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Ghost City Gauntlet: Rapid-Fire with Ashley from Ghost Gossip Podcast (Boonus Episode)

July 06, 2026 • Ghost City Tours

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Welcome to the Ghost City Gauntlet, our “Boonus” rapid-fire segment where we put our guests on the spot with 10 paranormal questions and let their gut reactions take over.

This week, Ashley from the Ghost Gossip Podcast, steps into the gauntlet to share what fascinates them, what genuinely scares them, and what they hope waits on the other side.

From haunted locations to cryptids, aliens to the afterlife… nothing is off limits.

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Bonus Gauntlet Kickoff

SPEAKER_02 0:00

All right, everybody, it's time for another bonus episode of the Ghost City Podcast. It's the Ghost City Gauntlet. Here's your magnificent host, Tim Nealin.

Tim Nealon 0:08

So, first of all, I want to thank you for that. I have never been called magnificent in my life. Um I've been caught called a lot of things to begin with the letter M, but they're not magnificent. She's like, motherfucker. And today, uh, we have the we have Ashley with us from Ghost Gossip Podcast. See, now you threw me off. I know that we did that thing a little bit ago when you said it backwards and stuff, but now I'm like, oh my God, I'm gonna screw it up.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 0:34

Um, but we are gonna do fair, you said it backwards, not me.

Tim Nealon 0:37

Did I? Yes. Ghost gossip podcast.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 0:42

You said ghost girl gossip.

Tim Nealon 0:44

No, I said that was one of the things that I thought it was.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 0:46

Yes.

Tim Nealon 0:47

But I said I think I said it right. I don't know, Ashley. You're in a hot attic. We're in a hot Louisiana. Like, let's just get rolling with these questions. So we're gonna do Ghost City Gauntlet. So, first thing that comes to mind. Ready? I said that as if there's like a timer. Um, one, what is your favorite? Oh, by the way, Paul and Carter wrote these questions. I always feel like I need to preface it with that. That way you don't think I'm the dummy.

Paranormal Words And Jump Scares

Tim Nealon 1:12

Um love you guys. Um, what is your favorite paranormal word?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Word?

Tim Nealon 1:21

Word.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

I'm like, all of a sudden there's nothing. No words. There's no words in my brain.

Tim Nealon 1:32

That's okay. So like we've had everything from like Zwinks to ectoplasm to specter. What are some other answers we got? But no, you don't all right. I like Spectre. All right, I'll tell you that. Spectre it is. Two. Um, what's the cursed word you're most likely to yell out when getting scared?

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Fuck.

Tim Nealon 1:51

Fuck. I don't know what mine is. I might be like, oh shit. Um all right, three. What is the weirdest excuse someone's ever given you to explain away paranormal activity?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:04

It was my husband. He said it's just a bug.

Tim Nealon 2:06

Sometimes it is just a bug. But it's not always just a bug, my husband.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:11

Oh, I said that's a big fucking bug.

Tim Nealon 2:15

All right. Four, what was your biggest childhood fear?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:25

Caterpillars.

Tim Nealon 2:26

Really?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:27

Yeah.

Tim Nealon 2:27

Are you still afraid of caterpillars?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:32

There's a story there.

Tim Nealon 2:34

Yeah, I'm like, hmm. All right, we're gonna let that one slide. This is supposed to be quick, and I'm I'm like screwing it up. Um what famous haunting fascinates you the most?

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Oh. Oh god.

Tim Nealon 2:54

That is a good one.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:55

Probably

Bugs As A Paranormal Alibi

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 2:56

sorry. I I'm fucking it up too because I am not speedy, okay? My brain is like firing on all cylinders right now. I'm not gonna say it fascinates me the most, but the Omni Parker Hotel in Boston, the owner is has been seen. And it's like he comes in, he like checks on people and he's like, Are you enjoying your stay? Which I find fascinating. I didn't encounter him, but I like that one.

Tim Nealon 3:21

You know, even JFK has been seen in that hotel. Really? Allegedly.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Ooh, okay.

