Wicked Wanderings
Delve into the enigmatic realms of the mysterious, unearth tales of haunting encounters, explore the chilling depths of true crime, and unravel the threads of the unexplained. Join us on the Wicked Wanderings Podcast for a riveting journey through the realms of the unknown and the haunting mysteries that linger in the shadows.
Wicked Wanderings
Ep. 67: Mysteries and Whispers in the Graveyard
Ever felt a shiver down your spine while walking through a cemetery at night? Join us, Hannah and Courtney, as we embark on a spine-tingling nocturnal adventure to a favorite haunted cemetery. Armed only with flashlights and a keen curiosity, we set out to connect with spirits and unravel the mysteries surrounding intriguing gravestones, like those of Lohman and Talma Brown, who left this world on the same mysterious day. Throughout our exploration, we balance our eagerness with respect, intending to honor the past while capturing some odd, potentially supernatural, sounds on our equipment.
As we navigate this eerie setting, the unexpected flash of light and the enigmatic history of individuals like Polly Shaw and the Blodgetts deepen our fascination. Our post-visit reflections highlight the importance of safety and respect in such explorations, especially when recording with shared equipment presents its own challenges. We delve into the technical difficulties and the stories hidden within the cemetery as we plan to return in daylight for a more comprehensive experience. Our episode stands as a dedication to preserving history while continuing our quest for understanding the paranormal with both caution and enthusiasm.
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Wicked Wanderings is hosted by Hannah & Courtney and it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick. Music by Sascha Ende.
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Hello, did you hear that? Yeah, something fell. You dropped a bag. Oh, I got so excited for a second. Thank you, courtney. Okay, hi, I'm Hannah and I'm Courtney. Join us as we delve into true crime, paranormal encounters and all things spooky.
Speaker 2:Grab your flashlight and get ready to wander into the darkness with us. This is Wicked Wanderers. Today, we're doing something a little bit different. Hannah and I have been out taking care of some business, having a good time, and we are live at my favorite cemetery that I know I've talked about before. Hannah this is her first time being here. Yes, it is my first time. Hello everybody, I'm hopeful that it lives up to everything I've said about it and more. I will preface this by saying that we ran low on budget time. We wanted to come here and hang out. It is now dark. We are now technically trespassing, which we are very sorry about. We will keep you updated about that. Legally.
Speaker 1:We are being very respectful though we are.
Speaker 2:So when we came up the hill, I was saying to Hannah when you come up the hill at this particular cemetery, it looks like you're going to a field, so you're winded. It's a pretty big hill and then all of a sudden, when you get to the top, it crests over and you can just see tons of gravestones. It's absolutely one of my favorite places in the world and the first place I wanted to try was this tree over here.
Speaker 1:Hello, did you hear that? Yeah, something fell. You dropped a bag. Oh, I got so excited for a second. Thank you, courtney. Is anyone here with us right now? Can you tell us your name? You want to ask anything?
Speaker 2:No, we're just raw dog in life. So we're wandering away from the tree. We didn't seem to get anybody over there and I'm a little disappointed, guys, because I was pretty sure we were going to. But we are going up to. There's a pair of stones over here. Let's take a look and see who we've got. It looks like we've got a Lohman Brown, and Talma Brown Died February 25th 1892. And died February 20th. Wow, okay, so they died the same day. That is very interesting.
Speaker 2:Are either of you guys here with us, the Browns? Very interesting. Are either of you guys here with us, the Browns? I'm really sorry to see that you both perished on the same day 81 and 87. I wonder if they were perhaps married. Let's see. The contraption wanderer is a little different. Nothing on the backs. Is anybody over here with us? We're friendly, I promise. I get the impression none of you guys have been bothered by anybody of our kind in quite a long time. Let's wander over here. Got some stones down, which unfortunately is not uncommon here. They're really old style stones, polly. I believe Polly.
Speaker 1:Polly, are you here? If you look at the little red light you just have to talk into there. I hope you don't mind us being here.
Speaker 2:We'll have to play that back. I've got a little feedback going in the headphones. It's hard to tell whether or not it was wind or something banging around in the headphones.
Speaker 1:We might have to listen to these when we get back to your house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's good. Why don't we keep wandering around and we'll just keep grabbing some different people here? There's a lot of trees in the cemetery, which I think is interesting. A lot of places. I feel like avoid that. Let us see who we got here. Let me get out my phone, sorry if I'm blinding you guys. Joseph Lee died October 12, 1880. 88. Mr Lee, are you here with us? Is someone else besides Mr Lee here with us? If you are, can you say something into the little red light that Hannah pointed out?
Speaker 1:I feel like something we forgot to do. We didn't introduce ourselves Very rude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's a good point, Hannah. So to all our friends living and yonder, my name is Courtney.
Speaker 1:Hannah.
Speaker 2:Hello, hannah and I are very interested in learning more about you guys. We're friendly, we don't wish any harm to anybody. We're just here, non-judgmental. Yeah, we're two people who are very dedicated. We both love helping children. We both love reading. We're both bookworms. We're both just your average gals. So if anybody has anything they'd like to talk to us, tell us about. Tell us that you'd rather we weren't here. Our ears are open. Agreed, it's interesting. It almost sounds like an airplane inside of there is an airplane that's very interesting because it sounds like it's inside my headphones.
Speaker 2:okay, so let's try. Let's try two more stones and then, if nobody's biting, we'll come back another time. How about? How about this one? We've got Jerosha Blodge, october 10th 1851. Are you here with us? Looks like you were 86. And please, if I said your name wrong, introduce yourself, let me know. And then we've also got Mr Seneca Blodgett that's a beautiful name. December 6th 1815.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was young, yeah 33.
Speaker 2:Beautiful stone. I love the carvings on the stone.
Speaker 1:I do too. I actually like that. It's flat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of the stones are very, very flat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that a lot. It's very beautiful. Hello, Mr Blodgett.
Speaker 2:Again, you guys can talk right into this red light. We're not harmful, I promise. Just trying to see if anybody's here with us. Well, let's take one last little pass under the tree and then we can go unfreeze ourselves. So for everybody listening here Wanderers, this tree and I have a longstanding history. I have found many things unusual under this tree. I have found money, I have found items. I always feel a cool rush when I go underneath it, and not just today, because it's the end of November, guys, so no jokes about that, please. But even in the dead of summer, you're wearing your shorts and your t-shirt, you can feel a cool rush underneath this tree and I just feel like. I just feel like somebody's here. There is a stone, one stone, exactly underneath the tree, but unfortunately and regrettably, it's too hard to see what the name is. Oh, wait, a minute. The other side has the name. It's pretty worn, but someone here who belongs belongs with the stone.
Speaker 1:Maybe next time we visit we should do a rubbing yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, some art to get some different rubbings and things. Hmm, is somebody here? Does somebody want us to go? That was weird, okay. Well, we're going to leave you for the night and we're going to keep chatting with our friends as we wander away, but thank you for your time everybody. Yes, thank you, everybody. Have a good night. We'll be back soon. I got something on here. I heard something. For all the wanderers who are listening, let's take a minute to talk about safety, precautions and exploring and respect. So, obviously, when you're exploring different things and you're curious like one of our mottos happens to be you want to make sure that you're always respectful to the place that you're at, respectful to your surroundings, but also aware of them too. While Hannah and I are out here and we're obviously creating content, we're together, we're using the buddy system. People know where we are. We're doing it the safest way possible. We do not condone the doing of this at all, so certainly keep your explorations during the day, wanderers.
Speaker 1:Yes, we just we didn't plan very well. Well, we did try to plan well, but you know, daylight Sames, time kind of ruins everything. But, yes, always remember that if you're going to do this, be respectful, don't taunt them. That if you're going to do this, be respectful, don't taunt them. It's not nice, okay, I know you see it on TV. Don't do it, just be respectful, have fun doing it, ask respectful questions and always document, document, document, document. What was that?
Speaker 2:Did you? Did you see that there's a flash of light over here? Hang on. There was like a little flash right over there by that rock, but obviously there's no. It was like right there, but obviously there's nothing there. Huh, well, we're on our way back towards the road now, but I think that we're going to have to play it back. We're going to have to see what we've got going on here. So, wanderers, we are back at my house today for a change of pace. We've never podcasted at my house. How does it feel to be podcasting, not in the studio?
Speaker 1:It's a little weird, but I love that we can just be mobile.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're kind of trying out this new thing where and Rob uses it a lot for his podcast Beers that Fit shameless plug. But we were trying to get used to this, like sharing a microphone. We both have a lot to say, so it's kind of hard. But we came back, we've warmed up our hands and our feet and we started to dive into and play back some of the recordings. Obviously, you know we didn't hear anything this time, but we also realized that a lot of the stones at night were hard to read. So we played back, took down the names of everybody. We tried to do some research. I came across a woman who categorized and kind of transcribed all of them for us about 24 years ago, but I don't think anybody's recently been buried there, and so we were able to find some of those people and find actually a last name for Polly, which was nice here. Hannah, you found Polly. Why don't you tell us a little bit about Polly that we were able to?
Speaker 1:learn. Something I did want to say, though, before moving on to Polly, is that I think it would be good for us to go during the day where we can take time, bring a blanket and just kind of sit in the cemetery and become part of the area, Because I think, even though they're dead, they're still people right. We can't just like hi, you're going to talk to us. I think it would be good to go, have a blanket, sit down, maybe even have a conversation between the two of us, talk about what we love. I think we didn't give it enough time, but that's another hero there. It was part of our day. What do you think?
