Morbid Podcast

Listener Tales 103: Halloween 2025!

Hosts: Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart
Date: October 30, 2025

Overview

This special Halloween edition of Morbid’s Listener Tales serves up a collection of spine-tingling and often hilarious personal accounts from listeners. Ash and Alaina—dressed as “Madame Leota” from Haunted Mansion and “Pennywise’s side piece”—read fresh batches of creepy, possessed, and haunted tales curated for maximum Halloween delight. Amidst their signature banter and supportive friendship, this episode mixes genuine chills, supernatural mysteries, and makeshift ghost-hunting rules with plenty of laughter, affirmations, and quotable zingers.

Episode Highlights & Key Discussion Points

01. Halloween Vibes & Podcast Setup [01:31–04:24]

• Ash appears as Madame Leota, globe and all, joking about her limited mobility:
  “I burned the shit out of my fingers on some hot glue.” – Ash [02:14]
• They discuss new tech/filming setup, reading from a TV, and cue listeners for feedback.
• Banter on costumes, Halloween props, and the struggle of using hot glue guns, fueling the running joke about hands.

02. Listener Tale #1: "He Said His Name Was Bart Simpson" [04:25–18:18]

Storyteller: Manda (Australia)
Theme: Childhood Ouija Board Terror

• Manda describes crafting a DIY Ouija board with her sister and neighbors. A shot glass planchette spells out the name "BART SIMPSON"—which is comic at first, quickly turning sinister when their makeshift séance grows intense.
• Attempts to close the session are denied by the “spirit”, causing deep distress:
  “The glass darted between the center of the paper and back to ‘no’ over and over, aggressively, fast, maliciously, and with what felt like evil intent.” – Manda [09:28]
• The group breaks all “spirit communication rules,” ending the session in panic.
• Manda lies to her terrified sister about having moved the glass herself to spare her fear.
• Years Later: At a different Ouija session with new friends (none of whom know the “Bart” story), the board once again spells “Bart,” and a friend undergoes a strange, semi-possessed trance:
  “Don’t worry, Manda. My sister got rid of him for you.” – Friend, post-trance [15:08]
• Confirmation from an old friend decades later validates that something genuinely disturbing occurred.

Memorable Moment:

• The story closes with Manda’s mantra:
  “I just say it didn’t hurt me, so it’s okay. I was never scared. Nothing happened. I’m fine. It didn’t hurt me.” – Manda [17:49]

Host Insight:

• “That was like a really spooky way to end…just chanting that over and over.” – Ash [18:12]

03. Listener Tale #2: "The Void with Eyes – My Own Passenger Demon" [18:21–45:54]

Storyteller: Chris (Utah)
Theme: Cursed Mirrors & Shadowy, Symbiotic Entities

• Chris recounts working at Spencer’s Gifts, where his manager John introduces him to magic and the supernatural.
• After conducting experiments to test Chris’s “sensitivity,” John reveals a locked cabinet with a black scrying mirror, warning:
  “Do NOT look directly at yourself in this mirror.” – John [29:07]
• When Chris views the room through the mirror, he sees:
  “An ethereal, hazy outline of what appeared to be a person…with a claw hand, small protrusions on the head…two eyes looking at mine.” – Chris [31:19]
• Despite warnings, Chris later stares into the mirror alone and confronts a ‘Cenobite’ (Hellraiser-style demon) version of himself. Visions in mirrors show him scarred and ghoulish, only normal when viewed straight on.
• Otherworldly confirmation arrives:
  • A mystic Chris has never met describes his “passenger entity” in detail.
  • A housemate on DMT independently sees “that void with eyes…the white thing” behind Chris [42:32], matching his visions exactly.
• Chris’s entity is described as symbiotic rather than overtly dangerous.
• Ongoing dreams and aversions to mirrors remain, but the “void with eyes” seems here to stay.

Quotes:

• “This is the part where I apologize if you brought the whole seat; you’re only going to need the edge for this shit show.” – Chris [31:12]
• “If anyone ever tells you to look into a cursed mirror, maybe don’t!” – Ash, reading Chris’s closing warning [45:30]

04. Listener Tale #3: "A Kinky Ghost Choked Me in a Haunted Castle" [47:43–58:59]

Storyteller: Chelsea (Scotland, originally NE England)
Theme: Haunted Castles, Family History, and an Unwanted Ghostly Encounter

• Chelsea recounts her and her family's tour of famously haunted Chillingham Castle.
• The story builds on the castle’s dark reputation, especially centering on the ghost of John Dragfoot Sage, a notorious torturer.
• During a dining room tour while sitting in Sage’s infamous chair, Chelsea experiences a supernatural assault:
  “Suddenly, I felt all oxygen leave my body as if someone had grabbed me by the throat…the sound which left my body was the most inhumane thing I have ever heard.” – Chelsea [55:47]
• The massive chair violently moves, spooking everyone, then starts rocking after the choking episode.
• Guide reveals: “He got his kicks from strangling people almost to death.”
• Despite horror, Chelsea’s trauma-tinged humor shines:
  “Have I really just been tortured by a 14th century ghost? Well, rings a whole new meaning of ‘choke me’…” – Chelsea [56:56]

Host Reactions:

• “You were choked by Sage. And not in the hot way. I don’t think Sage has that in him.” – Hosts [58:18–58:20]

05. Listener Tale #4: "That Awkward Moment When Your Friend Gets Possessed at Pennhurst" [58:59–70:59]

Storyteller: Matt
Theme: Possession at a Notoriously Haunted Asylum

• Matt’s friend Lawrence, a skeptic, accompanies a group on a late-night ghost hunt at Pennhurst State School and Hospital.
• The group experiences ghostly moans, female guests have collective pain around their pelvic regions, and their EMF readers respond to unseen presences.
• In the most haunted section, Lawrence suddenly panics, claims to hear a voice and feel a hand grasping his heart, and demands to leave:
  “There’s a voice in my head. I can’t get this voice out of my head and I’m freaking out.” – Lawrence [67:10]
• At home, Lawrence acts catatonic, then obsessively texts himself what “the voice” says before deleting it out of fear. He later refuses to discuss Pennhurst again.
• The entity seems to have been left behind in Matt’s shed, but the group and especially Lawrence are forever changed.

Memorable Host Commentary:

• “You should never go in your shed again. You should light that shed on fire.” – Alaina [70:11]

Notable Quotes & Fun Moments

• “You heard it here first: Madame Ray Liotta said that if we–I should have done Ray Liotta, like, missed opportunity.” – Elena [03:07]
• “That’s wild. The symbiotic passenger demon. That’s a new one!” – Ash [44:42]
• “Was it some type of warning from Sage? Safe to say I was silent for the rest of the tour and the discussion on my way home was all about dissecting our experience and agreeing a third visit was NOT necessary.” – Chelsea (read by Alaina) [57:38]
• “Commit arson. It’s fine.” – Hosts, joking about solving haunted shed issues [70:16]
• “We hope you keep it weird, but not so weird that you don’t order our fucking tarot deck. Do it. Love you.” – Ash [73:08]

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Halloween Setup & Banter – [01:31–04:24]
• Tale #1 – Bart Simpson Ouija – [04:25–18:18]
• Tale #2 – The Void With Eyes – [18:21–45:54]
• Tale #3 – Chillingham Castle Choker – [47:43–58:59]
• Tale #4 – Pennhurst Possession – [58:59–70:59]
• Host Wrap-up & Tarot Deck Announcement – [71:10–73:08]

Final Thoughts & Tone

This episode balances darkness and humor, gratitude for the Morbid community, and a genuine love for all things weird. The stories are retold with warmth and levity; Ash and Alaina’s empathy and encouragement for their listeners are ever-present—even as they dramatize or riff on the creepiest details. The atmosphere stays inviting, with laughter lighting up even the spookiest moments.

“Keep it weird, but not so weird that you get a Dark Passenger for life because of a locked mirror!” – Paraphrased Morbid wisdom [45:55]

Special Notes

• New morbid-themed Tarot decks are being launched—limited edition, on sale from Halloween through Winter Solstice at morbidtarot.com.
• Episode stays lively thanks to the “table” and globe costume bits, Halloween spirit, recurring inside jokes, and video-centric recording style.
• Hosts genuinely encourage writing, community, and safety throughout—including classic Halloween admonitions (“Check your kids’ candy!” [71:13]).

For More:
Catch past Listener Tales episodes and look out for the Tarot deck details as announced at morbidtarot.com.

Happy Halloween, and keep it weird!