Is This a Ghost?

If you want to talk Tombstone, then this episode is your huckleberry.

This is the story of the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona. Come for the ghosts, stay for a needs-based person, Benicio is hard to explain, Avengers: Doomsday in monochrome, an outboard motor on that ship, a family of orca, cabin murder math, and a time of great national health,

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The Aloha State? More like the Oh-No-Ah-Ghost State! The Hawaiian islands are chockablock with haunts, and we cover a couple of them in this very special episode.

This is the story of two Ghosts of Hawaii. Come for the ghosts, stay for the only thing we got you, Patrick's scary basement, a literal archipelago, I've got a new type, a thousand-year plan, the bigger the moon, the nighter the marchers, and self-promotional stories.

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Zoos are fine if you don't think about them too much. And almost none of them have thousands of corpses beneath them!

This is the story of the Lincoln Park Zoo. Come for the ghosts, stay for puma content, the New Yerk Yerkies, this podcast makes you horny, a little wander down the fairy path, more chained animals please, lessons from Jurassic Park, I miss the goop, will you look at me, and bone raffle.

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They can't all be winners.

This is the story of the ghost of Jacob's Island. Come for the ghost, stay for pudding out the fire, a little bit quieter every day, the worst color for water, the Hindu Exorcist, Is This a Train?, and a subset of American congresspeople.

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Patrick gets pretty excited about the sexy witches in this one, you're going to really like it!

This is the story of Dyer Lane. Come for the ghosts, stay for a national conversation about parades, the half plus seven rule, classic America stuff, a disappearance of women, don’t let my pigs see me like this, tractor violence, and the coven-tractor-demon tarot.

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Men will build so many forts in the same exact location rather than go to therapy.

This is the story of Fort William Henry. Come for the ghosts, stay for the biggest turkeys, no grazi, we hate this stuff, chip-on-the-shoulder piracy, permanent squid, a bastion you could eat off of, little French feet, and a girthy chub.

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Land O' Lakes? More like Land O' Hot Takes, amiright? (Please forget everything you hear in this episode.)

This is the story of Forepaugh's Restaurant. Come for the ghosts, stay for bad bears, chicken pox party soccer team, foreplay of the animal kingdom, every dry good vendor's dream, the few privileges left to white males, a different John Hammond, acceptable syphilis levels, Molly’s rope, and the men of US Ghost Adventures.

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I'll tell ya, this is a LOT of Bugsy content, I sure hope the payoff is worth it!

This is part two of Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Come for the ghost, stay for bowling math, the newest Executive Member at Costco, a little tugboat action, the full all-star team, let’s see him get out of this one, get it out of your mouth, the worst color for a toilet, and we had quite a journey.

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We're pretty sure there are no slurs in this episode, but in case we're wrong, we want to issue a blanket apology from Patrick, who is solely at fault.

This is the first part of the story of Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo Hotel. Come for the ghost, stay for a volume problem, big sad men, commuting for gangs, Michael Shannon's sweaty suit, the plot to kill Superman, a big-bomb bomb, and Pizzo Fabrizzo,

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Ding dong. Who's there? It's Patrick, dressed as Clayton, owner and proprietor of Is This a Ghost? the Podcast the Movie. And you know what that means.

This is the 2025 Halloween Spooktacular: Two Haunts and a Flaunt. Come for the ghosts, stay for semen of male cow, nope nope nope nope nope, your skin is so pale, re-Mary, let's poll some babies, i'm assuming it's mostly cocaine, and financial viscera.

To be clear, this is not the story of the Punisher.

This is the story of Franklin Castle. Come for the ghosts, stay for a blue line freak out, a tough time for Hanses. Germans love a purebred, everyone's in the consumption business, the good diabetes, spiraling into the stairwell, balance your witches, and evil Dairy Queen.

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Anytime you can use a gator as a landmark, you know you've made some poor life decisions. And that those decisions involve Florida.

This is the story of the Ma Barker House. Come for the ghosts, stay for horse magic, Trope-a-Dope 2, tentacles like to make themselves known, C. Roy die in the street, the Ohio of the western side of Chicago, the most Florida thing ever, and Howdy Doody porn.

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It's time for a brand new segment: Trope-a-Dope! It's a fun way to see if Patrick's been paying attention to the many tropes we've uncovered over the last 170 episodes. The answer...may surprise you. (But it probably won't.)

This is the story of the Rolling Hills Asylum. Come for the ghosts, stay for the secret about peyote, Boy Meets Afterworld, the poors love animals too, a Wile E. Coyote fence, that's where veal comes from, tuberculosis is on the ballot, and I'm here for the grotesque.

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Do you like boats? Of course you like boats. Do you like George Washington? Or course you like George Washington. Do you like West Virginia? Oh no we've lost you.

This is the story of Harpers Ferry. Come for the ghosts, stay for the soupciest soupçon, I'm not an idiot, the Florida gooch, cursive is so in these days, make us sound so smart Jeremy, sluices of the 18th century, sacre bleu; screw you, the first casualty of cholera is always the parade, and the worst possible Disney World ride.

