Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.

My name is Kristin Kozlowski, and I’m the creator of this podcast. For every episode, I will make up a strange, paranormal story set in an actual place and tell it to you.

In the Beyond the Veil series, I allow a peak behind the veil and talk about the creation and inspiration behind an episode. Today, to celebrate Halloween 2024, I will share a personal ghost story with you, as well as talk about the real-life experiences of mine that led me to write the story: The Wandering Spirit of Hastings, Nebraska, Season 1, Episode 8.

If you want to binge all of the ghost stories that I've told on this podcast, here is a list of the episodes:
The Hero of the Ozarks
The Wandering Spirit of Hastings, Nebraska
The Laughter of Ellsworth, Maine
The Cross of Houston, Texas
The Shadow in Dubuque, Iowa
The Burning House of Toledo, Ohio
The Empty Lot of Gorham, Maine

If you liked this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal (that's hometown(dot)paranormal), or on Twitter to @HTParanormal. I am also on TikTok @kristinkozwrites

If you'd like to support the show, please consider a monthly donation to help me produce the show and publish a collection of stories for Middle Grade readers. Every supporter will receive an autographed PDF of a short story from my upcoming collection: THE GRAVE JUMPER AND OTHER SPOOKY STORIES.

If you'd like a spooky read this season, consider reading my novella, LIKE A COMPASS IN HER BONES or UNRAVELING THE ALIEN MISSIONS. Available from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

As always, thank you for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map.

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Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.

In this episode, a young couple hear the strumming of a guitar as they try to sleep, but when they search for the person playing the instrument, they find that no one is there.

If you liked this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal (that's hometown(dot)paranormal), or on Twitter to @HTParanormal. I am also on TikTok @kristinkozwrites

If you'd like to support the show, please consider a monthly donation to help me produce the show and publish a collection of stories for Middle Grade readers. Every supporter will receive an autographed PDF of a short story from my upcoming collection: THE GRAVE JUMPER AND OTHER SPOOKY STORIES.

If you'd like a spooky read this season, consider reading my novella, LIKE A COMPASS IN HER BONES or UNRAVELING THE ALIEN MISSIONS. Available from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. 

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Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.

My name is Kristin Kozlowski. I’m the creator of this podcast, and for every episode, I will make up a strange, paranormal story set in an actual place and tell it to you.

In the Beyond the Veil series, I allow a peak behind the veil and talk about the creation and inspiration behind an episode. Today, I talk about real-life apparitions of 19th century towns and how those instances inspired The Old Man of Artesia, NM, Season 1, Episode 1.

If you are interested in supporting this podcast, each supporter will receive an autographed PDF of one of the stories from my upcoming book, The Grave Jumper and Other Spooky Stories.

If you're interested in purchasing my recent novella, Unraveling the Alien Missions, you may purchase it through Amazon here. 

Please rate Hometown Paranormal and leave me a review so that more listeners can find my stories. You can also find me on:
Insta: @hometown.paranormal
Twitter/X: @HTParanormal
TikTok: @kristinkozwrites

As always, thank you for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map!

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Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.

In this Halloween episode, Aliyah Johnson is bummed at having to miss her best friend's Halloween party in order to babysit her little sister, so her friends decide to cheer her up by trying to summon the spirit of a woman who was murdered in Aliyah's house, but things don't go as planned.

If you liked this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal (that's hometown(dot)paranormal), or on Twitter to @HTParanormal.

If you'd like to support the show, please consider a monthly donation to help me produce the show and publish a collection of stories from the podcast. Every supporter will receive an autographed PDF of a short story from my upcoming collection: THE GRAVE JUMPER AND OTHER SPOOKY STORIES.

If you'd like a spooky read this season, consider reading my novella, LIKE A COMPASS IN HER BONES. Available from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. 

And as always, thanks for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map!

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Welcome to Hometown Paranormal where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story. 

A listener requested some behind the scenes material from my storytelling process. If this is your thing, I hope you enjoy this episode where I talk about the idea behind The Plane Crash of Waltman, WY, Season 2, Episode 1, where I talk about different timelines and dimensions, and share a personal story about jumping timelines. 

That’s it for this episode of hometown paranormal. If you liked what you heard, please subscribe to my podcast, leave a review, and tell a friend about it. 

If you like this added Beyond the Veil format on Hometown Paranormal, you can let me know on Instagram at Hometown.paranormal, or on Twitter @HTParanormal.

As a reminder, at Hometown Paranormal, every story is a work of fiction, so any resemblance to real life people or events is purely coincidental. The only factual piece of information I use is the name of the town and state. 

So, that’s it for today. Thank you for listening, and thank you for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map.

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Welcome to Hometown Paranormal, where everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.

Welcome back! I apologize for leaving unexpectedly, but I'm back and ready to tell some stories. Join me.  

In this episode, Katie Tinnard is driving through Wyoming to visit her mom when a plane falls from the sky and crashes on the road in front of her . . . or does it?

If you want to skip to the story directly, please go to time stamp 3:10.

If you liked this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal (that's hometown(dot)paranormal), or on Twitter to @HTParanormal.

If you'd like to read more stories written by Kristin, visit her website at: https://kristinkozlowskiwrites.wordpress.com
or order her books through these links:
LIKE A COMPASS IN HER BONES
MENDING BODIES

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Welcome to Hometown Paranormal, where  everything is fake and nothing is real, but every hometown gets its own paranormal story.

In this episode, Leslie Bishop, her two cousins, and her twin brothers have made a big mistake. Instead of staying at home playing board games on Saturday night while their parents go out to dinner, they venture to the corner of their neighborhood to play on the empty lot, and they stay later than they should.

Realizing their mistake, they try to rush home before their parents come home and realize they've broken the rules. But something -- or someone -- on the empty lot doesn't want the kids to leave. And it will do anything to keep them there.

If you liked this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal (that's hometown(dot)paranormal), or on Twitter to @HTParanormal.

If you'd like to read more stories -- paranormal or not -- written by Kristin, visit her website at : www.kristinkozlowskiwrites.wordpress.com

If you'd like to enter my Hometown Paranormal contest, the details are below:
Guidelines:
1. You must be 17 years old, or YOUNGER.
2. You must write 1 story featuring a strange or unusual paranormal encounter (that includes ghosts, spirits, haunted houses, faeries, trolls, talking streams, aliens, or anything else you can think of).
3. The story must take place in an actual town.
4. You must email your story to me by March 1, 2023 to: [email protected]
5. You must include your name and age in the email.
6. You can know me in real life, but you cannot be one of my children.
7. You must have fun writing your story!!! And don't worry so much about spelling and grammar. I'm looking for a good story!

What do you win?
A chance for your story to be read on Hometown Paranormal! Bragging rights! And one other prize to be announced in the next episode!

Good luck everyone!

And as always, thanks for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map!

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After a divorce last year, Virginia is striking out on her own as a 50 year old woman. She is hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the first time in the house she just bought. When she meets an old, frail couple with no holiday plans, she invites them to join her and her guests for dinner.

But the frail woman finds an item in Virginia's home that was once hers, and the woman is not okay with Virginia having it.

If you like this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal or Twitter to @HTParanormal

As a reminder, Hometown Paranormal consists of fictional stories. Only the name of the town and state are real. Any resemblance to actual people or events is coincidental and unintentional.

If you'd like to read more stories written by Kristin, visit her website:
kristinkozlowskiwrites.wordpress.com

Thank you for listening and for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map.

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When a storm moves in to the upper peninsula of Michigan, Adam McKinley loses his old apple tree to the violent winds. But what he discovers after the tree falls may be even more amazing than the tree he lost.

If you like this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal or Twitter to @HTParanormal

As a reminder, Hometown Paranormal consists of fictional stories. Only the name of the town and state are real. Any resemblance to actual people or events is coincidental and unintentional.

If you'd like to read more stories written by Kristin, visit her website:
kristinkozlowskiwrites.wordpress.com

Thank you for listening and for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map.

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When Lily finds a pair of friendship bracelets hanging on a roadside cross, she doesn't think twice before she takes them and gifts one to her new friend, Aria.

But strange things begin to happen to Aria. The portrait of her mom that she's drawing gets ruined. A portrait of someone she's never seen before suddenly appears in her sketch pad.

However, it's when Aria and Lily are together that things really get weird. And by weird, I mean terrifying.

The ghost of the girl who the bracelets belong to wants them returned, and she'll do anything to make sure that happens.

Thank you for joining me for Ghostober! This is the last episode of October, so I hope you enjoyed all the ghost stories I've shared this month. If so, be sure to tell a friend.

Also, if you like this story, please subscribe to Hometown Paranormal, and leave a review wherever you listen. And if you'd like your town featured on an episode, please send a message on Instagram to @hometown.paranormal or Twitter to @HTParanormal

As  reminder, Hometown Paranormal consists of fictional stories where only the name of the town/state are real. Any resemblance to actual people or event is coincidental and unintentional.

If you'd like to read more stories written by Kristin, visit her website: kristinkozlowskiwrites.wordpress.com

Thank you for listening and for putting Hometown Paranormal on the map.

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