He Asked the Haunted House for a Sign… and Got One | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Growing up near Fresno, California, the legend of Wolf Manor was hard to ignore. The massive mansion in nearby Clovis had a long and troubled history, from its early days as a lavish private residence to its later years as a sanitarium where many people reportedly died. By the time this listener was in college, the building had already earned a reputation as one of the most haunted places in t...
19m Mar 17
19m
The Night Something Ran Across the Living Room | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Devon says she has never believed in ghosts, and even now she still isn’t sure what to make of what happened in a rental house she once lived in outside Howard, Ohio. At the time she was working overnight shifts and raising four kids, so strange noises in the middle of the night were easy to dismiss at first. But over time, both she and her boyfriend began hearing things they couldn’t easily e...
16m Mar 16
16m
It Watches. It Listens. It Imitates. | Real Ghost Stories
For the first couple of years, nothing about their suburban home felt unusual. Then one afternoon, his wife heard him come home from work — the garage door opening, the heavy boots crossing the tile, even the familiar clink of his keys hitting the counter. He was still at work. Months later, she heard his voice call her name from downstairs. Not muffled. Not distant. Normal. And then one nigh...
25m Mar 16
25m
The Dark History of the Deane House, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! In the heart of Calgary stands one of the city’s most infamous historic properties—Deane House. Built in 1906 by Captain Richard Burton Deane, the home’s history was marked by tragedy almost immediately, when Deane’s wife died during its construction. Decades later, the darkness deepened. In 1971, a brutal murder-suicide unfolded within its walls, castin...
34m Mar 16
34m
Something Walked into the Wrong House | Real Ghost Stories
Jeremy bought the lakeside cabin because it was cheap. He filled it the only way he could afford to — thrift stores, estate sales, secondhand pieces with unknown histories. For a while, everything felt normal. Then small things began shifting. Doors he was certain he’d closed weren’t. Furniture seemed slightly out of place. Nothing dramatic. Just enough to make him pause. He told himself it wa...
29m Mar 16
29m
The House That Turned Everyone Against Each Other | After Midnight
After his divorce, he needed somewhere cheap to live fast. A small room in an old row house seemed like the perfect temporary solution. At first, the place felt normal enough. But after a few weeks, he began noticing something strange about the way people behaved inside the house. Conversations would suddenly grow tense for no reason. Small disagreements became sharper than they should have b...
18m Mar 16
18m
Who Was the Man Who Woke Him Up? | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
When he was fourteen, a boy in suburban Seattle stayed up late while watching his younger siblings. His parents were out for the night, leaving him in charge of the house. Just as he finally crawled into bed, strange noises started coming from down the hall. Assuming his brother and sister were messing around instead of sleeping, he got up to deal with it. But when he checked their room, both...
12m Mar 16
12m
He Always Ran Past the Second Floor | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Don never considered himself someone who had paranormal experiences. He had never seen an apparition or had anything dramatic happen around him. At most, he occasionally felt the unsettling sensation that someone might be watching him. Growing up in an isolated house in the woods, he was used to dark nights and strange sounds. Later in life he even lived in a dorm room rumored to be haunted, b...
15m Mar 15
15m
Saving History and Spirits, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO Preserving history is one thing. Preserving it while uncovering ghostly activity is something else entirely. Saving the Old Properties is a nonprofit dedicated to rescuing endangered historic buildings across Indiana. Founded by Richard Allen and Dann Allen, the organization restores architectural treasures that might otherwise be lost to time. ...
29m Mar 15
29m
Saving History and Spirits, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! Preserving history is one thing. Preserving it while uncovering ghostly activity is something else entirely. Saving the Old Properties is a nonprofit dedicated to rescuing endangered historic buildings across Indiana. Founded by Richard Allen and Dann Allen, the organization restores architectural treasures that might otherwise be lost to time. But as wa...
35m Mar 15
35m
The Girls Said a Woman Lived in the Closet | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Dave thought the strange moments in his house were just small things you shrug off and move past. A noise here, a shadow there, the occasional unexplained feeling that someone else might be nearby. But over time the stories started to add up. His daughters talked about someone in their room. His wife saw something forming in the corner of a guest room. And years later, while packing up the ho...
18m Mar 15
18m
Something Was Making Rounds in a Gettysburg Hotel | After Midnight
Andrew and Megan chose Gettysburg for a quiet weekend. They had been living in different states for months, meeting halfway whenever they could just to spend a little time together. Gettysburg felt like the perfect place—historic, quiet in the off-season, and far from the crowds that usually fill the town. They spent the day walking the battlefield under a gray sky and joined one of the town’...
19m Mar 15
19m
The Night Something Walked Through Her Home | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Jenny grew up in a house where strange things were simply part of life. Footsteps upstairs, movement in empty rooms, and the constant feeling that someone else might be in the house. Over time, it became something the family learned to live with. Years later, when Jenny moved back into the home as an adult, the activity still seemed to linger in small ways. Nothing that felt dangerous—just the...
16m Mar 15
16m
When the Basement Door Slammed Shut | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Tiffany grew up hearing about the paranormal from her father, who investigated strange activity as a hobby. Even though she had experiences growing up, she always tried to ignore them. It felt easier not to think too much about it. A few weeks after marrying her high school sweetheart, Tiffany found herself alone in their quiet Iowa home while her husband was away. What started as a normal eve...
12m Mar 14
12m
The Jericho Haunted Trinity, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO On the eastern shores of Lake Winnebago sits the quiet town of Jericho, Wisconsin—a place that appears peaceful at first glance. But rising above it is the abandoned Holy Trinity Catholic Church, a towering reminder of a past that refuses to stay silent. Closed decades ago, the church, its neighboring convent, and former school have become colle...
31m Mar 14
31m
The Jericho Haunted Trinity, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! On the eastern shores of Lake Winnebago sits the quiet town of Jericho, Wisconsin—a place that appears peaceful at first glance. But rising above it is the abandoned Holy Trinity Catholic Church, a towering reminder of a past that refuses to stay silent. Closed decades ago, the church, its neighboring convent, and former school have become collectively k...
29m Mar 14
29m
The Shadow Man Who Lived in the Hallway | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Shortly after moving into a house in Portland with her family, she began waking up in the middle of the night to something she couldn’t explain. Standing in the bedroom doorway was a tall, dark figure—completely black, darker than the room itself. At first she tried to ignore it, convincing herself it was just a trick of the light or a dream. But when she finally mentioned it to her mother, t...
12m Mar 14
12m
Something About That House at Night | After Midnight
Jason and Marcus grew up on the same quiet street, the kind of place where sleepovers happened without much planning and kids stayed up long after everyone else in the house had gone to bed. Once the television went dark and the house settled into silence, their conversations often drifted toward stranger topics—stories they had heard growing up, odd things people claimed had happened in house...
16m Mar 14
16m
The Thing That Ran Down the Basement Stairs | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
After coming home late one night with his family, he briefly saw something move toward the basement stairs. At the time, he assumed he knew exactly what he had seen. It wasn’t until many years later—during a random conversation with his father—that he realized the moment might not have been as simple as he thought. Because his father had a memory from that same night too. #RealGhostStoriesO...
12m Mar 14
12m
The Night the Ouija Board Tried to Warn Her | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
After losing her sister in a tragic car accident when she was young, the experience left a lasting impact on her life. Years later, while living with friends, the group began experimenting with a Ouija board out of curiosity. At first the sessions seemed harmless—sometimes even helpful—providing strange clues that led them to lost items or small answers to everyday questions. Then one night, ...
14m Mar 13
14m
“There’s Nothing Here” | Real Ghost Stories
It was an ordinary sleepover in an ordinary suburban house. Parents out of town. A group of teenage boys staying up too late. No ghost stories. No dares. No reason to expect anything strange. At some point in the quiet of the night, someone casually said, “There’s nothing here.” It wasn’t a challenge. It wasn’t dramatic. Just a dismissive comment about the house feeling a little too still. Ho...
19m Mar 13
19m
The Dark Attachment, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO What happens when you’re born into a family where ghosts are simply part of daily life? For Eric Vitale, growing up in New Jersey meant prayers, rituals, and stories of the unseen were woven into the fabric of his childhood. In his traditional Italian household, the supernatural wasn’t dismissed—it was acknowledged. But what began as an awarenes...
24m Mar 13
24m
The Woman on the Overlook Road | Real Ghost Stories
She and her mother weren’t looking for anything unusual. They were on one of their regular fall road trips from Canada into New England — windows cracked, leaves blazing in impossible shades of red and gold, no real destination in mind. A small brown sign for a scenic overlook led them down a narrow, quiet road boxed in by trees. No houses. No side roads. Just one way in and one way out. On t...
27m Mar 13
27m
Someone Was Standing in the Nursery at Night | After Midnight
When Ashley and Nick brought their newborn daughter home, the nights in the house quickly began to feel different from the days. During daylight, the place felt calm and predictable. But once the neighborhood settled into nighttime quiet, the rooms seemed larger, the hallway darker, and sleep came only in short stretches between feedings. The baby monitor helped during those long nights. From...
13m Mar 13
13m
Hide and Seek… With Someone No One Invited | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
It was supposed to be a simple game of hide and seek. She hid in the bedroom closet and waited for someone to come looking for her. But when she stepped out, there was already a little girl standing in the room. She ran into the living room, asking who had been in there. The problem was… everyone had been somewhere else. Years later, the family would discover something about the history of ...
14m Mar 13
14m
The House That Still Belongs to Joe | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
For the first seven years after moving into their small Toronto bungalow, nothing unusual ever happened. Then one night at exactly 3:20 AM, the house filled with the unmistakable smell of freshly brewed coffee—even though the kitchen was dark and every appliance was off. The following night, the same thing happened again. One afternoon she looked down the hallway and saw a man walking through...
17m Mar 12
17m
The Extra Person in the Room | Real Ghost Stories
It’s never dramatic. No shadows. No threatening presence. Just an extra person in the room. For years, she’s occasionally noticed someone standing in a doorway, lingering near a hallway, or sitting quietly apart from a group. They look completely normal — ordinary enough that her brain accepts them without question. Then she looks again. And they aren’t there. She could dismiss it as lightin...
27m Mar 12
27m
The Dark Attachment, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! What happens when you’re born into a family where ghosts are simply part of daily life? For Eric Vitale, growing up in New Jersey meant prayers, rituals, and stories of the unseen were woven into the fabric of his childhood. In his traditional Italian household, the supernatural wasn’t dismissed—it was acknowledged. But what began as an awareness of spir...
30m Mar 12
30m
Did Becoming a Mother Wake Something Up? | Real Ghost Stories
Connie grew up in a family full of “sensitives,” but she never thought she was one of them. That changed after she gave birth. The activity didn’t begin until her daughter came home from the hospital. Late-night tapping that stopped when she asked it to. Voices coming through the baby monitor when no one was upstairs. A black shape caught on video that no one saw in real time. Now her toddler...
27m Mar 12
27m
The Night They Both Knew Someone Else Was There | After Midnight
Matt was fourteen the winter his father bought the house after the divorce. It was supposed to be temporary—just a place for the two of them while life settled into something new. For the first few weeks, the house felt ordinary enough. Old floors creaked, the pipes clicked in the walls, and the quiet between father and son slowly became routine. Then one night, Matt woke up to find the bathr...
22m Mar 12
22m
The Ghost Girl Who Said “He Wants You” | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
When he was eleven years old, he and a new friend decided to explore an abandoned water treatment plant outside their small Tennessee town. The building had been empty for years, slowly crumbling and hidden deep in the woods. What started as a simple adventure quickly turned into something far more unsettling. Inside the second floor of the building, something suddenly went wrong. One boy col...
13m Mar 12
13m
The Night They Tried to Talk to Something Demonic | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
At eighteen, curiosity led three friends to explore an abandoned sewer tunnel outside their neighborhood. One of them had discovered the spot years earlier—deep in the darkness of the tunnel, the walls were covered in upside-down crosses and strange red symbols. A pentagram had been painted across the concrete floor. Instead of turning around, they decided to try communicating with whatever m...
13m Mar 11
13m
Now She Knows Why the Last Sitter Left | Real Ghost Stories
Amanda agreed to stay overnight in a coworker’s apartment to dog-sit for the week. It seemed simple enough — until the second night changed the tone completely. She had experienced sleep paralysis before, so waking up unable to move wasn’t unfamiliar. What unsettled her was the steady sensation of weight settling onto the mattress behind her — and the dog reacting at the same moment. Nothing ...
24m Mar 11
24m
Haunted Fowler: The Spirits That Never Left, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO With a population of just 2,400, Fowler, Indiana may seem like a quiet Midwestern town—but its history tells a different story. Reports of shadow figures, phantom footsteps, and lingering spirits have made it one of the most paranormally active small towns in the region. At the Historic Fowler Theatre, unexplained noises echo through the auditor...
23m Mar 11
23m
What Did They Invite In? | Real Ghost Stories
He had used a Ouija board before without consequence. So when he brought one into his apartment in 2004, he wasn’t expecting anything to follow. The first night was quiet. Nothing dramatic happened. Then the nights began to feel different. Strange sounds in the kitchen long after everyone was asleep. Activity that stopped the moment he went to check. Laughter outside at an hour when no one s...
35m Mar 11
35m
The Woman in the Window | After Midnight
The Whitaker farmhouse had stood at the end of a gravel drive since 1893, passed quietly through generations of the same family. Over the years, people mentioned small things about the house—footsteps on the back staircase late at night, the faint sound of humming drifting from the kitchen after everyone had gone to bed. Nothing dramatic. The family simply said it was Great-Grandma Eleanor stil...
19m Mar 11
19m
The Floating Face in the Dark | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
When she was six years old, she had a strange nightly routine. Every night around three in the morning, she would wake up, walk down the hallway, and climb into bed with her parents. One night, as she stood at the foot of their bed in the dim light of the room, she looked up and saw something that didn’t make sense. Her mother was asleep in the bed. But above her… something else was there. T...
