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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. There were fights between countries over this itty bitty island. This led to Mexico claiming the isla...

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 between the US and Mexico. This cult was present and caused all sorts of chaos in Mexico in the 80s. This...

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. While this began as a noble idea, this soon turned into something more sinister. Yeah, not good and a...

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, mummies. This was apparently a very big status symbol to be a mummy interred in the crypt. Guess what y’all,...

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 shows up to the party armed with three different cemeteries. The Granary Burying Ground, Nashville City Ce...

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 tells us the tale of Nellie Butler. Want a famous ghost, we got you.  Krys continues with us the story o...

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 pronunciation and Dragholm Castle in Zealand Denmark. This castle survived several iterations and has a...

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 history. This has been a landmark of San Francisco for years upon years. From pet cemeteries, to milita...

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 tendency to accumulate relics from around the world, sounds like a great idea right? Oh,  can someone figure...

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 residence. Tori butts her story into the middle with Bobby Mackey’s Music World. Ready to hit more bingo spot...

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 trendylobotomypodcast.blogspot.com  Support the show

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 vampire, a battle site, a horny gravesite, and you want ghosts? Because that’s how you get ghosts. Chuc...

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, ghosts, and perhaps even the Queen herself visits from beyond the brave. Some of the furniture still there...

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 ghosts, all the ghosts. Krys is back in Paris for a disturbing true crime tale. Marcel Petiot was a sick, s...

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 elite to see performances without coming under attack. This was the opera house that spurred the Phant...

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 feud which has been ingrained on the American psyche! Our sources: hrp.org.uk, britannica.com, britain...

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 Twitter @TrendyPod as well as our blog trendylobotomypodcast.blogspot.com  Support the show

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 current iteration as a restaurant today. And what have we learned about old houses that have changed ha...

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 New Orleans. This cemetery had a prior incarnation as a horse racing track. This is one of the only place...

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 these mostly forgotten spooks are some of these festivals that stick around to this day. Tori comes wit...

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 us to Tasmania and Port Arthur. Used as a penal colony, since the US was out of reach for the Brits, th...

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

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 graveyard. Krysti picked a good story! Tori went for two lighthouses on opposite shores in the US. Terrible Till...

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 inmate left in 1992 and the place has been in several movies including The Green Mile. In 2020 a tornado...

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 debuted in 1943 and were saved by a former student. These helped investigators get it right for once....