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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO

For many pet owners, the loss of a beloved animal can feel just as painful as losing a member of the family. But what if the bond between humans and their pets doesn’t end with death?

Author and pet medium Rob Gutro believes our animal companions can continue to communicate with us from the other side. In his Pets and the Afterlife book series, he explores stories and experiences that suggest dogs, cats, horses, and other animals may send signs to the people they loved du...

During a family trip to southwest Texas in 1992, one teenager experienced something in a hotel room that her family still talks about decades later.

Her stepfather’s brother had died before ever getting the chance to meet her baby brother, something the family had always carried with them emotionally. Late one night after arriving in Texas, she woke to see a strange pinpoint of white light glowing near the bed where her little brother slept. The experience felt oddly peaceful, but deeply unusual.

The next morning, she casually mentioned a strange dream involving a photograph an...

The factory changed after midnight.

Once production slowed and entire sections of the building shut down, the place became something else entirely—dark corridors, empty loading bays, motion lights flickering on and off as employees crossed through isolated parts of the facility alone. Most overnight workers learned quickly not to stare too long into darkened hallways.

Then the new security system was installed.

At first, the strange activity seemed easy to explain: false alarms, cameras disconnecting, motion alerts in locked sections of the building. But the patterns kept repeating. Lights activated in sequence th...

After moving to an isolated farm outside Cherryvale, Kansas in 2010, one couple quickly learned the property already had a reputation among locals. Strange noises echoed from the woods at night, unsettling shadows moved between the barns, and visitors rarely stayed on the property after dark longer than they had to.

But the strangest activity didn’t begin until years later, when repeated late-night calls started coming in reporting cattle wandering loose between two nearby farms. Every time the couple drove out to investigate, they found nothing—no broken fences, no missing cows, no tracks anywhere.

Then...

While attending an estate auction in southern Indiana, a longtime Civil War collector was approached by a strange man offering to show him and another bidder an item not included in the sale. Curious, the two collectors followed him deep into a rural area to an abandoned barn sitting alone off a gravel road.

Inside the barn, hidden away in an old trunk, was a fragile Civil War medic’s cap connected to the seller’s family. Even stranger, the man refused to go near the trunk himself, insisting the others open it instead.

The othe...

While working overnight on a hospital comfort care unit, one nurse spent hours caring for a woman nearing the end of her life after suffering a catastrophic stroke. Unable to speak or move, the patient appeared frightened and in pain as her family gathered around her bedside preparing to say goodbye.

The nurse did everything he could to ease her final hours, repositioning her, managing her pain, and quietly supporting the family through the process of letting her go. Toward the end of the shift, he sensed something in the room shift after the woman’s daughter so...

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

For many pet owners, the loss of a beloved animal can feel just as painful as losing a member of the family. But what if the bond between humans and their pets doesn’t end with death?

Author and pet medium Rob Gutro believes our animal companions can continue to communicate with us from the other side. In his Pets and the Afterlife book series, he explores stories and experiences that suggest dogs, cats, horses, and other animals may send signs to the people they loved during life.

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO

The Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center carries one of the most troubling histories of any institutional facility in the United States.

Once home to thousands of developmentally disabled children and adults, the center became the site of deeply controversial and unethical experiments. Historical records reveal programs connected to the eugenics movement and studies in which children were unknowingly fed cereals containing radioactive isotopes.

Rather than the care and rehabilitation many families expected, life inside Fernald often reflected the darker attitudes of the time.

On a cold winter morning, while taking a detour down a narrow country road before sunrise, one driver found himself passing an old graveyard that dated back centuries. The setting already felt unsettling enough—heavy mist hanging over the road, moonlight cutting through the darkness, and frost covering the ground.

As he rounded a sharp bend near the cemetery, he instinctively glanced into his rearview mirror. What he saw standing in the road behind him instantly sent a shock through his entire body.

A tall dark figure stood motionless in the exact place his car ha...

For years, he dismissed the strange moments in his life as stress, exhaustion, or imagination. A voice where no one stood. Movement caught in reflections. The feeling that something was nearby when he walked home alone at night.

Then the walks started.

After long overnight shifts, he began wandering the city after midnight, moving through streets that felt strangely different once everyone else disappeared. Thinner somehow. Like the normal world relaxed after dark and allowed other things to move unnoticed.

At first, the figure inside the closed laundromat simply watched him Then it...

