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

The plot thickens as Langford immerses himself in an investigation to determine what’s real and what isn't. But when he arrives at an answer, it is far more sinister than he could have imagined. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On a train ride home for the holidays, an overworked gentleman named Langford encounters an acquaintance who’s at best a thief — and at worst, a murderer. More terrible still, Langford is the only one who saw him. Was he real? Or simply an illusion conjured by an exhausted mind? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A no-nonsense landlady has always tried to keep a professional distance from the transient theater folk who rent her rooms. But when a sweet hopeful actress comes to stay, the landlady finds herself hopelessly entangled in the lives — and deaths — of her tenants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laura is certain there’s a vampire terrorizing her community — and her. If she’s going to survive, she has to find it, and destroy it... however difficult that may be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A series of strange deaths around town rouses Laura's curiosity. Young peasant girls are seeing visions of a specter, and then dying… and Laura can’t help but want to know more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laura gets to know her mysterious houseguest. And as their bond deepens, Laura finds herself strangely attracted to Carmilla’s increasingly odd behavior... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Decades before Bram Stoker’s iconic creation dug its fangs into the cultural consciousness, another vampire emerged from the ether: Carmilla. Today begins our four-part retelling of Joseph Sheridan La Fanu’s 1872 novella, in which a gesture of hospitality brings a nightmare to life… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two sisters from London find their relationship tested when they spend the summer in the country. The elder is fascinated with a mysterious couple who lives in the woods, while the younger is sure they are dangerous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A discontent Englishman entertains a well-traveled acquaintance. But their evening takes a dark turn when his comrade leaves behind an artifact from his adventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A narcissistic German artist breaks off his engagement as soon as wealth and fame beckon. But after a gruesome tragedy strikes, he realizes his ex-fiancée still has quite the hold on him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a young teacher rents a room in an old house, she learns her sweet old landlords are hiding a terrible secret… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dyson seeks Agnes's husband for an explanation about her death. Was it natural? Or was it murder... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the death of his childhood friend Agnes, Dyson believes he spotted her alive in the window of her home. But when the medical examiner shows him the body, Dyson is left with more questions than answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a traveler spends the night at an abandoned temple, he meets a beautiful woman, only to learn that she's bound by the devil. In order to save her, he'll need the help of a Taoist priest with some very peculiar weapons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man's friend goes missing in the scariest place imaginable: right near the Strid, a small creek that will pull you under, and never spit you out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When their elder sister dies, the youngest Mallow sister contemplates her own mortality, while the middle sister plans to make the most out of their inheritance. Even if that means involving a ghost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This classic by F. Marion Crawford covers one man’s account of a transatlantic journey where his bunkmate in the upper berth is never seen again. Is room 105 really cursed or has it merely been an unfortunate set of circumstances? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Nina experienced a horrific fall, she was taken to the best doctor in town. But neither patient nor doctor was ready to admit the truth: Nina was just a doll. And after she was repaired and ready to return home, she refused to leave him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this 1859 tale from Fitz-James O’Brien, a soldier recounts facing an indescribable horror in a haunted boarding house. Years after the encounter, he is still held by the grip of both terror… and guilt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The rafters learn that the only way to fight the willow spirits is to ignore them… but they must endure horrors too unfathomable to turn away from in their fight to make it off the island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Algernon Blackwood’s classic tale, two rafters on the Danube River wash up on a strange island. It’s overgrown with dense willows… and the spirits within those willows are out for blood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young psychiatric nurse moves in with an older couple who have suffered a terrible loss. They’re a haunted pair, but as the nurse is about to discover, the strange ghost that pursues them is a vehicle from beyond the grave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Owen’s tutor learns why Owen quit the military, and decides to support him. But first, the tutor will have to help him survive one last night at the family estate… and escape the ghosts of his family’s past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a bright young military trainee named Owen Wingrave decides to abandon his family legacy and quit the army, his tutor is called to the family estate to change his mind. What the tutor doesn’t know is that Owen’s ancestral home hides an eerie secret. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A professor goes on a beach holiday with a close friend, only to become terrified when a dark, faceless figure takes chase. As the two men investigate this supernatural horror, they must also confront their own complex relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Scottish medical student robs graves for the good of science, so his professor will have bodies to dissect. But soon, he’s forced to graduate from grave-robbing to murder… and the ghosts that come with his guilt are truly terrifying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this tale from E.F. Benson, a skeptical London detective investigates a murder at a seance. But it won’t be easy to cuff a culprit when his prime suspect is a supernatural one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From a poet and novelist largely considered to be the founder of modern Russian literature, The Queen of Spades is Alexander Pushkin’s eerie tale of a simple card game, and the lengths one soldier goes to win it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A childless woman who is curious about motherhood gets more than she bargained for when she takes care of her old friend’s children… and a ghostly presence monitors her every motherly move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this folk tale from Mexico City, a rich and powerful Don moonlighting as a serial killer confesses his crimes to a priest. The penance he's given appears surprisingly light, but the punishment is far more twisted than he realizes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices