Tori Selznick and Krysti Adams
Trendy Lobotomy Podcast
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...
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Tori Selznick and Krysti Adams
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Aug 17, 2025
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Episodes
Irvington, Cemeteries, D&D, and Witches? 22.04.2021 46:04
Send us Fan Mail Irvington, Cemeteries, Witches, and D&D? Trigger Warning: This episode deals with sexual assault and may not be appropriate for everyone. We are sticking around Indy for at least two of our stories this episode. Krysti runs through several of the highlights of Irvington. She covers several places that are on the ghost tours tha...
Tippecanoe and Tara Too! 14.04.2021 49:26
Send us Fan Mail Tippecanoe and Tara Too We went road tripping with a special guest for this episode! We went to Lafayette and Battle Ground for this episode. Tara joins us for both the TL road trip and to listen to the stories we collected there. Krysti talks about Amelia Earhart and her ghostly appearances in both Hangar 1 and her previous residence hall, both of which still exist to this day. T...
A Rich Man and an Axe Murderer 07.04.2021 32:36
Send us Fan Mail Shades State Park and French Lick Hotel Krysti gives us the rundown on French Lick Springs Hotel and all of it’s ghost stories. We learn that it’s nice to be rich and get the railroad to come to your front door. The ghosts run the gamut from friendly elevator operators, to the bloody bride, to ghosts living their best death riding horses through ballrooms. Tori badly explains the...
Whispers, the Twins, and a Sweet Pizza Deal 31.03.2021 32:58
Send us Fan Mail Our guests stuck around for a second episode and chimed in. Tori tells the story of Whispers Estate in Mitchell Indiana. A rundown of the tragic Gibbons family and the specter of death that was with them. The varied manifestations of the supernatural has put this house in the spotlight and has been on several shows on the Travel Channel. Krysti goes into the histories of the twi...
All Hell's Gates Break Loose for Tori's Birthday 24.03.2021 58:54
Send us Fan Mail All Hell’s Gates Break Loose for Tori’s Birthday We have guest hosts! Chuck and Malcom join Tori and Krys for this episode! Krys tells us the legend of Black Annie and her story in Boonville Indiana. She still hangs around Scales Lake Park to this day. We also explore the appropriate dress for ghosts that wander down roads. Black Annie has far reaching roots in English folk...
Spiritualists and Crabbites 18.03.2021 38:59
Send us Fan Mail Camp Chesterfield/Stepps Cemetery To start this episode Krysti gives a quick explanation of Spiritualism and a large community of Spiritualists in Indiana, Camp Chesterfield. She gives history and shenanigans that folks got up to there. This is still in operation to this day and is right outside of Anderson. Also, Krysti is Scully to Tori’s Mulder. Stepps Cemetery in the M...
You're Not Taking Grandma! 18.03.2021 46:18
Send us Fan Mail Trigger Warning: This episode deals with suicide and may be upsetting for some listeners, please be advised. Krys covers the Lafayette Guillotine and it’s maker’s decidedly interesting yet deadly idea. Tori covers the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus (Tori cannot say this name the whole episode and absolutely butchers it every time.) This circus endured one of the worst/most deadly train...
Central State Hospital and a Legendary Hoarder 13.03.2021 52:00
Send us Fan Mail Central State Hospital and a Legendary Hoarder This episode we stick around downtown Indy for some more tales. We cover Central State Hospital and it’s history throughout the years. We give both the history and continue on through current state of the property. The ghost stories of the property are explored by Tori as well. Krysti also found an interesting story from our l...
Here's the Story and a Cemetery 11.03.2021 52:42
Send us Fan Mail Here’s the Story and a Cemetery Krysti starts us out this episode with the tale of a town that became an inn. The story of Story, along with a US president that came out of nowhere, to a bridge that leads to nowhere now. We explore the legend of the Blue Lady and her visits to guests in the B&B that currently exists in Story to this d...
Fires, Speakeasies, and Brothels, Oh My! 10.03.2021 56:18
Send us Fan Mail 4. Fires, Speakeasies, and Brothels, Oh My! We explain the reason for why we decided on Indiana legends as well Random Indiana trips. Tori covers the story of the Hannah House and all the ghostly shenanigans with the reasons why. Also covered in this episode was the Slippery Noodle Inn with it’s long history as Indianapolis’s oldes...
Why So Blue?(take 2) 10.03.2021 33:15
Send us Fan Mail 2. Why so Blue?(take 2) We decided to cover with a hometown legend for us, most folks that grew up in the Indy area heard about this place and the creepy goings on that went on there. We delve into the actual history of the legend and the spooky stories equated with it. The House of Blue Lights owned by an eccentric milli...
Crybabies and Purple Heads Bonus(take 2) 10.03.2021 25:45
Send us Fan Mail 3. Crybabies and Purple Heads Bonus (take 2) This episode was a bonus from the same day that we recorded the House of Blue Lights. We went on a road trip to see Skiles Nature Park and visited Crybaby Bridge as well. Krysti tells the legends for both Crybaby Bridge in Avon and Purple Head Bridge (Wabash Cannonball Bridge) in Vincennes, T...
I’m A Real Dog and Calls From the Grave(take 2) 09.03.2021 27:16
Send us Fan Mail 1. I’m A Real Dog and Calls From the Grave(take 2 audio) Welcome to Trendy Lobotomy! Krysti and Tori start their podcast journey with y’all along for the ride! On our maiden episode we tell one Indiana legend and a cool little story from the same graveyard. We tell the legend of Stiffy Green and his master as well as their neighbor in Highland Lawn Cemetery a Mr. Martin S...
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