New Ghost Stories

A ghost who cleans up after you isn’t so bad. But one that goes through your wife’s underwear, that’s a step too far...

If your home is haunted, are you ever truly alone? If you share your living space with a spirit, what happens to your privacy? What can ghosts see? Supernatural stories often focus on the noises, the shocks, the scares. But what is it really like to live with something paranormal? What does it do to your senses, knowing that you’re living with something unexplained, that you can’t understand or predict. Can you ever really feel at home there? Can you ever truly feel safe?

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Tags: Ghost Story, Weird, Modern Horror, Modern Ghost Story, Social Media Horror, Friendly ghost, London Horror, London Ghost Story.

It was a beautiful garden, except for the weeds. Strange black stems, with red flowers. And a deadly aroma.

Rather than a haunting, this is another frightening case from the weird section of my paranormal archive. There’s a long tradition of scary plants in horror. They’re something we can’t control, that creep and grow sometimes where we don’t want them too. Slowly, gradually, they can be destructive. We have to keep them in check, or they can take over the spaces where we feel safest.

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Tags: Chills, Chilling, Chiller, Natural Horror, Botanical Horror, Environmental Horror, Gothic Podcast,
Horror Podcast, UK Horror Podcast, Ghost Pod

He needs to prove he can be a responsible parent. Provide a good home for his family. If he could only do something about the damp…

Case no 288 is amongst the most upsetting of the stories that have featured on this real life horror podcast to date. We’ve had real supernatural cases before where the pressures of parenthood have led to horrible outcomes. But what makes this chilling case more frightening is that if events occurred as the subject claims they did, then it’s simply terrifying. If it didn’t happen that way, and the subject is not telling the truth, what might really have occurred, is even more disturbing.

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Tags: Tales of Macabre, Family Horror, Suburban Horror, Pedophobia, British Horror, Horror Podcast, Frightening, Chiller, Chilling, Haunted House, Haunting, Unexplained Podcast.

Run off the road. Forced to find help. He sees an old farmhouse in the distance. And that’s where the nightmare really begins.

Case no. 202 is a real haunted house story. A disturbing account of one man’s ill-fated trip into the British countryside, and the unexpected horror he uncovers there. It’s a sinister discovery that reveals something about his own dark past. And it all builds to a thrilling, and disturbing climax.

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Tags: Eerie, Weird, Chilling, Countryside horror, Old Dark House, Haunted House, Fortean, Macabre, Frightened, Frightening, Unexplained, Uncanny, Real Ghost Stories, Strange Stories

It was a routine operation. She didn’t think she’d have to stay overnight. With strange sounds on the ward. And something hiding behind the curtain.

This was meant to be one of the Shorts series, but this hospital-based horror story has ended up being a much longer supernatural tale than I originally planned. So I’ve added it as regular-length episode. Unlike most of my cases, this story just takes place over one night. It’s a nightmare that grows more and more strange and chilling, until it reaches a terrifying crescendo.

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Tags: Hospital Horror, Real Horror, Uk Horror, Macabre, Dreams, Gothic Horror, True Horror, Frightening, Chilling, Unexplained, Uncanny Horror.

“… When subjects were scarce the pair would drive far into the country in Macfarlane's gig, visit and desecrate some lonely graveyard, and return before dawn with their booty to the door of the dissecting-room.”

This time for our New Year’s bonus classic ghost story, I’m reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher. This creepy gothic tale was inspired the famous Burke and Hare case, and the non-conformist libertine streak exhibited by one of the leads seems to lay the way for the famous horror story Stevenson would write just two years later.

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No presents. No dinner. No company. He thought covid was the worst thing that could happen at Christmas. He was wrong.

This year’s chilling ghost story for Christmas comes from our very recent history. A troubling period that still haunts us, even though we’re keen to try and put it behind us. Yet bizarrely, there is still something Dickensian about this real festive tale. But I won’t spoilt it; I’ll leave it to you to see what you make of it.

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Tags: Christmas Ghost Story, Ghost Story for Christmas, Winter Ghost Story, Seasonal Ghost Story, Festive Ghost Story, Paranormal Activity, A Christmas Carol, Dickensian.

He thought he knew more about spiders than anyone else. But there was one secret he wished he'd never learned.

Case 223 is one of the most bizarre tales in my ghost story archive - more like something out of the realms of weird fiction when compared to my usual paranormal accounts. This could be a tough episode if you suffer arachnophobia. And this may not be an episode for fans of London Zoo either.

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They broke in. They made it their home. And then the building fought back.

Season three of our supernatural podcast begins with a scary story from the 1980s. It’s about squatters, people who believed in a different way of life. Not everyone will agree with their actions or their politics. What I doubt is that anyone would think that the horror they faced was in any way deserved.

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We're back for full episodes just in time for Halloween.

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