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by Dayna Pereira
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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- 2 weeks ago31 min
The Bunny Man Was Real (Just Not Like That)
In the woods outside Clifton, Virginia, there’s a railroad overpass locals call Bunny Man Bridge. Legend says an escaped asylum inmate, a man who murdered his family on Easter Sunday, hid there and lived on rabbits. He left their mutilated bodies hanging in the trees, and every Halloween since, teenagers who stay under the bridge past midnight have turned up hanging there too. It’s a fantastic story. It’s also built on an asylum that never existed, a prison that hadn’t opened yet, and a library you can’t visit because nobody ever built it.But in October 1970, someone really did put on a bunny suit and throw a hatchet through a parked car’s window in Fairfax County. Eleven days later, he was back with a long-handled ax. This week on Loreplay, Dayna follows the Bunny Man from campfire legend into the newspaper archives and an actual police file. Along the way, she finds out how one very angry man in rabbit ears turned into a 32-victim folk monster, and why nobody ever caught him. Lock your car doors.SourcesBrian A. Conley, "The Bunny Man Unmasked: The Real Life Origins of an Urban Legend," Fairfax County Public Library, Virginia Room. research.fairfaxcounty.gov/local-history/bunnyman. The backbone of this episode; includes excerpts from the 1970 Washington Post articles, the Fairfax County Police investigation report, and the 1973 folklore paper."Man in Bunny Suit Sought in Fairfax," Washington Post, Oct. 22, 1970, B2 (via Conley)."The 'Rabbit' Reappears," Washington Post, Oct. 31, 1970, B1 (via Conley).Fairfax County Police Dept., Investigation Report 858-748 (Officer J.S. Brown, Oct. 29, 1970; Investigator William L. Johnson, Mar. 14, 1971), redacted copy cited by Conley.Patricia C. Johnson, "The Bunny Man" (May 12, 1973), Maryland Folklore Archive, Box 32, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.Timothy C. Forbes, "The Clifton Bunny Man," Castle of Spirits website, c. 1999 (the source of the asylum / Grifon / Wallster version).Scariest Places on Earth, Fox Family Channel, 2001 ("Terror on Bunnyman's Bridge").Washingtonian, "The Scary, Weird, Somewhat True Story of the Fairfax 'Bunny Man'" (Oct. 23, 2015) — Conley interview; notes he tracked down the still-married couple and his view of the bridge as a teen party spot.Connection Newspapers, "Legend Lives on at Bunnyman Bridge" (Nov. 4, 2003) — Halloween road closures near the bridge.From Lizzie Borden to Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess, Loreplay explores true crime, haunted history, paranormal mysteries, and the people behind the legends. Join host Dayna Pereira for ghost stories, witch trials, urban legends, cryptids, and dark history told with researched storytelling, sharp sarcasm, and absolutely no patience for historical bullshit.Follow Loreplay wherever you listen to podcasts and find us on Instagram at @loreplaypod.Come play.📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).
- 3 weeks ago38 min
Giulia Tofana and The Widow Makers
Six hundred dead husbands. One infamous poison. And a little bottle with a saint on it. Apparently, marriage counseling in seventeenth century Italy could get extremely fucking dark. In this episode of Loreplay, Dayna Pereira explores the legend of Giulia Tofana and Aqua Tofana, the notorious arsenic poison said to have helped women escape dangerous marriages by becoming widows. From Palermo and Naples to Rome, the story features secret poison sellers, a suspiciously helpful priest, holy remedies, and husbands who allegedly never realized what was happening.But how much of this infamous tale is folklore, and what do the historical records actually reveal? After telling the legend, we examine the Roman poisoning investigation of 1659, Gironima Spana, Giovanna de Grandis, and the women whose lives became tangled in a scandal involving murder, domestic abuse, money, and unequal justice. Was Giulia Tofana a serial killer, a feminist folk hero, or a woman whose reputation grew far beyond the evidence?Expect dark history, true crime, Italian folklore, female rage, and some deeply unfortunate branding involving Saint Nicholas. Grandma’s holy little bottle has questions to answer.Follow Loreplay for strange history, chilling legends, paranormal mysteries, and dark storytelling with humor. Listen, share, and tell us what you think: does the truth make this story less frightening, or even worse?From Lizzie Borden to Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess, Loreplay explores true crime, haunted history, paranormal mysteries, and the people behind the legends. Join host Dayna Pereira for ghost stories, witch trials, urban legends, cryptids, and dark history told with researched storytelling, sharp sarcasm, and absolutely no patience for historical bullshit.Follow Loreplay wherever you listen to podcasts and find us on Instagram at @loreplaypod.Come play.📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).
- Oct 6, 202637 min
The Beautiful Stranger: Kate Morgan and The Hotel Del Coronado
The Beautiful Stranger: Kate Morgan & the Hotel del CoronadoOn Thanksgiving 1892, a young woman checked into the Hotel del Coronado alone, under a fake married name, with one small handbag and no luggage. For five days she told the staff she was dying and that her brother, a doctor, was on his way. He never came. On the morning of November 29th, the hotel electrician found her dead on the beach stairs, a newly bought revolver by her hand.The papers called her "the Beautiful Stranger," because of course her face was the headline. Then a coroner ruled it suicide in record time, an anonymous doctor told reporters she'd tried to end a pregnancy, and her grandfather wired from Iowa: bury her and send me the bill. The San Diego Union's headline? "He Owns Her."This week, we follow Kate Farmer Morgan from Iowa orphan to Los Angeles housemaid to the Del's most bankable ghost. Along the way we look at the lawyer who decided she was his great-great-grandmother, the theory that she was really someone else entirely, and a haunted room that can't settle on its own number. Underneath all of it is a question nobody in 1892 asked: what does a woman alone do when she runs out of options?📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).SourcesKate Morgan, Wikipedia: birth, family, marriage, son's death, burial, May overviewRandy Dotinga, "At the Hotel Del, a Deadly Obsession," Voice of San Diego (2011): anonymous physician, "He Owns Her" headline, Bush agent story, 1992 straw-slurping report, May's ancestor claim, gravestone textJennifer Jones, "Kate Morgan: The Tragic Mystery of the Hotel del Coronado," The Dead History (2024): day-by-day timeline from 1892 papers, Harry West, R. Gomer, David Cone, trunk contents, telegrams, $16.50, women at the viewing, 1983 Eagle and Journal quote; comments include Elizabeth McGovern's correctionsTerry Girardot, "The Ghost of the Hotel Del Coronado," Fremont County IAGenWeb (2001): Alan May's research path, Room 3312, headstone date, critique of May"I Tried It: Room 3327 at Hotel Del Coronado," San Diego Magazine (2021): hotel historian Gina Petrone on Kate's shifting stories"Coronado's Haunted Hotel Del Still Won't Let Kate Morgan's Mystery Rest," Hoodline (2026): May's 1990 book and caliber claim, Cullen's 2007 theory, hotel book by Christine DonovanBeautiful Stranger, Hotel del Coronado Heritage Department: official account summaryGhost City Tours, "The Haunted Hotel del Coronado": Wyllie misidentification and Toronto detail (secondary, tour-company source)John T. Cullen, Dead Move listing: Lizzie Wyllie and Spreckels theoryAll That's Interesting, "Kate Morgan": $3.80 room rate, ghost phenomenaSan Diego History Center, Hotel del Coronado Collection: rabbit-hunting founding story, 1885 purchase<a href="https://www.historichotels.org/hotel
- Sep 29, 202641 min
The Flatwoods Monster: West Virginia's Other Sky Daddy
The Flatwoods Monster: the 1952 West Virginia cryptid and UFO encounter, told campfire-style and then ripped apart.On September 12, 1952, a fireball streaked across the sky over Flatwoods, West Virginia. A group of boys, a mom named Kathleen May, a teenage National Guardsman, and one very smart dog went up a hill to find where it landed. What they found was a ten-foot creature with a blood-red face, a spade-shaped hood, and a glowing green body that hissed and glided toward them. Within a week, the Braxton County Monster was national news.In this episode of Loreplay, we tell the legend the way it scared a whole country, then dig into what actually happened. That includes the meteor logged in the Air Force's Project Blue Book, the red aircraft beacon, a guy named Max and his pickup truck, Joe Nickell's barn owl theory, and the lesser-known sightings from Audra Harper and George Snitowsky. We also follow the story's afterlife, from Gray Barker and the birth of the Men in Black legend to Kathleen May's claims of a government visit and Frank Feschino's theory of a secret alien dogfight over the East Coast.Was it an alien, a monster, or a very angry owl? Either way, Flatwoods leaned all the way in, with a Flatwoods Monster Museum, giant monster chairs, and a spot in Fallout 76 right next to Mothman. Which brings us to the big question: which West Virginia sky daddy wins Best Loreplay Cryptid? Paranormal history, folklore, cryptids, UFOs, and weird legends, with a skeptic's eye and a believer's heart.SourcesCharleston Gazette coverage, September 1952Project Blue Book case file on the Flatwoods sighting (U.S. Air Force). We the People (NBC, 1952). Kathleen May and Eugene Lemon's national TV appearance.George Snitowsky's account in Male magazine, July 1955.Gray Barker, "The Monster and the Saucer," Fate magazine, January 1953.Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956).Frank Feschino Jr., The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods Monster Revealed (2004).Joe Nickell, "The Flatwoods UFO Monster," Skeptical Inquirer, November 2000: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2000/11/the-flatwoods-ufo-monster/ This covers the barn owl theory, the beacon, "saw, heard and smelled nothing," and Eugene throwing up.Snopes, "What Was the Flatwoods Monster?": https://www.snopes.com/articles/383097/flatwoods-monster-mothman-owl/HISTORY, "In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Terrified 6 Kids, a Mom, a Dog—and the Nation": https://www.history.com/articles/flatwoods-monster-west-virginia This has the John Gibson quotes about Rickie and a boy peeing his pants, Gray Barker's background, and the May brothers standing by their story.All That's Interesting, "Inside the Legend of the Flatwoods Monster": https://allthatsinteresting.com/flatwoods-monster This covers Audra Harper's sighting.Magonia magazine's critical re-examination of the case. It's the source for Max Lockard's timing and the plant-sap explanation for the residue. I don't have the exact link, so search "Magonia Flatwoods monster" to grab it.Visit Braxton, "The Flatwoods Monster": https://braxtonwv.org/the-flatwoods-monster/The Flatwoods Monster Museum, Sutton, WV. It holds the Audra Harper typewritten account and the original New York sketch.Wikipedia, "Flatwoods monster": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monsterWikipedia, "Gray Barker": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Barker📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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
- Sep 22, 202654 min
Lizzie Borden: The Actual Story Behind Netflix’s Monster
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?📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).
- Sep 17, 202631 min
The Whaley House After Dark with Bekah Page
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 @beksboosTikTok: @beksboos📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).
- Sep 15, 202635 min
The Whaley House: Built On Death
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.📲 Come hang out with me outside the void: Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypod Website: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).
- Sep 10, 202656 min
Reincarnation with Jenn Scott Pickett
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 @jennscottpickettFor her book, "Reincarnation Explained without Religion": https://a.co/d/01lxb7ouFor her podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/researching-reincarnation-with-jenn-scott-pickett/id6795738792 Instagram and TikTok: @loreplaypodWebsite: https://loreplaypod.comPrefer 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).
About 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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