Real Ghost Chatter

In an instant, the woman tore free of the nuns' hands. Her body flew through the air and landed high above the door, where she clung to the wall. Pull her down, the priest yelled. A note before you listen: This is one of the most intense true accounts I've shared. It follows a real exorcism, reporting demonic voices and a woman's long suffering. Nothing is graphic, but please use your...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Satan, if the drummer set thee to work, give 3 knocks, and no more. The room went still, and 3 knocks came. In 1662, a magistrate in Tedworth, England, took a drum away from a wandering drummer. For more than a year after that, something in his house drummed on the roof, scratched beneath his children's bed, and panted under them in the dark. EPISODE NOTES ● John Mompesson, a W...

On a Saturday morning in March of 1850, a minister in Stratford, Connecticut, climbed his stairs and found a room full of women kneeling in prayer. Not one of them had ever been alive. For almost two years, something in the Reverend Eliakim Phelps's house threw, pounded, screamed, and wrote, and it seemed to take special pleasure in mocking the family's faith. EPISODE NOTES ● Dr. Eliakim P...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Out of the dark of an empty woodshed came an old man's growl, and the newspaperman standing beside an 11-year-old orphan girl heard every word. I am the Devil, it said. I'll have you in my clutches. In the autumn of 1889, on a small farm in Clarendon Township, Quebec, something set fires, threw stones, and cut a child's hair. Then it began to talk, for hours, in fro...

In 1977, Jayne Lisbeth died on an operating table and found herself floating against the ceiling of the surgery room. Below her, the doctor was screaming, Get her back! Get her back! This is Jayne's true story. Find Jayne's books on her Amazon author page: amazon.com/author/jaynelisbethpainterlywriter, or at jaynelisbeth.com. EPISODE NOTES ● A guest episode: the true account of author Jayn...

On a holiday weekend in August 1966, something began to stir inside the Pritchard family's home at 30 East Drive in Pontefract, England. Water pooled across the floors with no leak to explain it. Green foam bubbled out of the taps. Joe Pritchard, a practical man, looked for a mechanical cause and found none, and soon police constables, water board men, a reporter, and town officials stood in h...

In September 1878, in a shoemaker's cottage on Princess Street in Amherst, Nova Scotia, something began to torment 18-year-old Esther Cox. It started with straw moving inside her mattress and a box that leaped off the floor. Within weeks the town doctor sat beside her bed and watched words appear, scored a foot high into the plaster of her wall: Esther Cox, you are mine to kill. What followed was...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION In 1973, Jack and Janet Smurl moved into half of a double-block house on Chase Street in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. Jack's parents took the other half. For 13 years both households reported the same things through the same wall: knocking, voices calling in the family's own tones from empty rooms, a faceless black shape that walked through the wall and came out the oth...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION In the winter of 1671, 20 years before the trials at Salem, a 16-year-old servant girl in the frontier town of Groton, Massachusetts, fell into violent fits, accused two neighbors of witchcraft, confessed to signing her name in the devil's book, and then took most of it back. Her employer, a 31-year-old minister named Samuel Willard, wrote it all down as it happened, day by...

In April 1874, a doorbell rang after midnight at a nine-room mansion in Oakland, California, and no one was standing at the door. Over the three nights that followed, a Treasury officer who publicly mocked the whole idea of spirits watched his own furniture move, his front door come off its hinges, and a crowd of 500 people fill the street outside his home. Mary Ann Poll tells the story of Thomas...

A man bought a Victorian home in Mitchell, Indiana for its price and its character, and spent the following months learning exactly what else came with it. This is the story of Van Renier, the house he refused to walk away from, and a table that answered a question no one expected it to answer. EPISODE NOTES ● Owner Van Renier has publicly stated the house holds a confirmed record of six deaths, n...

In 1992, an Army sergeant and his pregnant wife moved into a modest house in Atchison, Kansas. Within months, the husband was being physically attacked by something no one could see, documented on camera by a national television crew. The activity has never stopped. EPISODE NOTES ● Tony Pickman's scratches were documented on film by the Sightings television crew in 1994: nine uninterrupted min...

