Podcast by Jen
The Shadow Sanctuary
Join me for my weekly podcast every Friday night The Shadow Sanctuary, to hear about the history of haunted locations, the haunting stories of paranormal activity and if there is an correlation between the two.
The Shadow Sanctuary
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24 October 2026
Fort Abraham Lincoln - Mandan, North Dakota
They say the fort is empty now.
But some visitors swear that at dusk, a woman still stands at an upstairs window of the Custer House, watching the horizon for men who never came home.
Footsteps overhead when no one’s upstairs. Doors that open on their own. Cold spots that seem to follow you from room to room.
In 1876, an entire column of cavalry rode out of Fort Abraham Lincoln and vanished into the mist.
Some say they never really left.
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17 October 2026
The Leland Hotel - Detroit, Michigan
Cass and Bagley. Downtown Detroit.
In 1927 the Leland opened it's doors as the grandest hotel in the Motor City. Gold trimmed ceilings. Ballrooms. 700 rooms.
Then came the Prohibition era gangsters. The whispered shootouts. The guests who checked in ...... and never made it to testify.
Some say the Leland has seen an unusual number of tragedies since the day it was built.
Some even call it Detroit's portal to hell.
Residents and guests have reported strange unexplainable things. Shadows where no one is standing. Sounds in empty halls. And a building that, nearly a century later, just won't let go.
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10 October 2026
The Stanley Hotel - Estes Park, Colorado
Estes Park, Colorado. Nestled in the shadow of the Rockies sits a hotel that doesn't just have a ghost story — it has dozens. Where guests report a phantom pianist still playing in an empty music room. Where children's laughter echoes down hallways with no children in them. And where one writer's restless night in Room 217 changed horror fiction forever.
This is the Stanley Hotel. Built in 1909 by a man who wasn't even supposed to live long enough to finish it. And nearly everyone who's worked there — or stayed there — has a story they don't like to tell twice.
So what really happened in Room 217? Who's still walking those halls a century later? And why do so many guests check out early... without explaining why?
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03 October 2026
Burbank-Livingston-Griggs Mansion - Saint Paul, Minnesota
Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Nearly five miles of Victorian mansions, gaslamp-era brick and limestone, the largest collection of preserved 19th-century homes in the country. Most nights it's postcard-quiet.
But at 432 Summit Avenue... people say something is still home.
This is a house built out of the bluff itself — limestone quarried across the river, hauled up in 1862 by a man who made his fortune moving people and mail across a frontier that barely had roads yet. James Crawford Burbank. Steamboats. Stagecoaches. A mansion built to look down over the town he helped build.
He wasn't the last name on the deed. Oakes. Livingston. Griggs. Four families, four names stitched into the house's own — and every one of them left something behind. New windows. Stained glass. Carved paneling. A basement ballroom, sealed in glass, dressed up in Art Deco for children who are long, long gone.
The house was handed over to history eventually — donated, preserved, turned into something the public could walk through. And then, in the '90s... it went quiet. Sold. Split into apartments. Ordinary people, living ordinary lives, behind those hundred-and-sixty-year-old walls.
Except — some of them don't think they're the only ones living there.
Visitors on Summit Avenue still talk about a figure in one of the windows. White-haired. Mustached. Watching. Some who've walked the block say the house has a presence to it that the others on the street don't — a weight in the air, right around dusk, right around the gate.
And here's where it gets strange: this house shares its name — and its ghost stories — with another Griggs mansion, just blocks away. Two houses. One family name. A hundred years of stories that have gotten tangled together so thoroughly that even historians can't always agree on which haunting belongs to which house.
So which stories actually belong to 432 Summit? Who — or what — is still walking those halls? And why do two of Saint Paul's most infamous houses keep getting mistaken for one another?
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26 September 2026
The Queen Mary - Long Beach, California
She was built to carry royalty across the Atlantic. During the war they painted her grey and called her a ghost before she even earned the name.
Now she sits permanently docked in Long Beach, California - and she never really left the war behind. Somewhere below the waterline a young crewman still walks the same corridor...looking for the wrench he never got to finish his shift with.
In one first class stateroom, guests wake up to find the covers pulled clean off the bed by something they can't see and in the pool that hasn't held water in decades, people still swear they hear a little girl laughing.
Nearly 50 deaths on record. Some say closer to 150 spirits still walk her decks. This is the Queen Mary - and this week we're going aboard.
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19 September 2026
The Driskill Hotel - Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas. 1886. A cattle baron builds the most luxurious hotel in the West...and never leaves.
They call the Driskill Hotel "Austin's Grande Dame." Guests call it something else after dark - footsteps on empty staircases, a little girls laughter and a bride who never made it to her wedding still walking the halls in white.
We uncover the haunted history by checking in.....we might not check out.
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