What is The Netherlands? Why is it a singular plural? Why don't they speak Netherlandish? Should the country be called Dut? It makes you think. It really makes you think.

This is the story of the SS Ourang Medan. Come for the ghosts, stay for Schrödinger's box of pope, their whole deal is no wires, it's booty time, does it explain why the chains are missing?, there's a song about this guy, this is an event horizon, and rollerghoster.

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Sources:

• https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/ourang-medan.htm
• https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/31-days-of-halloween/the-tragic-tale-of-the-ghost-ship-s-s-ourang-medan/
• https://www.marineinsight.com/life-at-sea/top-10-mysterious-ghost-ships-and-haunted-stories-of-the-maritime-world/

We don't always set a new record for length of banter before getting to the ghost story....but when we do, it's 73% worth it, minimum. (But if you skip ahead to the 19:17:00 mark, it'd be hard to blame you.)

This is the story of The Black Dahlia. Come for the ghost, stay for Jeremy is retiring off audio filters, the wrong name statute of limitations, they don't end up in a bucket but they could, Pebble Beach at 1/2000th scale, please brain-dead me, I didn't say what kind of Californian, at least you have something to sit on, classic good cop/bad cop stuff,

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Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia
• https://www.americanghostwalks.com/articles/elizabeth-short-black-dahlia
• https://www.morticianinthekitchen.com/there-will-be-spirits/the-black-dahlias-haunting-legacy-ghostly-encounters-at-the-biltmore-hotel
• https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/black-dahlia-cocktail-recipe/

Do you hear that? That’s the beat of the Necrodrumicon. The smell? Sulfur. The whiners? Children. Always, always children.

This is the story of the Drummer of Tedworth. Come for the ghost, stay for the Berenstain Bears take on racism, woolly rhinos are not unicorns, peasants gone wild, little-known composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the Flying Molina Brothers.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummer_of_Tedworth
• https://burialsandbeyond.com/2021/01/12/the-drummer-of-tedworth-britains-first-poltergeist/