SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC

Episodes

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  What Does It Mean When A Ghost Is Patient 21.10.2026 35m

  Send us Fan Mail A storm rolls in while we sit surrounded by glass, and it feels like the perfect doorway into a story that has waited more than a century to be told. Tonight we head up a hill in Redlands, California, to a mansion built by mining fortune Albert Burge and the glass greenhouse he loved most. The house is real. The history is real. What people say happened in that orchid house is where the hair-on-your-arms part begins. Orchids are picky, stubborn, and impossible to bully, and ...
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  What If The Mark Is Grief Made Visible 20.10.2026 32m

  Send us Fan Mail A quiet chore in a Chicago firehouse becomes a century-long ghost story and the twist is that the scariest part is not supernatural at all. We start with the routine: drills, meals, endless cleaning, and one firefighter, Francis “Frank” Levy, washing a station window on the evening of April 18, 1924. When the alarm hits, the men of Engine Company 107 roll out to Curran Hall on South Blue Island Avenue, expecting a manageable fire. Minutes later, a weakened masonry wall collap...
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  A Single 1936 Photograph Turned A Local Haunting Into A Global Mystery 19.10.2026 26m

  Send us Fan Mail A photograph from 1936 shows a grand staircase and what looks like a woman in a flowing gown stepping down into view. It ran in Country Life magazine, then spread worldwide, and nearly ninety years later the Brown Lady of Rainham Hall is still one of the most debated ghost images ever published. We take you to Rainham Hall in Norfolk, England, where documented history and stubborn legend overlap. Dorothy Walpole marries into the Townshend family, dies young in 1726, and leav...
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  A Nurse Answers A Call Across Time 18.10.2026 39m

  Send us Fan Mail A rotary phone that hasn’t worked since 1994 shouldn’t be able to do anything at all, let alone ring loud enough to shake in its cradle at 3:40 in the morning. But that’s the sound that pulls us into tonight’s Spirit Tales and Magic story, sent by a night-shift nurse who returns to her grandmother’s house in Harlan Fork on the Ohio River to clear it out after a death. She’s not jumpy, not prone to panic, and she knows what houses sound like at night. Still, when that old blac...
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  What Do We Owe The People Who Raised Us? 17.10.2026 10m

  Send us Fan Mail A coal mine bell rings when nobody is there and suddenly a story isn’t just a story anymore. I’m Dr. G from Spirit Tales and Magic, and I’m taking you back to Willoughgrove, a place tied to my grandfather’s account from 1940 and to experiences I’ve had firsthand walking that same ground years later. The records are sparse, the memories are vivid, and the valley carries a kind of magic that makes paranormal questions feel less like “do you believe” and more like “what did you ...
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  The Deer That Saved A Miner 17.10.2026 24m

  Send us Fan Mail A coal mine is supposed to be loud, but the detail that won’t leave me is a sound my grandfather never forgot: a deer running through a mine, screaming. That’s where his Willow Grove story always began, and it’s where we begin too, tracing the moments leading up to the Willow Grove No. 10 mine disaster in eastern Ohio on March 16, 1940. What started as an ordinary Saturday shift in a mine people trusted turned into an explosion, smoke, and fumes that changed an entire valley....
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  What Keeps A Hero Walking The Tracks 16.10.2026 14m

  Send us Fan Mail A single lantern-sized light glides down a North Carolina railroad at night, swinging like a signal and then slipping into the swamp like it was never there. People call it the Mako Light, and for more than a century they’ve argued about what it is while still showing up after dark to see if it will return. We take you to the flat, wet country west of Wilmington near the old Mako Station, where the legend centers on railroad man Joe Baldwin. The story says his car brea...
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  What If Grief Becomes A Legend You Can See 15.10.2026 27m

  Send us Fan Mail A black train draped in mourning cloth rolls along the Hudson River, and the air turns heavy as it approaches. The crew looks wrong, the band plays without sound, and when the last car disappears into the dark, every clock and watch nearby restarts six minutes late. That single detail has kept one of America’s most famous ghost stories alive for more than a century: the legend of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train ghost haunting Hyde Park, New York. We tell the real histo...
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  What If The Dead Just Want A Ride Home 14.10.2026 16m

  Send us Fan Mail A bell dings for a stop request on an empty bus and the driver pulls over anyway. That single choice opens the door to one of our most haunting themes: how routine, regret, and tenderness can linger long after a life ends, and why some paranormal stories feel less like jump scares and more like unfinished human business. Cassandra joins me as we respond to listener mail about the alleged “Blood Money” bus and why certain urban legends spread so fast once they hit the right n...
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  What Happens When Folklore Hides A Murder 13.10.2026 31m

  Send us Fan Mail A college ghost story is supposed to end with a laugh and a shiver, not a real name you can’t forget. We start with Radford College memories, a campus soundtrack, and the kind of haunted lore that gets passed down like a tradition: whispers about Tyler Hall, late night dread in the underground tunnels, and Halloween tales that feel built for a dorm hallway. Then we follow the thread that runs underneath the folklore, straight into a true crime case that still hasn’t given a ...
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  The After-Hours Artist Who Never Clocked Out 12.10.2026 12m

  Send us Fan Mail A tattoo shop can feel like a sanctuary, until it’s closing time and the back room turns cold. We open with a quick October catch-up and a birthday shoutout for Grant, then we share a brand-new paranormal short story that trades cheap jump scares for something sharper: a rule nobody writes down, and a craft nobody quits, not even after death. At the Black Lantern tattoo shop, Walt Brennan ran the chair for 31 years with hands that never shook. When he dies, his apprentice Da...
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  If The Dead Speak, Who Listens First 11.10.2026 21m

  Send us Fan Mail “What’s the first ghost story?” sounds like a simple trivia question until you try to pin it down, and that’s exactly where we start. We’re answering a listener challenge from Jim, but we quickly run into a bigger problem: ghost belief is older than writing, so the true beginning lives in oral tradition, memory, and fear. A rainy Southern California day turns into a global search, with a stop at one of my favorite perspective checks: a Transylvania pub where a 750-year family...
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  A Sailor Vanishes And A Bride Keeps Watching The Gulf 10.10.2026 17m

  Send us Fan Mail A hotel can hold more than guests. Sometimes it holds a promise that never got to come home. We’re taking you to Galveston Island on the Texas Gulf Coast, where the surf hits the seawall with that patient, ancient rhythm, and where the historic Hotel Galvez has watched the Gulf since 1911. Up on the fifth floor sits room 501, the setting for one of the island’s most enduring haunted hotel legends. We tell the story the way it’s been passed from voice to voice: a young ...
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  Gettysburg’s Saddest Souvenir Comes With Receipts 09.10.2026 22m

  Send us Fan Mail A trembling elderly man takes six minutes to cross a room, squeezes my hand, and asks for one thing: “Please take this home.” He leaves us with a bundle wrapped in dirty cloth and a feeling we can’t shake. When we finally unwrap it, we find an iron key, black and heavy, along with fragile letters that hit so hard we can barely get through them without tearing up. We talk about how haunted artifacts really enter our lives, not through shopping or searching, but through ...
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  What If A Haunting Is Just Unfinished Business 08.10.2026 41m

  Send us Fan Mail Something brushed my left arm in a busy restaurant and there was nobody there and Cassandra felt it too. That’s the kind of moment that makes you stop talking mid-sentence and start wondering what else is moving through the room with you, especially when people keep saying October is when the veil is thinnest. From there, I pull on a thread that’s been in my life for years: my birth father’s mobster stories and his insistence that certain Italian restaurants are crowded in w...
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  When A Haunted Mine Tells You To Go Home 07.10.2026 24m

  Send us Fan Mail Something about a mine changes the way a ghost story lands. You can stand in an old house and imagine footsteps in the hall, but when you step underground, the walls close in, the outside world goes silent, and your body starts listening for danger. Tonight I’m taking you into Calico Ghost Town in the Mojave Desert, a once-booming California silver camp near Barstow that surged in the 1880s, collapsed in the 1890s, and still draws visitors who swear it isn’t fully empty. We ...
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  What If A Ship Never Lets Its Captain Go 06.10.2026 26m

  Send us Fan Mail The power is out, the studio is running on battery backup, and there’s someone outside walking down the street with a bright light pointed at their own face. A police car pulls up, the commands get louder, and then the person says one line that lands like a curse: “Oh, you want the lights out?” Seconds later, everything goes dead. It’s the kind of timing that makes you stop laughing and start listening. From that unsettling opening, we steer into a story built for anyone who...
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  What if Grief Can Be Stored In A Physical Space 05.10.2026 23m

  Send us Fan Mail A storage unit is supposed to be a dead end for old furniture and sealed boxes, not a place that schedules an appointment with you every night at 2:14 AM. We start with something closer to home: a recurring late-night figure outside the office window, shining a flashlight at just the right angle to be seen and never caught. It’s unsettling for a simple reason: even with cameras, alarms, and a locked-down property, we still can’t explain what’s happening. Then we head to a st...
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  Why A Classic Ghost Story Returns For Doctober 04.10.2026 4m

  Send us Fan Mail Something about this story never behaves like a normal recording, and that’s exactly why we’re bringing it back. As Doctober rolls on, we get a steady stream of requests to replay one of our earliest and most-listened episodes, “The Man, The Girl, And The Tiger,” but before you hit play we want to clear up a few details that could sound confusing if you’re new to our corner of paranormal folklore. We talk through the legend of the ghost story bus and the infamous ride nickna...
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  The Man The Girl & The Tiger 04.10.2026 20m

  Send us Fan Mail A ghost story originally cast on Your Ghost Story Bus dot com. A tale of an imaginary friend and of a dark spirit. The true story of the last haunted house my daughter and I would share in the small town where we both grew up. Support the show