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Hi, Ghosties. I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And for episode 91, we have another Listener Stories episode, a themed Listener Stories. And you don't know the theme today.
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I had a long week and commute and was simply not in the mood to play around. I firmly said, nothing is welcome to follow me here. Nothing. Go away. As I said, nothing. The light flickered again. And as soon as I said, go away, they stopped. They didn't flicker again after that. And I carried along with my evening without any additional experiences.
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Needless to say, that is the only episode of y'all's that I started and did not finish. And I frankly don't plan to. I have plenty of other stories, many much spookier than this one, that I'd love to share with you all. So please let me know if you'd like to hear more. Also, please feel free to share this on the podcast. Congratulations on your account's rapid growth. It's so well-deserved.
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Best, Kristen from Appalachia. Thank you.
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We're okay with you not finishing the video.
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Don't watch it. Obviously something, especially in the high concentrated paranormal area that she is residing, said, I don't like this story and I don't want you to listen to this. That makes me feel really...
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weird yes me too because i don't want to be involved no not really we want to bring light and love not spooky hauntings well that's what we do but thank you for sharing that story and yes yes we want to hear everything you have so if you uh feel up to it send us more stories and we're glad that you didn't pass out our next story comes from keegan haunting across appalachia hello i found your podcast a month or two ago and i've been binging it non-stop while i'm cooking making homemade candy etc i love both of your auras i have a few short stories if you want to add them to your podcast
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I'm Keegan. I'm from Pennsylvania and the first house I ever lived in was old. I only lived in it until I turned two. Small backstory, I never got to meet my grandmother. One day when I was about one year old, my mom and dad were outside having a smoke and they heard me crying from inside.
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They decided to wait it out a little bit to see if I'd calm down on my own, but they heard my dad's mom, the grandmother I had never met, start singing to me and rocking me to sleep. Would that scare you or would that make you feel like, oh, I think at first I'd be like, wow, so sweet. And then realize like, wait a second, she is not alive anymore. Panic.
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Fast forward to when I was like five or six, I was living in my maternal grandmother's house with my mom and I never got to meet my great grandmother, my grandmother's mom. Technically I did, but I was an infant. My bed was about three to five feet away from my mom's bed at the time, and I had this cute little princess sheer fabric tent that was really popular in the early 2000s.
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I wasn't even asleep, I was trying to go to sleep, and all I felt was a hand slowly go up my leg and pinched really quickly. I freaked out and jumped into my mother's bed, and she said that I was just sleeping and to go back to bed with her in her bed. But I argued that I wasn't asleep, and she didn't believe me.
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A couple of months ago, I talked to my brother about it, and he told me that my great grandma used to pinch his thighs to make sure he wasn't dehydrated, And that she was just checking on me. Aww. That's another sweet one. That's cute.
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I've heard of like, if your skin stays longer, then you need more water. Like if you pinch your skin, and if it doesn't bounce back immediately, then you're dehydrated. I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that before. Fast forward to me moving into my dad's house and my stepmom's house, and a quick Google search would show you that it was built in the 1800s, which is yikes.
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There were so many things that went on in that house. There would be footsteps coming up and down from the attic, names being called when no one was there, and apparitions. My sister still lives in that house, so I asked them if some of the stuff still happens, and they said that the footsteps still happen, but nothing else does.
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When my grandmother, my stepmother's mom, was alive, she was disabled. Hard of hearing and amazing. That's not the point. But she would be needing help on and off the toilet, on and off her bed or chair, whatever. So I would be the only one home sometimes with her and help her out. Before she passed, she decided to visit her kids in the Philippines because she's Filipino.
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And one day while she was gone, I heard my name being called from her bathroom. Her calling me to help her. Keegan, help! I started running down the stairs and as soon as I got to the middle of the stairs, my name stopped being called. But if you remember from the beginning of this... She was hard of hearing, so she wouldn't have stopped calling my name until she saw me.
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I stopped in the middle of the stairs and slowly went back up, put on my headphones and pretended that nothing happened. So the name calling stopped. They stopped because they're like, wait a second. She wouldn't even know that I was coming. Then realized she's not even in the country.
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Oh, it's definitely dramatic. Kind of valid. I don't know. Depends on what's down there.
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Yes. Our next story comes from Megan. Hello, my name is Megan. I grew up in a little town in West Virginia. We lived in a cheaply built one-story house with three bedrooms. I had heard from my mother that I had always been an odd child. According to her, I would tell other people that I could see their feelings and tell them what color it was.
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I was always overly empathetic and had an uncommon understanding of death at a young age. I have always felt more connected and sensitive to the unknown energies around us. Who? I couldn't close my eyes. I was forced to look at the black and gray shadow of a young girl with long black hair standing in the center of the mirror looking right at me all night.
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Oh. And just roast your little marshmallow over your tiny little fire. That would feel so sad. Anyway. Okay. Listener stories. from Appalachia. First one, from Sam. Hi Ghosties, my name is Sam. I am a newcomer to the Ghosties YouTube channel and I love watching your podcast. I have had a few strange encounters myself and have also witnessed some things I can't explain.
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The only way she went away was if I had passed out from exhaustion after hours of heart-pounding fear. Because I was kept up most nights, I started falling asleep in school and failing classes. This same thing would continue to happen for years, slowly evolving into a more interactive experience each time. She would come out of the mirror,
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and kneel down at the foot of my bed with her greasy black hair over one eye with a menacing smile staring at me through her brow. Her face was so close to the bed that I could hear the sounds of her sharp breaths against the blanket. The sounds continue to haunt me to this day.
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Eventually, after begging to move the mirror, my grandfather helped me remove it, but apparently she didn't need the mirror anymore. I knew she was still there, but I couldn't see her anymore. I would go to sleep, and instead of being woken up and forced to stare at her, it would begin before I even fell asleep.
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I would lay down, and my mom would stand in the doorway, reassuring me that the many dream catchers that I had hung up would start working, and she turned the lights out before closing the door and leaving. I would lay as still as possible and listen for any strange sounds as I squeezed my eyes shut, and then, before I even had the chance to doze off, I felt the tugging.
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Slowly, inch by inch, the blanket moved to the foot of the bed, forcing me to keep pulling it back up. It was subtle at first, but after a few months, I'd wake up and the blanket would be down to my waist and I'd be frozen in fear to retrieve it every night until I grew up and moved out. I would have to tuck the blanket under the mattress to feel comfortable getting in bed.
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Update, I'm 26 now with two babies and a husband. We traveled back to our hometown last year and we ended up having to sleep in my old childhood home in this very room. My husband had heard my stories and never really believed me until the first night in that house. We were laying in my old bedroom with our two sleeping babies between us, and he sat up and looked at me without a word.
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I asked, you feel it, don't you? And we stayed on his parents' living room floor for the rest of the trip. I was so freaked out by my bedroom growing up that I convinced my little brother to switch with me at about 12 years old, making him 10 years old. My thinking was that his room would definitely have to be better than mine.
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All I'd heard my brother complain about was having nightmares and sleepwalking out of the house. So we moved all of our stuff to opposite rooms, and I was ready to sleep my first night in there. I laid in bed and tried to get comfortable, but I still had a sense of unease. Except in this room, it was more of a deep sadness I was feeling.
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As I was trying to fall asleep, I started hearing a faint whining coming from the stealing corner of the dark room, just above my head to the left. It sounded so close, yet so far. As if it weren't in this dimension, but the veil was thin enough in that one spot for me to hear. It didn't stop for hours. I was once again frozen in fear and eventually passed out from exhaustion.
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When I woke up, the sound was masked by birds outside the window and morning traffic. I looked up in the corner where the sound came from. It was as if I could see the energy moving around like glowing static. I left the room and went to tell my brother about my experience. His reply, you can hear her too. Oh! We never spoke of it again, and I got my old room back.
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Now that I think back, my brother always complained of not being able to fall asleep at night and a feeling of deep sadness. His exhaustion ended up having major effects on his life. I continued to deal with horrible energy in my room for years, to the point where my family even raised money to help renovate my room in an effort to get me comfortable in there.
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So we began repainting and getting new furniture and decorating it to my liking. We were in the middle of the process. and I had made temporary curtains by draping a throw blanket over the curtain rod until my grandma finished making the new ones. One night, my little cousin was sleeping over, and we were about to go to bed, so we made our way to my room to change into pajamas.
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However, one experience I've been a part of will always give me chills until my last day. When I was younger, around Christmas time in the late 1990s, my mother took me and my younger brother to see our great aunt and uncle in Martinsville, Virginia, deep in part of the Appalachian Mountains. We were meeting my aunt, my mother's sister, and two of my older cousins there as well.
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We stood in the front of my dresser, which was under the window with the makeshift curtain. I was pulling my shirt over my head when I saw, between the blanket and the window, the mesh screen on the outside started lifting up as if someone was trying to get in. I froze, and I watched it jaggedly pull up, one side at a time. My cousin had spotted it too, and froze with me.
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I finally worked up the courage to tell her to run to get my mom, and she did. I grabbed the baseball bat next to my bed and pulled the blanket down, exposing the rest of the window to look for someone running away. There was no one. Just the mesh screen, halfway lifted, and the street lamp right outside, illuminating the suburban street.
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I ran to my mom and we called 911 in case it was an attempted break-in. They did nothing. A few weeks later, after gaining the courage to sleep in my room again, I was sleeping in my bed that was, for some reason, facing the window, which still had a blanket for a curtain. I was woken up by light flooding in my bedroom at around 3am, of course.
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I opened my eyes and was instantly frozen by the sight. The blanket had suddenly fallen from the rod, which was weird because it was zip-tied in place and had never fallen until now. It wasn't dangling on one side or drooping, no. The whole blanket was on the floor as if it had been pulled down with force.
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Because of the streetlight right outside the window, I could clearly see the mesh screen was already more than halfway raised and no one was there. I had never been so terrified in my life. I couldn't physically bring myself to move. It felt like half an hour had passed before I managed to move my legs and I ran to my mom.
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We called the police again and they searched for signs of anyone walking nearby, but there was nothing. No fingerprints on the window, no shoe prints, nothing. They patrolled the neighborhood and parked a cop car in front of our house all night this time to reassure us. The last part of the story gives me chills to this day. I'm sorry for the lengthy story, but we are almost done.
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I'm... Never apologize. I'm already scared. I don't want the next part. Yes, you do. No. I was in high school at this point, and one day I sat at a new table for lunch. At this table sat one of the school's weird girls, who I actually loved. High schoolers are judgy. Who happened to be doing readings of people at the round lunch table while we ate.
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I sat and listened to her go around to everyone and tell them if they had attachments or loved ones following them. And it was really interesting despite my skepticism. When she came to me, she skipped me and instead did my best friend who was sitting next to me. After finishing the last person, I asked, what about me? And she took a deep breath to compose herself.
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I don't really want to tell you, she said without eye contact. But of course, everyone at the table insisted she go on. I told her it was okay. You can say it, I reassured her. So she took a long pause and asked me a question. Do you have two closets in your bedroom? My best friend looked at me, knowing I, in fact, do have two, and that she would never know that.
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I confirmed this to the table, now filled with wide eyes. Okay, are they right next to each other, on the same wall though? And one is a double door closet, right? She asked. My friend and I snapped our heads to meet eyes in shock, once again wondering how she knew that. I told her, yes again, now shaking.
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She continued with a shudder and nauseated look on her face as if she was seeing the image in her mind's eye. She said, well, it's in the one with two doors and it likes to crawl.
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For the sake of this video, we will name my aunt Catherine and my two other cousins Dana and Mallory, Dana being the oldest cousin around 11 years old at the time, then Mallory around 10, and I couldn't have been but 8 or 9 years old. From our house to Martinsville, we had to take a winding mountain road past Lover's Leap, a spot off the road with a huge cliff drop-off.
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The entire table shuddered and let out squeals. But she was right. I had seen it myself. She definitely liked to crawl. I love the podcast, guys. Your energy is so good and pure. It's refreshing. I have tons more stories if you're interested, especially because I moved right out of haunted Appalachia overseas to haunted England countryside.
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Lots of spooky stuff has happened in my six years here, Megan. I would love some English haunted spooky English countryside stories. First of all, very intrigued. Second, I don't think Natalie will ever recover from this story.
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They probably can't even see her face.
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This is one I read in the daytime and I had to come back to it later because I was so worked up over it. I had to stop. I had to close my computer and come back to it at a different time. This is the progression of the girl from the mirror. She escaped the mirror. She's there. She's in the closet. She's crawling around, pulling curtains down.
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I could never recover. I like that her husband stayed there in the middle of the night. She's like, now do you believe me?
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I like that they were like, okay, this is enough. We're not staying here anymore. We're going to sleep on the floor in another house. I'm frightened. Is there a word beyond frightened? Because that's how I feel.
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The word terror is often used to describe the most extreme degree of fear. I think terror doesn't even dread.
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The sickness?
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I don't remember how this goes, but I would assume it doesn't get much better from here. Thank you. I might have put a good one at the end. I don't know. We'll see what past Macy thought when she put this together. Because it's been a while.
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i thought the same thing i was gonna say but i didn't want to make you mad okay give me a second i need to adjust myself while you gather yourself we'll move on to jay hey ghosties i'm a kind of new listener stumbled upon you guys one day while cleaning i'm going to go by an alias here as i'm not 100 comfortable with my name being out there just call me jay understandable i think we may have said this before if i could if we could be faceless podcasters youtubers i think we would
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If I had any drawing talent at all, I would have drew a face on me and no one would know who I was.
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Why? We'd have a lot of like me saying Natalie, but I'd have to like go back and post and be like, Aaron. Okay, but anywho, this intro is getting weirdly long. So here are the stories. I grew up deep. They said that or you said that? They said that. I was like, wow, that's rude. No, no, no. They said it.
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There is a sign posted at the lookout point stating, quote, The name Lover's Leap comes from a local legend about two lovers, a beautiful young Penobscot girl and a white settler, who were forbidden to be together. I'm so sorry if I said that name wrong. Unable to bear the burden of a life without each other, they leapt to their deaths sometime in the distant past.
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I grew up deep in the Appalachian Mountains, which as you've discussed a few episodes ago is a horribly spooky place. Me and my family moved to Tennessee my sixth grade year as my father had just retired from being in the military. We moved into a house that honestly looked like the old white conjuring house with occasional splotches of missing paint. The house was surrounded by woods.
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An old saying in the mountains is that you never buy a house that has woods older than it. So growing up, I had a big family, which meant that at first, all of the weird noises and things were dismissed as annoying siblings or pets. But slowly over time, we started to realize that what was happening wasn't the equivalent of a 2012 Brady Bunch.
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The point of realization happened when me and my siblings, being kids in a new house, started exploring. Now, I would like to say that we had a basement we were not really allowed in as it was unfinished and my parents didn't want us to get hurt. Well, we ignored them as kids do and explored. Being there, we found a whole different section of the house. It was a very tiny room, maybe four by four.
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It had a working sink.
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and a toilet in it no problem probably just an unlisted bathroom but as we continued to explore that's when we became unsettled part of the basement had a giant wall like ledge that had dirt as the floor i was a small child so i was sent into the dirt floor area where i learned that the ledge goes all the way back to where the random hidden room was so as i was exploring i started finding things like old child drawings and baby dolls along with a destroyed necklace it honestly creeped us out as the house used to be a church at one point
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and it made all of us uncomfortable. After we discovered the room and all the children's stuff buried in the basement, stuff started happening. It started off small, like hearing noises or doors opening or closing without being touched, but it all came to a head later on down the line, when randomly the scent of rotting meat started wafting through the AC vents. The AC was located in the basement.
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We were raised religious, so knew it probably wasn't a good thing, but eh, we will ignore it while still being scared. I feel like that's what our parents would do. They'd be like, it's okay. Don't worry about it. Yeah, 100%. Just close your eyes. Yep. The rotting meat scent would happen all the time after that and would be gone just as fast as it started.
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We also started having our dish cabinets open and have dishes fly out like cups and stuff. Well, after a while of all five of my siblings being constantly terrified of the house, my parents decided that going on a week-long camping trip will probably help us feel better. We had our neighbors feed our cats while we were gone, and this incident happened during the week they were feeding the cat.
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The neighbor's daughter, whom I'm still best friends with, went one day in place of her parents to feed the pets. She did the usual head count to make sure all the pets were fed and realized that one cat was missing, so she went upstairs to find said cat, and all at once, all of the doors slammed shut and scared her so bad that she refused to enter our home for months afterwards.
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After probably two or so years of being scared all the time in the house, I did probably the worst thing possible and tried to contact whatever was in the house. Why? Me and my friend had a spirit box type thing and we went to the basement and started asking the normal questions. Who are you? What do you want? Do you want to hurt us?
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Through the entire questioning, we were not getting a single response until the do you want to hurt us part. The box said in the clearest voice possible, get out. We hightailed it out of the basement so fast and didn't spend the night anymore. Are you okay? No. Are you gagging? I choked on my gasp. I'm going to end this email here as this is getting insanely long and I need to get dinner started.
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This doesn't have much to do with the story I'm about to tell you, but now that you know the history of Lover's Leap, if you didn't already, you know I was already weary of the entire trip once my mother told us the lore, and pulled us over to let us see the plunging drop. Nevertheless, we got back in the vehicle and continued to our relative's house.
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I can absolutely send more emails or more stories as I lived in that house for about 10 years and there is so much more that happened. Anywho, I hope you all have a great rest of your day.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Upon arriving, my Aunt Catherine, Dana, and Mallory were already there, unpacking the vehicle and exploring the property. Dana tells me that according to our relatives, the movie The Blair Witch Project was filmed in the woods behind this house. I later found out that this was completely false, but again, this did not help to ease my mind before sleeping here for the weekend.
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We will let you know. For today, our Listener Story episode theme is Appalachia.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I think your family was just really trying to freak you out with first the lover's leap. Stop. And the talk of the two people plunging to their deaths. And then also, did you know the Blair Witch Project was filmed here? There's spookiness going on right behind this house.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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We settled our things in the designated bedrooms and went back outside to explore. It was still daylight and I had just gotten an eye zone Polaroid camera as an early Christmas gift. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. While the grown-ups were in the kitchen talking, Mallory and I stayed in the living room playing board games waiting for our turn to clean up.
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You should go to the doctor for your sleep patterns anyway. Very true. But anyway, thank you for sharing that with us. And I'm so sorry that you experienced that. Every time you go to your grandparents' house, just sleep with a glass of salt water and see if that helps.
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Anything. Aluminum foil. I've seen that. It works. Moving on. Our next story comes from Megan. When me and my boyfriend got together, I was over at his house a lot and he used to tell me his house was haunted. He lived with his dad and brother and used to say his dad's room always had weird things happening. One thing was his alarm randomly going off in the middle of the day.
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And another thing was his dad's CPAP machine starting up randomly. They heard a weird noise and went into his dad's room and it was running. But the only way to turn it on was to start breathing into it. He also said that once a few years ago, he woke up randomly in the middle of the night and had a really bad sick to your stomach kind of feeling.
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And when he raised up in bed to look around his room, he saw a black shadow drop off the foot of his bed and race across the floor out the door. Oh, no. I'm picturing like, I don't know, Peter Pan's shadow, you know? That's exactly what came into my mind.
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He told me they named the ghost Toby. So another creepy Toby. Just a random name, but it's funny. Anyway, so flash forward to when we were dating. I refused to poop in... Okay. Anyway, so flash forward to when we were dating. I refused to poop if he was in the same house and I had to go really bad. So I told him to go outside and wait for me to get done.
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I had completely forgotten about the possibility of a ghost in the house at this point. He went outside to leave me alone and I went to the bathroom in his dad's bedroom at the back of the house just in case someone came home so the hallway would be fine.
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So I went back there, closed the bathroom door, then closed the door to the separate room the toilet and shower were in for an extra protected poo environment.
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Two times, I thought I could hear Dana upstairs talking to someone, but I just shrugged it off and assumed I was hearing the grown-ups in the kitchen instead. Nearly an hour went by and my Aunt Catherine yelled up the stairs for Dana to come down. Nothing. Fifteen more minutes passed, and Catherine yelled again, this time more assertive as Dana had not obeyed her the first time.
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it was a bad one and i was so thankful no one came home and he was outside as soon as i flushed the toilet i heard my boyfriend's voice say oh hold on and running out of the room i started yelling at him because he knew how much it embarrassed me when i came out i looked all over for him and he was actually out in their shop building using the bathroom out there watching tick tock scared me to death i also was there alone once
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and forgot about this happening and while i was sitting on the couch at 3am i started hearing things moving from the back of the house it got so bad and loud i ran out crying and decided to spend the rest of the night in the building the shop building Oh, my God. Rather stay in the outside building because there's so much activity, loud activity.
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There's a lot of mimics or seems to be so in this region. Why? I don't know. So I'm just riffing here. Okay. Part of me feels like it's just like ancient land and there's just some weird energy about it. And it's, I don't know, a weird like mirror to the world. I don't know. I don't know. That's just what I'm envisioning. That's just what came to me. That's a lot.
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It's just what I was thinking.
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It just has something to do with the land and just the energy there. But why is it trying to... It's like taking on a life of its own. Yeah, why is it trying to mimic the people now?
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That feels very ominous to say. I don't know. I feel like the land learns and grows with us and knows us. I don't know. Are we getting too weird? Are we getting too off the path? No, I'm with you. Okay.
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Okay. Our second email from Megan. This came four months later. Following up on this. Not sure if you guys will ever see this story, but if you do, I have a lot of other weird stuff that has happened in a possible Skinwalker story.
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Me and my boyfriend, now ex unfortunately, used to hike and camp out at Red River Gorge almost every weekend and had one crazy experience there that neither of us can explain. I think I'll tell it now just in case I start forgetting details. Red River Gorge is part of the Appalachian and Daniel Boone National Forest, and it was my first night camping in the woods, all night in a hammock.
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He was familiar with the trails and had multiple different places that he would camp out at when he went. Before meeting me, he used to go alone, leave his phone at home, grab a garment so he would have a map, and take off for an entire weekend alone in the woods. Other times, he would go off with friends.
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He had spent nearly his whole life walking the trails and sleeping in the forest or on the edge of the huge mountaintops. Hiking back was so fun and exciting and I couldn't wait for it to get dark and spooky so we could light a fire and get a little drunk, dance and sing and have a blast. It seemed like such a vibe, I don't know, but it started to get dark and it got so black so fast.
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This particular camping spot was a short hike from the edge of the rock, which meant where we were was surrounded by trees. We got the fire going and made our meals and each took a couple swigs of fireball, terrible choice of beverage after being dehydrated and hot. And tired. In the dead of summer, lol.
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Dana finally comes stomping downstairs, pouting almost, and tells Catherine that she was upstairs playing with her nice friend. "'What nice friend?' Catherine asks." The nice girl upstairs, her name's Olive, Dana says. Instantly, my Aunt Catherine's jaw dropped, her face turned as white as a bedsheet, and her eyes nearly welled up with tears.
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And we laid out to watch the stars while we waited for the fire to burn out so we could go to bed. He played some camp tunes, folksy type music, quietly, and we chatted and watched the stars. Then, through an open patch in the canopy that the trees made above us, I saw a string of glistening lights slowly making its way across the sky. I asked him, what the heck is that?
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and he said a shooting star but i said it's not what is that he was just as surprised when he realized we started getting super scared afraid we just saw a ufo and the aliens saw us and they were going to abduct us from the top of the mountain and we were just going to be another missing 411 in a documentary we called everyone we knew telling them about the ufo then i called my parents and my dad looked at me like i was stupid and said that sounds like starlink
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I looked it up and sure enough, that was exactly what we saw. I was no longer scared and ready to pack up and leave and the fire was almost out. So we both squeezed into his hammock and got cuddled up for the night. I was still spooked because if anything, it showed me how vulnerable we really were out there and got me thinking, what if we still got missing 411s or something?
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He continued playing his music quietly to scare bears away. It's what I told myself anyway. And then we fell asleep. About two hours later, I woke up to him nudging me, whispering, Do you hear that? In the pitch black woods surrounding our hammock. I could hear only silence and then, Shh!
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It sounded about 10 yards from our hammock, very close and very loud, echoing through the forest, way too loud for such a high-pitched sound. The hike to our campsite was super steep, and nowhere near us was any other place cleared out enough for any hikers to set up camp.
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It was also about 1am at this point, and no one with any sense was going to hike in pitch black this high up where the trail might lead to dropping straight off the cliff at any point. There was silence again, then the sound of two... Heavy feet hitting the ground. It's the only way I can describe it. And when they hit the ground, the echoed out again.
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After that, it was dead silent for the next 45 minutes. No leaves rustling or branch cracking, no footsteps, nothing, which would only mean that whatever it was came down and never left. I was the most scared I'd ever been in my entire life.
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After the 45 minutes of never-ending silence, just waiting for something to charge at us, I whispered to Jacob asking if it was a squirrel or something falling out of a tree. He said maybe. Then he tried to calm me down and said not to worry about it. It was probably just a branch falling out of a tree or something, but his heart was racing against my back.
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I told him, I can hear how hard your heart is beating, and he said, it just spooked me a little, but it's okay. Everything's good. Just go to bed. We'll be okay. I grabbed his knife and clung onto it against my chest. He fell asleep again a few minutes later and I tried like hell to go back to sleep.
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Eventually I did and the next morning as we were packing up camp, finally broad daylight again, he admitted to me that he was actually terrified and that in all the times he'd been out there, he'd never once heard anything like that. I talked to people and researched what it could have been, and some people said deer blow when they're frightened, and they said that's what it was.
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But I know what that sounds like, and it doesn't echo like that, and it's not a shh sound. It had so much force behind it, and to never hear it take another step, and the thud of two heavy objects hitting the ground sounding like feet? I don't know. Since then, I've purchased bear horns and tasers to keep with me just in case something ever happens.
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She called for my mother and the other adults to come into the living room and tells Dana to tell them what she had just told her. Dana tells it again, this time to everyone, and all of the adults' faces had the same reaction as Catherine's did before.
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I'll never be able to shake that feeling of being so vulnerable and completely paralyzed when you know there is something lurking only feet away that you can't see, but it's obviously very aware of you and can come at you from any direction and you'd never know it was coming.
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I have no idea what it was, but if it was a skinwalker or something, they say to just pretend it's not there and it will leave you alone. Don't look at it. Don't acknowledge it in any way and you will be safe. It worked for us that day, but I'll never camp in that spot again. Every campsite from now on will be in a clearing on top of a rock, nowhere near the dense forest.
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It's the only way I feel safe. Also, I found Neil's podcast right before me and him broke up, and it's really helping me get through this heartbreak, along with the heartbreak of losing so many family members this past year. I'm so happy for you guys and so happy I found your channel. It's helped me get my mind off so many things. This is just what I needed. Love y'all.
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I'm begging you. Rage. We had a lot of fun telling these stories. I had a lot of fun researching the stories in the first place for the first episode. Yes. And it did really well. So I assume most of you like these kinds of stories. That was like our most our best performing episode.
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They just stand there for hours waiting for them to fall asleep. That doesn't sound like an animal to me.
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Otherworldly?
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And I will never go camping. Okay, moving on to our next story from Morgan. Hi, I just listened to your Appalachia episode and knew I had to send you my stories. My name is Morgan. I'm 21 and have lived in North Carolina my whole life, especially the mountains and rural area. My family is from the Appalachias and our stories go back decades.
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At this time, none of the adults would tell us why they were acting this way or what Dana's new friendship had to do with their reactions, which was probably smart at the time because I would have insisted on going back home. But once we were all a little older, around 14 to 17 years old, the story was brought back up about the night that Dana was playing with her imaginary friend.
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I can give more of those stories later if you'd like, but today I will tell you my stories. Family mimic story. Here we go. Putting my seatbelt on. My family has a history of mimics. The first story involves my dad and grandma. When I was younger, my grandmother lived in a two-story house that was really old. It housed my father growing up.
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One night, my grandma was awaiting my father's return back to the house as it was growing late. It was around 1 a.m. when she finally saw his headlights coming down the long driveway, heard his truck door slam, heard his boots coming up the stairs, and finally him walking to his bedroom, which was adjacent to hers.
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She decided to ask him where he had been, so she walked into his room only to see the lights off, bed still made, no one nearby. She yells out his name with no answer. A little while later, she sees his real headlights, and he actually returns home around 2am. No one can explain away what she saw, and she is not a big ghost believer. She tried to talk to it.
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next mimic occurrence would be my father's years ago he was getting home from work normally he got home before the rest of us but this time he walked inside started to change clothes when he heard my voice his eldest daughter talking to him from the room upstairs he says he had a full conversation before he looked outside and saw that his car was the only one home this creeps him out but he has said this was not the first or the last time he's heard us talk when we weren't home similar story with me when i was in middle school my bus dropped me off before anyone else got home
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so I'd have the house to myself for a few hours. One day I was in my bedroom when I heard my mother and sister come home. I heard the door unlock and my mom hollering for me to see what I was doing. Before I left my room, I realized it was far too early for her to be home, and I called her. She indeed was still at work. My little sister also has her share of stories.
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but hers are a tad different from ours. She actually sees the mimic. She recalls several times where she sees my grandma walk through her house and she would follow her only to realize my actual grandma was outside mowing the lawn, checking the mail, etc. My sister no longer feels scared when this happens because it's happened so much.
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She says she does not follow them anymore because she feels like something bad would happen if she followed it all the way. As do I. I don't know that I'd be able to move ever again if I started following and realized the person ahead of me that looks just like you is not you. I think I'd just stop there and just be like, this is my home now.
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Okay. Very interesting. That's how I feel. Ghost in the woods. In the Appalachias, there are certain rules you should live by. One night, my dad and brother were breaking a few. They had lit a campfire in the extending woods behind my house. Sitting around it, they talked about anything and everything, staring off into the woods. They were a distance from our house. They had to drive an ATV there.
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So in all reality, they were fully alone and in the dark aside from this fire. Well, time went on and they decided to put it out slowly. Only when it got really low, they heard a humming sound. Slowly, the faint sound grew closer and they realized it was not a hum, but it was a lullaby of words they couldn't understand.
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We were then told that my mother and Aunt Catherine had an aunt who had passed away in that very same house in Martinsville years before I or any of my cousins were even born. They called her... Aunt Ollie, short for Olive.
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All they could tell us was that it was a little girl's voice and a lullaby tune. They were fully freaked out when they searched on ATV, found nothing.
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And maybe that's why I do like them. I don't know, but that they give me that same chill, that same vibe. The next one is called Deer. This happened to me last week, so this story still feels weird. I was walking out of my parents' house to my car around 9 p.m. and I saw in the first tree line in the woods what seemed to be a man in a blue shirt.
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Before I could fully comprehend what happened, it crouched into an animal shape, very hard to explain what I saw being so fast, and ran and whirled away with several other deer. I
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know deer travel in packs but this was an uncanny amount of deer probably 40 or so just rustling through these trees at a speed i've never seen what is the worst part is that they were completely still until i made eye contact with the blue shirt figure i will never understand what this was or why i saw it i never considered that i don't think you were meant to see it i don't think so i never considered like herd animals animals that go in packs and things being some kind of
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That does sound like a lot. Like maybe 10.
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But it's also, this isn't like an... navajo areas in that what what is it like the the four corners area corners yeah i almost said the triangle close enough it's a shape the four corners very very creepy the next one's called grandma oh no for context in the appalachias we have a dying culture of what people call granny witches Whether or not they are actual witches is up for debate.
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My great-grandma just knew way too much. She knew how to chant a word off or pray a mole away. She would fix any at-home remedy you need. But what really sticks with me, even after she passed away, is how she knew things no one told her. My granny never had a driver's license, never had a cell phone, barely worked the landline.
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Her top entertainment system was a radio with headphones she'd carry around listening to gospel music. One day, when I was little, I had done something I wasn't supposed to— I stole a bit of my brother's change to use at school the next day. I did this home alone at my house. Later, I walked to her house without the change. Still no one home but me and her.
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She stopped me at the door and said, be still. She looked into my eyes for a few seconds and says, I know what you did. I see it in your eyes. Return it.
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I want to live off my intuition and know all the home remedies. And I want to be an Appalachian granny witch. Same. That sounds like an actual dream. Anyway, I returned it the second I went home. She had funny little sayings like, be careful. I see and hear everything you do. That made us laugh until it was true.
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One day, me and my brother were being babysat by her and she was nearly deaf at this point. However, we were smart kids and tried to fight by whispering. so she never had to come and settle our childish disputes. But this never worked. She'd always walk in and repeat exactly what we had just said, and nothing got past her.
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When she was older, she had dementia, so sometimes we'd try to shield her from the bad news. Like once a family member passed away and we decided to keep it from her since her condition was not great. That is, until she told us about it.
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she said she knew it passed and once my mother broke her ankle at work we again decided not to tell her so we don't worry her with unnecessary things she looked at my sister and said tell your mama i hope her ankle is okay and that she can tell me things none of it ever made any sense how she knew all this stuff but i will say i've never had someone's presence make me feel so comforted and protected as hers did i used to make her sit beside me in the playroom and i just felt like if she was near bad things weren't she had the most comforting energy of anyone i've ever met
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I'm glad it wasn't like the demon Olive.
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Something was different about her and I so strongly want to know what it is. It seems that it wasn't just her. Sometimes I get these strong gut feelings or things I just know and it always seems true. Like sometimes I'll avoid a certain road and there will be a wreck, etc. I think whatever gifts she had, we shared with my family, just not quite as strong as hers.
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Hope you at least enjoy reading these. They are all 100% true. So they sent us another email. okay first though love granny i know i know i'm obsessed i think that's beautiful that you had a granny like that and a connection like that me too i love i love a good comforting person someone that you just know nothing bad can get you if they're around it's always a
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Hi, I love the podcast and I sent a previous email, but shortly after this happened, I thought I'd fill you in on one of the most unexplainable stories I have. For context, my great grandma had dementia. She passed away this past September. My little sister was close to her, as we all were.
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My great grandma was known in our family for having scary stories to tell and being psychic, for lack of better terminology. If anyone was going to haunt me, I expected it to be her. But she didn't. It was eerily quiet for months. Until this Thanksgiving. My sister's birthday was Thanksgiving, and my cousin's birthday was the day before Thanksgiving. We shared this great-grandma.
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We had all gathered at my mamaw's house, which was also the home of my great-grandma. We had eaten dinner, chatted, and grew tired, so we started packing leftovers. I was in the hallway with a relative who then looked at me and said, what's that noise? Can you go turn the TV off in the bedroom? This was not abnormal as TVs were frequently left on.
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So I went back towards the two bedrooms and was shocked to find that the TV was off. I was greeted by a black screen. I still heard muffled noises. So I popped my head into my great grandma's old bedroom. No toys were playing, no records on. It was completely dark. I would turn back into my mama's bedroom. The noise now quiet.
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I had walked into this room with my sister, my friend who attended Thanksgiving with me. The next thing I know, I hear, happy birthday in a sing-songy voice. Me and my sister made eye contact and started crying. We then opened closets and looked for anything that could have been responsible for this. We found nothing but a little toy beagle who barks but doesn't speak.
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We tell my cousin what just happened and she opens the closet door, places her hand on the shelf as if she was patting around to see if anything made noise and a birthday card falls right into her hands. It was one of my grandma's old cards she'd been given from my family. Oh.
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My sister revealed that on her last birthday, my grandma had told her that she'd never forget a big day for her, dead or alive. Oh, no. We were all in tears but decided not to tell my grandma since she lives alone and would be frightened. We later find out she is having trouble sleeping because the toy beagle starts talking and keeping her awake at night.
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Mind you, this toy has to be shaken to talk, and my grandma is very hard of hearing. She can't even hear us when we're looking right at her, let alone a toy beagle rooms away. There is no way this toy by itself is keeping her awake. The most chilling part is that the toy talks during the same hours my great grandma did with her sundown syndrome.
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It's very eerie to my family, but we feel comforted by it instead of scared.
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I don't know how the last one ends. That would have been a good one to end, but we shall see. Thank you, Morgan, for sharing all these stories with us because they were so, so good. We've got two more stories and our next one is from Carol. Hey, guys. So first of all, I really love all the Appalachian stories. I come from the East Tennessee portion of the Appalachias.
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The area I'm from actually touches three other states, Virginia, Kentucky, and of course, Tennessee. I lived on a long stretch of road called Cave Springs. As you probably know, caves can be pretty creepy and we have a ton. I lived on a farm and it was fairly large then, but my dad has sold a bit of land off, so not as big now.
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He told me when I was small that there was a red-eyed monster in the woods above our orchard so that I would not go in there. Turns out it was like major haunted. But those things aren't why I initially am sending this email. One time when I was in sixth grade, my best friend came to help us out with a haunted corn maze at the farm. She came and we were just walking through it.
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So sweet. That is really cute. One of the more wholesome Appalachian tales that we've heard. For sure. But as I said, I didn't discriminate here. Our next story comes from Kai. Hi, my name is Kai. I'm 21 years old and I watch your YouTube videos a lot. I usually fall asleep to your videos. I have an experience that I think is worthy of being shared.
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It wasn't a big maze, so it wasn't a big deal. When we came to the end of it, there was someone on all fours crawling towards us. So that's weird. Aww.
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please read it on the pod love the podcast so much carol that's so cute i'm glad we have some good stories to end on well we've got one more but also there's an update because i emailed her and was like what is this red-eyed monster you speak of yeah she said so my dad concocted this sort of stay away from here story about a red-eyed monster that lived in the woods above our orchard at the house
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He said it ate little kids and even sometimes adults who didn't listen to the warnings. However, he just didn't want us to go into the woods because it had a spirit in that was, he considered it, evil. He even went as far as having his friends come to cleanse it. Honestly, I never felt entirely scared after that. I could right now go into them in total darkness and not be scared.
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So maybe there was a spirit there. The thing that crawled after us, I can't really explain. My great-grandfather was the man in the suit, and I don't believe he would have had something like that attached. No. It was weird. I think the whole part of the land is haunted or troubled. Thank you so much for putting my little country ghost stories on the pod. So whatever was in the corn maze.
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Corn maze is already kind of ominous.
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Since I've discovered ghosties, I've been binging the pod as I pack to move and have been loving all the spooky stories. I'm taking a little break from packing to tell you all about the house I grew up in, as well as a bonus story or two. Procrastination, is that you? This one might not end good. I think if I'm remembering correctly, this is scary, but I might be wrong. I might be wrong.
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We'll see. I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia, and sometimes the spooky things that happened, you just didn't talk about, especially when it was in your home. The house I grew up in was haunted.
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We didn't talk about it a whole lot when I was younger, and it wasn't until my family moved and started talking about our experiences that we started to piece some of it together and realize that it may have been more than imagination. My parents built a bedroom in the basement for my sister. We'll call her Dee.
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She'd gotten a little too old to share a room with our youngest sister, Nicole, and needed some space. So they put up some walls and laid carpet in the basement. It was this weird finished corner in an otherwise unfinished basement. After Dee moved out, I moved into the basement bedroom to give my mom an in-home office and a room for guests to stay in.
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So for some context, I live in the Appalachian Mountains up north in the woods of Maine. I live in a colonial era farmhouse that's well over 200 years old with my mother and our four cats and two dogs. I've had many odd and somewhat terrifying experiences and have seen some weird things as well while living here, despite having only lived here for around four or five years.
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I had a terrible time sleeping in that basement room. Something about it just felt sinister. And a lot of the time, I ended up sleeping upstairs on the couch or in the guest bedroom to avoid being downstairs alone. I was too embarrassed to say I was scared of the basement for no good reason, so I'd always tell my parents that I saw a huge spider and couldn't sleep knowing it was in there.
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I'm not ashamed to say I'm afraid of the basement. I haven't even seen it. I'm afraid of it. Most of the time, there was no spider. Dee and I both experienced bed shaking. Not little trembles where you wake yourself up from a falling dream, but a steady rocking that originated from the foot of the bed that would gradually get more aggressive.
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and was just as likely to happen when you were awake as when you were asleep. These incidents did not coincide with earthquakes, and it would happen randomly and without regard to whether you were alone or not. There was never anything else that went along with it. It happened in the dark with the lights on during a movie when you had someone there with you,
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It had happened for no reason, and it didn't happen in any of the other beds in the house. The other thing that often sent me to sleep on the couch was what we called the shadow man. The basement was his domain. He never came upstairs, but you would hear the stairs creak as if he was going up or down, and doors in the basement would open and close on their own.
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He favored two places in the basement, a spot where two drains protruded from the floor directly across from the bottom of the basement stairs and the corner of what would eventually become my bedroom.
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In the beginning, it just felt like being watched. That uneasy feeling that crawls up your spine and makes you look around. The feeling got stronger and more sinister. That feeling of being watched and just this feeling of a looming threat. There were times that I, as a 20-year-old woman, was too afraid to get out of my bed to make a run for the steps.
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My cat would sit on the foot of my bed and stare into that corner. and eventually start hissing and spitting at nothing. Eventually the day came that I glanced up and saw a shadow figure standing in the corner watching me. I slept on the couch for two weeks and refused to go into my bedroom at all.
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When I finally did start going to sleep back in my room, I always turned Futurama on the TV and played it while I slept. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night with sleep paralysis and the TV would be turned off. The man would be standing in the corner and the head of another figure would bob in and out over me as if inspecting my body as I lay paralyzed. I couldn't scream.
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Breathing was hard and I would panic internally until I fell back asleep. I was never able to break out of one of those episodes. I found out that Dee sometimes had them too. Anytime my sisters or I left home alone, we'd stay upstairs and lock the basement door. Our parents always laughed at us for this, saying we were dramatic and it's just an old house. One week, my mom was left home alone.
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When we returned, the basement door was locked. I asked her about it and she admitted to hearing doors open and close and it sounding like someone coming up the stairs. She just wanted peace of mind. An interesting thing to note, the previous owners of the house installed not one, but two sliding locks on the outside of the basement door.
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We also had a trickster ghost that we often blamed things going missing on. It was usually one of those weird things that you'd sit down to put your socks on and one of your socks would go missing. When you came back home after school or work, the missing sock would be laying in a doorway. This you could almost blame on forgetfulness.
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You could set something down and then it blends in with its surroundings or it got stuck to your pants and shook itself off later. But one particular occasion stands out as unexplainable. I had this amethyst pendant necklace that I loved. I wore it every day and only took it off to shower and sleep. If it wasn't around my neck, it was on my nightstand or on my bathroom counter.
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One morning, I couldn't find my necklace and went to check the bathroom counter. Nowhere to be found. I tore the bathroom and my bedroom apart, thinking it must have fell off of the table or slid down the sink. I couldn't find it and accepted the necklace as being lost forever after a week or two of constant double checking. Two years go by and my family is moving out of the house.
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Everything is gone. The furniture has been moved out. The carpet swept and cleaned. It was empty, empty. I wanted to do one final walkthrough as I'd spent 25 years in that house and it was my childhood home. A girl has to say goodbye. I was walking into my bedroom to give it one last look when something on the floor caught my eye.
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It was my amethyst pendant laying face up in the middle of the floor with the chain stretched out behind it as if displayed. Reminder, this room has been emptied for weeks and this carpet has been vacuumed. I have no idea how that necklace materialized out of nowhere, but I like to believe that our prankster ghost wanted to say farewell before we left for good.
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I was about to say that. I thought you were going to say something negative and I was about to like, hold on.
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Nicole said that she often saw a young woman from the corner of her eye and saw her as more of a protector. She felt comforted when she saw her and thought of her as more of a nanny. She had very few experiences with the man downstairs, while Dee and I never had experiences with this young woman. Okay, coming to you with a new device. My computer died like one page left of reading, so we're back.
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We're with Natalie's phone now. It wasn't until we moved out and started talking more openly about the house that we grew up in, we realized that a lot of our experiences overlapped, particularly when it came to the Shadow Man.
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Even our parents, who spent 25 years telling us that we were being dramatic, admitted that sometimes things were just a little too spooky around the house, and they didn't want to scare us by agreeing. After moving out, we found out that the house was the site of a double murder and suicide.
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A man killed his two children, a young boy and a girl about 18 years old, and then took his own life in the basement. He was found in the corner that would eventually become the finished bedroom. Oh my god. I hate that your shadow man was confirmed. Like that's one that I could go without proof. Me too.
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And especially horrific. Oh my God. Since leaving that house, the only bed shaking event I've ever experienced was a legitimate earthquake. I seldom lose things and I haven't had sleep paralysis since. I don't need to sleep with the TV on. My cat is the most mellow, loving cat in the world. If ghosts aren't real, why did all of these experiences stop as soon as I left that house?
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Another paranormal experience I've had was while visiting a museum in Kentucky. This particular museum was a house that was taken over by the Union Army, although the family were firm supporters of the Confederacy. This family was known to hide Confederate soldiers in the walls, tunnels, and ceiling while the Union Army was inside the home.
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I love how we'll watch one video and you're like, I could never live in an old house. And now you're like, this is the best.
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They also boast about being haunted and talk a lot about the ghosts of the house in their marketing materials. I bought my ticket and started walking through the museum house, starting on the second floor and working my way down. My parents got wrapped up in talking to the manager of the house so I was exploring on my own. My family and the manager were the only people in the house.
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I'm a nerd and love reading all the little plaques and learning as much as possible. So am I. I feel that. So I was taking my time in the basement reading and exploring in the winter kitchen. As I was exploring, I heard a whistle from the top of the stairs. It wasn't a random gust of wind through a not quite closed window whistle, but a deliberate whistle to get my attention.
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So I shouted into the corridor and up the stairs asking if that meant they were ready to go. There was no response. I continued walking around going a little quicker when I heard the whistle again from the top of the steps. I took it as my sign that it was time to go and headed back upstairs. After reaching the top of the steps, I started calling out for my parents.
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Half expecting them to jump out and scare me. It wasn't until I passed by a window that I saw my parents and the museum manager standing outside by the truck. They were probably half a football field away. So there's no way that one of them whistled inside of the house and then went back outside down the stairs and all the way to the truck without me seeing them.
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I stepped outside to ask if they were trying to get me and they had no idea what I was talking about. That still confuses me to this day. Me too. I went back for a ghost hunt at that museum a few months later. I think this email's gotten a little long, so I'll leave it there.
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But maybe one day I'll write about my experiences during that investigation, including my first time doing the Estes method. Stay haunted and stay cool. Zabrina.
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This specific incident happened while I was home alone earlier this year at around midnight. I was chilling in my room, which is on the second floor of my house, I think drawing on Ibis paint while listening to YouTube videos, when I heard the front door downstairs open. Then I heard my dog Nutmeg's kennel door being messed with.
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probably so keep sending in your stories if you've got any if you have lived there visited there anything in that region you can email your stories to us at ghostiespod at gmail.com it's g-h-o-s-t-e-a-s-p-o-d at gmail.com it's also in the description below if you need to see it written out for you if you like this video please like it and share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so and subscribe for more we've got another listener stories coming
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I can't wait. It's this weekend. Anyway, we'll just let you go now because this has gotten a little long and I'm a little bit frightened. I'm a lot. I don't feel good. Good.
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I didn't think much of it, thinking it was maybe my mom or my friend, until I heard loud stomping up the stairs, like someone big in heavy work boots was climbing up the stairs, which is impossible with my staircase, due to there being a giant slab of wood covering half the staircase, making you have to goblin crawl to get up the stairs.
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And then I saw a large, tall, dark figure with what looked like a fedora on their head walk into the second floor landing in the hallway in front of my room. At this point, I was absolutely terrified and started having a panic attack because I was home alone and my mother wasn't to come back home till the next day.
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I proceeded to text my friend, extremely panicked, asking if it was her and if she had come to visit. She tends to just waltz into my house without knocking and I'm used to it. She messaged me back a few minutes later After I had messaged my mom that someone was in the house, she said, no, and called me asking if I was okay and if I had called the police yet or my mother.
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I had messaged my mom and she called me right as I was about to call the police. We talked and she told me to call the police. I called and explained to them what happened and that I was home alone. At this point, I had grabbed my knife that I kept in my room for just in case. The police said they'd be there soon and eventually they got there. My town doesn't have their own police force.
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While I was back on the phone with my mother for a second time. I had to go downstairs to let them in and they searched the house. My dog finally started barking her head off. They didn't find anyone in the house at all. Nothing was disturbed or moved in the house and my dog was still in her kennel.
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I was relieved nobody was actually in the house, but I was still shaking terribly and too scared to go back to sleep that night. I didn't manage to fall asleep until the sun had already come up. I don't know what or who it was that came into my house and terrified me that night, but it was extremely scary. I apologize for such a long and confusing email.
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This is only one of the incidents I've experienced here at my house. I hope you enjoy this story of my encounter. I enjoy your videos very much and wish you luck with your podcast. Stay safe and spooky and take care.
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Yes.
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We have a listener who works as a 911 operator and they said that they were going to like go look for stories with their coworkers and stuff. Send it now. She might have. I haven't, I haven't looked. Oh my gosh. I'm so into that. Hat man, doll awake, question mark. Because some people will say, okay, so there is the hat man that has like the, like, you know, the wider brimmed hat.
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It's kind of like an old Western-y hat. That's what I envision. But there are some people who say like he's wearing a fedora or some other type of hat. So I don't know. But he was also doing like wide awake playing. Yeah.
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Was it checking that it couldn't get out, that it wasn't going to get chased or barked?
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And we had no shortage of people like you sending us stories of your time in Appalachia. And that could be anywhere.
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And I would definitely have called the police.
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South to north. Like I said, the mountains go all the way up. So I didn't discriminate. And it's fitting that I look like a creature today. You do not.
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I hate this so much. It made me sick. Yeah, I feel a little queasy myself. Why did I start talking about that? Oh, what if they don't? Because you said you would ask to go because what if they didn't find them? Yes, because what if they're hiding? What if they just slipped under somewhere? Okay, so we talked about froggers last episode, episode before. And then I watched a YouTube video.
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just today about uh a frogger like they they woke up they kept having problems and they thought it was paranormal at first like they'd have a glass of water sitting on the counter or the fridge would be wide open they'd hear talking and footsteps and you know all this stuff and they're like we need to set up cameras to catch this ghost on camera they didn't catch anything eventually the husband notices a disjointed movement down the hall just like shadowy looking man and at first he thought oh is that like a shadow figure is that a a little ghosty
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You look fine.
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No, it was a man who was a delivery driver to their house like months before, months before. And the wife just got a weird vibe and had mentioned it to the husband. And it was him. And like in the video, he walks up to the kid's room and just stands because they had two little kids, just stands at their kid's door looking through because it was slightly open, just looking through and watching.
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And he had been in their house for months, months, hiding in the crawl spaces in the attic and then coming down at night watching them. The reason they got the cameras is because all of it started escalating and the wife swore she heard her name being whispered in the night.
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It's a little fluffy, but yeah.
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Someone's in person spying on you? Oh, God. So our next story is Kristen. Hi, Natalie and Macy. I discovered your podcast a few weeks ago, and I have so enjoyed listening. Your videos are validating of my own experiences and woo-woo beliefs, relaxing and incredibly entertaining. I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia, currently live in the Appalachian Mountains, No. No.
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I should note here that we live just behind a church with a graveyard that we can see from our living room windows in the winter when the trees are bare. A bulldozer is required to dig those graves because of the sheer amount of rock. We have a large amount of quartz in this area, with the nearest town being a quartz mining hub for the U.S.
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From my understanding, quartz is a high-energy crystal, so between high concentrations of this crystal, the Appalachian Je ne sais quoi, and the graveyard, my paranormal experiences in this house have not been lacking. That bend in the road is the closest you can get to the nearby church graveyard from the highway.
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I was feeling a bit uneasier than I usually do when listening to your stories, but not to the point of feeling physically unwell. But as I reached that bin, all of a sudden I started to feel faint. I was in a cold sweat with clammy palms and a rapid heart rate and was fighting against passing out by pumping my arms and left leg, still using my right foot on the pedals.
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I was only about a minute away from my home, so I pushed through and made it into my garage. After sitting for a moment to regain my composure and blood pressure, I got out of my car into a dark garage because our light had burnt out a few days prior. I heard a noise that sounded like something was knocked or shifted.
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but I ignored it in favor of getting inside in case I started to pass out again. Once I entered the kitchen, I turned on the lights and they immediately started flickering. I knelt down to greet one of my dogs as the lights continued to flicker every few seconds. I finally said, what is this? Mostly annoyed that something might be messing with me.
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hi ghosties i'm macy and i'm natalie and it's monday but it's a listener story day well no exciting okay no but different so last week i know we said it on our last listener stories episode but last week we had to switch our listener stories and our regularly scheduled monday episode because i got sick my whole family got sick with the stomach flu and so it was a whole debacle we already had the listener stories episode recorded
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i remember this exactly like it was yesterday the energy he gave off completely terrified me and i felt just pure hatred coming from him as my eyes adjusted i looked closer and i realized that it was a black smoky skeleton figure i could see the skeleton head and the ribs but it was all black and smoky looking he also had what looked like native american chief regalia on his head he was just standing in the doorway staring straight ahead me being a five-year-old little girl as i said i was completely frozen with fear in the middle of the bed
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I couldn't move to wake my mom or dad. I knew I would have to shake vigorously to wake them up. As I kept staring at this smoky Native American skeleton figure, he started to walk straight ahead into the room to the edge of the bed. I kind of got enough energy to take the blankets and yank them over my head.
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When I looked back to see if he was still there, he was still walking towards my left side where my dad was. When he reached my dad's side of the bed, he stopped turned towards me, my dad and mom sleeping in the bed, and he bent over just slightly to stare directly at my dad while he was sleeping.
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I was completely terrified and slammed my eyes shut, hid under the covers, and made myself go to sleep. I think I had told my mom what I had seen that night, and that I saw the same figure that's on my dad's arrowhead picture, and she probably just blew it off because I was scaring her. I can only assume it was a Native American chief attached to one of those artifacts.
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I swear to you, this story is true. To this day, my mom and my brother have said that ever since I was five, I've told the story with no changes in it whatsoever. What kind of five-year-old can make up a story like that? I have seen some other weird paranormal experiences, but this story was long enough for today. Thanks so much. Love listening to you guys.
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Yeah. 100%. I wonder what happened. What happened to all your dad's stuff? Did he donate them or sell them or something? Did it ever go away or is it still there?
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I didn't care. I was giving my kids allergy medicine and literally like poured a couple for them and was just like, yeah.
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No, you're not haunted. We've done enough like praying and we have like all these crystals that all of our listeners have sent us and protection things.
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Yeah. Light, you know, light in a blanket. It is the shield for the spiritual world. Agreed. I found your YouTube last night and have been obsessed since. I love the amount of research you put into the topics you talk about. I have a ghost story for you. For a little background, I live in New Jersey in a very old farmhouse set back in the woods.
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It's very quiet besides coyotes and foxes, and my closest neighbors are about half a mile away. I grew up in this house and it has always been very unsettling. It was built in 1902 and has not been touched at all. Everything is original, including a large wardrobe that is in my bedroom. When I was a kid, I always felt watched in my bedroom, even when I knew that nobody else was home.
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I never thought much about it. Old house, creepy feelings.
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I was too. I was too. I'm scared. I just am seeing in my mind's eye the like girl sleepwalking and just Oh, and then the thing on top of it. Oh, I just scared myself. Like that's one of my top five jump scares of my life.
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That's sad.
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About three years ago, I was home sick from school. My mom and dad were at work and my other siblings at school. Weird things were happening all day long. Things that sounded like footsteps and cabinets opening. I assumed it was just the house settling. Eventually, I fell asleep and was woken up to someone knocking on the door.
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I went to answer the door and it was one of my neighbors that regularly would come over and watch my siblings or just hang out. I told her I was sick, so I didn't want her to come in and possibly catch what I had. She said that she simply saw my dad outside when she drove by and wanted to stop by to talk to him.
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I was confused because I hadn't heard my dad get home and he wasn't supposed to be home for another four hours. I told her that I would go and look for him and send him out. I searched every place in my house where he could possibly be and he was not there. No. No. I had no reason to open it and nobody else was home to do it.
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It's kind of like the Earl Grey one where it's kind of a light taste. It's very light, but I like it.
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So I freaked out and went down into the living room thinking my fever was messing with me or something. I stayed down there until my mom got home from work. And the entire time I heard footsteps and doors opening upstairs. It was one of the most terrifying things that I've ever experienced.
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He's waiting for his package. He ordered something on Etsy.
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It's fine. I like that they just went back downstairs in the hidden living room until the family came home because that is exactly, even hearing things upstairs, I don't think I would move. I'd just be like, everything is fine. Everything is fine. Like turn the TV on and just wait.
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Turn up the radio.
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Sorry, I'm trying not to laugh because it's not funny, but I'm traumatized. RIP to my Fiat. Our next story comes from Poppy, which, by the way, love, love, love your name. Hello, my name is Poppy and I am from Great Yarmouth in the UK. And I just wanted to share my experience with you girls and the listeners.
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When I was about 13, I'm 29 now, I was staying at my mom's house as I lived with my dad at the time. My mom and dad had a bit of a messy breakup and me and my older sister lived with him for some time, whilst my other two siblings went and lived with my mom. One week, I was visiting my mom and I would constantly Skype and video chat my best friend.
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And she had mentioned that week she kept noticing someone behind me, but couldn't make out who it was. There was no one behind me and I just ignored it as nothing. I hate stories like this. One evening I was in my younger sister's room with the door shut. I can confirm 100% no one was in there with me.
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My friend said she saw the person again and quickly pressed the camera button on webcam to take a picture. The picture clearly showed a little boy peeking out behind me wearing what looked like striped pajamas. He had dark black hair, but his facial features were all blurred.
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I remember putting this picture on Facebook and people commenting like, wow, this is crazy, but the picture disappeared not long after, and I still can't find it anywhere. We didn't have Photoshop back then or anything that could have been that good at adding the little boy into the picture, and my best friend still promises to this day that it was real. I can't debunk it.
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I'm glad. It'll open up our options to trying other things. Yes. I'm still an Earl Grey kind of person or anything fall coded. Yeah, me too. But we're going to start our stories off today with a continuation of one of the people who wrote in for our Dwindays episode. So if you haven't seen that one, that was a pretty good episode. We posted that on Thursday. This is Roxanna.
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I never saw it in person or on the live webcam because I wasn't looking, but the picture was so clear and real. I wish I could find it. This hasn't happened since. My mom moved out of the house only six months later, so perhaps the boy was linked to the house. Thank you, and I love the podcast.
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I don't like it. I don't like it.
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Oh, right here behind me?
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Okay, you'll have to send it to me.
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Well, now I feel like you're the main and I'm just like here to like feed you. I disagree.
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Sorry. I couldn't think of another way. It's the allergy medicine. I'm so sorry. Our next story comes from Peyton. Hi. I don't know if this is one y'all would like to share because it's not super scary or spooky, but more sweet. Still freaky to me, though. LOL. We love a sweet ghost story, so...
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This is the only experience I'm sure I've had. However, I sometimes feel as though I'm not alone. But I don't count those because I can't be sure if it is a paranormal experience or just me being paranoid. But anyways, for backstory, my papa, grandfather, on my mom's side, passed away a few days before my second birthday. Fast forward a decade, and I'm 12, laying in my room, half-asleep.
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I'm facing the wall when I heard a sort of whispering from behind me. I'm terrified, and I slowly turned over while pretending to be asleep, tried to keep my eyes super squinted, when I saw a figure walking slowly along the far wall of my room. I swear on my life that it was my pawpaw. It looked like him.
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He was wearing overalls and everything, but the edges of his figure were very hazy, and overall he looked kind of pale, as it was easy to see him against my dark blue walls in the middle of the night. It looked like he was walking in slow motion, and a few seconds after I turned over and looked at him, he looked directly at me and smiled like in all the pictures my mom has of him, like my pawpaw.
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Then he just faded away. I brought this up to my mom and her mom, and they've experienced similar things. Feels good to know my sweet papa is keeping watch over us. And now I'm just waiting for something from my mama on my dad's side who just passed this year. I just found y'all's podcast today a few hours before I wrote this email and y'all are fantastic. Been binging your podcast all day.
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Much love from your newest fan, Peyton, a Louisiana girl. Oh, that's a really sweet story. I love that one. I love stories of family members still just kind of keeping an eye. Just be in there. Just be in there to love you.
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She had a couple of more stories in her email that just didn't fit in with Dwindays. And so I moved them over here because they were good. Nice. I'm ready. So, Roxanna says, He kept walking, but felt a weird feeling when something in him told him to stop. As he did, he looked down to see the nun had no legs. She was just all white clothes and floating.
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What are we doing? I like it. That's like one of my, one of the best things about Southern people.
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But if they say in conversation, you're like, oh yeah, definitely. Okay. I love the South. Hey, I love it. Well, sometimes. Sometimes. Our next one is from Anna. I think it's how you say your name. So correct me in the comments if I'm wrong. Hello. I love your podcast. My name is Anna. I travel and I work at an old college, so I have lots of stories. However, I might only send in one story.
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One of my scariest trips was to Boston, Massachusetts and Salem, Massachusetts. I was staying with my sister, who is a big scaredy cat. So naturally, I did not tell her why we were staying at this hotel. My first night, I stayed in the Omni Parker house. which is the building based off of Stephen King's 1408.
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The house itself has many stories you can just look up, but this is my first-hand experience. The story of Room 303 is very important. The short version is, a man died in that room while smoking and drinking whiskey. I was staying on the second floor and was told upon checking in that the elevators have a mind of their own. The rooms were outdated and old, so it was already creepy.
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However, I did research before arriving that the third floor was haunted. and had some creepy history. So out of curiosity, I wanted to see the third floor before bed. I told my sister I was going to explore the hotel a bit. It was grand and definitely that old money style, so she did not think anything of it. I headed to the elevator solely because I was hoping it would make it more spooky.
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As the elevator came up from the first floor, I heard people talking inside. When it opened, no one was inside. I assumed people downstairs were just being loud since there was a bar. I stepped on the elevator to head to the third floor. Once I stepped out onto the third floor, I was hit with this cold air and a heart-sinking feeling. All the lights on this floor were either flickering or out.
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Room 303 was the one I wanted to see for its history. As I was searching for it, I noticed it was tucked away in its own nook of the hallway, away from other rooms with the only working light. I heard some knocks coming from inside the room. I ran as quickly as possible to the elevators. Even as I stepped out back on my own floor, the chilling feeling was still there.
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As I got back safely inside my room, I tried to act as normal as possible in front of my sister. However, she seemed incredibly suspicious of me. She proceeded to ask me if I had walked through the bar area. I told her no and asked her why. She told me I smelt of smoke and whiskey. There was no way she knew. My sister does not like haunted or spooky things, so there was no way she knew.
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I told her the history of the building and my recent experience. We then spent the entire night with the lights on. I have some other stories from my travels. I know you did some videos on St. Augustine, and I have my own stories from there. Thank you, and I love your podcast. Ona.
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I kind of wish something like that happened in New Orleans.
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I don't. I would have been so scared. Like, that's just such a small thing. Like, that's really scary. Looking back on it, you can be like, phew. You know, like it's easier to look back on rather than like I was sleeping and I woke up and there was someone hovering over me and they ripped the blanket off me. Like something, you know, more physical.
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At least it was just kind of like a little thing like, hey, I saw you. I know what you were doing. You wanted to see me. Here you go. I don't like that. You know? Yeah. Yeah. It still gives me chills, though. We'd love to hear more of your travels and your stories. Oh, and the St. Augustine thing. Yeah, for sure. Our next story comes from Julia. Hi, new listener here from Brazil.
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My name is Julia, and your podcast made me think about a story that my aunt told me that happened to her. Love your guys' content, by the way. Here's the story. First, I would like to say that my family, especially my dad's side, is very connected to the spiritual world. So they have lots of stories that I'll have to tell later. This is probably the more complex one.
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A few months ago, my aunt was at her brother's house because my cousin wanted to play with his daughter. A few moments passed and my aunt was pulled aside by his wife, who's known to be sensitive to this kind of stuff. She then proceeded to tell her that my cousin was feeling off energy wise. I have no idea what that means.
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So she recommended to my aunt that she should go to a spiritual cleanser because it was probably something related to the energy that her house was giving. After a few weeks, she decided to go. Keep in mind that she only went with her boyfriend, leaving my cousin and her older brother at home.
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To summarize, he told her that she should buy a fish, something related to, quote, keep the energy moving. A couple of weeks went by and she forgot about what he told her. So she went on with her life like normal. One day, my male cousin told her that he had a dream about buying a fish and that he had a very strong feeling that they should. She got chills immediately.
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When finally buying the fish, my cousin actually bought two, one male betta fish and a female betta fish. She was pink. He said that he got a feeling that he should buy the pink one. After arriving home, the pink fish got really tired, like it was swimming a lot slower. My cousin presumed that it was from the room that it was in. Maybe the energy is really bad here, he thought.
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So, he brought her to his room to stay on top of a really high shelf, covered with a lid with holes on it. They have cats, so that was a safer option. The next morning, my aunt woke up to screaming. My cousin went to her in a panic, telling her that the fish had vanished. No, the fishbowl wasn't on the ground or tipped over, the fish just disappeared.
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She immediately went to the spiritual guide for some explanation, and he said that the cleansing, quote, worked so much that the fish was kind of a sacrifice. After a few weeks of the disappearance of the pink fish, my cousin finally found him, dried up under his bed. What? There was absolutely no way the fish could have gotten out of the bowl and under his bed without anyone noticing.
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Even if it was one of the cats that did it, they would have eaten the fish right away. Even after all that, my aunt still wasn't feeling safe in her home. She told me that the vibe was still off, so she sent someone to sage her house. After the saging, my brother was asleep and woke up to someone banging on his window. They live in an apartment on the fourth floor.
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No, I knew you were about to say something horrible. After turning on all the lights and opening his window, he saw nothing and went back to sleep. He then woke up to his mattress sinking like someone had stepped on his bed. After that, nothing happened, but now they always keep a fish in the house.
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Thank you.
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He was in shock, and he knew he had to leave. However, something in him told him not to turn his back on it. As he stood there, he felt like it was forever when he heard his name being called, but from behind from where he had first come from. He didn't dare to turn around when he heard someone approach him and grab him by the shoulder. My dad finally reacted and jerked away, scared.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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It was his older brother with his PJs on. He was confused why he was there since his brother should be on his way to work in a different location. His brother told him, Hey, you don't have school today. Let's go home. My dad was confused and his brother told him, No, not today. As they walked away, my dad asked if he had seen the nun. My uncle looked at him and nodded.
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I'm going to show you how to do it. Thank you.
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So this week, we're just doing the listener stories first because I haven't caught back up after being sick. I'm gathering myself here. Yes. But next week. We're back on track. We will be. But you're still getting two episodes.
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in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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This is why I love listener stories, because you'll be in the middle of telling it, and then I start to go...
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Isn't that terrifying? I love a good mother's intuition story, though. Mom woke up and was like, he can't go to school. He needs to come home. Yeah. Other son, go get him because something's wrong. Something's up.
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It's set in stone. I also like how they were like, hmm. We don't need to know who the nun was. That's okay. Agreed. That's fine. Leave it alone. She can just live her life at the bus stop and hopefully we'd never see her again. Yeah, that's okay. The last story. My dad played with the board that shall not be named, but the typical board that is used to speak with the dead slash spirits.
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I'm not sure. Probably after, I'd assume. But that's just the way my brain works is to put things in chronological order. So he didn't want to play, but sat in the back to watch. His group of friends were joking and playing around when all of the lights turned off. They all screamed and my dad dipped. He thought someone had turned it off, but no one was home besides his friends and him.
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His friend's parents had gone out. My dad said, yeah, no more of that. However, my dad is a firm believer in ghosts and listens to podcasts in Spanish of ghost stories and such, and I had mentioned y'all's podcast, and he wanted me to share his stories to y'all. Thank you so much for taking the time to read these stories.
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I have so many more, especially my brother, and I hope he sends in his stories. Also, I have many stories with weird stuff happening at work, especially when I am at work alone. Let me know if you'd like to hear those. Have a great day slash night. See ya. Roxanna.
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Yeah. I love it. I love it so much. I am glad that the board was only just the lights and it didn't affect him. Although, like you said, it was before. Then it's a whole new thing. Yeah. And let us know some ghostly podcasts in Spanish. That's cool. We have some Spanish speaking audience here.
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Sorry if this throws anybody's schedules off. I know change sometimes does that to me. Yeah. And it is doing that now. But. We'll get it together.
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We should be. We took like three years in high school of Spanish. Well, that's debatable. I can understand. Well, I did. I can understand more than I can actually speak. Agreed. Like if I'm reading something in Spanish, I can generally, as long as it's not too crazy, like if it's on like a third or fourth grade level, I can definitely understand what's going on. Yeah. I'm just not fluent
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Our next story comes from Emma. I have a dream and a ghostly Ouija board story for you girls. First, my dream story. I lived in Stirling, a city in Scotland for a few years when I was aged three to seven, roughly. I would have a dream every night around age four to seven. In my dream, I was sitting in my stepfather's car in the complete darkness as one of the streetlights had gone out.
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He did food deliveries at night, so I often went and sat in his car while he did this. In the dream, the streetlight was flickering and I was watching a tall man in black with a hat approaching the car.
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he was looking down so i could only see the hat and i always woke up before i saw his face fast forward to when i was seven i was out with my stepfather at night while he was doing food deliveries i started to have a weird feeling in my stomach so i asked if i could come with him to the door to deliver the food as we were walking back to the car we saw a man in a hat looking in the car window my stepfather shouted over and he ran away i never had the dream again but i always wondered if this was a premonition that something bad could have happened to me
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That is nuts.
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Yes. Yeah. Mine went to my heart. I'm glad that you had those dreams, though. And that feeling to accompany it that told you this is what this is what I've been preparing you for. You know, reminds me of the story of the one of I think it was a listener where they opened their mirror and they saw this man's face like coming at them. Oh, yeah.
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And they went and they were like doing writing their Heelys at the mall. And they saw the guy. Yeah. Next is their Ouija board story. When I was around 12 or 13 years old, I started to get into all things ghostly and paranormal. My friends loved this too, so we all decided to do a Ouija board. We did it in my friend's house, who has one of the oldest buildings in our town.
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It was built around the 1800s, and whenever we stayed over there, we always heard noises and just felt uneasy there. So we thought there would definitely be something in there. We made one out of paper, and nothing happened. We bought a real one from a witch shop, lit candles, and started playing it.
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I was fine until we got sick. And then I was, we've literally been out for like a week, a week straight of. It was bad.
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The planchette started moving wildly, and two of the candles blew out when we asked if someone was there, and they said yes. The candles were on the other side of the room, not near any windows or anything that could have put them out. We asked if they wanted us there, and it shot to no. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. The right reaction. Agreed. As you should.
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To physically manifest like that and like physically attack somebody is so scary to me.
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It's still haunting her.
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but i just thought of that because she has played with ouija boards she's like adventurous in that way i don't know why but hello if you're watching so our next story comes from mads hello my name is mads i've got many stories to sort through to figure out which i should submit but i figured i'd do the scariest oh yes so i'm in my 20s now but back in elementary school my mom my sister and i were setting up to have a sleepover in the living room since my dad was out of town
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So it's been, it's been something. But we're getting it together. Everyone's fine now. Knock on wood. Here we go. RT today. Part of the Harry Potter box. Yes. The Harry Potter box set that I got for Christmas. This one is Slytherin. Pomegranate. Natalie's a Slytherin. I am a Slytherin.
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We were all gathering our pillows, blankets, etc. So I went to grab mine. Our house had two stories and my room was on the second. We had often heard stomping coming from the second story opposite of where my room was located. Once it was so loud, my mom brought a gun upstairs thinking we had an intruder. That makes me think of, who is it, Taylor's story where her mom went down into the basement.
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Oh, it was like...
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Love. So anyway, I go upstairs to grab my stuff. And while entering my room, I'm careful to hold the door in a position where it stays open because it had a tendency to close but not fully shut. And my hands were going to be full. As I turn to leave my room, pillows in hand, I hear a very aggressive twist of the doorknob. And right in front of me, the door opens. slammed shut.
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Now, I was freaking out and calmly proclaimed that I'm just going to go downstairs and to not mind me. I slipped out the door and ran downstairs. That's all for that story, but I used to have sleep paralysis fairly regularly, so I've got a few of those too.
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Once in high school, I was sleeping and woke up, sat up, and laid back down only to feel a warm hand grab the back of my head as soon as I closed my eyes. I had the most disgusting warm chill sensation run up my neck, spine, and head. I shot up and yelled my sister's name because I thought it was her, Needless to say, I definitely slept with the lights on that night.
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Anyway, here are my submissions. I hope y'all are doing well. Mads.
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Because if it's fully dark, I'm like, not going to lie, I've been sleeping with my lamp on too. Jay comes to bed after me, so I'll just turn the lamp on. And I'm like, oh, I'll turn it on because he'll be in here soon. And then I'm like, really? I don't want to be in the dark.
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after this house episode and then i wake up and it's the next day having the door slam right in front of you though you're just like minding your own business trying to get your pillows for your sleepover and just and then saying don't mind me i'm just here felt our next story comes from zoe hi my name is zoe i just recently found your podcast and have always loved listening to other people's ghost stories slash experiences i've always had experiences to talk about and i just wanted to tell you about my first experience that i remember very vividly
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That's pretty sweet. That's cute. But anyways, I live in a small town with nothing but fields and country back roads. We lived in a single wide trailer down a dirt road. Further down the dirt path was an old cemetery. Me, my brothers, and cousins used to climb the big tree in the middle of the cemetery and hang out there when we were bored.
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I know it seems weird, but we lived in a town with nothing to do, and back then, it was a thing. We also lived in a town with nothing to do, so it's not that weird to us. Literally nothing to do. Go backroading. Yes, but usually... Ended up either by or near a cemetery. Yes. Yeah. Just to get a little thrill because there was nothing else.
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We always made sure to never disrespect the tombstones and would apologize if we stepped on them. My first paranormal experience was not related to that, but something else entirely different. My dad used to collect Native American artifacts, arrowheads and pieces related to these artifacts.
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There used to be an arrowhead-shaped piece covered in epoxy with a painting of a Native American tribe on it. In the middle of the tribe, there was the Native American chief, with his big regalia and the feathers on it holding his walking stick or a spear, I assume.
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When I was about four or five, I used to have nightmares every night, and I would run from one side of the trailer to the other to my parents' bedroom and sleep with them for the rest of the night.
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Well, one night in particular, I had my nightmare, got up, ran through the living room all the way to the other side of the trailer to my parents' bedroom, and got in the middle of the bed in between my mom and my dad. My parents were heavy sleepers, and I never woke them up. Whenever I did that, I would just go back to sleep.
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Well, I was doing my usual thing, trying to fall back asleep when I looked at the doorway. I didn't realize that when I ran through the living room, the TV was on, but it was on the white noise channel. Not concerning to me being five years old, I was just worried about getting to my mom and dad's room, in their bed, because I didn't like the dark growing up.
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So, with that channel being on, it casted just a little bit of light through the doorway, and when I looked at the doorway, I could see a black, smoky figure that filled the six-foot doorway completely. I was frozen in fear and unable to move as I was terrified of what I was seeing.
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Duende Stories
Hi, Ghosties. I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. One of my favorite episodes that we've done so far was about fairies.
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Duende, this mythical creature, could bring a coat that makes you invisible as well as a dipper that is when placed inside an empty jar could produce rice to those they befriend. What a power. Right? I'd love that. There's also the Lampong that has the ability to transform into a white deer with one single bright eye on its forehead and protects wildlife in the forest.
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And supposedly, so says this writer, that hunters know it well out in the forests of the Philippines. I know we have some Filipino listeners. So let us know in the comments what else there is to know about duendes on the islands and what other duende lore that's important to know. We have family there. We do. We do. So when I first heard the term duende, I immediately thought of Latin America.
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So just really anything south of us. Me too. Even in southern US. And so that's where we're going now. In Latin America, people have been telling stories of duendes for generations. There are some who are believed to be the guardian spirits of nature and live in the forests and jungles all throughout the continent.
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And I've heard many stories of people who live in Mexico whose families, either jokingly or not, claim that the duendes are responsible for their missing belonging. So I read a lot of stories on Reddit that were like, well, I don't know much about duendes, but when things go missing in our house, my dad's always like, oh, it must be the duendes. They are all
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Duende Stories
So, like, he'll disguise himself as a small old man. Like, I need food. I need money. And if you just, like, disrespect him and pass him by, then he'll put a curse on you, basically. Right.
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Duende Stories
Yeah. Maybe your crops don't grow well that year or your car breaks down or sometimes your life could be in real danger. Spain obviously had a huge impact on Latin America, particularly when it comes to the Duende.
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But it seems that small humanoid figures like those that have been spotted throughout the Americas may actually predate colonization, which we talked about this a little bit in our fairies episode. A lot of Native American tribes have their own stories of the little people. Yeah.
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Duende Stories
Indigenous people in the Americas have been talking about gnome-like creatures for many, many years before the Europeans even arrived. And per usual, each region has a different species with different personalities, names, and characteristics. Two that I found pretty interesting, and they seem to be from with the Mayans and the Aztecs, were the Alush and the Chineque.
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Duende Stories
The Chineque seem to be of Aztec origin and are sprite-like creatures who live in nature. They're often depicted as naked and are protectors of the nature that they surround themselves with. They can cause people who wander near their homes to get lost or confused and can even separate your soul from your body.
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Duende Stories
So you'll get so in such a state of confusion that your soul just completely comes apart from your body.
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Scary. Scary. So if this happens, only a specific ceremony would be able to return your soul to your body and make you all right. It is said that you can leave offerings of candy or fruit to the chineque as protection for yourself or your home.
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Duende Stories
A lot of videos that I watched in Mexico specifically, they will buy dolls of like duendes and leave offerings in their home to the dolls of the duende in hopes of bringing them good fortune. There's even a whole museum of the duende.
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Duende Stories
In the Yucatan Peninsula and some parts of Belize and Guatemala and other locations where the Mayans reigned live the Ilyush. Like most of those we've talked about today, they are considered mischievous and can even cause you harm. But if you treat them well, they can bring you good luck.
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Duende Stories
There is one legend that says when a farmer builds a small home on his property, most often in a maize field, then the aloosh will come. For the next seven years, they will tend to the crops, summon rain, and patrol the fields at night, making sure no one's stealing the crops or there's no one coming in to cause harm.
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But at the end of those seven years, the farmer must board up all the windows and doors to that small home and seal the aloosh inside. If you don't, then they will run wild, playing tricks and wreaking havoc on the farm and people who live nearby. Your luck is good for seven years, but after that, I'm on my own and I can do whatever I want. They're just like gremlins? Yeah, kind of.
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Duende Stories
Some Mayan temples and pyramids contain depictions of these small creatures, and there are legends that say the Elush were the first inhabitants of Earth and are even older than the sun. Very interesting. My favorite Aloof story comes out of Cancun. In the 90s, when workers began construction on the bridge leading to the international airport, they ran into some trouble with these small beings.
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Duende Stories
I was not there because another reason why this video is actually switched, if you've noticed, Thursday episode was on Monday and the Monday episode was Thursday this week because the stomach flu hit my family like a truck. Yeah.
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And this is on the, like, Cancun's website, their airport website, everything. No way. The legend, okay? They would work long, hard days on the bridge, but every time they showed up the next morning to continue their work, the whole thing would be taken apart or in ruins, just completely destroyed.
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Duende Stories
After several days of trying to get the construction going, they went to the authorities to try to catch who could be causing such vandalism to their project. And they were shocked because it was a lot of harm done with no use of heavy machinery. Their machines were locked and kept in the same place. And it's just destroyed. Destroyed overnight. No one was ever caught doing this.
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Duende Stories
The employees were getting fed up with having to redo their work over and over and decided to take matters into their own hands. So they stood guard one night to catch the person in the act. What they saw, rather than people, were small beings using only their hands and ancient tools to deconstruct the bridge all while the city slept.
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It was then that they called a Mayan priest so that they could intervene and ask for permission for the city to build this much-needed bridge. The priest said that in order to gain their permission, they would have to first build a small pyramid under the structure for these beings. And so they did.
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Duende Stories
Once the Elush pyramid was built, they continued on with their bridge and they never had trouble again.
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Duende Stories
What? They have their own little pyramid under the bridge. Now, I don't know if it's still there. I assume it's still there. At least something like that is still there.
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Duende Stories
At least says the Cancun government. It's real to me. I don't care. There's evidence. No, I believe it. I believe, like I said, I believe there's at least something similar to something like this. I'm a believer in the fae.
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Duende Stories
So I have some stories, several from just like the internet, from around, you know, and then two from our listeners.
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Yes, I saved them for last. Of course I did. The best for last. Hey, I'm from Costa Rica, and this folklore is heavily instilled in children so they don't go running off to become a duende with the forest folk. Last time I visited the country, I was sleeping on the floor and was awoken calmly in the middle of the night.
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Duende Stories
At the end of the bed, there was this shadow figure, two feet, stalky, and robust, just watching me sleep. I didn't feel disturbed or even offended. I felt well-guarded and watched over. So I went back to bed without a second thought. I even invited the duende to stay as long as they'd like.
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Duende Stories
When I awoke, my dad told me, who was sleeping in the living room over, that he was woken up in the middle of the night and the back patio door in his field of vision from the couch had opened slowly during the middle of the night and he heard something come in.
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Duende Stories
We've been sick for a very long time. I feel much better, but it was rough. So we had to make do.
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Duende Stories
Emotionally, he responded the same way and just went back to sleep, as if the creature had a connection or relationship or responsibility to be there. At a heart-based level, neither one of us questioned why or how it was there.
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Duende Stories
Okay, moving on away from your fear, back to the twin days. So my first one, I'll start with my mother since my uncle's story is far more interesting. When my mom was around two, her parents would leave her in a crib in the room nearby the kitchen.
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Duende Stories
So to give you all a visual, my grandparents' kitchen in Mexico has two doors, one that leads to the yard that was not fenced and they had a few acres with a river going through it and lots of mango trees to give you an idea of how big their land is. And the other door leads to the living room where my mother's crib was. That living room also leads to another part of their yard.
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So regardless, when you leave the home, you are either going into a forest or going into more forest at that time. Now, of course, most of that forest is torn down since my grandparents sold most of their land. So my mom told me that her mother had set her down in her crib and left her alone just for a few minutes and went to the kitchen to go do something.
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Duende Stories
And when she came back to get my mother, my mother was gone. There was dirt and little handprints in the crib. My grandmother and the rest of the family, mind you, this is Mexico, very common for multiple family members to live in the same house, especially this one since my grandma and grandpa built this house themselves and they have eight children with my mom being the third youngest.
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Duende Stories
So anyway, a search party ensues and they can't find my mom. They're searching for hours and they finally decide to return home. My grandma is in tears and upon returning to the house with everyone there, my mom's crying in her crib covered in dirt and more little handprints around the crib and on her clothes.
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Duende Stories
So of course, this could be anything, maybe kids of another family, and there's no proof that she was taken by Duendes, and then brought back. But whose kids decided to sneak into my grandmother's house? There was so much land back then, and these handprints were little. My grandmother has described them as belonging to a toddler. So how could a toddler pull a two-year-old out of the crib?
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Duende Stories
But multiple duendes could. They were notoriously known for mischief, and in Mexico, there were tales of duendes kidnapping children. So my grandma still, to this day, thinks that it was them who took my mom, maybe to go play or something, and then brought her back unharmed, but covered in dirt.
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Duende Stories
I don't know if there's anything like a changeling in this legend lore, if you remember what a changeling is.
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Duende Stories
no not really so the changeling was basically the fairies would steal the children oh yeah yeah the fairy changeling in their place that was sick and like most of the time would die and i don't know if there's like a changeling type of thing in a duende and in the comments someone's like omg is your mom a changeling she's like am i half changeling that is pretty crazy the next story carrying on from the same person so my uncle has always been very calm and collected and just peaceful
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Duende Stories
I don't know. It's weird to describe his reaction to when I asked him about his experience and him kind of snapping at me. It was just bizarre. So when I was 13, I was in Mexico visiting the fam. And I remember hearing about these twin days. And I was so curious and wanted to hear it from my uncle himself. I just shouldn't have even asked. It triggered him.
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Duende Stories
He had fear in his eyes and just looked visibly upset. And he told me, no, I'm not talking about this.
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Duende Stories
Me being ashamed and guilty for bringing this fear on him, dropped it and walked away. Later that evening, my uncle took my aunt, my mom, and my two sisters and I to a restaurant in another pueblo. So, we're at dinner and my uncle apologizes for reacting the way he did. He then proceeds to tell me that he just didn't want to speak about them at his house. The same house my grandparents built.
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Duende Stories
I don't know what it is. It's very, it is kind of medicinal. Yeah. I don't know what it is about it.
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Duende Stories
Oh, the same house my mother was kidnapped at when she was two. He's at his friend's house. They're smoking a cigarette outside, enjoying the weather and just hanging out. My uncle gets this strange feeling of being watched. Ignores the feeling. His friend goes inside to grab a drink and my uncle is out there alone. He's looking around and sees a small man.
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Duende Stories
So this little man was about a foot or so dressed like an elf slash leprechaun. Very fairytale-ish. So he's just in shock, staring. He doesn't even believe it himself and he's just staring. This little man, Duende, gives my uncle a smile, but not a friendly smile. More of a grin of, you see me, this is true and I'm here to enlist fear.
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Duende Stories
My uncle is frozen and out comes his friend who drops his drink. His friend screams and my uncle looks over at him. And right there, they both know that they're seeing what they're both seeing. No hallucination. They turn to look at the Duende and the Duende is calling them over with a hand gesture. My uncle looks at his friend and tells him, vamonos, like let's run.
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Duende Stories
So they dart out of the patio and run to a car and drive off. They are scared. My uncle drives them to his house. His friend wasn't going to stay at his house alone, so of course they stayed the night. So fast forward, the rest of my family is home and they can see that the uncle and the friend are shaken up.
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Duende Stories
They're asking what's going on and my uncle refuses to speak because he's superstitious and believes that if you speak about them, they'll appear or hear you. Being convinced that he's safe and not in danger, He tells the family about what happened. Of course, everyone believes him because in Mexico, speaking of duendes isn't uncommon.
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Duende Stories
So my uncle's room is on the third floor of my grandma's house. From the third floor, you can overlook most of the land. So he's up there smoking with his friend again. And they both just avoid talking about what happened. They're having a smoke and my uncle gets overwhelmed with the same feeling he had earlier. The feeling of not being alone. He tells his friend that they should step back in.
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Duende Stories
So my uncle goes inside with his friend and my uncle tells him that he's going to go downstairs. Fran goes to sleep and my uncle goes downstairs to make his way to the yard. My uncle has always been super in tune. I personally think everyone has a sixth sense and maybe my uncle's ability is to be able to see and communicate with the paranormal. He goes outside and looks out into the land.
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Duende Stories
Mugs are very cute. Very cute. David's tea has not done us wrong until now. It gets high marks overall. This one's not making the cut.
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Duende Stories
We all know what he's looking for. He's keeping an eye out and there it is. So what he describes this time is that the duende is sitting on this tree. This duende is sitting with his legs crossed and makes a hand gesture to my uncle saying, come here. My uncle nearly craps himself from how scared he is. He can't believe that he's seeing the same little man.
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Duende Stories
He said that he yelled at it to go away and to leave him alone. The duende jumps up and walks away. My uncle goes back inside the house and wakes his friend up and tells him all about the incident. Both are scared and stay up together. The next day, they tell my grandma, and after this, they go to church to get a blessing. Everything's fine for a couple of months, until it visited again.
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Duende Stories
Oh my god, I thought we were done. Nope, not yet. My uncle was having dreams about this duende coming to visit him and offer an exchange to him. More time passes, and the duende reappears. My uncle said that it was the same tree, but this time he's holding a little bag. What is presumed that's in this bag is money. I read in the comments the exchange was, like, this duende will give them money.
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Duende Stories
For a life. Oh, whoa. Okay. They offer up another life, another person to the duende, then the duende will offer them money in exchange.
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Duende Stories
I don't know what they do. Anything at once? I guess so. But I also read that in some stories that the duendes will give you money. I heard one story where this musician was playing with his band late at night and was walking back home and saw this little group of like little people, these duendes in the forest around a fire. And they saw him with his instrument in hand.
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Duende Stories
Also, if you noticed, our lighting is a little different. We're trying something new. I've been feeling like our light's been a little too bright lately. So let us know also in the comments if you like the lighter, brighter light or the dimmer, more spooky light.
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Duende Stories
They're like, hi, come over here. We'll pay you if you play us a song. So he's like, okay, whatever. And he walks over and he plays this one song with the duendes and they give him a big bag of gold. And he's like, oh yeah, wow. You know, not even an hour past and I have this giant bag of gold. I'm going to go home to my wife. Gets home and his wife is like, what are you doing here?
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Duende Stories
And he's like, what do you mean? I'm coming home. It's like, it's been years. And he looks behind her and she's got kids that aren't his. And his like bandmate is her new husband.
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Duende Stories
But it's been so many years. They thought he just left. And he was like, no, I was out. I made money for our family and hence her the bag. And instead of gold, it's just a bunch of little pesos.
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Duende Stories
That's so sad. It is really sad. So like even in the exchanges and the offerings, you could just still getting tricked like fool's gold, like a leprechaun. Oh, but back to this person's story. By the end of it, he saw it one more time. So he was like really scared, saw it one more time and like eventually just left the city, like moved out and went to a whole new city.
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Duende Stories
Third time? On a totally different night after you've been dreaming about it? Mm-mm. Yeah, I don't like it at all. Our next story. So, sorry we started off strong with, like, a good, like, happy story. Yeah. And now we're just, like, diving into terror. All right. Cool. My aunt also shared her personal experiences with the Dwindays.
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Duende Stories
She said that one late afternoon, she was outside playing with her sister near a ditch. All of a sudden, they heard voices calling them over, and when they looked at who was calling them, they saw Duendes. They said they saw two little creatures about 10 feet away, and her sister wanted to follow them, but she stopped her.
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Duende Stories
My aunt told her sister that they needed to walk back to their house and tell their mom what had happened. When they got back home, their mom explained what could have happened to them and told them that they were not allowed to be outside once it was nighttime anymore.
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Duende Stories
Small, yeah. And most of the time they're older. Not like all wrinkly, but like older, jolly looking things.
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Duende Stories
Another announcement before we get started. We had a few questions to ask. So you can skip if you just want to get to the video timestamps down below as usual. But we have been mulling over the idea of starting a Patreon over the last few months. A few of you have even mentioned it before as a way to support us and get a little more ghosties in your life.
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Duende Stories
You know what I mean? Yes, I do. Like soggy. Maybe some of them, but not all of them. I don't know. They just look like people. Like small little people. Okay. Our next story. During one of the nights that we were going to sleep over, my cousins and I had all positioned our sleeping bags so that our heads would face towards my aunt's backyard, where her water fountain was.
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Duende Stories
And our feet faced the door that led to the giant foyer slash front porch area. We all got tired around midnight, so we all fell asleep except for my cousin. She said that while she tried to go to sleep, she immediately began to hear children laughing. She said that she could hear them all laughing and that she knew that they were near the fountain area since she could hear them super close.
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She said that she immediately closed her eyes and did not open them because she was scared that she was going to see something she did not want to see. She knew that it was something sinister because the children laughing did not sound like normal children and the laughter made her skin crawl. Me too. Eventually, she ended up falling asleep and then told us all the next day while we had breakfast.
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After telling my aunts and uncles, they told us that the laughter my cousin had heard were from the duendes and not from children. So it couldn't have been any of them? So there was no one playing a prank? Next story. I saw a duende once when I was a kid. It's the only paranormal experience I've ever had and it was creepy as hell.
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Essentially, I was taking a nap and was woken up by the bed moving up and down. And when I opened my eyes, I saw one jumping at the foot of my bed. We locked eyes. I was paralyzed with fear. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ,,,,
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Very badly. Yes. With all that being said, we've thought about giving you videos early, of course, without ads. We're trying to work on getting ahead so that we can give it several days early for the rest of the world gets it. We also thought about doing a live stream once a month. I thought that might be fun.
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And that is exactly what we're talking about today. So now you have. They are very similar to gnomes or goblins that kind of fall under the category of fairy. But these are from Spain and many countries in Central and South America. Well, and Mexico. So Americas.
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Play some games, watch movies, chat together, that kind of thing. We also thought starting a Discord to chat together, maybe about videos or ideas for future videos or even just, you know, anything. I love to chat. I'll talk to myself. So we thought a Discord would be fun. But what else do you think would make Patreon worth it for you for ghosties?
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No. She said the only way to protect me was to get me baptized. So, the very next day, my mom took me to the local church to get both baptized and have a priest say a prayer of protection. After that, the activity in the house had completely stopped. Though, in the end, she still ended up moving out of that house as soon as she could, just in case. Before this, I have never even heard of duendes.
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So, I asked my mom why one had been standing on my chest that night. She told me that's how they take children. They use their full weight to press down on their chests, waiting for them to suffocate and die. Oh. Before running off with their souls. Oh my god. So dark. So, uh, yeah. Definitely not getting any sleep tonight.
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My only small comfort is that duendes almost always target children, and this house hasn't had a kid in it for years. Even still, I will never answer the door without checking the people first. Unfortunately, despite the prayer of protection, according to my mom, things are still happening in this house that I had no idea about.
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I'll have to get more details, but when I do, you can bet I'll be sending in more stories. Best wishes, Marcy."
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Especially, like, the other one was just a story, you know, from the internet. Like you said before, 50-50. This is a listener. A listener's mother telling them. You know what? You were almost taken from me by a duending.
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Because keep in mind, we do have jobs and children outside. So unfortunately, not the children. No.
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Fully on board. See, I'm not. And I mean, we talk about it when we don't really believe in something. I'm not fully on board with everything being attributed to a duende or a fairy or anything like that. But I believe there is definitely something out there.
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There's something there. There's something in that realm of... Like the fae, the duende.
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That's scary, but that is duendes. So again, if there is a legend from where you're from or from what your family says, let us know down in the comments. We'd love to hear it. Anything you've got. If you have a story of a duende of your own or of your family's, you can email us at ghostiespod at gmail.com. It's also written in our description down below. We would love, love, love to hear it.
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We will do another fairies duende-esque listener stories episode in the future.
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Yes. She has a career outside of this. So we're limited at this point in time on adding too much to our plate. In the future, we will still take some options. So comment down below. Let us know some things that you think would make paying for Patreon worth it. We want to be 100% sure that you're satisfied and giving money to a couple strangers on the internet.
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So we'll move on. Lots of things to comment on today, but we'll move on to why we're here. Duendes. It seems that the term Duende comes from Dueno de Casa, or Master of the Home in Spanish. It comes from the Spaniards who colonized most of South America many centuries ago, and the term has stuck.
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The Duende is a magical humanoid figure of folklore with variations depending on the country or region of the world you're in. Many countries in Central and South America have their own legends and lore behind the creature, and even in the Philippines, the term Duende is used. The term is an umbrella word, like the term fairy in European countries.
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For creatures that are alike, gnomes, dwarves, and leprechauns that we spoke of in our fairies episode. So they all kind of resemble that. The specifics vary, but they tend to be small, anywhere from one to three feet in height, with faces like old men, sometimes naked, sometimes wearing minimal ragged clothing, and sometimes in various colored old timey getups.
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Yes. Now, I couldn't find many sources to pull from about duendes, at least not many in English. And we all know my Spanish is severely lacking. I can ask, like, the important questions as a tourist, like, where's the bathroom? I was going to say, where's the bathroom? Or, help me. Help. That kind of thing. Beyond that, it's rough.
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So I'll give a brief overview of some of the characteristics for many of the duendes that I came across while looking into it. And then we'll just dive right into the stories at the end.
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So I've compiled several stories, including stories from a couple of our listeners, detailing their own encounters with duendes. So if you have heard of duendes or your family has told you of this legend, let us know in the comments. There is only so much we can get to in one episode.
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Again, it depends on where you are for the particular lore, but the characteristics and their intentions vary greatly. Some are described as good, or at least neither good nor evil. They can be helpful, assisting in creating an abundance of crops or bringing you good luck. They can be mischievous by moving things around your home.
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If you find something you place in the same spot every single day goes missing, and then you find it several days later, either in the same spot as it always is, or another high traffic area of your home, like you know you would have looked here, it could be the work of Duendes. We kind of talked about that with fairies too. Yeah. So a lot of the characteristics overlap.
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That's mostly why I didn't dive too deep into this because if you go back and listen to our fairies episode, it's very, very similar. And it would be repetitive. Yeah. We had one listener, Nayeli, write to us about duendes in their hometown in Puerto Rico. They titled it Duendes de la Montaña or Mountain Goblins. Oh my gosh.
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Up in the Misty Mountains in Las Marias, Laras, and San Sebastian, people say tiny duendes sneak out at night to ride the horses and braid their manes. By sunrise, the poor horses are left dripping in sweat and exhausted. Some say these twin days are just mischievous tricksters, but others warn they can be dangerous.
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Either way, folks living near the mountains never leave their animals out at night.
