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Hey, it's Michelle, and this compilation is a big one: nine calls covering everything from a ghostly Marilyn Monroe on a California beach to a Dogman at a sliding glass door. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time.

Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana opens with a story from a 1977 trip to Hollywood with her grandparents. Walking the beach at the Pacific, they encountered a confused, disoriented woman in a white evening gown who did not seem to know who or where she was. It was Marilyn Monroe. According to a Hollywood Reporter piece, Marilyn's spirit has reportedly been seen everywhere from her own former home to the ladies' room of the Hollywood Roosevelt.

Adam from Decatur, Illinois, a twenty-year paranormal investigator, calls in about the one time he learned the answer to a question he'd always been asked: can something follow you home?

Lisa, an Aboriginal woman of the Gomeroi Nation, calls in with a story from when she was four years old, waking to a tall, thin figure in a hat standing in her bedroom doorway. She has carried the memory her whole life and turned it into the artwork and inspiration for her own show, Proppa Scary Podcast, featuring First Nations paranormal stories.

Phil from Chattanooga shares a story that sounds like fiction but is disturbingly real. A young Marine took a shortcut through the woods near the old Tri State Crematorium in Noble, Georgia, and found himself surrounded by shadow figures. The crematorium's owner had been discovered storing over 300 uncremated bodies in a barn rather than cremating them, a scandal that leveled the small town when it broke. You can fact-check every detail of this one.

Cindy Ketron returns with a second story from the 1980s, when her family came face to face with a six-foot, black-haired creature at their sliding glass door, growling and slapping the glass. Her father, convinced it was a werewolf, ran for a chest of silver coins. It worked. This is the Michigan Dogman, a documented cryptid with over a hundred independent reported sightings.

Hendel from Long Island describes three increasingly strange nights at a Los Angeles hostel, including a roommate whose body impossibly repositioned itself mid-laugh, and a violent, room-shaking earthquake that no seismic record or hostel staff member can confirm ever happened.

Christina, host of Espooky Tales on the Scary FM Network, recalls the night her chair was yanked out from under her by something her younger brother had been warning them about the whole time: shadow people who apparently do not like being mocked.

Carla shares the shortest and most quietly moving story of the batch, an ongoing, loving presence from a partner who passed in 2020 that she describes simply as a gift that keeps giving.

And Nellie from Plainview, Illinois closes the episode with a Mexican folk phenomenon her grandmother always warned her about, se te subió el muerto, the dead climbing on top of you while you sleep. At eighteen, she felt exactly that.

Nine real callers. Nine true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to Brittany, who called in with a true ghost story from her childhood that is one of the most visually specific and genuinely unsettling real ghost encounters in the entire early archive. The image she describes has not left me since the first time I heard it.

Brittany woke from a nightmare in the middle of the night and did what children do. She got up to find her parents. The route to their room took her past the bay windows, and that is where everything changed. Outside the glass, in the dark, were translucent figures of men. Not shadows. Not shapes. Translucent men with enough visible form that Brittany could see them clearly and could see what they were doing. They were tapping on the glass. Deliberately. Insistently. As if they knew she was there and wanted her to acknowledge it.

One of the figures was slightly behind the others. He was pushing a bicycle. That detail, the man with the bicycle lagging at the edge of the group, is the kind of specific and inexplicable image that cannot be manufactured by a frightened child's imagination because a frightened child's imagination does not produce something that mundane alongside something that terrifying. It is too specific and too strange to be anything other than something Brittany actually saw.

She did not stand there and watch them. She got down on the floor and crawled across the room to get away from the windows, staying below the line of sight the entire way. That is not the behavior of someone who is embellishing a dream. That is the behavior of someone who is genuinely trying not to be seen by something that is already looking for her.

One caller. One true ghost story about translucent men tapping on a bay window at midnight and the child who crawled across the floor to escape them. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

 If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to Maggie from Washington, who called in with a true ghost story about a birthday getaway to Port Townsend that started romantic and ended with her and her husband lying awake in the dark listening to footsteps coming from a floor that did not exist above them.

Port Townsend is one of the most historically documented paranormal destinations in the Pacific Northwest, a Victorian seaport town whose architecture and history have accumulated the kind of layered supernatural activity that draws investigators and skeptics in equal numbers. The Palace Hotel sits at the center of that history. Built as a brothel in the late 1800s, the Palace has one of the most extensively documented haunting records of any hotel in Washington State, with activity reported consistently across decades by guests who had no prior knowledge of the building's history before they checked in.

Maggie and her husband were on the top floor. There were no guests above them. The hotel confirmed it. And yet the footsteps kept coming, slow and deliberate, moving across the ceiling of their room with the specific weight and rhythm of something that knew exactly where it was going. The couple did what most people do in that situation. They tried to explain it away. Old building. Settling wood. Pipes. The Palace Hotel is indeed an old building. But old buildings do not walk.

What Maggie describes in her call is a real ghost encounter that built slowly and then all at once, the specific pattern of haunted hotel activity where the rational explanations run out one by one until there is nothing left but the sound above your head and no one there to be making it.

One caller. One true ghost story from one of the most haunted hotels in the Pacific Northwest. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has two true ghost stories that both follow the same quiet arc. Something appears. You try to explain it away. And then it does something that makes explaining it away impossible.

Nikki from Cleveland calls in with a real ghost encounter that began in childhood and followed her all the way into adulthood. As a child, she was visited by a ghostly figure in her dreams and in her waking hours, the kind of presence that blurs the line between sleeping and conscious experience in a way that is particularly difficult to dismiss. As an adult, Nikki became a skeptic. She had reasons to doubt what she had seen as a child, and she leaned into those reasons for years. Then something dark appeared in her home, and the skepticism stopped. The prickling sensation on the back of her neck that she describes, that specific physical signal that something is behind you before you have any conscious evidence of it, is one of the most consistently reported paranormal experiences across cultures and one of the hardest to attribute to imagination alone.

Then Yamari returns to Tell Me A Ghost Story with her second call, this time taking us into the wilderness on a hiking trip with her family that became something else entirely. Deep in the mountains, they began hearing drumming. Not distant. Not ambiguous. Drumming that echoed through the trees with no visible source and no explanation that the landscape offered up. The local legend connected to those woods involves a woman who lost her husband and whose spirit is said to still be moving through the trees searching for him. Whether that legend explains what Yamari and her family heard or whether the drumming has its own answer that the legend only partially captures is something this episode does not resolve. It does not need to. The drumming was real. They all heard it. That is enough.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories about what finds you when you are not looking for it, in a childhood bedroom in Cleveland and on a mountain trail in haunted woods. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to David, who called in with a true ghost story from his childhood in Connecticut that has stayed with me since the first time I heard it. It starts with a near-death experience. It ends with a question about the woman who appeared after it that David has never been able to answer.

David had an early brush with death as a child. What followed in the wake of that experience was the appearance of a woman he came to think of as his babysitter. She watched over him. She was there when he looked for her and sometimes when he did not. She caused a specific kind of distress in his siblings that she did not seem to cause in David himself, which is one of the details that makes this story genuinely difficult to categorize. Whatever she was, she did not treat everyone in that house the same way.

The relationship between near-death experiences and subsequent paranormal encounters is one of the most consistently documented phenomena in supernatural research. People who have come close to death report seeing, hearing, and being visited by presences that were not accessible to them before at a rate that researchers across both the medical and paranormal fields have struggled to explain away. David's babysitter appeared after his brush with death and never entirely left. Whether she was a guardian, a spirit attached to him specifically, or something with intentions that were never fully revealed is a question this episode raises and deliberately leaves open.

What was her true purpose? Why did she linger? Why did his siblings fear her when David himself did not? One caller. One true ghost story from a Connecticut childhood that begins with almost dying and ends with a woman in the shadows who would not leave. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has two true ghost stories that both involve the specific terror of something showing up in the night that you did not invite and cannot explain. One caller opened a door deliberately. One had a door opened for her without any warning at all.

Yamari calls in with a real paranormal encounter that starts exactly the way every horror movie about teenagers and Ouija boards starts, because those movies exist for a reason. A group of teens. A Ouija board. The specific combination of curiosity and bravado that makes young people try things that older people have learned not to. What happened to Yamari when that board was opened is not a movie, though. It is a real ghost encounter that she has carried with her ever since and that she describes with the kind of detail that only comes from something you actually lived through rather than something you watched on a screen.

Ouija boards have one of the most documented paranormal histories of any object in American supernatural culture. What makes Yamari's story sit differently from the standard teen Ouija board narrative is what came through and what it wanted, details that the episode delivers far better than any description could.

Then Lia calls in with a haunting experience that required no board, no ritual, and no deliberate invitation of any kind. She woke up at the witching hour, that specific window around 3 AM that appears in paranormal accounts across cultures and centuries with a consistency that researchers find difficult to attribute to coincidence, and she was not alone in her room. Whatever was there with Lia had not been summoned. It had simply arrived. And it was standing there waiting when she opened her eyes.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories about what finds you in the dark, whether you go looking for it or not. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to Beth from Kentucky, who called in with a true ghost story rooted so deeply in the landscape and culture of Appalachia that it could not have come from anywhere else. This is a story about a baptism, a whole town gathered at the water, and something that showed up in the photographs that nobody had invited.

Doug's baptism was a community event, the way baptisms tend to be in small Appalachian towns. Everyone came. The whole town turned out to witness it, which means there were a lot of eyes on that water and a lot of cameras capturing the moment. When the photographs were developed, something was in them that had not been visible to any of those eyes when the pictures were taken. Something that had apparently decided to attend as well.

Eerie photographs documenting paranormal phenomena have appeared throughout Appalachian history in numbers that researchers find difficult to dismiss as coincidence or photographic error. The region has one of the richest and most distinctive supernatural traditions in American folk culture, shaped by centuries of Scots-Irish spiritual belief, Cherokee and other Indigenous traditions, and an isolation that allowed those belief systems to develop on their own terms without being smoothed out by outside influence. When something shows up in a photograph in Appalachia, the community tends to know exactly what it is looking at, and Beth's town was no different.

Everyone came to Doug's baptism. Everyone and everything. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey it's Michelle, and this early episode belongs entirely to Artemis, who called in with a true ghost story about what happened when he checked into a New York City hotel looking for a break from everyday life and found himself sharing the building with something that had no interest in letting him rest.

Artemis was not looking for a paranormal experience. He was looking for a quiet room, a comfortable bed, and a few days away from everything. What he got instead was a hotel full of dead people who apparently had not received the memo that he was there to relax.

The activity Artemis experienced falls squarely into the category of poltergeist phenomena, the specific and well documented class of paranormal activity characterized by objects moving, sounds with no physical source, and a general sense that something in the environment is actively and deliberately making itself known. Poltergeist cases are among the most studied in paranormal research precisely because they tend to leave physical evidence and multiple witnesses, and what Artemis encountered in her New York City hotel room had both.

