Stories in the Cemetery

Stories in the Cemetery

This podcast goes into questions about the paranormal that you may not hear on other podcasts along with personal investigations conducted by your host, Nicholas McGirr. The analytical approach to ghost hunting is portrayed throughout each episode with stats, data and raw material captured during investigations. The 2025 season introduces Co-Host Joshua Amen, owner of Tales from a Ghost Hunter. His expertise in the paranormal field brings a scientific approach to the questions being asked. Cover design and photograph for "Stories in the Cemetery" provided by April McGirr.

Episodes

October 31, 2025 60 mins

Nick and Josh are at it again! Testing your favoriteparanormal TV Shows using our very unique SITC Scoring System to see just howhaunted these shows are.

On this episode, Nick and Josh watch the Ghost Adventuresinvestigation on the Oman House, a location where Josh had the opportunity toinvestigate several times and run a few paranormal events to the public. So,his insight into this score was fantastic.

To use the SITC Scoring Syst...

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Nick and Josh are answering YOUR questions on this annual episode! We’ll dive deep into what we think and what has been proven thus far about questions and insight our followers have. 

Music “Renegade by Beatnik.

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October 10, 2025 54 mins

Music “Renegade by Beatnik.

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To choose an adventure with Stories in the Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina, visit www.storiesinthecemetery.com and book yo...

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Listen in on verifying evidence from a real haunted item from Real Haunted Items! Check out their vetting process, how they obtain these objects and the rest of this amazing discussion between Josh and Quinn.

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September 26, 2025 66 mins

Nick and Josh go over some aspects of the first of it's kind Paranormal Investigator's Almanac. The features, future changes and the data that goes into this project is so unique, we're inviting you to send us your worksheets from the Paranormal Investigation Workbook to collaborate with us in the 2026 Almanac!

Learn how this evolved and is continuing to evolve and innovate the paranormal field in this week's episod...

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We're at it again! Josh and I are scoring your favorite paranormal tv teams using the SITC Scoring System.


The SITC Scoring System is a unique way for paranormal investigators to score their haunted spaces. This provides invaluable data to learn more not only about the alleged haunted space but also about ghost hunting.

The SITC Scoring System is available on Amazon through 2025 Paranormal Investigation Workbook where you c...

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September 12, 2025 57 mins

How can we take the paranormal field into an actual science? What methods should we be using? What tools should we be inventing next?

Listen in on this week’s episode where Nick and Josh dive into more paranormal topics and how to apply the scientific method to our investigations.

Music “Renegade by Beatnik.

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This watch party was live on August 26, 2025 of Bobby Mackey's paranormal investigation performed by Portals to Hell. To see the SITC Score they received, watch how we rated each point given to their SITC Score!What is the SITC Scoring System? Designed to rate paranormal investigations in references to “how haunted” the investigation was; Stories in the Cemetery uses this system nightly on their Interactive Ghost Hunting Experi...

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August 29, 2025 65 mins

You can find the Paranormal Investigation Workbook and Paranormal Investigator's Almanac on Amazon!


If you're not scoring your investigations, how do you know the level of haunting? In this episode, Josh comes up with the tough questions about the SITC Scoring System, the latest project from Stories in the Cemetery to innovate the paranormal field.

The SITC Scoring System has been featured in the Magazine for Psychical Research (UK ...

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This watch party was live on August 25, 2025 of the Warren Museum and Annabelle doll with Elton Castee and fellow investigators.

Though this was a four hour investigation by Castee, we only rated the first 60 minutes of their investigation for purposes of live watch times and podcast episode length. 

To see the SITC Score they received, watch how we rated each point given to their SITC Score!

What is the SITC Scoring System? Designed ...

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August 15, 2025 63 mins

Hans Holzer, one of the paranormal parents and the first ghost hunter to publish his works without the shame of ridicule and/or speculation is looked at by Nick and Josh in this episode. 

Why should we, as paranormal investigators, look into these investigations with minimal equipment and resources? Listen to this week’s Stories in the Cemetery episode to see why and discover a new outlook into your favorite paranormal TV shows. 

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Nick couldn't make it to this interview (he was probably ghost hunting), but Josh and Noelle from Creepy Confidential had an amazing conversation about her Ghost Hunting 101 courses and what she has planned for future courses.

Noelle brings a fantastic insight into the paranormal and we were lucky to have her on the Stories in the Cemetery podcast!

Find everything you need to know about Noelle and Creepy Confidential at https://www.c...

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August 6, 2025 1 min

We are very excited to be announcing video coming to the Stories in the Cemetery podcast. Expect to see more throughout the rest of the 2025 Season and a new weekly schedule starting in 2026.

On top of that, Josh and I will be recording a side podcast available on Patreon only entitled "Stories in the Cemetery presents Secret Societies". Each new season will bring a new theme that's not necessarily paranormal, but myst...

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The Mark of the Beast, 666, The Devil, Satanism, Popular Mainstream Television. These are all part of a general stigma of “evil” things. So where did it all begin? What is portrayed with these stigmas and why?

Dive in with Nick and Josh as they explore what mainstream media has produced as “evil” entities or concepts in our American culture. 

This episode was recorded long before the Warren’s home and guardianship of haunted items wa...

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July 18, 2025 64 mins

Why is Lady in White always in white? Is this phenomena an international experience and if so, why white? Is this just a trope that we’ve followed through the media. 

Listen as Nick and Josh go through the science behind this very common phenomenon and the different perspectives around the world. 

Music “Renegade by Beatnik.

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July 4, 2025 50 mins

The God Helmet; a controversial experiment that stimulates the brain to create visionary stimuli. Listen in as Josh and Nick banter about the semantics and possible results of this very odd experiment. Could/Should this be used in ghost hunting?

Music “Renegade" by Beatnik.

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June 27, 2025 59 mins

Nick and Josh discuss new equipment ideas and theories with an avionics engineer.

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June 20, 2025 56 mins

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June 6, 2025 38 mins

Nick and Josh dive into terminology affiliated with the fear seeking paranormal: terms like "evil" and "demon" along with events like the "three scratches". Do these terms and events hold any true merit in a scientific field?

To book a ghost hunting adventure with Nick in Charleston, SC, head over to www.storiesinthecemetery.com

To book a paranormal scavenger hunt with Josh in Pasadena, CA, head to www.amenparanormalresearch.com

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May 23, 2025 69 mins

Nick and Josh explore a theory of conjuring a fake ghost. The Philip Experiment has led to other theories about how today's psychical societies and social media platforms can create an entity and manifest it into existence.

To book a ghost hunt with Stories in the Cemetery in Charleston, SC visit www.storiesinthecemetery.com

To book a paranormal scavenger hunt with Amen Paranormal Research in Pasadena, CA, visit www.amenparanorm...

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