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The Ghost Story Guys

Author: Brennan Storr

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Your favorite ghost story podcast's favorite ghost story podcast. Hosted by Brennan Storr (FEAR DAILY) and Paul Bestall (MYSTERIES & MONSTERS)

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Hey Hey, Halloween

Hey Hey, Halloween

2025-10-1401:38:44

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Spooky season is here and with it, a fresh batch of listener stories from around the world! Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ We return to the mailbag for stories of a jellybean-leaving ghost, the beauty of Discworld fandom, lizard blasphemy, coping with mental health struggles, and a whole lot more!Past musical guests Stay the Course return with their latest single, "Pocket Sand", courtesy of Punkerton Records. Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Maritime Mysteries

Maritime Mysteries

2025-09-3002:01:09

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Oh Canada, we have enjoyed our summer trek through your haunted history but it's time to bring it to a close with this exploration of high strangeness in the Maritime provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Along the way we find the curse of Oak Island, a poltergeist who seems to particularly dislike men, Nova Scotia's legendary Forerunners, and so much more!Links: "Bluenose Ghosts" by Helen Creighton [Internet Archive]Glossie Statue [Roadside America] Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ On this week's dive into the mailbag we explore two recent synchronicities connected to stories from Episode 223, some of John Travolta's lesser work, a story of haunting connected to Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Massacre, and so much more!Our musical guest on this episode is The Abyss with "Coma", the first track off their most recent LP "Chrome Plated Heartbeat". Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Did Paul witness a ghost in Bren's apartment? Is Garth Brooks a serial killing vampire? Why won't people listen when we tell them to stay out of the woods? Find out the answers to at least 1 of these questions in this second-to-last instalment of our Haunted Canada series, where Paul battles Covid as we dive into tales of high strangeness from across Supernatural British Columbia! Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ On this trip into the mailbag we come back with video game recommendations, haunted AirB&Bs, Paul freestyling facts about South African cryptids, a child with past life memories, and a whole lot more! Our musical guests on this episode are Cool Parents with their latest single, "Midsummer Scream", from their upcoming album "Ultraterrestrials", available October 3, 2025. Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Haunting of Vancouver

The Haunting of Vancouver

2025-09-0201:55:00

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ In an episode near and dear to Bren's heart, we finally explore high strangeness in the great city of Vancouver, BC: from a phantom little girl in a Capilano-area summer camp, to a psychic who was so good they surprised themselves, to the many hauntings of the Hotel Vancouver, and so much more Photos of the unsettling places we mentioned [Imgur] Photos from the Patricia Hotel, 2017 [Imgur]Photos from Easter Seal House, 2019 [Imgur]Lady in Red Ghost Sighting? Man shares spooky photo [Vancouver Sun] Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Before our most recent trip into the mailbag we stop to salute the great escape ape Ken Allen, then get into stories of the Third Man Effect, haunted hotels, our enthusiasm for gin, and a whole lot more Our musical guest on this episode is Tracey Barnett, with her latest single "Raise Your Head" Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Montreal's Haunted Heart

Montreal's Haunted Heart

2025-08-1901:52:34

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Can Montreal match the rest of Quebec's freak? Oh yes. Not only is my favorite city home to a couple of the strangest haunts we've ever found on this show - including one that's downright murderous - it's also got plenty of strange defects in reality we're still trying to understand, none of which have to do with being French Full shownotes @ ⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Into the mailbag we go to find tender goodbyes, Bren's back-waxing synchronicities, atomic bomb parties, and, of course, Paul waxing philosophical about 80s europopOur musical guest on this episode is The Abyss, with the title track from their latest album, "Chrome Plated Heartbeat"! If you're local to Asheboro, NC, Four Saints Brewing Company is hosting an album release party for The Abyss on Saturday, August 16th. For more information, check out the event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1438030924121408/ Full shownotes @ ⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stay Creepy, Quebec

Stay Creepy, Quebec

2025-08-0501:56:48

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Ghosts that can move fridges AND play piano, Bigfoot in Quebec's Parc des Sept-Chutes, and a UFO cult? We went in search of weird and la belle province came through. Also on this episode: tipping fridges with Paul, our newest nemesis, and a Little Beaver Full shownotes @ GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ It's time for more listener mail! This time around we have dream music, Paul Kenobi, some new horror fiction for you to check out, a listener recording of a mysterious whistling, and yes, Gaye Bykers on Acid (it's a band). Our musical guest on this episode is the Wichita, Kansas-based Stay the Course with their latest single, "Post Traumatic", provided courtesy of Punkerton Records For full shownotes head to GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Brennan's on vacation this week so, in keeping with our Wet Hot Canadian Summer, we throw back to our July 2023 look at the hauntings of Toronto, Ontario, but with a brand new intro, outro, outtakes, and a segment about the Cabbagetown Monster! Link:Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster Tale Continues to Intrigue Forty Years Later [Superstitious Times] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ What do a ghost in a unitard, supersoldier programs, and and an IV of Mountain Dew have in common? They're just a small selection of the conspiracy-minded insanity we talk about on this episode with Dave & Sarge, hosts of the Cryptid Cocktail Party podcast. Dave and Sarge are stand-up guys and this is undoubtedly one of our favorite conversations we've ever had on this show. Our musical guests on this episode are Joker's Republic, with their latest single "Panic! Panic! Panic!", now available from Punkerton Records. Full shownotes @ ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Introducing: Macabrium

