What Ash Kelley has said about Ghost sightings and hauntings

Kelley asked listeners to submit Halloween-themed listener tales ahead of October.

“that means you need to send us your Halloween listener tales, please”

Morbid: Listener Tales 114: Back to School Tales (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 1:50

Kelley jokingly attributed the college house fire to the cross left on the stove rather than the reported car explosion.

“No, it was the cross on the stove. Yeah, probably. That's what I think”

Morbid: Listener Tales 114: Back to School Tales (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 51:52

Kelley called the Manitoba forest story one of the best listener tales the show has done.

“I think that's one of the best listener tales we've ever done”

Morbid: Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales (Jun 25, 2026) · Listen from 54:16

Kelley said she would rather face a human threat than an invisible one.

“I'd rather deal with a human scary person than an invisible”

Morbid: Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales (Jun 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:25:53

Kelley advised that after leaving a haunted place one should shake off and explicitly tell entities they may not follow.

“you have to shake everything off and you have to explicitly tell the entities you cannot follow me”

Morbid: Listener Tales 110: Playdates with the Paranormal (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 13:50

Kelley said she would not want child ghosts in her home.

“I don't know about that. I don't really want kid ghosts”

Morbid: Listener Tales 110: Playdates with the Paranormal (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 15:09

Kelley joked that producer Mikey tried to silence the studio presence the hosts call Nicholas.

“Mikey just tried to silence Nicholas. And it's me he doesn't like?”

Morbid: Listener Tales 110: Playdates with the Paranormal (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 43:46

Kelley said she loves haunting episodes while acknowledging the experiences are horrifying for those who live through them.

“I know they're horrifying for the people who live through them, but I... I love hearing them”

Morbid: The Perron Family Haunting (Apr 2, 2026) · Listen from 1:06:13

Kelley reports that guests in Suite 409 see a solidly appearing man in early 20th-century dress and a bowler hat who then vanishes.

“People describe seeing him as a completely solid figure. They will wake up in the middle of the night and see this man standing in their room”

Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 36:39

Kelley says employees and guests report cigar smoke rings emerging from Colonel Chancellor's lobby portrait.

“Employees and guests have seen legit smoke rings coming out of his portrait, which hangs in the lobby”

Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 38:21

Kelley recounts a guest who asked a woman in white to hold the elevator, found no one inside, and smelled overwhelming lavender perfume.

“he was like no that woman literally just held the door for me that would fuck me right up but what he did experience was a like overwhelming smell of lavender perfume”

Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 41:28

Kelley links library screams to a woman killed when a tractor trailer crashed into a bank doorway now preserved as a window.

“there was a terrible accident where a tractor trailer lost control and crashed into that doorway oh shit and killed a woman”

Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 43:08

Kelley's favorite report is a woman's voice coming over a ballroom microphone saying 'howdy fellas', possibly a local madam.

“a microphone was set up that's when a cracking woman's voice came across the microphone saying howdy fellas”

Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 47:27

Kelley says she finds the sound of children singing frightening, making the Jingle Bells report the scariest to her.

“i fucking hate the sound of children singing you do yeah i just hate it”

Morbid: Haunted Roadtrip: West Virginia Edition! (Mar 30, 2026) · Listen from 45:26

Kelley said she believed both the listener's ghost-children experience and that his premonition saved his friend's life.

“I believe that you heard ghost children”

Morbid: Listener Tales 108: 90's Tales! (Mar 26, 2026) · Listen from 46:19