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If there's one thing Patrick loves, it's ship episodes. Looooooves ship episodes. Looooooooooooooooooves ship episodes!

This is the story of Stede Bonnet and his Pirate Crew. Come for the ghosts, stay for oo much horse, margarita girlies, ocean doesn't have to be lonely, gotta stop licking the boat, this is basically how Moby Dick opens, I'm sticky, and just go to therapy.

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This one's basically a ghost story. Okay?

This is the story of Robert Schumann. Come for the ghost, stay for this is how brain worms happen, the Zapruder film of my phone, if Don Music can do it..., I was hoping there'd be electro therapy, oh my god the stamina, way behind on my tertiary syphilis, no Ouija boards in Germany, and why would Ernie give Bert dead frogs?

Heads up, Revolutionary War dorks! We're heading to the state that makes Patrick angriest to tell the tale of some nerd with a limp. LFG.

This is the story of the Nathanel Greene Homestead. Come for the ghost, stay for we do not tell the Dobby story, I'm getting a tattoo of it, Voltaire Jr. and Lady Voltaire, gotta be chlamydia, we need an equipment manager, getting mail is so fun, they were discovering all the diseases, and the old gerbil routine.

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Listen, we're going to get to the ghost, but have you heard this story about cell phones?

This is the story of Blackbird Hill. Come for the ghost, stay for we should cherish our elderly, a French accent that just gets better, he found such fortune, I fell in love with a volleyball, infidelity for dinner, and men be stabbin',

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Listen, friends. Sometimes life finds a way. And sometimes life gets away. And when life gets away, that's when ChatGPT has your back to pick up the slack.

Buckle up, this one's different.

This is the story of Nell Cropsey. Come for the ghost, stay for everyone's into something, a podcast about innovation, the Savannah of the North, the John Henry cautionary tale, the first Jedi mind trick, and you were always swimming in that dress.

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Welcome to Season 2! This season is going to be stranger, sexier, and way more innovative. Don't be surprised if Patrick starts showing up to the tapings nude. It's just the kind of thing we need to juice the ratings and avoid a sophomore slump.

This is the story of the Hellfire Caves. Come for the ghosts, stay for Old Yeller 2: Lost in the Jungle, the monkey-damaged child, dual audience surrogates, St. Francis and the hoes, they'd have spit their biscuits, ADD THE WHATSAPP LINK, the biggest goblet my little fingers could hold, coolest hell possible, and do...

Hello, you've reached the offices of Is This a Ghost? The guys are on vacation right now and will return with brand new episodes soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this sneak peek of a brand new upcoming horror podcast from Smithshow Media called Infernal Canyons, written by Clayton Smith and Dave Bloom.

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The British are so strange, aren't they? But they do make good mining eqipment. But this isn't a story about a British mine, even though a British Empire Mine would be a pretty fun name, 'cause of history. No, this is about an American mine. Is this the worst episode description intro yet?

This is the story of the Empire Mine. Come for the ghosts, stay for eco-friendly to a point, (I'm a manager), the Platonic form of gold mine, it's not a fun nursery rhyme, some early Mario Bros. sh*t, and the inflation calculation of...

Must be nice to go on vacation, PATRICK. (But seriously, thanks for bringing your mic. Clayton did not have a backup plan.)

This is the story of Mary and the Mysterious Men of Rockwood Mansion. Come for the ghosts, stay for Hot Doug moves on Patrick's wife, one, two, three, etc., but you have to deal with the Amish, the appearance does not scream lilac, rich white people names, the Robert Stack School for Paranormal Nonsense, most powerful dog ghost, could just be a blues musician.

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Johnny B. Bad is back as a guest star at the Mudd House in Maryland, and as usual, he's up to his old shenanigans -- goin' all HAM on presidents and order. Anyway. How's your day going?

This is the story of the Samuel Mudd House. Come for the ghosts, stay for gas station bananas, give Megan a call, positive connotations of mud, fully clothed Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Boot, assassination vaycay, and not a lot of good guys in this one.

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If we had a nickel for every ghost that was made from tuberculosis, gosh, we wouldn't have to podcast ever again. Anyway, here are a few more dollars for the kitty!

This is the story of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Come for the ghosts, stay for zero IT interns, basement brothers, are you gonna do more sedition?, I was guessing pope, a tuberculosis hospital for the sick and curious, and one star, did not like, family drove away with changeling.

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All my rowdy poltergeists are coming over tonight! And that's where Hank Jr. got his famous line. Wow, the family tree just unspools and unspools, and suddenly there's nothing left but an old guitar on a sad barroom floor. What were we talking about?

This is the story of Hank Williams. Come for the ghost, stay for flip him like a piggy bank, coquina theory, broad-boned frost giant, punching down quite literally, Wes Anderson music label, bolos and YOLOs, that's a pH joke, and our lawyers are terrible.

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Hey, folks! Clayton here. Listen, I completely forgot I had a weekly podcast that I've been doing for the last 3+ years and didn't prepare any notes for this one. That is what we call in the podcast industry a whoopsie. What I can tell you is that this episode is born from my and Patrick's recently lived experience. What I can also tell you is the ITAG interns are so mad at me for not remembering we had to drop a podcast episode this week.

