Natalie
Appearances
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
Um, well, it's been a few days now.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
Yeah, it's just like a weird vibe, you know?
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
I sent them a text, yeah, and nothing back. So I don't know. I don't get it.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
I mean, it wasn't, like, you know, a wild date or anything. We just, like, went to this cute little Italian place, and it was really low-key, but, like, vibey and, I don't know, romantic and candles and all that good stuff, you know? And conversation was awesome, which...
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
you know isn't always the case and yeah okay there was like wine involved and all that but you know it was it was good I thought it was good and I liked that he wasn't really trying to like impress me you know or anything like it wasn't like flashy or he was just grounded and we talked about music and like you know wanting to travel and our favorite shows and
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
It just felt real, you know, like good and real. And he seemed real. And so, yeah, I'm like into him. And I don't know. I just felt like he was different.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
you know, we made out and I felt like it was good. And I felt like, oh yeah, this could kind of like go somewhere. It was right outside of the restaurant, you know, felt super perfect. So I don't know. I just, he was just like this calming presence and I've had so many dates where they're like showing off, but like, I don't know with him. It was just different.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
And I felt like I could really be myself and like, I don't have to be cheesy, but I felt like really seen and it doesn't hurt that he's like super hot.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
At dinner. Like, I might have gotten, like, too excited, you know? Like, we were just talking about travel, and I told him about this trip, and then, like, the wine was talking, and I just told him to come along and, like, pretend we were newlyweds and get free toast.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
After, you know, and it was like a total joke. Like I was like, oh, you know, like it would be wild kind of thing, you know, but like. Oh my God. I mean, why am I already doing talking about trips? I don't know. And he laughed at the time, but like, Oh, he's been totally radio silent ever since. And I've texted him and like, now it's just, you know, I just been like, Oh, Hope you're doing well.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
I had a great time. I'd love to see you again, but we don't have to pretend to be married anymore.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
you know, it was a great date and I kind of maybe let the wine do some talking and told him to come on a trip to Greece with me.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
Yeah, really. Yeah, I guess. I mean, is that not enough?
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
Um, I do want to talk to you because I actually did pick up on that and, I also picked up on the fact that you were using me as like a little pawn in whatever game the two of you are playing. I mean, you take the place, buddy. Like that was clear. And then once you were replying my texts, then I knew that that was the case. Yeah. Like clearly you're still sleeping with this girl.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
And I was just there. So that you could make her jealous and you were not responding to me because, yeah, you're right. I wanted to confront you and you used me in this little game. So I'm now using you in a little game to get me on the radio.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
A little bit, yeah. Okay. I mean, come on, he takes a place, and then, like, he's all, like, flirty with the bartender, and they're, like, pretending they don't know each other. But, yeah, I saw when she would, like, touch your hand or, like, rub your back as she walked by you. Clearly, it was, like, I don't know if it's, like, a little sex game or whatever. Oh, no. What?
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
rather jealous, but I don't really want to be a part of it.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
Okay. So it makes sense that you didn't bring me there in front of her because she cheated on you. And then you're like, Like, oh, look, I'm with a girl. And like, whatever. And you made out with me in front of the restaurant.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
You know what? It was a weekend night, and, you know, she's a bartender, and you know where she works. So I'm sorry, but my guess is you did.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
If you want another date with the bartender, maybe you have to pay for that one. All right.
First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show
Why is Ben ghosting Natalie?
Well, this is what I expected and at least I can move forward because I knew my instincts were actually right. You know what I mean? Like that getting ghosted and not knowing why, that's the worst. So also when I said that Ben was different, what I meant by that is he's exactly the same as every other. Yeah, it's a crisis. Jubal's first date follow up.
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I don't. But 91. I know we're getting so close to 100. That makes me. We have something special planned for 100. Well, special to us. You might like it. I hope. I mean. We like it. We have fun. But we're not giving that away yet.
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Obviously, I included this one because it included us. If you experience something during our video, turn it off. That's fine.
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No, that's okay. I'm glad she didn't finish it.
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I'll never forget Brandy, but let's go. That's good. Tastes like a s'more. I like it. Dude, we had s'mores the other day. I have been craving them every single day since. They're so good. So good. But I don't have like a gas stove and I have to go buy that gas stuff to light my little... Just get like one of those lighters, you know, like those long like little switch lighters.
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I've never heard that thing before.
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Okay, Keegan, good for you. You are braver than I am, braver than I would ever be, braver than us all. Go upstairs and put the headphones on. I'm jumping out the nearest window and just hoping to survive, hoping to land somewhere nice. Oh, yeah, that's really scary. Is that dramatic or is that valid?
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I just can't imagine. And the people that live in Appalachia, Appalachia, whatever you want to call it, they are strong as soldiers. They are going to be at the front lines because, oh, I heard something terrifying. That could be something that's out to get me. Let me just pretend it didn't happen. I'll just go back to my room, sit and wait it out. Good for you. Good for you. Those were spooky.
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For sure. I don't think any type of mimicky type story will ever sit right with me. Not be scary for you.
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What's wrong with you? Why?
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I could have lived with any other answer or saying like, oh, she's in the closet and she wants to play or she's in the closet and she wants to hurt you. She likes to crawl. First of all, who is this? Who is this girl? I don't know. I don't like this high school girl. No, I mean the one that's seeing this weird, quote unquote, weird girl. She's someone we need to find out.
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We need to find out where she is now. I could never recover.
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Dude.
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What is the most extreme word for fear? Kerfuffle. No, I'm just kidding.
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I need something stronger. Something with more of an emphasis on how I feel.
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Yeah.
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I wish we would have chosen names to do the pod with. That might get confusing.
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and happy halloween oh happy late halloween early halloween send us more and you may not be almost choke or actually choke yeah no get out don't ask questions don't acknowledge it don't talk to it say get out leave and that's it that's all that's our rule you can't talk to the spirits the only time to contact a spirit especially a malevolent one is to tell it to go away i agree 100 jojo style oh my god
Ghosteas
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I feel like that's such an older cousin thing to do. Oh, yeah. Freak out your younger cousins or siblings and things like that.
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Or just put some curtains up. Hang all the sheets. Hang all the blankets. Create a fort. I know. Get some tacks and tack up a towel if you have to. Yeah.
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Oh, my God. Comment down below. Tell her how wrong she is on saying that. Please tell us now.
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I'm sorry to... No, that's a lot lighter than anything I've ever pictured. So yeah, I'll take that. It's just Peter Pan or his shadow. Sure.
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The actual house. Why are we doing mimics? Oh, I guess we're in the mimic territory. Yeah. I literally was just thinking like, man, why are there so many mimic stories? But that's kind of where we get all of them.
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Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. I mean, sorry if this is weird.
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A little bit. I'm following a little bit.
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Because that's what it's seen more recently, I guess. I don't know. What it's learned.
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Probably. But you know I'm with you. I'm sure we'll hear it if we are. And I'm fine with that.
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Thank you. I'm so sorry you went through so much. Yes, I was just about to say the same thing. And before we talk about the story, I hope that is what everybody else experiences with this podcast. Like it's just a distraction from all of what's going on out in the world personally and just, you know, the world. Yeah. Now on to whatever that was.
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I can get on board with the animal theory if it wouldn't have just been two heavy steps. And if we would have heard it, go away. Yeah, but that was just complete silence.
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No. Because if it was a deer, it might like huff or whatever, but it would eventually go away. You'd hear it like hitting branches or leaves. Yeah, it would run away. No, this doesn't give animal. This gives something more sinister.
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Yes. Very strange.
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This is just, I live right in this spot. I would freeze and I think my body would have such a reaction that I would shrink down to the size of a pea. I feel like you'd just fall asleep. No, I think I would literally, I don't think my body would be able to handle all of the shaking and the freak out. I think I would squeeze so hard and freak out so hard.
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I would like shrink down to the size of a literal like green pea.
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Was it a little girl or was it something way darker that hurt a little girl? I was like, hmm, this will bring people to me. Lullabies in general are kind of freaky, just not scary. It's got soft like... Nope, don't do it. You don't have to do it. Like tune. Nope. Yep. That sound and music boxes like jewelry boxes that have like a sound that comes out of it. Just like soft, delicate sound. Yes.
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Which, you know, I would love to love. I do. but they're eerie to me.
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shape-shifting something so does that mean all of the deer were some kind of thing or is that one oh i just got chills my leg just started itching i just got so freaked out there's only one that has the ability and do the other are the other animals aware or is it just they like oh i gotta fit in i'm blending in i don't know and i've also never seen a like a amount like 40 deer at one time before either
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That's pretty crazy. That's a lot.
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And I'm like, wow, that's a good amount of deer right there. Yeah. I was going to say 10. I really need to sit and think about that herd type animal. My first thought is like SW. Yes.
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That would ruin me. As Catherine? As like their mom? Yes. Like all my auntie. It would be like, I mean, in like a good way. It would make me like cry. Yeah. I know.
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This is so me. I want to be a granny witch. I want to be this. I've said it before. I do not feel like I am a mother. I feel like I'm meant to be a grandmother. And that's it.
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It was and Olive. That's where I thought it was going. Either that or I thought it was going to be like they had a younger sister or something like that from years and years and years ago. Well, I mean, it was from like over a decade before, but... Yeah, but I was thinking it was like Catherine's little sister or something like that. Or like a kid. Aunt Ollie.
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Love it. I love that it's your grandma. I love it. This whole story. Fantastic. That was a good one. I should have ended there. So cute.
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I can't do it. Have you been to one?
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yes at a cousin's like first birthday party like nine years ago yeah i was there i think nine or ten years ago they freaked me out corn mazes just mazes in general don't like them i don't like the feeling of being trapped or feeling like i'm trapped yeah they're that you can't get out we have one more story and it's from zabrina zabrina with a z with a z i like it a lot hi ladies my name is zabrina and i'm a fairly new listener
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That's all I needed to see. It's all I needed to hear. I'm not living in this house.
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First of all, the place and the type of house and everything, a dream.
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No, this is actually my dream. No, no, no. I love it. Everything about it. Perfect.
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You know, me too. That's horrible.
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So our typical episodes, I think, get like 20,000, 30,000, maybe 20 on average. Yeah. This one has like 300 plus thousand views. Oh, my God. Which freaks me out because that many eyes have seen a video of ours. Yeah. So it did well. We assumed because it did well, you all would like more.
Ghosteas
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I like the idea of an old house. You would just be scared all the time? Yeah.
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Wow. Today's episode really shook you to your core. Really wrecked me. I'm not going to lie. It was a lot. I'm not feeling well. A lot of scary horror. There were a few laughs.
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mostly horror but mostly horror terror larger word that means terror and fear but i am still and i will probably remain for the rest of my life so intrigued by this region of the world me too i feel like we're we could probably make this like a six-parter yeah
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thursday and then our final themed listener stories episode next monday so sad though any guesses the themes anything you'd like to see it's already planned so sorry but maybe next time any guesses i'm having fun doing this kind of sad me too me but i'm ready to learn some more me too i know some people aren't into it i like our normal episodes where we're learning things and discussing certain topics and places and the first topic we're coming back to is from our field trip
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Thank you. This is, we've talked about this before. How many times have police or just emergency services in general been called?
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for a spirit or for something that's not really there.
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Didn't have any connections to sleep. That's not the vibe I get. And since it is such an old house, I just imagine this is just someone that lived there, someone that worked there, you know. What was it doing with the dog kennel?
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What if it was just like, is it going to get chased or barked at? Maybe they were just like, hello, doggy. Hey, nutmeg. Yeah. I love the name nutmeg, by the way. That's really cute.
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Oh, yeah. And then even after they checked, I would be like, so can I just come sleep at the station or like go to my find a friend or something? Especially after I saw this creepy story on TikTok. I'll make this fast about this woman. I think it came from like creepypasta or something like that.
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But she was telling it this woman was home alone and her neighbor came over and started like banging on her door like my husband's in your house. You need to get out now. And she's like, there's nobody in my house, ma'am. Like, what are you even talking about? And she's like, no, he puts on a bunch of lotion all over his body so he can wiggle into places that you cannot see him.
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And he is in your house. I promise. That just gave me.
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weird feeling dude i know and it got creepier and she was like you're crazy he's not in my house and she's like look everywhere look everywhere i promise he's in your house she ends up looking no in the small space between the ones that like reenact it it is no it wasn't reenacted it's just a girl telling it she looks in the space in between the fridge and the wall no and he's in there just like hiding watching her just watching he doesn't do anything he's just watching and
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And at one point she's like, oh, my God, I see this guy. He actually is in my house. And the woman's still sitting on her porch. But she's like, I have to go past him to go outside my door and get this woman and like leave my house. So she takes off booking it and drop something. And it drops like right in front of the fridge. And she like leans down to pick it up. And he's just like.
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just watching, doesn't do anything, just watches her. I don't know. It's really not that scary. No, but it gave me a really bad feeling. Just the thought. And then it was talking about how all of these men, because it's a made up story, how all of these men do this. And if you really look, there are men lotioned up, hiding in all of the crevices everywhere, watching. What is their plan?
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We don't know, but they're looking at you.
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With this hair.
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It just looks curly-ish, like wavy curls. Oh my God. So frizzy.
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God save the queen. What? I just feel so... You know that meme of Spongebob and he's like floating? That's how that story just made me feel. Sorry, we're getting way off topic, but I needed it. But just people being in the house. See, and that's why I go back and forth on cameras. It's like, I don't want someone to tap in and be spying on me, but I want to catch if something's going on.
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I like it. I think it's cute. It's just my wet hair. It's good. All right. Oh, our tea. We didn't even say. Hello. I'm actually really excited about this tea. It's David's Tea S'mores Chai. And I've got my Grim's Deeper from one of our listeners. I think it was Brandy, actually. Brandy. Isn't it? Brandy and Susan have the scariest stories. Some of them, yeah.
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I was going to say the same thing since he collected so many artifacts that it was something attached. Attached.
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That's interesting. I've been freaking myself out a lot lately in the mornings. I never wake up in the middle of the night. Last night I woke up at 3 and then I woke up at 6. It was because of my allergies. I was just literally dying and my stomach was hurting. So bad. I took a 24 hour allergy pill twice. I took it at three and I took it at six.
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And just drank the rest of the bottle. And it's not helping. I'm just suffering. But yeah, so I've been waking up and then I freaked myself out because of what we've been talking about.
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But the lamp stays on because I'm scared. That'll keep them away.
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I'm already thinking about The Conjuring.
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Yeah. Speaking of jump scares, watched The Woman in the Yard. What is that one about? A woman in a yard. She's sitting. Give it away. She's sitting in the yard and she's covered with like a black veil. She's like, today's the day. The trailer was scarier than the movie.
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And it was very dark. And I've seen people on TikTok say like... You know, I'm not one for trigger warnings like blah, blah, blah, blah. Deal with your own stuff. But that movie needed a trigger warning because it was dark. It was dark. Google the plot and everything because I don't even want to talk about it. It was dark. Okay.
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He's in the wardrobe. Oh, Natalie, how dare you? He's in there. Oh, I'm scared. He just comes down to check the mail and then goes back. Since he was checking the mail.
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Well, if it's USPS, it's not getting there. Don't get me started.
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okay the fact that sorry the fact that he's doing mundane things like checking the mail and stuff like that maybe he just used to live there and that was his bedroom you know maybe he and he just liked to hang out in the wardrobe open no he opened the wardrobe put his put his little coat on and he was going to work outside yeah okay yeah that's fine that's exactly what it is it's fine and their fever was messing with them it's fine
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Just like the pod has changed me in the way that I believe in some cryptid things now, I have started to like the fruity teas. Coming around. That's pretty good.
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Turn it all the way up. It's like when you're in the car and you hear a weird noise from your car. Just turn it off. Turn up the radio. No auto shop for me today.
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Just loud music. Don't take that as advice. Don't. This is coming from someone that had to get a new car because I was several thousand miles over needing an oil change. Very neglectful. And they told me my oil turned to pudding. So do not take any advice from me.
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What do you mean?
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Oh, that is sick. But also it reminded me of that picture of us from Facebook around 2009.
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Yeah, I have it on my phone.
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We'll post both pictures. Natalie just showed me another picture that was so funny and cute. Yeah, it's always been Macy as the main and I'm just like the little side character like, aha, adding a little note. A little spice.
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We all disagree. Continue. I hated the way you said that.
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And one day we will have a happy listener stories episode.
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I love it. Oh, why'd you say that? Sorry. We also have a pawpaw. Yeah, we do. I think that's a southern name for a grandparent. Yes. I know a lot of people with, what'd she say, mawmaws? I know a lot of people with mawmaws. Yeah, me too. And by that, I mean one. Oh, well, I know several. There's Meemaw, Peepaw. There's everything you can imagine. I've heard of a Popo before.
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I've also heard of a Popo. I love all of them. What are we doing? They're so funny.
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It's so funny. What do you mean you have a Meemaw and a Poopaw? What? What are you talking about?
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her to come back with that smell on her the knocking so it acknowledged that she was there i was thinking it was like trying to come out it's like let me out i don't know i hate that but it's good myself at least a remnant of it did follow her back to her room that is sick
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I knew you were about to say that because that's what I was envisioning. And I don't.
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Thank you.
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you know. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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I'm going to show you how to do it. Here we go. Thank you.
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Oh, this is someone that listens. This is like a personal story. This isn't something we grabbed from the internet. I'm spooked.
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Yeah, I love stories like that. I think we've talked about that before, how our mom's very intuitive and always like, anytime she tells us, oh, I don't want you to go there. I'm like, so I won't. She'll be like, I just had a feeling. I'm like, got it. And I'm not gonna go.
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Oh no. Was this before or after the nun?
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Thank you. First of all. Second, love that you talked about us with your dad. That's so cute. I know. That's adorable. And we've had people like that where they listen with their parents or their mom or their grandma.
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It's just swapped.
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I was thinking the same thing. I was like, man, I wish we could translate the entire pod into Spanish. Well, maybe we can learn Spanish by listening to other ghostly podcasts. I think about this often, how I feel like I should be fluent.
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one day i will be mark my words one day i will be we'll hold you to it we can have a study group together all the ghosties will get together and learn spanish from our spanish speaking audience oh my god imagine that would be so fun honestly we learned we learned spanish through ghost stories that would be cool
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I'll get it together. I promise. We've both been struggling. It's been rough. I feel like we say that every like two or three months. We're like, we can't get it together. But it really is that way.
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That gave me like a chill that won't even manifest outside. Like inside, I'm like shivering.
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I agree. This just came to my mind. I don't know why. I just need to share it. I don't know if any of you remember. We were talking about Zach Baggins at one point and how he has like that museum in Vegas and you have to leave something when you leave. And I have this friend that did not leave something just because she was like, I want to see what happens, which first of all, how dare you?
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It was really bad. It was really bad. There was a time that we recorded and her husband called and was like, hey, son just threw up. So she had to leave. Yeah.
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She watches the pod. I didn't know she still watched the pod. Oh, hi, Brittany. Hi. Thank you. She snapchatted me the other day. She was watching the pod and she was like, oh, this just I just remembered she had a baby or she has baby. She had it recently and he had a pacifier in his mouth. And they had friends over or whatever. And the pacifier disappeared. And they were like, oh, my gosh.
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And they tore the living room apart, took off the couch cushions, threw all shook out all the blankets, everything. Four people could not find this pacifier. She's like, whatever. I guess it'll turn up someday. I don't know. I'll just get him a different one. It's twin days.
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listen listen it disappeared whatever the friends went home they went to bed she woke up the next morning it's sitting on top of a blanket just sitting right there like it had been placed and so she called her husband she's like you're messing with me i know you're messing with me he's like i swear to you i did not see it and i did not put it there that just gave me the chills and it freaked me out and i was like it's because you didn't leave something at the museum and
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You need to go back with like a sack of gold and leave it at the freaking thing. And a letter of apology. I know. And I was like, you know, why are you playing around? She's like, I don't know. I'm sorry. I will go back one day and I'll leave something. Let's go with her. No, I don't want to go. And I don't want to be around her attachment that she has. Yeah.
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Yeah. I'll burn this whole house down. Stop it.
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Oh, wow. Just to drop that little second nugget in there. Speaking of sleeping with the lights on, I recently got new lamps and I have been sleeping with it on. Just because it makes me feel better. I don't know.
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I've been reading my book. For our book club. Thank you. So I have it on and I'm like, eventually I'll turn it off. I close my book and I'm like...
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And I do like pomegranate. Would y'all have guessed that? Don't say what you are. Okay. If you've never said it before. Comment what you think Macy is. What house she is. And would you have guessed that I'm a Slytherin?
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i think you just give off slytherin vibes but i don't know if it's just me because i know you i think i do but when i've talked about it like at work and stuff with other people they're like slytherin no but i think that's just because i'm always like when i'm at a job but your core is like rotten yeah you're not rotten anyway you ready yes let's go
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Duende Stories
When you said hit them with misfortune, I thought you meant like literally hit them.
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Duende Stories
I would also like to say I hate mint chocolate chip, but I liked the green mug.
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Duende Stories
Sorry, bringing it back to Scooby-Doo. You're just one of those little heads floating in the big tub. Yes.
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Duende Stories
Yes, so I picked these out when I went to the Blue Bell Fun Run in Brenham, Texas. You will also notice my shirt.
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Duende Stories
That is interesting. One day I'm going to get really deep into all the stuff we're talking about and I'm going to have all the all the things going on at once in the house.
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Duende Stories
I just am. In our fairies episode, I was very much like, okay, D.Va. I wasn't really in it, but now I feel like I'm being converted. Good. I'm into it.
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Duende Stories
That's fine. Like, I feel fine with that. If I experienced something similar and my soul was at rest and, like, at ease. Not at rest. If my soul was just kind of at ease and it wasn't scary, it's like, okay, then nothing to worry about. To wake up in the middle of the night and see your door open, though, and you're just like, it's probably fine.
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Duende Stories
Dude. Okay. Side tangent. Sorry. I have a nest that is on my porch and it's been there for as long as I've lived here. I've lived here, what, four years almost? There's a bird's nest and it gets used like every spring. There's a new set of baby birds that show up. There's a bird currently that every time I walk out my door, it posts up and it looks at me. And it doesn't break eye contact.
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Duende Stories
But anyways, let's go. I will not lie. I just took a taste of the steam of that.
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Duende Stories
And every time I walk out, I go, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. And I cover my head. It's just protecting its baby. I'm a prisoner in my home. I'm scared every time I open the door. And then there's two other birds that I think want that nest. So they sleep up at the top watching the nest.
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Duende Stories
At first, I thought they were like together. But I think the two blue ones want the gray one or want the nest.
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Duende Stories
Okay, I was gonna say, it could be anyone but the little handprints. We just have like the little rascals, like a gang of little children.
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Duende Stories
That is true, because if not, do you just turn into one? You just assimilate Tarzan style? Just become?
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Duende Stories
I'm so glad you said medicinal because I was like medicine-y. I could not think of that word. Same thing. But love the mugs though.
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Duende Stories
Dude, after like the third time, I'm packing it up too. I mean, the first time would have been enough for me personally, but the second time, the third.
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Duende Stories
That's okay. Never mind. Well, what you're describing or what you described previously was like a wrinkly old naked man that's just a foot tall.
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Duende Stories
Agreed, because I would feel such shame. There's not a lot that I can be made to feel bad about, like in terms of like who I am and everything. That is something where I would be like, shame, shame.
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Duende Stories
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Duende Stories
Please do. Also, the baby in the crib, the dirty little handprints. I'm convinced.
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Duende Stories
I don't know what has happened to me over the last year and a half we've been doing this. I'm convinced.
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Duende Stories
Dude, at the end of fairies, I was like, okay. I feel like if I go back and listen now, I'll be like, yeah.
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Duende Stories
They exist, at least. In some capacity. Even if it's not the exact little gnome guy. There's something.
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Duende Stories
Yeah, and you know how in our sleep paralysis episode, you're talking about the little guy on your chest? What if they're duendes coming to take people?
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Duende Stories
shocked me so much one to three feet is that all the time because i know in the fairies episode you changed everything i've ever thought i've known and told me they're like yeah some of them are like six feet tall so from what i've read duendes are always small love they're more like gnomes they're more tiny in stature see i can get behind this well a three foot humanoid creature is still a big humanoid creature that's like my child
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Duende Stories
I'm interested to know if they are as mischievous and everything is fairies. They can be, yeah. Do we have any creatures that are very small and cute, Tinkerbell-esque, and they do nothing but good? Is that a thing? Yeah. Okay.
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Duende Stories
I just went through seven stages of grief just now when you were telling that story. You were like, oh, they ride the horses and braid their mane. I was like, oh. And then you're like, the horses are exhausted. Like, I just had a whole.
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Duende Stories
Love. If we can, okay. I know I've said it a bunch of times of like what I would come back as and what I would choose. I think it's a very small little just like, okay.
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Duende Stories
All of the topics we've covered, we can always do more later. I don't plan to stop anytime soon.
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Duende Stories
Yeah, I don't really like that one. I'm going to choose to believe all the lighthearted ones today. Okay. Just for my own sanity.
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Duende Stories
You wouldn't do something like that. I feel like you don't like even tell small little lies to your kids.
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Duende Stories
That's fine, but don't hide in the house. I'm fine with the seeds and the pebbles and, you know, hee hee, do your thing. But don't hide at my house.
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Duende Stories
This podcast is ruining my life because this morning. I'm being so serious this morning because most of the time when Ryan leaves in the morning, I'll see him leave. I'll hear the door shut something, but I'm right back asleep. For some reason this morning, I fully woke up and was like aware that he was leaving. I was like, no, I just I want like 20, 30 more minutes to sleep. I laid down.
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Duende Stories
It is Earl Grey, but it smells medicine-y. Questionable. I'm not, I don't know how I'm going to feel, but I will say, if you notice, if you are watching on YouTube. Or Spotify. Our mugs. If you're from the South, Texas specifically, you know Blue Bell. This is the best ice cream. And I will die on that hill. Yeah, we're not taking questions. No, no questions about that.
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Duende Stories
I was like, And I couldn't. I was scared. Oh, I was thinking of what is it? Ryan's not here.
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Duende Stories
Or this isn't Chris. Whatever. I was thinking about it and I was like, anyways, I'm going to get up.
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Duende Stories
I've only ever seen termites one time in my life, and they were on a piece of wood outside.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
One night after they left... I cried and sat on the stair steps waiting by the front door. I held my cookie monster plush and kept looking behind me. The lights started flickering on and off and a tall lady in white was at the top of the stairs watching me. She almost looked like the grudge from my memory.
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She started slowly crawling down the steps towards me as I screamed, then started running towards me. As she got to the last step, my parents opened the door in a panic. She disappeared and the lights went back to normal. I know what I saw and felt and it's been 18 years since.
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Yeah, it all feels weird. It all feels very weird. And we thought to commemorate, we were going to look back.
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What? I'm glad her parents opened the door.
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i read it i was on the phone with natalie and i pulled it up and i read it for the first time and i couldn't stop laughing enough to tell her for like several seconds oh it was so funny literally the best comment we've ever gotten and i don't know if this person is like trying to us or trying to be mean but either way it was thank you thank you so much yeah natalie let me know today that she pinned the comment so if you find the video it's the first comment on the
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
Look back on some of our scariest listener stories.
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No, I think I scream like Hank Hill sometimes. Okay, now that my embarrassment is done, let's move on. No, that's funny. We'll just call you Hank. So this next story, absolutely unbelievable. I think what was so scary and so shocking was the amount of time this horror lasted. And this is a snippet from Listener Stories 11, episode 64, one of Fox Goblin 666's stories. Mmm, Fox Goblin.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I remember the name. It all started when I was in secondary school, about 15 years old. I ended up going home because I had a headache or felt unwell. Can't really remember. But I do remember the day was bright and very warm. It must have been September, literally the other side of summer, and today was like any other day.
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I decided I wanted to walk the less noisy way, which was going through what the town called Bentley Lane. It's a small wooded area before Main Road, the usual way most of the kids walked, and my usual way home. But today, to avoid the noise of traffic and a quicker and prettier way home, I decided to cross the road and cut into an old graveyard. which my family has known for years.
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Usually, it's not a bad way to walk through, and it cuts off the only road in and out of town. It was recently being redone due to flooding from the river and rainstorms. The graves had started to lift up out of the ground. I remember not feeling too uncomfortable, maybe just unwell. And as I walked through the graveyard, I remembered that no one was there, and it was quiet.
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So, as I was walking through the graveyard, I didn't feel uneasy or uncomfortable until I got to the second part of the graveyard, which was the oldest part and the most damaged by the storms. As I walked through, I started to get an uncomfortable feeling and remember thinking I needed to get to the gate on the other side of the yard and as quickly as possible.
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I didn't really know why, as I knew I was alone, and it was the middle of the day. I also knew that I was still about 10 minutes away from my home. And that was when I saw him. He stood in the corner of the graveyard, and for some reason, it stopped me dead in my tracks. I think it was out of fear. Fight or flight, only mine was fight, flight, or freeze.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
And at that moment, my body chose to freeze. As I stood there, I could make out he was a very tall and imposing figure. He had his back to me, and he seemed to be standing over a grave that was broken, and had most likely been moved. I felt a little strange, like I wasn't meant to see them. Or rather, they shouldn't see me. It was as if something let me go and I was able to move away.
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I could go on. Yeah, I cut this down from like over 50 pages to 23 pages.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I took no chances and bolted for the gate. Shutting it behind me without hesitation, I ran down the hill. I didn't even look behind me as I made my way to the bottom of the hill because the feeling of dread washed over me. So backtracking a little, I want to describe what I saw and still see when I mention him. So for some reason, I felt it was a male in his late 50s, maybe.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
He had a full black trench coat on with the collar up. It stood out because it was quite warm that day. He also had a dark hat on, which was pulled forward, so I couldn't make out any features. I can also remember when I stood frozen, I was hearing a low mumble of words I couldn't quite make out or understand. And for some reason... I thought it sounded like Latin.
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The reason why I remember it so well was because along with the words, which for some reason I was 100% sure were coming from him, even though he was on the other side of the field, there was also a horrid stench of rot and what could only be described as sulfur. I didn't stop as I felt the overwhelming feeling that the male figure had noticed me and I needed to get home.
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Again, I'm not really sure why I felt so threatened. For some unknown reason, I was being told to look over my shoulder. I needed to turn around. So I peered over the large bushes, and I saw that this figure was gone from where he had stood. He seemed to have completely vanished, and I didn't know where he was. Calming down a little, I brushed it off, thinking maybe it just left the other way.
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And I was just being silly and playing tricks on myself. But I obviously felt a little bit uneasy and started to speed up my walking. I turned again for a second time, hearing some snap behind me.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I remember I heard the gate opening and shutting rather hard behind me, bearing in mind I was halfway down the hill at this point, and saw that this person was at the gate that I had just left, and he was looking directly at me. I could now see that he had a dark, full beard with a scary, full smile and really dark eyes. His skin looked sickly pale.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I instantly panicked and started to walk backwards, still looking at this man at the top of the hill. I remember thinking it wasn't possible to get there that quickly because it was a big field. It wasn't a small graveyard.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
That was when I felt my stomach drop because while I was looking at this man for what felt like ages and could have only been seconds, I heard a low, deep growl and he started to run full speed at me. I bolted towards home faster than I've run before, suddenly feeling like I was in real danger and I literally ran all the way home.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
And before we get started, we just wanted to say that we appreciate every single one of you, whether you've sent in a story or not. This wouldn't be possible without you. We wouldn't have 100 episodes. Well, we wouldn't have 100 published episodes without you guys. We might still be doing it, but we wouldn't be doing it. But I don't know that we'd be pursuing it as vigorously as we are currently.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I remember shouting for someone to help me or something as I ran through a dog walker's field, but no one helped me. I remember every time I turned around, I could see this man was getting closer to me and was grunting and laughing as he chased me home. The man didn't look or act like a ghost, except the way it ran at me and their eyes. They didn't look natural at all.
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I am never going to get this confetti out of my laptop. There's some in our tea. Very festive. Hi, ghosties. Hi, I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And as Natalie said, it is our 100th episode.
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In my gut, I knew I had to stay away from the man. I knew I was in a lot of danger, and if this man got to me, something really bad would happen. So I ran literally all the way home and got into my house. locking the front door and sliding into my kitchen under the kitchen counter, which had a large bay window looking out into the front garden.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I knew he was outside as I could hear him laughing and calling my name, which he wouldn't have known as I didn't recognize him at all. I was in tears as I could hear that he was tapping the window lightly, knowing I was hiding under the windowsill. Again, this was in the middle of the day and it was sunny and bright out.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
After I heard him bang on the window for a third time, I couldn't take it anymore and ended up ringing my grandparents and my granddad answered. I told him in a full blown panic that I've had someone following me home from school and I needed help because I felt in danger as they're right outside the garden.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
Not wanting to look to see if they were still there, my granddad said he would come over as quickly as he could and he stayed on the phone as he could hear the banging on the windows. He was also trying to help me calm down because I was in full-blown panic mode.
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When my granddad got to the front of my garden, he told me to stand up so he could see me, and I managed to stand up after being huddled in a ball for what felt like hours. My granddad was saying no one was there, that the man seemed to have gone and everything was okay. But to my horror, when I stood up, I was greeted by the same man from the graveyard standing right next to my granddad.
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I told my gramps to get away from the man as he stood right next to him and that he was mocking me by bowing as if it was all just a game to him. He was slowly waving at me from the other side of the garden. The scariest thing I've ever heard was my gramps saying there was no one here and he couldn't see him at all.
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I think I may have fainted after that as I don't remember much else, but I remember waking up in my bed. It was later as it was dark outside. I remember waking up because I could hear a low chuckle from the corner of the room next to my window. I thought I was just hearing things and looked towards the corner feeling slightly sick as the room smelt like sulfur.
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I turned on my bedside lamp to see if it was my dog or maybe a teddy and for a split second I thought I saw a figure standing and staring at me from the corner of the room. I remember I jumped out of bed and ran to turn the main light on and my mother came rushing in making me look over to her and back at the corner of the room, but of course, he had gone.
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After that, my window was locked shut and I didn't open my blinds for years. I slept either with the main light on or most of the time just didn't sleep at all. My mother took me to see a therapist as she thought I was hallucinating, but nothing came of it.
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I also had awful, reoccurring nightmares about him attacking me either in my bedroom, the alley behind my house, or even walking to and from school. He always attacked with a knife, and the same smell of sulfur could be smelled every time I was woken up.
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I always heard him calling my name, mocking and teasing me, even feeling and sometimes seeing him stalking me when I was walking around town with my family or friends. To this day, after I'd moved out of my childhood home, he's still around. He stands outside my side window in the living room or across the road and watches me.
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I have even asked my neighbors if they'd seen anyone hanging around my house, and all of them say no. I ended up falling out of religion after this event and turned towards paganism slash more spiritual paths, which has seemed to help. I have even spoken and been visited by a few mediums to see if they could get some answers. as to what or who this figure is and wanted.
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So thank you. We have like over 2000 emails.
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They all said that he doesn't like talking and doesn't have a lot of answers. They said they think he is not a ghost but something much darker who has attached itself to me. It's a demon. He will never tell them his real name. The only understandable answer that they get from him is the reason why he's attached to me is because he likes me.
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So I taught myself how to protect and cleanse myself by putting up protection around my house and keeping crystals and herbs on my person at all times. I actually have a beautiful black cat called Salem, which he seems to be scared of. I also went to my town's heritage center and asked for anything to do with the old graves and if there were any archives of names.
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still unread to continue on with i just can't wait for 100 more oh my god i can't even imagine thank you thank you it's very crazy so without further ado let's celebrate 100 by scaring the pants off of us our tea is bigelow english breakfast it is and we are going to light these little sparklers and i'm very terrified after the confetti so disaster yep let's go
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Strangely enough, I was told that the book and documents from the old church were actually lost earlier that year and no one knew where they had gone. So I still have no clue who this man is or was. I still see and hear him trying to call me to come closer. He still frightens me a little as he is getting increasingly more hostile with banging around the house all
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outside of my house at night i'm just so glad to say that he hasn't made it inside but that's my story about my not so friendly ghost or whatever he is even writing this to you i am sat in my living room watching him pacing back and forth outside he doesn't seem to like me talking about him i wish i could say this was just a figment of my imagination but i've spoken to my therapist and mediums about it and they say it doesn't make sense
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If you're in the comments, Fox Goblin, and you feel comfortable, let us know if things are better or if you're okay, if you found help.
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And I hope he or it is gone from your life. Me too. It feels very demonic to me.
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Okay, so this next one... It really scares me. And it's one, like you said, you will like be laying in bed thinking about. This is one that I lay in bed and think about sometimes. Oh, no. This one is from Emma. It's Listener Stories 11, which was episode 64. And again, this is just a snippet of their story.
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You see, I work as a nurse or a nursing assistant in my early years, mostly night shift and with elderly people. both in facilities and in their own homes, but also in ICU at the hospital. And let me tell you folks, there are more encounters than I could put in one email. One time in my life, I worked as an assisted nurse, but in home care.
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So I was driving around at night, checking up on my patients and helping them with toilet runs or just making sure they are safe. My colleague and I were going to a patient that we joked about living in a haunted house because of the eerie feeling that settled in our stomachs every time we went into her home. Oh, no. I remember this one. This was an elder. I went looking for this one.
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I hate this one. I was like, I got to find this exact because this one was on my list. This was an elderly lady using a walker, suffering from dementia, living in a big farmhouse by herself with a baby gate, keeping her from ascending the stairs to the upstairs to keep her from harming herself. We parked our car to let the headlights light our way to the front door as we always did.
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The house looked like it always did. Dark and ominous. As we walked inside her house, we heard giggling. Any other time there would be silence and we would just check up on her to make sure she hadn't fallen over or anything. So immediately goosebumps on both of us. We walked to her bedroom and found our little lady sitting on her bed giggling.
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I crouched down to look at her face and ask her what was going on. But she kind of looked through me and said in a quiet voice, bang. I looked at my colleague and was met with the same confusion I was feeling. But when I was going to ask further questions, we heard a loud bang from upstairs. Like a teenager, mad at their parents, banging their door shut.
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We froze, looking at each other, wondering what in the actual F we were going to do. We were about 20 and felt immortal. So after a lot of talk, we convinced ourselves that she must have a window open up there that had blown shut.
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Get out. So against our better judgment, we went to the stairs. At first, we noticed that the lights were on, which weren't on when we went in. But we decided to be brave and venture up, all while the little lady kept giggling. Upstairs, all the doors, cabinets, windows, you name it, were open wide and every light was turned on.
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Where were the things that made the loud noise if there wasn't anything being shut? Still, we went around, shutting the doors, windows, and shutting off all the lights. We even checked for timers, but there were none. Going down, we heard the lady say, I know you think it's funny, but the girls were really scared.
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Peeking around the corner, we saw her, once again, laying down in her bed, but on her side, obviously talking to someone that wasn't there. That was our cue. We were out of there. We ran to our car, jumped in, and locked all the doors and just let out a sigh of relief. But then my colleague said really loudly,
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emma start the car let's go and when i looked towards the house and saw in the upstairs window a light being on and something standing there watching us leave trust me if there were someone apart from that lady we would have seen them in our venture from room to room upstairs there wasn't one more night that i went into her home
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And if I had to, I would stand by her door and keep it open for a quick escape. I've also seen things peeking around corners while being at my patients' homes, although they are staying there alone. So as you can see, I have quite a few experiences, both visual and audible. But one thing is for certain. I'd rather see things haunting me rather than just a noise.
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Because then I won't know who or what is making it. Yeah. Oh, I hate that one.
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Just like her saying bang before the loud bang.
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It makes me think that maybe it is just like a spirit that's befriended the lady.
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Even before she lived there. Like a spirit from someone who lived there before.
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Because she's giggling with it and stuff. I don't know. I don't know. Move on. I'm sweating. This next one is from Lee. It's from Listener Stories 12, episode 65. I stayed with my grandparents a lot throughout my childhood. They had a nicely sized all wood log cabin. I always felt kind of nervous when I was there alone or just in the house by myself.
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But there was one room in particular that always gave me the spooks. It was the downstairs bathroom that was connected to my bedroom by a closet. Pretty cool, but also kind of scary. It was one of those bathrooms that when you shower, you cannot close your eyes because of how on edge you get. So when I was about six or seven, I was staying there like normal.
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I had taken a shower in the bathroom, brushed my teeth, did my hair, you know, all the normal stuff. I felt fine and everything seemed normal. My mom happened to be staying the night there too because I begged her to stay for a sleepover. She never liked staying there and I never knew why until this night.
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I woke up in the middle of the night, which was abnormal for me because I was notoriously known that since birth, I normally slept through the night. It was around 3.30 a.m. I needed to go to the bathroom. To this day, I still don't know why I needed to go to the bathroom. I didn't need to pee or anything. I just needed to go to the bathroom. So I did.
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Instead of going through my closet, I went all the way around into the living room, around the stairs, through the kitchen, and when I opened the bathroom door, there was a huge black spot in the corner near the toilet. As my eyes adjusted, I saw the outline of what seemed to be a man. I wasn't scared or anything until it turned completely around. and froze when it saw me.
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My heart started to beat out of my chest and I got so sweaty I could feel the beads rolling down my forehead. It then opened its mouth like a snake, unhinging its jaw. This is when I screamed so loud that I thought for sure everyone had heard me. I ran through the kitchen and living room and up the stairs to my grandparents' room. I was screaming, There's a man with a long mouth in the bathroom!
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Screaming, crying, snotting, shaking, you name it. My papa, the fearless man he is, ran downstairs and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and looked into the bathroom and there was nothing. After the whole thing, I asked them if they heard me scream and they said no, which was really weird because of how loud I was. They're very light sleepers and would have definitely woken up.
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Once I got back into my bedroom, I saw my mom on the other side of the bed sitting straight up, crying and shaking. My nana ran to her and kind of cradled her, asking if she was okay. She said, I heard Lee scream upstairs. I got out of bed to go get her and I heard chains going up and down the stairs. I went out anyway and there was a man at the top of the stairs with his mouth open, staring at me.
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and I screamed for everyone and no one came. I ran back into the room and heard the chains again. I sat on the bed trying to calm myself down to go back out there, and then I heard a whisper yell from the bathroom saying, not you, her. After we all got calmed down and relaxed again, which took an extremely long time, we all went back to bed in my Nana's room.
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I slept with my Nana and Papa, and my mom slept on the daybed in her room, and nothing like that happened again. My mom also never stayed there again.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Yes, we just kind of fly by the seat of our pants here.
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I'm happy. It was good cake. It was. It was pretty good. Now, are you ready to be scared? I guess. So our first story comes from Victoria. So this is one we've mentioned many times over the last year and a half we've been putting these together. And it was from our very first Listener Stories episode. It has scarred us ever since.
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And if you want to listen to some of our very first listener stories from the OG listeners, you can check out episode 12. That's what this story is from. Hello, my name is Victoria. And this haunting happened to me when I was about eight years old. I'm currently 24 years old. And since then, it stayed in my mind. I've always been into the supernatural and magic.
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Something has always drawn me to it. I like to say maybe it's because my great grandpa was a curandero. Which doctor? I'm so sorry. That was very not Spanish in northern Mexico. So I've always been sensitive to energy changes and whatnot. So basically, my brothers and I shared a room. My little brother and I on the top bunk and my older brother in the bottom bunk.
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My eyes were still slightly fluttering open and closed as I drifted in and out of consciousness. I was aware that some time had passed, but I reopened my eyes to see I hadn't rolled over or changed position since the last time my eyes were open. There was just a little bit of light coming in through the shades of the windows, so I knew it could only be maybe 6 or 6.30am.
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I reawoke because I felt the weight of someone shift onto the bed next to me and wiggle right next to my body, against my back, which was facing the door to the bedroom. I thought, huh, that's weird. I thought Chris already left for work, but also remember thinking maybe his shift got canceled or something.
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We had a little nightlight that used to change colors every other second to light up our pitch black room. I was trying to sleep when I felt like I need to open my eyes right away. I know what's happening. Oh, no. I opened them just to see my big Winnie the Pooh bear moving from side to side as if something or itself was moving it almost like a baby.
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I tried to turn to face who I thought was Chris, cuddled up against me, but realized I couldn't move. When I tried to say, Chris, is that you? My mouth wouldn't open and no words came out. I couldn't even mumble. My eyes were wide open though, and I could still blink and move them around.
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Starting to panic, I attempted to wiggle my fingers and toes while repeating in my head, Chris, Chris, is that you? Over and over. I felt the weight of somebody pressing against my back and almost playing with my hair. Just a weird, soft touch on the back of my head. Suddenly, whatever was laying behind me moved. I felt their weight shift away from me.
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move towards the edge of the bed closest to the door and just sit there. Obviously, I couldn't see it, but I could just feel that it had moved. It then said in a low-toned male voice, Chris is not here, before sliding off the edge of the bed and hitting the floor with a thud sound. My
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body just went numb again you're gonna hit the floor with a thud sound yeah the voice had a scratchiness to it almost croaky the way it slid off the bed and sounded as if someone had put their feet on the ground and just slowly allowed them to slide away from the bed dragging their body slowly off of it after the thought of whatever thing was hitting the ground i could sense that it was quickly back on its feet and moving towards the window where i was facing
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Mind you, that during all of this, I was freaking out, trying with every muscle in my body to get up or turn around or say any words. I shut my eyes when the things started running around to my side of the bed, and as I shut them, I was able to break free of the paralysis and flop my body onto my back.
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I just lay there for a while, fear racing through me, and slowly began moving different parts of my body to make sure I was awake and able to move them again. Eventually, I sat up and saw the sun had fully risen. I tapped my phone to see that it was about 8.30am. Had the paralysis lasted that many hours? Where did that thing go once I was able to move again? What the hell did it want for me? Why?
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I was shook to my core and didn't get out of bed for a long time, afraid that whatever entity was there was still waiting for me in the room somewhere. One extra weird detail that still gives me chills to this day is that my boyfriend's mom is a spiritual healer and frequently communicates with spirits and angels.
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When I finally got the courage to get out of bed and go upstairs to the kitchen, I told her about what I had just experienced, and she didn't seem surprised. She told me that the night before, she had been doing a healing session in the house with one of her clients, and the energy attached to the client was dark and almost demonic.
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She said that demon or negative energy must have stuck around the house even though she had done a protection ceremony beforehand, and that whatever it was was strong enough to attach itself to the house. We staged the room I slept in, did a few energy clearing sessions, and banished the entity from the house. And nothing like that ever happened again.
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In fact, my boyfriend was shocked when we were getting ready for bed, and he asked if I was scared to sleep here again, and I said no. I genuinely felt that whatever was there was long gone. I slept just fine that night, but I have never, ever stopped thinking about that experience.
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It was laying down all the way on the other side of the room. I shut my eyes and tried not to cry. I covered my eyes with my heavy Mexican blanket, but I needed to get air. And once I took it off, I felt a heavy presence over me. My body felt hot and I couldn't move. I tried screaming out for my brother, but I was too scared. Once I tried that, all I heard was a gummy smile.
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So you're going to read this next one. But I just want to say that every single time I get in my car to leave your house, this is what I think of. Yeah, me too. And literally my whole body gets hot and I feel like I'm going to throw up and pass out at the same time. And I just like rip my steering wheel just like straight ahead.
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My heart started racing when you were reading that story.
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No, that just feels even more threatening for some reason. Horrible. Anyways. That one will stick with me for the rest of my life, I think. Me too. Me too. Like this one as well. This is from Megan, episode 91, listener stories 27. I began to experience sleep paralysis at a young age.
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At about 10 years old, I would find myself frozen in bed in the middle of the night with the comforter pulled halfway over my face, leaving only my eyes exposed. Unfortunately, as a 10 year old, I was unaware of the rule about mirrors in the bedroom. So my vanity was placed directly against the wall at the foot of my bed and she was always in it staring at me. I couldn't close my eyes.
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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. The only way she went away was if I 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. The same thing would continue to happen for years.
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Slowly evolving into a more interactive experience each time, she would come out of the mirror 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 sound continues to haunt me to this day.
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You know when your mouth makes a noise when you smile? Well, exactly like that. All I thought was get up and run. I kept waiting for the nightlight to change to a bright color, but it felt like it stayed stuck on red forever. Finally, I was able to scream out and I ran down, grabbed my puppy, and booked it to my parents' bedroom, and they didn't believe me.
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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. 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 I had hung up would start working and she'd turn 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 a 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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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 or 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. The entire table shuddered and let out squeals. But she was right. I had seen it myself. She definitely liked to crawl. Yikes.
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this one's too fresh this one has been on my brain it's too soon very recent yeah they're not far enough removed for me to be okay no it doesn't feel like a distant memory it feels like this just happened to me personally i know i know i feel like some of these i have experienced like i can picture them so vividly in my mind that it's like almost a memory of mine too this next one episode 91 listener stories 27 comes from dj
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The first story I have for you happened at one of my friend's houses. The local legend is that her road was built on top of an old mine shaft that collapsed, killing many miners. Teachers at our school could always tell who lived on that road because they were always the kids coming in with their own ghost stories. I've had many eerie experiences at my friend's house throughout the years.
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The earliest one was in second grade. We were in the back part, the haunted part of her home, playing with the dollhouse that was situated in a corner. Her mom called us for lunch, and we both froze. It felt like something was standing behind us, bending over, waiting for us to turn. I can't remember how long we sat there, but after what felt like an eternity, I said, Are we safe?
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There have been many more times where whatever it was attacked me and my younger cousins, but never the adults. We stayed in that house for about three more years before we finally left. Glad to say nothing too crazy has happened in our new house. But here and there, we still feel small energy shifts.
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And my friend answered, not yet. We have to keep playing. After a while, her actual mom came into the playroom and asked what we wanted for lunch. I don't know who called us for lunch earlier, what was behind us, or what would have happened if we turned around.
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Instinctively, this was not my friend's mom.
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Just keep playing and pretend like you don't hear it. If you hear something, no, you didn't.
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everywhere this next one is from brie this is one from one of our demon episodes those were that those two were really they're really dark this one's episode 93 listener stories 29 trigger warning for uh talk about unaliving they say one night after school i had fallen asleep in my mom's room i was really tired after gymnastics practice 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
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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. 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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The bed is in the middle of the room against a huge window with two 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 from 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 AM.
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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 was 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.
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This went on for a few minutes, and so I eventually turned 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. I feel something shift by my feet. I turned on my side still and glanced towards my feet when I see it. It was a black humanoid creature thing hunched over by my feet.
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It almost looked like when a cat hunches when it's scared or provoked. As I make eye contact, I noticed it has bright red eyes and it slowly begins to smile at me with 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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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 AM.
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Needless to say, I was terrified and couldn't sleep for hours. I thankfully haven't had a dream like that since, knock on wood. And I never want to.
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I hate that the dream ended so abruptly. It was just like, do this horrible thing to yourself and then boom, awake at the same time.
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That's the vibe I'm feeling today, honestly.
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yeah this is this one was dark this next one you might need to disappear out of the room if you don't want to hear it me yeah oh it's a bad one okay this is this is probably the one for me okay let me get more cake okay this is the one this comes from episode 93 listener stories 29 from aria warning before i start it is gonna get gross it's gonna be nasty so don't eat another bite of cake
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i was about to say when i was 18 i had an extremely unusual and vivid occurrence 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 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
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I don't even want to hear this one again. I know. I'm sorry. You said before that you want to just like disappear out of the room and then reappear after. You want to do that? No, it's okay. Okay. I know. I'm so sorry. I'm just going to zone out. This one is disgusting. I could not include it because it has imprinted on me. It is something that I think about very often. This is the one.
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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. The same day I moved my stuff in, I took a midday nap. 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.
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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. It was sort of like viewing yourself from both in first and third person at the same time. I didn't see anyone this time. I just felt a presence.
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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. I wasn't able to speak, but in my head I thought, you bitch, get off of me. She did not like that. The dream ended quickly. The following night, I was going to bed.
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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. Felt like total consciousness and clear first-person point of view. Completely real feeling. I then started to hear nails scratching down the hallway.
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Slowly coming towards my bedroom door, which was now opened, I started crying in my dream, terrified of what would come next. 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.
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I was hysterical, 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. 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. She was smiling. I couldn't look away. She proceeded to throw up on me.
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Well, our next one is a snippet of a story sent to us by the history drag queen, Wendy Weather. It was from our second Listener Stories episode, episode 19. The entire story is worth a listen, but we wanted to tell you the part that still sticks in our brains today.
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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 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 the bed and out of my room as soon as she left the door i woke up my stomach hurts continue 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 slash 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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All right, so we'll move on for you. This one comes from Kai, episode 94, listener stories 30. 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.
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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. This particular night, my mother put pizza in the oven in our new house.
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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 be in the old kitchen somewhere and that I might as well go try to find it. I remember getting frustrated that I had to go, but that was pretty much it. I walked two doors over quickly.
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As I stepped in 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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yes and shout out to windy weather go follow um her on tiktok and i think youtube youtube yes i did see that they are on youtube now so so if history interests you and uh you like to see drag windy weather is the one to go to i was 13 had terrible insomnia and still as always would get a glass of water at night i know living in a low-key haunted house i should have known better but i never knew of my brother's experiences until afterwards
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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. It was often heard 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.
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My heart went into my throat. I froze in my spot for a brief second. 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 of the story because for a long time I convinced myself I didn't see this. I was face to face with a girl.
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She was so pale, with black sludge all over her and a long old ripped blue dress. 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.
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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. 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 in my imagination.
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The scariest part, and we mentioned this when we read it the first time, is that like they knew something was there.
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They always sensed it. They never went in that area because they knew something was there. And it just decided to show its face that night. Horrifying. We have two more stories, and they're very recent. This first one is Amanda, episode 96, listener stories 31. When I was about 12, I had this horrific nightmare.
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I guess you could write this experience off as sleep paralysis, but there are just a few little details that make it feel like it was something more. Let me give some background info. In my room, all the furniture was antique. To give an idea of how old it was, my 85-year-old grandmother thrifted it for my mom when my mom was a kid. So pretty old. There was a dresser, a desk, and a mirror.
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Keep this mirror in mind. I had always felt somewhat uncomfortable about that mirror, especially at nighttime, because this mirror did face my bed. Well, one night I had a nightmare. I woke up to my room pitch black. So I immediately knew something is off because I have a phobia of the dark. I always have a nightlight on.
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I try to wake myself up from the dream saying, this isn't real, you can wake up, just wake up and you won't have to deal with this. And I didn't wake up. I was getting frustrated with my brain for not waking up when I noticed a tall, dark skeletal figure of a woman standing in the corner of my room with long, dark hair staring at me. I froze and told myself it wasn't real. I just needed to wake up.
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Then she started calling out to me, saying my name, whispering, saying I needed to come to her and she's been waiting. All kinds of creepy stuff, but I'm still frozen in place. I panicked and continued to tell myself, wake up, wake up, wake up. As the darkness around the woman or creature starts to spread around the room, slowly making its way to me. I started crying, telling her, no, get away.
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Please just leave me alone. What are you? She ignored my cries and continued to move closer and closer until I eventually snapped awake back into the real world. I was so shaken up and had tears streaming down my face. I was in full fight or flight mode. I took a deep breath and told myself it wasn't real. It was just a dream. That is, until I heard the whispering.
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For a solid ten minutes after I woke up, I heard the voice of whatever was in that nightmare whispering to me, calling for me, and saying my name over and over again. I was terrified. Girl, me too. What do you mean? Good choice. This is our last story. And this one came from the last Listener Stories episode. So Listener Stories 32, episode 98.
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So if you want to hear of the brothers' experiences, you can go back and listen to the full thing. Getting a glass of water became sort of this dance me and the house would do nightly. I'd turn all the lights on possible, get my water, then I would very quickly turn off all the lights as I passed them, never turning around to look behind me.
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And this one will stick with me for the rest of my life. Like literally all of these? Like all of them. But yeah, this one, I don't know. Maybe it's because we just recently read it, but in So Fresh 2, it's just so scary to me. From Taylor, if I didn't already say that. I grew up in an extremely small town in northern Pennsylvania.
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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. The house I grew up in was built in 1860 and seemed to attract entities specifically mimics.
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I grew up with the saying I've heard you ladies say, if you hear something, no, you didn't. If you see something, no, you didn't. There were countless times where us three kids would hear someone calling our names or saying something that our parents would say. And then the person we heard would be nowhere near the voice. For instance, I remember standing in the kitchen, getting a glass of water.
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And I very clearly heard my mom call my name from 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. I waited a second, and before I could say anything, I heard my mother's voice at the bottom of the stairs. I need you to get the laundry. I immediately slammed the door and ran to the dining room.
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Sitting in her seat in the living room, That's adjacent to the dining room was my mother watching TV. She saw tears streaming down my face. My bodily reaction to fear is to tear up and ask what was wrong. I told her what I heard and that I knew something bad was going to happen. So I slammed the door on it. The voice.
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The reason this freaked me out so bad is because the washer and dryer were in the basement. Something in complete darkness, sounding like my mom, was trying to get me to walk right to it. Where the voice came from was where I would have needed to walk past to get to the washer and dryer.
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So, if you want to hear the rest of the story, and you haven't yet, you can go to episode 98 and go hear the rest of Taylor's story. But that portion of the story... Really. Just, ugh, I did not like it.
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But let us know in the comments if there are any stories that you wish we would have put in here. Are there any that stick out to you that you can remember that just really scared you, that really stuck with you?
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There are so many stories that we've read so far that were so good. Like we said, it was really, really hard to narrow down. Like I wanted to just take all of them. I was like, oh, this is good. Oh, I can't. I mean, we can only, you know, so many. It was really hard. And there are so many good heartwarming stories too. So we want to thank all of you for helping us get to 100 episodes.
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Until one night, while hurrying back to my bedroom, I heard a door slam so loud you would have thought it broke. I quickly started running, sprinting to my room. As I turned to turn the hallway light off that was next to my bedroom door, it was standing there.
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No, it's a lot. It's like poking me in my sweater. It's everywhere. But we appreciate you taking the time to be with us today. We hope you enjoyed revisiting some of our scariest stories that we've read so far.
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yeah and welcome i mean if you've been here from the beginning that was just a review but if you're new i hope you were spooked at the beginning if you like this video please like it share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so and subscribe for more we've got another episode coming monday and then more listener stories on thursdays if you're listening on audio please give us five stars and you can follow us on instagram at ghosties pod we occasionally post over there sometimes
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And that's it. Thank you again. We appreciate all of you so, so, so much for helping us get to 100. It's just, it's just insane.
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Right where the edge of the light met the end of the hall stood a tall, dark figure with a large, black-rimmed hat and black boots and long, black coat with smoke-filled eyes and face. It to this day is the scariest thing I have ever seen. I closed my door, leaving the hall light on. I locked my door and pushed my bed in front of it.
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Yeah, I'm shocked at the amount of small pieces.
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The next morning, I did get in trouble for accidentally leaving the hall light on. But from that point forward, I started keeping two glasses of water in my bedroom before I went to bed. The next encounter solidified that I was not seeing things. A few weeks later, I was home alone, taking a shower, and the lights went out.
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I assumed it was a burnt bulb, a power outage, or my older brother, who I knew was on his way home, was playing a prank or something. I got out of the shower and saw the light switch was indeed turned off. Ha ha, very funny, older brother's name, and I got back in the shower.
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Then, as if from a freaking movie, an imprint of a hand touched the shower curtain and said, Hi, in the most sinister, hissing whisper I've ever heard in my life. I screamed at the top of my lungs and ran out of the house with nothing but a towel. I was standing in the yard for a good two minutes until I saw my brother's truck pull up to the house. It was clear I had still been in the house alone.
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My brother, clearly seeing my 13 year old self outside in just a towel and scared out of my mind, asked me what happened and I told him. To which he said, Oh no, it's okay. He's a nice old man. I saw him once. You're not crazy. He was just saying hi. He's nice. Trust me. I was petrified of that bathroom and could not stand being in it for more than two minutes at a time.
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Yeah, it's all sticking to mine too. Anyway. It is the 100th episode. Episode 100. We can't believe that we're here. No. It's shocking, honestly.
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I probably still am to this day. But I took my brother's word and tried to ignore the nice old man saying hi or doing whatever. It wasn't until I had gotten super sick one day and was sleeping in my mom's room one night that I had another encounter. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw this weird black mass on the ceiling. Then I started to hear bootsteps.
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I turned to a five-year-old that very second and immediately hid under the covers. I then could feel a touch go across my leg over the blankets and then heard footsteps walk away. I stayed under the covers until I fell asleep.
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You even talked about it the other day in one of our episodes.
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Wendy Weather was also horrified and ran outside in a towel. So my God. So our next one comes from Angelica. This was one of the first stories that we read that gave me chills every single time that I read it. This is from listener stories. Number four, episode 30. I work at a mortuary slash cemetery. And there are so many creepy stories.
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But the one that got me was a security guard I work with told me he was doing his nightly rounds in the cemetery and he went to make sure the mausoleum was locked and the cemetery was empty. A lot of people that practice witchcraft like do the rituals in the mausoleum. He noticed the mausoleum light was on and he went to go ensure it was empty.
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But then he heard a woman humming and followed it and it led to a crypt. He kindly told the voice to rest and it stopped.
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So this is one I know you guys have heard us reference a lot. We've picked out the scariest portions of this email, and I think she needs no introduction. This is Brandy.
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Yeah. Never met her. One of my earlier memories of a ghost was when I was a small child, probably eight. I remember not being able to sleep at night and just laying there awake, staring at my TV, which was off. But the way it was set up, I could see in the reflection out into the hallway. So I'm laying there wide awake.
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Then in the reflection, I see a lady peek out around the corner like she was trying to peek in my room. There was no way she could see me or know I was watching through the reflection. I just pulled my covers up to my nose. Then a pale, skinny arm poked out its hand pointing towards the bathroom door.
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I just pulled my covers completely over my head and didn't go out of my room until I heard my mom up the next morning. Don't play with Ouija boards. So as I was telling you before, my aunt used to play with Ouija boards very casually. So naturally, I got one too. Toys R Us, 12 bucks. Gotta be 21 to drink in this country, 18 to die for it, but only 8 and up to summon the devil. That still gets me.
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My aunt had played Ouija so much, I kind of thought they were moving the planchette just to freak me out. My uncle would get it out to try to learn things about the historic home they had bought. Then he'd ask the ghost where it was in the house while we were talking to it. One time he asked if it was behind him, and it said no. He says, behind Brandy, and it went yes.
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He was like, do you like her? It moved off, then back on yes. Which is creepy, but still not sure if he's just messing with me or not. But anyways, this is why I wasn't taking the board serious at this point. However, since I had seen weird things before, I would not sleep in the dark. My mom had a dimmer dial installed as my light switch so I could dim the lights.
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Also, the switch would sometimes dim and brighten the lights with no one near it. So, I go back home after staying with my aunt and uncle. I'm like 15 at this point. My closet door will not quit popping open. I close it, sit back down, and it pops open again. The dang thing would stay shut all day too.
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After a couple of times in the door doing that, I finally go over there and pull my Ouija board out of it. I sit down on my bed. You're not supposed to play it alone. But it's just a game, right? Eight and up. I get it out and sit it on my lap. I start asking questions. What do you want? Nothing. What's your problem? Nothing. I'm not supposed to be doing this alone. Is that what you wanted?
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Nothing. Who's in there? Kurt Cobain? Elvis? That would be cool. You're not that cool though, huh? Nothing. I sit there and wait. I'm just like, okay, you're not real. Either that or you're weak. All you can do is pop open the closet. A closet of a small teenage girl. Yep, that's right. I didn't tell it bye.
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I threw it back in the box and back onto my shelf in the closet and slammed the closet door. It didn't listen to me though. That night when I lay down to go to sleep, the closet door pops open. So my mother answers phones all day at her job. So that's one thing she doesn't do once she's home. All calls were screened via our answering machine.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
The next day, our phone rings, the answering machine picks up. White noise, static, and a gravelly garbled voice is on there. The only intelligible words were, I'll get you, bitch. Then it disconnects. My mom freaks out. She wants to know who I made mad. I told her I don't know who that was. It's not a lie, right? I don't know who it was. And it's not like she would believe me anyways.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I called her for that tape. I wanted to send it to you. Unfortunately, she threw the answering machine away long ago. As would I. Soon after, I start seeing shadow people. Maybe from the doorway I left open. Maybe from my closet, since there seems to have been something going on in there from the beginning. But not long after I jump awake in my room, it's leaning over me.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
My lights are dim, but this shadow person was leaning over me while I was sleeping. When I open my eyes, it jerks back and drops down to the ground. I sat up in my bed and looked down. There it was, crouched. I watched it skitter away towards my window. I have never woken up with one doing that ever again. I see them occasionally, never close, always peeking.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
So maybe don't play with Ouija boards or at least follow the rules while playing.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
She had several other stories too and a few of our listener stories.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
Oh, I hate my eyes still being crouched.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
So this next little portion of a longer story makes my skin crawl. It's from Tiara. We read it in Listener Stories 9, Episode 61. You'll see what I mean. Let's start off with a backstory. My great grandpa used to do exorcisms back in the 70s and 80s. Okay. The whole family thinks because of this, we had a curse put on us. Fast forward to the early 2000s.
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✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far
I was about five years old and remember this story like the back of my hand. We moved into an apartment, me, my mom and dad. Every other day, they would both take out the laundry to the laundry mat in the complex. They'd go together because it was an unsafe area. They'd leave me home and lock the doors. Well, every time they'd leave, things would happen. I'd feel energies around me with dark auras.
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I don't care. That has just ruined yet another part of my life that I will never recover from. I cannot open cabinets now.
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I'm sick. After this, I plan to do some cleaning. Guess where my cleaning supplies are? Underneath my kitchen sink. Just close your eyes, open every cabinet, and then have Ryan check them all first.
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he's at work i was going to clean and do some of my chores while i was alone because i wanted to like sing around the house and listen to podcasts and sorry to put a damper on your day you can go open all of them before you leave okay i'll i'll know because what if one slams well i'm gone never mind that would be to take all the cabinet doors off no more cabinet doors okay chairs no cabinet doors no furniture one bed that is flat on the ground maybe a pillow maybe i don't even know i'm sure that'll get ruined uh so funny i'm so sorry i'm laughing
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Your terror. Everything is ruined.
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Yeah.
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I hope so. I hope whenever I'm saying things so literally that people know that I'm joking. Because all the time I'm joking, but I'm not. Yes. And I feel like you have to know me to get it. So sometimes when I'm like... how dare you, Jessica? And it's like, oh, I was just sitting in my story. I'm like, no, no, I appreciate the story.
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That's who you are. I'm a little bit aggressive.
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You are, yeah.
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So don't listen to my opinion. Here I am giving you opinion, giving you my opinion every week. Don't trust me. Hey, there are some people like you out there.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And she never like acknowledged her or looked at her. It's not like she was like, ah, and like it scared her to scare her away. It's like, oh, yeah. Thank God I'm your mom.
