Lindsey Callan and Nancy Callan

Inherited Hauntings

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Inherited Hauntings is a spooky and funny podcast where a daughter/mother duo dive into haunted history, ghost stories, and paranormal oddities while making each other laugh along the way. Think chilling encounters, creepy legends, and a little comic relief to keep the nightmares manageable. If you love haunted history, ghost stories, hanging out with the girls and laughing out loud, you just inherited your new favorite show.

Author

Lindsey Callan and Nancy Callan

Category

History

Podcast website

www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

Chupacabra Sightings: Real Witnesses and the Monster That Wouldn’t Go Away 25.09.2025

Is the Chupacabra dangerous… or just misunderstood? 🩸 This week on Inherited Hauntings , we sink our teeth into the chilling legend of El Chupacabra, the blood-sucking cryptid that terrorized Puerto Rico in the 1990s and has since been spotted (maybe 👀) across the Americas. Is it an alien predator, a government experiment gone wrong, or something lurking in the natural world we've yet to un...

Savannah’s Paranormal Secrets: Ghosts, Graveyards & Southern Haunts 18.09.2025

Savannah doesn’t just drip with Spanish moss, it drips with ghost stories. Enjoy this tour of one of the oldest and most haunted cities in America, because we’re taking you through Savannah’s paranormal underbelly. From the haunted hallways of the Marshall House Hotel to ghostly whispers in the Olde Pink House, and from cemeteries layered in history to a brewery where the spirits come in more than...

Ghosts of the Baker Hotel: Glamour, Grief, and the Haunting of Mineral Wells 11.09.2025

Step inside the crumbling glamour of the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas , a once-opulent resort where Hollywood stars, wealthy oil barons, and desperate dreamers crossed paths. Today, its grand ballrooms and healing mineral baths have fallen silent; but the ghosts haven’t checked out. From the mysterious mistress of the hotel’s owner , to the loyal elevator operator who never left his post ,...

The Enfield Poltergeist: True Story Behind The Conjuring 2’s Scariest Haunting 04.09.2025

In this humorous yet creepily captivating episode, Lindsey and Nancy dive headfirst into one of the most chaotic and widely documented paranormal cases of the 20th century: The Enfield Poltergeist . From flying furniture and levitating children to eerie voices that seemed to growl from another dimension, this case left even seasoned investigators questioning what was real, and what was simply too...

England’s Ancient Ram Inn and America’s Oldest Haunting 28.08.2025

What happens when a 12th-century inn built on pagan burial grounds meets centuries of ghost stories? You get the Ancient Ram Inn, one of England’s most notorious paranormal hotspots. And just when you thought it couldn’t get creepier, we’re also pulling back the curtain on America’s oldest inn The Groton Inn where Nancy herself once worked and collected spine-tingling firsthand encounters. In this...

The Curse of Lake Lanier: Ghost Stories and the Dark History Beneath the Water 21.08.2025

What do you get when you mix a flooded valley, a sunken ghost town, and hundreds of tragic deaths? You get Lake Lanier, the most infamous body of water in Georgia, and maybe the most haunted lake in America. In this chilling and chatty episode of Inherited Hauntings , Nancy and Lindsey dive headfirst into Lanier’s dark history: the infamous town swallowed by water, the eerily high number of drowni...

The Dybbuk Box: A Haunted Hoax That Still Won't Say Shut 14.08.2025

Was it the most haunted object in the world… or the internet’s greatest ghost story hustle? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings , Nancy and Lindsey pry open (figuratively… we’re not that reckless) the infamous Dybbuk Box, a creepy wine cabinet said to imprison a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore. From its chilling “possession” stories and viral eBay listing to celebrity encounters and its c...

Strange Disappearances in America's National Parks 07.08.2025

Beneath the beauty of America’s National Parks lies something far more chilling than poison ivy or a wrong turn. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings , Nancy and Lindsey lace up their hiking boots and head into the shadowy forests, foggy trails, and unsettling mysteries surrounding some of the most baffling disappearances ever recorded. From the sudden vanishing of 6-year-old Dennis Martin in th...

The Mothman: A Winged Horror That Predicted Disaster 31.07.2025

In November of 1966, a sleepy town in West Virginia became ground zero for one of the most bizarre paranormal outbreaks in American history. Over the course of thirteen months, more than 100 people reported sightings of a red-eyed, winged creature stalking the skies around Point Pleasant. Dubbed the Mothman by the press, this cryptid wasn't just creepy... He may have been trying to warn us ....

Do Ghosts Really Exist? A Paranormal Primer for the Creepily Curious 24.07.2025

Have you ever heard a bump in the night and wondered if it was just the house settling ... or something more? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings , we’re diving into Ghosts 101 —your crash course in all things paranormal. Join our mother-daughter duo as we explore the different types of apparitions , break down popular ghost hunting equipment (hello, EMF meters and thermal cameras), and ask the...

Haunted Highways: True Paranormal Stories from Route 666, Archer Ave & More 17.07.2025

You’ve heard of haunted houses… but what about haunted highways? In this chilling episode of Inherited Hauntings , mother-daughter duo Nancy and Lindsey take you on a nighttime drive down some of America’s most terrifying roads , where ghostly hitchhikers, phantom trucks, and things that defy explanation still travel by moonlight. We’re talking: Route 666 , the so-called “Devil’s Highway,” where d...

