Haunted history with banter and receipts.
GraveYard Tales follows Adam and Matt through haunted buildings, strange creatures, sacred histories, and local legends. The tone is curious and casual, with quick jokes giving way to source-minded storytelling about places like the White Sanitarium, Glamis Castle, Devil's Tower, and Mackinac Island.
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GraveYard Tales is built around the comfortable rhythm of Adam and Matt taking turns with strange stories. It starts loose. A pun, a weather aside, or a quick check-in opens the door before the episode settles into haunted places, strange sightings, and histories that have gathered a chill around them. The show is not trying to sound like a museum plaque. It sounds like two people who enjoy the weird material enough to chase details, pause for reactions, and keep asking what a story might mean. The White Sanitarium episode shows that balance well. The building's medical past, decades of abandonment, and local teenage dares become the groundwork for its woman-in-white stories. Burrunjor moves in a different direction, leaning into giant reptilian creature reports, the Australian outback, trackers, and the fear that comes when people familiar with a landscape suddenly panic. Mackinac Island gives the show room to handle history without losing its conversational feel. Forts, early park status, the ban on automobiles, horses, bicycles, and the Grand Hotel all become part of the island's atmosphere before the ghostly material lands. Devil's Tower is treated with particular care. The episode separates scientific explanations from sacred histories connected to local Native American tribes, and it avoids flattening those accounts into ordinary folklore. Glamis Castle brings the old haunted-castle energy: phantoms, late-night gambling, devil stories, and just enough joking to keep the mood from turning stiff. The show also has a steady community feel, with repeated mentions of listener stories, paranormal discussion, and a Facebook group called the Graveyard. Its best lane is not pure horror. It is spooky storytelling with context, jokes, and a running sense that stories get more interesting when the place, people, and source trail are allowed into the room. For listeners who like haunted history but do not want a cold documentary tone, GraveYard Tales keeps the door open and the lights dim.
Made for: For listeners who like haunted locations, strange lore, local legends, and paranormal stories told in a conversational style. It especially fits fans who want eerie material with historical setup and occasional skepticism.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by mixing spooky detail with casual source-checking and a steady two-person handoff. Adam and Matt make the research feel like shared discovery rather than a scripted lecture.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Historical context, careful distinctions and easy comic chemistry give its supernatural stories more shape than a simple collection of scares.
GraveYard Tales lets Adam and Matt build eerie stories from the ground up, pairing historical context with accounts of ghosts, unexplained creatures and local legend.
Adam and Matt turn haunted history into the campfire where you actually want the chatty seats.
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An abandoned Texas hospital collects ghost stories, eerie decay and a welcome measure of doubt.
The White Sanitarium looks at how an abandoned Wichita Falls hospital became the town's best-known haunted landmark. Adam and Matt follow its decades of vacancy, without electricity or running water, and the teenagers, urban explorers and stories that gathered around it.
An Australian outback mystery gets its charge from experienced people frightened enough to flee.
GraveYard Tales frames Burrunjor through the plain fear of being lost in the Australian outback, where a reported giant reptilian creature feels more unsettling because the people around it seem familiar with the bush.
A relaxed Mackinac Island history turns toward the Grand Hotel's ghostly lore.
Mackinac Island gives Graveyard Tales a sturdy setting, where federal history, Michigan ties, resort culture, and ghost-story mood all meet. Adam and Matt move through the island's relationship with government, then spend time on the automobile ban and the complaints about early…
A foul-mouthed castle phantom turns a ghost story into a darkly funny card-game riff.
GraveYard Tales takes on a castle legend with a haunting that refuses to behave itself. A foul-mouthed phantom is said to stalk the castle at night, lean over sleeping guests, curse at them, and fling a deck of cards.
A strange landmark leads into science, sacred history, and the story of a giant bear.
Devil's Tower sits at the center of a GraveYard Tales episode about the many ways people make sense of a strange landmark. The discussion moves from scientific explanations to the more outlandish idea of a rendezvous point with an alien mothership, then into sacred histories…
Nicole Tito's roughest encounters argue for care, patience, and respect in haunted spaces.
Nicole Tito's conversation with Adam and Matt settles on a useful paranormal question: what should investigators do when a spirit clearly does not want company? Tito comes down on the side of patience, saying kindness is more likely to open a door than picking a fight.
A relaxed, thoughtful visit to Devil's Tower and the sacred histories connected to it.
Devil's Tower sits at the crossroads of scientific explanation, popular culture, and sacred history. Adam and Matt begin with the landmark's connection to Close Encounters of the Third Kind before turning to accounts from Native American tribes in the area.
A podcast episode discussing the legend and sightings of the Beast of Exmoor, a mysterious big cat in England.
Hosts Adam and Matt interview paranormal investigator Nicole Tito about her book 'Estes Method and EVPs, The Search for Ghostly Voices'.
Hosts Adam and Matt explore Devil's Tower in Wyoming, a national monument with deep cultural and geological significance.
Hosts Adam and Matt open an episode of Graveyard Tales with a humorous anecdote and a call for listener support via Patreon.
GraveYard Tales' "The White Sanitarium" follows the history of a private mental hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas, opened in 1926 by Dr.
GraveYard Tales’ “Burrunjor” centers on an Australian outback cryptid described as a 6-to-7-meter “thunder lizard,” with three-toed tracks 2 to 3 feet wide and stories tied to the Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, and the MacArthur River.
GraveYard Tales' "Mackinac Island" frames the island as a car-free resort in Lake Huron, Michigan, where horse-drawn carriages, Victorian buildings, and Fort Mackinac sit on land tied to Anishinaabe burial and ceremonial sites.
GraveYard Tales covers Glamis Castle in Angus, Scotland, a 650-year-old castle tied to King Robert II, Sir John Lyon, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
The hosts of Graveyard Tales introduce their podcast and discuss the legendary criminal duo Bonnie and Clyde.
Graveyard Tales hosts Adam and Matt examine Devil's Tower in Crook County, Wyoming — America's first national monument, proclaimed by Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906 — from three angles: geology, Native American sacred histories, and conspiracy theories.
Hosts Adam and Matt promote Shopify and their Patreon before beginning their podcast Graveyard Tales.
A comedic podcast episode where hosts Adam and Matt discuss a new sport called Quiet Tennis and introduce their show Graveyard Tales.
A podcast episode featuring Chris Williamson with sponsor ads for SpinQuest and Florida bell peppers, followed by a humorous segment from Graveyard Tales.