This is the story of Six Flags Over Texas! Come for the...

This isn't about a group of Irishmen, it's another nautical adventure! Get ready.

This is the story of the SS The Sullivans. Come for the ghosts, stay for Annebelle on the lam, a whole lotta aliteration, blessedly unencumbered brothers, cornfield kisses, jacked hotdogs, no more siblings on ships, and paying Matt Damon by the second.

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You like big boats and you cannot lie. So here's another one. You're welcome.

This is the story of the SS Great Britain. Come for the ghosts, stay for Patrick mouth kisses cat, an interview with John Wilkes Booth, it's just a necrodrumicon, even for English food this is the grossest, big broad gauge guy, a cow not just for sex and stuff, and Cletus with a shovel would love to meet you

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What is The Netherlands? Why is it a singular plural? Why don't they speak Netherlandish? Should the country be called Dut? It makes you think. It really makes you think.

This is the story of the SS Ourang Medan. Come for the ghosts, stay for Schrödinger's box of pope, their whole deal is no wires, it's booty time, does it explain why the chains are missing?, there's a song about this guy, this is an event horizon, and rollerghoster.

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We don't always set a new record for length of banter before getting to the ghost story....but when we do, it's 73% worth it, minimum. (But if you skip ahead to the 19:17:00 mark, it'd be hard to blame you.)

This is the story of The Black Dahlia. Come for the ghost, stay for Jeremy is retiring off audio filters, the wrong name statute of limitations, they don't end up in a bucket but they could, Pebble Beach at 1/2000th scale, please brain-dead me, I didn't say what kind of Californian, at least you have something to sit...

Do you hear that? That’s the beat of the Necrodrumicon. The smell? Sulfur. The whiners? Children. Always, always children.

This is the story of the Drummer of Tedworth. Come for the ghost, stay for the Berenstain Bears take on racism, woolly rhinos are not unicorns, peasants gone wild, little-known composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the Flying Molina Brothers.

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Pfister? I hardly Gasser! Thanks, everybody, ITAG will be right back.

This is the story of the Pfister Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for yeah it is a ghost, there's a Far Side about this, that's how you make whipped cream, not a fire ghost probably, it's definitely gooshy, Kung Fu Panda is spooked, the ghost got to my credit card.

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Welcome to Little House on the Podcast, our brand new LHOTP reaction show. We're going deep on all the nuance of America's favorite field-based family, and make sure stick around at the end for a quick visit to Nels' Corner!

This is the story of the Gibbs' haunted farmhouse. Come for the ghost, stay for cave in the ghost coin mine, an elderly cupboard, try to get $1.50/pound, Patrick's time to shine, if Final Fantasy is to be believed, my new internet mystery, Little House on the Podcast, which one of us is the mom and which...

The sexual tension of this episode is off the charts. But don't blame us. Blame Willem Dafoe.

This is the story of the St. Augustine Lighthouse. Come for the ghost, stay for you're so manly, I make-a da map, we have never discussed coquina, a cartographer who is not rushed, the Snipe Hunt of surveying, Hezekiah versus Jeff, checking the timestamp, and don't become a lighthouse keeper no matter how horny you are.

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The "cabin in the woods" trope that used to seem so terrifying when we were young just seems so calm and peaceful now. I'd like to go to a murder cabin by a lake. Can I? It sounds nice.

Anyway, this is the story of the Lady of Crescent Lake. Come for the ghost, stay for the special kink rate, Falcor zoomies, first one shunned; second one witch, the body's in great shape, Joe Rogan cold dip, could still be a cougar, and staunchly anti-fish.

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There was a time in this country when trees were big, lakes were haunted, and tuberculosis could only be cured by staying underground or being out in fresh air or some sort of northwestern wall situation. Those times are now, and they were also in the time of Galen Clark.

This is the story of the Grouse Lake Ghost of Yosemite National Park. Come for the ghost, stay for baby had a big one, eeep--better get gas, Irish triplets, forty Galens and just one musket, Guardian of the Pod, and weird reason to go to Yosemite,

This week, we kick off our national parks suite, and Patrick asks a very important question: Why is it that on this show, 20% of the time someone ends up in a bucket?

This is the story of Gram Parsons in Joshua Tree. Come for the ghost, stay for the fevers and the visions, semi-Fat Elvis stripper, feeling F+, dump me on Alison's head, my special place, an enormous fireball, and the creed of the undertaker.

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Yeah, you read that right. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Who's Francis Bacon? What's a chicken? Why am I suddenly so hungry? I'm sure you have lots of questions. Good news--we have lots of answers.

This is the story of Sir Francis Bacon's Chicken. Come for the ghost, stay for the highest number is 100, there will be a Roku, the mushing thing, my father's foot stamps, Uncle Bong, foot rubs and magic, totally verboten to me, tursnowken, and the Holy Spirit looks like this.

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Get ready for a good, solid dose of American industrialism! In Canada. That's right, on the advice of J.P. Morgan, Charles Melville Hays is going to bring American grit to the Canadian railway, and how do you think that'll work out for the 51st state?

This is the story of Charles Melville Hays, Railroad King. Come for the ghost, stay for teeny tiny knuckle workout, the most Midwestern person, the last days of Blockbuster, moose harvest, pool skimmers, the whole deal with the Titanic, and ghosts have no friction.

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The Great Salt Lake does not have any whales. We want to be clear about that. We DO take a departure here and talk about whales for a surprisingly long time, but please understand that we realize that there are no whales in the Great Salt Lake. Allegedly.

This is the story of the Great Saltair. Come for the ghosts, stay for a race to the spike, D-coin, I’ll keep adding wives until I love myself, I’m eating nine ice creams, normies love salt, they’re a minor whale, Coney Island with half the condoms, and ED...

It's time to talk about Mercy Brown, not to be confused with Murphy Brown. One is a fesity single mother who endeared herself to us by shaking up the workplace in the '80s, and the other is a vampire. So try to keep them straight.

This is the story of Mercy Brown. Come for the ghost, stay for Prince would hate that, they called it a curse and in some ways it is, snort it, you fool!, thicken up them walls, two is fine; four is greedy, we have a pool going, oh no did he...

We're wrapping up our Ozarks suite with the crown jewel of holler haunts, the most haunted hotel in America! And as the most haunted hotel in America, you won't be surprised to learn that its roots are in shystery and chicanery. It's a story that feels WAY too familiar in these, our modern times.

This is the story of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Come for the ghosts, stay for the big building trifecta, the worst tone poem, aluminum and medical bigotry, “Does that feel like cancer?”, the donkey is drowning under the weight of the...

Get out your pencils, ghost lovers! We've got 100 people with 200 names, so you're going to want to keep a list.

This is the story of the Castle House in Brumley, MO. Come for the ghosts, stay for $GHOST, nobody doesn’t like childless witches, rabbit DNA, in my merchant era, nobody has feet now, it’s either on the skin or it’s not, the Boaty McBoatface of children, and you've ruined my beautiful stairs.

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The Ozark suite continues with a visit to the Devil's Pool holler! That's where you'll find the leavings of Harry Worman, one of the more unfortunately named men in history.

This is the story of the Worman House. Come for the ghost, stay for Mo-wanna get a lawyer, Jesus takes January off, poor Frisco, look who’s in the club tonight, what am I gonna do with this, it’s all wet, she lives in the floorboards, the Clayton Memorial Cocktail, and an RPG glass chapel battle.

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Welcome to the Ozark suite! It's weird down here. Did you bring moonshine? You're going to need it. This one gets messy!

This is the story of Jake Fleagle. Come for the ghost, stay for the surplus equine problem, cows bang, a cool story about brothers, f*ckin Houdini over here, he does not need to be inseminated, like snowflakes, ladies and gentlemen, and we’re more of a Shoji Tabuchi family.

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This time we're going to take about the Drake Hotel, WE PROMISE. Welcome to the second half of our no-holds-barred live show with guest host Megan Phillips.

This is the continued story of the Drake Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Their kids are super weird; find one bear that’ll eat a pig; the 1870s EpiPen; that screams to me "West Edmonton Mall"; Canadian seconds; and now the gun is useless.

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Hold onto your plasma, it's the most off-the-rails live show we've done yet, featuring a special guest host, Megan Phillips! She brought her own game, and lots of questions, and yadda yadda yadda, now the episode is two parts long. (We never actually get to the point of mentioning the Drake Hotel in this episode, if that does anything for you.)

This is the story of the Drake Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for: the deep gray milieu; Old Spaghostie Factory; a horrible harness accident; John didn’t read the brochure; are they…dead children?; Winnipeg the...

This one takes place in Scotland, so get ready for accents!

This is the story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist. Come for the ghost, stay for: New Year's pumped and Christmas plumped; those fancy, fancy mole people; oh, crickey!; you’re thinking of Pangaea; Scrooge McDuck, throat goat; serf-cum-stances; and all the people Leonardo da Vinci killed.

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Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Here's a ghost who has a dog without a head.

This is the story of Geoffrey de Mandeville, the Christmas Eve Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for: Ice for taste; are those both legs?; 0 for 1; Herschel Walker, prison guard; gotta take that head; I will tear thee down to the grapes; a distemper of men; I am a bleeder; and this poor tree.

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Some would say that if you're living in Florida, you've already been dragged down to hell. But you be the judge.

This is the story of the Devil's Chair. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Muppet sex; Looney Tunes style; the Steve Gutenberg Project; liberal horses; it's the Tifa, not the mana; Jacksonville is still the end of the line; It’s an Infinite World; and a bounty crop of wackadoo.

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Dead children? Yick! Who runs this show? (It's Ryan Smith, please send him all complaints.)

THis is the story of the Dead Children's Playground. Come for the wee ghosts, stay for: setting the curve; we are working right now; it is cold down here; the woke mind virus; make my tongue warm; feet are black, send them back; I will uncork grandma; ghost economy; and real sexy freaks.

