Tell Me Your Ghost Story

The night before leaving the US to start a new life in Thailand, Brock had one more run-in with the sleep paralysis that had plagued him for years. Only this time, something was different. Instead of the familiar feelings of dread and the slow, deliberate sounds of something inching closer, he finally saw what had been stalking him in the dark. As he lay frozen, the figure rose taller than the cei...

Rick and Sheri’s home in the Mojave desert was a peaceful place, until the day a stray dog appeared on the property. They took him in and named him Buddy. Buddy was a source of warmth and companionship, though his arrival seemed to stir something within the house. They began catching whiffs of cigarette smoke, finding objects knocked to the floor, and noticing their belongings moved from one room...

Out of the blue, Lisa feels an unshakable pull to uproot her family of six from their comfortable suburban life and renovate a run-down cabin on a plot of land in Modjeska Canyon, a remote community of just 600 people. Once they settled in, strange things started happening - sightings of shadowy figures, sudden illnesses, and a newfound obsession with transforming the property by hand. Later, Lisa...

Reality is the real horror.  Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world’s most terrifying legends. From haunted dolls to cursed houses, each episode of Twisted Tales reveals the disturbing real-life events that inspired horror’s biggest blockbusters and the ones too twisted to make it to screen.  Some stories are stranger than fiction...

During the Covid lockdowns, Rosie and her friends set out on a camping trip in West Virginia. When they arrived, they discovered they’d be the only ones at the entire campsite - completely alone in the middle of the woods. When they stopped in town for food and drinks, locals kept asking if they were the girls staying at Campsite 12. Uneasy, they returned to the campsite, trying to shake off the f...

Stephen thought his experience with psychedelics ended when he came back into himself, but the nightmare was only beginning. In the nights that followed, shadow people invaded his bedroom, looming over him as he slept and jolting him awake with paralyzing dread. Desperate, he tried a technique to banish the shadow people - one he remembered a radiant female deity told him about while in his trip....

Hunter and his brother spent their childhood exploring the oak groves around their home in Temecula, California. One day, they stumbled upon an old forgotten treehouse and claimed it as their own, fixing it up and making it their secret hideout. But everything changed the day a strange little boy appeared inside. There was something unsettling about him - the way he talked, the way he moved, even...

In the summer of 2011, Ali headed to Weston, Vermont to spend the season acting at the historic Weston Playhouse. The housing for the performers was far from ideal - six bunk beds crammed into the attic of a creaky old farmhouse. One night, Ali woke to find a tall man silently watching her, positioned in the narrow gap between her bed and the wall. The sloped ceiling made it physically impossible...

Years ago, Sam found himself living in a dingy studio apartment, sharing the building with an eclectic mix of neighbors. One night, he woke up and spotted something impossible in his bathroom - an apparition whose presence would make horrifying sense the next morning. Then, Steven takes us inside the haunted tattoo shop where he used to work. What began as subtle disturbances like misplaced items...

In 2009, Evan and his group of friends spent most of their nights deep in the woods of Arlington, Massachusetts, one of the only places they could get away with drinking in peace. One night, the group heard a faint jingling sound drifting through the trees. At first, they ignored it, but the sound kept getting closer. Then, through the darkness, a dark silhouette appeared, crouched unnaturally low...

On a trip to Los Angeles, Tameera and her boyfriend unknowingly checked into one of the city’s most infamous landmarks - the Cecil Hotel.  When they opened the door to their room, they weren’t alone. A man was in their room, dressed like he’d stepped out of another century. He carried on packing his suitcase, as if they weren’t even there. They changed rooms immediately, but the weird experiences...

When Mimi was a kid, she traveled to a quiet town in Mexico to visit family and stayed in her aunt’s home - a home heavy with grief after the loss of her cousin. She woke several times throughout the night to find her aunt praying in the moonlight, cloaked in a strange robe. When Mimi finally approached the figure, she realized the hooded entity was not her aunt at all. Then, Woody shares a story...

While on vacation in Turkey, Ramya and her brother and sister-in-law check into a beautiful Airbnb in the heart of Istanbul. But then, they notice the mirrors. Dozens of them. Covering every wall. In every room. At first, they chalked it up to a strange interior design choice, but by their second night, it became clear that the mirrors weren’t just decorative. A series of unexplainable events kept...

