Broadcast from the Belfry

Send us a textTune in for some super-special Thanksgiving bonus content with your intrepid hosts facing a nightmarish festival for the ages. From the Black Vault, Broadcast from the Belfry presents: Harvest, a Call of Cthulhu 7th edition scenario written by Shannon Webster. Starring: Georgia Abrams as Dr. Edwina "Edie" Hopkins,Hannah Rucinski as Ms. Carlotta Rossi,Special Guest, Darin McVay as Detective Manfred Mann,and Shannon Webster as the Keeper of Arcane Lore.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.Support the show

Send us a textTune in for some super-special Thanksgiving bonus content with your intrepid hosts facing a nightmarish festival for the ages. From the Black Vault, Broadcast from the Belfry presents: Harvest, a Call of Cthulhu 7th edition scenario written by Shannon Webster. Starring: Georgia Abrams as Dr. Edwina "Edie" Hopkins,Hannah Rucinski as Ms. Carlotta Rossi,Special Guest, Darin McVay as Detective Manfred Mann,and Shannon Webster as the Keeper of Arcane Lore.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.Support the show

Send us a textTune in for some super-special Thanksgiving bonus content with your intrepid hosts facing a nightmarish festival for the ages. From the Black Vault, Broadcast from the Belfry presents: Harvest, a Call of Cthulhu 7th edition scenario written by Shannon Webster. Starring: Georgia Abrams as Dr. Edwina "Edie" Hopkins,Hannah Rucinski as Ms. Carlotta Rossi,Special Guest, Darin McVay as Detective Manfred Mann,and Shannon Webster as the Keeper of Arcane Lore.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.Support the show

Send us a textThe teaser-trailer for our long discussed Thanksgiving-themed Call of Cthulhu role playing game is here to get your mouths watering for more... Support the show

Send us a textSurprise, Halloween episode!! Georgia and Hannah took this one to the next level... by starting the recording session with several glasses of wine. Tune in as Hannah discusses los Días de los Muertos (and totally butchers "Mictecacihuatl"), and then Georgia discusses Samhain and one of the origins for Jack-O-Lanterns.You'll hear from us again next month for some more bonus content!Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.Support the show

Send us a textIn this season's final episode, Hannah takes us on one last journey through time and space on the backs of dragons. Did you know that there is more than one kind of alligator? Did you know the 793 AD Viking raid on Lindisfarne was foretold by dragons appearing in Northumbria? Did you know the Book of the Netherworld found in Tutankhamun's tomb had the first ever depiction of the Ouroboros? So many things to learn this episode!Please enjoy this season finale, but don't worry! We will be releasing BONUS episodes in the months leading up to our season two opening next February.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For Further Reading:https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/dragons/natural-history-of-dragonshttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240208-the-surprising-4000-year-history-of-dragonshttps://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-surprising-history-of-dragons/CgJyM6TaZ5rRJghttps://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/chinese-alligatorhttps://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/08/the-origins-of-dragons/144532https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/enigmatic.htmhttps://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/anglo-saxon/lindisfarne/lindisfarne.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Wormhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Instinct_for_Dragonshttps://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/paleontologists-uncover-dragon-of-death-in-argentina-its-the-largest-pterosaur-ever-found-in-south-america/https://jacksonwcrawford.com/books/the-saga-of-the-volsungs/Support the show

Send us a textThis week, we learn all about the difference between sirens and mermaids, how Starbucks is pagan worship, Pliny the Elder's death in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, our favorite bones, and whether or not Christopher Columbus actually boinked a manatee. What a wild ride! Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.Support the show

Send us a textYARRR MATIES it's time to learn about the Flying Dutchman and the S.S. Ourang Medan! If you don't believe in fata morgana, then this is the episode for you. Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://r.mtdv.me/articles/ourangmedansolveshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourang_Medanhttps://www.de173.com/the-ss-ourang-medan/https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/ourang-medan.htmhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/651575/ourang-medan-ghost-shiphttps://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/ss-ourang-medan-ghost-ship/https://www.historicmysteries.com/ourang-medan/Support the show

Send us a textIs it a giant crab? Is it a squid? Is it in an island whale? No, it's just the Kraken. Or... maybe it is a squid after all? Tune in to find out!  Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://www.livescience.com/terrifying-sea-monster-hafgufa-described-in-medieval-norse-manuscripts-is-actually-a-whalehttps://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-legend-of-the-kraken/ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/sea-monsters-inspiration-serpents-mermaids-the-kraken.html Support the show

Send us a textEver wandered the streets alone, saw a woman dressed all in white crying about trying to find her kids? Well, do we have some news for you! We discuss themes surrounding women in storytelling and how La Llorona's story has contributed to modern Chicana feminism.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://dev.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=116&tale=4944https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2021/10/la-llorona-an-introduction-to-the-weeping-woman/https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-10-16/la-llorona-mexico-latin-america-horror-folklorehttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158002513199&seq=17Support the show

