SPIRIT TALES AND MAGIC
Our host; Dr.G had his first paranormal experience at only eight years old. With over five decades of storytelling, magic and paranormal story collection he is an award winning story teller on a mission to revive firelight and the telling of stories!
Episodes
173 episodes
A Sailor Vanishes And A Bride Keeps Watching The Gulf
A hotel can hold more than guests. Sometimes it holds a promise that never got to come home. We’re taking you to Galveston Island on the Texas Gulf Coast, where the surf hits the seawall with that patient, ancient rhythm, and where the historic...
Gettysburg’s Saddest Souvenir Comes With Receipts
A trembling elderly man takes six minutes to cross a room, squeezes my hand, and asks for one thing: “Please take this home.” He leaves us with a bundle wrapped in dirty cloth and a feeling we can’t shake. When we finally unwrap it, we find an ...
What If A Haunting Is Just Unfinished Business
Something brushed my left arm in a busy restaurant and there was nobody there and Cassandra felt it too. That’s the kind of moment that makes you stop talking mid-sentence and start wondering what else is moving through the room with you, espec...
When A Haunted Mine Tells You To Go Home
Something about a mine changes the way a ghost story lands. You can stand in an old house and imagine footsteps in the hall, but when you step underground, the walls close in, the outside world goes silent, and your body starts listening for da...
What If A Ship Never Lets Its Captain Go
The power is out, the studio is running on battery backup, and there’s someone outside walking down the street with a bright light pointed at their own face. A police car pulls up, the commands get louder, and then the person says one line that...
What if Grief Can Be Stored In A Physical Space
A storage unit is supposed to be a dead end for old furniture and sealed boxes, not a place that schedules an appointment with you every night at 2:14 AM. We start with something closer to home: a recurring late-night figure outside the office ...
Why A Classic Ghost Story Returns For Doctober
Something about this story never behaves like a normal recording, and that’s exactly why we’re bringing it back. As Doctober rolls on, we get a steady stream of requests to replay one of our earliest and most-listened episodes, “The Man, The Gi...
The Man The Girl & The Tiger
A ghost story originally cast on Your Ghost Story Bus dot com. A tale of an imaginary friend and of a dark spirit. The true story of the last haunted house my daughter and I would share in the small town where we both grew up.
What If Loyalty Outlives Death
Somebody writes us a simple question, and it turns into a night you won’t forget: can a dead dog still protect the people it loved? We start with a letter from Melvin, an old friend who asks us to say a few words about Midnight, the Doberman he...
Mothman And The Omen Question
Something tall moves at the edge of the headlights. Someone swears the eyes glow red. And then, a year later, a bridge collapses and forty-six people never come home. We follow the Mothman legend where it actually starts: Point Pleasant, West V...
If The Dead Could Knock Would You Answer
A single knock in a quiet house can be easy to ignore. A second knock can change your life. We start Doctober by slowing everything down with a brief guided breath and a picture of an old haunted house, the kind where every creak feels like a m...
Your Brain Rewrites History So Here Is A Clear Timeline
Your timeline is not “bad” your brain is doing what brains do: smoothing, swapping, and rewriting events until the story feels right. After a listener, Tamara, asks how anyone keeps historical eras straight, we dig into why memory bends time an...
When A Society Panics Who Becomes The Witch
The fastest way to control a scared crowd is to hand them a name for the thing they fear and someone to blame for it. That’s where we start after a listener asks, “What is this witch thing,” and admits his partner has practiced for 20 years but...
What If Time Is Not Where You Left It
We read a mining-family story about a man who vanishes on the way to his backyard well and returns seven months later without aging a day. Then we compare it to a listener’s “missing time” drive that somehow takes four days, plus other cases th...
When A Child Claims A Past Life Who Do You Believe
A haunting story lands in our inbox: twins who speak like they’re the same daughters a family lost years earlier. They point to “impact” marks, ask for toys they’ve never seen, and run through a village like they already know the way home. It’s...
A Civil War Soldier In California Is Not A Mistake
A Civil War soldier in California sounds like a glitch in the story we learned in school until you trace the footsteps back to Drum Barracks near the Port of Los Angeles. We take a listener’s sighting seriously and use it as a doorway into a fo...
Hello Mr. Magpie How Is Your Wife
A lone magpie shows up and suddenly you’re supposed to salute and ask about his wife. Someone offers you flowers and you have to count them. You glance away during a toast and now it’s seven years of bad luck. Superstitions can sound ridiculous...
A Haunted Shipwalk On The Queen Mary Turns Personal
A haunted tour should leave you with photos and goosebumps, not a mystery object in your pocket. After a night on the Queen Mary in Southern California, Cassandra and I join the Haunted Shipwalk tour and something genuinely strange happens duri...
What If Hauntings Happen Because We Don’t Know We’re Gone
A cross-state move, a rebuilt studio, and a brush with death set the stage for a raw, curious deep dive into what the mind keeps when the heart stops. We open up about leaving Phoenix for Southern California and why starting fresh matters more ...
Where Books Whisper And Footsteps Type Themselves
The quiet of a library can be louder than any scream. We open a door marked “preternatural” and step into reading rooms where stories don’t end at the last page: a coal-scented childhood library with a balcony watcher, a deserted building that ...
A Radio Illusion You Can Do At Home
We guide a hands‑on radio illusion you can do at home with ten cards or any matching items, ending with a whisper‑led reveal that feels like real mind reading. We close Doctober with gratitude and share our posting cadence moving forward.
World Unseen
The scariest thing about a haunting isn’t always the shadow in the doorway—it’s the tiny detail you almost ignored. We open with Halloween warmth and a quick safety check, then move straight into a challenge for every investigator and curious m...
Halloween Eve Tease And Treats
The night before Halloween is the perfect moment to set a little trap for wonder. We keep this update short and focused, but the tease is big: tomorrow brings a double feature with a hands-on magic routine you must not attempt in the car. We ad...
Where Does Belief End And The Dark Begin On Clinton Road
A lonely New Jersey road draped in a canopy of trees, a bridge where coins won’t stay thrown, and headlights that chase you until they disappear—Clinton Road is the rare place where folklore and firsthand accounts keep colliding. We take you mi...
Why Lovers' Lanes Became America’s Favorite Scary Story
The road to romance has always had a shadowy shoulder. A listener’s note from Cannon Beach sends us down the winding lanes where folklore, fear, and true crime intersect: the secluded pull-offs, the cliffside overlooks, the places where a quiet...