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Loreplay

Dayna Pereira is the sarcastic solo host of Loreplay, serving up paranormal stories, haunted history, creepy folklore, and weird legends with a playful twist. Equal parts storyteller and skeptic, she blends dark humor, spooky vibes, and a love for the bizarre into binge-worthy episodes for fans of ghost stories, urban legends, and true crime with a paranormal twist.

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31:42

Exploding Teeth: Your New Phobia Unlocked

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2026/04/20

In this absolutely chaotic slice of history, we dive into one of the strangest—and most painful—medical mysteries ever recorded: exploding teeth. Yes. Actual human teeth. Exploding. Inside people’s mouths. Set in the early-to-mid 1800s, this episode centers around several documented cases—most famously that of Reverend D.A. Spriggs—whose sudden, violent dental pain didn’t just throb… it detonated. Victims reported intense pressure, unbearable agony, and then—BANG—teeth cracking, shattering,

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35:27

Spring Heeled Jack: The Terror of London

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2026/04/06

In 1837, something started terrorizing the outskirts of London. It had eyes like red balls of fire, metallic claws, and a deeply unsettling habit of vomiting blue flame directly into women's faces. It leapt over nine-foot walls. It slapped soldiers and laughed at bullets. It turned up in Devon as a four-legged bear-thing, starred in Victorian penny dreadfuls, got adopted as a bogeyman for misbehaving children, and then — after 67 years of sightings across England and into Scotland — simply

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42:27

The Werewolf Trials Were a Real Thing

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2026/03/09

Hey hey, lore-loving weirdos — before Salem, before witch trials became a cultural shorthand for mass hysteria, Europe spent roughly two hundred years putting people on trial for turning into wolves. And executing them. Tens of thousands of them.In this episode of Loreplay, host Dayna Pereira dives into the real, documented, court-certified history of the European werewolf trials — the paranoia, the pamphlets, the torture, the confessions, and the people ground up inside the machinery

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38:03

The Hinterkaifeck Murders

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2026/02/16

In 1922, six people were brutally murdered on a remote German farm known as Hinterkaifeck. There were no witnesses. No arrests. No clear motive. But what makes this case one of the creepiest unsolved murders in history isn’t just the violence — it’s what happened after. Neighbors reported footsteps in the attic before the murders. Footprints appeared in the snow leading to the farmhouse… but never away. And after the family was killed, someone stayed behind — feeding the livestock, eating

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28:16

The Curse of The Pharaoh

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2026/02/02

In 1922, archaeologists opened the tomb of Tutankhamun, and almost immediately, people started dying.Coincidence? Bad luck? Or did they anger something ancient, royal, and deeply petty?In this episode of Loreplay, Dayna Pereira cracks open the legend of The Curse of the Pharaoh—the supposed supernatural punishment that followed those who disturbed King Tut’s tomb. We trace how the curse myth began, who actually died (and who absolutely did not), and why the media latched onto the story like

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26:24

The Red Barn Murder

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2026/01/05

In early 19th-century England, scandal traveled faster than truth—and women paid the price for both.This episode of Loreplay dives into the infamous Red Barn Murder, the brutal killing of Maria Marten, a young woman from Polstead, Suffolk, whose disappearance was blamed on shame, gossip, and her own supposed moral failings… until her body was discovered buried beneath the floor of a blood-red barn.Maria had been involved with William Corder, a serial liar, emotional manipulator, and walking

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21:25

Krampus

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2025/12/22

Forget cozy cocoa and wholesome carols—this episode of Loreplay drags Christmas straight into the Alps and leaves it screaming.In this darkly festive deep dive, host Dayna Pereira unwraps the chilling folklore of Krampus, the horned, chain-rattling nightmare who shows up every December not to deliver gifts—but to dish out consequences. Long before Santa became a jolly capitalist mascot, Krampus was roaming Alpine villages, terrorizing children, beating the naughty with birch rods, stuffing

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31:12

The Green Children of Woolpit

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2025/12/08

Tonight on Loreplay, we’re diving deep into one of the most fascinating, eerie, and unexplained medieval mysteries ever recorded: The Green Children of Woolpit. This legendary twelfth-century case from Suffolk, England, has baffled historians, folklorists, and paranormal researchers for centuries. Two mysterious green-skinned children appeared out of nowhere near a wolf pit in Woolpit, speaking an unknown language, wearing unfamiliar clothing, and describing a twilight world unlike anything

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36:20

Cropsey and The Willowbrook State School

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2025/11/24

This week on Loreplay, your host Dayna Pereira drags you—lovingly, chaotically, and with a full set of trigger warnings—into one of New York’s darkest intersections of myth and reality. We’re talking Cropsey, Staten Island’s OG boogeyman… and the very real institutional nightmare that fed the legend: the Willowbrook State School.From childhood dares in the woods… to abandoned tunnels… to unethical medical experiments… to the disappearances of multiple children… this episode unpacks how an

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35:24

The Blood Countess

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2025/11/10

The Blood Countess of Cachtice: Elizabeth Báthory — Monster, Myth, or Misogyny?Hey hey, my lore-loving fiends — tonight we’re heading back to 16th-century Hungary, where leeches were skincare, torture was trending, and one noblewoman’s beauty routine allegedly involved… her staff.Elizabeth Báthory — better known as The Blood Countess — has been called history’s most prolific female serial killer, accused of torturing and murdering hundreds of girls to preserve her youth. But how much of it

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27:06

The Hammersmith Ghost Murder

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2025/10/27

Hey hey, my lore-loving weirdos… grab your lanterns, your lace bonnets, and your emotional support gin — because tonight, we’re heading back to 1803 London, where a ghost panic got so real it ended with an actual murder trial.Before the Tube, before streetlights, and definitely before therapy, the sleepy village of Hammersmith found itself haunted — not by one restless spirit, but by a whole lot of mass hysteria.It started with an elderly woman scared literally to death near the churchyard…

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35:41

Mothman: Sky Daddy of Doom

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2025/09/22

West Virginia, 1966. Four terrified teenagers tear down a dark back road in a Chevy Bel Air with something massive chasing them through the sky — glowing red eyes, a ten-foot wingspan, and a story that would forever haunt Point Pleasant. Over the next thirteen months, dozens of locals reported the same winged figure, strange lights in the sky, prophetic dreams, and even creepy Men in Black knocking at their doors. And then, in December 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed, killing 46 people

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27:01

Haunted History of The Winchester Mystery House

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2025/09/08

Step inside one of America’s strangest and most haunted mansions—the Winchester Mystery House. Built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune, this sprawling, bizarre labyrinth in San Jose, California is filled with staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that open into walls, and enough ghostly legends to keep paranormal investigators buzzing for over a century.In this episode of Loreplay, Dayna Pereira dives deep into the history, heartbreak, and

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29:15

The Bell Witch

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2025/09/01

Welcome to Loreplay—the comedy-paranormal podcast where haunted history meets hot takes. In this episode, host Dayna Pereira dives deep into one of America’s most infamous ghost stories: The Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee.From John Bell Sr.’s mysterious illness to Lucy Bell’s eerie protection, and from Kate Batts’ petty neighbor drama to the witchy shenanigans that terrified Andrew Jackson himself, this story has everything: curses, poltergeist activity, demonic sass, and enough Tennessee

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26:27

Raggedy Annabelle

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2025/09/01

In this episode of Loregasm, we explore:The 1970 haunting of Donna and Angie and the disturbing Annabelle Higgins spirit backstory.The infamous “Help Us” and “Help Lou” notes — and why no physical evidence exists.Lou’s violent scratching and claims of demonic attack.The psychic medium’s misread and the Warren investigation.Annabelle’s decades in the Warren Occult Museum and the blessing rituals meant to “contain” her.Real-life Annabelle curse stories — accidents and deaths linked to mocking

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1:05

Loreplay, Haunting Soon!

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2025/08/25

Do you love spooky—but not like emo, turn it into your entire personality spooky? Do you make jokes at wildly inappropriate times just to cover up your crippling social anxiety? Then Loreplay might be for you.I’m Dayna Pereira, your tour guide down a rabbit hole of lores, myths, ghost stories, and haunted history. But like, make it fun. Some of these tales you’ve definitely heard before, some you definitely haven’t—but I promise you’ve never heard them like this.Check out Loreplay—where

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