New York City has one of the richest and most layered paranormal histories of any city in the world, which makes sense when you consider how many people have lived and died within its geography over four centuries of documented history. Hotels in particular tend to accumulate that history in concentrated form. People arrive. People leave. Not always in the order you would expect.

Artemis went looking for a break. He found a real ghost encounter instead. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and what a year. Tell Me A Ghost Story launched in 2023, and the response from listeners was more than I ever expected or dared to hope for. I started this show because I believed that real people had real ghost stories worth hearing, and you proved me right from the very beginning. I am so grateful.

Before we head into 2024, I wanted to look back at three calls from the first season that I have not been able to stop thinking about. Hector from New Mexico and his mysterious scratches appeared at 3:33 AM. Yvonne from the Philippines and the dark figure that chased her up the stairs. And Tyler from Ohio, and the man in the black suit who appeared in his ICU and then simply was not there anymore.

If you have not heard any of these calls yet, they are all in the archive, and they are worth going back for. If you have heard them already, I hope this bonus episode is a chance to sit with them one more time before we move forward.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for calling in. Thank you for believing the callers who trusted us with their stories. I believe them too. I believe you. Keep the calls coming in 2024.

Your DJ of Doom,

Michelle

Favorites this year

3:33 by Hector, New Mexico

Dark Figure by Yvonne, Philippines

The man in the black suit, Tyler, Ohio

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has two true ghost stories that approach the paranormal from completely different angles. One is deeply unsettling. One is almost comforting. Both of them are real.

Roc calls in about his little sister's imaginary best friend. We all know how that goes on this show. Children who see things adults cannot, who speak to presences that have no physical form, who describe their invisible companions with a specificity and consistency that is hard to write off as imagination. Roc's sister had a friend that no one else could see, and around the time this friend appeared, something else started happening in the house. The pets began dying. One after another with no clear medical explanation. The connection between the invisible friend and what was happening to the animals is something Roc has never been able to fully explain and has never been able to entirely dismiss.

Then Carlo calls in with a ghost story that takes an unexpected turn toward the genuinely useful. His roommate, Daisy, gives him advice. She tells him things. She seems to have opinions about how he is living his life, and she communicates them clearly enough that Carlo has learned to listen. The detail that makes Daisy's story different from a standard haunting is that Carlo is not afraid of her. He has come to think of her as a presence that is looking out for him rather than threatening him. Daisy is a ghost roommate in the most literal sense, and Carlo has made his peace with that arrangement.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories about the invisible companions we share our spaces with and what happens when we pay attention to them. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience. If you have not heard My Ghost Sister Part One yet, start there first. It will mean more when you get here.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is personal. Not just for Yvonne. For me too.

Yvonne has been one of the most beloved callers in Tell Me A Ghost Story history. She has called in from the Philippines across multiple episodes, sharing real ghost encounters that range from terrifying to heartbreaking, a shadowy figure that chased her up the stairs, a doppelganger wearing her mother's face, and the ghost of her sister whose presence she has felt continuing long after her sister's death. This episode is the second half of that sister story, and Yvonne brings it home in a way that I was not entirely prepared for.

Part two of My Ghost Sister is where Yvonne shares what her sister's ongoing presence has meant to her, what it has looked like, what it has felt like, and what she believes it means about what happens after we die. This is not a terrifying ghost story in the traditional sense. It is something quieter and more profound than that. It is a true ghost story about love that refuses to end and a bond between sisters that apparently does not recognize the difference between the living and the dead.

This may have been Yvonne's last call to the show. I hope it was not. Either way, I am grateful she trusted us with this story, and I am grateful to every listener who has followed her calls from the beginning. You are the reason this show exists, and this episode is proof of what it can be at its best.

One returning caller. One true ghost story about grief, love, and a sister who never really left. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode is one of my favorites in the entire archive because it does something most paranormal podcast episodes never attempt. It connects a real ghost encounter happening right now in a real person's dining room to a documented legend that is almost four hundred years old. Nellie called in and sent me down a rabbit hole I am still thinking about.

Nellie is back. If you have been following her story across the early episodes of this show, you already know her haunted childhood home has been revealing itself one room at a time. The kitchen. The bathroom. The bedroom. Now the dining room. Nellie spotted a Woman in White standing there, a figure so specific in its appearance and its energy that it sent her looking for answers about what exactly a Woman in White is and where the legend comes from.

Here is what I found. The first documented tale of a Woman in White spirit in Western culture appeared in Germany in 1625, making this one of the oldest recorded ghost archetypes in European paranormal history. The figure appears across dozens of cultures under different names, but the details are remarkably consistent across all of them. White clothing. Female. Tied to grief, betrayal, or a violent and unresolved death. Seen most often in or near places she was connected to in life.

The most famous specific figure associated with the legend is Kunigunda of Orlamunde, a noblewoman whose story involves love, loss, and an act so terrible that her spirit has reportedly never found rest. Kunigunda's legend has persisted for centuries across Germany and Central Europe, and researchers have connected her story to Woman in White sightings reported long after her death. Whether Nellie's dining room visitor is Kunigunda specifically or simply another manifestation of one of history's oldest and most persistent supernatural archetypes is a question this episode does not answer. That is the point.

One returning caller. One true ghost story that reaches four hundred years into European paranormal history. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey it's Michelle, and this early episode has two real ghost encounters from two completely different worlds that share one thing in common. Multiple witnesses. In both of these true ghost stories the person calling was not alone when it happened, and that is the detail that makes them impossible to dismiss.

Tyler from Ohio was an ICU nurse, and if you have ever wondered whether the paranormal shows up in hospital settings, the answer, based on what nurses and doctors report privately, is yes, more than most people realize. Tyler calls in with his own real ghost encounter involving a man in a black suit who appeared in the ICU in a way that had no clinical explanation. The man was there. And then he was not. Tyler has spent a career in rooms where people cross over, and this was different from anything else he had witnessed in that building.

Natalia from Norwalk calls in with a haunting experience at Turnbull Canyon, one of the most documented paranormal locations in Southern California. Turnbull Canyon has a history that runs deep and dark, connected to a plane crash, a psychiatric hospital, and decades of reported supernatural activity that has drawn investigators and skeptics alike for generations. Natalia and her friend saw something moving in the mist that night that stopped them cold. Then a police officer on the scene saw it too. When the witness is a cop with no reason to report a paranormal encounter and every reason not to, it changes the nature of the story entirely.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories with multiple witnesses. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode brings back two of the most beloved callers in Tell Me A Ghost Story history. If you have been listening from the beginning, you already know Nellie and Yvonne. If this is your first time meeting them, you are in for something special.

Nellie has called in before about her haunted childhood home, a house that gave her more than enough true ghost stories for multiple episodes. This time, she takes us back to the kitchen, where something was moving around that had no business being there. Nellie's home is one of those places that reveals itself slowly, one room at a time, and the kitchen is where things got harder to explain away.

Yvonne introduces us to someone very important in this call. Her sister. Except her sister is not alive. Yvonne shares what it has been like to feel her sister's presence continuing after her death, a ghost story that is less about fear and more about the kind of love that apparently does not recognize the boundary between the living and the dead. This is part one of Yvonne's ghost sister story, and it is one of the most quietly powerful calls we have ever received.

Two returning callers. Two true ghost stories that remind us why this show exists. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this episode belongs entirely to Liz from Brooklyn, who called in with a true ghost story that is unlike almost anything else in our archive. It is part haunted house story, part paranormal investigation, part ritual, and it ends with flowers left for the dead on the grounds of a haunted mansion that used to be something much darker than a hotel.

Liz and her friend David were staying at a mansion turned hotel that looked beautiful from the outside and felt deeply wrong on the inside. The atmosphere in David's room, in particular, carried the kind of presence that is hard to name but impossible to ignore. Something was in there with them, and it was not subtle about it.

David's boyfriend is a medium, and when they described what they were experiencing, he did not hesitate. The mansion was not just haunted in the general sense. It was full. Numerous spirits connected to the property's history, a history that included child labor and tragedy, which the architecture did not advertise. The medium's advice was specific. Find a place on the grounds to leave flowers. Honor the ones buried there. Acknowledge them.

What followed was Liz and David searching the property for the right spot, navigating their fear with the kind of dark humor that tends to emerge when two people are genuinely scared and trying not to show it, and eventually finding their way to something that felt like the right place. After they left the flowers, the atmosphere shifted. Not dramatically. But enough.

This is a real ghost encounter about what happens when you stop trying to ignore the dead and start acknowledging them instead. Liz called it one of the strangest and most meaningful experiences of her life. I believe her completely.

One caller. One true ghost story from a haunted mansion in Brooklyn. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has three real callers whose true ghost stories share one thread running through all of them. Something was there that had no explanation and no intention of leaving quietly.

Carl from Texas calls in with a haunting that happened in the last place most people expect to feel afraid. His church. Carl and his cousin encountered a shadowy figure moving through the building during what should have been an ordinary visit. Churches have some of the most documented paranormal histories of any building type across cultures, partly because of the weight of grief and ritual that accumulates in them over generations, and partly because whatever lingers there knows the space as well as the living do. Carl's encounter was brief. It was enough.

Then Hector from New Mexico calls in with something that has been happening to him for years and that he cannot explain away, no matter how hard he tries. Mysterious scratches appear on his body. Always around 3:33 AM, the hour that paranormal researchers and religious traditions across cultures have long associated with supernatural activity, sometimes called the witching hour or the devil's hour, depending on the tradition. Hector has no history of sleepwalking. The scratches are real. They keep coming back.

And Yvonne from the Philippines returns with another haunting memory from her childhood, this one involving a figure she mistook completely for her brother. She saw him. She recognized him. She spoke to him. When she found her actual brother, he had not been home at any point that evening. Whatever Yvonne saw in that house that night was wearing her brother's face, and it was not her brother.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories. A church, a bedroom at 3:33 AM, and a figure that looked exactly like someone who was not there. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this episode belongs entirely to Tyler from Texas, who called in with two true ghost stories from two completely different parts of the world that share one deeply unsettling detail. In both of them, something was watching him, and it was not human.

Tyler's first story takes place in the remote wilderness of Arnhem Land in Australia, one of the most ancient and spiritually significant landscapes on earth. Tyler and a friend were camped there when they heard a scream that had no business coming from anything living. Then they saw a face in the shadows at the edge of their camp. Not an animal. Not a person. Something else entirely was watching them from the dark. When they investigated, there were no tracks. No signs of anything that could have been there. Nothing to explain what they had seen or heard.

Then Tyler takes us back home to Oak Cliff in Dallas, Texas, where a car accident outside his apartment building claimed three lives in a single night. What followed in the weeks after was a haunting that built slowly and then all at once. Strange noises. An overwhelming presence. The specific sensation of being watched by something that was deciding what to do next. A priest came. The activity seemed to ease. Then a new tenant named Keith moved in, and whatever had been there appeared to leave with no explanation. Tyler has spent a long time thinking about whether the spirit was drawn to his solitude specifically and whether Keith's arrival simply gave it somewhere else to go.

Two real ghost encounters. One caller. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode is another one where I am not just hosting. I am in it. I start with my own real ghost encounter from a road trip that I have never been able to explain, and then Yvonne from the Philippines calls in with a doppelganger story that is one of the most quietly terrifying things I have ever heard on this show.

I was staying at the Best Western in Fresno, California, on what was supposed to be a completely ordinary road trip. I woke up to find a man standing over me. He was right there. And then he was gone. No one else in the room saw him enter. No one saw him leave. The door had not opened. I have thought about that moment many times since, and I still do not have an answer for it.

Then Yvonne calls in from the Philippines with a haunting memory involving her mother. She saw her mother across the room, recognized her completely, and followed her. When she found her actual mother, the figure she had been following was gone. What Yvonne encountered is what many cultures call a doppelganger, an exact double of a living person, and in the traditions of many cultures, including those of the Philippines, seeing one is considered a serious omen. Yvonne had no idea what she was looking at until it was already gone.

Doppelgangers are among the most consistently documented paranormal phenomena across world cultures. Ancient Egyptian, Norse, Finnish, and Filipino traditions all have names for them, and all treat them with the same gravity. Yvonne's encounter connects to something much older and much wider than one phone call to a ghost story podcast.

Two real stories. One from your host. One from a caller who followed something that looked exactly like her mother and found no one there. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠.

 

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has three real ghost encounters from three different locations that share one thing in common. In every single one of them, something was there that should not have been.

Nellie calls in with two paranormal experiences from the same house. First, a mysterious little girl with black hair appeared in her bedroom, watching her from across the room. Then something was peeking through her shower curtain. Nellie's home was not old or notorious or historically significant. It was just a house. And that is somehow the part that makes it most unsettling.

Heather takes us to the Grand Hotel in Jerome, Arizona, one of the most documented haunted hotels in the American Southwest. Jerome itself was a copper mining town built on a hillside, and it has a history of violence, disease, and sudden death that runs deep. Heather was in her room when a ghostly voice told her to turn down the TV. There was no TV on. There was nothing to turn down. The voice knew she was there anyway.

And Yvonne calls in from a memory that has never left her, a visit to her aunt's house in the Philippines, where an ominous dark figure appeared and chased her up the stairs. Shadow figures appear across cultures and across centuries, and Yvonne's encounter in the Philippines connects to a long tradition of documented supernatural experiences in that region that predate Western paranormal research by generations.

Three callers. Three real ghost stories from three corners of the world. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. This call was later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary, if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this episode belongs entirely to Edwin Covarrubias, founder of Scary FM, who called in with a true ghost story from his own childhood that unfolds like a slow-burning horror film. Edwin did not want his house to be haunted. It was anyway.

It started when Edwin's family moved from a cramped apartment into a spacious house with a backyard and a dog, the kind of move that should feel like a fresh start. The first sign that something was wrong came in the bathroom, where a dark blue, towel-like object floated in the corner with no explanation. Edwin told his father. They investigated. They found nothing.

Then his father discovered a red balloon in the yard. When it burned away, it revealed an old coin underneath. Dead birds began appearing around the property with no clear cause. Eerie sounds moved through the house at night. Each incident on its own could be explained away. Together, they built it into something that Edwin could not ignore and could not rationalize.

The moment that ended any remaining doubt was the night Edwin saw a bright light coming from inside his closet. What followed were sleepless nights and a relationship with the paranormal that has never entirely left him. Edwin went on to dedicate his career to ghost stories and supernatural storytelling. This childhood home is a significant part of why.

One caller. One true ghost story that starts with a floating object and ends with a light in the dark. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode is a little different from most because I am not just hosting this one. I am in it. I start with one of my own real ghost encounters, and then two listeners call in with true ghost stories that could not be more different from each other. One is terrifying. One will break your heart a little.

I was working as a photographer in a house filled with the kind of HomeGoods decor that already makes you feel like something is slightly off. And then something rushed past me from behind. No one was there. I felt it before I could explain it, and I have not stopped thinking about it since. This was my first real paranormal encounter, and it is the one that made me understand why people call this show.

Then Nellie calls in with a haunting memory from her childhood home. A woman weeping somewhere in the house. Sorrowful and persistent and tied to the spirit of an elderly woman who had lived there before Nellie's family moved in. Nellie's story is one of those real ghost encounters that is less about fear and more about the emotional weight that spirits can carry with them long after they are gone.

And finally, Maggie shares a vivid dream that felt nothing like a dream. Her friend Liz had died in a car accident, and Liz came back, just once, to say goodbye. Maggie believes it completely, and after hearing how she describes it, I do too. Some of the most powerful true ghost stories we receive are not about terror at all. They are about love that does not know how to end.

Three real stories. One from your host. Two from listeners who called in and trusted us with something deeply personal. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has three true ghost stories that could not be more different from each other. The ancient origins of Halloween and why the veil between worlds gets thin. A listener who felt a presence that simply would not leave. And haunted dolls that do things dolls are not supposed to do.

The Halloween Tree takes its name from Ray Bradbury's chilling exploration of Halloween's origins, and this segment traces the ancient rituals that gave the holiday its power, the idea that certain nights of the year genuinely attract spirits from beyond and always have. This is the history underneath the costumes and the candy, and it is darker than most people realize.

Then a listener calls in with a real paranormal encounter about a spirit that lingered long past the point of comfort. Creaking floorboards. The unmistakable feeling of being watched from the dark. The specific unease of knowing something is still there and not knowing what it wants. If you have ever felt a presence in a room that should have been empty, this one will stay with you.

And finally, haunted dolls. Real accounts of cursed objects that move, watch, and make themselves known in ways that cannot be explained away. Dolls have appeared in paranormal cases across cultures for centuries, and the stories surrounding them remain some of the most consistently documented supernatural phenomena we have on record. These are not the ones from the movies. These are real.

Three true ghost stories. One episode that covers Halloween, lingering spirits, and haunted objects all in one sitting.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠.

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Production by ⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠.

This is the ORIGINAL Tell Me A Ghost Story episode with calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These three calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation (soon to be video) episode with more ghost stories, called Deluxe.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode features three real callers whose true ghost stories span the paranormal West Coast. A childhood haunting in Los Angeles. A sleep demon in Washington. And a séance at a college theatre in Seattle that went further than anyone expected.

Greg from Los Angeles takes us back to his childhood in a haunted house where he came face to face with a Lady in White. The Lady in White is one of the most documented ghostly figures across cultures worldwide, a spirit almost always tied to loss and betrayal, and Greg's encounter with her is as personal and unsettling as any we have received.

Joe from Washington calls in with a real sleep paralysis experience that goes beyond the clinical explanation. Lying completely unable to move while a dark presence loomed over him, claiming it was there to help. Joe's account connects to centuries of documented encounters with sleep demons across cultures, and his version of it is one of the most chilling we have heard.

And Deborah from Seattle describes what happened during a séance at Fort Wright College with a group of theatre students who were not entirely prepared for what answered back. Eerie sounds. Unexpected responses. And a room full of people who went in curious and came out changed.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠Newman Media⁠.

Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story, a paranormal podcast that brings real ghost stories to life, shared by everyday people just like you. In this episode, we’re launching something exciting: our very own Supernatural Hotline—a dedicated phone line where you can call in and share your true-life ghost stories, haunted house tales, and unexplained encounters.Whether you’ve felt a presence in the room, heard footsteps when no one was there, or have a ghost story that’s stayed with you for years, we want to hear it. This hotline isn’t just a way to collect stories—it’s a community space for connection, curiosity, and validation. You are not imagining things. You are not alone.In this episode, we explore the eerie feelings many of us experience—those unshakable sensations in haunted places, the sounds that wake us up at night, the invisible eyes we sometimes feel watching us. We’ll also share some of the first listener-submitted stories, setting the stage for future episodes full of supernatural encounters and creepy true stories.If you’ve ever had a paranormal experience—be it a shadow people in your hallway, a message from a loved one who passed, or just a spooky bedtime story you can’t shake—call us at 1-701-484-2666. Your voice could be featured in a future episode.So turn down the lights, press play, and prepare to explore the unknown. This is Tell Me A Ghost Story—where real people share real ghost stories.  📞 Want your story featured? Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit tellmeaghoststory.com to share your own ghostly experience.👻 Support the show with official merch at newmanmedia.shop🎥 Join us on YouTube @tellmeaghoststory📸 Follow us on Instagram @tellmeaghoststorypodcast Credits:🎵Theme Music: "Sexy Sax" by Cool Cascade.🚀Production: Newman Media  

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's three calls take us into a former mortuary in Michigan, a terrifying encounter on a dark road in upstate New York, and a hundred-year-old story of loyalty at a pet cemetery in Los Angeles. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time.

Tony from Ypsilanti, Michigan calls in with a story from the early 1990s about his college girlfriend's Victorian-era apartment, where a full loaf of bread once vanished from one cabinet only to reappear moments later in another. Beds shook. Showers turned on in the night. On one occasion, with every roommate confirmed away and the building otherwise empty, Tony heard what sounded like ten people walking through the house. A hidden trapdoor system running from the basement to the top floor suggested the building once had a small elevator, and research at the local historical society revealed the house had operated as a mortuary around 1890. A camcorder left recording overnight in a corner nobody could reach without being filmed shut off on its own after thirty-five minutes, with a fully charged battery. Ten years later, Tony returned to find new college-aged tenants who confirmed everything was still happening exactly as it had before.

Angela from upstate New York calls in with a genuinely harrowing encounter on Route 9 late at night. A woman in a long white dress stood motionless in the middle of the road, hair covering her face, refusing to respond. As Angela hesitated, a man emerged from the trees and began walking toward her car. She reversed away as the woman slowly turned her head, revealing a face Angela describes as simply wrong. Police found no trace of either figure at the scene, but told her she was far from the first person to report a woman in white on that same stretch of road, a local legend that has persisted for decades. Angela still cannot decide which possibility unsettles her more, that it was a ghost, or that someone was using the legend as bait.

And Tessa from Los Angeles closes the episode with the story of Kabar, the beloved Doberman of silent film legend Rudolph Valentino. When Valentino died suddenly in 1926, Kabar reportedly began howling at the exact moment of his owner's death nearly three thousand miles away, later running off and returning with his paws worn down as if he had tried to walk cross-country to find him. At Kabar's grave in the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery, Tessa called his name as a dare. She felt a cold, wet sensation move across her hand exactly like a dog's nose and tongue, and when she looked down, her hand was visibly damp, on a dry, sunny day with no water anywhere nearby.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

And if this episode moved you, leave a comment on Spotify. I read every single one, and your comments help new listeners find the show.

