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Author: Lindsey Callan and Nancy Callan

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Inherited Hauntings is a spooky and funny podcast where a daughter/mother duo dive into haunted history, ghost stories, and paranormal oddities while making each other laugh along the way. Think chilling encounters, creepy legends, and a little comic relief to keep the nightmares manageable. If you love haunted history, ghost stories, hanging out with the girls and laughing out loud, you just inherited your new favorite show.

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What kind of haunting makes cops, priests, and even paranormal rock star Zak Bagans run for the hills? Welcome to Gary, Indiana; home of the infamous Demon House where a mother and her three children allegedly faced an infestation so dark it crawled across the ceiling, left oil dripping from the walls, and required three separate exorcisms to calm the chaos. This isn’t your average ghost story. It’s a documented nightmare backed by police reports, social workers, and one terrified priest. The...
What if the game you played… started playing you back? 👀 This week on Inherited Hauntings, we’re testing our nerves (and maybe our common sense) with the internet’s most spine-tingling rituals from the Midnight Game and The 11 Mile Drive to Sweet Tooth, The Answer Man, and a few “lucky” traditions like Rabbit Rabbit that might not be so lucky after all. Are these games just sleepover dares gone digital, or could they actually open something on the other side? Mom (Nancy) thinks they’re cautio...
When a UFO case is so convincing that it sparks a squabble between the U.S. Air Force and a small-town police department, you know something weird went down. Welcome to The Exeter Incident of 1965, one of the most credible and chilling UFO encounters in American history. It all started with a huge craft with red flashing lights hovering over a New Hampshire field, encountered by a lone pedestrian and later confirmed by Officers Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt. What followed was a night of fran...
Is the Chupacabra dangerous… or just misunderstood? 🩸 This week on Inherited Hauntings, we sink our teeth into the chilling legend of El Chupacabra, the blood-sucking cryptid that terrorized Puerto Rico in the 1990s and has since been spotted (maybe 👀) across the Americas. Is it an alien predator, a government experiment gone wrong, or something lurking in the natural world we've yet to understand? And more importantly… would you survive a midnight encounter? Of course, it wouldn’t be us with...
Savannah doesn’t just drip with Spanish moss, it drips with ghost stories. Enjoy this tour of one of the oldest and most haunted cities in America, because we’re taking you through Savannah’s paranormal underbelly. From the haunted hallways of the Marshall House Hotel to ghostly whispers in the Olde Pink House, and from cemeteries layered in history to a brewery where the spirits come in more than one form. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Savannah tour episode without plenty of detours. Ex...
Step inside the crumbling glamour of the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, a once-opulent resort where Hollywood stars, wealthy oil barons, and desperate dreamers crossed paths. Today, its grand ballrooms and healing mineral baths have fallen silent; but the ghosts haven’t checked out. From the mysterious mistress of the hotel’s owner, to the loyal elevator operator who never left his post, to whispers of the owner himself roaming the halls, the Baker Hotel is steeped in paranormal lore. A...
In this humorous yet creepily captivating episode, Lindsey and Nancy dive headfirst into one of the most chaotic and widely documented paranormal cases of the 20th century: The Enfield Poltergeist. From flying furniture and levitating children to eerie voices that seemed to growl from another dimension, this case left even seasoned investigators questioning what was real, and what was simply too bizarre to explain away. Along the way, the mother–daughter duo break down the infamous 1977 haunt...
What happens when a 12th-century inn built on pagan burial grounds meets centuries of ghost stories? You get the Ancient Ram Inn, one of England’s most notorious paranormal hotspots. And just when you thought it couldn’t get creepier, we’re also pulling back the curtain on America’s oldest inn The Groton Inn where Nancy herself once worked and collected spine-tingling firsthand encounters. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey explore New England for personal stories of s...
What do you get when you mix a flooded valley, a sunken ghost town, and hundreds of tragic deaths? You get Lake Lanier, the most infamous body of water in Georgia, and maybe the most haunted lake in America. In this chilling and chatty episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey dive headfirst into Lanier’s dark history: the infamous town swallowed by water, the eerily high number of drownings and disappearances, and the numerous accounts of ghostly hands pulling swimmers under. From ph...
