SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Ostrich Inn has seen it's fair share of murders over the years, with over 60 committed here. Most famous of all were those committed in the 13th century by the landlord, Mr Jarman, who made a very profitable sideline by murdering his guests. The foundations of The Ostrich Inn were laid in 1106, when Henry I was on the throne. ...
Jul 30, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 36
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey In this first half of the Guyra Ghost story Anne and Renata look at the back story, the family and what was happening that culminated in a perfect storm of poltergeist activity in a tiny little township called Guyra in Australia. This is a story that will be thought provoking, sad and horrifying. It became world wide news and chan...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 35
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The owner, employees and guests at Sauk Centre’s Palmer House Hotel have been plagued by a strange, debilitating and demonic energy – an energy that owner Kelly Freese believes originates in the hotel basement. This should come as no surprise to those who are familiar with the hotel’s history: The current hotel was built after the...
Jul 16, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 34
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Transylvania has long been known as a place where vampires, werewolves, and the souls of the dead haunt dark forests and spooky-looking fortresses, Bran Castle being one of the most famous and most beautiful. The Castle has been associated with Vlad the Impaler, the real Dracula, but did Vlad actually stay there? Who is the royal ...
Jul 09, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 33
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Tower of London is a historic castle built on the River Thames in the city’s center. It was founded in 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. Like other places with a past filled with skullduggery and fear, the Tower is said to be haunted. Most of the ghosts are unfortunate souls who met an untimely–and many times unj...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 32
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey In its heyday, royalty, movie moguls and superstars stayed here. A famous movie director from Hollywood even based one of his horror movies on one of the ghost stories he himself encountered during his stay there. This week we visit Waitomo Caves House in New Zealand to examine its haunted history. Follow Anne and Renata: Facebook...
Jun 10, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 31
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Shrouded in mystery with legends that have been passed down from one generation to the next Bhangarh Fort is one of the places on the planet that is believed to be the abode of demons, ghosts and spirits and of several malevolent souls. There are signs everywhere warning people not to visit this site after dark yet it seems to att...
Jun 02, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 30
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Bodmin Jail (alternatively Bodmin Gaol) is an historic former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built in 1779 and closed in 1927, the large range of buildings is now largely in ruins, although parts of the prison have been turned into a tourist attraction. During its 150 years of incarceration of p...
May 26, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 29
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Prince Henry Hospital Little Bay, Sydney, is where medical staff dedicated their lives to caring for the sick, the injured and patients in isolation, suffering with dangerous and highly-infectious diseases. The remaining buildings have now been turned into private accommodation and a dedicated Museum remains to pay homage to t...
May 19, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 28
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey It all began with a 13-year-old boy, a bookish child born to a German American Protestant family in 1948. An alleged true haunting went on the catch the imagination of a creative writer named William Blatty while he was still at University. This led him to write one of the most controversial books of its time “The Exorcist”. This ...
May 12, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 27
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Leap Castle, said to be one of the longest continually inhabited Castles in Ireland, is located in Coolderry, County Offaly. Some report it to have been built as far back as 1250 CE. With such a long and dark history, it is not surprising that ghostly tales are bound to arise. Many visitors and ghost hunters have reported experien...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 26
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The wild apparition of a distraught woman, a phantom hitch-hiking ghost that disappears from the back seat of cars, these female spirits have been haunting the Central Coast area near Jenny Dixon Beach for years. Frightening reports of encounters are legendary in this part of NSW, Australia. Who are these ghosts and why do they ha...
Apr 28, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Three film students go to Burkittsville Maryland to make a documentary on the Blair Witch legend. Mysteriously all three go missing and a year later all that is recovered is footage of their last days in the woods. Their bodies have never been found. What really happened to these three teenagers? What is the Blair Witch legend? Did this really happen? Find out the truth in this week's episode of True Hauntings. Follow Anne and Renata: Facebook: @AnneAndRenata Instagram: @AnneAndRenata YouTube: @...
Apr 21, 2021•51 min
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey This is Part Two of our podcast on Borley Rectory - listen in to the first episode if you haven't already and then come back to listen to our wrap up of what we think may be going on. Follow Anne and Renata: Facebook: @AnneAndRenata Instagram: @AnneAndRenata YouTube: @AnneAndRenata TikTok: @AnneAndRenata Visit www.anneandrenata.co...
Apr 14, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 23
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Until it's demolition in 1944 Borley Rectory in Essex UK was the stuff of paranormal legend and known as probably the most haunted house in Britain. Unexplained apparitions, stories of a phantom nun and a headless coachman are but a few of the tales associated with this home. This is Part 1 where we explore the history and tales o...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 22
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Catacombs of Paris are underground tunnels in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people after the need to empty the overloaded cemeteries due to the smell, decay and spreading infection. Bones were moved in the dead of night into the Catacombs. Do you think a place like this might be haunted? Do you...
