A hotel corridor feels different after you know its ghost stories. So does an upstairs window or a road beside a cemetery. These Weekly Spooky episodes explore the places that give haunting legends their staying power, combining local accounts with the history that can be documented. Choose a short visit to an Ohio manor, a deeper look at the hotel connected to The Shining, or a long evening following Chicago’s famous ghostly passenger.
Choose Your First Listen
Begin with the Stanley Hotel player below for horror history and haunted-hotel lore. Bihl Manor is the shortest choice, at about nineteen minutes. Resurrection Mary is a much longer investigation. Reported hauntings remain reported experiences; the episodes distinguish them from established historical events.
The Stanley Hotel
Haunted hotel & horror history · Terrifying & True
Listening time: 45:45
Visit Estes Park through Room 217, the 1911 explosion and Stephen King’s 1974 stay. The episode connects documented hotel history with the reported hauntings and creative inspiration surrounding The Shining.
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Bihl Manor in Fremont, Ohio
Haunted house accounts · Thursday Thrills
Listening time: 19:19
The house behind HGTV’s A Very Haunted Renovation has stories of an upstairs figure, a red-haired presence on the stairs and unexplained voices. Explore the property’s history and the accounts that built its reputation.
Resurrection Mary
Vanishing-hitchhiker folklore · Best of 2025
Listening time: 1:37:32
A woman in white accepts a ride near Chicago’s Archer Avenue, then disappears. Follow reported encounters, the Resurrection Cemetery connection and the women proposed as Mary’s identity through this enduring ghost legend.
What Kind of Ghost Stories Will I Hear?
These are explorations of haunting accounts and ghost folklore, rather than fictional stories presented as real events. The haunted locations and historical context are part of the appeal; paranormal claims remain distinct from proof. Choose the haunted-places collection for more investigations, or scary fiction for invented nightmares.
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