Lights Out Extra: Christmas 2023

On March 3, 1943, tragedy struck in London, at the Bethnal Green Tube station. People on their way down to the station to seek shelter from a air raid were caught in a crush when one person fell. Fifteen seconds later, 173 people were dead. The Stairway to Heaven is the Bethnal Green memorial, where the victims are remembered. But the ghosts of this tragedy do their own remembering late at night, when the trains fall silent. Join me for a walk around this touching monument.

The tragic disappearance of the Sodder children, on Christmas Eve 1945, began in flames and ended in enduring mystery. How could five children simply vanish from their bedrooms without a trace? The unsolved mystery continues to haunt West Virginia today.

The Haunted Museum in Nottingham, England, is four glorious floors of creepy artifacts galore. Join me for a stroll through the museum, if you dare. I'll even let you hold one of the haunted skulls. 

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, one of the largest museums in the world, is home to two haunted objects; the Great Bed of Ware, and a chair that once belonged to the wife of 18th century actor David Garrick. Come along and explore them with me!

Travel to England to visit Henry VIII's opulent Hampton Court Palace, scene of several hauntings. And take a peek at Berry Pomeroy Castle, home of both a White Lady and a Blue Lady ... the sight of both of them is an omen of certain death. Are you brave enough to go Lights Out?

Willard Library, in Evansville, Indiana, is home to the Grey Lady. Is she the disgruntled daughter of the library's founder? Tune in to find out!

Here is my Christmas present to you all: an extra episode of Lights Out. In this episode, we'll hear a reading of "Smee", a short story by A. M. Burrage from 1931. Burrage brings the spooky with this ghostly tale. Merry Christmas!

Ready for another walk in the woods? Come along with me, but be warned ... there are creepier things than ghosts in the forest.

Join me for a walk through haunted woods on the night before Halloween. What secrets lie beneath the fallen leaves and tilted headstones?

Pennhurst Asylum is one of the most actively haunted places in Pennsylvania. Its legacy of patient abuse and neglect casts a long shadow over the history of mental health care in the United States. But to many people, this was home, for better or for worse. Come inside the gloomy halls of this long-abandoned asylum and meet its resident spirits.