Bloody Mary, Ghosts of Cambodia, and the Pool Boy: True Ghost Stories from Real Callers

Bloody Mary, Ghosts of Cambodia, and the Pool Boy: True Ghost Stories from Real Callers

April 22, 2026 · 14 min · Season 3

About this episode

This episode features true ghost stories from callers, including experiences with Bloody Mary, Cambodian ghosts, and insights from a psychic medium.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this one is a little different. This episode won the Silver Signal Award in "Paranormal and Horror" podcasts and the International Women in Podcasting Award, and honestly, I'm still so proud of it. And now, it's a video episode available on Spotify and YouTube. If you haven't heard it yet, this is a good place to start. Three callers. Three stories that cover completely different corners of the paranormal world. And all of them are real. Cindy takes us back to Halloween night when she was a kid, the night she and her brother decided to actually do it. Summon Bloody Mary. What started as a dare between siblings turned into something neither of them expected, something that has stayed with Cindy ever since. I think most of us grew up hearing the Bloody Mary legend and writing it off as a game. Cindy is not writing it off. Then we travel to Cambodia with Rax, and this one hit differently for me. His ghostly encounters are tied directly to the history of the Khmer Rouge, and the weight of that history is present in every detail he shares. A woman floating above him. A hand reaching out from a fan. These aren't just spooky images. They feel like something that…

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