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What Happens in Poltergeist House...
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows For Halloween, we're joined by one of our favorite guests, Sinead Hanna, to talk about Iceland's first psychic medium being harassed by poltergeists. Of course we also take a LOT of digressions, from the latest and greatest in horror...
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There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs, with Jason Pargin (Part 2) | Ghost Story Guys & Friends
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows The second half of our conversation with Jason Pargin, author of "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series.…
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There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs, with Jason Pargin (Part 1) | Ghost Story Guys & Friends
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Author Jason Pargin joins us to talk about "There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs", the latest installment in his New York Times-bestselling sci-fi horror "John Dies at the End" series. What was planned as a…
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Haunted By Disaster
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows A Florida journalist dreams of tomorrow's fire. A poltergeist ties a Montreal family - and their clothes - into knots. The sad story of Elsie Hulk (no relation to the Incredible one). A child's premonition of disaster. All this, plus…
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Eighteen Inch Frog | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows How much frog is too much? What's your favorite concept of a potato chip? How good is the South Korean action horror flick "Colony"? All those questions and more are answered when Bren & Paul talk spooky Our musical guests on this episode...
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250 Feral Doppelgängers
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows On our 250th story show, we dive into two of our favorite spooky topics - mimics and doppelgangers! Also this week: Paul is now raving in the daytime, Bren has his third-least embarrassing barroom singalong, and someone sent in an apport...
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Look At This Photograph | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Haunted roads in Scotland, reflections on our episode with Tim Renner, Paul survives another birthday and Bren survives Zack Snyder fans at the premiere of "The Last Photograph" - that's right, it's a mailbag episode! Our musical guest on...
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Pennsylvania's Haunted Wilds
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows This week we're joined by podcaster and author Timothy Renner, host of "Strange Familiars" to read stories from his latest book, "The Keystone Hagstone: Faeries and Other Mysterious Entities of Pennsylvania"! We cover a TON of ground, from...
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Try Not to Die on Werewolf Island, with Steve Stred | Ghost Story Guys & Friends
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Friend of the show and Canadian extreme horror maestro Steve Stred returns! We talk about "Kaiju Killers, Part 1 & 2" the recently released sequels to his hit novel, "Mastodon", as well as his upcoming instalment in Mark Tullius' adult...
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Fate of the Strange
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows A poltergeist in Oakland? A housekeeper for a ghost? Even a Christmas curse? This week, the pages of Fate Magazine offer up some truly bizarre tales of the paranormal as well as a deeply strange - and still unsolved - case of the twins who,...
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Unhinged Scone Behavior | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows! Brennan talks about taking the Ghosts of the Don Valley haunted walk, which was plenty creepy but has nothing on a listener who writes in to tell us about a groping ghost at Waverly Hills. We also have a sweet story of someone's…
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Where Ghosts Walk
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Haunted airports, train stations, and moorland are just a few of the locations where, according to legendary paranormal researcher Peter Underwood, ghosts are said to walk. We share not only those stories but also newspaper accounts of giant...
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Send in the Sharks | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Yet another shark movie has hit the tower...I mean scene! We also uncover listener emails about prophetic dreams of death, photos coming to life, and learn that Paul's Greek pronunciation was,...
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It's a Strange World, Isn't It?
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows The world has always been weird, and for proof we're going back to stories from an April 1957 edition of Fate Magazine. Get ready for Tesla's laser-eyed pigeon, warnings from beyond the grave,...
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An Odyssey of Shadows: Haunted Greece
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows What haunts the land of the Gods? Turns out it's a lot of shadow people and they're real jerks about the whole thing. On this episode, Greece reveals some of its high strangeness, both ancient...
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Crack Attack | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Misheard Springsteen lyrics, dreams in which people explore the path not taken, sweet grifter tears, and a listener tale of crack attack: that's right, it's time to Talk Spooky. Our musical...
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The Poltergeist Files, Vol. 1
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows We've been wanting to cover a full-on poltergeist case for a while and now here it is! Me and Paul dive into the 1960 Leuthold Poltergeist in Maschwanden, Switzerland, as well as a 1956 UFO...
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Snake Island Blues | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Invisible forces turning on the water, a message from beyond the grave, the dangers of arm wrestling, and the only thing scarier than rats in James Herbert's "Rats" series - that's right, it's...
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England's Most Haunted
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows On this episode we dive into stories from UK folklorist and friend of the show Ruth Roper Wylde's "These Haunted Times, Volume 6" available in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook. Also on this...
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One Powerful Owl | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows What kind of high strangeness lurks at Hanging Rock? Is there a plasmoid theory of poltergeist activity that will blow your everloving mind? Is a giant owl fit to be a babysitter? All these...
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Lost in the Backrooms: Haunted Malls
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Brennan's most striking encounter with the paranormal in years kicks off our exploration into high strangeness in those most liminal of places - shopping malls. From the former Puente Hills Mall in...
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Heat Strokin' It | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Haunted houses that won't stay clean? Nerding out about the newly discovered cut of 1958's "Dracula"? Making out with Green Day? All while Paul desperately fights the heat? That's right, it's time…
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They See You
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows This one represents a first for GSG - never before have we recorded an episode while my phone is blowing up with tornado warnings! The only thing scarier than that is the collection of listener…
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The Ghost Anti-Defamation League | Talk Spooky to Me
The tragic tale of the girl in the bathroom, Bagheera & Barnabus, a Hawaiian knuckle sandwich, the Westall UFO, and more haunting in Bren's apartment. That's right, it's time to Talk Spooky. Our musical guest on this episode is Misha Bower with her latest single, "Surrender." Keep an eye on…
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Haunted South Africa
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows At long last, we dive into stories of high strangeness from South Africa, with check-ins from our buddies the Tokoloshe, the Djinn, and a whole bunch of house spirits who insist on being impossible to...
