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 true ghost stories that cover three completely different paranormal experiences in three completely different registers. One is rooted in the landscape of Alaska and the specific supernatural weight of that place. One is about the moment a skeptic runs out of explanations. And one involves a ghost in the shower, which I will just say upfront is exactly as unsettling as it sounds.

The first caller takes us to Alaska with a haunting that is shaped by the landscape itself. Alaska has one of the most distinctive and least documented paranormal geographies in the United States, a vast and ancient wilderness where Indigenous spiritual traditions going back thousands of years coexist with the specific isolation and darkness of a place where winter lasts most of the year, and the land has a presence that visitors describe immediately and consistently. Whatever happened to our caller in Alaska happened in that context, and that context matters.

Then a skeptic calls in. Every ghost story community has a soft spot for the skeptic conversion story because it is the one that carries the most implicit credibility. A person who does not believe in the paranormal, who has logical explanations ready for every unexplained thing they encounter, who has spent years dismissing the experiences of people around them, and who then encounters something that dismantles every explanation they have ever used. Our caller was that person. This episode is what changed them.

And finally, the shower ghost. Someone called in with a real paranormal encounter that happened in what should be the most private and ordinary space in any home, and discovered that privacy means nothing to whatever was sharing their bathroom. The shower ghost is specific enough in what it did and how it made itself known that our caller has not entirely reconciled themselves to the experience and probably never will.

Three real callers. Three true ghost stories from Alaska, a skeptic's last stand, and a bathroom that stopped feeling safe. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

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