Inherited Hauntings

What if the game you played… started playing you back? 👀

This week on Inherited Hauntings, we’re testing our nerves (and maybe our common sense) with the internet’s most spine-tingling rituals from the Midnight Game and The 11 Mile Drive to Sweet Tooth, The Answer Man, and a few “lucky” traditions like Rabbit Rabbit that might not be so lucky after all.

Are these games just sleepover dares gone digital, or could they actually open something on the other side? Mom (Nancy) thinks they’re cautionary tales wrapped in teenage bravado. Lindsey thinks they might just be invitations… with consequences. 😬

Expect creepy lore, skeptical laughter, a few questionable life choices, and plenty of ghostly giggles as we explore why humans love to flirt with fear, and what happens when fear flirts back.

🕯️ Because some games don’t end when you stop playing.

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When a UFO case is so convincing that it sparks a squabble between the U.S. Air Force and a small-town police department, you know something weird went down. Welcome to The Exeter Incident of 1965, one of the most credible and chilling UFO encounters in American history.

It all started with a huge craft with red flashing lights hovering over a New Hampshire field, encountered by a lone pedestrian and later confirmed by Officers Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt. What followed was a night of frantic reports, rattled cops, and an Air Force explanation that made absolutely no one happy.

In this episode, we dig into:

• 👀 Norman Muscarello’s terrifying close encounter
• 🚔 How Officers Bertrand & Hunt became unexpected UFO witnesses
• 📑 The Air Force’s Operation Blue Book spin job
• 🙃 The heated back-and-forth between Blue Book and Exeter police
• 🎉 The legacy of the sighting, including today’s Exeter UFO Festival

Of course, we also veer off into our trademark banter — from what aliens might actually want to why UFOs allow us to see them. Strange, funny, and just a little spooky… exactly how we like it.

This isn’t just a story about lights in the sky; it’s about what happens when the people we trust to tell us the truth can’t even agree on what they saw.

👉 Listen now and decide for yourself.

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Is the Chupacabra dangerous… or just misunderstood? 🩸 This week on Inherited Hauntings, we sink our teeth into the chilling legend of El Chupacabra, the blood-sucking cryptid that terrorized Puerto Rico in the 1990s and has since been spotted (maybe 👀) across the Americas. Is it an alien predator, a government experiment gone wrong, or something lurking in the natural world we've yet to understand? And more importantly… would you survive a midnight encounter?

Of course, it wouldn’t be us without some spooky hot takes, everyday-life detours, and plenty of laughs, because listening in feels a lot like hanging out with your best girlfriends (over coffee… or something stronger 🍷).

Tune in for eerie folklore, witty banter, and just the right dose of mystery.

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Savannah doesn’t just drip with Spanish moss, it drips with ghost stories. Enjoy this tour of one of the oldest and most haunted cities in America, because we’re taking you through Savannah’s paranormal underbelly. From the haunted hallways of the Marshall House Hotel to ghostly whispers in the Olde Pink House, and from cemeteries layered in history to a brewery where the spirits come in more than one form. 

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Savannah tour episode without plenty of detours. Expect spooky legends, creepy lore, and along the way, Lindsey and Nancy can’t help but share chills, laughs, and the occasional side tangent, because sometimes the only way to face the dark is with a little lighthearted chaos. It’s part ghost tour, part girl's hangout, and fully paranormal creep show.

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Step inside the crumbling glamour of the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, a once-opulent resort where Hollywood stars, wealthy oil barons, and desperate dreamers crossed paths. Today, its grand ballrooms and healing mineral baths have fallen silent; but the ghosts haven’t checked out.

From the mysterious mistress of the hotel’s owner, to the loyal elevator operator who never left his post, to whispers of the owner himself roaming the halls, the Baker Hotel is steeped in paranormal lore. And then there’s the woman who attempted the ultimate high dive, whose tragic leap left her forever tied to the hotel. Witnesses say her spirit can still be seen plunging into the now-empty pool.

Join Lindsey as she unravels the haunted history, tragic glamour, and eerie legends that make the Baker Hotel one of Texas’s most famous paranormal hotspots. This is a story of ghosts, grief, and lingering echoes of a golden age that refuses to die.

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In this humorous yet creepily captivating episode, Lindsey and Nancy dive headfirst into one of the most chaotic and widely documented paranormal cases of the 20th century: The Enfield Poltergeist. From flying furniture and levitating children to eerie voices that seemed to growl from another dimension, this case left even seasoned investigators questioning what was real, and what was simply too bizarre to explain away.

Along the way, the mother–daughter duo break down the infamous 1977 haunting that later inspired The Conjuring 2, blending bone-chilling details with their signature mix of sharp wit and unfiltered commentary. Was it a hoax, a haunting, or something stranger still?

