DEATH PARTY PODCAST

Sources​​
 

• Life After Life by Raymond Moody

• https://www.menshealth.com.au/people-who-have-died-and-come-back/

• Near-Death Experience as Mystical Experience by John Pennachio, Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 25, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 64-72, 9 pages

• https://iands.org/research/nde-research/important-research-articles/698-greyson-nde-scale.html

• https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-who-died-30-minutes-23279292

• To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story Paperback – May 29, 2012 by Mary C. Neal 

• Surviving Death on Netflix

• https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/our-research/near-death-experiences-ndes/

• “What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead” Philosophy, Vol. 79, No. 310 >Oct., 2004<, pp. 507-531 >25 pages<. Published By: Cambridge University Press.

• https://www.britannica.com/biography/A-J-Ayer

• Near death, explained - Mariio Beauregard for Salon - https://www.salon.com/2012/04/21/near_death_explained/

• A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ - http://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/

• Alfred Jules Ayer https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayer/ 

• 7 lessons from heaven : how dying taught me to live a joy-filled life Paperback by Mary C. Neal

• https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/agents/people/435 Walter Pahnke bio

• “The Good Friday Experiment of April 1962” Tim Leary Hallucinogens, 2005. 

• “The ‘Urashima Effect’: A Cultural Illusion?” Murray, Criag D.. Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out of Body and Near Death Experiences, Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central,

• http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/multco/detail.action?docID=3020262

• The Nature of Personal Identity in the Near Death Experience
   

Sound FX Credits - Special thanks to these creators!
 

• censor bleep - https://freesound.org/people/Posontic/sounds/429677/ - Posontic

• sad violin - https://freesound.org/people/TheFlyFishingFilmmaker/sounds/641694/ - TheFlyFishingFilmmaker

• record scratch - https://freesound.org/people/kwahmah_02/sounds/269476/ - kwahmah_02

• Halloween - https://freesound.org/people/miksmusic/sounds/587609/ - miksmusic

• spooky ambience - https://freesound.org/people/wangzhuokun/sounds/473615/ - wangzhuokun

• evil laugh - https://freesound.org/people/Nanakisan/sounds/132816/ - Nanakisan

• slap - https://freesound.org/people/ihitokage/sounds/395347/ - ihitokage

• moo #1 - https://freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/84697/ - cmusounddesign

• angry cat yowl - https://freesound.org/people/Hamface/sounds/98669/ - Hamface

• wooden thump - https://freesound.org/people/jameswrowles/sounds/380641/ - jameswrowles

• body fall thump - https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454418/ - kyles

• ow - https://freesound.org/people/alex36917/sounds/509722/ - alex36917

• moo #2 - https://freesound.org/people/spurioustransients/sounds/513563/ - spurioustransients

• knives sharpening - https://freesound.org/people/gblanke/sounds/320446/ - gblanke

• sheep - https://freesound.org/people/Profispiesser/sounds/583051/ - Profispiesser

• jingle bells 1 - https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/110158/ - juskiddink

• ghostly moan - https://freesound.org/people/Billy_Storm/sounds/164285/ - Billy_Storm

• dun dun dun - https://freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/153405/ - copyc4t

• scary night - https://freesound.org/people/csnmedia/sounds/474777/ - csnmedia

• music box bed - https://freesound.org/people/Universfield/sounds/735313/ - Universfield

• jingle bells 2 - https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/89602/ - CGEffex

• drum roll - https://freesound.org/people/HolyGhostParty/sounds/71133/ - HolyGhostParty

Sources​​
 

• Moore, C. (2021, December 16). How chilling ghost stories became a Christmas tradition. The Spectator.
  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-chilling-ghost-stories-became-a-christmas-tradition

• Tures, D. (2022, December 14). In the Bleak Mid-Winter: Must-Read Ghost Stories for Christmas. LAPL Blog.
  https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/bleak-mid-winter-must-read-ghost-stories-christmas 

• Dickey, C. (2017, December 15). A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories. Smithsonian Mag.
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/plea-resurrect-christmas-tradition-telling-ghost-stories-180967553/ 

