Let's Talk Spooky
Obsessed with ghost stories, eerie folklore, and real-life paranormal encounters? Join us each week as we uncover chilling legends, haunted histories, and spine-tingling mysteries. From ancient curses to modern hauntings and reincarnation, this podcast is your gateway to the dark and unexplained.
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Episodes
52 episodes
49: Folklore's Most Dangerous Women: Creatures of lore
Episode DescriptionA campfire walk through some of the most feared women in world folklore, from a four-hundred-year-old spider waiting in a Japanese mountain house, to a wailing figure outside an Irish window at midnight. We trav...
03: REMASTERED: Ghostly Exposure: Postmortem & Spirit Photography
A grieving widow develops a roll of film and finds her dead mother in the back seat. A WWI airman steps into a squadron portrait two days after his funeral. A Boston photographer swears he can capture the dead — and P. T. Barnum takes the stand...
48: Changelings
On Christmas Eve in 1689, a Swedish farmer and his wife carried their ten-year-old son to the manure heap at the edge of their farm and left him there overnight to freeze. They believed, sincerely and devoutly, that he was a changeling — and th...
47: The Fair Folk
Episode SummaryOn the night of March fifteenth, eighteen ninety-five, eight people in a small Irish kitchen watched aman named Michael Cleary set his wife on fire. Not one of them tried to stop him. They all believed the
02: REMASTERED- Secondhand Spirits: The Haunted Things We Bring Home
This is a remastered episode — new research, new stories, new folklore. Worth a re-listen.We pull on a blue silk dress in 1884 Boston and follow the thread back through the strange, unsettling history of secondhand things. From the rag p...
46: Canada's Most Haunted Locations: Carleton Jail Hostel
Inside one of the most haunted buildings in Canada — the Ottawa Jail Hostel, formerly the Carleton County Jail at 75 Nicholas Street, Ottawa, Ontario. From 1862 to 1972, this limestone prison housed up to 150 inmates in cells barely three feet ...
45: When the Legend Was Real — True Stories Behind History’s Scariest Urban Legends
What if the scariest urban legends were real? Not metaphors. Not campfire exaggerations.Actually, verifiably, documentable real — and the communities telling them knew something terrible was happening long before anyone with authority ch...
44: Wendigo and Skinwalker: The Warnings Hidden in the Woods
In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore the chilling lore, cultural warnings, and unsettling history behind the Wendigo and the Skinwalker. These are two of the most searched and most misunderstood figures in In...
01: REMASTERED - Beltane: Fire Festivals, Fairy Folklore, and the Dark History of May Eve
Step into the firelight and into one of the most fascinating festivals of the ancient Celtic calendar. In this remastered episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore Beltane, the ancient Celtic fire festival that marked the be...
43: Canada’s Most Haunted Locations - Morgue's
In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore two of Canada’s most unsettling locations—places where history didn’t just happen… it stayed behind.We begin in Halifax at The Five Fishermen, a historic building that once operat...
42: The Lost Boys of Pickering: Unsolved Mystery
On March 17th, 1995, six teenage boys from Pickering, Ontario, disappeared in the early hours of the morning after leaving a house party near the shoreline of Lake Ontario.What followed was a large-scale search, an investigation built on...
41: Doppelgängers: The Double Across Cultures
Follow & SupportIf you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to follow Let’s Talk Spooky, leave a review, and share it with your fellow spooky souls 👻Got a story of your own? We’d love to hear it.Descrip...
40: Vanished Without a Trace
In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore some of history’s most unsettling disappearances—cases where people didn’t just go missing… they seemed to vanish.From children who disappeared in broad daylight, to pilots lost m...
39: Leprechaun Legends - Bonus Episode
Leprechauns are often seen as cheerful little shoemakers guarding pots of gold—but their origins are far more complex, and much darker.In this episode, we explore the folklore roots of leprechauns in Irish mythology, tracing their connec...
38: Teke Teke, The Slit-Mouthed Woman, and Other Japanese Urban Legends
Japan is home to some of the most chilling urban legends in the world.Stories whispered in school hallways, shared on quiet train rides, and passed between friends late at night. Some of these legends have existed for decades… while othe...
37: Appalachian Mountains – Part Two: Creatures, Folklore, and Things in the Woods
The Appalachian Mountains are among the oldest mountain ranges on Earth, stretching more than 2,000 miles across the eastern United States. For generations, the people who lived in these mountains have shared stories about strange encounters in...
36: Missing Appalachia: Part One
In Part One of this two-part series, we explore real missing person cases connected to the Appalachian region and the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail.Appalachia stretches from Georgia to Maine, cutting through national forests, deep mountai...
35: Lecture Halls After Dark: The Most Haunted Universities
In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore some of the most haunted universities in North America and the UK — from abandoned asylum buildings and Gothic towers to medieval cathedral ruins and anatomy theatres linked to re...
34: Love, Loss & Legends: The Dark Side of Valentine’s Day (Bonus Episode)
Valentine’s Day is often framed as a celebration of romance — roses, chocolate, candlelight.But beneath the surface, February 14th carries a far older and darker history.In this bonus episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we expl...
33: Reddit Scary Stories: Glitch in Matrix, Time Slips ...
In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore modern accounts of time slips, missing time, and parallel reality experiences shared by users on Reddit.From waking up in impossible locations with no memory of how they got there...
32: Thin Places, Lost Time
Time slips don’t arrive with spectacle.They happen quietly—on familiar roads, well-marked trails, and in places people believe they know.In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore the folklore, historical accounts, and...
31: Ghost ships of Canada
In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we explore four ships whose stories continue to drift through maritime history and folklore. These ships reveal how maritime disasters don’t always sink into history—they linger, resurface, and som...
30: The Silent Man of Sandy Cove
In 1863, the quiet fishing village of Sandy Cove was forever changed by a single, unsettling discovery.Along the rocky shoreline, locals found a young man sitting alone on the beach—both of his legs freshly amputated, his clothes ...
29: Vampires of New Orleans's (Pt. 2)
New Orleans has always belonged to the night.In this episode of Let’s Talk Spooky, we step into the gas-lit streets of the French Quarter to uncover the vampire legends that took root in the city’s earliest days—where European s...