Episode Details

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has three real callers whose true ghost stories share one thread running through all of them. Something was there that had no explanation and no intention of leaving quietly.

Carl from Texas calls in with a haunting that happened in the last place most people expect to feel afraid. His church. Carl and his cousin encountered a shadowy figure moving through the building during what should have been an ordinary visit. Churches have some of the most documented paranormal histories of any building type across cultures, partly because of the weight of grief and ritual that accumulates in them over generations, and partly because whatever lingers there knows the space as well as the living do. Carl's encounter was brief. It was enough.

Then Hector from New Mexico calls in with something that has been happening to him for years and that he cannot explain away, no matter how hard he tries. Mysterious scratches appear on his body. Always around 3:33 AM, the hour that paranormal researchers and religious traditions across cultures have long associated with supernatural activity, sometimes called the witching hour or the devil's hour, depending on the tradition. Hector has no history of sleepwalking. The scratches are real. They keep coming back.

And Yvonne from the Philippines returns with another haunting memory from her childhood, this one involving a figure she mistook completely for her brother. She saw him. She recognized him. She spoke to him. When she found her actual brother, he had not been home at any point that evening. Whatever Yvonne saw in that house that night was wearing her brother's face, and it was not her brother.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories. A church, a bedroom at 3:33 AM, and a figure that looked exactly like someone who was not there. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

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