Hey, it's Michelle, and this week we have three real callers. Three true ghost stories from a morgue in Texas, a kitchen in Minnesota, and a frozen basement in Southern Ontario. This episode is also available as video on Spotify or Youtube.

Larissa from Texas calls in with a true ghost story from her time working as an investigator at a medical examiner's office. Late nights, intakes, autopsies, and a presence she named Frank. Frank has a pocket watch. He wears dress shoes. He walks the hallway with the unhurried energy of someone who has been at that threshold for a long time and sees no reason to cross it. When Larissa told him probably not tonight sir he left. When her coworker heard the pocket watch open right next to his desk instead of down the hallway where Frank usually roams, the coworker clocked out immediately and went home. Medical examiner offices are among the most consistently reported paranormal workplaces in documented research, threshold spaces where some presences simply choose to linger. Frank is one of those presences. He has a pocket watch and he is in no hurry.

Anne from St Paul, Minnesota calls in with a true ghost story from her work as a residential cleaner. Left alone in a client's home she was scrubbing cabinets hard when she heard it clearly. Thank you. Nobody else was in the house. The client's cat is in dialysis and not doing well and the space carried the specific weight of someone watching a beloved animal decline. Something in that house was paying attention to Anne working in it, and what it felt was gratitude. Not get out. Not help me. Thank you. In a show full of frightening encounters Anne's call stands out because the presence she encountered was not trying to scare her. It was trying to say something kind.

Gary D from Southern Ontario calls in with a true ghost story that begins with two teenagers falling through ice at midnight in well below zero temperatures and nearly dying, and somehow gets stranger from there. He and his friend John broke into an abandoned pavilion from the 1920s to survive the cold, wrapping themselves in burlap sacks in the basement while their hair froze solid. And then from above them they heard it. Big band music. Dozens of voices laughing and talking. Clinking glasses. Someone at a microphone working a crowd. Dancing. The full sound of a packed New Year's Eve celebration directly above them on a dance floor that when they climbed up to check had a heavy layer of undisturbed filth and snow lying across it. No people. No band. No footprints. Nothing. The music started twice and stopped twice like a switch being flipped. Gary raises the hypothermia explanation himself and it deserves consideration. But hypothermia does not produce identical shared hallucinations between two people who can confirm each other's perceptions in real time. Residual haunting, the specific paranormal category where a space replays its most emotionally concentrated memories like a recording, fits what Gary and John heard far better than any neurological explanation. The pavilion absorbed decades of New Year's Eve celebrations, and on the night two frozen teenagers sat in its basement, it played one back. They also found a large pile of long, brown, curly human hair between the barrels with no explanation. Gary does not know what that was. Neither do I.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is special. This is our first-ever compilation episode, bringing together eight of the most unforgettable true ghost stories from our first season callers in one place. And for the first time, this episode is now available as a full video on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can finally watch as well as listen. If you are new to Tell Me A Ghost Story, this is the perfect place to start. If you have been listening from the beginning, welcome back to the stories that started it all.

Eight real callers. Eight true paranormal encounters. Here is what is waiting for you.

Carlos from Los Angeles introduces us to Daisy, his ghost roommate. Daisy is not threatening. She is not hostile. She gives Carlos advice and seems to have opinions about how he is living his life. Carlos has learned to listen to her, and honestly, after hearing his call, I understand why.

Heather from Mesa, Arizona, takes us to the Grand Hotel in Jerome, one of the most documented haunted hotels in the American Southwest. Jerome was a copper mining town built on violence and sudden death, and the Grand Hotel has been absorbing that history for over a century. Heather was in her room when a voice told her to turn down the TV. There was no TV on.

Greg from Echo Park in Los Angeles calls in with a Lady in White encounter from his childhood, a ghostly figure rooted in one of the oldest and most widely documented supernatural archetypes in Western paranormal history. Greg's encounter with her is as personal and unsettling as any we have received.

Yvonne from the Philippines returns with her dark figure story, the shadowy presence that chased her up the stairs at her aunt's house. If this is your first time hearing Yvonne's calls, there are more of them in the archive, and every single one is worth finding.

Hector from New Mexico details a series of paranormal events that keep happening at 3:33 AM, the hour that appears in supernatural accounts across cultures and centuries, with a consistency that researchers find impossible to attribute to coincidence. Hector has the scratches to prove it.

Deborah from Seattle takes us back to the séance at Fort Wright College with the theater students who were not entirely prepared for what answered back. Eerie sounds. Unexpected responses. A room full of people who went in curious and came out changed.

Nellie from Illinois shares her experience with the little ghost girl who appeared in her childhood home. If you have been following Nellie's calls across the early episodes, you already know her house revealed itself one room at a time. The little girl was one of the first signs that something was there.

