In this episode we cover the origins of Halloween and the traditions of our family's cultures which include Samhain and Dia De Los Muertos. Nikki shares a bone chilling paranormal experience her whole family had two Halloweens ago and we chat a little about what horror movies we've seen lately. Phil takes us on a spine-tingling journey through the world of sleep paralysis and shadow people throughout various cultures and we share Madeleine's terrifying sleep paralysis experience in this episode's Scarytale. Do you dare listen?

Happy Hauntings and Happy Halloween.

Nikki & Phil

Happy Halloween! We ask a few fun Halloween themed questions and we also learn that Nikki’s mom may have been cursed as a young child and all the mishaps she’s had around Halloween and her birthday which are days apart.

After, we continue our journey through haunted Yosemite. We cover all the bizarre and creepy things that has happened in the beautiful national park as well as surrounding areas. There’s everything from curses and witches to serial killers, Bigfoot, Nightcrawlers and even a cursing squirrel. We end the episode with a listener scarytale sent to us by Jessica. You don’t want to miss this one.

Happy Hauntings

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Resources:

The Curse of Tenaya Canyon in Yosemite - Moon Mausoleum

Mysteries Of California's Mount Tamalpais | TouristSecrets

Ghost Hunting at the Haunted Muir Woods National Monument – The Costa Rican Times

The Wildest Creature that John Muir Ever Saw - Yosemite National Park (U.S. National Park Service) - Yosemite Ranger Notes

Stayner's fixations described / Convicted killer obsessed with Bigfoot, heads

Cary Stayner - Wikipedia

The Yosemite National Park Sightseer Murders and the two faces of evil — StrangeOutdoors.com

Bigfoot Beat — Cary Stayner and the Bigfoot Connection

Bigfoot in Yosemite National Park — Pacific Adventure Club

Mystery of Nightcrawlers Yosemite: The Haunting Cryptid Explained – Hangar1publishing

We are a podcast for adults/creepy kids at heart who perhaps found traditional education boring and/or challenging (as I personally did) and I would have loved to use the excuse that a ghost ate my homework when I was a kid but I knew I’d get in trouble for that.

In this episode (Part 1), we learn about the life and work of John Muir, one of the most celebrated and revered conservationists in U.S. history and we take a deep dive into the bizarre and paranormal happenings in the mysterious national park, including a sighting of Muir's ghost himself. On our virtual field trip, we will also encounter an evil spirit inhabiting the mist of majestic Bridalveil Fall, the haunting of a boy at Grouse Lake, a grisly finding in Summit Meadow of Yosemite and the ghosts said to reside at the beautiful and swanky Ahwahnee Hotel located in the heart of Yosemite. We end our episode with a spine-tingling story sent to us by our friend, Danny G. You won’t want to miss this one! Have your own story to tell? Send them to hauntedhomework@gmail.com

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Stay haunted!

🖤 Nikki & Phil

Music

"Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Resources

Muir’s ghost on the Eastside | Western Outdoor News

A woman died in Yosemite. She's been linked to a cult and a serial killer.

The Ahwahnee Hotel | Reservations and History | Yosemite.com

The Mysterious Cries From Grouse Lake - Yosemite Horror Story

Reddit - The heart of the internet

Lights and Shadows of Yosemite (1926) “The Legend of Po-ho-no—The Evil Wind,” by Katherine Ames Taylor