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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Lizzie Borden: The Actual Story Behind Netflix’s Monster
Season 2 · Episode 4
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 • Duration 54:58
Everyone knows the rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. The problem is that almost every word of it is bullshit.
In this episode, Dayna heads to Fall River, Massachusetts, to uncover the actual story behind one of America’s most infamous unsolved murders. We’re talking family resentment, inheritance drama, a mysterious note, an alleged attempt to buy poison, a suspiciously burned dress, a spectacularly messy investigation, and the courtroom decision to bring Andrew and Abby Borden’s actual skulls to trial. Because apparently cyanide testimony was too prejudicial, but placing Daddy’s skull on the prosecution table was perfectly reasonable.
We’ll separate documented history from folklore, fact-check Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, examine the evidence against Lizzie, and explore how gender, wealth, class, and Christian respectability shaped her acquittal. Was Lizzie an innocent woman destroyed by suspicion, a calculating murderer who got away with it, or something history can no longer prove?
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The Whaley House After Dark with Bekah Page
Thursday, September 17, 2026 • Duration 31:26
Bekah Page joins Dayna to talk about her paranormal investigations at The Whaley House. Bekah has always been sensitive to energies and drawn to the paranormal. As a child, she visited the Whaley house and has been called back to it several times since. In this bonus episode, Dayna and Bekah discuss Violet Whaley, how a house can hold both grief and joy, Bekah's relationship with Violet Whaley, and what her paranormal investigation journey has looked like.
Find Bekahon Instagram @itsbekahpage and @beksboos TikTok: @beksboos
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The Whaley House: Built On Death
Season 2 · Episode 3
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 35:35
A hanged man, two tragic young deaths, and a whole lot of frontier judgment. The Whaley House, built on top of a killing ground, had no choice but to be haunted. This week, Dayna tells the story of all the tragedy one house can hold. But if it can hold that much sorrow, can't it also hold that much joy? The Whaley House still stands today and is widely recognized as one of the most haunted houses in America. And THIS is why.
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Reincarnation with Jenn Scott Pickett
Thursday, September 10, 2026 • Duration 56:13
For the first time in Loreplay HISTORY, we have a guest on the show! Jenn Scott Pickett has been deep diving reincarnation and sharing the stories for years. She is an author, podcaster, and social media creator. In this episode, Dayna and Jenn talk about past life regressions, if it's woo woo bullshit, the many cases of past lives, scars, memories and more. Find Jenn on social media @jennscottpickett
For her book, "Reincarnation Explained without Religion": https://a.co/d/01lxb7ou For her podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/researching-reincarnation-with-jenn-scott-pickett/id6795738792
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Past Life Detective: Robert L. Snow
Season 2 · Episode 2
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 34:49
Imagine you're a hard boiled cop that doesn't believe in woo woo nonsense, and then you are forced to face that the woo woo nonsense might be on to something. Robert L. Snow, a police detective, was essentially dared to do a past life regression session. He went into the experience fully determined to debunk it all, even bringing his own recorder to the session, and ended up on a journey that took him to very unexplained places. With a list of 28 things that could be proved or disproved, Bob investigated his own PAST life. And what he found, changed his whole view on past lives.
This episodes primary source was from The Psychic and The Doc Youtube. found here: https://youtu.be/mfIBLHwHAao?si=pY4K-fCPnzr__6F0
Robert Snow's Book: https://a.co/d/0bCpl03o
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The Ghosts Left Behind by the North Berwick Witch Trials
Thursday, September 3, 2026 • Duration 10:27
The trials ended. The executions stopped. But according to the ghost stories, some of North Berwick’s dead never really left.
In this bonus episode of Loreplay, we’re heading back to Scotland to dig into the hauntings and paranormal legends that linger in the shadow of the North Berwick Witch Trials. From Agnes Sampson, better known in ghost lore as “Bald Agnes”, and her alleged appearances at Holyrood Palace, to the spirits, strange encounters, and centuries-old stories attached to the places touched by Scotland’s witch-hunting past, we’re looking at what happened when horrific history eventually became haunted history. And this time, there’s an important question hanging over all of it: are these really ghost stories… or are they one of the ways we’ve kept the memories of people like Agnes alive after history tried so damn hard to erase them? Either way, if anyone earned the right to haunt a royal palace, it’s Agnes fucking Sampson. Welcome back to North Berwick.
