Spooky Stories with Jim Harold: A Halloween Campfire Special

Summary

Ufologist Ryan Sprague and veteran paranormal podcaster Jim Harold trade ghost stories around a virtual Halloween campfire. Harold shares listener accounts of a grinning, shape-shifting woman in broad daylight, an uncle's spirit opening a door on command, and a hospital worker who saw her own double across two elevators. Sprague reveals never-before-shared experiences from his Nova Scotia ghost-hunting show, including a Ouija board session that named a girl buried nearby, a tiny top-hatted apparition, and mysterious burns that led to a spirit attachment.

Key takeaways

• 1Caller Aubrey reported a red-haired woman at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019 whose mouth stretched unnaturally wide with too many teeth; the hosts compared it to the Grinning Man and Black Eyed Kids lore
• 2During a blindfolded Ouija session in the basement of the Lunenburg Academy in Nova Scotia, the name 'Sophia' came through; she was a 14-year-old girl buried in the adjacent cemetery under a broken-chained-heart grave, who died by suicide in the mid-1800s after being falsely accused of stealing $10
• 3Texas caller Spencer said his deceased Uncle Troy opened and closed a heavy shag-carpeted bedroom door on command; a later dream in which Troy said he feared a bright light was followed by a sharp drop in activity
• 4Sprague saw a 3-foot-tall elderly apparition in an oversized suit and top hat at a Lunenburg bed and breakfast; the owner's daughter had seen the same figure the previous Christmas
• 5Respiratory therapist Lily from Ohio saw her own double in a hospital elevator in the morning, then that evening saw her earlier self looking back at her, which Harold framed as a time slip
• 6Sprague developed burn welts on his neck during a spirit box session at the Barrington, Nova Scotia meeting house while the medium repeated 'fire, burning'; a gray misty attachment then followed him to Scotland, New York, and Nova Scotia

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Oct 31, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.