One October night in 2004, two longtime friends stopped by a house in Deer Park, New York so one of them could quickly grab a few things before a sleepover. What should have been an ordinary stop turned into an experience neither of them has ever been able to explain.

While waiting alone in the driveway, one friend suddenly became overwhelmed by the unmistakable feeling that someone was watching her from outside the car. Not just someone—but specifically a woman. The sensation grew so intense that she eventually abandoned the car and rushed inside the house just to...

Growing up near Playa del Rey in Los Angeles, Wendy remembers one sound more clearly than almost anything else from her childhood: the rumble of trains passing near the house late at night.

The tracks weren’t directly behind the property, but they were close enough that she could hear the trains clearly from her bedroom. Far from frightening her, the sound became comforting—a familiar part of falling asleep nearly every night growing up.

Years later, after the family had long since moved away, Wendy casually mentioned those nighttime trains to her father during a co...

There was nothing unusual about the house. It wasn’t old, it didn’t feel off, and nothing had ever happened there before. So when she heard the back door open in the middle of the day, she didn’t think twice about it. It was a familiar sound, one she’d heard enough times to know exactly what it meant.

She called out right away, expecting someone to answer. When no one did, she waited, listening for anything else that should have followed—but the house stayed quiet. No footsteps, no movement, nothing to match what she had ju...

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

The Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center carries one of the most troubling histories of any institutional facility in the United States.

Once home to thousands of developmentally disabled children and adults, the center became the site of deeply controversial and unethical experiments. Historical records reveal programs connected to the eugenics movement and studies in which children were unknowingly fed cereals containing radioactive isotopes.

Rather than the care and rehabilitation many families expected, life inside Fernald often reflected the darker attitudes of the time.

Today...

There was nothing unusual about the apartment, and for a long time, there hadn’t been anything unusual about her life either.

Whatever she had experienced as a child, she had written off years ago. Something she outgrew. Something that stayed in the past.

Then one morning, her friend saw someone walk through her apartment. The way she described it wasn’t vague or uncertain. It was clear. Specific. Like she had watched it happen in real time.

And that’s the part that didn’t sit right. Because it wasn’t just that her f...

As Evelyn’s dementia worsened, her family reorganized their lives to keep her in the home she loved. At first, the strange moments felt easy enough to explain—misplaced objects, late-night conversations, and an old porcelain doll that kept appearing in different parts of the house.

But the atmosphere inside the home kept changing.

The upstairs hallway grew unnaturally cold. Knocking echoed from behind a linen closet no one wanted to open after dark. And every night, Evelyn carried the doll upstairs and waited beside the same door as though someone on the other side was...

While visiting family in Mississippi in the late 1990s, one family spent the night at a historic bed and breakfast tied to a disturbing Civil War-era legend involving twin girls and a servant accused of poisoning them.

Most of the family dismissed the story as local folklore. But late that night, two sisters sharing a bedroom overlooking the inn’s courtyard heard something outside that immediately caught their attention: the unmistakable sound of young children laughing and playing after dark.

Curious, they stepped onto the balcony expecting to find other guests’ children below. Instead, they foun...

couple began noticing something strange inside the trailer. At first, it was just movement out of the corner of the eye—a shadowy figure that seemed to appear briefly in the hallway before vanishing whenever they turned to look directly at it.

For months, neither of them said anything. Both quietly assumed the other would think they were losing their mind.

Then one morning in the kitchen, the husband glanced over and saw what he thought was his wife standing only inches away from him. But when he turned fully toward her, he realized he wa...

Exploring an abandoned hospital didn’t seem like a big deal at first. It looked like every other place left to fall apart—quiet, empty, and honestly a little overhyped. As they moved through the rooms, the sounds didn’t stand out right away. Small things here and there, the kind you expect in an old building and don’t think twice about.

But there was one moment that didn’t line up.

Walking down a long hallway, he thought his friend had stepped into a room off to the side. He even turned to say someth...

This is Part Two of our conversation.

Boos, Brews & BBQ is a new paranormal series that takes a different approach to paranormal investigation.

Each episode brings the team into locations known for reported activity, where they dig into the history, investigate, and see what they can experience firsthand—while also checking out the local food and beer along the way.

The show features Ty Sherrell, John Guarnieri, and Barry Kerch—three very different backgrounds coming into the same investigation. Ty brings a background as a BBQ expert, John comes from the world of secu...