• Abby. (2022, December 1). Midwinter Ghosts: A Short History of Tall Tales. Bodleian Libraries blogs.
  https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/english/2022/12/01/midwinter-ghosts-short-history-tall-tales

• Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?
  https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/cromwell/did-oliver-cromwell-ban-christmas

• 7 Terrifying Festive Ghost Stories That Aren't Just 'A Christmas Carol'
  https://www.bustle.com/p/the-7-best-christmas-ghost-stories-to-scare-yourself-with-this-winter-19355005

• 8 Spooky Holiday-Themed Short Stories
  https://nerdist.com/article/holiday-christmas-short-stories/
   

Sound FX Credits - Special thanks to these creators!
 

• Freesound by TheFlyFishingFilmmaker – Sad Violin

• Freesound by kwahmah_02  – Record Scratch

• Freesound by miksmusic – Halloween sounds

• Freesound by wangzhuokun – Ghostly voice

• Freesound by Nanakisan – Evil laugh

• Freesound by ihitokage – Slap

• Freesound by cmusounddesign – Moo

• Freesound by Hamface – Cat

• Freesound by jameswrowles – Toe stub

• Freesound by spurioustransients – Cow

• Freesound by gblanke – Knife

• Freesound by Profispiesser – Sheep

• Freesound by juskiddink – Jingle Bells

• Freesound by Billy_Storm – Ghostly Noises

• Freesound by copyc4t – Dun Dun Dun

• Freesound by csnmedia – Breath

• Freesound by CGEffex – Jingle Bells

• Freesound by Universfield – Creepy Outro

Sources
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• The dark history of Christmas traditions​

• The yule cat of iceland a different kind of christmas tradition

• Why Iceland’s Christmas Witch Is Much Cooler (and Scarier) Than Krampus

• Frau Perchta, Terrifying Christmas Witch

• The History Of Krampus’s Gal-Pal, Frau Perchta: The Belly-Slitter

• Perchta

• The Story Of Yule

• Santa and Odin - Christmas and Yule

• Why Do People Tell Ghost Stories on Christmas?

• The Occult in Your Living Room! Christmas, Yule and the Winter Solstice

• The Legend of the Yule Goat

• The Yule Goat

• Mike Birbiglia - Like Fun!

• Spirits of Christmas - The Dark Side of the Holidays

• Encyclopedia of the Black Death

• Why Does Santa Claus Come Down the Chimney?

• What Is Mistletoe and Where Did the Christmas Kissing Tradition Come From?

• A Medieval Christmas

• Pagan Festival Roots

• Dark Christmas Tradition Facts

• Dark Christmas Traditions

• Reality of Christmas Traditions

• Terrifying Christmas Traditions

• Holiday Ghost Stories
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Sound FX Credits - Special thanks to these creators!
 

• https://freesound.org/people/GowlerMusic/sounds/265458/

• https://freesound.org/people/ChrilleElGringo/sounds/333522/

• https://freesound.org/people/se2001/sounds/478601/

Fae's Mari Lwyd - https://www.instagram.com/p/CXKT78apCrZ/

Sources
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parentalia

• Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers​

• Death Makes a Holiday A Cultural History of Halloween by David J. Skal

• WorldHistory.org - https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1456/history-of-halloween

• Jess Carlson - https://jesscarlson.com/thinning-veil-part-one/

• Halloween in America: Contemporary Customs and Performances

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization

• Scientific American

• How Trick-or-Treating Became a Halloween Tradition

• Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween, Lisa Morton

• BBC — V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?

• Bonfire Night 2021: the story of Guy Fawkes, gunpowder, treason and plot

• Drunk History - The birth of Halloween

• American Profile

• https://ghostcitytours.com/ghost-stories/irish-ghost-stories/stingy-jack/

• https://columbiametro.com/article/stingy-jack

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingy_Jack

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080327030417/http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=716&display_order=3&mini_id=1076

• https://www.pbs.org/food/the-history-kitchen/history-pumpkins-recipes/​

• Hallowe’en, Schauffler

• http://iskullhalloween.com/AmericanHistory.html

• PRI

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Sound FX Credits - Special thanks to these creators!