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Here's to You, Molly Moo | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows A murder suspect tormented by dreams from beyond the grave? Justice for Lake Doo-Ron-Ron? Paul still absolutely furious he watched "Thrash"? Loving with your whole heart, just not at the bus station?…
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This House is Haunted
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Your home is your castle, so what do you do when your castle is haunted? You leave. The answer is you leave, but in the two stories we have for you on this show, it takes our victims a LONG time to...
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The Shape of Bigfoot to Come | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Has a Bigfoot travelled from Ohio to Ontario? What is walking across one of our listener's house in the dead of night, only to stop when they get out of bed? Is there chaos in the collective...
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The House That Screamed, and Other Stories
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows When the house next door starts screaming, who do you call? On this episode, we hear stories from listeners who have responded to emergency calls from the other side and come away with mysteries which...
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The Beast of Bridgwater | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Giant cats in England, a crash course in agave beverages, and my stereo turning on by itself, mid-show - yep, it's a Talk Spooky, and a it's weird one. Our musical guest on this episode is Eliot Wilder…
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What's Haunting, Pennsylvania?
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows We all know Pennsylvania is strange - but how strange, exactly? According to this collection of listener emails, strange enough to keep you up nights, should you listen to this in the dark. We also dig…
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Wax On, Wax Off | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows What does the world look like when you're astrally projecting and not seeing it with your eyes? What horrors await us in the featureless backrooms of LinkedIn? Find out the answers to these questions and...
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Here, There Be Ghosts
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Sometimes ghosts take stuff, but what about when they start taking knives? Would you believe they were trying to protect you? That's one of the questions asked by a listener on our latest collection of...
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A Pair of Conundrums | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Ghost kittens, strange men disappearing in the rain, and a voice that warns someone in the nick of time - that's just a few of the stories you'll hear as we dive into the mailbag! Also: Bren says the…
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Never Trust a Skeptic - My Life in the Paranormal
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Our listener David has shared with us his lifetime of paranormal experiences from both South Dakota and Connecticut, including a life-saving shove from an unseen force, a cursed childhood bedroom, and so much...
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Hank Estrada, GhostBooks.biz | Ghost Story Guys & Friends
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Publisher Hank Estrada started the imprint that would become GhostBooks.biz back in 1980s with his husband, the late Antonio R. Garcez. Together, they would go on to publish more than two dozen meticulously...
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Chock Full O' Ghosts | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows This dive into the mailbag is our most haunted one yet! Starting off with a nod to the classic (depending on who you ask) 90s flick "Spawn", Bren & Paul head straight into the darkness with an anonymous...
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The Haunting of New Mexico: A Tribute to Antonio Garcez
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows If there was one writer who could be said to have had their finger on the pulse of paranormal activity in New Mexico, it was the late Antonio Garcez, author of the "Adobe Angels" series and many others. In this...
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The Grift Phone | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Has a listener given us a plausible explanation for spontaneous human combustion? Is the answer a giant invisible mantis shrimp? Which one of our favourite paranormal grifters would probably run with that theory?...
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Haunted Phoenix, for Marc
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows On January 20th, long-time Ghost Story Guys friend, listener, and Facebook admin Marc Semler lost his fight with cancer. To honour Marc, we present one of our most unhinged episodes in recent memory, in which we…
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No, Seriously, Where is the Library? | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Tall, pale, humanoid creatures stalking America by night, the magic of a real life Santa Claus, and covering the spectrum of cultural relevancy by having Paul make a "6,7" joke and Bren talk about playing "boomer...
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Strange Guardians
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows In times like these, it's easy to feel like no one's on your side, but in this episode we share a selection of listener stories that might convince you otherwise. It's a strange world, but there are also at least a...
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Dracula's Coffee Table | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Dracula is real and we have found his coffee table! Okay, not really, but it's still weird as hell and we had to talk about it. Also on this dive into the mailbag we talk about haunted courthouses, Mothman in "Fallout...
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And Then There Were Ghosts
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Our tenth season begins with a pair of listener stories that run the gamut from paranormal arson to fleeting shadow forms and so much more! Also on this episode: Paul gives a lesson on Spontaneous Human Combustion,...
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This Haunted Life: The Whole Spooky Affair
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows You read that right, this episode clocks in at just under five hours. Inspired by the recent release of "Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair", we've decided to release our entire "A Haunted Life" series as one long…
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A Meaty Mystery | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Who left hundreds of sausages on the sidewalk? What message was left on a listener's cellphone after hearing a voice call out in their empty home? Which bog is best known for sightings of Swampsquatch? All this and…
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In the Haunted Midwinter
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Somehow, Indrid Cold returned! From the Appalachians to the Himalayas, from New Orleans to West Virginia, when the temperature drops, things get weird. Also on this episode: a stop-smoking guru dies by irony, Bren…
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Love: Generally Dangerous | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows North Carolina wood boogers, ghost cars, and yet another psychologically scarring commercial from the British Isles are just a few of the things in the mailbag this week! Our musical guest on this episode is Moonrunner83...
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This Haunted Life, Part Four
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows At last we come to the thrilling conclusion of our listener Meghan's story, wherein she finds someone to mentor her in the ways of the paranormal and she begins to dispel the spirits which have haunted her her entire…
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The Great Frankenstein War | Talk Spooky to Me
Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Geneva, where we lay our scene. In one household, a bitter husk of a man with no love for Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein". In the other, a cool dude with great taste and...
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