The Seance Parlor

Love haunted history, cryptids, folklore, and all things eerie? Join Drew and Amy as they dive into famous paranormal cases, hauntings, ancient legends, monsters, cursed places, and unexplained mysteries from around the world. Blending research, storytelling, humor, and real conversation, this approachable paranormal podcast is perfect for horror junkies, skeptics, and believers alike. So dim the lights, lock the doors, and join us for creepy conversations about the strange and unnerving things lurking in the dark.

The Seance Parlor is a society podcast hosted by Drew & Amy Waldron, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Drew & Amy Waldron hosts The Seance Parlor, a society show with 19 episodes published.

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  Episode 019: The Smurl Haunting | The Family That Couldn’t Escape

  Oct 1, 20261h 18m

  In 1973, Jack and Janet Smurl moved their family into a quiet duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. It was supposed to be a fresh start. Then came the noises. Strange odors filled the house. Objects moved on their own. Their dog was reportedly thrown against a wall. And as the years passed, the Smurls claimed the activity became increasingly violent—following them from room to room, tormenting their children, and eventually making them fear that whatever was inside their home had no intention of letting them go. Desperate for answers, the family turned to paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who claimed the house was occupied by multiple spirits—and something far darker. But the Smurl haunting would become more than a terrifying family story. It exploded into national headlines, attracting investigators, journalists, skeptics, and eventually Hollywood. And decades later, one question remains: What really happened inside the Smurl house? Tonight, we return to West Pittston and unravel one of the most infamous—and controversial—haunting cases in American paranormal history. Welcome to Tales by Candlelight. We don’t chase proof. We pursue wonder. #SmurlHaunting #SmurlFamily #HauntedHouse #TrueHaunting #Paranormal #GhostStories #ParanormalStories #HauntedHistory #EdAndLorraineWarren #EdWarren #LorraineWarren #TheWarrens #Demonology #Supernatural #Ghosts #Hauntings #ParanormalPodcast #GhostPodcast #ScaryStories #TrueGhostStories #Unexplained #TheConjuring #TalesByCandlelight #TheSeanceParlor

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  Episode 018: The Crying Boy Paintings | The Portraits That Wouldn’t Burn

  Sep 24, 20261h 2m

  In the 1980s, a strange story began spreading across Britain. Homes were burning to the ground — yet among the ashes, one object was reportedly being found untouched: a painting of a crying child. The portraits were known simply as The Crying Boy. Mass-produced and sold throughout the UK, they had hung quietly in thousands of homes for years. But after a series of devastating fires, reports began connecting the surviving paintings to something far more sinister. Soon, newspapers were warning of a curse. Firefighters reportedly encountered the portraits among the wreckage. Frightened owners wanted them out of their homes. And as the legend grew, thousands of people began to wonder: Why wouldn’t the paintings burn? In Episode 018 of The Séance Parlor, Drew and Amy explore the strange history behind The Crying Boy paintings, the artist behind the haunting image, the fires that fueled the legend, and the possible explanations for how these portraits seemingly survived when everything around them did not. Was it an unusual quirk of how the paintings were made? A perfect storm of coincidence and sensational headlines? Or was there something about The Crying Boy that people were right to fear? ️ We don’t chase proof. We pursue wonder.

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  Episode 017: The Enfield Poltergeist | The House That Never Stayed Quiet

  Sep 17, 20261h 36m

  In 1977, an ordinary home in Enfield, North London became the center of one of the most famous—and fiercely debated—paranormal cases in history. It began with strange noises in the night. Then came furniture seemingly moving on its own, objects flying across rooms, unexplained knocking, and claims that 11-year-old Janet Hodgson was being thrown from her bed. Before long, police officers, journalists, neighbors, paranormal investigators, and members of the Society for Psychical Research would all become witnesses to something they struggled to explain. But the Enfield Poltergeist has never been a simple ghost story. Some witnesses remained convinced they experienced genuine paranormal activity. Skeptics pointed to evidence that at least some incidents were faked. And somewhere between those two versions lies a case that continues to provoke arguments nearly 50 years later. In Episode 017 of The Séance Parlor, Drew and Amy return to 284 Green Street to follow the Enfield Poltergeist from its unsettling beginnings through its most infamous moments, the investigation that followed, and the controversy that still surrounds it today. Was Enfield an elaborate hoax? A mixture of real and fabricated phenomena? Or did something genuinely inexplicable enter the Hodgson home? Pull up a chair. We don’t chase proof. We pursue wonder. ️ New episodes every Thursday at 6 PM EST. Follow The Séance Parlor for paranormal stories, investigations, and weekly paranormal news.

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  Episode 016: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter | Visitors From The Dark

  Sep 10, 202654 min

  On a hot August night in 1955, a family in rural Kentucky walked into a police station with a story that sounded impossible. They claimed that for hours, their farmhouse had been surrounded by strange, glowing figures—small humanoid creatures with oversized heads, enormous eyes, and long arms emerging again and again from the darkness. What followed became known as The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter, one of the strangest and most enduring close-encounter cases in American UFO history. This week in The Séance Parlor, Drew and Amy travel back to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to reconstruct the terrifying night at the Sutton farmhouse. We’ll meet the people who were there, follow the encounter as it unfolded, examine what investigators found afterward, and explore the explanations that have been offered for nearly seventy years. Were the Suttons frightened by something ordinary that spiraled into panic? Was this an elaborate hoax? Or did something truly unknown step out of the darkness that night? Pull up a chair. Episode 016: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter | Visitors From the Dark ️ New episodes of The Séance Parlor every Thursday at 6 PM ET. We don’t chase proof. We pursue wonder.

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  Episode 015: The Busby Stoop Chair | The Deadliest Seat in England

  Sep 3, 202653 min

  EPISODE 015 — THE BUSBY STOOP CHAIR: THE DEADLIEST SEAT IN ENGLAND Can a chair kill you? In the quiet English village of Thirsk sits one of Britain’s most infamous cursed objects: the Busby Stoop Chair — a seemingly ordinary wooden chair blamed for a string of deaths spanning centuries. Its legend begins in 1702 with Thomas Busby, a convicted murderer who was sentenced to hang. According to the story, before his execution Busby placed a curse upon his favorite chair, declaring that anyone who dared sit in it would die. And according to legend… they did. Over the generations, soldiers, locals, workers, and curious skeptics were all said to have tempted fate by taking a seat — only to meet untimely deaths afterward. Eventually, the chair’s reputation became so terrifying that its final owner refused to let anyone sit in it again. Today, the Busby Stoop Chair hangs suspended from the wall of the Thirsk Museum, safely out of reach. But how much of its deadly history is documented fact, and how much grew from centuries of folklore? In Episode 015 of The Séance Parlor, Drew and Amy unravel the dark history of Thomas Busby, the murder that sent him to the gallows, the origins of his alleged curse, and the deaths that transformed an ordinary wooden chair into one of England’s most feared supernatural objects. Plus, we explore the legends, separate history from haunting, and ask the question at the heart of every cursed-object story: If the Busby Stoop Chair were sitting in front of you… Would you take a seat? Welcome to The Séance Parlor. We don’t chase proof. We pursue wonder.

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