Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

October pretty much got away from us this year, and we didn't get around to watching nearly as many horror movies as we wanted. But who says spooky season has to end on Halloween? As far as we're concerned, October 31 is just the kickoff. Besides, the ghosts of November want their voices heard too.We've got four brand-new stories from the Castle of Spirits this week, and they take us in some strange directions. A skeptical widow wonders whether her late husband is trying to reach her through a set of battery-operated candles. A routine service call at an old Australian homestead becomes a waking nightmare of disembodied voices, flying objects, and an increasingly hostile presence. A family discovers that the smell of cigarette smoke may be the least of their problems. And then there's Mr. Sniffers, a ghost horse who apparently isn't quite ready to leave this world behind.We went into this one with very little preparation and ended up having a lot of fun with it. It felt less like putting on a show and more like the two of us sitting around telling each other scary stories, just like the old days.Story #1: Maybe • Submitted by Meta • Logan, Utah, USA • November 2026Story #2: The Doctor Is In • Submitted by Glenn Harris • Victoria, Australia • November 2026Story #3: The Smoking Man • Submitted by Shannon • Boston, Massachusetts, USA • November 2026Story #4: Mr. Sniffers the Ghost Horse • Batavia, Illinois, USA • November 2026Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

Some things linger long after the last jack-o’-lantern goes dark. This week, Vince and Jane close out October with four chilling true ghost stories from the Castle of Spirits archive. A homemade Ouija board turns a Halloween party into a conversation no one knows how to end. In a Chicago-area basement, a ship in an old painting comes to life. A resident of a historic California house invites the children said to haunt its attic to come out and visit. And on a late-night drive home from a Halloween party, two friends witness a ghostly figure beside a roadside memorial.Also: the Ghostkeepers make the case for slow, atmospheric horror, and extol the virtues of their favorite spooky comfort movie, Dark and Stormy Night. Finally, Vince recounts a strange coincidence involving time travel, Jack Finney, and John Lennon, and both hosts share unsettling encounters from their younger years. This episode is all treat, and no tricks.Story #1: Makeshift Ouija Board • Submitted by Anonymous • Michigan, USA • August 2015Story #2: Ship at Sea • Submitted by Megan • Illinois, USA • September 2001Story #3: Child Visitors • Submitted by John Miskovsky • California, USA • February 1997Story #4: Highway Ghost • Submitted by Kev • Alberta, Canada • October 1998Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

Some people never clock out. This week, Vince and Jane explore five haunted workplaces where dealing with ghosts was absolutely not in the job description. At a residential college, unseen visitors keep employees on edge long after the students have gone home. In a Utah antique shop, an employee suspects something in the basement has started venturing onto the sales floor. A Florida hotel receives calls from rooms with no guests—and welcomes visitors who never reach the front desk. An insurance employee working late catches an impossible reflection in an office window. And in Sydney, a computer operator ventures upstairs into offices unused for forty years, where the past may still be keeping business hours.Story #1: Ghosts at Work — Submitted by Clair • North Wales, UK • May 2011Story #2: Ghosts in the Lost and Found — Submitted by Chris • Bountiful, Utah, USA • September 2026Story #3: The Wandering Hotel Spirit — Submitted by Anonymous • Florida, USA • May 2010Story #4: Company at Work — Submitted by Anonymous • USA • February 2008Story #5: An Australian Ghost Story — Submitted by Kevin A. Harris • NSW, Australia • July 2002Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits” — Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font — © 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

On October 11, 1999, the Wayback Machine captured the earliest surviving snapshot of Castle of Spirits—a strange little corner of the early internet already collecting firsthand ghost stories from around the world. Exactly twenty-seven years later, the Ghostkeepers reopen that digital time capsule, explore the dial-up-era Castle, and revisit five true ghost stories originally published that month.A silent boy vanishes from a muddy cemetery island without leaving a single footprint. A dying grandfather receives one final visitor. An unseen bedmate becomes violently jealous. Whispering entities call a mother and her children by name. And a century-old house repeatedly echoes with the argument and gunshot that once ended three lives.Vince and Jane also revisit the readers’ favorite stories of October 1999, remember the internet before algorithms took over, and explain why firsthand accounts preserved by Castle of Spirits since 1997 still feel different from today’s paranormal content.Story #1: Cemetery Kid (submitted by Anonymous • Ohio, USA • October 1999)Story #2: A Visit from Mother (submitted by Helen M • California, USA • October 1999)Story #3: The Jealous Boyfriend (submitted by Big D • Texas, USA • October 1999)Story #4: Nightly Guests (submitted by Anonymous • USA • October 1999)Story #5: The White House (submitted by Lydia • Georgia, USA • October 1999)Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

