Tell Me Your Ghost Story
Tell Me Your Ghost Story is a podcast where real people share their real-life encounters with the paranormal. Host Kassie Askin invites guests to share their unexplainable encounters in their own words. Some stories are terrifying, some are heartwarming, and some just might change the way you see the world. Kassie isn’t looking for answers or theories, just stories that are sure to haunt you.
Episodes
Abigail’s Story - “Aunt Marion”
For years, Heather and Mike navigated the long and emotional process of international adoption, waiting for the day they could finally bring their daughter Abigail home. During this time, Heather’s Aunt Marion was nearing the end of her life. More than anything, Marion wanted to meet Abigail. Unfortunately, she never got the chance. But after her passing, a series of signs seemed to suggest that M
BONUS: Ghost Stories with Rattled & Shook
I’m sharing a fun bonus episode today because I recently joined Meredith on Rattled & Shook, a spooky variety show podcast featuring true scary stories sent in by real people. I had such a fun time hearing some crazy ghost stories, sharing some of my own strange experiences, and chatting with Meredith about my fears - both rational and irrational.
Huge thank you to Meredith and the Rattled & S
Eric Freeman Sims’s Stories - “The Knight House”
Growing up, Eric spent countless nights sneaking into cemeteries and abandoned buildings with friends, hoping they might see a ghost. At first, it was just something fun to do, until he actually started witnessing strange things. Years later, working overnight shifts in the Alzheimer’s wing of a nursing home brought even more experiences he couldn’t explain. The paranormal slowly grew into a much
Ghost Stories from the Company Retreat Cast
If you're anything like me, you burned through Company Retreat in a single sitting. The cast spent weeks convincing one unsuspecting person that a fake reality was totally real. But for four cast members, that's not the strangest thing they’ve ever experienced. In this special episode, Blair Beeken (Marjorie), Rob Lathan (Other Anthony), Jim Woods (Jimmy), and Emily Pendergast (Amy) share their pa
Nat & Aly’s Stories - “Let’s Get Haunted”
As hosts of Let’s Get Haunted podcast, Nat and Aly have spent a lot of time exploring the strange and unexplained, so of course they’ve had a few experiences of their own they still can’t make sense of.
First, we hear Aly’s stories. While living in Newbury Park in Ventura County, California, she started to realize something about her house felt off. Between weird activity in the sky and a nightti
Josh’s Story - “Bootprints in the Snow”
While out hunting in Dansville, Michigan, Josh finds the perfect spot to settle in and wait for deer. Sitting there in his ghillie suit, waiting for the sun to come up, he hears something stepping through the fresh snow behind him. He spins around, hoping to get the perfect shot, but there’s no animal there. Just a set of fresh bootprints in the snow that definitely weren’t there before. And when
Brooke’s Story - “Washington George” & Emily’s Story - “Alan”
In this episode, we hear the stories of two women who share a very specific experience - the feeling of knowing someone before they had any logical way of knowing them.
First, we hear Brooke’s story. As a kid, Brooke received a Ouija board as a gift, and during her first and only session with it, it spelled out a full name that she didn’t really think much of at the time. But years later, while d
A Story from You Can See Me In The Dark: “The Most Haunted House in Ohio”
Today I’m so excited to share another podcast I think you’re going to love!
