Hometown Paranormal

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.   My name is Kristin Kozlowski, and I’m the creator of this podcast. For every episode, I will make up a strange, paranormal story set in an actual place and tell it to you. In the Beyond the Veil series, I allow a peak behind the veil and talk about the creation and inspi...

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story. In this episode, a young couple hear the strumming of a guitar as they try to sleep, but when they search for the person playing the instrument, they find that no one is there. If you liked this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever yo...

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story. My name is Kristin Kozlowski. I’m the creator of this podcast, and for every episode, I will make up a strange, paranormal story set in an actual place and tell it to you. In the Beyond the Veil series, I allow a peak behind the veil and talk about the creation and inspira...

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story. In this Halloween episode, Aliyah Johnson is bummed at having to miss her best friend's Halloween party in order to babysit her little sister, so her friends decide to cheer her up by trying to summon the spirit of a woman who was murdered in Aliyah's house, but...

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.  A listener requested some behind the scenes material from my storytelling process. If this is your thing, I hope you enjoy this episode where I talk about the idea behind The Plane Crash of Waltman, WY, Season 2, Episode 1, where I talk about different timelines and dimen...

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal, where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story. Welcome back! I apologize for leaving unexpectedly, but I'm back and ready to tell some stories. Join me.   In this episode, Katie Tinnard is driving through Wyoming to visit her mom when a plane falls from the sky and crashes on the road in front of her . . . or doe...

Welcome to Hometown Paranormal, where  everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story. In this episode, Leslie Bishop, her two cousins, and her twin brothers have made a big mistake. Instead of staying at home playing board games on Saturday night while their parents go out to dinner, they venture to the corner of their neighborhood to play on the empty lo...

After a divorce last year, Virginia is striking out on her own as a 50 year old woman. She is hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the first time in the house she just bought. When she meets an old, frail couple with no holiday plans, she invites them to join her and her guests for dinner. But the frail woman finds an item in Virginia's home that was once hers, and the woman is not okay with Virgi...

When a storm moves in to the upper peninsula of Michigan, Adam McKinley loses his old apple tree to the violent winds. But what he discovers after the tree falls may be even more amazing than the tree he lost. If you like this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Ins...

When Lily finds a pair of friendship bracelets hanging on a roadside cross, she doesn't think twice before she takes them and gifts one to her new friend, Aria. But strange things begin to happen to Aria. The portrait of her mom that she's drawing gets ruined. A portrait of someone she's never seen before suddenly appears in her sketch pad. However, it's when Aria and Lily are...

When Emily and Larissa's dad dies unexpectedly, the girls are left cleaning out his house. Emily will take anything valuable, but Larissa only asks for one thing: her dad's grandfather clock. The grandfather clock has many good memories for Larissa, but Emily decides that she wants the clock, too. With two daughters wanting the same thing, how will they decide who gets it? Perhaps someon...

Kendra Williams loves spending a couple weeks every summer on her grandparents' farm in Hastings, Nebraska, but this summer is different. This summer, the nightmares start, and a ghostly, old man keeps haunting Kendra's dreams. As Kendra's waking life suffers, her nightmares continue, and the people who love her begin to worry. But how can she escape a man she only sees when she&apo...

When Cody Owens enters Snake's Tongue Cave in the Ozark Mountains, Missouri in 2015, he's expecting a fun adventure. He's expecting an exciting story to tell.  What he's not expecting is a face rising out of a pool of water. Or getting stuck in a gap between stone slabs. Or a voice calling out from the darkness as he struggles to free himself.  But at Hometown Paranormal, thing...

Today's episode features a friend and guest writer, Sara Sabharwal. Sara is a poetess and storyteller who specializes in writing poems which feature fantastical elements like witches, vampires and magic. Join me as we journey to New Orleans, where Sara writes about the magic of the city. These four poems can be found in Sara's fifth book of poetry, " Lovers, Liars and Vampires, &quo...

When Julia Price spends a night in Dubuque, Iowa, drinking at a local bar with her friends and singing some truly terrible karaoke, she wakes the next morning with a headache. A headache that won't go away no matter what she tries. But during an encounter with her roommate's Aunt Letty, Julia finds that she brought something more than a headache home with her from the bar that night. Som...

When nine-year-old, Emmarie moves to Monument, Colorado, she's nervous. She worries about living in a new place, and making new friends. But Emmarie's not there long before she meets the best friend she's ever had, a boy named Harrison. The two spend three years playing and laughing together until Harrison receives some bad news: his family is moving to California. Emmarie is heartb...

In Bolingbrook, IL, when Rebecca Kensing goes to sleep one summer night in 1975, she is visited by three faceless figures who begin to haunt her dreams. Every morning when she wakes, she is covered in a sticky, slimy substance that encases more and more of her body each time.  Scared that she will become permanently cocooned, Rebecca goes with her parents to the local doctor. There, a nurse has a...

When Rachel Burton's parents move their grief-stricken daughter back to their home in Toledo, Ohio, Rachel can barely get out of bed.  But when a house on the next block catches fire -- or so it seems by the billowing smoke escaping its windows -- Rachel is pulled out of bed and into a tale that's two decades old, a tale in which a woman burns her house to the ground with her family insi...

One afternoon in Artesia, New Mexico, a pair of siblings go hunting for fossils in a dried-up riverbed. The field beside the riverbed is always empty, filled with nothing but dust, until one minute, it's not empty.  As the siblings stumble into an old town that pops up out of nowhere, strange things begin to occur, and before they know it, the only person in town who can see them is chasing t...