• https://freesound.org/people/smcameron/sounds/50801/

• https://freesound.org/people/OllieBacon/sounds/517147/

• https://freesound.org/people/kaonaya/sounds/131348/

• https://freesound.org/people/Fenodyrie/sounds/583949/ 

•  https://freesound.org/people/chimerical/sounds/106544/

• https://freesound.org/people/Audeption/sounds/425172/

• https://freesound.org/people/bone666138/sounds/198843/

• https://www.history.com/news/halloween-trick-or-treating-origins

• https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating

• https://freesound.org/people/musability/sounds/219149/

• https://freesound.org/people/polmdx/sounds/219871

•  https://freesound.org/people/mistersherlock/sounds/159509/

• https://freesound.org/people/onderwish/sounds/469623/

• https://freesound.org/people/stoltingmediagroup/sounds/354005/

• https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/336217/

• https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/401707/

• https://freesound.org/people/miksmusic/sounds/587609/

• https://freesound.org/people/ibnfahmi/sounds/195990/

• https://freesound.org/people/baidonovan/sounds/187355/

• https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/55689/

• https://freesound.org/people/smcameron/sounds/50801/

• https://freesound.org/people/OllieBacon/sounds/517147/

• https://freesound.org/people/btalbot/sounds/252678/

• https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/420452/

• https://freesound.org/people/Ganscaile/sounds/76256/

• https://freesound.org/people/revolverrossalot/sounds/474055/

• https://freesound.org/people/Budzyn/sounds/384414/

• https://freesound.org/people/xtrgamr/sounds/268511/

• https://freesound.org/people/menvafaan/sounds/169665/

• https://freesound.org/people/Airborne80/sounds/219184/

• https://freesound.org/people/ToaTom/sounds/148036/

• https://freesound.org/people/Airborne80/sounds/219184/

• https://freesound.org/people/cognito%20perceptu/sounds/31151/

• https://freesound.org/people/Suburbanwizard/sounds/403464/

Sources
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• Demographic Research, Vol. 44 - Probabilistic forecasting of maximum human lifespan by 2100 using Bayesian population projections

• Smithsonian Magazine - Was the World’s Oldest Person Ever Actually Her 99-Year-Old Daughter?

• Ted Talk - The Secret to Living Longer May Be Your Social Life

• Dan Buettner - The Blue Zones Solution

• Blue Zones website - Recipes (squintillions of beans)

• Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1979-), June 2016, Vol. 70, No. 6 (June 2016), pp. 561-568 - Where do people live longer and shorter lives? An ecological study of old-age survival across 4404 small areas from 18 European countries

• US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health - The North Karelia Project: Cardiovascular disease prevention in Finland

Sources
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• PSI Encyclopedia – Purnima Ekanayake (reincarnation case) 

• Med.virginia.edu –  Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons

• Journal of the Society for Psychical Research [Vol. 64.1, No. 858

• Birthmarks and Claims of Previous-Life Memories: by Erlendur Haraldsson – The Case of Purnima Ekanayake

• Wikipedia – Erlendur Haraldsson

• University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies – Reincarnation Research

• The Atlantic – There Is a Paranormal Activity Lab at the University of Virginia

•  Wikipedia – Mondo

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Sound FX Credits - Special thanks to these creators!
 

• Silverman Sound – Feather Duster

• Silverman Sound – Skating Squirrels

• Freesound by Diboz – ghostly wail

• Freesound by Porphyr – wailing souls

• Freesound by Jay_You – elevator music

• Freesound by copyc4t – dun dun dun

Sources
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• Britannica – Egypt

• World History Encyclopedia – Egyptian Book of the Dead

• Ranker – 11 Myths and Mysteries Surrounding Lake Champlain

• Ikram, Salima – Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt

• Karenga, Maulana – Maat, the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics

• Faulkner, Raymond O.; Goelet, Ogden; Andrews, Carol; Gunther, J. Daniel; Wasserman, James – The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day 2015. Twentieth Anniversary edition, third revised and expanded edition.

• Lubanzadio Luyaluka, Kiatezua – Comparative monotheism: ancient Egypt and the Kongo religion, the Bukongo

• World History Encyclopedia – The Negative Confession

• Black History Heroes – 42 Laws of Maat Under Kemet Law

• Ancient Egypt Online – Heart Scarab

• Smithsonian Magazine – Ancient Egyptian Funeral Home Reveals Embalmers Had a Knack for Business

• Daily History – Why did the Egyptians Mummify their Dead?

• British Museum – What is a Book of the Dead?

• Ancient EU – Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

• The Guardian – Learn how to die like an Ancient Egyptian

• Ranker – Creepy Lake Champlain

• Black History Heroes – 42 Laws of Maat Under Kemet Law

• Ancient Egypt Online – Heart Scarab

• Daily History – Why did the Egyptians Mummify their Dead?

Sources​
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• Biography of Edgar Allan Poe—https://www.poemuseum.org/poes-biography

• Washington College University Hospital where Poe died and its history - https://www.eapoe.org/balt/poechh.htm

• The Riddle of Edgar Allan Poe's Death—https://www.history.com/news/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-die

• Working theories about Poe's cause of death— https://www.poemuseum.org/poes-death

• Pen-pal Literary affair—https://www.eapoe.org/people/osgoodfs.htm 

• Why Edgar Allan Poe’s Death Remains a Mystery—https://www.biography.com/news/edgar-allan-poe-death?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history

• Edgar Allan Poe—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

• History of Baltimore—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Baltimore

• History of Cooping—https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/election-fraud-in-the-1800s-involved-kidnapping-and-forced-drinking

• A Defense of Edgar Allan Poe. - Life, Character and Dying Declarations of the Poet. (As exaggerated and embellished by his Attending Physician - John J. Moran, M. D.) - https://www.eapoe.org/papers/misc1851/jjm18850.htm

• The Reynolds Question: an Examination of the Quentin Clark Footnote - http://www.matthewpearl.com/poe/assets/reynolds.txt

• “Once Upon A Midnight Dreary”—https://wyliepawprint.net/3478/news/once-upon-a-midnight-dreary/

• Analysis and Symbolism in The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - https://www.brighthubeducation.com/homework-help-literature/49960-symbolism-in-the-raven/

• Rufus Wilmot Griswold—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Wilmot_Griswold 

• The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe—https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/

• Poe's Death Is Rewritten as Case of Rabies, Not Telltale Alcohol—https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/15/us/poe-s-death-is-rewritten-as-case-of-rabies-not-telltale-alcohol.html

• The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe—https://www.britannica.com/story/the-mysterious-death-of-edgar-allan-poe

• Election Fraud in the 1800s Involved Kidnapping and Forced Drinking—https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/election-fraud-in-the-1800s-involved-kidnapping-and-forced-drinking

• Sarah Elmira Royster—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Elmira_Royster

• Poe museum’s Object of the Month May Hold Clue to Poe’s Mysterious Death— http://www.thepoeblog.org/poe-museums-object-of-the-month-may-hold-clue-to-poes-mysterious-death/

• Poe’s Wandering Trunk and Dr. Carter’s Mysterious Sword Cane—https://www.eapoe.org/papers/misc2000/js200402.htm
  
  Sound Effects by these talented sound effects artists, tip ‘em if you love ‘em—
   

• https://freesound.org/people/ngruber/sounds/204777/

• https://freesound.org/people/Zeinel/sounds/483363/

• https://freesound.org/people/leandrocordeiro/sounds/328611/

• https://freesound.org/people/Rock%20Savage/sounds/59263/

• https://freesound.org/people/jack_urbanski/sounds/495674/

• https://freesound.org/people/sbologov/sounds/429492/

• https://freesound.org/people/bbrocer/sounds/381954/

• https://mixkit.co/free-sound-effects/train/

• https://freesound.org/people/Pusteblumi/sounds/204776/

• https://freesound.org/people/RICHERlandTV/sounds/216092/
  
  Music by these talented artists, tip ‘em if you love ‘em—

• Music: “Signs to Nowhere” by Shane Ivers https://www.silvermansound.com/free-music/signs-to-nowhere

Sources​
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• Pew Research Center – ‘New Age’ beliefs common among both religious and nonreligious Americans

• Native American Creation Story – Native American Creation Myths and Legends 

• University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies – Reincarnation Research

• The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease – The Explanatory Value of the Idea of Reincarnation

• Open Library – The Very Scary Almanac

• Death Studies, 2012, Vol.36(10), p. 949 – Do Reincarnation Beliefs Protect Older Adult Chinese Buddhists Against Personal Death Anxiety?

