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. 2h ago

    Left Boot on a Frosted Porch: 58-Year-Old Child's Return

    Left Boot on a Frosted Porch: 58-Year-Old Child's Return Cold, silent evidence appeared on a frost-scoured porch without a single footprint leading to it: a dry, laced, pale-yellow child's left boot sitting upright on an undisturbed welcome mat in nineteen-degree air. How could a four-year-old girl's missing shoe from 1953 reappear on that exact piece of land in 2011 with no physical trace of approach? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that began with months of unexplained knocking and ended with a paperboy finding the boot on a farmhouse porch; we present the documented details and leave you with the question of what-or who-placed it there. Person: Lily Poole Date: December 9, 2011 Location: Graber Road farmhouse, four miles east of Dellwood, Indiana Age: Angela Vaughn 62 in fall 2011 Event: Basement knocks in groups of three and four over two months - Temperature reached 19 degrees Fahrenheit by 3:00 AM the night the boot was found. - The boot was a child's pale-yellow left shoe, laced and upright on a dry welcome mat. - No footprints or tire tracks were found on the frost-covered porch, yard, or gravel drive. - The soil survey team took core samples across the property in the first week of December 2011. - Stanley Henderson, a 15-year-old paper carrier, photographed the boot when he found it at 5:47 AM while covering a route for a sick cousin. 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.

    Left Boot on a Frosted Porch: 58-Year-Old Child's Return
  2. 1d ago

    Hot Mug in Untouched Snow: The Dispatcher's Unsolved Night Visitor

    Hot Mug in Untouched Snow: The Dispatcher's Unsolved Night Visitor Heart-stopping detail: a ceramic mug, upright in dry, untouched snow at 4:20 AM on November 9, 2011, still steaming and hot enough to burn a man's hand-yet no footprints, no tracks, no fingerprints on the mug. What left fresh coffee on a cold night with no visible trail, and why had multiple dispatchers been noticing the same signs for decades? In this episode, we lay out the facts found in the depot records and the dispatcher’s own notes, following the timeline from the hot mug discovery back through archived complaints, maintenance logs, and the dispatch office’s written history to ask what connects them. Person: Thomas Tillman Date: November 9, 2011 Location: Millhaven Central Bus Depot, northeast dispatcher's office corner Case: thirty-one written complaints between 1962 and 2004 about smell, sound, and presence Event: steam-rising ceramic mug found upright in dry, undisturbed snow at 4:20 AM - At 4:20 AM on November 9, 2011, snowplow operator Thomas Tillman found a ceramic mug upright in snow with steam rising from it. - The snow around the mug was dry and completely undisturbed with no footprints, tire tracks, or drag marks within the headlights' range. - The mug burned Tillman’s hand when he picked it up and later showed no fingerprints in forensic testing. - Lisa Evans noticed the smell of fresh-brewed coffee in the closed dispatcher's office in mid-October 2011 with no pot running and recorded it in her personal log. - A complaint file contained thirty-one complaints filed from 1962 to 2004 describing the same smell of fresh coffee, a ceramic scraping sound between 2 and 4 AM, and a shared sensation of another presence. 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.

    Hot Mug in Untouched Snow: The Dispatcher's Unsolved Night Visitor
  3. 2d ago

    The Red Chair Under the Bulb: Seven Tins, One Unclaimed Death

    The Red Chair Under the Bulb: Seven Tins, One Unclaimed Death A quiet harbor town, a basement locked for eleven days, and seven opened sardine tins stacked like a ritual under a single bulb - discovered five days before the sixty-eighth anniversary of a 1951 cannery fire that killed three workers. What links the pristine, non-dusty tins and a red wooden chair that no record ever showed to exist - and why has no one claimed it? In this episode, we walk through the documented chain of events from the morning Clifford Campbell found the chair to the fourteen months of investigation that followed, following records, photographs, expert opinion, and the memories of those who work in the building. How could physical artifacts appear in a room logged as locked, and what does the coincidence of dates actually mean? Person: Clifford Campbell Person: Frank Ostrander Person: Patricia Hensley Event: Aldgate sardine cannery fire Date: October 14, 1951 - Discovery time: 7:30 AM on a Wednesday in October 2019 when a lineman descended six concrete steps into the basement. - Basement access: maintenance log indicated the room had been locked for eleven days before the discovery. - Artifact detail: seven opened sardine tins stacked in a precise pyramid on a small red wooden chair, directly under the single overhead bulb. - Preservation note: the tins showed no rust or dust and appeared placed that morning according to Clifford Campbell. - Anniversary proximity: Campbell’s discovery on October 9, 2019 occurred five days before the 68th anniversary of the October 14, 1951 fire that killed three overnight workers. 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 Chair Under the Bulb: Seven Tins, One Unclaimed Death
  4. 3d ago

    Eleven Footsteps, One Missing: The Sentinel Peak Logbook Mystery

    Eleven Footsteps, One Missing: The Sentinel Peak Logbook Mystery A government field journal sat open on a wet step after nine hours of rain while its pages remained dry, and eleven distinct footsteps were heard climbing to the tower's eleven-step platform twice with no one ever seen. What can explain a single dry four-foot platform amid condensation and a staircase that records footsteps but no visitor? In this episode, we present the documented sequence of events recorded by the lookout and the regional historian, laying out the physical evidence and timelines that lead to a single unresolved question: how did those footsteps stop exactly at the platform with nothing visible on it? Person: Ruth Porter Date: September 9, 2011 Location: Sentinel Peak Lookout Tower, eleven miles west of Delliver Case: logbook found open and wet with dry pages; eleven-step staircase recordings Author: Jason Cook (regional historian who documented the case) - The journal had been sitting in the rain for nine hours; cover was waterlogged and swollen while the inside pages were completely dry. - Sentinel Peak tower rises sixty feet and is accessed by a single exterior staircase of nineteen steps with a four-foot-square platform at step eleven. - On September 5 at approximately 9:15 p.m., Ruth heard eleven distinct footfalls ascending the staircase to the platform and found no one outside. - On September 7 at around 9:00 p.m., she again observed eleven steps, photographed the platform which alone was dry while surrounding surfaces had a thin film of condensation. - Ruth arrived at the tower on August 31, 2011, after requesting the rotation; the permanent warden Phil Garrett had left the station immaculate and had specifically noted he always latched the shed hasp hard. 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.

    Eleven Footsteps, One Missing: The Sentinel Peak Logbook Mystery
  5. 4d ago

    The Frozen Jar at Zone C: Cold That Shouldn't Exist

    The Frozen Jar at Zone C: Cold That Shouldn't Exist A winter-cold jar appears in an alarmed, locked public market that has had no refrigeration for six years, and a sensor later records a 22-minute plunge to -11°F - the same temperature range recorded during a 1957 refrigeration disaster that killed a worker. How did frozen glass and a past catastrophe resurface in Zone C without any mechanical explanation? In this episode, we follow the documented sequence of events inside Zone C at the Braddock Street Public Market, the historical context of the building’s cold-storage past, and the technical records that refuse to align - asking whether the anomaly is mechanical, historical, or something else. Person: Julie Clark Location: Braddock Street Public Market, Fenwick, Ohio Date: August 9, 2019 Event: 22-minute sensor reading of -11°F at 3:47 AM Case: 1957 ammonia refrigeration failure with fatality - Julie Clark discovered a small blue-green, straight-sided eight-ounce jar with a gold lid frozen solid on August 9, 2019 at 7:15 AM. - Four of eight folding tables in Zone C had been moved south in parallel lines six to eight feet from their previous positions. - The building had been without refrigeration for six years since its 2013 renovation into a market. - Security camera recorded nine and a half hours of “nothing” with no power interruptions and no recorded entry after 9:31 PM on August 8, 2019. - On August 14, 2019, a temperature log showed Zone C hit -11°F for exactly 22 minutes at 3:47 AM on August 9, matching the -10 to -15°F range from the February 3, 1957 refrigeration failure. 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 Frozen Jar at Zone C: Cold That Shouldn't Exist
  6. 5d ago

