E358 - Fear and Death in the Witch’s Castle

Dan has one really big story this week!  We’re going to head to Austria’s Moosham Castle, a place with an exceptionally dark legacy, even for a castle.  The darkest part of this legacy was forged during one of Europe's most horrifying witch hunts, when 139 innocent people, many of them orphaned and sometimes also disabled children, were tortured and executed in the shadow of a legend known as Wizard Jackl. We start with the history , then we’ll look into paranormal claims including a modern encounter. Lynze brings four short stories this week, a nice counterbalance! A story about a...