Hometown Ghost Stories

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