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Send us Fan Mail Mannequins…sales enhancement, or inducers of terror? When you see a mannequin in a store window, do you stop to examine its garment offering, or watch its eyes to see if they follow you? For me, they are

Hosted by Shelby Rickart · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 223 episodes
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For you, the lover of eerie, disquieting ghostly tales, this Podcast was created. Join me, Shelby Rickart as I present stories from darkest corners. Tales from literature, modern authors and you, the listener, all told with a generous sprinkling of history, facts and more. Stories reflect the human soul, and the need to be heard never dies…
Shelby Rickart hosts After Words Paranormal, a arts show with 223 episodes published.

Send us Fan Mail Mannequins…sales enhancement, or inducers of terror? When you see a mannequin in a store window, do you stop to examine its garment offering, or watch its eyes to see if they follow you? For me, they are

Send us Fan Mail Mannequins…sales enhancement, or inducers of terror? When you see a mannequin in a store window, do you stop to examine its garment offering, or watch its eyes to see if they follow you? For me, they are

Send us Fan Mail In our story, "Blood Fortune," by Stephan Hudgins, a woman visits a carnival fortune teller. She asks her a rather grisly question, and unfortunately, gets exactly what she asks for. What’s more fun than

Send us Fan Mail In our story, "Blood Fortune," by Stephan Hudgins, a woman visits a carnival fortune teller. She asks her a rather grisly question, and unfortunately, gets exactly what she asks for. What’s more fun than

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever heard a voice come through a radio that seemed misplaced? You might have heard a voice from beyond the veil. In our story, “The Message,” by Clinton Dangerfield, a death-row inmate and a ch

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever heard a voice come through a radio that seemed misplaced? You might have heard a voice from beyond the veil. In our story, “The Message,” by Clinton Dangerfield, a death-row inmate and a ch

Send us Fan Mail Working as a medical professional in a psychiatric hospital must be one of the hardest jobs in the world. And as one doctor finds out in our story, “Doctor’s Notes,” by Kitty Olsen, meeting face to face

Send us Fan Mail On this episode Holly Landis’s story, “Gnome Invasion,” shows us the darker side of those cute little ceramic statues that so many people collect to decorate their gardens. To be perfectly honest, they c

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s story, “The Boy That Brought the Asylum Home,” by Mike Nesbitt, a young boy is haunted by a ghost his roommate accidently brought home from a clandestine visit to an abandoned asylum. Let’

Send us Fan Mail Hello, and welcome to episode #225 of After Words Paranormal. I’m your host, Shelby. For our story this week you must forget the Disney version of the Fairy world. No cute little tinkly fairies or wistfu

Send us Fan Mail On this episode we will dip our toes, very carefully into the lore of Cthulhu. In, "Happy Cthulhu to You," by Lance Zarimba, young boy loves terrorizing his younger brother because he is a Cthulhu fan. H

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode we have a scientist experimenting with equipment designed to separate the spirit of a person from his body, then put it back in. It goes without saying that the experiment does not

Send us Fan Mail In our story, “Bones for a Pillow,” by Alexandra Seidel. A young woman notices something strange growing out of her floor. Her investigation into the mystery provides answers, but only the deadly kind. B

Send us Fan Mail Our story for this week, “The Tin House,” by Simon Clark touches on one of the most horrible chapters in US history. The years of slavery. In the story, a policeman thinks he only taking photos of an old

Send a text The ghosts stole the episode! Just kidding, because of technical problems, there will be no episode this week. We'll be back the following week with a new episode. Thanks!

Send us Fan Mail New techniques and better equipment are developed for photography all the time. But one thing remains constant; ghosts have been making their way into photos for 200 years. Spirit Photography is as popul

Send us Fan Mail What does the word twister make you think of? A fun game with colorful dots and tangled up bodies, an action film, or a deadly windstorm? My maternal grandmother was raised on Kansas farm, and the blood

Send us Fan Mail Haunted houses have always attracted those who want a little scare and the chance to see a ghost. In our story, “Dark Mummery,” by Thorp McClusky, a daring group of friends into a local haunt to have som

Send us Fan Mail Rather than just a horror story, this week we offer a horror story about a horror writer writing a horror story. In “I was Commissioned to Write a Horror Story. I was Given Strange Rules to Follow,” by Q

Send us Fan Mail This week tree conservation takes a twisted turn for the worse in David Longhorn’s story, “Old Growth.” A young man wants to help preserve a growth of old oaks from a construction company, but his involv
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After Words Paranormal is hosted by Shelby Rickart. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 223 episodes.
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