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What happens when two kids, years apart, see the exact same “old man” in their home? This week’s Sinister Sightings brings us a possible guardian angel, a woman in white who multiple people swear they saw, a house where objects seem to move on their own, and a terrifying shadow figure that appeared in a dream just hours before a family emergency.

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Kerri takes us to Indianapolis, 1977, where a man walked into a mortgage office with a sawed-off shotgun and a grudge. Tony Kiritsis was convinced mortgage broker Dick Hall had cheated him out of his land, so he took Hall hostage with a “dead man’s wire,” a shotgun wired straight to the back of Hall’s head.

Donna heads to Staten Island to a gorgeous Victorian mansion with a very ugly history. Kreischer Mansion was built as a wedding gift by a wealthy brick-maker, but tragedy moved in almost as fast as the family did. Generations later, the hous...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has messages from the other side, a childhood crime that involves a very determined neighbor and a getaway bike, and a tiny sign from a lost loved one that showed up exactly when it was needed.

We’ve got a medium delivering a message she shouldn’t have known, dreams that may be more than dreams, a five-year-old getting fingerprinted by police, and one little dime that means absolutely everything. Creep it real, and don’t get scared!

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Donna takes us to Cokeville, Wyoming, in 1986, where a man walked into an elementary school with a homemade bomb and took nearly 150 kids and teachers hostage. When that bomb went off, the outcome made no sense on paper.

Kerri brings us to postwar Tokyo and the story of Miyuki Ishikawa, a respected midwife trusted with the most vulnerable babies in the city. What was actually happening inside her maternity home is one of the darkest cases Kerri has ever covered.

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This week’s Sinister Sightings is packed with creepy listener stories, paranormal experiences, and one story that goes completely off the rails.

We’re heading to the allegedly haunted Road to Nowhere in Bryson City, North Carolina, where an abandoned tunnel and a broken government promise have helped create one of the eeriest spots in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then, one listener shares emotional visits from deceased family members through incredibly vivid dreams, while another takes us back to a childhood camping trip that turned into a nightmare.

And then… there’s Frank. A creepy stranger...

We're switching things up this week! Instead of our usual one true crime and one paranormal story, we're going all in on one of the most infamous cases in American history: Lizzie Borden.

Kerri takes us back to Fall River, Massachusetts, on a sweltering August morning in 1892, when Andrew and Abby Borden were found dead inside their own home. She walks us through the family tension, the strange behavior, the evidence (and the lack of it), and the trial that had the whole country picking sides.

Donna picks up where the history leaves off. The...

Ouija boards, mimics, stalkers, and a ghost who may have actually been trying to help. This week’s Sinister Sightings brings us a spirit stuck in 1864, something calling from upstairs in Mom’s voice, a terrifying reminder that sometimes the living are scarier than the dead, and a haunted Virginia townhouse.

Basically, trust your gut, don’t follow the voice, and maybe leave the Ouija board ALONE.

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Donna takes us to Merion, Pennsylvania, where the General Wayne Inn served travelers for nearly 300 years and, if you believe the stories, some of them never checked out. She digs into the Revolutionary War–era ghosts, the staff who swore something was sharing the building with them, and why this old tavern has been called one of the most haunted in America.

Kerri covers Sherri Papini, a young mom from Redding, California, disappeared while out on a run and was found 22 days later on Thanksgiving Day with an account of being abducted that launched a massive search fo...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has a little bit of everything: a mimic with a McDonald’s alibi, loved ones finding their way back to say goodbye, a creepy-ass Peekaboo puppy, and a dad who apparently made terrorizing his children a full-time hobby. Plus, we learn that sometimes the scariest monsters aren’t paranormal at all.

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Kerri covers the murders of Rori Hache and Kandis Fitzpatrick, walking through how a routine plumbing call in an Oshawa basement apartment in 2017 blew open a case that reached back nearly a decade to a woman who'd never been found. She digs into how Adam Strong went from a stunned 911 call to two convictions, and why one family is still fighting for the answer they were promised.

Donna tells us about the Battersea Poltergeist, the mysterious 1956 haunting that started when a silver key showed up on 15 year old Shirley Hitchings' pillow and didn't fit a single lock...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has us asking all the important questions: Why are teenage boys always breaking into places they shouldn’t? Who is peeking around the corner? And can you accidentally astral project while watching Power Rangers?! We’ve got creepy grannies, UFOs, premonitions, shadow people, and one hell of a childhood experience. Basically everything but the kitchen sink.

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Donna dives into the eerie case of Etta Smith, whose vivid psychic premonition led her straight to the body of missing Melanie Uribe. The discovery raises questions about intuition and the unexplained.

Kerri covers the heartbreaking story of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old whose death by suicide followed a cruel MySpace hoax, sparking a national conversation about cyberbullying and online accountability.

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Y’all… what are we supposed to do with these stories?! This week we’ve got a woman in a closet who absolutely does not belong there, a grocery store encounter that has us screaming RED FLAG, a haunted doll because apparently we’re just buying those on the internet now, and an ice fishing trip that quickly turns into a whole lot of NOPE. So get comfy, close your closet door (obviously), and come be creeped out with us.

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Kerri covers the disappearance of Martha Leanne Green, a case that has left her family searching for answers for nearly four decades. What happened during those few hours on a Tennessee highway has become a decades-long mystery, with unanswered questions and a family still waiting to learn what happened to Leanne.

Donna takes us into the supernatural side of Dolly Parton, from the strange experiences that seem to run in the Parton family to Dolly’s own stories of intuition, premonitions, and things that can’t quite be explained.

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A missing bottle mysteriously reappears, a ghost gets a little too handsy, and a paranormal investigation at the Old Jail in St. Augustine may lead to a message from beyond the grave. Plus, a listener shares a devastating hometown crime, a sleepwalking incident that seriously creeped out an ex, and a recurring childhood nightmare involving a car barreling down the highway with no one behind the wheel.

Come hang out with us for another round of your true crime, paranormal encounters, creepy experiences, and all-around weirdness.

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Donna covers the case of Gottliebin Dittus, a 19th-century German woman at the center of one of the era's most infamous cases of supposed demonic affliction, and the years-long ordeal that drew pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt into her story and shaped his ministry.

Kerri covers the murder of Carla Knowlton, shot to death on a rural Arkansas highway just weeks before her wedding. Her fiancé, Elbert Holder, staged to look like a robbery. The witness who helped crack the case open may surprise you.

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We’ve got a listener who still thinks about the little boy from her childhood who desperately needed someone to notice what was happening at home, a creepy encounter with a stranger that ends in a full-on RUN FOR YOUR LIFE moment, and a solo backpacking trip where a therapist realizes the man camping nearby might be trying to tell her he’s a sociopath.

Then we head to 1990s Las Vegas for a terrifying childhood encounter that may have been an attempted abduction. And because we need a little paranormal in our lives, two cats staring and...

Kerri dives into the tragic 2018 killing of University of Utah student-athlete Lauren McCluskey, who was murdered by a man she had briefly dated after he lied about his identity and criminal past. The episode examines the warning signs Lauren reported to campus police in the days before her death and the systemic failures that followed, which ultimately led to major reforms in campus safety policy.

Donna explores the eerie phenomenon known as "the Third Man," where people in extreme situations—mountaineers, shipwreck survivors, and disaster victims—report sensing an unseen presence guiding or comforting them. From Shackleton's Anta...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has a little bit of everything: a dream home with a dark history and a ghost who may have never left, a terrifying encounter with something in the woods mimicking a woman’s cries for help, and a shadow outside a bedroom window that sends an entire house into panic mode. Ghosts, cryptid encounters, creepy true stories, and plenty of WTF moments… just the way we like it.

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Donna kicks things off with a trip to the Devil's Tramping Ground in Chatham County, North Carolina—a barren circle in the woods where legend says nothing will grow, animals refuse to enter, and anything left overnight mysteriously vanishes or moves by morning. She digs into the folklore behind the site, from Satan's midnight planning sessions to the eerie scientific explanations researchers have tried (and failed) to pin down.

Then Kerri takes us into one of the most haunting true crime cases of the 1920s: the disappearance of nine-year-old Walter Collins from Los Angeles, and the "Changeling" sc...

Y’all sent us some GOOD ones this week! We’ve got a day on the lake that goes very wrong, a giant mystery snake that turns out to have a wild explanation, and a haunted 100-year-old house where something decides to stand at the end of the bed and pretend to be someone it definitely is not.
Then we meet “Ghost Guy,” who may have attached himself to one of our listeners when she was a teenager. We’re talking footsteps around the bed, whispers in the middle of the night, a homemade Ouija board, and then... he just di...

Kerri covers the case of Joy Hibbs. Joy's home was set ablaze to hide the crime and the case went cold for over three decades. It's the story of a family's relentless push for answers, culminating in a 2022 arrest that finally brought her killer to justice

Donna heads to rural Nova Scotia for the eerie legend of Caledonia Mills, where a 1922 farmhouse was plagued by a string of mysterious fires that seemed to ignite from nowhere. Investigators, reporters, and even a young girl at the center of it all left the case unsolved to this day, fueling...

This week’s Sinister Sightings has EVERYTHING. Shadow people that seem a little too real, a possible mimic calling out from inside a house, a true crime story that left our jaws on the floor, and one listener whose "not-so-Ambien" adventures somehow keep getting even weirder. Grab your emotional support beverage and join us for another round of stories from the best damn Creepsters on the planet. 👻💀 Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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Donna dives into the life of Richard Lael-Lillard, including his appearance on Ghost Adventures, and unpacking the hauntings tied The Gentleman Psychic.

Kerri covers the case of Shawn Grate, the Ohio man whose kidnapping of a Jane Doe cracked open a string of brutal murders.

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A face hidden in wallpaper that you can’t unsee. A mysterious PowerPoint that appears after a father’s death and then vanishes without a trace. An old house where footsteps, whispers, moving objects, and one seriously creepy closet make it clear the family may not be alone.

This week’s Sinister Sightings brings possible messages from beyond the grave, haunted house activity, unexplained phenomena, and a couple of nighttime scares that might have a slightly less paranormal explanation.

Was it ghosts, coincidence, something we can’t explain… or just another reason to keep the damn light...

Kerri covers the disturbing true story of Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids. The Canadian commune where a self-proclaimed prophet's control his followers which escalated into years of documented abuse and violence. It's a hard listen at times, but an important one about how isolation and manipulation let something so horrific go unchecked for so long.

Donna's story takes us to the Grand Midway Hotel. This once-grand stopover has a past that includes fires, financial ruin, and a guest list that apparently never fully checked out. She'll get into the ghost tours, the reported sightings, a...

Dreams from beyond, homemade Ouija boards, creepy childhood rituals, and one small-town gas station story that goes completely off the rails.

This week’s Sinister Sightings brings listener-submitted paranormal stories involving a possible premonition, a strange doppelgänger coincidence, spirit board experiments, unexplained scratches, and a Mississippi revenge story we were absolutely NOT prepared for.

Come for the ghosts and Ouija boards. Stay for the Ethels…and one of the most unhinged endings we’ve ever received.

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Donna dives into the Mackenzie Poltergeist, the legendary haunting centered on the Black Mausoleum in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirkyard, where visitors have reported hundreds of unexplained physical incidents since 1998.

Kerri covers Joseph Kallinger, the Philadelphia "Shoemaker" whose horrific childhood abuse gave way to a killing and torture spree he carried out with his own 13-year-old son.

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This week's Sinister Sightings has everything we love... creepy little ghost kids, mysterious figures lurking where they definitely shouldn't be, visitation dreams that'll have you ugly crying.

These listener submissions are spooky, emotional, heartwarming, and just plain weird in the best way. Come laugh, get goosebumps, question your sanity, and, as always... creep it real.

If you love real ghost stories and unexplained mysteries, this one's for you. Do you have your own Sinister Sighting to share? Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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Kerri dives into the chilling unsolved Burger Chef murders of 1978, where four young employees vanished from an Indiana fast-food restaurant only to be found brutally killed days later. Decades of investigation, false leads, and one of the largest task forces in Indiana history still haven't solved the case.

Donna heads south to explore the eerie legends surrounding the Miami Aerospace Academy, a shuttered facility rumored to be haunted by restless spirits tied to its troubled past.

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This week, we're diving into one of our wildest collections of Sinister Sightings yet. A 5 year old makes a terrifying wish that seemingly comes true days later, a grieving mother believes her son visits through a mysterious Ring camera orb, a childhood encounter with a "Martian lady" may have been something far stranger, and one innocent Ouija board session unleashes an attachment that lasts nearly twenty years. From unexplained guilt and possible UFOs to spirits, strange dreams, and haunted memories, these true listener stories will leave you questioning just how thin the veil really is. Creep it real... and...