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Sorry to burst your bubble. Yeah. But we also had something like that with fairies, too, where they got out and they rode the horses and braiding their manes and stuff in European countries and stuff, too. It was fairies were blamed for that. Other duendes are purely tricksters looking to cause trouble or mischief or even simply to freak people out.
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They just, I read several stories where they saw this like gnome creature standing off in the distance and they would freak out and they would just hear like, like a little snicker and it just like laughs at them and runs away.
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And just like with the fairies episode, it goes so much further beyond what I have the time and capabilities to do in one podcast episode. Yeah. And who knows?
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something i could see you'll know i could see you i'll have a pointy hat there are legends of certain twin days lifting the skirts of young women and pinching their legs okay or their butts i read in some stories they're just like i don't like that yeah me neither but the stories do get more sinister than this sometimes stories tell of people particularly young women and children who are led away by twin days never to be seen again and if they're lucky enough to return they're never the same
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So I read a couple of stories of like, oh, my aunt was taken by duendes. And when she returned, like her mind was jumbled and she couldn't function as she used to. And she needed a lot of help.
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They just scramble your mind. It's kind of like fairy led where they just kind of take you off in a daze and you're stuck in that in your mind. I also read some stories that said that if you're a young woman and you're approached by a duende, depending on which one they are.
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sometimes they'll like proposition you to like come off and be with them and you're like oh of course but i need to finish this task first can you help me and you give them an impossible task like filling a basket up with water like you know like a woven basket and it's impossible so they just like either try it forever and they can't get it or they just get so frustrated give up and they walk away
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So if you're reproached by a small creature, maybe try giving them an impossible task. Oftentimes, they're associated with nature. They are sometimes considered the protectors of caves, forests, and rivers. Some believe that they are ancient spirits here to protect the land, and others think they are the spirits of unbaptized children hiding in the shadows and planning pranks and tricks.
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Sounds good. In some places, they are known to live in the walls of people's homes, coming out only at night to cause trouble. There are some stories that they look for unkempt children, and if they find a child with long finger or toenails, they will attempt to cut them off themselves, sometimes missing altogether and cutting an entire toe in the process. Knew you were about to say that. I know.
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I'm sorry. I know. It's horrible. Again, like many legends and folklore, a lot of it sounds like things to protect children. To like keep them in line. Don't run off into the woods because the duendes will take you. Or, hey, you really need to keep clean. Otherwise, if you don't take a bath and let me cut your nails, then the duendes will come and try to cut them themselves.
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It really was. And we explained all about what a fairy is and different variations and how something like these mythical creatures have been seen all over the world. In that episode, we had a real focus on the UK, Europe, briefly touched on sightings in America. And we had a comment on that video, maybe a couple of comments, suggesting we look into duendes. I've never heard of it.
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No, I mean, unless I saw Edwinde like creeping through my home, I don't think I'd tell my children about it. I don't want to scare them, you know? Yeah. I don't want to scare my children into the mission. I want them to want to do good. Yeah, well. It's hard when they're small and they don't want to do good. Where does it come from? The term, the creature?
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That is true. So this is just an overview of what I've learned. But we'd love to have a conversation with you guys. Let us know about a particular duende that you know of in your area of the world or what your family said about it. Drop it in the comments. But beyond that, our tea today is David's Tea Organic Cream of Earl Grey.
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It is thought that many of the similar descriptions and particularly the name of these creatures across such a vast landscape could be because of Spain. When the Spanish came to the Americas and the Philippines, along with other Europeans like the Irish, the Scottish, all of that, they brought their own creatures, customs, and legends with them. One of those being los duendes.
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In Spanish folklore, there are various duendes, like fairies across Europe, so various kinds, like the anjanas, I think is how you say it, who are extremely beautiful with long flowing hair that they comb for hours. They're supposed to be, they're said to be really small. I don't know if they're like...
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and they're just brushing their hair they're just brushing their long flowing hair they're dressed in clothes made of stardust and they are benign and can help passers-by with their great treasures so they're said to you know live by like rivers and streams and stuff they have in their caves great wealth and treasure see this is what i'm talking about sometimes if people are coming down by down on their luck or whatever they can maybe help them if they feel that they should be helped and they also bless the waters trees farms and herds of people in the area as long as they're respected
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I know forever. Then there are the Buscosos, which are tall, bearded, and dressed in moss and leaves. They play sad songs on their flutes, help guide lost shepherds through the forests, and help repair barns that have collapsed due to bad weather. So they're sad, but they're still good. Yeah.
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There are also the Dianos, which are more mischievous and disguise themselves as horses, cows, and other domestic animals. They scare people walking about at night and can disorient people out searching for their own animals. You may be led astray, like maybe your sheep got out and you're going and searching for your sheep so they disguise themselves as a sheep.
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You're like, oh, maybe that's one of my flock. And you'll follow it off into wherever it leads. Oh, no. No, no, no. Or the Traskos, who love to enter people's homes and hide. They move things around and steal at night, throw seeds and pebbles at people who pass by, and can turn your children naughty.
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Duende Stories
Yeah. That kind of scared me. Kind of like brownies. They'll hide in your home. Unseen. And just move things around how they want them to be. You know what?
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Well, in Spain, there are... Sorry to move on from your... Sorry, your troubles. I had to tell you that. In Spain, there are other more evil ones, but we'll move on because I want to more focus on closer over here. In the Philippines, the duende, so it's also called a duende, it's just spelled differently, often dwell in rocks, caves, old trees, large anthills, and termite mounds.
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Okay, well, they get huge. Why are they so big? They need a lot of space. They got a lot of brethren. I hate that a lot.
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They can be either good or bad, just like those in Spanish legend, and are more often seen by children. If you offend them by stepping on or getting too close to their homes, it's believed that they can put a curse on you. You must say tabi tabi po, which means basically excuse me, to show respect as you pass by to not incur their wrath.
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They can make you severely ill, cause great issues in your life, and even kidnap children. Okay. So if they feel disrespected, they can make you like have rashes or an illness that just medicine cannot fix.
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Yeah. Like if I scare a bird off a fence, I'm like, sorry. Yeah, well, the duendes would like that too. But there are some variations of these duendes that can be seen as good. They can bring you enchanted gifts and befriend you.
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So on a website I found called the Aswang Project, one writer wrote of the Kaibon, I think is how you say it, which they described as, quote, Big as a child, fair skin, long nose, slant eyes, long hair that reaches down to their feet, and toes that point backwards. Their feet are on backwards, basically. So this...
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I remember that one. I've blocked it out, but everything just came like back into my brain. That is a horrifying image that I standing and watching her cry to crawling down the steps to running at a quick speed.
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I can't imagine. Can I say something? Yes. The scream that I just scrumped was horrible. Okay, thank you. Because we recently received the best comment we've ever received. It was pretty funny. And I don't care what anyone says. I'm getting it put on a shirt. I wasn't even going to say anything.
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I was just going to show up with the shirt, but I want y'all to know someone commented with no emotion, no emojis, nothing, just no timestamp either. So we don't even know what they're talking about. Just says Macy screams like a Hank Hill.
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Macy screams like Hank Hill, period. That's hilarious. Okay, I hope it was a comet.
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I hope they were being mean because it brought me so much joy. Oh, it was good. Anyway, because I just went, oh, and I was like, maybe that's what they're talking about. Maybe they're talking about me.
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Yes, I'm very, very excited. We went through and handpicked the scariest ones we could find. Although there were jumped out to us, though, like the ones that we just a quick skim. We're like, oh, yeah, this scarred me. But there were so many more.
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Yes, and I don't know all the ones that were picked. I know the ones I picked. I don't know what you picked. So I'm excited to see.
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I definitely remember this one. I was literally thinking about this one the other day. Were you? Because the vision of being crouched down below the window and the banging and everything. Calling their name. I was thinking about that the other day because it scares me so bad. And I didn't read this again. This one has scarred me yet again.
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And I think some people commented back to Fox Goblin and they were like, hey, contact me. I can help you out and stuff.
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The smell and everything. It was unearthed from a grave. And the smell of like rotting meat and sulfur and things like that. It's just like... Has to be. And Latin. Speaking Latin. Update us.
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Never in my life have I felt immortal. I'm sorry.
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No, never. I've always been like, I'm going to die.
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Me too. I hate that one so much. That one... To me, like, plays out in my mind like a movie. Yes. That one haunts me.
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Like she knew it was going to happen. And then just giggling. Just like, hee hee hee.
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Her partner that has passed. Maybe. Or a sister or something.
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I'm feeling right. That was very eventful and not at all what I expected, but I think that kind of sums up the pod.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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How did we get here? Where did we come from? Where did we go? You know the rest.
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You know, this is just telling me that I have to wake up when Ryan leaves in the morning.
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Shut up. Do you imagine? Shut up. No. This is fuel enough to make me wake up early when I don't have to. So thank you. Thank you because I'm horrified. Glad you're okay. We had to throw a sleep paralysis story in there somewhere. I wish we don't. I wish we wouldn't.
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Yeah, me too. All right. So this one is from Aisha. It's from Listener Stories 24, episode 88. My mom is Thai, and the spiritual world in Thailand, from what I've been told, has its good and bad spirits. My mom has never believed in ghosts or seeing spiritual things until recently. A little bit about the culture.
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Most Thais will get their cars blessed by monks and get the roof inscribed for protection, which my family always did. They also have Buddhas, which are also blessed, sat on the dashboard. My mom was driving home around 3 a.m. coming back from the hospital. She was driving in the pitch black with only her car lights on as she lives in quite a rural area where there are no street lights.
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However, when my mom was getting closer to home, a woman dangled her head in front of the windscreen as if she was lying on top of the car. My mom obviously freaked out and put on the windscreen wipers and as she did so, the woman's head swayed with the wipers. The quicker the wipers went, the quicker the woman's head would sway.
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My mom just tried to carry on driving to get home and try not to look at the woman. I don't know if the woman was still there when she got to the house, and I'd love to ask more into it, but my mom has unfortunately passed away from cancer. So sorry. When she told me the story, I asked what the woman looked like to see if it was a friend of hers who had maybe passed away.
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She said that her hair was all over the windscreen and over her face, so she couldn't see who it was. From then onwards, she was terrified.
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I will never recover from learning this information. No. Ever, ever, ever, ever. You think about things being on the road or in the car with you on top.
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Yeah, that one. Hate it. That these two children knew. They knew.
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It's too dark. It's too dark if the kids are already like, we can't stop playing.
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And you are correct. This has scarred me for life. This is one we've talked about. For life. I think about it every time I'm outside and it's quiet. I think about it in the dark. I think about it all the time. So thank you, Victoria. It's a good one. Yeah. It's disgusting. Just the thought of that noise. Oh, it's sick. And I hate mouth noises anyway. So do I. Can't do it. Okay. We have to move on.
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I would be so scared to actually try to wake my mom up afterwards. I know. Because you think that like, well, I've been here before. And the way our mom would wake up, she's like, what? What? And it would be like, it takes her a while to become a real person.
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That's too much. This one is really gross. I hate it.
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Okay, after you say this one, I'm not doing any more commentary. Just go to the next story because I'm going to freaking throw up. Back to the story.
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So yeah. I got confetti poppers and I am going to have a very hard time cleaning this later.
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Yep, go to the next one. I am sick to my stomach. Thank you. This one scares me so badly. I do not have the stomach to handle stories like that.
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And that's what I would say too if I was scared. Me too. Me too. Me too. Like not real. I would have to tell myself that. Me too. I believe you. I would convince myself that that didn't happen. But I believe that it did. But if it happened to me, no, it didn't.
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That's just like my first, not encounter, but the first time I came across any type of mimic stuff on the internet was that like two sentence scary story of like, I heard my mom calling my name, so I went downstairs. She stopped me and said, I heard it too.
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But you know what does feel real? All this glitter I'm going to have to clean up. Oh, yeah. Or confetti. A lot. I kind of like it. It's cute, but no.
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And my clammy little hands are covered.
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The shower one? Yeah. That's another one I'll never forget. I even got scared hearing it the second time.
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Did I? Yeah. God, because that one is, I think, everybody's worst nightmare. In the shower? You're just vulnerable, yeah. Yes. Naked and afraid. We've said it before. I think I said it in that episode.
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Just a horrifying experience. And if my brother was like, oh, he's nice, I'd have to swing. Yeah. You don't know what I've experienced. I would be so horrified. I am horrified.
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Oh, by the way, to answer your questions, I'm going to go and find who commented it because I was waiting for more comments to roll in about the cat's name. And there were tons of honorable mentions.
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that one oh i just got chills in the crypt hearing the voice from within and being like hey cool it just rest i would be resting in peace i would die like if i heard it yes i'd rest immediately yeah oh yeah that one really gets me too much it's too much i don't want to harp on these too long and like talk about them because we gave our reactions the first time
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Yeah, and that one I remember being petrified. That's one of the first ones that truly, truly scared me. Yeah, that's a good one.
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I knew it. Listener Story 6, Episode 55. Oh, Brandy. Like I know her, like she's a friend from childhood.
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good name there was salem there was kit t like you know t um there were a few others that were very very cute but my favorite that i have landed on it was one of the first comments too this cat is named merv
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I hate it so much. And that was just a snippet.
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Yes, Brandy is an OG over here and tells a horrifying story. That one's intense. That one's for sure intense.
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It feels really right. So that little ghost is Tina. And this is Merv. Introducing Merv. But yes, this is Merv. This is our 100th episode. I'm feeling weird.
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No, my eyes are watering. And I think I even said it in the episode. It's like it's one thing to see it. But once it like disappears, you don't expect it to just be crouched waiting. Oh, no.
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Hi Ghosties, I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And Thursdays around here are listener story days. Stories that you send us. And before we get started, I just wanted to let everyone know who doesn't know, you can send us your story via email. That's ghostiespod at gmail.com. G-H-O-S-T-E-A-S-P-O-D at gmail.com. It's also written in the description down below. Yes, it is. So send them in.
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Add that to our long list of things we don't do anymore.
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But thank you for that story. In the best way possible.
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So yeah, thank you.
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That's just you.
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You're personality and humor.
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Our next story comes from Sarah. I love your podcast so much. Although you deal with dark, spooky subjects, you do it in a way that somehow makes me feel safe and cozy. Thank you. We don't always feel safe. I don't ever feel safe. Here's a story from my childhood that I've never told anyone. I grew up in an old house with a dark, musty basement that served as our laundry room. It was an odd setup.
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You would descend the stairs and enter a large room with the washer and dryer. If you walked to the back wall, there was a hallway to the left, leading to a bathroom stall. Reminiscent of a public restroom, but built out of rotting wood and chipped teal paint. One day when I was around six years old, I needed to ask my mom a question. For some reason, I thought she was in the basement.
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So I hurried down the stairs and entered the main room. I saw my mom at the back wearing a long gray cloak and holding a broom facing away from me as she swept the floor. Mom, I called, but she ignored me.
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continuing on her sweeping toward the hallway and out of sight laughing i ran after her calling hey mom but halfway across the room i suddenly heard my mother's voice from the top of the stairs calling my name my blood ran cold and adrenaline surged through me i stopped dead in my tracks turned and bolted up the stairs collapsing at my mom's feet in sheer terror what is it she asked shocked
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There's a lady downstairs, I said, starting to cry. The color drained from her face as she pushed past me, hurrying down the steps. A few minutes later, she returned and, looking perplexed, said, There's no one down there, Sarah. I still think about that lady and often wonder what would have happened if I had turned the corner and followed her down the hall. I was going to say the same thing.
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Was she trying to lead you? There was a story in the last episode of our writer or our listener's little sister said that she would often see her grandma walking through the house and she'd follow her. And she was worried, like, what would happen if I followed her all the way?
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She would realize and she just stopped following. I don't know. Like, on one hand, it's like maybe they're just, you know, living their ghostly afterlife. Doing their house chores. Doing their mimicking duties, whatever they do as mimics. But on the other hand, what if they are luring?
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Yeah. Or time slip of some kind thing veils between dimensions, you know, maybe.
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It scares me less. Yeah. As much as I like a good ghost, it scares me less to think that like we are each other's ghosts. Oh, yeah. Obviously, I don't believe all of them are that. No. Because there are some dark entities out there that are just like trying to cause harm and fear. Yeah. And feeding off of it. But sometimes. What if we are each other's ghosts sometimes?
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That's one thing I like about this podcast is we get to talk to a bunch of different kinds of people and find ways to relate to other people too. So you don't feel as alone, especially with paranormal stories. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because sometimes you can feel a little alone when you're talking things of this nature and when you're interested in things like this.
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Yes. Because a lot of these were like, ah, scared. But we have no explanation or understanding of any of it. Yeah. I like to learn. Sue me. I like to learn. Our next one comes from Alicia. Hey, guys. Love your channel. I wanted to share my story with you guys. So I currently live with my husband and his parents.
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and have for the past five years of my marriage i always felt like there was some strange presence in the house since i came here my father-in-law is old and frail and he sleeps downstairs in the living room a lot of times late at night he gets up to make a cup of tea or to fill his water bottle up and he uses crutches so you can always hear that it's him by the sound of the crutches hitting the laminate floor sometimes when i go to the bathroom at night which is located downstairs right behind the kitchen wall
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I can always hear him coming in with his crutches. I'll hear him opening and closing the kitchen cabinets and hear him setting his cup down on the counter. A lot of times I sigh in relief knowing he's in the kitchen, so I'm not alone downstairs. But whenever I come out of the bathroom to see if he is there, I find myself staring into an empty kitchen. It gives me the creeps.
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there was also another time i was home alone with my father-in-law and i went for a shower in the middle of washing my hair i heard him coming through the hallway with the sound of his crutches and him coughing he also knocked on the door so i rushed out thinking he was probably desperate to use the bathroom only to see that there was nobody there in my mind i was thinking how did he walk back to the bedroom so fast if he was knocking on the door just a second ago
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I quickly put on my clothes, rushed to his room, only to see him fast asleep in his bed. I was freaking out and told the rest of the family, and they agreed that they would also hear similar sounds when using the bathroom. Now I crap my pants anytime I go in there, thinking that, what will I hear next?
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You know, we... Since that last story...
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Well, I mean, sometimes you can fly when you're astral projecting. Or maybe he has astral projected before. She told me and she, like, flew over the city or something. I'll have to get her story when we talk about it. What? Yeah. Move on. Okay.
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Three years into my marriage, my husband and I had a baby. And since she's a toddler now, we've noticed so many weird things happening. There was a time where we left her sound asleep in our bedroom and took the baby monitor with us. We were in the kitchen talking away with our other family members and the baby monitor was right in front of us where we were sitting.
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It's not something that people like march out and about and scream to the world very often. And when you find someone who's like, hey, I actually am very interested in that. It's like, I don't know, a good bonding moment.
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Nobody else was upstairs and all of the windows were closed. We always leave white noise on for our baby and out of nowhere whilst we were having our conversation we heard a loud manly roar come from the baby monitor and my eyes went straight to the baby camera, and I saw my baby jolt in her bed.
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The sound bar went all the way to red, which indicates how loud the noise is, and me and my husband just looked at each other like, you heard and saw that, right? I had goosebumps all over my body, and we ran upstairs to check if there was anyone in the room, but there was nothing there. No noise, no wind, nothing. What on earth could that have been?
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We prey on our baby every night since then, but it doesn't get any better.
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Those are the questions. Yes. I've noticed my toddler playing and hiding from some weird imaginary friend, as they call it. She was only one at the time, but every time I would put her to sleep, she would look near my bedroom door. Eyes locked, not even moving. One time, she just gasped and covered her face, and I said, what? She said, boo-boo, and hid her face into my neck.
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I prayed out loud, and as soon as I was done praying, she looked up again and said, gone. Dude, I was freaking out. What the hell was she seeing? A few other times, we've been laying down in bed, and she would look at the ceiling and start waving and say, hi.
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Another time, me and her were having a bath, and out of nowhere, she started ducking down in the bathtub and playing peekaboo while staring at the bathroom door. She covered her eyes and popped up. And when she uncovered him, she said, hi, me freaking out. I said, girl, who are you playing with? And she pointed and said, there.
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The way I yeeted out of the bathtub and threw my clothes on and ran upstairs. Of course, I didn't leave my baby behind. I never, ever want to go for a bath in that bathroom ever again.
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no we also always hear toys falling from our baby's dollhouse which is also in our bedroom right opposite our bed all her toys are put away properly and it just seems almost impossible that a toy would fall out from nowhere she has this one peppa pig phone that goes off when you flip the screen countless times when i'm alone in the room doing my business it will start to ring and it puts me on edge i feel like throwing it away but it's her favorite
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There was another time me and my toddler were minutes away from drifting off to sleep and we heard something hit the floor. I quickly turned my phone flash on to find a shoe in the middle of the bedroom floor. My daughter was also startled at the sound. It was impossible for the shoe to be in the middle of the bedroom considering the cabinet it was in, which is basically on the floor.
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It sounded like it fell from a height and my mind was just baffled. I still haven't made sense of it and don't even like to think about it. What do you guys think? Is there something in our house or am I just seeing and hearing things in my head? No, there's something in your house. I'm sorry. The shoe, the container for shoes is on the floor and it suddenly dropped in the middle of her bedroom.
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Me and you? Like, we? We as family. I don't remember whose doll it was. It was probably when we lived at Mimi's house. We lived at Mimi's house. It was in the closet. I was, like, four, so it could have been mine. Oh, so I wouldn't have remembered. And I didn't know. Mom and Dad told me. It used to go off all the time. And, like, I would say that it was Chelsica playing.
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Yeah, I would still be unsettled knowing that she's playing peekaboo with something.
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Do you agree? You think there is something in her house or are me and Natalie just always quick to go to ghost? Because we were talking ghosts.
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Our next story is just a little haunted house story from Chrisney. Hi, my name is Chrisney. I've been watching you guys for a few months and love your podcast. I've had a few scary things happen to me that I figured I'll share because I love hearing other stories. First scary thing I remember is when we used to live at my grandmother's house. It was a full house.
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Grandma, her partner, two cousins, and an uncle used to also live there. I can't remember how old I was, just that I was very young. But our room, where my little brother, mom, dad, and I used to sleep, had a view of the living room entrance. which is where my uncle slept.
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I always saw a shadow just there almost every night, and I never told anyone, but I used to cover my head and just force myself to sleep. Other things happened in that house, like the radio randomly turning on, etc. Anyways, I only believe what I saw was real because even my uncle didn't like being the one in the living room and said he felt things at times.
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My grandma made fun of him, but I feel like she also knew, lol. This was in Dominican Republic, by the way, and I remember my grandma having pictures of saints, etc. I don't know if there's any connection, but yeah. Also, another thing I remember, just didn't want to make this super long. She saw it, and the uncle felt it.
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like there's definitely something here yeah yes and we would she would be the kind of person that would well i wasn't gonna say that but yes but she would like let's find out who it is yeah and their backstory and let's see if we can help them yeah person she would but like she wouldn't just try to ease our mind she'd probably be like yes there is something here and
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She used to tell me that my imaginary friend was like my guardian angel and we would like look up names for Chelsica to see if there was anybody who had passed away named Chelsica and things like that. I remember that. I was like five. Shout out Mimi. We just saw her this past weekend. We miss her. Yeah. So thank you, Christy, for sharing that little story with us.
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I mean, this is one of the reasons we started the podcast in the first place was to... Well, spend time with each other and try teas and talk about things we're interested in, but also it's a good way to relate to others. Yes. Agreed. We will stop with all this and get started with our first story from Marcy, which fun fact, growing up, people always, always, always called me Marcy.
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I believe you, especially if your uncle was getting those weird vibes at night. Oh, yeah.
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What scares me is, where did she see this shadow? Is it over the uncle while he sleeps? Or is it just like in the vicinity? Just hanging in the living room, you know? I don't know. Altering the uncle's sleep somehow. Just like standing over there, giving off these waves of energy.
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Our next story comes from Liv. Hey, ghosties. I'm Liv. I love the pod. Listening to the stories people shared made me want to share some stories with you. For some context, my family's relationship with the paranormal is very mixed. My dad swears he sees ghosts, but my mom is a strong Catholic and doesn't like to believe in any afterlife but heaven and hell.
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So it took me a long time to consider the paranormal and even the possibility of being a vessel. It was commonly discussed in my family when I was a kid that on my mom's side of the family, the women were psychic. I know people can put a lot of things down to coincidence, but as I've gotten older, I think I believe it. In my childhood, I had a lot of odd experiences.
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They were always written off as a creative imagination. But when I was about four years old, I moved into my nan's house. We were on hard times and needed somewhere to live. My sister and I shared a small boxed room where I had the top bunk. I always struggled to sleep in that house because I had sleep paralysis.
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Where I couldn't move and there would be a dark figure over me, the more I fought to scream or move, it laughed harder at me. Along with this, I quite often heard my name called by a strange voice. I never recognized it, so I ignored it. When I watched you two talk about mimics, I couldn't help but remember being a kid and heard Olivia directly in my ear. Even thinking about it, I get goosebumps.
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Same. So getting into the theme of this email, whilst I lived in that house, I was never home alone and never really felt a need to be afraid as I was comfortable in that house. Yet at age 12, after we had moved out, if I ever slept over, I did not sleep. From the moment I got there, I felt eyes on me and heard noises around the house.
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For context, my nan is deaf and you have to yell for her to properly hear you. So I would hear strange noises while I sat with her and she obviously couldn't hear it. Whilst I was with her, it was easy to ignore mostly. Yet, once she went to bed, which was always early, about 9 p.m., I would stay in the living room and watch the TV and keep the lights on.
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No matter how much I'd relax, noises would keep me on edge. It felt like there were constantly people watching me, and it sounded like people were walking around the house. Yet, it was just me and my nan who was asleep. Even now, at 19 years old, I can't sleep there. I'm convinced there is not just my nan alone in that house. There is something that enjoys tormenting me.
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Now the reason I believe I may be a vessel for something. Every time I give in to my more psychic side, I see things which make me shut off to it all. A good example of this is one day I was home alone. As I walked past the staircase, I saw a dark figure run up the stairs. I instantly was terrified and screamed, thinking there was an intruder. As soon as I looked directly at it, it disappeared.
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I ran to my living room and held my dog as I calmed myself. I thought to myself, it didn't hurt me, it avoided me, and tried to remain open to the possibility of the supernatural. I know my dad's ghost experiences were somewhat mundane, so I wasn't too scared. Later that night, my family returned home. I headed to my room. Now for this to make sense, I have to explain my room layout.
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I was going to say that, but I didn't. I think it's a spelling. My name is spelled M-A-C-I and people just assume there's an R in there. So if you call out Marcy and I'm in the vicinity, I will look. Okay. I had a nurse. So I was a sickly child. And in elementary school, I had a nurse that I'd have to go to often, like take medicines and all that jazz. And she called me Marcy the entire time.
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The door to my room doesn't allow you to see your reflection in the window as it's spaced away from it and it's on the third floor in the attic. So that night I came upstairs and my blinds were up, but the only light came from outside. I looked at the window and I saw a woman's face smiling at me. It wasn't kind. It was menacing and sent chills down my spine. I didn't recognize her.
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Are you ready to get started?
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i ran into my sister's room terrified i can't help but believe these two events were linked shortly after i closed myself off and started placing religious objects in my room out of fear and my former relationship with catholicism i do believe it helps close me off i often consider what would happen if i stayed open to it all but i just can't allow myself thank you for reading and i'd love your thoughts all the best live so i have thoughts okay let's hear them the thing that ran away or whatever up the stairs yes
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I don't blame you for closing yourself off. I mean, so I don't know how to help you there. I know there are some people in the comments that do. Yeah. Like who was it? Lakin the other day was talking about how she like meets with another psychic who helped her like hone her abilities and stuff like that. Yeah.
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And how when you first open yourself up, you do open yourself up to the darkness and it can be dangerous. So, I mean, if it were me, I'd probably keep myself closed just because I'm scared. But maybe if you're into it. There are some trusted people out there. But for sure, there's people.
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And I am a fan. Our next story comes from Annie. Hello, I've just recently discovered the Ghosties podcast and couldn't pass on sending in a story slash some of my experiences. For some context, I have lived in the same house since I was born. There's no history on the house that I can find that can explain what I've experienced here. In general, my house just had an eerie feeling to it.
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I've heard footsteps, voices, and things moving when I'm home alone. However, my guest room seems to be the most eerie part of the house. There's a noticeable difference in temperature between my guest room and any other room on the same floor. I've had friends walk in there and say they felt sick to their stomach or that the energy in there feels darker or heavier.
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While I don't have any riveting stories from that room, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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It was like two years. And she called me Marcy. And I was just like, hey. Anyway, Marcy's story. So this story is actually from my mom's perspective, as this happened when I was about seven or eight years old. And at like two or three in the morning, I had a smaller encounter a few years later. But this one was definitely scarier than mine, in my opinion.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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So back when my sister Sarah was about five or six years old, she had an imaginary friend named Sally. I don't remember her having an imaginary friend and only found out when I was older, but given what happened, I think my mom might have intentionally hid that knowledge from me so I wouldn't be scared.
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Anyway, one night, my mom was sitting in the dining room with our live-in babysitter and just talking about whatever. Like I said before, it was 3 in the morning at this point, so all us kids were dead asleep. Now, the kids in our house were connected by a small hallway that had a sliding door you could close.
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My mom had closed it so that we wouldn't wake up due to her conversation when all of a sudden, the sliding door slid open. My mom turned to see who was there and saw my little sister standing in the doorway holding her little bear. Naturally, my mom got worried and asked her if she was okay and why she was awake.
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if that's how you want to put it yeah yeah and and if it's not a negative spirit then you're not gonna feel negatively about it you know yeah i think i agree i do as i said i can see the hallway from my bedroom if i sit on my bed i never slept with my bedroom door closed i didn't feel the
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need to until after this experience that happened when i was probably 11 or 12 i was sitting down once doing homework when i noticed out of the corner of my eye the figure of a little girl in what looked like a light blue lolita dress just standing there i never looked at her never acknowledged her and just went about my business until i lost sight and feeling of her watching me
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I thought it was over, but no, it kept happening. Sometimes she'd be sitting down or just standing in the hallway watching me. I never looked at her, and I was never scared. Just a bit uncomfortable as the experiences kept happening. She just liked to watch me, I hope. It did make me uncomfortable enough to start sleeping with my door closed, though.
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This is when my mom said she knew something was wrong. Still groggy and half asleep, my sister mumbled, that wasn't me. That was Sally. Before she just fell back asleep. My mom was frozen and she told me later she spent hours the next day praying and blessing her room while we were out playing.
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And after the first time I closed it, I never saw her again. She never felt evil. She just seemed like a curious child. I do kind of feel bad for shutting her out, but I only did it for the sake of my own comfort. I hope she knows that.
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Maybe that's why the mimic run away down the hall because they realize they've been seen and they're like, I don't want to be seen. It's kind of like we're doing the same things, you know? Okay, that's scary. On to two sweet ones. Okay, so we can end on a happy note today. An aunt that was so dear to me passed away when I was 11. I've been devastated ever since, but it's getting better.
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I'm so sorry. I'm not religious anymore. I lost that hope after she passed, and I don't know where I stand on the whole afterlife thing, but I do believe that pieces of those who pass are left here to watch over us. I started middle school the year after. I remember once we were playing dodgeball and one of the balls rolled out of bounds.
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I was going to sneakily step out to grab it when I felt the back of my shirt being tucked, sort of pulling me away from it. I whipped around to tell off who it was, but no one was there. Like, no one. Everyone was on the other side of the blacktop.
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i'd been thinking of my aunt a lot around that time and she always gave me advice and told me to never be disrespectful to rules and such i found a dime on the floor next to my foot it seems normal but my aunt would constantly bring dimes to my brother who's her godson to cash out at coin star i think she left that one for me i know it's a thing that people believe as a sign thing as a sign that a deceased loved one is trying to send a message to you since then whenever i find a dime i pick it up and say hi to her
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I keep a dime on me always, in my bag, in my pockets. It's my good luck charm, a way of keeping my aunt close. That's so sweet.
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My last story involves something that started happening in the past three years. We brought in the street cat that's been around since I was in eighth grade and her son. But I think having cats invited the spirit of one into our home. We're indigenous and I at least welcome good spirits in. I'm pretty sure we all have seen it at some point. It's all black. Unlike our tuxedo boy.
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I'll be sitting on the couch and I can see it trot by out of the corner of my eye and I swear I've stepped on its tail a few times. Sorry. We just kind of accepted that it's here and haven't made it clear we don't want it. Why would we? We're such a cat family. The more the merrier.
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It got more real to us when we babysat our younger cousins for a week and the youngest would tell me that our black cat is tickling her with its tail. I pointed to our tuxedo boy and she said, no, the other one. I remember the knowing smile my mom gave me and we told her that it was okay not to worry her. She's never interacted with us personally, but now I know that he's just antisocial like us.
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Anyway, sorry if this was long. I got excited to tell someone else these things besides my mom. I wish nothing but the best success for your podcast. Much love and support, Zen.
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And I love black cats too. I think they're so cute.
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Yes.
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Thank you so much then for sending those stories. And I'm glad you ended on some sweet ones. I love that your aunt is still there every once in a while. That is so cute that like every time they see a dime, they're like, hey. Oh. Hey, Auntie. So she's always remembered. I love that a lot. Well, thank you to everyone who sent in their stories.
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These were some pretty good ones and ended on such a light note that I feel like I won't be scared on the drive home.
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Yes. I don't think our next episode will be very happy because it's our last themed listener stories episode. And I chose a dark theme. And I'm sorry if some of you can't listen to it. What is it? Okay. For all of you here. On Monday. Stay at the end. It's Demons Part 2. Oh, God. I know. I know. Because when I went to do Demons Part 1, there were just so many and it was so hard for me to choose.
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Was Sally possessing her sister? What? Like, did Sally make her get up?
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And I was like, I can't leave all these people. You know, they have such good stories. How do I choose? So I did demons part two. And I'm so sorry. I know there were some people who said they couldn't listen to our other one. Really? Because it was just too dark.
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Yes.
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We're not prejudiced. And if you have a story you'd like to send into us, you can send it to our email at ghostiespod at gmail.com. It's written in the description down below. Like this video if you like it. Share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so. And subscribe for more listener stories. And coming up in March, more stories in general.
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yes um we're gonna keep doing what we're doing yes we'll continue on because we are having a great time when this is no longer fun i think we'll stop oh yeah but i'm having fun but it's a lot of fun and interacting with all of you is a lot of fun too i love reading those comments also you can follow us on instagram at ghosties pod we post over there
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I know there have been times like Monday where we were late because we were getting back late on Sunday night. From our field trip. Yeah, we'd been busy all weekend and I just didn't have time to finish editing Monday's episode. And rather than staying up all night, it's like, hmm, maybe I should sleep and just do it the next day.
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So it was late on Monday and we let everyone on Instagram know that it was late. So you'll kind of get more updates if you're on Instagram. But anyways, Demons Part 2 on Monday. We'll see you there.
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I think it is valid. Given what we know now. Yes. Now, this was my only encounter with Sally. And even to this day, I'm not sure if my sister was just playing around or if she really didn't remember saying this. Though about four years later, it's Thanksgiving break and our family has just traveled three hours to spend the holiday with my dad's side of the family.
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It's about 10 at night the day before Thanksgiving and my mom, dad, and siblings are all piled into the same bed watching movies. Your dream. Yeah. One bed. Yep. At this point, I'm turned around and looking to see if I can tell whether she's faking sleep or not. Once I'm convinced she's asleep, I turn around and try to ignore her. That's when I hear her say, No, Sally, don't.
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And all of a sudden, I feel this weird tension in the air that sends chills down my spine. I start trying to whisper her name again to see if she's messing with me, but still. By that point, I just decided to leave the room and go watch TV somewhere else.
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That morning, I asked Sarah if she was trying to scare me last night by saying Sally's name when I thought I was the only one awake, but she assured me that she doesn't even remember dreaming about Sally, let alone saying her name. In fact, she had long forgotten about her imaginary friend, so if she was trying to scare me, it wouldn't have been by talking about her. Even she was scared of Sally.
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We've had a couple where I think where they were like, they don't like you or they're making me do bad things or something like that.
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Is Sally evil or is Sally just a trickster? If she was scared of Sally and her mom was scared of Sally, I'd say at least darker. That's my guess anyway. Yeah, mine too. We've said before, we don't know what we're talking about. We're just here to talk. We're just here for a good chat. Yeah. Our next story comes from Taryn. Hi, guys.
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First, just wanted to say your channel has been the most refreshing and genuinely interesting paranormal content I've seen on the internet in years. Thank you so much. That's so nice. I eat dinner to your podcast every night. So this story begins when my family moved from Ohio to West Virginia because my stepdad got a job.
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Jake and I are on the same sides of YouTube. So we don't usually watch YouTube together very much. But I mean, we would always watch movies and eat dinner together.
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I've never sat in the car and ate my dinner and watched TV outside of my house. No, I usually will go inside. You know me. Anyway, thank you to all of you watching dinner now. Yes. Thank you. Watching dinner. Oh. Eating dinner now watching us. I didn't even catch it. So this story begins when my family moved to Ohio to West Virginia because my stepdad got a new job.
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The new house was surrounded by woods, built into the side of a hill so that the basement also had the garage. The moment we moved in, my mother, who has always been very sensitive to paranormal vibes, was immediately overcome with dread. But we were too poor and too far from Ohio to change anything. It was my mom, my stepdad, and my two older brothers.
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There were only three bedrooms upstairs, so one of us had to take the unfinished basement if we wanted to have our own rooms. Send the brothers.
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My oldest brother ended up taking it. Okay. Despite being a juvie kid with a hard persona, the basement scared the hell out of him. He slept with the lights on every night. One day, the three of us were cleaning the back of the basement, which was full of old wooden shelves. When looking under one of the shelves, my oldest brother got very angry and asked, which one of you did this?
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My brother and I were confused and looked to see writing in thick red paint that read, Sadie is dead meat. None of us knew what it was or where it came from, but my oldest brother insisted on trading rooms with someone because Sadie was the name of his current girlfriend. None of us had ever even ventured in that part of the basement before. My other brother, Ash, ended up taking the basement.
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Yeah. One day, my mother sent me down to the basement to take the clean clothes out of the dryer.
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as i was taking them out i was suddenly overwhelmed with the urge to look behind me when i did i saw my brother's laptop on his desk opening up slowly to face me it was playing some disturbed children's show with warped audio i ran upstairs in tears and did not sleep there is more my brothers were home alone and playing call of duty in the basement when suddenly they heard a gigantic crash from upstairs they ran up and found that the 40-pack 10-pound case of water that they had set in the middle of the kitchen table had not just fallen but literally exploded
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all over the kitchen. Water bottles were then found randomly all over the house. The most bone-chilling story from this house, however, was when my mother was taking a nap in the middle of the summer and was woken by the sound of my brothers and I screaming from the basement. Not playing screaming, but screaming like we were being tortured.
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Her gut told her not to open the basement door and investigate. Instead, she stayed in bed and individually called each one of our fathers. That's when she found out that each one of her children were with our fathers where we were supposed to be for the summer, and the screams she was hearing was not us.
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Years after moving out of that house, I've had extremely vivid nightmares about the fires of hell coming from the upstairs air vents and even attempting to confront the basement myself, but being chased out by a wide smiled pale man. Even now as an adult, I refuse to return to that house ever. Hope it wasn't too long and I hope I make it to the pod. Love you guys. Taryn, that was a lot.
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So our tea today is Bigelow toasted coconut. One we've tried before. It was very good.
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Yeah. And the entire time we were reading the Appalachian stories, I thought this one was in there. So I was like waiting for it. And I have been thinking of this one ever since. Just randomly it'll pop in my head like she heard those screams in the basement.
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Until my husband is home. Okay, so Taryn had dreams about being chased by this pale man. Is that her mind just filling in the gaps, knowing that something scary resided down there? Or is that what was down there?
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If something started happening right now, I just have to be like, I would call my local clergy and we'd discuss a plan of action, a battle plan, if you will.
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i don't know and that's why most people don't before we move on to the next story let's all take a moment to admire natalie's shirt oh it's so cute thank you thank you ghosts and cats ghosting cats and ghosting cats yeah i got it off of etsy so if anybody's curious i will find the person that i bought it from but i do enjoy it so our next story comes from julie so i just recently found your podcast and i'm binging i have several stories i could share but i'll start with this one that literally keeps me up at night when i think about it too hard
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I grew up in a house that just had the worst kind of energy. It was fairly new, and I think it has to be something about where it's built combined with the bad energy of my family. Long story. Anyway, upstairs, there were four bedrooms split by Jack and Jill bathrooms, and then a game room. My sister had one side, and I shared the other with my brother.
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My sister's side vibes were just the worst, and she was a typical emo scene teenager from the 2009 era, so she was into some dark stuff with her friends. What? What?
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okay she didn't didn't put it in leave us they love to leave us hanging i know i know i'm always liking more they'll tell us something horrifying and be like but then something worse happened anyways my email's too long yeah we need more anyway almost a whole decade later i'm back at my parents house my sister moved out and i'm talking to my bio mom who randomly brings up how she sees things and has her whole life odd thing to never mention before mom
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I asked her to elaborate. She then, unprompted, talks about my sister's old room and how she was cleaning up one day and opened the cabinet under the sink and fell back because she saw a little girl under the sink. I asked her to describe the girl and she described the same girl my sister had seen years before. My blood ran cold.
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Now, obviously, if you don't like coconut, you will not like this.
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Also, there's no way for my mom to know that story because I asked my sister and she never told anyone other than me. There's a ton more stories about that house, but that one is the scariest because it was just so far apart to be planned. I did some research later and on a forum of the area I'm from found a few similar stories on the street.
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Also, after the house got sold, it changed hands within a year twice. Side note, I talked to my sister the other day after sending the message and she disclosed to me a dream where she was being chased by an entity in the house before she moved out. And then she saw my dad and he told her it's the house.
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When she told me it unlocked a memory and the dream she described, minus my dad, and the entity, think the nun vibes, was a dream I had when I was a kid. So whatever spirits are within that area, doing the same thing to everyone. Just collaborating.
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I mean, she said she didn't seem mean and wasn't like evil or dark, but hiding and just seeing that would scare me so much.
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Hi, Ghosties. I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And we're just going to get right down to it. It's listener story day. Listener story number 32. Stories from all of you. If you have a story you'd like to send to us, you can email it to us at ghostiespod at gmail.com. Also written down in the description. Tea today is Bigelow Constant Comment. Yes, it is. So let's go. Tea is great.
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I love y'all's channel and hope the best. I'll send more experiences another time. Thank you. What? A whole hand?
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I learned after this experience that if you walk around at night with headphones on, you can't hear the ghosts trying to prank you. They slash it has never actually shown itself and seems like it's most comfortable with making itself known through sound. We've never been touched or had objects move.
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Whatever is present is either too weak to do anything other than make sounds, or it can do the other stuff, but chooses not to scare us beyond belief. It's never felt like something is trying to intimidate me or anything like that. Sometimes it feels like someone wants their presence to be known. And if they have to slightly scare you in the process, then oh well.
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We've actually minimized experiences by making sure the last person to go to bed shuts off the lights and loudly and pointedly says, good night. And the first person in the morning says, good morning. I believe whatever is there just wants to be acknowledged as another member of the household. That's not horrible. No. If your house is haunted by just like a little prankster, that's fine.
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That's what I'd choose. This one's not bad.
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Some more terrifying experiences I've had are in the same town, but a quick five minute drive to my uncle's house. His house was even more secluded in a wooded area than my childhood home. There was maybe 10 feet of open space between the back of the house and the forest and a huge field with a couple of trees at its center in front of the house across the road.
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yeah like you can kind of breathe like oh i'm sick so like maybe it's like i'm dreaming i'm not being able to breathe because i've got a upper respiratory infection or whatever you know but to see it afterwards is what you can't i like what do you how do you you can't explain it yeah there's physical evidence i'm having a really hard time with words today okay sorry anyway yeah that's scary that's horrifying actually
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My uncle's house honestly creeped me out more than my childhood home. It was one of those houses that when you paid attention to window placement, you realize that there is nowhere to hide in the house. Unless you crawl into one of the two closets in the house, you could be seen no matter where you were through the windows. Don't like that.
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At nighttime, your hair always stood on end because you could constantly feel eyes on you from outside. Back in January of 2012, my aunt passed away from a long battle with cancer. She left behind a five-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son. I'm so sorry for you and your family. My uncle was a nursing student when my aunt passed, so he didn't have a lot of free time to watch my cousins.
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I was 15 at the time, and because I went to the same school district as my cousins, I would ride the bus to their house every day and babysit. I took care of them, feeding them, helping with homework, and when I was 16 and got my license, I drove them to practices, and I spent nearly three years living with them until I graduated high school. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time in their house.
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And when my aunt first passed, my five-year-old little cousin couldn't sleep at night unless I was watching her. I spent countless nights staying up all night long. And once she and her older brother woke up, I'd nap for an hour or two while the brother watched the little sister. I would stay up because somehow I couldn't fool my cousin.
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Every time I started to doze or fell asleep at night, she would wake up crying saying I needed to stay awake. Oh my gosh. She never told me why, just that she was afraid of me not watching over her. It was one of those sleepless nights around 2am and I'm sitting in the living room in the recliner watching TV with their little chihuahua.
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The only light on in the house is from the TV and both my cousins are upstairs asleep. It's nice and quiet when the dog picks up its head, looks behind it to my right at the doorway and starts growling. I froze and tried looking out the corner of my eyes to see if I could see anything. It was too dark to make out anything beyond the doorway. So I turned my head towards where the dog was growling.
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I petted her a couple of times and asked her, what? Do you see something? What is it? After asking this, she jumps off my lap, stops about a foot in front of the pitch black doorway and starts barking. At this point, her hackles are raised and my eyes are starting to tear up as I soundlessly stare into the emptiness.
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All of a sudden, the printer in the next room turns on and starts printing numerous pages. This is very strange because the printer is an older model and does not have wireless capabilities. Did it say words on the paper? You have to plug in your computer to the printer to get it to print and yet nothing was there.
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The cord to plug into your computer lay over top of the printer as page after page was spit out. Some pages were blank and others had weird garbled and misplaced letters. It looks similar to when a printer page is misaligned and it prints in weird places and words overlap. I immediately said, nope, grabbed the dog and ran upstairs to my cousin's room.
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This isn't the only experience and it gets much more terrifying. Again, the correct response. Grab it and go.
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Yep. So to better explain why this next thing is so creepy... I will describe the layout of the upstairs floor. You walk up the stairs located in the living room and at the top of the landing to your left is my uncle's bedroom and to the right is the girl's bedroom. You walk through her bedroom to get to the boy's bedroom.
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I normally slept on the floor in the boy's room because then I could lay on the floor, watch YouTube on his TV and also have a perfect view of the girl sleeping in her bed. There were times late at night and early in the morning where I would be watching TV and all of a sudden I would instinctively know something was standing at the top of the stairs.
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The landing at the top of the stairs could just barely be visible from the boy's bedroom, but you would have to lean a little to the left to see it. I would be slammed with the awareness that something was there. My blood would run cold, and the only thing I could do was keep my eyes on the little girl sleeping in her bed not even five feet away from the stairs.
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I never said anything to anybody about this and kept it to myself as I didn't want to scare my cousins any more than they were now that they didn't have the mom. One night, both the boy and myself were up watching YouTube when I felt the awareness of the thing being present. I didn't react or move since the girl was sleeping next to me on the floor so I had no need to look at her.
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As I'm looking at the TV screen, I see the boy's eyes shift to the doorway. He didn't move his head, he simply moved his eyes and froze. I whispered, what? And he said nothing. I looked at him and saw he was terrified. I jumped up, ran to the bedroom door, shut it and locked it. I ran back to where I originally was and curled up under the blanket with a sleeping girl and asked him, what?
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Our next story comes from Paola. Hey Natalie and Macy, my name is Paola. I found your YouTube channel a couple of weeks ago and I've been binge watching all the episodes. While listening to all the stories, I felt encouraged to share some of mine. The first story I want to share with you girls is about a mimic. So at the time I was maybe 16 or 17 years old because I was still in high school.
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Again, this time he was looking right at me and said, something all black was creeping up the stairs. I asked him what he meant and he said, something as tall as the doorway leaned down and poked its upper body into his sister's room. He explained that it was very tall, lanky, and crisp, meaning he could clearly see it through the surrounding darkness.
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He said it looked evil and was looking right at me as I sat there ignoring it. He said there was no distinctive face, just a black shape with a weirdly shaped body that for some reason or another was focused on the only adult in the room. Oh my god. He said it was like seeing a predator hunting prey, especially with the way it leaned down and creepily perched or gripped the doorway.
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We spent nearly all day talking about my experiences, and this is when my cousin made me realize something. The reason my little cousin probably doesn't want me sleeping at their house at night is because the Thing was waiting for me to be vulnerable.
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He theorized that his sister was waking up at night scared for me because when I doze or fall asleep, the Thing might stalk into her room to get closer to me. With her bed being right near the door, she would be the first person to feel this entity's ill will towards me and would wake up. From that day on, I wouldn't sleep well at night.
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I would have nightmares that something in my periphery was getting closer and closer to me, and when it would be standing next to me in the dream, I would startle awake and be unable to fall back asleep. My health deteriorated to the point where I was in pain, chronically tired, and had constant migraines that medicine never helped, and I developed depression and anxiety.
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At some point in my life, I was having suicidal thoughts because I wanted everything to be done and over with. Then, seven or so years after the incident at my uncle's house, my grandma asked me to go to a brief service at her church. I said sure because I had nothing else to do, and it was the best decision I have ever made. It was a small blessing ceremony with only four of us getting blessed.
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When the deacon marked my forehead with holy water and said a prayer, I instantly felt like I could breathe again. I honestly wanted to cry. I told my grandma on the way home that I felt a thousand times better and that my mind was clear for the first time in years.
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She smiled and told me even though she doesn't believe in ghosts or the paranormal, she could tell something had a hold of me and she couldn't stand to watch anymore. The only thing she could think to do was to get me blessed. I truly believe that whatever was at my uncle's house was there to prey on the kids, but because I was there, it had no choice but to attach to me.
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Since I got blessed two years ago, the nightmare stopped, my migraines and pain improved, and the symptoms of depression and anxiety decreased to a more manageable point where I don't require medications. While I don't believe in God, my experience with being freed from this entity's attachment made me consider that maybe there is something out there looking out for us. Sincerely, Taylor.
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I lived with my sister, my niece, and my mom. Some details before the story. My niece and I had chores to do during the weekend when we weren't in school. We would pick and choose what we would like to do and it always ended in me sweeping and my niece mopping. Now on to the good part. This story happened on a Saturday morning. I had just finished my chores and it was my niece's turn to mop.
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Beautiful end, but a really scary journey to get there.
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It was the part where the boy cousin and her were theorizing. that it was waiting for her to fall asleep. Yes. And the girl cousin was waking up knowing that she was vulnerable and didn't want her to sleep, not because the little girl was scared, but because she was scared for her. What would it have done? What was the plan? Just to get rid of her? Somehow.
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I'm so glad that you found a way. I mean, I say this all the time, but like prayer is the way for me. And like, I turned to God because that's what I believe in. But finding something like that to like help free you is just amazing. Paramount. It's a necessity in that, especially when it's affecting your mental health like that to the point where you just like, you can't sleep. You're in pain.
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I'd be eating the church crackers. Anyway, yeah, I'm glad you found something. That is terrifying. And I hope that it is not sticking around for your cousins. Dude, me too. Well, I guess they're older now. This was 2012 and he was 12.
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we get there anyways thank you for sending that in that was a long story but it was good it was good i agree that makes i think that makes my list oh yeah a couple of those stories make my list for sure i love the long ones i like when we get like intense detail and like multiple accounts we can really know your life and who you are yes in all of your experiences
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Well, our next one comes from Nicole and the email was titled Third Bridge, which sounded mysterious.
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I have a story for the pod. Hope you ladies enjoyed as much as I enjoy hearing others. I grew up in Colorado and we have an area now developed that was called Third Bridge. This was an area that was out really far east on a two-lane road, at least a 20-minute drive from any residential area. In high school, people would drive out here at night to see if the stories were true.
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The legends were that it was an old Native American massacre ground. They said that underneath the bridge, you would hear drums, fine notes, feathers, drawings, etc. Additionally, there was said to have been a car crash killing multiple teens heading to the site. It was seen as a challenge to go out at night and see what you and your friends could experience.
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One night in 2009, two carfuls of us decided to take the trek. You didn't get service there back then, so we relied on following each other. On the way to the bridge, the second car in the caravan stopped. Being that we didn't have service, we weren't sure what happened. We kept going, thinking they would catch up. We didn't know the exact spot of the bridge, so we ended up passing over it.
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once we went over it we decided we needed to turn around to go get to it now mind you our friends had stopped and weren't in sight nor were other headlights on top of that we had just passed the bridge and were turning around we made our turn and made the less than half a mile drive back to the bridge as we approached we saw a vehicle but not a vehicle containing our friends this was a sedan with three grown men standing outside of the doors headlights on and the men staring at us
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She would always start mopping from the rooms and ending in the living room and kitchen. She went into my room to ask me if I wanted to go to the living room before she started mopping because we were going to have lunch afterwards. And she said that I was sitting on her bed looking outside the window, but I didn't answer her. She thought I didn't hear her.
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Oh, no. Oh, no. This went on for what felt like forever, and then the lights behind us disappeared. Out of nowhere. It wasn't like the car stopped, but more like the lights were just gone. My friend kept on it as emotions were high, and eventually we saw our friends parked miles and miles up the road. We drove up to them, freaking out, as they sat calmly waiting.
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We weren't sure if we were still being followed or if the other car was just driving on without us. They informed us one of them got too freaked out and convinced the rest of the car to stay back. But what they told us was while they were sitting there, no other cars had come up behind us. They had seen no one. No one else had entered that road while we were on it.
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We never figured out how those men or that car got there or why they were chasing us and we never went back. The bridge still does exist and is still known by many although civilization has crept closer. Hope to hear your own theories on this, Nicole. The only thing I can think of, and I don't know how the bridge works, like what it looks like. Were they under the bridge?
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Like, did they drive the car down under and drove it back up? But even that doesn't really make sense because you would you think you would see the lights down there, you know? Yeah, I don't. But that's literally my only logical explanation. The only other thing is go sleep.
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yeah were they the it wasn't actually a car full of teenagers it was a car full of men like three guys that got into a car accident oh yeah going to the bridge or like we talked about last episode or whatever episode it was where you can pick the age you want to be they just decided they wanted to be older
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Possible.
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And if it were a real car, how would it just disappear? How would it be right behind them following them? And then all of a sudden, nothing. Nowhere. I don't know. One thing I do know is I love these little like hometown legends. Oh, me too. So if you have a little legend, even if you didn't actually experience it yourself, but if somebody like if everyone knew like, oh, the third bridge or old.
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So she asked again, Tia, do you want to go to the living room before I start mopping? And then I answered from the living room. Oh my God. Saying I'm over here already. She looked back to the room where the figure that looked like me was sitting and ran out to the living room panicking. She was saying that there was a person looking out the window that looked just like me.
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the the tunnel down down the road please send it to us and like put it in the title like hometown legends or something because i'd love to do an episode on that i think that would be very fun y'all's little spooky hometown legends i want to know yeah and you don't your name anonymous and just give us the town you don't have to you don't have to even give us the town if you don't want to you just be like in this state or whatever yeah county whatever is equivalent of a country wherever you are yeah i think that would be good that would be fun
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Because I love a good hometown legend. Oh, me too. Me too. Our next one comes from Penn. Gift from a ghost while listening to your podcast.
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Hi, my name is Penn and I'm from the UK. I've just had an experience for the first time in ages whilst listening to an episode of your podcast. I feel I need to immediately write it down and send it to you. Agreed.
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Thank you so much. I found your podcast recently and I've been binge listening to all the episodes whilst redecorating my bathroom. It sounds weird, so a bit of an explanation is that the style I'm going for in my bathroom is very quirky, maximalist, and gaudy. I want novelty decor. The walls are bright yellow, rubber duck shower curtain, that sort of thing.
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And it would quack randomly. At night? Yeah, that was spooky. Too much. And then it started running out of battery too, so it was like... Yeah, it was really scary. Anyway, that's not the point. Hopefully that makes it sound less weird that I'm making a custom pond themed toilet seat. Have you ever seen one of those resin seats with shells and dolphins and stuff?
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And I see I seem to remember seeing them in loads of houses in the early 2000s, but couldn't find one now that would fit my toilet. I love it. I am in love with it.
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I aspire to be really cool.
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I'm glad you did give a backstory because if you were like, I was making this toilet seat without anything else, I'd be a little confused. I love it. I've made koi and lily pads to put within the resin and have some miniature rubber ducks to put floating on top. There was a big gap in my toilet seat and I thought to myself, Hmm, what could I fill that gap with?
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A frog would be cool, but how can I make a 3D frog that small? I had to look around and couldn't find anything that would work, so decided to just put another duck in. Fast forward about half an hour, I was in the lounge chatting to my mom and I heard a rustle from my dressing gown pocket. Bathrobe in America, I think.
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I wear the same one every day and knew for sure it only had my usual things I carry around in it. I reach in and pull out a small plastic frog in a little bag. It's like one of those ones you get in a Christmas cracker that jumps into the air when you flick its back down. Where did it come from? I have no idea where this came from.
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It seems like the sort of thing I'd own, but I'm completely certain I did not put it in there, and yet it just appeared right after thinking that I need a frog. That's all I have to go off, but my mom and grandmother think it is a sign from my grandfather who died in 2011, since he had a good sense of humor.
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There's no real connection to frogs or anything with him though, so just a hunch, but I genuinely can't think of an explanation for this. I have other stories I'd love to send in to you. I'll have to do it when I get a computer though since they'll be a bit long to type up on my phone. Just thought I need to tell you about this right now since it happened whilst your podcast was on.
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And when I went with her to go see, there was no one there.
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And why? I don't know. So my thought was, the ghost heard ghostly talk. And they were like, oh, this person, my grandson, perhaps, is open to this idea.
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I'm gonna, you know, just show them just a little something. They need help, so... That's pretty cool. I like the idea that it's your grandfather, though, that's like... Here's your little frog for your pond toilet seat. It was really cute. Our next story comes from Sydney. Hello, my name is Sydney and I'm new to watching you guys on YouTube, but I have loved every episode so far.
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You guys make it feel like I'm on a FaceTime chatting about the supernatural.
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As far as my story, I always thought it was just an odd coincidence, but my boyfriend thought maybe it was something that saved my life.
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When I was around seven or eight years old, I was lying in bed, my head at the foot end, and I was playing with a little flower-shaped handheld mirror, kind of flicking it back and forth, just messing around with it.
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I stopped moving it, and it was positioned towards my open closet, and in the reflection, there was a maybe 35 to 40-year-old man lunging towards me, hands up and ready to grab, teeth bared like an animal, and eyes filled with hate." Coming in hot. Okay. I saw this man perfectly clear and dropped the mirror and turned my head around to see nothing in my bedroom at all.
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I was scared and went to my mom, but never told her what happened. Just figured my mind was playing tricks on me. I just kind of let it go. And maybe a month or two later, I received a pair of Heelys, the shoes that had wheels in the heel. We had those.
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I kind of want another pair of Heelys.
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So have I. Have you also seen the ones where you like click the sides and like full roller skate pop out?
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And my mom suggested that we go to the nearby mall for her to shop and for me to practice. Thank you. Thank you.
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That makes it scarier.
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I have a theory, actually. Okay. And I wrote it down somewhere, I think, later in this. What if we don't know what happens because the mimics take over their life? Oh, my God. Like, kind of like Jordan Peele-us style. They lure you so that they can take over your life. And that we're just, like, with mimics about.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I know. This one a few times. He gets us.
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I hate that. I literally was thinking about this yesterday and wrote this down in this episode, actually.
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Well, thank Jordan Peele because I was influenced.
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It's a really scary one. Now a couple of things happened in this home, including when my grandma moved in. She would sleep in the room with me and my niece since we had two beds in there. My grandma would wake up a couple of times a night since she was older and she would get hungry or she wouldn't be able to sleep.
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That's a really good one. I keep forgetting about that one. That one has been in the back of my pantry. I've got a massive stash of tea and it's been in the back and I had to dig for it and I was like, it's a good one. This is good. I need to start drinking this more. But our first story is from Haley. My name is Haley. It's a common name, so I don't mind if you use it.
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She said that a couple of times she had seen a silhouette of a woman watching me sleep. She said that one time the silhouette looked like my mom, and she called out to her asking what she was doing or if she was looking for something, and there was no response. She said that after a while of watching me sleep, the woman went into the closet and never came back out.
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I have a lot more short stories like this that will make Natalie hate me, but for now, I will leave it at these.
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Maybe the third, actually.
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I think that's more in your head, but maybe so.
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I need them to breathe. I will hope for the best for you. I hope you get your dressing room. Thanks. Something I was thinking of. What if this spirit is an ancestor of Paula and her niece and her grandma or whatever? And that's why it looks like her. Oh. And it's watching over her.
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Yeah. That's what I was thinking when I first read it. I want to believe that. I hope that it's just an ancestor, like a ghost that's just kind of stuck around. Or a great aunt. I'm reading A Discovery of Witches right now. And she lives in a house that's full of ghosts of all of her ancestors. And they all just like come about and like hang out and stuff.
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So maybe so.
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I'm sorry. Our next story comes from Taylor. Hello, Natalie and Macy. I stumbled across your YouTube channel a little while ago, and you two have now become a part of my daily morning routine of getting ready for the day. I'd just like to say, she said Natalie and Macy, and that feels so weird. It does. Because growing up, it was always Macy, Kayla, Natalie. And so here, Natalie, Macy.
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I've always been very connected to spiritual things and I've had many experiences throughout my life. The story I'm wanting to tell you, though, is about a time when I was 10 or 11. We had moved into a townhouse apartment, and I had to stay home sick from school. Having just moved in, boxes were still packed up, and my mattress was up against the stairs. The area under the stairs was a plain wall.
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The other way around, yeah. I love listening to your stories and reactions since you are very genuine and don't turn on the theatrics for viewers and listeners. Thank you. We're genuinely scared.
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after listening to about the 10th video i decided it was time to share some of my experiences living in rural pennsylvania in the appalachian mountains please feel free to use any of my experiences in a future episode if you'd like i apologize in advance as this will be a little long it's long but it's worth it oh i'm excited i'm already locked in
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I grew up in an extremely small town in northern Pennsylvania. Besides the main street, there are only five other side streets in my town. It's so small that there's no traffic lights, no lodging for guests, and our town doesn't have its own police force. State police officers patrol the town occasionally.
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The house I grew up in was built in 1860 and seemed to attract entities, specifically mimics. Of course it was the basement. I opened the door that led to the basement stairs, which is in the kitchen, and it was pitch black. There were no lights on and no sounds.
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I waited a second, and before I could say anything, I heard my mother's voice at the bottom of the stairs say, I need you to get the laundry. I immediately slammed the door and ran to the dining room. Me too. Me too. Something in complete darkness, sounding like my mom, was trying to get me to walk right to it.
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Where the voice came from was where I would have needed to walk past to get to the washer and dryer. My mom got a real stern look and stared me in the eyes. After a moment of just looking at each other, she calmly walked over to where my dad stashes his pistol. She grabbed the gun and loaded it, and then grabbed my hand.
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She walked us to the basement door, switched the safety off so the pistol was ready to fire, and threw open the door. She turned on the lights and told me to keep hold of her shirt and not.
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let go i was full-blown crying at this point because i thought my mom was sacrificing me or something crazy to my surprise as she leads me downstairs she starts screaming at this entity she starts saying you see this gesturing with the gun i will kill you if you ever try to lay a hand on my daughter again you are not allowed to have any of the children in this house if you ever try to lure another child into this basement so help me god i will burn this house down and burn you with it she checked the entire basement but no one was there
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I am her and she is me. How many times after we've read a story like this have you said, I need to buy a gun?
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No doors, no shelves, just a wall. However, when I laid in my bed trying to sleep, in my blurry vision, I see a hand reach out above my face and push my head into my pillow. It was big enough to cover my nose and mouth, making it hard to breathe. Once I got out from under it, I stood up, panicked, only to find nothing there and no one in the house. The windows were shut, doors all locked.
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That's how I feel. All right. I did love that reaction, though. I love that. She was just like, no, it's not going to mess with me and my family. I will not my children because I will burn the house down and burn you with it.
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wow what a good story that we should have ended on that one that's my favorite one i know i'm sorry but that was good that was a good scary though so scary horrifying okay so like how we've heard i'm so sorry i cannot get it together we've heard stories of it like you hearing mom in the distance how often have we heard it continue talking like you sent me a video it was like sarah open the door you know what i mean yes how often have we actually heard it keep talking
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From that day forward, none of us kids heard voices calling us to the basement. Instead, the voices would try to lure us down to the first floor when we were sleeping in our rooms on the second floor and we'd hear voices outside the doors or windows calling us. Every night, my father made sure to lock all the doors and windows and the three of us kids would watch him do it.
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If we didn't watch him do it, we couldn't sleep at night. When we would go to bed, we would lock our bedroom doors and each bedroom had a designated pet that stayed there all night. My two brothers had our female golden retriever named Cleo. That's my dog's name. My parents had our male golden retriever named Caesar, and I had my black cat named Salem.
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No, he was not named after Sabrina, the teenage witch's cat. My family has always had pets, and once I was an adult, my parents told me they made sure we always had our pets so they could protect us from whatever walks in Appalachia. They didn't believe that our pets would physically protect us from entities, but they'd protect us in the sense that they would warn us when something was near.
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There were numerous times when I would wake up early in the morning because I could feel that Salem got up and he would be staring at the bedroom door, not making a sound, but with his fur standing on end. I would then hear my door handle jiggle and then my mother or father's voice trying to get me to open the door because they're scared or they need a hug. Oh my god.
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I never opened the door until the sun came up and it honestly scares me thinking about what would have happened if I did. Just typing this and reliving it is causing my neck and chest to get red and blotchy. She did send a picture and like her chest was like breaking out in like a rash. It's okay. Oh my god. The physical reaction of fear. Fear. Just recalling it. Having them outside your door.
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I'm scared and I've never experienced that. We're not in Appalachia so we don't have to worry about something that crazy.
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I need a hug. I get scared.
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I was alone. I saw in a mirror moments later that there was still a handprint on my face. I immediately grabbed my tissues, apple juice, and blanket and sat out on the porch for five hours refusing to go back inside until my mom or any of my sisters got home. It's not the only scary experience I've had, but it's one I've never forgotten, even to this day 20 years later.
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I've just seen it.
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Okay. Well, put your mattress on the floor.
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I've done it not long enough to grow mold apparently I don't know I liked it being low to the ground I don't know but I'm also a strange person when it comes to sleep you know you don't have to like worry about what might be underneath which is nice I have my bed up against my wall like on two sides like the headboards up against the wall and then I have it up just you know I've always liked that you interior designers out there don't come for me having it up against the side of the wall yeah I've always liked the wall to be able to like roll into anyway
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That's just my personal preference. I agree. But there is that like a hole in between because for my bed frame to my mattress and stuff, there's a little hole. And I always stuff a sheet and a pillow down there. Yep. That's the way. This is the way. In 2017, we moved a couple streets over to a bigger and just as old house.
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The previous owners, who were friends with my parents, warned them that the house was haunted, but with nothing malevolent. They said it was some ghosts that just wanted to be heard or play pranks. I've only had two experiences in the house, both of which I didn't feel like I was in danger, just that someone was messing with me.
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The first instance, I was sitting downstairs by myself watching TV at night. There was a stairwell that runs parallel to the living room, but you couldn't see it as it was on the other side of the wall. There was a doorway between the living room and stairwell, but we hung up a blanket to prevent people from using that entrance.
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I was watching TV and heard what sounded like my younger brother walking down the stairs. This is very important because my brother is a 6 foot tall, 230 pound man, so when he walks down the stairs, it's a very distinct, loud sound. Well, I heard him come down the stairs and saw the blanket shift, as though there was a breeze from someone walking past. I said, hey bro, and waited, no response.
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I paused the TV, walked out to the dining room and said, bro, what are you doing, but... No one was there. Now, if someone actually walked down the stairs, there would only be three places for them to go. The kitchen, the laundry room, or the dining room. I checked all three rooms, and no one was downstairs with me.
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It gave me chills, but I brushed it off as an overreaction to maybe the stairs creaking. Until I remembered, I saw the blanket shift. I promptly shut off the TV and went to bed, wanting nothing to do with what just happened. Then, a couple of weeks later, another instance of a ghost trying to prank slash spook me occurred.
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It was late at night and I was downstairs getting some kind of late night snack in the kitchen. I didn't turn on any lights since we had a small light above the stove that we always kept on. As I stood there making my snack, I think it was a bowl of ice cream, I not only heard but felt the vibration of someone very quickly and loudly stomping from the living room to the kitchen doorway behind me.
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I jumped and flung my hands next to my head while slightly ducking because I was expecting it to be one of my brothers messing with me. Then nothing. I looked over my shoulder and no one was there. My heart was pounding in my ears and my eyes were watering as I stared where someone should have stood. At this point, I threw the bowl in the sink, covered my ears and ran upstairs to my room.
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hi ghosties i'm macy and i'm natalie it's thursday so that's listener story day it is and it is almost valentine's day so we have the cutest mugs in the entire world thanks again to tj maxx best friends forever it was at tj maxx yet again i think the box said besties heart mugs so i just needed to say that yes and foremost we're really excited about these they're so cute They're awkward.
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Yeah.
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It's really sweet. But I will say this takes me back. We've talked about it before about wanting to know all of my past like ancestors and everything because I want to know like, is there one that looks like me?
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I would really love to know. But that's really cool. And it's kind of just like so cute that y'all look alike.
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Yeah.
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I don't know. And I was going to ask something similar to that. I don't know. And I need like a drawing. We need like a hat scale.
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I would like our project. Yeah. We'll figure it out. We'll be published in journals. We'll become our Roman Empire. Yes. In journals. Yes. That would be fun. Because who is he? Why is he? What is he? Where is he? How is he? I don't want to know. I don't want to know. Why is it just like this universal experience that everybody sees a man with a black hat? What happens if the hat is off?
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What's under the hat? Like a magician is going to pull a rabbit out. No, I'm envisioning like Harry Potter, like he takes the wrap off and there's like a demon or something. Yeah.
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Moving small objects. Okay. Maybe even slightly pushing a big object. Fine. Letting my dog outside. Or letting my dog out of the room. Whatever. Way too much.
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it affects your animals then you're done that and it's just like i would feel crazy i would feel crazy i'm like oh yeah i let them out no i didn't i didn't i never do am i sleepwalking i don't know yeah it would make me spiral the camera setting a camera thing up in your room that's definitely something i would do or try to or talk about at least yeah
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I would want to, but then I would be scared watching the footage. I'd have to have somebody else watch it.
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Yeah. I thought it was real.
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I thought paranormal activity was real. Did you? When I first watched it. Yeah. Well, you were young too. I was young. And so I was like, why is no one talking about this? Like what's happening? Yeah. And then I realized this is not real. I wish it was. Well, maybe. No. Like I wish we had that much.
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I'm envisioning the sister on Hocus Pocus. Danny? Yes. No. Emily. Emily. Yes. Yes.
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Telling her, hey, wake up, wake up. That's why I told you, man, twins. There's something about them. There's something intriguing and a little scary. We need the deep dive on twins. I don't know. I don't even know where to begin for that. I don't know, but it has always interested me. Twins in general, just something going on there.
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Give us more.
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What are the weird things?
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Even if you didn't recognize the voice. I mean, it's scarier that they did recognize it's the person right there.
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But just screams from the woods in general.
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Funny movie. I don't know. Why is it?
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I'm not a fan of hide and seek anymore. No? It's kind of really scary if you think about it. It is. Because they could be hiding and just watching you.
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That sounds like a book I would have read in middle school. Oh, 100%. Yeah. What is it? Middle school bullies in a what? In a lake house haunting. That's like the title of the book. I would have been like, yep, I'm reading that one. Immediately.
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Love that movie. Me too.
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They were being mean, but they like he didn't have to turn the crosses upside down. That got me.
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Maybe he was a trickster.
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Oh, my God. That one had me locked in. I need a breather. Take a drink. That is so scary.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Okay. I like that one because maybe she was alone the whole time in that house just watching people come and go. And the family came in and she was like, this is such a welcoming family. And they can see me. They know I'm here. They feel me.
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Thank you.
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I would have to have a stern talking with this person. I like that she was like, oh, hey, I know you, driving past at the traffic light. But that would make me freak out. So thank you for sending that in. We'd love to hear any other stories you might have. That's one that you should have like ended on. I'm sorry. All the like really sweet ones. I want to end on those.
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Oh my gosh.
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And we'll let you know in due time. But we're going to have a fun episode. We're going to do some vlogging type-esque things. Unless it turns out horribly. And then forget that we said this. Because we've never done that. And so it might be awkward to do it in public. Yeah. But it's going to be fun. And we're excited about this episode.
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I don't know.
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I was picturing Dynasty, the newer one with Liz Gillies. Oh, I haven't seen that. I stopped watching. I don't think I've seen the last couple seasons, but that's what I was envisioning, like a big party in a big house.
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Why the baby and why on New Year's? I don't know. What does that mean? So strange to me. Also, hated. Hated, hated, hated. Big smiles with teeth.
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So were they like a, I don't know the history of like India. Or that forest specifically. Maybe there was like some people settled there and it was just this mom and her child and then her child's child. Not being able to make out the faces clearly, but you can see the smile.
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And it's like, I don't get that vibe. Yeah. I'm trying to make it light. I get dark. I get dark. Because the reason I get dark is that they had no say in if they're going to help this baby. Because it was forced to. Yes.
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I'm scared. I'm frightened. I don't like it. But I feel like if this was me on New Year's, I would still do the same thing. But I would invite a team of ghost hunters. Yes. Y'all just hang out. Just in case. See what happens. Yeah.
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I was just going to say, didn't we discuss something very similar?
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Oh my gosh.
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No, it was exciting because I love the cat thing. I don't love that that happened to you, but I love that we got an old hag story, like something that actually happened that was in our lore of the episode. That's something we actually know about. Yes. Something we're not just like, what could it be? That's really cool. But not for you. No, not for you. And I'm sorry.
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The thought of something sitting on my chest makes me not be able to breathe right now. It's one thing, I think, to just not be able to breathe.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Das war ein echter Geist, vielleicht. die versucht hat, sie auszudrücken und vielleicht versucht hat, sie zu verletzen, oder noch schlimmer. Die Thais sind sehr superstitionsfähig.
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Zum Beispiel, jedes Mal, wenn wir über eine Brücke fahren oder ein Gebiet, in dem viele Menschen gestorben sind, in Fahrgeräten, klingeln wir unsere Hörner, um die Geister zu erinnern, dass wir kommen, und um aus dem Weg zu gehen. Außerdem, damals, bemerkte sie nicht, bis nach dem Anfall, dass ihr Buddha, das sie auf dem Dashboard hatte, verloren hat.
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Sie fragte die Familie, ob sie es genommen hätte, aber niemand hatte es, und ich glaube, wir werden es nie wissen. Honestly, I still don't know what to think, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. Love your podcast. All the best, Aisha. I'm sorry about your mother, first and foremost. Also, now I am afraid to drive home tonight.
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Yeah. Or implode.
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Deeply.
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I had never heard of getting your car blessed before.
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But I think that's a good idea. Agreed. Like having something to protect you, because cars are dangerous.
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I'm about to have to drive home. It is very late. 10 o'clock. Very dark.
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I literally, I call Jake as soon as I am about to leave Natalie's house and have him talk to me. And sometimes I get really scared. The last episode we recorded... Oh mein Gott, okay, also wir haben über all diese Dämonen gesprochen. Und dann stehe ich in mein Auto und es beginnt zu klingeln. Und weißt du, wie manchmal, wenn du den Start-Push hast, klingelt es ein paar Mal und dann stoppt es.
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Und dann klingelt es nur wieder, wenn du dein Seatbelt nicht anmachst, während du fährst. Nun, das Seatbeltlicht war an und es klingelte immer und immer und immer wieder. Und ich war so, hörst du das? Weil ich mit Jake auf dem Telefon bin. Und endlich habe ich mein Seatbelt angemacht und es stoppt. Und ich war so, okay, das war seltsam. Das ist mir nie, nie vorgefallen.
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So then I put it in reverse and I've said this before. I'm always afraid there's going to be something behind in like my rearview mirror camera. There wasn't, but there was a shadow because it just rained. There was a shadow of a puddle behind me and it scared the mess out of me. So I'm already freaked out.
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Okay, I back out and I come around and I go to the street behind her house and there's a street light that's literally like flash, flash, flash, flash. Very creepy. All the other street lights seemed dark. Für einen Grund. Und das war einfach sehr, ja, flächendeckend, ominös. Also habe ich Jake gesagt, ich sage, sprich mit mir. Und er war so, worüber? Ich war so, ich habe keine Angst.
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Sprich mit mir über irgendwas, einfach weiter sprechen. Und er pausierte und ich war so, du sprichst nicht, du sprichst nicht. Und er war so, warum willst du mit mir sprechen? Und ich kann nicht sagen, in der Fahrt, dass ich Angst habe. Ich will meine Angst nicht akzeptieren. Und ich kann es nicht laut sprechen.
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Und ich kann nicht sagen, was ich in meinem Geist erwischt habe, was hinter mir passiert. Also bin ich einfach so, ich kann es dir nicht sagen, ich werde es dir später sagen. Und ich fühle mich verrückt, aber das ist so, wie es ist, fast jedes Mal, wenn ich dieses Haus verliere.
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Und das hat mir noch etwas zu schämen, weil ich immer Angst habe, was hinter mir ist, weil ich ein SUV habe, aber ich habe nie über das, was auf mir steht, gedacht, und jetzt werde ich es.
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Luckily, she couldn't see her face. It was just hair and... You know what? Maybe it was a branch.
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That came down and it was just some weird... No.
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I've noticed when we're scared, we are either completely silent and there's nothing said between us or there's a lot of nothing said between us. And we just talk and talk and talk. To take us away.
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Because now I feel a little bit better. I do too. I won't later, but I do now. No. Danke, Aisha. Unser nächstes E-Mail kommt von Essie. I was in my late teens during this timeframe and I had begun to sense something that felt different. It's hard to explain, but my gut would feel heavier and it seemed like something was trying to conceal itself.
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Meine Mutter hat ihn aufgewacht, um zu fragen, ob er unten war, und er war grummelig und hat uns gesagt, dass wir weggehen, weil wir ihn klar schon aufgewacht haben.
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As I mentioned earlier, we did have other spirits in the house, but they had particular ways of making their presence known. The other spirits were mostly neutral. und wir wussten nicht, ob sie da waren. Aber sie versuchten nie zu verstecken. Wir bemerkten die Knöpfe, die Dinge, die auf den Kühlschritten fallen, das Gefühl, dass wir geschaut werden.
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Nichts, was zu ungewöhnlich war, um einen besonderen Hinweis zu nehmen. Aber dann hat sich etwas verändert.
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Es versteckt sich immer, jeden Tag. Das wird immer meine Antwort sein.
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Ja, weil warum schlägst du? Was schlägst du von oder für? Egal, es gibt etwas Schlechtes. Oh Gott, ich dachte nicht von. Ich ging nach Hause von der Schule eines Tages und begann, meine vordere Tür zu öffnen. Die Töne wurden in den Deadbolt geöffnet und ich hörte, dass es öffnet.
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Dann ging ich, um meine Töne in den unteren Lock zu setzen, aber bevor ich sie sogar öffnen konnte, hörte ich den Deadbolt sich wieder öffnen. Ich klickte den unteren Lock öffnen. Ich brachte meine Töne wieder hoch zum Deadbolt. Als ich begann, es wieder öffnen zu können, hörte ich den unteren Lock sich wieder öffnen. At this point in time, I wasn't thinking it was anything paranormal.
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Es war so seltsam, weil ich ihn so klar vor mir gesehen habe, aber nach dem Chatten war ich sicher, dass es nicht er war, weil er 100% im Bett schlafen war und mein Bruder leicht verärgert wird und nicht mag, dass ich ihm sogar diese Geschichte erzähle.
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I actually thought my younger sister had stayed at home from school for whatever reason and was playing a prank on me. I went back and forth with the locks a couple more times, and then, out of frustration, I banged on the door and yelled at my sister to cut it out. A second went by, and both the locks clicked open at the same time.
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I stormed inside, ready to give my sister the what-for, first heading straight upstairs to her room. She wasn't there. Then, I went back downstairs and checked those rooms. She wasn't there. She wouldn't have gone down to the basement, she was scared of it, but I checked anyway. She wasn't there.
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Ich war so verwirrt, dass ich meine Mutter angerufen habe und meine Schwester gefragt habe, ob ich von der Schule nach Hause geblieben bin. Nein, meine Mutter hat mir gesagt, dass sie noch in der Schule sein sollte. Meine Mutter hatte eine ähnliche Sache mit den Locken ein paar Wochen später, aber etwas anderes ist viel später passiert, das mit mir für immer bleiben wird.
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Meine Eltern und Schwester waren aus dem Staat, um meine Großeltern zu besuchen. Ich weiß nicht, warum, aber ich habe entschieden, dieses Mal zu Hause zu bleiben. An diesem Punkt habe ich diesen Geist täglich behandelt, also ist es nur ein normales Ding für unsere Familie geworden. Okay. I'm so tired. I just want to sleep. I'm home alone and this thing wants to play games.
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I took a deep breath and shouted out to it. Will you shut up? It's the middle of the night and some of us are trying to sleep. It stopped for one beat and then so loud that the entire house shook. The sound of something hitting against my parents door or something in their room. kam zurück in schnellen rhythmischen Beats, unabhängig. Und genau wie vorher.
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Ein paar Jahre ago erzählte ich diese Geschichte einem Freund, dessen Mutter sehr spirituell war, und sie hat mir vorgestellt, dass mein Bruder möglicherweise Astral-Protektor sein hätte, Okay.
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Jedes Mal, wenn ich mein Handy betrug, stoppte es. Jedes Mal, wenn ich meinen Knochen betrug, stoppte es. Aber sobald meine Hand weg kam, startete es wieder, genau so laut wie vorher. Ich erinnere mich nicht darauf, wann es langsam gedauert hat. Irgendwann um 2 oder 3 Uhr. Aber ich habe noch nie den Rattern so wieder gehört. Ich verstehe immer noch nicht, warum das passiert ist.
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Meine Mutter hat eine Theorie, dass Poltergeist Manifestationen aus Teenager-Energie sucht. Manchmal formt all diese Emotionen in etwas anderes, das auch intelligent ist. Not quite the same as being human, but still a part of us. Was I not afraid of it because it was a part of me that whole time? I have so many other experiences that I would love to tell you two about.
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But for now, I'll leave you with this. Thank you for reading and giving me a space to get a couple of my experiences out there. I'm also so curious if anyone else has had something like this happen to them and what they think it was.
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I don't know. We've heard before. What episode was it? The Haunted Movie Sets episode, where I think it was during one of the Conjuring movies. Maybe the first one. Lorraine Warren told one of the writers that whatever was going on at his home, it was like a water poltergeist or something like that. And it was all because of teenage angst. Oh, I remember that.
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So, I mean, if someone in the know, like Lorraine Warren, thinks so, then maybe. Which I'd never thought about that either. Uh-huh. That makes sense. Like, duh, when I hear it, like, of course. Because as a teenager, you have so much emotion, just like hormonal changes and energy coming off of you. Anger, rage. Some of us.
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Ja, das ist eine gute Idee.
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In dem Moment denke ich nicht, dass ich das hätte gedacht, aber vielleicht am nächsten Tag.
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Wenn ich das angefangen habe zu lesen, als sie sagte, wirst du einfach aufhören, habe ich gedacht, wer war es? Susan?
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Ich dachte, oh nein, mach es nicht. Mach es nicht.
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I'd like to hear more stories from Essie, for sure.
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And I like that name, too. Our next email comes from Cross. Dearest Ghosties, So, my stories are not as detailed as some of the ones I've heard on your podcast, but they were scary for me at the time. I spent an unfortunately long time in a town called Antioch, California. This town has a history of its own that you could probably do an episode on.
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However, we are just going to talk about my experiences and that of my family. We lived in a three-bedroom cookie-cutter house on a hill. The neighborhood was all a part of a big housing development. Awww. So sad. That's so me. Lock the door or that you'd huddle up against the door. That I'd huddle up against the door. Anyway, my mother's story. My mother came from a strong Christian family.
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Sie war furchtbar, aber schrie nicht. Sie hat einfach ihre Hände gekackt, hat den Hund geschaut und gesagt, du gehst nicht hierher und du musst jetzt weg. Sie hat mir gesagt, dass diese Sache an ihr in Protest geräumt hat, aber sie ist zurückgekehrt und ist weg. Sie ist endlich schlafen gegangen. Diese nächste Geschichte ist auch meine Mütter.
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Einer Nacht, als meine Großeltern, ihre Mutter und Vater, spät überwacht waren, hörte meine Mutter einen Schreie aus meiner älteren Schwestern. Als sie auf die Investition ging, erzählte meine Schwester, dass ein Hund außerhalb ihres Fensters war. Als sie geschaut hat, ist sie zurückgekommen, weil ein lauter, aber tiefgräubiger Geräusch sie von der anderen Seite des Fensters erschossen hat.
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Meine Mutter schrie für ihren Vater, der rannte, und sobald er in den Raum geraten hat, hat der Geräusch stoppt. Meine Mutter hat es als eine Veränderung im Luftraum beschrieben, als ob mein Großvater es literally weggezogen hätte. Now the next story is mine. For context, this is a little bit of a jump in time. I am seven or eight at this point.
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My parents are divorced and I am living alone in the house with my father. My mother and sisters moved out. My dad would work late all the time. He wouldn't come home most nights, if at all, until 11 p.m. I would just be left alone in the house to do my homework and fend for myself with food. Oh yeah, this was the 90s. This was commonplace back then.
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On the night I'm going to talk about, I was home alone and had all the lights on in the house. I would not like them off and would not go upstairs for some reason. I can remember the events and even the fear, but never the specific reasons why. I never wanted to sleep in that house. I felt like something bad would happen if I slept.
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So I stayed up and watched TV till he got home or till I dropped out of pure exhaustion. On this night, I started to fall asleep while watching Star Trek. Then I felt a reason to wake back up, like someone had injected coffee into my blood. As my eyes opened, I saw a black shadowy set of fingers dart away from my face. Die letzte Geschichte ist die Geschichte meiner ältesten Schwester.
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Sie hat mein Vaters kleines Konvertible, Mercury Capri, gekauft. Sie und ihr Freund kamen zurück in das Haus, um es abzulassen. Wir waren nicht zu Hause. Sie haben entschieden, uns zu warten, um nach Hause zu kommen, weil sie mich nicht so oft sehen konnte. Als sie warten und TV schauen, hat meine Schwester sich krank gemacht. Ihr Körper fühlte sich sehr schmerzhaft.
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Sie hat ihr Freund am Ende gesagt, dass sie fühlte, dass sie gehen musste. Sie sind beide in sein Auto gegangen und sind reingegangen. Sie hat gesagt, Scheiße, ich habe vergessen, das Licht aufzulösen. Kannst du wieder rein und das für mich machen? Mein Vater wird mich töten, wenn wir die Lichter auflassen. Er hat es bemerkenswert und ist zurück in das Haus gegangen.
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A few moments later he darted out of the house and jumped in the car. He floored it down our hill and all the way to the stop sign, scaring the crap out of my sister. She asked him what that was all about. He told her that when he went to turn the lights off, there was a black shadow figure at the end of the hall reaching out and beckoning him to come to it.
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Come to think of it, I don't think they ever went back to that house after that. Not long after that incident, my dad lost his job and we moved in with my grandparents, his mom and dad. The last memory I have of that house was when we moved everything out and I was walking around making sure I didn't forget anything. I heard a loud voice in my head, get out.
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Cliche, I know, but that's what I heard. I left that place and never went back in. Danke. Ich habe gesehen...
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Have you? I think so. I've added it to the list already.
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I can't do it. I don't blame them for never going back.
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Because if they're saying get out, it's like okay. Okay, fine. But if it's like come little children.
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I wonder if his dad was staying out late to avoid being at the house too.
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So thanks for sending that in, Cross. And we've definitely added Antioch to the list. Our next email comes from Kayla. Hi, I apologize in advance for this being long. I'll split up the stories into two emails. I think I put both the emails in here. Perfect. Zuerst lasse ich mich sagen, dass ich deinen Podcast liebe.
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Ich habe deinen Kanal letzte Woche entdeckt und ich habe jeden Tag in der Hintergrundsitzung gesehen, während ich von Hause arbeite. Ich habe immer das Paranormale und seltsame, unerklärte Geschichten geliefert, also war ich gespannt, deine zu finden. Danke für das Arbeit, das ihr macht. Ich kann nicht warten, was in der Zukunft für euch passiert.
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Okay, ich werde versuchen, alles in chronologischer Ordnung zu bekommen. Ich bin in einer kleinen Landstätte in Texas geboren und das Haus, in dem ich geboren bin, wurde neu gebaut, als meine Eltern es gekauft haben, also lebte niemand in es vor uns. Aber von einer sehr jungen Zeit an hatte ich immer Erfahrungen in diesem Haus. I got a new cool phone, the pink razor flip phone.
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Yeah, I mean, if they're awake in another room, then I'm sure it's not astral projection, but him being passed out asleep? Maybe. Very, very interesting. The veil is just too thin. I need to think about this. See it? Okay, you ponder. Our next story comes from Haley. Hello, I just found your guys' YouTube channel and I'm obsessed.
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I'm 31 for reference to the millennial era. That phone had a tiny camera in the front, so when you closed it, you could still take a picture. One of the first phones to be able to do that. I was home alone and I was sitting on the couch and decided to take a selfie. I closed the phone and the camera switched on and I saw someone sitting right next to me on the couch.
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A girl with long hair and sickly looking. Ja. In middle school I took a trip to the USS Lexington ship in Corpus Christi. Me and my childhood friend stuck together the entire time. There was a lot of time allowed for us to explore the ship on our own through the tourist section. Me, my friend and a couple of other friends took off to wander around. We split up somehow.
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Me and a couple of guy friends were walking and then looked back and my friend and the other two people weren't behind us anymore. Es war nirgendwo, um sie verloren zu lassen, also hatten wir keine Ahnung, wo sie hinfuhren. Wir haben ein paar Minuten gedreht, aber haben sie nie gesehen.
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Wir haben weitergefahren und haben uns entschieden, nach dem anderen Ende zu gehen, wo die Touring-Sektion endete. Denkt daran, dass ihr auf der linken Seite des Schiffs entlang geht und auf der rechten Seite rauskommt. Nicht eine volle Runde, sondern nur eine einfache Tour, mit Rädern und Gästen, wo man nicht gehen kann. Wir sind auf dem anderen Ende rausgekommen und haben sie nirgendwo gesehen.
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Wir sind zurückgekehrt, wie wir rausgekommen sind, und haben uns entschieden, die ganze Tour zurück zu gehen, aber nach hinten. Wir haben sie trotzdem noch nie gefunden. Es fühlte sich wie eine Eternität an, in und aus diesem Bereich des Schiffs zu gehen. Und dann sind wir endlich in ihnen gerannt. Sie waren so furchtbar und verwirrt wie wir.
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Sie sagten, dass wir vor ihnen waren, und dann gingen wir um die Kante und waren einfach weg. Wir waren so verwirrt und sagten, nein, ihr seid einfach nicht mehr hinter uns. Sie sagten, dass sie sich mehrere Male nach uns nachgesucht haben, so wie wir es gemacht haben. I don't know what happened, but there weren't a lot of people on the ship.
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No one else in that section, and I have no clue how we never ran into each other. It felt like a different dimension, and even as an adult, I can't explain it. That's the glitch in the Matrix thing. Me and this same childhood friend had a second experience that she still refuses to talk about as adults. We were probably around 13 or 14, and she lived in a small house near some wooded area.
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I have so many ghost stories and I find this one was the scariest encounter by far. I've always been spirit sensitive. It runs in my family being my brother is a famous medium in New York. Back in 2017, I lived with my ex-boyfriend and I remember him telling me that his house was haunted. I didn't believe it at first till things started happening.
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There were trees everywhere, and you had to go down a dirt road to get to her home. No houses were visible from her home. Sie hat einen kleinen Bruder, der damals wahrscheinlich um zehn Jahre alt war. Jetzt hör mal, als Kinder waren wir dumm. Dieses Haus war nicht neu, und es gab viele vorherige Anwälte.
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Es gab immer noch Sachen in einem Raum von den vorherigen Anwälten, die sie nicht persönlich wussten. Wir waren in diesem Raum und fanden ein Ouija-Tisch. Natürlich denken wir, oh, spürbar. Lass uns damit spielen und erschrecken ihren kleinen Bruder. Ich weiß, aber wir dachten, wir könnten nur ein Prank spielen und nichts anderes würde passieren.
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Wir schalten die Lichter an, leiten ein paar Flaschen an und starten mit dem Tisch. Sein kleiner Bruder war schon von Anfang an erschrocken, aber als die Planschette anfing zu bewegen, war er furchtbar. Mein Freund und ich lachen und sahen uns an, als ob wir uns fragen, ob wir es bewegen, aber dann wurde plötzlich alle Kandeln ausgelöst, alle gleichzeitig.
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Es fühlte sich an, als ob ein großer Wind über uns gedroht wäre und alle Kandeln ausgelöst wären. Unser kleiner Bruder schrie und ich und mein Freund sahen uns in Schock an. Die einzige Lichtung im Raum war von der Lichtung draußen, die durch die Klamotten in meinem Zimmer blieb. In the room. My friend jumps up and turns on the light and starts to comfort her brother who's in tears.
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He was mad at us for playing a joke on him and ran out of the room. My friend and I started accusing each other saying, why did you do that? We shouldn't have done that. He's really scared, etc. But neither of us moved it. We swore that we hadn't. That scared us a lot. She didn't want to believe it, but eventually even she couldn't explain the candles.
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Ich glaube, das ist der Grund, warum sie fast nicht mehr existiert. Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
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I got really sick with bronchitis once and one night we went to bed and I started having sleep paralysis. Mind you, I've never had it before till I started living with him. And to this day, I still have it. I found sleeping with salt water next to you prevents it though. And it truly does work. So if you're ever afraid, just salt water. Put a cup of salt water beside your bed. Why? I wonder why.
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We're almost at 25. I was going to make a 25 joke, but I didn't want to force it. I know. We're just going to get right into it because I'm ready to tell these stories. Oh yeah, I'm ready. Our tea is a repeat. It's Republic of Tea Mold Apple Spice.
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I don't know. Salt is protective. People use salt to protect themselves from evil. Evil spirits and stuff like that.
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I don't know. I'm not 100% sure. Of course, like the skeptical side of me and the science-y side of me is very much so. It's just something our brain does. But there is a big part of me who says, why is it only happening to people when they move into haunted houses and it never happens again when they move out? And it didn't happen before. So, I don't know. Ghosts.
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Anyways, I woke up to hearing something digging on the bed fast. My first thought was our dog Princess, but she was in her kennel in the other room, and when I tried to move, I couldn't. I kept hearing the digging coming from on the bed. I then started feeling myself being pulled down off the bed. I tried grabbing onto my boyfriend and screaming, but I couldn't do either.
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, , , , , , ,, P. P. P. P. P,實實,實, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , sol a , , , , , , ,, P P P P P P P P P實 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , a P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P Wahrscheinlich nicht. Nun, es wird auch von den vorherigen Anwälten bestätigt, dass jemand sich im Wohnzimmer hängte.
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Sie hörten oder sahen nichts, aber mein Vater sagte, er war immer noch überrascht und fühlte sich, als ob sie die ganze Zeit geschaut werden. Als meine Mutter dort arbeitete, musste sie auch in den Wohnzimmer gehen, um Dinge aus dem tiefen Kühlschrank zu holen, wie Eis. Und sie würde jeden Tag, wenn sie dort war, selbst laufen.
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Nun, wie mein Vater und meine Mutter sich im Wohnzimmer fühlten, könnte auch sein, weil sie wissen, was da unten passiert ist. Aber es ist immer noch schrecklich. Diese Geschichte ist wahrscheinlich die schrecklichste und es ist zu meiner Oma oder Onkel passiert. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, wer, aber einer von ihnen.
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An den Weihnachten oder an den Busy-Tagen würde einer von ihnen auf den dritten Flur gehen und alle Autos in der Parkplatte zählen, um zu sehen, wie viele Leute dort waren. Der dritte Flur wird als Storch für Dinge wie extra Türen und Stühle genutzt.
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Die Familie ist auch ermöglicht, größere Dinge dort zu bestellen, also hat niemand Zugang zu diesem Bereich, außer meine Oma und Onkel und ihr Sohn Trevor, der jetzt der Manager für Good Company ist. As one of them is counting the cars, a chair slid across the room. And this is a big open area, so something up there was strong enough to send a chair from one end of the room to the other.
