Small Town Spooky Podcast 👻🎙️🎧

Spooky small town histories, mysteries and oddities; local cryptids & urban legends. Written & hosted by @reneewrought. Come join the ghoul gang.

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❄️In Part 2 of Small Town Spooky's very special holiday episodes @reneewrought tells weird winter stories. Grab a mug of something hot ☕ snuggle up & prepare urself for a visit from ghosts of winters past.
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#happyholidays #ghosts #nisse #yukionna #wildhunt #urbanlegends #santa

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@grey_graphite Oh this is SO uncool 😐

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B&W photographic negative from Chicago Daily News Collection c. 1902, of a man dressed up as Santa Claus with a terrifying mask and beard, holding a sign "Help send Santa down 10,000 chimneys" on the sidewalk of a commercial street. DN-0001069, Chicago Historical Society

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Have you listened to E09: GHOSTS OF WINTERS PAST yet? Part 2 of the Holiday Special is full of frightening winter tales. Check out this 🧵of images related to the episode. (All images via Wikimedia Commons @wikicommons).
#podcast #spooky #ghoststory #winter #wintersolstice #yule

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Two woodblock paintings, c. 1700 and 1781 of yuki-onna, depicted as a white-clad figures with long dark hair. One stands among drifts of snow, smiling; the other is surrounded by the boughs of a snowy tree.

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I wasn't able to get E09 out on Sunday (Dec 26) like I had planned. The second part of the Small Town Spooky Holiday Special, "Ghosts of Winters Past" will drop later today. <3 Stay warm and hope to spook you soon.

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Thanks everyone for your patience. My last living grandparent passed away on Christmas Eve, and I was taking some time to deal with the grief and be with family. #smalltownspooky #ghostofchristmaspast #holidayhorrors

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Thanks everyone for your patience. My last living grandparent passed away on Christmas Eve, and I was taking some time to deal with the grief and be with family. #smalltownspooky #ghostofchristmaspast #holidayhorrors

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Work smarter, not harder. ☠️🎅🏽
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#smalltownspooky #christmasdecorations #repost

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Or you might invite the Mary Lwyd into your house for a bite to eat and a drink, to ensure your luck for the coming year. If you're cold, they're cold! Bring them inside! Image Source: https://t.co/rfq9C6kWlq

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E08: Horror for the Holidays includes the Welsh tradition of wassailing. The Mary Lwyd Carol (Can Y Fari Lwyd in Welsh) sung by the Mary Lwyd (pictured here) and its followers.

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If you'd like to avoid parting with your food or drink, it's best to have a verse on hand (song, poem or prose) to respond to any thrown out by the Mary Lwyd. (Image is "Mari Lwyd" by IrenHorrors on DeviantArt).

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❄️Seasons Creepings!❄️ I can never remember if the 's' in "seasons" is possessive. 🤔
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Song: Christmas Story by Alex_MakeMusic via Pixabay
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#winter #happyholidays #smalltownspooky

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These guys are selling mistletoe. You buying? Learn the superstitions & folklore of this magical holiday plant in Ep 8 #HorrorForTheHolidays
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B&W photo of mistletoe vendors, Paris 1928 (https://t.co/DenPHmjBLD)
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#1920s #christmas #yule #holidaytraditions #historypodcast

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E08❄️Horror for the Holidays ❄️Happy Winter Holidays, ghoul gang! Your fave festive folklore & spookystory spinner @reneewrought here to put you in the holiday mood. Grab a mug of something piping hot ☕ and settle in! #christmas #yule #gryla #yulelads #yulecat #yokai #saturnalia

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But WHEN will @TheDecemberists release their follow-up album to The Crane Wife and title it The Grain Wife, also known as the Rye-Mother, a terrifying figure from folklore who lurks in wheat fields, snatching up children & turning them feral??