Second Hand Haunting

Second Hand Haunting

Callum Patrick and Olly Holmes read old ghost stories and try to make sense/fun of them.

Episodes

September 29, 2025 81 mins

Callum gives Justin a choice of ghost stories from China, Japan, or the Mystery Box!
Of course he manages to double-dip, but that just means a deadly double dose of phantom fun!

Check out the pictures from the episode on Instagram.

Email Justin at https://www.pzinner.com.au/contact

Or on Instagram.

or email Callum here: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Japanese Tales selected, edited, and translated by Royall Tyler (C)1987 (ISBN 0-3...

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Callum tortures Amber & Olly with letters that were submitted to psychic Echo Bodine asking for help with very... intimate spectral problems they've been having.

Email the gang here: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Dear Echo... (C)2002 Echo Bodine (ISBN 0 00 716642 7)

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September 1, 2025 60 mins

Callum is joined by Amber and special guest Steph Heff to discuss the eagerly anticipated Lumley Castle. As in Joanna Lumley.
But she's hardly the only recognisable name connected to the ghostly activity in both the haunted castle and it's spooky surrounds...

Email the gang here: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Check out Steph Heff on Instagram: @steph.heff

ABC story of Australian Cricketers: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-0...

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Callum & Olly get on a call to discuss a fancy restaurant haunted by a fancy phantom. Where else can you behold a swinging chandelier before being perved on by a washroom wraith, and then get blown out the back door?

Email the boys here: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Ghost Stories of Chester County and the Brandywine Valley by Charles J Adams III (ISBN 1-880683-15-6)

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Callum & Olly are joined by Welshy & Murray from Scripty Business to help us get through three bizarre tales of a German banshee, an obedient revenant, and a marital squabble from beyond the grave.
This one reeaalllly isn't for the kiddos...

Complain about our dirty mouths here: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Almanac of the Uncanny (C)1995 by Reader's Digest (ISBN 0 86438 910 8)

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July 21, 2025 35 mins

Callum & Olly read about some bona fide South Australian maritime ghost lore. Well, the ship was named after Kooringa in SA, anyway.
It was built in NSW, sailed from VIC to QLD, and was designed by a massive Carlton FC fan who didn't ever want to leave his baby, even after he died...

Send your Cheap Wine lyric theories to: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Shadows: Tales of South Australia's Supernatural (C)1999 by the eXXaminers...

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July 7, 2025 34 mins

Callum & Olly report from the scene of the Old Adelaide Gaol, where they've joined a Ghost Tour and are having an eerily good time.

Recommend more haunted sites at: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Ghost Tour provided by Adelaide's Haunted Horizons.

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Callum & Olly read the oldest known recorded story of a haunted house, among other spirits and night mischief perpetrated in ancient Rome.

Send latin pronunciation corrections to: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

The Letters of the Younger Pliny, translated by Betty Radice (C)1963

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Ghostbusters theme...

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June 9, 2025 50 mins

Callum, Amber & Olly read about inexplicable lamps, eerie showers, and the ghostly echoes of fame on John Wayne's yacht after he died.

Send corrections to Callum's facts about John Wayne & Elvis Presley here: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Ghost Stories of California (C)2000 by Barbara Smith (ISBN 1-55105-237-7)

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May 26, 2025 63 mins

Callum takes Amber & Olly back to the 1500s, when anyone could be a ghost. Wives of God, Wives of Kings, even wives of mediums! Wait a minute...

Send your ghost wife tale to: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Almanac of the Uncanny (C)1995 by Reader's Digest (ISBN 0 86438 910 8)

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Callum offers Amber Patrick & Justin McArthur some baked potato snacks, with a side-serving of horrors found in Pringle's Mansion, Edinburgh!

There's a creepy crawly in the cellar, a monster running loose in the halls, and a demonic disturbance in the bed.

Content Warning for misophonia, let alone all the usual stuff.

Send angry emails to Callum at: ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Check out more of Amber at Please Attend Care...

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Olly's got a trip to California coming up, so Callum decides to warn him of the dangers of local haunted hotels & antique stores carrying dreadful dolls.

Wish Olly bon voyage at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Ghost Stories of California (C)2000 by Barbara Smith (ISBN 1-55105-237-7)

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April 14, 2025 63 mins

Callum & Olly get back to basics and read a couple of stories submitted the Irish public about a repeating ghost that loves trains, and the phantom fire of freedom fighters echoing down through time.

Email the boys at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

True Irish Ghost Stories (C)1926 by John Seymour & Harry Neligan (1994 ISBN 1 85958 050 5)

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Callum hopes Olly hasn't looked at the date yet and hits him with some baffling old poetry about a headless pirate that haunts those involved in his untimely death.
To lighten the mood, he follows it up with a delightful poem about a thieving bird's redemption.
And they're both definitely accurate accounts of things that totally happened, we swear.

Email the boys at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth ...

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Callum and Olly are joined by Steph Heff, and decide that they're in the mood for some cowboys. Herdin', shootin', drinkin', hauntin' cowboys.
WARNING: May contain traces of flaming skull motorcycle riders and Blues Brothers 2000.

Email the boys at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Ghost Stories of the Old West (C)2003 by Dan Asfar (ISBN 978-1-894877-17-6)

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March 3, 2025 78 mins

Callum and Olly try to avoid getting too wet while they read about Captain W. de S. Smythe and his horrific encounter with a phantom femme fatale in his new bathroom.

If you've got any story recommendations, email us at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Scottish Ghost Stories (C)1911 by Elliott O'Donnell (2006 ISBN 0-7117-0533-X)

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Callum hits Olly with a one-two punch of unwanted spectral advances and then Pirates VS Werewolves.
Who will win? Why, the listener of course!
Unless you're French. Or Spanish. Or even West Indian? In any case, Callum's terribly sorry.

If you can beat our research, email us at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

the hag of the dribble & other true ghosts from the files of Elliott O'Donnell (C)1971 by Bernhardt J. Hurwood (ISBN 0...

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February 3, 2025 43 mins

Olly is really keen to hear all about this Haunted Shrubbery that Callum's on about.
Little does he know what horrors await him and George Gill, our story's hapless "hero", beyond the spooky bushes.

Email the boys at ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

the hag of the dribble & other true ghosts from the files of Elliott O'Donnell (C)1971 by Bernhardt J. Hurwood (ISBN 0 7091 2336 1)
-Trees of the Ghostly Dead (C)1958 by Rider &am...

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Callum & Olly are joined by Author, Paranormal Investigator, and Pet Medium Rob Gutro to talk about the myriad ghosts, shades, and spirits that haunt the Darlington Civic Theatre.
Along the way Rob teaches the boys about animal ghosts, reincarnation, and investigation techniques.

As mentioned, more info about the reincarnated fighter pilot is here: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4612

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Amber has got hold of a book before Callum could, so she joins him & Olly to read out some short stories about chilling chickens, devil dogs, non-existent nuns, and ...weeping walls (?) that Reader's Digest thought notable enough to re-publish.

Please help us understand the walls by emailing ⁠⁠⁠2ndhandhaunt@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠

Check out more of Amber on Please Attend Carefully

Mysteries of the Unexplained (C)1982 by The Reader's Diges...

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