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I just felt my whole body being dragged down the bed by my legs. Finally, I was able to officially wake up, and I screamed and cried for an hour, scaring the daylights out of my ex. Es hat mich überrascht, das herauszufinden, aber ich habe so viele Geisterstörungen von meinem Leben. Es wird immer besser und besser. Ich genieße und genieße deinen Kanal. Ghosties-Fan für immer.
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My cousin Trevor also said, when he's there late at night, when he's all alone after the cooks and waitresses have left, burners to the stove will turn on and kitchen utensils will fly across the kitchen. I don't like the burners turning on. No, that's so scary. The story, was it last week where the stove came on? Maybe it was the week before. The gas came on, but they didn't light.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, we were right. Everyone in the comments is like, yes, it'll explode. Oh, okay. We weren't dumb. Good. It's always good to know. The final story has the most history attached to it, and it happened to my mom. My mom was closing one night, so no one else was there except some cooks that were cleaning up in the kitchen. Oh, das ist nur Diamond Lil.
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Sobald du hier warst, weiß sie deinen Namen. Sie nennt es. Meine Mutter war dort seit über einem Jahr, also war sie überrascht. Meine Onkel und Oma hatten früher eine Bar in Appleton 2, die Tuxedo Junction genannt wurde. Damals wurde sie als Brothel genannt. Da war eine Frau da, die Diamond Lill genannt wurde. Wir glauben, dass das die Frau der Nachtnamen war, die die Hauptmannin war.
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Sie wurde eine Nacht auf den Job geschossen, und es wurde gesagt, dass sie das Gebäude danach beschädigt hat. In der 70er-Jahre wurde es durch strukturelle Probleme zerstört, und dann haben sie gute Unternehmen gekauft und das in 1980 geöffnet. Mein Onkel sagte, dass Diamond Lill sie dort folgte, weil er glaubte, dass sie sie liebten. Und sie hatte nirgendwo mehr zu gehen.
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Er hat auch gesagt, dass sie in einem Bereich hängen würde, der durchgehend sein musste, um hinter dem Bar, der Pub-Sektion des Restaurants zu kommen. In der Bildschirme unten ist es eine Sektion in der Rückseite nach links der Stiefel. Das gleiche Bereich, wo meine Mutter war, als sie ihren Namen hörte. Das ist ein wirklich süßes Ort. Das, ich wollte nur das gleiche sagen.
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Ich würde dann wirklich einen Tag gehen. Mom was still a bit freaked out, but she made sure to say hi to Diamond Lil every time she got into work when she would walk back there. My friend's mom is a medium and she must close herself off when she goes there because of all the energy and spirits that roam around. She still goes because the food is fantastic.
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Just wanted to share, I just found your pod and I love it. I have been listening to it during work. Thanks for reading. Sorry it's so long. There's a lot. She said, P.S. Sorry if there are a lot of errors. I'm typing fast because I'm doing this at work when I'm not supposed to. Everything can be shared if you wish to talk about it on the podcast, including the pictures and location.
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I don't live near this place anymore, but any business is good if someone finds out about the restaurant through the pod. Thank you, Maddie. So, if you're anywhere near Appleton, as friends of the pod, you should go check out Good Company.
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So thank you. Thank you, Maddie, for one, drawing our attention to a new place, and two, sending us all those stories, because that was spooky.
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Me too. And three for sending us pictures because I love that so much.
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I was like, oh, interesting story. Me too. We could have another podcast about just mundane like, this is a restaurant built 20 years ago.
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Okay.
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I would love to do that. Extra points if it's haunted. Yes. Well, thank you to everyone who sent us their stories today. These were good. Last episode was really scary. Too much. This was like a good mix. Like there was some really frightening and some good little like fun haunts, you know. Agreed.
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Agreed.
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Ja, nicht mehr darüber sprechen. Ich versuche es nicht mehr zu erwähnen. Also, danke euch alle wieder einmal. Wenn ihr eure Geschichte senden möchtet, könnt ihr uns an ghostiespod.gmail.com e-mailen. Das ist g-h-o-s-t-e-a-s-p-o-d-at-gmail.com. Es ist in unserer Beschreibung unten auch. Ihr könnt uns auch an ghostiespod.gmail.com folgen. Wir haben Liste unserer Tees, die wir im Monat trinken.
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Wir haben einen für März auch. Also, wenn ihr mit uns trinken möchtet und Teil unserer weltweiten Teeparty seid, You can do that. If you're still watching, leave a popcorn emoji because Natalie has a box of popcorn in here and I've been thinking about it since I got here. I do. I didn't realize. My favorite thing in the world were all of the rats. Dude, that was so funny.
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Vielen Dank.
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Ich hoffe, du hast meine Geschichte genießt.
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Oh, ja. Ich würde gerne wissen.
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Ich habe nicht gefragt. Ich war interessiert, aber ich habe nicht gefragt. Ich wollte nicht weinen.
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But if you wanna email us back and let us know, I'm open to it. We won't tell anyone. No. It's just for us. It always gives me chills. And it always comes at the end of the story. And I know it's better for storytelling, but it's like, and come to find out, this other person had this exact same incident. And I'm like, every time. Every time it gets me.
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Du hast es gemacht.
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I've always been afraid of child spirits. Yes. We've talked about this. But since the last episode, where she got down and was playing Barbies with the little girl, it's like, this is what I'm going to do to you. I'm not going to lie, I've been thinking about that one a lot. I've been trying not to. I'm sorry to have brought it back up. Thank you. Our next one comes from Tanmay.
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Ich denke, ich hoffe, dass ich deinen Namen richtig sage. Hey Leute, mein Name ist Tanmay und diese Geschichte geht um einen Mann, der damals mein bester Freund war, als wir klein waren, bevor er tragisch in einem Freak-Ansatz weggeflogen ist, als wir beide in der 1. Klasse waren.
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Für den Kontext bin ich 24 Jahre alt und er wäre es auch gewesen, also ist es ein langer Zeit, aber ich fühle mich immer noch traurig, dass er so jung weggeflogen ist und die seltsamen Fälle, die mir nach seinem Tod passiert sind. Ich will seinen vollen Namen nicht weggeben, aus Respekt, also nennen wir ihn von seinen Initialen RB. Also Warnung, das ist ziemlich traurig.
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Wenn ihr skippen wollt, haben wir Timestamps. Skippen. Wir gehen weiter. He was a very shy guy, did not have any friends except me and the purest soul ever. Some might say too good for the world. One Sunday afternoon he was playing on his balcony while his parents were having their tea and out of nowhere his entire balcony collapsed. He lived on the third floor.
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His parents survived the fall somehow and suffered severe injuries, but my poor friend, a seven-year-old kid, did not make it. All of this we came to know the next day, Monday, during morning school announcements when they told us what happened. I was devastated because the entire time that day I was wondering why he had not shown up for school that day.
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I was so young, I had no idea how to react to such news apart from crying. I can't even imagine. I'm so sorry. In the following weeks and months, I started to feel some kind of presence around me. It felt like anywhere I went, someone around the corner was watching me. But it didn't feel threatening. In fact, it felt like a kind presence. It was without a shadow of a doubt, him.
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Sometimes I would feel a touch on my neck in an empty room and when I turned around, there he was. A very blurry shadow of his body, but an unmistakable kind aura. It used to freak me out and I did not want to acknowledge it, so I kept telling myself that I am just making up stuff in my head, but it kept happening to me for the next few months.
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His face peeking at me from a corner of the school bathroom, sometimes my bedroom door. So much so, I started double thinking whether he actually passed away or not, but I still never told my parents or anybody about this. Dann ist etwas absolut freaky passiert. Wir waren auf einer Schulreise und wir wurden zu einer Art Karneval besucht, wo es Schuhe, Spiele und solche Dinge gibt.
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Ich und ein paar Freunde sind durch diese Schuhe gegangen, als die alte Frau mit freaky Kraft mich an den Arm gefangen hat und in meinem Ohr gespürt hat, warum er ihn nicht erkennt. Er versucht so hart. Warum drückst du ihn weg? Fühlst du ihn, der dich überwacht? Die absoluten Störungen, die es mir in den Spiegel gesendet hat. Und dann, die Frau ist einfach in den Sturm geschwommen. Wer war sie?
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Wie wusste sie genau, was mir passiert ist? Was zur Hölle ist gerade passiert? Ein paar Freunde, die mit mir waren, waren gleichermaßen überrascht, wahrscheinlich zu denken, was in der Welt war das? Ich habe die Frau nicht wieder gesehen, den ganzen Tag, bevor wir das Karneval verlassen haben.
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Aber es hat etwas für mich getan, weil ich für die erste Zeit wollte, meinen besten Freund zu erinnern und ihn frei zu setzen, wenn das alles dauerte. Ein paar Nächte später fühlte ich ihn, als er mich von der Bettwäsche auswählte.
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Dieses Mal bin ich aufgewacht, habe meine Augen geschlossen und habe ihm gesagt, dass ich in Ordnung war, dass er mich nicht überraschen muss und dass ich ihn vergesse und hoffe, dass er Frieden findet. Ich habe ihm gesagt, dass er jetzt aufwachen kann und dann bin ich in den Bett gegangen. Vor zehn Jahren habe ich ihn gefühlt und habe ihn gesehen und dann nie wieder.
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Ich weiß nicht, wer diese Frau war und wie sie wusste, was mir passiert ist. Hat mein Freund sie mir in irgendeinem Weg gesendet? Ich weiß es nicht. Es war sehr seltsam, aber sie hat mir gesagt, was notwendig war, um mich und ihn frei zu machen, und alles, was es dauerte, war ein Erkennung und ein Versprechen.
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So, this was my story, and thank you girls for giving me the chance to share it as a tribute to my late best friend. Love the podcast. Cheers. That's so sweet. I know. He just wanted to make sure that his friend was alright.
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oh wow i'm gonna cry was the woman like you know like a carnival psychic but like a real one like she had actual gifts do you know i have a strange fear of carnivals do you i do just the like the traveling ones not a permanent i have a fear amusement park of the crime aspect of like Yeah. They could just commit anything and move on, roll on to the next scene, you know?
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I want to bring up Pretty Little Liars, but I don't want to. Oh my gosh, I won't understand it. It's been so long.
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Yeah, it worked a little bit. Let's move on. Our next one comes from Summer. Hi guys, I'm a new listener and I've been binging all of your content. So just the other day I watched the episode on black-eyed children, which thoroughly creeped me out. Well, my boyfriend has two twin brothers that are eight and we have them over for sleepovers quite frequently.
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Really good. Also, I was going to say, everyone's been asking about my book mug. Madly got it for me. Also from TJ Maxx. So, it may or may not be there.
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This last weekend, during one of those sleepovers, one of his brothers started losing his mind over something he swears he saw in our front room. It was late at night and his brother started calling my name and crying out to me.
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He wanted to go get something from our front room but stopped right at the edge of the room where the light stopped and he stood there in a panic telling me he saw eyes in the back left corner of the room. I didn't see it, but being a believer, I immediately believed him and started getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. He told me to crouch down to be his height and maybe I'd see it then.
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Still didn't see it. My boyfriend came over to check and he didn't see it, but then the other twin walked over and started getting scared too, saying he also saw the eyes. Ich habe sie gefragt, was sie gesehen haben, und gleichzeitig haben sie gesagt, dass es orange glänzende Augen gab, die mich sofort überrascht haben.
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Das Schlimmste daran ist, dass es eine Kinder-Size-Rocking-Sitzung in der Kante des Raumes gibt, ein eklektives kleines Country-Cabin-Type-Decor-Item, das meine Mutter mit dekoriert. Und die Jungs sagten, dass die Augen die Höhe waren, wo es so sah, als ob jemand in der Sitzung sitzt. Die Sitzung... Das ist ein Kind, das weint.
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Am nächsten Morgen, der gleiche kleine Bruder, der zuerst die Augen sah, hat mir gesagt, dass sie eine Schuhe haben wie unsere in ihrem Wohnzimmer zu Hause. Und dass manchmal am Abend wacht er schrecklich auf und die Schuhe rücken zurück und forth auf ihrer eigenen Seite. Und dass, wenn er aufwacht und sie sieht, hört er auch Schüffeln und Schrecken von innerhalb seines Klosters.
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Also, entweder meine Freundin und mein kleiner Bruder haben wahnsinnig dunkle Vorstellungen und werden der nächste Stephen Kings oder Tim Burton oder sie sind schreckliche kleine Psychiker. Egal, mein Freund und ich sind furchtbar. I almost read that haunted little psychos. That's what I thought you were going to say. For your sake, I hope it is imagination. New rule, no chairs.
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Just at all in general, we all just sit on the floor. No chairs.
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Oh, I saw somebody that said, why are we letting AI do all the arts? Like, leave the arts for us. Give us AI that will fold our laundry. And I was like, yes. Okay. I will put money, I will back whatever hedge fund or group of people are doing that. Because let me know.
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Unsere erste Geschichte heute kommt von Malia. Hey, ich habe gerade deinen Kanal gefunden und ich liebe es so sehr. Ich habe viele spukige Begegnungen gehabt, also dachte ich, dass ich einen teilen würde. Als ich um 11 Jahre alt war, lebte ich mit meinem älteren Bruder, der 15 Jahre alt war, und meiner kleinen Schwester und Mama.
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You always say that. I smile whether I'm scared or happy or sad or anything.
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What is it? iRobot?
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I've seen that movie. That movie got me. Yeah, I'd be afraid that they would all like get tired of doing our laundry and revolt. And they know where you keep the knives. They're watching. No. Okay. Maybe not AI. Then maybe just like a special little robot that's like dog sized. I don't know. We're getting way off topic. What are we even talking about?
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If anybody knows anywhere that I can get a laundry robot, let me know.
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Would you actually?
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Yeah. Our next one comes from Aisha. Hey Mädchen, ich dachte gerade an diese Geschichte, die meine Mutter mir erzählt hat und es macht mich auf die Beine. Es klingt nicht wirklich wahr und ich weiß nicht, was ich darüber denken soll, also würde ich gerne deine Gedanken hören. Ich bin gespannt, was du darüber sagst. Oh, wirklich? Ich dachte, ich würde gerne meine Gedanken hören.
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Ich bin auch Angst vor. Meine Mutter ist Thais und die spirituelle Welt in Thailand, von dem ich erzählt habe, hat ihre guten und schlechten Geister. Meine Mutter hat nie geglaubt, dass Geister oder spirituelle Dinge gesehen werden, bis letztes Jahr. ein bisschen über die Kultur.
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Die meisten Thais werden ihre Autos von Mönchen gebeten und den Ruf für Schutz inscribed, was meine Familie immer gemacht hat. Sie haben auch Buddha, die auch gebeten sind, auf dem Dashboard gesessen. Meine Mutter fuhr nach Hause um 3 Uhr, als sie aus dem Krankenhaus zurückkam.
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Sie fuhr in der schwarzen Strecke, mit nur ihren Autos an, weil sie in einem ganz ruralen Bereich lebt, wo es keine Straßenlichte gibt. Jedoch, als meine Mutter näher nach Hause kam, war eine Frau, ein Geist, Als sie mir diese Geschichte erzählt hat, habe ich gefragt, wie die Frau aussieht, um zu sehen, ob es ein Freund ihres war, der vielleicht weggeflogen ist.
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Ich, meine Mama und meine Schwester waren am Morgen im Wohnzimmer und mein Bruder schlief im Bett. Ich habe entschieden, in die Küche zu gehen. Als ich in die Halle kam, kam mein Bruder, der auf die Steine ging und vor mir passierte und in die Küche ging. So we checked around the house for him. und wir gingen in sein Bett, um ihn schnell ins Bett zu schlafen.
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Sie sagte, dass ihr Haar über dem Windschutz und über ihrem Gesicht war, sodass sie nicht sah, wer es war. Von dann an war sie furchtbar. Ich habe ein paar Gedanken. Als sie an der Zeit krank war, war sie medizinerisch und vielleicht war es eine Verleumdung. Aber wiederum, sie hat in ihrer ganzen Leben nie in Geister geglaubt, obwohl sie in einem sehr spirituellen Land lebte.
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Hi Ghosties, I'm Macy.
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Keeping with tradition, I told her stories and squeezed her hand goodbye. I accidentally left my journal that day on her bed. Oh no. I don't want to cry. Later that night, my coworker told me Natalie had passed on. My next shift, I retrieved my journal and on my break, I decided to write. This time, seeing something strange. A long note written in cursive and in a different language. Oh, my God.
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The man in the red hat was my grandpa who passed away suddenly. He was my best friend and inspired me to be a writer. I have a few other stories I can share if you'd like me to in the future. Isn't that so beautiful?
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Oh, it's so good. That one got me. The first time I read it, yeah, I cried. Why are we doing all the, like, sad ones? We're not. This is just in order. It's weird how people... The same days have similar experiences. It all kind of works out. They're really good. That was a really good one. So thank you, Autumn, and thank you for the work that you do.
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Anyway, that was totally irrelevant to the day. Today we're talking about listener stories and our first one comes from Anna. Her subject line was the stalker. Oh no. Hi girlies. I just discovered the podcast. I love it. I have a story about a haunting. The story I'm about to tell you began in May and ended in August. I will begin with some context for you, if you don't mind.
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I'm assuming it's Natalie. It's spelled differently than yours. N-A-T-H-A-L-I-E.
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Oh, okay. Pulled together. Our next story comes from Bree. Hello, my name is Bree, and I'm a registered dental hygienist from Tucson, Arizona. My friend Paula introduced me to your wonderful podcast, and I've been hooked ever since. I, too, am a tea and spooky lover, so we already have so much in common. I know my profession on its own haunts a lot of people, but I'm not here to write about that.
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To be honest, it haunts me. The dentist and I go way back, like actual panic attacks at the dentist. I can't breathe. I freak out. I cry usually as soon as I lay down. I usually cry once or twice while I'm there getting my teeth cleaned.
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I hate the dentist. Mine is from like I have actual like trauma from the dentist. Anyways, this dental hygienist story. Ironically, before I was an RDH, I worked for a tea room in college. And let me tell you, it was haunted AF. People never believed me either because it was in this great big pink building. But all the employees knew what really went on there. The building was two stories.
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It had an unbelievable, whimsical, and overly feminine charm. I used to work the front desk. I would ring up clients, answer the phone, help run the gift shop with our buyer, hostess, and bus tables. It was literally the hardest job I ever had in my life, and I have mad respect for anyone in the food industry. Same. Dude, same. Working the tea room sounds like a dream, though. It does.
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Hard, but a good dream. Good time. Mm-hmm. That's cute. Someone just walking around casually. It would happen early in the morning and sometimes late at night. Always when I was alone in the building or when our kitchen staff was occupied. But the kitchen staff told me they would hear the same thing. We also used to keep really big bags of tea upstairs.
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Maybe 7 to 10 pounds of tea were in these bags and they were placed on wire shelves screwed into the wall. One day I went up alone and all of a sudden a bag came tumbling down right in front of me. It was so strange how it happened. Kind of like how a cat swipes a glass off a table. Intentional. It almost hit my foot.
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Startled, I thought, oh, maybe the vibration from my weight just toppled it over. I tried to recreate it a few times, but never could. I had also been working there for several years, and I had been all over that office space, and nothing like that had ever happened to me or anyone else before. The kitchen was all the way in the back of the building.
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Another girl who also worked in the front told me the same thing happened to her one night too while she was alone. Our owner and our chef were petite women with dark short hair. The office space had a magnificent staircase leading up to the second floor. Our owner was super quick and was always acting like she had to put out a fire.
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I was living in a two-bedroom and one-bathroom apartment. This apartment was located one block away from my job, so I walked to work every day. During this time, one of my best friends was getting married and I was one of her bridesmaids. We will call her Taylor. She also happens to be my manager at my job.
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So, when I saw a woman with short, dark hair out of the corner of my eye flying slash running down the stairs, I thought it was our owner or our chef. This was typical behavior for our owner. Turning my head towards the female, I asked how they could still be here. I thought they had both left for the day. But, when I had a full view of the staircase, there was no one there.
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Another time I was alone in the building, I had checked out our last client and was cleaning the building. I always locked the front door because I didn't want any weirdos coming in while I was alone. I was waiting for our owner to get back from the market with next day's fresh food supply. Coming back to the front after I was done mopping, I noticed a petite woman with short dark hair.
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I was confused. Maybe I didn't lock the door like I remembered. How did she get in? She was crouched looking at a teapot on a very low shelf with her hands outstretched. Almost like she was admiring the craftsmanship. I continued to walk towards her. I called out to her. I'm sorry, ma'am. I didn't hear you come in. Is there something I can help you with?
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As I approached, she disappeared right in front of my eyes. I blinked a few times and just went about my night. I was an overtired, stressed out college student dealing with a parent with health issues. I didn't have time to deal with my delusions. We always kept a menu board out front. It was a busy Saturday and I wanted to make sure guests and clients were taken care of.
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I noticed a woman, yet again with short dark hair, reading the menu board. Worried they might have questions, I came around from our patio door and asked this woman if I could help and answer any questions or help her find a potential group. But she was gone. She was never there. All three of these encounters I knew were the same woman. But the funny thing was, her face was always blurred.
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I could never make out any features. She never made me feel afraid. I did work in a beautiful place and I think she just wanted to enjoy the beauty without other clients around. I'm not sure if it was her intention for me to see her or if it was just an accident. You thought all I had to say before was creepy? Buckle up. I've got more on this place. Oh my gosh.
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Yeah. I mean, I think I would be more scared if the place wasn't just so picturesque in my mind.
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The gift shop was also haunted. Not just teabags would fall off the wall. Stationery, cards, and the rare teapot would fall in the gift shop. It would happen when I was alone and when clients were shopping. One day, I had about three clients quietly shopping. Out of nowhere, some cards fell off of their shelf. No one was by them. No one had touched them.
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one night in may i had a vivid dream the dream began with me laying on my bed in the dark when all of a sudden i see light coming from under my bedroom door i rose from bed and opened the door the light was coming from my kitchen i began to walk into my kitchen and at the doorway i stopped because i saw a man in fine clothing leaning against my stove he was gorgeous he didn't say anything however with his hand in his pocket he leaned up against the kitchen stove in a posture that said admire me then i woke up what
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I laughed it off and jokingly told the confused clients we had a ghost. One of them took me very seriously and said, really? Why don't you tell me about it? I told her everything I've said in this email. She was later joined by a friend that was in the bathroom. The woman I had just disclosed everything to told her friend I thought the building was haunted. That friend said, What the heck?
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Let me check? What? I was panicking at this point. It turned out this woman was a medium and could connect with the spirit world. She closed her eyes and got really quiet. She then said, Yes, you have too. I wanted to faint on the spot. I wasn't trying to be serious. She then said one woman was older and her daughter brought her there before she died.
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She loved it there so much she wanted to stay a while. She also had a favorite teacup, but I never learned which one it was. The other ghost was named Matilda. The medium couldn't really give me any backstory on that. I thought the petite woman I continued to see could be Matilda. This woman also confirmed I was more in touch with the other side.
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In later years, I was also able to meet with this medium again for a past life regression, but that's a story for a different day. A story we want. After having my craziness confirmed, I told our owner. She wouldn't believe me. She told me no one died in the building, but I tried to explain to her that we have so many antiques and vintage teapots and teacups, but she was firm. We weren't haunted.
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However, other employees definitely believed me.
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Would you? Yeah. The building is no longer a tea room, but now a hair salon. I'm tempted to visit one day and freak them out and ask if the building is still haunted. But I hope the two ghosts were okay with our owner selling the building. Sometimes I wonder if they're still there. Wherever they went, I hope they're happy and in a beautiful place like the one they haunted before.
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Thank you for taking the time to read this and possibly share this on the podcast. Please continue with your amazing work you do. Love, Bree.
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Maybe she went with her favorite teacup.
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So our next story comes from Ava. To set the scene for y'all, I must first start by telling you how I missed my flight to Spain. I was on a class trip for my Spanish class at the very end of May this year and was with 15 classmates and three teachers. We kicked off the journey to Spain by getting on a plane in Kansas City and flying to Dallas, Texas for our connecting flight to Barcelona.
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Ooh, Texas. Long story short, we did not make it on the plane in Dallas, thus beginning many problems for me and my classmates. The biggest problem at the time, when are we going to get out of Dallas and on a plane to Spain? The answer to that was about a day and a half later. We were very fortunate to be able to get some hotel rooms near the airport.
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When my group finally reached our hotel after our nightmarish travel experience that day, we were ready to take a shower and go to bed. The next day was as uneventful as it could be. We tried our best to get around the area of Dallas to get some shopping done because another important problem that had arisen was that we didn't have our checked luggage. Oh no, I was going to ask about that.
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And made it to Spain. Finally, we made it to and from the store back to the hotel to kill some time before dinner. It is now important to note that I was sharing a room with three other girls, so it was two to a bed. We were all attempting to relax in our room when I heard three solid knocks on the door.
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I went to answer quickly because I had just assumed it was someone in our group, but when I opened the door, no one was there or in the hallway. At the moment I wrote this off as someone messing with us, but it did unsettle me in an odd way. Fast forward to that night. I slept on the right side of the right bed.
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i remember not being able to fall asleep quickly that night i knew we had to be up fairly early and i also knew that two of my friends planned to wake up earlier to go on a quick run i realized i had fallen asleep when i was woken up to the sudden movement of my friend next to me in bed half awake on my back i stare at the ceiling it is pitch black in the room suddenly my attention was brought to my friend sitting straight up in bed very abruptly she suddenly gets all the way out of bed
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steps towards the end of bed, and turns around towards me. I am wide awake now because I can see her dark figure just staring at me at the end of my bed. My first thought was she was sleepwalking. She continued to stare at me for maybe five minutes, but it felt like hours. Finally, I glanced to my left and saw my friend fast asleep.
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My god. I was immediately filled with indescribable dread. It made my chest heavy. I looked back and could still see the dark figure looming about. When I saw this, I turned as fast as I could away from the figure and hid myself under the covers. I was honestly so scared I thought about calling my teacher in the next room. Eventually, I fell back asleep.
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I woke up to my friend's alarm for their run, and I immediately recalled my encounter during the night. I sat up and asked my friend if she'd gotten out of bed in the middle of the night, to which she answered, no, she hadn't. I then explained how I felt her sit straight up and get out of bed, but she just stared at me.
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I was about to provide my thoughts on how it may be some sort of sleep paralysis, even though I've never had to experience with that. When my friend in the other bed said, she saw the dark figure standing there too. At that point, we said the Lord's Prayer and knew we needed to get the heck out of Dallas, Texas. No one else on the trip believed us.
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Later, when I was explaining everything, someone joked that the knock may have been something I let in. I'm not entirely sure what it was, but I know it was something bad. As a religious person, I don't often venture into believing that there are souls that remain on Earth. I do, however, believe without a doubt that there are very evil energies on the Earth.
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No, no. This is all dream. Now, after this initial dream, I began to have the same dream every night. The only difference was that I began to walk closer to this man. The closer I got to him in my dream, the stranger my real life got. For example, I began to sleepwalk. While asleep, I would walk to my kitchen and take everything out of my pantry and seasonings drawer.
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I will swear on my life to this day that I saw something in that hotel room, and I know I did, because I wasn't the only one who saw it.
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that is so scary that is sick that is sick she was trying to write it off she was like oh okay sleep paralysis since i've even though i've never had it before but the friend's like no i yeah i definitely saw it too dude we gotta stop with the hotel stories i really do i hate i'm not gonna survive i'm sorry i hate the idea that the knocks were like asking to come in and she let she opened the door she opened the door for it lucky for me i'm never opening the door ever in a hotel i don't care
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Is opening the door inviting it in?
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That's fine with me. I don't ever open my door.
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Okay. Our next one comes from someone with the nickname Doritos. Oh, okay. I like it. Hi, Macy and Natalie. I'm so happy to have found the podcast a week ago, right in time for October. I listen to the pod at work and it makes me feel like I'm with my sister again chatting away. She moved out two states over for medical school.
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Thank you for entertaining the spooky girlies out here who love the podcast format. Here is a story I wanted to share with you both. Ever since I was young, the story that stuck with me was my mom's experience with the ghost bride from Taiwan. Taiwan, my homeland, is an island predominantly filled with mountains and has many small towns popular for their rural charm.
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Have you seen pictures of Taiwan?
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Literally just days before I read this email, I was looking at Taiwan. That's interesting. Or what a coincidence. I like to explore the world via Google Maps. Yeah. It was during my mom's early days as a photographer when she decided to visit Jiao Fun, the old mountain town famous for its winding streets and paper lanterns.
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She was hoping to capture the beauty of the place at night, especially when the crowd of tourists died down. Because it's a mountain town, it gets very dark and eerily still at night. The night my mom decided to venture through Jiaofeng, it started to get foggy after dusk. With the little light she had left, she wandered away from the town center and discovered a small shrine at the mountain base.
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Then stack all the items on my countertop. I would stack the items from smallest to biggest. In the mornings, I would wake up and there would be towers of items stacked on my countertops. That's creepy in its own. I agree. I began to tell my friend Taylor of my dreams and sleepwalking. She wanted to distract me, so she gave me bridesmaids duties to keep me busy. However, the dreams continued.
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Just as she was about to take a photo, she noticed a woman in a red qipao walking along the trees in the distance. with her face hidden beneath a bridal veil. My mom figured it was a bride making her way back to town after taking bridal photos. Her photographer instinct kicked in shortly after spotting the woman, and she wanted to capture the moment.
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She called out to the woman, asking if she could take her photo, but the woman didn't respond. The woman in red stopped walking, turned slowly, and as the veil lifted slightly, my mom saw her face, pale, hollowed eyes, and unnervingly still. My mom felt the blood drain from her face and the air leaving her body as she realized who it was. Jiao Fan's ghost bride.
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The spirit of a young woman who died tragically on her wedding night and was said to haunt the streets, searching for her lost groom. My mom said the bride didn't speak. She just lifted her arm as if she was beckoning my mom to follow her into the fog. My mom said, nope, not today, and turned to leave. But in her panic, she hit the camera button a few times.
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When she got back to her hotel later that night and finally dared to look at the photo, she booked a sooner flight back home after what she saw. In the photo, the ghost bride was standing inches behind my mom watching her. Oh. My heart is racing right now. Oh, no. Every time I bring up this story, I still get paranoid and chills.
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We don't have the memory card anymore as my mom wiped the card clean and tossed it before she got home. She felt that the ghost bride may have found a place in the card and didn't want to risk bringing it home. I hope this story doesn't scare you both into not visiting Taiwan if you've never been. It's a beautiful island with vibrant cultures and scenery. In the daylight, at least.
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Thanks for allowing me to share my mom's story with you all. Your ghosties listener, Doritos.
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The thought of it being right there. Right there. Right behind her. Inches. Inches behind her. What if she didn't immediately run? What if she was like us and just froze? Dude, I don't know. Like part of me was hoping that she's like, and here's the photo. But at the same time, I get it. I don't want to see it. I think I might have done the same thing. Was like, nope. Toss. Goodbye.
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Never looking at this again. Good choice. I agree. What if? I agree. Stomp it. Burn it. Throw it away. That's so creepy. But oh, I want to visit Taiwan. Me too. It's high on my list.
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I have like a top three for each continent. And Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan are my top three in Asia.
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Tulips are your favorite flower. Pink is your favorite color. This has been me.
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No, you're just finally getting really good taste. Oh, thanks. So thank you, Doritos. That was a, oh my gosh, a great story. Our next story is from Katie. Hi, girls. My name is Katie. I love the pod and wanted to send you some of the spooky things that have happened to me over the years.
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I will warn you that a lot of these stories could be debunked slash rationalized, but in the moment when they happen, they freak me out. I've titled the stories since this will be a long email. The first one, voices. In one of the podcast episodes I listened to recently, Natalie talked about how she thought she would hear her name being whispered when she was young. This would happen to me too.
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I attributed it to my vivid imagination and overactive mind at the time, but I had forgotten about it until I listened to the pod. I had never heard anyone else talk about it. In particular, one night I remember I was trying to sleep and I was hearing my name whispered multiple times, overlapping each other.
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A later night, I had a sleepwalking episode where I tried to go out my front door. My then partner woke up to use the restroom and saw my head was facing the front door. My hand motion could not figure out how to cup the doorknob. He did not wake me up, but slowly led me back to bed. One night in late June, in my dream, I had finally come face to face with the man in my kitchen.
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multiple voices were chanting and whispering oh my god i sat up in my bed and looked around but saw nothing i literally covered my ears as i started to freak out but the voices continued i don't remember when they stopped or what i did after but i assume i just tried my best to fall asleep okay it was nothing like that that takes your story to outer space that yeah nothing like that i'd be playing like brats rock angels on the gamecube and i'd hear natalie
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Multiple voices chanting your name over and over again while you're trying to sleep. The next story, titled The Mannequin. For a school field trip in third grade, we visited a historic park in my town. This park is known for being a place where some of the first pioneer settlers settled in my county. The park has museums and has maintained very old structures.
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None of the originals, I believe, but very old replicas. Some I remember are an old train car, a building dedicated to the kinds of guns and weapons pioneers used, and a building dedicated to the lives of the Native Americans that lived there. I was coming up to an old house with my group. We read that the house and family that lived there in the pioneer days had perished in a house fire.
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We were not able to go inside. That's important. There was no door, no access to get inside, at least that I could see. Inside were dining sets and a kitchen table on one side, and another side with a woman mannequin, a baby doll, and other toys and knickknacks. I was on the kitchen side and was motioned over to look at the toy side. The kids were saying that they saw the baby blink.
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I was skeptical, but watched the baby intently. I don't know if I imagined it, but I thought I saw some movement, possibly a blink. It was so quick that I don't know if my mind was playing tricks on me. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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He had stayed in the same position and made me come towards him. As I saw his features, they began to distort. He developed a creepy smile that showed all of his sharp teeth. His cheeks became more pronounced and his skin color was gray. I woke up in a panic and began to cry because I felt like I was being tortured. Oh, my God. I looked behind me and no one was standing there.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I reply, oh, I didn't bring anyone to the party. She replies, no, it's not someone you know. I said, okay, should I be worried? She says, yes, you see him in your dreams. My heart stopped and I held my breath. I replied, did Taylor tell you about my dreams? She replied, no, I can see people who have passed. You are being haunted. My God.
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oh yeah mid-shower shampooing my hair and all i heard the front door open mind you this house was old and every door sang a different tone when opened i paused because i knew i took long showers but surely it wasn't already that late the water was still hot i turned the shower off and proceeded to be the typical horror movie character towel and all walking through the house seeing if anyone was home i stopped by the kitchen for a knife first because aesthetics i guess definitely probably most likely wouldn't have used it
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Nobody was in the house. I don't know which would have been scarier, if it was paranormal or someone breaking in. But if someone was breaking in, why did they leave without taking anything? And why were my dogs so calm? I still question it to this day, 14 years later.
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As a shiver went down my spine, she whispers, he just touched you. He saw you walking to work and attached itself to your bright energy. He is a parasite. I began to sob because I knew he was a parasite. She told me that he keeps me up at night and uses me to go to the kitchen. Then she says, you know what he looks like. He showed himself to you. That is his true form. You need to get rid of him.
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And this isn't a neighborhood.
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This is deep in the woods. No. Like several miles down a dirt road. Several more miles down another dirt road. And then a long way. Up a driveway. Up a path. Yeah.
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like who's there no because i would hearken back to every horror movie ever and just at that point you're setting yourself up it's like there was already a scary thing but now you're gonna make it the whole movie trope okay moving on the current house i live in is with my mom when we first moved in my dad felt someone tugging on the back of his shirt he said like a little kid does
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Though I'm not sure if it was a little kid now. A lot has happened here, and it hasn't been just to me. When my sister was pregnant, she stayed in the guest room and would have horrible nightmares about the D words. In them, she would hear their names. She has since given up paranormal and horror, and I can't say I blame her. No, me neither. Me neither. That's so scary.
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What is our tea? Our tea is blackberry sage from the Republic of Tea.
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My dad would see shadow figures all over the property. Our garage is detached and he said he would see someone pacing by the door. But when he went to investigate, there was no one there and the garage was locked up. There was one morning right after we first moved in when it was just my dad and I home and I was woken up to a, hey, what are you doing? But it wasn't a man's voice.
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When I opened my eyes, no one was in my room. I went out and asked my dad about it, but he said mama was gone. side of the house. I've had something sit on my bed here as well, but now I have cats and can always just blame them for peace of mind. I've also had a few different guys I've dated stay over. One left halfway through the night and the other woke me up with an argument.
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Both claimed something was pulling on their feet and the latter was accusing me. Oh my god. My nephew, who is now eight, sees and hears things all the time, as does my sister. She often has heard a child calling for their mom. Nowadays, if she's awake past a certain time, she will wear her headphones and listen to something to avoid hearing anything.
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Shortly after my dad moved out, he opened up about the experiences he had in the house. He thinks there's something here that messes with men in the house. He had things sit on his chest while he slept, smack him, and whisper in his ears when he was falling asleep. I used to wonder why he always slept with the TV so loud, but now I know.
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He is sucking you dry. As I sobbed, I asked, why is he doing this? She replies, he said he's just having fun. Parasites will torture you and deplete you of all your energy. Come with me. Debbie led me into a room with tarot cards, a table, a witch book and trinkets. She sat me down and asked if she could do a cleanse. I replied, yes. She began to light candles, burn wood and chant.
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He told me a story from when he was a very young kid that still terrifies me today. Shortly after he and his family immigrated to the USA, they moved into what he called low-income apartments. One night, my huelo and huelita got into an argument and my huelo had to sleep on the couch.
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My dad, being the only son, decided he would stand in solidarity with his dad and sleep on the other couch, which was a love seat. He said he remembers his feet would have hung over the armrest if he hadn't pulled them in. He said he remembers hearing someone with heavy boots walking and stopped at the end of the couch where his feet would have been hanging over.
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And all he saw were horns like those you see on a goat. He's said ever since then he's had plenty of paranormal experiences and doesn't like to talk about them where, quote, they can hear. Oh my god. I'm sorry this is long and would love to tell y'all some of the other stories from him and also my current job, but I've creeped myself out and it's currently 2am.
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Thank y'all for being awesome, Yolanda. P.S. Don't worry, I didn't end up staying with either of the guys that stayed over. Rightfully so. Good.
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Just goats in general? Like real goats?
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Or like demon goats?
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That you have a fear of goats? Just add it to the list.
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Yes. I watched it in theaters, yeah.
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Yeah. A little scary, I guess.
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I did. Thank you. Well, thank you to Yolanda and to everyone else who sent in their stories. We promise we're making our way. We are still in September. Jesus.
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We have to at some point. And if you have a listener story you'd like to send in to us, because I promise we will get to you. Also, we're jumping around. So we've got coming up in April, we have two themed listener stories. Exciting. Get ready for that. So we will jump around. We will pick randomly from here, like here and there.
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So if you'd like to send in your story, you can email it to us at ghostiespod at gmail.com. It's written in the description down below. If you like this video, please like it and share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so. And if you made it this far...
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After it was done, I instantly felt lighter and happier. I thanked her and we continued the night together. After the cleanse, my days got so much better and I felt like myself again. Until one night in July, I had a dream that I was laying on my living room couch and I suddenly saw the kitchen light turn on. In my dream, I knew exactly who it was. It was him. He had come back.
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I decided to ignore it and lay on my stomach. When all of a sudden, I feel his cold hand get both of my arms and hold me down. He had a sinister laugh. I woke up from the nightmare and I could still feel his hands on my flesh. The following day, I went to work and I told Taylor about what happened. She immediately picked up the phone and called Debbie.
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When I spoke with Debbie, she told me I needed to cleanse my home. She gave me strict instructions and a supply list. After work, I went through each room and I began to cleanse my home. I left the kitchen for the end because it was the room I feared most. After I cleansed my bedrooms, bathroom, and living area, I stepped into the kitchen. The energy felt tense.
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It felt like I was stepping into a dangerous stranger's space. I felt very threatened. I began to walk towards the stove and the kitchen light turned off. I turned around to turn it back on and as I did, I heard a click, the kind that electric stove knobs make when they are being turned on. I looked at the stove and all my burners were switched to high. I began to shake because I was so afraid.
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Then I felt a sense of protection. That is insane. Thank God for Debbie. I know. How, like, serendipitous to come across Debbie at night and she's just like, hey, someone's following you. I know. Dude, what would you do?
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Be like, help me. Help me.
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It's good. It's so refreshing. And I feel like it's a really good tea for the spring.
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I know. That's such a good story, though. It was really good. It was so scary. It just, it will never not surprise me and not, I don't know, just give me all the vibes, all the feelings.
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to like she was having these dreams she knew something was up she couldn't prove it but she knew and to be confirmed by an outside third party someone who doesn't even know her it would just make it so much more real and then you can't ignore it or write it off yeah yeah that's crazy oh i'm glad you're not dealing with that anymore me too our next story comes from kobe hi ghosties i'm a new subscriber but i adore your podcast and felt compelled to share my story with y'all i've never written into anything so i apologize if i get rambly no apology needed
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Feel free to share this on the pod, but no worries if it gets cut because it'll probably be too long. No, no such thing. My name is Kobe and I'm a pagan witch. I didn't grow up pagan, but have been actively practicing for a good six to seven years. I've always been highly energy sensitive and empathic and have a strong connection to animals.
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Ooh. Okay. So sidetrack real quick. We're having a picnic at my house. We are. I'm going to send out like cute little invitations. I'm excited. It's literally just me, Kayla, Natalie, and my mom.
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When I was little, I would have so many imaginary animal friends that I am now convinced were spirits since I would play with them in my room and sometimes my toys would move on their own. That's kind of cute. That is cute. But my childhood is a different story. Now, some 15 years later, I'm working on and studying more of my psychic and divination abilities.
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specifically tarot reading and other card decks and palm reading. I moved out of my childhood home to a small second floor apartment by myself, and there was definitely some entity that lived there. I would constantly see shadows moving out of the corner of my eye, my lights would flicker often, and a few times my drink bottles would get flung off the table with nobody around.
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On a couple occasions, I'd also hear tapping on my bedroom window in my second story apartment with no trees nearby.
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I had done my own cleansing and protection spells, but that would only keep it away for so long. Three months after moving in, I went to a tattoo convention with one of my best friends. Yes, I did get a tattoo while we were there.
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While wandering around the convention space, there was a vendor there that sold some crystals and other magical supplies, and I noticed a canine-looking skull amongst her things. I asked about it and if I could pick it up. She agrees and gingerly hands it to me. Up close, it was stunning.
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There were some runes carved into the bone on each side and a blue lapis lazuli stone, I think I'm saying that right, embedded into its forehead. I was immediately in love. The lady tells me that it is, in fact, a dog skull and that its owner was a witch and the dog was her familiar. She had carved the runes herself and the skull was stuffed with dry herbs and blessed with holy water.
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I asked if it was even for sale and she says yes, that he's been looking for a home for a long time. I knew he had to come home with me, that this would somehow answer the problem of whatever was haunting me back home. After I bought the skull and we got into the car, I almost immediately felt more calm and felt as if this dog crawled into my lap and situated himself.
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I didn't know his name, but started calling him Lappy because of the lapis lazuli stone in his forehead. I cleared a spot above my TV and placed him on the shelf after I showed him around the apartment. I sat on the floor in front of it, lit a few candles, closed my eyes, and asked Lappy to protect me and our space.
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I felt fur brush across my face as if Lappy was agreeing to his new job, and again felt a weight settle in my lap as if he laid down. He's just like making himself at home. This is gonna make me cry. That night, I heard a lot of noises outside my bedroom that sounded like plates and utensils being knocked around, and one of the kitchen chairs move, but I didn't dare go out into the living room.
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As soon as I woke up the next morning, everything felt lighter and brighter, and I knew that Lappy had fought off whatever entity was there. When my lease was up, I moved to a different bigger apartment with my partner, and we had added a cat to our little family a few months earlier. Cheshire or Cheshire? Do you say Cheshire cat or Cheshire cat?
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Cheshire has been a wonderful familiar to me in my practice and has definitely helped Lappy in his mission to protect us from whatever negative spirits and energy is out there. Sometimes as I'm walking up to our door, I can see Cheshire standing in the glass patio door with the faint image of a dog standing next to her. And I know my Lappy is waiting for me too.
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Thank you for reading about my little spirit guardian. If you're interested in more of my stories, I will most definitely write again as I remember things. Love you guys and your podcast. Blessed be. Kobe. Yes, we'd love to hear more. And that is really cute.
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We were forced to be friends. Yes. From birth.
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Yeah, that's a good one. Lappy. Lappy's just there protected. I love the thought of like a little guard dog in the afterlife, like a little ghostly guard dog.
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If Cleo, because she's a really old dog, but when she passes, I think she'll stay around, but I don't think she'll be there to guard. I think she'll be there to call mischief and just hang out. Eat stuff off the counter.
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We are friends because we're sisters.
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Real quick backstory on Cleo. She is like part wolf. She's huge. She's very large. She's husky and wolf. And she is wild. Like within her soul is wild animal. And she is so smart. Like she'll be the best dog when you're looking at her. As soon as you walk away. Like as soon as you walk away, she's getting into everything and getting what she wants. No matter the cost.
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she's a good girl she's so cute anyway i'm sad now i'm emotional kobe also sent us pictures of her cat show me let me that sound is so threatening please show me the photos show me oh that's a cute cat i love it it's so cute that's a cute cat the pretty color too i love it so moving on our next story comes from autumn hi guys my name is autumn a few years ago during the pandemic i began working at a nursing home slash assisted living facility i was a server and worked there for a few years
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Same. Me too. After leaving the storage room and heading to the dining room, I heard music playing, the kind that would play at a 1940s party. I assumed it was the janitor at first, or a nurse trying to entertain themselves. However, I walked around and was the only one there. I entered a separate room attached to the dining room where the speakers connect to an iPad.
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As I turned on the light, the iPad was gone. What the hell was connected to the speakers? I freaked out and instantly called my coworker, and she said she was running late. Of course she was. The music still playing, I ran to the front desk and asked security if he knew what was happening. He chuckled and followed me. The lights were on when I left and off when we arrived. Music still playing.
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We're having... I'm planning a picnic. So we're going to have all the cute little... I went to the store, several stores and got a bunch of like flowery plates and like a whole picnic blanket. And I got this giant picnic basket and... Some serving platters that have flowers and stuff on them and I'm very excited going all out. It's our little book club. Yeah.
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This man says, Okay, Mr. Roberts, you had your fun. Stop scaring the poor girl. The lights popped on and the music ceased. He explained to me that Mr. Roberts passed five years ago and was a jazz musician who happened to love pranking others in the facility.
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After that day, I only heard the music play a few more times, startled at first, but then feeling somewhat better knowing Mr. Roberts was having fun in the afterlife.
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That is really cute.
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Scary at first, but it's just Mr. Roberts. It's fine. To know who it is, I think, makes it less scary.
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I can handle that. He's just a little prankster. Another story was during the height of the pandemic. Working with elderly people, death becomes a weekly occurrence. It was difficult knowing that people I just fed earlier that day were gone forever. That's so, so hard. I couldn't do it.
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And I, my heart goes out to, and I commend all of you who are capable of working in an environment like that, be it nursing homes, long-term care, facilities, hospitals. Hospitals.
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anything like that where you're kind of working close to death often hospice that too yeah i could never do it i think it takes a very special person one day i worked in the dementia care area and was assigned to hand feed a woman in hospice her name was natalie and she was previously a french writer whose husband passed away a few years previously she didn't speak english but she would understand what we had to do for her for a few days i would feed and then keep her company
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Although language was a barrier, I still told her stories and kept her company, occasionally reading poems I wrote. Her motor skills were little to none, and I could tell she was soon to join her husband. I wanted her to feel comfortable and to know she isn't alone. I'm about to cry already. My voice is cracking. Sorry. The last morning I spent with her, she kept her eyes closed the entire time.
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Hi, Ghosties. I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And we're coming to our end of a month full of listener stories. We are. This is the last Monday. Honestly, I've loved it, but I'm ready to move on. Agreed. Like, this would be nice maybe like once a year. We do a whole month. But I also miss the research and I miss other things. And learning about new things.
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When Jake's gone, he comes home and he's like, every single light was on. I was like, you gotta do what you gotta do, man. Purposely. Number two. I was sleeping on my side with my back to the door and the rest of my room. My bed was in the corner. I always left my door open so my dogs could come and go as they pleased while I slept.
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One night, I was woken up to the sound of our little Boston Terrier crying, which wasn't unusual. To this day, our Boston will cry until she's invited up onto the couch or bed. We don't know why she does this. It's a habit she's had since she was a puppy. She's a vampire. She has to be invited. She can jump up herself.
