{"id":7,"date":"2020-12-23T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:44:51","slug":"episode-123-christmas-ghost-stories-of-yore-holiday-2020-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/episode-123-christmas-ghost-stories-of-yore-holiday-2020-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 123: Christmas Ghost Stories of Yore (Holiday 2020 Special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4765\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep123ChristmasGhostStoriesofYore.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep123ChristmasGhostStoriesofYore.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep123ChristmasGhostStoriesofYore.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep123ChristmasGhostStoriesofYore.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=7-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep123ChristmasGhostStoriesofYore.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ep123ChristmasGhostStoriesofYore.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #444444; font-family: &quot;IBM Plex Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Helvetica Neue For Number&quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: white;\">Episode 123-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Christmas Ghost Stories of Yore read by Uncle Jeff<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-family: &quot;IBM Plex Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Helvetica Neue For Number&quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201222_104831_053.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1079\" data-original-width=\"1079\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201222_104831_053-300x300.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px;\"><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">HAPPY HOLIDAYS!&nbsp;<\/span>Break out the eggnog &amp; mistletoe, it&#8217;s time for our 2020 winter holiday special! This week the boys are bringing back the old tradition of telling scary stories at Christmastime. To resurrect this tradition (that had all but disappeared), we brought in our&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">Special Correspondent, Resident Bigfoot Expert and Voice of the Listener<\/span>,<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">&nbsp;Mr. Jeff Hubbard,<\/span>&nbsp;to read us some of these classic public domain stories of yore. We start with&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&#8220;The Story of the Goblins Who Stole the Sexton&#8221;<\/em><\/span>, written by<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">&nbsp;Charles Dickens&nbsp;<\/span>in 1836. Then we have a tale of a spooky holiday game called&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&#8220;Smee&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><\/span>by&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">A. M. Burrage<\/span>, 1931. Is that a lump of coal in your stocking or are you just happy to see us? It&#8217;s a spooky<s style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;Halloween&nbsp;<\/s>Christmas episodes with ghosts, goblins and the regular goons here on the&nbsp;<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\">WHAT&#8217;S YER WEIRD STORY? 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This week the boys are bringing back the old tradition of telling scary stories at Christmastime. To resurrect this tradition (that had all but disappeared), we brought in our&nbsp;Special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/episode-123-christmas-ghost-stories-of-yore-holiday-2020-special\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 123: Christmas Ghost Stories of Yore (Holiday 2020 Special)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,20,10,21,5,2,3],"tags":[15,13,14,16,17,19,18],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-barry-johnston","category-christmas","category-ghosts","category-holiday-special","category-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-charles-dickins","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-stories","tag-ghost-stories","tag-holiday-special","tag-podcast","tag-whats-yer-weird-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}