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The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network- XZBN.netRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-07-161h 00
The 'X' Zone Broadcast NetworkRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-05-1545 min
The Best of The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show with Rob McConnellRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-05-1545 min
The Best of The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show with Rob McConnellRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-05-1548 min
The 'X' Zone Broadcast NetworkRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-05-1545 min
The 'X' Zone Radio/TV ShowRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-05-1548 min
The 'X' Zone Broadcast NetworkRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-03-2949 min
The 'X' Zone Radio/TV ShowRob McConnell Interviews - DIANE LADLEY - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2022-03-2950 min
The Best of The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show with Rob McConnellRob McConnell Interviews - Diane Ladley - Historic Ghost Tours of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2021-10-0449 min
The 'X' Zone Ghost FilesXZGF: Diane Ladley - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2020-10-0449 min
The 'X' Zone Ghost FilesXZGF: Diane Ladley - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2020-10-0444 min
Hist-eerie PodcastThe Happiest Haunted House in AmericaWhat makes a ghost? According to legend and lore, a ghost is created from sudden death, regrets, despair, and murder. There are no ghosts created from happiness. Or are there? In this long-awaited Christmas holiday episode of the Hist-eerie podcast, "America's Ghost Storyteller" Diane Ladley, introduces you to a most unusual haunted house in Savannah, Georgia; filled with a large family of ghosts who happily abide together forever in their own little piece of Heaven on earth.
Rated PG-13, not for younger or more sensitive listeners due to graphic descriptions of certain dark historical events and facts.
2019-11-2919 min
Hist-eerie PodcastOLD NAN'S GHOST STORIES-A GAME OF THRONES AUDIO FAN FIC BY "AMERICA'S GHOST STORYTELLER" DIANE LADLEYAward-winning "America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, presents a thrilling work of audio fan fiction in honor of HBO®'s GAME OF THRONES television show and George R.R. Martin's novels. Remember Old Nan, the elderly woman who told the boy Bran such bone-chilling scary stories of the Night King, Corpse Queen, Mad Axe, and others? Diane re-tells Old Nan's stories (northern Scottish accent and all!), spinning those terrifying legends that sprang from George Martin's deliciously fearsome imagination. Listen, and you'll feel as if you're the boy Bran Stark himself, huddled in his bed as Old Nan does her best t...2019-04-0211 min
Hist-eerie PodcastTiny FootstepsGhost children. No other paranormal entity is more desperately tragic and heart-rending to our emotions—or more capable of freezing the blood in our veins—than that of a child haunting the site of their death. Saddest of all are the ghosts of children who had been abandoned by their parents and society, left into the cold, indifferent care of orphanages and foundling hospitals from ages past. At their best, such places throughout history were comfortable and clean, where the children were given simple education, trained for future work, and properly fed. At their worst, orphanages were their own circ...2019-03-0323 min
Hist-eerie PodcastCauld, Cauld, Forever CauldTHIS EPISODE IS RATED R. NOT FOR YOUNGER OR MORE SENSITIVE LISTENERS.
Of all the various specters that fill history's supernatural lore, none terrify us more than the ghosts of dead children. From the twin girls standing in the hotel's hallway in Stephen King's The Shining, to the alien children with all-black eyes begging to be let inside your car, to the Douens of folklore in the jungles of Trinidad with their backward feet and faces as smooth and blank as eggs, we are obsessed in our terror of creepy dead children. Why is that? In this cold...2019-02-0117 min
Hist-eerie PodcastThese Ghosts Want Your Vote!Would you live in the most paranormally active house in the U.S.? Where more people have died and more ghosts haunt it than any other single family home in the nation? You'd have to be nuts. Yet some people would do anything to live there. Because it means they'd be the world's most powerful person. The address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. The White House. On this episode of Hist-eerie, Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller", will slip you past the Secret Service on a private ghost tour inside the mansion that has terrified presidents for centuries.2018-12-0126 min
Hist-eerie PodcastThe Cursed German U-BoatSomething evil lurked within the steel and iron body of the World War I German U-boat, the UB-65. Frightened sailors named it both haunted AND cursed—but how? In this one-year anniversary episode of Hist-eerie, Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller", separates fact from fiction behind one of maritime history's most terrifying legends with, "The Cursed WWI German U-boat, UB-65". The ill-fated submarine was forged in the hellish fires of war to wreck devastation upon Germany's enemies. Did some supernatural entity turn Hell back on its creators and crew? Now at rest in its eternal grave at the bottom of th...2018-10-3131 min
Hist-eerie PodcastAttend the Tale of Sawney BeanWARNING: EXPLICIT! GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF VIOLENCE, GORE.
This episode is NOT for the young, the sensitive, or the faint of heart.
The general public's appetite worldwide for Sawney Bean, the Caledonian Cannibal, seems unending. But is his gruesome tale only folklore? Or did Sawney Bean really exist in medieval Scotland? Without documentation, we should take such stories of cannibalism with a pinch of salt (heh, heh). Yet in the bloody heart of every legend lies the darkest truth. So in this episode of Hist-eerie, we'll explore Scotland's long, strange history of cannibalism through its folklore, historical fact, a...2018-09-0429 min
Hist-eerie PodcastThe Ghost Who Saved the WorldOne ordinary person can change history, for good or bad. And those are only two examples *that we know of*. How many heroes—or villains—are there throughout history who we don't know about? I would like to present a case of one such unknown hero, who changed the course of world history...and who still haunts his ancestral home.
2018-08-0134 min
Hist-eerie PodcastGhosts of Japan's TsunamiA great wave of paranormal activity rose in the aftermath of Japan's cataclysmic 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Did these ghosts float up from the watery depths of the survivors' traumatized subconscious? Or were they real? Vanishing hitchhikers, crisis apparitions, imprinted residual haunts, and even demonic possessions, are in this month's powerful Hist-eerie episode, "Ghosts of Japan's Tsunami".
Music and sound effects credits, references, and further resources are at www.Hist-eerie.com. Support future episodes of Hist-eerie at https://www.patreon.com/Hist_eerie. Won't you also please leave Diane a great review and rating on your podcast provider? It he...2018-05-1132 min
Hist-eerie PodcastAbraham Lincoln's Eight PremonitionsNOT EXPLICIT. Abraham Lincoln had at least EIGHT premonitions throughout his presidency that historians know of...preparing him for his ultimate sacrifice to the cause of peace. You may have heard of one or two of Abe's uncanny dreams...but I'll bet you haven't heard all eight! Music of this episode includes the Funeral March of Abraham Lincoln by John G. Barnard, and features The Presidents Own United States Marine Band and The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. Special thanks to David Madalinski as the voice of Abraham Lincoln. Credits, links, references and suggested readings are p...2018-03-3031 min
Hist-eerie PodcastThe Tragic, True Ghost Story of the Rodeo Cowboy and TinkerbellIs love eternal? Can two spirits forever be entwined as one, long after their bodies have turned to dust...or to rotting, squishy zombies? This Valentine's Day, cuddle up with your sweetheart and enjoy the true ghost story of the tragic love between a Rodeo Cowboy...and Tinkerbell. Yes, I said "true story" and "Tinkerbell" in the same sentence. Trust me, just listen, it'll all make sense. P.S. I LOVE the music in this episode!
PLEASE NOTE: Unlike other episodes, this episode has NO explicit violence, and is considered suitable for most audiences. Suggested rating: PG, paren...2018-02-1630 min
Hist-eerie PodcastVictims of a Monster2018 is a year for monsters, as it's the 200th anniversary of when the novel, "Frankenstein" was published. Of all the modern monsters, few were as terrifying as Saddam Hussein. The ghosts of his countless victims lament in the war-torn desert of Iraq; and American soldiers must brave the dead as well as the living. In this episode of Hist-eerie, Diane relates chilling, ghostly encounters collected from soldiers stationed in haunted camps around Iraq, and the tragic history behind the horror.