You Can See Me in the Dark tells terrifying and tender ghost stories, sound designed for an intimate, campfire experience. For the past 8 years, hosts Melissa Sweazy and Nate Reisman have shared ghost stories from around the world, told by the people who experienced them. From a Dutch metal singer battling a demon to a so
Sam Doll’s Story - “Smoke Break”
When Sam stayed over at a new boyfriend’s house for the first time, she never expected to leave with a ghost story. In the middle of the night, she woke to see an elderly man standing in the room, his face glowing in the light of a flame as he tried to light a cigarette. Wide awake, she stared at him until he suddenly vanished. At first, she didn’t know what to make of it. But later, conversations
Mike Clelland’s Story - “The Messengers”
Mike Clelland, author of The Messengers, shares the experience that led him to his years of research into the strange connection between owls and UFO encounters. Years ago, while camping with a friend, three owls circled and swooped around their campsite for hours. What happened that night was weird enough on its own, but everything changed when an unshakable thought entered his mind: “This has so
James’s Story - "Shrieking Boy’s Wood” & Marque’s Story - “The Mimic”
James and a friend were walking through the woods near their home in Thundersley, Essex, when they encountered a strange child in tattered Victorian clothing, peering at them from behind a tree. For years it was just a creepy story they’d tell at parties. But then, James found a book about Essex hauntings that revealed the dark history of those woods and made them rethink who they'd seen that nigh
Mitaya’s Story - “Jasper”
Mitaya grew up on a vast stretch of land in Jasper, Georgia, at the base of the Appalachian Mountains. During her fall break from school, she broke her arm, leaving her with little to do but spend long stretches of time alone outside. Over the course of that week, she began noticing strange phenomena in the sky. On the final night of her break, she was woken up by two bright lights outside her bed
Neil Butler’s Story - “The Hubcap House”
When Neil was in college studying film, he lived with four roommates in a ramshackle old house affectionately called The Hubcap House, named for the found hubcaps that lined the front yard. The Hubcap House was full of life and creativity - the last place you’d expect something terrifying to happen. But one night, Neil awoke to a presence joining him in his bedroom. He believed his experience was
Betsy & Marcy’s Stories - “A Funny Feeling”
In this very special episode, Betsy Sodaro and Marcy Jarreau from A Funny Feeling Podcast share their own firsthand encounters with the unexplained. Betsy recounts a ski trip to Summit County, Colorado, where an otherwise normal Airbnb became the setting for something she still can’t fully explain when a disembodied voice breaks the silence in the middle of the night. Marcy follows with stories fr
Joseph Martinez’s Story - “The Owl”
When Joseph turned 10 years old, his summer vacation began like any other - long, hot days spent playing with his cousins. But then, things took a turn for the strange. A hooded figure appeared night after night outside Joseph’s window, and then something far stranger - perhaps not of this world - appeared outside his family’s home. Whatever it was seemed to stick with him for years, returning lat
Marcus Dell'Olio’s Story – “Night Watch at Tulsa Zoo”
During Marcus’s first week as a nighttime security guard at the Tulsa Zoo, his supervisor pulled him aside to share a story about the night he saw a ghost wandering the grounds after closing. Marcus tried to shrug it off, determined to not let it get to his head. But soon after, on one of his first nights working alone, Marcus found himself facing exactly what his supervisor had tried to warn him
Brock Bodell’s Story - “The Night Hag”
The night before leaving the US to start a new life in Thailand, Brock had one more run-in with the sleep paralysis that had plagued him for years. Only this time, something was different. Instead of the familiar feelings of dread and the slow, deliberate sounds of something inching closer, he finally saw what had been stalking him in the dark. As he lay frozen, the figure rose taller than the cei
Rick & Sheri’s Story - “Buddy”
Rick and Sheri’s home in the Mojave desert was a peaceful place, until the day a stray dog appeared on the property. They took him in and named him Buddy. Buddy was a source of warmth and companionship, though his arrival seemed to stir something within the house. They began catching whiffs of cigarette smoke, finding objects knocked to the floor, and noticing their belongings moved from one room
Lisa Stebbins’s Story - “Modjeska Manor”
Out of the blue, Lisa feels an unshakable pull to uproot her family of six from their comfortable suburban life and renovate a run-down cabin on a plot of land in Modjeska Canyon, a remote community of just 600 people. Once they settled in, strange things started happening - sightings of shadowy figures, sudden illnesses, and a newfound obsession with transforming the property by hand. Later, Lisa
Introducing a chilling new podcast: TWISTED TALES WITH HEIDI WONG
Reality is the real horror.
Every Monday, poet and paranormal obsessive Heidi Wong unearths the chilling true stories behind the world’s most terrifying legends. From haunted dolls to cursed houses, each episode of Twisted Tales reveals the disturbing real-life events that inspired horror’s biggest blockbusters and the ones too twisted to make it to screen.
