Moss & Mourning

“Moss & Mourning” AI Image generated using the prompt “A poster of a young 13 year old girl, ascending stairs in a creepy old New Orleans house and seeing a floating white dress. Then add Episode 13 to the title, with the podcast name. “Moss & Mourning”  by Gemini. February 2026
The podcast “Moss & Mourning – Episode 13” by Kelly John-Strate is licensed under (CC BY 4.0).

Moss & Mourning is a podcast about southern paranormal experiences. Episodes for this podcast covers encounters by paranormal patrons who have visited some of the most haunted cities in the southern part of the United States. Episode 13, is about my mother-in-law’s experience when she was thirteen years old and lived with her parents in an older New Orleans neighborhood. The episode begins with the sound of a record needle hitting vinyl, paralleling a low-fi, bass-heavy jazz turn which begins to play, but it sounds slightly slowed down, giving it an unsettling, “melted” quality. Then a faint sound of a summer thunderstorm in the distance can be heard as well. Toward the end of the voiceover, the music stops abruptly and the sound of soft rustling, like a silk dress sliding across a wooden floor can be heard, but grows slowly louder, more aggressively. My narration was recorded using my computer microphone, noise cancelling headphones, and compiled as well as edited using Audacity.

Audio Credits:

Old Vinyl Record Crackle” by WhiteNoiseSleeperCC0 1.0

4on6 cut 5.wav by ERHCC BY-NC 4.0

Thunderstorm, rain and thunder in the french countryside during the summer  by felix.blume CC0 1.0

Jacket Clothing movements by MainQNDCC0 1.0

Moss & Mourning – Episode 13 Narration by Kelly John-Strate, CC BY 4.0