Hold onto your plasma, it's the most off-the-rails live show we've done yet, featuring a special guest host, Megan Phillips! She brought her own game, and lots of questions, and yadda yadda yadda, now the episode is two parts long. (We never actually get to the point of mentioning the Drake Hotel in this episode, if that does anything for you.)

This is the story of the Drake Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for: the deep gray milieu; Old Spaghostie Factory; a horrible harness accident; John didn’t read the brochure; are they…dead children?; Winnipeg the Pooh; Old Soaghetti Whore House; and Sally is a pile of dust.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drake_(1826%E2%80%931895)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Chicago)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Hotel_(Chicago)
• https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-hauntings-drake-hotel/
• https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-woman-in-black-at-the-drake-hotel/
• https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-woman-in-black-at-the-drake-hotel/

This one takes place in Scotland, so get ready for accents!

This is the story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist. Come for the ghost, stay for: New Year's pumped and Christmas plumped; those fancy, fancy mole people; oh, crickey!; you’re thinking of Pangaea; Scrooge McDuck, throat goat; serf-cum-stances; and all the people Leonardo da Vinci killed.

Links referenced in the show:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVR7n0-iPE
• https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/notorious-edinburgh-poltergeist-leaves-graveyard-18677465
• https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/one-detail-chilling-final-photo-29774152
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQsJJi9qycY&t=45s

Sources:

• https://www.icysedgwick.com/mackenzie-poltergeist/
• https://www.spookyisles.com/bluidy-george-mackenzie/
• https://eerieedinburgh.com/spooky-stories/f/the-ghosts-of-greyfriars
• https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com/the-mackenzie-poltergeist.html
• https://vocal.media/horror/the-truth-about-the-mac-kenzie-poltergeist
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mackenzie_of_Rosehaugh

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Here's a ghost who has a dog without a head.

This is the story of Geoffrey de Mandeville, the Christmas Eve Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for: Ice for taste; are those both legs?; 0 for 1; Herschel Walker, prison guard; gotta take that head; I will tear thee down to the grapes; a distemper of men; I am a bleeder; and this poor tree.

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Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Mandeville,_Earl_of_Essex
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Mandeville
• https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/25-days-of-christmas/sir-geoffrey-and-the-headless-hound/

Some would say that if you're living in Florida, you've already been dragged down to hell. But you be the judge.

This is the story of the Devil's Chair. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Muppet sex; Looney Tunes style; the Steve Gutenberg Project; liberal horses; it's the Tifa, not the mana; Jacksonville is still the end of the line; It’s an Infinite World; and a bounty crop of wackadoo.

Sources:

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/colby-george-p-1848-1933
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassadaga,_Florida
• https://hotelcassadaga.com/
• https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/31-days-of-halloween/the-devils-chair-of-cassadaga-florida/
• https://www.volusiacountyhistory.com/post/the-true-spirit-of-cassadaga

Additional audio:

• "Hall of the Mountain King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• "vaudeville fanfare" via https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/vaudeville-fanfare-84711/ by roy82

Dead children? Yick! Who runs this show? (It's Ryan Smith, please send him all complaints.)

THis is the story of the Dead Children's Playground. Come for the wee ghosts, stay for: setting the curve; we are working right now; it is cold down here; the woke mind virus; make my tongue warm; feet are black, send them back; I will uncork grandma; ghost economy; and real sexy freaks.

Sources:

• https://www.paho.org/en/who-we-are/history-paho/purple-death-great-flu-1918
• https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/
• https://www.al.com/life/2020/10/the-legend-of-alabamas-dead-childrens-playground.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Hill_Cemetery_(Huntsville,_Alabama)
• https://factschology.com/mmm-podcast-articles/dead-childrens-playground

Welcome to the Kill Bill of the Reconstruction era. Or, as Patrick likes to call it, "Get your Pocohontas out of my Mulan." Good luck to us all. Oh, and we're a Belatro fancast now.

This is the story of Vivia Thomas. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Balatro Boys; pig spout; rubber stamp David; the Trail of Tears game; let’s not make a t-shirt of that; sweaty from all that arbitration; dozens of Daryls; and that’s what taxidermy is.

Sources:

• https://fairweatherlewis.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/the-saga-of-vivia-thomas/
• https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Vivia_Thomas
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gibson
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase

America wasn't always the haunted nation we know and fear today. No, there was a time when this land's soul was pure as driven snow, Then the Europeans people came, and now we have ghosts. Thanks a lot, Europe.

This is the story of Nelly Butler, the first ghost ever seen in America. Come for the ghost, stay for: 101 best cow jokes; the Stineverse; who remembers how to subtract?; probably conjunctivitis; January field stuff; Bell witch vibes; and some incredible metamorphosis that I should know about.

Sources:

• https://newengland.com/yankee/history/americas-first-ghost/
• https://www.americanghostwalks.com/articles/nelly-butler-maine-ghost-story
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York,_Maine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_York_(1692)

You know Bobby Mackey, right? Country billboard chart-topper Bobby Mackey? No? Well, you like Pepsi, right? So maybe you know his whole deal. Anyway, he's not the ghost, so why are we even talking about this?

This is the story of Bobby Mackey's Music World. Come for the ghosts, stay for: I just want a Cobb salad; ghost boosters; I don’t think this is legally binding; ambitious dental students; if we keep going we’re gonna hit teeth; I’m so thirsty after all of this slaughtering; viscera wells; and Elmer Fudpucker’s river mud records.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mackey%27s_Music_World
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mackey
• https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/bobby-mackeys-haunted-history
• https://bittersoutherner.com/honky-tonk-haints
• https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2019-08-02/newport-kentucky-las-vegas-gambling-big-name-stars-mob