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And then maybe that woman was like, there was a little girl in the basement and everyone's like, you're crazy. Yeah. Imagine. See, we're getting too deep. I like that idea better though. I like that.
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Or our own ghosts. That is such an interesting thing that I would have never thought about unless we were doing this. I literally would have never come up with that explanation. Before this, it was always just, it's a dead person and they're haunting. Yeah. Ghost whisperer style, you know? It was always that. Yeah, me too. That's what I always thought when I was younger too.
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I feel like my mind has expanded. Hey, that's kind of good. Okay. If you learn anything. I've learned a lot, actually. I don't know about y'all. Some people say they don't like the history episodes or the learning episodes. I'm honestly ready for the next one. Because we've been doing nothing but listener stories. While I love them, I'm ready to enrich your mind.
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That, to me, if I was in this situation, would make me feel very unsettled. Well, one, obviously, because... Just in general. What's happening. I'm just generally unsettled. So, he was sleeping. Astral projection?
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You know, we heard that she saw her brother. We haven't talked about it yet, so I don't know. I want to look into it, but I would rather hear it from you. And maybe at night because like he'll be sleeping. She hears him make his cup of tea. Maybe he's just like living his life in his sleep to lucid dreaming type thing, but he's actually out of his body.
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But if I was out of my body and I had crutches, I'd probably be like, I don't want the crutches. I truly don't know. I don't know if that's an option. I don't know if you can choose, like, choose your own adventure.
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We have to do a whole episode. I can't. I can't think about it.
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Who?
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Yeah, I think I've talked about that because there have been times where because I don't tell people about the pod. If they find out, they find out. When they do find out, they'll be like, oh, this actually happened to me. And I'm like. You do? Do we relate? Because that's not a conversation I have personally with people I know. Or like people that I'm not close to, you know?
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How do you explain that? You've got like a little poltergeist or something in there. There are not rats big enough to throw shoes. At least I hope. I hope not. None we've ever encountered. Dear God, that would be worse than a ghost, I think, if there was a rat throwing shoes. But haunted. Confirmed. We had a toy. It was a baby doll that used to go off in the middle of the night all the time.
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Oh, yeah. Your imaginary friend, Chelsica. Yeah.
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that's just i didn't make up the name it came to me okay it was given to me i mean we did have a cousin named chelsea so and she was a like a little baby yeah so it could be where you got the name it's possible sorry alicia i think your house is haunted i think it is in some way but it doesn't feel threatening playing around and the baby's not scared of it yeah so it's always a good sign for me anyway yeah i think if the baby was scared that's when you're like
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I mean, if it seems like she's having a good time and nothing is bad, you know. Yeah, I just got the image of, you know, like something in the corner just being like. But what do you think, listeners?
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I think it's that, but no, this is, it's too much.
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It usually comes up eventually. If I'm close to you, but not just like a coworker, acquaintances, like friends that you see once in a blue moon, not that type of thing.
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I was already imagining our Mimi's house, because at one point, we all lived there. It was us, like our family... Our grandparents and then... Our cousins. Our cousins. And yeah, it was a lot of people. A full house. So I was already imagining that house. And then I'm thinking like, this person, Chrisney, is better than me because I would have made a ruckus. Everybody would know.
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Nobody would be sleeping. She was really young. Yeah. And you think you would have when you were that little? Do you know me? I would have screamed. I would have screamed. Also, though, only difference is if this was our grandma, she would be like...
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And there was probably more stuff.
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I don't know. But the thing is, there was probably more that went on. But they're not going to tell you because you're like a young kid. True. So if the uncle... The uncle might have seen stuff, but he's just like, oh... I don't like sleeping there. Yeah.
Ghosteas
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maybe and this is just me linking the two because whenever she said are they linked it didn't realize it could be seen whenever she saw it it was like oh you can see me and that's why it was smiling like you see me i don't know but why was it a menacing smile like it was just like a darkness i don't know
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Good, trustful people, because there's going to be people in the comments about this one and they can either shed some light or give good tips because there's a lot of people that are in tune and things like that. Yeah. Watch us, I think. But if you do decide that you're into it. Oh, we'd love to hear more. I would. We'd love to hear about your journey. I'm interested.
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Yes. And I would like to add to that. If you can, please don't send them on Instagram. We now get so many DMs a day that I can't promise you that we'll see it. I try my best to go through every single DM. But sometimes if I click on one and then I click out of it for some reason, it'll go to the bottom and I can't find it. So yeah. Just throwing that out there.
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I'm intrigued by things like that. I know I've mentioned her several times, but I've recently been watching more Teresa Caputo. Oh, have you? Clips. I have. I think she was on the Drew Barrymore show or something like that. So they came up on my TikTok. I watch every clip of her. She's an interesting lady. She really is. And the hair just grows and grows and grows.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I bet she does. Dead or alive, I don't think you like to be watched, perceived at all, honestly. That does make me kind of sad because it feels like she was just kind of like, who's in there?
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She was like, hey, hey, that's a rule. Stop it. Oh, that's beautiful. And you keeping a dime. Oh, my God. That's so sweet. I love it. That's so cute.
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Yeah, that's an imaginary friend story for sure. It's not imaginary. The fact that the mom was able to fully see it was her child opened. It's not just like a view. It's like a physical. I just had a scary thought that I didn't think of before.
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Thank you. Well, that's beautiful. And that can make me cry. That's so cute. A little cat. Oh, I love it.
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Two. Literally, I think one of the biggest curses in life I have is being allergic to cats like I am. You can get shots. Just I... And you can get some of those hypoallergenic cats. Dude, but I can't risk it. Yeah. Because it's bad. Our grandparents recently got three cats after having no pets. They randomly now have three cats. Yeah. And I go to their house. Within like two minutes, I'm like...
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red eyes itching throat hurting for the rest of the day and i'm like yeah i got sick for like several days after being at their house yeah it's it's that and like cigarette smoke i can't like oh yeah i can't be around it which i don't want to be around cigarettes but anyway yeah the cats i love black cats i would love to be haunted by a black cat because that is you know we've said it before but let's we invite the cat spirits they can come and live in our homes yes you have a home with ghosties yes all you cats out there only if you're listening
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Real cats. Nothing pretending to be a cat.
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Agreed. If they do that.
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I feel good. I feel good. This was a good episode. I'm happy. I was frightened and, you know, it had a good mix.
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Yeah. All right. Well, on Monday, we'll be doing that. But if you're still here, leave a cat emoji.
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Preferably a black cat if there is one. But any cat works.
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no since her mom saw her i don't know no okay i think sally i mean maybe what do i know i think sally just was mimicking the the sister sarah both options though highly unsettling and i think that we would all be sleeping in one bed again i think one bed per household is kind of valid a lot you are so dramatic these times
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Thank you.
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So if you did send a DM and I didn't see it or I didn't respond, the best bet would be email. That way it is in order, in line, and it is in one place where Macy looks for these stories. Yes. And you will get a response back from us for sure via email. At some point, eventually. Just wanted to say that because I feel bad because sometimes I really do open one and then I lose it.
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That, like, sent a chill from the root of my hair. Like I felt it start here. Even she was scared of Sally. But we don't hear a lot of stories like that. Like if they had an imaginary friend that they're afraid of, it's like, no, that's my friend. We play. And then everybody else is scared.
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Yeah. But the kid isn't like... And they're uncomfortable, but... I don't know. Scared would be the word, I guess. Who is Sally? What do we think Sally is? More than just an imaginary friend, for sure.
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I would like to add, I'm sorry to interrupt when she said she watches us when she eats dinner. Do you do this? Actually, you probably don't because you have kids. Sometimes when me and Ryan go out for the day, like we'll go to the gym and then we if we want to pick up food instead of going home, we'll pick up food.
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We'll park the car and then put our phone up and watch something on YouTube and eat our food in the car. Have you ever done that? Okay. Well, that's something that we do often. And the thought of someone doing that with our podcast makes me feel so like, yes. Yes. Because that's like, I don't know. That's cool to me.
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Yeah. I mean, we watch movies, but it's when we're out specifically, we watch stupid little YouTube videos.
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That's what I would do if I was this person. One of the brothers? The oldest one.
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And I'm just like, I can't even remember the name of the person. So I can't go and look up their account. So yeah, it's never intentional to miss your story. No. In the DMs. We are very interested in everything you'll have to send us.
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No.
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No, no, no, no, no. I'm not OK. I really wish my body would stop having these insane, like jerky reactions. Yeah, because it's I swear it's involuntary. I'm not wanting to jump. Well, I'm wanting to jump out of my skin, but I'm not trying to. You've always been that way, though. I think my soul is trying to leap and I'm just like, oh, please stay locked in.
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No, but in a good way. So this happens like in the Appalachia area, which we know is one of our favorite places and one of the spookiest places.
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I'm so glad that the mom was like, wait a minute, I'm not going down there. That's like her intuition being like, do not go. Well, she knew her kids were not there. When you wake up from a nap, you don't you're not remembering everything like, oh, my kids are loud. And then it's like, oh, yeah, yeah. What would have happened if she went down? Dude, I don't know. And I ask that a lot.
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Never have an answer. None of us. Neither of us. So I wouldn't have stayed in the house, by the way. If I was the mom and I realized that was not my kids, the nearest window. I suddenly have errands outside of the house to run. Yep.
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I drink it at home. Really? I remember the name, but I don't remember tasting it. So it was good. Let's go.
Ghosteas
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Honestly, I don't want to know. Does your mom still have this house? Oh, yeah. I should have asked that. I mean, she said she refuses to go back there, so I would assume it is an option to go back. You know, insurance fraud sometimes. I swear, Namely. It's okay. No, I'm really kidding. It's not okay. I mean, if something like that happened to me now... I don't have the means to just up and move.
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So I don't know what to do in that position. I know. We say it all the time. We're like, just leave. But what would I do? The majority of us cannot just move. No.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what the actual solution is then because I never really thought about that. I'm always just like, leave. Yeah.
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But I do like coconut. And I think it's tasty. It's bringing the memory back. I think I said that, oh, coconut reminds me of Malibu. You did. Yeah. Getting those vibes still. Kind of. But it's not bad. No, I like it. Especially with a little cream. I think that would be good for the people that like that. I'm just an odd person when it comes to consuming food and drink. Mm-hmm. Always have been.
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Just pulling a big prank. Opening your cabinet doors and seeing a little ghost girl hiding in there. We don't have to.
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And just like, just tell me hi. Just acknowledge that I'm here. That's okay. I can do that. No. Me personally, no, I can't. I won't. But if I had to choose.
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I agree.
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Just get out.
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Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
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At one point, I don't even remember what part of the story it was. My whole arm just went numb. I dropped my mic because it shocked me with fear. I could not feel my body. I almost dropped the mic.
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That one, that was a good one.
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Okay.
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So still, I mean, we're close to the same age and I'd still be terrified if that happened to me. I would avoid the cousin. No offense. It's not the cousin, it's the house. Oh, I guess that's true. So avoid the uncle.
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It does. I'm intrigued already.
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Maybe. I don't know.
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If that's a thing. Who knows?
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Intriguing.
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Thank you.
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You had a rubber duck theme. I did. In your bathroom in like high school. I really did. And it was really cute. And I was jealous. The curtain is still there, I believe. It was iconic. Actually insane. And then you had the soap dispenser that was a duck that quacked.
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I wish I was that cool. I really do.
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And then my decor is just like boring. Whatever I can find in the moment. Backstory over. I was working on this toilet seat.
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1,000%.
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It happened during our episode. What episode? I wonder what episode.
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Yeah.
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I thought you were going to say that whenever she called the name or whenever she answered and they looked back, it was gone, but it was still there. She just like took off running.
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Thank you.
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Okay, I'm locked in.
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We did. And some of my greatest days... We're wearing Heelys.
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You can still get them. I know. I've thought about it.
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Yes, and it's a full roller skate. I don't know how I feel about that. I find that intriguing. I get down with the Heely though, for sure.
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It's so much scarier. I just always wonder what would happen if you went up to it.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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The amount of times we've mentioned a Jordan Peele movie...
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Yes.
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So if you ever, like, ran into someone you know and they were being weird, what if it's just their other? They're tethered. I mean, it's possible. It could be possible. But that's a scary, scary theory. Horrifying thought. Thank you for sharing that.
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I need to watch that movie again. Inspired, I would say. It always freaks me out so bad.
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Well, I don't hate you. Yet. But those were scary. Those were frightening. That's like the second one that we've recorded very recently.
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Where it went into the closet and just disappeared. What's in the closet? Our closet's also a portal. What's in the box? I don't know. I don't know. I was just talking with Ryan the other day. I was saying, whenever, if ever, we are able to buy a house, we need at least three or four bedrooms because I want a whole bedroom to be a closet.
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to be i don't want a closet i want to put racks in a room put up mirrors like i want a dressing room i don't want a closet closets one freak me out and two if they're small enough it always just feels like Like, I feel like my clothes don't stay smelling good, if that makes sense.
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If they're just sitting in the dark, I don't know.
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That's much less scary.
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Mulan type? Yeah. Love it.
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I like that thought a lot more than what you originally said.
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I don't come first in the name order. Never have. Sorry, that hurts you. Thanks. No, it doesn't hurt me. It just sounds off because my brain is used to hearing it that way.
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Yes. Snaps for mom. This is the reaction. This is she gets me. She understands me. Yes.
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And you know what? I've never shot a gun in my entire life. I'm pretty afraid of guns, actually. But I love that. The correct reaction. Finally, someone. Thank you. What? What a woman. That's what you do. You wave the Glock. You say, come on, do it.
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How many times have I said burn the house down? You have insurance fraud.
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I don't know. A handful of times, not all the time.
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100%.
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This happened. So now I'm scared. Oh, God.
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not just like of that whenever it like gets violent it's like open the door and they're like jiggling the handle yeah i'm spooked i hate that the entire family was like lock your doors take your pets don't come out until sunrise i would take all three pets both brothers and we're all in the one bed okay i've said it all you need is one mattress on the floor no chairs you know that's actually not good for your mattress it needs airflow really yeah well if it doesn't have uh like air under it it can like grow mold and stuff apparently
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Did not know that. So it says social media. You know, I don't believe everything I see on social media most of the time.
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I'll believe it when I see it.
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Yeah, that gave me chills. Sorry.
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Just as I'm thinking this, I feel my mattress sink down, just how it would feel if someone sat beside you. And I felt her rub my back. I somehow eventually fell back to sleep and I'm so glad I lived through the night because my fight or flight is massively broken apparently. The next morning, I went to see my uncle, my dad's brother.
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I don't even mention what happened to anyone because I know they won't believe me. And I was scared to even accept it was real with saying it honestly. I walk in and he's looking at photo albums and says, Hey, come here. I want to show you this. I finally found it. And in his hand is the lady who was in my room the night before looking just as she did in the photo.
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I asked him who she was and turns out she was my grandma who died when my dad was only three years old, who I had never seen a photo of before. That's my story. I have more spooky ones if you'd like to hear them, but thought you guys may like my story. Sorry it was so long. Loved it. That's your grandma. She just coming to check on you. She never got to meet you.
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So she's just making sure you're you're doing all right. That's really comfort.
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It scared you.
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I had a friend in high school or junior high and like she had a great aunt or something that she looked just like me.
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I have so many paranormal stories, I could write a book, but this is one of my favorite stories that happened around 14 years ago. When I was 15, my family and I went to a park called Pioneer Village. My little sister was about four at the time and was super excited to be there. This place is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
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Yeah, that was a cute story. Our next story comes from Mallory. Hello, my name is Mallory and I've quickly become obsessed with y'all's podcast. I've been binging and thought, hey, why not send in my own stories? I love y'all's cozy vibes, personal stories, and how cute and funny y'all are. Hearing about others' experiences with the world of the spooky is one of my favorite things.
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So I hope to keep having the opportunity to enjoy the podcast. Thanks. Thank you. The more I thought about my own experiences to send into y'all, I began to realize I have way more stories than I thought I did. These are two of my biggest stories, but I'll probably send more another time. My first encounter with the supernatural happened when I was a child, five years old, maybe.
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That makes it creepier. Oh my god. Once the intense feeling of being watched went away, which was anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, I would grab my pillow and run to my parents' room on the other side of the house and sleep on the floor next to my mom's side of the bed.
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I don't quite remember when the shadow man stopped showing up, but at some point, I was able to start sleeping through the night again. He never did anything to me, said anything, or even moved from the doorway, but the fear his aura brought was otherworldly intense. Best part? I've met several people in my life with the exact same experience with the shadow man.
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So are all hat wearing shadow men considered the hat man? Or are there different hats for different men?
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She told me one time, she's like, are we going to go and like take on finding out who the hat man is? Like we're go like visit libraries and... Find stories and like do a whole deep dive. Yeah. Maybe one day the hat man will be our.
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It's a town that has homes from the Pioneer times with many old artifacts. The homes are kept exactly as they were when the original owners lived in them. There was one house in particular that I was very drawn to. It was called the Berwick house after the family that lived in this home. They had four children total. Immediately when entering the home, I felt a little girl present.
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I don't like that. I'm scared. I don't like that visual. My most recent experience took place at Alcatraz during a tour of the island. I'll just start off by saying that the atmosphere on the island is heavy. You could tell that it was a place where evil had been and being there was absolutely exhausting physically, spiritually, and mentally.
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Anyway, we began our tour and did the prison portion last. When you enter the prison, you're given headphones and a tape recorder to listen to the guided walkthrough audio, and then you go up a flight of stairs to the main cell block level. While going up the flight of stairs, it felt like someone grabbed my right calf in a pulling motion, as if it was trying to pull me back down the stairs.
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I turned around, fully expecting someone to be directly behind me, but I was the last one up the stairs. My heart was already in my throat from almost falling backwards down a steep set of stairs, but to see that there was no one behind me to have grabbed my leg, I'm pretty sure I died for a hot second.
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My friends were already in the next room by the time I got up to the top of the stairs, but immediately knew something was wrong when they saw my face. I told them what happened, and needless to say, I was not left at the back of the group after that. I did not feel alone for the rest of the tour, and I don't mean in the literal sense.
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I stuck very close to my friends, because I truly thought someone wanted to throw me down the stairs. We didn't think too much of it after we left the island, but when we got back to Arkansas, things were off. Items would be moved around my room, specifically my crystals that had protective qualities. My dog would be let out when I was sleeping.
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Large items moved around my room without waking me up. You name it. I was so freaked out. I seriously considered putting a camera in my room for when I was sleeping. Oh my god. So that's all for now, I think. This one has gotten pretty long, but I'll send more if these were interesting enough for y'all. Thanks for reading my stories and keep on being spooky girls.
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This was interesting, so thank you. And send everything. Of all the spirits to follow you home from Alcatraz, like one of the most notorious gangsters. It's too much.
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It'd be like, did you see paranormal activity?
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Like laying in bed and things start moving and blankets being taken off and stuff.
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Sure enough, when I made it to the top of the stairs with my sister, we both saw a little girl. She looked to be 12 or 13 and was in a white Victorian looking dress. She was standing in her room and matched the little girl in the portrait above the bed. She waved to us, then faded away.
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yeah detailed proof our next one comes from haley scary dream came to life twin telepathy hey i recently found your youtube and one of the first videos i watched was the one that mentioned dreams somewhat becoming a reality i have a dream that i had and would like to share with you but this is a trigger warning for suicide and it's pretty long so if this is not something you want to deal with today go ahead and skip um time stamps are in the description
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My sister and I were going through a rough couple of years in high school. She was arrested for a crime she had no part in which pulled her away from people including me. I always felt like she was drifting away and I tried to make her realize the crowd of people she considered her friends were really not her friends.
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Our parents were getting divorced and she stayed at my mom's and I stayed at my dad's so we were separated all the time and we went to schools on different buses. I did college level classes as well. So on this day, after my college level classes, I took the bus to school and I saw a social worker's car and my parents' car outside the building, along with them all surrounding my twin sister.
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So I got off the bus and I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. I look at my twin sister, her face is swollen from crying, and I just get a feeling of overwhelming anxiety, chills, and depression. This made the color of my face run and my heart race. I felt fear. I asked her what was wrong, but she couldn't even look me in the face and didn't even talk to me.
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She was put into a mental institution and days later, I was told she tried to kill herself. After being monitored and a couple of visits to her, she was released and she decided to stay with me in my room at my dad's. That night, I dreamt of her suicide and woke up frantic, screaming, crying in panic because it felt so real.
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Weeks later, she finally told me her suicidal story and I just burst out crying. I had the dream of how she tried to commit suicide weeks before she told me. Big warning, we're about to tell the story. Or the dream.
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The dream I had pictured her laying on the floor blue-purple in an olive green vest and burgundy jeans with nice dress shoes, dripping wet water all around, and I'm kneeling next to her telling her to wake up, wake up, wake up. When she told me her story, she said she dressed in her favorite olive green vest, burgundy jeans, and best dress shoes.
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She went out to the dock where my mom lived at the time, took a rock, walked down to the launch ramp, and sank to the bottom. The next thing she heard was someone telling her to wake up, and when she opened her eyes, she was on the launch ramp of the dock, alive. She got up and walked home. Thank you for taking your time out of the day to read one of my stories.
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And I definitely have some island scary stories that I have also encountered to share with you guys sometime. Haley from the Cayman Islands. First, I'm so sorry. That's so tragic and traumatic. And I'm so glad that your sister survived. Me too. Seeing that. Did she hear her? Did her sister hear her telling her to wake up? I don't know. They have some kind of connection like through time.
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How does that even happen? How do you see that? Twins, man. The reason I think that, I don't know, time doesn't exist. She was laying on the dock and heard wake up. And her sister dreamt of her saying wake up.
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And I just want to say before we move on, we've had a couple of stories or quite a few stories lately mentioning suicide. So if you are having these thoughts or feelings, we're going to put a hotline number in the description. So if you need help, always reach out. Please reach out to a friend. But if a friend doesn't work, then go to this hotline and they can help you through.
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Because you are loved. You are wanted. We want you here. Agreed. Our next story comes from Avery. Hey, I always watch your videos and decided that I would share one of my stories with you. So this happened a few months ago on my birthday. I always have a few friends over for my birthday just to hang out and stay the night.
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While it was still light outside, we decided that when it got dark, we would play my friend's Ouija board. Once it started getting close to nighttime, we decided to play hide and seek in groups. Me and my friend Sawyer in one group and my other friends Ellie and Bree in another group. The first two rounds went well, but when it got dark out, the whole vibe switched.
