January 14, 2025 • 28 mins
Emma and David’s haunted home turns their lives upside down with ghostly apparitions and chilling encounters. Across town, Mary recalls the eerie figures that haunted her childhood backyard—until a benevolent spirit intervened. Meanwhile, Therésa, grappling with Len’s unexplained absence, delivers spine-tingling tales with sharp humor. When the past refuses to stay buried, who—or what—will make itself known?
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THERÉSA (00:18):
Test test. Oh oh, thank god. I have been trying
to get this thing to turn on for hours. Something
is really wrong, you guys. My producer Len, mumbley, kind
of forgettable guy. He's gone! Usually when I get to
the studio he's already here, pushing buttons and I don't know,
adjusting things. It's not that I need him. I mean,
(00:38):
now that we're up and running, I'm more than capable
of producing the show myself. I pretty much do all
the work around here anyway. I guess I'm just used
to having him here. Hopefully nothing bad happened. It's fine,
it's fine, he's fine. I'm fine. He's probably just haunting
a board game convention or whatever nerd stuff he gets
up to when we're not working. Such an odd little man.
(01:00):
Let's just get started. Our first story today is from Emma.
When her boyfriend and his best friend moved into his
best friend's childhood home, things started getting weird, and not
hooking up with your boyfriend's best friend weird, like actually weird. See, normally,
Len would have like a random off putting sound effect
to punctuate that. This is throwing off my flow. Merlin,
(01:25):
go find him.
STORY A (01:28):
I was taking a shower. I hear David come into
the room and close the door behind him. I waited
for him to start talking to me, but he didn't,
so I peeked out and there was nobody in there,
but I still felt like I wasn't alone. Who or
(01:51):
what was in the bathroom with me? My name is Emma.
My name is David. Emma is my girlfriend.
And my boyfriend's house was haunted. In 2017, my boyfriend, David,
and his best friend had been living together in an
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apartment for several years.
Me and my roommate, Corey, lived in an apartment together
and his parents were retiring so they were moving out.
At the time, our apartment lease was coming to a close,
so they offered us an opportunity to live there.
(02:32):
It was a ranch style, one story, very small house.
The living room was on the east side of the
house and on the west side was the kitchen and
the dining room. It had two bedrooms that were later
remodeled into one main bedroom and then a bedroom downstairs
in the basement. That basement was Corey's childhood bedroom, so
(02:55):
he gave David the master room.
We offered to work on the house, so I went
in there like a wrecking ball, and I completely changed
a lot of things. I ripped out all the carpet,
stripped all the walls, painted rooms. I was tearing things
(03:16):
up before I even spent one night.
David and I had been together for six years. I
was living at my mom's house, but spent most of
my time when I wasn't at work over at the
house hanging out with the boys. I was over there
six days a week at least. So one day, while
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Corey and David were not at the house, David had
asked me to go over to change out his laundry
so that he could look nice for date night. So
I got to the house in the middle of the
afternoon and I walked in and went straight down to
the basement. Our two year old dog, Colton was at
the house, and Colton followed me down there, but he
(04:02):
stopped at the bottom of the stairs. He didn't want
to go further into the basement. Colton was David's dog,
but he was very protective of me, and if anybody
made me feel unsafe, he would protect me. I thought
it was weird that Colton just stayed at the bottom
of the stairs rather than following me into the laundry
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room like he usually would, but he made sure to
stay in a spot in which he could see me,
as like to protect me. I could feel like that
Colton felt uneasy about being down there, but I can't
blame him too much because the vibe of the basement
was very unwelcoming.
It's a very spooky, unfinished basement.
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The stairs were wooden and creaky. There was linoleum floor peeling.
It was dark, it was musty. I always got weird
vibes down there, and I just felt the sensation that
somebody was watching me. There was always a cold presence
(05:12):
downstairs that gave the vibes like I didn't belong in
the house or in the basement. This isn't my house,
this isn't David's house. This is somebody else's house. And
it felt like this presence didn't want us there. I
(05:34):
went into the laundry room. I opened the door to
the dryer, took the dry clothes out of the dryer,
put them into a laundry basket. I opened the door
to the washing machine, took the wet clothes out of
the washer, put them into the dryer. I turned the
dryer on and I grabbed the laundry basket. I turn around.
(05:57):
Colton is still at the bottom of the stairs, watching me,
waiting for me to be done in this creepy basement.
We're going back upstairs. Colton bolted up the stairs, and
about six steps up, I feel a tug on my
(06:20):
right hip, as if my shorts got snagged on the railing.
I stopped and looked around the basement and behind me
to see what happened. I realized that my shorts had
been pulled halfway down my hip, and my shorts didn't
have any physical evidence that anything happened. No hole, no snag.
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It felt like there was a presence that just wanted
to make itself known to me that it sees me,
and it knows that I'm there, Almost like it was
trying to say, you don't belong down here in the basement,
go back to where you're supposed to be. I felt
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the need to just get out of the house. I
continued up the stairs and put the laundry basket on
the kitchen table. Colton was laying on the couch in
the living room, acting like nothing had happened. I grabbed
my stuff, said my goodbyes to him, walked out the
(07:30):
front door, locked the door behind me, got in my car,
sat there for a second wondering what happened, and I
decided I just needed to put distance between me and
the house, so I drove home. I tried not to
think about that incident again until a few months later.
(07:52):
On a Saturday, David, Corey, and I were all at
the house hanging out. The boys were sitting in the
living room watching baseball. I decided to take a shower,
so I went into the master bedroom and closed the
door behind me. I went into the bathroom, turned on
(08:15):
the water. I get in the shower and I start
washing my hair, and all of a sudden, I hear
the door squeak open, and then I hear David come
into the room and close the door behind him. I
waited for him to start talking to me, and nothing came,
(08:41):
but I still felt the presence that I wasn't alone.
So I looked out the shower to see what he
was doing in the room, but I was completely alone.
Nobody had come into the room. I tried brushing it off.
(09:01):
I just continued my shower as normal, but I still
felt like I was being watched. I finished up my
shower and I got dressed. I noticed that the door
was still closed, as if nothing had happened. I headed
out to the living room, where Corey and David were
watching the game. I looked at David and I go,
(09:25):
did you come into the bedroom for anything? And he
got a really confused expression on his face.
We didn't move the entire time she was in the shower.
We were just watching the game.
I told them what I experienced, and they just brushed
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it off. Oh you probably just felt like you heard
the door open and close, like okay, gaslighting 101. What
would have made the door open and close its own?
I couldn't find any explanation for it. I knew that
something was watching me. David was always a skeptic and
(10:11):
brushed off any paranormal experience I had until one day
he was home alone and experienced something himself.
I was in the master bedroom by myself, looking in
my closet for a shirt. My work schedule was completely
different than my roommate, so I was home when he wasn't,
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and out of nowhere I heard Hey. It sounded as
if someone was right behind me in my ear. And
I got chills on the back of my spine. Emma
was not present, Corey was not present. It was clear
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as day. It wasn't like an old, wretched voice. It
was like a middle aged female voice. I turn around,
nobody's there. I go out and I look around. Nobody's there.
(11:20):
There's nobody in the house. There wasn't a TV on,
there wasn't a radio on. I didn't have any windows open.
It sat on me all day. I kept thinking, I
literally heard Hey in my ear behind me while I
was by myself. My mother was over visiting, and I
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wouldn't say as a clairvoyant of any means, but she
tells me all the time she has, you know, these
connections with the other side. I've always just grown up
thought my mom was a little out there, but I
remember vividly going to my grandfather's grave and she would
(12:03):
tell me he's here, and then the wind chimes would
start chiming right next to his grave. So I brought
this up to my mom when she was visiting. I
wanted to talk about it. I said, Hey, I know
this is a little out there, but this is what's
going on. This is what Emma's told me that has
(12:25):
happened to her, and my mom started walking around the
house talking to whatever entity or whatever it may be.
"This is my son. He's a good man. My son
means no harm. He is here temporarily. Please leave him alone,
(12:46):
Please leave his girlfriend alone." I remember, you know, following
my mom around, and I was almost smiling. I'm like,
I can't believe she's doing this. But nothing happened after that.
This definitely changed his perspective on the paranormal and supernatural.
(13:07):
I completely changed a lot of things. I don't know
if maybe that disturbed things.
I felt like they were seeing all the renovations being
done to the house and they just didn't like that.
I was only in the house for two years.
Even after we did all that work, they were unable
(13:28):
to sell the house. I believe it got foreclosed on.
Till this day, it sits vacant. That house has something
weird about it.
I don't know who or what could have been causing
these experiences, but they were not happy with David and
(13:49):
I being in their space.
THERÉSA (13:57):
Gaslight your girlfriend and then run to your mom. Len, at
what age do men learn that women are always right? Oh, yeah,
Len's not here. Well, I don't blame those ghosts for
making a scene. I'd be pissed too if someone moved
into my house and started knocking down walls, unless it
was Tony. He's the best contractor I've ever had. He
did all my fountains, indoors and out. Anyway, the spirit's
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won in the end. They got what they wanted, an
empty home.
Merlin didn't have any luck finding Len, and as much
as I hate to admit it, I'm actually starting to worry.
(14:40):
So listeners help me out here. If Len's on a
little haunting escapade, you might be able to sense his presence.