    The Sextant in the Locked Window Well: Midnight Scraping on Repeat

    The Sextant in the Locked Window Well: Midnight Scraping on Repeat The corridor light came on by itself at 2:17 a.m., a scraping sound lasted until 2:30, and a brass sextant and a ring of fresh wildflowers were found sealed fifty feet below in a locked window well-no footprints, no gate, no explanation. What connects a late‑19th century British octant‑style sextant, a repeating two‑a.m. scraping that follows an older calendar, and the missing heron named Gerald? In this episode, we follow the timeline of events at Keppler Hall and the discovery that set them in motion: the morning Carol Marshall found the arrangement, the security report and photographs, and John Williams’s methodical log of nightly disturbances-could the answers be in the objects left below or in the pattern above? Person: John Williams Date: July 9, 2011 Location: Keppler Hall, Vanthorpe University Object: Brass octant‑style sextant (late nineteenth century) Finder: Carol Marshall - At 2:17 a.m. the corridor light turned on and a scraping sound began, first recorded when the corridor was empty. - Carol Marshall discovered a brass sextant and a ring of wildflowers in a locked window well on July 9, 2011. - John Williams logged five or more wakeings between July 9 and July 22, 2011, each episode between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. lasting four to seven minutes. - One night in late July the scraping episode lasted eleven minutes, longer than the prior four-to-seven-minute pattern. - The sextant in the photographs was identified by the instrument curator as a late nineteenth century British octant‑style sextant; the university archive shows exactly two brass sextants associated with Keppler Hall, one confirmed in sealed storage and the other missing. 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 Sextant in the Locked Window Well: Midnight Scraping on Repeat
  7. 6d ago

    The Desert Cup: Government Coffee Found Where No One Should Be

    The Desert Cup: Government Coffee Found Where No One Should Be A full government-issue porcelain cup of coffee was found upright and liquid under a dead juniper fourteen miles from the nearest paved road on June 4, 2021 - in a place with no documented reason for human presence. How did a cup that should have ruined survive the desert night, and why was it linked to a building with a basement that kept opening itself? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events recorded in notebooks, photographs, and camera footage at a remote federal port building, and we follow the small, repeating anomalies that led back to an older, unseen history beneath the floor. What connects the cup on the trail, the repeated six-inch-open basement door, and the table found directly beneath the original ventilation grate? Person: Neil Anderson Date: June 4, 2021 Location: Fourteen miles from nearest paved road, Cielo Seco port Event: Motion-sensor light triggered at ~00:40 on four separate nights Case: Sixty-one notebook entries by early June 2021 - Biscuit the Australian shepherd pulled off the trail and led Jessica Burns to the cup before 9:00 AM on June 4, 2021. - Air temperature recorded at the cup location was 51 degrees Fahrenheit when the coffee was found. - The porcelain cup was government-issue, upright, full of liquid coffee, not spilled, frozen, or evaporated. - Anderson logged sixty-one entries in his personal notebook by early June, including repeated notes about a basement door found six inches open each morning. - Security footage captured the rear exit motion-sensor light firing at approximately 00:40 on four separate nights with no visible movement in frame. 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 Desert Cup: Government Coffee Found Where No One Should Be
  8. 6d ago

    Dry Music Box on Mudbank: No Footprints, No Explanation Found

    Dry Music Box on Mudbank: No Footprints, No Explanation Found Something impossible sits on a muddy bank at 6:15 a.m. on May 9, 2005: a dry wooden music box playing a waltz with no footprints leading to it. A retired mail carrier who knew the pond well watched the brass cylinder turn and stutter-so how did the box get there and why was the ground around it undisturbed? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that began with a vibrating basement, continued through a subsidence oval in an east lawn, and led to the discovery of a dry music box on the retention pond-what connects a hidden cavity under a yard to a mysterious object on a mudbank? Person: Edward Sheridan Date: May 9, 2005 Location: retention pond at Meadow Trace, Teller County, Indiana Person: Dean Romano Event: subsidence oval found on east lawn - At 6:15 a.m. on May 9, 2005, Edward Sheridan watched a dry wooden music box playing a waltz on the south bank of the retention pond. - Meadow Trace is a subdivision of 41 houses built starting in 1993 on a reclaimed limestone quarry; the quarry pond had been dry for 11 years before construction. - Dean Romano logged 37 vibration episodes over 41 nights beginning in May 2004, recording time of onset, duration, and intensity on a legal pad. - A clean oval roughly 18 feet across of dead grass appeared on the east lawn in April 2005; a tent stake sank 14 inches in the center and 4 inches four feet away. - On May 3, 2005, structural engineer Tom Greer probed the soft zone and found a cavity of indeterminate depth, recommending ground-penetrating radar. 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.

    Dry Music Box on Mudbank: No Footprints, No Explanation Found

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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.