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I was like, that's interesting. No, I'm not. We all went on with our day since this wasn't unusual for us. Later that night, my sister ran into my room saying she woke up to the little girl standing next to her bed looking down at her. Once when I was in the shower, the little girl decided to pull open the curtain to peek at me and giggled.
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This round was when my group went, so Sawyer and I got into the bed of an old truck next to a barn. While we were hiding, we watched Bree and Ellie walk towards us while they were giggling, but they didn't find us. We were probably hiding for an hour at this point, so we decided to get up and go back to the house.
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When we got back inside, we started laughing because they walked right past us and still didn't see us. Ellie and Bree's face went pale. They said they didn't go past us. They didn't even go down the road, just went straight into the house after looking for a long time. We were scared, but we still wanted to play the Ouija board. So we went outside and up to the graveyard that I live next to. Why?
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Testing fate. Why? It was going well, but when we tried to put the planchette to goodbye, it would move for some reason. After trying to get it to goodbye, it started going all over the board and we started hearing my friend Bree screams from the woods, but she was right next to us. We grabbed the board and ran back to the house, started a fire and lit the board on fire.
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Ever since then, my friend has been experiencing weird phenomenon. We had a priest over a week ago and things have been going better, but there are still weird things happening. Thank you so much for reading. Love, Avery.
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What's happening?
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Why is it her friends at her house? I know. Hearing screams from the woods is just terrifying.
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Right there, yeah.
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I don't think I would have pushed it. Well, obviously I wouldn't have played with Ouija board in the first place. Yes. But hearing slash seeing your friends giggling past you and like, no, we did not go there already. I'd be like, okay, that's enough. Nope. Put the board away. We're in the house on your own time. Yep. We are in the house. Let's go watch SpongeBob or something.
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i don't know why you said it either again i'm envisioning a house that i like my friend's grandma's house me too because well not my friend's grandma but my friend's house because we would uh when i'd go over there we would play hide and seek or we had a couple of times hide and seek is not and it was dark too so it was like i didn't go very far i was like i can still see the light of the house
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Our next story comes from Katie. Middle school bullies in a lake house haunting.
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Yes. Agreed. With spooky season upon us, I wanted to share this story from childhood. I'm in my 30s now, so it's been quite some time, but it still gives me chills thinking about it. Hope you enjoy. Three's company, but four is a crowd. A lake house haunting. When I was 13, summer between 7th and 8th grade, I got to take my first trip out of state away from my family with my two best girlfriends.
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Not going to lie, I was like, girl, what are you laughing at? But immediately got out and asked my sister if it was her. I knew it wasn't because I had locked the door and she was in bed sleeping, but just wanted to make sure. Fast forward a decade, my husband moved in with my family as we were saving for a home. On his way home from work, he saw my parents drive by him at a traffic light.
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My friend Julie's parents had a lake house cabin in Minnesota and invited the three girls up for a week away from the scorching summer heat of Texas to experience Lakeland. Lake Life. I was so excited at the small taste of independence and looked forward to living out my now and then, my favorite movie at the time, dreams of summer away with my two best friends.
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Oh my gosh. I revisit it often. Me too. I watch it at least once a year. The year before, Julie's grandpa had passed away. so it was just her grandma living up at the cabin at that time. The cabin only had two bedrooms, her grandma's room, and a spare guest room that Julie's parents were staying in, so the three of us girls set up an epic slumber party pile on the living room floor.
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The cabin had tall vaulted ceilings and a long hallway that led to the guest bathroom at the end, with the two bedrooms on either side. On the wall of the living room, above the start of the hallway, there was a huge collage of family photos, memorabilia, and all her very devout grandma's collection of crosses. Probably 15 to 20 of them scattered all over the wall. It's like our grandma.
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I was going to say this is in Minnesota, but that's like a Southern thing. I feel like a Southern grandma thing. Yes, for sure. Now, let me start by saying this was not the proudest moment of my life. As young hormonal teenage girls are likely to do, our friendship trio quickly evolved into more of a duo.
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Admittedly, myself and my other friend, Lindsay, were brought up very middle class, comfortable, but not spoiled in excess. Whereas Julie's family was very well off. She lived in a huge house in Texas and summered in Minnesota every year. Always sporting the nicest designer clothes and whatever else seemed so important to 13-year-old girls at the time.
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While we were excited for this trip, I think we slowly grew resentful of this amazing place Julie got to experience every year when, at that time, neither of us had ever left our small town in Texas.
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A few days into the trip after the initial wow had worn off, some of the little things Julie did started to get on our nerves and we began poking fun at her, like the way she sometimes spoke with a fake British accent. or how she'd randomly break out into song like a Disney character.
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Then, on a walk to the nearby harbor to grab lunch, Lindsay and I would sprint ahead giggling and leave Julie behind to catch up. Again, very much not proud of this mean girl behavior. On our third night at the cabin, something shifted. The tension between us girls was palpable, and we could feel Julie starting to isolate and become quiet.
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That night, after we went to bed on our pillow pallet on the floor of the living room, I woke up needing to go to the bathroom. I usually had to do this every night and hadn't had any issues up to this point. But that night, I woke up with an uneasy feeling.
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After quietly getting up and tiptoeing across the living room to the hallway that led to the bathroom, I got that prickly feeling on the back of my neck, that feeling of someone standing right behind you. I jerked around, but there was, of course, no one there.
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I turned back around and kept walking down the hall, but the feeling got stronger, almost like there was a thick, cold wall of air pushing me down the hallway. I ran to the bathroom, slammed the door, and flicked the light on. Nothing, not a peep. I took care of business and brushed off the feeling as middle of the night jitters in a strange place.
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I walked back down the hallway into the living room and settled back down for sleep, but as I laid there, I realized something was off. Both Julie and Lindsay were still sleeping and the cabin was still, illuminated only by the moonlight coming in from the high vaulted windows. As I looked around towards the hallway and the wall above, I suddenly realized the change.
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Every single one of her grandma's crosses on the wall had been inverted upside down. All 15 to 20 of them now pointed downwards towards the floor. My breath caught in my throat and my body tensed up. I couldn't move or speak, only stare at the wall in front of me for what felt like an hour.
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He saw a little girl, which he thought was my sister, in the backseat waving at him. So he waved back. When he got home and saw my sister and I eating at the table, he went pale and asked how she got home so fast. He figured out quickly it was our adopted ghost sister.
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All of a sudden, my gaze was broken when one of the picture frames dropped from its nail on the wall and onto the floor, shattering. The sound woke up the other girls and Julie's grandma, who came out of the room to investigate. She glanced at the three of us still in our pile on the floor, and then over to the fallen frame.
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She picked it up to look at it, cleared the shattered glass, and then smiled to Julie to tell her, It's okay. This photo of you and your grandpa just fell off the wall. Go back to sleep. I don't know when it happened, but after looking at her grandma and the picture frame in her hand, I glanced back up at the wall, and all the crosses were back to normal in their rightful places.
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I hadn't seen or heard movement in those short seconds. Just poof. I was overwhelmed by this feeling of dread and laid back down in silence. The next thing I knew, it was morning and I'd somehow managed to fall back asleep through the night. Miraculously, nothing else of incident happened on that trip. The next four days were spent swimming in the lake and running around like wild girls,
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I do know one thing, though. After that night, I made it a point to be kinder to Julie for the rest of the trip. And, for whatever reason, Lindsay did as well. Everything we'd been annoyed about just felt so unbelievably stupid by that point, and we soon fell back into our normal routine of being dumb but joyful teenage girls.
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I was, however, more than ready to get back home at the end of the week. Julie and her family stayed at the cabin for another week to spend more time with family, So it was just Lindsay and I flying back to Texas. On the flight home, I worked up the courage to ask her if she'd seen or heard anything weird that night that the picture frame fell.
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She looked up at me and was quiet for several moments before telling me, When you got up to go to the bathroom, I woke up and looked over to see you running down the hallway, and there was a man following right behind you. I thought it was Julie's dad for a second, but you seemed scared and slammed the door, and then the man just disappeared at the end of the hall like a puff of smoke.
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I was still half asleep, so I thought I'd just imagined it and laid back down and closed my eyes under the blankets. And then the next thing I heard was the glass shattering and her grandma coming out to the living room. When I heard the picture was of Julie and her grandpa, I got freaked out thinking it was her grandpa who'd followed you somehow.
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I felt nauseous hearing this and eventually told her about the feeling I had in the hallway, but not about the crosses on the wall. To this day, I still can't really make sense of what happened that night. The only explanation I can rationalize in my head is that Julie's recently deceased grandpa made a special visit to the cabin that night to warn us about being cruel to his granddaughter.
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It has been 13 years since she attached to our family and after five attempts to cross her over, she refuses and wants to stay with us. We even called in a team of mediums and I tried to assist them to see if that would do the trick, but it never works. She just gets very sad and goes into hiding for a while. She's still with us to this day and loves when we play music.
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And you know what? It damn well worked. So be kind, y'all. You never know who's watching. Katie. Oh, my God. That's so scary. But hey, go grandpa. No. Hey, they were being mean.
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That got me.
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Maybe he was a joker in life.
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To have it confirmed that you had it, that scares me even more personally for my own personal life because you get that feeling. And I've had that feeling and I'd like run away from that feeling. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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We have learned to adjust to her being with us and just let her do her thing. Thanks for sharing my story. You guys are awesome and I have so many stories and experiences to share if you'd like to hear them. Take care until next time, Selena. That's actually so sweet. I know, I really liked that story. That gave me the warm and fuzzies.
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Though the shower, giggling and peeking in the shower is a little frightening.
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Weird to drink out of, but too cute. Yes. Also, we have an announcement or a secret. Later this week, we are going on a field trip. We are. Put your guesses in the comments. And I'm really excited about it.
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Our next one comes from Raya. A spooky story from your biggest fan from India. So hello to India. Hi guys. I am in love with your podcast and it has helped me in times when I have dark thoughts brewing in my mind and just want something to distract me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would like to begin my story by saying that I live in a haunted house. I love my house.
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Thank you.
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It's where I grew up, and I have many precious core memories stored in those walls. But that does not change the fact that something is odd about that land. The land where my home was built was a forest once, with a river nearby which still exists to this day, but has decreased in size considerably. And you never know what might have occurred in a forest.
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I think the architecture of the house might have been an issue also. But one thing I remember, even as a grown-up now, is that the corners of the house were always dark. No matter how many lights you switched on, or if it was day outside, the corners were always dark. It always made me feel as if something was lingering as we went on about our life.
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Going to school, having our meal, watching TV, etc. Just watching us. Oh, that just gave me a chill. This is where it flows into why the lighting in the house is much better now after my mother had these big floor-to-ceiling windows made in the common area of the house, which acts as the heart of our home. Well, more like she had to. The story begins in the year 2010 during the New Year party.
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My father works in the political field and kind of has to know everybody in our community. So when I say a lot of people came to our party, a lot of people came to our party. Sorry to interrupt. I've been watching Sweet Magnolias on Netflix.
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It's such a heartwarming. They're just like good Southern girls.
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It's really heartwarming and I love it. So don't judge me. But this just reminds me of that. Like there's like the mayor and his wife in the story and they have these big grand parties and it's like they all know each other. And I don't know. Anyway.
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To the point. We had to, at that moment, establish a humongous tent on our front lawn to protect people from the light drizzle that occurred that evening. The countdown happens. Midnight comes. A huge cheer of Happy New Year, pop champagne, cut a cake, done. By four in the morning, the party slowed down, but an issue had emerged. Everyone was drunk off the wall.
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I remember that a man was so drunk that he passed out on the grass and woke up the next morning with a bug bite on his hand, which had gotten swollen to the point he had to be taken to the hospital the next day, and he was unaware throughout the night.
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There was no way my parents would have let the guests drive back, especially during the new year when the roads are especially dangerous, even to this day. So, arrangements were made, and it was decided everyone would sleep over for the night. The arrangements were divided by gender as there were some unmarried women and it made them uncomfortable to share sleeping space with men.
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Men would sleep on the ground floor and women on the first floor. By 11 the next morning, the house was cleared and the cleaning was being done when my maternal uncle with a cup of coffee in his hand and clearly suffering from a hangover approached my mom casually. We had a joint family at that point, and he was under my mom's care as he finished his education, so he lived with us.
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He said he had the strangest experience last night. When my mom asked what happened, he explained that he was asleep in his room, which he had to share with some of his friends and guests. Everyone was drunk, passed out on the floor, bed, and the mini couch. He said it was around dawn when he felt a tap on his shoulder, and when he opened his eyes, there were two women in front of him.
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One was a young woman with long black hair and a child strapped to her back, and the other was an old woman. He remembers their faces being a black blurry mass, perhaps in his drunken haze. He could not understand why he followed the young woman's request, but my uncle had to bounce and coddle the fussy child throughout the night.
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All he remembers clearly is that the duo had a strange smile on their face, too wide with too many teeth showing. My uncle was half asleep and mumbling that he didn't want to. He was an unmarried, bratty, newly turned adult at that point, and he still had to do what the young woman told him. He said he had to.
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Now remember, the sleeping arrangements were divided by gender for the comfort and safety of the women, so it is a little strange that a woman would just walk into a room full of unknown sleeping men. But the strangest thing of all, he had remembered locking the door behind him.
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Even when he was drunk, he remembered it clearly, because he was the one who had to lock it, and the January 1st air was chilly, so he made sure as well. Of course, my mother didn't believe him and swatted him on the head. She said to not scare the children, looking towards me who was an 11-year-old child back then and munching on some breakfast while listening closely. The case was dropped.
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Fast forward to next year. Again, the same wild party. The same thing happened. People were drunk off their minds, which led to a sleepover. I would even say it had become a tradition. The next day, when my mother was supervising the cleaning of her house, she was approached by a friend of my father's. He reported that a young woman and an old woman
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our field trips i think that's my favorite thing that we ever like have ever done yeah it's going places me too and we're getting further out away from home we're branching out coming to a town near you possibly our tea today is a repeat it's republic of tea caramel vanilla love right let's go So to get on with it, our first one is from Selena. The subject line was adopting a ghost girl. Oh.
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had made him carry and coddle a baby throughout the night. Goosebumps ran up my mom's arm, and she swore that at that moment she suddenly became aware of multiple eyes on her, like the feeling of walking into a library loudly and all eyes turned to you. They had been watching, observing, and listening to everything.
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Let me tell you, the feeling of being invaded in your own house by invisible forces is even scarier than a ghost jumping out of the corner and saying, "'Boo!' Two separate men, a year apart, and she and my uncle had never told the story to anyone." In fact, last year's incident had been buried as a strange lucid dream my uncle had experienced. My mom had to believe everything now.
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My mom had a huge prayer ritual done the very next week, and the construction of the windows began three days after the ritual. She said that she would be having her lunch, and the dark corners of the house, which were once just a simple corner on a wall for her, would come alive, and she would feel multiple eyes on her from the shadows.
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not doing anything, just watching as she had a bite of her food. She had once choked, not being able to get the food down her throat when she swore she saw a woman in the shadow. And that is why we have the big windows in our home, to let daylight in and brighten up the house with some positive energy.
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We still live in the same house, but the hauntings have slowed down considerably in recent years as the house has been renovated multiple times and the number of rooms has decreased. The house is old now and still my home with love, Raya.
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Like they're just watching, like smiling down at him. No. And what would happen if you refuse? It seemed like you couldn't. Like there was a force making you hold this baby for hours. Why? I don't know. And like she said, like there's a, or it used to be an old forest.
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Maybe they're trying to be kind and they don't know in their form how to look normal. So they're just like, smile, because this is what people do, right?
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I'm glad that the windows helped bring positive energy into the home.
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Moving on, our next story comes from Katie. Hey, ghosties. I just watched your latest podcast of viewer submissions, so I thought I'd send mine too. I only have three short stories, and two were while I was experiencing sleep paralysis. So the first one is from my mom.
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She said that when I was a baby, she'd held me with my head over her shoulders one time, and I began laughing so unbelievably hard at just the wall behind her. She said I was losing my mind. But my mom was just so scared that she didn't want to turn around. She just talked it up to her grandfather's spirit being present. and paying me a visit since he had passed away right before I was born.
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But she said that she felt so uneasy when that happened. I like to think that her grandfather's spirit was there since, if it were something malevolent, I probably wouldn't have laughed. I really hope so. In one of our last episodes, like the baby sitting in the high chair and screamed bloody murder and was like scared. So I feel that too. I think kids know.
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The next are two that are kind of related. Two separate times I was sleeping, but they were in close succession. So one night I was just sleeping as one typically does and was having a dream about a penguin and I being friends. My dreams are always complete nonsense. But as my penguin friend turns to look at me, the dreamscape just melts away.
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It was all distorted and looked pixelated like a website was deleting into just code. And once the dream had become pitch black, I realized I was having sleep paralysis. I was stuck in my body and couldn't get myself to move. And then as I was struggling to wake my body, I hear a voice say from the back of my mind, you're okay. And this wave of heavy comfort washes over me.
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It was a beautiful, gentle woman's voice. And as soon as I heard it, I completely relaxed and I woke up to see my cat curled up right in front of my face. I was laying on my side. Now mind you, my cat doesn't snuggle. She likes to lay at the end of my bed by my feet. So waking up to her right there was so comforting.
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I like to think it was her that like somehow communicated with me in my sleep to help me relax out of my sleep paralysis. I was going to say it's the cat. The cat was like telepathy with you. That's really cute. Then jump to a few weeks later. I'm taking a nap one late afternoon and I realize I'm aware of the dream I'm having.
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Once I become aware of the dream, I found myself still dreaming, but half awake in a hospital room with a strange elvish looking demon just staring at me so close to my face. It was pale with long, tall ears. with the snaggled teeth that stuck out of its crusted red lips and skin that was all textured and bumpy. Its eyes were huge and soulless and it was looking at me.
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Hey, my name's Selena and I'm a psychic medium. First off, I just want to say I love you guys and the podcast. I came across your channel last month and I've binged almost every episode. That's dedication.
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Once I noticed it, it then sat on my chest and I felt this heaviness that was almost crushing. I tried to wake up and get the demon off of me, but I couldn't move. Then it teleported to a door far away from me in the hospital room. Still looking at me through the corridor. I then shook myself out of the dream and woke up in a cold sweat.
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My cat was sleeping by my feet and my boyfriend at the time sitting next to me playing the switch. He asked me if I was okay and I told him about my demon dream and we did some googling. Turns out I wasn't alone in my experience. There are these creatures in folklore from all around the world. One of their names is the Old Hag.
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In our sleep paralysis, yeah.
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These creatures sit on your chest or at the foot of your bed and cause you to have sleep paralysis. After that nap, I cleansed my room with incense and put some new black salt at all my doorways and windows and slept fine later that night. I've never experienced anything like that since and I hope it never happens again. Hope you're able to at least read this email.
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Not sure if it's exciting enough for the podcast, but it's fun to share. Hope you enjoyed my stories. Katie.
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Like you're having sleep paralysis and can't breathe. But to be able to see the source. It's 10 times. Takes it up a notch.
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Our next story comes from Caitlin. Hey guys, my name is Caitlin. I love listening to you guys so I don't feel alone while getting my spooky fix. I have a story that sounds fake, but I swear it's 100% true. I was in college, but still living at home with my mom. This house was my great grandparents, and my mom eventually inherited it after her dad passed.
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The house always had a feeling of just not feeling alone. I never felt scared there and still don't, but I can always feel when the energy of the room shifts and something is with me. This night, I went to bed early because before I went to class, I did home health for my uncle, so I would have to get up early the next day.
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Let's get into it. My entire family is sensitive to spirit, and of course, that made me super sensitive. I've had the ability of mediumship my entire life, which made my childhood interesting, to say the least. I began having prophetic dreams and seeing spirits around me at the age of four.
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I remember falling straight to sleep and waking up with barely any moonlight coming in through my window. I was facing my wall with my back to my room and my closet that was built with no door. Oh no. I, not thinking anything scary would happen and being still very much half asleep, rolled over to face the room.
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I had my eyes closed but opened them barely just trying to adjust my pillow to go back to sleep when I saw shiny material in front of me. I wear glasses, so my vision isn't the best without them. I followed the pink fabric up until I realized there was a full-body woman who I didn't know standing in front of my bed, maybe one foot from me, looking right at me, and she looked like me.
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Haunted Lakehouse, Guardian Spirits, & Demons? || Listener Stories 26 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I was terrified and instantly rolled over and pulled the covers over my head and prayed for God to protect me. I'm still laying there, not knowing if this lady was still behind me or not, when my brain realizes that this lady looked a lot like me. Not exactly the same, but she looked more like me than my own mom or siblings.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
And I'm Natalie. It is a Listener Stories episode. Woo, woo, woo, woo. So you want to just get started? You got anything to say? Not really. Crazy that we're past 100. I don't even know how to comprehend that. And thank you so much for everyone that's been so nice to us on the post for the 100th. It literally has just been nonstop because we're filming today on Thursday. It's just been nuts.
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But I'm not going to lie. When you said Natalie, I was like... Oh, no.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Well, yeah. I mean, my name isn't spelled very common, so. No.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I literally feel like I'm going to die. I would rather go to the doctor and have like five surgeries than go for a teeth cleaning.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Well, so far, it's kind of cute. She said it was like a really girly place and it's just a lady showing up looking at stuff. I'm fine with it.
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Yeah, in my mind, we're looking at a cute place, so it feels safe.
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If I was the owner, that's what I would tell myself too.
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Okay. I really hope that they're either still there enjoying the hair salon and the gossip and all the fun. But it also makes me sad that the woman loved the tea shop. They took it.
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I hope so. Or her teapot. I really hope so. That kind of made me sad. And she's chilling with some lady who loves tea. I hope so. Me too.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Oh my.
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I forgot this was a dream. I'm sorry. I was like so terrified. Okay.
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Surely not. Or do you have to explicitly say like, come in? I don't know. It was really scary that you said come in and then the air clicked off. That was really weird. That really kind of sent a chill down my spine. I don't know. Let us know in the comments. Do you have to say explicitly those words? I'm not going to say them again. No. Or is it just opening? I don't know.
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Is opening the door enough of an invitation? Maybe for some.
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That's what I'm saying. It's like, if I'm in the hotel, the doors are locked, the thing's on there, anything I can push against the door is there. Fire hazard? Don't care. No one's coming in.
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I'm sure, but not off the top of my head.
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That made me feel so uneasy. I'm feeling real weird. Oh, it's scary.
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I just want to go everywhere. Me too. See everything.
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I would love to go to Japan. See cherry blossom trees. That's like my favorite flower. Well, I think tulips are my favorite flower. Not to copy you, but I think they've become. Yeah, you copycat. I know. I'm just kidding. I think they've become my favorite flower. Yeah, hold on.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
You're turning into me. Yes. No.
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And I'm feeling the love. Like, I'm a very rage-filled person. Yes. And the comments and people like saying nice things really mellows me out. Yeah, I agree.
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And that's it.
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Thank you.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Thank you.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Thank you.
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Thank you.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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That's horrifying. This just reminded me of something because I would be so embarrassed if all the cops showed up and there was nothing, which I mean, I'm glad there was nothing, but I would be so embarrassed. I am an overreactor. There was this one time that I was home alone and our grandparents lived
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I was at home just by myself and I didn't know an air conditioner repairman was supposed to be stopping by. Oh, that's scary. I'm watching SVU, you know, as I do. Probably eating my Funyuns, drinking my Red Diamond tea. Of course. Knock on the door.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
No.
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You don't just stumble across the house. You come up there with a purpose. Through a no trespassing gate. Everything. This man's knocking on the door. I'm like, I freeze, you know, as I do. Yes. I'm looking through the peephole and I see.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
where like because i tiptoed over there i didn't want him to know i swear he looked directly at me and i was like i i literally started having a freaking panic attack i would have to i called our grandpa i was like there's a man on the porch he came out with his underwear like his boxers his long socks and his boots he came running out there oh and it was just the air conditioner repairman
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
poor guy but hey he was he would ride for me so but it was embarrassing that i made him run out there half naked yeah to just be like oh i just had time to pull his boots on okay you're repairing the air conditioner but yeah and like that's how i handle situations i can't no i i feel you so i would be do you imagine like walking around in a towel like with a kitchen knife
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Smart. Me too.
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It seems like the right choice. By the way, goats scare me.
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Bad. Yeah.
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Goats. Okay. Just the real animal that's here. I want goats. Okay. The little ones? Yes. the big ones where you see their eyes i went to safari type thing the other day and there was like you know little deer and cow things and horses the second the big goats got there terrifying i got like a panicked feeling i don't know why i didn't i i found this out about myself recently like this is very new
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I didn't know. But their eyes? They're a little, like, kind of dead. Yeah. It's very scary to me. Also, have you seen the movie The Witch?
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Yeah. I don't know. You don't like the goat in there?
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Just recently discovered that about myself, if anybody wanted to know.
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I know, I know. That's when we got a big boom. I don't know if YouTube pushed us out like crazy, but...
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
yeah how are we still it was like we were getting like 20 plus emails a day this is nuts so we're still in september i think i think we'll make it to october by june dude we're gonna have like six or seven years of listener stories if we ever run out of topics we can just become a listener stories pod yeah that's fine honestly Well, maybe we'll do another listener stories month.
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Thank you.
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Yep. So let's go.
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If a random person was like, hey, but you're going to a wedding this weekend, right? Yeah. What would you do if the bride's mom came up and said, hey, there's something attached to you?
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Part of me would like if I didn't have the prior dreams and everything like that, if they just randomly said that to me. part of me would be like, what are you trying to do to me? I wouldn't trust them. But then if I was having these dreams, then I'd be like, anything, please. Yeah. Take me. Take me wherever you need to take me to cleanse me to get rid of this. That is so insane.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I was just going to say that it makes me want to like have a little picnic.
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I'm too scarred. I can't think about second story window things happening. No. It's happened too many times on this pod, like two or three times, but two or three times too many.
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We're having our mom. We are sisters, by the way. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Our mom. Because people will come and be like, are y'all best friends? Are y'all friends? And it's like, no. We are siblings.
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Like in Alice in Wonderland? Yeah. I want to say I say Cheshire. Okay. But now it sounds weird saying it out loud. I'm sure people in the comments will let us know. Let us know how you say it.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
That should have been put on our like good feeling episode. Yes.
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Me too. But I can't think about dogs passing away too much because I will spiral and then we will have to stop recording.
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Yes.
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She probably knocks. If anything gets over on the table. Yes. If anything gets knocked off the counters, it would just be Cleo. Okay. So.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
But yeah, we are having a little book club and Macy, Kayla hosted last time and we had tacos and margaritas. Well, non-alcoholic margaritas. And then you're hosting this time.
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And it's always food or anything that she can chew on. Yes. Eat.
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Okay, that's kind of cute.
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I was scared.
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the ghosts are watching us while we sleep || Listener Stories 34 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Yes, and for it to not be anything crazy other than just lights and music, it's like, okay, whatever.
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Scary Stories & A Magic Potion || Listener Stories 29 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
All right, so we'll show the color before. It is...
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Scary Stories & A Magic Potion || Listener Stories 29 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Yeah. I generally feel that way when you come over here to do this.
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I feel like I'm in labor.
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Know what I mean?
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Yeah, I don't like that story. That hurts me.
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It's intimidating. I was texting one of my friends, Nicole, and because we were just like kind of catching up and I was talking about all this stuff I have going on, how I'm like kind of like barely treading water with all the things I have going on.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And I'm Natalie. And we're back with haunted new Orleans part two.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And on one of her daughter's baptismal records, her husband is listed as deceased. Not much is known what happened to her daughters after their baptisms because there are no known records of them. She did call herself the widow Paris for most of her life, though. In 1826, she met and injured her relationship with a prominent Frenchman, Christophe Galapion.
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They had seven children together, though only two survived beyond infancy, Marie-Héloïse Galapion and Marie Philomena Galapion, who later continued her mother's legacy, becoming Marie II. So there may be records out there showing that after Marie's grandmother Catherine passed in 1831, there were supposed debts to be paid off by Marie and the home she grew up in on St.
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Anne Street was auctioned off. Christophe Galapion bought the home and it's where she remained for the rest of her life. So he bought it for her, essentially, or so the story goes. The two remained together until Galapion's death in 1855. And this is where things begin to differ depending on where you're looking for your information. Marie is known as the voodoo queen of New Orleans.
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We do know that she was a devout Catholic attending mass every single Sunday. She was a great philanthropist, helping all she could and even spending some of her final years helping in hospitals, visiting prisoners and teaching them about Catholicism, convincing them to repent for their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
It started there and then it grew and grew and grew and even had like Protestants in their cemetery. And then eventually the city wanted to expand. So they're like, okay, well, we had a road cutting right through the cemetery. I guess we'll take these people and move them to St. Louis Cemetery number two. And these people will go to St. Patrick's Cemetery.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
She was also something of a healer, offering the people of New Orleans alternative practices to the modern medicine that was being practiced at the time. Now, we didn't do a voodoo tour while on a trip, so I can't give you great detail into Louisiana voodoo, but I can give you like a quick little rundown from my research. Yeah. It's kind of its own thing entirely.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
So it's not Haitian voodoo or hoodoo. It's nothing like anything else, really. Really? It's very different. It's its own, just Louisiana has its thing? Its own variation of it. It very much comes from other places and it has very similar roots, but it's not the exact same. From what I've seen, obviously I'm not an expert, so if there are any voodoo practitioners or experts out there, let me know.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Well, I liked the, yes, it was, it was good. All right, cool. Well, Well, in part one, we gave you a little history lesson in the city of New Orleans and told you all about the hauntings in some hotels and restaurants well known as paranormal hotspots in the French Quarter. And this week, we're diving into even more haunted locales and more of the places that Natalie is most interested in.
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It came originally, of course, from the enslaved people of West Africa. They worked with roots and herbs, creating charms and amulets and honoring their ancestors in their practices. So it was like their religion. Once they made it to Louisiana, it became very heavily influenced by Catholicism. as well as the practices of the Haitians who immigrated to New Orleans.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
So it all kind of came together like a conglomerate of practices.
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Those practicing the voodoo from their home country began combining their rituals with rituals in the Catholic Church, like using holy water and a crucifix, introducing Catholic iconography into their gris-gris or bags of sacred items and herbs, sometimes used for protection and sometimes used to curse others who have caused you harm. So...
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And calling upon Jesus Christ and Catholic saints in their invocations, in their rituals. I didn't know that. The core value of Louisiana voodoo is protection. All of this is said to have made it more palatable for the Europeans that lived and immigrated to this region in the 17 to 1800s. So they put a Catholic spin on it and they're like, okay, well, I guess they can do whatever they want. Yeah.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As long as they're saying Jesus Christ, then it's fine. Which kind of dilutes the religion, like Catholicism. Anyway. Legend says that Marie Laveau was one of the voodoo queens of her time, a religious leader with great influence and power. She was a wealthy and influential woman, a person of color, one of the free people of color in town.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And it's not hard to believe that rumors of Marie partaking in powerful otherworldly things like magic and voodoo, particularly something that was oftentimes feared by the white slave owners of the time, were spread.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
It's said that before the like the Haitian revolt and rise of the slaves, I don't know if we've talked about this before, but basically in Haiti, the slaves rose up and were like, we're not going to take it anymore. Burned plantations, killed a bunch of plantation owners and took over. Before they did that, supposedly they had a voodoo ceremony and ritual out in the fields or whatever.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And so people were like, oh, this is invoking revolution in these people. So we shouldn't let them practice. Or at the very least, they feared that it could cause them harm. Like it could curse them.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And like it just kind of all got moved around. And I can't say that that's the case for every cemetery, but it is the case for at least St. Louis Cemetery number one. St. Louis Cemetery is the oldest extant cemetery in New Orleans today, established in 1789 by Spanish royal decree and contains many influential people in New Orleans history. But we'll get to that in a minute.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
well i'm not gonna lie there are things i would never be so scared as to like keep somebody from doing what they enjoy or whatever but like when i come across something new i wouldn't say scared's the word but i mean i'm hesitant well i think and i think that's just the natural like biologically protecting you yes but it bothers me that i mean i i probably am guilty of it too but it bothers me that everything unknown or different from your norm is like
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Just as a species. Yes. She very much could have been practicing. The problem is we just don't have very much proof of it. So there are accounts saying like, oh, the voodoo queen Marie Laveau. Oh, she was holding these rituals out in Congo Square. Oh, she was doing all this stuff. But there's no proof that she actually was other than possible haters talking about her in the press.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Marie's childhood home on Rue Saint Anne is a notable location, not only for the rumors of her ghost still haunting the area, but also for one of the many legends and bits of lore surrounding the voodoo queen Marie Laveau.
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Rather than the story of Galapagos purchasing the home after Laveau's grandmother passed away, the rumor says that Marie used her power of voodoo to help an affluent man survive. free his son from murder charges. It is claimed that she held three peppers in her mouth, infusing them with her intentions.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
She placed the peppers under the seat of the judge presiding over the criminal case, and then nailed a cow's tongue under the seat of the prosecutor, preventing him from speaking and presenting his case. The prominent man's son was found not guilty, and for that, Marie was given her home. Hello? That's one of the rumors, one of the legends behind her power.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Yes. As a quick aside on the home, this is where Marie lived and eventually in 1881 died. It was torn down in 1903, or really the year varies, but new structures were built upon the foundations. And this is where people claim to still see her, though it very well could have been Marie II. They claim to see her walking down St. Anne in a long white dress and her signature turban around her head.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Some practitioners are said to still perform voodoo rituals near the grounds of her old home in honor of her and to call upon her, just kind of like invoke her in their rituals. But still, it was silent. Oh, we saw that. Yeah. As soon as he walked back through the doors of the home, the sound became loud again. It seemed as though they were coming from the living room.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
So knowing there was no way they were going to be able to sleep that night, they immediately left. And when they returned the following morning, in the center of the living room was a perfect single feather. All the windows and doors were shut. No birds were in sight.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And there was no plausible explanation for the feather to have made its way to that exact location where they heard the loud chanting the night before. And it was in like pristine condition. It was a perfect feather. A feather. It is said that a feather, just like the one seen by the couple, was a signature of Marie Laveau and something she used often in her practices.
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Most stories about Marie's life claim she was a hairdresser to all the wealthy women in the fringe quarter, though this also isn't proven. It is even believed by some scholars that it was actually her daughter who had this profession. People just got mixed up because they're both named Marie.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Though the legends remain as Miss Laveau making her way from home to home all through New Orleans administering her healing and protection via voodoo to free people and enslaved people alike. There are some who say she told fortunes and made Grigri for any customer who may have needed it.
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It is here the legends say that she was able to get information on all the wealthy men and women in New Orleans this way. Coming into their homes and... Also, the wealthy white woman would also call upon her and ask her for her help. Now, do we know if she was actually a midwife or someone practicing actual medicine for the time? Or was she actually practicing voodoo? It's unclear.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I mean, it makes sense that she would at least have some characteristics of voodoo within her practices and her own rituals at home because her grandmother raised her and her grandmother grew up in West Africa before she was taken and brought here. So obviously her grandmother probably had some kind of connection to the religion.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
She's also claimed to have practiced her voodoo rituals in view of many people of color in New Orleans who congregated in Congo Square right down the street from her St. Anne home on Sundays after church.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
It is here where mostly enslaved people would come to garden, sell and trade goods with each other, and have an opportunity to spend time with family and loved ones who were sold off to other families. Basically, there were certain codes and rules and laws that slave owners had to abide by.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Because whoever was governing, like the Spanish and then the French, they were good slave owners.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Yeah. Sorry. If you're not watching, I quoted finger quotes. And so they treated their slaves well, quote. So they would have certain rules that like, well, you can't mistreat them or you have to allow them a day for like religious practices.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Oh, yeah. Said sarcastically. So nice. So basically they were given Sunday and a lot of them would come together in Congo Square and just live life together on their one little bit of freedom that they had. I'm going to cry. That's so sad. I know. It was a community square for people of color living in New Orleans.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
So even the free people of color would come and just speak with the people that they know. It was here that Marie would sell some of her gris-gris, perform rituals, and conjure spirits with drums and dancing and singing. She is said to still be seen in Congo Square from time to time, still performing her voodoo rituals. She is also seen often on St.
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John's Eve, a celebration of the summer solstice and St. John the Baptist that Marie Laveau is said to have begun in the 1830s out at Lake Pontchartrain. Celebrations are still held in New Orleans, bringing out voodoo practitioners and locals to celebrate and honor Marie Laveau's memory, as well as St. John's. Love. She's a very influential woman in general for New Orleans.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I don't know. Especially in New Orleans because it was like a very different place. Burials in the cemetery and in the city in general began like most places in the nation as regular underground burials. But by the time St. Louis Church was upgraded to St.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I'm glad you do. I was worried it was getting a little too heavy, but I was really interested in her and this.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Again, would you say we're just like some person on the podcast? I'm just a nobody on the internet. A nobody on the internet?
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There are plenty of residences that remain in pretty great condition throughout the French Quarter, and I'd bet any amount of money that they too are haunted.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Two of the most infamous houses in the area are not accessible to the public yet anyway, but we were able to see them from the street, and I'd like to tell you their stories as well.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Well, we're going to start with your trauma here just because I want to get it out of the way.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
We're about to tell a very horrible, horrible story that is backed up with evidence. So this happened.
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Skip ahead. We have timestamps in the description. Many of you have probably heard of Madame Delphine Lalaurie and the Lalaurie Mansion. It's infamous for the most horrific reasons, and its sordid past may have left a lasting curse upon the home and anyone who owns it. So I know all of you who have watched American Horror Story, I think it's season three, Coven, you know this.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
But you don't know the real story unless you've looked into it yourself. Then you do. Delphine LaLaurie was born in 1787 into great wealth and even greater privilege. Her family had owned plantations and slaves all of her life. So she was wealthy and born wealthy. Silver spoon and all. She married two times before she met her last husband. I don't know if it's Leonard or Leonard.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
i'm gonna assume it's not leonard so leonard we'll call him dr laurie and he and she inherited and amassed great wealth from both of those marriages prior by the time she met and married dr laurie in 1825 she was very wealthy and influential And in 1832, she and her husband had the home in the French Quarter built as a city home away from their plantation.
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Louis Cathedral and the city officials began to take into account the risks of a high water table and floods, above ground burials were performed and began in 1804. So they just, they kind of started running out of room in places that were good for underground burials and not livable places for humans. Most people who were able to have their family tombs placed in places like St.
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Like all homes built in the area, there was a portion of the home separated by a courtyard in the back that housed the enslaved people who took care of the home. These were small and often very tight quarters, as you can imagine. But Delphine Lalaurie took it to the extreme. Most homeowners would house six to eight enslaved people in these slave quarters.
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But Lalaurie had dozens and dozens of enslaved men, women, and children living in this small area behind her home. Hers was a little bigger than some of the other houses have, but not near enough bigger to have that many people in one space. That alone, horrible, horrible conditions.
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She was known for throwing extravagant parties, but she was also known to be extremely violent and cruel to her servants. As I said, in this time, there was the Code Noir, which were the laws governing slave owners on how they were supposed to treat their enslaved people. They very specifically govern the slave owners themselves and not the handlers that most plantation owners hired.
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So all of this like quote unquote goodness that they were trying to provide to their slaves, it didn't matter because it wasn't the slave owners doing most of the horrid things. Yeah. So there were some. Like this lady here. Like Delphine. All in all, the owners were not to be violent or unnecessarily cruel to their servants. Definitely not injuring them in any way.
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Yes. So it's not that they did not experience this. Yeah. No, no. They definitely experienced it. Just not always at the hands of the people who owned the plantation. Yeah. Yeah. Delphine Lalaurie, though, did not care to follow these rules, and everyone knew it. People all over town had known of her cruelty. Whispers around town would tell of the cries that came from her home day and night.
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Party guests knew of some of the horrors she would inflict upon her servants while visiting her home, though no one knew the extent of the terrors. The police had been to her home more than once, offering warnings to her about her behavior and temperament towards the enslaved people. Of course, like many of great power and influence, nothing ever came of these admonishments.
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Until one afternoon, several witnesses living nearby her city home watched as Delphine chased after a young enslaved girl somewhere between the ages of 8 and 12 named Leah. She was wielding a whip and running after the girl and watched as she fall to her death from the second story balcony. She was charged for the death of the young girl and forced to give up nine of the slaves in her home.
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But unfortunately, a family friend bought them back and just sold them right back to her. That's disgusting. So they all just ended right back up in the horrors that they came from.
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This was just the beginning of the cruelty and downfall of the LaLaurie family. The lid of how cruel she really was was blown off in April of 1834 when a fire broke out in her mansion. Firefighters raced to her home to the rescue, and upon entering, they found that the fire had been started by a woman who was chained to the stove.
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The cook had started the fire because she couldn't take the torturous abuse any longer. She alerted the firefighters to the second floor, claiming more people would need help there too. Delphine LaLaurie refused to give them the key or allow them access to what lied beyond that door. Eventually, the door was broken down, and what was seen was beyond anything they had ever witnessed before.
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The smell alone was enough to bring some of the men to their knees, but what they saw was much worse. Enslaved individuals were chained up all over the room, sectioned off by form of torture. In part, it was described by the New Orleans Bee the next day as follows.
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Louis Cemetery No. 1 were clergy and the more privileged class. It was something of a status symbol to be buried in those marble-covered tombs.
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Seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated, were seen suspended by the neck with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to another. These slaves had been confined by the woman LaLaurie for several months in the situation from which they had thus providentially been rescued, and had been merely kept in existence to prolong their suffering. That was really heavy.
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There were further rumors of much worse going on up in that room. The newspapers had labeled Delphine as a demon in the shape of a woman. Stories of men and women whose bodies were mutilated or hanging in conditions that would require them staying awake for hours on end simply to save their own lives. There was much, much more. Either rumor or truth. We'll never fully know.
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But I don't even feel comfortable telling all the information. I don't even feel comfortable saying it aloud, let alone reading about it. So... Do your research if you would like to know everything. If you want to. I don't recommend. It's very dark. It was brutal. It was horrific. It was evil. Just plain evil.
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And it is believed that some 12 slaves died while living in the LaLaurie mansion between 1831 and 1834. Though their causes of death were never known, one can only guess what they had gone through before death took them. I'm about to cry again.
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News of the horrid treatment of people, even if they were seen as second class by the people of that time, spread and enraged the people living in New Orleans. A mob formed outside the LaLaurie mansion, demanding she face justice. She did not. Instead, she burst through the doors of her carriage house, racing to a ship that carried her off to France to live the rest of her days.
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The mob stormed the house, destroying what they could in protest and anger. Delphine never returned to New Orleans, and her mansion was sold off, later to be used as an all-girls school. It's reported that many of the young girls would see a woman in the building, some believed to be LaLaurie herself, and they would receive scratches from unknown origins up and down their arms.
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Or so the legend says. After the girls' school had run its course, the building was turned into apartments. There are reports of a murder occurring in one of the units of the LaLaurie mansion in the late 1800s. It's also said, and again, this is legend, that they found his belongings ransacked, though nothing of value was missing. 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.
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It's hard to see. Because in especially like these Catholic burial places, they would pay the archdiocese and the churches to perpetually take care of it. They have plaques that say perpetual care. And not everyone could afford that.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Someone just saw him a few days ago, so we've got a few months.
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Above ground burials also meant there was more room to help handle the large quantity of bodies that began to pile up for the city with rampant disease like yellow fever. So in the 1850s, well, really the entire 1800s almost, yellow fever was just rampant. And we talked about this in the first episode, but there were just bodies upon bodies and they didn't know what to do with them.
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Sometimes they would store them in churches before they could be able to bury them and piles of bodies everywhere. Horrifying image. Yes. The above ground burials help with that too, because you can store more than one body in a place.
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There are others who claim to hear the sounds of screaming, gurgling, and even body parts hitting the floors at night. Residents have often experienced strange, seemingly paranormal encounters, and one man claimed that his dog was always on alert in his kitchen and was once, assumedly, pushed down the stairs to the laundry. The dog? Yeah. The dog was okay. Okay.
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In 1979, the man who restored the building, Frank Diamico, and his wife were just settling into bed in the penthouse apartment when the missus saw a shadowy figure standing at the foot of her bed. It glided over to her side of the bed as she reached for the lamp in a panicked hurry. As soon as the light came on, no one was there. Of course.
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The next person to own the building, Nina Nevins, I think is how you say her name, or Nevins, Never believed the legends and lore surrounding the home, but she did seem to experience a few strange things. Mostly belongings of hers would often go missing. Very much so keys. Oh, okay. A lot of the times the keys would just disappear, reappear other places.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a business in the French Quarter or really just any establishment, any square foot of land. Really, that hasn't reported some kind of ghostly activity while in operation. One of those, once again, has a bit of a grisly legend behind its hauntings.
