Missouri’s Most Persistent Spirits, Part One | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Missouri carries a strange kind of magic—one stitched together from outlaw folklore, Civil War scars, back-road ghost tales, and things no one can quite explain. It’s a state where legends don’t fade; they simply shift, settle, and keep walking. And if anyone knows where those stories hide, it’s Jason Offutt.
In this episode, we step into the shadows with a man who didn’t just study the paranormal—he grew up living with it. Long before he became one of Missouri’s most compelling chroniclers of hauntings, Jason was just a kid in a rural farmhouse where “quiet nights” were anything but. That early brush with the unexplained set him on a lifelong path to uncover the misfits, mysteries, and restless spirits that shape the state’s haunted identity.
From phantom outlaws said to revisit their old stomping grounds, to the oppressive echoes lingering on Civil War battlefields, Jason has dug into stories most people whisper about but never truly investigate. And then there are the stranger accounts—the shadow figures, odd encounters, and the baffling legend of Jim the Wonder Dog.
Missouri isn’t just haunted. It’s layered. It’s unpredictable. And through Jason’s eyes, it becomes a place where history and the supernatural refuse to stay separate.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about hauntings, ghosts, Ouija boards, and more with |
| 0:07.5 | author Jason Offutt. |
| 0:12.3 | Looking into the haunted history of Missouri, you'll find a lot of very interesting stories. |
| 0:18.4 | There's the ghosts of Jesse James and his brother Frank, who by the way, |
| 0:22.1 | seems to haunt more than one location. There's the very haunted Limp mansion in St. Louis, |
| 0:28.4 | a haunted Civil War battlefield by Springfield. I'm Carol Hughes, and on this episode of the |
| 0:34.7 | Grave Talks, we'll talk about those hauntings and more with author |
| 0:38.9 | and paranormal journalist Jason Offit. |
| 0:43.1 | So Jason, I would love to talk to you about how your interest in the paranormal started |
| 0:48.8 | because you've written paranormal nonfiction books and you've done some research around where you live in Missouri, |
| 0:56.2 | and it makes me think you have something that's happened to you that made all of this kind of |
| 1:02.2 | a passion and something you wanted to research and write about. Well, I think everyone who is |
| 1:08.7 | interested in the paranormal has had some experience. And if they |
| 1:14.4 | haven't, they've had, you know, grew up listening to experiences that grandma or grandpa had. |
| 1:19.5 | And they tell those stories. And with me, I grew up on a farm and I lived in a 120-year-old |
| 1:26.8 | farmhouse. |
| 1:28.3 | My family was as there are no such things as ghost as you could possibly get. |
| 1:33.2 | My mom entertained my passion for weird stuff, but she'd never seen anything. |
| 1:41.4 | So she didn't think ghosts were real. |
| 1:43.2 | But I had a couple of occurrences in that |
| 1:46.1 | house that told me, yes, these things are real. And one was innocent enough. I was probably nine |
| 1:56.9 | years old. And I walked out of my bedroom into the hallway to where we had all our |
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