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 two true ghost stories that share something I find endlessly fascinating about the paranormal. Neither of these encounters happened in a place you would expect. Not a cemetery. Not an abandoned house. Not a famously haunted hotel. A bank. And a fort made of cushions. The supernatural does not wait for the right setting.

Dave from Connecticut calls in with a real ghost encounter rooted in a childhood fear that followed him all the way into adulthood when he ended up working in the very building that had unsettled him as a kid. The bank had a presence that Dave felt long before he could articulate what it was, the specific unease of a building that holds more history than its walls want to contain. Working there as an adult gave him a different kind of access to that history, and what he learned about the building did nothing to ease what he had felt there since childhood. Some buildings carry what happened inside them, and Dave's bank was one of them.

Then Brittany returns with her second call to Tell Me A Ghost Story, and if you heard her first episode about the translucent men tapping on the bay windows at midnight, you already know that Brittany's childhood was unusually eventful from a paranormal standpoint. This time, she takes us back to a fort she had built out of cushions, the kind of enclosed childhood space that is supposed to feel safe and protected, and the shadowy figure that appeared inside it. The figure looked like a cowboy. It was specific enough in its appearance that Brittany has never forgotten what it looked like and never found a satisfying explanation for what it was doing in her cushion fort in the middle of the night.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories from a Connecticut bank and a childhood bedroom that prove the paranormal has no interest in waiting for a dramatic location. 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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