Episode 9: Under His Skin, The Life and Death of the Salem Seer
**Notice: This episode was recorded live on Zoom, and may have long pauses, diminished sound, and be less polished than normal episodes. Thank you in ...
Life After Midnight: Strange History, Salem Style
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"Life After Midnight: Strange History, Salem Style" is a podcast led by Salem historian and tour guide Kristin Harris, exploring the darker side of history and looking into the connections between popular culture and historical thought. Celebrating and debunking all the strange things in the shadows that make their way into our folklore and culture.
Episode 8: Wonderfully Cruel Proceedings; Charles Brockden Brown, Phantasmagoria, and the Murders that Made America’s First Gothic Novel
**Notice: This episode was recorded live on Zoom, and may have long pauses, diminished sound, and be less polished than normal episodes. Thank you in ...
Episode 7: Murder in Medfield and the Tale of the Elitist Body Snatchers
**Notice: This episode was recorded live on Zoom, and may have long pauses, diminished sound, and be less polished than normal episodes. Thank you in ...
Episode 6: Heading Home to the Horseman’s Hollow- Halloween in Irving’s Sleepy Hollow
In this episode, travel with me on a Halloween Adventure to the legendary village of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where I explore the meaning and symbolis...
Episode 5: She’s Got Looks That Kill: Deadly Fashions in the 19th Century (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this episode, I conclude my journey into 19th century fashions with exploring Arsenic in green dye. Join me as we take a look at a fash...
Episode 4: New Orleans, a City for the Living and the Dead
(photo of the "ghost" of Julian Eltinge, with the original signed in 1917 photo on the left) (this is a re-posting of an earlier episode that somehow ...
Episode 5 : She’s Got Looks That Kill: Deadly Fashions in the 19th Century (Part 1)
In this episode, I explore the strange, and sometimes fatal fashion trends that developed in the Western World in the 19th century. In the words of ...
Episode 3: Curious Cases of Things Dead and Gone: Salem’s Gothic Literary Past and Present
Join me in a discussion of, you guessed it, Salem’s gothic literary past and present. I’m joined by Amber Newberry and Laurie Moran, authors and edito...
Episode 2: Villages of the Damned: Vampire Exhumations in Early New England
In this episode, I explore the evolution of the image of the vampire, and look beyond the fiction and folklore to expose the very real fear of vampiri...
Special Halloween Minisode: Ghostly Encounters at the Omni Parker House
In this off-the-cuff minisode, I am recording in the haunted Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. It’s Halloween, it’s my wedding anniversary, and of co...