The The The The The Oh, The The The Hello you sputacular people welcome to the history goes bump Christmas special

2015 I am your host Diane and this is Denise and we are joined in studio with special

guest Dan Foytic of the Wicked Library and the Lift and the Ninth Story

podcast how are you Dan? I'm fantastic. You know I figured as an

executive producer I had to come up and make sure that everything is above board or

down as it were. And you can attest to the million dollar studio setup we have.

This is fantastic. You know I'm going to model my studio after this whenever I get back

because this is some pretty high-tech stuff here. I actually should get some tips

from Dan you have what do they call that

stuff that you put on the walls that buffers the sound sound foam see I don't even

know what it is that eggshell that eggshell stuff I don't know what the

correct term is it's just it's's just it's to absorb the sound so that I don't echo echo echo.

Echo.

Yeah Diane wants eggshells. She's going to be going to Target and buying all the mattresses and you know you can

use that stuff people do. Dan is also a fellow podcaster over at Society 13. You guys

have been hearing us run that on the talent of our shows and

that's because we have joined up with the Society 13. So tonight we're going to

discuss some of the history behind Christmas and most importantly analyze the history of

telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve.

Most of our Christmas traditions are rooted in Victorian England.

Sending Christmas cards and Caroline door to door are just a couple of those traditions.

But one tradition fell by the wayside, and that is the practice of telling ghost stories

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