Do you want to hear something scary?
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
If you like a ghost story then you'll love a spooky podcast. In this episode I round-up some of the best, whether you want an in-depth scare-fest or something bite-size that'll make you jump.
The Last Podcast on The Left. (Episode 386: The Most Haunted House in England.)
Lore.
Christmas and Ghost Stories from Smithsonian Magazine.
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| 0:25.0 | change for your community. Volunteer at I can be a magistrate.co.uk. Okay. Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. I am your host, Emma Gunn Awardner, |
| 0:45.2 | known as Guns to my friends, that's you, and it's also what you get for having a long surname. |
| 0:49.3 | And in this episode I thought we'd talk about something spooky. This episode will be going to |
| 0:54.8 | air on Christmas Eve. If you are listening during the December Daily |
| 0:58.8 | podcast in 2019 my beloved Christmas pods, although if you are finding this episode at a totally different time of the year, then welcome, it's great to have you here. |
| 1:08.0 | But because it is a festive podcast as it were, I wanted to do something that to me felt very Christmas Eve like and as long |
| 1:15.7 | as I can remember there's always been a ghost story on TV the night before Christmas. |
| 1:20.9 | So I thought I would do a roundup of the best Ghost Story podcast because there's nothing quite like cozying up, maybe under a blanket, maybe with some mulled wine, twinkly lights all around you, and scaring yourself a little bit with a ghost story. |
| 1:32.0 | Although this is from a woman who cannot watch scary movies, |
| 1:35.0 | just going to put it out there. |
| 1:37.4 | And then I started to wonder, well, why is it a tradition |
| 1:40.4 | to tell a ghost story on Christmas Eve anyway. |
| 1:42.9 | Didn't we just have Halloween, not a few weeks ago? |
| 1:46.2 | So of course I started exploring and then thought, |
| 1:48.4 | oh, Emma, you're so silly, because I realize one of the most famous stories |
| 1:52.3 | ever told, a Christmas carol by Charles Dickens is a ghost story set at Christmas time. |
| 1:57.0 | I did some more digging and found this quote from Religious Studies Professor Justin Daniels from the University of Pennsylvania, which explains, |
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