Living with the Dead: Paranormal Activity in a Converted Funeral Home | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
Real Ghost Stories Online
Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio
4.2 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this unforgettable episode of Real Ghost Stories Online, host Carol Hughes takes us deep into a paranormal hotspot unlike any other—a former funeral home built in the 1880s. Now converted into apartments and businesses, this building has a long, buried history that still echoes through its walls… and tunnels.
Yes—tunnels. Because underneath this Midwestern town runs an underground network once used by the Underground Railroad, Al Capone, and God knows what else. The basement remains untouched, cobblestone-lined, with an original casket elevator and the scent of hay still embedded in its walls from its days housing horses for funeral processions.
Carol’s nephew Giovanni lives in the upstairs apartment. His roommate? A shadowy female presence he’s named Chelsea. From the moment he moved in, strange things began: doors stuck shut, ceiling fan chains swinging violently with no wind, and a full-bodied apparition of a woman with a large bun walking across the kitchen.
Downstairs, staff experience memory lapses in the backroom—a “portal spot” where people forget why they entered the room mid-step. Objects crash with no cause. And the basement? Everyone avoids it. After a window mysteriously slammed on someone’s hand, the room has been considered off-limits.
With residual grief, intelligent spirits, and a connection to both historical trauma and organized crime, this building is a perfect storm of paranormal activity.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Real Ghost Stories Online, Carol Hughes is coming to us live from a haunted location, a location where spirits linger day and night. |
| 0:14.1 | We'll talk with her live today on Real Ghost Stories Online. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to Real Ghost Stories Online. Welcome to Real Ghost Stories Online. |
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| 0:31.6 | or writing at Real Ghost Stories Online.com. |
| 0:35.6 | You're about to enter the world of the unknown and by possibly the |
| 0:41.0 | undead. This is Real Ghost Stories Online. It is 855, 853. 4802 is our phone number at Real Ghost |
| 0:50.5 | Stories Online. Right on the website, Real Ghost Stories Online.com or email your audio file to me, Tony, at Real Ghost Stories Online.com. If you like our program, you've been listening for a while, maybe you've picked us up around Halloween season this year. Well, then, hey, consider becoming an EPP. That's an extra podcast person. With that, you get bonus episodes of the show every single week, access to our massive |
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| 1:38.6 | So as promised today, Carol Hughes is coming to us, not from her not haunted house, which is not haunted, |
| 1:49.0 | no matter how much weird shit happens there every time. |
| 1:52.8 | But it's not haunted, but she's actually coming to us from an admitted haunted location. |
| 1:57.9 | And you're with your nephew there. |
| 1:59.0 | I understand Devani. |
| 2:00.2 | Is that correct? |
| 2:34.7 | Devani. This is my nephew, Devani. Say, hey. Are they guys, how's going? Welcome to the... I love this guy. I love him so much. Welcome to the show. I will say something. You made me laugh in the intro because you say Carol Hughes is coming to us live. And I'm like, Tony, every week. No matter where I am, I do come to you live. It sounds more dramatic. It's just so I didn't know that. It sounds dramatic. She's not coming to us from death. She's coming to us live, even though the show is delayed by days and sometimes weeks for people. But there you go. But. It's after thing. And I want to talk about this next week because since I'm here with my nephew. |
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