Haunted America - The Driskill Hotel

I Walk with Ghosts - Haunted Mississippi

Richard delves into Mississippi Hauntings

Haunted America - The Driskill Hotel

Deep in the heart of Austin, Texas stands one of the most iconic and haunted hotels in America—the legendary Driskill Hotel. Built in 1886 by cattle baron Jesse Driskill, this historic landmark has hosted presidents, celebrities, politicians, and thousands of guests over its long and storied history. But behind its grand marble staircases and elegant Romanesque architecture lies something far more unsettling. In this episode of Haunted America, we uncover the chilling legends and documented paranormal encounters that have made the Driskill a hotspot for ghost hunters and skeptics alike. From the spirit of Jesse Driskill himself—still said to roam the halls of the hotel he built and lost—to the tragic story of the little girl whose laughter and bouncing ball are still heard echoing through the stairwell, the hotel is filled with unexplained activity that defies logic. We also dive into the infamous Room 525, where multiple tragic stories of heartbreak and loss have led to claims of ghostly brides wandering the halls in search of peace. Guests and staff have reported phantom cigar smoke, flickering lights, disembodied voices, and the feeling of being watched when no one is there. Is the Driskill truly haunted—or is it simply a place so rich in history and emotion that it refuses to let go of the past? Step inside… if you dare. Because once you check in to the Driskill, you may not be the only guest in your room.

Wicked Curious Radio - Where the Dead Still Sail

The sea has always belonged to the living and the dead. In this chilling live episode of Wicked Curious, we voyage into the haunted waters of New England to explore some of the region’s most enduring maritime legends: the Dead Ship of Harpswell and the fiery phantom known as the Palatine Light. For generations, sailors, fishermen, and coastal villagers reported seeing ghostly vessels emerging from the fog—ships with no crew, no voices, and no hope of reaching harbor. Was the Dead Ship of Harpswell truly a harbinger of death, appearing before a fisherman was lost at sea?  In the episode of Wicked Curious we’ll uncover other coastal mysteries from the waters of Casco Bay and beyond. Dim the lantern, listen for the foghorn, and keep your eyes on the horizon.

Haunted Tales of Darkness - The Residence at Whitminster (An Occult Tale) by M.R.James & read by Christopher Halton

“The Residence at Whitminster” is a short ghost story by British author M.R. James. It was first published in 1919 as part of the anthology "A Thin Ghost and Others." The story unfolds in two different periods: around 1730 and a hundred years later. In the first part, the story is set in a house next to a church, originally intended to house many clergymen and other people working there. During the early 18th century, the clergyman Dr. Thomas Ashton and his wife occupied this house. They cared for two adolescent boys, Frank Sydall and Saul, the latter being the son of an Irish nobleman. Saul, known for his strange behaviour and fascination with old ruins and graveyards, and Frank dabble in the occult. Tragically, both boys die soon afterwards. In the second part of the story, set about a hundred years later, a new clergyman and his niece move into the house. The housekeeper complains about one unused bedroom being infested with insects. The niece starts seeing visions of the two boys who lived in the house a century earlier. The story is a chilling tale of the supernatural, exploring themes of the occult and the consequences of dabbling in it. It’s considered one of M.R. James’s creepier and more neglected ghost stories. Story narrated by Chris Halton. I hope you will subscribe as I intend to regularly read and release ghost stories and mysteries by classical authors of the Victorian and Edwardian eras and, of course, my own work. Why not support my work on Patreon for a mere USD 5 per month or GBP 4. Patreon:   / chrishalton   [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbll5Q3hXQ0VWS2prZ2dENkhKZ090Zk52aEFoUXxBQ3Jtc0tuSkNjSS1vVTA5bDFjMmhfeFkxdGVIc1B2NUxTVExSUDZJR0ZpOHhZdDhjR05GMlpkSUs5bGZRQU1sZkt6SnVPcms3VUFJRUhDWkFDX2V5WUNEV2h5a2F1RzFQWXNCQ2VsV1htQUlhTWw2MEdnTkQ4MA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2FChrisHalton&v=oV1SxCGF8ZE]

