New Ghost Stories Podcast

It’s hard for him to enjoy the Christmas party, when he’s getting alerts from home. There’s a strange man at the door, and he’s creating strange patterns in the snow… The New Ghost Stories Podcast is back to dial up the fear this festive season. But it’s a different type of festival chiller this year. A real-time story about how a life fell apart in just a matter of hours. So settle down, treat yo...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this ghost story podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. After 4 years, 58 uploads, 41 stories, and 10 bonus episodes, the time has come for a pause. By this time last year, we had nearly burned through all the complete stories in the New Ghost Stories Archive....

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this ghost story podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. The longest, most expansive investigation in the New Ghost Stories archive leads inevitably to the longest episode ever of the New Ghost Stories Podcast. Almost 13 (!) years ago, I completed my first full...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this ghost story podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Arthur Machen is one of those authors whose fame is far outstripped by his influence. A pioneer of weird fiction, he’s been cited as a key influence on everyone from Lovecraft to Stephen King. Born in the...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this ghost story podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. In an early episode of this podcast, I remember mentioning that, thanks to the internet, we have never been closer together and yet never been so far part. At the time, I was making a comment on loneliness...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this ghost story podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Within moments of our death, our bodies start to decompose. All the processes that sustain the body cease, and our systems start to fail and come apart. Cells break down and start to leak. Enzymes, acids a...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this supernatural podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. I think we look for ghosts in all the wrong places. Our ghost hunting teams are obsessed with locations of haunted glamour – manor houses, castles, abandoned gothic old buildings. We love the big tragic s...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this supernatural podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Photographic memory is exceptionally rare. In fact, some scientists dispute whether it is actually real at all. Photographic memory actually muddles together a number of different types of unusual memory,...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this supernatural podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Poe’s life and legacy is too vast to deal with in a single blog post. But I am an avid collector of trivia. So here are 10 things you might not know about Edgar Allan Poe: 1.     The Allan in Edgar Allan...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this supernatural podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Christmas has a curious relationship to time. It’s a different Christmas every year, and yet so much of it always stays the same. It’s all wrapped up in traditions; rituals and activities that we’ve broug...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. We’ve talked before on the podcast about how many classic ghost stories focus on injustice. An act of crime or cruelty results in someone’s ruin and death, whose anguished spirit later returns to enact a ter...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Perhaps, now that we’re on to the fourth season of the podcast, it might be worth taking a moment to look back at where this all began… There may be people who started listening to the podcast part-way throu...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Though he wrote exciting genre fiction, Graham Greene generally kept his stories grounded in reality. He seldom let the supernatural into his fiction; The End of the Affair being one exception, A Little Plac...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. M.R. James may hold the title for being the most influential ghost story writer of the 20th century, but Edward Frederic Benson must surely be the most prolific. He wrote more than 50 ‘spook stories’, and au...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. It’s strange how figures who chaffed against the establishment when they were alive, can end up becoming symbols of a simpler, sweeter, gentler time for future generations. As the author of children’s classi...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. We come once again to the end of another season of ghostly tales and the conclusion to our 2-part episode . I want to thank you all for listening. It seems strange to hope that you’ve ‘enjoyed’ it, given the...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this supernatural podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. We’ve all probably dreamed about truly speaking our minds. Finally telling our bosses just what we think of their performance. Telling someone we deal with just how stupid they are. Telling a parent or pa...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this paranormal podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. One of the many questions this episode raises is whether ghosts (assuming they exist at all) are conscious or not. Are they, as in Stone Tape theory , a kind of recording of events that replays over and ove...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this paranormal podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. I recently found myself re-listening to the first ever episode of this podcast. I’d forgotten what a terrifying episode it is. And I don’t just mean the story – I mean the recording quality. I may not be th...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this supernatural podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Occasionally I’ll have a conversation with someone who’s a hardcore sceptic. Someone who flat out does not believe in the supernatural. And I have a lot of sympathy for that position. During the years I’v...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this real ghosts podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. I hadn’t thought much about hauntings from the perspective of time before. The idea being that hauntings are a kind of time slip. When we see ghosts, it’s because something from the past is intruding on th...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this paranormal podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. There’s an explainer at the beginning of this episode to say why it’s a full episode instead of the short episode teased at the end of the last podcast. You’re getting more content, so I hope you’ll be plea...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this frightening podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. Like so many great cinematic treats, I first discovered the The Body Snatcher late at night, just by accident. It was the 1945 film version, produced by Val Lewton , whose movies Cat People and I Walked wi...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this Christmas horror podcast, you’d really be helping me out by leaving a review. Although ghost stories are a popular tradition at Christmas, the tradition is more for pleasant terrors. If you’re reading a classic Dickensian-style Victorian story, chances are you’re going to get an ending in wh...

You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. A wide variety of supernatural phenomena have been recorded for the New Ghost Stories project over the past decade. I don’t think I quite understood what a wide range of experiences I was going to uncover back when this all began. There are certainly hauntings that I could broadly categorise into certain types. W...