Not My Ghost, Not My Problem

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! What if the dead didn't need to appear as ghosts? What if mysterious lights were spirits searching for lost loved ones, an Appalachian witch could turn people into horses, or that deer beside the road wasn't actually a deer? This week, Jen and Kelly explore three Appalachian legends: the Brown...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! 🎃 The broadcast isn't over. And neither is the nightmare. Welcome back to Dead Air , a special two-part Halloween audio anthology brought to you by The Creators Collective! When we last left our unfortunate podcasters, their Halloween broadcast from an abandoned radio station had taken a serio...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! This Halloween, the Creators Collective is taking over an abandoned radio station, and things are about to get seriously haunted. In Dead Air: A Creators Collective Audio Anthology - Part 1 , 17 podcasts come together for a two-part Halloween horror special filled with ghost stories, urban lege...

Deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains, abandoned coal mines hide dangerous tunnels, tragic histories, and stories of miners who may have never truly clocked out. This week, Kelly takes us underground for two chilling tales: The 24th Victim and The Whistle at Midnight . We're talking phantom miners, mysterious disappearances, impossible tunnels, and voices echoing from places no one should be. Mea...

Appalachia already gave us rules about whistling, looking, answering voices in the woods, and generally knowing when to mind our own business. Naturally, we responded by finding three Reddit paranormal stories about people doing their best while the mountains apparently ignored every reasonable boundary. We’ve got a honeymoon cabin outside Gatlinburg where voices start calling people by name, a We...

You’ve probably heard the warnings: don’t whistle in the woods, don’t answer when something calls your name, stay on the trail, and if the forest suddenly goes silent… leave. But are the viral “Rules of Appalachia” actually old mountain folklore, or did the internet take a mix of traditions, safety advice, and spooky stories and turn them into one giant supernatural rulebook? We’re kicking off Oct...

The McCormick Family Farm story started with buried bodies, shifting accusations, and an investigation that left far too many questions unanswered. In the final part of our deep dive, we follow Michael McCormick’s story to its disturbing conclusion, revisit the effort to search the Colorado property for possible additional victims, and finally get to the reason this farm landed on our list in the...

Michael McCormick offered investigators a deal: information about Herbert Donaho and the other bodies buried on his family’s Colorado farm in exchange for leniency. But as the graves were uncovered, Michael’s accusations against his father began colliding with his own involvement—and eventually with an entirely different confession. In Part 2 of our now three-part McCormick Murder Farm deep dive,...

What happens when a property known for paranormal activity is also tied to one of Colorado’s most disturbing criminal investigations? In Part 1 of our now three-part deep dive into the McCormick Family Farm, we follow Michael Rexford McCormick from a stolen-truck investigation and two spectacular bail jumps to the deal that sent authorities searching for buried victims. Along the way, we examine t...

Something may be lurking beneath the lakes of Oklahoma—and something else is wandering Pennsylvania’s hemlock forests, crying uncontrollably about its face. This week, we’re investigating two wonderfully bizarre lesser-known cryptids: the allegedly enormous Oklahoma Octopus and the tragically damp Squonk. We dig into where these stories came from, what evidence actually exists, and why a cryptid d...

This week’s Paranormal Postcards gives us three very different reasons to trust your gut: a real-world threat near Seattle’s Green Lake, a Japanese smoke entity that becomes far too attached, and a haunted college staircase where challenging the resident presence goes exactly as badly as you would expect. Joel joins us as these stories somehow lead to Taser Ghost, paranormal boundary violations, a...

Beneath the Spanish moss of Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery, history and folklore share the same winding paths. We explore its plantation origins, Victorian mourning traditions, famous residents, Little Gracie Watson, and two eerie visitor encounters with our usual skeptical curiosity. ⚠️ Content Warning: Mentions of child death, enslavement, murder-suicide, epidemics, and fatal fires. 👀 Sneak Pe...

Deep in the canals of Xochimilco, hundreds of weathered dolls hang from trees, fences, sheds, and nearly every available surface because apparently, one potentially haunted doll was not enough. This week, we explore La Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls, and separate the documented history of Julián Santana Barrera from the drowned-girl legend, paranormal claims, tourism mythology, and t...

