Trendy Lobotomy Podcast
Trendy Lobotomy Podcast
Tori Selznick and Krysti Adams
Old friends discuss local legends starting with the ones they know from their home state. Legendary people, places, and random facts about Indiana abound here. While we started in Indiana, the world is full of legends and we want to explore them. Laughter, history, and spooky facts included. We like getting down to the bottom of these legends and giving both the facts as well as the lore. If history and interesting stories, sometimes with a spooky bent, are up your alley, so are we! We like telling each other stories and hope you will like them too! Oh, one more thing, you want ghosts? That's how you get ghosts...
Some Sh**ty Stories
Send us Fan Mail Krysti leads off with the tale of Clipperton Island. This island is now the home to poisonous crabs and that’s about it. This island was “owned” by many countries by the end of its saga. This island was the source of mass amounts of guano which was in high demand for fertilizer. There were fights between countries over this itty bitty island. This led to Mexico claiming the island and leaving a contingent of folks to guard it. These settlers get stuck due to things lik...
Aug 17, 2025
42 min
How Do Your Scream Without a H...
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with King’s Chapel Burying Grounds. This is the oldest cemetery in Boston and has some disturbing tales that go along with it. Krys regales us with the Matamoros Cult killings in the late 80’s. This was a jurisdictional nightmare due to this being on the border between the US and Mexico. This cult was present and caused all sorts of chaos in Mexico in the 80s. This cult mixed both drug running and religious belief. The head of this cult was bribing the authorit...
Aug 4, 2025
26 min
Battle Weary Orphans
Send us Fan Mail Krys tells of the Gettysburg Orphanage. This was started due to a picture of a family of a perished soldier in the area. Sergeant Amos Hurniston was the soldier that started this by dying with the picture of his fam. The orphanage was built to house the orphans of Union soldiers. While this began as a noble idea, this soon turned into something more sinister. Yeah, not good and a breeding ground for ghosts. Tori takes us to another battlefield, Yorktown. Seemed like it was ti...
Mar 30, 2025
31 min
The Al Dente Episode
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with the Capuchin Crypt in Rome. The monks used the bones to make works of art throughout the Crypt and the chapels therein. The next one was the Palermo Capuchin Crypt. This one is even creepier because the whole place is full of mummies. You heard me right, mummies. This was apparently a very big status symbol to be a mummy interred in the crypt. Guess what y’all, there are ghosts and they like hanging out with prettiest mummy in the world. Krys tells us of t...
Mar 16, 2025
24 min
Friendly and Tortured Ghosts
Send us Fan Mail Krys opens us up with tale of Jekyll Island Club Resort. This island off the coast of Georgia and has one hell of a history. Many huge names frequented the island and there are stories that abound of their time in both the past and present of the island. You want ghosts? Tori shows up to the party armed with three different cemeteries. The Granary Burying Ground, Nashville City Cemetery, and Copp’s Hill Burying Grounds. The former and later of those three are both in Boston a...
Feb 23, 2025
44 min
S.4 Ep.4 Return of the Soundboard Gremlins
Send us Fan Mail 105. Return of the Soundboard Gremlins Tori leads the scene of a well known murder, the Black Dahlia. The Sowden House has been a fixture of LA since the 1920s. This house was designed by Lloyd Wright. This houses sordid history has fascinated people both in LA and beyond. Krys tells us the tale of Nellie Butler. Want a famous ghost, we got you. Krys continues with us the story of Axe Murder Hollow. Hitting up the urban legends with this one. Can we say trope? Our sourc...
Feb 9, 2025
52 min
The Ghost of Executive Function
Send us Fan Mail TAKE TWO!!!!! Krysti leads off with the Curran Theater in San Francisco. This was a hotbed of crime as well as the theater arts. From murder to catching criminals in front of the building, guess what, you want ghosts, that’s how you get ghosts. Tori comes in second with terrible pronunciation and Dragholm Castle in Zealand Denmark. This castle survived several iterations and has a shady past. It’s been known to have over 100 ghosts. Several tropes show up in this story, inclu...
Feb 2, 2025
38 min
Not a Star Wars Creature
Send us Fan Mail Tori leads off with Taunton State Hospital in Massachusetts. Not surprisingly this hospital didn’t have a great reputation. But guess what it does have, you got it, ghosts. Parts of this hospital are still in operation today. Krys follows up with the Presidio and its illustrious history. This has been a landmark of San Francisco for years upon years. From pet cemeteries, to military bases, to apartments, this place has it all. Tori rounds it out with El Campto Santo Cemetery....
Jan 12, 2025
29 min
S.4 Ep.1 Save Our Sinking Ship
Send us Fan Mail Guess what kids?! Your favorite weird ass Hoosier girls are back in your ears. This week we hit up California for our stories. Krys leads off with the Sutro Baths. These were mainstays of San Francisco for years before shockingly taken out by a mysterious fire. Sutro had a tendency to accumulate relics from around the world, sounds like a great idea right? Oh, can someone figure out what land this was built on? Cliff House was next up and that was another problem waitin...
Dec 31, 2024
47 min
A Texas Sandwich With a Side of Kentucky Bar
Send us Fan Mail Malcom comes hard with a Texas sandwich. Lubbock Texas is a haunted town with hell gates, a haunted college, and a haunted cemetery. All of these complete the spooky story bingo for those that were playing at home. Texas Tech has a home there and they have ghost hunters in residence. Tori butts her story into the middle with Bobby Mackey’s Music World. Ready to hit more bingo spots, keep listening, This is reportedly one of the most haunted spots in the US. Welcome back y’all...
May 3, 2023
45 min
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