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Appalachian Horrors, Mimics, & Ghost Cats || Listener Stories 28 || Ghosteas Tea Party👻
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Thursdays are for listener stories, and this week we've got more spooky tales for your listening pleasure! More ghostly stories from the haunted appalachian mountains, mimics, ghost cats, and more! This week's Tea: Bigelow Toasted CoconutWE HAVE MERCH!!! You can check out our store athttps://ghosteas.com/Shipping only to the US at this time.Got questions, stories, or spooky encounters of your own? You can also send us an email at [email protected]. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode! 👇🗣️If you're craving more ghostly goodness, remember to check out our YouTube @ghosteaspod Stay haunted, stay curious, and stay tuned for more Ghosteas! 👻🍵 Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube (@ghosteaspod)Ghosteas PO Box:1106 Main StPO Box 576Bastrop, TX 7860200:00 Intro01:34 Tea Talk03:10 Story 1 - Marci07:56 Story 2 - Taryn14:10 Story 3 - Julie18:04 Story 4 - Sarah21:22 Story 5 - Alisha27:56 Story 6 - Krisney30:39 Story 7 - Liv35:22 Story 8 - Annie42:05 Story 9 - Bre45:05 Story 10 - Zen53:24 OutroMusic from #Uppbeathttps://uppbeat.io/t/theo-gerard/wistful-waltzLicense code: QMAHG1FFRPNJUAPX
Chapter 1: How can I submit my ghost story to the podcast?
Hi Ghosties, I'm Macy. And I'm Natalie. And Thursdays around here are listener story days. Stories that you send us. And before we get started, I just wanted to let everyone know who doesn't know, you can send us your story via email. That's ghostiespod at gmail.com. G-H-O-S-T-E-A-S-P-O-D at gmail.com. It's also written in the description down below. Yes, it is. So send them in.
Are you ready to get started?
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.
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.
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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Chapter 2: What are Macy and Natalie's thoughts on Bigelow Toasted Coconut tea?
So our tea today is Bigelow toasted coconut. One we've tried before. It was very good.
I drink it at home. Really? I remember the name, but I don't remember tasting it. So it was good. Let's go.
Now, obviously, if you don't like coconut, you will not like this.
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.
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.
That's one thing I like about this podcast is we get to talk to a bunch of different kinds of people and find ways to relate to other people too. So you don't feel as alone, especially with paranormal stories. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because sometimes you can feel a little alone when you're talking things of this nature and when you're interested in things like this.
It's not something that people like march out and about and scream to the world very often. And when you find someone who's like, hey, I actually am very interested in that. It's like, I don't know, a good bonding moment.
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?
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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Chapter 3: What is the chilling story of Marcy's imaginary friend?
I mean, this is one of the reasons we started the podcast in the first place was to... Well, spend time with each other and try teas and talk about things we're interested in, but also it's a good way to relate to others. Yes. Agreed. We will stop with all this and get started with our first story from Marcy, which fun fact, growing up, people always, always, always called me Marcy.
I was going to say that, but I didn't. I think it's a spelling. My name is spelled M-A-C-I and people just assume there's an R in there. So if you call out Marcy and I'm in the vicinity, I will look. Okay. I had a nurse. So I was a sickly child. And in elementary school, I had a nurse that I'd have to go to often, like take medicines and all that jazz. And she called me Marcy the entire time.
It was like two years. And she called me Marcy. And I was just like, hey. Anyway, Marcy's story. So this story is actually from my mom's perspective, as this happened when I was about seven or eight years old. And at like two or three in the morning, I had a smaller encounter a few years later. But this one was definitely scarier than mine, in my opinion.
So back when my sister Sarah was about five or six years old, she had an imaginary friend named Sally. I don't remember her having an imaginary friend and only found out when I was older, but given what happened, I think my mom might have intentionally hid that knowledge from me so I wouldn't be scared.
Anyway, one night, my mom was sitting in the dining room with our live-in babysitter and just talking about whatever. Like I said before, it was 3 in the morning at this point, so all us kids were dead asleep. Now, the kids in our house were connected by a small hallway that had a sliding door you could close.
My mom had closed it so that we wouldn't wake up due to her conversation when all of a sudden, the sliding door slid open. My mom turned to see who was there and saw my little sister standing in the doorway holding her little bear. Naturally, my mom got worried and asked her if she was okay and why she was awake.
My sister said nothing before turning around and walking back down the hallway toward her room. Are you scared already? Yeah. My mom followed her to make sure she was okay. But when she walked into my sister's room, she found her dead asleep. My mom was worried that maybe she had been sleepwalking or something and gently woke her up to ask if she had just woken up to go see her.
This is when my mom said she knew something was wrong. Still groggy and half asleep, my sister mumbled, that wasn't me. That was Sally. Before she just fell back asleep. My mom was frozen and she told me later she spent hours the next day praying and blessing her room while we were out playing.
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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Chapter 4: What happened in Taryn's haunted Appalachian home?
That's what I would do if I was this person. One of the brothers? The oldest one.
My oldest brother ended up taking it. Okay. Despite being a juvie kid with a hard persona, the basement scared the hell out of him. He slept with the lights on every night. One day, the three of us were cleaning the back of the basement, which was full of old wooden shelves. When looking under one of the shelves, my oldest brother got very angry and asked, which one of you did this?
My brother and I were confused and looked to see writing in thick red paint that read, Sadie is dead meat. None of us knew what it was or where it came from, but my oldest brother insisted on trading rooms with someone because Sadie was the name of his current girlfriend. None of us had ever even ventured in that part of the basement before. My other brother, Ash, ended up taking the basement.
No.
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.
Yeah. One day, my mother sent me down to the basement to take the clean clothes out of the dryer.
as i was taking them out i was suddenly overwhelmed with the urge to look behind me when i did i saw my brother's laptop on his desk opening up slowly to face me it was playing some disturbed children's show with warped audio i ran upstairs in tears and did not sleep there is more my brothers were home alone and playing call of duty in the basement when suddenly they heard a gigantic crash from upstairs they ran up and found that the 40-pack 10-pound case of water that they had set in the middle of the kitchen table had not just fallen but literally exploded
all over the kitchen. Water bottles were then found randomly all over the house. The most bone-chilling story from this house, however, was when my mother was taking a nap in the middle of the summer and was woken by the sound of my brothers and I screaming from the basement. Not playing screaming, but screaming like we were being tortured.
Her gut told her not to open the basement door and investigate. Instead, she stayed in bed and individually called each one of our fathers. That's when she found out that each one of her children were with our fathers where we were supposed to be for the summer, and the screams she was hearing was not us.
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Chapter 5: What ghostly encounters did Julie and her family experience?
Our next story comes from Sarah. I love your podcast so much. Although you deal with dark, spooky subjects, you do it in a way that somehow makes me feel safe and cozy. Thank you. We don't always feel safe. I don't ever feel safe. Here's a story from my childhood that I've never told anyone. I grew up in an old house with a dark, musty basement that served as our laundry room. It was an odd setup.
You would descend the stairs and enter a large room with the washer and dryer. If you walked to the back wall, there was a hallway to the left, leading to a bathroom stall. Reminiscent of a public restroom, but built out of rotting wood and chipped teal paint. One day when I was around six years old, I needed to ask my mom a question. For some reason, I thought she was in the basement.
So I hurried down the stairs and entered the main room. I saw my mom at the back wearing a long gray cloak and holding a broom facing away from me as she swept the floor. Mom, I called, but she ignored me.
continuing on her sweeping toward the hallway and out of sight laughing i ran after her calling hey mom but halfway across the room i suddenly heard my mother's voice from the top of the stairs calling my name my blood ran cold and adrenaline surged through me i stopped dead in my tracks turned and bolted up the stairs collapsing at my mom's feet in sheer terror what is it she asked shocked
There's a lady downstairs, I said, starting to cry. The color drained from her face as she pushed past me, hurrying down the steps. A few minutes later, she returned and, looking perplexed, said, There's no one down there, Sarah. I still think about that lady and often wonder what would have happened if I had turned the corner and followed her down the hall. I was going to say the same thing.
Was she trying to lead you? There was a story in the last episode of our writer or our listener's little sister said that she would often see her grandma walking through the house and she'd follow her. And she was worried, like, what would happen if I followed her all the way?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She would realize and she just stopped following. I don't know. Like, on one hand, it's like maybe they're just, you know, living their ghostly afterlife. Doing their house chores. Doing their mimicking duties, whatever they do as mimics. But on the other hand, what if they are luring?
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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Chapter 6: What eerie presence does Alicia feel in her in-laws' house?
Grandma, her partner, two cousins, and an uncle used to also live there. I can't remember how old I was, just that I was very young. But our room, where my little brother, mom, dad, and I used to sleep, had a view of the living room entrance. which is where my uncle slept.
I always saw a shadow just there almost every night, and I never told anyone, but I used to cover my head and just force myself to sleep. Other things happened in that house, like the radio randomly turning on, etc. Anyways, I only believe what I saw was real because even my uncle didn't like being the one in the living room and said he felt things at times.
My grandma made fun of him, but I feel like she also knew, lol. This was in Dominican Republic, by the way, and I remember my grandma having pictures of saints, etc. I don't know if there's any connection, but yeah. Also, another thing I remember, just didn't want to make this super long. She saw it, and the uncle felt it.
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.
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...
like there's definitely something here yeah yes and we would she would be the kind of person that would well i wasn't gonna say that but yes but she would like let's find out who it is yeah and their backstory and let's see if we can help them yeah person she would but like she wouldn't just try to ease our mind she'd probably be like yes there is something here and
She used to tell me that my imaginary friend was like my guardian angel and we would like look up names for Chelsica to see if there was anybody who had passed away named Chelsica and things like that. I remember that. I was like five. Shout out Mimi. We just saw her this past weekend. We miss her. Yeah. So thank you, Christy, for sharing that little story with us.
I believe you, especially if your uncle was getting those weird vibes at night. Oh, yeah.
And there was probably more stuff.
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