The Ghost Story Guys

Who's the best resource for stories about flying monsters in Pennsylvania? Did A.I. actually get something right for a change? How did someone's loved one reach from beyond the grave? All that and more, plus heaps of spooky movie and nerd talk, on this week's mailbag show. Our musical guests on this episode are The Silent Era, with their single, "Oscillations" Mentioned On This Episode: "Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters", by Ken Gerhard [Barnes & Noble] Stan Gordon's UFO Anomalies Zone [stangordon.info] Full shownotes @ www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Stop, hey, what's that sound? Everybody look, because episode 200 of The Ghost Story Guys is coming down! That's right - two double-zero is here and to help us celebrate both our past and bright future is a new friend of ours, Seriah Azkath, host of "Where Did the Road Go?" We tell stories of strange roads, wolf men, forest spirits, and then the really weird stuff starts. Thank you for your continued support! Full shownotes @ www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode: an accidental murder. Quinlan recounts the story of a haunted Roadhouse Saloon. Kerry plays telephone with Alaska who told her all about Cynthia Hoffman. Kerry Ipema and Quinlan swap jokes, wisdom, and true spooky stories. New episodes every week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows What starts off as a cry for help in someone's dream quickly becomes a possible nightmare, in a situation brought to us via the magic of Instagram. It's hard to explain this one, so you're just going to have to listen to find out. From there we answer a handful of listener emails before welcoming author & illustrator Mike Bass, whose new release "Frightful Folklore of North America: Illustrated Folk Horror from Greenland to the Panama Canal" is Paul's must-own book of the year. Our musical guest on this episode is Signal Static, with their latest single, "Cancel Me" Full shownotes @ www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HauntedAF is a podcast of real-life ghost stories, like “My Favorite Murder” meets “The X-Files. ” Listen at https://www.hauntedaf.com or anywhere you find podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows When the moon hits your eye like a big haunted guy, that's amore, or at the very least it's an episode where the stories take us from Bangladesh to Singapore to the rural USA and parts unknown. Whether it's spectral ladies on the water, a creature atop a hydroelectric dam, or a surprise in someone's bed, there's one common denominator: every story takes place under a haunted moon Link Mentioned: Article on the Nishi Dak [Folklore Chronicles] Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows A mail show where we actually answer mail? We are through the looking glass here, people, and on the way we talk about the latest paranormal series from both Hulu and Netflix. Our musical guests on this episode are Waveform Mountain, with "Everything Changes", from their new album, "Processing" Links Mentioned: https://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets/OCD/archaeology/discoverarchaeology/virtual-books/PDFs/Angola_Pop.pdf https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/franklin-and-armfield/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A long-lost archive of 90s horror, finally recovered and brought to light... with horrifying tales of murder, madness, monsters, and life after death! Ad-Free Episodes of Fear Daily are available now on all of your favorite podcasting apps! Fear Daily is an independent podcast hosted by Brandon Schexnayder and written by Brennan Storr, with Joanna Smith serving as the consulting editor, audio production by Rachel Boyd and sound design by Southern Gothic Media. If you enjoyed this show be sure to check out The Ghost Story Guys & Southern Gothic today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Welcome to Atlanta, where the players play and the town is getting haunted like every day. If you understand that reference, your back hurts and you're ready for some southern fried haunting! We are joined by master storyteller Brandon Schexnayder (Southern Gothic) to tell stories of Lake Lanier, Masquerade, and the Camp Creek Crash, among others. We also talk up Brandon & Brennan's new horror fiction podcast, "Fear Daily", now available on podcast platforms everywhere! Full shownotes at GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finish our voyage through the Balkans with a visit from filmmakers Toby Poser and John Adams to talk about their brand-new, shot-in-Serbia creature feature, "Hell Hole"! We also talk about their upcoming Screambox short, "Plastic Smile", evolving your creative process, laughing at darkness, and, of course, being absolutely covered in blood. "Hell Hole" is streaming now on Shudder and "Plastic Smile" will be available October 27th on Screambox. You can find Toby and John via the Adams Family Instagram, or their website. Our musical guests on this episode are The Origin, with "How Did We Survive", from their new EP, "Oubliette." Find more from The Origin on Bandcamp, Instagram, or