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You just need to either pat beside you or say something like, come on or get up. Vampire. Maybe. So without even opening my eyes, I pat my hip a few times. She doesn't jump up and continues crying. With my eyes still closed, I say, come on, Lucy. She's still on the ground crying. I start shifting to sit up while at the same time calling out, oh, Lucy. I open my eyes and see Lucy crying.
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right in front of me dead asleep no and right next to her is my other dog jacks sleeping peacefully as well i slowly lay back down without saying another word the crying distorts it no longer sounds like my beloved pup it sounds strange like desperate painful gurgling then it stops for a moment when the noise starts again it's no longer crying it's growling I know it wants me to turn around.
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I can feel that is what it wants. I began to cry silently. I was truly afraid for my life. Afraid to make a sound. Afraid to move. I start hearing creaking and popping sounds. Like ten people standing behind me cracking their knuckles. And this unusual creaky sound. The noises are from him dropping the facade and standing straight up. It's now looming over me. I can feel heat radiating from it.
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I stared at its shadow, silent tears pouring down my face for what I believe was two or three hours. Finally, I couldn't fight it anymore. I was exhausted and my eyes were worn out from crying. I fell asleep. I remember as I fell asleep, I just kept thinking, I am going to die. But I didn't die. I woke up with bruises and cuts all over, and my face was incredibly swollen from crying.
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But I was alive, and after all that, I still had to get ready and go to school. Oh. Thank you for taking the time to read these. Both of these stories are from my sophomore year of high school. I know they may sound a bit fantastical, but I promise this is all unfortunately true. I obviously have a lifetime of experiences to share, so please let me know if you'd like to hear more.
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And of course, you're more than welcome to share any of this on the pod. Kai.
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so disturbed the dog whining and it the the just the visual in my mind of it like distorting you hearing it distort turns to growls and then it creaks and pops as it stands all the way up behind you waiting just waiting for its moment what would happen if you turn around like what something more severe than the cuts and bruises she woke up with How many more pages of this do we have left?
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That's a story we almost done. No, we are not done. Oh my God. Or even close. I know I'm sick. That was a lot. And I'm so sorry that you've been dealing with that for your entire life. I don't even know what to say. We joke about like maybe someone cursed our family in the past and that's why we have bad luck. I'm good. We're doing great.
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I've heard some people who will get exorcisms when they have a family curse like that. Not full exorcisms, obviously, because you're not being possessed, but when you have a generational curse like that and it's attached to you or your family, people will go to priests and have them do certain kinds of exorcisms for you.
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that's interesting and i don't know if you've ever done anything like that or your family and maybe like to get rid of this generational demon if there is something you can do i don't know i don't know and if there's anybody in the comments who has experience with this or knows any more about rating yourself of a demon who's attached to you and your entire family drop a comment this is out of our scope i'd like to help kai get rid of whatever this is because i do not like it that's so scary lord
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It looks a lighter blue until it starts to all come together, and then it kind of looks like NyQuil. But I like it. I like that blue color. Yes. You want to stir up your sugar first? It's very pretty. Okay. Pause for stirring noises. It's blue now. Yes. It's supposed to be purple. I want to try it first. Do our magic over here. Without the lime, if it changes anything. Okay. That's fine with me.
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our next story comes from jessica i don't remember most of these stories jessica that's what i think anytime i hear that name sorry i'm trying to lighten the mood because i'm really scared yeah i feel you like my heart what is that the hot chick yeah i feel like i'm like shaking from the inside like it's gonna come out of me you know okay you know what i mean you ever get that feeling yeah like we've got the shivers on the inside like
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yes yeah okay all the time hey y'all sorry i keep sending so many emails but watching your videos brings back these memories that i have tried to suppress probably because they scare me so much send us all the emails and eventually we'll get to your other ones because we go in order so these are two stories that happened when i was sleeping the first one was when i was 13 years old
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I was staying at my friend's house, and she was really into spirituality and the occult, and we had played with a Ouija board in the house as background. I was fast asleep, and I had a dream where I was surrounded by darkness and started screaming out of fear of something in the darkness. Other than that, I don't remember anything.
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At her house, I was prone to sleep talking, so I wasn't too surprised when she asked me if I remember screaming last night. I told her I screamed in a dream, but I wasn't awake. She went white and said I had started screaming last night and shot up with a completely straight back. She, of course, was staring at me. I then turned to her in a robotic voice said, I'm so sorry.
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Then flat back laid down. She said once my head was back on my pillow, my body relaxed again, but she stayed up to keep an eye on me thinking I was possessed. Again, I don't remember any of this except screaming in the darkness of a dream. I would have called your mom and be like, come get your kid. She can't stay here anymore. No. That's scary.
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Another night, I was at my house, and this home was both physically and energetically dark. I hated it, and knowing what I know now, I think there were demons in that house. My mom and I lived there alone, and it was a time in our lives of just being constantly angry at each other and the world on levels that we have never felt again in the years we have been away.
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I was 17 when this took place, and this was the first home where I truly could not sleep in the dark because it just gave me the creeps. I had a metal bed frame with slats in the headboard that were maybe five inches apart and my bed sat like an inch away from the wall because of the baseboards.
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I was just about to fall asleep when I felt a hand grab the hair at my scalp and yank me towards the headboard. I shot up and tried to convince myself that it was just a dream, but my head was pounding from where it had hit the slats on my headboard.
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Then I thought maybe it was an involuntary movement and I did it to myself, but the way I was laying down, there was no way I could have reached that part of my head and pulled down through my headboard. I ran to my mom's room and slept with her and my dog that night.
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every night after that my dog started sleeping with me on his own which was odd because he never really slept with me mostly because i had a tiny twin bed and he was a 100 pound husky slash golden uh golden mix that i had to spoon for both of us to fit and he would get on and off of my bed to switch sleeping on the concrete floors to cool down i didn't have another experience of touching after that night but the house still scared me and felt extremely dark my mom also would wake up with scratches some deep and bleeding a lot
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But she always seemed convinced that she just did it to herself. But I'm not so sure. Stay safe and spooky, Jessica. We don't deserve dogs. No, he's coming to protect you. He knew you were scared of something. He knew you didn't feel good. So he was like, you know what? Pulled down and back behind the bed. And you know what? My current headboard is just flat. There's nothing.
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Observe. Refreshing. You know what? It's a good springy flavor. I... I notoriously don't like anything. That's pretty good. That's good. I like that a lot. I think I would drink this iced. This feels more agreed, like a summery one. All right, are we ready? This is a big lime. Can everyone see? I'm nervous. Hello? Wait, it's changing. Look at that at the bottom. Okay, hey, calm your screams.
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And I want like a nice iron bed because I think they're very pretty. Mm hmm. I think I'm real good with just nothing straight across. So nothing can reach you. But me personally, if that happened to me, I would 100% convince myself without any doubt that I did it to myself. You'd have to. You have to sometimes. Yeah. I could not let myself go there. It's too much.
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I don't know if I'm hungry or if I'm just really scared already, but I feel sick to my stomach.
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I'm sorry to bring that upon you all the time. Sort of. Our next email comes from Anonymous. Ooh. Hi, lovies. I discovered your YouTube channel maybe about a week or two ago, and I've been binging your videos since. I love how comfy and cozy you make creepy stuff sound. So I've been putting it as background noise while I paint.
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Your most recent video on October 17th, specifically Krista's haunting dream story, opened up a memory of a dream I had locked away. This would have happened around 2018, 2019, shortly after my father passed away, and I was in a really bad headspace. I'm a firm believer that when you are in a weak state of mind, you are open to negativity. Agreed. Also me, yeah.
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And I also believe that mirrors are portals, and they just give me an ick even to this day. Well, combine sleeping across a closet with mirrored doors, depression, insomnia, and the belief of the supernatural, and you have a ticking time bomb. On this night, I must have been tossing and turning until close to 2 or 3 a.m.
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I wasn't asleep, but I wasn't awake at the same time, and started to have an almost out-of-body experience. I could see myself sleeping in my bed with my back to the mirror. Suddenly, I felt a burning sensation from the nape of my neck all the way down my spine. I looked to the mirror, and I watched a thin, bony, gray creature crawling out.
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As soon as the creature creeps out of the mirror, my body feels paralyzed, like fingers tingling and everything. My throat is tight, as if I couldn't breathe. The creature crawls its way over on its hands and feet and climbs on top of me. Its hands and legs were on either side of my body, caging me in, leaning its face down to meet my own.
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It pulled a cruel, sharp-toothed grin and began to speak in the voices of my loved ones, as if shuffling between the voices of my deceased dad, mom, and older brother. It didn't sound exactly like them. Very scratchy. Like some old-timey record player. I can still remember what it said. You are worthless. You're stupid. You're a fat pig. You deserve to die. You should kill yourself. Oh my god!
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No one loves you. Your father didn't love you. Your mother doesn't love you. Your brother doesn't love you. I could do nothing but cry in this frozen, sleeping state as the creature laughed and taunted. Though, as it began to speak again and continued its taunting, it said my brother's name. For some reason, that clicked something in the back of my mind.
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Still having this wild, out-of-body experience, I can hear myself starting to speak, starting to scream. You don't know me. You don't know my family. Get out. Get out. Get the F out. I haven't had another tense experience like that again until recently. Oh, no. Let me know if you want to hear more. Much love and light. Anonymous. You know what? Normally, I would say, why? No, I'm good for now.
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Tell me that later. Tell me your extra one later because that... That was so terrible. Why are we having things come and say such horrible stuff in the dream? Twice. That is why, to me, it is demonic. Yeah. Because they, like demons, will try to make you... be in the lowest state possible. Cause they're, you're easier to, to act upon.
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You're easier to feed on for lack of a better word, you know, when you're at your lowest and your weakest spiritually and mentally. Yeah. And so they want you there and they want to keep you there. I'm so glad that they had that out of body experience and was able to see this and be able to get themselves out of this, you know, and they realized like, get out, get out. You don't know me.
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You don't know my family, you know, nothing. And you don't belong here. Well, I like that. I wish I could say that in like a customer service setting, though. Get out of here. Yeah. Sorry. Trying to lighten the mood. That was a lot. I feel very not good. I like that ending, except for the fact that they had another experience. But yeah, I like the ending of that one. Yeah.
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I'm sorry you experienced that. A lot of these people are a lot stronger than me. I don't know. You never know. If you're in that situation, you might. And I don't want to find out. No. I'm not welcoming anything. I am closed off. We're good. Love and light. From all external things. Our light bubble is expanding out and pushing all the negativity.
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I like your hand movements for those of you who are on audio only. Sorry. Our next story comes from Aria. Hello, guys. I enjoy your pod so much. When listening to stories about dreams and general spooky happenings, I thought I'd share my story with you guys. So when I was 18, I had an extremely unusual and vivid occurrence.
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For some background knowledge, this story occurred at my grandparents' house. a house they built in the 70s in an area on the central coast of California. Then, so rural, there were only dirt roads, tons of eucalyptus trees, and no neighbors.
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That's loud. Okay. Oh my goodness. I really hope y'all can see that. It's like pinky purple. I'll add more lime just to... I'll add more lime. We're really from Texas. Okay. It's going to be really limey now. That's okay. I like limes. Let me hide this little... You going to stir it up or not? I am. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's like... Like more pink color. Oh, magic. Wow. What an experience. Observe.
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I have no idea the history of the land, but based upon my experience and the experiences of my other family members, I have to assume there is some energy there. Back to the story. When I was 18, I moved into a different bedroom in my grandparents' house. Everything was going great, and I was happy to have a space of my own after sharing bedrooms my whole life.
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The same day I moved my stuff in, I took a midday nap. Oh my God. I just remembered this story and I'm, this is a bad one. Oh God. I just got my legs extended again. I'm going to have to curl back up, huh? Yeah. Okay. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Okay. I just had a visceral reaction. Okay. The same day I moved my stuff in, I took a midday nap.
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During this nap, I had my very first sleep paralysis experience. It wasn't terribly unusual from other stories I've heard. I was able to look around my room. As I stated, this was a daytime nap. So it was daylight in my room with the curtains open and the sleep paralysis was accurate in that it was also daylight. This will be relevant later. I wasn't able to see the best.
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It was sort of like viewing yourself both in first and third person at the same time. I didn't see anyone this time. I just felt a presence. It was aggressive and I just knew it was a female presence. It was like she was hovering over me, not touching me, but nonetheless pinning me to the bed. I struggled in the dream, thrashing about, trying to fight it.
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I wasn't able to speak, but in my head, I thought, you bee, get off of me. She did not like that. The dream quickly ended. The following night, I was going to bed. Very normal circumstances. Nothing out of the ordinary. Late into the night, I suddenly awakened. The lights were on, the TV was off. I looked around the room confused.
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And we've added about 18 new topics to our list this whole time, this whole month. I know. But I'm ready to switch it up a little bit. And I'm sure some people are. Some people are going to be like raging like, no, only the listener stories. But yeah. Sorry. So to end our month, I figured we'd do it the same way we began it. And if you listen to the end of last week's Thursday episode. Yeah.
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It felt like total consciousness and clear first person point of view. Completely real feeling. I then started to hear nails stretching down the hallway. slowly coming towards my bedroom door, which was now opened. I started crying in my dream, terrified of what would come next.
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When the being got to my door, she placed her long, dirty hand on the doorframe, wrapping her fingers over it so I could see her dirty, long, and chipped fingernails. I was hysterical.
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the absolute most terrified i ever was and didn't think someone could handle this level of terror she crawled into my room slowly making eye contact with me and smiling she was wearing a long white dirty nightgown and her hair was down and stringy wet think the first exorcist movie No, I won't. I won't think. I closed my eyes tight and cried. She crawled up to my bed.
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I could feel the weight of the mattress shifting and the squeaking of the springs. I opened my eyes and she was on top of me. Warning, it's about to get gross. If you're eating, skip this. She was smiling. I couldn't look away. She proceeded to throw up on me, projectile vomiting a hot, smelly liquid all over me. She smiled and began to lick up the vomit that was all over my stomach and legs.
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I cried more. Just then, I heard banging from the attic in the distance. It was hard and loud bangs like someone was trying to get out. She looked up at me, smiling, and told me, Mama is coming, and crawled backwards off my bed and out of my room. As soon as she left the door, I woke up. I woke up sobbing, terrified, gripping my chest. I turned the lights on and called my mom.
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I never did ever see her appear in my sleep paralysis dreams again. It felt like she was angry I called her names and got aggressive with her the previous day when I had that midday nap. I told my grandma about it. She's a woman who believes in Mexican black magic. She called her friends and told them my dream. They were equally worried about what it could mean.
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I know my grandma handled it with some kind of spell or cleanse and I never saw her again. This whole experience was so unusual for me as I had never been afflicted with sleep paralysis before or since. She was sending me a message and it was received.
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Have I ever had a kid? No, but I feel like this goes on the list. I feel like my organs want to come out of my body, out of all my orifices. So, Aria, you did it. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Do you want to move on?
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my god you said skip if you're eating i'm gonna eat later okay i'm sorry i'm so sorry thank god i hope no one skipped and immediately went to that part you know i had to pause so you aren't gonna see this because i'm gonna cut it but natalie had a moment where she she told me stop because she was gagging and about to throw up on herself i have
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Like what you described, like if that was happening in a movie, I would turn the movie off. I'm not kidding. Like that's when I'd be like, OK, that's a lot. We'll move on. The next one is interesting and you're going to find so interesting. Me? It's good for you. Yeah. It's from twins. Yeah. They wrote in their experiences together. It's Caro and Eliza. That's very interesting. I'm sorry.
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I still don't feel well. We'll try and move on a little bit.
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these two twins they wrote it in such an interesting way and i i felt like i was having a conversation with them while i was reading and it it's long but there are some really good stories i'm really excited about this one greetings and salutations we are preemptively apologizing for what you were about to learn eliza is feeling a little heavy-hearted about the burden you were about to bear be strong soldier you've got this i salute with tears coming down my face
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Oh, that's hot. That is so cute. I am thoroughly enjoying this. Yes. Sorry. I'm having fun. We should just do a science channel. Like this is enough for me. Like we can end it here. Yeah. I sit, watch nobody be able to tell. I know it's just going to be black and then a lighter black. I know I'm trying to see, but take our word for it is now a purpley and this one was blue.
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You've said repeatedly that you want all of the stories. Well, here is every story we can recall of actually hearing or seeing something. There's more that have to do with the uncanny feeling of knowing there's something off. So let us know if you want to hear them. Feel free to share this on the pod, but don't feel obligated and share every story. We know it's long and we're not sorry.
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And we're not sorry either because we're sharing it all. Thank you. To start, we are fraternal twins, Caro and Eliza. Caro is 20 minutes older. This is not important outside of her desire for middle child status. Fraternal twins are not genetically identical. We are about as similar as regular siblings.
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We are both in agreement that while identical twins share the telepathy connection, we have the opposite effect. We split it. Carrow is not one to encounter any unusual things. She blames Eliza for that. We are opposites in a lot of ways. Not personality or interests, but physically. Growing up, Carrow had corkscrew curly hair and Eliza's was stick straight and unable to hold a curl.
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Eliza's always been way taller than Carrow. It's settled in at a five-inch difference. Wow. That's a big difference for siblings, especially. Caro is a picky eater, and Eliza likes most foods. Eliza is, quite literally, mildly, allergic to everything, and her body will develop allergies if she's around new things too much.
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Caro is the only person in our entire extended family to have no known allergies. Carrow needs glasses and hat braces, rubber bands, headgear, and an expander to fix her teeth and jaw. Eliza has basically perfect teeth and no real need for glasses. Eliza looks more like our dad, and Carrow is a spitting image of our mom. Carrow has a few rather large birthmarks on her back, and Eliza has none.
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And those are just some of the physical differences. We've always joked that we pass traits around while in the womb, taking all or nothing of each option. That's really cool. That's cute. Yeah. The trait you'll find the most interesting is encountering the paranormal. Caro has had few and far between meetings with anything that can be construed as unusual. She does not see things in the dark.
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She does not hear them. Eliza does. When Eliza comes and tells Caro about them, Eliza has her own theories on what is a nightmare or her eyes playing tricks in the dark or what something is. She isn't always sure which ones were real or what they mean, but Caro knows. She gets a feeling in her chest and a certainty when she knows what it is. Two sides of a coin or something like that. Thank you.
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If you can, you can kind of see it from that. I don't know. Compare the colors. No, everyone's gonna be like, no, I'm so sorry. I really hope you can see it. Should take pictures. That was a long, very, very long process, but all right. If you can't see it here, we have pictures that we've inserted by now. I'm happy. We have to start a science channel. That was really cool.
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It's another thing we don't know anything about, but we can make it work. Too limey? You want to pour some more? No, it's okay. That's a lot of lime. You probably should have kept it with just the one lime. Yeah, but it made it better. It's pretty. It is really cute. I love that. I wish all teas changed color. Me too. That was neat. It really was. All right. Now to the horror of the day.
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Something so light and now darkness. Our first story comes from Bree and they wrote trigger warning for talking about unaliving. And again, I'd like to say in the description, we will have resources if you or anybody you know is suffering with or dealing with any mental health issues, particularly thoughts of suicide. There will be links in the description for hotline numbers and you can call.
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everything the activity in our house had two main areas my bedroom and the back garden it is a large garden interspersed with many trees and there's a fenced area in the back of it where my mom says they used to bury their animals when we moved there it was the first time i was allowed to walk around freely after the sunset and i like to run to relieve stress i didn't mind when the sun went down because there was a fence so no one could get in
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Karo's notes. When my grandparents lived there, we would have family nights and play hide and seek with our cousins. Eliza and I never hid alone back there. You could not force me to walk back into the garden by myself after dark. Back to Eliza. This leads into the second of the four dreams I've ever had about the place where I'm staying.
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In the dream, I was walking around the backyard and I ran deeper into the back to slip away from the house. I was looking for some peace and quiet and it was broad daylight, so I wasn't scared. This all makes a lot more sense now after seeing the picture because whenever you were talking about like going further, I was like in the backyard, but now I can see.
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it's a yard a large plot of land it's not okay there was nothing in the back and it wasn't much neater than the garden was in reality as I reached the fence part of the back the light had shifted from a warm yellow to a light like being deep in the forest bluer and filtering through the leaves I could no longer see the house only trees and paths I looked over
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and saw a figure walking towards the small gazebo we have i wasn't scared it was more eerie there were no birds singing neither of us made a sound i followed her until she stopped and turned to face me she was pale with long black hair and in a simple white dress she stared intently at me like she knew something i didn't and then suddenly i was in another nightmare i would flash back to her after i would see her in the story and she would lead me to another nightmare and another she led me through nearly 30 stories
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Oh my god. I tried to write them all down once, but they remain only through glimpses of memories now. At the end, I was tired. Each nightmare felt so real. I asked her which one was her story, and that's when she smiled. I never felt scared with her until she smiled. That's when I woke up. There was something wrong with her smile, like it showed too many teeth. But she let me go. Karo's notes.
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Does that sound familiar to you? An unnerving story being shared, but not feeling scared, and a long dark-haired girl behind it. Yeah. Eliza never told me about this one. I feel absolutely sick to my stomach. And Eliza didn't remember my nightmare. My eyes are filled with tears. My throat is tight and I am unwell. Thanks. I hate it. I think you can relate. Yeah.
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She said all the commentary that I was going to say. So yeah. I know. I hate it. We almost don't even have to be here.
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no because they're saying all the things that i'm thinking anyway but that is interesting carol only got one strange um story i guess you would call it where she's just screaming right there are these stories of the house of the land or of the girl i don't know but the fact that it got scary after she's like oh which one of these is yours and she just like smiled at her what is this would be such a good like book it would write it write that down yeah y'all are good writers write it together
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Agreed. So Brie said, Hey y'all. So this story is super long, but I promise it's scary AF and worth reading. My name is Brie and my story takes place, I want to say, my junior or senior year of high school. Anyways, one night after school, I had fallen asleep in my mom's room. I was really tired after gymnastics practice.
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that's so good what if she is showing you all of the like things that she has caused none of these are her story oh like she brings like a darkness onto people's lives yeah and so like the first story was like an angry yelling she was fighting with somebody and like she's just standing in the corner causing the anger oh that is scary and then she's like oh which one of these is yours and she's like all of them all of them i made all my story oh
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That's so good. That's so creepy. Add that to your book. Write that down. This is back to Eliza. The next. I don't really remember when he appeared and I don't remember when he disappeared. But this is only a little after that dream with the dark haired girl. I would fall asleep on my side, but I would feel someone watching me. So I would turn over and meet the eyes of someone on my ceiling.
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I call him Mr. Nails because he had nails all over his body. Think of Hellraiser. But I had never watched that before. I was thinking nails. Nails.
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like oh no no no like covered in mr nails i was like oh no like nails industrial nails used for construction okay like hellraiser that's so scary the difference is they weren't in straight lines and he was covered in blood so much so that i couldn't tell you what color his skin or clothes were through it i kept waiting for it to drip on me but it never did it was like there was a barrier between us it was as if for him he was right side up and laying on his back
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Karo's notes. I have never seen Hellraiser and I just threw up in my mouth when Eliza showed me a picture. He's one of the stories. Our brother and I don't let Eliza tell us very often. There's something about him watching that makes my skin crawl. Me too. This is horrible. Like you said, thanks. I hate it. Eliza again. Trigger warning. Mentions of self-harm. Not graphic.
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My room is a mirror image of Karo's, so the layout is similar. I call this one the thing in the back corner. My light was broken, so I had to turn it on and off by unscrewing the light bulb. So anytime I came into my room at night, I would walk into a dark room. I did have a small light that I left on. He stayed in the corners. I never had a clear sight of him, but he was always watching me.
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He would move around whenever it was dark into different corners. I'm pretty sure he is the one who made me so angry all the time and influenced me to hurt myself. Carol here. As we were discussing this topic, Eliza just threw a pack of gum to distract my cat after I referenced an earlier comment and said... I can say that he liked blood.
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And since it was only me and my mom in our household at the time, it wasn't uncommon for me to sleep in her bed. I remember her coming into her room around 9 p.m. asking if I was staying in her bed for the night or if I was going to my room. I was already super comfy in her bed, so I said, eh, I'll just stay here. Your bed is comfier. And I fell asleep.
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She looked at me and said, I just had deja vu and I needed to change the timeline. I don't remember throwing gum. So yay for terrifying. Oh my God. That's so interesting to like... I never altered the timeline with doing something random. I never knew that was a thing because every time I have deja vu, I'm like... I know it's going to happen. And I just let it play out. I know me too.
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Why'd she need to change the timeline? I don't know. Anyway, the thing in the back corner is still the voice I hear telling me bad things about myself. And he still craves blood. There are two times that he prevented me from praying. Once was in my room and the other time was in the back garden. I couldn't utter the words of a prayer. I couldn't remember how to pray at all.
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And I couldn't speak any words for help. That is a demonic attack. Like I've heard people...
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when they talk about demonic attacks won't say that they'll they'll prevent you from praying from like asking god for help because that's your defense i mean yeah that is so frightening i'm so sorry when i would try there was just anger surrounding me and it was as if my mouth forgot how to say the words i was so scared because i couldn't talk i laid on the floor for nearly an hour sobbing until i could speak the words my soul was crying out something was fighting the thing back and it wasn't me the thing was the straw that broke the camel's back
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I got tired of walking to my room being exhausted from school already and being scared I was going to be attacked. I started telling him, I've had a long day. Don't mess with me right now or I will punch you. This is the time that I was learning that we have authority over places and even a regular Christian had the ability to cast out demons through Christ.
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I had always thought it had to be a priest or a pastor or someone of more faith than me. One night I was fed up and I started saying, in the name of Jesus Christ and his power, get out of my room, get out of my house, leave me alone. I repeated that until the sun came back up and I knew he left. Until I cast the thing in the back corner, none of the animals would stay in my bedroom. Oh my god.
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Caro's notes. The thing in the back corner is real, even if I never saw him. I didn't like Eliza's room in the dark. Once I read my dreams to Eliza, she asked if I thought that it was strange that in both my dreams, there were three entities, the little demon and the characters in my room, comparing them to the girl, Mr. Nails, and the thing in the back corner.
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That's my analysis that makes my stomach hurt at the thought that they might have tried to touch me before they found the easier target. I don't like the threes. And there's like these three monsters that's terrorizing Eliza and the three in each of Karo's dreams too. Yeah. That's an interesting connection. And I wouldn't have made that unless they said it.
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It sounds like Eliza's are like pure terror. And then Karo's was like, we're going to mess with you. I would be so mad. Well, maybe because Eliza's more... open yeah and caro doesn't really uh have those experiences very often so they were like we can get more out of eliza than we can out of caro That's not good. Back to Eliza. a chair, and a table.
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Let me make it clear that this all happened in my dream. So in my dream, I woke up. And as soon as I wake up, I get a super uneasy feeling. Something is in the room and it's not good. For reference, let me explain the layout real quick.
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We had been told that there were people who would sometimes sell illicit things in those woods, so we didn't stay for long, and we never went out there at night. Caro and I were house-sitting, as we often did when our grandparents were away. We were in the kitchen chatting and singing, specifically Reckless Love by Corey Asbury.
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In the middle of our jam session, a loud bang hit the front door, less than a foot from where Caro was standing. I was looking at Caro standing in front of the door that led to the porch and I didn't see anything as the sound hit. She was in the next room in seconds and I grabbed a kitchen knife. We both crouched to the floor so no one would be able to see us through the door's window.
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That's when we realized we had forgotten to lock the door. Oh my god. Which was always supposed to be locked at night. Refer to earlier commentary on illicit wood activities by strangers. Caro crawled to the door and locked it while I checked through all the windows for any sign of something that physically hit the door. There was nothing. Caro's note. I hate that one.
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But by God, we went back and finished that song and read some Bible verses. I couldn't tell you what hit the door, but it wasn't a light rock. And there was a large porch to get there. We both agreed in that moment, whatever it was, it didn't like our song. Who sings that song? Oh, yeah. Let's keep it that way. You know what I'm talking about? We had a story where she was singing in the shower.
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Oh, and it said like, shut up. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I hate that. Back to Eliza. The last time I stayed in that house was after Kara went away to college and I commuted from home. The evening was normal. There was nothing that made me more nervous than was usual in that house. I normally slept with the lamp on and a Bible hugging my chest. This time I had forgotten my Bible.
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and I turned the lamp off as I went to bed. I fell asleep, and, in my dream, I was in that house and woke up in my bed. On the ceiling was a creature that looked like a woman who was pale and gaunt with abnormally long limbs. I wasn't scared of her, which is abnormal because creatures that look like this are my worst fear, but I knew she was protecting me from something.
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If that's the protector, I know what's out there. Oh my god. I was just staring at her and she looked to the door. That's when I noticed the screaming, blood-curdling screaming heading towards me from outside. I didn't leave the bed, but I could see into the hallway, which was blocked by a wall in reality. I saw the door to the porch and a strong breeze coming in.
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The bed is in the middle of the room against a huge window with two or more windows on the right-hand side, a dresser and a small closet on the left, along with the entrance and a TV and another nightstand across the bed. Next to the TV, there is a clock. Okay, so I wake up in my dream, feeling uneasy, and I sit straight up. I look at the clock and it's 6.33 a.m.,
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There was a woman in a light dress with pale skin and flowing dark hair streaming behind her as she sprinted towards me. Her mouth was unhinged as she screamed. I knew she was coming to kill me. I started running to the door to try and close it before she could get there when she was on the porch. By the time I got to the door, I knew I wasn't going to be able to close it.
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She was willing the door to stay open, even as I was willing it to close. I reached the doorknob and was trying to push it closed as she got there. Her hand reached through the crack, trying to grab me. She was screaming the whole time. When she looked at me, her face had no eyes in it. She tried to shove her face through the door.
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She slid her hand back to try and push the door more, but I slammed it shut and locked it. That's when I woke up in the pitch black, still hearing the screams and unsure if I was awake or still asleep. I could feel her pacing outside of the windows, still trying to find a way inside, long after I woke up. Caro's notes. There was something trying to get into that house. It wasn't a banshee.
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We're both positive of that. But it was another dream where she was in the place where she was sleeping, and those are never just dreams. I don't like that it was looking for a way in. It was pacing outside all night for the rest of the night looking for a way in to get her. My other grandparents' house was the old summer home of a mill owner. It was built in 1887 and is 4,000 plus square feet.
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It was just recently renovated and looks wonderful, revitalized. But we knew it in its decrepit version. Everyone who's ever spent time there has a story from that house. We ran into my dad's old high school buddy, and he asked if my grandparents still lived in the haunted house. It's still for sale if you want to look through the Zillow listing.
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And I will say... I'm sorry we won't share for privacy reasons, but... This is what I wanted. This is what I live for. Seeing people's houses...
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is natalie's that bread and butter all i want to do so for the safety and for more people to send their address we won't be sharing this but i will tell you i would buy that house in a heartbeat it's gorgeous gorgeous but definitely haunted i would bet definitely haunted it's a beautiful home but it's surrounded by woods and if you go far enough you'll find what looks like an old water treatment area
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If you walk over a large pipe beside a small dam and the reservoir lakes, you can make it to the abandoned mill. For legal reasons, we have never been there, despite what my camera roll may lead you to believe. This story was terrifying in that moment, but compared with nearly everything else I've seen, it wasn't sinister. This time, I saw an angel.
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I was with one of our cousins in Cairo, just walking through the woods as usual. We were discussing some story idea or another life event. I was scanning the trees and admiring the skyline. I saw a glowing being in white robes standing on the tip of a pine tree, which shouldn't have supported his weight. He stood there, looking out in the distance, at something I couldn't see.
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I was struck with this absolute consuming terror of this creature. I knew he was not from here, and he was not there for us. I took off running. I knew he wasn't a threat to us, but I didn't want to be near him. That's when my butthead of a twin and cousin outpaced me, leaving me in the dust of my own terror. We made it back to the house before they turned around and asked me what happened.
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I told them there was someone on top of the tree in white. I like, I like how they just took off. No questions. They're just like, okay, time to run. That's so funny. Carol's notes. Imagine this. You're hanging with your cousin twin in the same place. You always do enjoying nature and each other's company. When suddenly your twin takes off sprinting back towards home.
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I'm scanning the room, looking for whatever is making me feel uneasy, but there's nothing. I nudge my mom, who is facing away from me towards the two windows and say, mom, there's something here. Her being very Catholic mumbles, you're okay, mija, just pray and you'll feel better. This went on for a few minutes.
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You don't know what's going on, but you are not going to be left alone with something that scared her that strongly. She's still mad that we beat her out of the woods. Hey, I would be too.
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I think we may have talked about this, about how sometimes, like especially stories like in the Bible and stuff, when people see angels or something like a great power, like an angel, even if it's not a threatening being, it's still frightening. It's too much. Yeah. It's still scary to people. Just because it's too powerful. It's too much. I've heard that.
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And I always thought it was because like the biblically accurate angels were scary looking. Yeah. And I was like, well, I think it's just a manifestation of power. And this is too much for our earthly selves. Yeah, maybe. Hmm. That's my thought anyway. I don't know. What do we know? Back to Eliza.
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If you've made it to the end of these stories, just know we've been working on it for the last six hours through four background movies and three prayer breaks and Caro's part was already written weeks ago. We hope that you aren't too spooked and can't wait to hear your thoughts on the twin connection and all the experiences. I hope everything made sense.
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We wrote a lot of it out of order, but tried to be careful with how we referenced each other's stories. We absolutely love the podcast. We both have listened to most of the videos multiple times. Thank you for making a place where we, especially Eliza, can feel less alone for our experiences. Thank you for keeping us company at work. It feels like working with friends rather than alone.
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If you listen to Thursday's episode, we told you the topic today. It is demons part two, because there were just so many demonic dealing stories sent in by all of you that I couldn't choose. And it was so hard. It's like, I want to tell all of your stories, like all at the same time. Like if I could just sit here on a live stream and just constantly read your stories, I would. Okay. Can't.
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Thank you for the awesome tea recommendations. You've gotten Caro into drinking tea, which she always disliked until giving it another shot after watching your reactions. She's been rating them if you want to know her thoughts. I do. We'd love to hear it. We can't wait to see how much more you grow and all the spooky stuff to come. Sending all the love to you and yours, Caro and Eliza.
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That was great. Wow. Write a book together and tell us when you write it and let us purchase it. Yes, we will buy your book and read it. We'll have a live reading. I loved everything. They had fantastic stories, twins, scary things, Zillow. This was like the perfect story for Natalie. Like if you could create something perfectly to fit your needs, that was it. I knew you'd love it.
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I have no notes. As soon as I read it, I was like, Natalie is going to eat this up. I have no notes. I feel good. Is this how people feel when they listen to us? Because if it is, you're welcome. Because I...
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because i loved that yeah thank you so much for taking six over six hours to put this together because it was so worth it for me anyway so cute and they all got to like get together and watch movies like that's yeah that was good and everyone let us know what you think of teas what your favorite teas are what you've been drinking if you drink our teas i want to know if you're drinking the teas with us um because we do post it ahead of time let us know what you think too i love to hear y'all's opinions yeah me too but thank you so so much for sending that in
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And so I eventually turn the other way towards the dresser and closet and start praying. but I can't shake the feeling that something is still there, watching me. Suddenly, I feel something shift by my feet. I'm turned on my side still and glance toward my feet when I see it. It was a black, humanoid creature thing hunched over by my feet.
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We've got just a few more stories. That was so good. To round this out. Our next story comes from Megan. Hello to you both. I hope you guys had a great holiday. I can't wait to catch up on all the podcasts going back to work. And feel free to share this and the story below if you'd like to on the podcast. We would. Thank you.
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You guys are really doing something special with this community you've built. Last June, I had to suddenly quit my nursing job due to being asked to do things outside of my scope of practice, then being shamed for not being a team player. I've heard that. I have too. From a lot of people. I started my nursing career in the emergency room in 2019, right before COVID hit.
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So after this being my third job in four years, I was ready to leave nursing entirely. My friend then introduced me to contract nursing. And now I drive all over Texas to give IgG infusions to patients in their homes. It was scary and lonely at first, but then I discovered your podcast. You guys have the perfect level of spooky and coziness while also being very personable and funny.
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You guys make these super long drives so much less lonely. And the listener stories also feel like we are all just at a sleepover exchanging spooky stories over the campfire. You both seem like such kind and genuine souls. Aww, that's so nice. That was really nice. That was like... Fed my soul. Yeah. Thank you. Made me want to cry also, Texas. Yeehaw.
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So in my early 20s, I was going down a not so great path while in nursing school. I had this boyfriend who was much older than me. He had a kid that he no longer had custody of, and little did I know, a drug problem. What can I say? I was young, dumb, and naive. Anyways, the reason I give backstory on this is so you understand that he had this darkness around him. Bad things happened to him a lot.
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He actually almost died after we broke up because he flew through a windshield after a night of partying. He's fine now, had a broken hip, but walks fine. One night, we both were cuddling in bed after watching the movie Django. We were at his house. The rest of the family was not home at the time. I rolled over to lay on his chest while the DVD player kept playing the Django music over and over.
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Then, almost as if it was in the room with us, a loud, hushed whisper almost shouts his name, Nico. I felt that awful, cold chill run down the back of my neck. Are you okay? Kayla's dog's name. My eyes shot open and I turned to look at his face. His eyes were wide open, staring straight up at the ceiling. I whispered to him, did you hear that? He didn't so much as move a muscle.
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He very quietly whispered, yes. I immediately got up to turn the light on, telling him I was going to sleep in my dorm tonight instead. He agreed and walked me to my car. We didn't speak of the event ever after that day until maybe a few weeks later when we were on the phone. I asked him if I could ask him a question. I asked him if he heard the voice whisper his name. He once again said, yes.
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The line went dead. It took a minute, but he called me back and he was like, the power just went out randomly in our house. And I got really scared. And I was like, OK, we can't talk about this ever again. Way later, sometime in person, we did talk about it. And that was when he told me his mom had taken him a few years ago to someone who practiced what he called Santeria.
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It almost looked like when a cat hunches over when it's scared or provoked. As I make eye contact, I notice it has bright red eyes, and it slowly begins to smile at me with white, sharp teeth. I instantly start freaking out and start elbowing my mom in the back to wake up. I'm elbowing her for about 10 seconds and she's not waking up.
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I know very little about this myself, but all that is relevant to this because he and his family are Catholic. But they took him there because they thought he had something demonic attached to him. What prompted his mom to take him was them finding three scratches on his mid-back.
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He said he got some sort of blessing, and he was convinced at the height of his addiction to pills he thought something was following him and doing weird things around him. Oh my God. He would say often that bad luck and turmoil seemed to follow him. And mind you, when I was with him, it was a very, very dark time in my life too.
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And part of me thinks whatever darkness was around him may have attacked me too. Because it was when I was with him, I started to experience night terrors. Not paralysis. Like full on, I would wake up screaming and kicking and fighting. I see various types of hallucinations. Most of the time I see giant versions of bugs, shapes and various shadows.
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The first night terror I had was after my ex and I watched the Blair Witch Project. Not my first time watching it. I fell asleep and I remember opening my eyes and seeing something shaped like a person, but it was glowing like a bright orange and I could see particles of light moving all around the shape.
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Like I couldn't see any features, just the silhouette of a person, but with glowing light and particles. It started walking towards me and I woke up screaming because it was reaching its hand out to me. And I just remember getting out of bed to run. But when I really came to, I was just screaming in bed. She put LOL so you can laugh. I'm not laughing out of like hee hee ha ha.
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Dude, the worst thing I ever saw was a young girl with dark hair standing over me. I actually pushed my now husband off the bed because I was so afraid I went in full flight mode. I mean, she was literally standing directly over my face. I literally feel sick just thinking about it because I thought someone had broken in. Me too.
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Lately, they have been happening less and less and I haven't seen anything human-like in a few years. But still, sometimes I wake up screaming thinking a giant ant is on my wall or some giant amoeba looking thing is floating in front of me. The amount of times my poor husband helped me hunt what I swear was a wasp or roach just to realize I may have just had another night terror.
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I'll take the bugs overseeing people any day though. Sorry that was long. Just something that I thought you might find interesting. I also have an experience with a possible mimic in my childhood home if you'd like to hear that story. Keep up the hard work. You guys truly make my drives feel less lonely. Wishing everyone a happy new year. Again, feel free to share some or all of this.
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Yes, we would. That man that she was with. Stay away. He has a darkness. Stay away. I'm glad that you got away and you're now happy and married and living your life. But I hope he found help. Me too. Really bad. Because that is terrifying. It really is. He doesn't even want it to talk about it. I know it's too much. It's too much.
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If I, I'm like envisioning if that was me and I turned to Ryan for like reassurance and he's just like, yes. And he's scared. She was like, okay, going away. Staying at my own dorm. See ya. Goodbye. I know. I mean, good for you for leaving. But the fact that he's just like, okay, and gonna be by himself. See you later. Be like, please take me with you. Also, Nico is our sister's dog's name. It is.
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Finally, I get scared and mad enough that I elbow her super hard to wake her up. And when she finally wakes up, she spins around to look at me. Except it wasn't her. It was that thing, super close to my face, smiling. And all it said was, just effing kill yourself already. Then, I actually woke up in real life. When I looked at the clock, it was 6.33 a.m.
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Kayla watching this and all of a sudden we say, Nico. So Kayla, text us if you're here. Our next one comes from Liliana. Hello, ghosties. I know Natalie is a big fan of ghost pets, so I decided to share my own. However, this is not a pleasant story, but a dark one. This is my first dark encounter. The way I was like, no, we're talking about demons. Remember?
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Okay. You ready?
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When I was about five or six years old, my older sister, 14 at the time, got a puppy. He was so cute. His name was Oso or Bear because he was black and fluffy. I was so happy and excited because he was our first family pet. I quickly became attached to him. He would follow me around everywhere I went. This is a little bit of a sad story and doesn't end well for the pet. I would like to skip.
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And as soon as I would get home, we would play together. A few months passed and I arrived home ready to play with Oso. However, I soon found out he was not feeling well. He kept on vomiting and he was just there curled up in a ball. I asked my mom what was wrong with him and she said that he might have eaten something bad in the morning because he can't stop throwing up.
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The next day, I woke up to go to the bathroom. Oh, my God. This thing was really black and looked like the size of Oso, so I called it, Oso, and it growled. I kept on watching it from a distance, not knowing what to do or how to react because Oso does not have red eyes and never had he growled at me.
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When it comes to the paranormal, I often freeze, so I was just there, frozen, making eye contact with this thing. Anyway, after he growled, I looked towards my mom and I see her get Oso, bury him in the ground, and cover him in soil. I looked back at the red eyes and it had disappeared. I then realized that Oso was dead and I had no idea what I had seen.
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I watched my mom finish burying Oso and I just sat there on the ground watching her come towards the house. I asked her, where's Oso? And she said he died because he ate something that poisoned him. I did not tell my mom what I saw. I kept it to myself for years, not because I was afraid, but because I don't know what to think of it.
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As an adult now looking back, I actually do get scared of my recollections. I feel as if I think of it or talk about it, I will bring it back to my life. I know that there is a lot of folklore surrounding the black dog with red eyes. I know this might sound silly, but I am afraid to do my own research about this. Please let me know your thoughts on this.
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I really don't know what to think about it because I had never seen or heard anything like this ever again. Love your pod, Liliana. So sad. RIP Oso.
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But there- is like lore behind the dog black dog with red eyes is there yeah there's like i think it's called a hellhound uh-huh i've heard that and it's like in folklore it's like surrounding like death and misfortune and stuff i don't know if it brings death and misfortune or if it just shows up to death and misfortune so that's creepy maybe we should look more into that
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That was a really sad one. So we do have another sad one. Our last story. Extremely sad and upsetting. It ends, I think, on a higher note. And that's why I put it at the end. And that's one of the reasons I put it in here. Because it gets a little heavy. It's getting into topics that I'm a little uncomfortable to talk about here on the podcast.
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Needless to say, I was terrified and couldn't sleep for hours. I thankfully haven't had a dream like this since, knock on wood, and I never want to. I've always been pretty sensitive to spirits and energies and have even had a few premonition dreams.
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Because we're a family-friendly podcast for the most part. We rarely talk about things that can't be talked about in front of... yes yes this one has um talks of abuse um abortion and uh just darker themes all around so if that is not something for you totally get it we will see you next time we love you skip it save your save your mental health always always uh look after yourself yes
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But we will now move on to our last story from Sally. Hi, Macy and Natalie. I absolutely love the podcast and binge every episode while I work. My best friend showed me your podcast and we are absolutely obsessed. I've been debating on sending this in because of some of the topics and content and how personal it is. But as part of a spiritual healing I'm doing, I decided to send this in.
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To give fair warning, some parts of this are not exactly happy and a controversial topic, and I am leaving it up to you both to decide if you want to share this or not. I don't remember exactly what this is about because I did. I did read this one to Natalie a while back to see what she thought, too, because I was debating back and forth.
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But yeah, again, like we said in a few a few episodes ago, people are sending in their stories. It's a part of her healing. I think it's good to share stories with the community. And because the people in our comments are usually so kind and supportive of everyone in the story.
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So I personally was like, yeah, we can include anything that's like dark or sad or anything because it could help the person that wrote in. So I don't remember exactly what this one is. The person that wrote in or someone else who may experience the same thing. We're diving in deep right here, right now. So to start this off, a bit of background.
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When I was 11 years old, I was sexually assaulted that led to a pregnancy. I did get an abortion. I won't say much else other than I wish I would have talked to my parents when it first happened. And maybe the following events wouldn't have happened after I no longer had my baby, whom I'll refer to as CJ.
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I dreamt my best friend was in labor and she called me the next day saying she went into labor that morning, which was night for me because I was overseas, and a few others. I have plenty more stories, but this email is already super long, so let me know if you want to hear more. Anyways, I'm so happy I found you guys. I also listened to Two Girls, One Ghost.
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I had a lot of guilt and felt like I needed to make sure that the spirit and soul of my baby knew that the choice I made wasn't anything to do with them and how sorry I was. And I regretted what I did because I never got to meet them and they were constantly on my mind.
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I had been struggling with my faith since my parents got divorced when I was seven and being raised in a Roman Catholic church following Opus Dei doctrine. Which did not help the following events. I was singled out by the priest and my Sunday school teacher for the sins of my parents' divorce and was constantly made to feel like I was going to hell because I was now part of a broken home.
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That takes a toll on a young child. I am so, so sorry that you experienced any of that. And the adults in your life should have, especially at your church, should have been better to you. At around 14, I reached a point of guilt where I needed to do whatever possible to make up for my sins against my unborn child.
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I began to dabble in witchcraft and was led down a road of black magic and messing with things I had no business messing with, especially when I didn't know what I was doing at all. I was practicing a form of spiritual communication to try to see CJ. In the process of doing so, I began speaking to a spirit that I thought was trying to help me with my practice and in seeing my baby.
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I became obsessed. Every day for almost two years, I spoke to this entity, which slowly got me to a comfortable point, sharing the truths of my spirit with it, which was not a good idea. The last few months leading up to this incident, things got intense. Ideas were being planted in my head that the only true way I could see and hold my baby, something I never got to do. was to take my own life.
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The only thing that really stopped me and brought me to clarity was every time these thoughts occurred, a cardinal would start to sing outside my window. Bit of context, my grandfather loved cardinals and would always tell me, cardinals appear when angels are near. So I knew when I saw that cardinal, it was my grandfather showing me that taking my own life was not the answer.
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At that point, I was in so deep, I didn't know how to stop, and I still had a lot of guilt, which I definitely believe was being amplified and fed on by this thing or entity I was communicating with. A month after I turned 16 and got my driver's license, I was on my way to an appointment going up a state highway.
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The speed limit was 60, and I was doing between 55 and 60, so within the speed limit, but not driving like an old lady. I was coming across an intersection when I saw a dark shadow that looked like a man standing next to the stoplight post, and I didn't fully understand what I was seeing at the time, but now I do. Okay. Okay.
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If you haven't listened to them, you def should. And your videos came up on my recommended watches after I caught up on their channel. I can't wait to hear all the spooky stories you'll tell and watch you guys grow. Happy hauntings, Bree. Okay. First. Huh? Yeah. That one's so... To be expecting it to be your mom. I knew it. And it's the thing that's terrorizing you.
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and the last thing I saw before the other vehicle hit me was the shadow of a person with black eyes, the white puff of the airbags deploying. I was hit by a diesel work truck that was carrying a 14-ton load in the back going 30 miles an hour and got t-boned on my passenger side. By the grace of God, I was still alive.
