Petaluminaries Podcast
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Nora and Adele are two restless spirits who have returned from their busy afterlife in the city of Petaluma, California, to host this podcast. They have come back to tell stories of the mysterious and melancholy demise of themselves, their friends, and neighbors, as well as life in Sonoma County and Northern California in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This podcast is a combination of..
Petaluminaries Podcast
3w ago
This month Adele and Nora return from their two-month long road trip across the US West in search of the residual revenant residents of former boom towns and populated places. Join our ghostesses in Part I of Ghouls on the Road as they learn to operate their motley motorbike with spectral sidecar and hit a few local abandoned steamboat landings and railroad towns before heading further afield. Parts II and III will find our diaphonous divas diving into doghole ports, Russian forts, mine shafts and many more ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
4M ago
Nora and Adele answer an eekmail query about the Spanish and Mexican period spirits of Petaluma. Tune in as they ramble on about the mythical origins of California, the Mission Period, plus the legends of Rancho Petaluma and the Old Adobe. Mariano Vallejo would spin in his grave (if he were still there) had he known that our ghoulish duo would spill the beans on his more dastardly deeds. Definitely an episode to be enjoyed in the gloomy light of a beef tallow candle ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
5M ago
Adele and Nora are stunned this month when the AI mirror calls up Nora's cousin Mary Barry O'Flaherty from Seattle and brings her to Petaluma through the intercobwebs. Hear Mary's stories about that 1870s Northwest frontier town, the Great Seattle Fire, and how Mary passed away falling off of a street, literally. Now she inhabits Seattle's spooky underground with her best friend the notorious Madam Lou Graham. Could this be a new way for spirits to travel across the infinite void of time and space? Maybe we'll find out ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
6M ago
Slough, creek, river... whatever you call it, Petaluma has close ties to our tidal waterway. It's been the lifeline of the city and also a watery grave for some. Join Adele and Nora this month as they step off the boardwalk and into the latest meeting of the River Club with Jennie Otis McNear. Members of the River Club expired within the damp embrace of our dangerous drainage. Hear some of their stories and stay for the expired casserole ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
7M ago
Join Adele and Nora this month for an interview with Adele’s deceased husband Captain Tom Baylis. One of Petaluma’s pioneers, Captain Tom was the first immigrant to setup a game warehouse, hotel, and he brought both sail and steam boats to Petaluma, from San Francisco, in the early 1850s. He recounts details about his life and some of the early days in Petaluma. Tom Baylis was an entrepreneur, a civic leader, and an all-around dashing disrupter in the Age of Steam – a pioneering steam punk ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
8M ago
Never ones to miss a deadline, Adele and Nora got this special lucky 13th episode in just under the wire. This month they take a stroll with Clara Travers through Petaluma’s Cypress Hill, B’nai Israel, and Calvary Cemeteries. Join them for a self-guiding tour using the map they uploaded to the Petaluminaries website. In this nifty narrative of our nearby necropolis, they expound on the nature of Victorian cemetery art, architecture, and iconography. During their definitive dialogue on the dearly departed, they visit a few of Petaluma’s notable graves, and even run into an old friend. We can’t ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
8M ago
This month Nora and Adele stop in to see Addie Gossage Healy one of Petaluma's deceased local photographers at her studio on Main Street. They learn about the development of photography and the influence it had on the average Victorian person. From the Civil War battlefields to portraits of the dead and images of spirits and auras, photography was integral to how Victorians dealt with their own mortality. This episode is sure to put the focus on death and a ghost in the frame ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
8M ago
This month Nora and Adele tell the story of one of Petaluma's most brutal crimes and the sensationalistic trial that resulted from it. The murder of blind Nancy Meagher shocked the county. That she was pregnant at the time, made it even more shocking. Then when her sisters were accused of the heinous act, it made headlines nationwide. Find out the details and the unusual conclusions on the next Petaluminaries podcast ..read more
Petaluminaries Podcast
8M ago
This month Nora and Adele drop in on Sarah Cassiday, at the old Carnegie Library, to find out about the mythological and literary origins of the ghostly season. Frau Holle, Calleaich, and Krampus are just a few of the ancient spirits who were associated with pagan winter celebrations, and they still haunt what we now know as the Twelve Days of Christmas. From Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe to M. R. James to Stephen King, literary masters are still inspired by our shrouded and long-dead brethren. Listen and learn a little from, and about, Petaluma’s longest-serving and not-so-insane librarian ..read more