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The North Berwick Witch Trials
Season 2 · Episode 1
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 • Duration 48:08
Season 2 is HERE, and apparently we’re kicking things off with Satan’s cold ass, witches sailing the Scottish seas in kitchen colanders, a weaponized cat, and one very paranoid king. The North Berwick Witch Trials started with a royal wedding, some seriously shitty weather, and King James VI becoming convinced that witches were personally trying to murder him. What followed was one of Scotland’s most infamous witch hunts. This week, we’re getting into the stories of Geillis Duncan, Agnes Sampson, John Fian, Euphame MacCalzean, and the other real people who found themselves accused of belonging to an enormous satanic conspiracy. There’s torture. Forced confessions. A Devil who apparently takes attendance. A supernatural assassination attempt involving a toad. And yes, an alarming amount of discussion about the Devil’s bare ass. But underneath all of that ridiculousness is a story that gets very real, very fast—because once powerful people decided the conspiracy existed, every denial became evidence, every confession created another suspect, and innocent people paid for it with their lives.
Welcome back, my feral little lore lovers.
Season 2 is about to get fucking weird.
Sources & Further Reading
I went down a DEEP rabbit hole for this one. If you want to join me—or just make sure I’m not personally inventing Satan’s cold ass—here are some of the main sources used for this episode:
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft — University of Edinburgh — This is probably the single best resource for the Scottish witch trials. The database was created by historians Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman and contains records for thousands of accused people, including the North Berwick cases. Explore the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft
Lawrence Normand & Gareth Roberts, Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches — One of the major scholarly works on the trials, including surviving indictments for Agnes Sampson, John Fian, Barbara Napier and Euphame MacCalzean, as well as Francis Stewart's later trial.
The Hex Hollow Murder
Season 1 · Episode 34
Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 32:29
In 1928, on the night before Thanksgiving, a sixty-year-old Pennsylvania folk healer named Nelson Rehmeyer was beaten to death in his farmhouse by three men who believed he had cursed them. The house they tried to burn wouldn't burn. The clock above the stove stopped at 12:01. And the trial that followed became one of the most surreal legal spectacles in American history — partly because the judge edited the word "witch" out of the murder confession before the jury ever heard it. This week: Hex Hollow, Pennsylvania Powwow, the grimoire you can still buy on Amazon (four and a half stars), and the question of what happens when a community's entire system for understanding suffering points to a person. Dark, accurate, and genuinely strange.
Key Sources
Arthur Lewis, Hex (1969) — foundational narrative account. Still widely cited.
David W. Kriebel, Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch (Penn State University Press, 2007) — definitive academic treatment of Braucherei. Source for cure specifics (wound chant, hog bladder remedy, dollar bill vision test).
Johann Georg Hohman, Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend (1820, multiple editions) — free on Internet Archive; annotated academic edition from Penn State University Press; also Amazon.
Shane Free, dir., Hex Hollow: Witchcraft and Murder in Pennsylvania (2015) — free to stream; features descendants of all parties and modern Powwow practitioners. Highly recommended companion viewing.
CrimeReads (2021), "A Tale of Witchcraft and Murder in Jazz Age America" — best single account of the trial proceedings and courtroom dynamics.
Wikipedia, Rehmeyer's Hollow — for baseline fact-check. Note: some popular sources contain errors on dates and childhood healer details; trial transcripts are the more reliable source.
Hey hey, my fellow Lore Lovers… welcome to Loreplay. 🖤
This is the podcast where history gets messy, folklore gets questionable, and I willingly spiral so you don’t have to. I’m your host, Dayna Pereira—your resident investigator of all things creepy, cursed, and deeply side-eye worthy.
Jack Ketch and the Botched Beheadings
Season 1 · Episode 33
Monday, April 27, 2026 • Duration 31:42
Public executions were already brutal… but then came Jack Ketch—the executioner who somehow made death worse. Known across 17th-century England for his shockingly bad aim, Ketch didn’t just take lives—he botched them, turning executions into slow, horrifying spectacles that crowds couldn’t look away from. From nobles begging for mercy to audiences watching in disbelief, this is the story of the man who became infamous not for killing… but for how badly he did it. Because nothing says “career failure” like needing multiple swings of an axe.
Hey hey, my fellow weirdos… welcome to Loreplay. 🖤
This is the podcast where history gets messy, folklore gets questionable, and I willingly spiral so you don’t have to. I’m your host, Dayna Pereira—your resident investigator of all things creepy, cursed, and deeply side-eye worthy.
Each week, we dig into the stories that make you go “wait… what the hell actually happened?”—from haunted places and urban legends to true crime and historical chaos. We separate fact from fiction… and then stare directly into the uncomfortable space in between.
📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.com
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👀 GOT A STORY? (I know you do…) If you’ve experienced something weird, spooky, glitchy, or straight-up unexplainable—send it in. Your story might be featured in a future episode.
