Ghostly Podcast

189 Preston Castle

Posted on September 2, 2026September 1, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

In this episode of Ghostly, we head to the tiny Gold Rush town of Ione, California, to explore Preston Castle — a red-brick, Romanesque Revival reform school with a dark past and a reputation as one of the West Coast’s most active haunted locations. Built to correct troubled boys, the castle instead became the site of beatings, escapes, and at least one unsolved murder. Decades after it closed, staff, tour guides, and paranormal investigators all say the same thing: it never really emptied out.

Summer Rewind – Wrigley Field

Posted on August 19, 2026July 7, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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Is Wrigley Field haunted? For our 100th episode, Pat and Rebecca explore the ghosts and eerie history of Chicago’s beloved ballpark. A Ghostly Rewind.

Summer Rewind – Terrace Inn

Posted on August 5, 2026July 7, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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Is the Terrace Inn in Petoskey, Michigan haunted? Pat and Rebecca check into a historic Victorian hotel where some guests never checked out. A Ghostly Rewind.

Summer Rewind – Poltergeist

Posted on July 22, 2026July 7, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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s the Poltergeist curse real? Pat and Rebecca unpack the tragedies, rumors, and eerie legends behind one of Hollywood’s most infamous films. A Ghostly Rewind.

Summer Rewind – Skinwalker Ranch

Posted on July 8, 2026July 7, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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Skinwalker Ranch may be the most paranormally active place in America. Pat and Rebecca dig into the UFOs, cattle mutilations, and high strangeness. A Ghostly Rewind.

Summer Rewind – Alcatraz

Posted on June 24, 2026June 21, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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Is Alcatraz haunted? Pat and Rebecca dig into the ghosts, dark history, and chilling cellblock stories of America’s most infamous prison. A Ghostly Rewind.

188 Leap Castle in County Offaly, Ireland

Posted on June 10, 2026June 8, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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Tucked into the quiet farmland of County Offaly, Ireland, Leap Castle has been called the most haunted place in the world — and the history alone almost justifies it. A priest murdered at the altar by his own brother. A hidden pit found beneath the chapel floor holding over 150 skeletons. A grey, sheep-sized entity with hollow eyes that has been described by witnesses a century apart using nearly identical words. This week, Rebecca brings the legends of the Bloody Chapel, the Oubliette, the Red Lady, the ghost children Emily and Charlotte, and the terrifying Elemental — while Pat lays out eight hundred years of documented history that somehow makes it all harder to dismiss. Is Leap Castle genuinely haunted? You decide.

187 Trans-Allegheny Asylum West Virginia

Posted on May 20, 2026May 20, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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This week on Ghostly, we walk into the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America — the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. Pat traces the building from its hopeful 1858 origins under the Kirkbride Plan, through the Civil War occupation, the catastrophic overcrowding, the 1949 Charleston Gazette exposé, and into the dark summer of 1952 when Dr. Walter Freeman’s “Operation Ice Pick” lobotomized 228 West Virginians in twelve days. Rebecca brings the paranormal — Lily, the little girl in Ward R whose toys still move on command; Jacob, the alcoholic patient with a real paper trail who was first contacted on Ghost Hunters in 2008; Ruth, the man-hating spirit of the Civil War wing; the lobotomy recovery room and its growling shadows; and the nurse whose body lay undiscovered at the bottom of a stairwell for months.

186 Dead Children’s Playground

Posted on May 6, 2026May 5, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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Inside Alabama’s oldest cemetery sits a playground where swings move on their own and children’s laughter drifts from empty equipment. This week on Ghostly: the haunting of Maple Hill Cemetery and the legend that inspired James Kaine’s bestselling horror novel.

185 Gray Man of Pawley Island

Posted on April 22, 2026April 21, 2026 by HallsOfAvalon

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In this episode of Ghostly Podcast, we travel to the salt-marsh shores of South Carolina’s Lowcountry to explore the legend of The Gray Man of Pawleys Island — one of America’s most famous (and most benevolent) ghosts.

Just a quarter mile wide and three miles long, this barrier island south of Myrtle Beach has fewer than two hundred year-round residents — yet for three centuries it has drawn presidents, generals, millionaires, and movie stars. And for more than two hundred years, a solitary figure in gray has been spotted walking its beach in the hours before a hurricane makes landfall. He doesn’t haunt. He doesn’t frighten. He warns. And those who listen almost always return to find their homes untouched — sometimes the only ones left standing for miles.

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