Episode 251: The Curse of the Ides of March & the Ghost of Julius Caesar

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Welcome to “Episode 251: The Curse of the Ides of March”! On March 15th 44 BCE, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death during a month already charged with war rituals dedicated to Mars (God of War), spring blood festivals, and civic debt reckonings, and history has never quite shaken the date since. In this episode of Let’s Get Haunted, we unravel how a single assassination transformed an ordinary Roman calendar marker into a symbol of betrayal, fate, and political collapse; how ancient reports of Caesar’s ghost visiting Marcus Junius Brutus fueled the legend; how Augustus cemented vengeance into stone with the Temple of Mars Ultor; and why revolutions, invasions, and regime shifts keep clustering around mid-March. Are the Ides of March truly cursed? Or did Shakespeare ritualize a trauma so effectively that the calendar itself just feels haunted? Most importantly: is March the new October? The answer is yes. TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 - HOOK/INTRO 00:08:14 - NUTRAFOL AD 00:10:21 - PART I: WHAT ARE THE IDES OF MARCH? 00:30:15 - PART II: THE RISE AND FALL OF JULIUS CEASAR 01:33:03 - PART III: MARCH IS THE NEW OCTOBER 01:50:27 - CLOSING CREDITS THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED!! Find out more about this week’s advertisers below: NUTRAFOL: Get $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping at https://nutrafol.com with promo code HAUNTED. —— Other Important Stuff: Join the Patreon today! https://patreon.com/letsgethaunted LGH Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/letsgethaunted Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com 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: www.letsgethaunted.com OR LetsGetHauntedPod@gmail.com —— BACKGROUND MUSIC: “MAGIC TRANSITION SOUND - NO COPYRIGHT” BY SOUND TRUST, LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNHMu3Upgu4 “(Free) Horror Ambiance - Ominous Background Music” by ESN Productions, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo “Elevator” - Local Forecast, License Dar Golan - Elevator Music - Royalty free music, “Elevator Music (Royalty Free, Infinite Loop)” by Dar Golan, free download link here: https://www.dargolan-free.com/funny-music VIDEO ASSETS USED IN THIS EPISODE WERE ALL PURCHASED AND LICENSED VIA STORYBLOCKS.COM ALL OTHER AUDIO ASSETS INCLUDING MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS LICENSED AND PURCHASED THROUGH: artlist.io —— KEYWORDS: Ancient Rome, Rome, Romans, Roman, Empire, Roman Empire, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Ancient World, History, Italy, World History, Dictator, Senate, Classical, Classical Literature, Play, Theater, Nomes, Kalends, Ides, March, Ides of March, Psychic, Soothsayer, Etruscan, Fortune, Telling, Fortune-telling, fortunetelling, sacrifice, animal sacrifice, lunar cycle, jupiter, mars, mythology, art, art history, julius, caesar, julius caesar, caesar, czar, paranormal, supernatural, magic, ghost, ritual, ufos, shadow people, warning, ominous, alternative history, religion, illuminati, astrology, numerology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.1	On July 13th, 100 BC, a child named Gaius Julius Caesar was born. Part of a divine lineage that had fallen on hard times,
1:14.6	Julius would eventually surprise everyone by rising to power as dictator of the most powerful empire in the world, the Roman Empire.
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