Tell Me Your Ghost Story

When Angela took a night shift job at a nursing home, she knew the building had seen a lot over the decades. She began having strange experiences on the clock, only to discover her coworkers had encountered many of the same things. As the years passed, she realized each of the nursing home's four floors seemed to have its own distinct type of haunting, as if every level had absorbed a different pi...

In 2016, Evan died. He flatlined eight times after suffering a widowmaker heart attack. Against all odds, he was brought back again and again thanks to an extraordinary team of healthcare workers. Today, he shares what he experienced on the other side, including the details he still can’t fully explain. Evan's Instagram: @evanhoytwasserstrom Evan's Business Insider Article Evan's LADbible Article...

For years, Heather and Mike navigated the long and emotional process of international adoption, waiting for the day they could finally bring their daughter Abigail home. During this time, Heather’s Aunt Marion was nearing the end of her life. More than anything, Marion wanted to meet Abigail. Unfortunately, she never got the chance. But after her passing, a series of signs seemed to suggest that M...

I’m sharing a fun bonus episode today because I recently joined Meredith on Rattled & Shook, a spooky variety show podcast featuring true scary stories sent in by real people. I had such a fun time hearing some crazy ghost stories, sharing some of my own strange experiences, and chatting with Meredith about my fears - both rational and irrational. Huge thank you to Meredith and the Rattled & Shook...

Growing up, Eric spent countless nights sneaking into cemeteries and abandoned buildings with friends, hoping they might see a ghost. At first, it was just something fun to do, until he actually started witnessing strange things. Years later, working overnight shifts in the Alzheimer’s wing of a nursing home brought even more experiences he couldn’t explain. The paranormal slowly grew into a much...

If you're anything like me, you burned through Company Retreat in a single sitting. The cast spent weeks convincing one unsuspecting person that a fake reality was totally real. But for four cast members, that's not the strangest thing they’ve ever experienced. In this special episode, Blair Beeken (Marjorie), Rob Lathan (Other Anthony), Jim Woods (Jimmy), and Emily Pendergast (Amy) share their pa...

As hosts of Let’s Get Haunted podcast, Nat and Aly have spent a lot of time exploring the strange and unexplained, so of course they’ve had a few experiences of their own they still can’t make sense of. First, we hear Aly’s stories. While living in Newbury Park in Ventura County, California, she started to realize something about her house felt off. Between weird activity in the sky and a nighttim...

While out hunting in Dansville, Michigan, Josh finds the perfect spot to settle in and wait for deer. Sitting there in his ghillie suit, waiting for the sun to come up, he hears something stepping through the fresh snow behind him. He spins around, hoping to get the perfect shot, but there’s no animal there. Just a set of fresh bootprints in the snow that definitely weren’t there before. And when...

In this episode, we hear the stories of two women who share a very specific experience - the feeling of knowing someone before they had any logical way of knowing them. First, we hear Brooke’s story. As a kid, Brooke received a Ouija board as a gift, and during her first and only session with it, it spelled out a full name that she didn’t really think much of at the time. But years later, while di...

Today I’m so excited to share another podcast I think you’re going to love! You Can See Me in the Dark tells terrifying and tender ghost stories, sound designed for an intimate, campfire experience. For the past 8 years, hosts Melissa Sweazy and Nate Reisman have shared ghost stories from around the world, told by the people who experienced them. From a Dutch metal singer battling a demon to a sou...

When Sam stayed over at a new boyfriend’s house for the first time, she never expected to leave with a ghost story. In the middle of the night, she woke to see an elderly man standing in the room, his face glowing in the light of a flame as he tried to light a cigarette. Wide awake, she stared at him until he suddenly vanished. At first, she didn’t know what to make of it. But later, conversations...

Mike Clelland, author of The Messengers, shares the experience that led him to his years of research into the strange connection between owls and UFO encounters. Years ago, while camping with a friend, three owls circled and swooped around their campsite for hours. What happened that night was weird enough on its own, but everything changed when an unshakable thought entered his mind: “This has so...

