The Ghost Story Guys

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We asked for stories and our listeners delivered! From a nightmarish double appearing while listening to an equally nightmarish song, to lost items suddenly reappearing where they have no business being, and a whole lot more, this one is for the books. Also, it's our first video story episode! For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGu...

⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ A haunted house in Utah, an experiment in divination gone right, and strident opinions about whether or not "Capturing Bigfoot" is on the level? It must be time to Talk SpookyOur musical guest on this episode is Tracy Barnett, with the track "Devil in My Brain" from her latest album, "Resilience" Full shownotes @ ⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn...

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For Halloween, we're joined by one of our favorite guests, Sinead Hanna, to talk about Iceland's first psychic medium being harassed by poltergeists. Of course we also take a LOT of digressions, from the latest and greatest in horror novels, to exactly how bad the "Leprechaun" series got, and a whole lot more. sure to follow Sinead on Ins...

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The second half of our conversation with Jason Pargin, author of "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series. Follow Jason Pargin on social media ⁠here⁠ Pre-order your copy of ⁠"There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel:...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Author Jason Pargin joins us to talk about "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series. What was planned as a 30-45 minute conversation turned into a 2 hour opus full of so much good stuff, like what it's like to be a...

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ A Florida journalist dreams of tomorrow's fire. A poltergeist ties a Montreal family - and their clothes - into knots. The sad story of Elsie Hulk (no relation to the Incredible one). A child's premonition of disaster. All this, plus strange rains, a Chicago man who claims he can bribe God and the power of Lady Zeus, because this is Ghost S...

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ How much frog is too much? What's your favorite concept of a potato chip? How good is the South Korean action horror flick "Colony"? All those questions and more are answered when Bren & Paul talk spooky Our musical guests on this episode are Curse Words with their latest single, "Crime of the Sentry", from the upcoming album, "Hyperdrive O...

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ On our 250th story show, we dive into two of our favorite spooky topics - mimics and doppelgangers! Also this week: Paul is now raving in the daytime, Bren has his third-least embarrassing barroom singalong, and someone sent in an apport story which defies all conventional logic. Links Brett Manning's Store [Etsy]"Wyrd TV", by Diane A Roge...

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ Haunted roads in Scotland, reflections on our episode with Tim Renner, Paul survives another birthday and Bren survives Zack Snyder fans at the premiere of "The Last Photograph" - that's right, it's a mailbag episode! Our musical guest on this episode is Ruby Tingle, with her latest single, "Eating Out of My Hand" from the upcoming EP "Wild...

⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ This week we're joined by podcaster and author Timothy Renner, host of "Strange Familiars" to read stories from his latest book, "The Keystone Hagstone: Faeries and Other Mysterious Entities of Pennsylvania"! We cover a TON of ground, from haunting inside and out, to green bigfoot, to dreams, salvia experimentation, and so much more Get aut...

Friend of the show and Canadian extreme horror maestro Steve Stred returns! We talk about "Kaiju Killers, Part 1 & 2" the recently released sequels to his hit novel, "Mastodon", as well as his upcoming instalment in Mark Tullius' adult Choose Your Own Adventure-style series, "Try Not to Die: On Werewolf Island" Get your copy of "Try Not to Die on Werewolf Island": https://mybook.to/onwerewolfislan...

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ A poltergeist in Oakland? A housekeeper for a ghost? Even a Christmas curse? This week, the pages of Fate Magazine offer up some truly bizarre tales of the paranormal as well as a deeply strange - and still unsolved - case of the twins who, it seems, willed themselves to death. For full shownotes, head to ⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about...

⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠! Brennan talks about taking the Ghosts of the Don Valley haunted walk, which was plenty creepy but has nothing on a listener who writes in to tell us about a groping ghost at Waverly Hills. We also have a sweet story of someone's grandfather coming to say goodbye, a series of suggestions for more whacked-out animal movies (MDMAlien, anyone?)...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠⁠ Haunted airports, train stations, and moorland are just a few of the locations where, according to legendary paranormal researcher Peter Underwood, ghosts are said to walk. We share not only those stories but also newspaper accounts of giant beasts, a quarry that shouldn't exist, and a Cornish folk song that's... well, it's real gross Links:...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠ Yet another shark movie has hit the tower...I mean scene! We also uncover listener emails about prophetic dreams of death, photos coming to life, and learn that Paul's Greek pronunciation was, shall we say, a little off. Or maybe it wasn't, we're not sure...Our musical guest on this episode is...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ The world has always been weird, and for proof we're going back to stories from an April 1957 edition of Fate Magazine. Get ready for Tesla's laser-eyed pigeon, warnings from beyond the grave, psychic mediums who may (or may not) have travelled through the ether, the music of the storm, and so m...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ What haunts the land of the Gods? Turns out it's a lot of shadow people and they're real jerks about the whole thing. On this episode, Greece reveals some of its high strangeness, both ancient and modern Also: Paul expresses his love of Kefalonia, there is some debate as to which installment of...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠⁠ Misheard Springsteen lyrics, dreams in which people explore the path not taken, sweet grifter tears, and a listener tale of crack attack: that's right, it's time to Talk Spooky. Our musical guests on this episode are the pop country band Shimmer Road with their single, "Ring" Learn more about y...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ We've been wanting to cover a full-on poltergeist case for a while and now here it is! Me and Paul dive into the 1960 Leuthold Poltergeist in Maschwanden, Switzerland, as well as a 1956 UFO sighting in Altadena, CA by W.E. Dickensheetz (for real). Also on this episode: Tom Waits down on the farm,...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Invisible forces turning on the water, a message from beyond the grave, the dangers of arm wrestling, and the only thing scarier than rats in James Herbert's "Rats" series - that's right, it's time to Talk Spooky. Check out Brett Manning's Etsy store here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/brettisagirl O...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ On this episode we dive into stories from UK folklorist and friend of the show Ruth Roper Wylde's "These Haunted Times, Volume 6" available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. Also on this episode: nerdy synchronicities, Paul surviving the World Cup, and the nightmare that is James Herbert's "The...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ What kind of high strangeness lurks at Hanging Rock? Is there a plasmoid theory of poltergeist activity that will blow your everloving mind? Is a giant owl fit to be a babysitter? All these questions and more are answered when we talk spooky. Our musical guests on this episode are the Lot Lizards,...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Brennan's most striking encounter with the paranormal in years kicks off our exploration into high strangeness in those most liminal of places - shopping malls. From the former Puente Hills Mall in Industry, CA to Cincinnati Mills to The Shire's in Trowbridge, it turns out that while these malls may...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Haunted houses that won't stay clean? Nerding out about the newly discovered cut of 1958's "Dracula"? Making out with Green Day? All while Paul desperately fights the heat? That's right, it's time to Talk Spooky! Our musical guest on this episode is Podzontommusic, with his latest beat, "Motown." For...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ This one represents a first for GSG - never before have we recorded an episode while my phone is blowing up with tornado warnings! The only thing scarier than that is the collection of listener stories we told while the wind was blowing - three never-before-heard-in-English tales of German poltergeist...