Voices From The Attic

Send us Fan Mail Mirrors are supposed to show us what’s already there. But for centuries, people have treated them as something more. This week, Terri and Andrew explore the strange folklore surrounding mirrors: scrying and divination, John Dee’s obsidian “magic mirror,” traditions of covering mirrors after a death, apparitions seen only in reflections, and the evolution of Bloody Mary and Mary Wo...

Send us Fan Mail  Before vampires were pale aristocrats in capes, they were something much stranger: dangerous dead people believed to return home, spread sickness, suffocate sleepers, and drain life from the living.  In this episode, we follow the vampire from early folklore and documented 18th-century exhumations through Polidori, Varney, Carmilla, Dracula, and the familiar vampire “rules” we in...

Send us Fan Mail If death is a door, Spiritualism grew from the belief that the living could knock—and something on the other side might knock back. Terri and Andrew explore the strange history of communicating with the dead, from the Fox Sisters and Victorian séances to spirit photography, Harry Price, Borley Rectory, the rise of paranormal investigation, and the Ouija board. Terri also shares a...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take for an ordinary neighbor to become the town witch? Across the Midwest, stories survived of women blamed for strange illnesses, failed crops, unexplained deaths and supposed hexes. In Southern Illinois, crowds gathered to watch two sisters who claimed they had been bewitched. In Cincinnati, children became convinced that an elderly woman reading by candlelight was...

Send us Fan Mail School buildings are filled with generations of memories, rumors, tragedies—and ghost stories. This week, Terri and Andrew explore haunted schools: a mysterious visitor who had been dead for decades, an Illinois junior high allegedly haunted by a nun, the strange 19th-century saga of Pink Lizzie, apparitions in school theaters, ghost stories passed between generations of students,...

Send us Fan Mail A light glows in a lighthouse disconnected for generations. A chain moves as though an unseen child is tugging it. A missing freighter sails again through the storms of Lake Superior. Terri shares her own unexplained experience at Whitefish Point—and the discovery that another visitor reported the same strange movement years earlier. From there, Terri and Andrew venture into haunt...

Send us Fan Mail A massive black dog appears inside a sealed tent, watching a sleeping couple. When the man lunges at it, his fist passes straight through—and the creature vanishes. From the infamous 1577 Black Shuck attacks at Bungay and Blythburgh to modern encounters on lonely roads in England and the United States, Terri and Andrew T. explore the folklore of hellhounds, phantom black dogs, spe...

Send us Fan Mail A tall, faceless man stands at the end of the hallway, watching. An old woman presses down on a sleeper's chest. Someone wakes unable to move—and becomes certain they aren't alone. This week, we descend into the strange territory between sleep, folklore and the paranormal as we explore the Hat Man, shadow people, the Old Hag and the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. We look...

Send us Fan Mail Pull your chair closer to the fire—but pay attention to how many shadows are sitting beside you. In this episode, Terri and Andrew share the kinds of frightening stories that have been told around campfires for generations: classic urban legends, regional ghost stories, Appalachian monsters, Gullah Geechee folklore, haunted railroads, mysterious witches, vengeful spirits, and a co...

Send us Fan Mail What makes an object haunted? Is it a spirit attached to something it once owned? An emotional imprint left by tragedy? A ritual performed with intention? Or can an ordinary object become powerful simply because enough people believe its story? In this episode, Terri and Andrew explore haunted objects and cursed artifacts ranging from a German Mauser seemingly accompanied by a sha...

Send us Fan Mail Truck drivers spend long nights traveling through places most of us only pass through—and sometimes they see things waiting beyond the headlights. In this episode, we share unsettling accounts of a ghostly passenger who never appeared on camera, a mysterious CB voice that may have saved a driver’s life, an unseen creature that slammed into a truck in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, an...

Send us Fan Mail Two children knock at the door. They say they need help. They ask to use the phone. But something about them feels wrong before you even see their eyes. In this episode, we explore the unsettling phenomenon of Black Eyed Kids: strange children and teenagers with completely black eyes who appear at doors, in cars, in offices, in hotels, and on lonely roads, asking to be let inside....

Send us Fan Mail Some places feel like they do not entirely belong to the present. In this episode, we explore time slips, phantom roads, vanishing hotels, and strange encounters with places that seem to shift into another version of reality. From Versailles and Bold Street to impossible desert highways, missing photographs, and stories of people who briefly found themselves somewhere they could n...

