Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

Vince and Jane Font
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True ghost stories since 1997. Castle of Spirits is the internet’s original haunted archive and a weekly paranormal podcast featuring true ghost stories and real, listener-submitted paranormal encounters. Hosted by Vince and Jane Font (The Ghostkeepers), the show explores real-life hauntings, unexplained phenomena, folklore, and other chilling mysteries with smart, often wry discussion. If Radio Rental and Spooked! had a weird ghost baby, this would be it. 

  1. Sep 15

    Shadow Figures and Unseen Hands | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    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 Hogan Submitted by Chris • Bountiful, Utah, USA • September 2026 A traveler wakes to unexplained lights inside a century-old hogan in Monument Valley. Story #2: Helping Hand Submitted by Jennifer • Utah, USA • September 2026 A mother spots mysterious hands tending to her daughter on a baby monitor. Story #3: My NDE Submitted by Amber Redd • Virginia, USA • September 2026 A childbirth emergency brings a mother to the edge of death—and an impossible vantage point. Story #4: Late Night Visitors Submitted by TruBluRexi • Surprise, Arizona, USA • September 2026 Strange 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 Font Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  2. Sep 8

    Hauntings from the Edge of Summer | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    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 Park Submitted by Ray • New York, USA • March 2005 Near closing time at a water park, a teenage lifeguard hears a child crying for help from inside an empty waterslide. Story #2: The Peddler Submitted by Anonymous • Ohio, USA • October 1997 A family’s dark secret refuses to stay buried beneath a lonely, leaf-covered hill. Story #3: The Last Dance Submitted by Blaise Eli Foulton • Illinois, USA • June 1998 The long-disused ballroom of the Hotel del Coronado inexplicably comes alive for one last spectral dance. Story #4: Church Music Submitted by Candi • Virginia, USA • October 2010 Late-summer repairs inside an old church are interrupted by phantom piano music and the cries of an unseen baby. Story #5: The Coffee Cup Submitted by Tom • Texas, USA • February 2006 As 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 Font Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  3. Sep 1

    The Thing in Room 52 | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    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 Font Discover 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 @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  4. Aug 25

    Did Lizzie Borden Do It? 5 Alternative Theories | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    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 Font Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  5. Aug 18

    The Devil and the Blue People | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    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 Room Submitted by Sarah • Napier, New Zealand • August 2026 A glowing green orb leads to a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure crouching beside a bedroom wardrobe. Story #2: Blue People Submitted by Dakshar • Japan • May 2005 A skeptical anthropologist answers his apartment intercom and finds two horrifying blue, corpse-like figures waiting outside his door. Story #3: An Entity? It Was Something Submitted by S. P. • Imperial Valley, SoCal • August 2026 A lifetime of strange occurrences culminates in a terrifying encounter with a hooded figure during an episode of sleep paralysis. Story #4: Screams in the Night Submitted by Tammy • Indiana, USA • May 2010 A 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 Font Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  6. Aug 11

    The Uninvited | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    Something is where it shouldn’t be. A stranger in a locked garage. An unused back bedroom that’s best left alone. A strange boy lurking by the pool. And a hospital door everyone knows better than to open. Tonight, we’re digging into the Castle of Spirits archives for four true tales that prove sometimes there’s a very good reason to leave the door shut. Story #1: The Man in the Garage Submitted by Anonymous • USA • March 2003 A young girl encounters a mysterious stranger inside her grandmother’s locked garage. Story #2: Blackened Submitted by Lori • Pennsylvania, USA • September 2006 Strange noises and peculiar occurrences lead to a terrifying discovery in the unused back room of a rural Pennsylvania home. Story #3: The Pale Boy by My Pool Submitted by Grace • West Virginia, USA • August 2015 Two friends encounter a mysterious pale boy while swimming in the backyard pool. Story #4: Always Locked, Never Used, Never Talked About Door Submitted by Anonymous • December 2000 A hospital worker discovers why no one talks about a mysterious locked room. Theme Music: “The Castle of Spirits” Written, performed, and produced by Vince Font © 2026 Vince Font • ℗ 2026 Vince Font Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  7. Aug 5

    They Weren't Alone on the Road | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    A drive down a familiar road shouldn't be terrifying... but sometimes, it is. This week, we're digging into the Castle of Spirits archives to share five true stories from people who climbed behind the wheel and came face-to-face with the supernatural. So buckle up, and whatever you do, don't look in the rearview mirror! Story #1: True One (submitted by Fernando Gimeno, Cordoba, Agentina, in April 1998) Story #2: The Man in the Green Jacket (submitted by Anonymous, Maryland, USA, in February 2008) Story #3: Lonely Road (submitted by Susan, Washington, USA, in June 1999) Story #4: The Lady on the Road (submitted by Brent, Victoria, Australia, in November 2006) Story #5: Danger! (submitted by Bobby Walker, Texas, USA, in February 1997) Theme Music: "The Castle of Spirits" Vince Font (©2026) Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

  8. Jul 29

    Too Hot for the Living | Castle of Spirits True Ghost Stories

    It's been so hot lately that we're starting to wonder if someone left the gates of Hell open. Then we dusted off a few tales from the Castle of Spirits archives... and suddenly the heat wasn't the most unsettling thing keeping us up at night. Story #1: Child Voices (submitted by Anonymous, Michigan, USA) — A late-night trip to the bathroom is interrupted by the hushed voices of unseen children. Story #2: The Third Floor (submitted by Kryssie, PA, USA) — A former monastery turned Bible college becomes the setting for phantom footsteps, a piano with no player, and a bloodied figure that vanishes without a trace. Story #3: Books (submitted by Anonymous, USA) — A family's bargain apartment seems almost too good to be true—until a mysterious little girl in a red dress makes them think twice about sticking around. Story #4: Corpse Eyes (submitted by Mike, Kanagawa, Japan) — A quiet walk along Tokyo Bay leads to an encounter with a mysterious woman whose lifeless gaze still haunts a former military policeman decades later. So crank the A/C, grab an ice cream cone (or a bucket of ice), and join us as we try to beat the heat the only way we know how—with four true ghost stories cold enough to send a shiver down your spine. Theme Music: "The Castle of Spirits" Vince Font (©2026) Discover 4,600+ true ghost stories in the Castle of Spirits Library www.castleofspirits.com/ghost-stories Submit your own true paranormal story www.castleofspirits.com/submit OR call 801-436-7838. Watch us on YouTube and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @castleofspirits Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/castle-of-spirits-true-ghost-stories/id1647983550 Leave us a review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SDfPNhspbE1ME3Fuf1WfM

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True ghost stories since 1997. Castle of Spirits is the internet’s original haunted archive and a weekly paranormal podcast featuring true ghost stories and real, listener-submitted paranormal encounters. Hosted by Vince and Jane Font (The Ghostkeepers), the show explores real-life hauntings, unexplained phenomena, folklore, and other chilling mysteries with smart, often wry discussion. If Radio Rental and Spooked! had a weird ghost baby, this would be it. 

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