The Bell Witch: America's Most Terrifying Haunting (And It's All True) 10.07.2025

Is it folklore, or is it fact? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings , we dive headfirst into one of the most chilling and infamous paranormal legends in American history —the Bell Witch haunting of Tennessee. And spoiler alert: this one’s not just a campfire story. Join Nancy and Lindsey (your favorite mother-daughter paranormal duo) as they explore the terrifying true events that tormented the...

What Keeps Us Up at Night: Possessions, Mimics, Black Eyed Children, & the Thing in the Closet 03.07.2025

Some nights, it’s not the caffeine that keeps us awake, it’s the haunted closet, the scream that sounds just like someone we know, or the feeling that something is watching from the shadows. In this chilling episode of Inherited Hauntings , your favorite mother-daughter podcast dives into the things that give us the shivers long after dark. Lindsey shares disturbing stories of Black-Eyed Children...

Haunted Massachusetts: a Colonial Ghost in Boston, Shadow Figures, and a Terrifying Baby Monitor 26.06.2025

Real ghosts. A real family. No exaggeration. We’re sharing some of the most bone-chilling, unexplained encounters our family has ever experienced, and trust us, these aren’t your average ghost stories. We’re talking three haunted houses across Massachusetts , a colonial-era ghost boy , a menacing fireman spirit repeatedly seen, a creature crawling across the bedroom wall , and even a balloon with...

Haunted Hospitals: The History of the US’s Creepiest Asylums 19.06.2025

From the infamous ruins of Danvers State Lunatic Asylum in Massachusetts to the ghost-infested corridors of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and Linda Vista Hospital, this episode dives deep into the haunted history of Americas creepiest asylums . Expect chilling tales of lobotomy lore , disturbing medical practices, and real-life encounters with paranormal activity that still haunts hospital halls...

Paranormal Predictions, Creepy Dreams, and One Haunting Family Secret 12.06.2025

In this eerie and unexpectedly personal episode of Inherited Hauntings , we dig into the mysterious world of extrasensory perception (ESP) —and reveal a long-buried family secret that might explain a strange pattern we never fully understood… until now. From unnerving premonition dreams to chilling psychic warnings before real-life tragedies—like the Aberfan mining disaster of 1966 and the morning...

Ouija Boards Gone Wrong: Spooky Tales of Paranormal Hauntings 05.06.2025

Is the Ouija board just a spooky party game, or a dangerous portal to something far more sinister? In this episode, we dive into the mysterious world of spirit boards with a mix of eerie history, cultural lore, real-life hauntings, and hard science. From the Victorian roots of the Ouija board to the chilling case behind Spain’s most famous police documented haunting, we explore the stories that ha...

Abducted in New Hampshire: The Betty & Barney Hill Case That Launched a Thousand UFO's 29.05.2025

They were just driving home on a dark deserted highway... until the lights followed them. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings , we dive into one of the most chilling and iconic UFO encounters in history: the alien abduction of Betty and Barney Hill . Join us as we explore the strange events of that September night in 1961—when a quiet drive through New Hampshire’s White Mountains turned into a...

History’s Haunted Dolls: Annabelle, Robert, and the Stuff of Nightmares 22.05.2025

In this delightfully disturbing episode of Inherited Hauntings , Lindsey and Nancy take on the unnerving world of haunted dolls —from the infamous Annabelle (yes, that Annabelle) to lesser-known but equally cursed toy box nightmares from around the globe. We dig into the real story behind the raggedy origin of Annabelle, plus we explore the legends of Robert the Doll , Okiku , and a few haunted cu...

Inside the Real Conjuring House: Truth, Terror, and a Boarded Up Basement 15.05.2025

In this hair-raising episode of Inherited Hauntings , Lindsey and Nancy dig into the true story that inspired the 2013 horror hit The Conjuring —a chilling tale of the Perron family’s terrifying experiences in a secluded Rhode Island farmhouse during the 1970s. Spoiler: the real-life hauntings were way less CGI. But here’s the twist: one of us actually went to the real house . Yep— the house. We’r...

Shadow People: Who's That Hat Man? (And Why Is He in My Hallway?) 11.05.2025

In this first eerie episode of Inherited Hauntings , mother-daughter duo Lindsey and Nancy dive headfirst into the shadowy world of shadow figures —including the terrifying (and weirdly fashionable) Hat Man . Is he a sleep paralysis demon? A shadowy time traveler? Just an audacious ghost who refuses to take his hat off indoors? We’ll share real encounters , creepy theories, and some personal chill...

The OG Poltergeist: 1958’s Fizzy Haunting That Launched a Horror Classic 11.05.2025

In this wildly entertaining episode of Inherited Hauntings , Lindsey and Nancy tackle one of the most chaotic paranormal forces out there: poltergeists . We dive into the real-life poltergeist activity that rocked a New York family and inspired the 1982 movie Poltergeist (spoiler alert: it was not just about a haunted TV). From flying objects to popping screw cap bottle tops —this story is as hila...

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