Paranormal Postcards Vol. 14 is officially here, and you ghosties understood the assignment: haunted mobile homes, hooded figures in the woods, family spirits, grief signs, one deeply unsettling basement presence, and a cleaning job that went from “absolutely not” to full spiritual confrontation. Joel joins us for this chaotic little ghost buffet, where the real question is less “is this haunted?”...

Bobby Mackey’s Music World has everything a haunted location episode needs: country music, a basement well, a violent true crime case, ghost stories that got bigger with every retelling, and paranormal investigators trying to figure out what is actually going on. This week, we’re heading to Wilder, Kentucky to unpack the history of Bobby Mackey’s, from its reported slaughterhouse origins and night...

We’re pulling another Patreon mini from the vault while we’re on hiatus, and this time the Warrens are taking us on two side quests nobody asked for. First, we investigate the White Lady of Union Cemetery, a blurry 1990 video, red eyes in the woods, and a major problem with the alleged evidence. Then we meet Bill Ramsey, the so-called Southend Werewolf, whose animalistic rage episodes led to a Con...

Before we dive into this week's episode, we wanted to give you ghosties a quick update. We're taking a short four-week hiatus from releasing new episodes while Kelly spends time with her family before her daughter's move to Alaska, and Jen catches up on editing. Don't worry—we'll be back in August with brand-new episodes! We also didn't want to leave you with nothing to listen to, so we're unlocki...

Missing 411 returns for Part 2, where we leave the patterns behind and dive into the real cases, the wild theories, and the controversy surrounding one of the most debated mystery phenomena on the internet. From children who vanished within minutes to experienced hikers who seemingly disappeared without a trace, we're exploring the stories that made Missing 411 famous while asking the question tha...

Missing 411 asks a question that is either deeply unsettling or complete nonsense, depending on who you ask: are certain wilderness disappearances actually connected? In Part 1, we break down what Missing 411 is, who David Paulides is, and the patterns he says prove these cases are more than random tragedy. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses missing-person cases, including children, death,...

Paranormal Postcards is back with haunted stories that range from unsettling hotel sightings to strange activity in a farmhouse attic. This volume pulls together stories that sit right on that line between “maybe there’s an explanation” and “absolutely not.” We get eerie childhood apparitions, a story that turns a Disney trip into a nightmare, and the kind of personal paranormal experiences that s...

The Axeman of New Orleans is one of those cases where the real history is already unsettling enough, and then the folklore kicks the door open with jazz hands. This week, we’re stepping into 1918–1919 New Orleans, where a series of attacks, limited forensic tools, frightened neighborhoods, and one extremely dramatic letter turned an unsolved case into a legend that still refuses to stay neatly in...

EVPs, or electronic voice phenomena, sit right where paranormal investigation and human perception get messy: a voice appears on playback that no one heard in the room. In this episode, we’re getting into what EVPs are, where the idea came from, why ghost hunting shows made them so famous, and why people still argue over them. We look at both sides: the believer case for possible spirit communicat...

Not My Ghost, Not My Problem hits its 100th episode with a special Paranormal Postcards episode featuring listener ghost stories, paranormal encounters, haunted stories, and supernatural stories from the ghosties. To celebrate the milestone, Jen and Kelly bring Joel on for creepy submissions, a draft of a paranormal investigation team, and the kind of chaotic energy that somehow ends with the reco...

Mermaid legends and mermaid sightings have followed humans across oceans, cultures, and centuries, from ancient water spirits to sailors’ reports and modern shoreline encounters. In this episode, we look at why these stories keep surfacing, what patterns show up again and again, and why the ocean still leaves room for questions. We’re talking ancient Assyrian myth, sirens, Mami Wata, rusalki, ning...

The Green Children of Woolpit is one of medieval England’s strangest unsolved mysteries: two green-skinned children reportedly appeared near a wolf pit in 12th-century Suffolk, speaking an unknown language and refusing every food except raw fava beans. In this episode, we dig into the historical accounts, the world these children supposedly stepped into, and the theories that try to explain them,...