18m Mar 11
18m
The Dog That Still Scratches at the Door | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
For years, the family dog Max had a simple routine whenever she wanted to come inside. She would push open the screened porch door, walk up to the sliding door, and scratch once or twice to let the family know she was there. After Max passed away unexpectedly, the house grew quiet. But not completely. From time to time, someone in the house still hears the porch door open… followed by that sa...
12m Mar 10
12m
Did He Provoke Whatever Was There? | Real Ghost Stories
He went on a small-town Halloween ghost walk mostly for fun. He didn’t expect to experience anything — and when the tour guide pointed out a specific “haunted” spot in an upstairs room, he stepped into it jokingly and dared whatever was there to show itself. Nothing happened. A few days later, while scrolling through pictures from that night, he noticed something standing unusually close besi...
20m Mar 10
20m
Haunted Fowler: The Spirits That Never Left, Part One | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! With a population of just 2,400, Fowler, Indiana may seem like a quiet Midwestern town—but its history tells a different story. Reports of shadow figures, phantom footsteps, and lingering spirits have made it one of the most paranormally active small towns in the region. At the Historic Fowler Theatre, unexplained noises echo through the auditorium, and ...
39m Mar 10
39m
Was She Supposed to Save Him? | Real Ghost Stories
At sixteen, she came home just after midnight and saw a well-dressed man standing in the dark hallway of her parents’ house. He wasn’t her father. And when she turned on the light, he was gone. For five nights in a row, he appeared in her dreams — silent, except for one word: his name. Gavin. Then came a vision of a violent car crash. Days later, a small child walked into her workplace and s...
29m Mar 10
29m
The Dolls Were Watching the Doorway | After Midnight
She had always kept the dolls perfectly aligned along the shelf across from her bed. Every chin lifted the same way, every glass eye reflecting the room in identical points of light. Order mattered. One night, home alone, she climbed the stairs and saw someone standing quietly in her bedroom near the window. She assumed it was her sister and called out for her to leave. But the house was empt...
17m Mar 10
17m
The Night His Father Saw Something in the Dark | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Growing up in a house outside Chicago, strange things seemed to happen to nearly everyone in the family. His brother talked to people in his room that no one else could see. His mother claimed she once encountered an apparition in the hallway. Even séances were held in the house from time to time. But the most unsettling experience happened to the one person who refused to believe in any of i...
12m Mar 09
12m
The Civil War Ghost in My Childhood Home | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
As a child living in an old home outside Camden, South Carolina, strange things seemed to happen on one side of the house—whispers, flickering lights, and shadows that appeared when no one else was around. One day, while home sick from school, he opened his eyes and saw a dark figure glide past his bedroom and down the hallway. Moments later, the figure appeared again at the end of the hall. ...
11m Mar 09
11m
It Wasn’t Her Imagination After All | Real Ghost Stories
She was four or five when she saw him. An old man standing at the end of the hallway in her dad’s house — solid, silent, blocking the path to the back door where her family was playing outside. He didn’t move. He didn’t speak. And then he was gone. Her father told her she imagined it. She believed him. Years later, as a teenager flipping through old photographs for a school project, she froz...
26m Mar 09
26m
Guarding the Unseen, Part Two | The Grave Talks
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO A quiet fishing trip with his grandfather became one of the most traumatic moments of Dave Spinks’ life. What began as an ordinary day on the river shifted when they heard something impossible—massive boulders crashing into the water from somewhere beyond their sightline. When they went to investigate, what they encountered sent them running. In ...
23m Mar 09
23m
If It Wasn’t a Ghost… Then What Was It? | Real Ghost Stories
She had never believed in the paranormal. She grew up in that house. Knew every stair, every sound, every shadow. Nothing about it had ever felt strange. Until the night she came home after 2 a.m. and felt something waiting upstairs. What she saw wasn’t dramatic. It wasn’t transparent. It didn’t lunge or disappear. It just stood there. The next morning, when she carefully told her parents wh...
26m Mar 09
26m
It Didn’t Haunt the House. It Studied the Child. | After Midnight
When she was eleven, she saw her sister in places her sister couldn’t have been. A figure crossing a doorway. Bare feet outside her bedroom at night. Always brief. Always ordinary. It never spoke. It never approached. It simply appeared in the shape of someone familiar — and withdrew. She convinced herself it was childhood imagination. Decades later, in a different house, with a different ch...
20m Mar 09
20m
The Man Above Room Five | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
In 2006, Matt traveled to the historic St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico, determined to investigate its most infamous space—Room 18. Locked and off-limits at the time, he photographed what he could and assumed that if he captured anything, it would be there. It wasn’t. Days later, while reviewing his photos at home, he noticed something in an image taken outside Room Five—a room with no ...
10m Mar 09
10m
“You Have to Go Back.” | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
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