Some stories are stranger than ficti
Rosie Grant’s Story - “Campsite 12”
During the Covid lockdowns, Rosie and her friends set out on a camping trip in West Virginia. When they arrived, they discovered they’d be the only ones at the entire campsite - completely alone in the middle of the woods. When they stopped in town for food and drinks, locals kept asking if they were the girls staying at Campsite 12. Uneasy, they returned to the campsite, trying to shake off the f
Stephen Reedy’s Story - “How Do I Know You’re Real?”
Stephen thought his experience with psychedelics ended when he came back into himself, but the nightmare was only beginning. In the nights that followed, shadow people invaded his bedroom, looming over him as he slept and jolting him awake with paralyzing dread. Desperate, he tried a technique to banish the shadow people - one he remembered a radiant female deity told him about while in his trip.
Hunter Peterson’s Story - “The Treehouse”
Hunter and his brother spent their childhood exploring the oak groves around their home in Temecula, California. One day, they stumbled upon an old forgotten treehouse and claimed it as their own, fixing it up and making it their secret hideout. But everything changed the day a strange little boy appeared inside. There was something unsettling about him - the way he talked, the way he moved, even
Ali Gordon’s Story - “The Tall Man”
In the summer of 2011, Ali headed to Weston, Vermont to spend the season acting at the historic Weston Playhouse. The housing for the performers was far from ideal - six bunk beds crammed into the attic of a creaky old farmhouse. One night, Ali woke to find a tall man silently watching her, positioned in the narrow gap between her bed and the wall. The sloped ceiling made it physically impossible
Sam Heimer’s Story - “Fetal Position” & Steven’s Story - “Tattoo Shop”
Years ago, Sam found himself living in a dingy studio apartment, sharing the building with an eclectic mix of neighbors. One night, he woke up and spotted something impossible in his bathroom - an apparition whose presence would make horrifying sense the next morning.
Then, Steven takes us inside the haunted tattoo shop where he used to work. What began as subtle disturbances like misplaced ite
Evan’s Story - “Figure in the Woods”
In 2009, Evan and his group of friends spent most of their nights deep in the woods of Arlington, Massachusetts, one of the only places they could get away with drinking in peace. One night, the group heard a faint jingling sound drifting through the trees. At first, they ignored it, but the sound kept getting closer. Then, through the darkness, a dark silhouette appeared, crouched unnaturally low
Tameera’s Story - “The Cecil Hotel” & Margo’s Story - “Sally”
On a trip to Los Angeles, Tameera and her boyfriend unknowingly checked into one of the city’s most infamous landmarks - the Cecil Hotel. When they opened the door to their room, they weren’t alone. A man was in their room, dressed like he’d stepped out of another century. He carried on packing his suitcase, as if they weren’t even there. They changed rooms immediately, but the weird experiences
Mimi’s Story - “Tia” & Woody’s Story - “Telekinetic”
When Mimi was a kid, she traveled to a quiet town in Mexico to visit family and stayed in her aunt’s home - a home heavy with grief after the loss of her cousin. She woke several times throughout the night to find her aunt praying in the moonlight, cloaked in a strange robe. When Mimi finally approached the figure, she realized the hooded entity was not her aunt at all. Then, Woody shares a story
Ramya’s Story - “Mirrors”
While on vacation in Turkey, Ramya and her brother and sister-in-law check into a beautiful Airbnb in the heart of Istanbul. But then, they notice the mirrors. Dozens of them. Covering every wall. In every room. At first, they chalked it up to a strange interior design choice, but by their second night, it became clear that the mirrors weren’t just decorative. A series of unexplainable events kept
Chris Heck’s Story - “Our Side”
When Chris Heck and his friends moved into a crumbling old house right after high school, they thought they were just getting a cheap place to live. It seemed like the perfect house for the group, until the strange noises started. Curious to make contact with whatever entity they were living with, they utilize a Ouija board and automatic writing - both delivering unexplainable messages. One night,
Maria’s Story & Michele’s Story - “Off the Map”
Two women. Two road trips. Two unexplainable detours.
This week we hear Maria’s story and Michele’s story - their stories are very similar in some ways, but take wildly different turns.
