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153 Tamil Bell and Ernestine and Hazel’s

April 02, 2025 • Wes Guay & Beth Guay • Episode 153

Beth looks at the mysterious Tamil Bell that somehow made it from India to New Zealand hundreds of years before it should have. Wes visits Ernestine and Hazel’s award-winning and haunted Memphis bar.

Sources Used:

www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/tamil-bell-0016522

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tamil-bell-mystery-new-zealand

www.historyexpose.com/things/baffling-mystery-tamil-bell

www.vice.com/en/article/vvxnmb/this-is-what-its-like-to-work-at-the-most-haunted-bar-in-america

www.atlasobscura.com/places/earnestine-hazels

www.thrillist.com/eat/memphis/earnestine-and-hazels-memphis-burger-dive-bar

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/abe-plough/#:~:text=Using%20dishpans%20for%20mixing%20the,drug%20stores%20and%20country%20merchants.

https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/31-days-of-halloween/earnestine-and-hazels/

https://houseofgeekery.com/2020/12/24/creepy-mysteries-ghosts-of-earnestine-and-hazels/

http://souledoutblog.com/a-weekend-in-americas-most-haunted-bar/

Middle music: Credit: https://www.purple-planet.com