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1. Tyler from Colorado --Tyler shares a deeply unsettling paranormal experience that began after his kayaking accident left him clinically dead for three minutes. Since being revived, he's been experiencing disturbing phenomena, but here's what makes this truly terrifying: other people are experiencing it too. His roommate heard Tyler's voice calling from an empty bedroom while Tyler sat right beside him. His girlfriend heard it coming from his car while he stood next to her. His own father heard it from the basement. Most chilling of all, Tyler himself has heard his own voice calling to him from empty rooms. He also sees patches of "glitching air" that look like TV static, and his friend Marissa witnessed one materialize at a coffee shop.

2. Emma -- The Life-Sized Clown That Wouldn't Stay Gone Emma recounts a childhood nightmare involving a life-sized knitted clown her cousins purchased from a thrift store. The clown would move on its own, appearing in different rooms despite being locked away. When they finally locked it in outdoor dog kennels, it was found inside the house the next morning, sitting on the couch. But the most terrifying moment came when Emma, her sister, and their cousins saw the clown running, like a human, through tall grass 50 meters away before vanishing completely. When they checked, it was no longer on their uncle's truck, where he'd placed it for disposal. The clown was never seen again, but the mystery remains: where did it go, and what caused it to move?

3. Carlos from San Antonio, Texas -- Danny Still Works the Night Shift Carlos shares his brief but terrifying experience working the night shift at a 24-hour diner off I-10. On his first day, his manager showed him a memorial shrine for Danny, a beloved cook who died of a heart attack in 2015, and casually warned him, "You'll see him sometimes. Just acknowledge him." Carlos thought it was a joke until his second week, when he encountered a figure in a cook's uniform blocking the walk-in freezer doorway at 3 AM.

4. Jenna from Boise, Idaho -- The Red Eyes Outside Her Third-Floor Window Jenna describes a two-month nightmare involving two red eyes that appear outside her third-floor apartment window every night around 11:30 PM. Despite being three stories up with no balcony, fire escape, or ledge, just a sheer drop to the parking lot, these glowing red eyes hover and stare through her window with malevolent intent. Her boyfriend witnessed them too, and shockingly, her neighbor on the second floor has been seeing the same red eyes outside her window for months.

5. Marcus from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- The Battlefield That Refuses to Be Photographed. Marcus, a professional photographer, recounts his eerie experience at Triangular Field near Devil's Den in Gettysburg. While attempting to photograph the Civil War battlefield at golden hour, all of his high-end camera equipment simultaneously stopped working: multiple cameras, backup batteries, and even his phone. The moment he stepped away from the field, everything powered back on perfectly. Later research revealed dozens of similar reports: cameras malfunction at Triangular Field, photos come out blank or washed out, and visitors feel watched by unseen presences. Marcus experienced an overwhelming sensation of being observed by many eyes from the rocks, trees, and the field itself. 

6. Tony from North Dakota -- The Clown in the Ceiling Who Made Deals Tony shares a disturbing childhood memory of a clown doll that would speak to him every night from a hatch in his ceiling. The clown was friendly, listening to Tony vent about his day and having conversations—but with one terrifying rule: if Tony slept with his hands or feet outside the blanket, the clown would come down and take them. To this day, Tony cannot sleep with his limbs uncovered. This only happened in one specific house, ruling out hallucination. 

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a glass that exploded with nobody near it, a deacon whose prayers had a disturbing track record, a hospice patient who found his way home right on time, a real Cold War legend that still haunts Eastern Europe, and a headless ghost who just wanted in on a card game.

Christina from Phoenix, Arizona calls in again, this time about moving into her aunt's house, where she'd sensed something before she even signed on. A tall shadow figure slipped into the garage the first day she visited. After moving in, constant footsteps and distant voices filled the house whenever she was alone, and a warning feeling stopped her cold at the garage door one night, the kind of instinctive dread she describes like the moment right before a car accident. After her aunt moved out and the house sat mostly empty, a freshly washed glass exploded on the drying rack with nobody near it, followed days later by a glass candle holder that split perfectly in half on its own. Both her husband and her best friend insist the activity follows Christina specifically, stopping when she leaves and starting again the moment she returns, something she's lived with since childhood in the form of doorknobs that visibly shake as if something is trying to get in, something she refuses to open.

Helen from Tupelo, Mississippi calls in with a story about her Uncle John, a respected deacon known for unusually powerful prayer. When his daughter fell in love with a man he disapproved of, he asked her to wait while he prayed on it, and within three days her fiancé died suddenly of spinal meningitis. It was only afterward, in conversation with her aunt, that Helen learned this wasn't the first time someone standing in her uncle's way had met a sudden end, and her aunt's only explanation was four words that still haunt her, "there have been others."

Donnie from New Mexico, a hospice nurse, returns with a story about his friend Nicky, a resident with Down Syndrome and part of Donnie's daily coffee routine. One morning Nikki arrived in tears, having spent the night hearing his mother calling him home for dinner and unable to remember the way. He seemed better after their usual visit. He died before lunch that same day.

Dimitri, calling from Chicago but raised in Poland in the early 1980s, shares the Cold War legend of the Black Volga, a black car with white curtained windows said to snatch people off the street, never to be seen again. Some said it was the KGB. Others said organ thieves. Dimitri's grandmother was certain it was the devil himself, collecting souls. At nine years old, Dimitri and a friend watched one slow past them on the sidewalk, curtain shifting as if someone inside was looking out, before they ran the entire way home.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with a story from her great-grandfather's card game the night before a funeral for a man decapitated in a farming accident, his head never recovered. Partway through the game, her great-grandmother looked up and asked who exactly had joined them, a headless figure sitting at the table, apparently there to play cards.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this episode is a little different from our normal format. Instead of separate callers with separate stories, this week is five people, including me, sharing our experiences with the same ghost, in the same apartment, over the same span of years. Apartment 3F in the Mission District of San Francisco. The hub of our friend group in our late twenties. And a woman in gray that every single person who ever stayed there eventually saw, and nobody talked about until now.

Marcus dated someone who lived in 3F, and one night, walking past the kitchen to use the bathroom, he froze at the sight of a woman's outline standing there watching him. He blinked. She was gone. He broke up with his girlfriend a few months later for unrelated reasons and admits he was relieved to stop visiting the apartment.

Rebecca was a frequent visitor and saw the gray shape in the kitchen more times than she can count. One night while doing dishes with Sarah, she turned around to grab a towel and found a woman standing directly behind her. She dropped the glass she was holding.

I saw her myself, coming home from a comedy show around 2 or 3 in the morning. I walked to the kitchen for water and turned to find a woman my exact height standing eye level with me. Big frizzy gray hair. Gray sweater. Gray skirt. Sensible shoes. Everything about her was gray. I startled her as much as she startled me, and then she was gone. That is still the only full-bodied apparition I have ever seen, even after everything this podcast has shown me since.

Sarah lived in 3F for eight years and rarely talks about what happened there. It started about a month after she moved in, waking to the feeling of being watched, opening her eyes to find the woman standing at the foot of her bed in the dark. Over time she got closer, standing beside the bed, and eventually Sarah felt the mattress shift under the weight of someone sitting on the other side while she lay frozen, too afraid to look.

Alex, Sarah's roommate, moved in already having heard the rumors and dismissed them, until jewelry started ending up on the floor and a gray shape began appearing in the corner of her eye. One night she woke to find the figure standing by her closet watching her sleep. Exhausted and fed up, Alex eventually sat up in bed and yelled at the presence to leave. The room changed. She was never bothered again.

I never found any documented history for that specific building, but the folklore around gray ladies runs deep across cultures, sometimes connected to the mythical Graeae of Greek mythology, often tied to heartbroken women, and frequently associated with former nurses, teachers, and caretakers in specific buildings. The most famous is the Gray Lady of Hampton Court in the UK, believed to be Sybil Penn, nurse to four Tudor monarchs, who contracted smallpox nursing Queen Elizabeth I back to health and later died from it herself. When her tomb was disturbed during renovations in 1829, hauntings began. Our gray lady of Apartment 3F never hurt anyone. She just wanted to be seen and to keep doing her rounds.

Five real callers. One true ghost story that took years to finally tell out loud.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's seven calls include handprints circling a locked car in the middle of nowhere, a dead rock guitarist who keeps showing up when people play his most famous riff, an old man who finally got the message to leave someone alone, a sigh whispered directly into someone's ear in an empty locked room, and a legendary bandaged figure on the Oregon coast.

Stevie from California calls in about a solo camping trip on BLM land near Yosemite, locking herself and her dog Mochi into her car during a windstorm for extra warmth. Around 3 am, Mochi began barking in a deep, unfamiliar growl completely unlike her usual voice. In the morning, Stevie found handprints and forehead smudges circling every single window of the car, as if someone had walked the entire perimeter trying to look inside.

Johnny from Kansas calls in about repeatedly sensing the presence of guitarist Randy Rhoads while playing his music, watching or lying beside him mid-practice. Rhoads, a founding member of Quiet Riot and lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, died in 1982 at just 25 years old when the small plane he was riding in crashed while attempting to buzz Osbourne's tour bus.

Frank calls in about a basement apartment where an unseen presence tinkered nightly in empty rooms, eventually escalating to a half-visible figure standing in his bedroom doorway. Exhausted from bartending, Frank finally sat up and firmly demanded to be left alone. The presence never returned.

Emily calls in about her toddler twins, who both independently and matter-of-factly described a girl standing at their bedroom window wanting to play, insisting their mother could see her too.

Erin from Bloomington, Indiana calls in about a quiet solo night at home, drifting off to sleep when a long, tired sigh came from directly beside her ear, close enough that she felt breath stir against her cheek, despite being completely and verifiably alone in a locked house.

Jess from Oregon calls in about the legendary Bandage Man of Cannon Beach, a figure said to be a badly injured logger lost forever on his way to find help. While parked near the coast one night, Jess and friends heard a thud against the truck's rear window and saw a bandaged figure pressed against the glass, gone without a trace the moment they fled.

And Cindy Ketron closes the episode with a decades-old family Halloween tradition: an elderly traveling woman encountered on Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis in 1981, who accepted food and water from Cindy's family before opening her carpetbag to reveal an actual sack of human bones, laughing at their horror before walking calmly away.

Seven real callers. Seven true ghost stories.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's six calls include an inherited ashtray that filled itself with ash in an empty locked house, a door that slammed shut on its own at 2:40 in the morning, a hospice patient who said thank you after time of death was already recorded, a kindergartner talking to a woman his mother can't see, a famous actor multiple people swear carries something dark, and a tall thin man who kept checking to see if someone was really asleep.

Anna from Tacoma, Washington calls in about a heavy glass ashtray inherited from her late aunt, found spotless in a cupboard and left sitting on the dining table while she gardened outside for an hour. When she came back inside, the previously clean ashtray was filled with a heap of cigarette ash, no butts, just ash, with a faint stale smoke smell in the air, despite every door, window, and the basement being fully locked and undisturbed.

Marshall from St. Cloud, Florida calls in shaken after his bedroom door slammed shut on its own at 2:40 in the morning while heading back to bed, describing an unmistakable cold in the room and lingering goosebumps he still felt while telling the story live.

Donnie, a hospice nurse from New Mexico, calls in about a patient whose time of death he'd just finished recording, only to hear a clear "thank you" in the patient's own voice, followed by a cold breeze from a nearby window, in what should have been an empty room.

Julia calls in wondering if other parents have experienced something similar with their kids, after her kindergartner described nightly conversations with a woman dressed in old-fashioned clothing who smiles but never moves, and who reportedly told him not to tell his mother about her.

Jimmy, who worked in Hollywood, calls in about a famous actor he won't name, someone multiple people on set independently describe as bringing a palpable, mood-killing darkness into any room he enters, alongside rumors tied to his rapid rise to fame and a string of personal tragedies that followed.

And Christina from Phoenix, Arizona returns with a story from a podiatry office where she repeatedly glimpsed a man standing at the end of a hallway from the corner of her eye, who vanished each time she looked directly. The activity escalated during a lunchtime nap, when she woke to find a tall, thin man in basketball shorts crouched at her feet, apparently checking whether she was awake, gone the instant she jumped up. A coworker who'd seen something in that same office has refused, to this day, to describe what it was.

Six real callers. Six true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a dream that matched a historic inn's most famous tragedy detail for detail, a preacher who saw a shadow in a room with no light source and has never gone back, a childhood friend in red whose footprints stopped mid-step in the snow, and mysterious sage candles that appeared the moment someone finally admitted their home felt haunted.

An anonymous caller shares a dream from a weekend trip to the Bush House Inn in Index, Washington, in which her husband died and she chose to take her own life rather than live without him. The next morning, lobby literature revealed the inn's most famous ghost story: a woman who once believed her husband died in a mining accident, took her own life before learning it wasn't true, and has haunted the building ever since.

Emily from Chicago calls in about repeated tapping on her foot one night, initially dismissed as her cat, only to find the cat sound asleep downstairs and the front door standing wide open.

Sabrina Wu, calling in again from Los Angeles, revisits a childhood spent dreading specific corners of her Michigan home, a feeling she now suspects may have been validated when her mother mysteriously filled the house with sage-scented candles the moment Sabrina finally admitted, as an adult, that she'd always believed the home was haunted.

Elijah, a preacher of over 20 years from Tennessee, calls in about a house near the railroad tracks locals call cursed, where he was asked to pray after a young couple reported heavy nightly footsteps stopping outside their bedroom door. Walking room to room reading Psalms, he encountered a man-sized shadow moving across a wall with no light source anywhere nearby, and hasn't returned to that stretch of road since.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with a fifth-grade memory of a friend named Sarah, always dressed head to toe in red, who followed her home from school daily until one winter afternoon her footprints stopped abruptly in the middle of the schoolyard, disappearing entirely. Cindy later learned Sarah had died in a car accident near the school, despite never having attended it.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a man whose soul left his body nightly for months, footsteps and children crying from an empty ceiling, a bright, unexplained light that raced toward a building and vanished, decades of restaurant hauntings from a longtime worker, and children's laughter echoing across a locked, empty playground at midnight.

Comedian Sabrina Wu calls in again from New York, sharing experiences from her ex's apartment, constant footsteps overhead despite being on the top floor, unexplained baby crying from the ceiling, and a bathroom light that flared unnaturally bright the moment she walked past it during a night already spent deep in ghost story research.

Brett calls in about living beside a school playground, where the familiar daytime sounds of children playing continue to echo across the field at 11 pm and midnight, long after the lights go dark and only teenagers occasionally pass through, a detail his dog reacts to as well.

Jessa, a medical courier in Pennsylvania, calls in about a delivery to a nursing home built on the site of a former school, where a glass door slammed shut on its own and a bright white light sped toward the entrance exactly like headlights, only facing the wrong direction to belong to any real vehicle, before vanishing entirely in seconds.

Linda, a 73-year-old lifelong restaurant worker, shares three separate encounters from her decades in the industry: a smiling man visible only in a bar mirror, a chair that shot across an empty floor with an audible scrape and no one nearby, and a woman in a red dress who faded from a corner booth as Linda approached to tell her they were closing.

And Khyelle from Los Angeles closes the episode with a lengthy account of what he later identified as recurring astral projection, beginning with his eyes and mouth forced into position, full body paralysis, and his consciousness leaving his body accompanied by a loud buzzing sound. Over several months, Khyelle experienced nightly out-of-body travel across the globe and into space, culminating in one deeply unsettling episode where he was forcibly pulled back into his body the instant he attempted to step onto the dark side of the moon, accompanied by an overwhelming sense that he was not meant to see whatever was there.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a pale floating face pressed against a window and witnessed by two skeptics at once, a recurring precognitive dread that came true twice, blurry human shapes appearing in photos inside a haunted Irish church, an imaginary childhood friend who sounds like anything but imaginary, and unexplained crying circling an empty lake in Seattle.

Mark from outside Des Moines, Iowa calls in about a night at his friend Dan's house, where both men simultaneously saw a pale gray face pressed directly against the window glass, shoulders too high and head seemingly floating, eyes unnaturally dark. It vanished without a sound in seconds, and when they ran outside, the wet grass held no footprints anywhere, despite the only approach being a gravel driveway that would have made noise.

An anonymous caller shares two separate experiences of overwhelming, intrusive dread focused on specific people days before their deaths, first as a child fixated on a classmate named Molly who died in a car accident, and again years later, unable to recall the name of a well-liked schoolmate the exact day he was fatally struck by a car in New York.

Harriet, calling from London about a trip to a church outside Galway, Ireland, shares the local legend of a preacher who reportedly dropped dead mid-sermon in the 1800s just before revealing a secret to his congregation. While photographing the church, she captured a run of images with an unexplained blurry human-shaped light in the center, despite no bright light source present.

Rebecca calls in after reconnecting with her sister about a childhood imaginary friend named Dodd, only for her sister's unprompted description (splotchy, patchy hair, sickly pale skin, dark black eyes, and a perpetually wet appearance) to leave them both realizing Dodd may not have been imaginary at all.

And Dan from Seattle closes the episode with an unsettling walk around Green Lake, where he heard crying seemingly surrounding him from every direction with no one visible anywhere nearby. Later research led him to the 1926 case of Sylvia Gaines, a young woman murdered and thrown into the lake by her father, whose translucent, weeping figure has reportedly been seen wandering the area ever since.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a doppelganger that impersonated a caller's own mother, a five-year recurring cryptid encounter finally caught on camera, a dead grandmother who waved hello from across a bedroom, a spirit that arrived the same moment a medical examiner van pulled into the alley, and a bleeding phantom driver who chased a car down a rural road.

James from Wytheville, Virginia calls in about a spirit throughout his childhood home that impersonated his mother so convincingly it once relayed instructions she'd never actually given, and appeared in silhouette one night before turning and walking directly through the bedroom wall.

Jorge calls in about a bipedal, hairy, dog-snouted creature with long claws he's observed around his property for five years, growling at him and finally caught on video scaling a ten-foot privacy fence hand over hand before leaping sideways off the top.

Evelyn from Fremont, Michigan calls in about waving at what she believed was her grandmother standing in her bedroom as a young child, later realizing the woman had died four years before Evelyn was ever born. Years later, at eleven, she heard the same voice greet her by name from an empty room.

Christina from Phoenix, Arizona returns with a story from a Tempe rental that never felt right, where she felt an angry presence standing directly over her on the couch during a fight with her husband, who remained in bed the entire time. Moments later, she spotted a medical examiner's van parked in the alley behind their house.

And Cindy Ketron closes the episode with a terrifying encounter on a rural road in Southern Indiana, where a red pickup truck aggressively tailgated her and her brother, cursing and gesturing, before pulling alongside to reveal a hatchet lodged in the driver's head and blood covering his face, fading from view entirely moments before they passed a roadside cemetery.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week is a special one. I'm handing the mic over to Lisa from Proppa Scary Podcast, who traveled all the way from Australia to host an episode built entirely around First Nations ghost stories, with five callers sharing yarns passed down through their families and communities.

Shay from Western Australia calls in with a story about a spirit said to follow the men in his family, generation after generation, from boyhood until it decides they've become men. Taps on windows, voices claiming the room, and a moment where his little brother swore he saw someone standing in a doorway that Shay insists was empty the whole time built toward one terrifying night, his younger brother waking unable to breathe, a spider-like hand covering his face. Their father brought in an elder to smoke the house and ask whatever it was to leave. It worked. (Follow him on IG @cee.dub23 for more creative and funny content.)

Cass from Northwestern New South Wales calls in about the Min Min lights, a phenomenon he'd been warned about his whole life without fully believing it. Driving through the mountains at night, his mother suddenly demanded they pull over, moments before a bright red light appeared floating beneath the rearview mirror and his brother's car door fell open mid-drive. Researcher Dr. Curtis Roman, a Larrakia man from Darwin, has documented that Indigenous people from the bush are rarely frightened by these lights, unlike those from urban areas, and many sightings are reported near water, moving with a serpentine motion some connect to the Rainbow Serpent.

Lisa herself shares several stories from a period living in a remote rainforest community, including encounters with a spirit woman believed to have been murdered during the Australian gold rush, said to scream in men's ears and push them from a nearby waterfall in an act of ongoing revenge. She describes seeing a woman with long blonde hair riding in a friend's truck, only for the friend to later insist he'd been driving alone the entire time, along with nights spent listening to what sounded like a corroboree carrying through the bush, and a car that stalled mid-crossing in a rising river before starting again at the exact moment it mattered most.

Paul from the Maningrida region calls in about a night his family saw figures standing on the back of his truck that he insists were never there, followed by a car that turned itself on and began honking with no one inside, and a presence he believes followed him all the way to Darwin.

And Tim, whose mob comes from the Armidale and Kempsey area, closes the episode with two stories, a night at Merrick Dam when he heard massive bipedal footsteps moving through the grass toward him in the dark, and a broad daylight encounter years later with what he believes was a yowie, a seven to eight foot tall, broad-shouldered, gray-haired creature that mimicked his and his son's footsteps before stepping behind a tree and vanishing without a trace. → Check out We’re Haunted Investigations TikTok: @were_haunted | YouTube: @werehaunted8791

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories, hosted with care by Lisa from Proppa Scary Podcast. Connect with her at ⁠properscarypodcast@gmail.com⁠ or on TikTok at proppa.scary.pod.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls take us into a soon-to-close haunted pub in Seattle, a father who visited two houses on the same night, a dead friend who wanted one more game of hide and seek, the most notorious stateroom aboard the Queen Mary, and a ghost who's never once missed a birthday party.

Sonja calls in about a night at the College Inn Pub in Seattle's University District, where she watched a figure sitting in a dark, closed-off seating area vanish the moment she looked twice. The bartender confirmed it immediately: the ghost of Howard Bach, a fisherman said to have been murdered there long ago, who still lingers after closing time and, according to legend, once played a piano that's since been destroyed. The College Inn Pub, built in 1909, closed its doors for good on June 15th, 2025, making this one of the last true ghost stories anyone will collect from that building.

