The Wandering Road

The Wandering Road

Welcome to The Wandering Road! Where hosts Chris & Dean invite you on a thrilling journey through the bizzare, eerie, and mysterious! From delving into chilling demonic encounters to exploring the dark life of infamous figure H.H. Holmes, no topic is off limits. If you're fascinated by the strange and have creepy stories or topics you'd love for us to explore, we'd love to hear from you! Reach out to us at twroadpodcast@gmail.com to share your own thoughts or even join us as a guest on the show!

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September 5, 2025 40 mins

On this chilling episode of The Wandering Road, we dive into one of the most infamous and unsettling hauntings in American history: the Smurl Family haunting. From 1974 to 1989, Jack and Janet Smurl and their children endured years of terrifying disturbances in their West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex—encounters that ranged from unexplained noises and foul odors to violent attacks and apparitions.

We’ll explore how the hau...

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On this episode of The Wandering Road, we follow the trail of the mysterious Dogman — a creature caught between folklore and nightmare. From chilling sightings across the Americas to Native American stories of wolf spirits, we unravel how humanity’s fascination with half-man, half-wolf beings stretches back through time. We’ll travel through European legend, from the Germanic tales of wolf-warriors to the infamous Beast of Gévaudan...

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Step inside the shadows with us on this episode of The Wandering Road as we sit down with Olivia and Tiffany from Haunted AF, a paranormal investigative group. Together, we journey into the eerie halls of Wilson Castle, a place steeped in history and whispered secrets, where the line between the living and the dead blurs.

Olivia and Tiffany share their most haunting experiences — from  encounters with spirits to the unsett...

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From shadowy roads to deep, dark woods, strange things roam where the light can’t reach. In this episode, we dig into chilling paranormal legends from Texas — including eerie Dogman encounters, unsettling Bigfoot sightings, and other cryptid stories that blur the line between folklore and fact.

Special guest PolarBear from Highway of the Hidden joins us to share hair-raising accounts, swap theories, and explore why these m...

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This week on The Wandering Road, we take a midnight journey into the haunted heart of Mexico’s folklore. Joined by special guest Sydney from the viral TikTok page Sydthehorrorkid1, we explore spine-chilling tales passed down for generations—from the ominous El Charro Negro and the fiery-eyed hell hounds, to the spectral nurse La Planchada, and the mournful wails of La Llorona.

These aren’t just ghost stories—they’re warnin...

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In this chilling episode of The Wandering Road, we venture into the heart of 1970s England to uncover one of the most disturbing and infamous cases of demonic possession and religious mania ever recorded.

Michael Taylor, a seemingly ordinary husband and father from the quiet town of Ossett, found himself at the center of an exorcism gone tragically wrong. What began as a spiritual intervention by deeply religious community...

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On this episode of The Wandering Road, we bring back Dave The Bearded Menace for a part 3 to continue his spooky tales!

Tune in as Dave shares more haunting experiences that he went through and other entities that made themselves known to his family members.

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On this episode of The Wandering Road, we sit down with Jennifer who has encountered the unexplained in some of the South’s most haunted places — and lived to tell the tale.

As a child, she visited the infamous Nottoway Plantation, where an innocent exploration turned into a chilling brush with something unseen. Years later, a seemingly ordinary night out at a New Orleans bar took a terrifying turn when she stepped into th...

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Chris and Dean from The Wandering Road podcast take you back to one of the most famous — and hotly debated — hauntings in history: the Enfield Poltergeist. In the late 1970s, a modest home in North London became the epicenter of terrifying events that left investigators, journalists, and even skeptics baffled.

From eerie knocking and furniture moving on its own to photographs of a young girl seemingly levitating, the Enfie...

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In this chilling and fascinating episode of The Wandering Road, Chris sits down with Courtney, the gifted and fearless host of Jaunty Haunts, to explore her extraordinary life being able to see ghosts!

Courtney opens up about her lifelong ability to see and sense ghosts—sharing deeply personal stories about what it’s like to live with this gift and how it shaped her view of the unseen world. From playful spirits to unsettl...

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In this episode of The Wandering Road, we dive into one of the strangest and most hotly debated mysteries of the 20th century: The Dodleston Messages. In 1984, a schoolteacher named Ken Webster claimed to have received a series of bizarre communications through his BBC Micro computer—messages allegedly sent by someone living in the 16th century. What began as a tech glitch soon unraveled into a full-blown paranormal case involving ...

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In this gripping episode of The Wandering Road, Chris and Dean are joined by Polar bear, host of Highway of the Hidden, for a powerful conversation about his most disturbing and unexplained paranormal experiences.

Polar bear opens up about a chilling encounter during a work trip to Nebraska—an experience that may have involved a demonic presence. 

He also recounts a brief but unforgettable Bigfoot sighting—an enco...

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In this haunting solo episode, Chris from The Wandering Road reads a raw and unforgettable listener submission that spans generations, cultures, and the thin veil between this world and the next.

From a childhood fear of water tied to unsettling dreams, to a deeply religious upbringing that clashed with unexplained encounters, this story weaves together eerie memories of a haunted apartment in Compton, possible past lives,...

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In this chilling follow-up to Episode 81, Chris and Dean from The Wandering Road are once again joined by JJ from the Southern Demonology podcast to welcome back Amanda — a guest whose stories left listeners deeply unsettled and captivated.

Since her last appearance, Amanda has encountered even more paranormal phenomena, but this time her tales are a complex blend of light and dark. She recounts moments of unexplainable pe...

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In this episode of The Wandering Road, hosts Chris and Dean are joined by JJ from Southern Demonology to unravel one of the most infamous tales in paranormal lore — the story of Annabelle the haunted doll.

Locked away behind glass in the Warrens' Occult Museum, Annabelle has terrified generations with claims of possession, violence, and demonic influence. But how much of the story is true... and how much is a well-cra...

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This week on The Wandering Road, Chris and Dean sit down with a psychic medium Alex Gaska whose life has been shaped by her encounters with the paranormal. From the moment she first saw a demon as a child, she knew her path would be anything but ordinary.

In a powerful and haunting conversation, she reveals the terrifying reality of growing up in a house plagued by dark forces, the trauma of a failed exorcism, and how her ...

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In this chilling episode of The Wandering Road, Chris and Dean dive deep into one of the most harrowing survival stories of the 20th century—the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the unforgiving Andes Mountains.

What begins as a routine flight for a Uruguayan rugby team quickly turns into a living nightmare when the plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, leaving the survivors stranded at over 11,000 feet with no ...

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May 9, 2025 25 mins

This episode is we feature an episode by JJ from the Southern Demonology podcast!

In this episode JJ delves into the topic of perfect possession, discussing what it means, how one can become perfectly possess, and Father Malachi Martin's thoughts on the subject.

Hope you enjoy this feature and Chris & Dean will be back next week!

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In this episode Dave the Bearded Menace is back for a part 2 of more chilling tales from his childhood home!

Tune in as Dave shares the haunting experiences that his cousin went through while living with them in their haunted Connecticut home and more creepy tales that Dave experienced!

Dave also discusses some terrifying sleep paralysis experiences both he and his brother suffered from along with stories of a uns...

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In this episode Chris and Dean are joined by Becky & Diana the hosts of The Homespun Haints podcast!

Becky & Diana share their paranormal experiences growing up that got them into the paranormal!  Becky details how her son saw a figure of a ghostly woman appearing from the ceiling with a rope around her neck, visiting a Northern Irish Haunted BnB that was also near a real life Red Wedding event in the 1500's! ...

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