Ghostly
By Richard L Burr
Categories: Fiction
Ghostly is an anthology of mostly ghost stories. Each episode is one story, told from start to finish in about an hour. Most of the stories are told by someone who was there. You might hear a bridge tender on a flooding river, or a guide on the last tour of a coal mine. The narrator tells it in order and says only what he or she knew at the time. A story can scare you, make you laugh or do both. The stories are made for a drive, a flight, a long walk or a quiet evening. Every episode stands alone, so you can start anywhere and nothing is left hanging when it ends. Narrated with AI voices.
9 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- The Bee Yard
In one Vermont hill town, they still tell the bees. When someone is born, marries or dies, word goes up the hill to Ezra Pratt, and he knocks three times on that family's hive and tells them. Ezra is eighty-six and leaving on Monday. On his last night he must tell all twenty-four hives that his…
- The Night Board
An old telephone operator spends her last night at a dead switchboard, teaching her grand-niece a job nobody else in the county knows exists. In 1981, the phone co-op in a small West Texas ranch town cut the cables to its old switchboard. That night, a lamp lit anyway. For forty-six years, Opal…
- Passing Bell
On his last night as sexton, an old man tells the young one what the church bell really does.
- Sitting Up
A funeral director sits up all night with a man nobody claimed. Every hour, someone he once helped comes to pay a call, and the one rule she must keep is never to turn around. A first-person ghost story, about fifty minutes long.
- No Receipt
It is the day after Christmas, and Dee Kowalczyk has worked the returns counter at Brannigan's Store One for thirty-one years. No manager is in the building. At two minutes after nine, a man sets a laundry basket on her counter and asks to return a live goose. So Dee does what the 1958 store…
- Level 9
Level Nine is a ghost story told by Walt Odum, a guide at the Kessler Colliery Museum. On the last night before the state seals the mine, he leads eight guests underground for the final tour. Each came for one man who died in the 1953 roof fall. Walt counts his group at every stop, because in a…
- The Tender
Dunmore, 1973. Nora Pike works nights as the tender of a swing bridge over the Marrow River, and no boat has blown for the draw in three years. Then, on a rainy Monday, a steam whistle sounds from the dark: one long, one short. She opens the span, and the river is empty. It happens again the next…
- The Reader
Alder Peak, Montana, August 1978. Cole Decker watches for forest fires from a steel tower in the Bitterroot, seven miles from the end of the trail. His only company is the radio, and Helen at the ranger district, who calls twice a day. Then, late one night, a flat voice comes through the static…
- Fill the Air
Fill the Air is a comedy-drama in seven chapters, about an hour in all. The lights go out at the ballpark in the last inning of the championship game. Gus Tanner, the engineer at a failing small-town station in Delmar Falls, Ohio, has not spoken on the air in thirty years. Tonight he has no…
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