Weird Darkness - Famous Faces, Unseen Forces: Celebrity Ghost Encounters

This episode of Weird Darkness gathers famous names who swear the paranormal found them, a Puerto Rican legend that ties dead Chupacabras to a crashed UFO, a Honduran town where fish fall from the sky, and a Wisconsin candy store with a listener's uneasy childhood dream folded in.It opens with celebrities who came away convinced. Carrie Fisher described lights and electronics switching on and off in her Beverly Hills home after her friend R. Gregory Stevens died there; Matthew McConaughey named the blue-dressed spirit he confronted in his house Madame Blu; and a young Keanu Reeves watched an empty jacket drift through a doorway in his New York apartment, the reality of it confirmed only by his nanny's face. Patrick Stewart saw a man in a beige coat vanish in the wings of the Theatre Royal Haymarket during Waiting for Godot, later matched to the ghost of 19th-century actor-manager Baldwin Buckstone, who died in 1879. Peter Jackson woke to a woman with a screaming face at the foot of his bed near London's St. James Theatre, a ghost his wife had seen two years earlier. Miley Cyrus fled a London flat over a boy she kept seeing on the bathroom sink; Ariana Grande photographed what she called textbook demon faces at Kansas's Stull Cemetery and found the file measured 666 megabytes; and David Bowie spent much of the 1970s certain a coven of witches wanted his semen, lighting black candles and hiring white magician Walli Elmlark to exorcise his swimming pool. John Lennon, by Uri Geller's account, described bug-like beings outside his apartment and an alien metal egg left in his hands, while Sammy Hagar claimed aliens plugged his sleeping brain into a machine and uploaded numerical code in 1967. Shorter accounts follow from Megan Mullally, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Chloe Sevigny at the Lizzie Borden house, NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Lucy Hale, Laura Linney at Broadway's Belasco Theater, Claudia Schiffer, Emma Stone, Selena Gomez, Alyson Hannigan, Demi Lovato, Jenna Bush-Hager in the White House, and Megan Fox.From there the episode travels to Puerto Rico, where writer Nick Redfern chases the claim that the shuttered Roosevelt Roads Naval Station once held the bodies of dead Chupacabras the way Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is rumored to hold dead aliens. On visits between 2004 and 2015, Redfern and monster-hunter Jon Downes collect accounts of a 1957 UFO crash in the hills of Canovanas, sealed off by the military for roughly three weeks, and a second reported crash in the El Yunque rain forest in February 1984 — both said to have left dead Chupacabras in the wreckage, though the creature angle only attached itself to the older case after the Chupacabra panic began in 1995.Next comes Yoro, Honduras, and the Lluvia de Peces, the Rain of Fish that residents trace to Father Jose Manuel Subirana, a Spanish missionary who prayed three days and nights over the region's hunger in the 1850s or '60s. Once or twice a year after a heavy May or June storm, live sardine-like fish cover the streets of a town more than 100 miles from the ocean, and a National Geographic team in the 1970s found the stranded fish were completely blind, hypothesizing underground rivers forced above ground by flooding rather than the waterspouts others propose. The town of roughly 93,000 celebrates with a festival, a parade, and a Miss Fish Rain crowned to ride a float dressed as a mermaid, and locals refuse to sell the catch, sharing it instead as a blessing.The episode closes with Weirdo family member Laura, who worked summers at a haunted candy store in a Wisconsin tourist town, a converted house where a ceramic jar once flew across a room at a coworker. That coworker, a Canadian tribeswoman from a family with the 'sight,' listened to Laura describe a dream that returned every Christmas Eve until she was six or seven — a black, pulsing void of indistinct voices that rose to screams and a pressure closing on her chest, replaced in its final occurrence by an overhead view of a storage yard before it stopped for good. When Laura finished, the coworker told her it was a good thing she never listened to the voices, and suggested Laura had unconsciously sealed off her own ability to sense the spiritual after something that was not benevolent kept trying to reach her.