The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird

Devon introduces Liz to one of the Northwest's weirdest, most unfortunate sports. 

Secondary topics: The Other Washington; hunt it up, Sin!; calamari dreams; Broads fail at accents; reverse octopus wrestling; shark digression; the Tacoma Narrows Bridge; prescriptive vs. descriptive language discussion. 

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Liz and Devon explore the strange world and the stranger legends of the Alaskan Glacier Ice Worm. Audio fuckery happened, so that's why Devon doesn't say much in the second half. 

Secondary topics: Sleepover madness; a sprinkle rave; the best festival; a fascinating listener story. 

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Liz introduces Devon to Stagecoach Mary Fields, a woman who should be on our money. 

Secondary topics: The worst bidet; cigars; punchin' punchcard; casting the adaptation; Mary's later years among the sasquatch. 

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Liz and Devon travel the trail - both the story of the actual Oregon Trail and the landmark video game it inspired. 

CW: Menstruation, body fluids, everything you could die of on the Oregon Trail. 

Secondary topics: Palm trees and whale sharks; nomenclature; scurvy; Devon objects to the presence of caulk on the trail; the Oregon Trail generation; land-office business; sunbonnets and Lestat;  Dungeons and Dragons.

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Liz tells Devon about one of the stranger structures in Washington. 

CW: We talk a bit about kids dying, but not in a glib way.

Secondary topics: Dead people houses; Mr. Bean ghosts; the obligations of rich people; grave design; a word from Worst Foot Forward. 

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Devon and Liz read listener stories about St. Ignatius Hospital, Lincoln Park and the Hahn Mansion, strange celestial encounters, and introduce their Patreon.

Secondary topics: Beginner's luck; the Broads try ghost apps; old jingles; Devon's nemesis visits. 

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Giddyup, pardner, and listen to Devon's cowboy tales from the ghost town full of ghosts: Bannock, Montana! 

Secondary topics: Elementary-school/post-apocalyptic survival skills; town full of weird perverts; Wild West naming statistics; a digression to Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane; Liz's financial plans; Devon loves Richard Dreyfuss; the cowboy fantasy. 

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Liz explains that we're all actually living somewhere very different than we think we are, by way of three episodes in the life of Gerald Wayne Barnes. 

Secondary topics: ASMR, tinglies, and elementary-school witchcraft; quite the afternoon; the free state of Socorro; Bailey's allowance; baby Broad ambitions. 

Photo from the USC Archive, by way of Hoax.org.

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Devon tells the story of the Manresa Castle in Port Townsend. 

CW: Suicide = ghosties. 

Secondary topics: Dungeons; an Ireland digression; Bishop Castle; Liz processes some Shelf Road-related trauma; a hotel for ghosts; Devon's review of Ghost Adventures; women love being ghosts; ghost Olympics; full-time Victorian lady. 

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After a rocky start, Liz tells Devon a selection of train ghost/ghost train tales from the Northwest and a special guest appearance by Colorado! (It's another one where we flip the big lever that says Suspension of Disbelief, but we've had a lot of verifiable history lately, so let's get spooooky.) Sorry about the bit of rustling at the end. 

Show notes here.

Secondary Topics: Feelings about trains; the Carolina Classic Can Opener; Devon has a train rant; feelings about gas stoves*, hidden talents of Broads; 

*Please note that after we finished recording this, Devon discovered that she had left the gas stove on and the flame had burned out and so her apartment was slowly filling with gas through this entire episode. She lived. 

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