Trendy Lobotomy Podcast
by Tori Selznick and Krysti Adams
Old friends discuss local legends starting with the ones they know from their home state. Legendary people, places, and random facts about Indiana abound here. While we started in Indiana, the world is full of legends and we want to explore them. Laughter, history, and spooky facts included. We like getting down to the bottom of these legends and giving both the facts as well as the lore. If history and interesting stories, sometimes with a spooky bent, are up your alley, so are we! We like telling each other stories and hope you will like them too! Oh, one more thing, you want ghosts? That's how you get ghosts...
Episodes
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Some Sh**ty Stories
Send us Fan Mail Krysti leads off with the tale of Clipperton Island. This island is now the home to poisonous crabs and that’s about it. This island was “owned” by many countries by the end of its saga. This island was the source of mass amounts of guano which was in high demand for fertilizer....
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How Do Your Scream Without a H...
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with King’s Chapel Burying Grounds. This is the oldest cemetery in Boston and has some disturbing tales that go along with it. Krys regales us with the Matamoros Cult killings in the late 80’s. This was a jurisdictional nightmare due to this being on the border...
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Battle Weary Orphans
Send us Fan Mail Krys tells of the Gettysburg Orphanage. This was started due to a picture of a family of a perished soldier in the area. Sergeant Amos Hurniston was the soldier that started this by dying with the picture of his fam. The orphanage was built to house the orphans of Union soldiers....
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The Al Dente Episode
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with the Capuchin Crypt in Rome. The monks used the bones to make works of art throughout the Crypt and the chapels therein. The next one was the Palermo Capuchin Crypt. This one is even creepier because the whole place is full of mummies. You heard me right,...
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Friendly and Tortured Ghosts
Send us Fan Mail Krys opens us up with tale of Jekyll Island Club Resort. This island off the coast of Georgia and has one hell of a history. Many huge names frequented the island and there are stories that abound of their time in both the past and present of the island. You want ghosts? Tori…
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S.4 Ep.4 Return of the Soundboard Gremlins
Send us Fan Mail 105. Return of the Soundboard Gremlins Tori leads the scene of a well known murder, the Black Dahlia. The Sowden House has been a fixture of LA since the 1920s. This house was designed by Lloyd Wright. This houses sordid history has fascinated people both in LA and beyond. Krys...
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The Ghost of Executive Function
Send us Fan Mail TAKE TWO!!!!! Krysti leads off with the Curran Theater in San Francisco. This was a hotbed of crime as well as the theater arts. From murder to catching criminals in front of the building, guess what, you want ghosts, that’s how you get ghosts. Tori comes in second with terrible...
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Not a Star Wars Creature
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with Taunton State Hospital in Massachusetts. Not surprisingly this hospital didn’t have a great reputation. But guess what it does have, you got it, ghosts. Parts of this hospital are still in operation today. Krys follows up with the Presidio and its illustrious...
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S.4 Ep.1 Save Our Sinking Ship
Send us Fan Mail Guess what kids?! Your favorite weird ass Hoosier girls are back in your ears. This week we hit up California for our stories. Krys leads off with the Sutro Baths. These were mainstays of San Francisco for years before shockingly taken out by a mysterious fire. Sutro had a…
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A Texas Sandwich With a Side of Kentucky Bar
Send us Fan Mail Malcom comes hard with a Texas sandwich. Lubbock Texas is a haunted town with hell gates, a haunted college, and a haunted cemetery. All of these complete the spooky story bingo for those that were playing at home. Texas Tech has a home there and they have ghost hunters in...
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Announcements and Cryptid Corner Bonus
Send us Fan Mail Here for some announcements and a bit of Cryptid Corner. Chase regales us with the flashlight frog! Support our show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trendylobotomypodcast Find us at FB/Instagram @TrendyLobotomyPod and at Twitter @TrendyPod as well as our blog...
