After Words Paranormal

Send us Fan Mail Our story for this episode concerns the ghoulie that freaks me out the most: dolls. I don’t care which dolls are haunted and which are not. I know the truth, they ALL are. Period. In our story, “Beatrice,” by Anika Mrose Rossi, a little girl receives a doll that is her perfect likeness. A little too perfect, unfortunately.  Why the fascination with creepy dolls? I came across an a...

Send us Fan Mail Our story for this episode takes us down a long, dark tunnel. In “Deep, Deep Tunnel,” by Scott Dyson, police and sewer workers must investigate a strange tunnel. What they find there is more gruesome and deadly than any alligator. Tunnels are famous for legends about dark-dwelling creatures. Let’s look at some true encounters with deep, dark creatures.  Music Fesliyan Studios: &qu...

Send us Fan Mail In our story, “The Living Nightmare,” by Anton M. Oliver, a man is asked to stay alone in a house to sit with dead man until the body is taken for burial. Unfortunately, the man experiences that the dead do not always rest in peace. Many cultures and religions require that a dead body not be left alone at anytime.  The tradition of "sitting with the dead" served practica...

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Send us Fan Mail In our story, “Forbidden Cupboard,” by Francis Garfield, a young woman instructed not to open a certain closet in her new apartment. She does, of course, and unleashes something rather unsavory. The word closet has many meanings, but most describe a closed or secret space. I could not find any stories of actual haunted closets, but in searching I came across this little gem: Mary...

Send us Fan Mail In our story, “Brotherhood in the Bone House,” By Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, some rowdy Frat Brothers find out the hard way, not to disrespect the dead. The boys want a strange souvenir to take back to their frat house to help in their secret rituals. This reminded me of the Skull and Bone Society, a secret group that makes its home (or tomb) at Yale University. The exclusive so...

Send us Fan Mail If you have ever visited someone in a nursing facility or rehab center, you know you don’t have to look far to see staff members happily helping the patients. The nurses, therapists and staff of these medical facilities are truly heroes in my book. In our story, “I Work at a Nursing Home for Monsters,” by Blair Daniels, a nurse discovers that the patients in the rest home are far...

Send us Fan Mail How about a haunted road trip? Just put the EVP recorder next to the cooler in the back seat and let’s go! In our story, “Death Went that Way,” by Allison Harding, a young man on his way to California experiences a very deadly backseat driver. What paranormal experiences have people had while driving? Should Route 66 really be called Route 666? Have you had an unexplainable experi...

Send us Fan Mail Our story for this episode, “The Scarecrow at the End of the Lane,” by Mike Nesbitt provides one answer to the question, “Scarecrows…cute and helpful, or evil and deadly. A woman walks home at night past a field with a scarecrow. Let’s just say that Emerald City is not where this scarecrow takes her. How old is the scarecrow? Listen and find out... Music Fesliyan Studios: "Gh...

Send us Fan Mail  What says haunted more than an old crypt in a foggy cemetery? I mean, crypts put the goth in gothic! In our story, “The Affair of the Dancing Coffins,” by George Brockhart something very strange in going on inside a family crypt. I do have to make a disclaimer, however. The coffins aren’t actually dancing, but their behavior is odd, nonetheless. Uncounted horror stories and films...

Send us Fan Mail Mannequins…sales enhancement, or inducers of terror? When you see a mannequin in a store window, do you stop to examine its garment offering, or watch its eyes to see if they follow you? For me, they are just giant dolls, and fall into the “yikes” category. In our story, “The Mannequin,” by R. J. Lawrence, a young man discovers his brother’s disturbing experiments on mannequins an...

Send us Fan Mail In our story, "Blood Fortune," by Stephan Hudgins, a woman visits a carnival fortune teller. She asks her a rather grisly question, and unfortunately, gets exactly what she asks for.  What’s more fun than spending a day at a carnival or an amusement park? Spending the night at a haunted carnival or amusement park! So, we'll take a look at the most haunted amusement...

Send us Fan Mail  Have you ever heard a voice come through a radio that seemed misplaced? You might have heard a voice from beyond the veil. In our story, “The Message,” by Clinton Dangerfield, a death-row inmate and a chaplain hear a voice through the radio offering comfort. But is that truly what the spirit is offering?  Trying to contact spirits through radio waves is not a new technique for co...

