August 10, 2019 • 13 mins
George Noory and Jim Harold share ghost stories from his popular podcast, including tales of a haunted dorm room and a woman who may have hit a ghostly pedestrian with her car.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on
iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast Jim Harold,
our special guest. We'll take calls with Jim next hour. Jim,
let's get into what I don't believe in coincidences, but
you've got it labeled as a weird coincidence in recording
campfire involving unique but similar stories. What's that all about? Yeah,
(00:20):
you know, it's really weird. Sometimes the show seems to
take a life of its own on almost like an
unseen hand is producing it. And the way the mechanics
of the show, just to peek behind the curtain work,
is that people sign up, we get in touch with him,
we send them a link and we say, hey, we
have some blocked app times they can select the time
(00:41):
to record, and I have certain hours I record and
so forth. So this one evening I opened up my
list of recordings and there is the first call I
take and self scheduled. I didn't have anything to do
with the scheduling. I just said times available. The woman
signed up. She lived in a haunted call dorm, and
(01:01):
the story surrounded a ghost who supposedly in life hung
herself in an elevator that was in this dorm, and
the ghost haunted the dorman, specifically my caller's room. Now,
that was a strange call. The very next call, and
again I had nothing to do with scheduling these was
(01:24):
from a woman in a completely different part of the
United States who went to a haunted restaurant and had
an encounter with a ghost who, you guessed it, supposedly
hung herself in an elevator. Now, the thing is is
that these two people could have had no communication. I've
(01:45):
done the show for ten years. I've heard hundreds, if
not thousands of stories, and I've never had one story
about a ghost who had hung themselves an elevator, and
i had two back to back. Now, I don't know
if that was the universe is telling me, Hey, you're
on the right track, Jim, there's something really here to
this strange stuff or just a wild coincidence. But I'm
(02:07):
like you, I don't believe in coincidences. Now, if there
have been two stories like things that we normally hear,
sure that could happen. But I've never even heard of
a story of a ghost who supposedly hung themselves in
a mirror during the show or outside of the show,
all the reading and research I've tried to do over
the years. So I just thought that was a funny
(02:28):
little anecdote that shows that sometimes I find my show
is produced by an unseen hand. That's just my dead grandmother.
What's that one? This was Lucia from Italy. We do
get a lot of international submissions, and she's truly a
globe trotter because she'd been studying in New York City
(02:48):
and her stories. Actually when she went to one of
her classmates house down in the Dominican Republic, and she
was staying there with her friend from school, and they've
been having a lot of problems with flooding and problems
with their water system. They're plumbing in the house and
(03:09):
so forth. So anyway, one night Lucia woke up while
she was staying here and she heard an old woman's
voice speaking in Spanish outside her door in the local
dialect and rattling what sounded like a large ring of keys. Now,
Luccia assumed it was something to do with this problem,
because when they would have this flooding problem, relatives would
(03:32):
come over in the night and help them. So she
thought was part of that. Now before Lucia had offered
being a nice person. She offered to help many times
when this happened, but they all say, go back to bed,
don't worry about we'll take care of it. So in
the morning, she's talking to her host, her friend, and
she said, oh, I'm so sorry you had those water
problems again last night. You know I heard you. I
(03:56):
heard somebody sound like an older lady. Uh, and uh,
I'm so sorry you had all this problem. And the
woman said, uh, we didn't have any problem last night.
We didn't have any flooding. We went right to bed.
And she said there was no relatives in the house,
no one. So she Lucia told her about the voice
(04:18):
outside her door, and her friend interrupted her and said,
did you hear keys? And she said, yes, I hold
her heard an older woman's voice and keys. And she said, well,
that's just my abuela, grandmother in Spanish. She died two
years ago, and you were sleeping in her room and
she comes to visit from time to time. Now Lucia
(04:43):
froze and her room. Her her friend kept asking her.
She said, uh, did she speak quickly and in dialect
and h and Luccia said yes, and she said, Lucia
was did she shake your bed by any chance? And
Lucia said no, and she said, oh, that's good. That
(05:03):
means she likes you. Apparently, apparently her grandmother was obsessed
with locks and security and always carried a large ring
of keys with her, so that's what she was hearing.
And Lucia's friend went on to say that her grandmother
comes to visit her sometimes when she's by herself in
(05:26):
their kitchen and all the doors and drawers will open
up and she'll say, Abuela, I'm not in the mood
for this today, and then all of the doors will
close right in front of her eyes. She stayed there
for another week, she was not creeped out, and nothing
else happened. She said she was shocked that had happened
to her because usually when paranormal things happen around her,
(05:50):
she gets nervous. But she thought this was a very positive,
non dramatic paranormal experience and she was glad she got
to meet the ghostly Abuela, the ghostly grandmother. I love
that story. That one's cool. Next one, a specter drags
my caller across a room. Yes, what the heck is
that this was so creepy because to me, you know,
(06:14):
like that last story, you hear something move, you see
something move, it's innocuous. But when things start physically interacting
with you and dragging you or physically pushing you, then
you get into the area of things like poulder guys.
And this story is from Cliff and he lives in
the South and he moved into a poolhouse and a
younger guy and I'm assuming he's probably I'm guessing when
(06:37):
this happened around college age. It was kind of an efficiency,
and he was sleeping in this poolhouse and the first
night he goes to the restroom and then, as he
described it, he was forced gently to the ground. He said,
he described it as almost like someone might do it
is to an animal. He said that it was, he
(07:02):
said suggestive, forcefully but carefully towards the floor, and pushed
towards the floor. When he got to the floor, there
had been an ambient light in the poolhouse, but everything
was nothingness. It was totally dark, blacker than black. Then
he said he felt that there was a thing, as
he described it, over him. He said that this thing
(07:23):
proceeded to drag him across the cold tile of the poolhouse.
He could actually feel it on his back. Slowly, but carefully,
but commandingly, very assuredly, said, this thing placed him on
the bed and he felt a burden of weight on him,
his whole body. And he said that this thing seemed
(07:45):
to be telling him, almost telepathically, I don't know who
you are, I don't know why you're here, but this
is where you will stay. Cliffs said, he passed up,
and the next day he was trying to rack his
brain and come up with a logical excuse. Now here's
where Cliff and I are different. He continued to live
(08:07):
in the poolhouse. I would be out of that, ye think.
Don't fail me now, right exactly exactly. So the thing
is is that he was something there, but he kind
of reached what he considered to be a gentleman's agreement
with it, that it wouldn't he wouldn't straight far from
his bed, he would respect it. And he said that
(08:27):
they had an uneasy agreement. Now years later, he was
talking to another tenant on Facebook and he happened to
mention some creepy stuff happened over there, and immediately she said,
what happened and she said that she had a friend
who had lived in the poolhouse, and when she was
(08:47):
in the poolhouse she would have demonic thoughts and she
would refuse to go into the poolhouse without a Bible.
And I asked him myself, well, you know, could this
have been sleep paralysis or something physiological? And he said,
you know, he'd experienced some things like that, but this
was so real. And with that affirmation from the other person,
(09:10):
he totally believed that it was real. And like you said,
don't fail me. Now, I would not have spent one
more minute, little one night in that pool. Us. We'll
take a few more your stories, gyman, that we'll talk
a couple of them the next hour, along with phone calls.
A driver thinks she has hit a pedestrian and then
(09:31):
this happens. Well, any of us, I think, who were drivers.
One of the worst possible things you could think of,
one of the most tragic, frightening things, would be to
accidentally hurt somebody. Oh my god. Yea. So this is
a fall of two thousand and two, and this young
woman was coming home from a college course. It was
about epm eleven pm at night. She stopped at a
(09:53):
stoplight and as it turned green, she started to go,
but a woman suddenly appeared right in front of her.
She slammed on her brakes, but she saw the woman's
mouth open to scream. When she was recognizing she was
about to hit, she threw her arms up. And this
was Pam. She literally felt the car hit the woman.
(10:17):
So immediately she's distraught. She puts the car apart. She
gets out of the car to look. The woman isn't
there to be found. She didn't know what to do,
so she went home because she looked out, She's like,
the woman's not here. Did I imagine this? What happened?
And she was racking her brain. She happened to know
(10:38):
a gentleman from work to live on the same street
where this happened, and he would always talk about ghosts
and and they came on with the ghost story, and
that promise prompted her to ask him if if she
had if he'd seen anything, and he literally described the
same woman that Pam thought she had. More people have
(11:01):
seen her, And apparently this woman was in the neighborhood,
was a sleepwalker, got the house one night and was
hit by a car. So, in other words, what she
basically saw an experienced was kind of a replay of
what happened. She didn't actually hit the woman, but she
was witnessing a replay and hearing that made her feel
(11:23):
much much better, because, I mean, how would you feel
if that happened to you, Because he would constantly be
thinking did I hit this person? Did I black out?