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Megasode 3.0: The Limb Episode
Send us Fan Mail Tori starts off the latest megasode with several movie references and the Old Joliet Prison. Yet another prison with deplorable conditions, ghosts, and movie scenes. Also, they buried limbs in the cemetery there. Krysti comes around with Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Add in a...
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Where We Learn it's Not a Kilt if You Are Wearing Underwear
Send us Fan Mail Krys leads off with the tale of Versailles and it’s royal history. This palace is one of the most extravagant palaces on the face of the planet. Throughout the upheaval of the French Revolution this was a physical example of the divide between haves and have nots. Time slips,...
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A Starbucks and a Tangent
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with Pike Place Market in Seattle. This is apparently one of the most haunted spots on the West Coast. The oldest continuously open market in the US, the sheer size of this market shocked Tori. This market has insane amounts of social implications as well. And...
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Rumors of a Phantom and a New Definition of Petty Officers
Send us Fan Mail Krysti leads off with the Opera Garnier Paris and its illustrious history. This opera house spurred rumors of a phantom, has an underground lake, and is all sorts of fancy to boot. This historical building fields 400+ performances per year and was built to be a safe place for the...
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Henry VIII on the Family Feud!
Send us Fan Mail Tori covers the Tower of London and she regrets her life choices due to the sheer size of this story. A bunch of history, beheadings, and ghosts, this historic keep has seen it all. Also, there’s ravens, nine exactly. Krys covers the Hatfields and the McCoys and their epic family...
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Cryptid Corner Bonus Episode 1
Send us Fan Mail Chase is back to teach about the Snallygaster today! Welcome to our in between episodes! Our Sources: legendsofamerica.com, Cryptid Creatures a Field Guide Support our show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trendylobotomypodcast Find us at FB/Instagram @TrendyLobotomyPod and at...
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Singing Ghosts and LARPing Army Geeks
Send us Fan Mail Krysti starts us off with the story of Tippecanoe Place in South Bend, IN. This residence was built by the Studebakers and was one of the fanciest homes in the city at the time. Cue some poor money handling and the property was then sent through a series of owners till it's…
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New Year, New Friend, and Lots of Civil War Soldiers
Send us Fan Mail Happy Season 3 lovies! We are back to you with more stories and some new voices! Matthew Barron visits us and hangs for an episode. Matthew is a local author and check out our Insta for a pic of his books! Tori goes first and tells of yet another cemetery, Metairie Cemetery in…
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Bertha and the Movie Curses
Send us Fan Mail Krys drives home the holiday spirit with another beastie that was used to scare children into behaving before Santa Claus was here. Gotta love the boogeymen that were used to keep people in line. Breakout the sage and costumes to get rid of the holiday boogeymen. The holdout for...
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Dancing Will Kill You
Send us Fan Mail TRIGGER WARNING: This episode mentions suicides, death, and a mass shooting. Tori leads off with some fun with Horror in the Heartland’s odd old newspaper blurbs. Kevin McQueen gives us an interesting obituaries to have fun with, people are weird and do stupid shit. Krysti takes…
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You Bet Your VHass Episode 3
Send us Fan Mail A bit of an extra so y'all don't have another dark week. Tori chimed in a whole lot with this one. Support the show
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When Inflatible Turkeys Attack
Send us Fan Mail The story of the Manresa Castle has all the great backstory a hotel should. Priests, old money family, a curse or two, add in some vacationing nuns and we have all the energy we need to make this a haunted hotel. This beautiful hotel is also attached to the small family…
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Why Sure Not?
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with Tennessee State Prison and it’s lovely history. Like most old prisons, this was a place of punishment, not rehabilitation, and brutal as hell. This jail has been partially blown up, held hostage, rioted, and to finish it out a class action lawsuit. The last...
