Ghostly

Content advisory: This episode discusses several deaths by suicide in the Lemp family. If you or someone you love is struggling, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (U.S.), any time. Is the Lemp Mansion Haunted? In this episode, Ghostly heads to the Lemp Mansion, and we have a special guest. Kyle Maiden spent the night at the Lemp while driving Route 66 across the country, and he tel...

Is the Villisca Axe House Haunted? Content advisory: This episode discusses a real mass murder in which six children were killed, plus violence, death, and a 2014 self-harm incident. If you or someone you love is struggling, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (U.S.), any time. On a Sunday night in June 1912, eight people went to sleep in a modest two-story house in Villisca, Iowa, a...

It's one of the most impressive train stations ever built in America, and for most of its life, it's been standing completely empty. This episode, Rebecca tracks down the spirits who never left Buffalo's Central Terminal, while Pat digs into how a building this grand ended up abandoned for over forty years. You decide: genuine haunting, or entirely senseless talk?

Is Mary King’s Close Edinburgh’s Most Haunted Street? Beneath a grand 18th-century stone building on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile — one that gives no hint of what’s underneath — sits an entire street frozen in time. Rooms, staircases, even fireplaces, sealed beneath the foundations when the Royal Exchange went up in 1753. Mary King’s Close was home to merchants, tradespeopl...

Is Preston Castle Haunted? In this episode of Ghostly , we head to the tiny Gold Rush town of Ione, California, to explore Preston Castle — a red-brick, Romanesque Revival reform school with a dark past and a reputation as one of the West Coast’s most active haunted locations. Built to correct troubled boys, the castle instead became the site of beatings, escapes, and at least one unsolved m...

Is Wrigley Field Haunted? Welcome to the final episode of the Ghostly Summer Rewind! We’re closing out our summer trip through the vault with a hometown favorite – and our milestone 100th episode. This one originally aired in the summer of 2022. We saved it for last on purpose: it’s dropping during Cubs–White Sox Crosstown weekend at Wrigley, which felt like the perfect note to e...

Is the Terrace Inn in Petosky, MI haunted? Welcome to the Ghostly Summer Rewind! While we take a short break from new episodes this summer, we’re reaching back into the vault to re-release five of our favorite episodes. This one originally aired in spring 2023. There’s no more fitting Rewind for a warm August night than a haunted summer inn on the shores of Lake Michigan. Whether you&#...

Was the Movie Poltergeist Cursed? Welcome to the Ghostly Summer Rewind! While we take a short break from new episodes this summer, we’re reaching back into the vault to re-release five of our favorite episodes. This episode originally aired back in the summer of 2019. Quick heads-up: you may notice the sound quality and formatting aren’t quite up to our current standards — we’ve...

Is there Paranormal Activity Happening at Skinwalker Ranch? Welcome to the Ghostly Summer Rewind! While we take a short break from new episodes this summer, we’re reaching back into the vault to re-release five of our favorite episodes. This episode originally aired in late 2021. Quick heads-up: you may notice the sound quality and formatting aren’t quite up to our current standards —...

Is Alcatraz haunted? Pat and Rebecca dig into the ghosts, dark history, and chilling cellblock stories of America's most infamous prison. A Ghostly Rewind.

Is Leap Castle in County Offaly, Ireland Haunted? Tucked into the quiet farmland of County Offaly, just north of the small town of Roscrea, sits a castle that has been unsettling visitors for the better part of eight hundred years. Leap Castle has survived clan warfare, a brother murdering a brother mid-Mass, the discovery of a pit holding over 150 human skeletons, a civil-war burning, and decades...

Is the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia haunted? Episode Summary This week on Ghostly, we walk into the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America — the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. Pat traces the building from its hopeful 1858 origins under the Kirkbride Plan, through the Civil War occupation, the catastrophic overcrowding, the 1949...

Is the Dead Children’s Playground in Huntsville, Alabama haunted? Episode Summary This week on Ghostly, we’re heading deep into northern Alabama to the oldest and largest cemetery in the state, Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, and the small, unassuming playground tucked against its limestone bluff that locals call The Dead Children’s Playground. Pat walks us through the cemeter...

