The Ghost Story Guys

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows When the moon hits your eye like a big haunted guy, that's amore, or at the very least it's an episode where the stories take us from Bangladesh to Singapore to the rural USA and parts unknown. Whether it's spectral ladies on the water, a creature atop a hydroelectric dam, or a surprise in someone's bed, there's one common denominator: every sto...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows A mail show where we actually answer mail? We are through the looking glass here, people, and on the way we talk about the latest paranormal series from both Hulu and Netflix. Our musical guests on this episode are Waveform Mountain, with "Everything Changes", from their new album, "Processing" Links Mentioned: https://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets...

A long-lost archive of 90s horror, finally recovered and brought to light... with horrifying tales of murder, madness, monsters, and life after death! Ad-Free Episodes of Fear Daily are available now on all of your favorite podcasting apps! Fear Daily is an independent podcast hosted by Brandon Schexnayder and written by Brennan Storr, with Joanna Smith serving as the consulting editor, audio prod...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Welcome to Atlanta, where the players play and the town is getting haunted like every day. If you understand that reference, your back hurts and you're ready for some southern fried haunting! We are joined by master storyteller Brandon Schexnayder (Southern Gothic) to tell stories of Lake Lanier, Masquerade, and the Camp Creek Crash, among other...

We finish our voyage through the Balkans with a visit from filmmakers Toby Poser and John Adams to talk about their brand-new, shot-in-Serbia creature feature, "Hell Hole"! We also talk about their upcoming Screambox short, "Plastic Smile", evolving your creative process, laughing at darkness, and, of course, being absolutely covered in blood. "Hell Hole" is streaming now on Shudder and "Plastic S...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows On our most ambitious episode yet, we tackle one of the lesser-known parts of the haunted world to find dark omens, buried ruins, and Mount Rtanj, the "UFO Mountain" (but not really), and that's only the beginning. Mentioned on this episode: Balkan Ghosts, by Robert Kaplan [book] Blood Makes Noise, by Gregory Widen [book] The Silent Forest [movi...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows What scares you the most? We're joined by horror authors Andrew Pyper, Steve Stred, and C.M. Forest, as well as publisher Michelle River (Eerie River Publishing) to talk about just that, as well as the upcoming horror convention Dread Con! Dread Con, sponsored by Rue Morgue Magazine, will be happening on Saturday, September 14th at Federation Ha...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows The first in our two-part series about haunting in prisons! We have a number of stories from North America, plus an exclusive look at the haunting of the Lima Sheraton in Lima, Peru, former site of the infamous prison known as El Panoptico. When it comes to ghost stories, there's regular old dark, then there's lock-up dark, and the only thing sc...

Singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, aka Oceanography, is going back on tour and will be our musical guest on the next "Talk Spooky", so we thought we would share his 2021 conversation with Brennan from his old talk show "Largely the Truth." Check Brian's tour dates here Original shownotes follow: This week, singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, who performs as Oceanography, joins me to talk about his fantasti...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Close calls during a mountain hike, an explanation of Philippine totems, and a review of the brand new psychological thriller "Broken Bird", in UK theaters on August 30th. All this and more in our latest mail show! Our musical feature on this episode is "(Never) 2 Hot" by Massey feat. Xochi, presented courtesy of Bent River Records. Link to the...

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows We're joined by Sinead Hanna of "The Poisoner's Cabinet" to tell stories of high strangeness in and around waterfalls! From North Queensland to California's High Sierras and the mountains of the Philippines, your best bet is to just stay out of the woods, man. The Lady of the Lake can be found here Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn...

A strange light over Western Australia, schizoaffective disorder & the paranormal, and a history of bad luck on the same Blackpool rollercoaster that once threw off a young Paul Bestall. That's right - it's a mail show. Our musical feature on this episode is "Barcelona" by Rain is Wet Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you get when you combine stories from New Zealand and remote Western Australia, with a recorded appearance of a hat man in 1989? You get just a portion of the listener stories on this episode, along with some surprising findings from Brennan's research, and Paul's love of summer Links: Daniel W. VanArsdale's Paranormal Journal [carryiton.net] Paul Cropper's blog, The Fortean [thefortean.co...

Board games, a Greek poet, and the mystery of Jawbone Hill are just a couple of the topics we cover in our listener mail segment before we get down to an epic conversation with John Olsen, author of the "Stranger Bridgerland" series. John is a fount of knowledge on the strange side of Utah and we talk about missing time, the good kind of orb, and a whole lot more! Our musical feature on this episo...

How weird IS the Beehive State? As it turns out, pretty damn weird: we talk about the haunting of Park City, menacing presences in school at night, Tommyknockers, the Farmington Poltergeist, and a whole lot more! Story Time Codes: Visions of the Apocalypse (8:48) House Has Devil (27:00) Everybody Knows (36:49) Fresh Powder (55:38) The Farmington Poltergeist (1:06:23) Lights Out (1:17:35) Learn mor...

Paul has a legendarily good week, Brennan is on the road again, and there are e-mails about narcolepsy, having hope for the future, plus why the Dublin-New York portal might be the best expression of being human. Our musical feature on this episode is "D00mfkinD00m" by Rainy Days For Ghosts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What comes to mind when you think of Italy? Palazzos? Gnocchi? Monica Bellucci? On this episode, we have exactly none of those things but plenty of banshees, family ghosts, inexplicable smoke, and a thorough debunking of one of the paranormal world's laziest myths. We also have some UFO sightings taken straight from a recently unearthed collection of newsletters from the late, great John Keel Link...

We talk haunted offices, give the final word on soundtracks, uncover the hidden truth behind Paul's accent, and recap Brennan's trip to the Goblin Market in Indiana. Then, Ghost Story Guys comes full circle as Brennan sits down with Anne & her son D, the original experiencers of Bumblebuzz, one of our most popular stories, to reflect on what happened and their lives since then. Our musical guest o...

When there's something strange and it don't look good, who you gonna call? On this episode, inspired by Russell Crowe's latest film "The Exorcism" (in theaters now), we decide to call up an exorcist, or at least stories about them. That's right - we have five tales of possession, plus two lesser known stories of haunting on film sets, and through it all we pay tribute to thicc Russell Crowe and hi...

Paul rages against the new French shark flick "Under Paris" before being slayed by Brennan's terrible Count Von Count jokes, and then we welcome Jo Hickey-Hall, host of "The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast" to talk about seeing the fae in our modern world. Our musical guest on this episode is Genki Genki Panic, with their latest single, "Crypt Walk" For full shownotes, head to www.ghoststoryguys.co...

We lift our gaze from haunted basements to the forbidding skies as we explore stories of UFO sightings across North America and Europe. Along the way, we stop to talk about the experience that made actress Goldie Hawn say, "Oh, my God. I think I made contact with outer space." Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul's friends getting kicked out of Ibiza for duelling the police with fire extinguishers, a listener is wrong about SEVERAL movies, and which paranormal phenomenon we'd most want to know the truth about, should a genie ever ask. Truly, this mail episode is the essence of The Ghost Story Guys Our musical feature on this episode is "Just a Memory" by Banri, featuring Elijah, courtesy of Night Harv...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ What happened to the air traffic controller who lost hours of time after seeing a strange light descend onto the runway? Whose strange handwriting filled the logbook while he was out? Why, in Herefordshire, are monks stepping down from the sky on invisible stairs? We don't have answers, but we sure have fun with the questio...

Who knows what evil lurks in the darkness of the movie theater? Bren knows, and on this episode, you have to know too, because misery shared is...well, funnier.. We also answer listener mail about neurodivergence and the paranormal, Paul's take on Eurovision 2024, and our favourite soundtrack albums. Our musical feature on this episode is the single "All I Need" from Greco Ray & Dorion Dolore Lear...

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ In this episode, we share the second half of Meghan's haunted life story, taking us into New York City, flying blocks of cheese, subterranean water, and so much more. Also on this show: Paul threatens to call the police, Brennan's mother is in a war against the bees, and a new space mission is proposed Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠...