The second annual Nightmare Before Christmas special is upon us, and in this special episode I will read real ghost stories from listeners. Christmas is intrinsically linked with the telling of ghost stories, so it seems like the perfect time to tell these stories of timeslips, premonitions, gifts from beyond the grave, and frightening encounters with the dead.

There’ll also be polterguests dropping by, in the form of authors, podcasters, bloggers and YouTubers, and they’ll tell you of their own scary experiences in their own words.

Two of these stories are accompanied by audio recordings which are most definitely not for those of a nervous disposition, as they appear to capture the voices of the dead. You have been warned.

Huge thank you to Carole, Dorothy, Karen, Craig, Barney, Jim, and 'Michael' for sending in their stories for me to read. 

And an equally enormous thanks to my polterguests, Emma, Rob, Icy and Nicky, who contributed to this Christmas special.

You can find Icy Sedgwick's podcast at https://pod.co/fabulous-folklore-with-icy 

Her Halloween special, which is a chat with me about ghosts while we sat inside Newcastle's oldest building is at https://pod.co/fabulous-folklore-with-icy/two-ghost-hunters-in-conversation-at-newcastle-castle 

And Icy's website is at https://www.icysedgwick.com 

Emma's blog is at https://weird-wiltshire.co.uk 

Rob's frightfully good YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/@DeadAirTV 

And Nicky and Charles Wright's new podcast, The World's Most Haunted, is going to launch in early 2024. You can find out more at their website https://theworldsmosthaunted.com/ or their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TheWorldsMostHaunted 

Thanks to you for listening to How Haunted? this year. Have a phenomenal Christmas, and all the best for the new year. 

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Music in this episode includes:

Myuu - Carol of the Bells - Dark Christmas Song (Piano Version)

Myuu - Winter Trouble 

You can hear all of Myuu's fantastic music at https://www.youtube.com/myuuji