Ghost Bites

Pull up a log and pass the flask! The woods are getting colder, the crickets have suspiciously stopped chirping, and nature is holding its breath as we continue our Campfire Stories miniseries. This week, Mike and JT are joined by the master of retro-horror himself, Ed from the incredible Octoberpod. Ed brings a terrifying tale from 1981 Oakhaven, Maine, where a down-on-his-luck drifter named Sila...

Pull up a log and grab a roasting skewer! We're back around the fire for another chilling installment of our summer series, Campfire Tales. This week, Mike and JT are joined by our friend from up north, the host of the incredible Dark Poutine podcast Mike. JT has always been deeply suspicious of how polite Canadians are—convinced it's an elaborate cover for something far more sinister—and this epi...

Welcome back to the fire for the second installment of our summer series, Campfire Tales! JT is taking the ambiance very seriously this week, having brought his own cedar firewood—even if it makes our digital campfire smell like a gerbil cage. For this episode, we’re thrilled to be joined by Jen one of the hosts of Our True Crime Podcast (OTCP). As experts in the worst of humanity, they brought a...

Welcome back to Ghost Bites! It's officially summer, and we are kicking off our very first special series: Campfire Tales. Even though JT believes camping is just "voluntary homelessness with expensive gear," we are enjoying the spirit of the campfire from the comfort of our air-conditioned studio. For this series, we're outsourcing our fear to our favorite podcasting friends. In this episode, we...

Pull up a log (we know what we said) and keep your safety whistle handy! This summer, Mike and JT are heading deep into the woods for a brand new collaboration miniseries: Campfire Stories. We’re gathering some of our absolute favorite true crime, paranormal, and storytelling podcasters around the fire to share original, terrifying tales. Is it a terrible tactical decision to invite a bunch of peo...

To close out the season, Mike and JT take on the heavyweight champions of paranormal litigation: Ed and Lorraine Warren. Mike details the origin of these "original Ghostbusters," from Ed’s Navy days to the 2-billion-dollar Hollywood franchise built on a foundation of 1970s polyester and absolute skepticism. JT delivers a sharp critique of Lorraine being the "Diet Coke of mediums" and mocks Ed’s "O...

In this installment, Mike and JT venture into the "Happiest Place on Earth," a pressure cooker of forced joy built directly on top of an ancient, cursed Florida swamp. Mike explains the architectural deceit of the "Utilidors," detailing the subterranean labyrinth where cast members take off their mascot heads to eat sad sandwiches under your feet. JT finds it hilariously corporate that Disney has...

Rogue Transmissions--the edgy, semi-annual anthology of indie podcasts--is invading your podcast feed with DUNGEONPUNK PART 2 ... a symphony of 80s nostalgia, dystopian cyberpunk, and savage swords drawn against both super sorcery & super science. Featuring an adventuring party of your indie podcast favorites! FIRST UP, Octoberpod presents "Byzantium Slab: The Shell Remember" a wraparound tale of...

Mike and JT head to Fairfax County, Virginia, to investigate the "Bunnyman Bridge," a stone archway that looks like the exact spot a bridge troll would ask you a riddle about your property taxes. Mike clears the air on the fake 1904 asylum lore, only to reveal a much weirder reality involving a man in a white rabbit suit who threw hatchets through car windows in the 1970s. JT critiques the Bunnyma...

Rogue Transmissions--the edgy, semi-annual anthology of indie podcasts--is invading your podcast feed with DUNGEONPUNK PART 1 ... a symphony of 80s nostalgia, dystopian cyberpunk, and savage swords drawn against both super sorcery & super science. Featuring an adventuring party of your indie podcast favorites! FIRST UP, Octoberpod presents "Byzantium Slab: Life Without A Soul" a wraparound tale of...

Mike and JT trade their EMF meters for tin-foil hats to tackle the "Stargate Conspiracy," a theory suggesting the 2003 invasion of Iraq was actually an interstellar repo mission. Mike lays out the "Exopolitics" claim that Saddam Hussein possessed an ancient Sumerian Einstein-Rosen bridge hidden in the basement of a ziggurat. JT hilariously points out the fatal flaw in this cosmic drama: if Saddam...

This episode of Ghost Bites explores the ultimate social apocalypse: Christopher Knight, a man who walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and decided that 27 years of hypothermia was better than one more mandatory staff meeting. Mike details how Knight survived nearly three decades without fire by executing over 1,000 burglaries, effectively becoming a "North Pond Ghost" with a very specific, adminis...