• Return To Life by Jim Tucker, PhD – Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives

• The Atlantic – There Is a Paranormal Activity Lab at the University of Virginia

• Scientific American – Ian Stevenson’s Case for the Afterlife: Are We ‘Skeptics’ Really Just Cynics?

• Chinatown (1974 film)

• Open The Books – San Francisco Poop Map (have fun!)

• Open The Books – New York Rat Sightings Map (add your own!)

• Quora – How can I find my reincarnated dog?

• Quora – Can you be reincarnated into inanimate objects, if reincarnation was possible?

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• Campaign For Safe Cosmetics – Lead and Other Heavy Metals

• National Geographic – Arsenic Pills and Lead Foundation: The History of Toxic Makeup

• Wikipedia – Erethism (Mercury Poisoning / Mad Hatter's Disease)

• Mayo Clinic – Rickets

• The Royal Art of Poison – Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

• NRC.Gov – Radium Historical Items Catalog

• Click Americana – Bad idea department: Radioactive face cream & radium face powder (1919)

• Orau.org – NUTEX Radium Condoms (ca. 1940s)

• Pinterest.com – Radium Girls Advertising

• Google – Radium Makeup Advertising (Content warning: some side-effect pics mixed in)  

• The Atlantic – How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer

• NBC News – Suffering for beauty has ancient roots

• FDA.gov – Limiting Lead in Lipstick and Other Cosmetics

• EWG – Skin Deep - Safe Cosmetics Ratings and Explanations

• Smithsonian Magazine – How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion

• Inside Hook – How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Goth Fashion

• Science Museum – Tuberculosis - A Fashionable Disease?

• Internet Archive – The romantic agony

• Thought Co – How the Drinking Bird Science Toy Works

• FDA.gov – Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products

• Made Safe – Sunscreen

• EWG.org – Myths on Cosmetics Safety

• SafeCosmetics.org – Lead in Lipstick 

Sources
 

• National Geographic – Killer Clothing Was All the Rage In the 19th Century

• The Paris Review – Scheele’s Green

• Cult of Weird – Radium Girls (Content warning: antique photos of radium injuries)  

• BBC – Fashion Victims: History’s Most Dangerous Trends

• Killer Fashion – Jennifer Wright

• American University – Corsets: Male Desire or Female Agency?

• Nexus: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology, Volume 23(2) – Effects of Long Term Corseting on the Female Skeleton (PDF)

• Forbes – Here's How Corsets Deformed The Skeletons Of Victorian Women

• Spook (extreme corseter)

• Fierce History – 5,000 Years of Startling Stories from Ireland and Around the Globe - Colin Murphy

• BBC – 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes

• Racked – A History of Women Who Burned to Death in Flammable Dresses

• Smithsonian Magazine – Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium *GRAPHIC PHOTOS* 

• Britannica – Foot Binding

• Mental Floss – The First Plastic Billiard Balls Routinely Exploded

• Fashion victim – Michelle Lee

• Shoes: a history from sandals to sneakers – Giorgio Riello

• Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present – Alison Matthews David

• Branch – The Rise and Fall of the Cage Crinoline​

Sources
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• Encyclopedia Britannica,  Thanatos/Nyx

• The Friendly Guide to Mythology, Nancy Hathaway

• Encyclopedia.com

• Gods and Goddesses of Life and Death

• Descent into the Underworld

• The Psychology of Death (1972) Robert Kastenbaum, Ruth Aisenberg on archive.org

• Psyche and Death by Edgar Herzog  archive.org

• Death: Current Perspectives on archive.org
  
  References

• Wagner Flight of the Valkyries

• Corona-chan art (scroll for more pictures!)

• Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss 

• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark’s car - Macabre Mobile , Interior

• Fawlty Towers S01 E01, “A Touch of Class”