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Strange Familiars

Spring-Heeled Jack and Other Prowling Ghosts, part 3

Strange Familiars

SpectreVision Radio

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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We continue our exploration of the prowling ghost phenomenon with more stories of Spring-Heeled Jack entities in all their strange forms. More ghost attacks; breathing fire; Spring-Heeled Jack frightens people into insanity - and death; prowling ghosts at a military base; and more. 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 166 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: The original illustration is available to purchase at our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/805583369/sring-heeled-jack-2-illustration-by 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 #21: Clown Gang You can purchase this photo in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/790668458/clown-gang-real-photo-postcard-strange 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 The closing song is Bedlam Boys by Stone Breath. It comes from the album The Snow-White Ghost-White Stag: 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 I want to look this person up and see if he could find if the person really did die at that point.

1:00.0

I mean we've got all the information.

1:03.0

Who's that?

1:04.0

This Miss Simmons.

1:06.0

Can we also talk about how these people like die of...

1:09.0

Are they rabbits?

1:10.0

Yeah, okay.

1:15.0

Welcome to Strange Familiars. If you've seen something strange, something paranormal, a crypted like Bigfoot, a ghost, a UFO,

1:22.0

or if you know of a story you think we should cover, you can email us,

1:26.0

Strange Familiars Podcast at gmail.com.

1:29.7

How are you doing tonight, Allison?

1:32.1

Doing fine, just contemplating tech-laden shoes and people who die of fright.

1:40.0

Are these people rabbits? That's my question. So many people just can't recover from seeing a ghost. Like, have we gotten heartier since then?

1:50.4

I ran into this again and again in this old Wildman articles I collected about how many of these people would see one of these wild men and just die.

1:59.0

Just their lives were despaired of.

2:01.0

Did something else horrible happen that they're not mentioning?

2:05.0

Yeah, I don't know.

2:06.0

I think everybody had tuberculosis and then maybe, you know.

2:10.0

Everyone was born with the congenital heart anomaly.

2:13.0

The fact that they were over five was a statistical anomaly in itself.

2:17.0

Exactly.

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