away with Jennifer and Max as they explore maniacal moments from history, when entire populaces were abruptly compelled into incredibly strange behaviors!
Delusions, Madness, and Mania
Show Notes:
Tanzania Laughing Epidemic
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria
http://listverse.com/2009/03/16/top-10-bizarre-cases-of-mass-hysteria/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1962-laughter-epidemic-of-tanganyika-was-no-joke
http://rltz.blogspot.com/2007/05/from-central-african-medical-journal.html
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/02/tanganyika-laughter-epidemic-of-1962.html
The Dancing Plague of 1518
Sources:
https://owlcation.com/humanities/dancing-plague-of-1518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
https://publicdomainreview.org/2018/07/10/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/
Tulip Mania
Sources:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160419-tulip-mania-the-flowers-that-cost-more-than-houses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay:
Weird Sisters
Sources:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/12/middle-ages-mass-hysteria
https://historycollection.co/12-historys-baffling-mass-hysteria-outbreaks/3/
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria
The Lille Boarding School Hysteria
Sources:
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles McKay
http://www.projectcontinua.org/antoinette-bourignon/