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True stories of the paranormal, told with humor, humanity, and just a pinch of skepticism. Hosted by Brennan Storr & Paul Bestall

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05.10.2022

A grandfather's grace, a whisper that transcends generations, and the eternal mystery of the night are just a few of the things waiting for us this week. Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the dead for 7 ...

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05.10.2022 S6 Ep16: Book of the Dead, Vol. 8 A grandfather's grace, a whisper that transcends generations, and the eternal mystery of the night are just a few of the things waiting for us this week. Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the dead for 7 ...
05.03.2022 S6 Ep17: Poltergeists Will Tear Us Apart Somewhere in Seattle, a poltergeist causes enough terror to ruin a friendship. In London, England, another poltergeist wanders a home in the same part of town where Jack the Ripper stalked his victims. Will Brennan and Paul tell the hell ...
04.26.2022 S6 Ep16: Book of the Dead, Vol. 7 This week the Book delivers feelings of a massacre long past, stones thrown from a dark wood, and a church renovation that causes more problems than it fixed. Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the dead for ...
04.19.2022 S6 Ep15: Clap For the Hat Man An episode so cursed it crashed Paul's computer! For the first time ever, we exclusively tell stories of that particularly sinister shadow person - The Hat Man. This episode is Anthony's labor of love, and there was a cost, but ...
04.12.2022 S6 Ep13: Book of the Dead, Vol. 6 A family ghost, two visitations from a shadowy tall man, and a possible reincarnation Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the dead for 7 months now, so if you want to get ad-free access to the entire ...
04.05.2022 S6 Ep14: The Abominable Mr. Skin We finally did it - we broke two hours, and it's a ride that goes all over the place: static shadows, UFOs, missing time, poisoned drugs, and so much more. Oh, and the daughter of one of our listeners has ...
03.29.2022 S6 Ep11: Book of the Dead, Vol. 5 This week the Book of the Dead offers up a shadow man, an XBOX-loving spirit who's not afraid to apologize, and a Los Angeles office building I'm dumb enough to want to work in Ghost Story Guys patrons have been ...
03.22.2022 S6 Ep10: The Owls Are Not What They Seem Owls have long had their place in esoteric symbolism, but when was the last time you heard about them actually getting up to weird stuff? On this episode we dive into stories of exactly that - owls will change form ...
03.15.2022 S6 Ep9: Book of the Dead, Vol. 4 This week we open the Book of the Dead to find doppelgangers, encounters with angry entities in the dark, and a phantom smell with a real-life tragedy as its genesis. Content warning: the final story touches on violence against a ...
03.08.2022 S6 Ep8: London Fridge Has Fallen Down Have you ever seen a black mist come together in your home? Perhaps a black hole opening and closing on your wall? Have you ever returned to the office one morning to find a fridge which had been bolted down, ...
03.01.2022 S6 Ep6: Book of the Dead, Vol. 3 On this installment, the Book reminds us why we should always sleep with our feet covered. Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the dead for 7 months now, so if you want to get ad-free access to ...
02.22.2022 S6 Ep7: Noises in the Attic Ever been in a house while it exploded? One of our listeners has, and on this episode she tells us about the inner voice that gave her enough information she was able to escape with her life (and a significant ...
02.15.2022 S6 Ep4: Book of the Dead, Vol. 2 This time on Book of the Dead, we open to three stories, each paranormal in their own way: disappearing items, vanishing figures, and a psychic haunted by a horrifying dream Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the ...
02.08.2022 S6 Ep3: A Beast in the Night It's time for a trio of listener stories, beginning with the comfort of a lifelong spirit guardian, and ending with a sighting in the cold night which suggests there are far worse things out there in the dark than we ...
02.01.2022 S6 Ep2: Book of the Dead, Vol. 1 "Book of the Dead" is a short new biweekly show here on the GSG feed. Narrated by Brennan, each episode tells you three ghost stories, without any extra conversation. Ghost Story Guys patrons have been getting book of the dead ...
01.25.2022 S6 Ep1: A Haunting in Brooklyn Our sixth season begins with Paul's triumphant return to the microphone after beating Covid and a special episode format! To celebrate the new year (and Paul being back), the guys explore the story of one family's fight to stay sane ...
01.11.2022 S5 Ep28: The Call of Dreams When you dream of somewhere you've never been or even seen, only to discover it by random chance one day out in rural America, it forces you to re-examine the way you see the world. On this episode, Paul has ...
12.26.2021 S5 Ep27: Tis the Season For Haunting Recorded on the shortest day of the year, this episode is full of listener stories about shadow people, aggressive haunting in an apartment building, a new invisible friend, and much more. Also on this episode: Paul reflects on his first ...
12.14.2021 S5 Ep26: Shadows of the Golden State If you know the paranormal, then you know that California's Mount Shasta is a hot spot for high strangeness of all kinds, but did you know the rest of the state is just as strange? On this episode we explore ...
11.30.2021 S5 Ep25: The Haunted Seaside There has been a LOT of water happening out here on the west coast and so for this episode, we thought we'd run with it and see what kinds of horrors the seaside harbors. The answer is: plenty. From a ...
11.16.2021 S5 Ep24: Visions of the Time Fish The most exciting stories are the ones that connect across different times, locations, and people, and on this episode we have not one or two but three different occasions where that's happened. Shadow people will menace, dreams will be shared, ...
11.02.2021 S5 Ep23: By the Rivers Dark From the Vermilion in Ohio to the Ganges in India, one thing you can rely on rivers to do is provide us with tales of high strangeness. On this episode we explore tales of disappearing boatmen, chained entities terrorizing those ...
10.19.2021 S5 Ep22: The Hungry Forest It's almost Halloween and what could be more frightening than driving headlong into the woods? On this episode we share the story of 2 Overlanders who know the woods like the back of their hand, until one night outside Santa ...
10.05.2021 S5 Ep21: The Uncovered Well You find an uncovered well beneath your house - what do you do? No, this isn't a line from Zork, this is the conundrum faced by a listener in a story on this episode. October is listener story month, and ...
09.21.2021 S5 Ep20: The Owl & the Glass Do owls and glass make any sense together? Absolutely not, and neither does anything else that happened to us on this recording. With stories ranging from a spectral little girl in a blue dress to an invisible force throwing a ...
09.07.2021 S5 Ep19: Mysteries of Hawaii, with Lopaka Kapanui What does it take to be considered a master storyteller? On this episode, Lopaka Kapanui, THE Hawaiian Ghost Story Guy, comes on to show us how it's done as we read from his beautiful, haunting book "Mysteries of Hawaii." From ...
08.24.2021 S5 Ep18: In Case of Haunting, Break Glass Somewhere in Modoc County, California there sits a motel that will forever put you off staying in room 4 - any room 4. In Bayonne, New Jersey, a horrible horn sounds, but can only be heard by a select few. ...
08.10.2021 S5 Ep17: The Haunting of Vietnam On our first country-specific episode since "The Haunting of Poland", we dive into stories of the paranormal from Vietnam, where a formless crying entity forces a man from his house in the dead of night, malicious spirits masquerading as children ...
08.04.2021 S5 Ep1: Preview of "Largely the Truth, with Brennan Storr" My new talk show "Largely the Truth, with Brennan Storr" just dropped on podcast players everywhere and I wanted to share a fifteen-minute preview with you fine folks. For the last four years, Miami-based composer and producer Darko Richards has ...
07.27.2021 S5 Ep16: The Goodbye Ghosts On this episode we finally crack into the script Brennan's been holding onto - the one where people share their stories of interactions with passed-on loved ones and pets. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hear about the time Paul was ...
07.13.2021 S5 Ep15: Dial G For Ghost Remember when "Reach Out and Touch Somebody" was a hopeful slogan for telephones and not a terrible supernatural promise? The Ghost Story Guys remember. On this episode, however, we're leaning way into the latter, with tales of terror centered on ...
06.29.2021 S5 Ep14: Who Are the Plaid People? They can appear as a fever dream, a hallucination, or even solid physical forms moving through your home, but who the hell are the Plaid People, and why do their eyes shine? On this episode we don't get any closer ...
06.15.2021 S5 Ep13: The Gnome Watcher The person you love most in the world leaves the room via one door and inexplicably re-enters through another. Their expression is now completely blank, but they're still coming towards you - do you trust them, or do you run? ...
06.01.2021 S5 Ep12: Under the Bridge, with Mister Sam Shearon Throughout folklore bridges have been regarded as places of mystery - they've harbored trolls, trapped vampires, and even gotten Clint Eastwood laid. On this episode we're joined by guest storyteller and artist Mister Sam Shearon to explore some strange happenings ...