James and a friend were walking through the woods near their home in Thundersley, Essex, when they encountered a strange child in tattered Victorian clothing, peering at them from behind a tree. For years it was just a creepy story they’d tell at parties. But then, James found a book about Essex hauntings that revealed the dark history of those woods and made them rethink who they'd seen that nigh...

Mitaya grew up on a vast stretch of land in Jasper, Georgia, at the base of the Appalachian Mountains. During her fall break from school, she broke her arm, leaving her with little to do but spend long stretches of time alone outside. Over the course of that week, she began noticing strange phenomena in the sky. On the final night of her break, she was woken up by two bright lights outside her bed...

When Neil was in college studying film, he lived with four roommates in a ramshackle old house affectionately called The Hubcap House, named for the found hubcaps that lined the front yard. The Hubcap House was full of life and creativity - the last place you’d expect something terrifying to happen. But one night, Neil awoke to a presence joining him in his bedroom. He believed his experience was...

In this very special episode, Betsy Sodaro and Marcy Jarreau from A Funny Feeling Podcast share their own firsthand encounters with the unexplained. Betsy recounts a ski trip to Summit County, Colorado, where an otherwise normal Airbnb became the setting for something she still can’t fully explain when a disembodied voice breaks the silence in the middle of the night. Marcy follows with stories fr...

When Joseph turned 10 years old, his summer vacation began like any other - long, hot days spent playing with his cousins. But then, things took a turn for the strange. A hooded figure appeared night after night outside Joseph’s window, and then something far stranger - perhaps not of this world - appeared outside his family’s home. Whatever it was seemed to stick with him for years, returning lat...

During Marcus’s first week as a nighttime security guard at the Tulsa Zoo, his supervisor pulled him aside to share a story about the night he saw a ghost wandering the grounds after closing. Marcus tried to shrug it off, determined to not let it get to his head. But soon after, on one of his first nights working alone, Marcus found himself facing exactly what his supervisor had tried to warn him...

The night before leaving the US to start a new life in Thailand, Brock had one more run-in with the sleep paralysis that had plagued him for years. Only this time, something was different. Instead of the familiar feelings of dread and the slow, deliberate sounds of something inching closer, he finally saw what had been stalking him in the dark. As he lay frozen, the figure rose taller than the cei...

Rick and Sheri’s home in the Mojave desert was a peaceful place, until the day a stray dog appeared on the property. They took him in and named him Buddy. Buddy was a source of warmth and companionship, though his arrival seemed to stir something within the house. They began catching whiffs of cigarette smoke, finding objects knocked to the floor, and noticing their belongings moved from one room...

Out of the blue, Lisa feels an unshakable pull to uproot her family of six from their comfortable suburban life and renovate a run-down cabin on a plot of land in Modjeska Canyon, a remote community of just 600 people. Once they settled in, strange things started happening - sightings of shadowy figures, sudden illnesses, and a newfound obsession with transforming the property by hand. Later, Lisa...

Reality is the real horror.  Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world’s most terrifying legends. From haunted dolls to cursed houses, each episode of Twisted Tales reveals the disturbing real-life events that inspired horror’s biggest blockbusters and the ones too twisted to make it to screen.  Some stories are stranger than fiction...

During the Covid lockdowns, Rosie and her friends set out on a camping trip in West Virginia. When they arrived, they discovered they’d be the only ones at the entire campsite - completely alone in the middle of the woods. When they stopped in town for food and drinks, locals kept asking if they were the girls staying at Campsite 12. Uneasy, they returned to the campsite, trying to shake off the f...

Stephen thought his experience with psychedelics ended when he came back into himself, but the nightmare was only beginning. In the nights that followed, shadow people invaded his bedroom, looming over him as he slept and jolting him awake with paralyzing dread. Desperate, he tried a technique to banish the shadow people - one he remembered a radiant female deity told him about while in his trip....

Hunter and his brother spent their childhood exploring the oak groves around their home in Temecula, California. One day, they stumbled upon an old forgotten treehouse and claimed it as their own, fixing it up and making it their secret hideout. But everything changed the day a strange little boy appeared inside. There was something unsettling about him - the way he talked, the way he moved, even...