Is This a Ghost?

By: Clayton Smith and Patrick Dean
  • Summary

  • A real podcast about real ghosts that's real funny.

    Clayton Smith and Patrick Dean
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Episodes
  • 137. The Drake Hotel: Part 1
    Jan 8 2025

    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 Pooh; Old Soaghetti Whore House; and Sally is a pile of dust.

    Sources:

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drake_(1826%E2%80%931895)
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Chicago)
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Hotel_(Chicago)
    • https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-hauntings-drake-hotel/
    • https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-woman-in-black-at-the-drake-hotel/
    • https://mysteriouschicago.com/the-woman-in-black-at-the-drake-hotel/
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    54 mins
  • 136. The Mackenzie Poltergeist
    Jan 1 2025

    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.

    Links referenced in the show:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yVR7n0-iPE
    • https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/notorious-edinburgh-poltergeist-leaves-graveyard-18677465
    • https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/one-detail-chilling-final-photo-29774152
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQsJJi9qycY&t=45s

    Sources:

    • https://www.icysedgwick.com/mackenzie-poltergeist/
    • https://www.spookyisles.com/bluidy-george-mackenzie/
    • https://eerieedinburgh.com/spooky-stories/f/the-ghosts-of-greyfriars
    • https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com/the-mackenzie-poltergeist.html
    • https://vocal.media/horror/the-truth-about-the-mac-kenzie-poltergeist
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mackenzie_of_Rosehaugh

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 135. Geoffrey de Mandeville, the Christmas Eve Ghost
    Dec 25 2024

    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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    Sources:

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Mandeville,_Earl_of_Essex
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Mandeville
    • https://usghostadventures.com/haunted-stories/25-days-of-christmas/sir-geoffrey-and-the-headless-hound/
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    1 hr and 15 mins

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