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In 1985, Dorothy Lou Thompson vanished from her home at a Louisiana pet cemetery. Nearly three weeks later, her body surfaced in the Mississippi River, wrapped in chains. Decades later, witnesses came forward with information about her death and a disturbing explanation for finally talking: they said Dorothy’s ghost wouldn’t leave them alone. This week on Loreplay, Dayna Pereira explores the true...

In the woods outside Clifton, Virginia, there’s a railroad overpass locals call Bunny Man Bridge. Legend says an escaped asylum inmate, a man who murdered his family on Easter Sunday, hid there and lived on rabbits. He left their mutilated bodies hanging in the trees, and every Halloween since, teenagers who stay under the bridge past midnight have turned up hanging there too. It’s a fantastic sto...

Six hundred dead husbands. One infamous poison. And a little bottle with a saint on it. Apparently, marriage counseling in seventeenth century Italy could get extremely fucking dark. In this episode of Loreplay, Dayna Pereira explores the legend of Giulia Tofana and Aqua Tofana, the notorious arsenic poison said to have helped women escape dangerous marriages by becoming widows. From Palermo and N...

The Beautiful Stranger: Kate Morgan & the Hotel del Coronado On Thanksgiving 1892, a young woman checked into the Hotel del Coronado alone, under a fake married name, with one small handbag and no luggage. For five days she told the staff she was dying and that her brother, a doctor, was on his way. He never came. On the morning of November 29th, the hotel electrician found her dead on the bea...

The Flatwoods Monster: the 1952 West Virginia cryptid and UFO encounter, told campfire-style and then ripped apart. On September 12, 1952, a fireball streaked across the sky over Flatwoods, West Virginia. A group of boys, a mom named Kathleen May, a teenage National Guardsman, and one very smart dog went up a hill to find where it landed. What they found was a ten-foot creature with a blood-red fa...

Everyone knows the rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. The problem is that almost every word of it is bullshit. In this episode, Dayna heads to Fall River, Massachusetts, to uncover the actual story behind one of America’s most infamous unsolved murders. We’re talking family resentment, inheritance drama, a mysterious note, an alleged attempt to buy poison, a suspici...

Bekah Page joins Dayna to talk about her paranormal investigations at The Whaley House. Bekah has always been sensitive to energies and drawn to the paranormal. As a child, she visited the Whaley house and has been called back to it several times since. In this bonus episode, Dayna and Bekah discuss Violet Whaley, how a house can hold both grief and joy, Bekah's relationship with Violet Whaley, an...

A hanged man, two tragic young deaths, and a whole lot of frontier judgment. The Whaley House, built on top of a killing ground, had no choice but to be haunted. This week, Dayna tells the story of all the tragedy one house can hold. But if it can hold that much sorrow, can't it also hold that much joy? The Whaley House still stands today and is widely recognized as one of the most haunted houses...

For the first time in Loreplay HISTORY, we have a guest on the show! Jenn Scott Pickett has been deep diving reincarnation and sharing the stories for years. She is an author, podcaster, and social media creator. In this episode, Dayna and Jenn talk about past life regressions, if it's woo woo bullshit, the many cases of past lives, scars, memories and more. Find Jenn on social media @jennscottpic...

Imagine you're a hard boiled cop that doesn't believe in woo woo nonsense, and then you are forced to face that the woo woo nonsense might be on to something. Robert L. Snow, a police detective, was essentially dared to do a past life regression session. He went into the experience fully determined to debunk it all, even bringing his own recorder to the session, and ended up on a journey that took...

The trials ended. The executions stopped. But according to the ghost stories, some of North Berwick’s dead never really left. In this bonus episode of Loreplay, we’re heading back to Scotland to dig into the hauntings and paranormal legends that linger in the shadow of the North Berwick Witch Trials. From Agnes Sampson, better known in ghost lore as “Bald Agnes”, and her alleged appearances at Hol...

Season 2 is HERE, and apparently we’re kicking things off with Satan’s cold ass, witches sailing the Scottish seas in kitchen colanders, a weaponized cat, and one very paranoid king. The North Berwick Witch Trials started with a royal wedding, some seriously shitty weather, and King James VI becoming convinced that witches were personally trying to murder him. What followed was one of Scotland’s m...

In 1928, on the night before Thanksgiving, a sixty-year-old Pennsylvania folk healer named Nelson Rehmeyer was beaten to death in his farmhouse by three men who believed he had cursed them. The house they tried to burn wouldn't burn. The clock above the stove stopped at 12:01. And the trial that followed became one of the most surreal legal spectacles in American history — partly because the judge...