First, we hear Maria’s story. In 2007, she and her four siblings were driving home to Georgia after their uncle’s funeral in Florida. They stopped at a gas station just past Tifton, Georgia to use the restroom, b
Cat Elrod’s Story - “Tom Sawyer Island”
This week, we hear the stories of Cat Elrod, a special effects makeup artist and costume designer whose career has taken her to all kinds of strange and haunted places. But ironically, her scariest encounter happened at the happiest place on Earth - Disneyland. While finishing her costuming duties after the Fantasmic show, she’s alone inside of the Mill House on Tom Sawyer Island when she comes fa
Alex McDonald’s Story - “The Apartment Bathroom”
Alex McDonald recounts a visit to his long-distance girlfriend in LA. They begin to experience the sound of a woman crying in the apartment hallway - a sound that vanishes the moment they open the door to investigate. As the nights go on, the atmosphere darkens. Sleep becomes elusive and the disturbances escalate. One night at 3 AM, the sobbing moves inside the apartment. They trace the sounds to
Scarlett Amaris’s Story - “The Banging of His Stick”
Ever wonder what lurks within the walls of a medieval castle at night? In this week’s episode, Scarlett Amaris shares her incredible experience at Château de Montségur in the Pyrenees. While exploring the ancient castle in the dead of night, she hears deafening banging noises that defy logic, until months later when she uncovers a ghostly explanation while researching ancient texts. Join us as Sca
J. Hunter Richardson’s Story - “Somebody’s Standing At My Feet”
Horror author J. Hunter Richardson has some ghost stories - three to be exact. The first two? He’s got potential logical explanations for those. But his final story, set in the dorms of Humboldt State University in Northern California, holds a truly perplexing and reality-shifting detail that he hasn’t been able to explain even today, 20 years later. Tune in to hear the most unique story of a ghos
Jason Pargin's Story - "The Vanishing Necklace"
You’d think a horror author like Jason Pargin would have a terrifying true paranormal encounter to share, but his real life brush with the unexplained is surprisingly ordinary… and somehow even weirder because of it. After returning home from a roadtrip with his wife, the two come to realize that her favorite necklace has seemingly vanished from her suitcase. They spend hours tearing apart the sui
We Went to a Tyler Henry Live Audience Reading
Is The Hollywood Medium really all he’s cracked up to be? We went to a Tyler Henry live audience reading to find out. Join me and my best friend Emily as we recount the experience - from searching the theater lobby for Tyler Henry spies, to interrogating theater employees, to speaking with the individuals who received readings - we went to the nth degree to formulate our answer. Will Mr. Henry ear
Ivy Sunderji’s Story - “The Magic House”
Ivy’s fiancé Jehangeer passed away in a surfing accident in 2021. In the following months, Ivy begins to hear his voice and receive messages from him. One night Jehangeer speaks to Ivy, but this time he has a young girl with him. The girl tells Ivy she was murdered, which takes Ivy down a years-long path to find answers and justice.
Ivy’s story is THE most extraordinary story I’ve ever heard -
Alix’s Story - “Grandma’s House”
Alix has a familial gift of seeing ghosts - her grandma’s house was full of them. Her earliest memories involve playing with the 2 ghost children that lived inside grandma’s walls. Alix would later encounter several other ghosts, both at grandma’s house and at other locations, including one she came to discover was her great-grandmother.
This will be the last TMYGS episode of 2024! I am beyond
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Play Along S1, E2
As Triple H once said, IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME. Join us in a play along of Season 1, Episode 2 of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Kassie summarizes the 5 unexplained stories featured on the show and Spencer tries to guess which stories are fact and which stories were totally made up by the writers. Kassie then investigates the truth behind the true stories.
