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
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 window, shining a flashlight at just the right angle to be seen and never caught. It’s unsettling for a simple reason: even with cameras, alarms, and a locked-down prope...
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 Girl, And The Tiger,” but before you hit play we want to clear up a few details that could sound confusing if you’re new to our corner of paranorma...
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.
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 and his wife raised as their “furry child.” What follows isn’t just nostalgia. It’s a paranormal story with teeth, built on the kind of fear tha...
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 Virginia, the Ohio River, and the abandoned TNT area that turned a strange night drive into one of the most enduring American paranormal stories.
We lay out the document...
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 message. Then we head to Hydesville, New York in 1848, where two young sisters, Maggie and Kate Fox, claim the darkness answers back with raps that seem intelligent, responsive...
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 and why those mix-ups happen even when you love the subject. Then we get practical, building a clean historical eras timeline you can actually hold onto without a te...
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 suddenly won’t talk about what’s bothering her. Then he finds a crumpled “letter” in the trash that turns out to be a short story, a...
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 that make us ask what time is really doing when we are not looking.
• mining towns that get bought out and wiped away
• the Black Ridge, Ohio...
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 the kind of reincarnation story that can make your stomach drop and your skepticism wobble at the same time. So we do what we always do in Spiri...
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 forgotten piece of American history: California’s divided loyalties, the creation of Camp San Pedro (later Drum Barracks), and how thousands of troops moved through ...
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 until you realize how many of them you already follow without thinking, especially when life feels uncertain and you want a little protection on your side. <...
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 during a short break: I reach into my Spirit Tales and Magic hoodie for a Kleenex and pull out a large bobby pin I do not own. Not “maybe I forgot” strange, but &ldquo...
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 after you’ve felt the floor drop out. A friend’s note about being clinically dead for sixteen minutes—no light, no voices, just a blank—collides with m...
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 typed without a working typewriter, and modern stacks where webcams tried to catch a Grey Lady in motion. What starts as one listener’s prompt becomes ...
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.
• listener mail sparks a promise of more magic talk
• step‑by‑step setup using any ten similar items
• fair shuffles of two five‑card piles
• secret selection and p...
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 mind: the smallest note in your story might be the master key later. A bowler-hatted figure shows up near tragedies across decades, not to be folded lazily in...
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 address the listener emails that challenged us to bring real, interactive magic to the feed—and we’re answering with a guided effect that uses simple props, clear st...
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 mile by mile through its most enduring legends, weigh them against lived experiences from listeners, and follow the trail from Cross Castle’s crumbling stones ...
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 kiss meets a loud imagination. We trace how classic tales—the hook on the car door, the boyfriend in the tree—became the scripts our anxious minds reach for...
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