Not all of you are tuned to the other side,
so I'll walk you through it. Close your eyes now,
take a deep breath in for four and out for four.
(15:02):
Make sure your feet are planted firmly on the ground,
and focus on your breathing. Once your mind starts to clear,
you're going to pay attention to any energies you might
be sensing that are not your own. Good. Now, the
feeling you're looking for is sort of a familiar discomfort,
(15:26):
like that tight lipped smile you give a coworker in
the office, or when somebody catches you drinking a full
fat latte, or like a stinky cheese before you realize
what you're smelling is cheese. If you're hitting on any
of those, let us know on our socials at Glass
Podcasts with the hashtag #FindLen. If that lucky son of
a bitch crossed over, I will kill him! Anyway, while
(15:50):
we wait, let's move on to our second story, which,
by the way, Len would love because it's a really
scary one about a bunch of creepy lurkers. But whatever
his loss.
STORY B (16:01):
I grew up in northwest Indiana, and there was so
much death in that area. In the eighteen hundreds when
there were early settlers, there was a river that ran
through the neighborhood and there was a settler's camp that
got flooded at one point and it killed like the
entire camp. And then in the early nineteen hundreds to
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about the 1930s, caddy corner to our house was a
city dump and there were dead bodies being dumped was
causing diseases, and there were a lot of people dying
in the neighborhood. My name is Mary, and I grew
up with ghosts in the alley. The house I grew
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up in was an old house built in like 1909,
and it was a two story stucco gray house. We
had a small one car garage, and then alongside the
garage was the backyard. It went and met the back
of the house. Made like a square. Around the backyard
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was a chain link fence. You could see through the
fence and see all the neighbors houses around you, but
it was the back of everyone's houses, so you could
see their garages and their backyards, and then you could
see the alleyway with the trash cans and stuff like
you would expect. When I was a little girl, when
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my mother was busy doing things in the house that
she didn't want children under her feet for, she would
send us outside to play in the backyard. The kitchen
was right there, so she would still be able to
supervise us and to get to us if we needed her,
but we could also just play and just not be
bothering her while she's trying to cook dinner or wash
the dishes or clean the house. We were never out
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there more than an hour, just long enough for her
to do whatever she was doing. My sister, who's four
years older than me, we would play barbies and all
kinds of fun toys out there, but I was terrified
of the backyard, so I would cry and cry and
tell my mom that I was scared to be back
there because I could see people walking up and down
(18:10):
the alleyway and I didn't know who they were. The
people would look scary. They'd be dirty, they would be bleeding,
or they'd look really old, wearing older clothes like they
were from a long time ago. And they never spoke
(18:31):
to me. They were just walking back and forth. When
my sister was there, when we were playing, I would
be able to ignore the people in the alley. But
when my sister would leave me to grab a toy
or go to the bathroom and I was by myself,
they would start walking and coming closer to me, like
they were all congregating to the backyard. I didn't know
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who they were, and I didn't want to be out
there with them.
I mentioned it several times to my parents, but no
one else could see the scary people except for me.
They would be like, there's no one in the alley,
No one ever walks up and down the alley. I
don't know what you're seeing. It's just your imagination. I
told my sister, and I'd say, you know, Sissy, look
there's this person over there, and she'd be like, I
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don't see anybody. One particular time, there was a man
crouched in the bushes near my neighbor's house. My neighbor
had a crazy yard. They had bushes that were really
overgrown and went halfway into the alley and I could
see a man crouched in the bushes. I ended up
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grabbing my sister and being like, Sissy, there's a man
in the bushes. Do you see him? And she said, no,
there's no one in the bushes. I don't see anyone.
My parents never believed me, and my sister didn't see
them either. No one took me seriously. They all thought
I was telling stories or making things up. But I
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know they were there and they were real.
I was very scared of them, so I just kind
of dealt with it and would cry. One day, it
was particularly bad, my sister had been inside a little
bit longer than she usually was. I was having an
absolute meltdown when my dad got home from work. As
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soon as his car pulled into the driveway, I ran
out to him and I was just bawling and bawling, crying, "Daddy! Daddy!"
He could see that I was really upset. He picked
me up and hugged me and all that. Took me
inside and told me to play with my toys while
my mother finished up dinner. We all had dinner at
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the table. By then it was pretty late, so my
mom and dad had us go to bed. The next
day was just a normal day. My mom, as usual,
sends us out to the backyard, and to my surprise,
I wasn't able to see anyone walking up and down
the alley. There were no scary people, nothing. I was
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so used to seeing them, but for some reason that
day I couldn't. A little bit later, after we had
been playing for a while, my sister went in to
go to the bathroom. I was by myself, and I
noticed a woman walking down the alley. She was an
older woman, looked like my grandmother's age, and the first
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thing I noticed was that she had a beautiful long
dress on and a smile on her face. She had
beautiful gray hair that was pulled back in a bun,
and she just looked so sweet and so nice and
so kind. This was the first time I saw someone
in the alley that I wasn't scared of. She just
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had a loving vibe to her. I knew that she
wasn't someone to be scared of. She was walking pretty
slowly down the alley. When she reached the back gate,
she called me over. She leaned over and said, "Sweetheart,
I see you're scared of the people in the alley."
