My Haunted Life Podcast
Hello! This is my podcast where I delve into the history behind paranormal events. Each week I cover a different spooky location or creepy topic and sometimes even share my own experiences or interview my friends about theirs. So grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
Episodes
Episodes
Friday May 05, 2023
Spooky Snippets: Sea Serpents, Deadly Fungi Feast, and Guillotining
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
On this Spooky Snippet, I'm sharing with you some of the interesting articles I found in the Oregonian Archives, including a story of ANOTHER sea serpent, a feast that killed multiple people, and a random snippet about guillotining.
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Cape Disappointment and North Head Light Houses
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
On this week’s episode I am telling you about the dark history and hauntings of the Cape Disappointment and Northhead Lighthouses. These things have seen quite a lot of death in their times being in the middle of the Graveyard of the Pacific. One of the most prominent ghosts is that of Melancholy Mary who simply breaks my heart.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked, and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
A little side bar about this week’s episode again, trigger warning. I’m not sure what it is about this episode. I have talked about some pretty dark things on this podcast but this one really got to me. I cried reading the newspapers, I cried writing it all, I’ll probably cry during recording. It’s a rough one, at least for me so bare with me and check in with yourselves to make sure you are ok to listen to such a sad story.
To support the podcast or to check out pictures from my travels go to https://www.patreon.com/MyHauntedLifePodcast
Sources
https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/photos/ghost-adventures-cape-disappointment
https://www.parks.wa.gov/241/North-Head-Lighthouse
https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=115
https://www.visionaryliving.com/ghost-of-a-suicide-at-haunted-north-head-lighthouse/
Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific by Ira Wesley Kitmacher
https://www.chinookobserver.com/news/things-that-go-bump-on-the-coast/article_81049ba3-f6f8-5fc3-9357-ce0529c6ca9d.html
https://www.historylink.org/File/7602
Ghost Adventures season 20 episode 9
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Ghost Ships in Astoria
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
On this week’s episode we are talking all about ghost ships that have been reported near Astoria.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, maybe something with whiskey in it this week, make sure the doors are locked, and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
For more photos, videos, and to support the show go to:
https://www.patreon.com/MyHauntedLifePodcast
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Colossal Claude
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
On this week’s episode we are delving deep into the Columbia River in search of the legendary Colossal Claude, a mysterious sea serpent reported several times near Astoria. Here’s the thing about the Pacific Northwest. There are a lot of sea serpents so we are going to examine the history of sightings of Claude, some of his closest neighbors, what he could be, and possibly even a new friend.
For more photos, videos, and to support the show go to:
https://www.patreon.com/MyHauntedLifePodcast
Sources
http://www.crmm.org
https://www.dailyastorian.com/life/in_one_ear/tales-of-claude-and-marvin/article_c3f7320f-091e-51c1-b531-515ba1d0a3ca.html
https://tocontriveandjive.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/does-colossal-claude-exist/
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/sea-serpent-lore/#.Y7pphy2B1pQ
http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2009/06/claude-caddy-or-marvin-sea-monster.html
Haunted Astoria by Jefferson Davis
Peter Ciams, "Colossal Claude and The Sea Monsters," The Oregonian. September 24, 1967.
https://www.donttakepictures.com/dtp-blog/2017/4/19/the-loch-ness-monster-turns-83-the-story-of-the-surgeons-photograph
https://oregonlive.newsbank.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisiutl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonakadet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadborosaurus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilosaurus
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Spooky Snippet- Dr. Q’s Spirit Hand
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
On today's Spooky Snippet, I am introducing you to Dr. Q's Spirit Hand, a lovely little disembodied hand that helps you communicate with the dead.
I'm also explaining what a Spooky Snippet is.
Sources:
Thayer's Dr. Q Spirit Hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcvHopgYA8o
https://www.martinsmagic.com/allmagic/mentalism/dr-q-spirit-hand-by-thayer-quality-magic/
https://vimeo.com/408888240
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Flavel Houses
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
On this week’s episode we are examining the glorious, haunted houses of the Flavel family. One haunted by spirits and the other haunted by the last generation of the family, one member of which became known as Hatchet Harry. This is the story of family secrets and a mystery that endured for decades. There’s a lot of twists and turns in this one.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked, and the hatchet is close by. I have a story to tell you.
