In this New Year episode of the Haunted Chair: New Year’s resolutions have their roots in antiquity, and may relate to the warding of ghosts or evil spirits. A 3500 year Babylonian tablet may be the earliest known depiction of a Ghost, and we briefly investigate a few of the most haunted locations in the U.S. These locations include the ghosts of Savannah, GA, the horrors of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the St. Augustine Light House, and the Waverly Hills Sanitorium in West Virginia. Please have a seat…in the Haunted Chair.
Episode Sources:
Our Cosmic New Year’s Mythology and Rituals by Arthur George
https://tinyurl.com/2g5vrtkm
Amazing New Year’s Traditions Around The World by Joanna Gillan
https://tinyurl.com/2k4v6d2a
To See What the Upcoming Year Holds, Take a Solo Walk in a Dark Forest – Atlas Obscura
3,500-Year-Old Babylonian Tablet May Contain Earliest Known Depiction of a Ghost by Livia Gershon https://tinyurl.com/2qjhwm9p
Oldest ghost drawing discovered on Babylonian exorcism tablet by Patrick Pester
https://tinyurl.com/2z3nuy38
Waverly Hills Sanitorium Historical Society
https://tinyurl.com/2npxha83
The Jersey Devil
https://tinyurl.com/2qmw2dbc
St. Augustine Lighthouse
https://tinyurl.com/2drpfp58
Savannah GA
https://tinyurl.com/2hxewt5l
Music:
Voices by Patrick Patrikios https://tinyurl.com/2hxewt5l
A Great Darkness Approaches by ELPHNT https://tinyurl.com/y8c96a6d
Goddess of the Sea by Jimena Contreras https://tinyurl.com/2r2rzdla
Night Snow by Asher Fulero https://tinyurl.com/un2zr3n
Tip Toes by Myuu https://tinyurl.com/n9lqkas