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And I said, "yeah, I don't like them because they're scary."
And she said, "that's okay. I made them go away.
You'll never see them again." And she turned around and
she kept walking down the alley, and after a while
she just kind of disappeared and I didn't see her
after that. My sister came back outside and we played
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for the rest of the afternoon, and there was nothing there.
It was really nice. We had a great time. My
dad came home from work later that day. We went
in and did our usual dinner and then go to bed.
After that day, I never saw anything in the alley again.
It wasn't until about 20 years later when my mom
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passed away. I was helping my dad go through all
of her things and go through some old photos. She
just had a big plastic tub filled to the brim with photographs,
and we were trying to decide what we wanted to
do with them. As we were going through the photos,
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I came across one of an older woman. She had
a beautiful smile and long gray hair that was pulled
back into a big bun. I kind of made a
noise like I was shocked, and then my dad looked
over and he goes, "oh, yeah, I think that's your
Grandma Moore." So I flipped it over and it did
say Grandma Moore and it was dated from like the
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early nineteen hundreds. She died long before I was born,
but I had heard stories about her growing up. I
turned to my dad and I said, "Dad, do you
remember when I was and I was scared of the
people in the alley" And he said, "yeah, I remember that."
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And I said "do you remember when I told you
a mom that the nice lady made the scary people
go away?" And he said "yeah, I remember that." And
I said, "well, Dad, this was a lady from the
alley that made the scary people go away." Grandma Moore
was the woman I saw in the alley. After I
told him that, Dad said, well, I don't believe in
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this stuff, but your mom and I did pray for
you that night to make the scary thing in the
alley go away. I was really shocked. I had never
met Grandma Moore so I was surprised that that would
have been the person that came through and helped me
in that situation. So as an adult, I can look
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back at that and realize I was probably seeing ghosts
as a child, and then Grandma Moore made them go away.
THERÉSA (24:58):
Okay, another story that deep down is about gaslighting. If
your girlfriend is telling you the house is haunted, believe her.
And if your child is telling you there's a horde
of blood covered turn of the century zombie shuffling through
your alley every day, believe her too. Believe women really
is what it comes down to. Let's take a break.
(25:25):
There's still no sign of Len and we didn't get
any leads from our listeners. Maybe he's really gone for good.
I'm having confusing feelings.
LEN (25:36):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (25:40):
Len! Oh my god, you're here. Thank god. I wasn't
sure if something had happened, or maybe you'd crossed over
LEN (25:45):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (25:46):
I was really nervous.
LEN (25:49):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (25:52):
Missed you? No, no, you can't just not show up
to work. It's unprofessional and it's not my job to
know what all these buttons do. I mean, I do
know what they do, but I don't like pressing them.
Just don't do that again, okay? And where were you anyway?
LEN (26:10):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (26:12):
Haunting a board game convention and you lost track of time
at the D and D table. You are so predictable.
I can't believe I was actually worried. Well, that's our episode.
Len's back just in time to stop the recording, and
I need a massage to recover from carrying the entire
show on my back. If you've got a scary story
to share, email Len or I guess me at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com.
(26:37):
We'll see you next time. Where were you really though?
You've been acting so weird lately.
LEN (26:42):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (26:45):
It's just alarming when you're not where you always are.
You're always here.
LEN (26:50):
[MUMBLES].
THERÉSA (26:54):
It went fine, I mean better than fine, probably best
episode yet. I just I do value your contributions to
this team is all.
LEN (27:01):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (27:03):
I said, I value your contributions to this team is all. Wait,
are we still recording? Len, you're gone all day and
then you can't do your one job. What is the
point of even having a producer?
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Glass Andrea Gunning, Ben Fetterman, and Lauren Lapkus, and it
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Len Walker is played by Trey Morgan. Haunting is written
by Aleah Welsh, with additional writing by Nancy Glass. Trey Morgan,
and Ben Fetterman. Editing and sound designed by Matt Delvecchio
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Test test. Oh oh, thank god. I have been trying
to get this thing to turn on for hours. Something
is really wrong, you guys. My producer Len, mumbley, kind
of forgettable guy. He's gone! Usually when I get to
the studio he's already here, pushing buttons and I don't know,
adjusting things. It's not that I need him. I mean,
(00:38):
now that we're up and running, I'm more than capable
of producing the show myself. I pretty much do all
the work around here anyway. I guess I'm just used
to having him here. Hopefully nothing bad happened. It's fine,
it's fine, he's fine. I'm fine. He's probably just haunting
a board game convention or whatever nerd stuff he gets
up to when we're not working. Such an odd little man.
