Ghost sightings and hauntings
Subject in Society & Culture
Ghost sightings and hauntings has come up in 16 episodes across 4 podcasts in TMT, including Morbid, The Shawn Ryan Show, The Joe Rogan Experience. 6 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Ash KelleyCo-host of the true crime podcast Morbid
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 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 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 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
Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels
Urquhart recounted an unexplained incident in which something violently struck a closed door from inside an empty room in her childhood home.
“The door was shut and something from behind the door hit the door from inside so hard that I jumped across the hall”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia Feito (Jun 26, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:41
Urquhart took the opposite view, reasoning that a person can be fought off but a ghost cannot.
“Wait, no, because I was just thinking, here's the thing, you can kill a person”
Morbid: Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales (Jun 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:26:10
Urquhart reported that the studio presence Nicholas appeared to say his own name during the recording.
“that motherfucker just said his name he just said nicholas”
Morbid: Listener Tales 110: Playdates with the Paranormal (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 48:41
Urquhart said the hosts have performed this ritual at the USS Salem, the S.K. Pierce Mansion and the Lizzie Borden house.
“We did it at the S.K. Pierce Mansion, at Lizzie Borden. We've done it every single time”
Morbid: Listener Tales 110: Playdates with the Paranormal (May 28, 2026) · Listen from 14:08
Shawn RyanFormer U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, host of the Shawn Ryan Show
Ryan describes hearing footsteps in a Civil War-era cabin during a filmed shoot, with static appearing in the audio instead.
“we pulled the footage and you can hear static in the, in the audio instead of the footsteps”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #344 Dusty Slay - Moon Landing Conspiracies, Flat Earth, Aliens and the Nephilim (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 2:28:00
Dusty SlayAmerican stand-up comedian and author from Opelika, Alabama
Slay recounts seeing a shadowy figure at the foot of his bed in an 1800s house in West Nashville.
“I look up and there's like a shadowy figure at the foot of the bed. And I kind of like move back and then it's gone”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #344 Dusty Slay - Moon Landing Conspiracies, Flat Earth, Aliens and the Nephilim (Oct 1, 2026) · Listen from 2:22:21
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan speculates that traumatic experiences may leave a kind of memory in physical spaces.
“I have a feeling there may be a type of memory from particularly traumatic experiences that stays in a space”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2523 - Ali Siddiq (Jul 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:15:57
Paul TremblayAmerican horror novelist, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
Tremblay described himself as mostly a skeptic and atheist who nonetheless gets frightened at night.
“98% of my day I'm a card-carrying skeptic atheist, don't believe in anything”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia Feito (Jun 26, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:12
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Morbid · 13 episodes
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
- Crime Junkie · 1 episode
Episodes
The Union Screaming HouseMorbid · Oct 19, 2026 · 59 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley recount the Union Screaming House haunting in Missouri, after chatting about spooky books and Mike Flanagan's Carrie.
- The Haunting of Lemp Mansion
Morbid · Oct 8, 2026 · 47 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley recount the rise and fall of St. Louis's Lemp brewing dynasty, its string of suicides, and the alleged haunting of Lemp Mansion.
#344 Dusty Slay - Moon Landing Conspiracies, Flat Earth, Aliens and the NephilimThe Shawn Ryan Show · Oct 1, 2026 · 2 h 52 min
Comedian Dusty Slay tells Shawn Ryan about his Alabama upbringing, sobriety, comedy career, Torah-observant Christian faith, and doubts about the moon landing and round earth.
- The Eddy Brothers and the High Life Ski Club
Morbid · Oct 1, 2026 · 46 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart recount the 1870s Vermont mediums William and Horatio Eddy, their Spiritualist fame, fraud allegations, and their haunted former tavern.
- Listener Tales 114: Back to School Tales
Morbid · Sep 28, 2026 · 54 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart, costumed as Miss Trunchbull and Miss Frizzle, read back-to-school listener tales about haunted schools and a haunted college house.
- Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
Morbid · Sep 25, 2026 · 2 h 11 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart talk with horror author Richard Chizmar about his Boogeyman trilogy finale, Killing the Boogeyman, and collaborating with Stephen King.
#2523 - Ali SiddiqThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 7, 2026 · 2 h 47 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Ali Siddiq discuss sports betting, social media pressure on comics, organic career building, comedy club stories, ghosts, psychedelics, TV shows, and meat.
- Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia Feito
Morbid · Jun 26, 2026 · 1 h 25 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart talk with horror author Paul Tremblay about his career, AI, and Virginia Feito's novel Victorian Psycho.
- Listener Tales 111: Camping Tales
Morbid · Jun 25, 2026 · 1 h 31 min
Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, dressed as Mothman and Bigfoot, read and riff on five listener-submitted camping horror tales.
- Listener Tales 110: Playdates with the Paranormal
Morbid · May 28, 2026 · 53 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart read listener stories about young children who appear to see, befriend, or remember ghosts and past lives.