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The Whispering Gallery

Whispering Gallery Podcast

Spooky, supernatural, unexplained, paranormal art The Whispering Gallery podcast explores spine-tingling and hard-to-believe spooky art stories; including cursed paintings, paintings prints of monsters, hauntings, UFOs and more. I look at art history a little differently. Learn about the spooky side of art guided by artists from around the world, and throughout history. Suzanne Nikolaisen sparks -your- imagination with spooky art stories that are best told after dark! Subscribe to join our

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S4 Ep4: Vaporous Prophecy & Gossamer Magic, Part 1

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2022/10/01

This episode (Part 1) starts out with the Oracle of Delphi (from Greece) and some of the less known things about this "individual" and what she did that warranted such fame that has crossed the centuries. Was she simply extraordinarily gifted at prophecy? Look for the Whispering Gallery podcast on Facebook and Instagram. Episode Image: Pytia, by Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929). Painting: oil on canvas (1917), height: 82.6 in; width: 43.3 in. Location: Collection National Museum in Kraków,

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Whispering Gallery Trailer

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2022/09/03

Is that mummy brown on your palette? If you’re unsure, we can always check for DNA. May I invite you to turn your flashlight on? Welcome to the spooky cool (or rather, spooky ghoul) world of paranormal and unexplained art! Our creepy gallery of scary goodies include cursed paintings, uap phenomena, poisonous pigments, sea monsters, ghost stories, and other mysteries–frankly I don’t know if there’s enough sage to go around. But I don’t want to frighten you, before you hear the stories. Just be sure

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S4 Ep3: The Ghost of the Clay Tablet

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2022/08/31

In ancient Mesopotamia people didn’t just want to believe in ghosts, or yearn for an extraordinary encounter in a shadowy haunted building. They believed in ghosts. Ghosts were simply part of normal everyday life. They were to put it plainly— expected. Let's take a closer look at the first known drawing of a ghost--drawn in clay. If a ghost were to become a problem or a nuisance, something would need to be done about it. In fact Irving Finkle author of The First Ghosts and curator at the British

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S4 Ep2: Scary Tales of Pigments Past, Part 2

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2022/07/08

Listen to find a young scientist recording color while at the cusp of discovery, —a bilingual Swedish chemist adding a new but dangerous pigment to the game, —and we will put a well-intentioned pigment-based hypothesis to bed about the death of Napoleon Bonaparte—just a few of the unforgettable stories of pigments from our colorful past! You’re listening to the Whispering Gallery podcast so keep your flashlight close, in case the lights go out! Thank you to the audio creators on Freesound for the

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S4 Ep1: Scary Tales of Pigments Past, Part 1

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2022/05/16

Dig up the disturbing story of the many desecrated mummies of ancient Egyptians, and their feline friends, who were meant to be undisturbed. It’s not just a scary story but the terrifying reality of Mummy Brown paint. “A few odd limbs…” The color: Mummy Brown has a seriously haunting story. Fair Use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXfvfPy6fc PBS special: King Tut Special posted by Darryl Kinson starting at right around four minutes into the video. The photo of Tutanchamun's death mask - This

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S3 Ep10: Yoshitoshi's 36 Ghost Stories

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2021/12/31

Yoshitoshi's 36 Ghost woodblock prints are the focus of this episode. I’ve read he wanted to create 100, but there are 36 Ghost woodblock prints and I’ve heard the “ghost” expression may not be an entirely accurate translation especially as you dig into the stories. There are some ghosts, but there are other “strange” things depicted including demons. (Ukiyo-e) The image for this episode is from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ''The Spirit of the Komachi Cherry

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S3 Ep9: Intro - Yoshitoshi's 36 Ghost Stories

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2021/11/30

Grab a warm cup of tea and join us for some Japanese ghost stories and folklore in this introduction to Yoshitoshi's Thirty-six Ghosts (that he created as woodblock prints). The stories are read to you from the book "Japanese Legends and Folklore - Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales, Myths and Historical Accounts" by A.B. Mitford. We'll be exploring the ghostly woodblock prints in our next episode. The image for this episode is from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

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S3 Ep8: A Very Gorey Art Mystery

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2021/10/31

Just over two decades ago Edward St. John Gorey left us to follow the path taken by the doomed Gashlycrumb Tinies. A Pisces, he was born in February of 1925 he used his pen and ink drawings to invite us into his cross-hatched Edwardian and Victorian styled stories. E is for Edward who attended the ballet G is for Gorey who poked the bear with his story If you haven’t seen his drawings please, please, check out the Whispering Gallery podcast on Instagram. His drawings didn’t always spell out

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S3 Ep7: A Very Gorey Art Mystery - Intro

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2021/09/16

Edward Gorey's pen and ink drawings, with cross hatching, give off a spooky vibe. He leaves quite a bit to the reader/viewers imagination. Join me for a a reading of "The Doubtful Guest" written and illustrated by Edward Gorey. Then we take a detour to his favorite breakfast haunt with "Edward Gorey's Favorite Diner Isn't Spooky At All" by Tove Danovich Updated February 13, 2018 MyRecipes.com | Extra Crispy Should Edward Gorey's work be categorized as horror or is it macabre? Or is there

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S3 Ep6: Phantom of the Arcade, Part 2

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2021/08/13

What made the Polybius arcade game strange, and so scary? Well, it’s not a real game. It’s fakelore, better known as urban legend (from what I’ve read there are games by that name now, but they came out after the rumor-mill had been started. What made it scary? The threat it posed to players Health and well-being. The men in black, the possibility they were tracking the high scores for their organizations nefarious reasons. That the games were removed within weeks of being dropped off. Polybius,

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S3 Ep5: Phantom of the Arcade, Part 1

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2021/07/08

Special Note: 07/09/21 This episode is steeped video game history (art/games/Atari). A industry insider is reviewing the episode and I'll re-upload this episode with any updates. I'll be getting episode 2 ready with more behind the scenes stories about art revisions at Atari, and the story of Polybius, the Phantom of the arcade. We’re tracking early era video game art from the mid-1900’s to the time of legend. Which time of legend? Stay tuned and together we’ll follow the path of jingling quarters

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S3 Ep4: Dutch Art - The Secret of the Missing Flowers

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2021/06/01

Join me for some detective work, to find clues about the missing flowers and find out why the Semper Augustus bulb was so highly regarded, and how tulips made it to Holland in the first place. And what's the deal with the missing flowers when they appear to be all accounted for in the Dutch Golden age paintings? Let’s get started and dig into the shadowy garden of secrets. During the Dutch Golden age a popular category artists painted in was still life and drilling further into that category -

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S3 Ep3: Sacred Sand Art Not Long for this World, Part 2

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2021/05/07

Today we’re continuing our two part journey into sand paintings not long for this world. This time we’re heading into the world of sacred sand paintings at what’s known as the roof of the world, Tibet, an autonomous zone in China which is just north of the Himalayan mountains. Let’s go beyond the spinning Tibetan prayer wheels, the luminous glow of multitudes of flickering butter candles, and into the mystery of the sand painting called the Kalachakra Mandala. If you haven’t seen it please visit

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S3 Ep2: Sacred Sand Art Not Long for this World, Part 1

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2021/04/04

This episode of unusual art stories takes us into the parched mysteries of the the southwest desert in the United States to the Navajo (Dine') Nation where sunburnt stone and windswept canyons have witnessed generations of legendary healing from sand paintings that may seem to be an enigma to outsiders of this solitary wilderness. This is part one, of a two part series, on the impermanent nature of sacred dry sand paintings. Art that is destroyed after its created may seem unusual but take a step

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S3 Ep1: Viking Time Warping Stone Ships

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2021/02/13

Venture into the past where some viking art was expressed as stone ships put to harbor inland. Within the pages of a book a stone ship rests, nestled in a clearing surrounded by pine-tree-guardians, where the grasses grow right up against the stones; breaking like calm seas in wispy dry strands. Listen to this episode to find out why the stone ships earth art was created. Please Note: the various different ages gave me some trouble - the Bronze Age, The Viking Age, the Nordic Bronze Age, depending

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S2 Ep9: The Painter’s Ghost or Le Fantome des...

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2020/09/20

This art ghost story should not be missed! Join Emily and Suzanne to wrap up this series on the sighting (and photo) of who some say is Claude Monet's ghost! Find out about the colors Monet painted with as an impressionistic artist, his vegetable garden, and even his final resting place. If you're new to the Whispering Gallery podcast and our spooky, spine-tingling and hard-to-believe art stories I hope you'll subscribe and join our community! Please rate and review the podcast and share it with a

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S2 Ep8: The Painter's Ghost or Le Fantome des...

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2020/08/03

In this second episode we talk more about the impressionistic French artist Claude Monet. Gain insight on his famous water lilies, and find out what happened at the art gallery to make them believe his ghost had visited them. Stay tuned to catch the third and final episode about the artist Claude Monet and the mystery surrounding the ghost story. If you're new to the Whispering Gallery podcast and our spooky, spine-tingling and hard-to-believe art stories I hope you'll subscribe and join our

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S2 Ep7: The Painter's Ghost or Le Fantome des...

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2020/06/22

As we begin to explore the possibility of Claude Monet's ghost visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art, we wanted to get to know the impressionist painter. Monet lived in Giverny, France. He loved flowers and he painted the waterlilies in his garden many times. He is quoted as saying: "My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece" Find out where his waterlily pond came from (it wasn't a natural pond). Monet had not just one garden, but two. Persephone takes a trip to Hades court in the underworld and

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S2 Ep7: The Painters Ghost - Prequel

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2020/06/22

Monet loved flowers and he had two thriving gardens. It seemed that Persephone's story was appropriate to lead us in to the ghost story. Please check out the WhisperingGalleryPodcast on Instagram for photos that we post about these episodes. The image displayed is Water Lillies painted in 1916 by Claude Monet. https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/water-lilies-40 (Public Domain) Please Support the Whispering Gallery

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S2 Ep6: Fairy Circle on Midsummer Eve

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2020/05/09

Join us in the fairy circle to learn about the painting "Midsummer Eve" by Edward Robert Hughes. He was influenced by aestheticism, his uncle who was also an artist, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; ultimately studying at the Royal Academy of Arts. Ok Gallery-whisperers let’s tread softly through the fog that lingers and hides shadows, and that could possibly even disguise shadowy creatures and beings that may belong in fairyland and not a borough of London. If you're new to the Whispering

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