Public executions were already brutal… but then came Jack Ketch—the executioner who somehow made death worse. Known across 17th-century England for his shockingly bad aim , Ketch didn’t just take lives—he botched them, turning executions into slow, horrifying spectacles that crowds couldn’t look away from. From nobles begging for mercy to audiences watching in disbelief, this is the story of the m...

In this absolutely chaotic slice of history, we dive into one of the strangest—and most painful—medical mysteries ever recorded: exploding teeth. Yes. Actual human teeth. Exploding. Inside people’s mouths. Set in the early-to-mid 1800s, this episode centers around several documented cases—most famously that of Reverend D.A. Spriggs —whose sudden, violent dental pain didn’t just throb… it detonated...

In 1837, something started terrorizing the outskirts of London. It had eyes like red balls of fire, metallic claws, and a deeply unsettling habit of vomiting blue flame directly into women's faces. It leapt over nine-foot walls. It slapped soldiers and laughed at bullets. It turned up in Devon as a four-legged bear-thing, starred in Victorian penny dreadfuls, got adopted as a bogeyman for misbehav...

In the shadow of colonial Rio de Janeiro, beneath the historic Arco do Teles, lives the legend of Bárbara dos Prazeres —a woman remembered as beautiful, powerful… and possibly monstrous. Said to have lived between the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Bárbara’s story blends documented history with chilling folklore. Some versions claim she murdered her husband and lover, escaped justice through...

This week we're going fully unhinged in the Mississippi Delta, and I need you to be prepared for that emotionally. We're covering the Witch of Yazoo — a nameless woman, a swamp shack, a very unfortunate boy on a raft, and a dying curse so specific it included a date, a year, a time of day, and somehow still got dismissed by an entire town. We'll get into the legend itself (fishermen, arsenic, skel...

Hey hey, lore-loving weirdos — before Salem, before witch trials became a cultural shorthand for mass hysteria, Europe spent roughly two hundred years putting people on trial for turning into wolves. And executing them. Tens of thousands of them. In this episode of Loreplay, host Dayna Pereira dives into the real, documented, court-certified history of the European werewolf trials — the paranoia,...

In July of 1518, one woman in Strasbourg walked into the street and began to dance. She didn’t stop. Within days, dozens joined her. Within weeks, hundreds were convulsing, leaping, and collapsing in the streets. And instead of stopping it… local authorities encouraged it. They hired musicians. They built stages. They prescribed more dancing. By the end of the summer, people were reportedly dying...

Think fairy tales were written for children? Think again. In this episode of Loreplay , Dayna Pereira dives deep into the dark, disturbing, and wildly misunderstood origins of classic fairy tales like Cinderella , Snow White , and The Juniper Tree . Long before Disney softened the edges, these stories were filled with mutilation, cannibalism, eye-pecking birds, and stepmothers who absolutely chose...

In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote German farm known as Hinterkaifeck. There were no witnesses. No arrests. No clear motive. But what makes this case one of the creepiest unsolved murders in history isn’t just the violence — it’s what happened after . Neighbors reported footsteps in the attic before the murders. Footprints appeared in the snow leading to the farmhouse… but neve...

New Orleans is known for jazz, ghosts, cocktails, and bad decisions made after midnight—but one house on Royal Street manages to out-traumatize them all. In this episode of Loreplay , Dayna Pereira dives into the chilling true history and twisted folklore surrounding the infamous LaLaurie Mansion and its most notorious resident, Delphine LaLaurie . What began as whispers of cruelty turned into ful...

In 1922, archaeologists opened the tomb of Tutankhamun , and almost immediately, people started dying. Coincidence? Bad luck? Or did they anger something ancient, royal, and deeply petty? In this episode of Loreplay , Dayna Pereira cracks open the legend of The Curse of the Pharaoh —the supposed supernatural punishment that followed those who disturbed King Tut’s tomb. We trace how the curse myth...

A normal ship docks. Europe panics. History absolutely spirals. In this episode of Loreplay , Dayna Pereira unpacks the chaos of the Black Death —the pandemic that wiped out up to half of Europe—and the extreme (and often unhinged) ways people tried to survive it. From bloodletting and snake remedies to emeralds, unicorn lore, and cooked chicken applied to plague sores, medieval medicine was doing...