A Paranormal Chicks

Donna takes us to Cokeville, Wyoming, in 1986, where a man walked into an elementary school with a homemade bomb and took nearly 150 kids and teachers hostage. When that bomb went off, the outcome made no sense on paper. Kerri brings us to postwar Tokyo and the story of Miyuki Ishikawa, a respected midwife trusted with the most vulnerable babies in the city. What was actually happening inside her...

This week’s Sinister Sightings is packed with creepy listener stories, paranormal experiences, and one story that goes completely off the rails. We’re heading to the allegedly haunted Road to Nowhere in Bryson City, North Carolina, where an abandoned tunnel and a broken government promise have helped create one of the eeriest spots in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then, one listener shares emotional...

We're switching things up this week! Instead of our usual one true crime and one paranormal story, we're going all in on one of the most infamous cases in American history: Lizzie Borden. Kerri takes us back to Fall River, Massachusetts, on a sweltering August morning in 1892, when Andrew and Abby Borden were found dead inside their own home. She walks us through the family tension, the strange be...

Ouija boards, mimics, stalkers, and a ghost who may have actually been trying to help. This week’s Sinister Sightings brings us a spirit stuck in 1864, something calling from upstairs in Mom’s voice, a terrifying reminder that sometimes the living are scarier than the dead, and a haunted Virginia townhouse. Basically, trust your gut, don’t follow the voice, and maybe leave the Ouija board ALONE. G...

Donna takes us to Merion, Pennsylvania, where the General Wayne Inn served travelers for nearly 300 years and, if you believe the stories, some of them never checked out. She digs into the Revolutionary War–era ghosts, the staff who swore something was sharing the building with them, and why this old tavern has been called one of the most haunted in America. Kerri covers Sherri Papini, a young mom...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has a little bit of everything: a mimic with a McDonald’s alibi, loved ones finding their way back to say goodbye, a creepy-ass Peekaboo puppy, and a dad who apparently made terrorizing his children a full-time hobby. Plus, we learn that sometimes the scariest monsters aren’t paranormal at all. Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way...

Kerri covers the murders of Rori Hache and Kandis Fitzpatrick, walking through how a routine plumbing call in an Oshawa basement apartment in 2017 blew open a case that reached back nearly a decade to a woman who'd never been found. She digs into how Adam Strong went from a stunned 911 call to two convictions, and why one family is still fighting for the answer they were promised. Donna tells us a...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has us asking all the important questions: Why are teenage boys always breaking into places they shouldn’t? Who is peeking around the corner? And can you accidentally astral project while watching Power Rangers?! We’ve got creepy grannies, UFOs, premonitions, shadow people, and one hell of a childhood experience. Basically everything but the kitchen sink. Got a creep...

Donna dives into the eerie case of Etta Smith, whose vivid psychic premonition led her straight to the body of missing Melanie Uribe. The discovery raises questions about intuition and the unexplained. Kerri covers the heartbreaking story of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old whose death by suicide followed a cruel MySpace hoax, sparking a national conversation about cyberbullying and online accountabilit...

Y’all… what are we supposed to do with these stories?! This week we’ve got a woman in a closet who absolutely does not belong there, a grocery store encounter that has us screaming RED FLAG, a haunted doll because apparently we’re just buying those on the internet now, and an ice fishing trip that quickly turns into a whole lot of NOPE. So get comfy, close your closet door (obviously), and come be...

Kerri covers the disappearance of Martha Leanne Green, a case that has left her family searching for answers for nearly four decades. What happened during those few hours on a Tennessee highway has become a decades-long mystery, with unanswered questions and a family still waiting to learn what happened to Leanne. Donna takes us into the supernatural side of Dolly Parton, from the strange experien...

A missing bottle mysteriously reappears, a ghost gets a little too handsy, and a paranormal investigation at the Old Jail in St. Augustine may lead to a message from beyond the grave. Plus, a listener shares a devastating hometown crime, a sleepwalking incident that seriously creeped out an ex, and a recurring childhood nightmare involving a car barreling down the highway with no one behind the wh...

Donna covers the case of Gottliebin Dittus, a 19th-century German woman at the center of one of the era's most infamous cases of supposed demonic affliction, and the years-long ordeal that drew pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt into her story and shaped his ministry. Kerri covers the murder of Carla Knowlton, shot to death on a rural Arkansas highway just weeks before her wedding. Her fiancé, Elbe...

We’ve got a listener who still thinks about the little boy from her childhood who desperately needed someone to notice what was happening at home, a creepy encounter with a stranger that ends in a full-on RUN FOR YOUR LIFE moment, and a solo backpacking trip where a therapist realizes the man camping nearby might be trying to tell her he’s a sociopath. Then we head to 1990s Las Vegas for a terrify...

Kerri dives into the tragic 2018 killing of University of Utah student-athlete Lauren McCluskey, who was murdered by a man she had briefly dated after he lied about his identity and criminal past. The episode examines the warning signs Lauren reported to campus police in the days before her death and the systemic failures that followed, which ultimately led to major reforms in campus safety policy...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has a little bit of everything: a dream home with a dark history and a ghost who may have never left, a terrifying encounter with something in the woods mimicking a woman’s cries for help, and a shadow outside a bedroom window that sends an entire house into panic mode. Ghosts, cryptid encounters, creepy true stories, and plenty of WTF moments… just the way we like i...

Donna kicks things off with a trip to the Devil's Tramping Ground in Chatham County, North Carolina—a barren circle in the woods where legend says nothing will grow, animals refuse to enter, and anything left overnight mysteriously vanishes or moves by morning. She digs into the folklore behind the site, from Satan's midnight planning sessions to the eerie scientific explanations researchers have...

Y’all sent us some GOOD ones this week! We’ve got a day on the lake that goes very wrong, a giant mystery snake that turns out to have a wild explanation, and a haunted 100-year-old house where something decides to stand at the end of the bed and pretend to be someone it definitely is not. Then we meet “Ghost Guy,” who may have attached himself to one of our listeners when she was a teenager. We’r...

Kerri covers the case of Joy Hibbs. Joy's home was set ablaze to hide the crime and the case went cold for over three decades. It's the story of a family's relentless push for answers, culminating in a 2022 arrest that finally brought her killer to justice Donna heads to rural Nova Scotia for the eerie legend of Caledonia Mills, where a 1922 farmhouse was plagued by a string of mysterious fires th...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has EVERYTHING. Shadow people that seem a little too real, a possible mimic calling out from inside a house, a true crime story that left our jaws on the floor, and one listener whose "not-so-Ambien" adventures somehow keep getting even weirder. Grab your emotional support beverage and join us for another round of stories from the best damn Creepsters on the planet....

Donna dives into the life of Richard Lael-Lillard, including his appearance on Ghost Adventures, and unpacking the hauntings tied The Gentleman Psychic. Kerri covers the case of Shawn Grate, the Ohio man whose kidnapping of a Jane Doe cracked open a string of brutal murders. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Head to www.betterhelp.com/apc to start your journey, today! If you have any local...

A face hidden in wallpaper that you can’t unsee. A mysterious PowerPoint that appears after a father’s death and then vanishes without a trace. An old house where footsteps, whispers, moving objects, and one seriously creepy closet make it clear the family may not be alone. This week’s Sinister Sightings brings possible messages from beyond the grave, haunted house activity, unexplained phenomena,...

Kerri covers the disturbing true story of Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids. The Canadian commune where a self-proclaimed prophet's control his followers which escalated into years of documented abuse and violence. It's a hard listen at times, but an important one about how isolation and manipulation let something so horrific go unchecked for so long. Donna's story takes us to the Grand Midway...

Dreams from beyond, homemade Ouija boards, creepy childhood rituals, and one small-town gas station story that goes completely off the rails. This week’s Sinister Sightings brings listener-submitted paranormal stories involving a possible premonition, a strange doppelgänger coincidence, spirit board experiments, unexplained scratches, and a Mississippi revenge story we were absolutely NOT prepared...

Donna dives into the Mackenzie Poltergeist, the legendary haunting centered on the Black Mausoleum in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirkyard, where visitors have reported hundreds of unexplained physical incidents since 1998. Kerri covers Joseph Kallinger, the Philadelphia "Shoemaker" whose horrific childhood abuse gave way to a killing and torture spree he carried out with his own 13-year-old son. If yo...