Mar 31, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 21
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel was a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide. Her parents believed that Annelise was possessed by a demonic force. Was she really? Could there have been ...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 20
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey A student nurse was given a doll in 1970 by her mother as a gift. Allegedly, this doll was no ordinary doll! Strange things started to happen and a psychic medium told the student that it had become inhabited by the spirit of a deceased girl named "Annabelle". Want to know more about this story? Check out this episode, as we go ri...
Mar 17, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 19
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Palace of Broken Dreams Mayday Hills is a decommissioned ‘Lunatic Asylum’ located at the top of Albert Road in Beechworth and was one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Victoria. At its peak of operation, Mayday Hills consisted of 67 buildings and was home to over 1200 patients and 500 staff. The hospital closed in 1998 a...
Mar 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 18
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey In 1901, a devastating loss took place in the Lemp mansion of Benton Park, Missouri. It shook the family to their core and spelled disaster for the family fortune. Little did the Lemps know, this death was only the first in what was to become a long line of suicides and gruesome misfortunes – was the family cursed? Who exactly was...
Mar 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 17
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Irish Hellfire Club Dublin was alleged to have indulged in Satanic rituals and its members always saved a seat at their banquets for the Devil himself. According to numerous accounts, the members of the Hellfire Club met to drink 'scaltheen' (hot whiskey and melted butter) from a silver punchbowl and they enjoyed their antics ...
Feb 24, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The Hoia Baciu forest is probably the most famous place in Romania. People believe the forest could be under some powerful curse and even a place where the Devil wanders free! Upon entering you can experience nausea, anxiety, skin burns and headaches. UFO have been sighted, there is a strange part of the forest where 'nothing grows' and trees look tortured and distressed. The ladies have toured the forest with Dave Shrader. Listen to their opinions. Check out this episode to find out whether thi...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 15
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Nestled in the quaint small town of Junee, NSW, there lies a grand, sprawling property with a past so dark it’s become a ghost-hunter’s playground and the breeding ground of stories from the unexplainable to the just plain bone-chilling. Monte Cristo Homestead was where the Crawley family once lived – but what happened between its...
Feb 10, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 14
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey In 1882, the New York Times declared that Tombstone’s Bird Cage Theatre was the “roughest, bawdiest, and most wicked night spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast.” Twenty-six deaths and one hundred and forty bullet holes later, this piece of American Wild West history seems to be packed with poltergeists, gunslingers, gam...
Feb 03, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 13
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Queen Mary has been dubbed as one of the “Top 10 most haunted places on Earth” by Time Magazine. On May 27, 1936, the Queen Mary departed from Southampton, England embarking on her maiden voyage. She boasted five dining areas and lounges, two cocktail bars and swimming pools, a grand ballroom, a squash court and even a small h...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 12
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey If you or a loved one is struggling and need someone to talk to, please contact: Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Lifeline Australia: 13 11 14 Aokigahara is known globally as the Japanese Suicide Forest, but we prefer the more beautiful name of the Sea of Trees. It is located in the foothills of Mount Fuji and the history of this site go...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 11
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Child sacrifices to pagan gods, an alleged succubus, the ghosts of priests and a witch that was burnt at the stake are just some of the occupants of a building that sits in a quiet little village in England. If you drive past it, you will notice that it looks completely out of character to its surroundings, but The Ancient Ram Inn...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 10
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey It's the final resting place of thousands of diseased, murdered and insane people. It was the realm of a sadistic doctor who performed horrific operations with total impunity. Its ground is made up from the ashes of the dead. Several hundred years of cruel death on its soil, stepping foot on Poveglia Island is a sure way to scare ...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 9
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey Set against the backdrop of a rugged and windswept coastal setting, Loftus Hall looms over the surrounding landscape. Its historic walls have seen invasion, capture, plague, famine and numerous personal tragedies, many of which live on as ghostly legends. Today, we take a look inside Loftus Hall, Ireland – a place we have both vis...
Dec 16, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 8
SURVEY REQUEST: if our listeners could fill in this survey, it would be appreciated. It will help us attract sponsors :) Many thanks http://bit.ly/truehauntings-survey The Stanley Hotel is located in Estes Park Colorado right on the doorstep of the Rocky Mountain National Park. It has been many things since it opened in 1909 and it also inspired the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s 1977 bestselling novel, ‘The Shining’. King stayed overnight at the hotel…something happened to him there, somethin...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 7
