Who Are We?
Welcome!
My name is Andrew, and I started Stay With Ghosts in 2026 with a simple question: why do certain places hold onto their stories? I didn’t come to paranormal research through EMF meters and late-night investigations but through the archives. I continue to grow my database every month. Long before I ever stepped inside a reputedly haunted building, I was digging through local histories, newspaper clippings, property records, and old survivor accounts, trying to understand why a house, a hospital, a hotel, or a battlefield earns a reputation that outlives everyone who ever set foot in it.
That history-first approach is still what sets us apart. Every location I cover gets the same treatment: who lived, worked, or died there; what actually happened, as best the record shows; and how the stories around it have changed or were created into legend. The ghost stories come second. The history comes first.
What I Do
Stay With Ghosts is a brand new blog documenting reputedly haunted locations, whether it’s historic homes, abandoned institutions, battlefields, hotels, and the small-town landmarks with a reputation nobody can quite explain. For each location, I dig into:
- The documented history of the location and the people connected to it
- The origin and evolution of its haunted reputation, and how the stories have been told and retold.
- Accounts from visitors, staff, and researchers, presented as personal testimony rather than fact
- What is actually known about the locations and where records run dry.
Stay With Ghosts is upfront that we’re storytellers and researchers, not scientists making claims about the afterlife. I am drawn to the human side of these places as much as the eerie side, combining the way a location’s history and its legend feed each other over time.
The Research Behind the Stories
Because I come from a research background, I try to ground my coverage in more than just local legend. Where it’s relevant, drawing on published scholarship about why haunted-location stories exist and persist in the first place; the purpose is not to debunk anyone’s experience, but to give readers a fuller picture.
On the folklore side, scholars have studied why people are drawn to reputedly haunted places at all. The practice of visiting a site because of the legend attached to it, or what folklorists call “legend tripping,” and, if anything, personal belief, local tradition, and popular media keep feeding each other, keeping these stories very much alive.
On the psychology side, researchers have looked closely at how people perceive potential evidence of the paranormal. A 2022 study published in PLOS ONE (Williams & Blagrove) examined how suggestion affects “EVP” (electronic voice phenomena) perception and found that priming people to expect paranormal content changed what they reported hearing in ambiguous audio. This is a reminder that perception in the field is genuinely complex, and that what one investigator hears isn’t always what another does.
I try to hold both of these threads at once: the lived, reported experience that makes a location’s story worth telling, and the research that helps explain why these stories take the shape they do.
Why I Do It
I think haunted-location lore is one of the most honest forms of local history, including half fact, half feeling, shaped by generations of people trying to make sense of a place that unsettles them. Stay With Ghosts exists to document that, location by location, with the history intact and the legend clearly labeled as legend.
If you’ve visited one of the places I cover, investigated it yourself, or know a story I’ve gotten wrong, I want to hear from you. Please reach out via info@staywithghosts.com or drop a comment on any post.