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Tell Me A Ghost Story
by Michelle Newman - Tell Me A Ghost Story
Tell Me A Ghost Story. Real people. Real phone calls. True ghost stories. Michelle Newman hosts this award-winning paranormal podcast where listener ghost stories and real paranormal encounters arrive one haunting phone call at a time. Ghosts, spirits, haunted houses, and the unexplained. Calm narration. Spine-chilling tension. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 to share yours.
Episodes
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What Visits You in the Dark: Sleep Paralysis & Shadow People Collection
Hey, it’s Michelle, and tonight’s show is about what visits you when the lights go out. Eight real callers share sleep paralysis encounters, shadow figures, and visitors that arrived with a witness, a mark, or an open door, along with the folklore and science behind them. The first half is…
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Haunted Hotels Collection: Check In, If You Dare!
Hey, it’s Michelle, and this week we’re checking in for this Halloween season. A collection of seven haunted hotel stays, from a hospital-turned-hotel on a mining hill in Arizona to a ship docked in Long Beach to a Best Western in Fresno, plus a look at why hotels end up so haunted in the first...
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True Ghost Stories: Did She or Didn't She? Lizzie Borden Answers Every October
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls each involve something quietly, patiently making itself known. Stringy black hair hanging over a bathroom sink in an old Kentucky studio. A kind old taxidermist whose parents watched him work for years after they'd died. A black mist that dropped…
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True Ghost Stories: A Grandad's Necklace Returns and a Faceless Woman at the Hollywood Sign
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's three calls include a piece of jewelry that vanished for over a decade and reappeared through a dream, a faceless figure at the Hollywood sign with a documented history stretching back nearly a century, and a live on-camera possession followed by a phone call...
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True Ghost Stories: A Nurse Saw This Happen Again and Again
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a recurring visitor only dying patients could see, glasses moving in an empty kitchen at 1 am, a friend's goodbye delivered through a dream before anyone knew she was gone, a doppelganger encounter one caller still calls a possible glitch in...
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True Ghost Stories: The Smiling Man, Indrid Cold, and Men in Black, Explained
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's two calls include a towel that appeared with no one home to deliver it, and two flights separated by years featuring men who should not have existed. Larissa from Texas calls in with her mother's story, one her mom still denies to this day. Home alone in the...
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True Ghost Stories for Falling Asleep: A Haunted Coffin, a Cursed Property, and a Kitchen No One Touched
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a ghost who literally swept a guest off his feet in a London hotel, two coffins from a funeral home that ended up haunting a Halloween attraction, a decades-old attachment that still whispers in the dark, a cursed property with a body count,...
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True Ghost Stories: The Hat Man Returns, an Imp in the Back Seat, and a Ghost Boy Who Wanted His Mom
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls each involve something watching from just beyond the light. A tall silhouette in a top hat that returned to the same little girl five years apart. A glowing face the size of a dinner plate riding in the back seat of a Camaro on a Florida highway. A...
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Real Ghost Stories for Rainy Days: The Mount Washington Hotel, a Ouija Board Warning, and a Spider With a Human Face
Hey, it's Michelle, and this classic episode has five calls that take us to one of the most famously haunted hotels in America, a Ouija board that darkened with every question, a whisper that knew exactly when to speak, and a spider with a human face. This episode is now available as a video on...
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True Ghost Stories: A Translucent Woman at the Movies, a Haunted Hotel Bed, and a Voice in the Dark
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls span a movie theater in 1978, a hotel in Santa Barbara, a psychiatric hospital basement, and a farm in Indiana where something was killing deer. This episode is available as a video on Spotify and YouTube. David calls in with a true ghost story from...
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True Ghost Stories for Dark Summer Nights: A Smelly Ghost, Shadow People, the Hat Man, and a Ghost Who Yelled, "Run!"
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week we have a classic season three episode bringing together six true ghost stories from our callers to celebrate the dark nights of Summer-ween. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time. Sophie from Los Angeles calls in…
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True Ghost Stories: A Spirit Box Said Small Boy Limp, a Ghost Named Bob Made Coffee, a Halloween Creature, and Cindy's Haunted Marilyn Monroe Portrait
Hey, it's Michelle, and tonight we have four calls, a spirit box that said something only three sisters in the room could understand. A ghost named Bob who made coffee every morning in a house he no longer lived in. Something at a 1970s Halloween party in Southern Ontario that sat with Gary D for...