And finally Dave from Sioux Falls calls in with a babysitting story that starts as an ordinary job and ends somewhere considerably more unsettling. Dave has called in before with paranormal encounters that stay with you, and this one is no exception.

Eight true ghost stories. One compilation episode. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story found its voice.
 

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls have stayed with me longer than most. A ghost child seen by five military witnesses in a San Diego cemetery. A beloved cat who died twenty years ago still comes home. Footsteps that walked through a front door with nobody attached to them. And a dog named Biscuit who stopped on a trail near the Green River and found something in the weeds that the police came to bag in silence. Available on Spotify and YouTube as a video podcast.

Scott from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, calls in with a true ghost story from his time stationed in Southern California. He was required to attend a military funeral at a San Diego cemetery, and after most people had left, he and four others were standing in the parking lot when they all smelled formaldehyde at once. Strong enough to be physically sickening. Coming from a little boy walking the cemetery grounds in blue pajamas that looked like they were from the seventies. His feet were not quite touching the grass. He gave the five of them an angry look, and every instinct said run. They ran to their cars. As they drove away, every single one of them checked the rearview mirror, and every single one of them saw the same boy vanish at the exact same moment. Five military witnesses. One disappearance. No explanation.

James from San Francisco returns with his second call. If you heard his first story about the sage and the basement and the windows slamming on Post Street. He lives where Dashiell Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon, and he has been sharing it for twenty years with the ghost of his cat Ow, who died after almost two decades together, and that's just the beginning.

Chase from Mesa, Arizona, returns with his second call. His first was about the disembodied voice in a Kansas basement that asked hey do you know me twice and waited for an answer. This story is from the same house. One evening, the group was downstairs when they heard the aluminum screen door open and slam, and then footsteps cross the living room above them and stop. Chase's brother ran upstairs, thinking it was his girlfriend. The footsteps moved into one of the bedrooms. His brother came back down with Oreos and no girlfriend and no explanation. Ten minutes passed before anyone said it out loud. The screen door had opened. The footsteps had crossed the floor. Something had gone into that bedroom. Nobody was there.

Ashley from Washington State calls in with the heaviest call of the episode. She used to walk her dog Biscuit along a trail near the Green River, the same stretch of river where Gary Ridgway left his victims for years before they were found. One night, Biscuit stopped and would not move. Ashley looked down and found something long, pale, and curved in the weeds beside the bank. She told herself it was a branch. Something bone-like about it would not let her walk away. She called the police. They came. They bagged it. The older officer looked at her the way people look when they are deciding how much to tell you, and said they needed to run tests. That was all he said. Ashley knows what was found along that river during those years.

Four real callers. Four true ghost stories.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different. This episode won the Silver Signal Award in "Paranormal and Horror" podcasts and the International Women in Podcasting Award, and honestly, I'm still so proud of it. And now, it's a video episode available on Spotify and YouTube. If you haven't heard it yet, this is a good place to start.

Three callers. Three stories that cover completely different corners of the paranormal world. And all of them are real.

Cindy takes us back to Halloween night when she was a kid, the night she and her brother decided to actually do it. Summon Bloody Mary. What started as a dare between siblings turned into something neither of them expected, something that has stayed with Cindy ever since. I think most of us grew up hearing the Bloody Mary legend and writing it off as a game. Cindy is not writing it off.

Then we travel to Cambodia with Rax, and this one hit differently for me. His ghostly encounters are tied directly to the history of the Khmer Rouge, and the weight of that history is present in every detail he shares. A woman floating above him. A hand reaching out from a fan. These aren't just spooky images. They feel like something that place needed to say out loud. Rax's story is one of those that reminds me why I started this show in the first place.

And finally, Jennifer joins us, and she's not just a caller with a ghost story. She's a professional psychic medium, and her perspective on the haunted house she lived in adds a layer to this episode that I genuinely didn't expect. The ghost in question was a boy. He seemed completely real. He cleaned the pool. I know how that sounds, and I promise you it sounds even better when Jennifer tells it herself.

If you've got a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you can't explain, I want to hear it. Call us at 1 (701) 484-2666 or head to tellmeaghoststory.com to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and tonight's four calls are connected by something I did not notice until I had heard all of them together. Every single one of these callers was somewhere they were supposed to feel safe. A hotel room on a solo road trip. A basement bedroom in a college house. A family apartment they had lived in for years. A cemetery on a curious afternoon. And every single one of them found out that safe is not always the whole story. This episode is available as a video on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can watch as well as listen.

Four real callers. Four true ghost stories. Here is what is waiting for you.

Our first caller was driving solo from California to Portland when she pulled off Interstate 5 near Gilroy and checked into a Motel 6 for the night. She was tired. The room was run-down. The hotel felt empty. She dozed off, and when she looked across the room, there was a man sitting in the chair by the credenza. Gallard mustache. Baggy pants. Both hands on the armrests. Wide legs. Completely at ease. Just watching her sleep. She woke herself up screaming for her mother and slept with the light on until morning. Whatever was in that chair was gone the moment the light came on. She checked out at dawn and did not look back.

Chase from Mesa, Arizona, takes us to a basement in Salina, Kansas, in 2008, where he and his roommate, Travis, heard something that has no explanation. Travis was in the shower. Chase was sleeping in the next room. A woman's voice said, "Hey, do you know me?" They looked at each other. Thirty seconds of silence. Then the voice again. "Hey, do you know me?" The neighbors were all at school. It was only the two of them in the house. Whatever was asking that question was asking it directly and patiently and it was waiting for an answer. Chase says there is more but that is the real weird one. Chase please call back.

Our caller from San Antonio, Texas describes years of escalating paranormal activity in a family apartment from 1987 to 1991. An old woman in a 1900s style dress watching from beside the bed and smiling. A young woman in white on the stairs who his father stepped aside to let pass before she vanished. Voices calling his name from empty rooms. Lights turning on and off. Someone poking him on the back in the bathroom when he was completely alone. The dog was terrified for no reason. And persistent water leaks that kept getting worse, no matter how many repairs were made. Worth noting that chronic water damage can lead to toxic mold exposure, which has documented neurological effects, including auditory and visual hallucinations. Whether that explains what happened in that apartment or whether the apartment had something in it that the mold could not account for, the family eventually had to leave. The activity made that decision for them.

And finally, Cindy Ketron from Haunted Avon, Indiana, returns with the story of a cemetery in Seymour, Indiana, in 1987, in a section filled with children's graves from the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 to 1919. The Spanish flu killed between fifty and one hundred million people worldwide in roughly two years, among them a devastating number of children, and small town cemeteries across America still hold the concentrated grief of communities that buried their young faster than they could process the loss. Cindy and her family had no relatives in that cemetery. They were simply curious. Then Brian said, " Mom, look." A disembodied child's hand was crawling up through the grave, raising its fingers as if feeling for where it was going. Cindy's mom said, "Run". They ran. When they came back months later with a flashlight, there was nothing there at all.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different from our usual calls. This week, I am joined by Brennan Storr, host of The Ghost Story Guys podcast and author of A Strange Little Place: The Hauntings and Unexplained Events of One Small Town. Brennan spends a lot of his time collecting and telling other people's true ghost stories. This time, he is telling his own. This is now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can watch as well as listen for the first time.

Brennan grew up a skeptic. He did not believe in ghosts, did not look for them, and had no particular interest in the paranormal. Then he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, one of the most historically haunted cities in Canada, and something at his workplace changed that permanently.

It started with a shadowy figure. A dark shape Brennan glimpsed at the edge of his vision that had no business being there. What followed was a series of real ghost encounters with shadow figures that grew more frequent and more unsettling over time. Not threatening exactly, but wrong in a way that Brennan struggled to put into words. The experiences left him feeling genuinely depressed and unwell in a way he could not explain and could not shake.

What changed everything was an elderly Indigenous man named Dennis. Through Dennis, Brennan was introduced to the concept of the wrong spirit, the idea that something had attached itself to him that did not belong there. What followed was a spiritual cleansing ritual that Brennan describes as one of the most profoundly disorienting and clarifying experiences of his life. He walked in as a skeptic, carrying something heavy. He walked out changed.

The shadow figures have not entirely gone away. But Brennan's relationship to them has shifted in ways that this episode will make you think about long after it ends. This is a true ghost story about what happens when the person who collects haunting tales becomes the one being haunted.

Brennan Storr is the host of The Ghost Story Guys and the co-host of Fear Daily with Southern Gothic creator Brandon Schexnayder. His book A Strange Little Place is available now.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and happy April. I figured the only appropriate way to kick off the month was with three calls that will make you question every sound you hear in your house tonight. There is a full video for this episode on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can watch as well as listen.

Three callers. Three true ghost stories from three completely different corners of the world. And every single one of them is real.

Hannah from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, introduces us to Edith. Edith lives in a converted Victorian home that is now a music school, and she has opinions. She turns the dishwasher on and off on command. She flicks the lights when the kids misbehave. She does not tolerate angry energy in her space. And when the school moved to a new building a few blocks away, Edith moved with them. Hannah was staring right at that dishwasher when it turned itself off. So was the whole choir.

