Ope, A Ghost

The things that went on at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York have become the stuff of legend. The Amityville story has spawned almost forty films and documentaries. The story begins on November 13, 1975 with the murder of the DeFeo family and ends on January 13, 1976 with the Lutz family fleeing in terror. What really happened that caused a family to flee their home after only twenty-eight...

Hospitals and asylums seem to be among the most haunted of all places. In this episode we explore one of each: Spencer State Hospital and the Old South Pittsburg Hospital. Spencer State, one of over 300 Kirkbride buildings in the nation at the time, began as an overflow for what is now known as the Trans-Alleghany Lunatic Asylum. The Old South Pittsburg Hospital was abandoned because of a need for...

This week's mini book club episode is about A Natural History of Ghosts - 500 Years of Hunting for Proof by: Roger Clarke  If you read along, visit our Instagram page or Facebook group and let us know what you thought of the book! Thanks for listening! Send us Fan Mail If you have an experience, story, or anything else you'd like to share with us, you can email us at Opeaghost@gmail.com...

We recently conducted a poll on our social media sites asking what you would like us to cover in an episode. As luck would have it, there was a tie. This episode is one of the two winners. We’ll get to the other winning topic next time, so you won’t have to wait long. Thank you to all who voted! Haunted house? Yup, heard of those. Haunted cemetery? Still, yup. But wait! Have you heard of a haunted...

Welcome to another dive down the paranormal rabbit hole where answers are vague at best but mostly raise more questions. That’s where we live. We confront the enigmas and the mysteries of the paranormal so we might better understand, inform, and maybe even entertain. Sit back, dim the lights, and enjoy! In this episode, we discuss the mystery of Shadow People. Have you every woke from a dream to f...

In the early 1960s, the bayous of Southern Louisiana became the home of the Honey Island Swamp Monster. According to local lore, this foul-smelling, grey-haired beast is a part alligator / part monkey hybrid that splashed through the swamp leaving behind mysterious three-toed footprints. A decade later in Central Illinois, the area around Lawndale hosted an outbreak of Thunderbird sightings. In on...

For our second Book Club Minisode, we discuss Corey Taylor’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven . Taylor is the lead singer of the widely successful bands Slipknot and Stone Sour and is the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins. In A Funny Thing Happened , Taylor shares his haunted side and delivers a book packed with his spooky experiences while growing up in Des Moines,...

Haunted Springfield High & EL Paso High Who doesn’t have school spirit? These schools sure do! The spirit at these schools lingers long after the students have gone home. Join Heaven and Jonathan as they examine two haunted high schools. The first is Springfield High School in Springfield, IL. SHS is notorious for being built on top of a cemetery. Sure, they moved the bodies . . . most of them...

Knock, Knock. Who’s There? A Poltergeist! In this episode, Heaven and Jonathan talk about the poltergeist phenomenon. Is it a ghost? Is it psychokinetic? One thing’s for sure: something is making a lot of noise and throwing things around. Join us as we dive . . . well, more like belly flop . . . into one of the most bizarre occurrences in the paranormal world. Enfield House - Google Maps - In the...

Emily joins Heaven and Jonathan to talk about their experience with a ghostly little girl and shadow people at the very haunted Old Williamson Funeral Home in Jacksonville, IL. Troy Taylor’s Books – www.americanhauntingsink.com American Hauntings Ghost Hunts www.bumpinthenight.net Send us Fan Mail If you have an experience, story, or anything else you'd like to share with us, you can email us...

We do a lot of reading both for fun and for the show. So, why not share some of what we read with you? For our first Book Club Minisode, we are thrilled to discuss Amy Bruni’s book Life with the Afterlife. You know Bruni from her time on Ghost Hunters and on Kindred Spirits where she co-stars with Adam Berry. Bruni’s book is part biography, part ghost hunting field guide, and part behind the scene...

Located in southeastern Massachusetts, the Bridgewater Triangle is one of the most prolifically paranormal places in America. If it’s paranormal, Bridgewater has it. Stories of Native American curses, cryptids, UFOs, ghosts, pukwudgies, and cult activity are common. Join Heaven and Jonathan as they dive down the triangle shaped rabbit hole. The Bridgewater Triangle Documentary – https://www.youtub...

Is it possible for a place to be haunted only because you want it to be? Is it possible to create a ghost simply by thinking about it? A group in Canada claims to have done exactly that. This week we talk about the Philip Experiment. In 1973, members of the Toronto Society for Psychical Research set out to determine if paranormal activity associated with mediumistic activities like séances and oth...

On this week's episode, Heaven and Jonathan talk about how they first got into the paranormal and tell us about their personal ghost experiences.  If you want to share your own experiences with us, you can email them to Opeaghost@gmail.com Send us Fan Mail If you have an experience, story, or anything else you'd like to share with us, you can email us at Opeaghost@gmail.com    You can al...