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Texas True Ghost Stories: A Succubus, a Haunted Home, a Church Ghost, and More Real Encounters
Hey, it's Michelle. Something spooky is going on in the Lone Star State. This is a classic season two compilation episode bringing together six true ghost stories from Texas callers, now available as a full video on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time. Tyler from Texas returns with the...
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True Ghost Stories: The Man in the Hat, a Three Year Old's Closet Ghost, and a Woman in Red with Glowing Eyes
Hey, it's Michelle, I took an extended break by accident. It was my birthday, and then I published this comedy book that has nothing to do with the paranormal. Now I'm back with this week's calls, and each involves seeing something that should not be there. Brandy from Marysville, Ohio, calls in...
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Real Ghost Stories For Long Drives: Gettysburg, a Woman on the Sidewalk, a Hawaiian Spirit, and a Ghost Evicted in New Zealand
Hey it's Michelle, A Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. A sidewalk in Orange County at night. A grandmother who came back to say she was not finished. A spirit that followed someone home from Oahu. And a ghost in New Zealand who had opinions about being asked to leave. This is another classic...
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True Ghost Stories: A Ghost Named Frank in a Morgue, a House That Said Thank You, and a Dance Hall That Played Music for No One
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week we have three real callers. Three true ghost stories from a morgue in Texas, a kitchen in Minnesota, and a frozen basement in Southern Ontario. This episode is also available as video on Spotify or Youtube. Larissa from Texas calls in with a true ghost story from...
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A Lady in White, Shadow Figures, 3:33 AM, and More True Ghost Stories
Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is special. This is our first-ever compilation episode, bringing together eight of the most unforgettable true ghost stories from our first season callers in one place. And for the first time, this episode is now available as a full video on both Spotify and...
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True Ghost Stories: A Boy in Blue Pajamas Floating Above a Cemetery, a Ghost Cat, Footsteps with Nobody Attached, and the Green River
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls have stayed with me longer than most. A ghost child seen by five military witnesses in a San Diego cemetery. A beloved cat who died twenty years ago still comes home. Footsteps that walked through a front door with nobody attached to them. And a dog...
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Bloody Mary, Ghosts of Cambodia, and the Pool Boy: True Ghost Stories from Real Callers
Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different. This episode won the Silver Signal Award in "Paranormal and Horror" podcasts and the International Women in Podcasting Award, and honestly, I'm still so proud of it. And now, it's a video episode available on Spotify and YouTube. If you...
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True Ghost Stories: A Motel Watcher, a Voice in the Basement, and a Hand from a Spanish Flu Grave
Hey, it's Michelle, and tonight's four calls are connected by something I did not notice until I had heard all of them together. Every single one of these callers was somewhere they were supposed to feel safe. A hotel room on a solo road trip. A basement bedroom in a college house. A family...
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Accidental Exorcism: True Ghost Stories from Victoria BC with Brennan Storr
Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different from our usual calls. This week, I am joined by Brennan Storr, host of The Ghost Story Guys podcast and author of A Strange Little Place: The Hauntings and Unexplained Events of One Small Town. Brennan spends a lot of his time collecting and...
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April Ghouls: True Ghost Stories from Nova Scotia, San Francisco, and Ecuador
Hey, it's Michelle, and happy April. I figured the only appropriate way to kick off the month was with three calls that will make you question every sound you hear in your house tonight. There is a full video for this episode on both Spotify and YouTube, so you can watch as well as listen. Three...
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What is The Tell Me A Ghost Story?
