188 - Real Photographers, Real Scary Stories: A Halloween Replay

This is a spooky-season re-release of episode 76. Casey welcomes back photographer Jeremy Harris to react to scary and unexplained stories submitted by photographers around the world — some paranormal, some very much not, all genuinely unsettling.

Stories covered in this episode:

A quiet night shoot on a bridge, and the fatal mugging that happened roughly five minutes after the photographer left Solo exploring the haunted tunnels of Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, Alabama — cold chills, a moving shadow, and a self-professed skeptic who still ran A giggling child's voice coming from an empty graveyard while waiting to shoot the Milky Way A "haunted" county jail where cameras glitch and inmates scream at midnight — solved (mostly) by over-recorded VHS tape and a broken AC unit Finding two brand-new (probably stolen) motorcycles inside an abandoned cottage A rising tide that cuts off a photographer's escape route in 15 minutes flat, ending in a Coast Guard rescue A dead crow, a "fear boner," and a 150-year-abandoned power plant A high schooler stranded in dense fog after dark, terrified by what turns out to be a Highland cow New Zealand possums mistaken for a mythical panther mid-hike Exploring the real history behind New Jersey's Overbrook Asylum and its connection to unnecessary lobotomies The short history of "spirit photography" — double exposures and long exposures that convinced 19th-century audiences they'd captured ghosts Support The Nerdy Photographer

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