Let's Talk Spooky

About Let's Talk Spooky

Let's Talk Spooky is a weekly paranormal podcast exploring true ghost stories, dark folklore, urban legends, and haunted history from around the world. Hosted by Shauna, each episode blends documented history, real paranormal encounters, and eerie legends whispered for generations — from cursed lakes and haunted towns to cryptids, summer-camp monsters, and stories of reincarnation. If you love creepy stories rooted in real research — chilling, immersive, and a little too believable — this is your show. Light a candle. Get cozy. And let's talk spooky.

Publisher

Shauna Taylor

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2025

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

71 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Oct 2026

   65: Witch Burials

   For as long as people have feared witches, they’ve feared that death might not be enough to stop them. This week on Let’s Talk Spooky, we follow the strange burials of three women who were held down by stone, by tide, and by story. CONTENT WARNING This episode includes discussion of a confession obtained under likely torture, a death in custody that may have been suicide, a local legend involving suicide, and the desecration of a grave. Listener discretion is advised. If you are struggling, please reach out to a local crisis line; in Canada, you can call or text 9-8-8. CONNECT WITH THE SHOW Website: letstalkspooky.com (https://letstalkspooky.com/) Instagram: @letstalkspookypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/letstalkspookypodcast) TikTok: @letstalkspookypod (https://www.tiktok.com/@letstalkspookypod) Email: letstalkspookypodcast@gmail.com (mailto:letstalkspookypodcast@gmail.com) New episodes every Friday at 8 p.m. EST. Source Material: Moldovan, Octavian. “Strigoiul din Vâlcea. Femeie, dezgropată și înjunghiată în inimă de fratele ei: ‘O visează că vine la el’. Ce a pățit preotul.” Știrile ProTV, 15 Feb. 2024, stirileprotv.ro/divers/strigoiul-din-valcea-dezgropata-si-injunghiata-in-inima-de-fratele-ei-o-viseaza-ca-vine-la-el-ce-a-patit-preotul.html (https://stirileprotv.ro/divers/strigoiul-din-valcea-dezgropata-si-injunghiata-in-inima-de-fratele-ei-o-viseaza-ca-vine-la-el-ce-a-patit-preotul.html) Shaw, Allyson. “Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness.” Books from Scotland, Jan. 2023. Frost, Natasha. “Meet a Scottish ‘Witch’ Who Died 300 Years Ago.” Atlas Obscura, 31 Oct. 2017. Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project. “Burials at St Anne, Woodplumpton, 1693–1717.” Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks, lan-opc.org.uk/St-Michael-on-Wyre/stannew/burials_1693-1717.html. Lancashire County Council. “Other Witch Stories.” Red Rose Collections, item 235233, redrosecollections.lancashire.gov.uk/view-item?i=235233. McCann, Barry. “The Witch of Woodplumpton.” Spooky Isles, www.spookyisles.com/witch-of-woodplumpton. “Meg Shelton the Fylde Witch.” Mysterious Britain & Ireland, mysteriousbritain.co.uk/?p=3430. St Anne’s Church, Woodplumpton. “History of St Anne’s.” St Anne’s Woodplumpton, stanneswoodplumpton.org.uk. Ian. “Meg Shelton the Fylde Witch.” Mysterious Britain & Ireland, 8 Dec. 2009. “History of St Anne’s.” St Anne Church Woodplumpton. Ghost Guide Daniel. “Mary Rutherford | Separating the Witch from True History.” Ghost Walks, 26 Jan. 2026. Ghost Guide Daniel. “Mary Rutherford | Separating the Witch from True History.” Ghost Walks, Jan. 2026, ghostwalks.com/articles/mary-rutherford-witch-legend. “Early Modern Witch Trials: Accusation and Trial.” The National Archives, section “The 1604 Act Against Witchcraft.” “Scotland’s Witch Hunts.” National Geographic, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/scotland-witch-hunts. “The Witchcraft Act, 1604.” The National Archives (UK). “Torryburn.” The Scots Magazine, Oct. 2025. “Under Her Spell.” Live Science, 2017. Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness. Extract, Books from Scotland, 2023.

2. 

