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Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. Possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day, he published 15 books and gave over 250 recorded talks. Much of his work centred on his interpretation of the esoteric ideas behind religion. The purpose of this podcast is to share Halliday’s teachings.
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Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer and teacher. For a large part of his life he lived and taught in Manchester running groups and giving guidance and personal tuition to a large number of interested people. He was a gifted artist, a writer of books, plays, and poetry as well as possessing a profound understanding of philosophy, religion and the science of his day. His legacy is extensive with 15 books published and many other writings and over 250 recorded talks. Much o ...
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In the final part of our Nellie Bly series, we follow her through yet another reinvention …as wife to industrialist Robert Seaman and, after his death, one of the first female CEOs in the U.S. We look at her lesser-known interviews with a ten-year-old Helen Keller and the terrifying Lizzie Halliday, and how she returned to journalism under William …
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In Part 3 of our Nellie Bly series, the whole world starts to pay attention. We’ll follow her from the publication of Ten Days in a Madhouse to her globe-circling race against the fictional Phileas Fogg. Along the way, Nellie becomes a household name, fields marriage proposals from strangers, and gets immortalized on trading cards and weird ads. Bu…
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In 1887, Nellie Bly got herself committed to one of the most notorious mental institutions in the country — not because she needed help, but because she wanted the truth. In Part 2, we follow Nellie through the gates of Blackwell’s Island, where the food was inedible, the baths were freezing, and silence wasn’t just expected — it was enforced. What…
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Before she became one of the most daring journalists in history, Nellie Bly was Elizabeth Jane Cochran — a smart, stubborn girl from Pennsylvania with very few options and even fewer rights. In this episode, we’re going back to the beginning: the poverty, the abusive stepfather, the letter that launched her career, and the fight to be taken serious…
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From flood panics and flaming cities to gas masks for comet poison, humanity has always had a flair for predicting the end of the world—with spectacular inaccuracy. In this special palate cleanser episode, Annie and Johanna walk us through some of the weirdest, funniest, and most deeply unserious doomsday predictions in history. We’ll cover the Gre…
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This episode is a series of Easter readings by David and Zero Mahlowe, based on various of Eugene's writings.By eugenehallidaypodcast
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Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. Eugene continues the discussion on Lucifer, commencing with an analysis of the work of Carl Jung. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net. (Note - this talk has been spilt into two parts. If you're following along in the transcript, Part 2 commences under the heading 'Carl Jung'.)…
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In this episode, we look at the brief and heartbreaking life of Dorothy Stratten—Playmate of the Month in August 1979, aspiring actress, and the victim of one of Hollywood’s most disturbing murder cases. We trace Dorothy’s rise from a Dairy Queen in Vancouver to the pages of Playboy, her toxic relationship with Paul Snider, her affair with director…
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In this fifth and final part of the Lizzie Halliday story, Lizzie escapes the electric chair—but not justice. She continues to lash out, nearly killing the sheriff’s wife, and ultimately stabbing a beloved young nurse more than 200 times in what would become the first recorded line-of-duty death of a female law enforcement officer in the U.S. Along…
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After the discovery of two women’s bodies buried in the manure pile of the Halliday barn, the search for Paul Halliday continues. But as authorities dig deeper—literally and figuratively—they uncover even more horrors. Lizzie Halliday remains in custody, shifting between moments of eerie calm and violent outbursts, but she isn’t done hiding evidenc…
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Lizzie Halliday has left a trail of destruction behind her…arson, theft, fraud, and at least one suspicious death! But in this episode, her crimes take a truly horrifying turn. After a year in a mental institution, Lizzie is released back into the care of her much older husband, Paul Halliday. His family and neighbors are already wary of her, and w…
