The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Have you heard about the greatest ghost story in American history? For 200 hundred years the Bell Family of Tennessee was tortured by an evil entity claiming to be the spirit of a dead woman, but also a witch, and the ghost of a native boy who's grave had been disturbed, but the terrifying visitors' most dire proclamation was that it planned to kill the family's husband and father, John Bell, which it eventually did. The record of the killing can still be found in the courthouse records in the town of Adams, Tennessee to this very day. 

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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Deep in a remote area of Southern New Jersey, that extends for 1700 square miles, an area known as the Pine Barrens, is said to be home to a flying, bipedal creature known as The Jersey Devil. Originally known as the Leeds' Devil or The Devil of Leeds, sightings of this entity have been whispered of since the 18th Century. The Pine Barrens is a heavily, wooded area that sits atop a coastal plain and it's one of the only places you can see pygmy pines, whose growth are stunted by the frequent fires and sandy terrain of the region. The Pine Barrens are generally cool and quiet, but the shadows cast are foreboding, alluding to a terrifying creature that stalks within. The area is a giant aquifer and tannin produced from the enormous cedar trees, stain the rivers red.  

Introduction & Introduction

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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Some Hawaiian's believe that when you die, your spirit remains and watches from another realm and according to Hawaiian legend, the Night Marchers, Huakai Po in native tongue, are said to be the ghosts of long dead warriors who were tasked with protecting a sacred King, Chief or Chiefest.  In life, they would proceed the Chief in the procession, and those lower in status, would have to remove their clothes, lie face down on the earth and place their hands behind their heads as they were deemed unworthy to look upon the sacred cavalcade as it passed. Ancient Hawaiian law, also forbade any commoner to look upon the body parts of certain Kings or Chiefs, if caught doing so, they would ultimately lose their life, being destroyed instantly by one of the deadly warriors.

Introduction & Episode 1 of Uncharted Mysteries

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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Intruder of dreams, stalker of night.  He will present himself in shadow form, and though some descriptions of this entity do vary, he is always seen wearing a hat. More often than not, he wears a fedora but others report him fashioning a top hat. He's sometimes seen dressed in a trench coat, other times a cloak, and with a masculine outline and generally no distinguishable features, bar some reports of red or yellow, piercing eyes, The Hat Man is said to be after your soul.  Opinions do vary however, with some experiencing nothing more than his inquisitive nature. Others are left in a state of terror, fearing for their own lives or those closest to them. Could he be a harbinger of death or the personification of the nothingness that awaits? There are numerous reports of such shadow figures, appearing at the point of passing, to transfer the soul, to where, nobody truly knows.

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Wes Craven

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About The Whispering Woods

The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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Duppies, in Caribbean lore, are spirits who are said to rise and roam the earth alongside the living, most often they are malevolent and will bring back luck and misfortune to their victims.  Originating from South Africa, as part of Bantu folklore, a duppy is either a manifestation of a deceased human or an evil, supernatural being. These entities can appear in either human, animal or shadow form and will hunt for their victims at night. In Caribbean Lore it is believed that humans have two souls, the spiritual soul, which is given by God and the earthly, secular soul. Upon death, the spiritual soul will separate from the body and proceed to the otherworld to await judgement, whilst the earthly soul will remain entombed in the body for 3 days. During this time, it is wise to take certain precautions and 'plant down' the spirit, lest the soul rise in a plume of smoke after the 3rd day, and become a duppy.

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The Spanish Town Duppy

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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On this weeks episode, we share 5 true, scary stories involving creepy encounters in the forest.

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About The Whispering Woods

The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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The legend of the Goatman dates back at least to the 1950's and became popularized further in the 1970s when it was blamed for the decapitation of a dog in 1971. This creature is believed to reside in the woods of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Reported to resemble a human but with goat like features, he has been likened to the mythical faun. With a body covered in hair and hooves instead of feet, the goatman has the legs and lower body of a goat, but with the upper body of a man with horns that protrude form his head.

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The Demonic Goatman’s Bridge

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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The next night, everything was calm until around 2am when one of the other residents, Connor, got up and said that someone was tapping on his window. I guessed that he must have just been dreaming as his window was on the third floor of the house and was at least 25 feet from the ground. I went back up to his room with him to reassure him and checked his window. Sure enough, it was shut and the security lock that prevents it from opening wide enough for someone to fit through it was still sealed. As he got back in bed I heard footsteps on the stairs outside of his room. He froze for a second and looked at me with an expression of pure panic on his face. I opened the door to see who it was but no one was there. He was clearly scared by this and said "Is he back?". My blood ran cold and I asked "is who back? What do you mean?". Connor looked over my shoulder and then sank down into his bed, pulling the duvet up to his mouth. I turned around to see what he was looking at but there was still no one there. "Tell him to go away" Connor said in a hushed, scared voice. I tried to reassure him that there was no one there and left his bedside lamp on before leaving the room.

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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Bigfoot also known as Sasquatch, has a long history of sightings in North America and is deeply embedded in the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Tales of wild, bipedal creatures also exist throughout the world with similar, simian entities being reported in many regions; such as the Yeti in Asia who is said to roam the Himalayan Mountain Region (sometimes known as the Abominable Snowman), the Yeren of the mountainess regions of China, the Yowie from Aboriginal folklore that haunts the Australian outback, the Hibagon who stalks Mount Hiba in the Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan, the Almas of the mountain regions of central Asia and the Altai Mountains of Western Mongolia and the Skunk Ape that inhabits the forests and swamps of the Southeastern United States, most notably Florida. 

Research Links:

Introduction -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/features/lookingback/15598443.the-woodwose-or-wild-man-is-believed-to-live-in-yellowham-woods-in-dorchester/

Yellowham Hill Investigation by BBR

https://youtu.be/zqvdsyqj1ZI

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https://yowiesightings.com/yowie-stories/11-ape-canyon-bigfoot-attack.html

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https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/historical-strangeness/jim-carter-in-ape-canyon

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https://www.reddit.com/r/freehorrorstories/comments/6de7lh/true_i_think_i_have_a_bigfoot_problem/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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When I was eight years old, my family moved into the house I grew up in. It wasn't an old house, and no one had died in it, and it didn't even feel creepy. Just an average suburban house in your average southern suburbs.

The way the house was set up, when you came in the front door, there was a hallway with two bedrooms and a bathroom to the right, the large living room in front of you with a half wall separating it from the dining room to the left, and the kitchen on the other side of the dining room. Where the kitchen and the living room met, there was another small hallway, and the master bedroom, a bedroom that was used as an office, and a bathroom, and then breakfast nook leading to a laundry and utility area at the end of the kitchen. My room was to the right of the front door and down the hallway past the bathroom with the other bedroom on this hallway used for storage mostly as I was my mother's only child, and my half brother and sister didn't live with us and rarely came to visit.

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The Whispering Woods is a UK paranormal storytelling podcast exploring true ghost stories, unexplained mysteries, haunted history and folklore from around the world.

From firsthand paranormal encounters to historical hauntings and centuries-old legends, we bring you atmospheric stories of the strange and unexplained.

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