Expect ghostly mayhem, unsettling moments, and more than a few bursts of nervous laughter as we explore the line between the explainable and the unexplainable. Because when it comes to poltergeists, the story is always messy; and the truth is always a little too creepy, filled with chaos, chills, laughs, and plenty of attitude.

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What happens when a 12th-century inn built on pagan burial grounds meets centuries of ghost stories? You get the Ancient Ram Inn, one of England’s most notorious paranormal hotspots. And just when you thought it couldn’t get creepier, we’re also pulling back the curtain on America’s oldest inn The Groton Inn where Nancy herself once worked and collected spine-tingling firsthand encounters.

In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey explore New England for personal stories of shadowy figures, vanishing women in darkened rooms, and mysterious footsteps echoing in Groton’s narrow halls. Then, we travel across the ocean to Glocestershire England for dark folklore, pagan roots, and chilling legends of the Ancient Ram Inn, from child skeletons unearthed beneath the floorboards to ghostly apparitions that refuse to leave the halls.

Along the way, we’ll laugh, we’ll shiver, and we’ll ask the real questions:

Are these haunted inns just holding onto history… or something darker?

Do pagan rituals leave doorways open for spirits that never close?

And seriously, who in their right mind rents a room at a place nicknamed “The Pagan Portal”?

Equal parts spooky and hilarious, this episode has pagan lore, poltergeist mischief, haunted history, and a personal haunting twist you won’t hear anywhere else.

🎧 Buckle up, because whether it’s the Ancient Ram Inn in England or the Groton Inn in Massachusetts, these haunted stays prove one thing: some checkouts are final.

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What do you get when you mix a flooded valley, a sunken ghost town, and hundreds of tragic deaths? You get Lake Lanier, the most infamous body of water in Georgia, and maybe the most haunted lake in America.

In this chilling and chatty episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey dive headfirst into Lanier’s dark history: the infamous town swallowed by water, the eerily high number of drownings and disappearances, and the numerous accounts of ghostly hands pulling swimmers under. From phantom rafts that vanish into thin air, to apparitions that wander the shorelines, we explore why this man-made lake has become a breeding ground for terrifying stories.

But that’s not all; Nancy and Lindsey also share a few unsettling incidents from their own time spent in bodies of water.  Spoiler alert: sometimes the lake reaches back.

Spooky, weird, and just the right amount of unhinged, this haunted lake trip will make you laugh, shiver, and maybe wonder whether that ripple in the dark is just a fish... or something reaching up. 

If you’ve ever wondered whether water can hold memories, if restless spirits still linger below the surface, or if you should think twice before that late-night swim… this episode is for you.

🎧 Press play, keep your life jacket handy.

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Was it the most haunted object in the world… or the internet’s greatest ghost story hustle?
In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey pry open (figuratively… we’re not that reckless) the infamous Dybbuk Box, a creepy wine cabinet said to imprison a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore. From its chilling “possession” stories and viral eBay listing to celebrity encounters and its current life behind glass in Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum, we unravel the tangled web of fact, fiction, and full-on fakelore.

But here’s the twist: in 2021, original seller Kevin Mannis admitted the entire backstory was made up. So… case closed? Not so fast. We explore every theory, from elaborate hoax to haunted-by-belief, and ask the question: can an object become cursed simply because enough people believe it is?

Also in this episode:

• Folklore vs. Fakelore Quiz — can you spot the real legends from the made-up ones?
• Why people ignore “DO NOT OPEN” warnings (spoiler: humans are bad at self-preservation)
• Paranormal marketing 101 — how a spooky story goes viral
• True crime crossover moments (fraud? cultural misrepresentation?)

If you love haunted objects, strange histories, paranormal controversies, and laughing while you question reality, this is your jam.

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Beneath the beauty of America’s National Parks lies something far more chilling than poison ivy or a wrong turn. In this episode of Inherited Hauntings, Nancy and Lindsey lace up their hiking boots and head into the shadowy forests, foggy trails, and unsettling mysteries surrounding some of the most baffling disappearances ever recorded.

From the sudden vanishing of 6-year-old Dennis Martin in the Great Smoky Mountains, to a murdered family discovered under baffling circumstances, and the eerie case of 14-year-old Stacy Arras in Yosemite — we follow the trail of missing persons who stepped into the wild and were never seen the same way again... if at all.

We also explore the patterns identified by Missing 411 author David Paulides: cases where search dogs refuse to track, clothes are found folded or far from the body, and victims re-appear in places that were already searched. Shoes go missing, time doesn’t add up, and the terrain turns inexplicably treacherous.

Are these tragic accidents, criminal cover-ups, or evidence of something stranger lurking just beyond the trailhead?

With a mix of sharp wit, deep curiosity, and a healthy respect for both the rational and the ridiculous, your favorite mother-daughter duo takes a look at the clues the wilderness has left behind, and the ones it hasn’t.

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