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Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. Do we need Lucifer? Eugene responds to a question from the audience: "I just said that I’ve fallen out a bit with Lucifer...after what you’ve told us over the last few weeks, it doesn’t seem that he’s necessary at all...I don’t need Lucifer. That’s the thing I’ve been thinking of lately." A transcript is av…
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Lizzie Halliday is back, and somehow, she’s only getting started. In this episode, we pick up where we left off—with Lizzie abandoning another husband, scamming her way into new homes, and setting literal fires along the way. She takes her insurance fraud scheme to new levels, makes a scene at her father’s grave, and leaves a path of destruction ac…
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Lizzie Halliday is often called America’s first female serial killer, but long before she made headlines, she was already leaving a trail of chaos behind her. In this episode, we look at her early years—from her family’s immigration from Ireland to her first marriages and the, let’s say, unfortunate fates of the men in her life. Lizzie had a habit …
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In this episode of Fresh Hell, we’re heading up to the remote and brutal heights of the Säntis mountain in Switzerland, where, in February 1922, Heinrich and Magdalena Haas were found murdered in their isolated weather station. Their killer? A man they knew, a man who had once wanted Heinrich’s job, and a man who decided to settle his grudge in the…
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In our final episode on the world of Freak Shows, we’re closing the curtain with the incredible, tragic, and sometimes triumphant stories of the performers themselves. Meet Schlitzie, the performer who inspired Freaks (1932), a beloved and misunderstood figure of the sideshow world. Krao, the so-called “Missing Link,” whose life challenges the crue…
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This week, we’re bringing you two of the most fascinating and deeply unsettling stories from the world of freak shows: Chang & Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, and Julia Pastrana, the so-called ‘Bear Woman.’ Chang and Eng weren’t just a medical curiosity—they were brilliant businessmen, plantation owners, and, oh yeah, enslavers. Their story…
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Talk given in Liverpool, UK, circa 1960s. "When you identify with your gross material body, you are identifying with the slowest beat that there is where you are. It isn't the only beat there, it's the slowest one. It is identification and the need for gross material experience that causes this focusing on the slow, because the slow is easier to le…
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In this final part of our Barnum deep dive, we cover his biggest spectacle yet—The Greatest Show on Earth. From the moment he took his circus on the road to his partnership with James A. Bailey, we explore how Barnum turned entertainment into an empire. And of course, we wrap up with the ultimate Barnum move—reading his own obituary before he died.…
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In this episode, we pick up where we left off with P.T. Barnum. We’ll talk about how he turned Scudder’s American Museum into a New York sensation, why General Tom Thumb became a global star, and the controversy around Joice Heth. There’s also the devastating fire that destroyed the museum(s), Barnum’s first steps into the circus world, and the per…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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Send us a text Introduction to the podcasts of the narrated talks of Eugene Halliday by the actor David Fielder. I hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as I have, they were created during lockdown so Eugenes work could be offered in new format while we were all restricted in our movements. Eugene Halliday (1911–1987) was a British artist, writer a…
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In this episode, we begin our deep dive into the fascinating and controversial life of P.T. Barnum, the man who revolutionized entertainment and gave the world The Greatest Show on Earth. But before we can fully understand Barnum’s impact, we need to explore the history that paved the way for his success: the origins of freak shows. We trace the ro…
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Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 24th June 1984. What is freedom? Freedom is NOT the absence of all constraint. Freedom is NOT the following of impulses indiscriminately. Rather, freedom is "...a gathering together and appointing a periphery to one's being, and a definition within that peripheralised zone of one's fundamental unique idea…
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Talk given at Parklands (Manchester, UK) on 29th May 1977. Eugene responds to an audience member's question regarding the 'Bardo Thodol', or 'Tibetan Book of the Dead'. In terms of our being, the Bardo refers to the intermediate zone between life and death. It is the realm of dream. A transcript is available at www.eugene-halliday.net.…
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In December 1984, Kingston Falls, Pennsylvania, went from a quiet, festive town to the scene of absolute chaos, all thanks to one ill-considered Christmas gift. A set of very specific rules wasn’t followed, and the result was something no one in town could have imagined. We’ll talk about what happened that night, how things went so catastrophically…
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In this episode, Annie takes us to the historic town of Sandwich, Massachusetts, for a chilling true crime case set against the backdrop of 19th-century Cape Cod. Learn about the Christmas night murder of 15-year-old Daniel Fogarty Jr. in 1857, the mob mentality fueled by alcohol and gambling, and the tragic events that led to his untimely death. A…
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In this episode Johanna takes us to the quiet, rural landscapes of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, to tell you about the tragic case of Robert Syrokowski. On a freezing December night in 2002, 18-year-old Robert disappeared after leaving a nightclub and was later found dead, struck by a car in the middle of a desolate road. But this was no mere accide…
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In part two, we focus on the aftermath of the Bloody Benders’ crimes and their shocking methods of murder. The gruesome discoveries at their property reveal the extent of their brutality, and we share stories of those who narrowly escaped their deadly trap. We also look at their dramatic flight from justice, the many theories surrounding their myst…
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In this episode, we examine the chilling story of the Bloody Benders, America’s infamous serial killer family. Set in 1870s Kansas, we recount the Bender family’s arrival in Labette County and the dark secrets concealed behind their seemingly ordinary inn on the Osage Trail. We explore the family’s unsettling behavior, the growing rumors about disa…
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In this episode, we talk about the mysterious disappearances of three young men: Christopher Thompkins, Christopher Matthew Kerze, and Steven Clark. Each case is haunting and unexplained, though only Thompkins’ disappearance fits within the so-called “Missing 411” phenomenon—a term used to describe unusual and often inexplicable disappearances in w…
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In this spine-tingling episode, we dive into the haunted legacies of two military legends: Pausanias, the ancient Spartan general with a cursed afterlife, and Mad Anthony Wayne, whose restless ghost reportedly wanders to this day. From ancient Greece to post-Revolutionary War America, we explore the eerie tales that have kept these spirits alive in…
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The iconic Hotel Chelsea is more than just a New York City landmark; it’s a haunting ground for some of the most legendary ghosts in history. In this episode, Johanna and Ingrid explore the eerie tales of the hotel’s past residents—some of whom never checked out. From the tragic death of punk rock icon Sid Vicious’ girlfriend Nancy Spungen to the l…
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Episode 254: MYSTERY – The Ghosts of Jeopardy (part I): Abigail Adams, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift
It’s this time of the year again: Spooky Fuckery Month is upon us! This week, we dive into a Jeopardy category that immediately caught our attention: GHOSTS! In the first part, we discuss the most famous laundry ghost in the White House, Abigail Adams. Then, we explore the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home to the mirror ghost of Marilyn Monroe, and t…
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In the final chapter of the Elfriede Blauensteiner case, we dive into the investigation that finally brought her to justice. We’ll discuss the twists and turns of her trials, the chilling courtroom moments, and the final verdict that sealed her fate. As we follow her journey behind bars, we’ll also explore her time in prison, the media frenzy that …
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In this episode, we continue the dark and twisted journey of Elfriede Blauensteiner, picking up where we left off—her meeting with second husband Rudolf Blauensteiner. From there, we look at the chilling details of her life as a serial killer, driven by greed and a deadly addiction to gambling. Discover how she preyed on her victims, manipulated wi…
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Born during the Great Depression in 1931 Vienna, Elfriede Blauensteiner’s early life was marked by hardship, a cold and distant mother, and the looming shadow of World War II. In this episode, we explore her difficult upbringing, her troubled first marriage, and her eventual meeting with Rudolf Blauensteiner, her second husband. But this is no stor…
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In this heartwarming episode, we dive into the incredible world of interspecies friendships, where the laws of nature bend in the name of love, loyalty, and companionship. We explore the touching stories of Chito and Pocho, the Costa Rican fisherman and his beloved crocodile; Molly and Peggy, the unlikely duo of a rescued magpie and a playful Staff…
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