The Redheaded Hitchhiker of Route 44 has become one of the most well-known ghost stories in New England...or is he the Redheaded Phantom...or does it matter?

A strange thing happened on the way to Volco Road. The name of Big Red came up, as he always does when there's a lonesome road and a ghost walking. What began as a journey to find when his name changed became a whole new crossroads.

Join us as we look into the misnomer that created a phenom and how wandering ghosts started to look for rides and get in cars.

Look into the details of the stories we discussed in the books we got them from:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3MY94AFVTWUY?ref_=wl_share

Check out Christopher Balzano’s book on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Balzano/e/B001PH5BA6?ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vu00_i0

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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Ghosts have a way of working their way into the things we become obsessed with. Focus your energy someplace long enough, haunted tales of fascination will trail along. What are we more obsessed with than video games. From hours spent dropping coin after coin to days spent in front of the screen trying to complete the level, it is no wonder so many urban legends about curses and video games have made their way into our modern narrative.

Join Christopher Balzano as he powers up the new year looking at infamous cases of people believing video games to be haunted. There's old school standards like Berserker and modern ones like Bad Satan, and of course, the mother of them all...Polybius.

We may even spend a little time trying to summon the ghost people are warning us about using a middle school ritual.

There is a warning in this episode for reference to drug use and violence, but the last story involves harm to children and abuse.

Here’s the link to the Berserker article for a full recap of the story:

https://retro-bitch.com/2015/11/04/dying-to-play-the-berzerk-curse-fact-or-fiction/

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

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There’s that perfect shot which captures the emotion of a ghost story and freezes it in our mind forever. Sometimes it’s a picture snapped at the right time or a painting stealing a moment with a precise hand. We remember the famous Brown Lady of Raynham Hall and the Little Girl in the Burning Building. They are tangible proof of something our gut tells us is fact, but our mind argues is fiction.

What happens though when the image becomes the haunting? What if it perpetuates the haunted legend that has the whole town holding their breath when they pass by?

Join us live as we discuss two cases of the art becoming the story. The first is the infamous The Hands Resist Him painting, the first haunted object to truly break the internet. We then take it local to try and understand the stories and the snapshots that have made Kenilworth Lodge in Sebring a homegrown haunting the police need to keep their eyes on.

Get the full story from the One Strange Thing Podcast:

https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/

and the SergioisEvil IG account: https://www.instagram.com/sergioisevil/

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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Be careful when you pick up the phone. Know who you're dialing, get the number right, and whatever you do...don't invite anything in.

The rumor is a ghost was contacted the first time Alexander Graham Bell used the phone, and it hasn't eased up since. The technology changes, but the creepy remains. From calls from the recently dead to urban legends about cursed numbers, the phone has always been a direct line to the spooky. Join Christopher Balzano as he tells some true stories of times when the line goes dead and explores the weirdest urban legends in the world of telecommunications...including calling some of these numbers live.

Visit The Ghosts in My Machine to hear some of the original audio from some of these calls as well as a more in-depth exploration of some of the backstories.

https://theghostinmymachine.com/2023/04/03/scary-phone-numbers-the-ultimate-list-of-40-haunted-creepy-cursed-numbers-to-call-or-not/

We are going to need free lines for some of our experiments, but you can still, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822 when we're not on air.

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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We’re going live with the launch of the new book and two interesting news stories that strike right at the heart of what we do.

The first is one making the rounds and gaining momentum. Glen Powell speaks on the ills of dating and the rise of cannibals on Bumble.

See the interview:

https://youtu.be/N2uLjyoPal4?si=n6MGdHVWmkD4kBmA

Next we have the story that may be a story that may be a fake story about a real story or a real story about a fake story. We try to unravel the mystery of Joy Junction and it’s creepy puppeteer.

He’s a more in-depth plunge on the rabbit hole.

https://youtu.be/QTuwvGcyTSM?si=-mbr2jUq1Xl4fMP9

Now, if you're local, you can do a bit of a spooky walkabout with Christopher Balzano at the Fort Myers Haunted History Tour. Visit www.truetours.net for more details.

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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A buried and resurrected episode with all of its warts and lofty ideas.

Religions are based on belief, but also ritual and faith. Sounds like a perfect palate for urban legends and ghost stories. Now add an abandon church and a college campus. It’s one of the supposa be haunted kind of ideas. But what happens when no one wants to admit there is actually a haunting…or a haunted legends.

Join Tripping on Legends as we look at two Florida ghost stories people say don’t exist. First, we’ll travel to the Panhandle to look at a cursed church that has become flypaper for all kinds of classic folklore and meet the people who have worked to make sure no one remembers the stories.

Then we’ll drive out to St. Leo University where the ghost stories are so infamous they are written into the student handbook, but don’t expect anyone to actually believe them. We’ll also get into our quick tour of the campus post-Thanksgiving to explore why the campus might be the perfect canvas.

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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Sometimes you just need to be there to get why a haunted legend comes alive.

There’s a story of a witch, a woods, and people who visit her ghost in the hopes of touching her wall and earning a little of her power. Sound familiar? What happens though when the wall is more story than a structure and the witch is more myth than mystic?

Join the Trippers in the shadow of the Turtle as they head back to Ormond Beach to search for the often whispered about Ormond Witch of Witch Road. They also retell what happened when they legend tripped Merritt Island to see if they could get invited to the ghost party at Mather Bridge.

Listen to some of the episodes referenced:

https://sites.libsyn.com/446781/episode-123never-follow-the-music

Episode 113...Haunted Roads, Take Me Home

https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20220630132724-5123.mp3

https://traffic.libsyn.com/d243872e-1d21-4562-b35d-55b376605546/triplegend-20180405051106-5653.mp3

https://traffic.libsyn.com/d243872e-1d21-4562-b35d-55b376605546/triplegend-20180326080052-5810.mp3

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

Check out Christopher Balzano’s books, including the newly released Haunted Ocala National Forest:

https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Balzano/e/B001PH5BA6?ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vu00_i0

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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Twitter: @SpookyBalzano

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