The Ghost Files

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Are you ready to open The Ghost Files? Karina Machado – author of Spirit Sisters and Love Never Dies – has spent a lifetime listening to real people’s real stories of spooky encounters. Now, tune in to The Ghost Files podcast every week as Karina brings you a spine-tingling conversation with an everyday person who’s had a brush with something out of this world – from chilling apparitions, to mysterious signs from beyond, visits from late loved ones, and much more, these moments are inexplicable and compelling. The people opening up about their experiences could be your neighbour, hairdresser or the mum at the school gate … because, after all, everyone’s got a story. Subscribe to The Ghost Files for your weekly fix of all new stories of the unexplained.

Do you have a story to share? Email Karina at karinamachado@optusnet.com.au

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Walls That Talk – Haunted Police Stations

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Last October, Virginia came on the show to share wonderful stories of strange phenomena she’s experienced for most of her life. Now, the former police officer returns to The Ghost Files to reveal her spooky encounters in haunted police stations.

The Strangers in the Hall

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Liz Gall was only 13 years old when strange things began happening inside her modern family home in Brisbane. Decades later, Liz looks back on the haunting, and recalls the terrifying night it all came to a head.

I grew up in a funeral parlour

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Medium Ronda Robertson shares stories of her unique childhood home and mystical moments from a lifetime spent tuning into the other side.

He came to take her home

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Today my guest Albena sharestwo chilling encounters she had as a child in Bulgaria. Once whenher great-grandfather cameto visit her grandmother to ‘take her home’; and a mysterious and very real hooded figure. Al…

Finding solace after stillbirth

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Today, my guest isTarni, a mum and nurse from rural NSW, who’s going to tell us a story that proved to her that life – that love – goes on, even in the wake of deepest grief. After the tragedy of her daughter Ava’s stillbirth,Tarni…

He came to say goodbye

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My guest this week, Rebecca Coomes, is the host of The Healthy Gut podcast, as well as an author, speaker and mentor. Rebecca has had a lifetime of paranormal experiences; in fact, she was first on The Ghost Files in March to share the creepy tale of h…

A mother’s message

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When Michelle’s daughter was in pre-school, she would obsessively collect rocks. “One in particular, a large shiny one that she painted, she had me place on the kitchen window sill,” remembers Michelle. “It stayed on the kitchen window sill for at leas…

At 19, Tom had a premonition that would change his life

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TomPriestley is a 29-year-old Ghost Files listener who reached out to me to share some of the extraordinary experiences he’s had over the years and I’m so glad he did. There’s a moment inTom’s story which jolted my heart. I don’t wa…

“I saw angels in the sky” – a story of hope

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I have a treat for you today, a return guest. If you’re a longtime fan of The Ghost Files, you’ll rememberMaggie, who back in September shared the story of her historic home in Broome which was haunted by the wife of Captain Goldie, the maste…

The Phantom on the farm

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This week, I’m speaking withSusan Bilsbury, who has a chilling story to share about a series of strange events on a farm she and her fiancé had bought as their first home.Susan is one of ten siblings who grew up on the NSW north coa…

Inside the life of a paranormal investigator

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My guest this week,HannahBoyes, has a passion for the paranormal, which launched her into a part-time career as a paranormal investigator on a quest for evidence that would validate her lifetime of experiences. ForHannah, …

Celeste’s shared death experience with her sister…

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My guest today,CelesteFrandsen, is going to tell us about something extraordinary that took place when she was 12 years old, following a tragedy that overturned her family’s world. What happened toCelestehas been…

Rebecca woke to her face being forced into a pillow…

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When Rebecca Coomes wrote to tell me about a haunting she experienced during a long weekend away in Bath, Karina’s curiosity was piqued. “As soon as I arrived I felt an overwhelming negative energy about the house,” says Rebecca, host of The Healt…

What Our Spidey-Senses Can Teach Us

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Angelina, a student nurse who lives in Wagga Wagga NSW, has had strange encounters all her life. She’s going to share two stories today: one about an unexpected guest on her wedding night, and another about what she picked up with her spidey senses dur…

Voices From Beyond

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Jules works in the corporate world. It’s not unusual for him to be sitting in a meeting, swatting away the voices of his colleagues’ late loved ones who hound him to pass on a message. Business and spirit don’t mix, he’s found, so he keeps quiet about …

“A ghost saved me from a murderer”

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Our guest today has a chilling story to share about an unforgettable chain of events that took place in 1969, when she was 12 years old and living with her family in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Coral had an experience that has stayed with her for…

Townsville’s haunted house

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Anitais a travel agent from Toowoomba and she’s joining us today to share the story of some very unsettling events that took place in an old Queenslander in Townsville, whereAnitamoved with her parents and older brother an…

“I hear dead people”

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On the surface, Ben Carn, who’s 27, lives a pleasant and seemingly ordinary life. He is a spray-painter by trade, and lives with his partner and their sweet two-year old son at their home in Rankin Springs, NSW. But there’s something about Ben: he is c…

“What six past lives have taught me”

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From at least the age of 4, my guest,TeganVandenberg, has been close to the spirit world. As a little girl, she could accurately predict events that would befall those around her, and has always been able to sense and see spirit peo…

Part 2: The spirit in my house tried to kill me

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Sophie Tate was 24 when she moved into a house on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. But what she didn’t realise at the time, is that she was living with something evil. Whatever it was plagued Sophie with footsteps, laughter, electrical malfun…