Episode 156: The Tallman Haunting

Imagine your life is completely normal.  You and your spouse are raising three kids in the quiet suburbs of Horicon, Wisconsin. A ranch-style home, an attached garage, nothing out of the ordinary. Safe. Comfortable. Then one day, you bring home a secondhand bunk bed for your daughters. They love it. You got a great deal. It feels like a win. But not long after it enters your home something changes. At first, it’s subtle. Your young son is suddenly too afraid to sleep alone. Then your daughter says she’s seen something, an evil witch, glowing orange, inside the house. And then, it spreads. Clocks start moving on their own. You feel watched even when you’re alone. Shadow figures. Disembodied voices. And glowing red eyes staring from the dark. For nine months, you try to explain it away. You try to stay. To make it work. Until one night you can’t anymore. You grab your children, whatever you can carry and you run. And you never come back. This is the story of the Tallman family. In 1987, they fled their home in the middle of the night terrified of something they believed followed a simple piece of furniture, a bunk bed. Thrown away. Gone. Its origins unknown and its whereabouts still a mystery. Because sometimes evil doesn’t need an invitation. Sometimes it comes home with you.     Sources: The Horror Collection – The Tallman House Haunting: One of America’s Real Poltergeist Cases – Razvan Radu – January 19, 2026 - The Tallman House Haunting: One of America’s Real Poltergeist Cases? USA Ghost Adventures – The Mysterious Haunting of the Tallman House – November 3, 2025 - The Mysterious Haunting of the Tallman House - US Ghost Adventures Urban Legends, Mystery and Myth – The Tallman Bunk Beds: The Cursed Furniture that Terrorized a Family – November 7, 2025 - The Tallman Bunk Beds: The Cursed Furniture That Terrorized a Family Wikipedia – Horicon, Wisconsin – Horicon, Wisconsin - Wikipedia Paranormal Witness – Season 1, Episode “The Tallman Haunting” A Haunting – Episode featuring the Tallman case The Uninvited – Steven A. LaChance