Have you ever seen the ghost of a monkey? How can you be so sure? HOW WOULD YOU KNOW IF A MONKEY IS A REAL MONKEY AND NOT A GHOST MONKEY? What if monkeys actually went extinct a thousand years ago, and everything that we think is a monkey is actually the ghost of a […]
Some holes need filling. And some of those holes can never feel truly filled, even when they’re as full as a person can make them. Boy this is uncomfortable, isn’t it? This is the story of Bill Sketoe’s Ghost Hole. Come for the ghost, stay for this media environment, the last few strips of Marmaduke, […]
Who among us hasn’t been in a college dining hall and thought, “I wonder if this burger’s cow came from a diseased lab eighty feet away?” If you want to throw that stone, go ahead, but we won’t, because we wear our shame on our sleeves, and if that’s not freedom, we don’t know what […]
Bridges are weird, right? It’s like, “Hey, if you stop existing right now, I’ll die,” and there aren’t a whole lot of non-organ things you can say that about. And that sure is exciting. This is the story of Stuckey’s Bridge. Come for the ghost, stay for bootlegger Mike, “Whatever happened to au gratin?”, ITAG […]
When I dream / On my own / I’m alone but I ain’t lonely / For a dreamer night’s the only time of day / When the city’s finally sleeping / And my thoughts begin to stray / And I’m on the train that’s bound for Santa Fe / And I’m free / Like the […]
In our first and almost certainly only installment of Child Actors of the California Gold Rush, we dig into the early life of Broadway legend David Belasco. Then we talk about his mid-life, then his end-life, and then it gets really good in the afterlife. If you’ve been waiting dramatically for the ghosts of Broadway […]
In an episode recorded purely for the SEO of the moment, the guys explore the story of the original Titanic ghost! Other words that we should include to really maximize organic search are submersible, billionaire, vacuum implosion, and, what the hell, orcas. Is it working? This is the story of Edward J. Smith, captain of […]
Ah, Wisconsin. Home of cheese curds, water slides, and a whole lot of people who were left confused by Aaron Rodgers’ whole deal. We’ve done Wisconsin stories before, but we haven’t done them like this–we have a special guest host for this episode, Jennifer Swanson, lifelong Wisconsinite and, more importantly, big fan of all things […]
Chairs. You love them, we love them, our butts can’t get enough of them. But what happens when a chair castle becomes a haunted mansion? This is the sort of question we know you rely on ITAG to answer. And answer it, we will. This is the story of the S. K. Pierce House. Come […]
Welcome to Connecticut, where the oysters are clammy, the doctors are plenty, and not all Alans are Blades. And before you ask, yeah, there’s a lot of Disney talk in the run-up today. In for a penny, in for a pound. This is the story of The Snedeker House. Come for the ghosts, stay for […]