In the shadow of Limerick's misty River Shannon, stands King Johns Castle. Its stone walls etched with eight centuries of blood and betrayal. Built in 1210 on the orders of the infamous King John—England's treacherous tyrant, murderer of kin, and reluctant signer of the Magna Carta—the fortress witnessed sieges where countless men lost their lives. Now, in the dead of night, vague whispers slither through its halls, and shadows twist unnaturally. From poltergeist activity to shadow figures and a Banshee on the bridge... its no wonder why this castle has grown a dark reputation as being extremely haunted. Join us as we dive into the history and hauntings of King John's Castle, Limerick, Ireland. Special Guest: Brent Thomas of The Paranormal Portal https://open.spotify.com/show/5B2u8CZvbwJnWlGwdYl2Fg https://www.youtube.com/paranormalportal Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**Spoilers Ahead** This week we review one of the better horror movies of 2025! Bring Her Back follows step-siblings Andy and Piper, orphaned after their father's death, who are placed with a seemingly kind but deeply troubled foster mother, Laura, in her isolated home. Laura, whose own daughter drowned, fixates on Piper, who shares her visual impairment, and a disturbing occult ritual involving witchcraft, possession, and body horror unfolds as Laura tries to "bring back" her daughter using Andy and Piper, culminating in extreme violence and a fight for survival against supernatural forces.  Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bloody Tower: where the two young Princes mysteriously vanished in 1483. Witnesses see their ghosts – little boys in nightgowns, crying, hand in hand... before vanishing. Headless Anne Boleyn walks the grounds. Lady Jane Grey's spirit weeps on the scaffold. Reports of growls, potentially coming from the ghost of a bear, lion... or something darker. After centuries of countless executions, it's no wonder, the tower has climbed the list as one of the most haunted buildings in the entire country. Join us as we dive into the history and hauntings of the Bloody Tower. London. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After shooting a Westchester County officer during a traffic stop on the Saw Mill River Parkway, Alex Mengel, 30, stole the cop’s gun and disappeared in the victim’s patrol car. Twenty-four hours later he surfaced in Dutchess County, abducted a woman from an IBM parking lot, and vanished again in her white Toyota. For the next week, police across New York and into Canada hunted a ghost. Roadblocks, helicopters, bloodhounds; nothing. Mengel, slipped across the border unnoticed. On March 3, Toronto PD spotted the missing vehicle, chased it through the city, and boxed it in after a crash. A seven-day manhunt that crossed two countries ended with the suspect never making it to trial. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Michigan’s Thumb, a mansion that survived one of the deadliest fires in American history has been unraveling minds ever since. Inside the Bruce Mansion, a ghost cat prowls the halls, a growling dog echoes from the basement, and the tower looms over a man who couldn’t live with what he’d done. Owners have fled, sanity has frayed, and one man was driven to take his own life. This is a house that doesn’t just remember the past — it slowly takes pieces of the people who walk through it.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we review the greatest worst movie of all time... TROLL 2. A vacationing family discovers that the entire town they're visiting is inhabited by goblins, disguised as humans, who plan to eat them. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Battle of Chickamauga was the second bloodiest engagement of the Civil War, surpassed only by Gettysburg, with more than 34,000 men, killed, wounded or missing over just two brutal days. The fighting took place along the winding waters of Chickamauga Creek; its name derived from a Cherokee term often translated as “The River of Death” After the violence and unimaginable bloodshed on that ground, it should come as no surprise that the fields, houses, and forests surrounding Chickamauga are believed by many to be haunted. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for another paranormal update! This week we bring you a story about a tik tok creator who "found" a secret room in his new house... and the items he found inside this room led him to a dark conclusion. We also cover one of the strangest PG13 stories about a woman.. another woman and the ghost of her husband... so that one might not be suitable for all audiences... and more! Also another Strange Things with Dave segment. Have breaking news about the paranormal? Send the story over for a chance to have it featured on the next paranormal update! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Hometown Ghost Stories we present something kind of brand new!  Our listeners have submitted their own ghost stories... this is different from our usual listener submitted ghost stories, where people submit their true personal experiences, this time around we allowed the creativity to flow.  It's time to showcase the talents of our listeners and their creative writing on this chilling episode of Campfire Tales, THIS TIME... it's raining outside, so we shall get cozy by a fake campfire and get scared together, LIVE.  Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we review Guillermo del Toro's latest horror movie, Frankenstein! This is a brand new movie and this review is once again FULL OF SPOILERS... so be sure to watch it unless you want us to spoil it! Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scotland, Maryland is a small historic community located in St. Mary's County.  