Dayna Pereira is the sarcastic solo host of Loreplay, serving up paranormal stories, haunted history, creepy folklore, and weird legends with a playful twist. Equal parts storyteller and skeptic, she blends dark humor, spooky vibes, and a love for the bizarre into binge-worthy episodes for fans of ghost stories, urban legends, and true crime with a paranormal twist.
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Dayna Pereira is the sarcastic solo host of Loreplay, serving up paranormal stories, haunted history, creepy folklore, and weird legends with a playful twist. Equal parts storyteller and skeptic, she blends dark humor, spooky vibes, and a love for the bizarre into binge-worthy episodes for fans of ghost stories, urban legends, and true crime with a paranormal twist.
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May 4, 2026
The Hex Hollow Murder
<p>In 1928, on the night before Thanksgiving, a sixty-year-old Pennsylvania folk healer named Nelson Rehmeyer was beaten to death in his farmhouse by three men who believed he had cursed them. The house they tried to burn wouldn't burn. The clock above the stove stopped at 12:01. And the trial that followed became one of the most surreal legal spectacles in American history — partly because the judge edited the word "witch" out of the murder confession before the jury ever heard it. This week: Hex Hollow, Pennsylvania Powwow, the grimoire you can still buy on Amazon (four and a half stars), and the question of what happens when a community's entire system for understanding suffering points to a person. Dark, accurate, and genuinely strange.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Sources</strong></p><p>Arthur Lewis, Hex (1969) — foundational narrative account. Still widely cited.</p><p>David W. Kriebel, Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch (Penn State University Press, 2007) — definitive academic treatment of Braucherei. Source for cure specifics (wound chant, hog bladder remedy, dollar bill vision test).</p><p>Johann Georg Hohman, Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend (1820, multiple editions) — free on Internet Archive; annotated academic edition from Penn State University Press; also Amazon.</p><p>Shane Free, dir., Hex Hollow: Witchcraft and Murder in Pennsylvania (2015) — free to stream; features descendants of all parties and modern Powwow practitioners. Highly recommended companion viewing.</p><p>CrimeReads (2021), "A Tale of Witchcraft and Murder in Jazz Age America" — best single account of the trial proceedings and courtroom dynamics.</p><p>Wikipedia, Rehmeyer's Hollow — for baseline fact-check. Note: some popular sources contain errors on dates and childhood healer details; trial transcripts are the more reliable source.</p><p><strong>Hey hey, my fellow Lore Lovers… welcome to Loreplay. 🖤</strong></p><p>This is the podcast where history gets messy, folklore gets questionable, and I willingly spiral so you don’t have to. I’m your host, Dayna Pereira—your resident investigator of all things creepy, cursed, and deeply side-eye worthy.</p><p>Each week, we dig into the stories that make you go “wait… what the hell actually happened?”—from haunted places and urban legends to true crime and historical chaos. We separate fact from fiction… and then stare directly into the uncomfortable space in between.</p><p><strong>📲 Come hang out with me outside the void:</strong><br> Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod<br> Website: <a href="https://loreplaypod.com">https://loreplaypod.com</a></p><p><strong>Prefer to Watch 👀 <br></strong>Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP49XVyr_raHi3VVxXr91_w</p><p><strong>👀 GOT A STORY? (I know you do…)</strong><br> If you’ve experienced something weird, spooky, glitchy, or straight-up unexplainable—send it in. Your story might be featured in a future episode.</p><p>📩 Submit here: loreplaypod@gmail.com</p><p><strong>⚠️ Listener Discretion:</strong><br> We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤</p><p><strong>💀 If you liked this episode:</strong><br> Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).</p><p><strong>And remember…</strong><br> Just because it’s folklore… doesn’t mean it’s (all) fiction. 😏</p>
April 27, 2026
Jack Ketch and the Botched Beheadings
<p>Public executions were already brutal… but then came Jack Ketch—the executioner who somehow made death worse. Known across 17th-century England for his shockingly bad aim, Ketch didn’t just take lives—he botched them, turning executions into slow, horrifying spectacles that crowds couldn’t look away from. From nobles begging for mercy to audiences watching in disbelief, this is the story of the man who became infamous not for killing… but for how badly he did it. Because nothing says “career failure” like needing multiple swings of an axe.</p><p><strong>Hey hey, my fellow weirdos… welcome to Loreplay. 🖤</strong></p><p>This is the podcast where history gets messy, folklore gets questionable, and I willingly spiral so you don’t have to. I’m your host, Dayna Pereira—your resident investigator of all things creepy, cursed, and deeply side-eye worthy.</p><p>Each week, we dig into the stories that make you go “wait… what the hell actually happened?”—from haunted places and urban legends to true crime and historical chaos. We separate fact from fiction… and then stare directly into the uncomfortable space in between.</p><p><strong>📲 Come hang out with me outside the void:</strong><br> Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod<br> Website: <a href="https://loreplaypod.com">https://loreplaypod.com</a></p><p><strong>Prefer to Watch 👀 <br></strong>Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP49XVyr_raHi3VVxXr91_w</p><p><strong>👀 GOT A STORY? (I know you do…)</strong><br> If you’ve experienced something weird, spooky, glitchy, or straight-up unexplainable—send it in. Your story might be featured in a future episode.</p><p>📩 Submit here: loreplaypod@gmail.com</p><p><strong>⚠️ Listener Discretion:</strong><br> We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤</p><p><strong>💀 If you liked this episode:</strong><br> Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).</p><p><strong>And remember…</strong><br> Just because it’s folklore… doesn’t mean it’s (all) fiction. 😏</p><p><br><strong>Primary Sources</strong></p><ul><li>Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Entry for July 15, 1685. Evelyn was a direct eyewitness to the Monmouth execution and his account is considered one of the most reliable contemporary records.</li><li>The Apologie of John Ketch (1683). Pamphlet published under Ketch's name following the execution of Lord Russell. Authorship disputed — some historians attribute it to Ketch himself; others note the provenance is uncertain. Cited with that caveat in-episode.</li><li>Proceedings of the Old Bailey. January 14, 1676. First recorded court mention of Ketch by name.</li><li>The Plotters Ballad, Being Jack Ketch's Incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants (1678). Satirical broadsheet pamphlet. Held at the British Library.</li></ul><p><strong>Secondary Sources</strong></p><ul><li>Wales, Tim. "John Ketch." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004. The most authoritative modern biographical summary.</li><li>Engel, Howard. Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind. Key Porter Books, 1996. Covers Ketch in the context of execution history broadly.</li><li>Wade, Stephen. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths series. Cites and questions the provenance of the Apologie pamphlet.</li><li>Stephenson, Neal. The Baroque Cycle (2003–2004). Historical fiction; useful for period color on the execution economy and aristocratic tipping customs, not cited as fact.</li><li>Jullian, Philippe. Robert de Montesquiou (1965). Not directly relevant to Ketch but cited in the Moberly-Jourdain literature — flagged here only because it came up in research adjacently.</li></ul><p><strong>Online / Reference Sources Used in Research</strong></p><ul><li>"Jack Ketch." Wikipedia. Consulted April 2026. Used for general chronology and cross-referencing broadsheet citations.</li><li>"Jack Ketch." EBSCO Research Starters / Biography. Consulted April 2026.</li><li>"1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth." Executed Today (executedtoday.com). Consulted April 2026. Particularly useful for scaffold dialogue sourcing and crowd response detail.</li><li>Sherrat, Tim. "Jack Ketch." AllThatHistory (allthathistory.com). Consulted April 2026.</li><li>"Fall of Monmouth: Sedgemoor, Capture & Botched Execution." History Defined (historydefined.net). Consulted April 2026.</li><li>"An Execution Timeline: The Duke of Monmouth's Last Days." English Historical Fiction Authors (englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com). Consulted April 2026. Useful for detailed scaffold dialogue reconstruction.</li><li>"Execution of the Duke of Monmouth." Warwalks (warwalks.com). Consulted April 2026.</li><li>"The Execution of Monmouth." Our Civilisation — sourcing Macaulay's History of England. Consulted April 2026.</li><li>Historic Royal Palaces — Tower of London official records. Referenced for the five-blow count on the Monmouth execution.</li></ul>
April 20, 2026
Exploding Teeth: Your New Phobia Unlocked
<p>In this absolutely chaotic slice of history, we dive into one of the strangest—and most painful—medical mysteries ever recorded: exploding teeth. Yes. Actual human teeth. Exploding. Inside people’s mouths. Set in the early-to-mid 1800s, this episode centers around several documented cases—most famously that of Reverend <strong>D.A. Spriggs</strong>—whose sudden, violent dental pain didn’t just throb… it detonated. Victims reported intense pressure, unbearable agony, and then—BANG—teeth cracking, shattering, or even bursting apart with an audible pop.</p><p>We follow the timeline of these bizarre incidents, focusing on personal accounts that read more like horror fiction than medical documentation. People described flashes of light, gunshot-like sounds, and immediate relief after the explosion—as if their mouth just rage-quit.</p><p>So what the hell was happening?</p><p>We break down the leading theories:</p><ul><li> Early dental fillings made from unstable metals (hello, 1800s chaos chemistry) </li><li> Hydrogen gas buildup inside decaying teeth (yes, your mouth potentially becoming a tiny bomb) </li><li> Galvanic reactions—basically a battery forming in your mouth because of mixed metals </li></ul><p>…and why none of these explanations fully hold up under scrutiny.</p><p>Because here’s the thing: even modern dentistry can’t fully explain how a tooth could generate enough internal pressure to literally explode.</p><p>So was this a weird cluster of misdiagnosed dental abscesses? A case of experimental dentistry gone wrong? Or something even stranger—something we just don’t understand anymore?</p><p>Either way, this episode will make you:</p><ul><li> Fear toothaches on a whole new level </li><li> Deeply appreciate modern dentistry </li><li> And maybe… never ignore mouth pain again </li></ul><p>Because in the 1800s, a toothache wasn’t just annoying.</p><p>It might have been a ticking time bomb.</p><p><strong>SOURCES</strong></p><p><strong>Primary Source</strong></p><p><strong>"Explosion of Teeth With Audible Report"</strong></p><p>W.H. Atkinson. The Dental Cosmos, Vol. 2, January 1861. University of Michigan / Hathi Trust digital archive.</p><p><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dencos/acf8385.0002.001/333:78">https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dencos/acf8385.0002.001/333:78</a></p><p>Note: The archive page is image-based and requires institutional access. The Atkinson quotes used in this episode are reproduced via the secondary sources below, both of which cite this original directly.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Secondary Sources</strong></p><p><strong>"The gruesome and mysterious case of exploding teeth"</strong></p><p>BBC Future, 1 March 2016. Includes expert commentary from Hugh Devlin (Professor of Restorative Dentistry, University of Manchester) and Andrea Sella (Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, UCL).</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160301-the-gruesome-and-mysterious-case-of-exploding-teeth">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160301-the-gruesome-and-mysterious-case-of-exploding-teeth</a></p><p>Note: This URL was blocked from direct fetch during production. Content confirmed via the Amusing Planet piece below, which reproduces both expert quotes and cites BBC Future as source.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>"From the archive: The mysterious case of 'exploding teeth'"</strong></p><p>British Dental Journal, vol. 219, pp. 376–377. Published 23 October 2015.</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2015.809">https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2015.809</a></p><p>Reproduces BDJ correspondence originally published 1965–1966: Cyril Tomes (21 Sept 1965), B. Eady (5 Oct 1965), Basil G. Bibby / University of Pennsylvania (Dec 1965), Louis I. Grossman / University of Pennsylvania (Feb 1966). The Grossman letter quotes directly from J. Phelps Hibler's 1874 book. Directly fetched and verified.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>"The Case of The Exploding Teeth"</strong></p><p>Amusing Planet, 21 February 2023.</p><p><a href="https://www.amusingplanet.com/2023/02/the-case-of-exploding-teeth.html">https://www.amusingplanet.com/2023/02/the-case-of-exploding-teeth.html</a></p><p>Reproduces the full Atkinson quote from The Dental Cosmos, summarizes the Hibler and BDJ cases, and includes the Devlin and Sella quotes from BBC Future. Directly fetched and verified. Used as the primary route to Atkinson's text.<br><br></p><p><strong>Hey hey, my fellow lore lovers… welcome to Loreplay. 🖤</strong></p><p>This is the podcast where history gets messy, folklore gets questionable, and I willingly spiral so you don’t have to. I’m your host, Dayna Pereira—your resident investigator of all things creepy, cursed, and deeply side-eye worthy.</p><p>Each week, we dig into the stories that make you go “wait… what the hell actually happened?”—from haunted places and urban legends to true crime and historical chaos. We separate fact from fiction… and then stare directly into the uncomfortable space in between.</p><p><strong>📲 Come hang out with me outside the void:</strong><br> Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod<br> Website: <a href="https://loreplaypod.com">https://loreplaypod.com</a></p><p><strong>Prefer to Watch 👀 <br></strong>Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP49XVyr_raHi3VVxXr91_w</p><p><strong>👀 GOT A STORY? (I know you do…)</strong><br> If you’ve experienced something weird, spooky, glitchy, or straight-up unexplainable—send it in. Your story might be featured in a future episode.</p><p>📩 Submit here: loreplaypod@gmail.com</p><p><strong>⚠️ Listener Discretion:</strong><br> We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤</p><p><strong>💀 If you liked this episode:</strong><br> Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).</p><p><strong>And remember…</strong><br> Just because it’s folklore… doesn’t mean it’s (all) fiction. 😏</p>
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