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The Ghost Story Guys

Brennan Storr

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get ad-free episodes, early release, and bonus shows⁠ Has a listener given us a plausible explanation for spontaneous human combustion? Is the answer a giant invisible mantis shrimp? Which one of our favourite paranormal grifters would probably run with that theory? All this and more on our latest dive into the mailbag! We also talk about haunted hotels, fate, goodbyes from the other side, more boomer shooters, and that's just for starters. It gets weird. Again.Our musical guest on this episode is The Silent Era with "Vendetta (North Shore Weed Dealer Remix" from their upcoming remix EP, "Used And Reused And Abused" Beginning at 7pm on Friday, February 13th, The Silent Era will be performing at The Dev in Camden alongside World Coda, Black Horse Road, & Hades Labyrinth as part of We Only Come Out At Night... No. 4. Admission will be by donation, with proceeds going to the British Red Cross Gaza Crisis Appeal. For full shownotes, head to ⁠⁠GhostStoryGuys.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Make sure you get the dog treats for that fucker.
0:06.8	Like he can hear her and understand her.
0:08.7	Like she's having a fight with her husband and he's on the other side of the door.
0:11.7	Absolutely unhinged behavior.
0:13.8	But she was a lovely lady.
0:15.1	Maybe the dog's the reincarnation of her ex-husband.
0:25.4	Hello and welcome to Talk Spooky to Me, the Ghost Story Guys' Mail Show.
0:26.6	I'm Brendan Storr.
0:27.9	I'm Paul Bestall.
0:31.3	And this is our opportunity to hear from you, our audience.
0:34.1	Paul Bestel, my friend, how you doing?
0:35.3	I'm doing very well.
0:38.7	I've been pondering a lot in the last couple of days.
0:44.2	Oh, interesting. What have you been pondering? I've been pondering why certain mysteries,
0:51.2	just people stop talking about them. So I'm going to ask you a question. What do you know about the petrospheres of Costa Rica? Absolutely nothing.
0:55.4	So I was re-watching Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World over the weekend, rather than indulging
1:01.5	in just crap.
1:03.8	And one of them was about strange things all around the world, like Stonehenge and the
1:09.2	pyramids and stuff.
1:10.0	And then they went to Costa Rica, and I'd completely forgot about it.
1:12.9	And in Costa Rica...
1:14.4	I want to jump in. I want to make a guess.
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