Ope, A Ghost

These colleges aren’t lacking in school spirit. In fact, spirit is exactly what they have. Pack up your books, and let’s head to class at these two haunted colleges. First, we’ll enroll at Bowdoin College, but we're not heading to class just yet. First, we’ll stop off at the haunted basement of Coles Tower. Over in the historic Hubbard Hall, when they aren’t toying with the cleaning crew, the...

Who doesn’t love a trip to the museum? There’s art to see, ancient artifacts to gaze at in wonder, and, if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of a ghost or two. In this episode, we visit two very haunted and very famous museums. The first stop will be the British Museum in London where spirits wreak havoc with security personnel, and a man in green still comes to work. Next, we’ll travel a...

Fall is such a lovely time to take a road trip: the leaves are turning an auburn hue bespeckled with golden yellows and fiery oranges, the temperatures dance between brisk mornings and the warm dregs of summer, and the ghosts are . . . well . . . ghostier. And if ghosty is what you’re looking for, look no further than the Hostess City of the South, Savannah, GA. If you’ve listened to the pod long...

Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate than with a ghost story! In this mini-episode, we’ll be reading listener submitted stories. Wait until the trick-or-treaters have all gone home, then dim the lights, grab a peanut butter cup, and listen to stories about the ghost of a soldier, the pitter-patter of tiny feet, and about a man who was scratched by a not-so-friendly entity. As you’ll soon...

The Navajo call them the yee naaldlooshii , but you might know them by the name Skinwalker. In this episode, we’ll share spooky Skinwalker encounters and dig into Navajo lore to reveal the mysteries of the malevolent witch. Where did they come from? Why won’t many of the Navajo talk about them? Should you be afraid of them? Sit back and enjoy, but you’ll want to keep the lights on for this one. Tr...

In this rewatch episode, we’re tagging along with two of our all-time favorite investigators from one of our all-time favorite shows. Join us in rewatching Kindred Spirits S3, Ep 10 as Amy Bruni and Adam Berry investigate Maplecroft, the second and last home of Lizzie Borden. Amy and Adam are joined by psychic Chip Coffey who immediately picks up on the presence of a powerful female presence. Is i...

Have the voices in your head been more persistent than usual? Well then, you've come to the right place because we're going to the asylum. First we'll visit the ultra-active Eloise Psychiatric Hospital where shadows roam the halls and the rooms are filled with loud bangs and disembodied singing. Then we'll check in to Edinburgh Manor. The Edinburgh has a pauper's cemetery,...

Welcome to another Paranormal Rewatch! In this episode, we’ll follow Dalen, Marcus, and Juwan from Ghost Brothers: Lights Out as they investigate the Pensacola Lighthouse where they confront an entity in the basement and dispel a rumor or two about a murder. The Ghost Brothers have always been one of our favorites, so come along and let’s pop the trunk on these ghosts! Ghost Brothers Lights Out ca...

In this episode, we investigate the real story behind the Netflix sensation The Deliverance with the actual experiences of the Ammons family. In November 2011, Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children ages 7, 9, and 12 moved into a house located at 3860 Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana. Days after the family moved in, they claimed black flies swarmed the porch. Things only...

Welcome to another Paranormal Rewatch. In this episode, we’ll follow the Destination Fear crew as they become the first ever paranormal investigators to explore the Indiana State Sanitorium. While there are advantages to being the first, there are also disadvantages: they have no idea what to expect or who they might encounter. Spooky for sure, but chances like this don’t come along often! Follow...

It’s been a while since we checked out a genuine, good ol’ fashioned haunted house. What better time than Spooky Season to correct that oversight! In this episode, we’ll brave the shadows to hunt down the things that go bump in the night. First, we visit the Baleroy Mansion in the affluent Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia where sits a chair with a fatal reputation. Then, we travel by broomsti...

Welcome to our first ever Paranormal Rewatch! In this episode, we’ll examine the always professional and thorough Ghost Hunters as they answer the call from a family being haunted in their 1800s Tennessee farmhouse. They are joined by special guest investigator and musician Meatloaf. Not only is Meatloaf a friend of the T.A.P. S. gang, he’s no stranger to the paranormal having joined the Ghost Hun...

Welcome to Spooky Season, Ghosties! We’ll have plenty of surprises this Spooky Season including weekly episodes through Halloween. In this episode, listener Cady joins us to discuss her experiences growing up in the haunted wild west. Cady grew up in the shadow of Tombstone, Arizona in what was once a sleepy little town between the tracks called Vail. Wrap yourself in the covers while Cady recalls...

Hello there! It’s been a while since our last Book Club Minisode. We missed you! Today we read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House . Jackson’s 1959 novel has twice been made into a movie, once in 1963 and once in 1999. The ’63 version is relatively faithful to the original novel: the ’99 version, not so much. The book was also parodied in part of Scary Movie 2 . There’s even a BBC radio a...

The Ope, A Ghost van is hitting the road for another Haunted Road Trip. This time we’re stopping in historic Selma, Alabama. First, we’ll visit Sturdivant Hall where some claim that the ghost of a former owner is buried in the back yard. Next, we’ll stop at the George O. Baker House where a Civil War soldier lingers near a blood stain on the floor. Our next stops include the Trotter Home, the Brow...

In this episode, we compare the real story of one of the most famous haunted dolls with the second film in the Conjuring universe: Annabelle. In 1970, a young nurse received a second-hand Raggedy Ann doll as a birthday gift from her mother. The woman would use the popular doll as a decorative piece in the apartment she shared with another nurse. It wasn't long before the doll, who the woman n...

Nothing excites the imagination like a good ol’ fashioned curse. Our logical sense tells us they’re nonsense, but even in the face of reason, how many of us still exercise caution? As it turns out, discretion may indeed be the better part of valor, especially when dealing with the cursed objects in this episode. First we’ll visit the Dybbuk box, an antique, portable wine cabinet that brings misfor...

We’re super excited to have our friends Lauren and Gina from The Witch's Familiar Paranormal Research stop in to talk about their spooky adventures. In this episode, Lauren and Gina discuss the locations they’ve investigated, how they found themselves involved in the paranormal, reveal some of their most intense experiences, and much more! We love Lauren and Gina, and we’re sure you will too....

On today’s Book Club Minisode, we read Tobias Wayland’s The Lake Michigan Mothman: High Strangeness in the Midwest . Wayland spent several years as a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Since then, he's been a guest on podcasts and radio shows and appeared on the series premiere of Expedition X and in the Small Town Monsters documentaries Terror in the Skies and On the Trai...

In this first edition of Local Haunts, we visit two places in our area that you may not have heard about. The first is the (Old) Lake Club in Springfield, IL. In its day, the club was the most popular nightclub outside of Chicago. Mixed in with the usual spirits you'd find behind the bar was the ghost of Rudy, a much loved bartender from the club's hayday.  Next, we’ll hop over to Jackso...

Having investigated a funeral home ourselves, we couldn’t wait to bring you an episode about a couple of them. First, we’ll head to the Riddle House in Palm Beach Florida. The house is home to Buck, a kindly cemetery worker and Joseph, a tragic spirit who haunts the attic and has chased off workers restoring the home. Next, we’ll visit the infamous House of Wills located in East Cleveland, Ohio. T...

It’s finally happened; we’re going to jail.  No, we’re not in trouble—at least not yet—but we are going to visit two very haunted jails. The first is the Pottawatomie County Jail more famously known as The Squirrel Cage. Here, we’ll find shadows lurking on the fourth floor, hear the voices of children in the juvie wing, and maybe run into a ghost cat or two. After a thirteen hour prison bus ride f...

Welcome to another cryptid-tastic episode! This time we’ll take you back to 1952 when two brothers and a friend near the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia were surprised by a bright light that landed near a local farm. Accompanied by a local National Guardsman, the group came face to face with something straight out of a sci-fi movie: the Flatwoods Monster. Twenty years later in the rural sou...

On today’s Book Club Minisode we read Craig DiLouie’s much loved Episode Thirteen . The distinct storytelling makes this novel one of the most unique and interesting novels we’ve ever read. The novel depicts a group of paranormal investigators desperately trying to secure a second season for their paranormal television show Fade to Black . Throughout the novel, the reader experiences every second...

Once again, it’s time to pack up the Ope, A Ghost van and hit the road. We hope you have a taste for seafood and Tex-Mex because we’re headed to Galveston, Texas. Our first stop will be the Galveston Railroad Museum—also known as Jonathan’s Train Depot—where one traveler might have lost his head, but not his hat. Next, we’ll swing by the local Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and check in on the g...