True ghost stories from real people, told through haunting phone calls. Did a woman really disappear? What was hiding just outside that flashlight beam? Why are the lights staying on when someone goes to sleep? These are real calls. Real paranormal encounters. Real ghost stories from listeners…
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Real Ghost Stories for Midnight Walks
Hello listeners, another classic encore episode of more remastered frightening calls from earlier in the year. This week's true ghost stories: The Bloody Hand: James from Colorado shares an unsettling experience involving a mysterious bloody handprint that appeared without explanation, leaving…
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Real Ghost Stories For Relaxing Evenings: Marilyn Monroe's Ghost, a Dogman at the Door, and 300 Bodies in a Georgia Barn
Hey, it's Michelle, and this compilation is a big one: nine calls covering everything from a ghostly Marilyn Monroe on a California beach to a Dogman at a sliding glass door. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time. Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana…
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A Backcountry Nightmare: The Hook Man Legend Was Real, Something Circled Our Campsite, and a Haunted Pekingese
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls span a childhood spent finding comfort in the strangest of places, the true and unsolved crime behind one of America's most famous urban legends, two hours of being circled in the Oregon wilderness, and a dog who came with a previous owner attached....
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The Woman You Can Only See When You're Not Looking
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's six calls cover more paranormal ground than almost any other episode this season. James from San Francisco returns with his third call, this time about his decade working at UCSF Medical Center on Parnassus, one of the most documented haunted hospitals in...
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A Spirit Plays Ding Dong Ditch and More True Ghost Stories: A Man Walked Through a Door, a Doll Made from a Dead Girl's Hair, and a Heartbeat Until Death
Hey, it's Michelle, and you all brought it this week. I got actual goosebumps going through the voicemails. This episode is now available as video on Spotify and YouTube. Sarah from Luther, Alabama, calls in with a true ghost story from her time living in Florida. She and her ex were pulling into…
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Real Ghost Stories for Stormy Afternoons: A Haunted Mortuary House, Another Woman in White, and a Dog Ghost Still Waiting After 100 Years
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's three calls take us into a former mortuary in Michigan, a terrifying encounter on a dark road in upstate New York, and a hundred-year-old story of loyalty at a pet cemetery in Los Angeles. Now available as a full video episode on both Spotify and YouTube for…
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After Death Experiences and Electronic Hauntings: Real Ghost Stories of the Unexplained
1. Tyler from Colorado --Tyler shares a deeply unsettling paranormal experience that began after his kayaking accident left him clinically dead for three minutes. Since being revived, he's been experiencing disturbing phenomena, but here's what makes this truly terrifying: other people are...
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Our Boogeyman Turned Out to Be.... a Real Serial Killer
Hosted by Michelle Newman | Tell Me A Ghost Story In this chilling episode of Tell Me A Ghost Story, I'm sharing true paranormal stories from real phone calls, modern ghost stories about demon lambs, forest guardians, hurricane warnings, urban legends turned real, and unsolved disappearances.…
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True Ghost Stories: A Headless Ghost Wanted to Play Cards and a Deacon's Deadly Prayers
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a glass that exploded with nobody near it, a deacon whose prayers had a disturbing track record, a hospice patient who found his way home right on time, a real Cold War legend that still haunts Eastern Europe, and a headless ghost who just...
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True Ghost Stories: Five People, One Apartment, and the Gray Lady Who Watched Them All
Hey, it's Michelle, and this episode is a little different from our normal format. Instead of separate callers with separate stories, this week is five people, including me, sharing our experiences with the same ghost, in the same apartment, over the same span of years. Apartment 3F in the…
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True Ghost Stories from the Edge of Sleep
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's seven calls include handprints circling a locked car in the middle of nowhere, a dead rock guitarist who keeps showing up when people play his most famous riff, an old man who finally got the message to leave someone alone, a sigh whispered directly into...
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Real Ghost Stories for the Witching Hour
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's six calls include an inherited ashtray that filled itself with ash in an empty locked house, a door that slammed shut on its own at 2:40 in the morning, a hospice patient who said thank you after time of death was already recorded, a kindergartner talking to a...
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Haunting Dreams: True Ghost Stories, Shadow Men, and The Girl in Red Who Died Before Anyone Knew She Was Gone
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a dream that matched a historic inn's most famous tragedy detail for detail, a preacher who saw a shadow in a room with no light source and has never gone back, a childhood friend in red whose footprints stopped mid-step in the snow, and...
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True Ghost Stories: The Woman in the Red Dress Sat Down at the Diner… Then Vanished
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a man whose soul left his body nightly for months, footsteps and children crying from an empty ceiling, a bright, unexplained light that raced toward a building and vanished, decades of restaurant hauntings from a longtime worker, and...
