This week’s Sinister Sightings has a little bit of everything: a dream home with a dark history and a ghost who may have never left, a terrifying encounter with something in the woods mimicking a woman’s cries for help, and a shadow outside a bedroom window that sends an entire house into panic mode. Ghosts, cryptid encounters, creepy true stories, and plenty of WTF moments… just the way we like it.

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Donna kicks things off with a trip to the Devil's Tramping Ground in Chatham County, North Carolina—a barren circle in the woods where legend says nothing will grow, animals refuse to enter, and anything left overnight mysteriously vanishes or moves by morning. She digs into the folklore behind the site, from Satan's midnight planning sessions to the eerie scientific explanations researchers have tried (and failed) to pin down.

Then Kerri takes us into one of the most haunting true crime cases of the 1920s: the disappearance of nine-year-old Walter Collins from Los Angeles, and the "Changeling" scandal that followed when police tried to pass off an impostor child as him. She traces the chilling threads connecting Walter's case to the horrifying crimes of Gordon Stewart Northcott, the man behind the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, and whether Walter may have been one of his victims.

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Y’all sent us some GOOD ones this week! We’ve got a day on the lake that goes very wrong, a giant mystery snake that turns out to have a wild explanation, and a haunted 100-year-old house where something decides to stand at the end of the bed and pretend to be someone it definitely is not.
Then we meet “Ghost Guy,” who may have attached himself to one of our listeners when she was a teenager. We’re talking footsteps around the bed, whispers in the middle of the night, a homemade Ouija board, and then... he just disappears. Where the hell did he go?! Basically, it’s another completely normal Thursday around here.

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Kerri covers the case of Joy Hibbs. Joy's home was set ablaze to hide the crime and the case went cold for over three decades. It's the story of a family's relentless push for answers, culminating in a 2022 arrest that finally brought her killer to justice

Donna heads to rural Nova Scotia for the eerie legend of Caledonia Mills, where a 1922 farmhouse was plagued by a string of mysterious fires that seemed to ignite from nowhere. Investigators, reporters, and even a young girl at the center of it all left the case unsolved to this day, fueling one of Canada's strangest unexplained mysteries.

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This week’s Sinister Sightings has EVERYTHING. Shadow people that seem a little too real, a possible mimic calling out from inside a house, a true crime story that left our jaws on the floor, and one listener whose "not-so-Ambien" adventures somehow keep getting even weirder. Grab your emotional support beverage and join us for another round of stories from the best damn Creepsters on the planet. 👻💀 Got a creepy, paranormal, funny, or downright WTF story? Send it our way for a future Sinister Sightings! Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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Donna dives into the life of Richard Lael-Lillard, including his appearance on Ghost Adventures, and unpacking the hauntings tied The Gentleman Psychic.

Kerri covers the case of Shawn Grate, the Ohio man whose kidnapping of a Jane Doe cracked open a string of brutal murders.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Head to www.betterhelp.com/apc to start your journey, today!

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A face hidden in wallpaper that you can’t unsee. A mysterious PowerPoint that appears after a father’s death and then vanishes without a trace. An old house where footsteps, whispers, moving objects, and one seriously creepy closet make it clear the family may not be alone.

This week’s Sinister Sightings brings possible messages from beyond the grave, haunted house activity, unexplained phenomena, and a couple of nighttime scares that might have a slightly less paranormal explanation.

Was it ghosts, coincidence, something we can’t explain… or just another reason to keep the damn lights on?

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Kerri covers the disturbing true story of Roch Thériault and the Ant Hill Kids. The Canadian commune where a self-proclaimed prophet's control his followers which escalated into years of documented abuse and violence. It's a hard listen at times, but an important one about how isolation and manipulation let something so horrific go unchecked for so long.

Donna's story takes us to the Grand Midway Hotel. This once-grand stopover has a past that includes fires, financial ruin, and a guest list that apparently never fully checked out. She'll get into the ghost tours, the reported sightings, and why paranormal investigators keep coming back for more.

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Dreams from beyond, homemade Ouija boards, creepy childhood rituals, and one small-town gas station story that goes completely off the rails.

This week’s Sinister Sightings brings listener-submitted paranormal stories involving a possible premonition, a strange doppelgänger coincidence, spirit board experiments, unexplained scratches, and a Mississippi revenge story we were absolutely NOT prepared for.

Come for the ghosts and Ouija boards. Stay for the Ethels…and one of the most unhinged endings we’ve ever received.

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Donna dives into the Mackenzie Poltergeist, the legendary haunting centered on the Black Mausoleum in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirkyard, where visitors have reported hundreds of unexplained physical incidents since 1998.

Kerri covers Joseph Kallinger, the Philadelphia "Shoemaker" whose horrific childhood abuse gave way to a killing and torture spree he carried out with his own 13-year-old son.

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This week's Sinister Sightings has everything we love... creepy little ghost kids, mysterious figures lurking where they definitely shouldn't be, visitation dreams that'll have you ugly crying.

These listener submissions are spooky, emotional, heartwarming, and just plain weird in the best way. Come laugh, get goosebumps, question your sanity, and, as always... creep it real.

If you love real ghost stories and unexplained mysteries, this one's for you. Do you have your own Sinister Sighting to share? Email us your stories at ⁠[email protected]⁠.

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