Grinning Man

Spooky Stories with Jim Harold: A Halloween Campfire Special

Somewhere in the SkiesOct 31, 2026

Ufologist Ryan Sprague and veteran paranormal podcaster Jim Harold trade ghost stories around a virtual Halloween campfire. Harold shares listener accounts of a grinning, shape-shifting woman in broad daylight, an uncle's spirit opening a door on command, and a hospital worker who saw her own double across two elevators. Sprague reveals never-before-shared experiences from his Nova Scotia ghost-hunting show, including a Ouija board session that named a girl buried nearby, a tiny top-hatted apparition, and mysterious burns that led to a spirit attachment.

From the Archives featuring David Weatherly

Expanded PerspectivesAug 7, 2026

Paranormal researcher David Weatherly, author of Black Eyed Children and Strange Intruders, explores the idea that strange entities may intrude into our world from another level of existence, and that human belief itself might help create them. He discusses the Philip experiment, the possibly invented ghost of Chloe at the Myrtles Plantation, and the Slender Man as examples of tulpas, or thought-forms brought to life by collective focus. He also recounts his own 1980s encounter with a 'grinning man' in North Carolina, warns about jinn attaching to souvenirs that soldiers bring home from the Middle East, and describes Pukwudgies and 'portal areas' like the Bridgewater Triangle.