The Spooky Files

Strange lights. Missing time. Mysterious figures that don't look quite human.

Today on The Spooky Files, we're exploring alien encounters, including the famous Betty and Barney Hill case, the Socorro UFO incident, and the mysterious Ariel School encounter in Zimbabwe.

Were these witnesses encountering something extraterrestrial, or is there another explanation?

Sources & Further Reading:

• University of New Hampshire — Betty and Barney Hill Collection

• FBI Vault — UFO Documents

• John E. Mack Institute — Exploring African and Other Alien Encounters

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Your dog suddenly growls at an empty hallway. Your cat follows something across a room that you can't see. Your horse refuses to take another step.

Are animals simply detecting sounds, smells, and movements outside our senses? Or could they sometimes be sensing something paranormal?

Today on The Spooky Files, we're sharing stories of animals that seemed to notice the unexplained before their humans did.

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Sources & Further Reading:

• American Kennel Club — Can Dogs See Ghosts and Spirits?
• Popular Science — Can Dogs Sense Ghosts?
• Public firsthand accounts from Reddit's r/Paranormal community

The Spooky Files is back.

Today, we're exploring the Black-Eyed Children. The mysterious kids who appear at doors and cars, asking to be let inside, their eyes completely black.

Where did the legend begin, and what could explain these disturbing encounters?

You decide what you believe.

Sources:• Brian Bethel — original Black-Eyed Children account• PBS Monstrum — “Don’t Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children”• Atlas Obscura — Black-Eyed Children folklore and history

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What if the strangest paranormal experience isn't seeing a ghost but watching an ordinary object do something impossible?

In this episode of The Spooky Files, we explore stories of disappearing keys, missing wedding rings, and two of history's most famous cases involving objects that reportedly moved on their own: the Rosenheim Poltergeist and the Enfield Poltergeist.

Are these simply tricks of memory or something we still can't explain?

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Sources

• Hans Bender – Rosenheim Poltergeist investigation

• Guy Lyon Playfair – This House Is Haunted

• Society for Psychical Research

• Publicly shared firsthand accounts (adapted)

The Spooky Files has officially reached 25 episodes, so I’m taking a short summer break.

New episodes will return August 3rd with more haunted places, strange encounters, listener stories, and unexplained files.

In the meantime, catch up on past episodes, revisit your favorites, or send in your own spooky story for a future episode.

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Call lights going off in empty rooms. Footsteps in unused hospital wings. Patients seeing loved ones no one else can see. In this episode of The Spooky Files, we explore haunted hospitals and nursing homes, including Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Rolling Hills Asylum, Linda Vista Community Hospital, and eerie medical-worker stories from the edge of life and death.

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Sources: Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Kentucky Historic Institutions, Rolling Hills Asylum, Haunted History Trail of New York, Working Nurse, and US Ghost Adventures.

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Basement doors opening on their own. Footsteps below the floor. Dogs refusing to go downstairs. In this episode of The Spooky Files, we explore haunted basement stories, Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels, Nina at Old Town Pizza, and the underground tunnels of the Stanley Hotel.

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Sources: Travel Portland, The Oregon Encyclopedia, Associated Press, Old Town Pizza & Brewing, Shanghai Tunnels/Portland Underground, The Stanley Hotel, and The Points Guy.

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What if someone saw you somewhere you never were?

This week on The Spooky Files, we’re talking about doppelgängers — eerie doubles, impossible sightings, “I just saw you” encounters, and loved ones appearing in two places at once.

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Sources for this episode include Encyclopaedia Britannica’s entry on doppelgängers, Robert Dale Owen’s Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World, and folklore references on the Irish fetch and Scandinavian vardøger traditions.

Something is watching from between the trees.

Today on The Spooky Files, we share eerie forest encounters, haunted woods legends, unseen footsteps, strange figures, and stories about the terrifying feeling of being followed outdoors. From infamous haunted forests to chilling listener-style stories, this episode explores what might be hiding in the woods after dark.

Some of the scariest stories aren’t paranormal at all.Today on The Spooky Files, we explore real stories of people who narrowly escaped serial killers — including survivors connected to Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Rodney Alcala, Bobby Joe Long, Richard Ramirez, and Robert Hansen.These are the survivors who trusted their instincts and got away.______________________________Got a story? Email [email protected] me other places online at https://thespookyfilespodcast.com/