In 1876, a beloved chambermaid at San Antonio's Menger Hotel was shot twice by her husband and died in the hotel's care. Her killer walked free. Nearly 150 years later, staff and guests say she never left. EPISODE NOTES ● Menger is pronounced MEN-jer, rhyming with 'danger' (William Menger was a German immigrant). ● The original 1876 funeral receipt, made out to 'Sallie White, c...

A merchant watched a man hang on a plot of San Diego land, then built his family's dream home on that very spot. Generations of grief followed, and visitors say the family never fully left. EPISODE NOTES ● The Whaley House in Old Town San Diego is the oldest brick building in Southern California and was officially recognized as haunted by the U.S. Commerce Department in 1960. ● Documented phen...

In 1912, eight people were murdered in their beds in Villisca, Iowa, and the killer was never convicted. More than a century later, the house where it happened has never gone quiet, and visitors say the children are still there. EPISODE NOTES ● The 2013 photograph taken by guest Felishia Powell, showing an unidentified dark figure behind a child, is part of the documented modern record. ● The Man...

In 1872, a Georgia sawmill operator came home to find his house had come alive, and for the next five years, no prayer, no investigation, and no explanation ever made it stop. Mary Ann Poll tells the true story of Allen Surrency, the five hundred visitors who came to witness it, and the haunting that only ended when he was buried. EPISODE NOTES ● Allen Surrency's own 1872 letter to the Savanna...

Chicago's most famous phantom hitchhiker still walks Archer Avenue, decades after her final dance. EPISODE NOTES ● Traces the Resurrection Mary legend from the 1930s through the most detailed modern accounts, including the Palus sighting and the Chet's Melody Lounge tradition. ● Researcher Richard Crowe collected more than three dozen separate accounts by the 1970s, from witnesses with no...

When Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades in December 1972, 101 people died, including Captain Bob Loft and Flight Engineer Don Repo. Within months, crew members and passengers on other Eastern flights began reporting something that couldn't be explained: the dead men, back in uniform, giving warnings that saved lives. EPISODE NOTES ● Key named witnesses and incident...

In the winter of 1762, all of London crowded into a narrow house to hear a dead woman speak through knocks on the wall. She claimed to have been murdered, and named the man she said did it. As the accusation spread and the city took sides, one question hung over everyone who dared to listen: was a restless spirit finally getting justice, or was something far more dangerous moving in the dark?

Teresita Basa was murdered, the scene staged, the case left cold. Six months later, a voice that was not her own began speaking through a coworker, naming her killer. Join Mary Ann Poll for the true, documented case the courts called the Voice from the Grave.

For over a century, a gray figure has been seen walking the yew-lined path at the site of Borley Rectory in Essex, England, long regarded as the most haunted house in England. Families fled, investigators documented thousands of incidents, and messages appeared on the walls pleading for light, Mass, and prayers. A spirit named her killer, identified where her bones were buried, and another voice p...

For over two hundred years, residents of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, have reported a mysterious gray figure who appears before devastating hurricanes — always with the same warning: leave now. Real Ghost Chatter explores the documented history of one of America's most persistent and eerily consistent apparitions.

In December of 1716, something moved through the Wesley family rectory in Epworth, England — knocking, footsteps, a bed that rose on its own. The family called it Old Jeffrey. The world would never forget them.

In 1794, a dying stranger knocked on a Virginia farmer's door and asked for one thing — a Catholic priest. When that request was denied, the haunting that followed shook an entire community for years. Mysterious sounds, animals acting erratically, and invisible shears that cut crescent shapes into clothing and leather gave this terrifying case its name: The Wizard Clip . Join us as we trace on...

What happens when heaven reaches into the impossible? Two real people. Two impossible rescues. Two beings who appeared, did what needed doing, and vanished without a trace. Host Mary Ann Poll — America's Lady of Supernatural Thrillers — explores the side of the supernatural that doesn't haunt. It guards.