Today, people visit Point Lookout for its camping, fishing and beaches.  But the grounds they walk on have a bloody and dark history.  Following the battle of Gettysburg, this area became Camp Hoffman... the Union's largest Civil War prison. Over 20 thousand POWs were held here, ravaged by disease and despair, at least 4 thousand men died at the camp. Today, it's believed to be plagued by restless spirits. Long before the civil war, the people of St. Mary's County had a bit of a witch hysteria of their own, including no fewer than 10 people dragged before the Maryland courts and accused of witchcraft.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Dec. 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and her grandson Colby encountered a blazing diamond-shaped UFO hovering over a Texas road, spewing flames and intense heat. Surrounded by 23 military helicopters, the object left after 15 minutes. All three suffered severe radiation-like burns, vomiting, hair loss, and long-term illness. They sued the U.S. government, alleging a secret craft, but lost in 1986 due to lack of evidence. The Cash-Landrum case remains one of ufology’s most compelling and physically damaging close encounters. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calgary.  New city. Old bones.  Devil’s Playground: a schoolhouse torched with every child inside. The field is empty now… except for the laughter that rises when the temperature drops.  Deane House: axe murders, a boy in the attic noose, blood that sweats through fresh paint, and a braided apparition still guarding ground that was stolen long before the foundation was poured. Lougheed House: Lady Isabella locked forever at the window. The piano breathes a single chord in the dark. Dead couples turn in an endless, silent waltz.  The city sleeps under neon and snow.  But beneath it… something ancient… is wide awake.Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We reviewed Weapons, one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Amy Madigan. When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For sixty-six years, Preston Castle stood as a monument to reform and a witness to suffering. Built in 1894 as California’s first institution for wayward youth, its red brick walls saw generations of disaffected youth pass through, some to redemption, others to ruin. When the lights went out in 1960, the building fell silent, but the silence didn’t last. From the boy shot during his escape attempt to the sick left to die in its infirmary, and finally to Anna Corbin, the beloved housekeeper whose unsolved murder still echoes through its basement, the Castle has never forgotten. Join us as we delve into the brutal history and subsequent hauntings of Ione’s infamous Preston Castle Featuring Special Guest: Bridget Marquardt of the Ghost Bunny Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6O6OJ5N... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for another paranormal update! We have the news on the ghosts, some terrible people, creepy messages and more! Tune and and get the latest on the paranormal news. Have a story to share? Send it on over on discord or to our email and perhaps we will cover it on next months paranormal update! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPOOKY SEASON CONTINUES! It's never over here at Hometown Ghost Stories. We are back for another cursed shopping session, where we search the internet for the most haunted items in the world. We continue to build or cursed collection. Let's see what we find TONIGHT.. on Hometown Ghost Stories. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spent the night in the Villisca Axe Murder House and it did NOT disappoint! On this glorious Halloween evening, we premiered our overnight investigation video on YouTube. We went live immediately after to recap our night and talk about the investigation and review our evidence. Find out what we caught and be sure to check out the full investigation video! Thank you all for tuning in as this happens to also be our 4 year anniversary. Check out the FULL investigation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF5vlIJlPPY Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth Wilkins NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We reviewed and (believe it or not) didn't agree on the 3rd installment of the Halloween franchise. Who do you agree with? Happy Halloween from everyone at Hometown Ghost Stories! Be sure to tune in to our Halloween special TONIGHT at 9pm EST for our investigation into the Villisca Axe Murder house!! Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins, Kashar and Seth Wilkins NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nestled in the forks of the Licking River just east of Columbus sits the city of Newark Ohio. Incorporated in 1813, the city is known for both its midwestern industrial roots as well as its small town charm. But beneath that charm is a darker side; a haunted side. From the midland theater to the Cedar Hill Cemetery - two locations reputed to be so haunted that the mere mention of them causes locals to go weeks without sleep. But what the city is most notorious for is its old jailhouse, The Licking County Jail - a building haunted by the ghosts of its former inmates, one of which famously described it as the closest place to Hell. Join us as we dig into the twisted dark history of Newark, Ohio. Become a supporter on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/hometownghoststoriesMusic by Jesse Wilkins and Seth WilkinsNEW ALBUM OUT NOW!  Hometown Ghost Stories: The Music (Volume 2)https://open.spotify.com/album/3aVN2YCP13j3NjZ1ViCZ7Q?si=1Cs9iLVwTlyrtSXmpKUtAQMERCH: https://hometownghoststories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices