The Ghost Files
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The Ghost Files
Are you ready to open The Ghost Files? Karina Machado – author of Spirit Sisters and Love Never Dies – has spent a lifetime listening to real people’s real stories of spooky encounters. Now, tune in to The Ghost Files podcast every week as Karina brings you a spine-tingling conversation with an ever...
Recent Episodes
45 episodesWalls That Talk – Haunted Police Stations
Last October, Virginia came on the show to share wonderful stories of strange phenomena she’s experienced for most of her life. Now, the former police...
The Strangers in the Hall
Liz Gall was only 13 years old when strange things began happening inside her modern family home in Brisbane. Decades later, Liz looks back on the hau...
I grew up in a funeral parlour
Medium Ronda Robertson shares stories of her unique childhood home and mystical moments from a lifetime spent tuning into the other side.
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He came to take her home
Today my guest Albena shares two chilling encounters she had as a child in Bulgaria. Once when her great-grandfather came to visit her grandmother to...
Finding solace after stillbirth
Today, my guest is Tarni, a mum and nurse from rural NSW, who’s going to tell us a story that proved to her that life - that love - goes on, even in t...
He came to say goodbye
My guest this week, Rebecca Coomes, is the host of The Healthy Gut podcast, as well as an author, speaker and mentor. Rebecca has had a lifetime of pa...
A mother's message
When Michelle’s daughter was in pre-school, she would obsessively collect rocks. “One in particular, a large shiny one that she painted, she had me pl...
At 19, Tom had a premonition that would change his life
Tom Priestley is a 29-year-old Ghost Files listener who reached out to me to share some of the extraordinary experiences he’s had over the years and I...
“I saw angels in the sky” – a story of hope
I have a treat for you today, a return guest. If you’re a longtime fan of The Ghost Files, you’ll remember Maggie, who back in September shared the st...
The Phantom on the farm
This week, I’m speaking with Susan Bilsbury, who has a chilling story to share about a series of strange events on a farm she and her fiancé had bough...
Inside the life of a paranormal investigator
My guest this week, Hannah Boyes, has a passion for the paranormal, which launched her into a part-time career as a paranormal investigator on a quest...
Celeste's shared death experience with her sister...
My guest today, Celeste Frandsen, is going to tell us about something extraordinary that took place when she was 12 years old, following a tragedy tha...
Rebecca woke to her face being forced into a pillow...
When Rebecca Coomes wrote to tell me about a haunting she experienced during a long weekend away in Bath, Karina's curiosity was piqued. “As soon as I...
What Our Spidey-Senses Can Teach Us
Angelina, a student nurse who lives in Wagga Wagga NSW, has had strange encounters all her life. She’s going to share two stories today: one about an...
Voices From Beyond
Jules works in the corporate world. It’s not unusual for him to be sitting in a meeting, swatting away the voices of his colleagues’ late loved ones w...
"A ghost saved me from a murderer"
Our guest today has a chilling story to share about an unforgettable chain of events that took place in 1969, when she was 12 years old and living wit...
Townsville's haunted house
Anita is a travel agent from Toowoomba and she’s joining us today to share the story of some very unsettling events that took place in an old Queensla...
"I hear dead people"
On the surface, Ben Carn, who’s 27, lives a pleasant and seemingly ordinary life. He is a spray-painter by trade, and lives with his partner and their...
"What six past lives have taught me"
From at least the age of 4, my guest, Tegan Vandenberg, has been close to the spirit world. As a little girl, she could accurately predict events that...
Part 2: The spirit in my house tried to kill me
Sophie Tate was 24 when she moved into a house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. But what she didn't realise at the time, is that she was living wit...
Part 1: The spirit in my house tried to kill me
Sophie Tate was 24 when she moved into a house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. But what she didn't realise at the time, is that she was living wit...
Season 2 is coming...
Season 2 will be back on the 20th of January, here's a sneak peak of the stories you'll hear.
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Strangers in the house
Paranormal investigator Christine Ferris grew up seeing full-bodied apparitions wandering the hallways of her western-Sydney home. The frightening exp...
The Message In The Cuckoo Clock
When Kerrie's brother-in-law decided to bulldoze an old house she had no idea that it would mean conversations with a woman named Esther...
Do y...
The Man With The Rifle
Sixty years ago, June Johnstone woke to a sight she’ll never forget. Tune in as June takes us back to a haunting moment from the past that has tragic...
The Message
Kelli-Jo Hoffman tells Karina Machado an astounding story about a medium, a message and a mother-child bond that not even death could break.
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Rebs is a real life Ghostbuster
The work of a real-life ghostbuster is nothing like the image Hollywood portrays. Tune in as Rebs reveals the ups and downs - and dangers - of a life...
Darkness and Light
Two paranormal encounters define Mark’s life: a terrifying experience in a share house, and a much more welcome communication many years later that re...
Understanding past lives
Barry Eaton, who’s also a psychic-medium and host of the long-running online radio show, RadioOutThere.com joins Karina for this special episode of Th...
Trapped in Como House
Mary will never forget being scolded by a bossy little ghost during a visit to one of Melbourne’s most famous historic mansions, but that was just the...
"I commanded it to leave."
Chris has seen ghosts since he was 5 years old, but nothing prepared him for the terrifying entity he confronted just weeks ago after moving his young...
Elizabeth knows there is no death
When Elizabeth’s mum and dad died, they showered her with abundant signs of their presence and enduring love. In fact, her bond with her father is tig...
An angel on the path
For years, Virginia wondered about a mysterious elderly gentleman with a radiant smile who’d crossed her path one day, then vanished. Afterwards, the...
The Haunting of Hannah
Who, or what, tormented Hannah for five years in an old apartment in Melbourne when she was a kid? More than two decades later, “It,” as she called th...
My brother's love lived on
After his death in 2010, Bronwen’s beloved brother, Justin, proved he was still by her side. Listen in to Bronwen’s moving and inspiring story about g...
Terror in the night
It began with Bella’s three-year-old daughter being pushed by an unseen force and culminated in an experience so terrifying, even 20 years later, Bell...
"The fear in his eyes was awful"
Sheridan’s son was only 9 when he began seeing ghosts in his bedroom. Listen in to find out what part her policeman husband played in the haunting, an...
The Grinning Ghost
Faye has seen ghosts all her life, but even she was terrified by the grinning boy who materialised by the side of her bed. And that was just his first...
Haunted by love
Maggie’s old home in Broome came complete with a resident from the past. When Maggie uncovered the sad history of her friendly ghost, she understood w...
Ouija board brought forth terrifying spirit
At first, playing with the Ouija board was a bit of fun for 12-year-old Julie, but it led to a terrifying encounter that would haunt her for the rest...