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⚠️ Listener Discretion: We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤
💀 If you liked this episode: Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).
Exploding Teeth: Your New Phobia Unlocked
Season 1 · Episode 32
Monday, April 20, 2026 • Duration 31:42
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, or even bursting apart with an audible pop.
We follow the timeline of these bizarre incidents, focusing on personal accounts that read more like horror fiction than medical documentation. People described flashes of light, gunshot-like sounds, and immediate relief after the explosion—as if their mouth just rage-quit.
So what the hell was happening?
We break down the leading theories:
Early dental fillings made from unstable metals (hello, 1800s chaos chemistry)
Hydrogen gas buildup inside decaying teeth (yes, your mouth potentially becoming a tiny bomb)
Galvanic reactions—basically a battery forming in your mouth because of mixed metals
…and why none of these explanations fully hold up under scrutiny.
Because here’s the thing: even modern dentistry can’t fully explain how a tooth could generate enough internal pressure to literally explode.
So was this a weird cluster of misdiagnosed dental abscesses? A case of experimental dentistry gone wrong? Or something even stranger—something we just don’t understand anymore?
Either way, this episode will make you:
Fear toothaches on a whole new level
Deeply appreciate modern dentistry
And maybe… never ignore mouth pain again
Because in the 1800s, a toothache wasn’t just annoying.
It might have been a ticking time bomb.
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Newes from Scotland (1591/1592) — The infamous contemporary pamphlet describing the North Berwick cases, John Fian, the alleged witches' meetings, attempts to sink James VI's ship, and examinations conducted in the king's presence. This is also where some of the episode's wildest details come from. Important disclaimer: contemporary does not mean unbiased. This thing was basically 16th-century witch-panic propaganda, so I treated its supernatural claims accordingly. View the Folger Shakespeare Library record for Newes from Scotland
Liv Helene Willumsen, “Witchcraft against Royal Danish Ships in 1589 and the Transnational Transfer of Ideas” — Research based on Danish court records, state papers and diplomatic correspondence examining the witch trials surrounding Anne of Denmark's disastrous voyage and how those ideas traveled from Denmark to Scotland. Read the research article
Scottish Witchcraft Trials / Barbara Napier & Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell — Surviving trial material is particularly useful here because Barbara's case shows James's personal involvement after her jury refused to convict her on everything, while Bothwell became the highest-status person formally accused of witchcraft in Scotland.
Scottish Government & Scottish Parliament records — In 2022, Nicola Sturgeon issued a formal posthumous apology on behalf of the Scottish Government to people accused, convicted, vilified or executed under Scotland's Witchcraft Act. A proposed bill that would have pardoned those convicted was later withdrawn in 2023, and the Scottish Government has explicitly confirmed that an apology was made, but no legal pardon was given. Read the Scottish Government's 2022 apology
A note on the history: A lot of what survives from North Berwick comes from interrogations, accusations, legal records and Newes from Scotland. So when I say someone “confessed” to sailing across the sea in a sieve, kissing the Devil's ass, raising storms or doing some other absolutely unhinged shit, I'm describing what the historical record claims they confessed to—often after torture—not suggesting those things actually happened. Torture was used to obtain confessions during Scottish witch investigations, and the North Berwick panic was particularly notorious for physical torture.
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⚠️ Listener Discretion: We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤
💀 If you liked this episode: Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).
Each week, we dig into the stories that make you go “wait… what the hell actually happened?”—from haunted places and urban legends to true crime and historical chaos. We separate fact from fiction… and then stare directly into the uncomfortable space in between.
📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.com
Prefer to Watch 👀 Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP49XVyr_raHi3VVxXr91_w
👀 GOT A STORY? (I know you do…) If you’ve experienced something weird, spooky, glitchy, or straight-up unexplainable—send it in. Your story might be featured in a future episode.
📩 Submit here: loreplaypod@gmail.com
⚠️ Listener Discretion: We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤
💀 If you liked this episode: Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).
And remember… Just because it’s folklore… doesn’t mean it’s (all) fiction. 😏
And remember… Just because it’s folklore… doesn’t mean it’s (all) fiction. 😏
Primary Sources
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Entry for July 15, 1685. Evelyn was a direct eyewitness to the Monmouth execution and his account is considered one of the most reliable contemporary records.
The Apologie of John Ketch (1683). Pamphlet published under Ketch's name following the execution of Lord Russell. Authorship disputed — some historians attribute it to Ketch himself; others note the provenance is uncertain. Cited with that caveat in-episode.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey. January 14, 1676. First recorded court mention of Ketch by name.
