GhosTea Podcast

In this first episode of Reading Your Tea Leaves, we discuss a the home of a family member, is it haunted, or is it something more sinister? The ghost that supposedly haunts Caillen's family home, as well as reading a few stories taken from Reddit. If you'd like to hear your story in future episodes of RYTL, please email us at [email protected]

In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue died mysteriously in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. What would follow would be the only known case in which testimony from a ghost would help convict a murderer.

Around noon on September 25, 2011 a young child was found wandering down the road near a cemetery on Stipps Road in Laurel, Indiana. When police arrived, the 4 year old girl told police that her family was dead saying “Mommy is shot and grandpa and grandma”. Later that day police arrived at the home of Roy Napier, a trailer located on Stipps Road to find a very shocking murder scene. As police wait for a detective to arrive, they search the area to see if anyone else is on the property.

To quote Graham Seal, “Ned Kelly has progressed from outlaw to national hero in a century, and to international icon in a further 20 years. The still-enigmatic, slightly saturnine and ever ambivalent bushranger is the undisputed, if not universally admired, national symbol of Australia. … [T]he figure of Ned Kelly has led to the creation of a national image that bears some relation to the man himself—perhaps about the same resemblance as Ned Kelly's armour had to the plough mouldboards from which it was beaten....He is different things to different people—a murderer, an Australian Robin Hood, a social bandit, a revolutionary leader, even a commercial commodity. But to most of us he is somehow essentially Australian.”

Whether its sitting in an idle car with your friends telling ghost stories on the road, witnessing demonic cults performing their ceremonies, or just a plain old whiskey business. Staley road has been popular around Bethel Township, Ohio, for a long time. Join us as Kayla takes us through the history of the Staley family and how they came to America, before she and our guest Emily tell their spooky experiences with the road.