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Plausible Deniability and the Sound of Krys's Brain
Send us Fan Mail Krys skips the spooky stuff this year but makes Tori squee with the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. These were teaching tools made by Frances Glessner Lee to teach forensics. This lady was the shit and the Patron Saint of Policemen or the Mother of Forensics. The Nutshells...
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Weird
Send us Fan Mail Tori gives us the story of the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester was a remarkable woman in her own right and she lived life the way she wanted and be damned to the naysayers. So many stories about the reason for her incessant building but the truth of the matter is…
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A Nest of Alien Zombie Shadow Squirrels
Send us Fan Mail Krys leads off with King’s Tavern in NAtchez, MS. Outlaws galore frequented this tavern in it’s heyday and gave it a shady reputation. Main takeaway? You want ghosts?! Because that’s how you get ghosts…Add in a spooky crossroads, some dumb criminals, and infanticide, you get…
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Spoopy Megasode: Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
Send us Fan Mail —-------------------NO CHICKENS WERE HARMED IN THIS EPISODE—---------------------------- Our thanks to Julie Gearing for her rendition of The Raven for our spooky episode! Tori leads off with the tale of Frankenstein Castle and some of the many myths that have been attached to…
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Hello and Sorry For The Tech Gremlins
Send us Fan Mail Okay, so the sound gremlins were back this episode, our bad. This week was rough for both of us. Krys covers Thomas Edison’s Spirit Phone. Krysti explains why inventors are weird and that the brilliant ones are even weirder. Thomas Edison brings spiritualism into the fray but it...
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Creole Cancel Culture and a Door Dashing Ghost
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with the story of an absolutely horrible human being and her house in New Orleans. Delphine LaLaurie’s story is absolutely disgusting and her mansion that sits at 1140 Royal Street seems to keep reliving the horror show that was her life in that house. Yeah, you...
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Where the Hosts Curse and So Do the Subjects
Send us Fan Mail Spooky Season is here! Krys takes us to the Old West to lead off and does Bodie, CA. This ghost town is now a museum that is in a state of arrested decay. This town was one of the many boom towns that was prompted by what? Gold of course. Sticking to the Old West Tori tells us of...
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Vulcan...But Not Star Trek
Send us Fan Mail Krys is back! Tori gets a head start on spooky season by way of a cemetery in Salem! Howard Street Cemetery in Salem has a place in the Salem Witch Trials and was the site of the pressing death of Giles Corey. Krys tells the story of the Vulcan Hotel in New Zealand. This mining...
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Bridgewater, Banshees, and Outlaws
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Scooby Doo and Mom Save Us
Send us Fan Mail I promise that the completed version will be up later this week for right now y'all get this. Love y'all! Support the show
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PSAs and Tech Gremlins: You Get What You Get
Send us Fan Mail Krys regales us with the tale of the White River Light in Whitehall Michigan. This lighthouse is currently a maritime museum and not currently in service as a lighthouse. William Robinson was the keeper of the lighthouse and stayed with his family at the location. William was the...
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West Virginian Lobotomies and Why Hoosiers Are Werid
Send us Fan Mail Tori starts off with a paranormal hotspot, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. This is supposedly the most haunted place in the US. Unfortunately like a good majority of psychiatric hospitals, the institution was plagued with tragedies and abuse allegations. The amount of…
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Deep in the Heart of Deadwood?
Send us Fan Mail Back after a bit of a break Krys leads off strong with tales of McKinney Texas and some of it’s haunted hot spots. Starting with Buckner Cemetery aka O’Brien Cemetery, this place of burial was the spot of public executions and as well as a marketplace during said executions. The...
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Disappearing and Peeping Ghosts
Send us Fan Mail Tori heads back to Cleveland again for LakeView Cemetery on 12316 Euclid Ave. This privately owned cemetery was founded in 1869 and has several famous residents. Some of the folks interred here are James A. Garfield, John D Rockafeller, and the untouchable himself Eliot Ness.…
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Sauerkraut and Castles
Send us Fan Mail Krysti starts off with another Central State Hospital but this one is in Kentucky. This is a current psychiatric hospital still in operation in Anchorage Kentucky. This hospital soon became plagued with the unfortunate problems that seem to haunt all old psych hospitals,...
