Tell Me A Ghost Story

Hey, it’s Michelle, and it’s Halloween week, so tonight we’re talking about the most famous shadow in the paranormal world. The Hat Man. You may have heard that Aaron Rodgers saw him on an ayahuasca trip in Peru. He didn’t. It was a joke from a satirical website, and Snopes had to look into it. But that’s how it works with the Hat Man. The story spreads, and he feels a little more real each time....

Hey, it’s Michelle, and tonight we’re going around the world with this collection. Seven stories, five countries, and every place has its own rulebook for the dead. A bowl of cream for a household spirit. A spoon to check who’s really at your table. An egg to draw out what’s wrong. Rice thrown into the dark before dawn. Now available as a video on Spotify and YouTube.  Gary D. from Southern Ontari...

Hey, it’s Michelle, and tonight’s show is about what visits you when the lights go out. Eight real callers share sleep paralysis encounters, shadow figures, and visitors that arrived with a witness, a mark, or an open door, along with the folklore and science behind them. The first half is stories sleep paralysis explains well. The second half is where I’m not sure it can. Now available as a video...

Hey, it’s Michelle, and tonight’s show is about what visits you when the lights go out. Eight real callers share sleep paralysis encounters, shadow figures, and visitors that arrived with a witness, a mark, or an open door, along with the folklore and science behind them. The first half is stories sleep paralysis explains well. The second half is where I’m not sure it can. Now available as a video...

Hey, it’s Michelle, and this week we’re checking in for this Halloween season. A collection of seven haunted hotel stays, from a hospital-turned-hotel on a mining hill in Arizona to a ship docked in Long Beach to a Best Western in Fresno, plus a look at why hotels end up so haunted in the first place. Now available as a video on Spotify & YouTube. Heather from Mesa, Arizona, stayed at the Gran...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls each involve something quietly, patiently making itself known. Stringy black hair hanging over a bathroom sink in an old Kentucky studio. A kind old taxidermist whose parents watched him work for years after they'd died. A black mist that dropped under a middle schooler's bed like a sheet. And Lizzie Borden herself, summoned every Octo...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's two calls include a towel that appeared with no one home to deliver it, and two flights separated by years featuring men who should not have existed. Larissa from Texas calls in with her mother's story, one her mom still denies to this day. Home alone in the shower, expecting her kids back from school, her mother called out twice for someone to bring...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls each involve something watching from just beyond the light. A tall silhouette in a top hat that returned to the same little girl five years apart. A glowing face the size of a dinner plate riding in the back seat of a Camaro on a Florida highway. A haunted estate in upstate New York with rooms that seem to beg for attention. A voice from the O...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls span a movie theater in 1978, a hotel in Santa Barbara, a psychiatric hospital basement, and a farm in Indiana where something was killing deer. This episode is available as a video on Spotify and YouTube. David calls in with a true ghost story from 1978, when he went to see Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at a nearly empty theat...

Hey, it's Michelle, and tonight we have four calls, a spirit box that said something only three sisters in the room could understand. A ghost named Bob who made coffee every morning in a house he no longer lived in. Something at a 1970s Halloween party in Southern Ontario that sat with Gary D for thirty minutes and left a wet slime trail out the front door. And Cindy Ketron, who owns a haunted...

Hey, it's Michelle, I took an extended break by accident. It was my birthday, and then I published this comedy book that has nothing to do with the paranormal. Now I'm back with this week's calls, and each involves seeing something that should not be there. Brandy from Marysville, Ohio, calls in with a true ghost story from a girls' weekend in Yellow Springs, a small Ohio town with a long history...

Hey it's Michelle, A Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. A sidewalk in Orange County at night. A grandmother who came back to say she was not finished. A spirit that followed someone home from Oahu. And a ghost in New Zealand who had opinions about being asked to leave. This is another classic season 2 compilation episode, bringing together five of the most unforgettable true ghost stories from...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week we have three real callers. Three true ghost stories from a morgue in Texas, a kitchen in Minnesota, and a frozen basement in Southern Ontario. This episode is also available as video on Spotify or Youtube. Larissa from Texas calls in with a true ghost story from her time working as an investigator at a medical examiner's office. Late nights, intakes, autopsies, a...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is special. This is our first-ever compilation episode, bringing together eight of the most unforgettable true ghost stories from our first season callers in one place. And for the first time, this episode is now available as a full video on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can finally watch as well as listen. If you are new to Tell Me A Ghost Story, this is the pe...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls have stayed with me longer than most. A ghost child seen by five military witnesses in a San Diego cemetery. A beloved cat who died twenty years ago still comes home. Footsteps that walked through a front door with nobody attached to them. And a dog named Biscuit who stopped on a trail near the Green River and found something in the weeds that the pol...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different. This episode won the Silver Signal Award in "Paranormal and Horror" podcasts and the International Women in Podcasting Award, and honestly, I'm still so proud of it. And now, it's a video episode available on Spotify and YouTube. If you haven't heard it yet, this is a good place to start. Three callers. Three stories that cover completely dif...

Hey, it's Michelle, and tonight's four calls are connected by something I did not notice until I had heard all of them together. Every single one of these callers was somewhere they were supposed to feel safe. A hotel room on a solo road trip. A basement bedroom in a college house. A family apartment they had lived in for years. A cemetery on a curious afternoon. And every single one of them found...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different from our usual calls. This week, I am joined by Brennan Storr, host of The Ghost Story Guys podcast and author of A Strange Little Place: The Hauntings and Unexplained Events of One Small Town. Brennan spends a lot of his time collecting and telling other people's true ghost stories. This time, he is telling his own. This is now available as a...

Hey, it's Michelle, and happy April. I figured the only appropriate way to kick off the month was with three calls that will make you question every sound you hear in your house tonight. There is a full video for this episode on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can watch as well as listen. Three callers. Three true ghost stories from three completely different corners of the world. And every singl...

True ghost stories from real people, told through haunting phone calls. Did a woman really disappear? What was hiding just outside that flashlight beam? Why are the lights staying on when someone goes to sleep? These are real calls. Real paranormal encounters. Real ghost stories from listeners just like you. Tell Me A Ghost Story is the award-winning paranormal podcast hosted by Michelle Newman, w...

Hello listeners, another classic encore episode of more remastered frightening calls from earlier in the year.  This week's true ghost stories: The Bloody Hand: James from Colorado shares an unsettling experience involving a mysterious bloody handprint that appeared without explanation, leaving him questioning the boundaries between the living and the supernatural. Flesh Pedestrian: Erica from San...

Another classic rerun! Buckle up for Tell Me A Ghost Story, where true ghost stories, chilling paranormal encounters, and bone-deep spooky stories take center stage. These aren’t legends. They happened to your neighbors, your friends… maybe even you. Marilyn Monroe – Cindy Ketron shares a creepy connection to the Hollywood icon. Is Marilyn still making appearances from beyond? One of those classic...

Welcome back to another spine-tingling episode of Tell Me A Ghost Story! This week, we have four incredible stories that will make you question what lurks in the shadows and what comforts us when we need it most. Our first caller, Erica from San Diego (now in Eastern North Carolina), shares a haunting memory from her traumatic childhood. During her parents' violent fights, a mysterious friend name...

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's six calls cover more paranormal ground than almost any other episode this season. James from San Francisco returns with his third call, this time about his decade working at UCSF Medical Center on Parnassus, one of the most documented haunted hospitals in California. The kitchen where he worked used to be a morgue. Volcanic smoke rose from urinals with n...

Hey, it's Michelle, and you all brought it this week. I got actual goosebumps going through the voicemails. Five true ghost stories that cover more paranormal ground than almost any other episode this season. Sarah from Luther, Alabama, calls in with a true ghost story from her time living in Florida. She and her ex were pulling into a friend's driveway when she saw a man standing at the f...