Ghost Bites

We're baaaaaaaaack! Get ready for another packed season of ghouls, ghosts, and grievances J.T. has about being scared. Coming to you soon! Season 4 of Ghost Bites. Who decided it was time for another one? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the chilling series finale of the Campfire Stories miniseries, Mike and JT are joined in the dark woods by Jen from Our True Crime Podcast for an atmospheric ghost story that quickly spirals into a real-life supernatural nightmare. When Jen introduces a vintage 1972 Parker Brothers Ouija board to set the mood, the surrounding environment drastically warps—the campfire turns a sickly violet, the...

Rainbow Crimes can be found by clicking here! This week on Ghost Bites, Mike and JT trade the haunted woods for the neon-lit concrete of Manhattan's West Village alongside special guest CJ from the Rainbow Crimes podcast. We're exploring the historic Stonewall Inn, where the residual trauma and defiance of the 1969 riots have birthed a terrifyingly specific paranormal duo: a meticulous 1950s accou...

This week around the campfire, Mike and JT are joined by Javier Leiva from The Pretend Podcast to investigate the ultimate fraud: an incompetent 1980s ghost trying desperately to fake his way into poltergeist status. Between botched UHF television broadcasts and an accidental portal that summons an enraged suburban raccoon instead of the cosmic abyss, this spectral amateur quickly proves he's more...

Barn Owl Brewery Barn Owl on Instagram Join Mike and JT as they head to Barn Owl Brewing to learn why buying second-hand furniture off Facebook Marketplace is a terrifying gamble for your soul. A cozy vintage couch placed in a historic barn—conveniently sandwiched between a graveyard and a former brothel—soon proves that some upholstery holds onto a lot more than just spare change. Tune in to find...

In this spine-chilling episode of Ghost Bites, Mike, JT, and resident wrestling expert Joanna dive headfirst into the dark side of wrestling promoter politics and corporate greed. Transporting listeners back to 1991 at the height of the "Land of Giants" era, Joanna recounts the horrifying tale of young star Rex “The Anatomy” Armstrong and Titan Global's ruthless promoter, Victor Monarch. Hoping to...

Bundle up and join Mike and JT around the fire for a freezing new installment of Ghost Bites: Campfire Stories. This week, the guys travel to the desolate, windswept Canadian prairies of Saskatchewan to explore the chilling legend of the St. Louis Ghost Train. Special guest Sheldon, co-host of the 2 and Out CFL Podcast, brings this 1920s tale to life by boldly attempting to channel the spirit of a...

Welcome back to the Ghost Bites Campfire Stories miniseries, where hosts Mike and JT broadcast from a deeply unsettling, acoustically dead forest. This week, they are joined by special guest Jayme—the mastermind behind the show’s haunting theme song—who shares a chilling tale of the gig economy gone cosmically wrong. Set in 2014, the story follows a desperate garage rock trio called The Neon Veins...

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...