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You, Me, and a Poltergeist

Thirteenth Floor Upgrade

Season 1, Ep. 87

Braydon and Belinda are back at it for the second time this year, chatting about two spooky hauntings!


Belinda starts the podcast out by chatting about the Hotel Monteleone, a haunted hotel in New Orleans in the United States. Apparently there are a number of ghosts who frequent the hotel, but the most infamous floor is the 14th (actually 13th) floor! There is the spirit of a young boy who is said to have died in the hotel, who is mentioned to frequent the floor and play with his other ghost friends!


Braydon goes on to chat about the Franklin Expedition in the Arctic in the 1800s, and their now wrecked vessels that remain frozen in the ice. The Canadian Arctic Inuit people believe the HMS Terror to be haunted by nonhuman spirits, and the ship to have a terrible curse over it. Not only have the Inuit people experienced terrible accidents after explorers started investigating the wreckage, but a painting of the vessel is said to hold this exact curse and to be carrying the misfortune all the way to London!

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