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As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

In January 1962, uncontrollable laughter seized a girls’ boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, then leapt from classroom to village to village. Over 18 months, waves of giggling fits, tears, fainting, and fatigue shut down 14 schools and afflicted about 1,000 people across a 100-mile region.

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Research:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/19/malawi-mobs-kill-two-more-people-accused-of-being-vampires

https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/a-symbolic-representation-of-life-behind-malawis-blood-sucking-beliefs/

https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood-suckers-and

https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-president-crack-down-vampires-witchcraft-after-lynchings/4069571.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-colonialism-fueled-deadly-anti-vampire-hysteria-in-malawi

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

Sarah and Tobie xx

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21 min

Ep 17

SEASON OF THE WITCH: Blood on the Wind | Malawi’s 2017 Vampire Panic

Episode | 35 min | Sep 28, 2025

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

A rumour of “anamapopa” (blood-suckers) swept southern Malawi in 2017, spiralling into night patrols, roadblocks, and lethal mob justice. We trace how fear, witchcraft beliefs, poverty, and politics fed the hysteria, why aid workers fled, how authorities responded, and why the panic keeps returning.

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Research:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/19/malawi-mobs-kill-two-more-people-accused-of-being-vampires

https://africanarguments.org/2017/11/a-symbolic-representation-of-life-behind-malawis-blood-sucking-beliefs/

https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood-suckers-and

https://www.voanews.com/a/malawi-president-crack-down-vampires-witchcraft-after-lynchings/4069571.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-colonialism-fueled-deadly-anti-vampire-hysteria-in-malawi

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again tomorrow!

Sarah and Tobie xx

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35 min

Ep 16

SEASON OF THE WITCH: Pendle Hill | Witch Trials & Restless Spirits | Haunted Places

Episode | 27 min | Sep 27, 2025

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

On the brooding slopes of Pendle Hill, the 1612 witch trials cast a shadow that hasn’t lifted: matriarchs Old Demdike and Chattox, ten hangings at Lancaster, and a land still whispered to be guarded by familiars and phantoms. From a bricked-in “witches’ cat” cottage to spectral hounds, disembodied voices, and dancing orbs, modern vigil nights keep colliding with the hill’s grim past—some say the witches still answer when called.

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Research:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/some-of-the-most-haunted-places-in-england/141752

https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/pendle-hill-witches

https://www.spiritshack.co.uk/blog/haunted-places/pendle-hill/

https://deadlive.co.uk/pendle-hill-lancashire-ghost-stories/

https://lellalee.com/the-ghosts-of-pendle-hill-a-paranormal-investigation/

http://marysharratt.blogspot.com/2009/10/most-haunteds-pendle-witch-hunt.html

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again on Monday!

Sarah and Tobie xx

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27 min

Ep 15

SEASON OF THE WITCH : Alse Young : The First Witch of New England | True Paranormal History

Episode | 27 min | Sep 24, 2025

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

In 1647, Alse (Alice) Young of Windsor, Connecticut was hanged on Hartford’s Meeting House Square—the first recorded witchcraft execution in colonial America. Sparse records and a deadly local epidemic frame her case, which foreshadowed Connecticut’s quieter, decades-long witch persecutions long before Salem. Centuries later, Windsor (2017) and the State of Connecticut (2023) formally exonerated those condemned—finally restoring Alse Young’s name.

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Research:

https://jud.ct.gov/lawlib/Notebooks/Witchcraft/witches.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alse_Young

https://connecticuthistory.org/alse-young-executed-for-witchcraft-today-in-history/

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/cover-connecticut-witch-hysteria-1647-63/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/alse-young/

https://www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org/exoneration-of-two-of-windsors-accused-witches/

Thanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again on Sunday!

Sarah and Tobie xx

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27 min

Ep 14

SEASON OF THE WITCH : Creepy Witches and Witchcraft Reddit Stories

Episode | 23 min | Sep 23, 2025

As summer wanes and the nights grow long, we turn to tales of witches, curses, and the old ways that never truly died. For centuries, harvest time has carried its own magic: charms for fields, blessings for homes, and darker stories of those who bent nature to their will.

This September, we step into that threshold where folklore meets fear. From ancient curses to infamous trials, from haunted ground to witches said still to walk among us… welcome to the Season of the Witch.

In this episode, we share four creepy Reddit stories.

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