Ope, A Ghost
We discuss all things paranormal and spooky! Join your hosts, Heaven and Jonathan, as we dive into the paranormal and discuss our own ghostly experiences, haunted locations, and all the spooky lore you could ever want. Please follow or subscribe to be sure you get the newest episodes.
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64 episodes
Episode 46 - School Spirits
These colleges aren’t lacking in school spirit. In fact, spirit is exactly what they have. Pack up your books, and let’s head to class at these two haunted colleges. First, we’ll enroll at Bowdoin College, but we're not heading to class just ye...
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Episode 45 - Ghosts at the Museum
Who doesn’t love a trip to the museum? There’s art to see, ancient artifacts to gaze at in wonder, and, if you’re lucky, maybe you’ll catch a glimpse of a ghost or two. In this episode, we visit two very haunted and very famous museums. The fir...
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Episode 44 - Haunted Road Trip: Savannah, GA
Fall is such a lovely time to take a road trip: the leaves are turning an auburn hue bespeckled with golden yellows and fiery oranges, the temperatures dance between brisk mornings and the warm dregs of summer, and the ghosts are . . . well . ....
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Halloween 2024 Bonus - Listener Stories
Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate than with a ghost story! In this mini-episode, we’ll be reading listener submitted stories. Wait until the trick-or-treaters have all gone home, then dim the lights, grab a peanut butter cup, and li...
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Episode 43 - Skinwalkers
The Navajo call them the yee naaldlooshii, but you might know them by the name Skinwalker. In this episode, we’ll share spooky Skinwalker encounters and dig into Navajo lore to reveal the mysteries of the malevolent witch. Where did th...
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Paranormal Rewatch Ep. 4 - Kindred Spirits: The Search for Lizzie Borden
In this rewatch episode, we’re tagging along with two of our all-time favorite investigators from one of our all-time favorite shows. Join us in rewatching Kindred Spirits S3, Ep 10 as Amy Bruni and Adam Berry investigate Maplecroft, t...
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Episode 42 - Asylums
Have the voices in your head been more persistent than usual? Well then, you've come to the right place because we're going to the asylum. First we'll visit the ultra-active Eloise Psychiatric Hospital where shadows roam the halls and the rooms...
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Paranormal Rewatch Ep. 3 - Ghost Brothers Lights Out: Go to the Light
Welcome to another Paranormal Rewatch! In this episode, we’ll follow Dalen, Marcus, and Juwan from Ghost Brothers: Lights Out as they investigate the Pensacola Lighthouse where they confront an entity in the basement and dispel a rumor or two a...
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Episode 41 - The Deliverance
In this episode, we investigate the real story behind the Netflix sensation The Deliverance with the actual experiences of the Ammons family. In November 2011, Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children ages 7, 9, and 12 m...
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Paranormal Rewatch Ep. 2 - Destination Fear: Indiana State Sanatorium
Welcome to another Paranormal Rewatch. In this episode, we’ll follow the Destination Fear crew as they become the first ever paranormal investigators to explore the Indiana State Sanitorium. While there are advantages to being the first, there ...
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Episode 40 - Real Haunted Houses II
It’s been a while since we checked out a genuine, good ol’ fashioned haunted house. What better time than Spooky Season to correct that oversight! In this episode, we’ll brave the shadows to hunt down the things that go bump in the night. First...
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Paranormal Rewatch Ep. 1 - Ghost Hunters: The Haunted House on the Hill
Welcome to our first ever Paranormal Rewatch! In this episode, we’ll examine the always professional and thorough Ghost Hunters as they answer the call from a family being haunted in their 1800s Tennessee farmhouse. They are joined by special g...
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Episode 39 - Cady's Ghosts
Welcome to Spooky Season, Ghosties! We’ll have plenty of surprises this Spooky Season including weekly episodes through Halloween. In this episode, listener Cady joins us to discuss her experiences growing up in the haunted wild west. Cady grew...
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The Haunting of Hill House - Book Club Mini
Hello there! It’s been a while since our last Book Club Minisode. We missed you! Today we read Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. Jackson’s 1959 novel has twice been made into a movie, once in 1963 and once in 1999. The ’63 ...
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Episode 38 - Haunted Road Trip: Selma, AL
The Ope, A Ghost van is hitting the road for another Haunted Road Trip. This time we’re stopping in historic Selma, Alabama. First, we’ll visit Sturdivant Hall where some claim that the ghost of a former owner is buried in the back yard. Next, ...
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Episode 37 - Annabelle
In this episode, we compare the real story of one of the most famous haunted dolls with the second film in the Conjuring universe: Annabelle. In 1970, a young nurse received a second-hand Raggedy Ann doll as a birthday gift from her mother. The...
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Episode 36 - Is it Cursed?
Nothing excites the imagination like a good ol’ fashioned curse. Our logical sense tells us they’re nonsense, but even in the face of reason, how many of us still exercise caution? As it turns out, discretion may indeed be the better part of va...
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Episode 35 - A Conversation with The WFPR
We’re super excited to have our friends Lauren and Gina from The Witch's Familiar Paranormal Research stop in to talk about their spooky adventures. In this episode, Lauren and Gina discuss the locations they’ve investigated, how they found t...
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The Lake Michigan Mothman - Book Club Mini
On today’s Book Club Minisode, we read Tobias Wayland’s The Lake Michigan Mothman: High Strangeness in the Midwest. Wayland spent several years as a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Since then, he's been a guest o...
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Episode 34 - Local Haunts
In this first edition of Local Haunts, we visit two places in our area that you may not have heard about. The first is the (Old) Lake Club in Springfield, IL. In its day, the club was the most popular nightclub outside of Chicago. Mixed in with...
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Episode 33 - Funeral Homes
Having investigated a funeral home ourselves, we couldn’t wait to bring you an episode about a couple of them. First, we’ll head to the Riddle House in Palm Beach Florida. The house is home to Buck, a kindly cemetery worker and Joseph, a tragic...
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Episode 32 - Haunted Jails
It’s finally happened; we’re going to jail. No, we’re not in trouble—at least not yet—but we are going to visit two very haunted jails. The first is the Pottawatomie County Jail more famously known as The Squirrel Cage. Here, we’ll find s...
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Episode 31 - Small Town Cryptids
Welcome to another cryptid-tastic episode! This time we’ll take you back to 1952 when two brothers and a friend near the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia were surprised by a bright light that landed near a local farm. Accompanied by a loc...
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Episode Thirteen - Book Club Mini
On today’s Book Club Minisode we read Craig DiLouie’s much loved Episode Thirteen. The distinct storytelling makes this novel one of the most unique and interesting novels we’ve ever read. The novel depicts a group of paranormal invest...
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Episode 30 - Haunted Road Trip: Galveston, TX
Once again, it’s time to pack up the Ope, A Ghost van and hit the road. We hope you have a taste for seafood and Tex-Mex because we’re headed to Galveston, Texas. Our first stop will be the Galveston Railroad Museum—also known as Jonathan’s Tra...
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