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I was pushed into the oncoming traffic lane, which just so happened to be the opposite side of where the truck that hit me was coming from, and a police officer was there that immediately jumped into action. I had broken out my window because I thought my car was on fire from the airbags going off. She somehow managed to break out my back window and crawl in behind me and hold my neck stable.
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I somehow managed because my entire back seat was crushed. Part of my dash, including my steering wheel and parts of my stereo were in the back and the passenger side of my car was gone. My car was a hatchback and after getting hit, the hatchback of my car was gone. The only part of my car that was untouched was the driver's side.
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As the police officer was keeping my neck stable, and EMS was using the jaws of life to get my door open and get me out, I saw a cardinal sitting on the roof of the police car. That very luckily just so happened to be on the opposite side. I knew then that the only reason my seat of the car was untouched was because my guardian angel, my grandfather, was there protecting me.
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The entire way to the hospital, in the back of the ambulance, I was being told that I shouldn't be conscious. They have no clue how my neck wasn't snapped from the force of the truck hitting me and that it was a miracle my little Ford wasn't flattened and flipped on its side by the force of the truck hitting me.
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Not the best thing for a young teenage girl to hear whose only thought is I need to call my mom and tell her I'm okay. I'll interject this here. I came out of the accident walking, talking, breathing, a bit banged up, bruised and shaken up. Some decent whiplash. A minor concussion. But overall, I was going to be fine.
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I stayed in the hospital over the weekend for observation because of how serious the crash was and how serious my injuries should have been. The ER doctors kept checking for internal bleeding every couple of hours.
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The first night in the hospital after being triaged, seeing my parents and my sister and getting so much needed hugs and medication to help my body relax and let me sleep, I was visited by my grandfather. This was the first time I had a dream of him that wasn't a memory, and the first time I saw him outside of a cardinal.
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He sat on the edge of my hospital bed and stroked my hair, and a wave of calm and peace washed over me. He told me he was always going to be there watching over me. and he will be my faith when I'm struggling to find mine.
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He told me that as long as I had my faith in my soul, love in my heart, and compassion in my mind, it didn't matter how I practiced my faith or if I believed in all the teachings, because those three things would be enough. And for the first time, I got to see and hold my baby. After that, something broken inside of me was healed and I felt my faith come back into my heart.
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I still struggle with my faith and when I do, I look out my living room window to the tree right outside my balcony and see three cardinals sitting there. I know things are going to be okay. Thanks so much for reading if you did. I understand if maybe not because this is kind of a heavy and not a happy topic. Again, I love the podcast and it's a highlight of my week.
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I do have some other stories, some scary, some happy, some in between. If you'd like to hear more, I'm happy to share. Now, I'm sorry that was so heavy. And Sally, I'm so sorry that you went through all of that. It was a beautiful story. And we talked about so much darkness today. And Sally went through so much darkness that it felt necessary, almost. I agree. To put it in. I agree.
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The light and happiness and the love from her grandfather. And I'm so glad you're still here today. Me too. Me too. That is probably the most beautiful story we've ever read. Yeah, I agree. One of the best ones I've ever heard. I'm so glad everything turned out okay. Well, she did. I emailed her, you know, just chatting with her for a little bit. And she said...
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As soon as she said she was facing away, I knew. I was like, oh no, that's not her mom. And then hunting like a cat. I don't like it. I'm scared. I don't like any of it at all. And like it was telling her to do horrible things and it just... That is so dark. That's one of the darkest. That's probably the darkest dream we've ever heard. Possibly. Or one of them.
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The thing that I didn't mention and the scariest part was when my mom and I were on the phone with the insurance company and discussing the street camera footage of the accident. It showed I had a red light while everyone else said all the lights of the four-way intersection were green, including the police officer who was stationary at the intersection who watched the whole thing happen.
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And when they went to investigate to see if someone had messed with the system, the footage was gone. To this day, my mother won't talk about it. Oh, my God. So the witnesses on the scene said it was green. Yeah. And so we think it's the thing that she had been contacting that told her that it would help her and didn't. Oh my God. Ends happily. And I'm glad that you saw your grandfather.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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We've had a few like the one where the mom had to like watch someone saw her child's arm off and stuff. Oh, yeah, that was dark. We've had a few pretty dark stories. I forget some of the more horrible ones. Yeah. That one was pretty bad, though. That would make me never want to sleep again. I would be so... Waking up at 6.33 a.m. and you're like, is this happening again? You know? No. Oh, my God.
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Imagine if there would have been something there when she actually woke up. I'm glad there wasn't. Me too. And I'm sorry you experienced that, but that was terrifying. Oh, yeah. I'm freaked. I'm spooked. And that was story number one. Story number one. Starting off strong. Okay. I got to put my...
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put my seatbelt on also she mentioned two girls one ghost i didn't know about half of the paranormal podcasts before we started like we started and i was like maybe i should like look out and see what else is out there and make sure that we're like you know we fit in and we are you know yeah vibing with everyone and i found them and they are actually pretty good and they've been doing it for a very long time so there is some scary stuff out there there's a lot of really good ones my favorites i think are the exorcist files that's a really good one you've
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So this is the only other way. All right. Well, so it's going to be a spooky one. Lock in. I'm nervous. Bustle your seatbelt, as you say. Yeah, I'm pretty nervous. My hands are sweating already and we haven't started talking. Before we begin, our tea today is David's Tea Magic Potion. We're going to do a live magic potion here. As you can see, I have limes because we didn't have lemons.
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Yeah. Those are my top two. I've only heard of them because of you. Because I try... I keep the spook contained to this space. I don't blame you. Because if I listen to all these podcasts, which like I'm saying, I'm sure they're all fantastic. If I listen to them... Yeah, there's some really good ones out there. Like the two I mentioned, Two Girls, One Ghost.
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Yeah, there's some really good ones out there. So share the love. If you really enjoy this and you need more while you're waiting for more ghosties, there are so many good podcasts out there. And let them know we sent you over there. I will not be coming over, but... I'll stay here. I'll wait for you. We'll support you while you're gone. Yes. So our second story comes from Kai.
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Hello, I found you guys right at 15K and now you've doubled that. I can't wait to still be cheering you on when you inevitably hit 100K. When did this episode, when did that email get sent? Oh, I don't know. I didn't write the date down. Because we've tripled it. Oh! That's wild. That's really scary.
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And I mentioned like, oh, no, ghosties is growing. And whenever I said that, she was like, oh, my God, 50K. Like, that's crazy. Like, you're almost there. And then it made me feel like.
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exposed there's a lot of people watching yeah well 100k i just want the plaque and then we can just we'll retire on we'll be done no we won't no we won't also have fun no but i want the plaque and i want to dance around it like on the scooby-doo when they're dancing around the fire i mentioned scooby-doo a lot i think that movie really shaped me as a person i think it did too but like you know that's what i would do it on the plaque
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Okay. Anyway, y'all are hilarious. You are hilarious. You're the funny. So our dynamic here is like Natalie is the funny comic relief. And I am just here to give Natalie the information to react to. I feel like I'm just the conduit for your humor. I got to stop going on tangents. You say that, but I think I'm the annoying one. You're doing a great job. I truly believe you are doing a great job.
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Thanks. The pod is still comforting. It feels like I'm just hanging out with good friends. I'm wishing you both all the success and happiness in the world. Now, on to the terror. Thank you. My grandpa, as a 20-something young man, dabbled in the occult for a brief period. While he personally came out unscathed from this time in his life, the women in our bloodline did not. He summoned something.
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I guess you might call it a generational demon. It started terrorizing my grandma. Then my mom and Tia skipped right over my older brother, and when I was around two years old, my turn began. My chest just got tight. First, I'll describe... Okay, this is funny. Okay, sorry. First, I'll describe what it looks like so you know what to picture.
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You know the live-action Scooby-Doo with Matthew Lillard where they go to Spooky Island? I do. I do, Kai. I actually do. It has...
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a similar body to the tall skinny red monsters from that movie large hands with long claws about seven feet tall and impossibly thin where they differ is the head and skin color mine has bold blue skin it's actually a beautiful deep shade of blue his head is large and squarish and it comes to a sharp jagged point in several places oh and he doesn't hunch over like the scooby-doo monsters he stands straight up dude how funny i forgot about that i have a gift
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i know what's about to happen that's scary that's terrifying that she sees that in real life though oh that is but i'm trying to distance that out of my brain are you vindicated i am because every time we talk about a tall creature i'm envisioning the spooky island creatures secondly i'll list some of the frequent occurrences that happen often and don't warrant their own story cabinets and doors opening and closing by themselves the door to the garage unlocking itself at night
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It has black currant, apple, butterfly, pea flower, rosehip, raspberry, blackberry, stevia, natural flavorings. For a blueberry, kiwi, and blackcurrant. Okay. Yeah. But because it's a butterfly pea, it's called magic potion. And if you put some citrus in it, like a lemon or lime, it changes colors. And we're going to see that today. And we figured we'd show you too, because we were very intrigued.
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Heavy footsteps in the attic. Our attic is very small crawlspace. No one could stand in it, let alone walk or run. Knocking coming from the inside of my fiance's closet, like it's standing inside the closet knocking to be let out. No. Something invisible sitting or lying next to me in bed. Something slowly and deliberately pulling the blanket off of us.
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It often confronts me in my dreams, giving me frequent nightmares. Some of these are interesting, so let me know if you'd like me to write in with the greatest hits. Yes. But we want to hear all of your nightmares. Let's interpret them together. Let's have a live session where we interpret our dreams. Yes. Coming soon to Patreon. We say that. We say that and then there's no Patreon ever. I know.
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We get too scared. Waking up with bruises or cuts on my wrists and ankles. And finally, before we really get into it, I'd like to mention a few things. I like that these are just like the quick hits and they're terrifying all on their own. The bruises and the wrists. I mean, the ankles and the wrists. So it's like you're being tied down. That just made my inside of my skull itch.
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How do you... I don't know, but it, like, scared me. Okay. It's in, like, a wave. Honestly, I am getting really scared right now. I feel like I just took a few shots of, like, espresso, and I... This is caffeine-free tea. I was gonna say, this is decaffeinated tea. I've really tried to get rid of it.
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I've had my home blessed several times and done many incense and sage cleansings, but nothing works. At my previous apartment, my neighbor's pastor asked him to warn me of something evil attached to me, and he offered to bless me in my home. The pastor knew my name despite never meeting me. He said someone came to him in a dream... and told him about me.
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A few years ago, my friend had a witch come do fortune telling for me as a birthday gift. She arrived at my home and told me she was sorry, but the spirit she communicated with in her work refused to come, so she couldn't do my reading. They told her they were afraid of the old evil thing that clung to me. She gave me a protection spell in a jar and left. I have to assume she was legit.
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I've never posted about my experiences online or anything before, so there was no way she could have known before meeting me. Sorry, I know this email is already quite long, but I have 20 years worth of experiences. No, keep going. For the sake of brevity, I'll just tell you a few experiences from a particularly active year. Number one.
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I was laying in bed reading one evening with only the lamp on the nightstand for light, when suddenly the room went pitch black. I set down my book and picked up my phone, turning on its flashlight. I saw that my lamp had come unplugged. I figured maybe the plug had just fallen out of the slightly loose outlet, so plugged it back in and began reading again.
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After just a few moments, the room went dark again, but this time the cord had been pulled underneath my bed. Not like it had fallen out of the outlet and just happened to land slightly under my bed, but truly the cord had no slack left. It had been pulled under my bed as far as it could go without pulling the lamp off the stand.
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My bed frame wasn't very tall, so I had to lay flat on the ground and reach my arm under the bed until I was shoulder deep. I had propped my phone against the nightstand to help me see, but it fell over light side down, so I was blindly searching with my fingertips for the plug. Sure that at any moment something was going to grab hold of my arm and pull, but But thankfully, it didn't.
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I found the plug. But in the end, I decided to leave the lamp unplugged and turn on every other light source in my room. You may be wondering, why didn't I just get up and turn my bedroom light on in the first place before searching for the plug? Or why I wouldn't just reel the cord back to me from the part of it that was not under the bed? The answer is because I'm an idiot.
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I'm going to be so upset if we're like, and nothing happens. Or like your limes aren't very juicy. Yeah, it's going to be. No, they are. They are. So let's go.
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And at the moment, I really didn't think of either of those things.
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I was going to ask but I was like surely there's some like there's a reason which is like I have to make this as scary as possible oh my god but no hey honestly when you're like in those moments you don't think no do some crazy stuff because I would be too scared to move I'd be throwing things at the light switch hoping that it would turn on just close the book it's like it's bedtime now no I would be like trying to slowly turn on the light like from afar I'm throwing everything I used to when we were younger and I was really scared I used to
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like dream of having the clap on lights no because what if you hear someone clap okay no that'd be scary but i was like i don't want to get up i wish i could just yeah me too but my thing is i don't have to worry about that because i can sleep with lights on when ryan's not home i sleep with every light on in the house i don't turn my bedroom light off I do too.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I feel like a lot of people, even nowadays, everything unknown is like, oh, scary.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
It's like, I feel like we should all just, you know, try to learn more.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Can we trust it? It's like, why not just, you know, sit back and learn and listen for a second and then decide from there. You know what I mean?
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which our tour guide in the cemetery where she's buried was saying that she you know made medicines and things and it was actually just people that are i guess wanting to sell their medication or what they believe in we're like oh she's doing it wrong this must be voodoo but really it was like the actual remedy for the things it's very possible i believe that i really do
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
An interesting one. Where does one acquire a cow tongue? Well, I guess now, I mean, you could probably buy one.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I wish I could float on a little cloud like in Mario, that one little guy.
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I feel like it's somewhere in between. I mean, who am I? A nobody on the Internet. But my thought is she was just smart, successful, intuitive, and maybe dabbled in voodoo a little bit. And so it was just taken to the extreme for the lore.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Because when you say things like 1700s, I'm like, What was that like? I mean, probably very much just normal people. It just feels so far away and just not of this world.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I love that. And I love that we learned so much about that and were able to share that because as far as I knew, the only thing I knew was the voodoo. That's the only thing I had ever heard. So I like this.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I'm interested and I like to share facts about people that I think are, you know, kind of misrepresented all the time.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Oh, man. These are two stories that you do know. Ah, good. And I want to talk about it because I was traumatized on that tour.
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So heavy trigger warning because I literally was crying on the street listening to this lady tell us this story.
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Yeah. So it's about the horrible mistreatment of enslaved people. So if you can't handle that today, skip.
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And they are beautiful, the ones that are kept up. They really are. And I don't even want to talk about it that much because it's just like such a dark topic and so sad. But it... Broke my heart to see the very well kept, beautiful, pristine ones. And then the ones that you can't even see who's there. Just a few bricks. It's just bricks. And it's been overgrown. And it's just like. I know.
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I just want everything to be good and nice and perfect all the time. And I'm always very let down when things are sad.
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Yes. One of these days, when we take another field trip, I want to see something. Are you going out for a look?
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you say that now nothing crazy a shadow move behind a curtain like something small you know i want to see something where it's not like you can't argue that it was a ghost like i see the full body apparition and then it disappears but it's in daylight and i'm surrounded by several people okay and we all see it together and then it's like whoa and then nothing else happens i'm down for that honestly
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one thing and this is kind of like a morbid thing i guess so if you don't want to hear about decay skip i did not know how that worked and them telling us like during our tour they put the body in there and it basically bakes it and then it breaks down and then they scoot it to the side and put more people in there it's very cool and very interesting to me that you and it's like kind of special that you all your whole family gets to be in there if you so choose yes but it was like
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Is this why you said this earlier? It is. Because I was like- He texted our family group chat to let us know that this is a common cause of death. I looked it up because I was like- I also hate that word, so I won't be saying it. Yeah, I won't say it again for your sake. Thank you.
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Absolutely not. If you have the stomach for it and if you want to be enraged and sad and angry, look into that. I recently became aware of that and I am sick and literally enraged listening to it. I was literally like shaking. Don't look into it. It's horrid. Don't look into it. People need to know the history of things. And acknowledge the people that actually... Went through it.
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I want to, but we need to move on. Okay. I could do a whole podcast on what grinds my gears.
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I'm not judging you if you have a knife, but if you're owning slaves, you're just- We are judging you. Yeah.
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Very casual. Yeah. I thought that was really interesting though.
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I kind of like that, I think. That they're all together. The baking bodies? No. No. I was very disturbed to hear that that's what happened. I don't know what I thought happened, but it wasn't that.
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Well, I know. I don't think they're turning into bats, but I do think that people like there are immortal people who drink blood. I don't know if they're immortal, but I know there's people that like do the vampire thing.
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I'm not afraid to admit that. I think that's not even a hot take. It's definitely not. I might tune in. I'm not a diehard. I didn't watch it in the theater and gasp and cry and scream when the guy's head got cut off and everything.
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It's very rare that you don't believe in anything that we talk about.
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I'm going to be fired up. I can already see it. How do we feel about vampires? I don't know.
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Really? I did. All right. Well, we're flipping you. We're turning you to the dark side. Okay, that's fine.
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And telling people that Marie Laveau was actually over here. And I'm telling you the real tea. So our tour guide, very cool guy. What was his name? Jeff. Jeff. We love Jeff. He was so funny and so kind. If you ever get to do a tour of that cemetery, we recommend Jeff. Super informative and respectful. Yes. And like. And very funny. It was just a good, a really good time.
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That was probably one of my favorite tours we've ever been on. I know. And we did it last minute. It was great.
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I didn't know that. When we went in, I thought it was just like... This is old. This is what's here and it's not going to change. And then I saw that like no death date and I said, oh, we're still doing this.
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And as much as we talked about it... I don't know why I'm so bothered. I'm not a Nicolas Cage hater. It was just like, talk about this again.
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No, I don't think so. Oh, no. He was scary. He gave me a chill. He really did. It was. Yeah. You need to watch that.
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Anyways, but Nicolas Cage's tomb is just a huge pyramid. It is actually really cool. It was something to see, for sure.
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next to nicholas cages or not kind of next to just as you're walking through the tour there's this huge tomb where it's like wasn't it like over a thousand people were in there like italian people right yes there they have them for different groups of people so there's one for the italians one for the banished and there was and there was like also different religious groups and things like that where everyone has a place like if you are of italian descent then they're like we have a place for you here
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Lovely. As you would expect, it's delicious. It's very good, and I'm probably going to drink this whole thing.
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Yeah, and it was just the most beautiful statues and just so nice to look at.
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I don't have it in my, in my voice today to say, woo. Like it's not going to go up.
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I thought you meant help me find my home. So I was like, oh, you're not coming home with me.
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There were so many cemeteries. I've never seen so many cemeteries in such close proximity. It was like the city of cemeteries.
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I love it. If I can come back as a ghost and, you know, roam around and cause mischief, I will be doing that. I never thought of that. I will be slapping people and then floating away. Like, don't you know who I am? Yeah.
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Yes, I was hoping you were going to bring that up because I have opinions. I'll let you say and then I'll tell you my opinion.
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She had also told me that she had her hair pulled in her own room and that her and my Aunt Jenny saw a little girl in our front yard at night and were both confused. My mom also said she saw orbs in her room and that her partner at the time saw a black cloud of smoke hovering over my sister while she was asleep in their room.
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I only remember the most traumatizing parts, honestly, and that was when my sister and I were in our room getting ready for bed since we had school in the morning. We finally turned the lights off and closed our eyes, and not even five minutes later, I felt like I was being watched. So I opened my eyes and saw tall, dark shadow people around my room with glowing red eyes. People?
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So you may or may not be able to hear it. If it's the phone audio, then it's a little hard to hear, but we'll post it here. Anyways, listen to this. I'm good. I got to look more into the ghostly hauntings of it.
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Just like in the basement. Multiple? Multiple. Multiple. I woke my sister up, and she saw what I was seeing. We were so petrified with fear, we stayed still and quiet, but I eventually broke out of that and screamed for my mom. She came running in, and that night we slept in her room.
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My mom told me that one day I was chased through the house by the evil shadows screaming at the top of my lungs, crying, but I just don't remember that event. Maybe because I was too traumatized, I'm not sure, but we always heard scratching noises, whispers in the house, footsteps in our rooms, We would hear furniture move when we were in our rooms, and when we came out, everything was as it was.
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There was definitely something evil in that house. The previous owner had brought a priest to the house, but shortly after left because of how sick he felt. Oh my god. I'm not sure what exactly happened in that house, but I know it was not good. I tried looking it up in my town history archives, but found nothing. We later moved out of the place and never looked back. Sincerely, Michaela."
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Oh, thank goodness.
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Yes.
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I wish there was a way that we could look into the history of every, like... square foot of land dude that we walk on you know yeah like is there a way to hook a machine up to the dirt and like see what it has seen what do you know like the water yes okay our next story comes from maddie hi macy and natalie my name is maddie and i just discovered your podcast i'm so glad i found it
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I've had a lot of paranormal things happen to me in my life, having lived in two haunted houses, but this is the most recent. About a year ago, when I was living at my parents' house, my boyfriend was staying over. We were asleep, and I went to turn over on my opposite side. It's going to sound like I was still in a dream state, but I swear I wasn't. I was fully awake and conscious.
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As I turned over, I saw a tall, black figure of a person at the end of my bed.
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i gasped which wakes my boyfriend up he held me and asked what's wrong and he tells me all i said while crying was there's a ghost he calms me down and tells me it's okay there's nothing there go back to sleep somehow i immediately fell back asleep my boyfriend being curious if something was actually there pulled back the curtain my bed was against the window and there at the end of the bed stood the same black figure i saw in my half dream state he said he didn't sleep for hours and couldn't move
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When he told me he saw it the next morning, I was so scared. He was a skeptic. Let's just say that was no longer the case. He's like, well, maybe there's a reason. Maybe she saw something, you know, that wasn't really.
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I'm watching. I'm not going anywhere. No. If Jake told me the next morning, like, no. Because he's the biggest skeptic. Oh, no. That would ruin me. Burn the house down. That would scare me more than me seeing it myself. Yes, 100%. Me too, for Jake. The other day, after we were done recording, I had a text message from Jake.
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And it was like, remind me to tell you of something spooky that happened while you were gone. And he's a skeptic. So I was like, no. So I'm not reminding you. Eventually, I got home and asked him. And he said that he put our son to bed and he left the door kind of cracked because they liked a little bit of light going in. And all of a sudden, the door just started like slowly eking open.
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And he was like, hey, buddy, go back to bed. You need to lay down. And he never came out. And he was just like, you want to come lay down over here? And nothing ever happened. So he got up and he was in his bed asleep.
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There's no explanation for it. The only thing I can think of is maybe AC related, but it's never done that before. This is like episode 94 and we've never heard a sound like that before.
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And no one was there. And he said it was probably like just the AC kicked on or something. And it just like the door shifted. But or the thing in your children's closet. Don't talk about it. Could be. Our next one comes from Orion. I have a few spooky unexplained stories to share. The first takes place when I was a preteen or early teenage years.
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I was sitting on my bed alone in my room when something happened. My back is against the wall. To the right is the other corner and where the head of my bed sat. To the left is the edge of my bed and the doorway. It's a Saturday morning and I'm watching cartoons and eating cereal, just totally chilling, when all of a sudden I feel a hand grab my right shoulder. There was no one in my room.
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and no way for anyone or anything to touch my shoulder like that. It freaked me out so badly.
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Don't acknowledge it. Nope. The next story happened when I was in my late 20s. My two friends and I are in their Jeep. It's super late at night, and my one friend wants to show me this abandoned mental asylum. Turns out the building had been demolished and the area was fenced off. My friend decided to keep driving to where a cemetery was located up the road.
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When we get to where we think the cemetery is, it gets super foggy and we can't see anything. So we turn around to leave. Halfway between where we had stopped and the area that used to be the asylum, I got this weird feeling. And then the word fire randomly popped into my head. I thought nothing of it, just talking it up to me being ADHD and a bit creeped out.
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I had no idea what the asylum was called before getting there.
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nor did i know any of the backstory once home i decided to do a little research turns out the building had been struck by lightning and caught on fire multiple times again i had no knowledge of this place before we went there just a creepy feeling and the word fire coming to my mind it sent shivers down my spine once i learned it caught fire a few times i hope this email wasn't too long and easy to read and understand thank you for reading so was someone there communicating like that's what i was thinking this happened
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Because, I mean, with my limited knowledge, when I hear people who are more sensitive, spirit or whatever is giving them these answers, just kind of like places them in their minds.
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Just dropped into your brain. Yeah. Something was communicating with you out there. Our next story comes from Lorena.
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hello i am so excited i found your podcast i thought i could send my own story in i've always been a believer and i have so many stories from when i was a child but the scariest one happened to me only a year ago working as a nanny oh no i know i put i'm already scared i am too even just read sometimes i'll put like little notes in and yeah i'm i'm already scared me too
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I had been with my nanny family for two years, so I was comfortable with them. Last summer, 2023, I was needed for a whole month while the parents were working away. I always got a weird feeling about the room in the back, at the end of the hallway. I normally never feel weird anywhere else, but after two years, it still freaked me out a bit. So I would pretty much sleep on the couch.
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Long story short, after my boyfriend left one day, I was exhausted. And while I normally slept with the hallway light on and the door open or the TV on, this time I didn't even think about it and closed the door, lights off, and no TV. It was the first time I was comfortable in that room. I was so tired, I didn't even think about being scared. I got comfortable and was having a great sleep.
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Normally, I wake up throughout the night, but for some reason, I didn't. Well, at 6 in the morning, I woke up to myself not being able to move my body. I knew what this was. I was terrified of it. So I slept on my side on purpose because I heard it lessens the chances of sleep paralysis. I heard whispering. Kind of like in Harry Potter when there's a bunch of whispering going on. No.
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Like when they're speaking. Yeah. I didn't open my eyes. I did not want to see what was waiting for me. But while they weren't all the way shut, I saw shadows walking past. I felt something lay down next to me and even put their arm around me. Then I felt my body moving clockwise. It felt so strong. Real. I felt my feet hanging off the bed, but still floating.
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And then I felt my torso and head floating above the edge of the bed before I finally came to a stop. When you have sleep paralysis, you can't move or talk, so I forced myself to as much as I could to say some prayers I grew up with. I ended up forcing myself to actually move my lips and I managed to be able to say the prayer out loud.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, me too. We're sorry it's late. We did not intend to. I did not want to stay up all night and edit a video, but here we are. And we're also going to do a quick unboxing at the very end. We'll put that in. We're about to do that now, but we'll insert it at the end of the video.
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Almost immediately, within the next 30 seconds, I felt everything stop. The whispering stopped. I didn't feel someone laying next to me anymore. I opened my eyes to see that it was exactly 6 a.m., I ran out of that room and stayed awake until I had to get the kiddo ready for school. I later found out that the kid's grandfather had died in the hallway I was so scared of.
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He had a heart attack leaving the restroom right next to that room that was connected by the hallway. I also heard the kid's dad say my name while walking past the hall to the living room, except he was outside with all the doors closed. I could have sworn it was him because my name was said clear as day. I don't nanny for them anymore, but after two years that house still gave me the creeps.
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Or not even just to test it out, it was just like getting her attention. Yeah. And maybe like that was his room.
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and he was like going you know like he died like going to the bathroom like walking back to his room and he was just in her sleep paralysis state like he was just going back to his bed oh you know what i mean i guess i don't know though about the the spinning that's really creepy to me i've never heard that before do you ever get vertigo i guess so i get that sometimes and maybe could that have caused like something with the inner ear caused her to feel that way feels she was laying down you're asking the wrong person
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I don't know, but that mixed with the whispering and the feeling of someone beside you is just, it's a lot. Yeah. Our next story comes from Kai. Hey, hello, Macy and Emily. I happened to come across your YouTube page not too long ago, and I have some stories for you guys that would turn your blood cold.
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My first story happened when I was around 10 years old. We lived in St. Louis, Missouri. I still even remember the exact road we lived on after all these years. I'm 25 now, and this experience made me shut out the paranormal as much as I possibly could for many years. Anyways, we've lived in this house for a while. The setup is pretty uncommon, so I'll start there.
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When you walk through the front door, you walk into the living room. If you continue to walk through the living room, you'll come to a hallway, and directly to your left was a bathroom. Directly to your right is a stairway. A total of maybe 12 steps, then a box, then maybe four steps down. When your feet meet the last step, you are brought into a very small, open-spaced room.
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So if you want to stick around at the end and watch us open some packages from our PO box because we haven't seen them yet.
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Directly to your left was the kitchen. An extra living space and in the kitchen was also a sliding door to the laundry and pantry room. Now as a kid, we used to play in the basement often. However, we always avoided the pantry room unless we weren't alone or our parents were in the kitchen. This particular story takes place the same week we were moving out into the house two houses down.
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This particular night, my mother put pizza into the oven in our new house. When the pizza was done and pulled out to cool, my mother set about trying to find the pizza cutter. When she couldn't find it, she decided that it must still be in the old kitchen somewhere and that I might as well go try to find it. I remember being frustrated that I had to go, but that was pretty much it.
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I walked two doors over quickly. As I stepped into the house, I noticed the door shut hard and loud behind me. It kind of made me jump. but I quickly shook it off as I reasoned with myself that it was just the wind. I went down the stairs and straight into the kitchen, going directly to the kitchen drawers, opening one after another, finding nothing.
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Now, the dishwasher was up against the counter, and to open it, you had to put your back to the laundry slash pantry room. As my fingertips touched the dishwasher, goosebumps ran up my arms. My breath came in quickly, and I realized I was holding it, listening to the noises around me. I opened the dishwasher, shaking the thoughts of fear and the slight voice in the back of my head.
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terrified i remember saying out loud find the pizza cutter come on i looked around the rack and i couldn't find it right as i was about to give up directly behind me was the loudest bang i could think of now i knew what that noise was we often heard it when someone bent down and grabbed the side of the dryer as they loaded it the slide door was wide open and utter darkness beyond it my heart went into my throat i froze in my spot for a
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Run, run, run! My 10-year-old brain yelled at me, but I started to back my way out of the kitchen, and when I turned, and hear me out, this was the part I used to leave out in the story, because for a long time I convinced myself I didn't see this. I was face-to-face with a girl. She was so pale, with black sludge all over her and long, old, ripped blue dress.
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The sleeves were long and also covered in dark sludge, her face a mix of anger and sadness. She had blue eyes, my ears filled with intense scream whispering that I couldn't understand. My own words filled the air as I screamed out, and then, no, no, no! I slapped my hands over my ears, running as fast as I could up the stairs, keeping my eyes glued straight to the floor so I wouldn't trip.
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right into the living room, out of the front door, without so much as closing the door, and I ran sobbing up to my mother. To this day, she says it was all my imagination.
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No, no, no, no, no. Face to face with the thing that they knew was down there the whole time they lived in that house.
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Why was she covered in sludge?
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some girl like carl yeah it's like okay but the slut i don't know why a real real life one i don't know again just riffing here giving it a backstory my mind's backstory for this girl was a tragedy fell down a well like or like fell into a river or something you know yeah or even worse was like buried somewhere Near there, you know? No. Yeah. Obviously, none of this is proven.
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Like, it's just my mind's backstory. We're just coming up with things. But either way, I hate that. My next story was when I was about three years old. I drowned in my local swimming pool and I had an NDE.
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I would, too. I think it's on the list already, actually. That was a fun one. I learned how to swim when I was about three years old. My parents used to take me to the pool constantly, and I was well aware how to swim. I want to clarify, I didn't accidentally drown because I couldn't swim. I accidentally drowned because I didn't know what death was. That people could die.
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One day, my mother brought me and my four other siblings to our local swimming pool. When she let me go into the kid end, I was free to do whatever I want. I had recently found out how to do flips underwater, and I thought it was the coolest thing that I'd ever learned. So... That's what I was doing. Flip after flip.
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I remember thinking that I was tired and that I might take a small nap right here underwater. Now I want to preface this by saying that I was not afraid. There was no fear when I closed my eyes and went to sleep underwater. Oh my god. In my sleep, I remember a blinding white light. The most amount of comfort I've ever felt. No rush to be anywhere. I wanted to live here forever.
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Truthfully, it was the most calming experience of my life. I didn't speak to anyone, nor did I experience anything other than being in the most calming, safe place I could think of. Drowning is nothing like it seems, I guess. And then suddenly, I opened my eyes. I don't remember how I got out of the water, but I was told that a lifeguard found me floating face down.
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My heart stopped and my lungs were full of water. She gave me CPR for five full minutes before I came back. My mother was a wreck when I came to. The lifeguard who saved my life kept me on her hip for quite some time before EMTs came to check me out. Wow. Okay. That's an amazing story. It really is.
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It doesn't matter how many stories I hear like that because they're all, you know, they all follow a similar track to like where they're in this safe, calm space. And I love that. Every time I hear it, it's like a hit of like dopamine. It just like a reassurance. Knowing we'll be okay. My third and fourth story took place when I was a freshman in high school. We lived in another house in St.
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Louis, Missouri, and whatever was in that house hated me. There were several instances that made me stop dead in my tracks in this house. The first story I'll tell you about this house is that whoever or whatever was in this house hated families. My younger sister, by two and a half years, and I shared a room upstairs. Side note, it wasn't always that way.
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We moved upstairs once our older brother moved out. My younger sister and I would bicker occasionally, as all siblings do. My mother, my sister, and I were upstairs and were the only ones home. My sister and I bickered back and forth loudly, yelling at each other in the closet spaces and cleaning our shared space. My mother played ref between the two of us, just as I was making a very good point.
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All of a sudden, the door down the stairs slammed shut. Hard. So hard, it shook most of the house. All of us were silent for a minute. Our mom had fear all over her face, and I looked at her questioningly. The only thing she said was, See, even the ghost doesn't like you two fighting. Now stop. Oh, that's something our mom would say too. Yeah. My fourth story is by far the scarier one.
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I put a little too much sugar in mine, but it tastes fine. It's like more hot tamale today than it is tea. Yes. Yes. Very much that. Our first story today comes from Sienna. I have multiple weird stories that have happened to me throughout my life and my family, and I would like to share a couple of them with you guys.
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Now I mentioned how my sister and I shared a room, but what I didn't tell you is how the room was set up. As soon as you walked up the stairs directly to the left were our two mattresses. One on either side of the window, mine to the left, my sister's to the right. Now to the right of the room was a closet on each side of the room, and directly after that was a sliding door to a bathroom.
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The floor was particularly creaky around the window and sink. That was a mere three feet from the door. My little sister spent a lot of the summer around our other cousins, so I spent a lot of the nights my freshman year of high school alone in that room. One particular night, I was alone in my room. It was late enough that the TV was playing things like George Lopez. Oh yeah, primetime TV.
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So I wouldn't really say that my house is haunted, but there were some times where some unexplainable and creepy things happened. I was really young at this time, maybe seven or eight years old. And when I was even younger, like three years old, I would sleep in my parents' room with my twin sister. But as we grew old enough, we started sleeping in another room.
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My parents' room was seen as a nice and safe place. So one day I ran in there crying in order to try and escape from my older sister that I was having an argument with. Relatable.
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It's the exact same voice. I mean, when you and mom call and Kayla, sometimes it's like... Even with our little brother, he'll answer our mom's phone.
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Well, one day I was leaving for work and I had to pass by the shelf with all my music boxes on it and saw her holding the helmet. I had three roommates, but they all left for work before me and they would all get home after me. Well, when I got home, I looked at all the music boxes and I realized the samurai helmet was gone.
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No one had been home since I left for work, and when we all moved out, I looked everywhere and never found it. My husband fixed her music box a couple years ago, and her song is so beautiful. And if anybody is curious, yes, I still have the dishes, and yes, I have used them for me and my family. I was curious. I'm glad that part was included.
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And also, the geisha is the only music box I have on display in my house now. I think she likes it that way. For the first time in years, the music box went off by itself after I tried putting an angel statue for my grandmother in the cabinet with her. I don't know if the music box doll was approving, so I moved the angel to a different display just to be safe. Who is she?
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I don't know, but she needs to be the one.
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I don't know. That's really creepy.
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Our last story comes from Heather. Hi ladies, my name is Heather and I'm new to the pod, having discovered it on YouTube while looking for something to listen to at work a few weeks ago. As a fellow supernatural lover and tea enthusiast, I've been loving every single episode and thought I'd share my own story with you. I've had a handful of ghosts and supernatural experiences throughout my life.
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I knew no one was in the room, but I could feel another person's presence. I grew chills and I was absolutely terrified. I swear that when I looked up, it felt like I could see two big eyes staring at me through the clothes. Something was on the other side. And you're a twin. Adds another layer for you. The twin lore, yes.
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I grew up with a love for all things spooky and I like to think a lot of it stems from my very first paranormal experience. I was very young when this happened, but it is still one of my most vivid memories. I was around three years old. I had just moved to my big girl bedroom as my newborn baby brother had taken the nursery.
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The concept of being able to get in and out of bed at will instead of being trapped in a crib was still a novelty, and I had fun pushing the boundaries of bedtime. One particular night, I woke up in the middle of the night for seemingly no reason. Now, I obviously couldn't tell time yet, so I relied on various clues to give me an idea of what time it might be.
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I remember hearing a voice downstairs and assumed my parents were still up watching TV in the living room and that it must not be that late. I decided I wanted to go downstairs to see what they were watching. My bedroom was at the end of the long hallway that led to the stairs.
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I walked with one hand on the wall to guide me through the dark and the other clutching my beloved pink teddy bear who went with me everywhere. I got to the baby gate that blocked off the stairs so I couldn't go downstairs unsupervised. There was a gap between the floor and the gate itself though. And I was a very small three-year-old.
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Apparently, no one ever really took this into consideration because I climbed under the gate without a second thought and started to make my way downstairs. I still heard the voice. It was a man's voice. An older man. I remember thinking it must be the news. My parents often watched the late night news after I went to bed.
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I went down the stairs and turned the corner into the foyer heading for the living room. The voice was still speaking, but I remember not being able to understand it. Like it was being muffled by something. Again, I didn't really think anything of it. Just assumed my parents had the TV down low so as not to wake up me or my baby brother.
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I walked through the kitchen and turned right into the living room. As soon as I got into the living room, I stopped dead. The lights were off. The TV was off. No one was in there. I realized the voice had also stopped abruptly. I remember being very confused. What had I been hearing? Where were my parents? What time must it be?
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I started to get scared standing alone in the dark by myself and turned to go back upstairs. When I turned to face the kitchen again, I saw it. Against the back wall of our kitchen, there was a tall, Those used to freak me out. Me too. Bad. Someone.
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that's hilarious oh it got me it got me so good anyway the figure wore a baseball cap and had a pipe in its mouth i couldn't make out any facial features but i just knew this thing was looking right at me i stared back blinking in confusion i wasn't scared but rather felt very calmed by his presence oddly
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It was a similar feeling to being around my grandfather, whom I loved very much and often spent time with during these years. Eventually, after probably a full minute of my staring contest with a black shadow, I turned down the hall and calmly climbed back up the stairs.
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As I slithered my way back under the baby gate, my mom was just coming out of the upstairs bathroom, which was directly across the hall from the stairs. She jumped and screamed, not expecting to see her three-year-old crawling around on the floor like something out of a horror movie. Once she caught her breath, she pulled me out from under the gate and stood me up.
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She asked me what in the world I was doing up. Instead of explaining, I simply asked her, why is Pop-Pop downstairs? She looked confused and said, Pop-Pop is home, not here. I went on to explain the whole experience to her, and when I finished telling her what had happened, she shook her head. Sweetie, it's 3am. Daddy and I have been in bed for a long time. No one's watching TV downstairs.
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She brought me back to my room, tucked me in, and told me I'd probably just dreamed the whole thing. Excuse me? What? Who the hell is Lou? I must have looked confused because my mom elaborated. She told me the man who owned the house before us was named Lou. When he died, his family put the house on the market.
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My bedroom in that house was actually what used to be the master bedroom before my parents did some renovations. So, my big girl bedroom was actually Lou's old bedroom. Lou was, according to neighbors who'd known him, a kind and gentle old man who loved to smoke his pipe, always was friendly to the neighborhood kids, and was rarely seen without his ball cap on.
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My dad went on to say how he and my mom would often smell pipe smoke in my bedroom with no explanation as to where it was coming from. They liked to think that Lou took it upon himself to be my ghostly grandfather and watch over me. Of course, they didn't tell me any of this at the time. so as not to scare or worry me. But they were never scared.
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And before this had happened, she was really scared of going into my parents' room and would always ask me to go in there with her. At the time, I thought it was stupid and that there was nothing to be scared of. But after telling her what happened, I learned that she had experienced almost the same exact thing as me. Now I am a lot older and have gotten over my fears of going in there alone.
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Lou was just a fact of life, a guardian angel of sorts. To this day, I remember every aspect of this night with picture-perfect clarity. I'm 28 now, and I think several families have lived in that house since we moved out. I often wonder if Lou is still there. Has he had more kids to watch over? Has he moved on?
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i guess i'll never really know all i know is this experience kick-started my love of ghost stories and it's been going strong ever since thanks lou rest easy wishing you both a very lovely spooky season and all the warm teas heather what a story to end on what a great ending oh my god before we re-recorded these last two we opened packages so i'm already feeling so emotional
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Thank you for sharing that. I know. Thank you to everybody who sent in their stories. These were so great.
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Each and every one of you are just amazing. Agreed. We're thankful. We're going to skip on to the unboxing now, but like this video if you liked it, share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so, and subscribe for more. We've got another video coming on Monday. It's our field trip video. We're going to talk about a place we've actually been.
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And if you want to send in your own stories, you can email us at ghostiespod at gmail.com. It's also written in the description down below. Follow us on Instagram for updates for things like if we miss a video or we're like posting it later, you'll find that first on Instagram. So you can go there. It's at ghostiespod. We'd love to have you over there too.
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We'll just go ahead and skip to us opening our packages. And thank you to everyone who sent a package because this is amazing.
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Both of us cried. So... I'm feeling crazy. God bless all of you. Okay, so I'll go first. I already opened this one and then Jake was like, oh, maybe you should open this on the pod and it'd be a surprise to both of you. So shout out Jake. There were, first of all, these are a few letters. The seal. Not this one. The wax seal. Yes. This one was in this package, but there were a few letters.
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I said I wanted to write more. So people wrote to me. They're so cute. So shout out to Jessica. Oh, wait, this is a story they want us to read on.
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Yes, someone wrote in a handwritten story, so I'll just save this one for another time.
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And then we got this little package from Rin's Trinkets.
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I'm already excited. There's a bunch in here. So, oh my God. We'll take pictures too and insert because it'll be a little hard to see.
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I've never had any other creepy experiences in that room, but that memory still haunts me and I always wonder what really happened that day. Why the clothes?
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It's so cute. Oh, my God. Necklaces made of dyed purple selenite, known for its protection and cleansing properties. A charm with multicolored jade. This includes white, yellow, light green, and dark green jade, each with its unique properties for harmony and balance. Holographic resin earrings, playful and eye-catching. Floral earrings, two pairs, one for each of you.
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A sun catcher designed with a moons and stars theme to brighten up your space. And maybe a few little extras.
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We have another letter too. It was from Bree, I believe. So shout out Bree too.
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Nice. Very nice. Oh, the fox. That's cute. Someone commented before that we need to try some Trader Joe's teas. I'm excited for that one. Thank you, Lisa. Oh, there's a bunch of stuff in this one, too. Oh, my gosh. Y'all, I'm about to cry.
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I'm... I'm literally about to cry.
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There's two. Yes!
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Look at that. Two stickers of a black cat. This is going on the laptop.
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These are from Carlin. Thank you so much, Carlin. Look at these. I'm emotional. I'm actually about to cry.
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No. This is so surreal. Like, y'all are just the greatest people. We really... Sorry, hold on. God, it's embarrassing. We really do have like some of the greatest people. We found some of the greatest people to come together with us. Y'all are always so kind and so understanding in the comments. And like, it is a joy to come together and do this with all of you.
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And like, especially with you, obviously. All of you make it.
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just that much better like if i'm having a bad day or if i'm having a hard time and i also have to get to the podcast after everything that's happened in the day like going and reading y'all's comments and then like getting started on this makes it so much easier to get through and i just from the bottom of my heart thank you we'll get to the rest of these in a minute i just needed to say that while i get myself together and not cry what she said because i'm about to cry i cannot believe people send us stuff and you care about us
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I know. I know. Because I care about y'all.
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There's so many T's. This is Muddy River Conjure. Sunshine Green Tea, Touch of Earl Grey, and Camomint Passionberry.
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It's Muddy River Conjure in Forestville, California.
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I know. I know. Like, this is already too much.
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I'm fine with that. I'm so excited. I will sit in a pile of crocheted ghosts. I will too. It wasn't a complaint. No, no, no, no. My gosh, there's so much stuff in here.
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I'm shocked. I'm speechless.
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No. No, I'm not anyway.
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I don't know. I think it's the fear of the hidden, the fear of the unknown. That's where a lot of my fears come from. It's a fear of the unknown. Yes. There's like the fear of like I fear the dark because I don't know what's in the dark. I fear the ocean because what is beneath me in the ocean? You know, things like that. I don't know for sure what's out there. Okay. So it frightens me.
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Oh, I'd like to know.
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Summer and Savannah. Summer and Savannah. Summer and Savannah. Thank you so much. That is so kind.
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Get ready to see this. Oh my gosh.
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It's from Canteen Critters with K's. Guys, look at it. Taylor's Strawberry Vanilla. And Twinning's Lady Grey. I love this so much. I don't even have words anymore. This is so cute.
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If we divorce. This is mine. There aren't enough words. There aren't enough words for me to describe how blessed I feel to be experiencing this right now. Y'all are the best. Y'all are literally the best. We got emu eggs. I know. I just, so much tea. My heart hurts with how much
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Two things.
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We're going to need a bigger room.
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Just kidding. We can share custody if we were the worst. So thank you to everybody who sent us stuff. I'm sorry if you hated this. We are full of joy and excitement right now. I've never been so jolly. This took so much time and effort to put all of these together, to write us notes, to go to the post office and send packages.
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so much time and effort and i just i can't believe it i'm i just can't believe it i'm so shocked and so happy me too i'm gonna be thinking about this forever and i'm never gonna complain if we have to re-record an episode again no
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I don't know. How do we even end this? I just, my heart is so full.
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Thank you if you're still here.
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you
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um introverted person i don't know if you could tell from the podcast because i'm just talking all the time but truly in in life i don't see people i don't talk to people i prefer to just be a hermit within my home same i get nearly break out in the hives when i think about having to call somebody on the phone so i'm not with the phone anymore i don't like going into situations not knowing what i'm getting myself into
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And I don't like going into conversations without knowing something about what we're talking about. And I think that drives a lot of my quest for knowledge. Yeah. I like to know things. And I like it to not be unknown. So everything, my fire underneath me is truly mostly fear. We are a people of fear. We really are.
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No, hey, it's fine. It's muted. Another time, this didn't happen to me, but to my older sister. She was talking to herself, saying random things, and someone asked her a question. They asked, how was your day? My sister responded, oh, my day was good. She had a full-on conversation with this voice. until she realized that she was home alone.
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It's just a little card. We're very tech literate, just in case you didn't know. It's an SD card, okay? Just a little thing. I hook up to another little thing that hooks up to my computer. It's not there. I get here and I do a little test run on our mics just to double check that it's working. Plug it up. The audio is there. I suddenly have like three files.
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She looked around confused at whatever was talking to her, but there was nothing around her. She didn't hear from that voice again. I could understand if she was having a conversation in her head with some made-up voice, but she was talking out loud, and something was talking back to her. I don't really remember anything else of this story, but it still creeps me out. I'm scared.
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Imagine you're just like coloring, you're just doing a mindless task, just thinking of nothing. And someone comes up and like, hey, how was your day? And you're like, oh, it was pretty good. How are you? Wait a second. No. It's all too much. It's all way too much. This other story happened when I was just a baby, and my dad has told me of it multiple times.
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My dad and my older siblings all went outside in our backyard to have some kind of camping night outside. They are all really young, being two, four, and six. We live in the country, so we're surrounded by a bunch of wilderness. It was early in the morning. The sun was just about to come up, around five or six in the morning, when suddenly this really weird scream or yell is heard.
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I don't really know how to describe what he had heard, but it wasn't normal. My dad is usually not the type to get freaked out by things easily, and he likes going outside at night. He knows the noises of many animals, but this was the noise of an animal that he had never heard before. Immediately spooked at whatever he had heard, he quickly came inside with all my siblings.
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Maybe it was Bigfoot or some weird animal. I really don't know. I'm so ready for the Bigfoot episode. I had to push it back. I know. Because I moved other things forward. Yeah, they're coming, but later. I know maybe I'll move them back up I don't know You never know. Some days I might just, you know, decide I don't want to research this haunted house. I want to know more about Bigfoot.
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We're here for hopefully a long time. So I kind of hope that her dad heard Bigfoot.
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My mind goes to a Chewbacca type sound.
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I want it to be high-pitched.
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So I just imagine something similar to that.
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Mixed with Chewbacca.
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All of them. Oh, you said that before. Monkeys and birds. Leave the animals alone. Another time this happened to my brother. He's an adult by this time and he thinks rationally a lot, but even he didn't have any sort of logical answer to this experience.
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He was laying in his bed, all of the lights being off in our room, when suddenly it feels like his bed tips, almost like something is getting on his bed. We have many pets, so he thought that it was one of our dogs jumping on the bed. He turned on his light, only to see nothing there. He was confused at what just happened, thinking maybe he was wrong.
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He turned his light off, only for it to happen again. Something brushed against his leg this time. He turned his light on again, and there was nothing there. This happened multiple times throughout the night. He doesn't like to make up random stories to try to spook us, so I very much believe that he was telling the truth about whatever he had experienced.
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I believe that it might have been the spirit of one of our many pets that have died throughout my lifetime. I've had similar experiences of something soft brushing past my leg like a cat, only for there to be nothing there. Another time my dad was working down in our garage. It kind of acts like a basement because our house is built into a hill and we have stairs that go down into the garage.
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He's working when he hears the creaking of the stairs. The stairs are pretty old, which means when you step on them, you hear them creak. He's kind of confused because he didn't hear the door open, so he looks over expecting to see one of us going down the stairs, but he sees no one there. As he's staring at them, he can clearly hear them crack, like someone was walking down them.
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These are most of the stories that I remember, but I'm sure that there are some experiences that my family's just not telling me about.
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That's fine with me, too.
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Come on.
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The ghost llamas.
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Never thought of that before. Our next story comes from Michaela. Hello, my name is Michaela. I wanted to share my experience in the worst house ever. I apologize for the typos as it gave me a lot of anxiety to type it out and relive my experiences again. Well, here it is. Located in Oregon on Old Portland Road is a two-bedroom, one-bath house built in the 1920s. It was the summer of 2011.
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My mom had received the good news she had gotten approved on the house she applied for since she needed a bigger place for me and my sister Haley. At the time, I was only 11 and my sister was 7. We moved in and I was excited to have a bigger space to play and invite friends over to hang out. But then, as time went by, I started noticing things happening.
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One day, I went down to the basement to do my laundry since my mom was very busy with dinner. I hated going down there. The only light we had down there was over the washer and dryer area. The rest of the basement was black. We had the narrow stairs with enough space between each step that someone could grab you through.
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Sorry. That scared me. I felt at ease, though, knowing my cat Gus was down there. I was loading the washer when I got a chilling feeling down my spine and felt the hair on my neck rise. I turned around and noticed my cat's fur puffing up and growling. I was confused. I looked into the darker areas where he was growling towards and I saw the room become heavier and more pitch black. No. No.
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30?
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We recorded this on Tuesday. And this is coming to you late because it is currently Thursday. Yeah, it is Thursday night now. Tuesday night, we recorded this. Yes. And I had plans to edit it on Wednesday and get it up to y'all. That did not happen because when I sat down to edit, our audio was gone. So we record on my phone over there.
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I skip it. I jump. Do you? Yep. Also because possums. My mom had already known what I was experiencing since she too had experiences in the hell house. She told me later on as an adult that when she woke up and was hungry, she was making food at exactly 3 a.m. and said she saw a demon's face in the frying pan lid reflection.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Happy Friday, ghosties. I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And today we're getting weird by returning to a topic. Okay. As opposed to every other day. Well, this just feels extra weird because we're returning to a topic that we briefly touched on in a previous episode. We're talking about Skinwalker Ranch.
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Like you call like the city or whatever before you dig in case you hit, you know, power lines or whatever. Water or something. I'm not calling the previous owner. What a strange thing. That sounds like you're a murderer. Yeah, like you might dig up my body.
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yes i know that there are are some cases where you sell the land but not the mineral rights so you can sell a piece of land to someone but if they drill for oil or they find some kind of mineral mine underneath the previous owner who has the mineral rights and the the oil rights and stuff would get all the royalties and the money from that bro everything is made up how does that even work i
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I don't know. Again, you can decide whether or not you want to believe that, but that is part of the lore, part of the legend. They were not allowed to dig without contacting the owners first. And see, and if Garth is disputing that, maybe he is a murderer. In one source. Yeah, he's like, no, definitely. I had nothing buried there. Don't look. Don't worry. I didn't have anything.
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Beyond the book, there is a documentary by the same name, as well as the show called The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch on the History Channel, which goes through some investigations and experiments conducted at the ranch. It has five seasons, I believe. What? Yes, I think it's still going.
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Don't let me and Kayla get in there with our shovels. We don't need to get into that. Me and Kayla used to dig holes for fun. Huge holes. Hey, I helped. But like the one y'all dug was like six feet deep. We were in the mines. Hi, Kayla. The children yearn for the mines. Anyway, they, of course, find this strange, but take the opportunity anyway.
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And in the short time that they actually own the property, they received much more than they bargained for. From the first day that the Shermans arrived on the property, something just didn't seem right. When they first walked into the home, they noticed that every single door had a deadbolt on it, inside and out.
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The windows were bolted shut, and they also noticed large chains as if they had powerful guard dogs before. Again, this is something that I read that Garth disputes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's three times the size of a regular wolf and it made its way up to the family calmly and without fear or without even any hesitation.
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It had shiny gray fur and light blue eyes and is so docile that Terry is able to pet the thing. Which, by the way, I keep saying Terry. In the book, he's referred to as Tom Gorman instead of Terry Sherman because they wanted to keep their anonymity. I don't know at what point their name got out there. I think their name may have been out there from the first time that it was written about.
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And then they changed it for the book so they didn't get a whole lot of... publicity yeah so sorry to the shermans if you still like to be called gorman but i mean you can i was getting confused yeah you can google it if you really want to find stuff out so yeah if it's readily available for you to see i don't see why it would be that big of a deal yeah i Hope so.
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Their cattle seemed alarmed except for one calf, but the creature just stood there with the family. Very suddenly, the Shermans watched as this strange creature raced over to the livestock pen and took one of the calves, that same calf, by its nose, attempting to drag it through the bars of the corral.
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Terry and his son did all that they could to get the creature to release their animal, but nothing worked. That's when Terry Sherman took out his gun and shot at the animal at point blank range. So it was like right there, shot at it. Even this did nothing to stop the wolf. Another shot rang out from Terry, but the beast was unharmed.
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And the ranch has a website where you can sign up for more behind the scenes and like more detail about what they're doing. I read somewhere that they only show about 10% of what they're actually doing on the show. And of course, it's like played up for dramatics. Like ghost hunters type stuff. They can't have a show if like nothing happens. Like today we did this and nothing happened.
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Instead, it released the calf and stood there looking at the father and son as if it hadn't just been hit with a bullet, which should have killed it by now. Several more shots were fired, but the beast casually trotted away back in the direction it came. There was no blood and the animal seemed completely unfazed.
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so they stood there in shock like this thing should be on the ground there is not even a drop of blood watched it kind of trot away at a quick speed and they're like we gotta go follow this what is this raced after it following its tracks for a mile or so before they abruptly ended leaving no trace of where this monster could have gone this was only the beginning oh my gosh okay so literally the tracks just disappeared did the cow live the cow lived okay this one did
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Warning, there are going to be some like talks of harm to animals a little bit later. So if you don't like that, we'll have timestamps and stuff and I'll make sure to mark it just so you know. The Sherman saw a large beast like this one on a few occasions. And each time there was an immense odor that could be smelled from many yards away.
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Sometimes they would just smell the scent and not even see the creature. Gwen claimed to see it once while driving down through the property. She slammed on her brakes and this thing stopped and looked right at her through the windshield. It was so tall. It was just looking at her through the windshield. She goes to the authorities and identifies it as a dire wolf, but dire wolves are extinct.
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And even if she misidentified the creature, no wolves have existed in the area since the 1920s. So there have not been wolves in that area for many decades at this point. I have a lot of thoughts. I'm just, I'm taking it all in. After the creatures came, the voices and other strange phenomenon. The Shermans reported hearing voices outside speaking in a language they did not recognize.
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From the sounds of the noise, it was thought that they couldn't be more than 25 feet away because it was there. They could hear them. But looking in all directions, there was nobody in sight. Even his dogs seemed to notice that something was not right because as the voices were heard, they went crazy, barking mad, and dashed back to their home as if in fear.
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So even the dogs were like, something's spooky here. Terry and Gwen both reported hearing sounds like machinery and metal clinking with no one and nothing capable of making that noise in sight. Sensations of things flying by their heads while on walks out in pastures, though nothing is in sight, begins to occur and the family begins to experience something akin to ghostly activity.
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There was an occasion where Gwen arrived home from grocery shopping and put all the groceries away in the cupboard. Only when she returned to the kitchen several minutes later, so she walked off into another room, came back. She found that everything was back on the table and bagged up as if she hadn't put them away at all.
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She was the only one home at the time and never heard a sound from the other room to indicate that there were things being moved around or cupboards being opened and closed. She was like, maybe, am I remembering wrong? Did I actually not? You know, just kind of. trying to rationalize it in her mind. But there were several more occasions of things like this happening.
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Gwen would go into the bathroom and take a shower and she'd have just a towel and a hairbrush sitting on the bathroom counter. And she'd get out and the brush would just be gone. And she's the only one home. Twin days. Maybe. It's possible. Terry would be out in the fields working and turn around and his pliers or a wrench or whatever tool he was using at the time would be nowhere in sight.
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Once he was digging a hole for a new fence post and he stopped to take a drink. But when he came back, the large auger, so they're like 70 pounds. They're big if you've never seen one. He What? What? And they're the only ones on the ranch. And at this point, there was only one way in and out, and they'd have to pass by the house to get onto the ranch.
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See us next week. But you can sign up and pay. It's kind of like a little membership where you can be like an insider. That's really cool. Not sponsored. But that's really cool. Wow. I don't know. You're like saying, hey, they do this. It's very cool. But I like to provide all the details. I didn't know that there was a show with five seasons.
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It's not long after this that the first lights are spotted on the property by the Shermans. Terry claimed to have seen bright lights out about 50 yards in front of him while out for a walk one night, thinking it was an RV because it was just two big bright lights. Mm-hmm. or another vehicle that had gotten lost and ended up on his land, he began walking towards it.
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And he thought maybe he could give them directions and send the people back on the road. But as he walked toward the lights, they seemed to rise into the air and move at a quick speed away from him. Eventually, Terry lost sight of the lights, but this wouldn't be the only time that he and his family would see strange lights in the sky.
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So they saw a lot of like very large somethings out on their land all the time. Would you stay? Well, I mean, a lot of time you don't really have an option. I mean, you kind of have to, especially he's got like, he's poured his whole like business. Like this is his ranch. This is his livelihood.
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On separate occasions, both Terry and Gwen, and I'm assuming the children as well, would see strange lights in the sky and crafts that looked like they could be military. But there are no bases operating nearby and no reason for something like this to be over their property. The strange crafts will hover above their land and emit what looked like colored lights before disappearing altogether.
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So it was kind of like it was sending out lights on some occasions. Shortly after the strange lights are seen by the Sherman family, some of their cattle begin to go missing. So this is the part, guys. He searches high and low for his animals, but it's like they have just vanished into thin air, never to be seen again.
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As I said before, this is extremely unusual for Terry, as he has been known his whole career to be able to keep more cattle than his counterparts. And what's even stranger is they aren't dying, just disappearing altogether. He has no clue where it was like two or three of them at this point. He has no clue where they went.
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This is crazy because when I think alien abduction, I think UFO taking a cow. I mean, that's like the image. Why is that the thing? I don't know where that started. By the time the snow begins to melt on the property, another of their cattle meets its end. But this time Terry finds it and he doesn't know exactly what to make of it.
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There is a circular hole cut into its left eyeball, but nothing else seems to be wrong with it. He does, however, notice a faint chemical smell that slowly dissipates in the wind not long after he finds the animal. So he doesn't even know what could have made this hole and have killed this animal.
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cow that's so sad yes and it gets worse terry's son is out working on the ranch when he comes across one of the cattle stuck down in a ravine having trouble climbing back up through the mud he makes a mental note as to where the animal is and goes about the tasks he's currently working on but told himself that he'd be back shortly to help it back up and get it back to the rest of his herd this was minutes like probably 10 maybe less
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When you said there's a show, I was like, oh, they had a couple episodes in like 2010. No, no, no. And it started in 2020, 2021. I didn't think it was going to be that recent. That's really interesting. Very recent. I would like to watch. I'm going through the timeline. Okay. So this is your introduction.
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I'm already really sad just the thought of it struggling. What are we talking about? What are we doing? Cattle mutilations. Why? I don't know. For what? I don't know. The Shermans continue losing cattle in this horrific mutilated way and no trace of predators or vehicle tracks or even other human tracks are sighted near any of the bodies. I think overall he lost about seven or so. So sad. Yeah.
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There is no logical explanation as to how these cattle are dying and why there isn't any blood left. And they aren't the only ranchers in the area who have experienced this. Several ranchers across the country and even near the Sherman's ranch have experienced the same thing for decades. It might even be happening all over the world. But I know that it's happened in America for a very long time.
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Yeah. There were some in Texas not too long ago. This is one of the worst things you ever told me. I can't believe you didn't know about it. No. Federal investigations have taken place, but the answers seem unsatisfactory to some of the ranchers who have experienced these losses. So I think there have been two federal investigations, if I'm not mistaken.
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And basically they came back and said, oh, it's predators or oh, it's people. It's like poacher type people who are just coming in and doing this. Okay. Who knows why. But the farmers are like, no, no. It cannot be a predator. It's not the same. Like, I've seen animals who've been eaten by predators. And this happens, like, within minutes of it dying. And there's no blood. And there's no blood.
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How do you explain that? I don't know. You'd have to read the reports. I did not. I just kind of read a like a quick summary of like, this is what they found. But if I was investigating something like that and there was no explanation, I'd just be like, it has to be the closest thing is. Yeah. Okay. Poachers, whatever. Because what else? If you're not looking supernatural, paranormal.
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Yeah, I don't know. There was one instance where Terry followed the tracks through the snow of one of his livestock. So he realized one was missing. So he saw the tracks. So he followed him along. He walked along for several yards until very suddenly the tracks were gone. So just like the big wolf type creature, these tracks ended in the snow.
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And it's not like it's easy to get rid of your tracks in the snow, especially if you're an animal. Yeah. The easily followed tracks just vanished. There were no footprints or tire tracks or anything to explain the phenomenon. Not long after, he found the animal dead and in a pile of broken tree limbs. So it's like underneath trees and like the trees.
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The implication seemed to me that it had fallen. Like it was dropped from high up. But that's kind of how it read. But I wasn't there. I don't know. I didn't talk to them personally. Once again, another instance of cattle mutilation occurred while the Shermans were out tagging their newborn calves. They tagged a calf and left it with its mother as they moved on further down the property.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And I just know some of you are going to be super interested, so I figured I'd put that out there. It is intriguing. I'd like to watch the show. I've seen clips and bits and pieces here and there, but I've never watched a full episode. I am intrigued. You might be after this for sure. Oh, gosh. Okay. This ranch is a 512-acre property in Ballard, Utah, located in a place called the Uinta Basin.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It was a clear day and they could still see where the mother and her calf were standing back behind them. Suddenly, their dog started barking and the mother of the calf was frantic, like running around very loud. They raced over to find that the calf was nothing but bone and hide.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
75 pounds of meat stripped away from the calf without a drop of blood missing or tracks to indicate anything had been there. Just bone and hide, nothing else. In like a 30 minute time span. And on a clear day, as the cattle mutilations continue, so do the sightings of strange lights in the sky. On one occasion, Terry and Gwen both spot a blue orb floating in the sky.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It dipped down by their heads and zip past them, and they could swear that they heard a buzzing noise as if it were electrically charged. When they were finally able to get a closer look at the object, it looked as though there was a blue liquid sloshing around inside of it.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
They saw the blue orb on several occasions, but the final straw for the Sherman family came in May of 1996 when Terry was out for a walk with his three dogs. Another big warning here. Why the dogs? The blue orb came racing by once again, and this time the dogs were chasing after it.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
The orb would dip down low and then shoot back up in the sky a little further out, as if it were playing with or taunting the animals. Investigating them, checking them out, maybe? The orb eventually took off into the woods, and Terry allowed his dogs to chase after it. But not long after they went in after it, Terry heard yelping coming from his animals.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
When he finally was able to track down where they went, I believe it was the next morning because he was afraid for his life to venture into the woods...
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
at night after hearing that and seeing that i would be going in i don't care he found a clearing with three circles of what looked like charred grass and in each circle lay a pile of incinerated flesh whatever this thing was had now taken his beloved dogs and he wasn't having it anymore sorry very sad Horrible.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Which, by the way, for you people who hate to hear that word, I'm going to try my best to refer to it as the ranch. Or SW. As much as possible. But anyway, it's a place shrouded in mystery. It has been a topic of conversation for paranormal believers and skeptics alike for decades.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
By that summer, Terry hesitantly gave an interview to the Desert News about what had been going on since he had bought the property. This article caught the attention of entrepreneur and owner of an aerospace company, Robert Bigelow. Not Bigelow T. Oh my gosh. Different Bigelow.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
He was fascinated by space and UFOs and thought the innumerable encounters at the Sherman Ranch could provide him with the opportunity to study this phenomenon with all the instruments that science had to offer at the time. Bigelow bought the ranch from the Shermans and brought in two agencies, the National Institute of Discovery Science
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
or NIDS, and the Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Studies, or BAS. They began their investigations right away. So these were his little agencies. NIDS. NIDS. Or some call it NIDSI. Interesting. And he is, I think he's still alive, a very, very rich guy. Very, very wealthy guy. Did very well for himself. But this was his project. Into this stuff. Yes.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
This is where Hunt for the Skinwalker picks up. So the book. George Knapp covered some of the experiences in several articles spanning part of the time that Bigelow's nids were involved. Aside from biochemist Colm Kelleher, who helped write the book, the team consisted of several scientists with different disciplines in physics, biology.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It borders the Uinta and Oray Reservation, and it has been the site of many strange and unexplainable observations for centuries at this point. It is and has been a cattle ranch for many generations, but its infamy and intrigue goes well beyond the routine of cattle ranching of yesterday or today.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Man, you should have been buying property instead of being born. I know, man. $200,000 for like 400 acres? Well, he kind of lowballed them. And they've also been probably worth more like being 400,000, 500,000. They've been being tortured, tormented, anything. I read in one place that the family was actually sleeping all together in the living room when Bigelow came.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Hey, even if scary things aren't happening, that's my dream. We all just sleep in one spot. Yes. So Bigelow set up surveillance all around the property where the Shermans claimed that the bulk of the activity had occurred thus far and set off to find a scientific solution to the problems at the ranch. So it wasn't like a fully surveilled thing. It's a lot of property.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So he kind of said, oh, well, a lot of things happen here. Let's just put it up. Yeah. Most of what was encountered seemed to be at random and it was hard to capture evidence and proof of what had been observed for nearly two years prior to the purchase by Bigelow. So even like they'd set them up here because that's where the activity happened. And then it would happen over here.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So they'd move the cameras and then it would start happening over here again. Yeah. So it doesn't want to be caught. Yes, it was almost like it was trying to evade. Oh, that just gave me a chill. The team attempted to approach each claim and situation as a scientist rather than a staunch believer.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
They wanted this to be a true scientific study into what seems to have been plaguing the area for decades. They looked into every avenue. Was it a gravity anomaly of some kind? Were there psychoactive plants in the area causing hallucinations? Were the Shermans simply lying for publicity? It seems that even to this day, nothing has been definitively proven to be causing the phenomena.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
But Bigelow gave it a try. And even with the cameras about, strange things continued to happen. The Shermans were leaving the property one day, exasperated by all that had been happening to them. They were losing more cattle than they ever had before. They were constantly bombarded by lights in the sky, of which they knew nothing of their origin or intentions.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
The entire family was afraid of what could possibly lie in wait Out on their 512 acres of land as they drove on their property down to the only entrance leading in and out of the property at the time, they looked over at a corral and commented to one another that the four prize bulls that they had in there would help them make like a good portion of their income for that year.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
They just couldn't take losing any of them. So they were looking, they're like, man, we've been losing a lot, but if we lost any of these, this would put a major, like we're already kind of like struggling. Yeah. Not a lot of margins here. These have to make it.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
As if whatever they sensed on the property with them could hear them speaking, the couple returned home to see the corral empty and not a bull in sight. They parked their truck and frantically looked all over for the animals. Four 2,000 pound animals couldn't simply disappear and they hadn't even been gone that long.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It is considered by many to be the, quote, most scientifically studied paranormal hotspot in the world and has been studied by near billionaire run scientific operations as well as the Pentagon for a time. Whoa. Okay.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
After looking everywhere they could think, Terry decided to check a very unlikely place. See, they had an old trailer parked out near the pens. It was old. They hadn't really been in it for a while now. The trailer had been locked with a piece of wire wrapped around the opening in the back to keep the door shut. Everything looked untouched.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
But just to be sure, having nowhere else to turn to, he took a peek inside. To his surprise, all four of those massive bulls were crammed inside the small trailer. They were packed in there, calm as if in a trance. What? As soon as Terry yells out to his wife that he had found them, it's as if they were all woken up and they went wild.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Some places said that they kicked down the doors and like stampeded out of this trailer. Terry alerted the NIDS team who rushed to the scene to evaluate. They found that the corral, like the part of the corral that was near the trailer, had been magnetized. Whatever lured them there from their enclosure left a magnetic signature that slowly faded as time passed.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
The family weren't the only ones to witness this bizarre activity. A few researchers from Bigelow's team had their fair share of encounters as well. I say a few, like all of them. Yeah. All of them. One story told in the books was when Kelleher and a few others were out at night conducting their investigations when they spotted a very large and unidentifiable creature in the trees.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It had bright yellow piercing eyes and stared down at them almost as if it were observing. The team attempted to shoot it down and thought they had. When they heard it land not far away, they raced to find what the animal could have been. But when they made it to the spot where it should have been, it was nowhere to be found.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
In fact, the only indication that anything had been there at all was a very large oval print that looked like it had claws protruding out the back by the looks of the depth of the track. It was a very large and heavy creature. It jumped down and ran away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It's the site of not only creature encrypted encounters, as you can probably tell by its name, but also several unexplainable cattle mutilations, sightings of flying glowing orbs and other unidentified aerial phenomenon, poltergeist activity, electronic malfunctions, electromagnetic interferences, and any number of paranormal happenings that you could possibly think of. It's like a grab bag spot.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Yes. The official documentation of the encounters with strange beasts and other paranormal activity began when the Shermans took ownership of the property in the 90s. But the history of this place and its surrounding area goes back much further than this. What do you think about the theory that the aliens are in the ocean? I have heard that. I find it very interesting and wouldn't be surprised.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
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Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I mean, makes sense to me. So I'm going to say this later, but it works here too. Some of the sightings saw crafts go down into the water and come out. Yeah, man. I don't know. We know my fear of the ocean, and it's just so unknown. It's not the ocean, though, because, I mean, it's Utah. Okay, I'm afraid of water. Big bodies of water, yeah. I don't even like a puddle, so I'm not a fan.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
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Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
By the end, I'll give you my take, as usual. I'm just going to sit back and listen. No, no, no. Please keep talking because I have thoughts on many things. Yes. Many thoughts on many things. Get them all out. I want to hear them. As I said, the ranch is located in the Uinta Basin, a three-county area of eastern Utah, about 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It is a place known for UFO activity.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
My house on Halloween. For five hours, nothing unusual appeared on the camera feed until Bard, out of frustration, said aloud, quote, If you have something to show me, show me. If you have something to tell me, tell me. He said that immediately after making that statement, the pixels on the camera feed screen began to melt downwards. So he took a screenshot of this. This is like, what is happening?
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And at first glance, the image appears to be one of the typical malfunctioning software program. But in the bottom right of the screen, the words camera one living room had dissolved into I living with the text moving upward while everything else on the screen migrated downward. No quote. We have consulted numerous technologists about the incident. None can provide an explanation. Unquote.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And that was Brandon Fugle. I don't like that. He said, okay, I've got something to tell you. I'm living. Another incident. One evening, Winterton and his wife went to the ranch because Bard told him that he wanted a hard backup of the video files due to some cameras failing that day. He asked Winterton to use one of the external hard drives to download the videos from that night.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And as Winterton began the backup, he and his wife heard a banging sound coming from one of the back bedrooms. Quote, it sounded like someone had an electrical cord and they were smacking it against the wall. So I jump up and run back there. Yeah. Nobody was in there. I've spent tons of times in the command center. I know the usual sounds that it makes.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Some even refer to it as UFO Alley. So some really like big enthusiasts call it UFO Alley because you're bound to see something here. Since we talked about the Betty and Barney Hill. Yes. Yes. It like has become a real solid fear in my mind when I'm driving at night by myself. What if I get abducted by aliens? It's not even people anymore that I'm thinking about. It's aliens.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
What the water heater sounds like when it turns on. This was different. So we're freaking out at this point. I sit back down at the computer and the download is taking forever. Then all of a sudden, like someone was standing between us, I hear, leave now. I look at Melissa. She looks at me. Then it happens again. You need to leave now. So...
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
you need to leave yes tom and melissa winterton both jumped up and did as they were told quote we got into the truck and we got the hell out of there i'm trying to text and call eric but my phone won't respond it's all frozen my wife is trying to get it to work i try it's like 10 minutes go by and eventually the phone responds then it just dies it started to work for a second or two then the batteries are totally dead is it protecting them or saying like i'm about to mess stuff up and you need to get out of here i
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
don't know because what is it we don't know we don't know wow okay so here's another experience but this one is by the caretakers quote when we first took over the ranch bigelow had an older couple couple who were the caretakers they liked living on the ranch so they stayed stayed here until about a year and a half ago when they decided to leave for health reasons one night in 2016 they called me it was probably 2 a.m and said someone was on the ranch there was this old basketball they kept by the front porch they said someone was bouncing it up against the
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
the house kids looking for kicks overzealous paranormal enthusiasts and ufo investigators occasionally tried to trespass on the ranch so winterton who only lives about 15 minutes away jumped in his truck pistol in hand and sped to the property quote when i got there i made sure they were okay and i just walked through the house making sure no one else was there i told them to stay inside and went out to see if anyone was walking around using one of the thermal cameras they kept on the ranch winterton began going to all the sheds and outbuildings scanning the fields and the mesa
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Nothing. Quote, I had this feeling I was being watched, but no one was there. I get my shotgun from my truck and just for good measure, I go to the front yard there and blast a few shots into the air and yell a few obscenities just to scare them. He decided to search the old homestead since a lot of trespassers go there to these buildings.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Quote, I take my truck up the road and as I start to get closer, I start to get really scared. Just this feeling that takes over. Then I hear this voice as clear as you and me talking right now that says, stop, turn around. I lean out the window with my spotlight out and start searching around. Nothing. So I get out and blast a few more shots and nail some more. I never found anything.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I just need to know if it's a warning or if it's a warning. In an interview about this time, starting his endeavor at the ranch, Fugel said that he had no idea what exactly was going on with the property, but thought it could be some kind of intelligence from another dimension or reality.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
But he said that he and his team are going about their research objectively, not letting their preconceived notions get in the way. There are plenty of theories as to what could be going on at the infamous ranch. As you could probably guess, most critics and skeptics believe it's all a hoax. Well, that's with everything.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Maybe the Shermans invented the story to get out of there after not faring as well as they did in their previous town. Though this would be strange considering they only received $200,000 for the land, which seems like a small amount for the size of the property. There were buildings and things all around. Yeah.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
But if you're struggling bad enough and you need it, you'll be like, I'll take anything. Yeah. It is possible that people got a little worked up over the insane reports coming from the property. But how is it that so many people, even those who describe themselves as skeptics, will have experiences while out at the ranch?
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So even Brandon Fugel, there was a quote of him saying, there are some respectable people who have come and visited the ranch. I won't name them. Yeah. But they had experiences that they will attest to. I don't know. Plenty of rumors have been spread from the time that Bigelow operated the ranch.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
He was very secretive for the most part about their investigations, and that could have something to do with the fact that the government was involved.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
some believe the ranch could have been a testing site for secret government weapons others claimed that there must be an underground alien base since no one was allowed to dig there and there were plenty of sounds that came from unseen places so are the sounds just the tunnels underneath the ground and they're hearing dude whatever talk underneath and that's why they're not allowed to dig and that's why they keep like
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Put pedal to the metal, man, and just try to get out of there. Oh, Like they can't just like beam me up like a cow. And they'll take me. And hope that they wipe your memory like men in black style. I wish I could do that now to some things. I just want to forget. I was thinking about this literally yesterday. So I feel you. Ignorance is bliss. I would like to be stupid to the world.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
dipping down low into the water or whatever, or their entrance and exit in Bottle Hollow. There are also some who simply believe that this area is just a hotspot that, for some reason, extraterrestrials are interested in visiting for many decades, performing experiments of their own, maybe.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I mentioned it a few times throughout the episode, but there are still some theories that posit all the experiences are hallucinations caused by geophysical processes or some kind of flora that exists out on the basin. And that's... I think that's a good...
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
theory as well theory yeah a hypothesis to like go about and look for yeah now this is completely unproven but there are people out there that believe seismic activity technonic shifts and geomagnetic fields could affect the portion of the brain that causes hallucinations i mean that's possible i mean not proven but that's a an interesting theory
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I alluded to this earlier, but the most interesting theory to me is the possibility of interdimensional travel and visitors from another universe or parallel dimensions. Especially with that portal thing opening. The portal could be operated in that area for one reason or another. Like maybe that's just where it is. I don't know how portal.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
This could explain strange creatures appearing and disappearing suddenly without a trace. The cow that disappeared mid-stride, the portal spotted by the investigators, and many other encounters here at the ranch. As to who is operating the portal or wormhole, or if it is even controllable, is a big question. But I find it so interesting to think about.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
If this portal defies the laws of physics that we know, this could also be why the teams of investigators are having a hard time capturing data and proof. We just don't understand it yet. So if we can't understand what we're even looking at, how do we measure it? I don't know. You get it. It's like it's like in crime and stuff. When you get DNA, you're like eventually we'll be able to use this.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And they do. Yeah. So it's like, OK, they're collecting like this everything. So in 15 years, when that technology becomes available, they have it and they can have the data. Yeah. Love. So it's possible. That's cool. I don't know. That's my favorite theory. Me too. I also do like the underground base of some kind. I think that's fun. That's feasible. Fun to think about. I read on Reddit.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I was kind of looking to see what people thought about this. I saw someone say that they're still in the hypothesis part of their experiments, which is fine. But to be in the hypothesis mode for almost 10 years of owning the property is a little crazy to me, too. I don't think I believe that, though. But who knows?
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I mean, if they are looking into something that we on Earth do not know or understand, have never encountered. How would they know? It may just be that whatever is out there truly doesn't want to be seen. And they probably have some technology that we just couldn't even comprehend. And they just don't want to show themselves. And I want them to show themselves. I don't know.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It depends if they're scary or not. If they're good. Yeah. So on the show, they like often shoot rockets up in the sky. And I don't know the exact. Again, I've never seen the show, but I've seen clips of them shooting rockets and like traveling back and forth and doing all this stuff.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It kind of reminds me, you know, those images of like uncontacted tribes where they're like shooting bows and arrows up at helicopters and planes. That's kind of what it reminded me of. And like, are we just, as we've talked about before, a primitive species that they are coming down. They're sending probes. Those orbs are maybe just probes. And they're just collecting data on us. Yep.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And there's like students coming down from like the local college. Yeah. Just, you know, doing research. Investigating. That is a really interesting theory. And I feel like that could be something that's possible in this world, even if it's not here. We might be being observed. In some way. Yeah. Yeah. Which I think so. It's possible. I wouldn't believe so. I wouldn't be surprised.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And as many of you may know, has its own show on the History Channel exploring some of the unexplainable phenomenon reported over the years. Aliens, portals, cryptids, interdimensional beings. It's all unexplained. It is super interesting and I'm ready to jump into it with you. Oh, I'm very excited. And we have a great tea that I'm going to probably drink all of. Yes. I'm ready to go.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It would be so peaceful. Oh, yeah. I'd be a lot less stressed. Anyway. Surrounded by wilderness, the reservation, and another known hotspot called Bottle Alley. The entire area surrounding the ranch is a place UFO enthusiasts and the curious flock to get their own sightings or encounters. And the legends go back even further than the ranch itself.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
But that is Skinwalker Ranch. I am leaving feeling very different than I thought I was going to. Very different. I can't believe you didn't really know what it was. No clue. I never heard of it. I guess you're not. We're in different worlds.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
we really are if it wasn't for this podcast i wouldn't know any of this stuff the only thing i knew was like ghosts and demons that was it but we are we are far past that i'm my friend i'm deep in it i'm very deep in it so let us know what you think what are your theories what are your opinions do you think it's all a hoax do you think there's something there do you think the government is involved is there alien bases beneath the the surface are there u.s bases underneath the surface
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Or is it all just a bunch of hoopla and there's nothing out there? But I don't think so. No. To put that much money into it, it feels they would have to be master manipulators to get that much money out of all of these people. I don't know. There's definitely something going on there.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
That would be an interesting theory, though, because in 2016, he bought it and he started doing his own experiments. And then he realized there is nothing here. I have been hoodwinked. And he was like, hey, History Channel. Yeah. Come film. Come out here. It's crazy. He's like making that money off of it. That right there. But I don't know. Maybe. I don't know the guy.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I want to believe that strange things are happening there because there that's a lot of people to get in on the hoax. Yes. Yes. Yes. Because you can be the only one refuting any of this is Garth. Yeah. No. Even if it was a big conspiracy, one person's going to slip up. You can't trust that many people to keep up a lie. Yeah.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And it was dozens and dozens of people working on these experiments over the last 30 years or so. Something's going on. Conclusion? Something's going on out there. Something's weird. So again, like I said, let us know in the comments what you think because I'm intrigued. I want to know. I want a conversation with you guys. I want to see what y'all are thinking. Like this video if you liked it.
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Share with your friends if you feel compelled to do so. And subscribe for more. Sorry we have been a little all over the place with our posts. I have been sick. I have been going through it along with my whole family. And it's just been like the entire month of March. Horrible. I was barely treading water. It was a lot. We were sick for like almost all of March. Yeah. I'm catching up. I'm trying.
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Yeah. It's bad. So sorry. We are doing our best. Please don't yell at us. But also I posted on Instagram asking if y'all want to keep Mondays and Thursdays or if y'all would want Mondays and Fridays to like switch it up. And the majority said, Monday and Friday, girl, I don't care. But some of you said, don't change it or else. So if you have very strong feelings about us changing it, let me know.
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The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Yeah, put it in the comments too. And give me a good reason. Cited sources. But if you don't care, I'm kind of interested in... And if you're still here... Leave a cow emoji. Yes, that'll work. I like cows. Is there? I wish there were an emoji of an alien abducting a cow. There's an alien emoji. You can leave an alien or a cow. Emoji people need to get on that.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Bottle Hollow, for example, is a very large man-made reservoir on Ute land that butts up right against the ranch. So it's literally right there. Mm-hmm. There have been several documented sightings at the reservoir alone, including in 1998 when a police officer claimed to see a large glowing light fly over and plunge down into the water, only to reemerge and fly off into the sky moments later.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And again in 2002, several young men claimed to have seen a bright blue ball of light enter the water late one night. And this isn't the only alien or broadly paranormal activity spotted by people living in the vicinity. Not by a long shot. It spans decades. We should go. Would you go? Yeah. Okay. I don't know if I'd go yet. I don't know anything about it. You can't go to the ranch. Oh.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It is not open for tours because they are conducting experiments there. So you can't go unless you are invited in by the people who own it and run it. You know what movie I started to watch the other day and fell asleep watching? Paul. Oh my gosh. I haven't seen that in so long. It's a weird one. It's funny. It's weird. We watched it too young. As many of the things we've seen. Yeah.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Anyway, what were we saying? Paul. Paul. No. Okay. Yes. Lots and lots of people in this area have seen UFOs. Those are just two examples of a myriad of examples. For a little backstory before we get to the main event, of course, like all land in America, the area first belonged to the natives.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
But the first time we have written documentation of any strange occurrences happening along the bounds of the ranch was in 1776 when the Dominguez and Escalante expedition made their way along Skinwalker Ridge, which is what it's called today. I don't believe it was called that then.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
franciscan missionary sylvester velez de escalante wrote of seeing strange fireballs in the sky over his campfire and according to the skinwalker ranch website there were a number of other european explorations that came through the area and detailed strange occurrences just like this one so even back in the 1700s the europeans were were seeing some stuff that is a long time ago and i'm assuming prior to this it was seen it's just not written yeah in written record is this have you seen ancient aliens i
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
When they talk about lights in the sky, is it always UFOs or could it be like meteors or just things? That's possible. Space things. It's possible. Meteors are possible. Think about that. They have meteors in Europe. So it's not like that's not something they've ever seen, though. That's a good point. That's a great point. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I feel like they might know, but I don't know how far along we were in astronomy then at that point. The Northern Ute Reservation was established by presidential decree in 1860 and several bands of the tribe were relocated by the U.S. government onto the reservation.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
In that same year, the Ute began fighting with the Navajo and this is where some believe that legend of flush pedestrians, or as someone called it,
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
epidermis pacers epidermis pacers that's a good one in the area came from now we talked about these evil beings in our episode dedicated to the topic so if you want to go back and watch that it's episode 31 it was really creepy we had some really creepy stories in that one so highly recommend but as a brief overview epidermis pacers are witches from the danae or navajo people they are evil and perform vile practices in order to be able to transform into the skins of an animal that they have killed themselves they are known to be just very evil and
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
It's our Republic of Tea, the People's Green Tea. This is one of Natalie's top. It really is. It really is. I don't, I just keep coming back to it. It's just, it's light. It's refreshing. I could drink it every day. So let's go. Yep. Great tea as always. Always.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
and only out for themselves, doing whatever they have to to gain power and whatever it is they deem necessary for their own selfish needs. Sounds familiar. But the story goes that when the Ute fought against the Navajo and even participated in the slave trade with the Spanish, the Navajo enacted their revenge by cursing the Ute lands and sending these beings into their midst.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
These evildoers would enact violence and terrorize the Utes, causing harm in any way that they could. And the sightings of large beasts in and around the reservation so say the legends. are sightings of these epidermis pacers. Though none of this is proven, of course, and could only be legends told to either understand what has been seen or for a good thrill, we'll never really know. Who knows?
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I also read somewhere that they were like, the Navajo people don't really associate with them. And I mean, that's true. That doesn't even make sense that they would because they're evil. They're horrible people. Horrible people that I don't think the Navajo would even want them a part of their community. So I don't know why they would team up with them to go enact revenge. But I don't know.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I mean, I'm not a part of any Native American tribe. So I don't know any of the legends firsthand. Comment below if you know. 1886, the U.S. military finalized their construction on nearby Fort Duchesne, which was in operation until 1912. So there was a U.S. military fort right there. It's also in 1886 when the Myers family purchased the property that we know today as Skinwalker Ranch.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
kenneth and edith myers own the property for many years and despite what the next owners have to say about it their nephew garth who claimed to have spent lots of time out on the ranch with his aunt and uncle disputes the claims that were made later on and says that he never experienced anything strange while out at the ranch and said that to him it seems most of the stories were like overblown or or vamped up for publicity's sake contrary to this though are the accounts of people living in the area claiming to hear and see strange phenomenon almost immediately upon moving on to their new land
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So when people started settling the land, it was like almost immediate. The only Garth I would ever trust is Brooks. Okay. What's his credentials? Actually, I don't know if Garth Brooks has ever said anything bad, but I like Neon Moon. Their music's not too shabby. That was so stupid. I just had to.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
tell you one local newspaper reported on some of these happenings in 1906 in an article titled quote rumblings heard in uinta basin strange noises cause new settlers much uneasiness it read in part quote many residents of utah and the east who have been in the uinta basin have noticed with wonder the occasional rumblings resembling explosions or distant thunder that can be heard throughout the section at intervals every calm day and night
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Homesteaders have heard these muffled detonations every quiet day since the former Uinta Indian Reservation was opened to settlement over five years ago and have become so familiar with them that they have long since ceased to pay any attention to what seems most unusual or alarming to strangers. From the fact that the mysterious noise is heard just as frequently in winter as in summer...
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
and that the volume of the sound remains almost constant from the beginning to the end of the 5 to 15 seconds it lasts, and that there are never any single isolated reports, the explanations of distant thunder or blasts have been abandoned. It has been reported on that strange noises and things are happening already. Okay, I'll save my questions for the end.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
This was also in the time when Fort Duchesne was open. Mm-hmm. So could they have been testing weaponry, doing things like that? That's what I was going to say. It's possible. Yeah. Because, I mean, the government has their secrets. Yeah. So it's possible, but I don't know. The newspaper was writing about it and saying it's happened so frequently that people are just like, yeah, it is what it is.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So one of the main sources I used for this episode was a book called Hunt for the Skinwalker by journalist George Knapp and biochemist Colm Kelleher. And I mentioned this in our episode that we talked about this briefly. Knapp and Kelleher spent a decent amount of time researching and covering the events that happened on the ranch in the late 90s.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Yeah, but that was my first guess. Strange occurrences continued on for residents in the Uinta Basin. Several residents reported seeing both UFOs and strange creatures resembling large wolves and even compared to Sasquatch throughout the mid-1900s. Is Bigfoot around? Maybe.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Dude, I'm ready for the episode, but I'm going to be really disappointed if you get on this podcast, look me in my face and be like, Bigfoot's not real, dude. Okay. Well, I have not listened to or read enough about it to perform an opinion yet. Neither have I, but I have an opinion. Okay. And that's unlike me. I find it intriguing. I do, too. Either way.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Because even if it's just a man in a suit, several men in several different suits prancing around, that's intriguing. Why? Hey, I'd like to know. In the 1950s, a local high school science teacher named Joseph Junior Hicks began keeping track of and cataloging stories from people who lived in the basin about UFO activity.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
He and Dr. Frank Salisbury, the head of the plant science department at Utah State University, co-authored a book titled The Utah UFO Display. in 1974, which documented experience after experience of people seeing strange lights in the sky. I want to say it was over like 400 experiences. Don't quote me on that. It's just my memory and my memory is flawed.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Some even sounding a bit like what Betty and Barney Hill had seen, though with much less of an impact. All the way in New Hampshire. So very, very vast difference in location. So things like strange belt shaped lights and the occasional image of what appeared to be beings inside. Possibly. Possibly. I'll believe it. Several of those featured in Hicks and Salisbury's book.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Particularly in the 2010 edition were owners of properties that neighbored Skinwalker Ranch. One John Garcia claimed to see an object, an orange object, the size of a house floating above his fence before shooting up into the sky and out of sight. That's huge. I was thinking like a little round light. No. Size of a house.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
Some people have claimed to see things that are like several football fields long and large in the sky. I'd have to be put away somewhere. I'd have to be put down. I would think that we were under attack.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
yeah or i would think that i was just going crazy and then i would have to be the death star is landing on our planet like we need to go it'll have to put me in a cabinet just like i don't know where but we need to go yeah charles winn claimed to be out one night when he saw a bright light that seemed to come straight at him he ran for his life before dropping down into a ditch of water taking cover
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So they are or some of them seem to be interested at least at the very least interested in the people who are observing them. Stories like this have persisted in and around the ranch.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And in 1992, when the Sherman family bought the property, they had no clue what they were getting into or that they'd be a part of the story of a decades long scientific investigation into strange and unexplainable phenomenon. When Terry and Gwen Sherman, along with their son and daughter, they were young.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
The book was super interesting, so if you want to hear more in the way of details and theories, I definitely suggest you pick it up for yourself. It's an easy read, super fun. Also, if you want more on the topic, there are tons of places that you can go if you're interested.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
I think the son may have been a young teenager and the daughter was younger than that, decided to move from their home in New Mexico. They found the ranch in the Uintah Basin and thought this was their chance to live the dream.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
They were looking for a way to leave their busy lives that they led in a small town for a more remote location where their lives could stay private and their cattle ranching could thrive. They were kind of sick and tired of the same small town business. Everyone knows your business. Everyone's involved. There's lots of drama, you know. So they wanted to get away.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
And finding this property was the way. I mean, it was out in the middle of nowhere. 500, I think at that time it was like 418 acres. Terry Sherman was an excellent rancher, owning and breeding cattle for many years. In fact, when most of the families around them were losing close to 4% of their herd in a year, they would claim a rough year if they lost around 1%.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
So he was very good at husbandry of the cattle that he raised and very good at keeping his herd. Cool. Do you know anything about cattle ranching? Don't, but sounds riveting. They knew what they were doing and wanted nothing more than to build their dream life out in the Uintah Basin. It seemed like the perfect place for them.
Ghosteas
The Mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch
They were given one stipulation before buying the property, or this is the legend, they weren't allowed to dig into the land without contacting the previous owners first. Though I read somewhere that Garth disputed that and was like, I never told him that. I don't know who's to believe here. That's a strange thing that I would not agree to. Yeah, it's like, no.
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It's going good, Nick. Thank you. My name's Macy. I'm 25, and I am struggling setting boundaries with my mom.
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So as far as I know, no one's ever set boundaries with her before. And over the past year, she has been inserting her opinion in my life in ways A lot of places where I feel like it is harming me. And when I've tried to say to her, hey, respectfully, like this is not behavior I want in my life. This is not good for me. Can you please not talk about this situation?
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She completely disregards what I'm saying, or at least it comes off that way. And I've recognized a pattern of her defending her actions and not taking accountability when she hurts me or oversteps. And so I'm not sure how to have that conversation and say, mom, I am setting boundaries with you without her going to that defense and actually listening to what I need from her.
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Okay. So to give a little bit of background, I've been with my boyfriend for almost a year, and this is the first healthy relationship I've ever been in. He is so sweet, so amazing, so loving. He has his downfalls like all of us do.
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And she's only met him twice, and immediately... Well, he has anxiety. I have anxiety. And so he's not always... his best self around people when he's nervous. Hence my parents, the two times he met them.
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Yeah, yeah. If you're not super open to a lot of things, which I don't feel like my mom intends to be, but she likes to act like she's really big on mental health. But when I say, oh, I have anxiety, it's why? I don't understand, you have a great life. So she doesn't tend to get mental health, doesn't have a why. And I'm a therapist, so that's very frustrating.
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But so basically she judges my boyfriend a lot and then talks really negatively about him to me. And when I try to explain like, hey, this is why this happens, She just creates another reason, doesn't listen and continues to dislike him and hasn't really given him a chance to prove himself to her. And it's he's done for. So setting that's hard.
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And then anytime I just explain how I feel about situations, she says, you're young. I have more life experience than you and just disregards the next thing that comes out of my mouth.
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E905 Ask Nick - Hope is Not Your Friend
My goal is to get her to be more open-minded to things that she thinks she understands but doesn't and just not be so judgmental of my decisions in my life, my choices, and not inserting her opinion every time she feels the need to and trust my judgment, really.
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Yeah. And that's that's very true. I have said those exact words. I need her to change in order for this relationship to get fixed because we used to be very, very close. Like I told her more than most people probably think I should. And then I think that's where the disconnect is, is now I'm completely pulling back because I just don't feel like she supports me.
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E905 Ask Nick - Hope is Not Your Friend
And so I guess maybe how can I get her to not always defend her actions, but take accountability when I say I'm hurt?
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E905 Ask Nick - Hope is Not Your Friend
Yeah, it's very accurate. You're hitting it all like you normally do with everybody.
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense because I don't seek that much approval from my dad and I get more approval from him probably because of that. There you go. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. So, yeah, I guess it's not even. You got to own your choices. Setting boundaries. Yeah. It's just not caring as much and being confident in that. I know I'm doing what works for me.
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I don't. You're right. I don't. It's been hammered in me that I do my whole life and I'm realizing I don't. Yeah.
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So I guess my last question is I told my mom that I wanted her to come visit in the next week or two to have the conversation we need to have, which I thought was going to be the setting boundaries. But now I realize I just need to not seek their approval and not care and let her come around. So that's what I do about that.
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E905 Ask Nick - Hope is Not Your Friend
Yep. You're right. Those were the words that I needed to figure out in here because that's what I need to do. And once I say it, I have to enforce it.
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E905 Ask Nick - Hope is Not Your Friend
Yep. I absolutely need to do that. And maybe that's what I'll focus on when I restart my own therapy. There you go.