The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

A childhood trip to Mexico turns into a nightmare when a carnival accident is followed by something impossible at the kitchen door. Then, on the Isle of Wight in 1973, two children meet a strange clown-like figure near Sandown who calls himself Sam. Two unsettling accounts of clowns, strange beings, and encounters that do not fit neatly into the world we know.

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https://spookedpodcast.org/episode-11-knock-knock

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Sandown_Clown

https://onthewight.com/the-sandown-clown-exploring-sam-the-isle-of-wights-surreal-1973-encounter/

https://theghostinmymachine.com/2022/05/30/encyclopaedia-of-the-impossible-sam-the-sandown-clown/

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A 1918 newspaper clipping preserves an older tale of Knighton Gorges, where a vanished house seemed to return in ghostly light, music, voices, dogs, and a spectral Christmas gathering.

On the Isle of Wight, only fragments remain of the old estate, but the stories continue: rattling chains, phantom revels, strange lights, and a house said to appear again when the conditions are right.

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https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1918-01-01/1918-12-31?newspapertitle=isle+of+wight+county+press&retrievecountrycounts=false&sortorder=dayearly

https://www.islandecho.co.uk/the-history-and-hauntings-of-knighton-gorges-the-isle-of-wights-most-cursed-spot/

https://www.curiousarchive.com/knighton-gorges-most-haunted-isle-of-wight/

https://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/blog/read/2023/08/5-spooky-stories-from-the-isle-of-wight-b37

https://www.redfunnel.co.uk/isle-of-wight-guide/explore/ghosts

Isle of Wight County Press, Saturday 28 December 1918 clipping.

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Before the 1890 Morfa Colliery disaster, miners claimed they heard strange sounds in the four-foot seam, including doors opening and slamming in the darkness, and some believed the pit was warning them of fire or explosion. When the mine later exploded and dozens of men and boys were killed, those ghost stories entered the inquiry itself, turning Morfa into one of Wales’s most unsettling haunted mining legends.

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https://folklorethursday.com/halloween/the-pit-of-ghosts-exploring-the-haunted-mines-of-victorian-wales/

https://theatr-nanog.co.uk/ghost-morfa-colliery

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/morfa-resonance-the-pit-of-ghosts/

https://asiw.co.uk/reviews/ghost-morfa-colliery-theatr-na-nog-dylan-thomas-theatre

St James’s Gazette, 25 April 1890, “The Morfa Colliery Disaster — Ghost Stories”.

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Sorry, there's no YouTube episode today. They will be back in a couple of months!

In today's episode we share 3 spooky Reddit stories.

Special thanks to LoyalteeMeOblige, Sweaty_Ad4829, and Green_Temperature_57 for allowing us to share your stories!

Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/comments/1tuwaan/ouija_went_wrong/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1tzreci/both_me_and_my_mother_had_a_weird_feeling_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghoststories/s/7GWi0Qateo

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First responders answer calls that become impossible to explain: a figure moving through smoke during a fire, a gunshot and scream in an empty parking lot, and a pale woman outside a grocery store who may already have been dead. Drawn from 50 Real Ghost Stories of First Responders by Eve S. Evans, these accounts ask what happens when those trained to face danger encounter something beyond it.

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In the small Somerset village of Sidcot, George Beacham was remembered as a cattle doctor, a conjurer, and a man with knowledge of the old ways. When his final burial wish was ignored, the story says his widow’s cottage erupted with moving furniture, falling household goods, and the sound of the dead man’s boots coming slowly down the stairs.

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https://archive.org/stream/historyofsidcots00knig/historyofsidcots00knig_djvu.txt

https://www.sdnq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Somerset-County-Herald-Notes-and-Queries-1919-transcript-by-Paul-Mansfield.pdf

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5615/banwell-fort

https://hauntedhosts.com/haunted-places/avon/location/1235-banwell-blown-cross-haunting

https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2092/wimblestone

https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/somerset/somedata.php

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In 2009, Bobby, Sherilynn and six-year-old Madyson Jamison drove into the Sans Bois Mountains to look at land for a new off-grid life and vanished, leaving behind their truck, their dog, their phones, their IDs and $32,000 in cash. But before they disappeared, the family had reportedly spoken of hauntings, spirits, demons, apocalyptic fears and a spooky warning painted on a shipping container: “Witches don’t like their black cat killed.”

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https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/mysterious-death-of-the-jamison-family/

https://oklahomacoldcases.org/bobby-jamison/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jamison-family

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/jamison-family-mystery

https://medium.com/@thewickedtruthyt/the-disturbing-case-of-the-jamison-family-7972f52b09c5

https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Jamison_Family

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Sorry, there's no YouTube episode today. They will be back in a couple of months!

In today's episode we share 4 spooky Reddit stories.

Special thanks to sans-nom-user, KingMak24, Imvenommate, and HispaniaObscura for allowing us to share your stories!

Stories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1t20opx/mystery_door/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueScaryStories/comments/1tja762/scariest_thing_that_ever_happened_to_me/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/1th8s48/i_genuinely_dont_know_what_to_make_of_what/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/1t5t4ux/this_happened_way_back_in_the_90s/

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Deep in the Central Highlands, on the lonely shore of Loch Ericht, Ben Alder Cottage has held a haunted reputation for decades. Old newspaper clippings, bothy folklore, and modern overnight visitors tell the story of Joseph McCook, strange noises in the dark, doors crashing open, objects moving, and the uneasy feeling that this remote shelter is not always empty.

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Dundee Courier and Advertiser, Friday 20 January 1978

The Courier and Advertiser, Friday 12 April 1985

https://ben-alder.com/mccooks-bothy/

https://ohwhataknight.co.uk/blog/a-night-alone-in-ben-alder-cottage

https://www.alexroddie.com/2018/03/a-night-in-ben-alder-cottage/

https://outdoorsmagic.com/article/britains-most-haunted-bothy/

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/travel-news/man-left-creeped-out-uks-31288955

https://munromoonwalker.com/blog/bothy-ghosts-giant-mice-and-john-ford

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A small 1994 newspaper clipping from The Scotsman we came across writes about a skull being uncovered on the island of Coll, in a place long known as Hangman’s Hill and of the islanders frightened enough to ask the church to bless the ground. Behind the discovery lies an older Maclean clan tradition of murder, revenge, execution, unconsecrated burial, and the belief that some dead do not rest quietly.

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The Scotsman — Monday 4 April 1994 — “Fear of ghosts haunts island”

https://macleanhistory.org/resources/texts/the_clan_gillean.txt

https://archive.org/stream/transactions29gaeluoft/transactions29gaeluoft_djvu.txt

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

https://archive.org/stream/folklore08folkuoft/folklore08folkuoft_djvu.txt

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