The Ghost Story Guys

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows The first in our two-part series about haunting in prisons! We have a number of stories from North America, plus an exclusive look at the haunting of the Lima Sheraton in Lima, Peru, former site of the infamous prison known as El Panoptico. When it comes to ghost stories, there's regular old dark, then there's lock-up dark, and t

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

Close calls during a mountain hike, an explanation of Philippine totems, and a review of the brand new psychological thriller "Broken Bird", in UK theaters on August 30th. All this and more in our latest mail show! Our musical feature on this episode is "(Never) 2 Hot" by Massey feat. Xochi, presented courtesy of Bent River Records. Link to the screengrab Bob sent in [Imgur] Learn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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