at their website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows On our most ambitious episode yet, we tackle one of the lesser-known parts of the haunted world to find dark omens, buried ruins, and Mount Rtanj, the "UFO Mountain" (but not really), and that's only the beginning. Mentioned on this episode: Balkan Ghosts, by Robert Kaplan [book] Blood Makes Noise, by Gregory Widen [book] The Silent Forest [movie] Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows What scares you the most? We're joined by horror authors Andrew Pyper, Steve Stred, and C.M. Forest, as well as publisher Michelle River (Eerie River Publishing) to talk about just that, as well as the upcoming horror convention Dread Con! Dread Con, sponsored by Rue Morgue Magazine, will be happening on Saturday, September 14th at Federation Hall in Waterloo, Ontario. Admission is only five bucks and you get to meet all the authors in this episode, plus many, many more! Our musical guest on this episode is Oceanography, who is going back out on a west coast tour. You can find their music and tour dates by clicking here The video for Oceanography's "Monterey" can be found on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows The first in our two-part series about haunting in prisons! We have a number of stories from North America, plus an exclusive look at the haunting of the Lima Sheraton in Lima, Peru, former site of the infamous prison known as El Panoptico. When it comes to ghost stories, there's regular old dark, then there's lock-up dark, and the only thing scarier than some of the horrific true crime cases we touch on in this episode is our pronunciation of Spanish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, aka Oceanography, is going back on tour and will be our musical guest on the next "Talk Spooky", so we thought we would share his 2021 conversation with Brennan from his old talk show "Largely the Truth." Check Brian's tour dates here Original shownotes follow: This week, singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, who performs as Oceanography, joins me to talk about his fantastic new LP "Thirteen Songs About Driving Nowhere in Alphabetical Order" and along the way we manage to invent car-to-car food delivery then discuss the impermanence of place Buy your digital copy on Bandcamp: https://oceanography.bandcamp.com/ Physical copies and tour dates: https://www.oceanographymusic.com/ Monterey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrx6zr-hD7o Field Shots video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLi4BlHFfHU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows Close calls during a mountain hike, an explanation of Philippine totems, and a review of the brand new psychological thriller "Broken Bird", in UK theaters on August 30th. All this and more in our latest mail show! Our musical feature on this episode is "(Never) 2 Hot" by Massey feat. Xochi, presented courtesy of Bent River Records. Link to the screengrab Bob sent in [Imgur] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows We're joined by Sinead Hanna of "The Poisoner's Cabinet" to tell stories of high strangeness in and around waterfalls! From North Queensland to California's High Sierras and the mountains of the Philippines, your best bet is to just stay out of the woods, man. The Lady of the Lake can be found here Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A strange light over Western Australia, schizoaffective disorder & the paranormal, and a history of bad luck on the same Blackpool rollercoaster that once threw off a young Paul Bestall. That's right - it's a mail show. Our musical feature on this episode is "Barcelona" by Rain is Wet Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you get when you combine stories from New Zealand and remote Western Australia, with a recorded appearance of a hat man in 1989? You get just a portion of the listener stories on this episode, along with some surprising findings from Brennan's research, and Paul's love of summer Links: Daniel W. VanArsdale's Paranormal Journal [carryiton.net] Paul Cropper's blog, The Fortean [thefortean.com] Full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Board games, a Greek poet, and the mystery of Jawbone Hill are just a couple of the topics we cover in our listener mail segment before we get down to an epic conversation with John Olsen, author of the "Stranger Bridgerland" series. John is a fount of knowledge on the strange side of Utah and we talk about missing time, the good kind of orb, and a whole lot more! Our musical feature on this episode is "Bar" by King Tut's Tomb Find full shownotes at www.ghoststoryguys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How weird IS the Beehive State? As it turns out, pretty damn weird: we talk about the haunting of Park City, menacing presences in school at night, Tommyknockers, the Farmington Poltergeist, and a whole lot more! Story Time Codes: Visions of the Apocalypse (8:48) House Has Devil (27:00) Everybody Knows (36:49) Fresh Powder (55:38) The Farmington Poltergeist (1:06:23) Lights Out (1:17:35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices