8.12 | Ohio: The Dark Heart of It All — Witches, Vampires & Devils of the Buckeye State
TIMESTAMPS
02:29 | Coming Up: West Branch Witch, Dayton Vampire Cults, and Ohio Ghost to Ghost Art Bell Calls
09:04 | West Branch’s Lost Cemetery — The Elliott Family
15:36 | The Legend of the Ravenna Witch | Story Read
19:41 | Stolen Stones, Curses & Desecration
23:11 | Who Was the Woman Behind the Witch Legend?
26:34 | Can Belief Manifest a Monster? Tulpas & the Philip Experiment
28:00 | The Lure of Desecration | Jannette Quackenbush
30:06 | West Branch Witch Sightings & the Car-Crash Account
35:59 | An Alternative Origin of the Witch Legend
39:45 | The Call That Started It All | Art Bell & Fred
43:18 | Witchcraft, Curses & Swarming Bees
46:40 | The Listener Story That Wanted to Be Read
50:03 | Mountain Witch | Ashley’s Listener Account | Mount Juliet, TN
53:27 | Wart Witches, Granny Magic & “Bagging” Warts
59:24 | Expansion Preview — Modern Dinosaur Encounters
1:02:48 | Back from the Break — More Ohio Strangeness
1:05:41 | Ohio Basement Devil | Art Bell Call
1:13:12 | The Greyhounds and Their Invisible Master | Art Bell Call
1:19:08 | Dayton’s Vampire Underground & the Disappearance of Phillip Gall
1:21:24 | Vampires in the Dayton Underground | Dayton Tunnel Report
1:28:17 | The Asylum, Vampire Subculture & LARPing
1:32:23 | A Former LARPer’s Account | Reddit Discussion
1:35:07 | The Shelved Documentary & Unanswered Questions
1:37:08 | Cincinnati Tunnels
1:41:20 | Seafaring Vampires Move to the Expansion
1:42:54 | Closing Thoughts & Halloween Plans
In 1996 a curious call came in over the airwaves on Art Bell’s Ghost to Ghost radio program.
The caller would go on to claim he was given information that would inadvertently breathe new life into a local legend — the curse of the West Branch Witch.
Was a witch ever buried in this cemetery, and if not, could the legend itself have become a lure — manifesting in the dark and wearing a witch’s skin, to stalk the very ones who would seek her out?
From goat-legged, hoofed devils in a suburban basement to vampire covens in the Dayton underground, join us tonight, as we hop the cemetery wall, and attempt to dig up the undead truth behind disturbing encounters in our own backyard.
Welcome back to Ohio: the dark heart of it all.
REFERENCED EPISODES
- 7.10 | Ohio’s Area 51: Secrets of Peach Mountain
- 7.7 | Hawaii Horror: Ancient Curses, Dark Magic, and Kahuna Sorcery
- 3.4 EXP | The Scole Experiment — Afterlife Investigations and ITC
- 5.19 EXP | Vampires Among Us! Window Goblins, GLAMpire Clubs, and the Ukrainian Blood Witch
- 6.1 | A Deadly Dogman: Land Between the Lakes
- 7.12 EXP | Cowboys and Monsters
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
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REFERENCED IMAGES
WEB SOURCES
- Art Bell – Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell – Ghost to Ghost 1996 – Transcript
- Local haunts and roadside terrors | Daily Kent Stater
- Texas Man Killed by Swarm of Bees While Mowing His Lawn: Police
- Portage County Hauntings & Legends | Ohio Exploration Society
- Kent Record-Courier – 10/28/2018 | Ohio Exploration Society
- Portage County Ohio – Witch’s Grave at West Branch State Park | Haunted Hocking
- Portage County Ohio Historical Society | Elliot Family Cemetery
- West Branch Witch | Quest Team Paranormal
- Wart Removal Folklore – Real Stories
- Appalachian Granny Women and Wart Witches
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