(01:00):
Let's just get started. Our first story today is from Emma.
When her boyfriend and his best friend moved into his
best friend's childhood home, things started getting weird, and not
hooking up with your boyfriend's best friend weird, like actually weird. See, normally,
Len would have like a random off putting sound effect
to punctuate that. This is throwing off my flow. Merlin,
(01:25):
go find him.
STORY A (01:28):
I was taking a shower. I hear David come into
the room and close the door behind him. I waited
for him to start talking to me, but he didn't,
so I peeked out and there was nobody in there,
but I still felt like I wasn't alone. Who or
(01:51):
what was in the bathroom with me? My name is Emma.
My name is David. Emma is my girlfriend.
And my boyfriend's house was haunted. In 2017, my boyfriend, David,
and his best friend had been living together in an
(02:12):
apartment for several years.
Me and my roommate, Corey, lived in an apartment together
and his parents were retiring so they were moving out.
At the time, our apartment lease was coming to a close,
so they offered us an opportunity to live there.
(02:32):
It was a ranch style, one story, very small house.
The living room was on the east side of the
house and on the west side was the kitchen and
the dining room. It had two bedrooms that were later
remodeled into one main bedroom and then a bedroom downstairs
in the basement. That basement was Corey's childhood bedroom, so
(02:55):
he gave David the master room.
We offered to work on the house, so I went
in there like a wrecking ball, and I completely changed
a lot of things. I ripped out all the carpet,
stripped all the walls, painted rooms. I was tearing things
(03:16):
up before I even spent one night.
David and I had been together for six years. I
was living at my mom's house, but spent most of
my time when I wasn't at work over at the
house hanging out with the boys. I was over there
six days a week at least. So one day, while
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Corey and David were not at the house, David had
asked me to go over to change out his laundry
so that he could look nice for date night. So
I got to the house in the middle of the
afternoon and I walked in and went straight down to
the basement. Our two year old dog, Colton was at
the house, and Colton followed me down there, but he
(04:02):
stopped at the bottom of the stairs. He didn't want
to go further into the basement. Colton was David's dog,
but he was very protective of me, and if anybody
made me feel unsafe, he would protect me. I thought
it was weird that Colton just stayed at the bottom
of the stairs rather than following me into the laundry
(04:24):
room like he usually would, but he made sure to
stay in a spot in which he could see me,
as like to protect me. I could feel like that
Colton felt uneasy about being down there, but I can't
blame him too much because the vibe of the basement
was very unwelcoming.
It's a very spooky, unfinished basement.
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The stairs were wooden and creaky. There was linoleum floor peeling.
It was dark, it was musty. I always got weird
vibes down there, and I just felt the sensation that
somebody was watching me. There was always a cold presence
(05:12):
downstairs that gave the vibes like I didn't belong in
the house or in the basement. This isn't my house,
this isn't David's house. This is somebody else's house. And
it felt like this presence didn't want us there. I
(05:34):
went into the laundry room. I opened the door to
the dryer, took the dry clothes out of the dryer,
put them into a laundry basket. I opened the door
to the washing machine, took the wet clothes out of
the washer, put them into the dryer. I turned the
dryer on and I grabbed the laundry basket. I turn around.
(05:57):
Colton is still at the bottom of the stairs, watching me,
waiting for me to be done in this creepy basement.
We're going back upstairs. Colton bolted up the stairs, and
about six steps up, I feel a tug on my
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right hip, as if my shorts got snagged on the railing.
I stopped and looked around the basement and behind me
to see what happened. I realized that my shorts had
been pulled halfway down my hip, and my shorts didn't
have any physical evidence that anything happened. No hole, no snag.
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It felt like there was a presence that just wanted
to make itself known to me that it sees me,
and it knows that I'm there, Almost like it was
trying to say, you don't belong down here in the basement,
go back to where you're supposed to be. I felt
(07:09):
the need to just get out of the house. I
continued up the stairs and put the laundry basket on
the kitchen table. Colton was laying on the couch in
the living room, acting like nothing had happened. I grabbed
my stuff, said my goodbyes to him, walked out the
(07:30):
front door, locked the door behind me, got in my car,
sat there for a second wondering what happened, and I
decided I just needed to put distance between me and
the house, so I drove home. I tried not to
think about that incident again until a few months later.