When Chris Heck and his friends moved into a crumbling old house right after high school, they thought they were just getting a cheap place to live. It seemed like the perfect house for the group, until the strange noises started. Curious to make contact with whatever entity they were living with, they utilize a Ouija board and automatic writing - both delivering unexplainable messages. One night,...

Two women. Two road trips. Two unexplainable detours. This week we hear Maria’s story and Michele’s story - their stories are very similar in some ways, but take wildly different turns. First, we hear Maria’s story. In 2007, she and her four siblings were driving home to Georgia after their uncle’s funeral in Florida. They stopped at a gas station just past Tifton, Georgia to use the restroom, but...

This week, we hear the stories of Cat Elrod, a special effects makeup artist and costume designer whose career has taken her to all kinds of strange and haunted places. But ironically, her scariest encounter happened at the happiest place on Earth - Disneyland. While finishing her costuming duties after the Fantasmic show, she’s alone inside of the Mill House on Tom Sawyer Island when she comes fa...

Alex McDonald recounts a visit to his long-distance girlfriend in LA. They begin to experience the sound of a woman crying in the apartment hallway - a sound that vanishes the moment they open the door to investigate. As the nights go on, the atmosphere darkens. Sleep becomes elusive and the disturbances escalate. One night at 3 AM, the sobbing moves inside the apartment. They trace the sounds to...

Ever wonder what lurks within the walls of a medieval castle at night? In this week’s episode, Scarlett Amaris shares her incredible experience at Château de Montségur in the Pyrenees. While exploring the ancient castle in the dead of night, she hears deafening banging noises that defy logic, until months later when she uncovers a ghostly explanation while researching ancient texts. Join us as Sca...

Horror author J. Hunter Richardson has some ghost stories - three to be exact. The first two? He’s got potential logical explanations for those. But his final story, set in the dorms of Humboldt State University in Northern California, holds a truly perplexing and reality-shifting detail that he hasn’t been able to explain even today, 20 years later. Tune in to hear the most unique story of a ghos...

You’d think a horror author like Jason Pargin would have a terrifying true paranormal encounter to share, but his real life brush with the unexplained is surprisingly ordinary… and somehow even weirder because of it. After returning home from a roadtrip with his wife, the two come to realize that her favorite necklace has seemingly vanished from her suitcase. They spend hours tearing apart the sui...

Is The Hollywood Medium really all he’s cracked up to be? We went to a Tyler Henry live audience reading to find out. Join me and my best friend Emily as we recount the experience - from searching the theater lobby for Tyler Henry spies, to interrogating theater employees, to speaking with the individuals who received readings - we went to the nth degree to formulate our answer. Will Mr. Henry ear...

Ivy’s fiancé Jehangeer passed away in a surfing accident in 2021. In the following months, Ivy begins to hear his voice and receive messages from him. One night Jehangeer speaks to Ivy, but this time he has a young girl with him. The girl tells Ivy she was murdered, which takes Ivy down a years-long path to find answers and justice.   Ivy’s story is THE most extraordinary story I’ve ever heard - i...

Alix has a familial gift of seeing ghosts - her grandma’s house was full of them. Her earliest memories involve playing with the 2 ghost children that lived inside grandma’s walls. Alix would later encounter several other ghosts, both at grandma’s house and at other locations, including one she came to discover was her great-grandmother.   This will be the last TMYGS episode of 2024! I am beyond e...

As Triple H once said, IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME. Join us in a play along of Season 1, Episode 2 of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Kassie summarizes the 5 unexplained stories featured on the show and Spencer tries to guess which stories are fact and which stories were totally made up by the writers. Kassie then investigates the truth behind the true stories.   Spencer’s Instagram: @shreducationn...

Dana is a docent at Los Angeles’s Heritage Square Museum. He shares with us the fascinating history of the museum, explains his take on the site's reputation for paranormal activity, and shares his thoughts on the paranormal investigations conducted by Ghost Adventures and Jack Osbourne on the property. Dana has some unexplainable encounters of his own, all taking place in the infamous Octagon Hou...