Hometown Ghost Stories

This week on HTGS Reviews, we cover Black Phone 2! Black Phone 2 (2025) is a psychological horror sequel focusing on Gwen, who begins receiving haunting calls on the black phone during her dreams, signaling that Ethan Hawke's "Grabber" has returned from the dead for vengeance. Set four years later, the story follows Gwen and her brother Finney as they face a more supernatural, powerful entity while trapped at a winter Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 1800s, thousands of miners flooded into the southwestern corner of Wisconsin chasing lead. The violence and lawlessness they brought with them left something behind on the Old Military Road — something that has been coming back every forty years since, in whatever shape it chooses, to whoever happens to be on that road in the dark. Tonight we're in Iowa County, Wisconsin — home of the Ridgeway Ghost. One of the only spirits in recorded history believed to have killed the living.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Hometown Ghost Stories Paranormal Update, we talk about about a FIST FIGHT OVER GHOSTS! A demonic car and several ghosts caught on camera! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight we return to Scotland to dive into the history and hauntings of Edinburgh Castle. This fortress has seen more sieges than any other castle in all of Britain. With hundreds of years of dark history including executions, assassinations, disease and warfare, it's no mystery why this castle now has a reputation of being one of... if not the most haunted building in the entire country. This is Hometown Ghost Stories, Edinburgh Scotland, Part 2. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on HTGS Reviews, we cover Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the 2012 Horror-Thriller. While still a boy, Abraham Lincoln loses his mother to a vampire's bite. He vows revenge, but fails in the attempt, narrowly escaping with his life. He is rescued by Henry (Dominic Cooper), a charismatic vampire hunter who instructs Abe in the fine art of dispatching bloodsuckers. Abe (Benjamin Walker) continues his fight against the undead well into adulthood and his presidency, making a last stand against the ultimate vampire foe (Rufus Sewell) on the eve of the Civil War's defining battle. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight we search the internet for the most haunted items on sale in hopes to build our haunted collection. From haunted dolls, to all sorts of cursed vessels, we are on a mission to find the most compelling listings and make a bid. Join us as we break down the back stories and try to find authentic cursed possessions. Become a supporter on Patreon!⁠https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststories ⁠Music by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQ⁠ MERCH: ⁠https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For weeks, something pale and towering had been drifting through the streets of Hammersmith after dark. Witnesses swore it was a ghost—white as a burial shroud, silent as fog, gliding through churchyards and alleyways. Panic spread. People refused to walk alone at night. Some claimed the spirit of a suicide had returned to haunt the neighborhood. Then one freezing January evening, a frightened watchman raised his gun and fired at the figure in the darkness. By morning, the entire city was asking the same horrifying question: Had a man just killed a ghost… Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On a stormy December night in 1900, a relief ship approached the lonely Flannan Isles Lighthouse expecting to find three keepers tending the light. Instead, the tower was silent. The lamps were cleaned and filled… the clocks had stopped… and two sets of oilskins were missing. But the third keeper’s coat still hung on its hook. No men. No struggle. No explanation. And somewhere beyond the crashing waves, the light had gone dark. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststories Music by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQ MERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's finally time to review Friday the 13th... JASON GOES TO HELL!!! In this spoiler filled review, we ... do not agree on this. Which usually means you're in for an entertaining review. In this widely criticized installment of Friday the 13th, some of us loved it, some of us hated it.... find out who stands by this film and who does not! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Built more than 800 years ago as a fortified residence for the Catholic Church, Dragsholm castle is rumored to be the most haunted castle in all of Denmark. Legends claim more than 100 spirits linger there including many political and ecclesiastical prisoners; as well as the ghost of a woman whose remains were discovered sealed inside the castle walls. Join us as we dig into the history and hauntings of Dragsholm Castle Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Subscribe to Jesse's new YouTube Channel Here!: https://www.youtube.com/@JessecWilkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this month's paranormal update, we bring you 3 new stories about GHOSTS! An exorcism at a hospital, a good ol' fashioned resurrection and ghosts caught on CCTV footage! Become a supporter on Patreon!⁠https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststories⁠Music by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)⁠https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQ⁠MERCH: ⁠https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a town on the Mississippi River that is the boyhood home of Mark Twain. A place of fishing holes, steamboats, whitewashed fences, and boys running wild along the riverbank. That's one version of Hannibal, Missouri. The other version has a dead girl hanging in a cave, a lumber baron who never stopped coming home, and a figure in a long dark coat who stands at the cemetery fence after dark and watches you among the graves. Twain knew all of it. He just hid it in the stories everyone read to their children. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on HTGS Reviews we cover the 2025 horror movie, Together starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie - Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, an encounter with an unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love and their flesh. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight, we dive into the history of two of the most haunted buildings in Galena, Illinois. Opened in 1855, the DeSoto House Hotel has had its fair share of horrifying events. From fires and explosions, to more recently: terrifying paranormal activity. We also explore the haunting tales of the Belvedere Mansion, an elegant home built in 1857, now open for tours with its lavish period furnishings and gardens. If the legends are true, we have one of the most tragic stories that has resulted in many saying... that the mansion is now plagued by restless spirits. This is the haunted history of Galena, IL. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Hometown Ghost Stories, we cover the multiple levels of ghost stories surrounding Bela Lugosi. From Him being haunted, to his ghost, to a haunted item. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight, we revisit Asheville, North Carolina to cover two of its most haunted locations. Built in the 1950s on top of an 1800s potters field cemetery is the Clyde Erwin High School. It's said that the bodies were not entirely relocated, and this may contribute to the restless paranormal activity that is now reported at the building. We also dive into the haunting legend behind Helen's Bridge, which dates back over 100 years. This is Hometown Ghost Stories: Asheville, NC part 2. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Friday the 13th! That means its time for us to continue down our journey of reviewing every Friday the 13th movie and this time... we've landed on part VIII... Jason Takes Manhattan. Find out what we thought about this movie in this brand new horror movie review! Mass murderer Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) is resurrected from the bottom of Crystal Lake. After he kills a passing boat's occupants, he stows away on a cruise ship filled with a high-school graduating class bound for New York City. Biology teacher Charles McCulloch (Peter Mark Richman) is on board with his niece, Rennie (Jensen Daggett), who has visions of Jason drowning as a child. They escape his bloody shipboard rampage, but, when Rennie and Charles reach Manhattan, Jason is close by. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What might be the most well documented case of poltergeist activity in the history of Germany, occurred in the city of Rosenheim in 1967. A modest law firm was tormented for months by not only the strange activity in the office, but by media accusations of a hoax. Join us as we dig into the bizarre mystery and escalation of events that became infamous in Bavarian history. The Rosenheim Poltergeist. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We reviewed "Heart Eyes" the 2025 RomCom Slasher and had some mixed thoughts on it - A masked maniac with glowing, red eyes returns every Valentine's Day to slaughter unsuspecting couples. When a cynical ad executive and her hopelessly romantic colleague become the next target, they decide to fight back and end the reign of terror. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A hundred years ago, newspapers were completely unhinged. And here at hometown ghost stories we went digging for the scariest and most bizarre headlines we could find. Articles about ghostly cowboys still riding the range, a ghost wandering around looking for his own dismembered hand, and a parrot so aggressive and foul-mouthed it was blamed for being demonically possessed. There’s also a woman who ate herself to death. And no… not in the way you’re thinking. Oh, and somewhere in the middle of all that, there’s a very real headline calmly informing readers that Santa Claus is dead. These aren’t urban legends. These are real newspaper stories people read over breakfast and then just went to work like nothing was wrong. Ghostly cowboys. Demonic parrots. Haunted cabs. Dead Santa. And a whole stack of headlines that prove the past was way stranger than it had any right to be. This is Haunted Headlines. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Hometown Ghost Stories we break down the top 10 paranormal stories of 2025! Some of these are brand new and others we may have covered before, but tune in as we count down together. Do you have a news story about a paranormal incident? Send it over and perhaps we will cover it on the next paranormal update! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miami’s haunted history hides behind luxury façades. Built in 1926, the Biltmore Hotel rose as a playground for the wealthy, but it wasn't long before its reputation shifted due to a massive shootout between mobsters. During World War II, the hotel became a military hospital, and today guests report phantom footsteps, flickering lights, and apparitions drifting through ballrooms and corridors. Just miles away, the Deering Estate sits atop ancient burial grounds, it's quiet beauty masking something older and unsettled. Built by Charles Deering, the estate is now said to be plagued by shadow figures, disembodied voices, and restless spirits tied not just to the house—but to the land itself. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week ,we review the 2025 horror movie, 28 Years Later! It's been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped from a biological weapons laboratory. Still living in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amid the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of them decides to venture into the dark heart of the mainland, he soon discovers a mutation that has spread to not only the infected, but other survivors as well. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Asheville, North Carolina, history doesn’t fade so much as it settles in. A narrow alley remembers a violent night, and some say it still answers back after dark. Inside one of the city’s oldest homes, the sounds of children drift through empty rooms while something far heavier lingers below. Not all of Asheville's past stayed buried, and some of it still haunts the streets and homes of the city today.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most notorious towns of the Wild West is Dodge City. Infamous for shootouts, saloons, and a reputation deliberately built by newspapers and legend, the city has become synonymous with frontier violence. But the danger people warned about may not have ended when the guns went quiet. Something else lingered; and the legendary violence might not be the only reason you’d want to get out of Dodge. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we review the newest I Know What You Did Last Summer... remake? Sequel? Abomination? Franchise Ruiner? Find out what we thought about this completely unnecessary movie with ... the best writing ever ... Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight we search the internet for the most haunted items on sale in hopes to build our haunted collection. From haunted dolls, to all sorts of cursed vessels, we are on a mission to find the most compelling listings and make a bid. Join us as we break down the back stories and try to find authentic cursed possessions. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this months paranormal update, we cover multiple ghost stories. A ghost on a plane that one person claims to have locked eyes with... also .. can your pets see ghosts? Find out on this brand new Paranormal Update! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the shadow of Limerick's misty River Shannon, stands King Johns Castle. Its stone walls etched with eight centuries of blood and betrayal. Built in 1210 on the orders of the infamous King John—England's treacherous tyrant, murderer of kin, and reluctant signer of the Magna Carta—the fortress witnessed sieges where countless men lost their lives. Now, in the dead of night, vague whispers slither through its halls, and shadows twist unnaturally. From poltergeist activity to shadow figures and a Banshee on the bridge... its no wonder why this castle has grown a dark reputation as being extremely haunted. Join us as we dive into the history and hauntings of King John's Castle, Limerick, Ireland. Special Guest: Brent Thomas of The Paranormal Portal https://open.spotify.com/show/5B2u8CZvbwJnWlGwdYl2Fg https://www.youtube.com/paranormalportal Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**Spoilers Ahead** This week we review one of the better horror movies of 2025! Bring Her Back follows step-siblings Andy and Piper, orphaned after their father's death, who are placed with a seemingly kind but deeply troubled foster mother, Laura, in her isolated home. Laura, whose own daughter drowned, fixates on Piper, who shares her visual impairment, and a disturbing occult ritual involving witchcraft, possession, and body horror unfolds as Laura tries to "bring back" her daughter using Andy and Piper, culminating in extreme violence and a fight for survival against supernatural forces. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bloody Tower: where the two young Princes mysteriously vanished in 1483. Witnesses see their ghosts – little boys in nightgowns, crying, hand in hand... before vanishing. Headless Anne Boleyn walks the grounds. Lady Jane Grey's spirit weeps on the scaffold. Reports of growls, potentially coming from the ghost of a bear, lion... or something darker. After centuries of countless executions, it's no wonder, the tower has climbed the list as one of the most haunted buildings in the entire country. Join us as we dive into the history and hauntings of the Bloody Tower. London. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After shooting a Westchester County officer during a traffic stop on the Saw Mill River Parkway, Alex Mengel, 30, stole the cop’s gun and disappeared in the victim’s patrol car. Twenty-four hours later he surfaced in Dutchess County, abducted a woman from an IBM parking lot, and vanished again in her white Toyota. For the next week, police across New York and into Canada hunted a ghost. Roadblocks, helicopters, bloodhounds; nothing. Mengel, slipped across the border unnoticed. On March 3, Toronto PD spotted the missing vehicle, chased it through the city, and boxed it in after a crash. A seven-day manhunt that crossed two countries ended with the suspect never making it to trial. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Michigan’s Thumb, a mansion that survived one of the deadliest fires in American history has been unraveling minds ever since. Inside the Bruce Mansion, a ghost cat prowls the halls, a growling dog echoes from the basement, and the tower looms over a man who couldn’t live with what he’d done. Owners have fled, sanity has frayed, and one man was driven to take his own life. This is a house that doesn’t just remember the past — it slowly takes pieces of the people who walk through it.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we review the greatest worst movie of all time... TROLL 2. A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Battle of Chickamauga was the second bloodiest engagement of the Civil War, surpassed only by Gettysburg, with more than 34,000 men, killed, wounded or missing over just two brutal days. The fighting took place along the winding waters of Chickamauga Creek; its name derived from a Cherokee term often translated as “The River of Death” After the violence and unimaginable bloodshed on that ground, it should come as no surprise that the fields, houses, and forests surrounding Chickamauga are believed by many to be haunted. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for another paranormal update! This week we bring you a story about a tik tok creator who "found" a secret room in his new house... and the items he found inside this room led him to a dark conclusion. We also cover one of the strangest PG13 stories about a woman.. another woman and the ghost of her husband... so that one might not be suitable for all audiences... and more! Also another Strange Things with Dave segment. Have breaking news about the paranormal? Send the story over for a chance to have it featured on the next paranormal update! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Hometown Ghost Stories we present something kind of brand new! Our listeners have submitted their own ghost stories... this is different from our usual listener submitted ghost stories, where people submit their true personal experiences, this time around we allowed the creativity to flow. It's time to showcase the talents of our listeners and their creative writing on this chilling episode of Campfire Tales, THIS TIME... it's raining outside, so we shall get cozy by a fake campfire and get scared together, LIVE. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we review Guillermo del Toro's latest horror movie, Frankenstein! This is a brand new movie and this review is once again FULL OF SPOILERS... so be sure to watch it unless you want us to spoil it! Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scotland, Maryland is a small historic community located in St. Mary's County. Today, people visit Point Lookout for its camping, fishing and beaches. But the grounds they walk on have a bloody and dark history. Following the battle of Gettysburg, this area became Camp Hoffman... the Union's largest Civil War prison. Over 20 thousand POWs were held here, ravaged by disease and despair, at least 4 thousand men died at the camp. Today, it's believed to be plagued by restless spirits. Long before the civil war, the people of St. Mary's County had a bit of a witch hysteria of their own, including no fewer than 10 people dragged before the Maryland courts and accused of witchcraft.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Dec. 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and her grandson Colby encountered a blazing diamond-shaped UFO hovering over a Texas road, spewing flames and intense heat. Surrounded by 23 military helicopters, the object left after 15 minutes. All three suffered severe radiation-like burns, vomiting, hair loss, and long-term illness. They sued the U.S. government, alleging a secret craft, but lost in 1986 due to lack of evidence. The Cash-Landrum case remains one of ufology’s most compelling and physically damaging close encounters. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calgary. New city. Old bones. Devil’s Playground: a schoolhouse torched with every child inside. The field is empty now… except for the laughter that rises when the temperature drops. Deane House: axe murders, a boy in the attic noose, blood that sweats through fresh paint, and a braided apparition still guarding ground that was stolen long before the foundation was poured. Lougheed House: Lady Isabella locked forever at the window. The piano breathes a single chord in the dark. Dead couples turn in an endless, silent waltz. The city sleeps under neon and snow. But beneath it… something ancient… is wide awake.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW! Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices