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We are on hiatus for the December holidays. Please enjoy this classic episode from our archives. 

We will be back in 2024 with a brand new season and a special celebration of our 100th episode. 

Have a happy holiday season, from Lisa and Mel. 

On Paranormal Perception, we keep the Victorian Christmas tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas alive. Sit back, relax, put another log on the fire and turn up the volume as you listen to ghost stories from our listeners, guests and staff. Merry Christmas from all of us at Paranormal Perception and OC Paracon.

A young doctor is called into the home of a wealthy man, but rather than seeing the sick patient he is expecting, he is greeted with a seemingly healthy man, who offers him a thousand pounds to attend a death bed. The doctor, who isn’t a rich man himself, reluctantly accepts the strange request. Of course, this is a ghost story, so the doctor doesn’t know exactly what he is in for…Join us as we discuss Ada Buisson’s “The Ghost’s Summons.”

 

Story originally published in Belgravia (January 1868); Collected in The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume One (edited by Tara Moore, 2016)

 

Recommended in this episode: Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley and the holiday episodes of Doctor Who

 

UP NEXT:  Our next episode is our 100th episode. We want to celebrate this milestone, but since it is the holiday season, we will be taking a hiatus to be with family. We will rerun some of our favorite past holiday episodes, but we will be back in January, to kick off Season 5 and celebrate 100 episodes of Monster, She Wrote. We hope you will join us.

 

Have a happy holiday season, from Lisa and Mel!

 

Buy Toil and Trouble here!

 

Celebrate Christmas the way it was in the 1800s... with scary ghost stories and tales of the monsters of Christmases long, long ago.... This year's Christmas episode featues stories sent in by our listeners & guests and something new from Henry and Hero and Shanclen from Unearthing The Supernatural. Enjoy the stories and Merry Christmas from all of us at Paranormal Perception!

Paranormal Perception goes back to a long-forgotten Christmas tradition: Telling ghost stories! After a short lesson on why ghost stories were told on Christmas, you'll hear scary stories (& a song!) from listeners and past guests, including , & illustrator & toy designer .

In Rosemary Timperley’s story “Christmas Meeting,” two lonely people find company during the holiday season. [Story can be found in Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories (1983)]

Recommended: Yellowjackets on Showtime; Ruth Ware’s The Turn of the Key

NEXT EPISODE: “The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth” by Rhoda Broughton

Theme music is “Misconception” by Nicolas Gasparini, used with permission.

 

Jeff C. Carter, author of We Bleed Red & Green: 12 Chilling Tales for Christmas, returns to parlor! Is winter even scarier than Halloween? Jeff thinks so! Plus childhood memories of wintertime, Rudolph poop, lots of Santa talk, and the spooky Christmas traditions that you probably haven’t heard of! Visit BigSeance.com/177

 

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In this episode:

Episode Teaser :00

Intro :58

A little update from Patrick 1:42

A laundry folding ghost? A story sent in by Joanne Jarrett, host of the Fancy Free Podcast! To hear Patrick share embarrassing stories on Joanne’s podcast, visit fancyfreepodcast.com/episode68 and fancyfreepodcast.com/episode75. 2:24

Jeff C. Carter’s Bio and the description of his latest book, We Bleed Red & Green: 12 Chilling Tales for Christmas! 10:14

What colors are next? More on the “We Bleed” series. 12:52

“Winter is the real scary time. We as a species have evolved to survive winter. We didn’t survive to evolve Halloween. Halloween is like, that’s the party and wintertime is the darkest, coldest, leanest time of year. It’s when the animals starve to death and the crops wilt. It’s bleak. But it’s a great time for horror.” 15:00

A pandemic-free book! 16:17

Jeff’s memories of Christmas and wintertime. 19:30

Rudolph Poop! When parents go out of their way to make Christmas special! 21:30

Jeff can talk about Santa Claus all day! 24:00

Christmas creep and the booming holiday industry! 27:09

Krampus and the signs that “Christmas is mutating with creepy Halloweeny goodness!” 31:37

Other spooky Christmas traditions that you probably haven’t heard of! 33:40

The Christmas Log! WHAT?! 41:52

Frostbite and more memories of childhood in the winter. 43:43

The book is not recommended for kids! 50:50

Where to find Jeff and what’s coming up! 54:35

A special THANK YOU to Patreon supporters at the Super Paranerd and Parlor Guest level! 55:55

Outro 57:53

 

For more on Jeff C. Carter

JeffCCarter.com

We Bleed Red & Green on Amazon

Instagram: @jeffc.carter 

Twitter: @Carterwroteit

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