Get ready to pack your bags (and maybe put on your emergency yellow pants), because this week we are heading to 1878 Amherst, Nova Scotia, to unpack one of the most chaotic, terrifying, and bizarre hauntings in Canadian history: The Great Amherst Mystery.

What started with an innocent hunt for a bedroom mouse quickly escalated into an absolute circus of paranormal activity centered around 18-year-old Esther Cox. We're talking airborne carving knives, spontaneous fires, self-boiling water, and a spectacularly aggressive spirit named "Bob" who apparently skipped ghost etiquette school entirely.

• The Ultimate Buzzkill, Daniel Teed: Esther's brother-in-law, who tried to ignore a flying toy trumpet and wall-shaking knocks with the classic "you girls are just imagining things" routine.

• A Message in the Plaster: The moment a local doctor watched an invisible knife carve the threat, "Esther Cox, you are mine to kill," right into the wall.

• Enter the Hustler: Walter Hubbell, a skeptical paranormal investigator who arrived to expose a hoax, got a carving knife thrown at his face, and immediately decided to turn Esther’s trauma into a national touring show. (Spoiler: It bombed).

• The "Bob" Connection: The dark, real-life trauma Esther suffered just days before the haunting began, and how her abusive ex-boyfriend might hold the key to the entire mystery.

• Spirits vs. Psychology: Was Esther actually plagued by a legion of angry ghosts, or was her own deeply traumatized mind unleashing Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK)?

The Verdict: Whether you believe Esther was the victim of a malicious poltergeist, a walking generator of unconscious psychic energy, or just a deeply traumatized teenager exploited by the 19th-century media machine, one thing is for sure: this story will make you look twice at your own kitchen utensils.

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Tonight, we open the casket on a deeply unsettling case from 2009 in the rural town of Social Circle, Georgia. Following the tragic suicide of her estranged husband, Jim, a young mother named Cindy Sauer makes the defiant choice to move her family back into the home where the tragedy occurred. What begins as disembodied whispers and moving objects quickly escalates into a terrifying, systematic war of attrition.

As Cindy attempts to rebuild her life with a new partner, Jason, she finds herself stalked by a localized void—a towering, fifteen-foot shadow entity that refuses to stay in the dark. From terrifying daylight apparitions to violent, middle-of-the-night physical assaults, the malice anchoring itself to Cindy refuses to let go. When a reckless ghost hunt at an abandoned mansion in nearby Covington accidentally tears open the door to darker forces, Cindy’s reality shatters into full-blown, spasmodic convulsions and guttural growls. Terrified of losing her sanity—or custody of her children—she turns to a professional investigative team for a desperate, final stand against an enemy trying to wear her like a glove.

In this episode we delve into the stories of our paranormal investigator, Kathy Moore. she tells us the frightening stories of the investigation of a child murderer who attacked Kathy and several of her team members. This one comes with trigger warnings beware!

Here is our review of Allison Gunn's book, "Nowhere". However that's not all we have. In celebration of the book we have carefully (yeah right) woven together first hand accounts of spirit mimicry and BEKs. There may or may not have also been some real wackadoodles in this mix. We'll let you decide how you feel about it. If you don't mind keep John from Berkley Paranormal in your thoughts. He is going through a difficult medical time and could use the comfort.

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In this long in the waiting sequel to our pilot episode we travel to the plains of Arkansas and tell the story of a family gripped in the clutches of the perfectly haunted house.

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Finally, after tragedy, heartache, and frights it is time for the final show down between man and spirit!

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What happens when the walls of a home don’t just hold memories, but actively try to tear a family apart? This week, we dive into the harrowing accounts of the Becker Building, where landlord Ed Becker and his tenants, Dave and Ellen, found themselves trapped in a domestic nightmare that defied logic.

From the inexplicable scraping of metal across empty floors to the "freeze outs" where the gas was mysteriously cut in the dead of winter, the activity in this house was far from subtle. We explore the tragic history of the home’s former residents—a mother dying of a broken heart and her sons who met mysterious ends in the very bedrooms the Beckers tried to call home.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Mirror Tenants: How a happy young couple began to unravel under the influence of the house.

• The Lady on the Stoop: The recurring apparition of a grieving mother who watched the living from the porch.

• The Basement Secrets: The discovery of "Ben’s" hidden stash and the dark reality of a confirmed suicide beneath the floorboards.

• A Skeptic Silenced: The terrifying moment a floating trinket confronted a blind witness, proving that faith (or the lack of it) is no shield against the paranormal.

• The Man in the Nursery: The chilling climax that drove the tenants to flee after a mysterious figure was seen standing over their sleeping child.

Join us as we recount a story of bent keys, burning smells, and the terrifying realization that some entities don’t just want to be seen—they want to be heard.

This week we talk with brand new published author Allison Gunn. We discuss her new book "Nowhere" and then she tells us some creepy and harrowing experiences she had as a preacher's kid. Sit back and enjoy some of the wierdest first hand stories we've heard from a person. Listener beware you're in for a scare

In this story we travel to the city of Chicago where Ed Becker is in desperate need of a home for him and his new wife. He just needed a starter house. The one he found came cheap and with its own insane person living on the ground floor from the previous family. Ed and his wife Marsha experienced sounds, phantom arguments, things being rearranged, and at one point a full blown apparition. This is the beginning of the story of how an exorcism got televised for the first time to the public.

In the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, the trees grow so thick the sun never touches the forest floor, and the silence is rarely truly empty. This week, we journey into the eastern third of America to explore a land where the veil between our world and the next is dangerously thin. From the stone-skinned Spearfinger of Cherokee legend to the modern-day hikers who walk in circles on straight paths, we’re digging into the superstitions that keep locals indoors after dusk. We’ll sit by the ghost lights of Brown Mountain, trace the history of the "Village of the Damned," and learn why you should never, ever answer a knock at the door after midnight. In Appalachia, if you hear something in the woods... no you didn’t.