Paranormal Stories

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Are you ready to question everything you thought you knew? Paranormal Stories plunges you into the chilling world of unexplained phenomena, where the line between reality and the unknown blurs. Each episode uncovers real-life accounts of ghosts, cryptids, UFO sightings, and other terrifying encounters that defy logical explanation. We delve into historical cases, modern mysteries, and listener submissions, exploring the evidence, the theories, and the sheer terror of what lies beyond. This isn't just about spooky tales; it's about investigating the most compelling paranormal cases and the people forever changed by them. New episodes arrive daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh dose of the unexplained to start your day or keep you up at night. Expect gripping narratives, detailed research, and a respectful yet critical approach to every strange occurrence. You'll hear firsthand accounts and expert analysis, designed to challenge your perceptions. This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the supernatural, true horror stories, and the mysteries of our world. If you crave authentic paranormal experiences and want to explore the deepest corners of the unknown, you've found your next obsession. Subscribe to Paranormal Stories and unlock the secrets lurking in the shadows.

  1. hace 9 h

    She Saw a Man at the Window: The Kellner Depot Anomaly

    She Saw a Man at the Window: The Kellner Depot Anomaly A retired middle school science teacher smelled coal smoke at 6:40 AM on June 3, 2011, then photographed a depot window where she saw a man standing - but both photos show an empty, renovated office. How could a figure matched in posture, counter position, and window appear in her memory and in a fifty-year-old journal but not in the photographs? In this episode, we present the reports, logs, and archival threads that connect Teresa Farrell’s June 3, 2011 sighting to recurring anomalies recorded later that year, and to a journal unearthed in November 2011. What do consistent sensory details - smell, temperature drops, and a described posture at a north window - tell us about the Kellner Freight Depot anomaly? Person: Teresa Farrell Date: June 3, 2011 Location: Kellner Freight Depot (north window) Case: recurring Tuesday temperature drops in autumn 2011 Author: Neil Berry (case summary) - Farrell pulled onto Millhaven Road shoulder at approximately 6:40 AM on June 3, 2011. - Farrell had kept a birding log for twenty-two years and noted the coal smell that morning. - The depot was converted to office space in 2008; the original counter was removed during renovation. - Heather Watson logged consistent Tuesday morning temperatures of 62°F while the thermostat was set to 68°F. - Arthur Veil’s journal describes a man in the same posture at the same counter and window over a thirty-two-year span. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    She Saw a Man at the Window: The Kellner Depot Anomaly
  2. hace 1 día

    The Dry Red Boot on Kellner Tower: Anniversary Returns Every September

    The Dry Red Boot on Kellner Tower: Anniversary Returns Every September A child's red rubber boot sits bone dry atop Kellner Municipal Water Tower after two inches of rain - confirmed by two materials scientists who found zero moisture on the rubber - and it appears on the same date tied to a 1973 drowning. How can a boot defy the weather and a sealed city report every September ninth? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events recorded around that dry boot, the sealed city investigation, and the personal histories that intersect with the tower; we trace maintenance logs, family records, and eyewitness reports to ask how an anniversary kept by a dead man's handwriting became a recurring mystery. Person: Judith Sharp Date: September 9, 2019 Location: Kellner Municipal Water Tower Event: Amy Kowalski drowned on September 9, 1973 Case: Unauthorized tower visits logged on September 9, 2009 and September 9, 2014 - The boot was a child's size four and a style not manufactured since the 1970s. - Two materials scientists tested the boot and confirmed zero moisture on the rubber despite two inches of rain in the prior 48 hours. - The tower's ladder access gate padlock showed no signs of being cut, forced, or tampered with. - Amy Kowalski drowned on September 9, 1973 while wearing a left red rain boot; the right boot was never found. - Thomas Kowalski logged unauthorized tower visits on September 9 in both 2009 and 2014, recorded as pressure-regulator inspections without work orders or supervisor approval. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Dry Red Boot on Kellner Tower: Anniversary Returns Every September
  3. hace 2 días

    The Yellow Chair in the Snow: Witnesses and an Unlocked Silence

    The Yellow Chair in the Snow: Witnesses and an Unlocked Silence A dry yellow spindle-back chair sat untouched in seven inches of snow at 7:14 AM on February 9, 2004, facing a padlocked grain elevator - yet the chair had no snow on it and a county road worker photographed it with a disposable camera. That image pulled retired agricultural extension agent Earl Lane into a mystery that links a 2003 string of phantom dinner sounds to a 1921-1938 community tradition and a three-person fatal fire; what, if anything, was being summoned back to Depot Street? In this episode, we tell the story of Cynthia Whitley and the small Farrow Siding community on Depot Street, how her Wednesday-night card games coincided with uncanny sounds from a derelict elevator, and how county records revealed a long-buried history that may explain those nights - what does the yellow chair in the snow mean, and who noticed it first? Person: Cynthia Whitley Person: Earl Lane Date: February 9, 2004 at 7:14 AM Location: Depot Street, Farrow Siding Event: August 2003 phantom place-setting sounds - A county road worker named Shannon Sharp photographed a dry yellow wooden spindle-back chair on February 9, 2004, at 7:14 AM. - Seven inches of snow had accumulated overnight on Depot Street, but the yellow chair was completely dry. - Cynthia Whitley moved to Depot Street in June 2003 at age twenty-two and started a Wednesday-night card game within weeks. - For seventeen consecutive years beginning in 1921, the Halverson elevator ground floor hosted late-summer Wednesday suppers until a grain-dust fire on August 9, 1938, killed three people. - On August 6, 2003, residents reported hearing a plate, then glass, then the scrape of a fork - three place settings - coming from the padlocked, powerless Halverson Brothers Grain Elevator. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Yellow Chair in the Snow: Witnesses and an Unlocked Silence
  4. hace 3 días

    The White Calendar Behind the Plaster: July 14's Silent Witness

    The White Calendar Behind the Plaster: July 14's Silent Witness A sealed room was discovered behind plaster in a vacant rectory with a crisp white calendar still open to July 1971 and the fourteenth circled in red - a detail that looks decades fresher than everything around it. How could paper sealed for forty-eight years appear as if placed yesterday, and what, if anything, waited on that date? In this episode, we walk through the discovery, the people who documented it, and the physical evidence left inside the hidden chamber to ask what the room’s objects - and their condition - can tell us about July 14, 1971. Person: Jennifer Sawyer Date: July 9, 2019 Location: Saint Anselm's rectory, Crabtree Avenue, Dellbrook Person: Kimberly Hicks Person: Charles Turner - A promotional farm-supply calendar from a Dellbrook cooperative printed before 1973 was found open to July 1971 with the 14th circled in red. - The calendar’s paper was described as white and not browned or brittle despite being sealed for approximately 48 years. - The hidden room measured nine feet by eleven feet and contained an iron-frame bed, a wooden chair, and a writing table. - A folded paper inside a left shoe contained the name "Sister Margaret Dolan" and the date "July 14, 1971" written in pencil. - The cooperative that produced the calendar ceased printing such calendars in 1973. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The White Calendar Behind the Plaster: July 14's Silent Witness
  5. hace 4 días

    The Red Shoe in Room 7: 34 Years and a Wall That Whispers

    The Red Shoe in Room 7: 34 Years and a Wall That Whispers A child's red canvas sneaker, manufactured in the mid-to-late 1970s and sized five, appears upright in the threshold of Room 7 at the Dusk-to-Dawn Motor Lodge with no guest registered and the lamp inside burning steady orange - thirty-four years after seven-year-old Danny Ochoa vanished from that same exterior wall. How did a shoe from the era of his disappearance turn up in a locked, cleaned room, and what is hiding inside the wall that cooled like a dinner plate? In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from a passerby who called the non-emergency line to the regional historian and structural engineer who pulled on the thread; we detail the motel’s ownership history, the 1978 wall work, and the forensic and archival clues that refuse to line up. Can the cold spot and a deputy’s marginal note finally connect the motel’s past to the present mystery? Person: Danny Ochoa Date: June 1977 Location: Dusk-to-Dawn Motor Lodge, Room 7, Pallor Creek, Indiana Event: Disappearance with no physical evidence or arrests Engineer finding: Wall nine inches thicker than adjacent rooms with an oval cold spot four degrees cooler at baseboard level - Shoe found at 5:40 AM on a Tuesday in June 2011, upright and pointing inward, shoe size child five. - Shoe estimated manufactured mid-to-late 1970s, appearing 34 years after Danny’s 1977 disappearance. - Room 7 exterior wall re-insulated and re-plastered in spring 1978; permit reason listed as water intrusion. - Structural engineer’s thermal imaging (April 2012) detected an oval cold spot approximately four degrees below surrounding wall temperature. - Deputy’s property disturbance report margin (found autumn 2011) contains the handwritten note: "Room 7 again." To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Red Shoe in Room 7: 34 Years and a Wall That Whispers
  6. hace 5 días

    May 9th Lights: Locked Lake House and the Kerosene Curse

    May 9th Lights: Locked Lake House and the Kerosene Curse Amber lights filled every ground-floor window of a locked, season-closed cedar house with no footprints and no broken glass - and the deputy wrote one word: unexplained. Seventy-three years earlier a kerosene lamp fire killed a twenty-two-year-old on the same land on the night of May 8-9; could those dates be connected, or is this a coincidence that refuses to stay buried? In this episode, we tell the sequence of observations, records, and discoveries that turned a meter reader's morning report into a county mystery. Follow how a local historian's search through land records and a family heir's memories raise the question: what was left behind at the Christensen house that might explain the lights? Person: Megan Moore Date: May 9, 2014, 09:52 AM Location: Linden Shore Road, Calloway Lake Event: Unexplained lights in a locked, season-closed house Period: May 8-9, 1941 (kerosene lamp fire) and May 9, 2014 (lights observed) - Megan Moore was three stops into her eastern loop and logged the time 09:52 on May 9, 2014 when she saw amber lights in every ground-floor window. - The deputy arrived forty minutes after the call; when he arrived the lights were off and the report listed the incident as "unexplained." - The house had no vehicle in the driveway, no footprints in rain-softened mud, intact deadbolt, and unbroken glass on all openings. - Land records show Walter Greer purchased the parcel in 1914; his son Eddie Greer died in a cabin fire there between 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM on the night of May 8-9, 1941, ruled accidental from an unattended kerosene lamp. - James Webb, a sixty-one-year-old local historian, connected the May 9, 2014 sighting to Eddie Greer's May 1941 death and discovered Earl Christensen built the 1962 house using salvaged materials from the Greer cabin ruins. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    May 9th Lights: Locked Lake House and the Kerosene Curse
  7. hace 6 días

    Sealed Factory, Stirring Water: The Snow Globe That Shouldn't Exist

    Sealed Factory, Stirring Water: The Snow Globe That Shouldn't Exist The industrial silence at 6:47 AM on April 9, 2011 was broken by one impossible detail: a snow globe on the press floor with its water still swirling, inside a building whose keypad log shows no entry for thirty-five minutes. Why would an object tied to children appear over a sealed foundation built atop a long-closed child welfare home? In this episode, we present the records, reports, and filings connected to Harwick Stamping Company and the Colverton site, laying out what the documents say about the sealed building, the preserved basement footings, and a cluster of unexplained incidents leading up to the snow globe. What do the permits, incident logs, and one historian's discovery together reveal? Date: April 9, 2011 Location: Harwick Stamping Company, Colverton Industrial Park Person: Rebecca Wagner Event: Snow globe found with water moving inside a sealed building Period: 1922-1971 (Colverton Industrial Welfare Home operation) - Keypad log recorded Marcus Veen locking the rear access door at 6:12 AM and showed no entries until Rebecca Wagner's arrival at 6:47 AM. - The snow globe was found on the floor of press station seven in the center of the stamping floor. - Harwick Stamping was built in 1986 on a concrete slab poured over the original basement footings of the former Colverton Industrial Welfare Home. - The Colverton Industrial Welfare Home operated from 1922 to 1971 and housed more than sixty children at its peak in the 1940s. - Five separate employees reported anomalies focused near the north wall between 2008 and 2010, including a childlike voice, crying, a moving shadow, and a small red-and-white child's mitten. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Sealed Factory, Stirring Water: The Snow Globe That Shouldn't Exist
  8. 29 ago

    Desk in Frozen Mud, Bell at Dawn: The Oleander Road Omen

    Desk in Frozen Mud, Bell at Dawn: The Oleander Road Omen The thought of something impossible placed itself forty feet off a trail in frozen mud: an upright school desk with six glass inkwells full of unfrozen ink, no footprints, no drag marks, and unbroken frost for yards-so how did it get there? What connected that desk to a single resonant bell tone at a granite milepost and the rhythmic scraping that left parallel grooves on the original schoolhouse floor? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning the desk was found through the first in-person meetings and documented inquiries, tracking the physical evidence, eyewitness notes, and archival records that force the question: are these isolated anomalies or pieces of a single unexplained phenomenon? Person: Dean Sheridan Date: March 4, 2019 Location: Forty feet into the frozen mud flat behind Oleander Road Person: Eric Cox Event: Bell tone at milepost and parallel grooves in original schoolhouse floor - Found at 6:15 AM on March 4, 2019: an upright cast-iron framed school desk forty feet into a frozen mud flat. - Six glass inkwells in the desk were filled with liquid ink that should have been frozen after an overnight low of 22°F. - No footprints, drag marks, or tire ruts were present in the unbroken frost surrounding the desk. - At 6:31 AM on March 6, 2019, Eric Cox texted that he heard a single, clean bell tone at the granite milepost marked with a 7. - On March 14, 2019 at ~9:00 PM, Cox found two shallow, even parallel grooves in the wide-plank floor consistent with cast-iron desk legs being dragged straight back. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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Are you ready to question everything you thought you knew? Paranormal Stories plunges you into the chilling world of unexplained phenomena, where the line between reality and the unknown blurs. Each episode uncovers real-life accounts of ghosts, cryptids, UFO sightings, and other terrifying encounters that defy logical explanation. We delve into historical cases, modern mysteries, and listener submissions, exploring the evidence, the theories, and the sheer terror of what lies beyond. This isn't just about spooky tales; it's about investigating the most compelling paranormal cases and the people forever changed by them. New episodes arrive daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh dose of the unexplained to start your day or keep you up at night. Expect gripping narratives, detailed research, and a respectful yet critical approach to every strange occurrence. You'll hear firsthand accounts and expert analysis, designed to challenge your perceptions. This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the supernatural, true horror stories, and the mysteries of our world. If you crave authentic paranormal experiences and want to explore the deepest corners of the unknown, you've found your next obsession. Subscribe to Paranormal Stories and unlock the secrets lurking in the shadows.