Phantasmal Crime Ep. 1 - Crime and the Supernatural
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This episode is an introduction to Phantasmal Crime, offering up the tragic shooting of three people during World War I and the haunting left in its wake because of a curse on the murderer. The story was related by detective, international spy and writer Edwin T. Woodhall.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:14.6 | True crime can be strangely fascinating. |
| 0:17.7 | This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to Pantasma Crime. |
| 0:30.0 | My goal is not to convince the listener, you, the ghost are a thing. |
| 0:58.0 | But if there is such a thing as ghost, doesn't it make sense that a crime scene would be |
| 1:02.4 | a prime occupational space for one or more spirits? |
| 1:06.3 | Surely evil entities would find a tasty morsel or two lingering. |
| 1:11.6 | Such manifestations seem to feed off of emotions like rage and fear. |
| 1:16.8 | And for victims, a violent death or one that finds no justice in the end, it certainly |
| 1:21.8 | makes sense that their spirits would be caught up in the ether, unable to cross beyond |
| 1:26.0 | a veil between this world and the next. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm here to feed your morbid fascination. |
| 1:32.8 | We all crane our necks at the scene of an accident. |
| 1:35.9 | True crime is arguably the most popular genre. |
| 1:39.6 | Why is that? |
| 1:40.6 | Are we just curious about the whole, nurture, or nature debate? |
| 1:45.2 | Is it because we wonder about our own inner demons? |
| 1:48.7 | Do these kinds of crimes offer us an escape from the mundane? |
| 1:53.0 | Is it that we seek the same feelings we experience when watching a horror movie or writing |
| 1:57.4 | a roller coaster? |
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