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Astonishing Legends

The Laughing Indian

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Legend:

There are many different levels of torment that some ghosts seem to offer, but what could be worse than mocking?

Background:

When our guest was 12 years old and home alone in upstate New York he experienced an encounter with something heard but not seen. Was it real? What would you have done? Listen to his tale and try to decide if you could have handled it differently.

Stories

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Woodstock, New York The Lenape Tribes of the Eastern US The Mahican Tribes The Magic Meadow An Article on The Magic Meadow A Blog Entry on the Magic Meadow (The Campfire) The Buddhist Monastery Neighboring the Magic Meadow

Interesting Facts:

There is a Buddhist Monastery neighboring the Magic Meadow. The woods surrounding the meadow are filled with Buddhist shrines were many offerings are routinely made. For well over 100 years, people have been making journeys to the meadow to make offerings of all different kinds.

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Credits:

Episode 013 - 'The Laughing Indian' Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, Ryan McCullough Sound Design Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2015, All Rights Reserved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

With BT broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom and hello to...

0:04.5

Huh?

0:30.0

Tonight's show has a light-s mattering of foul language and some off-color jokes. Hope you're excited.

0:34.6

Before we get started, however, this episode was about what we probably think was a Native American.

0:39.3

We refer to the entity in this story as both an Indian and a Native American during the course of the telling.

0:44.1

There's still a great debate, even within the many different tribes, over how they should be referred to,

0:48.4

but according to my research, many of them prefer to be called by the name of the tribe they are part of,

0:52.8

instead of being categorized broadly as one group.

0:55.3

The discussion about India having nothing to do with it, not with standing.

0:58.8

So what we're trying to say is it's with no disrespect that we've titled this episode the Laughing Indian.

1:02.9

If Mark had been able to suss out what tribe this being was from, then we would have gladly called the show the Laughing Mohican or the Laughing Lennopy.

1:09.1

Both tribes being native to the area of this tale takes place.

1:12.1

We actually never intended to capture this story.

1:14.4

It came out because, typically, whenever we finish an interview with somebody who's telling a ghost story,

1:18.9

I like to ask the question, has anything like this ever happened to you before?

1:22.8

And I suppose the reason I ask that question is because I'm thinking,

1:25.4

most people are going to say no.

1:26.8

And that helps our listeners better assess the storyteller's state of mind and predisposition to supernatural events.

1:32.8

Sometimes, however, people say yes.

1:34.5

And when they do, I'm often surprised.

1:36.8

That's exactly what happened just a few weeks ago when we recorded our friend's Mark and Marisol,

1:40.8

who had traveled together to Norway on business and had physical encounters with something unseen in both of their hotel rooms.

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