Spooky Special: Photographs
United States of Murder
Ashley and Lacey
4.6 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Today, we have a special guest, Cody, with us to discuss spooky photographs. Ashley discusses Blanche Monnier, a French woman confined by her family for 25 years. Then, Cody talks about the Momo Challenge hoax.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast may contain adult language and situations, graphic, gory details, and other not-so-nice things. |
| 0:07.4 | Listener discretion is advised. The belief that pictures take a piece of your soul is a cultural superstition and myth rooted in the idea that a photograph captures a person's essence of spirit in physical form. |
| 0:43.6 | African, Caribbean, and Native American cultures all believe that photographs can harm, |
| 0:46.8 | steal a person's soul, or their life force. |
| 0:52.4 | These fears came from primitive thinking, the magical nature of photographs. |
| 0:56.9 | If you can have an image of something, then you have power over it. |
| 1:04.4 | Before photography, mirrors were associated with stealing or containing souls. Cameras froze the image, mirrors reflected it, making it even more dangerous. The Amish culture prohibits photographs based on the Second |
| 1:13.4 | Commandment, which speaks against graven images. Not that the soul is stolen, but pride, |
| 1:20.6 | vanity and arrogance distracts spiritual values. Disclamor. There is no scientific evidence that |
| 1:27.4 | cameras or photographs actually |
| 1:29.1 | steal your souls. The energy of a person is not captured, or is it? It's not just about pictures |
| 1:36.9 | stealing your soul. Pictures can also provide proof of something creepy or sinister. Images of war, death, and suffering can greatly affect us as humans. |
| 1:49.4 | Photographs that will stay burned in your head forever, |
| 1:52.9 | what we do to each other can be much worse than what our imagination conjures up. |
| 1:59.7 | It doesn't need to be paranormal for it to haunt us. |
| 2:03.6 | Throughout history, folkloric images like the tall man, slender man, and the hat man, |
| 2:10.1 | have horrified little children and 45-year-old women like me. |
| 2:14.9 | Today, our guest co-host Cody and I are going to tell you about two |
| 2:19.3 | spooky pictures and the history behind them. So buckle up and join us on this dark and |
| 2:25.6 | twisted ride through sinister photographs. Blanche Monet was born to an upper middle class family in the 19th century in France. She and her |
| 2:39.9 | brother had the best of everything. They didn't have to worry about money or work or hot checks |
| 2:47.3 | or afterpay. They had toilet paper and wet wipes in the bathroom. |
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