05.18.2021 S5 Ep11: Secrets of the Ghostlight, with Amanda Woomer Every theater has a ghostlight, but not every theater has a ghost - the Starry Night Theater, in Tonawanda, New York, also known as the Ghostlight Theater, has both, and on this episode, guest storyteller Amanda Woomer joins Brennan and ...
05.04.2021 S5 Ep10: Fear of the Dark On this episode, Paul gives us the goods from last weekend's Nebraska Bigfoot Conference, we continue a story from what may be Wisconsin's most haunted apartment block, a harmless board game in a cemetery ends in snake eyes, and so ...
04.20.2021 S5 Ep9: The Secret Life of Ghosts The one thing we know for sure about the subtle world is that we don't know much at all, and on this episode we share stories which make that lack of knowledge seem a hell of a lot more scary. ...
04.06.2021 S5 Ep8: The Devil in the Back Seat Locked cars, locked homes - these are places we're supposed to feel safe but no one told that to the strange intruders we'll be talking about on this episode. From a flaming blue hoop that causes intense physical pain, to ...
03.23.2021 S5 Ep7: The Trouble With Doppelgängers You know how sometimes life sneaks up on you? Well, replace "life" with "doppelgängers" and you've got this episode because when we put together this grab bag of stories we were not expecting those devil's doubles to turn up, yet ...
03.09.2021 S5 Ep6: Take Me Down to Poltergeist City (The Haunting of Yorkshire) Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Yorkshire? After this episode, Brennan, Paul, and their guest storyteller Kevin Eustace from "We Need to Talk About Ghosts" sure do, and it involves a lot of poltergeists. Also on this ...
02.23.2021 S5 Ep5: The Horny Ghost & Other Listener Stories It's time for 2021's first volume of listener stories and it is quite the ride, taking us from a rural Texas homestead where a "baby" cries to lure people outside alone, to the titular horny ghost, which may be the ...
02.16.2021 S5 Ep4: GSG Presents: The Sunken Library Welcome to the Sunken Library! This is a sneak peek at our brand new, patron-only show which features listener stories too long to fit into the main episodes, and other paranormal stories which don't quite mesh with our usual format. ...
02.09.2021 S5 Ep3: Where the Dead Don't Die Since people generally don't end up in graveyards till after their dying is done, they shouldn't be all that haunted, right? As Brennan and Paul learn on this episode, that is very wrong and they have the stories to prove ...
01.26.2021 S5 Ep2: The Way of the Desert - Haunting in Nevada Nevada may be home to the bright lights of Las Vegas, but outside the relative safety of the city stretches an expanse of desert with more darkness than light, and that desert has a way all its own. From a ...
01.12.2021 S5 Ep1: How Much is That (Ghost) Dog in the Window? On the first episode of 2021, Brennan is joined by Paul Bestall of the "Mysteries & Monsters" podcast to explore the strange world of animal ghosts. From an astrally projecting bear plotting bloody murder, to a haunted dog track, to ...
12.22.2020 S4 Ep33: A Nightmare on 34th Street This year we here at Ghost Story Guys are proud to present our audio drama adaptation of "A Nightmare on 34th Street", by Paul Kane (the "Arrowhead" trilogy, "The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy"). "Nightmare" tells the story of NYPD ...
12.08.2020 S4 Ep32: Yes, Virginia, Bathrooms Can Be Haunted Too We pride ourselves on asking the hard questions, and on this episode we get right down to brass tacks by asking - "can a bathroom be haunted?" The answer is yes, and those stories run a shocking range - from ...
12.01.2020 S4 Ep31: Mini Show for December 1, 2020 On this dive into the mailbag we try to make peace with Turducken, bust at least one wanna-be ghost, and so much more. Not only that, but there's a waltz AND a polka. Also on this episode: the horror of ...
11.24.2020 S4 Ep30: They Come From the Forest: The Haunting of Poland In our first themed episode since "Doppelganger Country" in July, Poland brings the terror with ten stories of haunted history, spectral riders, and undefinable horrors that want you out of their forest. Don't listen to this one in the dark. ...
11.17.2020 S4 Ep29: Mini Show for November 17, 2020 Spectral earthquakes, the poltergeist that follows you home, and an angry Vardøger are just a few of the things we find in the mailbag on this mini show. Also: that time Ian lived "As I Lay Dying", and the finer ...

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