(07:52):
On a Saturday, David, Corey, and I were all at
the house hanging out. The boys were sitting in the
living room watching baseball. I decided to take a shower,
so I went into the master bedroom and closed the
door behind me. I went into the bathroom, turned on
(08:15):
the water. I get in the shower and I start
washing my hair, and all of a sudden, I hear
the door squeak open, and then I hear David come
into the room and close the door behind him. I
waited for him to start talking to me, and nothing came,
(08:41):
but I still felt the presence that I wasn't alone.
So I looked out the shower to see what he
was doing in the room, but I was completely alone.
Nobody had come into the room. I tried brushing it off.
(09:01):
I just continued my shower as normal, but I still
felt like I was being watched. I finished up my
shower and I got dressed. I noticed that the door
was still closed, as if nothing had happened. I headed
out to the living room, where Corey and David were
watching the game. I looked at David and I go,
(09:25):
did you come into the bedroom for anything? And he
got a really confused expression on his face.
We didn't move the entire time she was in the shower.
We were just watching the game.
I told them what I experienced, and they just brushed
(09:46):
it off. Oh you probably just felt like you heard
the door open and close, like okay, gaslighting 101. What
would have made the door open and close its own?
I couldn't find any explanation for it. I knew that
something was watching me. David was always a skeptic and
(10:11):
brushed off any paranormal experience I had until one day
he was home alone and experienced something himself.
I was in the master bedroom by myself, looking in
my closet for a shirt. My work schedule was completely
different than my roommate, so I was home when he wasn't,
(10:34):
and out of nowhere I heard Hey. It sounded as
if someone was right behind me in my ear. And
I got chills on the back of my spine. Emma
was not present, Corey was not present. It was clear
(10:58):
as day. It wasn't like an old, wretched voice. It
was like a middle aged female voice. I turn around,
nobody's there. I go out and I look around. Nobody's there.
(11:20):
There's nobody in the house. There wasn't a TV on,
there wasn't a radio on. I didn't have any windows open.
It sat on me all day. I kept thinking, I
literally heard Hey in my ear behind me while I
was by myself. My mother was over visiting, and I
(11:43):
wouldn't say as a clairvoyant of any means, but she
tells me all the time she has, you know, these
connections with the other side. I've always just grown up
thought my mom was a little out there, but I
remember vividly going to my grandfather's grave and she would
(12:03):
tell me he's here, and then the wind chimes would
start chiming right next to his grave. So I brought
this up to my mom when she was visiting. I
wanted to talk about it. I said, Hey, I know
this is a little out there, but this is what's
going on. This is what Emma's told me that has
(12:25):
happened to her, and my mom started walking around the
house talking to whatever entity or whatever it may be.
"This is my son. He's a good man. My son
means no harm. He is here temporarily. Please leave him alone,
(12:46):
Please leave his girlfriend alone." I remember, you know, following
my mom around, and I was almost smiling. I'm like,
I can't believe she's doing this. But nothing happened after that.
This definitely changed his perspective on the paranormal and supernatural.
(13:07):
I completely changed a lot of things. I don't know
if maybe that disturbed things.
I felt like they were seeing all the renovations being
done to the house and they just didn't like that.
I was only in the house for two years.
Even after we did all that work, they were unable
(13:28):
to sell the house. I believe it got foreclosed on.
Till this day, it sits vacant. That house has something
weird about it.
I don't know who or what could have been causing
these experiences, but they were not happy with David and
(13:49):
I being in their space.
THERÉSA (13:57):
Gaslight your girlfriend and then run to your mom. Len, at
what age do men learn that women are always right? Oh, yeah,
Len's not here. Well, I don't blame those ghosts for
making a scene. I'd be pissed too if someone moved
into my house and started knocking down walls, unless it
was Tony. He's the best contractor I've ever had. He
did all my fountains, indoors and out. Anyway, the spirit's
(14:19):
won in the end. They got what they wanted, an
empty home.
Merlin didn't have any luck finding Len, and as much
as I hate to admit it, I'm actually starting to worry.
(14:40):
So listeners help me out here. If Len's on a
little haunting escapade, you might be able to sense his presence.
Not all of you are tuned to the other side,
so I'll walk you through it. Close your eyes now,
take a deep breath in for four and out for four.
(15:02):
Make sure your feet are planted firmly on the ground,
and focus on your breathing. Once your mind starts to clear,
you're going to pay attention to any energies you might
be sensing that are not your own. Good. Now, the
feeling you're looking for is sort of a familiar discomfort,
(15:26):
like that tight lipped smile you give a coworker in
the office, or when somebody catches you drinking a full
fat latte, or like a stinky cheese before you realize
what you're smelling is cheese. If you're hitting on any
of those, let us know on our socials at Glass
Podcasts with the hashtag #FindLen. If that lucky son of
a bitch crossed over, I will kill him! Anyway, while
(15:50):
we wait, let's move on to our second story, which,
by the way, Len would love because it's a really
scary one about a bunch of creepy lurkers. But whatever
his loss.
