Haunted or Hoax

We made it to the season finale ya’ll! On time even! We talk about a historic home in Maryland with ties to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Not to mention a mysterious ghost light and some other strange happenings. We hope you all enjoyed Season 7 and can’t wait to talk to you again in season 8!  We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewing on apple and...

How fitting that it is Hoa Hoa Hoa season and we are talking about the Hoia-Baciu Forest in Romania! Get it, vampires? Twilight? You’ll get it when you listen because this place has an eery meadow. Is glittery skin involved? Not exactly but we have some flashing orbs and vanishing little girls who come back years later suspiciously unaged. Throw in some aliens and we basically have the sequel no o...

This week, we are heading to West Virginia and not for a relaxing mountain getaway. We are going to prison. Specifically the West Virginia Penitentiary. We have tiny cells, massive riots, and an electric chair built by an inmate because apparently that was a job you could have. We even have a brief Charles Manson appearance. We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and...

Happy First Official Day of Fall! What better way to celebrate than talking about a cursed ghost town? We are in Connecticut which seems fitting since all things Autumn are now connected to that state thanks to the Gilmore Girls. But we are actually talking about the Dudley family. Less fast talking and coffee loving, more creepy woods and suspicious death stories. We even have a throwback to Lond...

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Two psychic brothers hold a seance in a ski club. No? Well great, this week we discuss the former home of the Eddy brothers. Mediums that captivated Vermont and put Chitteden on the map as Spirit Capital of the Universe. Yes, the universe. But was it all smoke and mirrors or were the two the real deal? And did they leave anything behind for those now using...

This week, we’re heading to Hawaiʻi’s ʻIolani Palace, where more than a century of history has left behind some seriously spooky stories. We have apparitions, a cigar loving queen, and one ghost who apparently knows a thing or two about losing his head… We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewing on apple and NOW on Spotify! Leave us a comment on how you lik...

Episode two and we are already international! We are talking about The Forbidden City in China this week where we learn about ghost culture in China, get a history lesson in Dynasties, and - you'll never believe it- a woman in black. She travels all over the world! I'd have a snappy remark about something hilarious we probably said in this episode but honestly, I cannot remember a thing we said. I...

Hey, how ya'll doin? Sorry we ghosted you in season Six. The spring was a lot. The summer was more. But now we are back! Kicking season 7 with some hot historical goss coming from the Rockcliffe Mansion in Missouri. We've got affairs and scandal and histor-tea galore with this one. Along with a former owner who just refuses to move out, even in the afterlife. We are so happy to talk ghosts and gos...

Pack your bags, we’re heading to Cape Town. The views are gorgeous, the history is messy, and the castle looks way too cheerful for what went down inside. We’ve got colonial drama, questionable decisions, a dungeon called the Dark Hole (subtle), and a governor who may have been taken out by karma mid-power trip. We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewing on...

Into the woods, it's time to go! Well actually the Black Forest. One of the most mysterious and mythical places in the world as far as we are concerned. We have moss women, headless horsemen, a terrifyingly tall man, and of course poor pronunciation and bad geography. Germany has some fascinating paranormal and cryptid tales lurking in those trees.  We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help...

Today’s episode features a short marriage, a suspicious death, a doctor who wrote “everlasting faint” on a death certificate, and a murder trial that took a wild turn. We’re heading to Greenbrier County, West Virginia, where the history is dramatic, the investigation is questionable, and this story somehow ends up involving an exhumation, a courtroom, and a situation that no one saw coming. We'd a...

Brown lady, Brown lady, what do you see? I see a Colonel shooting at me! Where exactly? You're not in Kansas Dorothy (that's the ghost btw), you're in  Raynham Hall in Norfolk England! Where the ghost is active, the men are gross, and the history goes way back. Do we know how to pronounce things? Not really. Do we figure out roman numerals? Eventually! We're trying our best. So sit back, close you...

This week we’re heading to Florida and taking the elevator down into the history of the Sunland Training Center. A place that started with hopeful intentions, but somewhere along the way the whole system seemed to drop a few floors. Today the buildings are mostly gone, but rumors still have a way of rising back up. We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewing...

We are back with season six! Thanks for letting us take a break, we're ready to jump back into the ghost tour trolley. Metaphorically. This week we talk about McRaven Mansion in Mississippi. We have a lot of owners haunting this place from a highway man, to a former lady of the house, and maybe a whole family? We also have a murder, neck beards to discuss, and of course Civil War lore. Welcome bac...

For our final episode of the season, we limp our way across the Atlantic to Chillingham Castle, a medieval fortress that spent centuries collecting war trauma like it was a hobby. Sitting on one of the most violently contested borders in British history, this place didn’t need ghosts to become unsettling, the documented history already chose violence.  We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to he...

Our lives have been as chaotic as this location. We mind travel to California (not Tennessee) to talk about the infamous Winchester House. It's massive and confusing floorplan was a strange comfort to your two hosts who have all but lost their minds toward the end of this season. The house's foundations are supposedly built on spirit stories. But what is other worldly and what is just weird? We tr...

Hey there! We're not making excuses, we'll go to podcast jail. Or at least, we'll talk about a jail on this podcast. Old Idaho Penitentiary was an awful place full of dangerous inmates. Is it any surprise it's reportedly haunted? We talk about some of the ghosts who are still locked up in there as well as some throw back ghost movies.  We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by...

Happy Halloween! In honor of FOUR years of Ghosts and Ghouls we decided to take a trip to Salem and get a little witchy. We talk about The Witch house, supposedly haunted and with a family curse. We discuss horoscopes, folklore, and get confused about our own personal history. If this episode sounds a little like frankenstien's monster bear with us, Kristen helped in editing again.  We'd appreciat...

Pop Quiz: What's the Capital of Delaware? It's okay, we didn't know either, and it isn't Delaware City. But that is whereabouts Fort Delaware is with all the ghosts of pirates and soldiers past. It's on an adorably named island but has a rough history. We find out who actually died there, listen to some screaming, and realize Kristen doesn't remember anything about the last 134 episodes. So strap...

Brrrr it's cold in here, must be some ice crusted spirits in the atmosphere! Anyway, we're in Idaho talking about a very cool (heh) location called the Shoshone Ice Caves. Apparently the spirit of an Native American Princess was trapped there when she was buried in the caves. Now she's begging to get out. Or is she? We also talk about big bears and small cannibal dwarves. Oh, and Kristen's crush o...

If you’re a long time listener you’ll know that we usually take an annual pilgrimage to one of the most haunted cities in the US. This year is no different! We headed to Savannah, GA this episode but with a twist. We drove just a little further to take a ghost tour in Tybee Island. We talked ghosts, aliens, cryptids, and heard some terrible karaoke. But is Tybee Haunted enough for a ghost tour? De...

Shhh! Keep your voice down, this is a library. Or at least this is an episode about the Hutchinson Public Library. A haunted one at that though it seems like there is a little bit of main character syndrome going on with the ghost. Seems like the librarian who worked here couldn't keep away for long, even in death. We love libraries even if they aren't haunted like the Hutchinson supposedly is. Le...

It's a night at the museum, but one about mental health, not mentalist like Kristen may have thought. We've got a potential new Bingo game in the making so make sure you make a note of our favorite disease this episode. Other than that we have replicas, EVPs, and a lot of undigested metals. Sounds weird? For us too.  We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewi...

We're back! To kick off season 5, we’re heading to Monte Cristo Homestead. An elegant Victorian manor in New South Wales with a not so elegant past. There’s a wealthy railway tycoon, a reclusive widow, some very dead chickens, and allegedly a stable boy who slept through a fire.    We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewing on apple and Spotify! Don't forge...

This season's last episode is fire- and Sloss Furnace is the match. In this episode, we dive into the molten-hot history of one of Alabama’s most infamous landmarks. From convict labor and brutal working conditions to whispers of demons lurking in the smoke. We'd appreciate it if you took a moment to help our podcast by rating and reviewing on apple and NOW on Spotify! Don't forget to check our sh...