In a house where she’d already been hearing footsteps at night, Lauren had been told it was nothing—just an old place making noise.

A few weeks after moving in, that explanation stopped working.

During an argument with her younger brother, she slammed the door between their rooms. It had no handle, no latch—no way to actually stay shut. But it did.

No matter what they tried, it wouldn’t move. Not for them. Not for their mom. Until they were told to apologize. And the moment they did—the door opened.

Arthur never sounded frightened when he talked about the impossible. He spoke about strange experiences the same way he talked about weather, work, or repairing a fence—plainly, without embellishment, as though none of it required belief to be real.

Most people remembered the story from the war: the unseen voice that ordered him out of a trench moments before it took a direct hit. But that wasn’t the only thing that followed him through life.

There were other moments too. A figure standing on the moor where no one should have been. Places he r...

Vanessa says her husband has never believed in ghosts, spirits, or anything paranormal. Even now, he hates talking about the one experience that changed his mind.

As a teenager, shortly after his mother visited a psychic medium hoping to learn more about his future, he began feeling strangely unsettled for reasons he couldn’t explain. Then one night, after football practice, he went to sleep exhausted and expecting an ordinary night.

Instead, something happened in his bedroom that terrified not only him, but everyone else in the house. Family members heard a violent crash upstairs be...

When she was ten years old, living in military housing while her father was stationed in Washington, one terrifying night changed her life forever. What began as an ordinary evening in bed quickly turned into something she still struggles to talk about decades later.

She remembers staring at the ceiling when it suddenly appeared to crack open from both sides. Then something began forcing its way through. Frozen in place and unable to move or scream, she became convinced she was about to die.

At first, her family assumed it had all been a nightmare...

After their mother passed, returning home felt different. Not in a way you could point to—just something that didn’t sit right.

A few nights later, his younger brother started hearing her voice. Calling him from the hallway.

At first, it felt like grief. The kind of thing a child might hear when they’re trying to make sense of losing someone. But it didn’t happen just once. And the way he reacted… it wasn’t confusion. He recognized it.

Then one night, it wasn’t just him anymore.

A voice in the...

Boos, Brews & BBQ is a new paranormal series that takes a different approach to paranormal investigation.

Each episode brings the team into locations known for reported activity, where they dig into the history, investigate, and see what they can experience firsthand—while also checking out the local food and beer along the way.

The show features Ty Sherrell, John Guarnieri, and Barry Kerch—three very different backgrounds coming into the same investigation. Ty brings a background as a BBQ expert, John comes from the world of security, working with Shinedown, and Barry, as the drummer for...

Cameron was on a ghost tour in St. Augustine, expecting the usual—history, atmosphere, and stories designed to make you look twice at the shadows.

At one cemetery stop, before the guide had even started talking, he saw a little boy run around a gravestone. It caught his attention, but he didn’t immediately think anything paranormal. It just seemed… out of place. A kid where there shouldn’t have been one.

Then the guide began telling the story.

Years earlier, a young boy had died nearby, and people claimed his spirit could still be...

After Christmas, Paige helped her aging mother pack away decorations and settle the house back into its usual quiet routine. At first, the strange things felt small enough to ignore—a misplaced knife, a missing photograph, little absences that seemed more irritating than alarming.

But the house didn’t feel empty after the holidays. It felt active.

As more objects disappeared, the atmosphere inside the home began shifting into something heavier and more deliberate. Then late at night, Paige started hearing movement in the walls and soft, measured sounds from somewhere deep inside the house—like s...

Years after attending the school as a student, Dave returned to the building to work nights as a janitor. At first, it just felt unsettling in the way old schools sometimes do after dark—quiet hallways, empty classrooms, strange energy in certain parts of the building.

But it didn’t take long before things started happening that he couldn’t explain. He began hearing unexplained noises coming from empty rooms, sensing an overwhelming presence near the main office, and seeing things in the hallways that shouldn’t have been there at all.

One classroom in particul...

Just weeks before a fatal car accident claimed the lives of his grandparents in 1985, Matthew’s grandmother began having a disturbing recurring dream. Night after night, she described the same violent crash involving a gray pickup truck, a rollover accident, and a family member dying inside the vehicle.

The dreams became so vivid and persistent that they started frightening the entire family. Believing the dreams were warnings about her daughter, Matthew’s grandmother repeatedly begged relatives to drive carefully and tried desperately to prevent the tragedy she believed was coming.

But when the accident finally happ...

A late-night visit to a small rural cemetery in Indiana was supposed to be nothing more than curiosity—just a quiet stop to see if the local stories held any truth.

At first, it didn’t seem like much. Just an open space, a few headstones, and the stillness you’d expect that far from town.

Then came the sound. A baby crying somewhere in the dark.

But before they could move, something appeared at the edge of the woods.

What they witnessed next didn’t feel violent or threatening. In a strang...

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO

Julie Speer has spent her life experiencing the world in a way most people cannot. As a sensitive empath, she says she can sense energies, emotions, and even spiritual presences that often go unnoticed by others.

From a young age, these experiences made Julie feel different. Many of the things she sensed were dismissed as imagination or misunderstanding, leaving her to navigate a reality that few around her truly understood.

Over time, Julie began to better understand what it meant to live as an...

When Janet saw what was happening, there wasn’t time to think—only react. While others stood frozen, she ran straight into a situation most people would instinctively avoid, doing whatever she could to help in a moment that quickly spiraled into chaos.

In the middle of it all, someone stepped in beside her. Calm. Silent. Helping in exactly the ways she needed, without hesitation and without question.

And then, just as suddenly as he appeared… he was gone.

Later, when things settled and the questions began, the answers didn’t add up. There ha...

Aaron first noticed the figure from the field below the house—a tall man stepping from the shadows and walking through the side door with complete certainty, as though he belonged there. By the time Aaron reached the house, no one was inside.

Then it happened again.

What followed wasn’t violent or chaotic. It was quieter than that. The same footsteps. The same path through the house. The same slow climb up the stairs every single night. And with each appearance, the pattern became harder to dismiss as anything explainable.

Because whatever was...

Shortly after ending a difficult relationship in 2021, one woman began experiencing terrifying episodes of sleep paralysis night after night. At first, it was just a tall shadow figure standing outside her bedroom door. But with each passing night, the encounters became more intense—and far more personal.

By the third night, she was convinced whatever was visiting her wasn’t simply part of a dream anymore.

What makes the story even more unsettling is what happened next. After hearing everything her sister had experienced, the caller decided to sleep in the room herself, believing she coul...

It started like something a lot of kids experience.

An imaginary friend—someone to talk to, someone who was always there when he needed it. At the time, it felt normal, even comforting. Just something his mind created.

But there was one detail that never quite fit. The friend didn’t always look the same.

Years later, long after it had disappeared, something happened that made him question what it had really been. Because what he saw that day wasn’t a memory.

It was there. And it knew who he was.<...

She restores antique music boxes, so hearing one play at odd hours isn’t unusual. Testing, adjusting, letting them run—it’s all part of the process, and most strange sounds have a simple explanation if you know what to listen for. When one started playing from her office late at night, she assumed it was something minor, the kind of small oversight that happens when you’ve been working on multiple pieces at once.

But then it happened again. And then again.

Always late. Always when the house was quiet enough to hear it clearly...

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Julie Speer has spent her life experiencing the world in a way most people cannot. As a sensitive empath, she says she can sense energies, emotions, and even spiritual presences that often go unnoticed by others.

From a young age, these experiences made Julie feel different. Many of the things she sensed were dismissed as imagination or misunderstanding, leaving her to navigate a reality that few around her truly understood.

Over time, Julie began to better understand what it meant to live as an empath—someone wh...

She didn’t spend the morning working with him—but she saw him more than once, moving through the theater like he always did. Quiet, focused, exactly where you’d expect him to be.

At one point, he even helped her, pointing her toward something she hadn’t been able to find—something only he would have known had been moved.

Nothing about it felt unusual at the time. It wasn’t until later, when people started asking where he was, that everything stopped making sense.

Because he hadn’t been there at all.

And...

She’s seen spirits her entire life. They appear with questions tied to moments that have already happened—confused, searching, trying to understand something they’ve left behind.

There’s always a pattern. Until one night, there isn’t.

The woman who appeared in her apartment didn’t seem lost or disoriented. She asked a simple question—then another. And this time, it wasn’t about the past.

It was about something that hadn’t happened yet.

The next day, when the call came in, everything changed. Because the event the woman had asked ab...