Welcome to Tales from the Janitor — your mildly irresponsible, definitely sleep-destroying walk through Rhode Island’s creepiest legends, coastal nightmares, and those moments where you swear the ocean just looked back at you.

This episode? We’re heading into the Ocean State — which sounds cute until you realize how much of it is old, damp, and quietly watching you. Shadowy figures around abandoned mills. Voices echoing off empty docks. Lights moving in places lighthouses swear they don’t reach anymore. From Providence backstreets to lonely roads in South County, Rhode Island has a habit of keeping its ghosts close… and not always polite.

We’re talking colonial leftovers that never learned how to rest, strange encounters near the water, and stories that start with “this sounds fake” and end with “yeah, I stopped going there after that.” Every tale comes with slow-burn dread, uneasy silence, and the kind of dry janitor humor you only earn after cleaning buildings that really shouldn’t still be occupied.

If you’re into real ghost stories, New England folklore, or those “my uncle swears this happened” kind of encounters — congrats. You’re exactly where you shouldn’t be.

Why listen?

Chilling Rhode Island legends, hauntings, and coastal weirdness • A darkly funny, first-person ride with a janitor who knows too much • Perfect for fans of paranormal podcasts, horror stories, and Northeast folklore

The show’s free — but keeping the lights half-working and the ghosts moderately cooperative takes effort. If you’re enjoying it, leave a review, share it with your bravest friend, or donate a Dunkin’ coffee strong enough to keep me awake through whatever knocks around after midnight (no promises).

Thanks for listening… and whatever you do, don’t linger in the abandoned school off I-95.

The floors remember footsteps.

And they really don’t like new ones.

Stories

The Depths of Wrath

The Wakening

The Curse of Dolly Cole

The Heart of Mercy

The Camping Nightmare

Credits

Director – Kiersten Greenfield

Developed & Created by – Steve Lloyd

Writer - Steve Lloyd

Script Writer – Jon DeBenedict

Script Editor – Taylor Robinson

Executive Producer – Steve Lloyd

Editor - Hecate

Sound Design - Steve Lloyd

Starring Jeremy Tucker as The Janitor

Cast:

Captain Stormalong - Brad Luguire

First Mate Harlan - Manfred Fish

Sailer Red - Jon DeBenedict

Cook Jasper - Joseph Pancia

Sailor Elijah Graves - Christian J Casas

Sailor Claire - Thomas Render

Quartermaster Thaddeus - J.R. Snyder

Sarah - Katelyn McCann

Chuck - Johnny Penney

Margaret - Kate White

Clarke - Hans Cummings

Abel - Allen Carter

Elias - Matt Rukstar

Dolly - Reign Reeves Pearson

Dr. Samuel Beckitt - Alex James

Lena - Sophia Cymore

Ethan - Martin Laston

Mercy Brown - Gems

Thomas - Bach Tran

Clara - Raina Kane

William - Scott Ramage

Charlotte - Amy Sturrock

Freddie -Rambles

Artwork by Joseph E.W. © Tales from the Janitor, 2026

End song - All the Streets Look the Same - Vian Izak

Disclaimer: These stories are rooted in Rhode Island folklore, but please don’t cite them in your history paper, your coastal storm prep guide, or your extremely bad idea of a how-to manual for summoning ghosts in a Dunkin parking lot at 1 a.m. Any resemblance to real people, real events, or haunted mill buildings off Route 6 is purely coincidental… or the result of eating clam cakes that have been sitting under a heat lamp too long while the fog rolls in and something near the water starts whispering your name like it knows you.