Mike and JT travel to Toronto’s Financial District to investigate "The Leaping Lawyer," a haunting that feels like a spiritual contract in desperate need of renegotiation. Mike explores the legend of a ruined 1920s banker who, after losing everything in the market, decided to make his final exit a high-status, public affair by diving off a skyscraper. JT critiques the sheer inefficiency of a ghost...

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In this installment of Ghost Bites, Mike and JT dive into the Pollock Sisters, a case that makes you wonder if the Department of Karmic Reassignment is just a very literal, overworked bureaucracy with a "Control-Alt-Delete" button. Mike details the tragic 1957 car crash that killed young Joanna and Jacqueline, only for their father to spend the next year aggressively praying for a "celestial rush...

In this German Expressionist installment of Ghost Bites, Mike and JT explore the miraculous survival of the 1922 silent masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, a film produced by occultists who attempted the world's laziest cinematic plagiarism by stealing Bram Stoker's Dracula and just changing the names. Mike details the relentless legal crusade by Stoker's widow, Florence, who secured a 19...

In this sleep-deprived installment of Ghost Bites, Mike and JT attempt to decode the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th-century codex that has spent the last 600 years acting as the ultimate "academic middle finger" to historians and codebreakers alike. Mike lays out the baffling physical evidence of this 240-page animal-skin commitment, which has defeated everyone from WWII Nazi-cracking geniuses to the...

In this sobering installment of Ghost Bites, Mike and JT head to the quiet suburbs of Palm Harbor, Florida, to dissect the sensational 2009 murders of Nicholas Leonard and Jeremy Jarvis—a case the media immediately branded as a "Satanic sacrifice". While news outlets were busy reviving the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s with headlines about devil-worshipping cults, the disturbing reality revealed a...

In this Pacific Northwest installment of Ghost Bites, Mike and JT take a ferry to Vancouver Island, a place where the ghosts are apparently just as miserable about the damp weather as the living and probably still complaining about their wool trousers taking forever to air dry. Mike explores the island’s rigid colonial history, detailing high-society hauntings like the Fairmont Empress Hotel, wher...

In this mid-century modern monster installment, Mike and JT head to the land of endless corn and seasonal depression to meet the Loveland Frogman, a three-foot-tall bipedal amphibian with the posture of a disappointed cross-country coach. First spotted in 1955 smelling like "wet almonds," this heavily moisturized cryptid didn't truly explode until 1972, when two credible police officers encountere...

In this historical deep-dive, Mike and JT journey back to 1778 England to examine the explosive case of George Lukins, a pauper tailor from Yatton who treated his physical body like a rent-controlled apartment for seven uninvited demonic roommates. Mike details Lukins’ terrifying symptoms—including folding his spine into impossible geometric shapes and singing hymns backward—which left local docto...

In this high-altitude installment of Ghost Bites, Mike and JT tackle the 1976 Tehran UFO incident, a case so well-documented by military sources that it remains one of the greatest challenges to conventional skepticism. On the night of September 18, the Imperial Iranian Air Force scrambled two F-4 Phantom jets to intercept a "brilliant and dazzling" object that was essentially the theater kid of t...

To kick off Season Three, Mike and JT head to Vancouver’s Penthouse Night Club, a venue so historic that the resident ghosts are likely still trying to pay the cover charge with Canadian currency that hasn’t existed in sixty years. Mike details the tragic 1975 murder of owner Peter Gianis, while JT argues that the haunting is essentially a "crushing volume of bad decisions" and poor accounting pra...

For our Season 2 finale, Mike, JT, and a special guest are checking into the grand, historic, and famously haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Mike details the hotel’s spectacular, isolated mountain setting, the history of its founder, and the specific rooms—like 418, 217, and areas of the adjacent Lodge—known for intense paranormal activity. JT debates whether the ghosts have access to...

Roll camera... and maybe call a priest! On this episode of Ghost Bites, Mike pulls back the curtain on Hollywood’s spookiest secrets, detailing the baffling accidents, strange deaths, and reported paranormal activity on the sets of films like The Exorcist, Poltergeist, and the ill-fated production of The Omen. Mike provides the unsettling facts, while JT questions the sanity of directors who keep...