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The Man in Black at the Courthouse | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC

Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online | Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio

Spirituality, Science, Natural Sciences, Religion & Spirituality

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It started with three knocks. In a Washington, D.C. courthouse waiting room, a young girl and a woman on oxygen sat side by side—until an ominous man in a black cape appeared behind the glass. He knocked once. Twice. Three times. What happened next changed everything. The woman collapsed, seemingly from fear, and the mysterious man vanished into thin air. No one else saw him. Not the sister. Not the guards. Just her.

Years later and oceans away in New Zealand, another child witnessed something just as chilling: a transparent woman in a flowing red dress pacing the floor with nervous grace. She didn’t know it then, but this specter would tie back to her father’s secret—his dabbling in the occult, séances with friends, and one spirit he named “The Woman in the Red Dress.” The same ghost that visited his daughter when she was still too young to question why.

Back in the U.S., a Massachusetts couple moves into a home built in 1874. From the moment they step inside, the spirits stir—footsteps, voices, and one terrifying moment in the shower when her hair is pulled by unseen hands. It all stops after a remote paranormal cleansing, but the lingering energy remains… especially after they discover that two people had died inside.

And finally, a mother reflects on her daughter’s prophetic dreams—warnings she doesn’t always share, and for good reason. “Some things,” the daughter says, “aren’t meant to be changed.”

From shadow figures passed down through generations to haunted fish tanks and unexplainable childhood dreams, this episode threads together stories of legacy, connection, and the strange truth that the paranormal often runs in the family.

You may not be ready for who’s watching you from the other side of the glass.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A Better Help ad.

0:02.3

Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:07.6

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:13.0

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:17.4

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel

0:21.3

good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:25.6

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:29.5

A better help ad.

0:31.5

Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:36.8

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.0

I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:54.8

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

1:01.2

Today on Real Ghost Stories Online, did this man inherit a ghost?

1:05.3

How did objects come in all shapes and sizes, some more surprising in others?

1:09.3

Take for example this man who inherited a deceased family member's fish tank, only to discover

1:14.6

it came with far more than just a couple fish.

1:17.6

Did it contain the spirit of his lost loved one?

1:19.6

Or was it something much darker?

1:21.6

Join Tony and Harper for that story and many more today on Real Ghost Stories Online. Welcome to Real Ghost Stories Online.

1:32.3

Welcome to Real Ghost Stories Online.

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