Lore 296: Revisiting "Half-Hanged"
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Aaron Mahnke
4.6 • 46.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, as the holidays draw near, the Lore team takes a well-earned break to relax with their loved ones. To give them that break, we're reissuing a golden oldie from over a decade ago: Episode 12: Half-Hanged.
Researched, written, and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with music by Chad Lawson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Aaron here. If you've been a long-time listener, today's episode will feel a bit |
| 0:05.4 | different. For nearly 11 years, the lore team and I have created regular brand-new episodes |
| 0:10.9 | without missing a release date. One of the costs of that priority, though, is that vacations |
| 0:16.3 | rarely happen for the entire company at the same time, You know, things like a holiday break in December. |
| 0:22.6 | But with six families represented among all of us, I'm not sure that's the best way to run a company. |
| 0:28.6 | So today, as a lot of the world gets ready to take a holiday break, we're going to publish a rerun. |
| 0:34.6 | Now, as someone who was a kid in the 1980s, I remember the glory days of TV when |
| 0:40.0 | new episodes ran during the school year and the summer was full of old episodes. So for a long |
| 0:45.5 | time, I didn't let myself buy into the idea of reruns in podcasting. Now, though, I see the benefit |
| 0:51.3 | of taking one episode off my team's plates and letting a classic |
| 0:55.1 | story from our back catalog do the hard work so that they can have a break. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't plan to do this often, maybe twice a year max, but I think it gives us a unique |
| 1:04.5 | opportunity to show off some of my personal favorite episodes. |
| 1:08.5 | New listeners might not have heard them yet, and those of you who have |
| 1:11.4 | devoured every single episode multiple times probably have a few favorites of your own. So this is |
| 1:17.1 | our chance to revisit a golden oldie. Today, we'll be listening to one of my all-time favorite |
| 1:22.9 | stories, lore episode 12, half-hanged. Every time I'm asked at an event to list my favorite episodes from the past decade |
| 1:30.4 | this is one of my top five it's an exploration of pure superstition social fear and how even the most |
| 1:37.8 | underrepresented can stand up and be victorious I love it and as you today, whether it's your first time or your fifth, |
| 1:46.2 | I hope you fall in love with it as well. And with that, on with the show. Simeon Smith was one of the early settlers of New Hampshire in 1772. |
| 2:10.4 | He built a farm there on the border between Wentworth and Warren and held a local office. |
| 2:16.1 | By trade, he was a tailor, but like a lot of men of that |
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