Is This a Ghost?

By: Clayton Smith and Patrick Dean
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  • A real podcast about real ghosts that's real funny.
    Clayton Smith and Patrick Dean
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  • 141. The Haunted Castle House of Brumley, MO

    141. The Haunted Castle House of Brumley, MO
    Feb 5 2025

    Get out your pencils, ghost lovers! We've got 100 people with 200 names, so you're going to want to keep a list.

    This is the story of the Castle House in Brumley, MO. Come for the ghosts, stay for $GHOST, nobody doesn’t like childless witches, rabbit DNA, in my merchant era, nobody has feet now, it’s either on the skin or it’s not, the Boaty McBoatface of children, and you've ruined my beautiful stairs.

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    Sources:

    • https://hauntedcastlehouse.com/history
    • https://www.ozarksfirst.com/frightly-news/the-ghosts-of-the-haunted-castle-house-in-brumley/
    • https://dailyyonder.com/qa-believing-the-unbelievable-in-rural-missouris-haunted-castle-house/2022/10/31/
    • https://www.centredaily.com/news/nation-world/national/article68556742.html
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 140. The Worman House

    140. The Worman House
    Jan 29 2025

    The Ozark suite continues with a visit to the Devil's Pool holler! That's where you'll find the leavings of Harry Worman, one of the more unfortunately named men in history.

    This is the story of the Worman House. Come for the ghost, stay for Mo-wanna get a lawyer, Jesus takes January off, poor Frisco, look who’s in the club tonight, what am I gonna do with this, it’s all wet, she lives in the floorboards, the Clayton Memorial Cocktail, and an RPG glass chapel battle.

    Sources:

    • https://bigcedar.com/2023/history-big-cedar-lodge-worman-house/
    • https://www.explorebranson.com/profile/worman-house/3829
    • https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/bigcedarghost.html
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%E2%80%93San_Francisco_Railway
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    45 mins
  • 139. Jake Fleagle

    139. Jake Fleagle
    Jan 22 2025

    Welcome to the Ozark suite! It's weird down here. Did you bring moonshine? You're going to need it. This one gets messy!

    This is the story of Jake Fleagle. Come for the ghost, stay for the surplus equine problem, cows bang, a cool story about brothers, f*ckin Houdini over here, he does not need to be inseminated, like snowflakes, ladies and gentlemen, and we’re more of a Shoji Tabuchi family.

    Sources:

    • https://www.legendsofamerica.com/fleagle-gang-loot/
    • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9152314/jacob-harrison-fleagle
    • https://thegreathighhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleagle_Gangprairie.com/the-fleagle-gang-and-the-fingerprint-that-proved-their-guilt/
    • https://www.branson.com/haunted-tales/
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    1 hr

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makes me laugh out loud

This podcast makes me want to get drunk and have conversations with my friends 😂 I will listen with a headphone in while doing chores and my kids keep asking what I'm laughing at. A great podcast for anyone that enjoys paranormal/history stories but also has a dark humor.

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Ghost stories for interest, not scares

I enjoyed listening to this podcast over a long distance road trip I was doing alone. I'm not super into podcasts in general, because I often find podcaster people annoying and, mostly, I don't love having to listen to a conversation I can't take part in. But I loved Cartalk back in the day, so that's an example of a talk radio show I enjoyed. I'm guessing this is not really a show for super ghost obsessives, since they are very open about not doing tons of reasearch, but it is good enough to tell an absorbing story and they note the stuff that could stand more investigation, if you want to do it. They also tell a lot of stories I've never heard before, which is refreshing. They hit some of the big, famous ones, of course, but also go into a lot of smaller, more off the wall ones as well, which I really enjoy. I find ghost stories super interesting, but when I'm driving for hours alone, especially at night, I don't need to be freaked out. They go on so many tangents and get distracted by the randomest details, that it's very difficult to get genuinely scared. It is, however, entertaining and they have a friendly vibe. I subtracted a star on a less important rating because sometimes the meandering tangents are genuinely too long, especially the ones about their personal lives.

Other points of note: I appreciate Patrick's effort to "fix" some of the misguided phrasing of things, such as when a sexual relationship between a slave and her owner is termed an "affair" by a reputable news source and he insists on calling it assault. It is hopeful when people doing things in the public eye/media etc. learn to be better and call out mistakes like this (yes, it is generous to call them mistakes). Secondly, I very much enjoy Clayton's appreciation of the ridiculous. The more absurd and, frankly, dumb the situation gets, the more he savors it, which gives me vicarious chuckles. Third, they have serious geek cred, which they reveal incidentally, for the most part, like when Clayton makes a semi obscure He-Man reference or when he admits his celebrity crush is on Tatiana Maslany (She Hulk). I own a Bubbah Hotep dvd and saw it on the big screen in Chicago hosted by Bruce Campbell in person, so I feel like they're kinda my people (Patrick has a signed poster from the movie).

Overall, definitely five stars. My favourite story so far is the one about the ghost hole. I love that and think it needs to be a plot device in a mystery novel.

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