In this episode of Ghostly Podcast, we travel to the salt-marsh shores of South Carolina’s Lowcountry to explore the legend of The Gray Man of Pawleys Island — one of America’s most famous (and most benevolent) ghosts. Just a quarter mile wide and three miles long, this barrier island south of Myrtle Beach has fewer than two hundred year-round residents — yet for three centuries it has drawn presi...

Perched on the corner of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street in the heart of downtown Boise, Idaho, the Egyptian Theatre has been captivating audiences since 1927. Modeled after the newly discovered tomb of King Tutankhamun and decorated from floor to ceiling with hieroglyphs taken directly from the ancient Book of the Dead, this grand movie palace was practically built to be haunted. Today it opera...

In this episode of Ghostly, we look at Charleston, South Carolina to explore the dark legend of John and Lavinia Fisher, the infamous owners of the Six Mile Wayfarer House. Often described as America’s first female serial killer, Lavinia Fisher has become one of the most notorious figures in American ghost lore. But how much of her story is true… and how much has been shaped by legend? After their...

Perched high in the West Hills overlooking Portland, Oregon, Pittock Mansion was completed in 1914 as the dream home of newspaper publisher Henry Pittock and his wife Georgiana. After only a few years in the home, both died, leaving behind the grand estate they had worked a lifetime to build. Today the mansion operates as a historic house museum — but many visitors and staff believe the Pittocks n...

Often called one of Savannah’s most haunted homes, the Sorrel–Weed House has earned a reputation built on tragic legends, unsettling experiences, and decades of reported paranormal activity. Located beside Madison Square, the house sits at the crossroads of history, folklore, and modern ghost stories. In this episode of Ghostly , we focus on the hauntings associated with the Sorrel–Weed House—exam...

In this episode of Ghostly Podcast, we head to rural Coles County, Illinois to explore the haunted history and chilling paranormal activity reported at Ashmore Estates. Originally part of the Coles County Poor Farm in the late 1800s, Ashmore later became a psychiatric hospital before closing for good in 1986. With documented deaths, an on-site cemetery, and decades of neglect, many believe the spi...

In this episode of Ghostly , Pat and Rebecca sit down with Mike Morrissey of the Last Three Rows of Horror Podcast to talk about his new documentary, Mike’s Paranormal Road Trip . Mike shares stories from the eerie locations he visited along the way – including sites previously featured on Ghostly , like the Bell Witch , the Roff House , and the Demon House of Indiana . His journey also led...

New Year’s Predictions 2026: Automatic Writing, Scrying & Tarot Guest: Jacob Mayfield As we step across the threshold into 2026, Ghostly Podcast looks to the other side—using ancient divination practices to glimpse what the coming year may hold. For our annual New Year’s Predictions episode, we’re joined by Jacob Mayfield , who helps guide us through three forms of divination: Automatic Writin...

In this episode of Ghostly, we explore the dark history and chilling ghost stories surrounding New Jersey’s Ringwood Mine and Ringwood Manor. From centuries-old mining tragedies to lantern-lit apparitions wandering the woods, Ringwood remains one of the state’s most active paranormal locations. History of Ringwood Iron mining in Ringwood began in the 1740s and eventually reached nearly 2,000 feet...

Beneath the quiet town of Ogdensburg, New Jersey, lies the Sterling Hill Mine, a labyrinth of tunnels stretching deep into the earth—and, some say, into the afterlife. With more than 77 recorded deaths and countless stories of strange lights, disembodied voices, and shadowy figures, this mine has earned a chilling reputation as one of New Jersey’s most haunted places.

She was Hollywood’s brightest star — a woman whose beauty, talent, and tragedy defined an era. But for Marilyn Monroe, death didn’t end the performance. Since that August night in 1962, her spirit has been seen all across Los Angeles — sitting quietly on a bench at the Santa Monica Pier, gliding past mirrors at the Roosevelt Hotel, or drifting like a soft pink mist above her grave at Westwood Ceme...

Even after his tragic death outside the Dakota Apartments, many believe John Lennon’s spirit never left. In this episode, Ghostly explores sightings of Lennon’s ghost, Yoko Ono’s haunting encounters, and strange happenings in the recording studio. Is Lennon still sending messages of peace from beyond the grave—or are these echoes of a legend that refuses to fade?