This week we are moving out of Portland and up the coast to Astoria, Oregon, a sleepy little town directly on the Columbia River that has the cutest population of very loud sea lions. It’s tucked up in a valley that leads right down to the waterfront where you can watch big freighter ships and little lead boats going up and down. As we drove into town we hit a pretty crazy rainstorm that apparently flooded out a lot of places in town but otherwise it was very calm, off and on sunny and then foggy. It was kinda hard to believe that we were right in the midst of the Graveyard of the Pacific. According to the Columbia River Maritime Museum, “Since 1792 approximately 2000 vessels, including over 200 large ships, have sunk at the Columbia River Bar. More than 700 people have lost their lives to the sea. Mariners agree that the combination of high seas, a mighty river, land shallow, and shifting sand bars make the Columbia River bar one of the most dangerous bar crossings in the world.” Considering the stories from the museum I don’t want to see it at it’s worse. That’s kinda the backdrop to this week’s stories.
For more photos, videos, and to support the show go to:
https://www.patreon.com/MyHauntedLifePodcast
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Portland’s Witch’s Castle
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
On this week’s episode I’m taking you ghost hunting at the infamous Witch’s House in Portland. I didn’t think I would actually find so much on the history on this one but I found a treasure trove. Most of the hauntings appear to revolve around one horrible murder, which I found newspaper stories recounting the tale in graphic detail. I have had so many of you ask me if I got to go to this place after the Top 10 Haunted Bathrooms episode and I finally did. I loved this place. I didn’t get much in the way of ghost hunting down with the storms and random people around but there’s a little bit. Also I think this video will be one of the longest ones on Youtube and Patreon because we just kept getting more and more footage of this place because it was just so pretty and surreal.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, make sure the doors are locked, and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
For all pictures, videos, and to support the show go to https://www.patreon.com/MyHauntedLifePodcast
Sources
https://youtu.be/LRqK7oEkUek - paranormal investigation
https://www.sinistercoffeeandcreamery.com/blog/witchs-castle-investigation?format=amp
https://embracesomeplace.com/witchs-castle-portland/
https://archives.albany.edu/concern/daos/w3763q90p
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18581129.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
http://www.executedtoday.com/tag/danford-balch/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danford_Balch#cite_note-Lansing-5
https://the-line-up.com/witchs-castle
https://newsregister.com/article?articleId=6462
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148715375/anna-hamilton
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Kell’s Irish Restaurant and Pub in Portland
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
On this week’s episode I’m taking you to one of our favorite places in all of Portland, Kell’s Irish Restaurant and Pub. When Portland Oddities & Curiosities Expo rolls around in the fall you will find us there at least one of the nights we are town. We love the food, drinks, and atmosphere, the ghosts are honestly a bonus. This place is connected to the Shanghai Tunnels so you know it’s spiritually busy. But the best known ghost has nothing to do with the tunnels and might actually not have anything to do with Kell’s.
So lets get into shall we? Grab yourself a cup of tea, maybe something with roses, make sure the doors are locked, and the sage is close by. I have a story to tell you.
Sources
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/oregon/portland/haunted-places
https://psuvanguard.com/portland-haunts/
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/fire/article/384861
https://overcupbooks.com/blogs/blog-1/the-most-haunted-pubs-for-halloween
https://www.davidcampbellmemorial.org
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cast_iron_buildings_in_portland/#.Y7oI1i2B1pQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Glisan
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102820161/rodney-lawrence-glisan
https://offbeatoregon.com/1402a.opium-culture-portland-urban-underworld.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-vibrator/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89595014/david-campbell
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1922-12-21/ed-1/seq-26/ocr/
Meet Angela Hartshorn
Angela Hartshorn has been into the paranormal from a very early age, since she grew up in a haunted house. She grew up telling her family about a little girl in a red-checkered prairie dress and no one believed her. Not until a random woman her father worked with was hit by lightening and suddenly became able to see ghosts. One day she described the exact spirit Angela had told him about for years and he was floored. Since then Angela has been obsessed with hearing about as many paranormal experiences as possible.