Ghost in the Museum

"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.

"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.

Part 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.

Part 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.

The 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.

"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.

Struggling 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.

Intrigued 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.

Called 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.

“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.

At 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.

Investigating 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.

When 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.

Trapped 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.

An 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.

An 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.

The 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.

An 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.

Author 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.

Struggling 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.

An old man relates a traumatic childhood memory to an astonished gallery attendant, about an uncanny stuffed ape that seemed to have a life of its own.+++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, Brighton, Booth Museum, IndiaThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tormented by the sudden death of his son, a grief-stricken researcher becomes obsessed by a fragmented tombstone that eerily seems to mirror his own tragedy, before drawing him into a horrific encounter.+++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, Oxford, Ashmoleon MuseumThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While transcribing an oral history interview, a frustrated young archivist uncovers a tall tale about a set of impossible photographs, that soon becomes terrifyingly real.+++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, Great Fire of London, Oliver Cromwell, John Donne, BlitzThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researching a tantalising theory about a ruined Tudor castle, two historians stumble upon a bizarre tale of an exhumation that descended into a living nightmare.+++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, Sudeley Castle, Katherine Parr, Henry VIIIThe Ghost in the Museum Podcast © Isaac Hart 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.