And then you know, it would just be really one
of those frightening Twilight Zone minutes. And yeah, so this
was basically sounds like it was a replay, And I
(11:43):
think that's an interesting thing. I mean, I think we
tend to think that all ghosts are sentient and communicate
with us and know that we're there and those kind
of things. But I wonder sometimes how many of them
are just kind of like some people out there. A
lot of the audience will remember tape, and if you
didn't get a tape erased well and you try to
(12:03):
record something over to you would hear a residual recording
from the past of what had been on it originally.
Maybe sometimes that's what we're dealing with. Hey, Jim, since
you've been doing these strange stories, have you found that
they get even weirder and weirder as time goes by. Yeah,
(12:25):
they seem to. I mean it seems like I think
people are more open. I mean, even in the last
ten years, I think people have become more open and
more comfortable with telling you kind of wild things, Whereas
I think before there was a certain amount of ridicule.
I think certainly shows like Coast to Coast am has
(12:46):
played a huge role of rolling this. All the television
shows and maybe to a little tiny degree, podcasts like
mine that those really weird stories have always been out there,
but now people are saying, you know what, I'm going
to tell my story because I heard somebody else that
had a really weird story. So I don't think that
it's the stories are changing. They might be in the
(13:09):
UFO areas, as you had a guest to tonight, Peter
Davenport say, but they think in terms of ghosts and
that sort of thing. I don't think the stories are
changing in that area. I just think people are more
willing to share them because of shows like Coast to Coast.
But they seem to be getting more freighting. Well yeah, yeah,
I know it's dangerous sometimes, you know, people people like
(13:33):
the spooky stuff. They like the spooky stuff, and they
enjoy telling spooky stories, but I don't know. I don't know.
For me, I think the I think they're similar, but
there's certainly some spooky ones out there for sure. Listen
to more Coast to Coast AM every weeknight at one
am Eastern, and go to Coast to Coast am dot
(13:54):
com for more
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on
iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast Jim Harold,
our special guest. We'll take calls with Jim next hour. Jim,
let's get into what I don't believe in coincidences, but
you've got it labeled as a weird coincidence in recording
campfire involving unique but similar stories. What's that all about? Yeah,
(00:20):
you know, it's really weird. Sometimes the show seems to
take a life of its own on almost like an
unseen hand is producing it. And the way the mechanics
of the show, just to peek behind the curtain work,
is that people sign up, we get in touch with him,
we send them a link and we say, hey, we
have some blocked app times they can select the time
(00:41):
to record, and I have certain hours I record and
so forth. So this one evening I opened up my
list of recordings and there is the first call I
take and self scheduled. I didn't have anything to do
with the scheduling. I just said times available. The woman
signed up. She lived in a haunted call dorm, and
(01:01):
the story surrounded a ghost who supposedly in life hung
herself in an elevator that was in this dorm, and
the ghost haunted the dorman, specifically my caller's room. Now,
that was a strange call. The very next call, and
again I had nothing to do with scheduling these was
(01:24):
from a woman in a completely different part of the
United States who went to a haunted restaurant and had
an encounter with a ghost who, you guessed it, supposedly
hung herself in an elevator. Now, the thing is is
that these two people could have had no communication. I've
(01:45):
done the show for ten years. I've heard hundreds, if
not thousands of stories, and I've never had one story
about a ghost who had hung themselves an elevator, and
i had two back to back. Now, I don't know
if that was the universe is telling me, Hey, you're
on the right track, Jim, there's something really here to
this strange stuff or just a wild coincidence. But I'm
(02:07):
like you, I don't believe in coincidences. Now, if there
have been two stories like things that we normally hear,
sure that could happen. But I've never even heard of
a story of a ghost who supposedly hung themselves in
a mirror during the show or outside of the show,
all the reading and research I've tried to do over
the years. So I just thought that was a funny
(02:28):
little anecdote that shows that sometimes I find my show
is produced by an unseen hand. That's just my dead grandmother.
