Tripping On Legends

Beside an orange grove in the middle of nowhere lies a once forgotten cemetery. Inside are buried three children with no official records, no past, but a story that has been told the last fifty years in a town steeped in oddness and rich in haunted history…and sometimes the children can’t help but speak up. Christopher Balzano and Deanna Mulhern travel to Arcadia, Florida, in search of a ghostly legend centered around the spirits of children said to be the victims of a curse almost a hundred years old. After discussing some of the details of the case, the Trippers hit the round and then talk about what they found as the sun set on Coker Cemetery and why these kids might never find peace. Listen to Balzano discuss the details of the case here: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20190919230121-4363.mp3 Listen to our episode on Oak Ridge Cemetery to get warmed up and up to date on some of the oddness in the area: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20170116134716-1355.mp3 And t

Help TOL with kids decided where to legend trip on Spring Break by voting for where they should go. The Trippers look at several possible haunted road trips to occupy their upcoming Spring Break. After looking into the legend of Mothman and Goatman, they turn their attention to the many legends of Missouri and tracking the rock and roll legends of the Allman Brothers and Robert Johnson. The extended family in the chatroom ask for a trip up to New England to visit the Bridgewater Triangle and Salem, but the kids seem to be intent on tracking the legend of Roanoke Colony. Vote on any of our social media platforms. This Town is Myth which can also be followed at www.facebook.com/ThisTownisMyth and with the hashtag #ThisTownisMyth on all our social media platforms. Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore

Tripping on Legends: Episode 63…Jumping Off with the Pinecraft’s Amish Ghost Bridge Tripping on Legends welcomes in new co-host Deanna Mulhern who gets a trial by fire with a legend told throughout the Sarasota community although no one can quite remember where it started or if there is any truth to the tale. After getting some background and insight into Mulhern, the Trippers discuss the infamous Amish Ghost Bridge at Pinecraft in Sarasota, Florida. Too late to make it into Florida’s Haunted Love Stories and too early for Valentine’s Day, her and Christopher Balzano explore the details and reasons behind a typical Lover’s Leap, Romeo and Juliet type suicide and haunting that has one foot in the history of Sarasota and one in the Amish community that calls that town home. You can follow the legend trip and social media associated with the case at #amosandingrid. Follow our new project, This Town is Myth on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ThisTownisMyth. and with the hashtag #ThisTownisMyth on all our socia

Get off your rocking chair, Grandpa. There is no word of mouth and the campfire had been put out. But that doesn't mean the ghost story and haunted urban legend is dead. Join Christopher Balzano as he explores the interplay and evolution of our new ways to spread the stories. Read about the curse of Jeepers Creepers: https://trippingonlegends.com/2020/06/16/floridas-jeepers-creepers-curse/ Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822. Tripping on Legends is now part of the Midnight FM family. Check us out and see some of the other amazing shows they offer at https://midnight.fm/. Haunted Florida Love Stories is now available for preorder at: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1467145688/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 You can follow our dark journey through the forest as we prepare for the book at https://www.facebook.com/The-Haunted-Ocala-National-Forest-623189158309846 or by fo

As Tripping on Legends looks into the local legend of the Haunted Amish Bridge, we look into a famous cases that have captured the imagination and inspired a whole generation of urban legends and haunted media. The story of the Bunny Man and the Bunny Man Bridge has been told and retold and retold, but what are the true stories behind them? More importantly, why does this tale survive and spread when others stay local? It's a main locale on TOL's short bucket list, so join us and share which haunted legends are on yours. We'll also do a little follow up on the case of the White Lady at Rolling Hills in Lady Lake. Listen to the episode where we explore that legends at: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20190826063728-4024.mp4? Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gma

In what is becoming a new holiday tradition, Tripping on Legends brings you a host of Christmas Ghost Stories and asks you to decide which is true and which is only a White Christmas lie. We're changing the date this year and doing it on Christmas so Ella, who has been furious with her research and writing, can join in the fun. Snuggle up this us this Christmas Night when you've finished opening up the presents, finished the goose, and when you need time away from the family. Join in the fun and call in with your holiday ghost story or just sit back and see if you can tell when we're pulling your stocking. Listen to last year’s exploration of Christmas myths and traditions: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20181226141522-6415.mp4 And listen to last year’s Christmas Eve show: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20181218201507-6142.mp3 or watch it from our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TrippingonLegends/videos/2541269775902913/ Feel free to call our new phone number durin

Sometimes a single message and a onetime meeting can open a can of worms you can't walk away from. With the research for the new This Town is Myth beginning, Christopher Balzano takes to the air to introduce and try to explain the spark and the inspiration for the new project. He'll also talk about some of the odder things he's already discovered and the direction the story might take. You can check out the This Town is Myth page at: https://www.facebook.com/This-Town-is-Myth-106533630840134/ And click to help save Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery at: https://www.change.org/p/board-of-county-commissioners-sumter-county-florida-save-wild-cow-prairie-cemetery?recruiter=1025758309&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition&fbclid=IwAR2i3t1Xxet6m_UytU-nie4XHUuBk3VkgrSa6GM38M7k1tsbNSerAfnVnvo …and follow all social media at #ThisTownIsMyth. Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve he

