Prison Tales and Adventures in Tropeland

Send us Fan MailWe had the pleasure of having Tara guest star again and Greg came with her to visit us. Australia came through with cookies and other snacks for us, thank you T, Harley, and Australian Greg. Krysti starts us off this episode all the way across the world in Australia. This time the story comes from Melbourne and the infamous Old Melbourne Gaol. This jail was built in 1845 and served as an operating jail until 1924. Currently this is a museum. This jail almost immediately became overcrowded and more cellblocks were built. Men, women, and children were all housed together for years before populations were separated. We learn that if you’re going to tell the British colonials to fuck off, plate mail is not the armor to do it in. The jail was decommissioned and when bodies of executed prisoners were found in the exercise yard. You want a haunted museum… Solitary confinement was something that was enforced harshly. 133 hangings were held at this prison and the gallows remain a feature in the museum to this day. Check out the saga of Ned Kelly’s head. EVPs, emf spikes, unexplained noises, and apparitions are still noted to this day. Tori brings it back to Indiana and immediately turns to a cemetery. Tillett Cemetery in Peru was her next target, otherwise known as Hookman’s Cemetery. This cemetery has a bubble of silence and creepy atmosphere. The hookman trope was built in the story of this cemetery. Stories about a crazed killer going after couples getting friendly in their cars have been in play for as long as cars and teenagers have been around. Urban legends bring up this kind of trope wherever folks are present. This leads to another trope about the missing camper in a swamp that was the site of a Native American battle called Okie Pinokie in Peru. In 1976 Joey Peoria went missing from the trail, he was never seen again. This trail has been the scene of substantiated body dumps. All in all Tori had many strike outs in her story/researching this episode. A big thanks to our guest stars this week, Tara and Greg!                                                                     Our theme music: “Danse Macabre - Busy Strings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Support the show