Send us Fan Mail The Backrooms began as internet horror: endless yellow rooms, damp carpet, fluorescent buzzing, and the terrifying idea that someone could slip out of reality and land somewhere they were never meant to be. But is that fear really new? In this episode, we explore the Backrooms as modern folklore — a digital-age version of much older stories about thin places, fairy mounds, haunted...

Send us Fan Mail Bigfoot stories have a way of lingering. In this episode, we follow a trail of encounters from the recent 2026 Ohio Bigfoot reports to older and more unsettling accounts, including Teddy Roosevelt’s famous Bauman story, the Siege of Ape Canyon, the Minerva Monster, Mount St. Helens rumors, and smaller personal experiences shared by witnesses. Some stories sound like folklore. Some...

Send us Fan Mail Pull up a lantern and settle in for a collection of strange, eerie, and unsettling camping stories. This week, we explore paranormal encounters from the woods: a mysterious woman on a forest road, a haunted pond with something waiting in the dark, strange screams outside a tent, a possible Bigfoot encounter, a ghostly warning near a truck, night walkers, and even what may have bee...

Send us Fan Mail Police officers and first responders are often called into the strange, dangerous, and unexplained. But sometimes the call itself is the mystery. In this episode, we share paranormal and supernatural stories involving law enforcement, EMTs, firefighters, dispatchers, and other first responders—from a woman in white who should have been dead, to a fatal crash with an impossible fle...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Paranormal Mystery Author Terri Reid and researcher Andrew T. Reid explore the growing mystery surrounding Dogman encounters across the United States. They discuss reports describing these creatures as both dangerous predators and unexpected protectors, the infamous stories connected to the Land Between the Lakes, the account of a truck driver who claimed he shot...

Send us Fan Mail What if the rules of the Appalachian Mountains are not just spooky warnings — but old advice about what not to answer, follow, touch, or invite in? In Part 2 of our Appalachian rules series, we look at voices in the woods, whistling, strange sounds, fairy etiquette, haunted places, paranormal investigation rules, and the unsettling idea that sometimes the safest thing you can do i...

Send us Fan Mail There are some rules people don’t question. Don’t whistle in the woods at night. Don’t answer when something calls your name. Don’t leave the marked trail. And if you see a strange light moving between the trees… don’t follow it. In this episode, we begin our deep dive into the so-called “Rules of the Appalachian Mountains,” separating modern internet horror from practical wildern...

Send us Fan Mail A stranger stands alone on a dark road. You stop to help. They get in the car, speak like anyone else, and then — impossibly — they’re gone. This week, we explore the eerie and surprisingly emotional folklore of vanishing hitchhikers: ghostly passengers, Resurrection Mary, taxi-driver encounters, prophetic riders, and stories where the dead may simply be trying to find their way h...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the people we trust to save lives encounter something they can’t explain? In this episode of Voices From The Attic , Paranormal Mystery Author Terri Reid and researcher Andrew T. Reid explore true ghost stories and unexplained experiences shared by doctors, nurses, EMTs, and other medical professionals. From strange voices in empty hospital rooms to patients who...

Send us Fan Mail What would you do if you heard someone you love calling your name… but you knew they weren’t there? In this episode of Voices From The Attic , Terri Reid and Andrew T. Reid explore the unsettling phenomenon of mimics—accounts of voices, figures, and presences that imitate something familiar in order to draw people closer. From modern-day encounters to traditional folklore, we exam...

Send us Fan Mail Banshees. Shadow figures. Strange warnings that come before tragedy.  In this episode of Voices From The Attic , we explore harbingers and omens —and the unsettling stories that make people wonder if something knows what’s coming before we do. Kathi Kresol – Haunted Rockford –  https://www.hauntedrockford.com/ Ghost Guys Go – Gray Man video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_con...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for Part 2 of A Brief History of UFOs and UAPs, where we discuss recent government disclosures and continue our discussion of the documentary "The Age of Disclosure." New episodes released regularly. Join Paranormal Mystery Author Terri Reid and researcher Andrew T. Reid as they explore ghosts, cryptids, alien encounters, and other unexplained mysteries. If you&a...