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Welcome to the Kill Bill of the Reconstruction era. Or, as Patrick likes to call it, "Get your Pocohontas out of my Mulan." Good luck to us all. Oh, and we're a Belatro fancast now.

This is the story of Vivia Thomas. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Balatro Boys; pig spout; rubber stamp David; the Trail of Tears game; let’s not make a t-shirt of that; sweaty from all that arbitration; dozens of Daryls; and that’s what taxidermy is.

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America wasn't always the haunted nation we know and fear today. No, there was a time when this land's soul was pure as driven snow, Then the Europeans people came, and now we have ghosts. Thanks a lot, Europe.

This is the story of Nelly Butler, the first ghost ever seen in America. Come for the ghost, stay for: 101 best cow jokes; the Stineverse; who remembers how to subtract?; probably conjunctivitis; January field stuff; Bell witch vibes; and some incredible metamorphosis that I should know about.

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You know Bobby Mackey, right? Country billboard chart-topper Bobby Mackey? No? Well, you like Pepsi, right? So maybe you know his whole deal. Anyway, he's not the ghost, so why are we even talking about this?

This is the story of Bobby Mackey's Music World. Come for the ghosts, stay for: I just want a Cobb salad; ghost boosters; I don’t think this is legally binding; ambitious dental students; if we keep going we’re gonna hit teeth; I’m so thirsty after all of this slaughtering; viscera wells; and Elmer Fudpucker’s river mud records.

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It's Germany. Early 1800s. Blink. Now it's New York. Later 1800s. No overlap. Go to sleep. Wake up. The worlds have collided. There are bricks. There are ghosts. What is happening? No one knows. Was that a hitman? Spooky.

This is the story of the Kreischer Mansion. Come for the ghosts, stay for: cat spikes; a big ol' glass of Four Roses; anything is possible at patrick-dot-com; the snow witch; what if the Beatles were just a different shade of blue?; a Wile E. Coyote trap in every room; feed the poor bricks; love a good pig...

Clayton got distracted this week, so it's Audio Editor Jeremy to the rescue! He brought us a story that's going to just absolutely thrill the engineer in your family. Also, there are ghosts.

This is the story of the haunted Hoosac Tunnel. Come for the ghosts, stay for: bacon defense contracting; Timothee unlookalike; does Jeremy have the Internet?; big ol’ peeper; an afront to God; that’s West Virginia’s problem now; and call Jerry Bruckheimer.

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It's that special time of year when Patrick digs out his Clayton Smith costume and takes over host duties for a very special episode of Is This a Ghost! This year, he's back with two haunts and a flaunt--or, in other words, two truths and a lie. Is this the year Clayton correctly guesses which story is made up? The suspense is killing us!

This is the 2024 Halloween Spooktacular. Come for the ghosts, stay for: The devil’s second base; the Yellow Pages are long dead; very spitty; I don’t need a drop of context; this is i...

This is a ghost story of heartbreak, kinda, but not the kind of heartbreak you feel sad about. More like the kind of heartbreak that the guy deserved 'cause he was a real ninnymuggins about stuff.

This is the story of Louis de Buade de Frontenac. Come for the ghost, stay for: skeleton jammies; Sephiroth, what a scamp; constant laundry; the world's richest baby; jeans with hammer loops; the My Girl generation; and the gamey box.

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We have a bit of an axe to grind about this hack job of an episode, but we're cut pretty short on time, so chop chop.

This is the story of the Lizzie Borden House. Come for the ghosts, stay for: All dial-up on the inside; killer coffins; penurious and injurious; I do want you to take the blood out; mutton in the cabinet; if the hatchet don’t fit; wood blood everywhere.

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If you're one of those listeners who love our tangets, then you're going to absolutely wet yourself over this episode. If you're one of the folks on Spotify who complains VERY vocally about how we don't stay on track, well...maybe sit this one out?

This is the story of the Caribou Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for: America's hat; San Francisco, ghost town; they use mice; the Klondike Gold Ease; ITAG at the toe; the Anderson hotel, sponsored by Coca-Cola; and a too-helpful ghost.

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Don't worry, y'all. We can use the "H" word. It's our culture.

This is the story of the Honky Chateau. Come for the ghosts, stay for: Pulled a real Lenny on that goat; Madame Guillotiine; I would like to buy 30 tiny beds; a weak, sad boy; into the smushery with you; Booty Duty 2 through 4; I'm in incognito mode.

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Get ready to bust a stitch over this star-spangled spectre! Cotent warning: This one gets a little flag-sexy.

This is the story of Betsy Ross. Come for the ghost, stay for: Just like dad’s toes; Limericists; We'll get a Sarah for you; Potato smell; The best way to hide from ghosts; I am base; Dril tweets; Maybe don't tell your friends about this one.

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Someone find Nicolas Cage, we're going to The Rock! (Do us a favor and don't bring up the LaLaurie Mansion episode when you see him, ok?)

This is the story of the hauntings of Alcatraz. Come for the ghosts, stay for air law; Do your worst, you filthy Canuck; The Isle of Pedantic; Now it’s time for the cannons; In support of white imperialism; The earthquake equivalent of toilets; Harvey Dent’s other famous quote; and it’s called the D block for a reason.

