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Is This a Ghost?

Is This a Ghost?

De: Clayton Smith and Patrick Dean
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A real podcast about real ghosts that's real funny.

Clayton Smith and Patrick Dean Mundial
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  • 165. Nell Cropsey

    165. Nell Cropsey
    Aug 27 2025

    Listen, friends. Sometimes life finds a way. And sometimes life gets away. And when life gets away, that's when ChatGPT has your back to pick up the slack.

    Buckle up, this one's different.

    This is the story of Nell Cropsey. Come for the ghost, stay for everyone's into something, a podcast about innovation, the Savannah of the North, the John Henry cautionary tale, the first Jedi mind trick, and you were always swimming in that dress.

    Sources: ChatGPT
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    45 m
  • 164. The Hellfire Caves

    164. The Hellfire Caves
    Aug 20 2025

    Welcome to Season 2! This season is going to be stranger, sexier, and way more innovative. Don't be surprised if Patrick starts showing up to the tapings nude. It's just the kind of thing we need to juice the ratings and avoid a sophomore slump.

    This is the story of the Hellfire Caves. Come for the ghosts, stay for Old Yeller 2: Lost in the Jungle, the monkey-damaged child, dual audience surrogates, St. Francis and the hoes, they'd have spit their biscuits, ADD THE WHATSAPP LINK, the biggest goblet my little fingers could hold, coolest hell possible, and do me to oblivion or whatever.

    Are you in the UK? Join the wholly unsanctioned WhatsApp group if you want.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • ITAG OOO - Infernal Canyons Prologue

    ITAG OOO - Infernal Canyons Prologue
    Jul 30 2025

    Hello, you've reached the offices of Is This a Ghost? The guys are on vacation right now and will return with brand new episodes soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this sneak peek of a brand new upcoming horror podcast from Smithshow Media called Infernal Canyons, written by Clayton Smith and Dave Bloom.

    Subscribe to Infernal Canyons on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts.
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    14 m
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This podcast makes me want to get drunk and have conversations with my friends 😂 I will listen with a headphone in while doing chores and my kids keep asking what I'm laughing at. A great podcast for anyone that enjoys paranormal/history stories but also has a dark humor.

makes me laugh out loud

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I enjoyed listening to this podcast over a long distance road trip I was doing alone. I'm not super into podcasts in general, because I often find podcaster people annoying and, mostly, I don't love having to listen to a conversation I can't take part in. But I loved Cartalk back in the day, so that's an example of a talk radio show I enjoyed. I'm guessing this is not really a show for super ghost obsessives, since they are very open about not doing tons of reasearch, but it is good enough to tell an absorbing story and they note the stuff that could stand more investigation, if you want to do it. They also tell a lot of stories I've never heard before, which is refreshing. They hit some of the big, famous ones, of course, but also go into a lot of smaller, more off the wall ones as well, which I really enjoy. I find ghost stories super interesting, but when I'm driving for hours alone, especially at night, I don't need to be freaked out. They go on so many tangents and get distracted by the randomest details, that it's very difficult to get genuinely scared. It is, however, entertaining and they have a friendly vibe. I subtracted a star on a less important rating because sometimes the meandering tangents are genuinely too long, especially the ones about their personal lives.

Other points of note: I appreciate Patrick's effort to "fix" some of the misguided phrasing of things, such as when a sexual relationship between a slave and her owner is termed an "affair" by a reputable news source and he insists on calling it assault. It is hopeful when people doing things in the public eye/media etc. learn to be better and call out mistakes like this (yes, it is generous to call them mistakes). Secondly, I very much enjoy Clayton's appreciation of the ridiculous. The more absurd and, frankly, dumb the situation gets, the more he savors it, which gives me vicarious chuckles. Third, they have serious geek cred, which they reveal incidentally, for the most part, like when Clayton makes a semi obscure He-Man reference or when he admits his celebrity crush is on Tatiana Maslany (She Hulk). I own a Bubbah Hotep dvd and saw it on the big screen in Chicago hosted by Bruce Campbell in person, so I feel like they're kinda my people (Patrick has a signed poster from the movie).

Overall, definitely five stars. My favourite story so far is the one about the ghost hole. I love that and think it needs to be a plot device in a mystery novel.

Ghost stories for interest, not scares

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