Spring Heeled-Jack and Other Prowling Ghosts, part 1

Strange Familiars

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Alison and Timothy present the first part of Strange Familiars deep dive into the 19th Century phenomenon of prowling ghosts. Were they frightening phantoms gifted with superhuman abilities or simply men in costumes? Visit https://www.wildfoods.co and enter the code STRANGE for 12% off your entire order. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Check out the Strange Familiars ebay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/strangefamiliars Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/darkhollerarts Episode 164 notes and links: 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Episode art is by Timothy… this is the full illustration: This illustration of the Hammersmith Ghost is available to purchase in out etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/802242203/the-hammersmith-ghost-original Some of our research for this series comes from the book Spirits of an Industrial Age: Ghost Impersonation, Spring-Heeled Jack, and Victorian Society by Jacob Middleton. https://www.amazon.com/Spirits-Industrial-Age-Impersonation-Spring-heeled/dp/1499268777/ Strange Familiars Photo of the Week #20: Shoemakers You can purchase this photo at our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/788366312/shoemakers-cobblers-antique-mounted Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Our Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel where you can see some videos of Pandemonium, the dynamite shack and more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com Enter the code: mayday at checkout to receive 15% off at Stone Breath bandcamp page through May 1, 2020. The closing song is To Sleep with Skeletons by Stone Breath. It comes from the album of the same name: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow-white-ghost-white-stag Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to be. They claim that dark eyes was just to be created a slightly different than what they are.
0:28.0	We talked and she came to her. Oh, The Welcome to Strange Familiars. If you've seen something strange,
1:00.9	something paranormal, a crypted like Bigfoot, a UFO, a scripted like Bigfoot, a
1:03.4	UFO, a ghost, or if you have a story you think we should cover, you can email us,
1:08.5	Strange Familiars Podcast at gmail dot com.
1:19.4	How are you doing tonight, Allison? I'm doing well. Well this is going to be an episode that's a little bit different. I've done more research for this I think than any other
1:24.0	episode, say for the episodes that were based on my books because I do tons of
1:28.8	research for those. But for any like dedicated podcast episode I've done more research for this than any other episode
1:35.8	It's going to be a little bit different but it covers a lot of the stuff that we cover
1:40.7	It's ghosts it's weird, it's a little bit of true crime and it takes
1:47.4	place for the most part throughout the 19th century. It covers just about a
1:52.0	hundred years.
1:53.0	It's related in a way to one of our past episodes and I'll get into all that.
1:59.0	But before we get moving with this episode, I do want to thank our patrons for their support.
2:06.6	Thank you patrons.
2:08.2	Without you guys, we could not make strange familiars happen.
2:11.8	If you like what we do, if you like the content we make and you want to get extra content,
2:15.0	you can become a patron at patreon, go to patreon.com slash strange familiars.
2:20.2	Three dollars a month gets you full extra episodes of strange familiars.
2:24.0	We do at least one full episode for our patrons every month.
2:27.0	Often we do more.
2:29.0	Go to Patreon and see all the other levels of support there as well
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