Show overview
Ghost in the Museum has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 24 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence, with the show now in its 4th season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 53 min and 1h 8m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Fiction show.
There hasn’t been a new episode in the last ninety days; the most recent episode landed 4 months ago. The busiest year was 2024, with 12 episodes published. Published by Isaac Hart.
From the publisher
Author and museum professional Isaac Hart performs his original ghost stories. Set in the cloistered worlds of museums and their curators, forgotten artefacts threaten to unravel time and space at the seams, and troubled attendants find themselves haunted by the past in more way than one...The stories are standalone and can be listened to in any order. New stories are released at the end of February, April, June, August, October and December. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Past Haunts
"Ghost in the Museum" author Isaac Hart discusses tales of ghosts and hauntings at Lancashire manor houses. Almost every ancient building in the county supposedly has a resident ghost, but the history behind these stories and how they came about is often more intriguing than the ghosts themselves.Recorded Live at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery on Tuesday 13th January 2026.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Lecture, Blackburn, Museum, Lancashire, Salmesbury Hall, Rufford Old HallThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2026 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Halloween Through the Ages
"Ghost in the Museum" author Isaac Hart discusses the deep origins of the spooky season. From ancient pagan traditions to modern panics over trick or treating, Halloween has always been the time of year that we welcome the weird and the uncanny into our lives rather than pushing it away, with often strange and surprising results.Recorded Live at The Atkinson, Southport on Friday 31st October 2025.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Southport, Lecture, Halloween, The Atkinson, SamhainThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 Ep 4Them (Part Two)
EPart Two of Two. A forgotten box of spores found in a museum basement hatches into a litter of tiny, fragile beings. A team of biologists race to study them even as their brief, bright lives rapidly unravel.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Science Fiction, Natural History Museum, Elves, Elf, SporesThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 Ep 3Them (Part One)
EPart One of Two. A forgotten box of spores found in a museum basement hatches into a litter of tiny, fragile beings. A team of biologists race to study them even as their brief, bright lives rapidly unravel.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Science Fiction, Natural History Museum, Elves, Elf, SporesThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 Ep 2Sound and Fury
EThe discovery of a lost play may reveal the identity of an anonymous Elizabethan playwright, but its disturbing content hints that there may have been good reason it was hidden away.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, York Minster, William Shakespeare, Siege of Munster, Anabaptist, Jan van LeidenThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Natural History of Ghosts
"Ghost in the Museum" author Isaac Hart discusses the history of ghosts and hauntings, from the Bronze Age to the present day, exploring the origins of ghosts in human culture, the fears and folklore behind centuries of ghost sightings, and how belief in the restless undead continues even into the digital age.Recorded Live at The Atkinson, Southport on Thursday 6th March 2025.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Southport, Lecture, M.R. James, The Atkinson, Byland AbbeyThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S4 Ep 1The Ghost of Poole Hall
EStruggling with the emptiness of his life, an elderly volunteer at an infrequently visited country house awaits a visitation by the manor’s famous spirit, the Yellow Lady.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Cheshire, Poole Hall, Yellow LadyThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S3 Ep 4Audubon's Gift
EIntrigued by a painting of an otter caught in a trap that inspires dread in whoever looks upon it, a blind curator discovers that its disturbing appearance is only the start of its horror...+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Liverpool, Audubon, Victoria GalleryThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S3 Ep 3Deadline
ECalled in after workmen laying a railway track dig up a mysterious gravestone, a depressed archaeologist soon discovers that she is working against the clock in more ways than one.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Wigan, Train Crash, ArcheologyThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This Spectred Isle: Eerie Fiction and the English Countryside
“Ghost in the Museum” author Isaac Hart presents his lecture on the effect place and time have had on the development of the English ghost story, and discusses its recurring themes.Recorded Live at All Saints Church Hall on Friday 27th September 2024.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Southport, Lecture, M.R. James, CountrysideThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S3 Ep 2The Green Door
EAt an inquest into a series of inexplicable accidents at a derelict manor house, the manservant gives an extraordinary testimony that raises more questions that it does answers.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Ince Blundell, Bootle, NightmareThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S3 Ep 1"Ah-Hey-Oh-Wah-Yo-Hey!"
EInvestigating the grisly death of a Cambridge researcher, a detective finds that the victim had stumbled onto a fragment of a forgotten nursery rhyme that seemed to possess a terrible power.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Cambridge, Nursery Rhymes, Mother GooseThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 6Sally Wheatley
EWhen a mummified cat is found within the walls of an ancient farmhouse, it reawakens the memory of a long-ago encounter with a scarecrow that hid a ghastly secret.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Scarecrow, Witchcraft, HexhamThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 5The Hidden One
ETrapped in a terrifying situation, a panicked Egyptologist finds that solving the riddle of an ancient statue of a god sudden has suddenly become a matter of life and death.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Ancient Egypt, Liverpool, Amun ReThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 4They Have Faces Like Flowers
EAn art authenticator soothes her schizophrenic daughter that she has nothing to fear from her hallucinations. The discovery of a grotesque painting raises the unsettling prospect that they may not be all in her head after all.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Richard Dadd, Fairies, CobhamThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 3Sparrowdown
EAn empty patch of Sussex countryside hides the infernal history of a forgotten manor house, and the tragic fates of generations of those who lived and died there.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, HauntingThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 2Here There Be Dragons
EThe letters of a long-dead professor unravel the tragic tale of her lost love, whose horrific experiences in the trenches of the First World War took a turn towards the fantastic.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, World War One, Cambridge, CharlemagneThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 1Art as Alibi
EAn art conservator visits a reclusive former classmate dying of cancer, only to be pulled into a disturbing experiment that seems to shred the barrier between the present and the past.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Amalfi, Eastbourne, Time TravelThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ghost in the Museum Trailer
trailerAuthor and museum professional Isaac Hart writes and performs his original ghost stories, where forgotten objects threaten to unravel time and space at the seams, and troubled archivists and attendants find themselves haunted by the past in more ways than one...+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, HauntingThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 Ep 5He Comes and He Goes
EStruggling to care for his disabled daughter, an ex-curator discovers a broken fireplace on a rubble-strewn beach that may hold the secret to unlocking a century-old murder case.+++LinksWebsite: https://shows.acast.com/ghost-in-the-museumYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhostintheMuseumInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghostmuseum_podcastContact: [email protected] Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Ghostpocalypse - 1 DepartureGhostpocalypse - 5 ApotheosisLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Tags: Horror, Paranormal, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Terror, Terrifying, Chiller, Weird Fiction, Folk Horror, History, Haunting, Crosby Beach, Blitz, LiverpoolThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.