Tim Nealon 3:27

That's my favorite word now, especially if we you know talk about court stuff. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yes. Allegedly. Uh number seven, how often on an investigation have you been scared and had to hide it? I think I already know the answer to this because you said you don't really get scared.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 3:41

I don't get scared now.

Tim Nealon 3:42

Okay. Number eight, what paranormal phenomenon scares you the most? Is it phenomena or is it phenomenon? Phenomenon. Phenomena is plural. Phenomenon.

unknown 3:54

All right.

Tim Nealon 3:54

Which one of those scares you the most?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 3:56

So the one time that I was truly scared, like with my house ghost, he presented as a seven-foot shadow figure.

Tim Nealon 4:03

Oh.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 4:03

And he it wasn't so much seeing the shadow figure in front of me, it was how he made me feel.

Tim Nealon 4:08

Right. Those can be intimidating. All right. He was big. That big good damn ghost. Um, number nine,

Haunted Hotels That Stick With You

Tim Nealon 4:18

if you were a ghost, where would you haunt?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 4:21

Oh, I always tell my daughter that when I die, I'm gonna haunt her and I'm gonna tickle her toes.

Tim Nealon 4:28

I would be so pissed if my mom, you know, I mean, she has to at some point. I hate to say that, but like, but come back and tickle my toes. I'd be like, God damn it, bitch. Like, I told you to stay away from my fucking toes. Um I thought Ashley was gonna say her neighbor. Oh, yeah, go haunt your neighbor. I should. You want to I will talk to you 24-7 now and I will never stop.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 4:51

Hello, Joanne.

Tim Nealon 4:53

Joanne, Ashley's coming for you. Um, all right, number 10. What is your white whale paranormal location where you've always wanted to investigate? Like your Moby Dick.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 5:05

I really want to go to the Stanley Hotel.

Tim Nealon 5:07

That's a good place to go.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 5:09

I the I've been very fortunate enough to been to, I have gone to a lot of my bucket list locations already. Uh-huh. And so that one is is that one. And then the Omni Washington. Oh gosh, I can't even, that's not what it's called, but it's it's in like New Hampshire.

Tim Nealon 5:25

Oh. Oh, I can't remember the name of it. I know what you're talking about.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 5:28

Yeah.

Tim Nealon 5:29

Um, who bought that? All right, let's not dive into that because it's supposed to be quick. And the guys are always, yeah, then they have to edit it down. Um, all right, number 11. What cryptid would you most want to have a beer with?

SPEAKER_00 5:43

Bigfoot.

Tim Nealon 5:44

Follow-up question. And why is it Bigfoot?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 5:49

Well, uh I don't like a rake. They scare the idea of them scare me. I had a friend that saw one and no, and then I don't really know much about any of the other ones.

Tim Nealon 6:00

Well, Bigfoot's really the only one you need to know anything about. Because I don't think the rest of them, I don't think the rest of them are, I

Shadow Figures And The Fear Feeling

Tim Nealon 6:05

don't think most of them are real. Feels like it's the only one with thumbs.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 6:08

That too. He can hold a mug.

Tim Nealon 6:10

That's that's true. How's the Jersey devil handling shit? Um He's from Jersey. Okay, number 12. If you could talk to any ghost from history, who would it be? I feel like the I feel like that question needs to be rewarded. Because they wouldn't be from history, they'd be from now. The person would have existed in history. But you know what I'm saying, Ashley.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 6:35

Yeah.

Tim Nealon 6:36

What person would be oh gosh.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 6:41

Marilyn Monroe.

Tim Nealon 6:43

Really? What do you want the dish on from Maryland?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 6:47

Were you murdered or schmurtered or unalived? Sorry. Sorry, people.

Tim Nealon 6:52

100%. 100%. Wait, what do you guys think? I don't really know much about her other than you know, the basics that anybody would know. Like, was she was there a rumor that she was murdered? Or yes. Oh.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 7:04

Or JFK, because I would like to know, because I'm just learning, because I I told you in the beginning, I don't do conspiracies, but my husband's a big conspiracy person, and he mentioned that JFK, that's whole that whole conspiracy to me. And I'm like, what?