Khyelle from Los Angeles calls in with a story from the night his father died. Sleeping in his mother's living room while the family grieved, he saw a tall figure in a white T-shirt move past, then moments later what appeared to be his father's silhouette, unmistakable because of his long dreadlocks. He screamed loud enough to bring his mother running, and the two searched the house together, finding no one. That same night, at a different house entirely, his father's stepchildren felt someone squeeze their foot at the end of the bed, exactly the gesture his father used to do to anyone whose foot hung off the couch.

Evelyn from Fremont, Michigan calls in about playing ghost in the graveyard as an eight-year-old, a game her friend had loved more than anyone, until that friend passed away. Two years later, playing the same game in the same spot, Evelyn heard a familiar voice by the slide and turned to see her deceased friend's face, smiling, pulling handfuls of hair from her own scalp. Evelyn ran, and none of the other kids believed a word of it.

Christy from Los Angeles, who lives with lifelong hypnagogic hallucinations and has learned to tell the difference between those and something else entirely, calls in about a birthday stay aboard the Queen Mary. In the middle of the night, a beam of light shot down above her bed, bounced off the wall, and slid completely underneath it, unlike anything her usual hallucinations have ever done. The next morning she learned their room sat two doors from Stateroom B340, the ship's most infamous cabin, closed to guests entirely due to activity so severe people demanded refunds, and reportedly home to a spirit named Jackie known for playing hide and seek.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with an update on Little Rachel, the ghost of a young girl who died in a fire and has followed Cindy home for four years now. Rachel came along for Cindy's birthday shopping trip this week, picked out two new dolls, and, as always, refused to let her picture be taken by a single camera any paranormal investigator has ever brought around. She hasn't missed a birthday party yet.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls span a childhood spent finding comfort in the strangest of places, the true and unsolved crime behind one of America's most famous urban legends, two hours of being circled in the Oregon wilderness, and a dog who came with a previous owner attached. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time.

Erica from San Diego, now living in Eastern North Carolina, returns with a story she says slipped her mind until recently. Growing up in an abusive household, she would retreat to a closet space in her bedroom during her parents' worst fights. There, a girl named Sally would find her. Elongated face, dark hollow eyes with no visible whites, an expression stuck in a permanent frown; she should have been terrifying. Instead she offered comfort, always asking if Erica was okay, always encouraging her to go play outside with the other kids. Erica still knows every child she grew up with on that block. None of them remember a girl named Sally.

Bobby from Little Rock, Arkansas shares his grandmother's firsthand account of where the Hook Man legend actually came from, and it is not the urban myth everyone thinks they know. In 1946, a masked gunman known as the Phantom Killer terrorized Texarkana, attacking couples parked in secluded lovers' lanes and ultimately murdering five people before vanishing without a trace. The case has never been solved. In the aftermath, rumors spread of a man with a hook for a hand, and within a decade that detail calcified into the campfire story every American teenager has heard. Bobby's grandmother lived through the real terror as a teenager in Texarkana and never parked on a secluded road again for the rest of her life.

Rob from Eugene, Oregon calls in with a backcountry camping trip in the Cascades that he still cannot explain. Something began circling his and his friend Chris's campsite just outside the firelight for two full hours, walking on two legs, never approaching, never leaving. At 11 PM it stopped completely, and the entire forest went dead silent. At 3 AM, slow, deliberate breathing came from right outside their tent. Rob has not been back to that area. Chris has given up backcountry camping entirely.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with the story of Tamara, a Pekingese who came to her family in 1981 after two previous owners connected to the dog had died. On the first night, the dog growled and barked at something unseen until Cindy addressed the room directly and told the previous owner's spirit that Tamara was loved and would be cared for. A window flew open, the lights went out, and the dog let out a long mournful howl before everything went still again. The family kept Tamara for ten more peaceful years.

Four real callers. Four true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a story confirmed by a childhood friend decades later, a nun no one else could see, a coffee pot that shook on its own in front of a room full of witnesses, and a monster named Herbert who still shows up at a retirement home.

Noah Daniels, host of Real Hauntings Real Ghost Stories from Atlanta, Georgia calls in with two ghost stories thirty years apart. The first happened during a game of hide and seek at age eleven, when he tried to tag a "cheating" playmate darting across a dark room, and his hand went straight through it, a small figure with red reflective eyes that turned to look at him before everyone screamed and ran. Decades later, he mentioned the memory to that same friend, who finished the sentence for him before he could. The second happened thirty years later in a Las Vegas hotel room on Halloween night, when Noah woke at 3 AM to find a grayscale little boy in early 1900s dress staring at him, then a second look revealed the boy's father beside him, hand on his son's shoulder, both watching in complete silence. Noah now hosts his own show, Real Hauntings Real Ghost Stories (check out his episode “Ghost in My Bed” featuring Michelle).

Michael from Watertown, Massachusetts calls in about seeing a woman in a full blue nun's habit at his mechanic shop, confirmed by nobody else in the building despite there being no way she could have passed unseen. Months later, home and jobless, he experienced flickering lights and waking messages that escalated into what he describes as a genuine spiritual confrontation, one he says ended only after he prayed and experienced a vision of Jesus Christ that expelled the darkness entirely.

Christina from Phoenix, Arizona calls in with a series of encounters from an apartment beside a cemetery, starting with a solid, fully visible eight-year-old girl in gray clothing standing in her dining room in the middle of the night, one she made direct eye contact with before the girl turned and vanished through a solid wall. What followed included children's laughter heard by both her and her husband simultaneously, a child seen running down the hallway, nightly footsteps on a roof with no access above their top-floor unit, confirmed by a guest who asked why someone was up there, and a coffee pot that began shaking violently on the counter in front of a room full of friends, untouched.

Reid from Colorado Springs calls in about a childhood shadow figure so large its head brushed the ceiling, one that appeared repeatedly in his childhood bathroom doorway before eventually following him to a new home entirely, where it peeked around a corner, entered his room, and dissolved like fog.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with a story about her brother Brian's childhood closet monster, an invisible presence named Herbert (though the rough audio makes it sound like "Pervert") who has followed him for decades and, according to Cindy, is now known to the nursing staff at his retirement home for occasionally tearing up the room at night.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey it's Michelle, and this week's six calls include a great-grandmother's dream warning, a crab-shaped ghost with piercing blue eyes, TV-static figures caught mid-attack, a lady who left her closet every single night for one specific purpose, and a memory so vivid it still can't be explained away decades later.

Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana returns with an update on her paranormal household. After visiting the Whispers Estate in Mitchell, Indiana, she came home with company, a second entity in addition to Little Rachel, this one a crab-shaped ghost with piercing blue eyes who favors hiding under the bed.

David from Kansas City calls in about his first apartment, where lifelong sleep paralysis episodes escalated into something he still can't fully explain. One morning, total blackness filled his bathroom and closet doorways despite daylight outside, a whisper called his name as if approaching him, and three loud bangs hit his door before two human-shaped figures made of what looked like TV static physically attacked him. He chanted for help until it stopped. The next morning, his front door was unlocked and four police vehicles surrounded the building, a neighbor at an adjacent complex had murdered his girlfriend that same night.

Brittany from Riverton, Utah calls in about clearing out her late great-uncle's home, where a couple hired to help ended up taking home several belongings with the family's blessing. Days later, one of them called in a panic asking to return everything, a woman named Ruth had come to him in a dream demanding her things back. Ruth was Brittany's fiercely protective great-grandmother, and the items Brittany's family still keeps have never prompted a second visit.

Sydney from Nebraska calls in about a California rental her family moved into despite her immediately sensing something wrong. Alone unpacking her room, she watched a large figure move past her door, called out for a brother who wasn't home, and searched an empty house. Years later, her parents finally admitted what they'd hidden the entire time they lived there, a woman who emerged from the closet every single night to place her hands on Sydney's father's feet and wake him.

Yamari from Pennsylvania calls in about waking in what she assumed was sleep paralysis, three black figures surrounding her bed with her boyfriend right beside her, unreachable no matter how hard she tried to move or scream. The dream logic falls apart on one detail, the bedroom door, closed before they went to sleep, was standing open when she finally woke.

An anonymous caller shares a childhood dream of an angel telling them "it's okay" during what felt, at five or six, like the happiest point of their life, a comfort that only made sense years later, standing in a Catholic church, remembering it in the middle of their hardest stretch of middle school.

And Erica from San Diego returns with an early childhood memory that has never once changed in the retelling, waking in her parents' bed to find the mattress replaced entirely by an endless, fire-filled trench beneath them, her parents sound asleep and completely unfazed while she floated terrified above the flames.

Six real callers. Six true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's three calls include a piece of jewelry that vanished for over a decade and reappeared through a dream, a faceless figure at the Hollywood sign with a documented history stretching back nearly a century, and a live on-camera possession followed by a phone call that still can't be explained.

Kelly from Australia calls in with a story about her grandad, who passed away 13 years ago. For years she'd asked family members about his silver St. Christopher necklace, one she used to play with sitting on his knee as a child, and nobody could account for where it had gone. After a recent visit home spent asking again, and after spotting the necklace clearly in an old photograph of her grandad, Kelly's grandmother handed her a wrapped gift on Christmas morning containing the exact necklace and a note saying her grandad would be proud to see her wearing it. Her grandmother had no idea Kelly had ever wanted it, she'd simply had a dream telling her to give it to her.

Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana calls in with a story from a 1976 family trip to California, the same trip that brought her family face to face with the ghost of Marilyn Monroe walking the beach. Near the Hollywood sign at dusk, her family watched a shrouded figure in period clothing approach them, and where her face should have been, there was nothing at all. What they encountered matches the well-documented sightings of Peg Entwistle, an actress who died by suicide by jumping from the Hollywood sign's letter H in the 1930s, unaware a movie role was waiting for her the very next day. Witnesses have reported her presence to joggers, hikers, and park rangers ever since, often accompanied by the scent of gardenia perfume, her signature fragrance in life.

Lane Pavogey, a YouTube filmmaker, calls in with a story from filming California on Ghosts, a project he made with fellow creator Kassem G. While ghost hunting at a haunted hotel in Volcano, California with psychic medium Maria Laguna Salas, Lane and his crew captured what appears to be a live possession on camera, Maria going silent, shaking, and transforming for a stretch of roughly 45 minutes before purging afterward. Hours later, driving home, Lane received a call from Robert, a former roommate and father figure he hadn't spoken to in fifteen years, who explained he'd had an urgent, vivid dream the night before of a dark-haired woman trying to grab hold of Lane, one he felt compelled to protect him from. The description matched Maria almost exactly.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's six calls cover more paranormal ground than almost any other episode this season.