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It's another live recording for Is This a Ghost! And with the eyes of the United Kingdom watching our every move, we went super-hard into American ghost history with an all-new story from the diaries of our own personal Washington and Lincoln, Ed and Lorraine Warren. Let's. Get. Excited.

This is the story of the Smurl House. Come for the ghosts, stay for: a real red-blooded American ghost; “Lech,” I’m familiar with; this is my one double dog; storing the parents; Xanax for kids; demon business; Daddy’s back program; and the Annaverse.

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Get in, loser, we're going to Patrick's least favorite state! He's not happy about it, but if you're going to cover some rich peoples' ghosts, you're going to have to get some Rhode Island in there.

This is the story of Belcourt Castle. Come for the ghosts, stay for Paw-Paw’s pickles; the esotericist, for sure; no one bothers me down in the gutter; the first space laser; sexiest city in New England; The Birds or The Three Amigos; the chimpanzee is getting ripsh*t; and the only escape is mouth.

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Kells Irish Pub. You would think it would be a possessive proper noun, wouldn't you? Kell's? No? Are we the only nerds who listen to this podcast? Screw you guys. Whatever.

This is the story of Kells Irish Pub. Come for the ghosts, stay for: the orthodontists of the legal world; delicious toast; you’re not the straight man, right?; Sioux-veneers; fort support; little toesies in this bag; now we have no broth; the City Slickers rule; is that a dark roast?; and smugshot.

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Well hush my puppies, we're heading to a South Carolina restaurant for this week's episode of Is This a Ghost? (And yes, there are actual puppies.)

This is the story of Poogan's Porch. Come for the ghosts, stay for Patrick’s swimsuit area infection; please send hush puppies; the Let’s Rebuild the South Olympic event; it’s a dry, normal shower; not enough skritches; 450 for eternity?; get this hot, hot blood out of my body.

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Put on your swim shorts, we're going to the lake! But it's December, and 30 below, so unfortunately, you have just died of frostbite. Womp womp.

This is the story of Old Whitey, the Great Lakes Ghost of the SS Kamloops. Come for the ghost, stay for I’m under the apple cart; I love to rock; bird facts; the scariest of the Great Lakes; ransomin; I’m getting lower; we got them off Temu; proper f*cked; and a buxom young woman.

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If we've learned anything over the years, it's that a pink mist ghost is best avoided. Unless you love taking trips to the dry cleaner.

This is the story of The Pink Lady of the Grove Park Inn. Come for the ghost, stay for Chris Evans’ filthy mouth; you can’t take notes in the chat; this is cocaine, have an awesome time; Dad takes some, Dad takes a little more; the monsters, they are coming; you are not a fish; and you will take Deutsch marks.

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Surprise! We're here with a special lil treat for your sweet lil ears. Today we're giving you a sneak peek at The Smithshow, a monthly podcast from Clayton Smith and Producer Ryan Smith. It's like ITAG, but not haunted, and sometimes way grosser! This clip is from our episode on whale hotels, and if you like what you hear, we hope you'll consider joining Ghost+! You'll hear a new episode of the Smithshow each month, plus ITAG ghosties and some surprise bonus content, and you'll also get merch discounts, access to live recordings, and more! All for just $5.99/month.<...

We're not doctors, but we think you should take care when getting your wizard clipped. It's a delicate sort of thing, and--what? That's not what the wizard clip is? Oh. Okay, well, what are we even doing here.

This is the story of Priest Field and the Wizard Clip. Come for the ghost, stay for get me my CHUD shirt, is the ear the head?, hope you’re ready to get Popeye arms, crack open another barrel, Mother, poorly-constructed geese, f*** it, call a priest, and it’s Blake Shelton.

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You know what they say, if you want something done right, call a Puritan. Real populist do-gooders, those Puritans! Great ideas about prison reform. For sure, for sure, for sure.

This is the story of Eastern State Penitentiary. Come for the ghosts, stay for so many ways to style a sleeveless shirt, he’s my French girl, PSAMPP, the Boaty McBoatface thing, dads who just need one f***ing minute, he’s no Nicolas Cage, I would love to see this dog’s mugshot, Pennsylvania, you know? and these walls are so soft.

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Do you like swans? You'll love this episode. But it has less to do with swans than you think. Wow, what a ride.

This is the story of Swannanoa Palace. Come for the ghosts, stay for you don’t sound very jammin’, wine thievery, exorcist rules, the job market in 1860, Dolphin Dean, Irish valor, C or B and O, I think it’s called extortion, and you can buy a lot of orphans with that.

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The Coal Miner's Daughter had a few skeletons in her closet. Literally. But unlike most sane people, Loretta Lynn decided living with ghosts was actually kind of fine? Weird life.

This is the story of Loretta Lynn's Haunted House. Come for the ghosts, stay for Coal Miner's Minor, burly men named Norm, take that, Bible!, city of lights and chicken, Latin for bones is grist, how smushy is that smush room, and the plumbing is very restrictive.

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In the first of what is probably destined to be some sort of suite of dam episodes, we're tackling the Hales Bar Dam. Which is a surprisingly unknown name for what is apparently the most haunted dam in the U.S.! Also, it's actually very bad at damming.

This is the story of the Hales Bar Dam. Come for the ghosts, stay for M-16 pocket protectors, MCU Donny, the meany lessons of Poltergeist, land investor Dracula, you can eat a horse, mom got the big suck, Schrödinger’s town, and normal naked dude.

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Ah, the gulf coast of Florida, where the fish are boiling and the reefs are painted red, white, and blue. Good luck, Floridians.

This is the story of Fort De Soto Park and the Sunshine Sky Bridge. Come for the ghosts, stay for I'm very swampy, canoe warfare, battle stingrays, beach wool, The Price is Right gun pit, unkillable buses, and the first Florida Man.

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Move over, Stephen King, it's OUR turn to tell the story of the most haunted hotel in Estes Park! We think you'll really take a shine to this episode.

Also, this was a live show! ITAG fans got to chat together in real-time while they listened to Clayton and Patrick recording the episode. We do this sometimes! Follow us on social @isthisaghost to get access to the next live show!

This is the story of the Stanley Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for up-blood, your name is Locomotive, a couch to 5k but for...

Don't get too excited. This Edinburgh is in Iowa, so there's zero chance of broadswords in this episode. Lame. (Heck of a lot of ghosts, though.)

This is the story of the ghosts of Edinburgh Manor. Come for the ghosts, stay for first you beef, then you feast, George Miller presents Iowa: Animosa, water park is the obvious choice, be real nice to your kids, how do curses depreciate over time?, getting choked in Room 240, and I detect notes of rope hemp.

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Oh nar! It's another Australian ghost!

This is the story of Fisher's Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for masters + 30 + tattoo, lost a lot of good horses that day, the Australian way to end an argument, a good deal on a horse, how much does it cost in spiders?, ghost butt energy, and the Spider King's curfew.

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Some ghosts will scare you within an inch of your life. Others will unscrew peroxide lids. You really just never know what kind of ghost you're going to get. It's a real roll of the dice. And for the first time, even Clayton wonders, "Hey...is this actually a ghost?"

This is the story of Popper, the Herrmann House Ghost. Come for the ghost, stay for the Ozark version of a WASP, classic bone-having, straight into the flammenwerfer, some Bedknobs and Broomsticks sh*t, Detective Daddy, and feral water.

We've done cannibalism, but have we done incest AND cannibalism?! Not that we can recall. But to be honest, we cannot be trusted with things like this. So. What was the question?

This is the story of the ghost of Sawney Bean. Come for the ghost, stay for the summer of love, rated G for grotty, (witch understood), we got to cannibalism fast, one stone three score hands, how did this get worse from the cannibal part?, CHUD lures, all this peat to eat, live by the barbecue, die by the barbecue, and CHUD justice.

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In what is by far the most sex-positive episode of ITAG yet (sorry, Naked Abe), the guys explore the wonders of Butte, Montana's red light district. And eventually they talk about some ghosts.

This is the story of the Dumas Brothel. Come for the ghosts, stay for girding one’s loins, mining for electricity, hard work and hard men, Patrick’s insight into how sex works, brotheling?, we don’t supply the towels, and you’re also a dog.

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If you're like Patrick, you don't know what The Conjuring is. For everyone else...this episode is for you.

This is the true story of The Conjuring. Come for the ghosts, stay for hogs in the front; hogs in the back, water company dynamite, hello we’re Puritans, the Pocahontas meat Muppet, Quasimodo Hot or Not, the Butterworths of Mrs. Fame, she knits for Satan, the Level 5 Aramaic badge, and closes at sundown (strict).

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Well this one's uncomfortable! Our Facebook fans chose this story over a nice, quaint, non-brutal story that didn't make us cringe. Thanks a lot, Facebook fans. It's not often we kick off the show with a content warning!

This is the story of the LaLaurie Mansion. Come for the ghosts, stay for the right amount of porn for LinkedIn, Dark Patrick, rated "B" for "butane," pre-dinging the dong, bones for tapas, the Full White, and the Taco Bell menu of kids' names.

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It is somehow our 100th episode! *noisemaker sound* Who knew there were so many ghosts in the world? To celebrate our centennial, Clayton has a surprise for Patrick -- he's turning the tables with his own version of Two Haunts and a Flaunt! But this time, there's a twist. The three stories are all revisitations of stories we've already shared. That's right...new ghosts from old haunts!

Then, after the stories, unpaid intern Jen Swanson joins the guys for a bit of trivia, a dash of Would You Rather?, and a touch of personal reflection from the...

Do you love good music, chill vibes, natural beauty, and an axe-wielding elderly ghost? Then Red Rocks might be the venue for you.

This is the story of The Hatchet Lady of Red Rocks. Come for the ghost, stay for a nice little preview of the heat death of the universe, never forget (your birthday), this Tom Cruise-ass life, the Phish residency, behavior plus axe, and my hatchet kink.