Donna takes us to Collinsville, Illinois to explore the legendary Seven Gates of Hell. This is a spooky stretch of road where local legend says driving through all seven gates at midnight will land you in the underworld itself.

Kerri covers Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer," whose decades-long killing spree in Washington State made him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. How has she not covered this story, yet?

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Ghosts, haunted houses, creepy caves, phantom footsteps, and one listener who may have come face-to-face with something that definitely wasn't human.

This week's Sinister Sightings is full of true paranormal experiences, shadowy encounters, and spooky listener stories. From a historic mansion that refuses to stay quiet to a childhood memory that's still causing nightmares decades later. If you love real ghost stories and unexplained mysteries, this one's for you. Do you have your own Sinister Sighting to share? Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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Kerri covers the disturbing case of Karla Faye Tucker, a woman whose brutal involvement in the murders of Jerry Lynn Dean and Deborah Ruth Thornton landed her on death row. Her transformation behind bars sparked a national conversation about redemption, justice, and who deserves mercy.

Donna dives into the fascinating and eerie history of the Great Saltair, Utah's legendary lakeside resort that seemed cursed from the start. Fires, floods, falling attendance, and a lake that had a mind of its own lead people to wonder was it just bad luck, or was something working against it?

Ghost kids. Shadow people. A haunted house full of whispers. And a 3 a.m. encounter no one can explain. This week's Sinister Sightings is packed with paranormal experiences submitted by listeners who still can't make sense of what they saw. Whether you believe in ghosts, mimics, or something far stranger, these stories might make you sleep with the lights on. Do you have your own Sinister Sighting to share? Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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Donna dives into the strange case of James Leininger, a young boy whose vivid memories of a WWII fighter pilot's life left even skeptical parents searching for answers. Is it past-life recall, coincidence, or something else entirely?

Kerri tells the story of Matthew Shepard, a young man whose murder became one of the most pivotal moments in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. It's a heavy, important story.

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Can the dead visit us in our dreams? And what happens when a child's imaginary visitors become a little too real?

This week, listeners share chilling paranormal encounters, unexplained dreams, childhood hauntings, and possible messages from beyond. From a dream that seemed connected to a real-life tragedy to eerie cries for help in the woods, these stories will leave you questioning what's really out there.

👻 Haunted dreams & spirit encounters
🌲 A terrifying voice in the woods
💀 Sleep paralysis & shadow figures
❤️ Signs from loved ones who have passed
😱 A child who may have been protected f...

Kerri covers the case of Raymond Edmunds, dubbed "Mr. Stinky" by a cheeky newspaper sub-editor. He was a convicted double murderer and serial rapist who terrorized Victoria, Australia for over two decades.

Donna tells us about Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the Ladies of Llangollen. They were two upper-class Irish women determined to resist the fate of conventional marriage, so committed to their freedom that they disguised themselves as men and fled Ireland together in 1778. They settled into a Gothic home called Plas Newydd in North Wales, where their unconventional life together both scandalized and captivated everyone. <...

Can you become haunted just by visiting a Titanic exhibit?

This week on Sinister Sightings, we're diving into chilling listener stories featuring ghostly encounters, unexplained phenomena, and moments that are almost impossible to explain. One listener visits an immersive Titanic experience, only to leave convinced they encountered something that didn't belong among the living.

We also hear from a listener whose childhood home was plagued by years of terrifying paranormal activity, including sleep paralysis, shadow figures, and a ghostly cat that seemed to have made itself at home. Another shares an emotional hospice experience that...

Donna takes us deep into the Wyoming wilderness to unpack the wild 1974 alien abduction of Carl Higdon. He was a hunter who went out looking for elk and ended up on an extraterrestrial joyride he couldn't explain. Buckle up, because this one gets weird fast.

Kerri covers the heartbreaking disappearance of Faith Roach, a young woman whose case has left her loved ones searching for answers and demanding justice. If you have any information on Faith's disappearance, contact the offices below:

Oconee County Sheriff's Office: 864-638-4111

Crime Stoppers (anonymous): 1-888-CRIME-SC, or...