Tim Nealon 7:17

So the JFK conspiracy. You know what's really disappointing, you know, talking about how much the government sucks, like we were earlier, is like, you know, they were supposed to release all those JFK files, and what they released really didn't provide anything new, really. Remember how Trump was like, oh, I'm gonna release all the files, and then like a couple were released. I mean, a lot were released, but it was nothing new.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 7:39

It was probably redacted. And we all know they redact everything.

Tim Nealon 7:42

And we all know who um murdered JFK, anyways. It was Lee Harvey Oswald, alone in the book repository. That's the official position of who's Covington native, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was probably the government. Um, it's probably the CIA. Um, I don't

Dream Investigations And Cryptid Beers

Tim Nealon 7:58

care. Come after me. Um, all right. Number 12. Don't come after me. Please don't come after me.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 8:05

I'm gonna say, no, I mean, I'm I'm it's I'm not with him.

SPEAKER_03 8:09

All right, I don't even like that guy. Um Tim's breaks work. He's a great swimmer. He's a great swimmer.

Tim Nealon 8:16

I am. I am I am I am not gonna I don't know, not today, anyways. I don't know. Okay, what would you ask a space alien? That's number 13.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 8:28

Will you take me with you?

Tim Nealon 8:30

That's what Jay said earlier, didn't he? He that is exactly what he said earlier. Yeah, what is wrong with Earth that everybody wants to leave it? A lot. I know, yeah, I know. I'm right, I'm right there with you. But uh, so I asked Jay the same thing. What if they said, but we're not bringing you back? Would you still want to go?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 8:47

No.

Tim Nealon 8:48

Right. So you're do you would go for like a joy ride?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 8:51

Pretty much, but a break.

Tim Nealon 8:53

Yeah, I I I would totally do that too. Um plus I would like fuck with people. I'd be like, all right, guys, can we like can you like abduct this guy? Like I would want them to adopt abduct people for me and but then like not do anything, like make it seem like they were gonna get the butt probe and then this. Well, no, I mean like like seriously, Ashley, like you know that there are people that if you were friends with aliens, you would be like, hey guys, can you like like I don't really need you to probe them, but can you act like you're gonna do it and then just let them go, like drop them off in a field somewhere.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 9:28

Tim, I can honestly say that I have never thought about an alien butt probing anybody. But that's what they do. Like I didn't know that. So now I opt out. Don't take me. Please, my question, will you not butt probe me?

Tim Nealon 9:43

You gotta be careful with these aliens, Ashley. They're all about the like in all by the way,

Marilyn Monroe Questions And JFK Files

Tim Nealon 9:48

that was not a joke. I wasn't trying to be funny. Like, there really is a thing where people who get abducted by aliens say that they probe them in the butt. I'm not, I am not making that up. I was not trying to be funny. Um that went off the rails. Sorry about that, everybody. San Francisco in the 80s was a wild time. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Um now I feel like you guys think I'm just like wanting people to get butt probed. No, it's a real thing that aliens do that. GCT orientation. Yeah. All right. Sorry about that.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Oh, he's beat red.

Tim Nealon 10:23

Number 14. When you arrive on the other side, what would you most hope to hear first?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 10:31

My grandfather's voice.

Tim Nealon 10:33

Were you close with your grandfather? I'm assuming. I was.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 10:36

I was his baby, yeah.

Tim Nealon 10:37

Yeah. I was very close to my grandparents too. Um, number 15. When your story is finished, and by story I guess they mean life, uh, what do you most want to be remembered for?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 10:51

That I raise good human beings.

Tim Nealon 10:53

That's a very noble pursuit.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 10:55

It's tough.

Tim Nealon 10:57

Yeah.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 10:58

It's hard. But yeah, I want my kids to, they're my legacy. Yeah. So, you know, some people think that their work is their legacy. And I understand that because you put your blood, sweat, and tears into it and your money and your effort, your energy, and your all day, every day. But like I look at my kids and I'm like, the they're my legacy. And when I'm gone, they're they're the reflection of me.