The Plotters Ballad, Being Jack Ketch's Incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants (1678). Satirical broadsheet pamphlet. Held at the British Library.
Secondary Sources
Wales, Tim. "John Ketch." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004. The most authoritative modern biographical summary.
Engel, Howard. Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind. Key Porter Books, 1996. Covers Ketch in the context of execution history broadly.
Wade, Stephen. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths series. Cites and questions the provenance of the Apologie pamphlet.
Stephenson, Neal. The Baroque Cycle (2003–2004). Historical fiction; useful for period color on the execution economy and aristocratic tipping customs, not cited as fact.
Jullian, Philippe. Robert de Montesquiou (1965). Not directly relevant to Ketch but cited in the Moberly-Jourdain literature — flagged here only because it came up in research adjacently.
Online / Reference Sources Used in Research
"Jack Ketch." Wikipedia. Consulted April 2026. Used for general chronology and cross-referencing broadsheet citations.
"Jack Ketch." EBSCO Research Starters / Biography. Consulted April 2026.
"1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth." Executed Today (executedtoday.com). Consulted April 2026. Particularly useful for scaffold dialogue sourcing and crowd response detail.
Sherrat, Tim. "Jack Ketch." AllThatHistory (allthathistory.com). Consulted April 2026.
"Fall of Monmouth: Sedgemoor, Capture & Botched Execution." History Defined (historydefined.net). Consulted April 2026.
"An Execution Timeline: The Duke of Monmouth's Last Days." English Historical Fiction Authors (englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com). Consulted April 2026. Useful for detailed scaffold dialogue reconstruction.
"Execution of the Duke of Monmouth." Warwalks (warwalks.com). Consulted April 2026.
"The Execution of Monmouth." Our Civilisation — sourcing Macaulay's History of England. Consulted April 2026.
Historic Royal Palaces — Tower of London official records. Referenced for the five-blow count on the Monmouth execution.
SOURCES
Primary Source
"Explosion of Teeth With Audible Report"
W.H. Atkinson. The Dental Cosmos, Vol. 2, January 1861. University of Michigan / Hathi Trust digital archive.
Note: The archive page is image-based and requires institutional access. The Atkinson quotes used in this episode are reproduced via the secondary sources below, both of which cite this original directly.
Secondary Sources
"The gruesome and mysterious case of exploding teeth"
BBC Future, 1 March 2016. Includes expert commentary from Hugh Devlin (Professor of Restorative Dentistry, University of Manchester) and Andrea Sella (Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, UCL).
Note: This URL was blocked from direct fetch during production. Content confirmed via the Amusing Planet piece below, which reproduces both expert quotes and cites BBC Future as source.
"From the archive: The mysterious case of 'exploding teeth'"
British Dental Journal, vol. 219, pp. 376–377. Published 23 October 2015.
Reproduces BDJ correspondence originally published 1965–1966: Cyril Tomes (21 Sept 1965), B. Eady (5 Oct 1965), Basil G. Bibby / University of Pennsylvania (Dec 1965), Louis I. Grossman / University of Pennsylvania (Feb 1966). The Grossman letter quotes directly from J. Phelps Hibler's 1874 book. Directly fetched and verified.
Reproduces the full Atkinson quote from The Dental Cosmos, summarizes the Hibler and BDJ cases, and includes the Devlin and Sella quotes from BBC Future. Directly fetched and verified. Used as the primary route to Atkinson's text.
Hey hey, my fellow lore lovers… welcome to Loreplay. 🖤
This is the podcast where history gets messy, folklore gets questionable, and I willingly spiral so you don’t have to. I’m your host, Dayna Pereira—your resident investigator of all things creepy, cursed, and deeply side-eye worthy.
Each week, we dig into the stories that make you go “wait… what the hell actually happened?”—from haunted places and urban legends to true crime and historical chaos. We separate fact from fiction… and then stare directly into the uncomfortable space in between.
📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.com
Prefer to Watch 👀 Find us on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP49XVyr_raHi3VVxXr91_w
👀 GOT A STORY? (I know you do…) If you’ve experienced something weird, spooky, glitchy, or straight-up unexplainable—send it in. Your story might be featured in a future episode.
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⚠️ Listener Discretion: We talk about dark stuff here—death, violence, and the occasional deeply cursed human behavior. If that’s not your vibe, totally fair… but if it is? Welcome home. 🖤
💀 If you liked this episode: Follow, rate, review, share it with a friend who also loves questionable life choices and spooky stories. It helps the show grow—and keeps me emotionally stable (barely).
And remember… Just because it’s folklore… doesn’t mean it’s (all) fiction. 😏
