Inherited Hauntings

Inherited Hauntings

Inherited Hauntings is a spooky and fun filled podcast hosted by Lindsey Callan and her mom Nancy, exploring real ghost stories, creepy cryptids, haunted places, and true paranormal encounters. Tune in each week for chilling tales, paranormal investigations, and mysteries that will make you laugh AND keep you up at night.

Episodes

August 28, 2025 43 mins

What happens when a 12th-century inn built on pagan burial grounds meets centuries of ghost stories? You get the Ancient Ram Inn, one of England’s most notorious paranormal hotspots. And just when you thought it couldn’t get creepier, we’re also pulling back the curtain on America’s oldest inn The Groton Inn where Nancy herself once worked and collected spine-tingling firsthand encounters.

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What do you get when you mix a flooded valley, a sunken ghost town, and hundreds of tragic deaths? You get Lake Lanier, the most infamous body of water in Georgia, and maybe the most haunted lake in America.

In this chilling and chatty episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey dive headfirst into Lanier’s dark history: the infamous town swallowed by water, the eerily high number of drownings and disappearances, and the numer...

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Was it the most haunted object in the world… or the internet’s greatest ghost story hustle?
In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey pry open (figuratively… we’re not that reckless) the infamous Dybbuk Box, a creepy wine cabinet said to imprison a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore. From its chilling “possession” stories and viral eBay listing to celebrity encounters and its current life behind glass in Zak...

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Beneath the beauty of America’s National Parks lies something far more chilling than poison ivy or a wrong turn. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey lace up their hiking boots and head into the shadowy forests, foggy trails, and unsettling mysteries surrounding some of the most baffling disappearances ever recorded.

From the sudden vanishing of 6-year-old Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains, to a murdere...

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In November of 1966, a sleepy town in West Virginia became ground zero for one of the most bizarre paranormal outbreaks in American history. Over the course of thirteen months, more than 100 people reported sightings of a red-eyed, winged creature stalking the skies around Point Pleasant. Dubbed the Mothman by the press, this cryptid wasn't just creepy... He may have been trying to warn us.

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Have you ever heard a bump in the night and wondered if it was just the house settling... or something more? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, we’re diving into Ghosts 101—your crash course in all things paranormal.

Join our mother-daughter duo as we explore the different types of apparitions, break down popular ghost hunting equipment (hello, EMF meters and thermal cameras), and ask the big question: Do ghosts really exist, o...

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You’ve heard of haunted houses… but what about haunted highways?

In this chilling episode of Inherited Hauntings, mother-daughter duo Nancy and Lindsey take you on a nighttime drive down some of America’s most terrifying roads, where ghostly hitchhikers, phantom trucks, and things that defy explanation still travel by moonlight.

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  • Route 666, the so-called “Devil’s Highway,” where demon dogs and shadow trucks chase the...
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Is it folklore, or is it fact? In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, we dive headfirst into one of the most chilling and infamous paranormal legends in American history—the Bell Witch haunting of Tennessee. And spoiler alert: this one’s not just a campfire story.

Join Nancy and Lindsey (your favorite mother-daughter paranormal duo) as they explore the terrifying true events that tormented the Bell family in the early 1800s. Violen...

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Some nights, it’s not the caffeine that keeps us awake, it’s the haunted closet, the scream that sounds just like someone we know, or the feeling that something is watching from the shadows. In this chilling episode of Inherited Hauntings, your favorite mother-daughter podcast dives into the things that give us the shivers long after dark.

Lindsey shares disturbing stories of Black-Eyed Children and mimics, those eerie beings that l...

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Real ghosts. Real family. No exaggeration.

We’re sharing some of the most bone-chilling, unexplained encounters our family has ever experienced, and trust us, these aren’t your average ghost stories.

We’re talking three haunted houses across Massachusetts, a colonial-era ghost boy, a menacing fireman spirit repeatedly seen, a creature crawling across the bedroom wall, and even a balloon with a mind of its own. There’s paranormal text...

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From the infamous ruins of Danvers State Lunatic Asylum in Massachusetts to the ghost-infested corridors of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and Linda Vista Hospital, this episode dives deep into the haunted history of Americas creepiest asylums. Expect chilling tales of lobotomy lore, disturbing medical practices, and real-life encounters with paranormal activity that still haunts hospital halls today.

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In this eerie and unexpectedly personal episode of Inherited Hauntings, we dig into the mysterious world of extrasensory perception (ESP)—and reveal a long-buried family secret that might explain a strange pattern we never fully understood… until now.

From unnerving premonition dreams to chilling psychic warnings before real-life tragedies—like the Aberfan mining disaster of 1966 and the morning of 9/11—we explore how the mind might...

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Is the Ouija board just a spooky party game, or a dangerous portal to something far more sinister? In this episode, we dive into the mysterious world of spirit boards with a mix of eerie history, cultural lore, real-life hauntings, and hard science. From the Victorian roots of the Ouija board to the chilling case behind Spain’s most famous police documented haunting, we explore the stories that have terrified and fascinated people ...

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They were just driving home on a dark deserted highway... until the lights followed them.
In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, we dive into one of the most chilling and iconic UFO encounters in history: the alien abduction of Betty and Barney Hill.

Join us as we explore the strange events of that September night in 1961—when a quiet drive through New Hampshire’s White Mountains turned into a terrifying close encounter of the...

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In this delightfully disturbing episode of Inherited Hauntings, Lindsey and Nancy take on the unnerving world of haunted dolls—from the infamous Annabelle (yes, that Annabelle) to lesser-known but equally cursed toy box nightmares from around the globe.

We dig into the real story behind the raggedy origin of Annabelle, plus we explore the legends of Robert the Doll, Okiku, and a few haunted cuties you’ve probably never heard of… but...

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In this hair-raising episode of Inherited Hauntings, Lindsey and Nancy dig into the true story that inspired the 2013 horror hit The Conjuring—a chilling tale of the Perron family’s terrifying experiences in a secluded Rhode Island farmhouse during the 1970s. Spoiler: the real-life hauntings were way less CGI.

But here’s the twist: one of us actually went to the real house. Yep—the house. We’re talking firsthand vibes, creepy chills...

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In this wildly entertaining episode of Inherited Hauntings, Lindsey and Nancy tackle one of the most chaotic paranormal forces out there: poltergeists. We dive into the real-life poltergeist activity that rocked a New York family and inspired the 1982 movie Poltergeist (spoiler alert: it was not just about a haunted TV).

From flying objects to popping screw cap bottle tops—this story is as hilarious as it is bone-chilling. We break ...

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In this first eerie episode of Inherited Hauntings, mother-daughter duo Lindsey and Nancy dive headfirst into the shadowy world of shadow figures—including the terrifying (and weirdly fashionable) Hat Man. Is he a sleep paralysis demon? A shadowy time traveler? Just an audacious ghost who refuses to take his hat off indoors?

We’ll share real encounters, creepy theories, and some personal chills—with a few laughs along the way to kee...

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