Then James from San Francisco calls in from the early nineties with a story about a murder house on High Street and what happened when he tried to sage the basement where the blood had run. The room got colder the moment he lit the sage. Light bulbs popped. Windows slammed. James ran. He did not go back to do laundry there again.

Edwin from Scary FM joins us from Ecuador, where he is staying in a house with a history that nobody in the family likes to talk about. Footsteps on the second floor when no one is up there. A knock at the front door with no one outside. And a dog who is too lazy to investigate but will not stop barking at the stairs. Edwin has been rationalizing these things for a long time. After the night, the footsteps came fast and heavy across the ceiling while he and his wife sat at the kitchen counter, and he stopped trying.

Three true ghost stories. One very eventful April.

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True ghost stories from real people, told through haunting phone calls. Did a woman really disappear? What was hiding just outside that flashlight beam? Why are the lights staying on when someone goes to sleep?

These are real calls. Real paranormal encounters. Real ghost stories from listeners just like you.

Tell Me A Ghost Story is the award-winning paranormal podcast hosted by Michelle Newman, where people from around the world call in to share true ghost encounters, supernatural experiences, and real haunting stories they have never been able to explain.

New episodes every other Wednesday. Follow the show so you never miss one.

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1. The Bloody Hand: James from Colorado shares an unsettling experience involving a mysterious bloody handprint that appeared without explanation, leaving him questioning the boundaries between the living and the supernatural.
2. Flesh Pedestrian: Erica from San Diego recounts a harrowing encounter with a creature resembling the legendary "flesh pedestrian," a term often associated with shape-shifting Skinwalker in Native American folklore.
3. Brotherly Love: Vicki tells a poignant story of a spirit visitation from her deceased brother, offering comfort and a sense of continued connection beyond the grave.
4. Stinky Sal: Sofie from Los Angeles shares an eerie encounter with a ghostly figure known for its distinctive, unpleasant odor.
5. More Shadow People: Brennen from The Ghost Story Guys podcast delves into unsettling experiences with shadow people.
6. Ghost Dog: Cindy Ketron recounts a mysterious tale of a spectral canine companion.
7. Shorty: Jules from Santa Barbara narrates an encounter with a mischievous, playful spirit who has a problem with boundaries.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this compilation is a big one: nine calls covering everything from a ghostly Marilyn Monroe on a California beach to a Dogman at a sliding glass door. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time.

Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana opens with a story from a 1977 trip to Hollywood with her grandparents. Walking the beach at the Pacific, they encountered a confused, disoriented woman in a white evening gown who did not seem to know who or where she was. It was Marilyn Monroe. According to a Hollywood Reporter piece, Marilyn's spirit has reportedly been seen everywhere from her own former home to the ladies' room of the Hollywood Roosevelt.

Adam from Decatur, Illinois, a twenty-year paranormal investigator, calls in about the one time he learned the answer to a question he'd always been asked: can something follow you home?

Lisa, an Aboriginal woman of the Gomeroi Nation, calls in with a story from when she was four years old, waking to a tall, thin figure in a hat standing in her bedroom doorway. She has carried the memory her whole life and turned it into the artwork and inspiration for her own show, Proppa Scary Podcast, featuring First Nations paranormal stories.

Phil from Chattanooga shares a story that sounds like fiction but is disturbingly real. A young Marine took a shortcut through the woods near the old Tri State Crematorium in Noble, Georgia, and found himself surrounded by shadow figures. The crematorium's owner had been discovered storing over 300 uncremated bodies in a barn rather than cremating them, a scandal that leveled the small town when it broke. You can fact-check every detail of this one.

Cindy Ketron returns with a second story from the 1980s, when her family came face to face with a six-foot, black-haired creature at their sliding glass door, growling and slapping the glass. Her father, convinced it was a werewolf, ran for a chest of silver coins. It worked. This is the Michigan Dogman, a documented cryptid with over a hundred independent reported sightings.

Hendel from Long Island describes three increasingly strange nights at a Los Angeles hostel, including a roommate whose body impossibly repositioned itself mid-laugh, and a violent, room-shaking earthquake that no seismic record or hostel staff member can confirm ever happened.

Christina, host of Espooky Tales on the Scary FM Network, recalls the night her chair was yanked out from under her by something her younger brother had been warning them about the whole time: shadow people who apparently do not like being mocked.

Carla shares the shortest and most quietly moving story of the batch, an ongoing, loving presence from a partner who passed in 2020 that she describes simply as a gift that keeps giving.

And Nellie from Plainview, Illinois closes the episode with a Mexican folk phenomenon her grandmother always warned her about, se te subió el muerto, the dead climbing on top of you while you sleep. At eighteen, she felt exactly that.

Nine real callers. Nine true ghost stories.

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