Welcome to Tales from the Janitor — your mildly irresponsible, definitely sleep-destroying walk through Rhode Island’s creepiest legends, coastal nightmares, and those moments where you swear the ocean just looked back at you.
This episode? We’re heading into the Ocean State — which sounds cute until you realize how much of it is old, damp, and quietly watching you. Shadowy figures around abandoned mills. Voices echoing off empty docks. Lights moving in places lighthouses swear they don’t reach anymore. From Providence backstreets to lonely roads in South County, Rhode Island has a habit of keeping its ghosts close… and not always polite.
We’re talking colonial leftovers that never learned how to rest, strange encounters near the water, and stories that start with “this sounds fake” and end with “yeah, I stopped going there after that.” Every tale comes with slow-burn dread, uneasy silence, and the kind of dry janitor humor you only earn after cleaning buildings that really shouldn’t still be occupied.
If you’re into real ghost stories, New England folklore, or those “my uncle swears this happened” kind of encounters — congrats. You’re exactly where you shouldn’t be.
Why listen?
Chilling Rhode Island legends, hauntings, and coastal weirdness • A darkly funny, first-person ride with a janitor who knows too much • Perfect for fans of paranormal podcasts, horror stories, and Northeast folklore
The show’s free — but keeping the lights half-working and the ghosts moderately cooperative takes effort. If you’re enjoying it, leave a review, share it with your bravest friend, or donate a Dunkin’ coffee strong enough to keep me awake through whatever knocks around after midnight (no promises).
Thanks for listening… and whatever you do, don’t linger in the abandoned school off I-95.
The floors remember footsteps.
And they really don’t like new ones.
Stories
The Depths of Wrath
The Wakening
The Curse of Dolly Cole
The Heart of Mercy
The Camping Nightmare
Credits
Director – Kiersten Greenfield
Developed & Created by – Steve Lloyd
Writer - Steve Lloyd
Script Writer – Jon DeBenedict
Script Editor – Taylor Robinson
Executive Producer – Steve Lloyd
Editor - Hecate
Sound Design - Steve Lloyd
Starring Jeremy Tucker as The Janitor
Cast:
Captain Stormalong - Brad Luguire
First Mate Harlan - Manfred Fish
Sailer Red - Jon DeBenedict
Cook Jasper - Joseph Pancia
Sailor Elijah Graves - Christian J Casas
Sailor Claire - Thomas Render
Quartermaster Thaddeus - J.R. Snyder
Sarah - Katelyn McCann
Chuck - Johnny Penney
Margaret - Kate White
Clarke - Hans Cummings
Abel - Allen Carter
Elias - Matt Rukstar
Dolly - Reign Reeves Pearson
Dr. Samuel Beckitt - Alex James
Lena - Sophia Cymore
Ethan - Martin Laston
Mercy Brown - Gems
Thomas - Bach Tran
Clara - Raina Kane
William - Scott Ramage
Charlotte - Amy Sturrock
Freddie -Rambles
Artwork by Joseph E.W. © Tales from the Janitor, 2026
End song - All the Streets Look the Same - Vian Izak
Disclaimer: These stories are rooted in Rhode Island folklore, but please don’t cite them in your history paper, your coastal storm prep guide, or your extremely bad idea of a how-to manual for summoning ghosts in a Dunkin parking lot at 1 a.m. Any resemblance to real people, real events, or haunted mill buildings off Route 6 is purely coincidental… or the result of eating clam cakes that have been sitting under a heat lamp too long while the fog rolls in and something near the water starts whispering your name like it knows you.