An unseen visitor approaches a bed, something lurks behind a padlocked basement door, a Halloween attraction gets an uninvited performer, and a smiling figure beckons from an old staircase. Join Ghostkeepers Vince and Jane for four chilling accounts from the Castle of Spirits October archives, where familiar places become frightening—and opening the wrong door can bring the unknown a little too close.Also: Jane recalls a Halloween-night encounter at Causey Reservoir with something that watched from a tree—then gave chase. The Ghostkeepers consider whether ghosts are always spirits of the dead, Vince revisits a childhood scare, and somewhere along the way, the co-host’s whereabouts become briefly questionable.Story #1: Don’t MoveSubmitted by Anonymous • USA • October 2006An unseen visitor approaches a bed, while two brothers describe a terrifying figure lurking in the house.Story #2: The Basement Laundry RoomSubmitted by Anonymous • USA • October 2004Two roommates investigate an unexpectedly open basement door and encounter something that sends them running.Story #3: WOW - that was real!Submitted by Ms. Hopkins • North Dakota, USA • October 1999A Halloween fundraiser inside a former morgue delivers a scare that none of the student performers can explain.Story #4: Great Lady or Crypt-Keeper?Submitted by Anonymous • Massachusetts, USA • October 2015A visit to a former funeral home takes a disturbing turn when a smiling figure beckons from the stairs.Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

A homeowner hears strange thumps outside and checks the security camera. Nothing seems unusual at first—but when the footage is slowed down, what appears to be a humanoid shadow figure emerges from the darkness.In this episode, Vince and Jane examine the footage submitted with “Late Night Visitors,” taking a closer look at the unexplained shapes and flashes of light captured outside the witness’s home. Is it something paranormal, an illusion created by light and motion, or something else entirely? Watch the footage in the YouTube version of this episode and decide for yourself.Also in this episode: mysterious lights move across the walls of a darkened hogan; unexplained hands tend to a child on a baby monitor; and a mother giving birth finds herself outside her own body, watching doctors fight to save her life. All four stories are brand-new submissions to Castle of Spirits.Also: the Ghostkeepers revisit doppelgangers and their possible connection to near-death experiences, Jane hears an unexplained voice in our home, and Vince gets the eerie sense that someone is tuning in from decades in the future.Story #1: Lights in the HoganSubmitted by Chris • Bountiful, Utah, USA • September 2026A traveler wakes to unexplained lights inside a century-old hogan in Monument Valley.Story #2: Helping HandSubmitted by Jennifer • Utah, USA • September 2026A mother spots mysterious hands tending to her daughter on a baby monitor.Story #3: My NDESubmitted by Amber Redd • Virginia, USA • September 2026A childbirth emergency brings a mother to the edge of death—and an impossible vantage point.Story #4: Late Night VisitorsSubmitted by TruBluRexi • Surprise, Arizona, USA • September 2026Strange noises lead a homeowner to security footage of an apparent shadow figure.Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

As summer comes to an end, the days grow shorter and familiar places take on a different shape. But not every presence fades with the season. In this episode, we bring you five true ghost stories from that nebulous space between the last days of summer and the first breath of fall.Story #1: Water ParkSubmitted by Ray • New York, USA • March 2005Near closing time at a water park, a teenage lifeguard hears a child crying for help from inside an empty waterslide.Story #2: The PeddlerSubmitted by Anonymous • Ohio, USA • October 1997A family’s dark secret refuses to stay buried beneath a lonely, leaf-covered hill.Story #3: The Last DanceSubmitted by Blaise Eli Foulton • Illinois, USA • June 1998The long-disused ballroom of the Hotel del Coronado inexplicably comes alive for one last spectral dance.Story #4: Church MusicSubmitted by Candi • Virginia, USA • October 2010Late-summer repairs inside an old church are interrupted by phantom piano music and the cries of an unseen baby.Story #5: The Coffee CupSubmitted by Tom • Texas, USA • February 2006As a teenager’s summer job draws to a close, an unfinished cup of coffee raises the unsettling question of who—or what—left it behind.Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

