Podcaster, country superstar wife and … ghost hunter?

Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo are currently out on the road for his tour, and on their off days, she’s picked up a surprising new hobby.

During some down time in El Paso, Texas, Bunnie and her team visited the city’s historic Concordia Cemetery, which is rumored to be one of the most haunted burial spots in the state.

They didn’t just come to see the sights: Bunnie and crew were hoping for some one-on-one chats with the dead, and they brought along a “spirit box” app to help translate the spirits’ messages from beyond the grave. In the spooky video clip, the singer’s wife and her friends move from tombstone to tombstone, holding their phones out to receive messages.

As they move around the cemetery, the app picks up words like “grandfather,” “sacrifice” and “assault.” Some of the spirits seem to wish to identify their cause of death, while others — like an unmarked grave that gives off the reading “Norman” — seem to simply want to identify themselves.

“I think we found a new hobby,” Bunnie writes in the caption of her post.

Dating back to the mid-1800s, Concordia Cemetery is the final resting place of some 60-65,000 people, according to its website. Civil War veterans, Buffalo Soldiers, Texas Rangers and early Mormon pioneers are all buried at the graveyard, as well as famous gunfighter and outlaw John Wesley Hardin.

Jelly and Bunnie were in El Paso this week for a stop on the singer’s 2024 Beautifully Broken Tour, which is scheduled to continue through October.

5 Country Stars Who Swear They’ve Seen a Ghost

Not many country stars claim to have had a paranormal experience — at least, one that they’ve spoken about publicly — but there are a few artists who say they’ve had in-person run-ins with the spirit world. Keep scrolling to read the best country music ghost stories.

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Darius Rucker’s Ghostly College Experience

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Darius Rucker’s Ghostly College Experience

One night, when Rucker was in college, he saw the ghost of his late grandmother sitting at the foot of his bed! Fortunately, he wasn’t alone in the house — his friend and Hootie & the Blowfish bandmate Dean Felber was sleeping in the other room — but he admits the experience was still a little bit “scary.” He’s been a believer in the presence of ghosts ever since.

Kacey Musgraves’ Night With the Ghost of Gram Parsons

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Kacey Musgraves’ Night With the Ghost of Gram Parsons

Kacey Musgraves’ paranormal experience happened at the Joshua Tree Inn, a California motel that’s said to be haunted by the ghost of Gram Parsons. Parsons died of a drug overdose in Room 8, and it’s not entirely clear which room Musgraves stayed in, but she did see some spooky stuff during her stay there — including a painting that mysteriously moved from high up on the wall to the couch, she told Exclaim! magazine after the fact.

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Johnny Cash’s Life-Saving Chat With the Spirit of Roy Orbison

In the late ’80s, Johnny Cash had a near-death experience while undergoing double-bypass heart surgery. At the time, he gave an interview to a local newspaper — subsequently shared by Roy Orbison’s official Facebook page — explaining that the Orbison’s ghost prevented him from dying on the operating table.

“It was like a wind, that’s the best way I can describe it,” Cash explained in the interview. “And then it spoke to me. It said, ‘You can’t go yet, Johnny. You’ve still got a lot of singing and living left to do.’ I’d recognize that voice anywhere. It was my old buddy Roy Orbison.'”

Loretta Lynn’s Spooky Haunted Ranch

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Loretta Lynn’s Spooky Haunted Ranch

Lynn’s 19th century ranch home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. — a town now owned outright by her estate — is haunted by the ghosts of multiple Confederate soldiers, according to Lynn and several other members of her family. Plus, Lynn is said to have seen the ghost of Beulah Anderson, a spirit who walks the property in an eternal cycle of grief from the death of her baby. Lynn and her family shared all the details on the hauntings in a 2003 Travel Channel documentary special.

Gary Gentry’s Legendary Meeting With Hank Williams

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Gary Gentry’s Legendary Meeting With Hank Williams

You probably know that David Allan Coe’s “The Ride” was inspired by Hank Williams, but did you know that Hank’s real-life ghost might’ve been a co-writer? Songwriter Gary Gentry was hoping to write a song about his love of the country legend when he sat down to write “The Ride,” he explained to the Tennessean in 2015.

“I looked down that long hallway, and Hank was sitting there without a shirt on, on my couch, in the living room,” Gentry recounts. “And I said, ‘Hank, we’re gonna take a ride. I wanna write about you. I think you’re the greatest songwriter and entertainer that ever lived.’ Thus, ‘The Ride,’ at 4 o’clock in the morning.”