Episodes

  • We Are The Halloweenies! (Annual Halloween Show with Pete Atkins and Glen Hirshberg)

    We Are The Halloweenies! (Annual Halloween Show with Pete Atkins and Glen Hirshberg)
    Oct 24 2022

    Join Thorne & Cross for their annual Halloween celebration with Hellraiser's Pete Atkins and Shirley Jackson award-winner, Glen Hirshberg. Hear excerpts from upcoming work and the spooky stories that inspired them. 
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Winchester House: The Mysteries, Part 1

    Winchester House: The Mysteries, Part 1
    Sep 29 2022

    Winchester House is infamous for its architecture and its ghosts. Thorne & Cross explore the legends, lore, and mysteries of this haunted California landmark in Part 1 of Winchester House: The Mysteries
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    18 mins
  • Rawhead and Bloody Bones

    Rawhead and Bloody Bones
    Jul 25 2022

    “Rawhead and Bloody Bones
    Steals naughty children from their homes
    Takes them to his dirty den
    And they are never seen again …” 

    You wake in the middle of the night, aware of something hard and cold, something wet and sticky, beside you. You shake yourself, thinking it’s a dream, but still feel eyes all over you. When you finally dare to look, you see the grinning skinned head of a monstrosity so terrible you only wish it were a nightmare … 

    He’s Rawhead and Bloody Bones, a macabre creature from England and America’s deep South … and Thorne & Cross are digging in … 
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    28 mins
  • The Many Ghosts of the Tower of London

    The Many Ghosts of the Tower of London
    Jun 24 2022

    From the shadowy phantoms of two dead princes to the headless apparition of Anne Boleyn, Thorne & Cross break down the most famous (and infamous) ghosts that haunt the Tower of London, the historic castle that has inspired awe and terror for more than a thousand years.
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    30 mins
  • Slender Man, The Phantom of the Internet

    Slender Man, The Phantom of the Internet
    May 5 2022
    Thorne & Cross explore the myth, history, and roots of the first internet-age boogeyman, a tall faceless specter known as Slender Man.  
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    19 mins
  • Walking Sam

    Walking Sam
    Apr 29 2022
    Guest Alex Dolan discusses the South Dakota Sioux legend of Walking Sam, the mind-controlling spirit that made local news and the New York Times in 2015 when suicides peaked on the Pine Ridge reservation.
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    24 mins
  • Psychic Machinery

    Psychic Machinery
    Apr 18 2022
    Thorne & Cross explore the world of psychic machinery -- the paranormal phenomena invoked by the expectations of the living. Is it a ghost, a residual haunting, wishful thinking … or something more?

    Haunt us at: tamarathorne.com and alistaircross.com
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    21 mins
  • The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery

    The Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery
    Mar 21 2022

    On the windswept cliffs below San Francisco, walks northern California’s most famous ghost, the Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery. Hosts Thorne & Cross take you back to 1927, to a speakeasy known as Frank’s Place, which was frequented by rum runners, politicians, and criminals. How did the Blue Lady die … and why does she still haunt the distillery?
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    19 mins