Send us Fan Mail Working as a medical professional in a psychiatric hospital must be one of the hardest jobs in the world. And as one doctor finds out in our story, “Doctor’s Notes,” by Kitty Olsen, meeting face to face with the supernatural doesn’t make it any easier. What strange occurrences have real doctors and nurses experienced while on duty? We'll look to Quora for some great stories:...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode Holly Landis’s story, “Gnome Invasion,” shows us the darker side of those cute little ceramic statues that so many people collect to decorate their gardens. To be perfectly honest, they creep me out. I always wonder what dark, evil thoughts are lurking behind their chubby grins and if they are going to attack my ankle with a trowel. We'll take a look at the lo...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s story, “The Boy That Brought the Asylum Home,” by Mike Nesbitt, a young boy is haunted by a ghost his roommate accidently brought home from a clandestine visit to an abandoned asylum. Let’s just say, in this case, three’s a nasty crowd. Haunted asylums are popular with ghost hunters hoping to encounter and record spirit activity. We'll look at a few real experi...

Send us Fan Mail   Hello, and welcome to episode #225 of After Words Paranormal. I’m your host, Shelby. For our story this week you must forget the Disney version of the Fairy world. No cute little tinkly fairies or wistful sing mermaids. In “Walter the Ghost,” by Kitty Olsen, a man must face down one of The Fair Folk with some help from his friend, Walter. We'll take a look at the old Fae wo...

Send us Fan Mail  On this episode we will dip our toes, very carefully into the lore of Cthulhu. In, "Happy Cthulhu to You," by Lance Zarimba, young boy loves terrorizing his younger brother because he is a Cthulhu fan. He learns, however, that sibling rivalry can be deadly. Cthulhu has a fan base of millions. He is a very popular monster. We'll take a look at Cthulhu and what makes...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode we have a scientist experimenting with equipment designed to separate the spirit of a person from his body, then put it back in. It goes without saying that the experiment does not turn out well. Scientists and pseudoscientists have tried for decades to find a way to examine the soul or spirit once it has separated from a person's body. We'll exami...

Send us Fan Mail In our story, “Bones for a Pillow,” by Alexandra Seidel. A young woman notices something strange growing out of her floor. Her investigation into the mystery provides answers, but only the deadly kind. Bodies in the house found by new owners. We hear about this phenomenon quite often. We've got some great examples. Music Fesliyan Studios: "Ghost," "Halloween&qu...

Send us Fan Mail Our story for this week, “The Tin House,” by Simon Clark touches on one of the most horrible chapters in US history. The years of slavery. In the story, a policeman thinks he only taking photos of an old, tin house. But what he finds there is more horrible than he could ever have imagined. We'll also take a look at the real horrors of slavery in the U.S. Music Fesliyan Studio...

Send us Fan Mail New techniques and better equipment are developed for photography all the time. But one thing remains constant; ghosts have been making their way into photos for 200 years. Spirit Photography is as popular as it ever was. Paranormal investigators seek out spirits to photograph, but in our story, “In Every Picture,” by L. A. Cavanaugh, a young woman accidentally stumbles upon somet...

Send us Fan Mail What does the word twister make you think of? A fun game with colorful dots and tangled up bodies, an action film, or a deadly windstorm? My maternal grandmother was raised on Kansas farm, and the blood would drain from her face at the mere mention of the word. As a child she had spent many times down in the storm cellar scared to death. Tornadoes kill 20-100 people a year in the...

Send us Fan Mail Haunted houses have always attracted those who want a little scare and the chance to see a ghost. In our story, “Dark Mummery,” by Thorp McClusky, a daring group of friends into a local haunt to have some spooky fun. What they get is much more than they bargained for. Be careful what you wish for. Perhaps if they had followed some simple “don’ts” while investigating the haunted ho...

Send us Fan Mail Rather than just a horror story, this week we offer a horror story about a horror writer writing a horror story. In “I was Commissioned to Write a Horror Story. I was Given Strange Rules to Follow,” by Quincey Lee, an author must construct stories according to his benefactors wishes and bizarre rules. If he doesn’t follow the rules…well, that would be telling.   This begs the ques...