STORY B (16:01):
I grew up in northwest Indiana, and there was so
much death in that area. In the eighteen hundreds when
there were early settlers, there was a river that ran
through the neighborhood and there was a settler's camp that
got flooded at one point and it killed like the
entire camp. And then in the early nineteen hundreds to
(16:22):
about the 1930s, caddy corner to our house was a
city dump and there were dead bodies being dumped was
causing diseases, and there were a lot of people dying
in the neighborhood. My name is Mary, and I grew
up with ghosts in the alley. The house I grew
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up in was an old house built in like 1909,
and it was a two story stucco gray house. We
had a small one car garage, and then alongside the
garage was the backyard. It went and met the back
of the house. Made like a square. Around the backyard
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was a chain link fence. You could see through the
fence and see all the neighbors houses around you, but
it was the back of everyone's houses, so you could
see their garages and their backyards, and then you could
see the alleyway with the trash cans and stuff like
you would expect. When I was a little girl, when
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my mother was busy doing things in the house that
she didn't want children under her feet for, she would
send us outside to play in the backyard. The kitchen
was right there, so she would still be able to
supervise us and to get to us if we needed her,
but we could also just play and just not be
bothering her while she's trying to cook dinner or wash
the dishes or clean the house. We were never out
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there more than an hour, just long enough for her
to do whatever she was doing. My sister, who's four
years older than me, we would play barbies and all
kinds of fun toys out there, but I was terrified
of the backyard, so I would cry and cry and
tell my mom that I was scared to be back
there because I could see people walking up and down
(18:10):
the alleyway and I didn't know who they were. The
people would look scary. They'd be dirty, they would be bleeding,
or they'd look really old, wearing older clothes like they
were from a long time ago. And they never spoke
(18:31):
to me. They were just walking back and forth. When
my sister was there, when we were playing, I would
be able to ignore the people in the alley. But
when my sister would leave me to grab a toy
or go to the bathroom and I was by myself,
they would start walking and coming closer to me, like
they were all congregating to the backyard. I didn't know
(18:54):
who they were, and I didn't want to be out
there with them.
I mentioned it several times to my parents, but no
one else could see the scary people except for me.
They would be like, there's no one in the alley,
No one ever walks up and down the alley. I
don't know what you're seeing. It's just your imagination. I
told my sister, and I'd say, you know, Sissy, look
there's this person over there, and she'd be like, I
(19:17):
don't see anybody. One particular time, there was a man
crouched in the bushes near my neighbor's house. My neighbor
had a crazy yard. They had bushes that were really
overgrown and went halfway into the alley and I could
see a man crouched in the bushes. I ended up
(19:40):
grabbing my sister and being like, Sissy, there's a man
in the bushes. Do you see him? And she said, no,
there's no one in the bushes. I don't see anyone.
My parents never believed me, and my sister didn't see
them either. No one took me seriously. They all thought
I was telling stories or making things up. But I
(20:01):
know they were there and they were real.
I was very scared of them, so I just kind
of dealt with it and would cry. One day, it
was particularly bad, my sister had been inside a little
bit longer than she usually was. I was having an
absolute meltdown when my dad got home from work. As
(20:23):
soon as his car pulled into the driveway, I ran
out to him and I was just bawling and bawling, crying, "Daddy! Daddy!"
He could see that I was really upset. He picked
me up and hugged me and all that. Took me
inside and told me to play with my toys while
my mother finished up dinner. We all had dinner at
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the table. By then it was pretty late, so my
mom and dad had us go to bed. The next
day was just a normal day. My mom, as usual,
sends us out to the backyard, and to my surprise,
I wasn't able to see anyone walking up and down
the alley. There were no scary people, nothing. I was
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so used to seeing them, but for some reason that
day I couldn't. A little bit later, after we had
been playing for a while, my sister went in to
go to the bathroom. I was by myself, and I
noticed a woman walking down the alley. She was an
older woman, looked like my grandmother's age, and the first
(21:35):
thing I noticed was that she had a beautiful long
dress on and a smile on her face. She had
beautiful gray hair that was pulled back in a bun,
and she just looked so sweet and so nice and
so kind. This was the first time I saw someone
in the alley that I wasn't scared of. She just
(21:56):
had a loving vibe to her. I knew that she
wasn't someone to be scared of. She was walking pretty
slowly down the alley. When she reached the back gate,
she called me over. She leaned over and said, "Sweetheart,
I see you're scared of the people in the alley."