Send us a textIs that Bloody Mary in the mirror or are you just happy to see us? Tune in this week as we talk about the many origin theories of Bloody Mary and how girls just wanna have fun, and by "fun" we mean "summon supernatural creatures at sleepovers."  Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://people.howstuffworks.com/bloody-mary-legend.htmhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258311/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myth-bloody-mary-englands-first-queen-180974221/ https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/the-bloody-mary-legend  https://home.iscte-iul.pt/~fgvs/Dundes%20bloody.pdf https://allthatsinteresting.com/bloody-mary https://www.diffordsguide.com/encyclopedia/496/cocktails/bloody-mary-cocktails-how-to-make-and-history Support the show

Send us a textDungeons & Dragons is a huge part of Georgia and Hannah's lives, so it only makes sense for them to talk about one of the more well-known big baddies, the Lich. We just love to talk about undead things.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howardhttp://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/11/pulp-fantasy-library-sword-of-sorcerer.htmlhttps://ghwiki.greyparticle.com/index.php/LichSupport the show

Send us a textWho's that knocking at your ears? It's Bluebeard! Tune in this week to hear all about Charles Perrault's fairytale, as well as a couple of characters referred to as "real life" Bluebeards - most notably Gilles de Rais (though we suspect another Elizabeth Bathory slander situtation is afoot).  Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://ashleyleckwold.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/a-story-with-a-ghost-crimson-peak-is-a-chilling-and-thrilling-gothic-romance/https://www.stephgraves.net/blog/intertextual-spectres-in-crimson-peak .britannica.com/biography/Charles-Perraulthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Raishttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gilles-de-rais-bluebeard Support the show

Send us a textBonus double episode! Remember when Hannah mentioned the Kitsune in Episode 10? Listen for more info about how fox spirits may have originated in Japanese folklore, a few different kinds of Kitsune, and of course Hannah talks VERY briefly about Naruto. Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://japaneseonimasks.com/blogs/magazine/what-is-kitsunehttps://rabbitholemag.com/kitsune-the-japanese-fox-trickster/https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8130/pg8130-images.htmlSupport the show

Send us a textRemember when Georgia mentioned screaming skulls super early on? Well tune in to hear her dive into some of those legends, as well as some other silly stories they've inspired. You also get to hear about our depression and our stims.  Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://mjwayland.com/screaming-skull/https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/screaming-skulls-folklore-fact-and-fiction/https://burialsandbeyond.com/2018/08/20/a-short-history-of-british-screaming-skulls/https://www.spookyisles.com/screaming-skulls/ https://lancashirefolk.com/2016/08/25/the-skull-at-the-pack-horse-pub-affetside/http://affetside.org.uk/pub_history.htmhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-charles-i-executed-for-treasonSupport the show

Send us a textThe discussion about ghosts and hauntings has finally arrived! Tune in as Georgia and Hannah talk about their experiences with ghosts and what their heaven would look like.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://www.worldhistory.org/ghost/Support the show

Send us a textAnnounce in progress - just a little message from us to apologize for the delays and getting off schedule. We miss you!Support the show

Send us a textBetter late than never, our discussion of ghosts continues with Georgia bringing you different types of hauntings. From residual hauntings, intelligent hauntings, haunted objects, and poltergeists, we cover a wide array. And what does father of computing Charles Babbage have to do with ghosts? Tune in to find out!Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._C._Lethbridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Bridgewater_Treatise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape_Theoryhttps://hauntedwalk.com/news/the-stone-tape-theory/ https://theghostinmymachine.com/2020/03/09/how-does-it-work-the-stone-tape-theory-residual-hauntings-and-the-deep-influence-of-memory-and-emotion/https://gis.smumn.edu/GradProjects/DanielsonL.pdf https://www.spiritrealm.net/intelligent-or-residual/ https://www.pacificparanormal.com/index.php/menu-btn-articles-essay/114-article-intelligent-haunts https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3jvea/man-post-malone-is-definitely-cursedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk_boxhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/k7aake/a-cursed-objects-expert-explains-how-our-possessions-can-ruin-our-liveshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeisthttps://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/other/the-enfield-poltergeist/https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/enfield-poltergeist-true-story-enfield-hauntinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist#:~:text=The%20Enfield%20poltergeist%20was%20a,and%20Margaret%20Hodgson%2C%20aged%2013.Support the show

Send us a textFrom where do ghosts originate? Tune in to this week's episode where Hannah glances over cross-cultural concepts of the afterlife and how they've contributed to creating "ghosts" throughout time.Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/09/12/funeral-practices-and-beliefs-about-the-afterlife/https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/historical-ghost-storieshttps://theconversation.com/necromancers-demons-and-friendly-ghosts-humans-have-been-fascinated-with-the-afterlife-since-ancient-mesopotamia-216274#:~:text=Ghosts%20were%20an%20accepted%20part,science%20fiction%20writer%20Philip%20K.https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/funerary-beliefs-of-the-ancient-egyptians/https://www.worldhistory.org/ghost/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zh9vgdm/revision/3#:~:text=Many%20Jewish%20people%20also%20believe,the%20living%20and%20the%20dead.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khonsuemheb_and_the_Ghosthttps://www.unrv.com/articles/roman-underworld-and-afterlife.phpSupport the show

Send us a textCreated and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.Sound design by Shannon Webster.Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.For further reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial https://the-demonic-paradise.fandom.com/wiki/Belialhttps://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Abaddonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddonhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmodeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan https://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Leviathan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_in_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_demonshttps://gods-and-demons.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Princes_of_Hell  Support the show