Spooky stories with sharp best-friend energy.
A Paranormal Chicks is a long-running paranormal and true-crime conversation built around sharp reactions, everyday detours, and community-sent stories. Episodes can swing from a local social-media mishap to a poltergeist update, then into cases, haunted places, or eerie signs from loved ones.
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A Paranormal Chicks is built on a simple tension: the stories can be disturbing, but the room never feels cold. Donna and Keri bring the pace of two longtime friends already mid-conversation, with teasing, corrections, side roads, and quick emotional turns baked into the format. An episode might begin with a health-prep story, a murder mystery party, a local snow cone stand panic, or a Patreon shout-out. Then the show can pivot into a murder case, an old legend, a haunted nightclub, or a listener's account of something that should not have happened. The Sinister Sightings episodes are the clearest expression of its identity. Those installments read audience emails about poltergeists, haunted hospitals, nursing homes, urban legends, strange dreams, possible signs from loved ones, and crime-adjacent experiences. The listener stories are not treated like polished campfire monologues. They arrive with interruptions, gut checks, empathy, jokes, and the sense that the hosts are reacting in real time. That looseness is part of the appeal. It keeps the paranormal grounded in messy ordinary life: work stress, family loss, pets, houses, neighborhoods, and late-night walks. The show also has a true-crime side, with recent topics including Alison Botha, Sawney Bean, Jerry Barker, Edmund Schreiber, Jacinda Rearick, Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson, and Flannan Isles Lighthouse. These segments can be blunt and emotionally charged. They are not sanitized, but the editorial center is still human rather than sensational. A Paranormal Chicks works best for listeners who like their spooky material social, reactive, and a little chaotic. It is less concerned with sounding authoritative than with sounding present. That choice makes room for fear and humor to sit next to each other. It also makes the audience feel like part of an ongoing community rather than a passive crowd. Longtime listeners will recognize callbacks, recurring listener names, and the Patreon orbit around the main feed. New listeners should expect digressions before the point. That is the texture, not a flaw. The result is a paranormal and true-crime show with sharp edges, warm loyalty, and a habit of making even the strangest stories feel like neighborhood news.
Made for: For listeners who want paranormal accounts and true crime delivered with warmth, speed, and irreverent side commentary. It especially suits people who like listener stories, haunted-house updates, and speakers who leave the conversational mess intact.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by making its community the center of the scary material, especially through Sinister Sightings listener emails. Its blend of casual life detours, blunt reactions, and emotionally open storytelling gives the cases and hauntings a lived-in feel.
We are a "pair of normal" chicks who love to talk about true crime & the paranormal. Join us every week as we creep it real with our style of conversational storytelling. Each episode will have one story of true crime and one of the paranormal variety. Creep it real, and don't get scared!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Donna and Keri give crime, alleged hauntings and personal signs an animated conversational hearing without sanding away uncertainty.
Donna and Keri move easily between researched accounts and the everyday conversation surrounding them. Historical violence, alleged hauntings and listener-submitted experiences all receive the same lively exchange of narration, questions and immediate reaction.
Donna and Keri make room for both DNA evidence and a ladybug from beyond.
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A colonoscopy prep joke opens into a grim roadside ambush, told in a loose and conversational way.
Donna and Keri start with a colonoscopy prep anecdote, and the humor works because Colby West powers through the clear liquids and water so quickly that Donna can only react in disbelief.
Two dog walks make familiar streets and school woods feel quietly occupied.
Sinister Sightings - EP362 frames its unease around a request for direction, then lets two later encounters turn ordinary dog-walking routes into something less settled.
Episode 418 blends party chatter and summer banter with a cold-case turn built on ties, old evidence, and a DNA match 33 years later.
Donna and Keri open Episode 418 with summer ad chatter and a weekend 80s murder mystery party before the case settles into a DNA match that took 33 years to land.
A haunted Missouri house story draws its charge from the uneasy line between protection, guidance, and something stranger.