What's that one? This was Lucia from Italy. We do
get a lot of international submissions, and she's truly a
globe trotter because she'd been studying in New York City
(02:48):
and her stories. Actually when she went to one of
her classmates house down in the Dominican Republic, and she
was staying there with her friend from school, and they've
been having a lot of problems with flooding and problems
with their water system. They're plumbing in the house and
(03:09):
so forth. So anyway, one night Lucia woke up while
she was staying here and she heard an old woman's
voice speaking in Spanish outside her door in the local
dialect and rattling what sounded like a large ring of keys. Now,
Luccia assumed it was something to do with this problem,
because when they would have this flooding problem, relatives would
(03:32):
come over in the night and help them. So she
thought was part of that. Now before Lucia had offered
being a nice person. She offered to help many times
when this happened, but they all say, go back to bed,
don't worry about we'll take care of it. So in
the morning, she's talking to her host, her friend, and
she said, oh, I'm so sorry you had those water
problems again last night. You know I heard you. I
(03:56):
heard somebody sound like an older lady. Uh, and uh,
I'm so sorry you had all this problem. And the
woman said, uh, we didn't have any problem last night.
We didn't have any flooding. We went right to bed.
And she said there was no relatives in the house,
no one. So she Lucia told her about the voice
(04:18):
outside her door, and her friend interrupted her and said,
did you hear keys? And she said, yes, I hold
her heard an older woman's voice and keys. And she said, well,
that's just my abuela, grandmother in Spanish. She died two
years ago, and you were sleeping in her room and
she comes to visit from time to time. Now Lucia
(04:43):
froze and her room. Her her friend kept asking her.
She said, uh, did she speak quickly and in dialect
and h and Luccia said yes, and she said, Lucia
was did she shake your bed by any chance? And
Lucia said no, and she said, oh, that's good. That
(05:03):
means she likes you. Apparently, apparently her grandmother was obsessed
with locks and security and always carried a large ring
of keys with her, so that's what she was hearing.
And Lucia's friend went on to say that her grandmother
comes to visit her sometimes when she's by herself in
(05:26):
their kitchen and all the doors and drawers will open
up and she'll say, Abuela, I'm not in the mood
for this today, and then all of the doors will
close right in front of her eyes. She stayed there
for another week, she was not creeped out, and nothing
else happened. She said she was shocked that had happened
to her because usually when paranormal things happen around her,
(05:50):
she gets nervous. But she thought this was a very positive,
non dramatic paranormal experience and she was glad she got
to meet the ghostly Abuela, the ghostly grandmother. I love
that story. That one's cool. Next one, a specter drags
my caller across a room. Yes, what the heck is
that this was so creepy because to me, you know,
(06:14):
like that last story, you hear something move, you see
something move, it's innocuous. But when things start physically interacting
with you and dragging you or physically pushing you, then
you get into the area of things like poulder guys.
And this story is from Cliff and he lives in
the South and he moved into a poolhouse and a
younger guy and I'm assuming he's probably I'm guessing when
(06:37):
this happened around college age. It was kind of an efficiency,
and he was sleeping in this poolhouse and the first
night he goes to the restroom and then, as he
described it, he was forced gently to the ground. He said,
he described it as almost like someone might do it
is to an animal. He said that it was, he
(07:02):
said suggestive, forcefully but carefully towards the floor, and pushed
towards the floor. When he got to the floor, there
had been an ambient light in the poolhouse, but everything
was nothingness. It was totally dark, blacker than black. Then
he said he felt that there was a thing, as
he described it, over him. He said that this thing
(07:23):
proceeded to drag him across the cold tile of the poolhouse.
He could actually feel it on his back. Slowly, but carefully,
but commandingly, very assuredly, said, this thing placed him on
the bed and he felt a burden of weight on him,
his whole body. And he said that this thing seemed
(07:45):
to be telling him, almost telepathically, I don't know who
you are, I don't know why you're here, but this
is where you will stay. Cliffs said, he passed up,
and the next day he was trying to rack his
brain and come up with a logical excuse. Now here's
where Cliff and I are different. He continued to live
(08:07):
in the poolhouse. I would be out of that, ye think.