(22:17):
And I said, "yeah, I don't like them because they're scary."
And she said, "that's okay. I made them go away.
You'll never see them again." And she turned around and
she kept walking down the alley, and after a while
she just kind of disappeared and I didn't see her
after that. My sister came back outside and we played
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for the rest of the afternoon, and there was nothing there.
It was really nice. We had a great time. My
dad came home from work later that day. We went
in and did our usual dinner and then go to bed.
After that day, I never saw anything in the alley again.
It wasn't until about 20 years later when my mom
(23:02):
passed away. I was helping my dad go through all
of her things and go through some old photos. She
just had a big plastic tub filled to the brim with photographs,
and we were trying to decide what we wanted to
do with them. As we were going through the photos,
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I came across one of an older woman. She had
a beautiful smile and long gray hair that was pulled
back into a big bun. I kind of made a
noise like I was shocked, and then my dad looked
over and he goes, "oh, yeah, I think that's your
Grandma Moore." So I flipped it over and it did
say Grandma Moore and it was dated from like the
(23:45):
early nineteen hundreds. She died long before I was born,
but I had heard stories about her growing up. I
turned to my dad and I said, "Dad, do you
remember when I was and I was scared of the
people in the alley" And he said, "yeah, I remember that."
(24:05):
And I said "do you remember when I told you
a mom that the nice lady made the scary people
go away?" And he said "yeah, I remember that." And
I said, "well, Dad, this was a lady from the
alley that made the scary people go away." Grandma Moore
was the woman I saw in the alley. After I
told him that, Dad said, well, I don't believe in
(24:27):
this stuff, but your mom and I did pray for
you that night to make the scary thing in the
alley go away. I was really shocked. I had never
met Grandma Moore so I was surprised that that would
have been the person that came through and helped me
in that situation. So as an adult, I can look
(24:48):
back at that and realize I was probably seeing ghosts
as a child, and then Grandma Moore made them go away.
THERÉSA (24:58):
Okay, another story that deep down is about gaslighting. If
your girlfriend is telling you the house is haunted, believe her.
And if your child is telling you there's a horde
of blood covered turn of the century zombie shuffling through
your alley every day, believe her too. Believe women really
is what it comes down to. Let's take a break.
(25:25):
There's still no sign of Len and we didn't get
any leads from our listeners. Maybe he's really gone for good.
I'm having confusing feelings.
LEN (25:36):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (25:40):
Len! Oh my god, you're here. Thank god. I wasn't
sure if something had happened, or maybe you'd crossed over
LEN (25:45):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (25:46):
I was really nervous.
LEN (25:49):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (25:52):
Missed you? No, no, you can't just not show up
to work. It's unprofessional and it's not my job to
know what all these buttons do. I mean, I do
know what they do, but I don't like pressing them.
Just don't do that again, okay? And where were you anyway?
LEN (26:10):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (26:12):
Haunting a board game convention and you lost track of time
at the D and D table. You are so predictable.
I can't believe I was actually worried. Well, that's our episode.
Len's back just in time to stop the recording, and
I need a massage to recover from carrying the entire
show on my back. If you've got a scary story
to share, email Len or I guess me at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com.
(26:37):
We'll see you next time. Where were you really though?
You've been acting so weird lately.
LEN (26:42):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (26:45):
It's just alarming when you're not where you always are.
You're always here.
LEN (26:50):
[MUMBLES].
THERÉSA (26:54):
It went fine, I mean better than fine, probably best
episode yet. I just I do value your contributions to
this team is all.
LEN (27:01):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (27:03):
I said, I value your contributions to this team is all. Wait,
are we still recording? Len, you're gone all day and
then you can't do your one job. What is the
point of even having a producer?
CREDITS (27:22):
If you have a haunting story To share, email us
at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com, and if you like what you hear, please
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media by searching for Glass Podcasts or by visiting GlassPodcasts.com.
Haunting is a production of Glass Podcasts in partnership with
iHeart Podcast. Haunting is created and executive produced by Nancy
Glass Andrea Gunning, Ben Fetterman, and Lauren Lapkus, and it
(27:45):
is hosted by Laura Lapkus as her character Therésa. Producer
Len Walker is played by Trey Morgan. Haunting is written
by Aleah Welsh, with additional writing by Nancy Glass. Trey Morgan,
and Ben Fetterman. Editing and sound designed by Matt Delvecchio
and mixed by Dave Saia. Operations and production support by
Kristen Melchiorre. Additional production support by Curry Richman and Todd Ganz.
(28:06):
Haunting's theme and original compositions were composed by Oliver Baines
and Dorry Macaulay of Noiser. Music Library provided by Mybe Music.
Special thanks to Speakeasy Sound Studios in Burbank, California. For
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