Ep 100 Hatchet & Hex Houses

EPISODE 100!!!!! 🎉 FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU! Thank you to all our listeners and fans! You all are simply the best! We wouldn’t be here without you! You have truly allowed us to grow and share what we love…the kooky and spooky of our home state!  With that being said, join you favorite cousins as Jess gets into this week’s spooky tales…one in OKC and one in Tulsa; The Hatchet and Hex Houses.  Within the historic Gatewood neighborhood of Oklahoma City lies Carey Place, a street lined with 1930s Mediterranean and Spanish-style homes. The street is known for the urban legends and ghost stories surrounding its homes, particularly the "Hatchet House" where a young girl named Carey was allegedly brutally murdered years ago. The house's distinctive hatchet-carved shutters and the red-painted porch and driveway said to conceal bloodstains from the crime add to the eerie lore. While the details of the legend vary, the neighborhood embraces its haunted reputation, with residents going all-out for Halloween celebrations that draw hundreds of trick-or-treaters each year. Other homes on the street, like one with an irreparable bullet hole in the window, also have their own mysterious stories that contribute to Carey Place's reputation as Oklahoma City's "most haunted neighborhood." The Tulsa Hex House was a real-life haunted house in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a dark history. In the 1940s, Carolann Smith, a woman with a history of suspicious deaths and insurance fraud, held two women captive in the house's basement for 8 years. Smith had convinced the women, Willetta Horner and Virginia Evans, that she was a healer who could save them from damnation, and subjected them to cruelty, torture, and mind control. Police eventually discovered the women and charged Smith, but she received little punishment. The house was later demolished, but the property remains haunted, with reports of strange occurrences like cars moving on their own in the parking lot that now stands on the site. The Hex House has become a notorious part of Tulsa's history, a chilling tale of religious enslavement, fraud, and the paranormal. Thanks again for all your love and support! We truly are so appreciative of you!  Sources: The Hex House Weird Oklahoma by Wesley Treat Haunted Oklahoma City by Jeff Provine and Tanya McCoy Tulsa's Haunted Memories by Teri French Eerie Oklahoma by Heather Woodward Only In Your State - Hex House The Echo - Haunted OKC The Oklahoman - Carey Place The Oklahoman - Scarey Carey