Introducing: Macabrium

2025-07-1245:44

In the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where the trees grow dense and the roads give way to tangled wilderness, something stirs. The locals say you can hear it on the coldest nights—a high-pitched shriek, something not quite human, not quite beast. The stories go back centuries. Some say it was a curse, an omen of misfortune that slithered into this world on a storm-wracked night. Others claim it was the child of a mother who, in her desperation or her rage, called upon the Devil himself. The details shift with time, but the warning remains the same: stay out of the pines after dark. Because if you listen closely, past the rustling leaves and the distant howl of the wind, you might just hear the beat of leathery wings. And by then, it’s already too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Manitoba Keeps Its Secrets

Manitoba Keeps Its Secrets

2025-07-0801:53:41

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ What manner of weirdness lurks in the homeland of Propagandhi and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers? In this episode, Manitoba makes us work to find out! Hint: it involves a few ghosts, aliens, lake monsters, and legendary-tier psychic scammersCover art once again by Toronto artist Dave Rheaume Full shownotes @ ⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're joined by Dave and Rob from the stellar YouTube live show and podcast, "Hometown Ghost Stories" to talk about their favorite ghost hunts, local Massachusetts legends, and finding a good cup of coffee in Iowa. Our musical guests on this episode are Goldstate with their latest single, "Nothing to Lose", available now from Punkerton Records. Links: Paul J Kearns Amazon author page Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join Dave and Sarge on the Cryptid Cocktail Party podcast as they have a few drinks, share a few laughs, and take a dive into the world of cryptids, aliens, and conspiracies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ The Turtle Lake Monster, Prince Albert Ghost Train, and a QAnon cult? That's right, the prairies are far stranger than you ever imagined. We've also got plenty of ghosts, including Brennan's trip to the very haunted Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario! Cover image by Dave Rheaume, who you can also follow on Instagram. The sketch was licensed via Adobe Stock Full shownotes @ GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Premonitions, the power of the sea, Billy Friedkin', and more Golden Horseshoe hauntings are just a few of the topics we hit in this mailbag episode. Our musical guests are Bangers and Mash, with "Whisper Valley" from their album "Whisper Valley and Other Stories" Full shownotes at GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 23rd
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Shado Wishes

nah, make fun of America. we know lmao 😅🤣🫠

May 29th
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Tracey Wallace

same in Australia Paul.. lots of people taking up Ukulele.. I Bought one for my son who plays guitar..

Feb 23rd
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clare matthews

I'm in western Australia just south of Perth a city called mandurah. We are having a heat wave tomorrow it's 39°c and our kids 2nd day of the year at school. #ghoststoryguys

Jan 31st
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Tracey Moran

How awesome 3 of my favourite podcasters together.

Dec 13th
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Tracey Moran

Brennan the first time I went to Ikea in Sydney Australia I got lost and was getting into a state.. I think being in Ikea could be an excuse for not attending weddings funerals and any other major events..

Jul 30th
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Jessica Juuns

the music and sound was nice not including the clip clops. clip clops. clip clops. clip clops why you angry clops clip clip clops why's yer eye twitchclops ingclip clip clops clip clops

Oct 29th
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Jessica Juuns

the acting is not great, but made more apparent contrasting with the narration and sound. it's like whiplash from listening CRINGE immersing CRINGE ahhh narrator AHHHHhHh AH AHAH AH AC TOR

Oct 29th
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Jessica Juuns

the narrator from nosleep who does so many (too many) audible narrations does caricature accents for all characters. Mrs doubtfires every female character, kids have to "Billy" mouth breathe and toddler lisp age 2 to 12. at 13 they get doubtfired or rooney-ed or sinister Chad or rooney-ed ( I stopped audible after witnessing barthelme short stories being slaughtered by these voices.

Oct 29th
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Dick Hardy

check it out!

Oct 3rd
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Dick Hardy

great show! when Jim is on a fellow podcasters it's so fun and creepy!

Sep 23rd
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Debbie Coleman

I really enjoyed listening to the three of you chatting and exploring issues, great show.

Jun 29th
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April

You can't make friends as an adult. it's impossible. everyone has their friends from youth and college, etc. and as an adult you can't find anyone who wants anymore friends. those who are friendly aren't interested in anything deeper. they aren't going to be there for you in good times and bad. friendship is overrated. you don't need it.

May 3rd
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April

Isn't the baby crying noise just a bobcat or cougar or something like that?

Feb 15th
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Ginger Ven

or maybe, the father and previous partner had a miscarriage and that spirit didn't want to be forgotten

Feb 1st
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MunkyGirl

"Bigfoot is an alien..." "NO HE'S NOT!!!!" 😂😂 Aww, poor Paul xx

Jan 15th
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MunkyGirl

"There's money to be made from this! Let's hope Baggins isn't listening!" Me..... "Why would Bilbo want a ghost podcast...?" 🤔 Ahhhh... Bagans.... 😂😂♥️ xxxxx

Jan 15th
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Debbie Kindle

just added Evil Eye to my watch list!

Dec 31st
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Nikki A

loved this episode 😄

May 21st
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Jude Burke

not really as good with out Ian.

Apr 7th
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