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The Pharmacy Museum is a really neat spot in the city with tons of little artifacts pertaining to the history of medicine and pharmacy. The largest collection of its kind, actually. And it's right next to Napoleon House, which we went to, if you didn't see it was in part one. We did. Bloodletting tools, jars of leeches, needles, that kind of thing.
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Just anything and everything that could have been used. Pharmaceutically. Yes. Yes. Is that a word?
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Well, medicine and pharmacy are kind of, they're adjacent, but they're not the same.
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So if you want to know more about the history and like a deep dive into that, a few notable hauntings, go back to part one. Otherwise, let's get going. What's our tea? Our tea today is David's Tea Lavender Earl Grey.
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Though the museum is incredibly interesting, I find the building itself just as intriguing. The building it currently resides in was the home and apothecary for the first licensed pharmacist in the United States. What? Luis DeFilo Jr. That is so cool. DeFilo Jr. was a licensed pharmacist in 1816 and initially opened a pharmacy a few streets over with his older brother, also named Luis.
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He moved to the present day location in 1823 and practiced out of his home, serving the people of New Orleans and surrounding area. He and his wife, Emmy Adele Becknell, had seven children together, though three of them died in infancy. Another, Louis, Delphine, and Jules were their names. One passed as a baby and two passed in childhood. That's really sad. Very, very sad.
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Unfortunately. The Dufilo family lived there for many, many years until they sold off their home and business to Celestine Fleitis and her husband, Dr. James Dupas in 1855 for $18,000, which was $657,000. Wow. That's crazy because the whole palace, well, quote unquote, Sultan's Palace was almost the same price.
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While there, they lived on the top floor, his office and medical practice was on the second floor, and the pharmacy remained in operation on the ground floor. Dr. Tupac and his wife lived in the home until he passed away from acute diarrhea in 1870.
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I was thinking, how common is this? How often does this actually happen? And it is actually still very common in the world. It is very sad. In the year 2021, it was like 1.1 million people. That's horrible. Didn't know that was a thing. Dr. Dupas is the subject of one of many horror stories told in the French Quarter.
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Local legend says that during the yellow fever outbreaks, he would hold some of the many, many dead bodies in his practice for a time. But the bodies were often merely a means of hiding what he was really up to. It is said that he experimented on women, particularly pregnant enslaved women. And more often than not, they never made it out alive.
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It is said that he was actually suffering from syphilis, which slowly aided his brain, causing him to go mad. And so the legends say he actually passed from neurosyphilis. Mm-hmm.
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Now, according to the Pharmacy Museum's website, there's absolutely no proof that any of this ever occurred, but rather the stories of ghastly experiments were thought to be actually conducted by Dr. James Marion Sims of Montgomery, Alabama.
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And one of our tour guides was like, oh yeah, you know the guy, Jerry, who weed whacks the cemetery also handles the bones and will like push them to the back and add a new body in there. So it's just like an all encompassing job to take care of the cemetery.
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He was considered the father of gynecology, but it turns out most of his developments came from performing experimental procedures on enslaved women without a drop of anesthesia.
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A lot of people are taking it back and saying the mothers of gynecology and the women who remain unnamed.
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I like that phrase. Now, even though Dr. Tupac didn't commit atrocities like those told in the ghostly stories about the city... It doesn't make him the greatest of men. He still did own slaves. And there are records showing he once stabbed a man in a bar fight. So like there are court records of him like going to court. He stabbed an acquaintance in a bar. I don't know the story behind that.
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But I mean, if you're stabbing people in bars, you're probably not the greatest person. I guess unless you're defending yourself. But why do you have a knife? Hey.
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Even without the horrendous legend of Dr. Dupas, the building that holds the pharmacy museum is, even by the website's own admissions, definitely haunted. Oop, like they have an FAQ section and it was like, is it haunted? And they're like, yeah. Yes. What building in the French Quarter isn't? One of the spirits said to skulk the halls of the building appears to be Dr. Dupas.
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A boy and a girl. They can be seen out in the courtyard or running through the halls. And it's possible that some of the activity experienced in the pharmacy museum could be caused by the spirits of a couple of the DeFiso children who passed at such a young age. One of the most iconic, by my standards anyway, buildings in all of New Orleans is the St.
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Louis Cathedral or the Basilica Cathedral of St. Louis or Louis, King of France. It's the fourth cathedral built in the exact spot on Jackson Square. And it is a beauty. We saw it. We did. The first building that was built there was just kind of like a little placeholder. Yeah. Because it was like just a few years after or not very long after they arrived there.
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But it was destroyed in a 1722 hurricane. The next burned in the Good Friday fire of 1788. The third building was built in 1794. But by the mid-1800s, the congregation and church leaders wanted a bigger, nicer building. And so in the 1850s, we got the building that we see today.
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It is the site of the oldest cathedral in continuous use in the United States, though the oldest building is the Royal Presidio Chapel in Monterey, California. It was built in 1791, finished in 1794, so it's about the same time.
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A number of prominent members of the church since the founding of New Orleans were buried at the church, turned cathedral, turned basilica, and it seems many of them may remain, though they mostly seem to be clergy, most of the spirits seen. The apparition of Père Dagobert, who was pastor of the cathedral in 1745, can still be seen silently walking the aisles, head down after worship is over.
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Another is Père Antoine. He was a Spanish Capuchin friar at the St. Louis Cathedral and was named pastor when he arrived in New Orleans in 1774. He was known to be kind and generous to his congregation and the people of New Orleans. He was so well loved that when he passed in 1829, the entire city mourned his death. He was one of the clergy members buried in the cathedral.
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And ever since that day, people have claimed to see him. They know it's him because his portrait is still hanging inside the building. He is seen often during the Christmas season, most often near the altar and on the balconies. He has supposedly been seen in several other places in the city, including Pere Antoine Alley right next to the cathedral. So they named the whole alleyway after him.
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We're going to wrap our deep dives into New Orleans with something it is known for all around. It's vampires. Oh my goodness. I didn't think we'd get here. Yes, definitely. Okay. And those vampires predate Anne Rice's novels, in case you didn't know. The story actually begins with the Ursuline nuns who settled in New Orleans in 1727. So like very, very soon after the founding.
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I agree. After we left, I told Natalie, I was like, maybe we should have a tomb. We should build our own cemetery and have a family tomb.
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The convent actually still remains in the city today, though the building that they used for this story is now a museum. So they're somewhere else. They were very well known for the housing and education work that they did for the people in their community, particularly young girls, but they have really set themselves apart by way of a story of the casket girls.
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We mentioned in part one about how the King of France was sending girls of marrying age to the colonies to populate their new cities. The group of girls were being sent from France and were to be educated at the Ursuline convent until they found men to marry. The legend begins with one particular group who arrived in a different manner than those before them.
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It is said that as the girls were taken from the ship after arrival, they were sickly pale, gaunt, carrying only a casket. Though caskets basically meant trunks at the time, like the meaning of the word casket as a burial thing wasn't used in this time. Some even claim to see bits of blood on the mouths of a few of them.
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They stuck out from the rest of the residents in New Orleans and people began to talk. They were all taken straight to the convent and it was said that their caskets were to never be opened, at least not until their wedding day, supposedly. Their heavy trunks were taken up to the third floor where they were to remain.
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In some version of the story, the nuns returned to the third floor because they had forgotten something or, I don't know, insert reason here. There are many legends.
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We can be neighbors. Neighbors. We're just a pile of bones together. Yes.
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but when they opened the door where all the girls caskets were placed they found them all wide open completely empty the shutter slamming into the windows that were blown right open the nuns searched high and low and found no sign of any of the girls belongings that were supposed to be filling those chests
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Fearing the worst, the nuns sealed up the third floor, having the nails fastening the windows, perpetually closed, blessed by the Pope. But the rumors were already out. Vampires had made their way to the New World. Hundreds of years later, it's said that two paranormal investigators sought to find the truth about these eternally young casket girls.
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They decided to make camp outside the Old Gerstlein convent. They were searching for any sign, any little piece of evidence that the vampires remained in New Orleans. But as they drifted off to sleep, the nails on the third floor windows began to drop one by one. The windows were opening, and their cameras caught only a glimpse of a shadow before suddenly turning to black.
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So the cemetery grew and grew and grew. And as I said, it got separated up. Bodies were moved to make room for city living and roads. In fact, the pyramid tomb at the entrance today of the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was actually the middle of the cemetery before. Oh. So you walk in at the entrance, which is all closed off.
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The bodies of the investigators were found the next morning, drained of all their blood.
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But I don't necessarily believe in the lore of a vampire. Prove me wrong. I'd love to be proven wrong. I would like to hear more. We've had this discussion before. Yes. Like, I'm a vampire hater. Yeah, you are. I don't consume vampire content. Which is crazy. I read Twilight. You liked Twilight? I did not like it. Really? I read all three books. There might be a fourth book.
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I didn't read the fourth book. But I read the first three books. I didn't like a single second of it. I just did it because everyone else was. Yeah. I wanted to be in the know of the culture.
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Yeah. i just watched an entire okay so i am an internet analysis girly okay i like to watch internet analysis analyses on youtube and i just watched a hours long video of someone analyzing twilight see i'm not go i'm not doing all that and all of that i'm not doing all that but i will say while i don't seek out the twilight movies if i happen upon one i'll watch it i don't i'm
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Anyways, move on. Okay. I'm so sorry if I've offended any vampire lovers, believers.
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Twilight diehard fans. It's fine. It's fine media. I'm here for you. I mean, I read it. It wasn't my favorite. Didn't really like them, but I read them. I watched the movies. Love what you love. I will watch the movies again.
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There are plenty of things that I like and enjoy that some of you probably despise, so it's okay.
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The Casket Girls weren't the only suspected vampires to call New Orleans home. In the early 1900s, a mysterious and very handsome man arrived on the scene of New Orleans society. He would throw lavish parties, and only the most notable people of New Orleans were ever invited. At first, his company was enjoyed, but after a while, people began to notice some oddities about him.
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He never took a single bite of food while at one of his parties. He claimed to be a direct descendant of Comte Saint-Germain, a man of great French nobility, but there were whispers around of the Count in France, whispers that he was a man who could never die, a master of alchemy, who had the recipe to live forever.
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For some time, they let it all go, believing he was who he said he was and enjoying his extravagance. They enjoyed his tales of history in places far off. It felt as if he were telling the stories from his own point of view, as if he experienced them rather than just reading about them.
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That is, until late one night, a woman falls out of the second floor of his mansion, screaming for her life and claiming that she was attacked by none other than Jacques Saint-Germain. Oh my God. She claimed he attempted to bite her throat, and when authorities made their way into his home, he was nowhere to be found.
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You cannot get in unless you are going through a tour sanctioned by and brought about by the archdiocese. Yeah. Because of vandalism and a guy named Walter. We hate Walter. Yeah. He was like stealing skulls out of tombs to be like, oh, wow, look at this tour group.
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But what they did see was that his collection of wine that he bragged about to many was actually a collection of human blood. Oh, gross. It was official. Jacques Saint-Germain must, in fact, be a vampire. He was not the descendant of the Count, but Saint-Germain himself, living his eternal life, and he is still out there somewhere searching for more victims to satiate his hunger. I like the story.
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Do you believe it? I love the story. I'd like to. I don't know that I do.
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Yeah. Tell us, chat. So for the casket girls, here's a little debunking. The first set of women who were sent to France were essentially the people from prisons. So they already had a bad rap. So they were like, oh, they're sending people we find less than already. Okay. Yeah. They get here. They've been on a ship for many, many months.
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Most of these girls have never been on a ship for that long for that kind of journey. Pale skin because they're not out in the sun. Sick. Some of them supposedly had tuberculosis and that's why they had blood on their mouths. So they were just really pale and sick and gaunt because they were on a ship for months.
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And so maybe the rumors swirled around that because they were just looking rough. Yeah. Wow. For Jacques, I couldn't tell you, but I like the story.
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So that was New Orleans or a very tiny portion of the French quarter of New Orleans. It's a beautiful place with such a rich history and culture. And I honestly can't wait to go back. Me too.
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Agreed. I hope you enjoyed. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed going and seeing all the sites firsthand and I enjoyed researching it. And I truly, truly did enjoy researching the vampires.
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So if you like this video, please like it and share it with your friends if you feel compelled to do so. Subscribe for more. If you haven't seen part one, go watch part one. There was a lot of history. There was. It was pretty good if I do say so myself. I had fun.
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But yeah. We hate Walter over here. Well, today there are over 700 tombs and more than 100,000 people buried in the cemetery and counting. That number will continue to rise. There are still people buying plots and building tombs today. There are still family members. So you have to get a special pass from the archdiocese, like a family visitor pass to go in.
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There's some guy checking tickets at the entrance of the cemetery. And there are still like people, their dates, it's like born and they don't have a death date because they haven't been buried there yet. Insane.
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In fact, Nicolas Cage built his own family tomb, though our tour guide was like, I'm pretty sure he's going to be the only one buried here. Yeah. When he lived in New Orleans for a time.
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I don't know about like history. I have a hot take. What? That is a history of New Orleans.
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Hot take. My favorite Nicolas Cage movie is National Treasure. That's not a hot take. It's not? Not to me. I've heard others say like, no, but. Hey. Hey. You haven't seen. I just watched it the other day. I love that movie.
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Yeah. It's on one of the streaming services that I have. And I just haven't been in the horror mood. I can't explain it.
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I'm just always scared from this. And I'm like, I can't. I can't go through anymore.
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It was very interesting. If you ever get a chance to go to New Orleans, I highly recommend you go through one of these tours. Also...
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So as I said, many influential New Orleanians are buried here. Some well-known names in American history, like Homer Plessy from the 1892 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision. We talked about that in the first episode, and if you studied American history at all, I'm sure you've heard of it. Paul Morphy, the world-famous chess champion, and supposed voodoo queen... Marie Laveau. Love.
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I mentioned this in the first episode, but New Orleans has a multitude of cities of the dead, or so they're called. The cemeteries in New Orleans have their own unique charm, and most of them contain all above-ground burials, which makes them not only a staple of the city, but also a big tourist attraction.
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One of these legends has a quite tragic backstory, and his name is Henri Vinay. He was a sailor in the 19th century and had no remaining family or real home to call his own. He spent most of his time traveling from one place to the next but made his way to New Orleans and into a local boarding house.
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When he first checked in, he didn't have much in the way of personal belongings but something he cherished greatly and protected were these important papers of his. Papers that included his family tombs. So you have a deed to these tombs. You have to buy a deed. Before setting sail for his next job, he asked the owner of the boarding house to keep his papers safe while he was out at sea.
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or not scary you have to have a lot of trust i don't trust people that much the owner of the boarding house promised to keep them safe and told him he had nothing to fret over while he was away but almost immediately after he left the woman sold the family tomb i knew an extra buck i knew it henry returned to find his most prized possession the place where his body would get its eternal rest next to his family members was no longer his he fell ill and passed shortly after his return with no money to buy his tomb back and build another one
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He was buried in a pauper's section of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 and is there where his spirit remains today. That is heartbreaking. Now, this is legend.
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And it was like an unmarked pauper's grave, too. You know how I feel about unmarked graves. Oh! Oh! Isn't that horribly tragic? That is so sad. Another ghostly resident of the old cemetery in New Orleans is that of a man named Alphonse. He too is looking for a place to rest. He has been known to take visitors by hand and pull them back to a complete stop.
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He smiles widely and asks them to bring him home. Like, no, thank you. I'm not bringing you home. He has also been seen gathering- Wait, bring him to their home? Yeah. Oh, my God. He needs a home. He needs a place to be.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
I don't know. That's how I took it. I like your idea better, though. Well, just assume it's yours.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
He has also been seen gathering flowers off of some of the graves and placing them on his own tomb. More legends.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
there claims that he may be a victim from someone else's family who is buried in the cemetery because anytime someone is stepping near that grave alphonse is there to warn them to stay away oh many people have claimed to see the ghost of a civil war soldier walking amongst the densely packed tombs but his name and circumstances remain unknown The most popular and well-known grave in St.
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The first known cemetery appeared on a map in 1725 of today's French Quarter, though it was closed in 1800, literally since day one.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Louis Cemetery No. 1 is that of the supposed voodoo queen, Marie Laveau. People have seen her in her signature head wrap walking near her family tomb, sometimes even showing up in photos taken nearby, and people have felt brief touches near her place of rest. Really? That's so cool.
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Before the cemetery was closed off by the Archdiocese, visitors from all over the world would visit her tomb to have their wishes granted. People would often leave offerings at her tomb, and some claim to hear the whisper of a woman's voice in their ear shortly after. Or some even believe you must knock three times to ask her favor.
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Unfortunately, that's not the only way that some believe they could have their wish granted. It was believed by many that if you went to her tomb and scratched three X's into it, she would grant your wish. This led to many instances of vandalism. Many of the X's still visible today.
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There were also two instances of people coming in the night, possibly the same people over and again, over again, and painting her entire tomb pink. Why? Just why? I don't know. Just leave things alone in general. Everyone just stop everything you're doing. Marie Laveau is said to not enjoy all who make a visit to her tomb.
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If you are heard disrespecting her or the voodoo practices she has claimed to have partaken in, she has been known to pinch, scratch, push, or even slap you. Though some believe this could also be the work of her daughter, Marie II. Okay. Marie Laveau was thought by many New Orleanians to have been immortal. People claimed to see her walking the streets for many years after her death.
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One such story came from a man named Elmore Banks in the mid-1930s. He was shopping at a drugstore near the cemetery when he saw a woman walk into the store. The owner of the store got a frightened look on his face and ran to the back room, leaving Banks in the store alone with this mysterious woman. She turned to him laughing and asked, "'Don't you know me?' When he said, "'No, he did not,'
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she approached him slapped him across the face and proceeded to rise into the air and levitate out of the store i wish i could do that just like i really yes as she passed over the cemetery she seemed to vanish suddenly banks was frightened beyond belief and passed out in the middle of the store and as he came to the store uh store's owner was now with him as he helped him off the ground the owner turned to face him and said that was marie laveau diva
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Now, it's thought that the legends of Marie's immortality and walks about the streets of the French Quarter may just be a case of mistaken identity. Her daughter, Marie II, looked just like her and dressed like her too. Some of the stories of seeing young Marie still walking about as she'd had in life could just be exaggerations coming from people who actually spotted her daughter.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
And also, there was already a little bit of mystery surrounding Marie Laveau, especially amongst the white population of New Orleans.
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I wanted to tell you a little bit about Marie Laveau's life. She's an interesting person as it pertains to the history of New Orleans and Louisiana voodoo. And I think it's important that if we're talking about New Orleans, we all should know who she was.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
Yeah. And they're more noticeable too. Because they're all above ground. Built up. I think the reason that there are so many is because a lot of them had to be moved to So they started with like the one we're about to talk about, St. Louis Cemetery number one, like the most iconic cemetery of New Orleans.
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And of course, she was a powerful person of color, a wealthy person of color. And I think she was feared a little bit.
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Ghosts of New Orleans Pt. 2
a smart and cunning yes a good person this woman as far as we know she was born in new orleans in 1801 her grandmother catherine was taken from her home in africa at the age of seven and was able to eventually buy her own freedom and continued working hard to set her five children free oh my gosh yeah it's really really sad her daughter marguerite was actually owned by her father who set her free at the age of 18 into an advantageous arranged marriage
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Marie, however, was the daughter of successful politician Charles Laveau. It's believed that Marie was raised by her grandmother as Marguerite returned to her marriage. So she had an extramarital affair, gave birth to Marie, but went back to her husband and let her grandmother Catherine raise her. At 18, she married a Haitian man named Jacques Paris, another free person of color in New Orleans.
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Marie's father is said to have gifted her property for her wedding gift. In fact, our tour guide through St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 said that by the end of her life, she was wealthy and owned like two houses in the French Quarter. The next portion of her life is a little bit confusing, but via official records, Marie had two daughters baptized with the name Paris.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And yeah, getting home late. It was so tough on Monday. Brian and I, when we got home, we ate. And then the next thing I know, we woke up on the couch and it was time for work.
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I have a hard time believing that- That it was him? No, that nobody knew who this was. Because if someone's writing things like this and thinks like this and, you know, acts this way, someone has to be like-
Ghosteas
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It's crazy to think that he just went on with life. Did he have kids? Who knows?
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It's just crazy because if they didn't get caught and they just continued on living, who are their kids? Who are their kids' kids? You could be a descendant of a crazy, horrible, infamous serial killer and not even know it. That's insane.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
We had so much fun seeing all the houses and buildings and things like that. In person. I literally could just stand there and just marvel.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I remember Katrina happening like it was yesterday just because it was such a big deal.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It was really, really insane. And I was really young, but I...
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And it's sad because so many new people moved in and kind of changed the culture a little bit.
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That makes me so sad. I mean, obviously things need to change in the world and like we evolve and stuff, but places that are so rich in like a history and a way of life.
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In a culture. It makes me so sad when new people move in and like switch things up.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah. I don't know. It just makes me kind of sad that things get lost with time. I agree. Yeah.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah. And then there's like a bunch of parades and things.
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It was so beautiful. And I'm kind of sad that we didn't see something. I know I'm always like, I don't want to see anything. But I was like wanting something spooky to happen.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
We'll try again. Yeah. Well, we will try again. We've seen the error of our ways.
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This is unsettling. Very, very unsettling. This feels very almost traffic-y.
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I don't know. I don't like the sound of this. But they're still under the control of the man. Yeah. Gross.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It was a weird experience. Just seeing our name on a gravestone. It made me feel really weird. Like seeing our last name. I kind of had a moment of like, like I got lightheaded. I was like, yeah, it kind of freaked me out. I'm not going to lie. I didn't like it. I know you, you saw it and then you walked away and you were just kind of like, okay, can we go?
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No, that's way too much for me.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
No. And I'm glad you didn't tell me that before we stayed. I know.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
That's the thing. We got there pretty late and I don't wake up in my sleep. I sleep through the night. I could sleep all day. I woke up in the middle of the night. The first night, the way we were laying, the closet was over here. And so like I opened my eyes and I looked. I didn't see anything, but I said, no. And I closed my eyes.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yes, because I was like, absolutely not. I'm not going to see anything. I'm scared. And because y'all left the closet open. I know. I'm sorry.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I just felt like I felt heavy, like a wave, like I was like, oh my God, I don't know.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And the cemeteries there are not just your old run-of-the-mill headstones.
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And it's kind of beautiful to look at. Very beautiful. It felt weird looking at these places where people were laid to rest. Like, wow, beautiful. It just felt weird.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
they were and I mean they spent a lot of money on them yeah to look beautiful Nicholas Cage oh my gosh we'll get there this is actually going to be a two-parter so we'll get there in part two okay because we talked about Nicholas Cage a lot more than I expected yeah it was like every tour we went on every little thing we went someone's like oh Nicholas Cage I'm like Let it go. Let it go.
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He's like very strong. He can do a lot. Yes.
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I was about to say bad people.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Dang, and we missed it. We were going to eat there, but we were doing a tour and the tour guide was such a sweet, like great person. And at one point we realized like, oh, we might have to leave just a little bit early at the end of the tour. There were a couple people there.
Ghosteas
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that didn't say anything and they just left and she got her feelings hurt yeah and so i looked at macy and i was like we gotta cancel it we cannot leave early on this woman's tour and i'm glad that we didn't because it was such a great tour and she was so like fantastic but i do regret not getting to eat there very much that's probably one of my biggest regrets about our trip
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So cool. And I hope that whenever I die, someone does that type of stuff for me.
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I think it's too sweet. I might have put too much sugar, but yeah, well, I don't like it. Sorry. This is the first one in a while that I have been like, really not against it. Yeah, but I can see why a lot of people would like it. I don't think it's a bad tea. I think I'm just picky.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yeah. And so the rumor just kind of created.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Don't people in Galveston claim to see him too, though?
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Could you imagine being in a bar, feeling a little tipsy, a little good, and seeing something like that? I would...
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I wish I had it. I know. And that's the thing that you were saying earlier. It's like it didn't feel weird asking anybody in New Orleans about it because they were all like, yeah, yeah, for sure.
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No, but there was so much. I mean, there was a lot that I already knew, but I didn't expect to learn as much as I did. on the tours and everything that we did. I feel like I took a full college course in the day and a half we were there. It was a lot. It was really tragic. Interesting. It was interesting, but mostly tragic.
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Wow. Love. And the food was good, too. Side note.
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You had a drink and you found a little baby.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Because, like, when you have a king's cake, it's the little baby that, like, if you find the baby in your slice, it's, like, good luck. So you ordered, what was it, a king cake margarita or something like that? Daiquiri of some kind.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It didn't even taste like an alcoholic beverage. But it had a little baby, and for some reason, the baby has butt cheeks. What?
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
There's so much. Today was just like an intro and I'm ready for next week. I'm excited too.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
And the places are so, so interesting.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I'm ready for next week's. I really am. It was so interesting and all the things that we are going to talk about is what I really want to talk about.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I do want to add a stupid side note that nobody probably cares about, but it was in my brain the entire time we were there. I worked at a Cajun restaurant for five years. All of the food was named after streets and rivers and people and things. In New Orleans? In New Orleans.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
So every single time, like the Bienville thing you just said, we had like something with that name and then chapatulas and then just everything. Ponchatrain. I was just like, that's a dish. Yeah. That's a dish. And it felt so, it felt so like war flashback-y, but also like, aw, I can look back on that time fondly now because I'm out of the server world. Yeah.
Ghosteas
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oh like down in new orleans yeah that was with playing in my head over and over again oh and every song we heard playing on the streets playing in restaurants wherever we went was a song that played at the restaurant i worked at so i was just like oh my god i know all the words to this song like i've been here but i haven't but it also made my heart race and my palms sweat
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
It's like, I got an order up. I actually had a server dream for the first time in a very long time this past week. That's funny.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Made it feel a lot heavier the whole time, knowing that the whole place was built on slave labor.
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Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
Yes. Knowing that people go there just to like drink and get crazy and, you know, like the normal like college kid experience when they like, oh, we're going to New Orleans.
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Yeah. But then just it kind of hit me. I was like, man, like looking around all the buildings like tragedy. Like, should we be all like, woohoo? I don't know.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
I need an HGTV show that I host where we just go and we just gawk.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
No, there was just so much. We went on two cemetery tours. We stayed in a haunted hotel. We ate at a restaurant that's haunted.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
We did a lot, but it still felt like not nearly enough.
Ghosteas
Ghosts of The Most Haunted City in the US: New Orleans Pt. 1
There's bands, there's people with instruments just everywhere. Like, the whole city is so just... Lively.
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Hi, ghosties. Hello.
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Just go to bed and like have a big breakfast. I was just, you know, too tired to get up. Finally, the hunger followed me to like 2 a.m., 2.30. And I was in the kitchen just making something. All of a sudden, my phone dings. It's a photo of me cooking the food. And Ryan's like, what a great use of free will. And it was for some reason I forgot like, oh, there's a camera plugged in. He can see it.
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someone just sent a picture of me it was the scariest like freak me second of my life because i was just like who's watching me and yeah it was just him in the room looking at the camera but oh my god a demon oh like the reflection in like the microwave or something the way the way my microwave's positioned i can always see the reflection of people you like close it right behind you yes like i'm just trying to make my cup of macaroni
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Oh, but for the priest to be like, no, I got to get out of here. Horrifying. Shout out Michaela doing the work that everyone should be doing. Looking into the history archives. Yes.
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Because we say it all the time. It's like, what's the history of the house? And they're like, oh, I didn't look. Yeah. Yeah. What do you mean? I would have to look. If I'm ever fortunate enough to purchase a house, I will be going to our local library and being like, all right, this plot of land, what happened?
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I'm good on going to plantation. What was that? What was that? It sounds... Someone on Instagram said, I hate to be cliche, but it just sounds like a ghost.
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No, it was still there. It was still there. After calming her down, like in moving around, you would think that after it's seen initially, it's like, oh, got to go. No, but it's like waiting. It's like. You want to see me too? All right, I'm here.
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I don't like that he said, do you want to come over here? He was like, come on, it's all right.
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Anytime I've ever felt a sensation like that, I'm always like, Oop, I must have bad circulation. Gotta wake it up. I never let myself think that I'm actually being touched.
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And I've lived in this same house for going on four years now. My AC doesn't make that sound. Long story short, something creepy is happening in my house. I'm scared. But someone commented it's like ever since the wrapping paper fell over. Like weird things have been happening. Someone said that?
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You know, like it just comes to them. They're just like fire. I've heard that. Like Teresa Caputo should be like, oh, I'm tasting this. What does this mean? And it's just like a quick little message given to you.
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I like that people pay attention.
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Okay, so the grandpa, was he the dad of the dad that she works for? So their voices sound similar. And he's like, hmm, let me just test it out. Hey, Lorena.
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Oh, no.
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Anyways, we've been rambling. So here is the video we recorded on Tuesday. RT Today, a repeat. It's Harney and Son's Hot Cinnamon Sunset. Smells very cinnamon in here. Up again. Appreciate the mug. Oh, yeah. This was my Valentine's gift from my husband. Avocados. Shout out, Jake. Nice. And this was a gift from me to me. All right. Let's go.
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Oh, no.
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Yeah.
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I don't know. It's really gross. And it scares me. In movies, when they do that type of stuff, it's just to add that like, ooh, ah, scary. Because if it's just...
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Oh, my God. I would love to do another episode of those, by the way.
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Thank you.
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Sometimes when we say the same thing, I wonder if people not watching know that it's both of us talking. Yeah, because sometimes I feel like we don't sound alike. But if we're laughing at the same time, we're saying a word.
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And I'm like, mom? And he's like, no, this is Patrick. But... Our brother's name is not Patrick.
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The one. Where did the helmet go?
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Honestly, diva. I love it. She is very pretty. Yeah, I like it. I'm a huge trinkety type of person, so this is 100% something I would want. The music is haunting. Very pretty. I love her.
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dm'd us are you familiar with like the scary movies during one of our episodes we were talking about the various sizes of the hat man's hat and they said you know i'm talking about the scary movie scene where it keeps growing the like the sheriff or the deputy or whatever and they were like this is all i could think about like is the hat man's hat just growing
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Yeah, we're feeling very grateful and very mushy. So if you're watching, if you watch any videos of ours, if you support us in any way, thank you so much. Yes, we appreciate all of you. Like it means the world to us deep down the bottom of our hearts. We hit 50,000 subscribers yesterday and the realization is setting in. It makes me sick. It's very intimidating.
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But after I read through a ton of DMs today and just the way y'all are so kind to us, we feel undeserving. So thank you so much. I can't believe that you're watching this video right now.
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And we'll post our teas for the month of March. So be on the lookout. I don't know, man. I'm going to go cry. Yeah.
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Yeah. I can't. I feel like what we just did, when we recorded the unboxing, it was just us going... We actually cried.
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A handwritten story.
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That is so exciting.
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I love a trinket.
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I'm literally about to cry. There is, this is like the cutest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. It's a little tiny ghost and it says ghost hug. You might not feel it, but it's always there. It feels like a threat, but also like the best thing I've ever heard. Yes.
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I am literally dying. Look at that. Stars and moon. I'm putting this next to me over here. The ghost hug. I'm obsessed, but let's move on.
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Okay, this one is from Lisa. It's a cute little... Oh, it's a cute little note. I don't want to read and invade their privacy, but I'll let you read it in a second. And they sent us their favorite tea. It is the Trader Joe's Harvest Blend Herbal Tea, caffeine-free.
Ghosteas
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Why? That has always freaked me out. Like going in a closet where the clothes hang down. I've never liked that. I always feel like someone's back there hiding. It's that and shower curtains. I always have to be like, and like either punch in there or open it really fast. That's clothes and shower curtains. So I am not enjoying this visual.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
This is too much.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
You're coming home with me.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
He'll be here.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Oh, you don't know this about me, but anytime I went to anything as a child, like museums or anything, I'm in the rocks. I'm getting a bag of rocks. This is one of the greatest things anybody has ever sent to me as an adult.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
We shouldn't have done this on camera.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
This doesn't feel real.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
And where is it from? Somewhere in California.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Thank you so much. What's the name of someone who sent this one? Carlin. Carlin. Thank you so much. We need a shelf to just display all of our things. We do. There's still more.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
We're going to have literally just 17,000 crocheted ghosts.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Y'all, Thorn and Moon Apothecary. This is in Houston, Texas. So we've got more tea. We need to do a full month of tea that was sent to us because now we have... A ton. Okay. So this one is from The Kitchen Witch Bakery and Spice Co. It is decaffeinated chocolatey, like chocolatey, but do they care to hear that? It says ocean of emotions tea for difficult times, heart space, and adrenal connection.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Very interesting. Oh my gosh. From ritualcraft.com. I'm obsessed with you, whoever you are. Izzy? First of all, Izzy, I'm not gonna show this for long. Hello?
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
You know what? We're not this cool.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I'm not this cool. I feel like an imposter. Me too. I often do. Izzy, this is too much. I feel like I want to send it back and be like, stop. No, I love it. Thank you so much. Another tea from Be Charmed Morbid Curiosity. We love a pun, ghosties. It is Apothecary Blends Gulf Coast Breeze. That is so cute, the packaging. Okay, so Izzy wrapped that like their life depended on it.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
And I'm for it because there's a lot of glass. Yes, a lot of glass, a lot of care was put into this. I cannot believe that anyone would ever do something like that for us. I'm in shock. I don't know. So what we missed was...
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
from thorn and moon apothecary they gave us some sacred space altar spray the last thing is a book called psychic witch a metaphysical guide to meditation magic and manifestation what do we say wow thank you thank you so much this is so much and it's so awesome and i can't wait to try all of these teas i'm just gonna cry again thank you so much this doesn't feel real this is from kelly what is it show me little ghost keychain give it to me
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
did they make this so cute i don't know if they did i bet they made this i'm obsessed if you made them they're freaking adorable even if you didn't if you didn't they're still adorable and thank you we're gonna have matching keys i know i have a big package here so um i'm just going to open everything and then cut so i'm not just going over everything summer in savannah oh
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I have never been more obsessed with something in my entire life. We opened this package. And at first, I was very confused. Because we just see this. What do you think this is? I assumed it was an egg. But I did not know why. It's purpose, yes. So I opened this letter. And they let us know they have two emus on their family farm named Pobby and Dingan. I like that.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Just wanted to throw that out there. And they said that every year on Christmas, they start to lay eggs and they always give them away as neighbor gifts. So they sent us emu eggs because we are their honorary long distance neighbors. That's freaking cute. I have never been so excited to receive an egg. No, me neither. This is honestly so cool, and I'm going to keep this for life.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
It's going to be that project where you protect the egg like it's a baby in school. This is my baby. Is this Pobby or Dingan? I have Pobby.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Okay, I'm fine with Dingan. Okay. My egg's name is Pobby after... Your emus. Literally shocked. There's more. There's still more. That is one of the best gifts I've ever received.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
It's so good. It is so good. Thank you. My God. Are you ready to see this? Yes. No.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
That is so cute. It's a little ghost cat. My heart is pounding. This is so, it's so cute. I'm going to cry.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
All of this is so much. And look at its tail. cute. Can I have this if we ever divorce?
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Mine too. Love and joy, I feel. I was shocked when we got our first round of packages. I mean, they've been on the set since they arrived. They've been on the set because... We love them. Still love this one. And I have the little pumpkin over here. I don't know if you can see it. We planned to upgrade the set, and now we're going to need a huge shelf.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I need a bigger house. Like and subscribe.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Are you more afraid of like paranormal demon-y type stuff or the ocean? For me, it's the ocean. The ocean. Really? Yeah, I'll go into a haunted house before I'll drop into the ocean for sure. If there's a known like demon haunting at that house? Oh, yeah. I would go to that house before I drop into the ocean. Really? I'm actually shocked. Are you really?
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
why do y'all care about us i know that's how i feel why do y'all care about us i don't feel worthy no i don't feel worthy no i don't feel worthy of all of this no of any of these of any of these any of it oh my god so if today's video sucked i'm sorry oh yeah we were also like
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
half falling asleep when we recorded it too we did and there's like a couple stories that we re-recorded because the energy was just not there i feel like even more of an imposter than i did before we are the biggest imposters that have ever existed and we are not worthy thank you so much i can't believe this if it all ended right here like if everyone unsubscribed tomorrow i've got my egg yeah it's me and my egg against the world and our ghost cat what do we do now
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Thank you so much, everyone.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
But if you are here, leave a ghost and a cat for Ghost Cat and leave name suggestions and someone craft up a birth certificate after we run the poll on what name our Ghost Cat will have. We'll go cry again. And we'll keep trying to make videos because why do you like us? We'll try to live up to all the kind things people say to us. It doesn't feel like they should be saying. Thank you all so much.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
My answer is the same, but I figured you'd be like, no. Oh, yeah. I've always hated big bodies of water. Me too. Oh. Even lakes. Ponds, even. Don't like it. None of it. I'm, like, even hesitant about a pool. I like a good kiddie pool. Anyways, second thing. Yeah. Second thing. No, I get scared that I'm going to, like, boil and die. Second thing, though, your fear of the unknown.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
That's interesting that that's so specific to you because you have always been such a craver of knowledge and you always want to know things and you're always reading and seeking out. I think that's out of fear because I don't like... I'm a very...
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
That was a lot, Robin. Sorry, it's true. But no, yeah, that's just a very interesting thing to think about for you specifically. What do you think drives your fear? Are we going to have a whole session now? What am I not afraid of? I know. Like what drives this? I get scared eating because I'm going to choke.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I get scared that Ryan's home alone eating a steak because I'm like, oh God, this is the end. You know that sound? It's like, oh God, this is really the end. That's how I feel every single day. Alright, maybe we'll save that for your therapist then.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Me too. If Bigfoot had a sound, what do we think it is? I hope you're not expecting me to make a sound. I'm not. I was thinking about doing it. And then I was like, that would be horrible. And people would click off the video or whatever. They're listening immediately.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Hmm.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Less gurgly. I want it to be high-pitched. Do you? Why? I love a huge, hairy, scary, creepy, big-looking thing having like... I just imagine it's kind of like a gorilla or monkey type thing.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Well, that's terrifying.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
That's another big fear of mine. We're talking about fears. Monkeys? Monkeys.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Now that she's in my home, the place where we heard, oh, they haven't heard this yet. If you are on our Instagram, you saw a clip of us sitting here recording and there was a sound. Okay, so let me explain my house layout kind of. We're in this room. Right when you walk out here is my living room to the left. My kitchen right there is just all kind of open and like a straight shot.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Oh, for sure. Your house is haunted. Oh, for sure. But haunted by pets? Fine.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
I welcome it, actually.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
An animal haunting, as long as it is a real animal, I am fine with it. I was going to say, as long as it is actually an animal, and they are kind, and they are not vengeful, and they're not back to harm people, then yes, I welcome it. The ghost cats, the ghost dogs, the ghost ferrets, the hamsters.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
that might be too big that's getting too big but all the little the little furries in the house okay i'm good with that you know how things will like fly off shelves and stuff like that what if it's just like a cat a ferret oh okay a hamster cats ferrets what is it you never know what if they're just running around i like that idea better than like a vengeful spirit me too
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Oh, no.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
There's no like window. There's no draft. There's nothing open. And when we record at night, Ryan and both my dogs are in the bed asleep, door shut because they will scratch at the door. We were recording and there was a sound. Please insert the clip if you can hear it. Can they hear it on YouTube?
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
The way it's like, I would take off sprinting and I would hit probably two whole stairs and that's it. Boom, jump, boom. And the fact that they started it with the stairs that someone can just reach in and grab you. They're big enough that you can be grabbed from underneath the dark basement steps. I'm not a fan of stairs where it's empty in between for that very reason.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
going to mom's house, her porch at night because it's just like the wooden slats.
Ghosteas
An EVP, A Near Death Experience, & A Haunted House || Listener Stories 30 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
oh my god could you imagine like you're just like cooking up food and you see some demonic face behind you dude the other night so i don't really ever wake up in the middle of the night the other night i could not fall asleep until i ate something more i was fighting hunger because i was like I already ate. Like, I don't need to eat like this late again.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
Let's do it. All right.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
Hi, Michelle and Craig. My name is Eva and I'm 32 years old. In my early 20s, I met my friend Kristen through a male friend of mine who she briefly dated. That relationship did not last, but Kristen and I stayed friends. If I'm being honest, though, my friendship with Kristen felt a little unbalanced from the start.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
I really like friendships to feel effortless, like both sides naturally want to spend time together, check in, show up for each other. But I noticed right away that Kristen wanted to make plans pretty often. I'm a people pleaser, and I had a hard time saying no to her invites when my schedule was already a little too busy with other friend hangs or dates.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
And when it came to my dating in particular, she had pretty strong opinions about what I was doing wrong. I am not perfect by any stretch, but I do have strong instincts and I like to trust my gut rather than take advice like this from friends. Still, over time, I really came to respect Kristen. She's incredibly thoughtful and it's a pretty special thing to have someone so much in your corner.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
We started to go on day trips together and I genuinely appreciated our quality time together over the years. Recently, though, Kristen lost a close family member, and when I sent a text checking in, I got an unexpected text back saying she wanted to stop communicating with me. She said people who were not nearly as close with her had been a lot more supportive.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
She felt the imbalance in our friendship and wanted it to be over. Honestly, I did not see this coming. I knew our friendship was complicated, but I felt like I was being myself and it was not enough. Ideally, I wanted to continue our friendship as it was, even if it wasn't innately easy or perfect. But now I'm worried I'm a bad friend.
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Some Friendships Need to Go with Issa Rae
Adult friends are not family and they're not romantic partners, but they are people we love. And I did not enjoy hurting her, especially when I felt I was just being myself. How do you maintain healthy friendships if there is an imbalance in expectations? Is it possible? What do adult friends owe each other? Thanks for your thoughts, Eva.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
I saw God in everything. I came away just completely transformed.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
Oh, Oprah and Michael, it is an honor to be here. And Michael, I have to say that when my son and daughter-in-law heard that I was going to be on the show, they're big fans of yours on the podcast. And they literally squealed when they heard. I thought that I was going to meet you and Oprah.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
And Oprah, I just have to tell you that you have been a guiding light on my path to purpose and a being of service for decades. And I just want to thank you.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
My question is, Michael, what is your advice for someone going further with this experience legally? So my experience was I knew I was aware about the use of psychedelics for mental wellness, but never experienced. seriously considered it for myself until I experienced my life's greatest fear. And that was losing my father back in 2018. And he was my rock, my solid place.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
And initially when he passed, I felt his presence all the time. He was right there with me. And it was amazing. And then gradually that presence started to dissipate. And I went into a deeper level of grief. and just couldn't really seem to get out of it. I tried other things. I tried going to a float tank, which was kind of like a sensory deprivation experience, which made it actually worse.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
And my son, suggested psilocybin. And I went for it and it was out in nature. And it was an incredible experience. It strengthened my level of faith. The colors in nature were brighter. I saw God in everything. And I just had this Incredible heart opening. I love that. And similar to you, Michael, where you mentioned doing psilocybin to deal with the grief of your father.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
Thank you for me is I'm a mother. I have three adult children, two adorable grandkids and a wonderful husband. And they all came up. It was it was just so much gratitude, so much peace. And I came away with it just completely transformed. And the way that I could say that.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
that transformation occurred is that there was a stark contrast between the truth of who I really am, which is love as well, and my ego, that ego, dark.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
Yeah. Going further in the journey. Further into the journey. Legally.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Harvard Professor Share How Psychedelics Are Actually Healing
Today, there's a new and growing fight to make psychedelics legal again in the United States.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
So bad.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
It was really funny.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
That is so true. It's like I'd rather just like leave. Just leave it. Yeah.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Like, why is there a glam bot?
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
That was weirdly placed.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Yeah.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Like, drop all the lawsuits and just go on SNL.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
It has to be at this point.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
He said, I found you a helmet. And it's like super low down.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
I know.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
What did you think of Tom Sandoval in the dollhouse?
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
she's just so emotional at some point you gotta be like why is she still crying and he was like but the thing is she was like that from the start like it was like you know she was consistent with these emotions so it was like was he touched how bad she felt about yeah it is annoying how loyal she is to her friends you're a traitor yeah yeah yeah I was a traitor no your wife's not there
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
I'm still here.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
That's so random. Why?
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
She's like, I watched it.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
she didn't see the dance.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Carolina did. Yeah, Carolina. Okay. In front of everyone. Yeah.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Period.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
I don't think so. I'm excited to watch the season unfold though.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Oh, don't you know. And theirs are really thick. The Joey and the Monica. Some more than others. They're both from the same place. Yes, they're all from the same place.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
It really is. I wish I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, he hasn't asked in a long time, so it's fine.
The Viall Files
E886 - Traitors & SNL50 w/ Cazzie David, Love Is Blind w/ Dave, Summer House Premiere & Valentine's Day
Very excited about that.