In Michigan, a scarred apparition waits beside a boy’s bed with a bloody knife; in a haunted Edinburgh flat, a doorbell rings despite its disconnected wires; inside an abandoned nursing home, something breathes in the empty Room 52; and in Oklahoma, a silent white light draws a witness and his dog into the trees.Also, the Ghostkeepers play a game of paranormal Would-You-Rather, revisit some of their favorite family scare stories, examine possible ghost photographs, discuss the challenge of capturing photographic evidence of a doppelgänger, and investigate reports of unusually small Bigfoot-like creatures roaming New York and Pennsylvania.Story #1: At the End of the Bed (submitted by Tamara • Michigan • August 2026)Story #2: The Bell Ringer (submitted by Martin Andrew Sandhage • Indiana • September 1997)Story #3: Room 52 (submitted by Michael Todd • Wilburton, OK • August 2026)Story #4: Trail of Tears Ghost Lights (submitted by Nikolaus • Oklahoma • August 2026)Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover thousands of true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library[www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories](http://www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories)Submit your own true paranormal story[www.castleofspirits.com/submit](http://www.castleofspirits.com/submit) OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfMDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

Lizzie Borden took an axe... or did she? More than 130 years after Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered, no one can say for certain who wielded the weapon. In this special Castle of Spirits episode, Vince and Jane reopen the Lizzie Borden case, talk through the leading alternative theories and suspects, and compare their own suspicions about which explanation best fits the strange evidence left behind.Could a mysterious stranger have entered the Borden home? Could the family’s maid, Bridget Sullivan, have acted alone—or with Lizzie? Was William Borden, a man alleged to have been Andrew’s illegitimate son, involved? And could Lizzie and her sister Emma have conspired together?After weighing each possibility, the mystery returns to the question at the heart of the case: Was Lizzie guilty, wrongly accused, or has the truth been hiding somewhere else all along?And because the Borden house now operates as a bed-and-breakfast—one reportedly haunted by its violent past—Ghostkeeper Jane reads two true bed-and-breakfast haunting stories from the Castle of Spirits archive: “Bed and Breakfast,” submitted by Brittney from Virginia, USA, in October 2016, and “The Man in the Uniform,” submitted by Alexis from Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2006.Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

Blue people at the door. A mysterious figure crouching beside a wardrobe. A hooded entity during sleep paralysis. And screams in the night that no one else can hear. Yeah, we've got some weird ones this time.In this episode, we’re digging into the Castle of Spirits archives for four true paranormal encounters involving strange figures, unexplained sounds, and things that probably shouldn’t be there at all.Story #1: Devil in My RoomSubmitted by Sarah • Napier, New Zealand • August 2026A glowing green orb leads to a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure crouching beside a bedroom wardrobe.Story #2: Blue PeopleSubmitted by Dakshar • Japan • May 2005A skeptical anthropologist answers his apartment intercom and finds two horrifying blue, corpse-like figures waiting outside his door.Story #3: An Entity? It Was SomethingSubmitted by S. P. • Imperial Valley, SoCal • August 2026A lifetime of strange occurrences culminates in a terrifying encounter with a hooded figure during an episode of sleep paralysis.Story #4: Screams in the NightSubmitted by Tammy • Indiana, USA • May 2010A young girl grows up hearing the screams of an unseen man in a house filled with nightmares, scratching sounds, and other unexplained phenomena.Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits”Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font© 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince FontDiscover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Librarywww.castleofspirits.com/ghost-storiesSubmit your own true paranormal storywww.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838.Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspiritsLeave us a review on Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550Leave us a review on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM