Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online

Get ready to have your spine tingling and your hairs standing on end with the Daily Paranormal Podcast hosted by Tony Brueski. This show is no joke - it's packed with real-life horror stories of ghosts, demons, haunted houses, possessions, shadow people, and all things supernatural that will leave you quivering with fear. Our listeners can't get enough of our bone-chilling tales, describing them as the "best ghost story podcast out there." Don't expect the same old cliché zombies, vampires, witches, and werewolves here - we go way beyond that to deliver a solid, spooky experience that even puts Coast to Coast AM, George Noorey, and Art Bell to shame. Tune in to Real Ghost Stories Online today and experience the ultimate in paranormal storytelling. Got a scary story of your own to share? Call us anytime at 1-855-853-4802 or submit your ghostly encounter via our website at http://www.realghoststoriesonline.com - we're waiting to hear from you, if you dare.

Episodes

January 18, 2026 36 mins

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Tucked into the quiet hills of Northeast Tennessee, Rugby is often whispered about as one of the most haunted towns in America. Founded in 1880 by renowned author Thomas Hughes, Rugby was envisioned as a utopian village—a place of equality, culture, and harmonious living far from the industrial chaos of England.

But the dream didn’t last.

Disease, hardship, and tragedy soon followed. A deva...

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Robert the Doll is widely considered one of the most terrifying cursed objects in the world—and for more than a century, his reputation has only grown darker.

In 1904, the straw doll was gifted to a young boy named Robert Eugene Otto. What followed was a bond that went far beyond childhood imagination. Soon, strange and unsettling events began unfolding inside the Otto family home...

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She grew up believing sleep paralysis explained everything. The figures appeared, she couldn’t move, and eventually it passed. That pattern made sense—until it didn’t.

At her parents’ house, she always saw the same child. In a different home, it was always a woman. The faces didn’t overlap. They didn’t follow her randomly. They seemed tied to where she was sleeping.

When she began staying at her boyfriend’s house, the nights gr...

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At eleven years old, she chose to sleep in the cellar of her great-grandmother’s house—unaware she was stepping into a space that was already occupied. What followed wasn’t a single haunting, but a relationship: a drowned woman named Anne, a colder figure who touched and shook the bed, and a growing sense that the house was reacting to her presence.

Years later, after moving back to Abilene with her fiancé, the activity return...

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He was eight years old when his bedroom was moved beneath the house. It was meant to feel like freedom—privacy, quiet, and space of his own. And for years, it did.

Nothing felt wrong. Nothing demanded attention. Until one night, long after the room had become familiar, he woke up with the unmistakable sense that something had joined him there.

It didn’t announce itself. It didn’t move the way fear usually does. And whatever he ...

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Night duty on a military base is supposed to be predictable—quiet hallways, locked rooms, and long stretches of waiting between roll calls. For a federal police officer stationed at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, that routine slowly began to unravel after midnight.

At first, it seemed harmless: sitting down to rest between shifts, closing a door, trying to sleep for a few minutes before the next assignment. But certain rooms didn’t b...

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Robert the Doll is widely considered one of the most terrifying cursed objects in the world—and for more than a century, his reputation has only grown darker.

In 1904, the straw doll was gifted to a young boy named Robert Eugene Otto. What followed was a bond that went far beyond childhood imagination. Soon, strange and unsettling events began unfolding inside the Otto family home—objects ...

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO

On today’s classic episode of The Grave Talks, we explore the harrowing journey of James Annitto—a man shaped by trauma, hardship, and questions most people spend a lifetime avoiding.

From an early age, James was surrounded by darkness. At first, it felt internal—fear, confusion, and the lingering weight of childhood experiences that refused to loosen their grip. But as he searche...

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Years earlier, as a teenager, she fell asleep on the couch to something harmless on a VHS tape pulled from her dad’s home-recorded collection—sitcoms, reruns, and whatever happened to be on TV that week. Sometime after midnight, she jolted awake to the television behaving in a way that didn’t make sense… and to a scene she recognized instantly from a movie she’d never actually watched.

