Paranormal Playback is the ultimate recap podcast for paranormal reality TV, where haunted asylums, ghost-hunting bros, psychic house calls, and celebrity ghost stories get the snark-filled breakdown they deserve. Hosted by three award-winning ad industry creatives, Charlie Holley, Melanie Malone, and Lauren Sanders, we rewatch cult-favorite shows like Ghost Adventures, Kindred Spirits, and Celebrity Ghost Stories, with a mix of skepticism, comedy, and pop culture flair.
Got a ghost story? Submit yours at paranormalplayback.com/home#shadowtales for a chance to be featured in our bonus special, Rosé & Readings.
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Paranormal Playback is the ultimate recap podcast for paranormal reality TV, where haunted asylums, ghost-hunting bros, psychic house calls, and celebrity ghost stories get the snark-filled breakdown they deserve. Hosted by three award-winning ad industry creatives, Charlie Holley, Melanie Malone, and Lauren Sanders, we rewatch cult-favorite shows like Ghost Adventures, Kindred Spirits, and Celebrity Ghost Stories, with a mix of skepticism, comedy, and pop culture flair.
Got a ghost story? Submit yours at paranormalplayback.com/home#shadowtales for a chance to be featured in our bonus special, Rosé & Readings.
See you in the Shadows™. ☠️🔦
📸 Instgram @paranormalplayback
📱 TikTok @paranormal.playba
📺 YouTube @paranormalplaybackpod
📧 paranormalplaybackpod@gmail.com
🎙️ Listen, rate, subscribe & stay spooky.
🌀🕯️Enter the Portal🕯️🌀
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Chapters
[00:00:00] Intro Song — Cold Open Poem & Host Intros
[00:01:00] Blue Ridge setup, Part I callback, what’s coming
[00:02:00] Local Legends: Toccoa calaboose, Toccoa Falls, Rabun Bald, Downtown Blue Ridge
[00:06:00] Tales from the Shadows I — Madeline (bedside woman, moss man, toddler-in-bed)
[00:11:00] Tales from the Shadows II — Stony Brook lab → “Seatbelt Psychic” arc
[00:16:00] Winchester Mystery House (on Sarah Winchester’s death day) + gift shop
[00:18:00] GA/Houdini tangent & Christian Day cameo
[00:21:00] Easy-riser stairs, switchbacks, tight “pony wall” stairwells
[00:23:00] Quake-damaged wing & Witch’s Cap acoustics
[00:26:00] The window that closed itself (protective nudge?)
[00:29:00] Group reactions & Sarah-to-Sarah moment
[00:30:00] Reading the Tea: Conjuring House Halloween auction (foreclosure/zoning)
[00:33:00] Legal/disclosure chat & attorney call-out (Shadow Chat invite)
[00:36:00] Warrens estate moves, Annabelle on tour, Conjuring box office, Will Zak bid?
[00:39:00] Rife vs. Bagans? Road-trip season speculation
[00:40:00] Conjuring Universe lore: Sister Irene/Lorraine theory
[00:41:00] Tea wrap → segue to LORE by LOR
[00:42:00] LORE by LOR: Bloody Mary (setup & Mary Tudor aside)
[00:46:00] Bloody Mary/Mary Worth village tale
[00:50:00] Mirror ritual & source shout
[00:51:00] This Month’s Pour: “Chicken wine” rosé review
[00:52:00] Ratings & toast
[00:53:00] Sign-off & Poppy button
Episode description
Paranormal Playback — R&R Sept Part 2
Hosts: Charlie, Lor, and Mel
Shadow People, pull up a chair—this month’s bonus banter goes full campfire in Georgia’s Blue Ridge. We hit cemeteries, tiny jails (yes, a calaboose), a haunted church, and a maybe-protective moment at the Winchester Mystery House—on Sarah Winchester’s death day.
We open with local lore (Toccoa’s fiery calaboose tale, Toccoa Falls spirits, demon-people rumors on Rabun Bald, downtown Blue Ridge ghost walks) and then dive into Tales from the Shadows:
• Madeline (Baton Rouge): a shadowed woman in a white nightgown at the foot of her bed, a moss-draped “green man,” and years later the tiny-footstep, toddler-in-bed experience.
• John Ryan (Stony Brook): a lab volunteer, an alleged equipment scam, a campus sting—then a pivot to celebrity medium fame and Seatbelt Psychic. Con? Coincidence? Cinematic universe?
Charlie tours the Winchester Mystery House: switchback staircases, the echo-tricky Witch’s Cap, and a window that closed the instant she raised her camera. Wind or mechanism—or a gentle “hey, you’re pregnant—step back” from Sarah to Sarah?
In Reading the Tea, Lor breaks down the Conjuring House’s Halloween mortgage-foreclosure auction, the Warrens estate shuffle (Matt Rife, Annabelle on the road), and whether a certain museum owner with well-timed emojis might bid. Rivalry brewing? Popcorn ready.
We close with LORE by LOR: Bloody Mary—sleepover mirrors, Mary Tudor side-notes, and the gnarlier village tale—then a quick review of our beloved “chicken wine” rosé. Dry, fresh finish, long legs, zero notes of demon people.
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Content notes: child/ghost themes; historical death; light profanity; alleged scams.
Paranormal Playback is your weekly deep dive into spooky reality TV, ghost hunts, dramatic reenactments, and enough EVP to raise the dead. Hosted by Charlie Holley, Melanie Malone, & Lauren Sanders.
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