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Hello, and welcome to another episode of Crimes & Witch-Demeanors, I’m your host, Joshua Spellman.  On Crimes and Witch-Demeanors we go further than the wikipedia page and dive into the archival record to discover the truth behind your favorite ghostly tales.

 

I hope everyone is doing well and that you enjoyed last week’s diversion from the usual.  If you didn’t, now worries!  Today I’m back to my old hijinks and looking at a really fun historic haunt that I so desperately hoped to be true.

 

I love wine, I truly do, and it’s one of the reasons I love Western New York and Southern Ontario — we have so many great wineries — and many of them are haunted.  Today I’ll be telling the alleged —and I mean alleged— tale of Marjim Manor, a haunted winery in the Hamlet of Appleton, New York. 

 

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