Was it the most haunted object in the world… or the internet’s greatest ghost story hustle? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey pry open (figuratively… we’re not that reckless) the infamous Dybbuk Box, a creepy wine cabinet said to imprison a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore. From its chilling “possession” stories and viral eBay listing to celebrity encounters and its current life behind glass in Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum, we unravel the tangled web of fact, ficti...
Beneath the beauty of America’s National Parks lies something far more chilling than poison ivy or a wrong turn. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey lace up their hiking boots and head into the shadowy forests, foggy trails, and unsettling mysteries surrounding some of the most baffling disappearances ever recorded. From the sudden vanishing of 6-year-old Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains, to a murdered family discovered under baffling circumstances, and the eer...
In November of 1966, a sleepy town in West Virginia became ground zero for one of the most bizarre paranormal outbreaks in American history. Over the course of thirteen months, more than 100 people reported sightings of a red-eyed, winged creature stalking the skies around Point Pleasant. Dubbed the Mothman by the press, this cryptid wasn't just creepy... He may have been trying to warn us. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, mother-daughter duo Nancy and Lindsey dig into one of the creep...
Have you ever heard a bump in the night and wondered if it was just the house settling... or something more? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, we’re diving into Ghosts 101—your crash course in all things paranormal. Join our mother-daughter duo as we explore the different types of apparitions, break down popular ghost hunting equipment (hello, EMF meters and thermal cameras), and ask the big question: Do ghosts really exist, or is there a rational explanation behind the strange things w...
You’ve heard of haunted houses… but what about haunted highways? In this chilling episode of Inherited Hauntings, mother-daughter duo Nancy and Lindsey take you on a nighttime drive down some of America’s most terrifying roads, where ghostly hitchhikers, phantom trucks, and things that defy explanation still travel by moonlight. We’re talking: Route 666, the so-called “Devil’s Highway,” where demon dogs and shadow trucks chase the living.Archer Avenue in Chicago, home to the infamous vanishin...
Is it folklore, or is it fact? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, we dive headfirst into one of the most chilling and infamous paranormal legends in American history—the Bell Witch haunting of Tennessee. And spoiler alert: this one’s not just a campfire story. Join Nancy and Lindsey (your favorite mother-daughter paranormal duo) as they explore the terrifying true events that tormented the Bell family in the early 1800s. Violent attacks, disembodied voices, and a spirit with a seriously ...
Some nights, it’s not the caffeine that keeps us awake, it’s the haunted closet, the scream that sounds just like someone we know, or the feeling that something is watching from the shadows. In this chilling episode of Inherited Hauntings, your favorite mother-daughter podcast dives into the things that give us the shivers long after dark. Lindsey shares disturbing stories of Black-Eyed Children and mimics, those eerie beings that look like us, sound like us, but are definitely not us. Nancy ...
Real ghosts. Real family. No exaggeration. We’re sharing some of the most bone-chilling, unexplained encounters our family has ever experienced, and trust us, these aren’t your average ghost stories. We’re talking three haunted houses across Massachusetts, a colonial-era ghost boy, a menacing fireman spirit repeatedly seen, a creature crawling across the bedroom wall, and even a balloon with a mind of its own. There’s paranormal texting, disappearing baby monitors, and something that tried to...
From the infamous ruins of Danvers State Lunatic Asylum in Massachusetts to the ghost-infested corridors of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and Linda Vista Hospital, this episode dives deep into the haunted history of Americas creepiest asylums. Expect chilling tales of lobotomy lore, disturbing medical practices, and real-life encounters with paranormal activity that still haunts hospital halls today. You’ll hear the true story of a night-shift doctor who witnessed something he cannot explai...
In this eerie and unexpectedly personal episode of Inherited Hauntings, we dig into the mysterious world of extrasensory perception (ESP)—and reveal a long-buried family secret that might explain a strange pattern we never fully understood… until now. From unnerving premonition dreams to chilling psychic warnings before real-life tragedies—like the Aberfan mining disaster of 1966 and the morning of 9/11—we explore how the mind might be more connected to the future than we realize. You’ll hear...
Is the Ouija board just a spooky party game, or a dangerous portal to something far more sinister? In this episode, we dive into the mysterious world of spirit boards with a mix of eerie history, cultural lore, real-life hauntings, and hard science. From the Victorian roots of the Ouija board to the chilling case behind Spain’s most famous police documented haunting, we explore the stories that have terrified and fascinated people for over a century. Mother and daughter go head-to-head in a s...
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