An origin story based on a famous legend which people claim is fact and not folklore. A television show responsible for creating and spreading urban legends. Two nights with a guitar, a candle, a book, and an idea. Tripping on Legends explores the famous case of the Woman of Highway 50, a story once told on Unsolved Mysteries, remembered a decade later by a songwriter, and remembered two decades after that when this whole Legend Tripping gig got started. Who was the woman who saved her son after her death, and why does the story refuse to die. You can view the Paranormal Witness episode at: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl3oef Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. A new project is starting and will be announced next week, so if you have any information on odd st

Which came first…the haunting or the horror movie? Join Tripping on Legend as they look into a typical roadside ghost in Dunnellon, Florida, that may be as far from typical as you can get. On a stretch of road in the middle of nowhere, with the Ocala Forest looming nearby, there are reports of ghost children walking alone and into the woods. Are they just imagination, something darker like Black-Eyed Children, or the remains of the spookiness of a film shoot? And what does any of this have to do with Suzie and the Banshees? And are all the filming locations of the horror movie Jeepers Creepers haunted? Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved or whenever just to share a legend you’ve heard to ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist. K

As Event Season presses on, Christopher Balzano makes his way to the Space Coast to do a panel at the Brevard County's Eau Gallie Public Library. The TrueFLORIDA Paranormal Panel paired Tripping on Legends with Space Coast Paranormal Society (https://www.facebook.com/SpaceCoastParanormalSociety/) for an interesting discussion on the paranormal from an investigator side and from Balzano’s legend tripping angle. The audience also gets involved, sharing stories of haunted battlefields, monasteries, and houses. Follow the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/trippingonlegend to get a list of upcoming events, including Balzano’s visit to Spooky Empire in Tampa the first weekend of November (http://spookyempire.com/). Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved or whenever just to share a legend you’ve heard to ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. We’re stil

On the eve of the National Ghost Hunting Day, what does a folklorist do? Stay home and talk about story. Tripping on history, folklore, ideas on ghosts, and audience expectations, how does a storyteller about the paranormal serve all masters? What does the paranormal audience want when it goes to an event? As “holiday” season opens up, Christopher Balzano talks about the dilemma of the some the upcoming library and book events he has coming up and striking the balance between a good ghost story, a true ghost story, and a ghost story with no ghost at all. Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved or whenever just to share a legend you’ve heard to ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist. Keep visiting the site for the trip log of our trave

What do pennies, a gypsy curse, and an innocent man serving life in prison have to do with one of the most haunted towns in Florida? It's a tale of two families, two cemeteries, and two legends in Arcadia, Florida. Christopher Balzano revisits one of the original legend trips to Oak Ridge Cemetery to explore the folklore of the Richardson children said to play among the headstones and run back and forth to nearby Goat Hill. He then connects them to another bit of haunted history across town where the babies of Coker Cemetery are said to turn the luck of those who visit their abandoned and neglected places of rest. Listen to our episode on Oak Ridge Cemetery to get warmed up and up to date on some of the oddness in the area: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20170116134716-1355.mp3 And the episode where we just released the raw audio of Mary: https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20170116131725-5161.mp3 And to get the full picture of the original legend trip, visit the Travel L

After an afternoon at the movies, Tripping on Legends with Kids decided to hit the airwaves to talk about the latest urban legend and scary story release Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Christopher Balzano and Ella Balzano, struck with exhaustion and a sugar rush, take to the airwaves to break down the movie and discuss its impact on the current landscape of youth urban legends. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist. Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved or whenever just to share a legend you’ve heard to ask a question at ((813) 418-6822. Keep visiting the site for the trip log of our travels and other urban legends at: www.trippingonlegends.wordpress.com Follow us at: www.facebook.com/trippingonlegend Twitter: @SpookyBalzano Instagram: @SpookyTripping

Phantom hitchhikers are nothing new to the world of the paranormal. What makes Julia any different? With the summer winding down and Florida’s Haunted Love Stories at the printer’s, Christopher Balzano explores two Central Florida legends that did not make the cut for the book. The first involves a white horse seen in haunted Sanford, Florida, where celery might have once been king but now ghosts are big business. The second is a lonely Woman in White in Lady Lake whose backstory can’t be nailed down, but not for lack of decades of trying. As we get more into the mysterious happenings it becomes clear there are signs that point to a dark cloud that has been popping up on our legend trips being involved in another one of our locations. We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist. Feel free to call our new phone number during our lives shows to get involved or whenever just to share a legend you’ve heard to ask a question at ((813) 41

As the summer rolls on, Christopher Balzano make a big announcement during Tripping on Legends Live. Arcadia/History Press has just signed him to write his first Florida based book: Florida’s Haunted Love Stories. Based on many of the episodes and legend trips you know and love, Balzano goes over some of the stories he’ll cover while debating the approach he has been taking to working on the book and telling the stories. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist. Keep visiting the site for the trip log of our travels and other urban legends at: www.trippingonlegends.wordpress.com You can now call in with your legend or to sound off about something we talk about with our Legend Tripper Line at (813) 418-6822. Follow us at: www.facebook.com/trippingonlegends Twitter: @SpookyBalzano Instagram: @SpookyTripping

What do Tom Petty, and dead janitor, and Ted Bundy have to do with each other...and what about that ghost in the bikini? With the summer quickly approaching, it is time to start looking at far, far away Florida locations to include in Tripping on Legends Summer 2019 Road Trip. There may be no better place to look than with institutes of higher learning across the Sunshine State, starting with the two biggies. Florida Schools are haunted. Natalie Crist and Christopher Balzano take a look at some of the famous hauntings and urban legends coming out of Florida State University and the University of Florida, including ones involving love, suicide, lightening, Ted Bundy, and Tom Petty. The Trippers also discuss why the Tripper’s Ouija Board is no longer in service. Watch Balzano’s video last summer about haunted schools before they made their way to Stetson: https://youtu.be/QqPQ3ncEVvk We’re looking for any legends you’ve heard from these schools, or any other school you might have gone to. You can

We call it the legend trip that nearly ended the show, but what actually happened at Fort Desoto that didn't make it to the episode. More importantly, what happened in the days and weeks that followed that changed the course of Tripping on Legends. Christopher Balzano and Natalie Crist talk Ft. Desoto, touching the dead in a real way, and how much might be too much. Please share your moment that changed your ideas about the paranormal. The Fort Desoto episode: http://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20180521111920-5593.mp3?fbclid=IwAR3DzP6GLHcT0ZLFITH9dByJDBBt5fAYMkL8s-YHv0NsAUOBUYtN7QvaTlo Rebecca Genesis http://ghostseers.com/the-haunted-history-of-fort-desoto/ Videos of the Trippers at Fort Desoto: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrippingonLegends/videos/?ref=page_internal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIYDkaFmnpHovYhYdfTNaw/featured?view_as=subscriber Catch our other videos and the rest of our media at: https://www.facebook.com/TrippingonLegends www.trippingonlegends.wordpress.com https://tw

Someone you loved in life comes to you in your sleep and tells you everything is going to be okay. A dark forest you see when you close your eyes is full of shadows and becomes the next place you hike. People you don’t recognize reveal something in your dreams that ends up being true. Forget the analysis and symbolism. Does the supernatural show itself in our dreams. Christopher Balzano and Natalie Crist talk about experiences they’ve had and how dreaming might fit into folklore. You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com. Now you can also call us on the all new Tripping Line at (813)418-6822. We’re still knee deep in the #hauntedlove project, so we’re especially looking for ghost stories with a love twist. Keep visiting the site for the trip log of our travels and other urban legends at: www.trippingonlegends.wordpress.com Follow us at: www.facebook.com/trippingonlegends Twitter: @SpookyBalzano Instagram: @SpookyTripp

Natalie Crist and Christopher Balzano find their way to Philippe Park in Safety Harbor to explore the legend of the Shaman of the Mound and the other spirits said to climb the temple mound at dawn or in times of need. With Dr. Brandy Stark of S.P.I.R.I.T and Urban Legends of Pinellas County along with her paranormal pug, the Trippers explore the scared Tocoboga mound of Safety Harbor in hopes of experiencing the ghosts there and try to solve the riddle of who it might be. Listen to Episode 56 of Tripping on Legends, Safety Harbor Isn’t Safe from Everything, to get some of the background info on the legend trip. https://triplegend.hipcast.com/deluge/triplegend-20190417223526-9242.mp4 Listen to the episode of Paranormal Pets recorded in the park: https://petliferadio.com/Paranormal_player97.htm?fbclid=IwAR0VTuYNNaAGT6RG_4NV7y0uqVqf4oDHTjnPn_GfGUKCStDhyEqJeh75gy8 Remember to follow the legend trip associated with this episode at #HauntedMounds on our social media. There's also still time to show your

There’s a shadowy figure who makes his way up a sacred mound every night to protect the land he loves. Or maybe it’s a famous Floridian who was related to Napoleon and brought grapefruit to the Sunshine State. Or maybe it’s one of the many spirits disturbed when the modern world bulldozed the burial mounds or a ghost from one of the mysteriously missing cemeteries. Or maybe it’s just Cecil. The Trippers are making their way back into Pinellas County to Philippe Park in Safety Harbor to look into the legend of a land no storm can touch. In their first live tripping episode, Christopher Balzano and Natalie Crist get into the folklore surrounding the location and the history of haunted mounds throughout the state and the country. Remember to follow the legend trip associated with this episode at #HauntedMounds on our social media. Dr. Stark’s Urban Legends of Pinellas County Site: http://urbanlegendsofflorida.homestead.com/home.html Mark Muncy’s Amazon Page https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Muncy/e/B003P71VG