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Welcome to “Episode 251: The Curse of the Ides of March”! On March 15th 44 BCE, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death during a month already charged with war rituals dedicated to Mars (God of War), spring blood festivals, and civic debt reckonings, and history has never quite shaken the date since. In this episode of Let’s Get Haunted, we unravel how a single assassination transformed an ordinary Roman calendar marker into a symbol of betrayal, fate, and political collapse; how ancient reports of Caesar’s ghost visiting Marcus Junius Brutus fueled the legend; how Augustus cemented vengeance into stone with the Temple of Mars Ultor; and why revolutions, invasions, and regime shifts keep clustering around mid-March. Are the Ides of March truly cursed? Or did Shakespeare ritualize a trauma so effectively that the calendar itself just feels haunted? Most importantly: is March the new October? The answer is yes.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 - HOOK/INTRO

00:08:14 - NUTRAFOL AD

00:10:21 - PART I: WHAT ARE THE IDES OF MARCH?

00:30:15 - PART II: THE RISE AND FALL OF JULIUS CEASAR

01:33:03 - PART III: MARCH IS THE NEW OCTOBER

01:50:27 - CLOSING CREDITS

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Welcome to Episode 250.5: Listener Stories #41 (Sexy Spirits)! This is the episode where our Haunties (aka listeners) write in with their first-person spooky tales of cryptids, ghosts, curses, and aliens. This week, we listen and respond to 3 voicemails left on the Hauntie Hotline from two anonymous haunties & Sarah, plus we read your true scary stories. 

Voicemails from the hotline this week include: a Randonautica prediction, a haunted insane asylum visit, and sharing a spooky house with your in-laws! Listener stories from this week’s episode include: a haunted music box, “children fish”, too many twins, grandpa ghosts that are NOT wholesome, sweet grandma ghosts, a slenderman encounter, possessed porcelain dolls, Bixby goes rogue, and more! Some of the listeners whose stories are featured in this episode include: Vern, Kristal B, Simon, Shoshana, Coral D, Jocelyn B, Serah D, and L! 

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TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 - HOOK / INTRO / COSTUME REVEAL

00:07:22  - VERACITY AD

00:10:35  - HAUNTIE HOTLINE, ANON 1

00:17:36 - DISCUSSING CALL 1

00:24:31  - HAUNTIE HOTLINE, ANON 2

00:26:56 - DISCUSSING CALL 2

00:30:12  - HAUNTIE HOTLINE, SARAH

00:31:57 - DISCUSSING CALL 3

00:34:44 - FACTOR AD

00:36:35  - LISTENER STORIES BEGINS

01:40:25  - FINAL THOUGHTS

01:45:00  - CLOSING CREDITS

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For over 600 years, a book has existed that no one can read. Not historians. Not cryptographers. Not even artificial intelligence.

This week on Let’s Get Haunted, we are entering the world of the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th century text filled with plants that do not exist, constellations that match no known sky, diagrams of strange biological tubes, and pages of naked women bathing in green liquid.

The language has never been identified. The author is unknown. Every attempt to decode it has failed.

Is it an alien field guide, a forbidden medical grimoire, an occult text disguised as science, or the most elaborate hoax in human history? We break down the darkest theories, the AI translation attempts, and the possibility that this manuscript was never meant to be understood at all. Because if this book is a joke, it is a masterpiece. And if it is not, then someone in the 1400s knew something we were never supposed to know.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 HOOK & INTRO

00:06:04 AN UNREADABLE BOOK

00:15:22 BETTER HELP AD

00:17:57 BIO TUBES AND ALIEN ANATOMY

00:37:12 HISTORY OF THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT

00:56:00 ALIEN BIOLOGY OR HAUNTED DOODLES

01:10:00 WOMEN’S BODIES AS TOOLS

01:30:00 SECRET PASSWORD AND DONOR SHOUTOUTS!

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SOURCES:

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Equivalencies-of-Voynich-Manuscript-Characters-with-Arabic-Letters_fig3_368991190

[2]https://www.voynich.nu/illustr.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[3]https://youtu.be/CSYXCBqGcZo?si=ZwSHTS2izRbYjIWc

[4]https://www.history.com/articles/voynich-manuscript-mystery

[5]https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002046

MUSIC:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6UU2FyLHiw

KEYWORDS :Voynich Manuscript, Voynich Manuscript explained, Voynich Manuscript theories, Voynich Manuscript decoded, has the Voynich Manuscript been translated, Voynich Manuscript alien theory, Voynich Manuscript witchcraft, Voynich Manuscript plants, Voynich Manuscript zodiac pages, Voynich Manuscript bathing women, Voynich Manuscript herbal section, Voynich Manuscript cosmology diagrams, Voynich Manuscript conspiracy, Voynich Manuscript hoax, Voynich Manuscript Francis Bacon, Voynich Manuscript AI translation, medieval coded manuscripts, mysterious medieval book, unsolved historical mysteries, alien field guide theory, encrypted ancient texts, occult manuscripts, 15th century cryptography, paranormal history podcast, conspiracy theory podcast, strange historical artifacts, forbidden books in history, mysterious botanical illustrations, haunted manuscripts, esoteric symbolism, Renaissance occultism, secret societies medieval Europe, weird medieval art, ROGER BACON, alchemy, ancient aliens. Alien code

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Welcome to “Episode 249: The Beale Ciphers Treasure Mystery”! In the 1820s, a mysterious traveler named Thomas J. Beale left a locked box with a Virginia innkeeper, instructing him not to open it unless ten years passed without anyone coming to claim it. When the box was finally opened decades later, it contained three coded messages and claims of buried treasure worth millions hidden somewhere in Bedford County, Virginia. More than 200 years later, only one cipher has ever been cracked, revealing the treasure’s contents but not its location. Treasure hunters have dug up mountains and cemeteries, cryptographers (and even reportedly the NSA) have analyzed the codes, and theories range from an elaborate hoax by entrepreneur James B. Ward to secret ties with President Thomas Jefferson or poet Edgar Allan Poe. Is the treasure still out there somewhere or has it already been found? Somebody call Nic Cage because on this episode of Let’s Get Haunted, Aly and Nat break down the Beale Ciphers’ history, codes, government intrigue, and theories.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 - HOOK/INTRO

00:04:48 - NUTRAFOL AD

00:06:35 - PART I: THOMAS BEALE’S TREASURE

00:33:39 - VERACITY AD

00:35:30 - PART II: THE HUNT IS ON

00:52:43 - BLISSY AD

00:54:28 - PART III: LINGERING QUESTIONS

01:30:52 - PART IV: THE THEORIES

01:41:55 - CLOSING CREDITS

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KEYWORDS: Virginia, America, American, United States, Civil War, Treasure, Mystery, Unsolved, Unresolved, Unknown, Cipher, Code, Codebreaking, computer, algorithm, NSA, government, conspiracy, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Jefferson, freemason, freemasons, esoteric, secret society, secret, history
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For thousands of years, humans have been obsessed with cats.

Did humans domesticate cats? Or did something inside cats domesticate us?

This episode we’re talking ancient Egypt, witch trials, plague hysteria, brain parasites, and even ancient aliens.

TIME STAMPS

00:00:00 HOOK & INTRO

00:01:38 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CAT WORSHIP

00:12:16 BETTER HELP AD

00:13:50 CAT MUMMIES 

00:28:00 CAT GODDESSES SEKHMET & BASTET

00:43:55 THE BLACK DEATH AND CATS  IN THE MIDDLE AGES

00:56:30 WITCHES AND CATS

01:00:40 TOXOPLASMOSIS AND EFFECTS

01:12:00 PEOPLE WITH TOXOPLASMOSIS RATED HOTTER 

01:17:00 ANCIENT ALIENS (YES, REALLY)

01:30:00 SECRET PASSWORD AND DONOR SHOUTOUTS!

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SOURCES:

[1]https://medium.com/illumination-curated/did-pope-gregory-ixs-hatred-of-cats-lead-to-the-black-death-327d163adfb2

[2]BUBASTIS, CITY OF THE CAT GODDESS BAST (Part III)

[3]

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-egypt/ancient-animal-mummies-found-in-egypt/

[4]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987720300311

[5]

https://peerj.com/articles/13122/

Borráz-León JI, Rantala MJ, Krams IA, Cerda-Molina AL, Contreras-Garduño J. 2022. Are Toxoplasma-infected subjects more attractive, symmetrical, or healthier than non-infected ones? Evidence from subjective and objective measurements. PeerJ 10:e13122 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13122

[6] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Higher-perceived-dominance-in-Toxoplasma-infected-Hodkov%C3%A1-Kolbekov%C3%A1/0fcf4559a122b80eef64231ff040522499f29862/figure/1

VIDEOS

[1]

Is Bastet Calling You? Signs of the Egyptian Cat Goddess

[2]Toxoplasma parasites busting out of their human host cells - YouTube

[3]The bizarre mind-controlling parasite you contract from your cat

[4]Toxoplasmosis: Truth, Fiction, and Crazy Cat Ladies? 13. Toxoplasmosis in the news

[5]

Sekhmet, Lady of Flame, Eye of Ra: An Introduction to the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of War

[6]

Brain Parasite Makes Mice Fearless - by Scientific American

MUSIC:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6UU2FyLHiw

KEYWORDS :ancient egypt cat worship, bastet goddess, egyptian cat mummies, history of cat worship, medieval demonization of cats, black cats and satan, pope gregory ix cats, vox in rama cats, witches and black cats, cats and witchcraft history, black death and cats, cats and the bubonic plague, were cats killed during the plague, church and black cats, satanic cat rituals, kissing the devil cat, toxoplasma gondii explained, toxoplasmosis in humans, toxoplasmosis personality changes, parasite mind control theory, toxoplasmosis and risk taking, toxoplasmosis and mental health, cats and brain parasites, how cats change human behavior, parasite conspiracy theory, ancient aliens and cats, cats as alien surveillance, extraterrestrials and ancient egypt, cats in mythology, haunted cat history, occult symbolism of cats, satanic panic animals, feline conspiracy theory, did cats domesticate humans, conspiracy

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