Special thanks to Dave Goodwin at http://www.MilitaryGhosts.com.
MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS CREDIT...2018-01-2636 min
Hist-eerie PodcastMidnight in the Asylum Cemetery, Part 2: The HauntingsPart two of "Midnight in the Asylum Cemetery" explores the spooky, ghostly encounters people have reported for over 100 years at the former Elgin, IL asylum buildings and paupers' cemetery. In a unique twist, this episode features actual, UNTOUCHED recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced during several of Diane's Haunted Hometowns, Inc. ghost tours. Those haunted history tours took place late at night within the isolated, abandoned graveyard and the windswept asylum grounds that used to encompass over 1,000 acres, and where lost souls of asylum patients are still said to roam...a legend proven by the startling evidence captured on t...2017-12-2234 min
Hist-eerie PodcastMidnight in the Asylum Cemetery, Part 1: The HorrorFor 200 years in mental asylums across the country, the depressed, deformed and disabled, closely shared living space with the most diabolic, deranged, and demonic psychopaths to ever walk among us. And all were subjected to inhumane "cures" of monstrous cruelty under the mask of compassion. In this first episode in a powerful two-part series of the Hist-eerie podcast, Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller", delves into the horrific history of asylums during their most infamous years. The second episode explores the hauntings at the Elgin paupers' cemetery and old asylum buildings. As a bonus, it features actual, untouched recordings of m...2017-12-0227 min
The 'X' Zone Radio/TV ShowXZRS: Diane Ladley - America's Ghost StorytellerDiane Ladley is a nationally award-winning storyteller and author, named by other storytellers as "America's Ghost Storyteller." She was a State of Illinois ArtsTour Artist from 2001 to 2005. Diagnosed with debilitating fibromyalgia, she could no longer work her full-time job or travel the country telling her ghost stories. With no husband or family to support her, Diane turned her physical therapy walks into the Haunted Hometowns ghost walk tours and cemetery ghost hunts in Naperville, Aurora and Elgin, Illinois—and they just celebrated its 13th anniversary season this year! This Halloween, Diane launched her podcast, Hist-eerie…it’s history’s eerie side, hi...2017-11-301h 01
Hist-eerie PodcastThe Strange Yet True Occurrence on the Night Lizzie Borden Died, Part 2On the 125th anniversary of the Borden Ax murders, Part 2 presents a case for what happened that hot August morning in graphic, stark detail: Then relates a strange, true event that strongly suggests a GHOST brought a merciless justice on the real killer.
2017-10-3026 min
Hist-eerie PodcastThe Strange Yet True Occurrence on the Night Lizzie Borden Died, Part 135 years after the unsolved Lizzie Borden Ax Murder case, a true event suggests a GHOST brought merciless justice to the real killer. In Part I, Hist-eerie relates the case in stark, chilling detail.2017-10-3017 min
Hist-eerie PodcastVision at GettysburgWas American history forever changed by a ghostly visitor from beyond the grave to the men battling at Gettysburg in the Civil War? Bible-sworn testimony, an unusual eyewitness, and Einstein's theory say it really happened.
2017-10-2417 min
The 'X' Zone Radio/TV ShowRob McConnell Interviews : Diane Ladley - Historic Ghost Tours Of NapervilleSince 1992 Diane has shivered spines and tickled funnybones with an amazing repertoire of ghost stories, songs and poems, from giggly G-rated ghost stories for children, to hair-raising R-rated ghost stories for the bravest adults! (she even has a funny X-rated ghost story!). Diane weaves ghost stories with a dramatic flair that enrapts her audiences under a spell of delicious fright ... and laughter! Rendered partially disabled with fibromyalgia (fie-bro-my-alja) in 2004, Diane could no longer take her ghost stories to audiences around the nation--so instead, she brought the audiences to her beloved hometown, by founding Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville, Illinois. Now...2017-01-1744 min