Haunted Places: Ghost Stories

What happens when a teenager goes missing in the world’s smallest, and supposedly safest, country? Emanuela Orlandi’s sudden disappearance remains the only missing person’s case in Vatican City, yet more than 40 years later we still have no idea what really happened behind the papal state’s walls. After the story, stick around for an exclusive interview with the director of The First Omen, Arkasha Stevenson! This episode is brought to you by Twentieth Century Studios' the First Omen. Experience the most terrifying movie of the year, and what critics are calling “deliciously disturbing” only in theaters April 5th. Conspiracy Theories is now on Instagram @theconspiracypod and TikTok @conspiracy.pod! Follow us to keep up with the show and get behind-the-scenes updates from Carter and the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An American couple buys a house in England that locals warn is haunted. But instead of feeling fearful, Ned and Mary are excited by the prospect of ghostly company. That is, until a mystery begins to unravel their marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Years have passed, but Margaret Eastwich still remembers the phantom of Mill Croft Lane with a haunting clarity. She shares her grim tale with three young sisters. By the end of it, they’ll have a chilling story of their own to tell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After tragedy befalls the Marsh family, a moody and mercurial husband is given one last chance to prove that he cares for his ill-fated wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Edith Wharton’s first ghost story follows a young lady’s maid by the name of Alice Hartley. When Alice takes a job at a desolate mansion, she becomes ensnared in the somber mysteries of the estate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A newly married painter doubts a local superstition until it lands at his door on All Hallows Eve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A novelist is struck with inspiration after he moves into a new apartment. But as his mind brings his new protagonist to life, his muse draws him further into madness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yoshihide gets to work painting a realistic depiction of Hell, dragging his apprentices into a vortex of suffering. When his masterpiece is nearly complete, the artist arranges for one last ghastly flourish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yoshihide is the greatest artist Japan has ever known. He’s always been a tortured soul, but his latest project is bringing him straight into the depths of depravity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a gloomy metaphysics student moves into a strange neighborhood, he’s entranced by the music he hears every night. When he seeks its source, he finds a terrified virtuoso with a bizarre story to tell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After losing his lifelong love, a grieving widower locks himself in his apartment and shuts out the world. His sadness is all-consuming. But one night, a midnight visitor interrupts his mournful reveries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Privileged soon-to-be doctor Robert Robeshire escapes to his wealthy cousin Prospero's island to escape a deadly plague. Hundreds live there and go on with life as if there is no epidemic at all. But even with all their wealth and education, they fail to realize you can never escape a plague. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Taking care of the ailing and elderly has taken its toll on Philip Langdon. While he insists on his sanity, proof of his deteriorating mental health lies beneath the surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sickly and desperate, Roderick Usher calls upon a childhood friend to join him in his ancestral home. There, the weight of the Usher family’s wicked legacy threatens to overwhelm them both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we look ahead to the new year, we want to take one last chance to say thank you for the year that was — and present our "Best of 2021"! Please enjoy this episode from Mediums, one of our favorite new shows of this year, where we take you straight into the heart of a 19th-century seance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dark, sweeping, and brimming with cosmic significance — this is the nativity story as you’ve never heard it before. Join us for a pulse-pounding tale sourced from ancient texts and apocryphal gospels, featuring scenes that didn’t quite make it into the Bible. This is a storytelling special from Parcast Network, hosted by Vanessa Richardson and Alastair Murden. Coming up: A prophecy unfolds, and a child — unlike any other — is born… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two impoverished siblings think they've been handed a Christmas miracle when they inherit an estranged uncle's country home. But once they move in, they realize it’s more like a Christmas curse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a young woman loses her sister to a tragic accident, she goes to an early morning church service to pray. Only, the service she stumbles upon is unlike any other. And she may not make it out alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A hot-headed writer is invited to a former friend's English manor. There, he finds a somber house inhabited by a strange darkness...that his quick temper unwittingly provokes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Everything can change in a snap. In this Thanksgiving special from Superstitions, a Spotify Original from Parcast, breaking the wishbone can change your luck and your life… in wonderful and terrible ways. Search and follow Superstitions for more episodes like this one, diving into eerie codes of conduct that can sway the fates. New episodes Wednesdays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices