The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

Welcome to the first episode of Terror Bites Every Tuesday, we'll be sharing a bite of terror to keep us all going to the main episode on Sundays. We hope you enjoy this first episode and if you want to listen ad-free, you can join us on Patreon HERE . Thanks so much to u /raisedbyspirits for letting us tell your story! Here's the link if you'd like to read STORY EMAIL us your stories Follow us on...

The Wendigo Part Two of Two Another episode of wonderful, Wendigo stories! In the bleak, bitter winters of the East Coast of Canada and the Great Plains and Lakes of America, something waits in the forest. Is that a cry from a tortured animal you hear?  This is no animal you recognise, as you strain your ears against the unforgiving, ice cold wind that whips through the trees....

The Wendigo | Part One of Two In the bleak, bitter winters of the East Coast of Canada and the Great Plains and Lakes of America, something waits in the forest. Is that a cry from a tortured animal you hear?  This is no animal you recognise, as you strain your ears against the unforgiving, ice cold wind that whips through the trees. The cry becomes a shriek and it's getting lou...

The Bell Witch - A True Encounter Have you heard about the greatest ghost story in American history? For 200 hundred years the Bell Family of Tennessee was tortured by an evil entity claiming to be the spirit of a dead woman, but also a witch, and the ghost of a native boy who's grave had been disturbed, but the terrifying visitors' most dire proclamation was that it planned to kill the family's h...

The Jersey Devil - American Folklore Deep in a remote area of Southern New Jersey, that extends for 1700 square miles, an area known as the Pine Barrens, is said to be home to a flying, bipedal creature known as The Jersey Devil. Originally known as the Leeds' Devil or The Devil of Leeds, sightings of this entity have been whispered of since the 18th Century. The Pine Barr...

The Night Marchers - Hawaiian Folklore Some Hawaiian's believe that when you die, your spirit remains and watches from another realm and according to Hawaiian legend, the Night Marchers, Huakai Po in native tongue, are said to be the ghosts of long dead warriors who were tasked with protecting a sacred King, Chief or Chiefest.  In life, they would proceed the Chief in the...

The Hat Man Intruder of dreams, stalker of night.  He will present himself in shadow form, and though some descriptions of this entity do vary, he is always seen wearing a hat. More often than not, he wears a fedora but others report him fashioning a top hat. He's sometimes seen dressed in a trench coat, other times a cloak, and with a masculine outline and generally no di...

DUPPIES Duppies, in Caribbean lore, are spirits who are said to rise and roam the earth alongside the living, most often they are malevolent and will bring back luck and misfortune to their victims.  Originating from South Africa, as part of Bantu folklore, a duppy is either a manifestation of a deceased human or an evil, supernatural being. These entities can appear&...

TERROR IN THE WOODS - SCARY DEEP WOODS HORROR STORIES On this weeks episode, we share 5 true, scary stories involving creepy encounters in the forest. Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5 Thanks so much for listening and we'll catch up with you again next week for some more true, scary stories. Sarah and Tobie xx Email us your stories - thewhisperingwoodspodcast@gmail.com Join us on Instagram -...

GOAT MAN The legend of the Goatman dates back at least to the 1950's and became popularized further in the 1970s when it was blamed for the decapitation of a dog in 1971. This creature is believed to reside in the woods of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Reported to resemble a human but with goat like features, he has been likened to the mythical faun. With a body c...

HAUNTED DOLLS The next night, everything was calm until around 2am when one of the other residents, Connor, got up and said that someone was tapping on his window. I guessed that he must have just been dreaming as his window was on the third floor of the house and was at least 25 feet from the ground. I went back up to his room with him to reassure him and checked his window. Sure enough, it was s...

Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, Yemen, Wild Man & Woodwose Bigfoot also known as Sasquatch, has a long history of sightings in North America and is deeply embedded in the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tales of wild, bipedal creatures also exist throughout the world with similar, simian entities being reported in many regions; such as the Yeti in Asia who is s...

Haunted Houses - Part 2 When I was eight years old, my family moved into the house I grew up in. It wasn't an old house, and no one had died in it, and it didn't even feel creepy. Just an average suburban house in your average southern suburbs. The way the house was set up, when you came in the front door, there was a hallway with two bedrooms and a bathroom to the right, the large living room in...

Haunted Houses - Part 1 A description of the house for a bit of content, its a 2 story, brick/stone house in city limits but still surrounded by nothing but woods. You have to go through a garage that leads into the kitchen with the first bedroom to your left. Past the kitchen is the main living room and to the right is the hall that is very open. In this area you will find the main dining room an...

SPRING-HEELED JACK It was London in October of 1837 when a young lady by the name of Mary Stevens was walking back to work in Lavender Hill where she was employed as a servant. After a visit to her parents in Battersea, she was making her way through Clapham Common, when a figure suddenly leapt out at her from a dark alley. He quickly immobilised the poor girl with a bear...

Promo - Spooky Island Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spooky-island-radio/id1618679119 https://open.spotify.com/show/6GeEyA2zafWp2KzoAyFzT4 Mimics - Shapeshifters This happened around 8 years ago but it's something I'll never forget. My grandpa told me never to speak of it but if I don't get it off my chest, I don't think I'll ever be able to move on and live a normal life. M...

OUIJA THE TALKING BOARD It was February of 1891 when first advertisements for 'Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board' first began to appear in printed publications. The board was promoted as a magical device that would answer questions about the 'past, present and future.' and would provide “never-failing amusement and recreation for all the classes,” it also purported to offer a link “betw...

KRAMPUS & YULE In central European folklore, Krampus is a Christmas devil who visits on the eve of St Nicholas Day, to punish naughty children. He's also known to drag an unfortunate few back to hell with him in a basket carried upon his back. Some children are merely whipped with birch tree branches known as switches whilst others serve as supper to St Nicholas' rather unconventiona...

KNOCKERS, GOBLINS, GNOMES AND ALIENS Imagine you rarely saw the sun, and most of your short existence was spent deep underground, 10 hours a day, 6 days of the week. That was the life of a tin miner in 18th and 19th century England with many not living past the age of 30. The mines could reach out for some 2.5km under the sea, 640m deep, and miners would hear the thundering roar of bould...

SHADOW PEOPLE Have you ever caught a glimpse of a dark figure out of the corner of your eye, only to turn around and it has disappeared? Well, this could be a shadow person. In 2001, Art Bell from the Coast to Coast AM radio show, interviewed native elder Thunder Strikes, who purported that the beings had been recorded by indigenous Americans way back in 1153bc. He stated that they were...

GHOST LIGHTS A variation of ghost lights exists in many cultures, in parts of the UK and America they are known as Will o' the Wisps and these spectral lights are said to be ghosts that haunt the moors and boglands, captivating, lonely travellers and leading them to their doom. The classic tale of Will o' the Wisp (meaning Will of the torch, as a wisp is a small bunch of twigs or paper used t...

The Smiling Man As a night person, Riley would often take walks to pass the time and in the early hours of this particular morning, he was taking one of his usual jaunts around the city. Being a weeknight, the streets were quiet with very little traffic and turning down a side street, something caught his eye down the far end of the street on the same side as the paceman. it was a man, well m...

Black Eyed Kids Black eyed kids, or BEK, sightings have been littering forums and websites since the late 1990’s. Manifesting as children, these beings are anything but. As the name suggests, BEK's have completely black eyes with no distinguishable sclera or iris and much the same as vampires, they will ask for permission to enter your home or vehicle, usually requesting a lift or the use of...

Crawlers Crawlers are said to be extremely thin, unearthly, humanoid creatures. With very pale, almost translucent skin, they stand at least 8 feet tall and lurk in the shadows of the night. Sometimes travelling on 2 legs, sometimes 4 they have shiny, reflective eyes and will often feast on the animals of the forest. Appearing as if out of nowhere, they are known to intimidate and in sti...

Mirrors There are many myths and superstitions surrounding mirrors and some of these dates back to the Roman times. It was believed that mirrors had the ability to trap souls and If you didn’t look after them, they would make bad things happen to you. The covering of mirrors is a well-known superstition and if someone dies in their home it should be done post haste to avoid their spirit becoming t...