James from San Francisco returns with his third call, this time about his decade working at UCSF Medical Center on Parnassus, one of the most documented haunted hospitals in California. The kitchen where he worked used to be a morgue. Volcanic smoke rose from urinals with no explanation. Voices spoke in bathrooms that fell silent the moment he opened the door. Invisible hands pulled at his jacket on the basement stairs. He heard rumors of an exorcism on the eighth floor of the Children's Wing in the early 1980s. James has now called in three times and every building he touches has a story.

Melissa from Pittsburgh calls in about Graystone House, a stone mansion built in the 1700s as a stagecoach inn and brothel, later converted into a group home for teenage boys. Every single day at exactly 6 PM the doorbell rings across multiple doors. Nobody is ever there. Faucets turn on at full blast in empty rooms. Whatever is in that house has been doing this long enough that it has a schedule.

A caller shares a true paranormal story about a five-bedroom rental house with one room nobody can keep occupied. Four different tenants have rented the room by the main entryway, and all four ended up in serious addiction or rehab. The connection between that specific room and that specific pattern of suffering raises a question that this episode seriously sits with. What if some spaces hold hunger? What if desperation can soak into walls the same way smoke does. Michelle explores Dr Gabor Mate's concept of hungry ghosts and the Buddhist tradition of beings trapped in endless cycles of craving as a lens for understanding what that room might be doing.

Chuck from Upstate New York calls in about the woman in the empty lot in his neighborhood, the site of a house that burned down decades ago. She stands in the weeds and broken concrete, wearing something pale and perfectly still. But only in peripheral vision. The moment you look directly at her, she is not there. Chuck and multiple neighbors have all seen her. Nobody has ever seen her move.

Diane from Sedona is a practicing diviner who calls in with a Ouija board session that crossed a line she did not expect to cross. She was helping a man contact his deceased father when her hands went ice cold, and her body began shaking uncontrollably. She describes feeling squished inside her own body, making room for something else. She has no memory of what was said. When she came back to herself, the skeptic she had been reading for was pale and shaking because she had told him things only his father could have known. The planchette had kept moving with only her finger on it.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana, calls in with a family story from the Great Depression. Her great-grandfather was working in a hayfield when a man in a business suit appeared with a notepad and pencil and offered to solve his problems in exchange for something. Great-grandfather asked what would happen if he simply did not want the offer. The devil did not know what to do with that answer and disappeared. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do to something that wants power over you is refuse to be afraid of it.

If you've got a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you can't explain, I want to hear it. Call us at 1 (701) 484-2666 or head to⁠⁠ tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a recurring visitor only dying patients could see, glasses moving in an empty kitchen at 1 am, a friend's goodbye delivered through a dream before anyone knew she was gone, a doppelganger encounter one caller still calls a possible glitch in the matrix, and a haunted mansion with a buried, disturbing history.

Tyler from Ohio, a former ICU night-shift nurse, calls in about a patient who calmly described a tall man in a black suit sitting in the corner of her room, someone she said had been with her all day, unrelated to her, silent the entire time. She passed away roughly a day later. Tyler says this pattern repeated throughout his career, dying patients describing visits from family members he'd later learn had already passed.

Nellie from Clinton, Illinois returns with a second story from the same house, waking at 1 am to find the kitchen light on and the sound of glasses moving, despite both her parents' and brother's doors being closed and no one else awake in the house.

Maggie calls in about a vivid dream from over fifteen years ago, one where her friend Liz appeared radiant and at peace in a coffee shop, wearing a black coat covered in red roses, hugging her tightly before vanishing when Maggie turned away for a moment. Days later, Maggie learned Liz had died in a car accident in Panama the same night as the dream, and later discovered Liz's previously unknown middle name was Rose.

Yvonne from the Philippines returns with an early childhood memory from around 2002, watching her mother's exact double, same clothes, same voice, same conversation with her father, walk from the parents' room toward hers and then vanish entirely the moment the lights came on. Minutes later, her real mother called to say she and Yvonne's father were still out running errands and had been the whole time.

And Liz from Brooklyn closes the episode with a story from a photography assignment at a historic hotel with a disturbing past involving adopted children. She and her friend both felt an immediate, oppressive presence in one particular room, later confirmed independently by a medium on speakerphone who described a dark male spirit in that exact corner, along with two protective female spirits and several buried children on the property. The pair located an unexpected grove of lilies the next day, laid flowers, and spoke words for the dead, all while narrating a full skincare routine out loud to keep themselves calm.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

And if this episode moved you, leave a comment on Spotify. I read every single one, and your comments help new listeners find the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a ghost who literally swept a guest off his feet in a London hotel, two coffins from a funeral home that ended up haunting a Halloween attraction, a decades-old attachment that still whispers in the dark, a cursed property with a body count, and a kitchen that wouldn't stay closed after a stranger's belongings came home (Episode FKA "Real Ghost Stories For Falling Asleep - Mixtape Vol. 10").

Greg from Los Angeles calls in about a trip to Soho House Dean Street in London, where an off feeling all night built toward the moment he and his husband explored an eerily empty floor. Descending the stairs afterward, Greg caught sight of shoes just out of view, turned around, and had his feet yanked completely out from under him, going fully horizontal before dropping. A bruise on his backside lasted the entire trip and vanished the moment his flight landed back in California.

Phil from Chattanooga calls in with two separate stories. The first involves a former funeral home in Rome, Georgia, where he found two decades-old embalming coffins in the basement, still used repeatedly for cremation services years earlier. Passed along to a Halloween spook house, the coffins caused actors to refuse to enter them, citing doors slamming and objects moving whenever they were near.

Rachel from Myrtle Beach calls in about paranormal activity that's followed her since age four, starting with her late great-grandmother appearing at her brother's window. Decades later, her first sleep paralysis episode left three unexplained scratches on her makeup vanity, and describing the experience to her mother caused the wall behind her to visibly darken, as if something were opening. Her most recent episode, just three weeks before this call, involved something demonic whispering in her ear, words she refuses to repeat.

Cindy from Avon, Indiana returns with an update on Little Rachel, the child spirit who followed her home from the Whispers Estate after Cindy left gifts at Christmas. Cindy, a retired Indiana State Police employee, says an EVP investigation on her birthday helped confirm Rachel's presence, and that Rachel now possesses one of her dolls.

Phil returns with a second, far darker story about a property he purchased in Georgia containing three identical houses. Within a year, one tenant was beaten to death with a hammer, another died of a fentanyl overdose, a third suffered a disabling stroke, and the leaseholder died just three weeks after being given six weeks to live. A neighbor eventually warned Phil that no one nearby would set foot on the property. Phil sold it, disclosed everything, and the new owner suffered a permanent medical emergency two months after closing.

And Lauren closes the episode with a story from a Round Rock, Texas apartment, where a roommate brought home sentimental belongings after his brother's sudden drowning death. That same night, Lauren's younger sister fled the apartment in the early morning hours, terrified by sounds coming from an empty kitchen. In the following weeks, every cabinet in that kitchen, including ones too high to reach, would be found open with no one home and every door locked.

Five real callers. Six true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All three of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has three true ghost stories that each involve a moment of waking up to something that should not be there. A door that was closed when you fell asleep standing open. An angel who told a five-year-old it was okay before she understood what it meant. And a mattress replaced by an endless pit of fire, with everyone sleeping above it completely unaware.

Yamari from Pennsylvania calls in with a true ghost story that has a witness. She and her boyfriend went to bed normally with the bedroom door closed as always. In the night, she experienced what felt like waking but could not move, could not scream, and could not get her boyfriend's attention. The door opened, and three black figures entered the room, moving around both of them with their focus on her. She closed her eyes and woke fully in a panic attack. The door was open. Her daughters were asleep in their rooms. There are no animals in the house. The door had been closed when she fell asleep. It has never happened again, but she still gets chills when she is alone in that room.

An anonymous listener calls in with a true spiritual encounter that did not reveal its meaning until years after it happened. When they were five or six, they had a dream in which they were in distress and an angel appeared, a glowing figure with wings that reminded them of the Statue of Liberty, who said it's okay. Life was good at the time, and the dream made no immediate sense. Years later, in middle school, a period of severe anxiety and genuine suffering, they were standing inside a Catholic church when it suddenly made complete sense. The angel had not been speaking about that moment as a five-year-old. It had been speaking about middle school. The message arrived a decade early and waited.

Erica from San Diego returns with her third call to Tell Me A Ghost Story, and this one goes back to the very beginning of her life. She was five or six years old and growing up in a home defined by physical abuse and toxic relationships between her parents. She had always felt and seen paranormal activity in the duplex her family lived in, faces and creatures emerging from the stucco walls of her bedroom at night. But the experience she called in about is the one she has never been able to explain or rationalize in the decades since. She woke up in her parents' bed, where they had let her sleep between them. When she opened her eyes, the mattress was gone. Beneath her father, herself, and her mother was an endless dark trench of fire, flames rising upward toward them as they floated above it, still sleeping. She looked left. She looked right. Her parents were completely undisturbed. She was five years old, floating above a pit of fire, and she was the only one who could see it. She remembers what her parents were wearing that night. The memory has never changed. She does not think she imagined it.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories about waking up to something that had no right to be there. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different from our usual calls. This week, I am joined by Brennan Storr, host of The Ghost Story Guys podcast and author of A Strange Little Place: The Hauntings and Unexplained Events of One Small Town. Brennan spends a lot of his time collecting and telling other people's true ghost stories. This time, he is telling his own. This is now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can watch as well as listen for the first time.

Brennan grew up a skeptic. He did not believe in ghosts, did not look for them, and had no particular interest in the paranormal. Then he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, one of the most historically haunted cities in Canada, and something at his workplace changed that permanently.

It started with a shadowy figure. A dark shape Brennan glimpsed at the edge of his vision that had no business being there. What followed was a series of real ghost encounters with shadow figures that grew more frequent and more unsettling over time. Not threatening exactly, but wrong in a way that Brennan struggled to put into words. The experiences left him feeling genuinely depressed and unwell in a way he could not explain and could not shake.

What changed everything was an elderly Indigenous man named Dennis. Through Dennis, Brennan was introduced to the concept of the wrong spirit, the idea that something had attached itself to him that did not belong there. What followed was a spiritual cleansing ritual that Brennan describes as one of the most profoundly disorienting and clarifying experiences of his life. He walked in as a skeptic, carrying something heavy. He walked out changed.

The shadow figures have not entirely gone away. But Brennan's relationship to them has shifted in ways that this episode will make you think about long after it ends. This is a true ghost story about what happens when the person who collects haunting tales becomes the one being haunted.

Brennan Storr is the host of The Ghost Story Guys and the co-host of Fear Daily with Southern Gothic creator Brandon Schexnayder. His book A Strange Little Place is available now.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠ to share your story.

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Support us with official merch at ⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠Newman Media⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All four of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

And yes, the show was on a billboard in Times Square around this time. If you have not called in yet, consider this your sign. Literally.

Hey, it's Michelle, and I'm back from a week off with four true ghost stories that cover more paranormal ground than almost any other episode in the early archive.

Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana, returns with a new addition to her paranormal household. Regular listeners already know about Little Rachel, the ghost of a girl who burned to death in a Christmas fire and followed Cindy home after she donated toys to her memorial. This time, Cindy introduces us to a second entity that also followed her home from a visit to Mitchell, Indiana. This one has taken the shape of a crab. It has piercing blue eyes. It hides under the bed and glares at her. Cindy's home is becoming quite the gathering.

Dave from Kansas City calls in with a sleep paralysis experience in his first apartment that crossed the line from dream state into something he still cannot fully explain. He was pulled into a paralysis episode where the bathroom and closet doorways were filled with solid black, and a whispered voice called his name as if moving toward him. Three loud bangs on his door woke him into a half state where he got up and found two figures in his living room, shaped like humans but made entirely of TV static. They attacked him. He chanted "Jesus help me" until they stopped, and he woke fully in his bedroom. He got up, found his front door had been unlocked all night, walked outside, and discovered four police vehicles surrounding the adjacent complex where a man had murdered his girlfriend in the night and had been running through the streets.

Brittany from Riverton, Utah, calls in with a haunting connected to her great-grandmother Ruth, a feisty and fiercely protective woman who collected things her whole life and was buried with some of her most beloved possessions. When the family cleared out her great uncle's house after his death, a couple hired to help took several items home with them. Two nights later, the husband called Brittany's husband and said he needed to give the items back. A woman named Ruth had appeared in his dream and told him she did not want him to have her things. He had never met Ruth. He did not feel good about keeping them. He gave them back. Brittany now keeps several of Ruth's items in her cabin. Ruth has not come to ask for those ones back.

Sidney from Nebraska calls in with a haunting from her teenage years in California, where her family rented a house she felt was wrong from the first moment she stepped inside. A large figure walked past her bedroom door while she was home alone unpacking. A woman in a dress appeared in the mirror that faced the closet in her parents' room. Sidney told her parents. They dismissed her. Years later, after they moved out, her parents finally told her what they had never mentioned while they lived there. Every single night that woman came out of the closet, walked to her father's side of the bed, and put her hands on his feet to wake him. Every night. For the entire time they lived in that house.

Four real callers. Four true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a seemingly ordinary neighbor whose deterioration became genuinely terrifying, a skinwalker encounter on a remote Alaskan island, an unexplained touch in the shower, and a hostel in Ecuador with a ghost every employee had already met. (This episode was formally title "Real Ghost Stories For Cooking Dinner - Mixtape vol. 9").

Elijah from Moscow, Idaho calls in about a new neighbor named Deborah, a recently divorced, entirely unremarkable woman who slowly began speaking in different voices, wandering the neighborhood at night claiming to hear people screaming her name, and scratching at the thin duplex walls. The situation culminated with Deborah marching in place on Elijah's stairs, breathing heavily, eyes rolled upward, answering every attempt to say her name with a single demonic-sounding word until she finally screamed "Satan." After being pushed outside, she banged her head rhythmically against the door for several minutes before walking backward down the stairs and disappearing around the building. It was one of the only times in Elijah's life he's ever called the police.

Nicole from Anchorage, Alaska calls in about a camping trip on a remote island near Homer, an area known among cryptid researchers for unusual activity. Alone by a bonfire, she was overtaken by a sudden, overwhelming sense of dread and the specific thought that she wasn't going to make it out of there. Later in her sleeping bag, she felt a breath against her ear and heard her own voice whisper her name, at the exact moment her dog leapt up, hackles raised, barking more aggressively than she'd ever witnessed. Locals later told her the area is known for skinwalker activity.

LaSondra from a small town south of San Antonio calls in about an eerie feeling that had followed her since moving in with her partner. While showering, she felt a full hand drag down the length of her spine, from her upper back to her hips, and instinctively swatted it away, thinking it was her partner joining her, only to find the bathroom empty when she finished rinsing her hair, with both sliding glass doors still shut.

Edwin Covarrubias host of ⁠Scary Story Podcast⁠ and ⁠True Scary Story⁠, recounts his time managing a hostel in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, shares his first full apparition sighting, a man standing behind the reception desk who vanished the instant Edwin stepped closer, later identified by staff as Chiquito, a presence multiple employees had already encountered throughout the building. What followed included flickering lights that resisted every repair attempt and, weeks later, an entire restaurant's worth of light bulbs discovered deliberately unscrewed just enough to prevent them from working, in a building formerly owned by a convent of nuns. Staff eventually made a small offering to the building itself, after which the activity stopped entirely.

Four real callers. Four true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

And if this episode moved you, leave a comment on Spotify. I read every single one, and your comments help new listeners find the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All three of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this Halloween episode has three true ghost stories that each land in a completely different register. One is frightening and unexplained. One is terrifying and possibly deserved. And one will break your heart. All three are real.

James from Greeley, Colorado, calls in with a true ghost story from when he was six years old, living in a foster home in Loveland. While parents watched a swim meet at Thompson Valley High School, a group of ten kids snuck into the empty dark gym. They started running around. Then every folded chair in the room flew into each other and crashed at once with nobody near them. Every child bolted for the same door simultaneously. James and his brother were last out. They turned and looked through the small window in the gym door and saw a bloody handprint smeared down the glass. When they told the parents, the adults assumed the children had knocked over the chairs themselves. James was six. He knows what he saw.

Erica from San Diego calls in with a story about what happens when you invoke something you were raised never to name. Her grandparents had Native American roots, and Erica grew up with the specific cultural warning that speaking of flesh pedestrians and shapeshifters draws their attention. On a camping trip to Palomar Mountain, her father started joking about shapeshifters near the observatory at the top of the mountain. A friend threw a rock at a deer. They laughed and got back in the minivan to drive down. Halfway down, the brakes failed completely. The minivan hit sixty miles an hour with nothing to stop it. Her father tried a dirt bank on the side of the mountain. It almost flipped them and did not slow them down. It felt like more than gravity was pulling them. With fifteen yards of guardrail left before a sheer drop, he pushed the passenger side into the rail and ground them to a stop ten feet from the end. Erica does not think it was a coincidence. Her father was the one talking. The passenger side was the side that hit the rail.

Vicki from Hammond, Indiana, calls in with the kind of true ghost story that does not frighten you so much as it stays with you. Her older brother drowned in Lake Michigan when Vicki was nine. He had been living in the basement of their family home. Months after the funeral Vicki came home from school alone and heard the kitchen wall phone ring. The cordless phone in her hand did not ring. Only the kitchen phone. She ran to answer it. Nobody was there. She hung up and walked back toward the bathroom. In the hallway, she heard her brother say her name as clearly as if he was standing right behind her. She knew it was him. She did not turn around. She ran into the bathroom and sat with her back against the door until her mother came home. The kitchen phone was near the back door that led down to the basement, where her brother used to live. She believes he was trying to draw her to him to say goodbye. The portable phone in her hand never rang. Only the one by the door to his room.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories for Halloween.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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 Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls include a phone booth that kept ringing at the same time every day, a ghost hunting show crew member who got an answer he never expected, a psychic who pulled a very specific name out of thin air, and a staycation that ended with two people fleeing a hotel room in the middle of the night. (This episode is formally known as "Real Ghost Stories For Walking the Dog On A Lonely Night - Mixtape Vol. 7")

Roc from Orange County returns with a story from his grandparents' motel in Pomona, where he witnessed a drive-by shooting outside a phone booth as a child. Nights later, at exactly 3 am, a man appeared at the window, visible to Rock, his grandmother, and eventually his grandfather before vanishing entirely. The activity became so persistent his grandmother finally had curtains made. Years later, kids playing near the same phone booth answered a call that shouldn't have been possible, hearing a staticky voice say "help me" before the line dropped, and the phone continued ringing at 5 pm and 10 pm like clockwork until the booth was eventually removed.

Jacob, who worked on a paranormal investigation show filmed in a historic Denver mansion, calls in about being alone on the third floor while striking equipment after a shoot. Pulling on a cable made a distinct shhh sound, and a delayed echo of the same sound answered from inside a cracked-open closet door behind him, repeating each time he tested it.

Dave calls in about Bobby, a family friend who died in a car accident decades ago and who Dave's skeptical brother swears he heard calling his name at work. Years of unexplained presence in the restaurant's storage attic culminated during a paranormal event when an unfamiliar psychic pulled the specific nickname Bobby, unprompted, and said he was doing fine and still watching over them.

And Artemis from Los Angeles closes the episode with a staycation at a private Bowery Hotel townhouse in New York City. What began as an unsettling atmosphere escalated through a bathtub turning on by itself, repeated sightings of someone just out of view on the stairwell, a window slamming shut on its own, and running footsteps in the hallway, until both Artemis and his ex fled the hotel entirely in the middle of the night. When Artemis called the next morning to apologize for disturbing another guest, staff confirmed no one else had been staying there. The building's history later revealed it had once been an orphanage, and the room itself was the site of a fatal overdose in the early 2000s.

Four real callers. Four true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

And if this episode moved you, leave a comment on Spotify. I read every single one, and your comments help new listeners find the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a group of translucent men tapping on a living room window, a paranormal TV crew member pushed by something invisible on a supernatural highway beneath a haunted tattoo shop, a woman who still searches the woods with drums for her murdered husband, and two encounters with the dead that came wrapped in real, documented history. (This episode was formerly named "Real Ghost Stories For Folding Laundry - Mixtape Vol. 6")

Brittany calls in about waking from a nightmare and crawling toward her front door, only to find four translucent men pressed against the bay windows, tapping deliberately as if they knew she could see them, one trailing behind, pushing a bicycle. Her legs turned to lead as she crawled past them to reach the stairs, and when her family checked outside, there was no possible way anyone could have left the area unseen.

Jimmy, who's spent years working on paranormal television productions, calls in about a haunted Chicago tattoo shop where he went looking for tools in a pitch-black basement. Backing away from a coworker, he felt himself step directly onto someone's feet and get shoved from behind, despite being completely alone. A psychic later identified that exact stairwell as a heavily trafficked supernatural corridor.

Yamari returns with a story from a post-breakup hike with her mom and sister, where the sound of distant drumming followed them along the trail as darkness fell. Research that night revealed a local legend about a woman murdered on that mountain alongside her husband, said to still play the drums searching for him.

Michelle shares her own story from a road trip stop at a Best Western in Fresno, California, waking to find a man hovering inches from her face before he vanished instantly, and her boyfriend at the time admitting he'd seen the same thing moments earlier.

And Alannah from Edmonton, Alberta, closes the episode with two encounters tied to real loss. As a teenager visiting her biological mother in La Ronge, Saskatchewan, she woke paralyzed to a young boy asking why she cried so much at night, a boy she later learned matched the documented description of a child murdered in that same house years before. Years later, fully awake and unable to move, she watched her deceased grandmother appear seated in a rocking chair, speak softly in Cree, and press a warm hand to her shoulder before the room returned to normal.

Five real callers. Six true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

And if this episode moved you, leave a comment on Spotify. I read every single one, and your comments help new listeners find the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

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