Welcome to a new episode of American hauntings that is about to get really weird.

The next two episodes are shows that I've been waiting to do and they'll both be hosted

and produced by Cody Beck and written and performed by Troy Taylor, which is me.

This will be the first of two holly-weird episodes of the season, which of course still

has a ways to go, but for 15 episodes we've been taking you behind the locked doors and

down the dirty back alleys of Hollywood, the movie, the capital of the world, a place

that's supposed to be all about palm tree swimming pools and movie stars.

But if you've wanted murder, myths, cranks, kooks, lunatics, and killers, we've had

that too in spades.

And for this show and the next, well, I think kooks and lunatics are going to be sort of

taking things over.

But if you want to know how we got to this place, I'd suggest going back to the start

of the season, which began with episode 70.

I won't even pretend to know where it's going to end, but it's going to be a bumpy ride

to get there.

And with that said, remember that the episodes in the season are definitely not suitable

for all listeners.

If you continue on from here, now there's no turning back.

So put on your choir robe, shake your tambourine, handle a snake or two and get ready for the

weirdest episode of American hauntings so far.

At some point, around 1510, a Spanish mystic and writer named Garcia Rodriguez de Montalvo

wrote about a man named Amadas of Gaul and his wanderings and exploits on an island

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