Don't fail me now, right exactly exactly. So the thing
is is that he was something there, but he kind
of reached what he considered to be a gentleman's agreement
with it, that it wouldn't he wouldn't straight far from
his bed, he would respect it. And he said that
(08:27):
they had an uneasy agreement. Now years later, he was
talking to another tenant on Facebook and he happened to
mention some creepy stuff happened over there, and immediately she said,
what happened and she said that she had a friend
who had lived in the poolhouse, and when she was
(08:47):
in the poolhouse she would have demonic thoughts and she
would refuse to go into the poolhouse without a Bible.
And I asked him myself, well, you know, could this
have been sleep paralysis or something physiological? And he said,
you know, he'd experienced some things like that, but this
was so real. And with that affirmation from the other person,
(09:10):
he totally believed that it was real. And like you said,
don't fail me. Now, I would not have spent one
more minute, little one night in that pool. Us. We'll
take a few more your stories, gyman, that we'll talk
a couple of them the next hour, along with phone calls.
A driver thinks she has hit a pedestrian and then
(09:31):
this happens. Well, any of us, I think, who were drivers.
One of the worst possible things you could think of,
one of the most tragic, frightening things, would be to
accidentally hurt somebody. Oh my god. Yea. So this is
a fall of two thousand and two, and this young
woman was coming home from a college course. It was
about epm eleven pm at night. She stopped at a
(09:53):
stoplight and as it turned green, she started to go,
but a woman suddenly appeared right in front of her.
She slammed on her brakes, but she saw the woman's
mouth open to scream. When she was recognizing she was
about to hit, she threw her arms up. And this
was Pam. She literally felt the car hit the woman.
(10:17):
So immediately she's distraught. She puts the car apart. She
gets out of the car to look. The woman isn't
there to be found. She didn't know what to do,
so she went home because she looked out, She's like,
the woman's not here. Did I imagine this? What happened?
And she was racking her brain. She happened to know
(10:38):
a gentleman from work to live on the same street
where this happened, and he would always talk about ghosts
and and they came on with the ghost story, and
that promise prompted her to ask him if if she
had if he'd seen anything, and he literally described the
same woman that Pam thought she had. More people have
(11:01):
seen her, And apparently this woman was in the neighborhood,
was a sleepwalker, got the house one night and was
hit by a car. So, in other words, what she
basically saw an experienced was kind of a replay of
what happened. She didn't actually hit the woman, but she
was witnessing a replay and hearing that made her feel
(11:23):
much much better, because, I mean, how would you feel
if that happened to you, Because he would constantly be
thinking did I hit this person? Did I black out?
And then you know, it would just be really one
of those frightening Twilight Zone minutes. And yeah, so this
was basically sounds like it was a replay, And I
(11:43):
think that's an interesting thing. I mean, I think we
tend to think that all ghosts are sentient and communicate
with us and know that we're there and those kind
of things. But I wonder sometimes how many of them
are just kind of like some people out there. A
lot of the audience will remember tape, and if you
didn't get a tape erased well and you try to
(12:03):
record something over to you would hear a residual recording
from the past of what had been on it originally.
Maybe sometimes that's what we're dealing with. Hey, Jim, since
you've been doing these strange stories, have you found that
they get even weirder and weirder as time goes by. Yeah,
(12:25):
they seem to. I mean it seems like I think
people are more open. I mean, even in the last
ten years, I think people have become more open and
more comfortable with telling you kind of wild things, Whereas
I think before there was a certain amount of ridicule.
I think certainly shows like Coast to Coast am has
(12:46):
played a huge role of rolling this. All the television
shows and maybe to a little tiny degree, podcasts like
mine that those really weird stories have always been out there,
but now people are saying, you know what, I'm going
to tell my story because I heard somebody else that
had a really weird story. So I don't think that
it's the stories are changing. They might be in the
(13:09):
UFO areas, as you had a guest to tonight, Peter
Davenport say, but they think in terms of ghosts and
that sort of thing. I don't think the stories are
changing in that area. I just think people are more
willing to share them because of shows like Coast to Coast.
But they seem to be getting more freighting. Well yeah, yeah,
I know it's dangerous sometimes, you know, people people like
(13:33):
the spooky stuff. They like the spooky stuff, and they
enjoy telling spooky stories, but I don't know. I don't know.
For me, I think the I think they're similar, but
there's certainly some spooky ones out there for sure. Listen
to more Coast to Coast AM every weeknight at one
am Eastern, and go to Coast to Coast am dot
(13:54):
com for more
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