Speaker 2:I agree. I think that we definitely could have gone about it a little bit better. It was definitely freezing outside. The neighbors are very cautious about the place, which I understand completely, and they did pull up Polly there for you. So we apologize, polly, your last name wasn't on your stone directly. I'm sure if we had been able to tell. The cemetery is kind of known for putting plots of people together and there's like one big stone that has their last name and then all the little stones for them. But we did find you, polly.
Speaker 1:So we're talking about the 14-year-old Polly correct. Yeah, so she was the daughter of Irving and Anna. She died September 5th 1795. And yeah, she was 14 years old.
Speaker 2:That's sad and it seems like Polly might have been a family name because there was also another Polly listed. So there was another Polly, same last name, Shaw, wife of Moses Shaw, who died April 9th 1837 at 71 years old. So I'm assuming it must have been for that timeline. It must have been a grandmother or even a great-grandmother, because we're talking a very long time ago. I agree, we're trying to podcast with one microphone. We're making it work. Like I said, we both have a lot to say.
Speaker 2:We did find Seneca Blodgett and Jerusha Blodgett and they were married. It did confirm that they were married. So we were correct about that. And we were also able to locate Joseph Lee, and there was also two of Joseph Lee as well. So Joseph Lee we have to give a special thanks to, because he's actually how I found the listing. It was on kind of one of those like project cemetery type of things, Again from 2000,. The woman had put it together, so it was hard to find. But Joseph Lee was how I found it. I was looking for him and I stumbled upon the page. The only two we weren't able to find were Lohman Brown and Thelma Brown. I'm wondering if, perhaps because of the ages of the stone. It was really hard to read. Maybe it was a section of the word. It was also dark outside.
Speaker 1:We were using just one flashlight because Hannah's phone was in the car. I was so unprepared I can't believe how unprepared I was. I was like really, but I think I just got nervous because it was dark and then we almost Courtney told me to pull off onto the side of the road and so I did, but like I hit a rock and my car's really low, it was a thing but we survived.
Speaker 2:The car is fine, we are fine.
Speaker 1:Obviously we stopped recording, but you should talk about the light you saw.
Speaker 2:Oh, so as we were leaving, we were coming down the hill and I think it was like literally seconds after Hannah hit like stop recording on our device. We're coming down like down the hill and I think it was like literally seconds after Hannah hit like stop recording on her device. We're coming down like down the hill back towards where the car is and there's a road that used to go someplace, I don't know where it connected to. It's like it looks like it was a real road, but it's like long dead now and there was just a flash of a light and then it was gone, like by the time I said to Hannah hey, what was that light? We looked and there was nothing there. So time I said to Hannah hey, what was that light? We looked and there was nothing there. So we did see that it could have been nothing, could have been anything. It's probably too cold for fireflies, but it could have been a reflection of something. It could have been. Somebody else was also there at the same time. Certainly could have been any number of things.
Speaker 2:I did also find a little bit of something about the cemetery, and it is public knowledge, like you know cemeteries, so I'm okay with sharing what cemetery it was. It is the Palmer Center Cemetery, which is commonly and previously referred to as the Old Center Cemetery, and it dates back to May 12th 1735. There were three men Stuart Southgate, barnard McNitt and Isaac Magoon Jr. That were tasked with findinga plot of land for a burying place for the meeting house in Palmer so there used to be a meeting house right up the street, from my understanding and so it was decided that they needed to have a plot of land to be able to bury on, and the first burial in that cemetery is believed to be that of Martha, daughter of Benjamin Parsons, who died March 30th 1737. So we're looking at it was created in 1735 and the first burial was 1737. So that I mean that's what I mean 1737, someone do the math for me Almost, yeah, 300, right, 1819, 2000,. Almost 300 years. I mean that's a very old cemetery.
Speaker 1:Very old. It's very weird with one mic.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm like and now do you have a question? No, okay, it's definitely a learning curve for us to get used to. We could sit snugly or closer together, but we're just not that type of people. We're not that touchy-feely kind of people.
Speaker 1:We've been with each other all day. We're just ready for books.
Speaker 2:Yes, we both do enjoy our books. We've both looked at each other a few times. We're like okay, anytime now. But, with that being said, we've come up with a plan for the next time. We have some connections to people who do some ghost hunting. It'd be great to get their feedback, maybe even get them out there. We'll see right. We've got some exciting stuff in store for the rest of the year, though, Wanderers, and we're excited to keep on wandering with you. Bye, Wanderers.
Speaker 1:Until next time. Thanks for listening today. Wicked Wanderings is hosted by me, hannah, and co-hosted by me. Courtney.
Speaker 2:And it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick.
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