Spencer’s Instagram: @shreducatio
Dana’s Story - “The Octagon House”
Dana is a docent at Los Angeles’s Heritage Square Museum. He shares with us the fascinating history of the museum, explains his take on the site's reputation for paranormal activity, and shares his thoughts on the paranormal investigations conducted by Ghost Adventures and Jack Osbourne on the property. Dana has some unexplainable encounters of his own, all taking place in the infamous Octagon Hou
I Rode Disney’s Scariest Extinct Ride - ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter
In this special episode, Kassie takes you through her experience at Trepany House’s live horror experience ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, a parody of DisneyWorld’s terrifying extinct attraction of the same name. Trepany House describes this experience as a retelling of the original concept, in which the audience will experience 25 minutes of being face to face with a ferocious flesh-eating ex
Jordan’s Story - “The Goblin”
While on a girls spa trip in Linthwaite, UK, Jordan is the first one awake. She lies on the couch and feels a tickle on her arm. She turns around to find a Gollum-like creature peering at her over the couch. The following months are filled with mischievous occurrences - misplaced belongings, unplugged electronics, and objects being thrown at her. A mysterious woman then approaches Jordan and gives
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Halloween Horror Nights 2024 Review
It’s the most wonderful time of the year - HALLOWEEN! To celebrate, we went to Halloween Horror Nights - we stood in those lines, we walked through those houses, we got scared, and we’re going to tell you about it. But it’s not all jump scares - we also share our favorite (and not-so-favorite) Halloween memories and Kassie shares her findings from a trip down the rabbit hole researching the storie
Sheila’s Story - “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
While gathered around the television watching The Twilight Zone one night in the 1970s, Sheila’s father is particularly alarmed by the monster featured in the episode. He tells her and her siblings that he saw that exact monster while on patrol as a police officer years prior. Sheila later comes to learn that this is just one of many unexplainable encounters her father experienced, both on and off
I Tried 9 Manifestation Experiments - Did They Work?
In this special episode, Kassie takes a journey through Pam Grout’s book, E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality. Kassie dives into each of the nine manifestation experiments, testing the power of thought and intention in real life. Tune in as Kassie shares how she performed each experiment, from setting the intention to tracking the results,
Kari Tello’s Story - “The Prayers”
Kari Tello tells us her stories. She shares several stories that took place in her childhood home. Then, on a mission trip in New Zealand in her early 20s, she and her roommates are taunted by a demonic entity in the house they’re staying in. After hearing animalistic breathing while she’s trying to fall asleep, Kari begins to silently pray for protection. Her sleeping roommate then begins to repe
We Went to Ancient Aliens Live! - with Justine Dorsey
In the first TMYGS field trip, Justine Dorsey and I go to Ancient Aliens Live and give you a play-by-play of what went down. Did the ancient astronaut theorists change our mind about ancient history? Who tf really built those pyramids? And most importantly, how did Giorgio’s hair look? Tune in to answer all of these burning questions and much more.
Justine’s Instagram: @near_tears
After’s Ins
David Robert Pollock’s Story - “The Dewey Hotel”
David Robert Pollock tells us his story. While working as a mailman’s assistant, he’s given a strange pile of mail to deliver to a building in downtown Los Angeles. Upon arrival, he’s taken aback by the elegant ambiance and well-dressed staff and clientele. The experience leaves such a mark on him that he calls his wife to share details of the ritziest hotel he’s ever seen. They look into the addr
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Play Along S1, E1
Join us in a play along of Season 1, Episode 1 of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Kassie summarizes the 5 unexplained stories featured on the show and Spencer tries to guess which stories are fact and which stories were totally made up by our writers. Kassie then investigates the truth behind the true stories.
Spencer’s Instagram: @shreducationnation
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Jeff Miller’s Story - “They’re Coming”
In the first episode of Tell Me Your Ghost Story, we hear Jeff Miller’s stories. In the first, he experiences missing time after a flash of light in the sky temporarily blinds him. He then finds himself inexplicably miles away from where he last remembers being, 30 minutes prior. In the second, a sleepwalking classmate on a field trip gives a terrifying warning.
Jeff Miller’s Instagram: @jeffm
Introducing Tell Me Your Ghost Story
Tell Me Your Ghost Story is a paranormal variety show - from interviews with people who have experienced the supernatural firsthand, to paranormal show and movie reviews, to field trip reports from haunted locations, to deep dives into the weirdest of topics, and lots of scary places in between. Host Kassie Askin isn’t trying to answer any of life’s biggest questions - instead, she strives to ask