What happened next wasn’t just “creepy.” ...

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Hannah grew up believing some people were just unlucky with houses. No matter where she lived, something always felt off—subtle movements, footsteps that stopped outside her door, shadows that moved like people who belonged there. It never announced itself. It never demanded attention. It simply watched.

As she grew older and moved from home to home, the pattern followed. New walls. New streets. Same presence. It wasn’t until ...

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It started as a dare—one night in an old family home in Portland, Tennessee, built in 1831 and wrapped in local rumor. A teenager didn’t believe the stories, not really, but curiosity won out. After dinner, something as simple as walking past a basement door triggered a sudden, sickened unease—strong enough to make the door feel like a line that shouldn’t be crossed.

The family’s explanation wasn’t comforting. The house had a ...

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In 2008, a corrections officer working the overnight shift at a county jail in Arkansas was assigned to a housing unit that had been closed for nearly a week. No inmates were housed there, and access was tightly controlled. Late into the night, with most of the pod in darkness, she sat at her workstation facing a room lined with reflective security glass.

That’s when movement caught her eye.

In the reflection, a figure appeared...

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Sam never believed he was living in a haunted place—until the house behind his own started feeling occupied in a way he couldn’t explain. He rented a small unit behind an older couple’s home, where children with medical needs were sometimes cared for during short stays. The sounds, the late nights, the unfamiliar rhythms all made sense… until one winter, when those visits stopped.

That’s when the house began to feel different....

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

On today’s classic episode of The Grave Talks, we explore the harrowing journey of James Annitto—a man shaped by trauma, hardship, and questions most people spend a lifetime avoiding.

From an early age, James was surrounded by darkness. At first, it felt internal—fear, confusion, and the lingering weight of childhood experiences that refused to loosen their grip. But as he searched for ans...

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Drew never thought of himself as someone who believed in ghosts. He didn’t grow up seeing things or sensing presences. He was just a teenager killing time in a friend’s old family house—until one summer experiment shifted how he looked at everything.

What started as curiosity turned uneasy when a sound came from inside the room, not the walls. Then came shadows that moved too quickly to make sense. Footsteps that followed patt...

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From the time he was a child, Gabriel knew something was wrong in his room. He couldn’t explain it — only that the darkness felt heavier there, and that something unseen frightened him enough to beg to sleep beside his mother. When she asked what he was afraid of, he used the only word that felt right. Evil.

As he grew older, the experiences sharpened. Objects moved. Doors opened on their own. Voices called to him from empty r...

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From early childhood, a woman had the ability to see and communicate with spirits—something her family believed was passed down through generations. As a child, she grew accustomed to nighttime visits from a presence that felt protective and familiar.

Years later, after moving into a home with her husband, something new appeared. This presence felt different—heavier, angrier, and focused on the bedroom itself. Her husband bega...

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Jay and a group of friends were teenagers when their interest in the paranormal led them into a condemned hospital near their hometown. Armed with a cheap EMF detector and confidence fueled by Ghost Hunters, they expected little more than a thrill.

Inside the building, the atmosphere was stifling and chaotic—broken glass, graffiti, and decay everywhere. As they climbed the stairwell, painted messages on the walls seemed to gui...

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After losing both maternal grandparents within months of each other, one woman returned home emotionally steady but physically drained. A rare afternoon nap led to something she never anticipated: a moment so vivid, so grounded in reality, that it felt less like a dream and more like a presence. No words were spoken, yet the message felt unmistakable.

Years earlier, during her paternal grandmother’s final days on hospice, some...

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Long before ghost hunting became a mainstream fascination, Bruce Halliday was already asking questions most people were afraid to consider.

As a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, Bruce witnessed something that would quietly reshape the rest of his life—the unmistakable presence of a deceased family friend wandering the halls of his apartment building. It wasn’t fleeting. It wasn’t...

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