Sinister Sightings 361 centers on Jay's memory of a haunted house in Eminence, Missouri, at the corner of 4th and Pine Street. The story reaches back to a family move in the late 1980s and narrows around the final night in that house, then widens into a larger farewell to…
A haunted-house story shaped by journals, backlash, and the cost of being believed.
Paranormal Chicks centers a haunted-house case on journals, claims, backlash, and the price of not being believed. It keeps the attention on publication and anonymity, along with the damage to reputation, while also noting how difficult it was to keep tenants in a house tied to…
A murder case shaped by family memory, a teenage conviction, and the long legal shadow of juvenile sentencing.
Stephen's murder becomes a story of family memory, teenage culpability, and consequences that keep shifting long after conviction. At 16, John Waters took a steak knife from home, beat Stephen with a log, cut his wrist to make sure he was dead, and covered him with a heavy rock.
A ladybug becomes a tender, uneasy sign tied to a beloved yaya and a childhood home.
At the center is a listener's story about returning upstate for her 60th birthday and asking her late yaya for a sign. The childhood home still carries a sacred charge after family complications, and ladybugs have become part of that private family language: they once appeared…
UFO lore for the metaphysically restless.
Skeptical field notes from strange belief systems.
Raw radio from the Bigfoot search.
VR hangouts, wild tangents, real reactions.
First comes cruise chaos.
The hosts discuss their search for a specific entertainment center on a tight budget while sharing personal anecdotes about home decor and family dynamics.
The host shares a humorous personal story about visiting a urologist to prepare for a cruise, discussing kidney stones, aging, and awkward medical interactions.
A cruise announcement opens the door.
The hosts of Paranormal Chicks discuss technical difficulties and personal health issues while setting up for a remote episode about the Lauren Giddings case and Kozyrev Mirror.
The hosts introduce their podcast, explain they read listener-submitted spooky stories, and begin sharing a tale about a poltergeist named Jeffrey.
This episode of Paranormal Chicks discusses their Patreon content, including shout outs to supporters and various series like Milk Carton Minis and true crime episodes.
A listener shares a personal paranormal experience involving a lit rose from her deceased sister as a form of communication during a difficult time.
The hosts share a humorous Facebook post from their local community group about teenagers mistaking an unfriendly-looking grandpa for a suspicious man, leading to a quick police response.
A listener named Bex shares an update about returning to her haunted childhood home in England after a series of traumatic life events, including her sister's death and a custody battle, and begins to recount new paranormal experiences.
Donna and Keri open on Colby's colonoscopy prep.
Sinister Sightings 362 on Paranormal Chicks collects listener stories about signs, eerie sounds, AOL chat rooms, and crime details tied to Auburn, New York and Nichols, New York.
Donna and Keri open Episode 418 with summer ad chatter.
["A Paranormal Chicks mailbag episode centers on Jay's haunted-house story from Eminence, Missouri, where a school photo comes back with burned-out eyes and The Amityville Horror is marked with 'get out.'", "Jay says a Ouija board in Poplar Bluff spells Wendy, then a dream in a dark city shows war, a prisoner-of-war scene, and an American-flag casket while Wendy tells him to stay out of the Army.", "That warning follows him into Army basic training at Fort Knox, then to Fort Bliss during Desert Storm, where his dead cat Tasselhoff appears in a tank-and-carnival vision and Wendy says Malfader is coming.", "The rest of the episode moves from a brother who sleepwalks through coffee and tomato sandwiches after new medications, to a mall babysitter who threatens a stranger with an appendix-eating line, to a partner whose growling bed incident leads to prayer and salt in the window seals and doorways."]
Episode 417 opens at a distance.
The hosts discuss returning to the paranormal podcast Ghost in the Burbs, share their enjoyment of its relatable storytelling, and mention Selena Spooky Boo's new book Hollow.
The hosts discuss personal struggles including a breakup, health issues, and emotional lows while expressing gratitude for friendship and support.