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We are opening the dusty archives and the ghost files on one of Japan’s most infamous ruins — that hulking concrete skeleton that once sat beside Nakagusuku Castle.

You’ve seen it in urbex photos, you’ve seen it in ghost compilations, you’ve heard about “the cursed hotel on sacred land.” But tonight we’re not doing jump-scares — we’re doing history. And we’re doing it properly. Bones first, ghosts later.

And Nakagusuku gives us plenty of both. This hill contains centuries of spiritual meaning, decades of construction mishaps, a mountain of local resentment… and then, over all of that, the myths. So by the time we finish this journey, we’ll lay out exactly where the hauntings might come from — historically, emotionally, and culturally — and where it’s probably just folklore growing over cracked concrete.

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Get ready for some unexpected Ghost Stories from around the world, including Australia.

Ghost Stories are famously told on Christmas Eve as a ritual that has been upheld ever since Charles Dickens penned his famous book, 'A Christmas Carol'.

And we at the True Hauntings Podcast are making sure that this tradition stays well and truly alive on our watch.

Sit back and enjoy this craziness, as it does go a little off script in this episode and we sincerely wish you all an epic Christmas Season wherever you are in the world.

Thank you for being subscribers and please stick with us into the New Year.

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There are few ghost stories as stubbornly persistent—or as photographically bold—as that of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. Even if you’ve never heard her name, you’ve almost certainly seen the image: a spectral figure gliding down a grand staircase, flowing like smoke caught mid-breath. It’s the kind of photograph that forces you to lean in just a little too close, squinting to decide whether you’re looking at a ghost, a clever trick of light, or one of the greatest paranormal hoaxes of the twentieth century. Tonight, we’re pulling apart the threads of this famous haunting to figure out which of those possibilities still holds up.

Before she became the world’s most recognisable apparition, the Brown Lady was Dorothy Walpole, sister to Britain’s first Prime Minister and a woman whose life was far more dramatic than any ghost story needs to be. Trapped in a toxic marriage, separated from her children, and rumoured to have died under… let’s say “uncomfortable circumstances,” Dorothy’s history alone is enough to leave an emotional imprint deep within the walls of Raynham Hall. And, in typical aristocratic fashion, the house itself seems determined to keep every secret ever whispered inside it—including hers.

But then came 1936, the year that changed everything.

Two photographers from Country Life captured an image that ignited a global debate that still burns today. Was it a genuine ghost caught on film? A double exposure? A staged event? Or was it something more nuanced—an honest moment misread through the lens of our obsession with the paranormal? Tonight, we’re diving into the photograph, the folklore, the woman behind the legend, and the question that refuses to die: is the Brown Lady a true haunting, or just the perfect storm of tragedy, belief, and timing? Settle in—this one has a bit of everything.

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