Tim Nealon 11:21

That's true. I like I said earlier, I have two kids. They're a little bit older than yours. Mine are 23 and 25. I'm a lot older. I'm a lot older than I'm I look. I just turned 64. Um, I really didn't. I was gonna say no, you didn't. All the adrenochrome. Actually, I did have a birthday a couple weeks ago. How 46.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 11:42

I was gonna guess in the 40s, but not 64. I'm like, oh no, you're not. You're lying.

Tim Nealon 11:48

No, I I yeah, I turned 46, but my kids really are 23 and 25. So um now I look at them and I'm like, man,

Aliens Joyrides And Abduction Folklore

Tim Nealon 11:56

like there were probably a couple things I probably could have done a little bit better.

unknown 12:03

Yeah.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 12:03

But don't aren't I don't think you're if you're not wondering that or telling yourself that, then did you really parent?

Tim Nealon 12:10

Right. Yeah, I think I think being a parent, and Paul's learning this because Paul has two young kids too. How old are your kids, Paul? They're like they are three and five. Right.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 12:19

Oh, bless your heart. That is a busy age. Both of those.

Tim Nealon 12:22

I'm exhausted all the time. It's fine. And it hasn't even begun yet, Paul. No, like wait until they're like 12. Like I remember like that's when it became Oh my god. It became like they just hate you for no reason. And you're like, I love you. I will die for you. And they're like, I hate you.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 12:38

I will say, my girls are obsessed with me. All my kids are obsessed with me. Right. They've never they do not tell me they hate me. They actually will follow me around. And I'm like, why are you so obsessed with me? And then like swatting them off of me.

Tim Nealon 12:51

Oh, well, that's because you're a fun time.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 12:54

They like me.

Tim Nealon 12:55

So Ashley, uh, thanks for for answering those goofy questions. Um, if people wanted to find out more about what you have going on, your podcasts, you know, what it's like to be in Ashley's world, what do you got going on? Where can they find you at?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 13:06

You can find me full video episodes on YouTube and Spotify now and audio, Apple, Amazon, and anywhere you get your podcasts, and I'm on all socials. You can Ghost Gossip, Ghost Gossip Pod, and Ghost Gossip Podcast.

Tim Nealon 13:18

Yay. Are you also on LinkedIn?

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 13:20

I am I on LinkedIn, yes, I am. My personal is on LinkedIn, so I don't really give that away.

Tim Nealon 13:24

No. Well, no, I meant like like Ghost Cities on LinkedIn and we never use it. Um Yeah, I don't use it.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 13:30

I have it, I'm pretty sure it's uninstalled on my phone. So if anybody's trying to get me on LinkedIn, try a different way.

Tim Nealon 13:36

I hate LinkedIn, by the way.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 13:38

I don't like it.

Tim Nealon 13:39

It's always people pretending to be smart, is what it is.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 13:42

It's always people that are like, hey, I am a recruiter for this college. I'm

Afterlife Hopes And Parenting Legacy

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 13:47

like, I'm not going back to college at 41. Leave me alone.

Tim Nealon 13:51

You know what LinkedIn is right now? It's uh everybody talking about AI, pretending that they're all fucking AI experts right now. Like, look how I used AI in my business. And then this other person is like, you know, AI this. I don't know. It just it LinkedIn just seems like a dirty place where everybody just goes to brag about something they did at work.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 14:09

Yeah, I don't like it. I don't, I don't really work. That's what I tell people. I don't really work anymore except for myself. And I don't think anybody I mean, I post that on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook. You know, I do it like normal people are intended to do it.

Tim Nealon 14:20

Yeah, get off LinkedIn, you fucking losers. Nobody, nobody cares.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 14:24

What are you doing, you nerd?

Tim Nealon 14:25

Yeah, you nerd, you fucking nerd. Um and uh all right, Ashley.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

Well, I appreciate your time on the Ghost City Gauntlet.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip 14:35

Um Thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

I was looking forward to the