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Toot-toot! It's another haunted train story, and you're going to love it! Unless you're like, "No more trains." Then we may have lost you with this one, and in that case, that's on us.

This is the story of the haunted train station in Staunton, VA. Come for the ghost, stay for the severed mannequin head aesthetic, a heart-shaped jacuzzi tub of a state, "Why you strap flashlight to fork with Mungo?", old fashioned knob whackin', the Malort of soda, Lady Thirst Trap, ships of the land, get mounted in Virginia, and a Jason Statham movie of...

Double pairs of double episodes makes for one heck of a podcasting experience, doesn't it? In the most tired second episode of the night we've done yet, things get weird! And we have a feeling you'll love that, you absolute gems.

This is the story of the Lost Dutchman Mine. Come for the ghosts, stay for lessons from the villain of Toy Story 2, my name is Clay Jug, lot about livin’ and a little ‘bout jug, so many Jacobs, your math is better than my math, I should just die, and no thank you, snake surprise. God bles...

It's not what you think, and there's WAY less Uncle Phil than you'd like.

This is the story of the Bellaire House. Come for the ghosts, stay for the dreggin’s breath, half cocaine/half bear, please let this be research, seven-year-old work, Captain Metaphor, let’s ask ChatGPT, The Fresh Prince of a Sub-Region of Kentucky, and a flat ghost fee (75 bucks).

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So there's this train in the Cascade Mountains, and it's just sitting there, minding its own business, not even moving or anything, then WHAM! Ghosted. There's a lesson to be learned there. We just have no idea what it is.

This is the story of the haunted Iron Goat Trail. Come for the ghosts, stay for the coolest cucumber on Earth, lightning is bad, 100% man, bring the yetis out, the train with all the males, Not-So-Wellington, and the biggest ghost we’ve ever seen.

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We all like to go fast, don't we? YEAH! But do you like to go as fast as the terminal velocity of a human body? If yes, then this episode's for you.

This is the story of Desmond Arthur. Come for the ghost, stay for Taylor Sniffed and Dimebag Darrell, we all go home wet, the Irish weather report tattoo, least honorable mention, perfect straw mouth, I did wanna go fast, Tom Hanks tattoos, and saints a-preserve a-us, eh?

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For our first official live Zoom event, where listeners could sit in on our weekly recording, we asked those listeners, "Do you want to hear a haunted doll story, or do you want to hear a haunted mine story?" They chose mine. And right or wrong, now you all get mine. YOU ALL GET MINE.

This is the story of the Vulture Mine. Come for the ghosts, stay for the Ricky Bobby rules of parenting, the fossils they find in Prussia, enough testosterone to shoot you to the moon, al dente quartz, kickin’ on the chicken boiler, th...

Hot lake, hot springs, hot times, hot ghosts. Hot, hot, hot. Have you ever been to a hot springs? Patrick has. And his mouth paid the price.

This is the story of the many ghosts of Hot Lake Hotel. Come for the ghosts, stay for the double-fisting daddy, everyone’s got flub, going nuts for hot holes, the cheat code for syphilis, every party needs a Patrick, feet that work, Choose Your Own Horrific Adventure, and that was quite the fall.

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Beer, caves, and prostitutes in caves with beer, this one has everything. It's a special love story episode for St. Louisans like us. For everyone else, well, here's your weekly episode. Do you like it?

This is the story of the Lemp Mansion. Come for the ghosts, stay for off-brand Cheez-It filter, Chris Pratt taking our Pringles money, podcast winnings, where they keep the caves, very cold lives, Eric von Coors Light, best friends with the Great Gatsby, and powder burns on the dog’s paw.

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Cults are like Mogwai. We do not understand them, and we do not ask questions about them, for fear that they might multiply overnight. Therefore, we humbly present this episode of Is This a Ghost? with no further comment.

This is the story of Cyrus Teed and the Ghosts of Koreshanity. Come for the ghosts, stay for Joe Buck money, mantlescrapers, yes ghost, we call that brain damage, beautiful sexy God, look at the sun it’s a helix, David Koresh’s subscription has ended, and energy that shows up under a black light.

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No, you read that right. This is not the story of James Dean's ghost. This is the story of James Dean's car's ghost. We will not be taking any questions. (But yeah, okay, we talk about James Dean's ghost, too.)

This is the story of the Ghost of James Dean's Car. Come for the ghost, stay for friends with Lego benefits, the Fightin’ Lady Fingers, one tiny mistake, live fast, live long, getaway ambulance, advice from people named after Muppets, big royal inbred car, and (James Dean’s) good bones.

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Not all poltergeists suck your children in through a TV screen. Some of them just push your grandma down the stairs and set fires in your house! And some of them just really want to date Jeremy Spenser, whoever that is.

This is the story of the Battersea Poltergeist. Come for the ghost, stay for infringement of the face, gotta hitch that kitty, the fingering ghost, Liverpool: the Hollywood of London, classic woman stuff, he was French, after all, stop doing that in here, the cheeks of someone who’s had a lot of cake, and elbow su...