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True Ghost Stories: He Heard Crying at Green Lake… Then Learned the Dark Truth
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a pale floating face pressed against a window and witnessed by two skeptics at once, a recurring precognitive dread that came true twice, blurry human shapes appearing in photos inside a haunted Irish church, an imaginary childhood friend who...
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Listener Ghost Stories: A Man With a Hatchet in His Head Chased Their Car Down a Country Road
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a doppelganger that impersonated a caller's own mother, a five-year recurring cryptid encounter finally caught on camera, a dead grandmother who waved hello from across a bedroom, a spirit that arrived the same moment a medical examiner van...
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Indigenous Ghost Stories with Proppa Scary Podcast: True Ghost Stories and A Yowie Encounter
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week is a special one. I'm handing the mic over to Lisa from Proppa Scary Podcast, who traveled all the way from Australia to host an episode built entirely around First Nations ghost stories, with five callers sharing yarns passed down through their families and...
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True Ghost Stories: Birthday Cake Loving Spirits, A Ball of Light Shot Under the Bed at the Queen Mary, and a Father's Final Goodbye
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls take us into a soon-to-close haunted pub in Seattle, a father who visited two houses on the same night, a dead friend who wanted one more game of hide and seek, the most notorious stateroom aboard the Queen Mary, and a ghost who's never once missed a...
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True Ghost Stories That Keep Insomniacs Up All Night: A Jawa-Like Ghost with Red Eyes and a Little Boy in Late 1800s Clothing
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a story confirmed by a childhood friend decades later, a nun no one else could see, a coffee pot that shook on its own in front of a room full of witnesses, and a monster named Herbert who still shows up at a retirement home. Noah Daniels…
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True Ghost Stories: The Mattress Became an Endless Pit of Fire and a Woman Came Back for Her Things
Hey it's Michelle, and this week's six calls include a great-grandmother's dream warning, a crab-shaped ghost with piercing blue eyes, TV-static figures caught mid-attack, a lady who left her closet every single night for one specific purpose, and a memory so vivid it still can't be explained…
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A Visit From The Hat Man, Someone Spooky Is Listening, My Ghost Co-Workers
Listeners like Erica from San Diego share their haunting encounters, including a spine-tingling sighting of the infamous 'hat man'—a tall, dark figure with a pointy hat that sends shivers down the spine. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night only to find this ominous presence lurking at…
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Stinky Sal, More Shadow People, Ghost Dog, Shorty
Prepare to be captivated with ghost stories. First, we hear from Sophie in Los Angeles, whose family faced unsettling occurrences in their new home. The chilling encounters with a ghost named Sal, particularly involving her brother, will make you reconsider what might be lurking in the shadows of...
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True Ghost Stories: Three Figures Came Through a Closed Door, a Glowing Angel, and Fire Instead of a Mattress
This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All three of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience. Hey, it's…
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True Ghost Stories: A Crab Shaped Ghost, Sleep Paralysis Attackers, Ruth Who Came Back for Her Things, and a Lady from the Closet
This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All four of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience. And yes, the show...
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Listener Ghost Stories: The Neighbor Screamed "Satan" and Started Banging Her Head on the Door
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a seemingly ordinary neighbor whose deterioration became genuinely terrifying, a skinwalker encounter on a remote Alaskan island, an unexplained touch in the shower, and a hostel in Ecuador with a ghost every employee had already met. (This...
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True Ghost Stories: A Bloody Handprint in a Dark Gym, a Shapeshifter on Palomar Mountain, and a Brother Who Called to Say Goodbye
This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All three of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience. Hey, it's…
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True Ghost Stories: "There Was No One Staying in That Room. You Guys Were the Only Ones."
Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's four calls include a phone booth that kept ringing at the same time every day, a ghost-hunting show crew member who got an answer he never expected, a psychic who pulled a very specific name out of thin air, and a staycation that ended with two people fleeing a...
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Tell Me A Ghost Story. Real people. Real phone calls. True ghost stories. Michelle Newman hosts this award-winning paranormal podcast where listener ghost stories and real paranormal encounters arrive one haunting phone call at a time. Ghosts, spirits, haunted houses, and the unexplained. Calm narration. Spine-chilling tension. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 to share yours.
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