Ghosts and Indigenous Spirits w/ Owl Goingback
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined by author and storyteller, Owl Goingback. He tells us all about things like befriending the Creature from the Black Lagoon, hoping to see Sasquatch, and his personal experiences as the caretaker of the most haunted cemetery in Florida.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, torture, hauntings, body horror, animal attacks, lynching, child death, unmarked graves, murder, mass shootings, hurricanes/natural disasters, Covid-19, imprisonment, enslavement, genocide, cannibalism, disturbing burial grounds, coloization/settlement, suicide, and cultural appropriation.
Guest
Owl Goingback has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and is the author of numerous novels, children’s books, screenplays, magazine articles, comics, and short stories. He is a HWA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, a two-time Bram Stoker Award Winner (Novel and First Novel), a Nebula Award Nominee, and a Storytelling World Awards Honor Recipient. His books include Crota, Darker Than Night, Evil Whispers, Breed, Shaman Moon, Coyote Rage, Eagle Feathers, and The Gift.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.1 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.9 | And this episode 242, Ghosts and Indigenous Spirits with guest Owl going back. |
| 0:13.2 | Oh, man. |
| 0:14.2 | Amanda, I feel like a lot of times I love having guests on the show, but a lot of times our guests are like skeptics who are interested in mythology |
| 0:21.0 | and folklore and spirits and whatnot. I don't really believe. It is so nice to have a true |
| 0:25.7 | believer on this podcast. Yeah, Al was an incredibly like engaged and generous, I think, |
| 0:32.2 | interviewee. And I could just tell somebody who loves stories. And it was so much fun to be |
| 0:37.4 | able to talk about all of that with him. |
| 0:38.9 | If it wasn't, you know, a pandemic and also if I lived in Florida, I would be like asking him if I can like sit by a fire with him for several hours while he just tells me stories. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, I think that would be pretty fantastic. Yeah, it would be. And Julia, if at all possible, I would definitely invite |
| 0:54.4 | our newest patrons along to enjoy that with us, Lexus and Questi. They join the ranks of the |
| 0:58.9 | people whose support helps us do this for our job. That includes our supporting producer level |
| 1:03.0 | patrons, Alicia Allison, Brian, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica Kinzer, Jessica Stewart, Justin Keegan, |
| 1:08.6 | Nieselkins, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan Malachi, Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi. |
| 1:14.6 | And our legend-level patrons. Audra, Chimera, or Change, Clara, Drew, Jack Marie, Jay-Bay, Kay, Lada, Morgan, Morgan H, Necro, Royalty, and BMEY up Scotty. |
| 1:24.1 | Whenever there is a fire where spooky campfire stories are being told, they always have |
| 1:28.5 | s'mores. They have like an infinite amount of s'mores. So true. So true. Speaking of campfires, |
| 1:36.1 | smores, hanging out, chat and what have you been reading, watching, and listening to lately, Julia? |
| 1:40.2 | So listen, we've talked to Becky Chambers so much on this podcast, even when we were interviewing |
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