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Christmas Hauntings: Hotel Bethlehem, the Rouse Simmons and Death Coach
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| The longest nights of the year have long made Christmas a season for ghost stories. This episode gathers five accounts connected with holiday travel, wartime memory, religious tradition and the unease that can sit beside otherwise cheerful celebrations.
The journey begins at Historic Hotel Bethlehem in Pennsylvania and on Lake Michigan with the Rouse Simmons, the schooner remembered as the Christmas Tree Ship. It then crosses the Atlantic for a Liverpool story known as A Genuine Mass for the Dead. The final segments explore the Death Coach of Christmas from British Isles folklore and a World War I account titled Between Two Worlds. The episode distinguishes documented places and events from later supernatural tradition while preserving the darker side of seasonal storytelling. |
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