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Parkitecture and Bon Bons
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off this week’s episode with the Ahwahnee Hotel. Taking it back to Yosemite State Park with the iconic Ahwahnee Hotel, this locale is a prime example of the NPS Rustic Parkitecture style.Due to the protected nature of the park, all building materials needed to be…
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Rockin' and Rollin'
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the shit show! Krys covers the story of Muscatatuck Developmental Center. While this is not a fun story, it is a story that needs to be told. This was originally called the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble Minded Youth (their words, not ours) and proceeded to...
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A Little Of This and A Little Of That
Send us Fan Mail Tori starts with another of her hyperfocuses, federal parks, in particular Yosemite National Park. This park paved the way for the National Park Service and it’s current mission in the US. This park has soooooo many stories and Tori gives some quick little stories as a taste of...
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The Worst Game of Clue Ever and the Bird Girl
Send us Fan Mail Krys starts off this episode with Glensheen Mansion in which the crimes totally resemble Clue. This property seems to be a murder magnet. A candlestick on the grand staircase, beaten with a cane in the beer garten, and ALL the murderers got acquitted. You want a haunted house?...
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Prisons and BS
Send us Fan Mail Happy Pride y’all! Tori hits with the story of Eastern State Penitentiary. This has been covered on just about every paranormal podcast, tv show, and article. This prison is in Philadelphia and was historic proof of what not to do when setting up a penal system. Krys brings us…
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Uvalde Dark Week Announcement
Send us Fan Mail We have a dark week in honor of the children and teachers that lost their lives in Uvalde Texas this week. Krys gives some mental health resources as well. Please read those folks stories instead of listening to us this week. Thank you for everything. Support the show
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Death Trolleys and Dry Good Merchants
Send us Fan Mail Krysti starts us off with the Culbertson Mansion in New Albany Indiana. This mansion was built by William Culbertson in 1867. By 1870 William was the second most wealthy man in Indiana. He lived in the house with several of his wives and at least three of his children were raised...
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Littlesode
Send us Fan Mail We managed to have a grab bag episode. Tori leads off with Potato Creek State Park and it’s stories of ghosts, cemeteries, and of course a premier birding destination. This reclaimed park has the fields of no for Krysti. Ghost kids, unseen hands, and women screaming. Krys follows...
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Megasode 2.5
Send us Fan Mail Strap in folks, we did another megasode. Although without the boys it could only be .5 designation. Krys leads off with the Witch’s Castle AKA Mistletoe Falls in Utica, IN. This location has a long history of being haunted and plenty of stories as to why it’s haunted.…
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Hotels and Hospitals
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with the tale of the Overlook Hotel, well actually the two hotels that were both the basis for the hotel made famous by Stephen King. The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO was where Stephen King stayed at and had nightmares in. This hotel has so much history under…
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LARPing Gone Horribly Wrong and The Flowers are Still Standing
Send us Fan Mail TRIGGER WARNING:The story this week involves sexual abuse, blood drinking, and animal abuse. None if these are explicitly described but listener discretion advised.. Krys leads off with the Murray Kentucky Vampire Clan, which Tori immediately freaks out because she remembers the...
About this show
Old friends discuss local legends starting with the ones they know from their home state. Legendary people, places, and random facts about Indiana abound here. While we started in Indiana, the world is full of legends and we want to explore them. Laughter, history, and spooky facts included. We like getting down to the bottom of these legends and giving both the facts as well as the lore. If history and interesting stories, sometimes with a spooky bent, are up your alley, so are we! We like telling each other stories and hope you will like them too! Oh, one more thing, you want ghosts? That's how you get ghosts...
Hosted by
Tori Selznick and Krysti Adams