   3 Oct 2026

   64: Something Familiar

   Look closely at any Halloween witch, and you’ll find a little creature perched beside her: a black cat, a toad, an owl watching over the cauldron. But long before they were decorations, familiars were evidence. This week, we kick off our October Month of Witches with the strange and unsettling history of the witch’s familiar. Website:letstalkspooky.com Instagram:@letstalkspookypodcast TikTok:@letstalkspookypod Email:letstalkspookypodcast@gmail.com New episodes every Thursday at 8 p.m. EST. Got a name for the new studio cat? Send it our way. Stay Curious. Stay Spooky SOURCES: Damnable Practises of Three Lincolne-shire Witches. 1619. English Broadside Ballad Archive, EBBA 20058, ebba.english.ucsb.edu. The Examination and Confession of Certaine Wytches at Chensforde in the Countie of Essex. 1566. Edited by Frank Luttmer, Hanover College, history.hanover.edu/dept-archive/ischelm.html. Goodier, Christine. “The Pendle Witches.” Lancaster Castle,lancastercastle.com/the-pendle-witches. Hopkins,Matthew. The Discovery of Witches. R. Royston, 1647. Cornell University Library Digital Collections, digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:24343966. Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters, editors. Witchcraftin Europe, 400–1700: A Documentary History. 2nd ed., U of Pennsylvania P, 2001. Lincolnshire Folktales Project. “The Witches of Belvoir.” 21Feb. 2024, lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com. Loxley, James. “The Bottesford Tombs.” Ben Jonson’s Walk, U of Edinburgh. Marsh, Moira. Review of Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, by Emma Wilby. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, 2006. Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. “Illustration of Martin le Franc’s ‘Le Champion des Dames’ Poem.” Object 601,museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/witch-picture-27/. The National Archives (UK). “Early Modern Witch Trials.” Education resource, nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/early-modern-witch-trials/. Niehaus, Isak, et al. Witchcraft, Power andPolitics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld. Pluto Press, 2001. Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discoverie ofWitches in the Countie of Lancaster. 1613. Edited by James Crossley, Chetham Society, 1845. Project Gutenberg,gutenberg.org/ebooks/18253. Roth, Martha T. Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. 2nd ed., Scholars Press, 1997. Sasaki, Kokan. “Spirit Possession as an Indigenous Religion in Japan and Okinawa.” Senri Ethnological Studies, vol. 11,1984, pp. 75–84, doi.org/10.15021/00003362. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. 1623. Sparham, Bob. “The Bottesford Witches.” Bottesford Living History, bottesfordhistory.org.uk. Webster, John. The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. 1677. Wilby, Emma. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits. Sussex Academic Press, 2005. The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower. G. Eld for J. Barnes, 1619. Wellcome Collection.

3. 

   26 Sept 2026

   63: Lizzie Borden

   Everybody knows the rhyme. Almost nobody knows the truth. On a mild summer morning in 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death inside a locked house on Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts — and before the police had finished searching for a stranger, the town had already decided who did it. This week we walk through the whole story: the morning of the murders, the cold and comfortless house of a very wealthy man, the shifting testimony, the trial that quietly fell apart, and the acquittal that never really ended. Then we sit with the strangest part of all — how a children's skipping rhyme convicted a woman the court set free, and why we still believe it a hundred and thirty years later. A story about a hatchet, an inheritance, a house you can still book a room in — and the way a legend can outrun the truth and never look back. Content note: This episode discusses a real double homicide and describes the injuries involved. SOURCES & FURTHER READING Primary records: Lizzie's inquest testimony & the 1893 trial transcript — famous-trials.com/lizzieborden; witness statements & wills — lizzieandrewborden.com Archival: Fall River Historical Society (trial exhibits, crime-scene photos, the Knowlton Papers) — fallriverhistorical.org Key books: Cara Robertson, The Trial of Lizzie Borden; Martins & Binette, Parallel Lives (FRHS); Edwin Porter, The Fall River Tragedy (1893, free at gutenberg.org) On the hauntings: Joe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer Among Others CONNECT WITH LET'S TALK SPOOKY Website: letstalkspooky.com Email: ⁠letstalkspookypodcast@gmail.com⁠ (mailto:letstalkspookypodcast@gmail.com) Instagram: @letstalkspookypodcast TikTok: @letstalkspookypod New episodes every Friday at 8 p.m. EST If you've got a legend from your corner of the map, send it our way — we read everything. Stay Curious. Stay Spooky.

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