Tell Me Your Ghost Story

On Halloween night, Bud and his friend David notice a strange pink fog drifting through the woods behind David's house. As they drive deeper into the forest to investigate, they spot dozens of lights darting around the sky. While Bud is distracted by the lights, David sees something in the woods that sends him into a panic. Despite this terrifying experience, the two can't resist returning back in...

Today I'm sharing an episode from another podcast I think you guys are really going to enjoy, called Southern Gothic. One of my favorite parts about paranormal stories is learning the history behind them, and that's exactly what Southern Gothic does. The show explores haunted locations, dark historical events, and eerie legends from across the American South, digging into where these stories origi...

When Alexandra and her husband moved into a new flat in Edinburgh, it seemed almost too good to be true - a beautiful place in a great location for a suspiciously low price. It didn’t take long for them to realize there might be a reason no one wanted to stay there. Strange things begin happening inside the flat, but it isn’t until they learn about its past that things begin to make a little more...

The two men sharing their stories in this episode both experienced close encounters with strange entities under very different, yet equally interesting circumstances. Growing up in rural Mississippi, Jubal and his friends spent their nights driving around backroads, trying to find ways to entertain themselves. One night, they notice a figure standing in the middle of an empty field. They watch it...

Abbey has gotten used to the isolation of her family’s extremely rural ranch. What’s harder to get used to are the unexplained things that happen there. The ranch’s living quarters date back to the 1800s, and have a long history with cowboys, outlaws, and death. Strange activity on the property makes her think that some former occupants may still be hanging around. But the ranch’s mysteries aren’t...

Both women in this episode experienced something in their homes that wouldn’t fully make sense until much later. After years of unexplained activity in her childhood home, Brooke uses a Ouija board to try to communicate with whatever was haunting their home. She makes contact with someone calling himself Billy, who shares details about his identity and how he died. Later, Brooke would come across...

When Jared’s family moves into a new home, his stepdad tells him that the previous owner, a man named Joe, died in the house. At first, Jared assumes it’s just a story meant to scare him, until the night he encountered Joe himself. But whatever is happening in Jared’s house may only be part of the story. The land surrounding their property seems to have its own strange history, from encounters wit...

When Savannah was 11, her life revolved around her family's Pentecostal church, like many others growing up in the Bible Belt. Nearly every night was spent at services where people claimed to perform miracles, speak in tongues, and practice "slain in the Spirit" rituals. Savannah never knew what to make of it all, until the night a stranger approached her during a service. What happened next was s...

Eight feet tall. Standing upright. Antlers on its head. What did Wade encounter in the middle of the woods? Wade couldn't wait to join his co-worker David on one of his camping trips in Big Bear Lake, California. But from the moment he arrives, nothing is quite as he expected. As night falls, something hidden deep in the woods begins tormenting Wade from outside his tent, and it has no intention o...

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...