Episode 121: The Blue Ridge Witch & the Haunting of Tilley Bend

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Comedy

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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SKIP TO 00:13:54 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S STORY In the quiet forests of northern Georgia sits Lake Blue Ridge. Lake Blue Ridge fans out into a series of spidery creeks and rivers, one of which extends southward until it makes a sharp turn to the west in an area known as Tilley Bend. Tilley Bend is the site of an old wooden church and graveyard where, allegedly, the body of The Blue Ridge Witch is buried. Come learn about the local legends and rumors that tell the tragic tale of two feuding families and a cursed homestead. This episode is sponsored! Buy Manscaped products: https://www.manscaped.com & use code “LETSGETHAUNTED” for 20% off + free shipping. —— Other Important Stuff: Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Donate to our stupid show: https://ko-fi.com/dogmomusa Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: [email protected] — BACKGROUND MUSIC BY MARTIA’S MUSES Link to sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coPN2irc9a4 — SOURCES: [1] “The Blue Ridge Witch – Haunting of Tilley Bend Church” by Jeremy Byers for vocal.media, link: https://bit.ly/3KqbTLn [2] “Tilley Bend Baptist” photographed by Tom Reed for Historic Rural Churches, link: https://bit.ly/3CCiqkb [3] A YouTube video entitled “The Blue Ridge Witch – A Ghastly Story from Appalachia” uploaded by YouTube channel “Faces of the Forgotten”, link: https://bit.ly/3con9LY [4] The Encyclopedia Britannica entry on the Creek People, link: https://bit.ly/3xi8CZt [5] Ancestry.com [6] FindAGrave.com, link: https://bit.ly/3BCIkDP [7] YouTube vlog “Haunted Tilly Ben Cemetery *owner opens church*” by Sabrina Workman, link: https://bit.ly/3DkR3f8 [8] YouTube vlog “The Witch of Tilley Bend” by SPIRIT PRO, link: https://bit.ly/3eH4jAk [9] “Tilley Bend Baptist Church, Blue Ridge Georgia” by Meghan Padgett of Talking Rock, Georgia for HauntedHovel.com, link: https://bit.ly/3QEQaRA [10] “The Other Side of the Story... Stanley Gap and the Curse of the Tilley Bend Witch” uploaded to Youtube by channel “Travels with Tommy and Lori” link: https://bit.ly/3RWwTw2

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted with your host, Matt Strong and Ali.
0:19.5	Welcome back guys to episode 121 of Let's Get Haunted.
0:24.1	Matt and I are recording this at seven in the morning because it's the hottest day of
0:29.1	the year in Los Angeles.
0:30.5	Yeah, it's supposed to get to like minimum one-thirteen today and we record in an office that
0:37.1	has no AC as you guys know.
0:39.6	They said like, oh, you can't turn the ACO in the weekends because they had remodeled
0:44.3	this floor and like part of the building or part of their office that had the thermostat
0:50.3	in it is now like part of a different office and they lock their doors and so it's like
0:55.4	not available on the weekend or whatever and they made like a big deal of telling me
0:59.4	all this when we moved in and I was just like skimming over it because it's like, okay,
1:02.4	fuck, I don't give a fuck.
1:04.2	Just like, let us rent.
1:05.7	Yeah, exactly, but now I understand why they were like telling us this because I forget
1:12.8	how hot it gets in the valley.
1:14.5	Yes, and shout out to my therapist whose name is also Ali.
1:18.3	I was like bitching to her about how hot it is here and she was like, hey, you know that
1:22.4	is illegal, right?
1:23.4	Oh my god.
1:24.4	Your therapist is you.
1:25.4	Are you sure it's not just you talking to yourself in the room?
1:28.4	Yeah, yeah.
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