Midnight in the Mountains Midnight in the Mountains

On this episode of MITM Laura and Aaron discuss ancient ghost stories, the first recorded ghost story in history to be exact.  Aaron talks about some other very old stories.  Then Laura shares the story she found that took place closer to the modern day, this story is said to be the first recorded ghost story in America.

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Aaron's Links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3500-year-old-babylonian-tablet-may-hold-earliest-known-ghost-image-180978923/

https://www.thecollector.com/ghost-stories-ancient-greece-rome/

Laura's Links: https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-nostalgia/americas-first-ghost/

https://scttx.com/articles/%E2%80%9Camerica%E2%80%99s-first-documented-ghost%E2%80%9D-neal-murphy

On this episode of MITM Laura and Aaron discuss, how over the years hitchhiking became less popular and the laws placed against it for everyone safety.  Even the FBI made posters warning against the dangers.
Laura tells the history of how a young girl tragically lost her life and has become known as the vanishing hitchhiker ghost, Resurrection Mary.  Many ghostly hitchhiking stories share similarities to Mary. 
Aaron shares an Appalachian horse riding, hitchhiker story.  One day a man picked up a woman who asked for a ride with him on his horse. In the short amount of time that he had taken her to her destination, he became so enthralled with the woman that he went back to her family the next day to ask her hand in marriage, only to find out the woman had been deceased. 
Stories that had been collected and grouped, by two folklorists in the 1940's are also discussed.

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Laura's Links:
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/8/8737623/hitchhiking

https://windycityghosts.com/the-legend-of-resurrection-mary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zesNBbcmCEE&t=830s

https://www.yesweekly.com/news/ghost-girl-hitchhiking-has-lydia-been-found/article_69394d3e-ba23-50ce-a008-ac0c11a21ea9.html

Aaron's Links:
https://americanghoststories.com/mid-west-ghost-stories/illinois/the-vanishing-hitchhiker

https://shows.acast.com/spooky-appalachia/episodes/20220701-hitchhiking-ghost-gatlinburg-tennessee

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/crossschool/ln305/biblio/beardsley__hankey_the_vanishing_hitchhiker.pdf

On this episode of MITM Aaron and Laura discuss petroglyphs from the Appalachians all the way to Australia.  Some petroglyphs depict other worldly creatures, strange large serpent creatures, bird-like human figures, sorcerers, unicorns and aliens are mentioned.  They theorize what they could possibly represent. 

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Laura's Links
https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-cave-paintings-early-humans

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tennessee-caveart/professor-who-found-oldest-u-s-cave-art-says-theres-more-idUSBRE95R0VW20130628

https://www.fox13news.com/news/native-american-cave-art-discovery-19th-unnamed-cave-alabama

Aaron's Links
https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-folklore/wandjina-rock-art-00701

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandjina

On this episode of Midnight In The Mountains, Aaron shares a Tennessee railroad story and some other southern tales.  Then Laura share a premonition that a railroad conductor had of his own death. 

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sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21QS0mQo2IM

https://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/haunted-tennessee/mysterious-light-haunts-chapel-hill-railroad/

http://southernghoststories.com/tennessee-ghost-stories-the-chapel-hill-ghost-light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maco_light

On this episode of Midnight In the Mountains, Laura and Aaron take a look back through history, to see where Valentines day could have possibly originated from.  Laura explains the Pagan festival Lupercalia and the rituals that took place in ancient times. Christians may have used Valentine's day (a day that was used to remember St. Valentine's death or time of burial) in order to "Christianize" Lupercalia. 
Then Aaron tells some tragic love stories that have resulted in hauntings that still continue today.

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sources: https://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day/history-of-valentines-day-2
https://notebookofghosts.com/2016/02/14/happy-valentines-day-ghost-stories-of-tragic-love/

On this episode of MITM Mike from The Paranormal Road Trippers stops by from British Columbia.  Laura and Mike discuss early childhood encounters, ouja board stories, haunted Canadian history, investigating and some lower level entities.

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