If you're having trouble sleeping, Callum's got a nice soothing bedtime story for you.
He promises that there'll be no loud noises, interruptions, or laughing.
He doesn't promise sweet dreams, though...

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Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, translated in 2011 by Margaret Hunt (ISBN 978-1-60710-313-4)

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Callum is joined by Thomas who is eager to hear some old Japanese Folk Tales. But is he eager to hear about a monk trying to break INTO prison? Or another monk who almost beat Dr Frankenstein to the punch by more than 500 years?

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Japanese Tales selected, edited, and translated by Royall Tyler (C)1987 (ISBN 0-375-71451-0)

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Callum lets Olly pick an archaic Japanese Folk Story basically at random, and what follows is a tale of extremely poor then painfully good manners surrounding the death and subsequent necrophagy of a village headman. For some reason, this puts Callum in the mood to sing.

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (C)1904 by Lafcadio Hearn (Reprint ISBN 9781481810586)

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Callum & Amber went hunting for ghost trains... or ghosts on trains... or in trains? In any case, listen as they recount the horrifying experiences they had at the National Railway Museum in Port Adelaide.

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Callum tortures Justin & Amber with a transcript of a Tasmanian Christian seance group who contacted the lingering shade of a Victorian sex-worker to help her see the light... of Jesus.

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I Talked With Ghosts (C)2005 by Ruth Legg (ISBN 1-41206020-6)

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Callum & Amber delve into the surprisingly romantic origins of the Langford family Banshee in Kilcosgriff Castle.

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True Irish Ghost Stories (C)1926 by John Seymour & Harry Neligan (1994 ISBN 1 85958 050 5)

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, we're breaking out the emergency Pilot Episode of Second Hand Haunting!
Travel back in time as Callum and Olly discover The White Phantom at the Acton Arms, The Witch-Finder and The Wellington, and the format of this very show.

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Haunted Inns (C)1973 by Marc Alexander (ISBN 0 584 110115 5)

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As promised last week, Callum sat down with Jess to have his Tarot read to help him figure out what to do with his life. Well, his job and his podcast, anyhow.
And then he got a second opinion...

WARNING: Listen at your own peril if you worked with Callum in the first half 2026...

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Callum lets Jess pick a story this time, and she somehow manages to find another story of a troubled teen afflicted with something supernatural on top of all the usual hormones.
This time help arrives in the form of a Catholic Exorcist though...

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Holy & Unholy Ghosts: A Priest's Experiences of the Supernatural (C)1995 by Peter Mullen (ISBN 9781855384798)

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Callum & Amber have some new microphones to test out, and what better way of doing so than reading about feuding farmers in Depression-era Wisconsin, and how the whole town rallied when a ghost entered the fray.

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Haunted Wisconsin (C)1980 by Michael Norman & Beth Scott (2011 eBook ISBN 978-0-299-28593-7)

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