✨EPISODE 100✨ our SCARIEST listener stories... so far

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That's the vibe I'm feeling today, honestly.

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So yeah. I got confetti poppers and I am going to have a very hard time cleaning this later.

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Yeah, I'm shocked at the amount of small pieces.

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And my clammy little hands are covered.

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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'm feeling right. That was very eventful and not at all what I expected, but I think that kind of sums up the pod.

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Yes, we just kind of fly by the seat of our pants here.

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We really do.

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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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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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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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The shower one? Yeah. That's another one I'll never forget. I even got scared hearing it the second time.

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You even talked about it the other day in one of our episodes.

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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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No, my eyes are watering. And I think I even said it in the episode. It's like it's one thing to see it. But once it like disappears, you don't expect it to just be crouched waiting. Oh, no.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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.