January 28, 2025 • 40 mins
When Tiffany’s family moves into Mrs. Pike’s former home, eerie encounters begin, from levitating beads to chilling warnings. Meanwhile, Therésa navigates a ghostly hangover with her trademark wit.
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THERÉSA (00:16):
Hi, it's me, Therésa. This is Haunting. One hundred percent real ghost
stories told by you, our loyal and devoted listeners. I'm
here today with our producer Len,
Ill have it.
And my familiar, Merlin. I'll be honest with you guys. I
am not firing on all cylinders today. Len and I
fumbled the bag on dry January after work yesterday with
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two for one happy hour at Haunt and Haven. In
our defense, we were going for Monday karaoke. You guys
know I love an open mic. I stick with the classics.
Shania Twain, Vanessa Carlton, that song from the Lizzie McGuire movie.
Len's repertoire is a lot of Broadway show tunes and
pre Saturday Night Fever Era BeeGees, which was crazy because
Andy Gibb showed up and I swear to god, he
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was making eyes at me the whole night
LEN (01:00):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (01:03):
It was definitely him, Len.
LEN (01:05):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (01:06):
Whatever, I don't have it in me to argue with you.
Let's just get this show on the road. We've got
a really juicy three parter today. Our guest Tiffany claims
to have actually met the woman who later haunted her
childhood home. It's like the opposite of don't meet your heroes,
do meet your horrors, or something like that. Yeah, I
think that works.
TIFFIANY (01:28):
I could feel my heartbeat in my throat. I did
not know what was going to happen next. I run
out and the storms like starting to brew now, and the
winds like whipping around, and I'm trying to frantically get
him in the car and buckle him up. As soon
as I know that he's safe, I shut the door
and I turned around, and I could not believe what
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I was seeing. I'm Tiffiany, and I met the woman
who haunted my family home. When I was a child,
my dad had this friend named Butch that he had
grown up with. He'd spent a lot of time with him,
and his parents were needing to sell their home because
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they were getting older. My dad, who had spent a
lot of his childhood growing up in that home, had
always liked it. He liked the house, he liked the area,
and he had mentioned when he was younger that if
they ever wanted to sell the house, to think of him.
So when it came time to sell it, Butch called
my dad to see if he wanted the house. My
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dad took my mom to show her the house, hoping
that she was going to love it as much as
he did growing up, and I went with them. It
felt like we were driving out into the middle of nowhere.
The house was on this long, windy, curvy road and
it was very narrow. I'm not even sure two cars
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could fit on it comfortably. But then when we got
to the house, you come around a corner, and there were about
four or five houses that were pretty close together, so
it wasn't completely isolated, but to me it felt like
it was. We pull into the driveway. The house was cute.
It was yellow. It had flowers and things all around it.
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It seemed inviting. We walk up to the house, there
was a little screened in porch and were greeted at
the door by Butch's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pike. Mister
Pike was shorter than my dad, but he had this
arrogance to him that was unmistakable. Even at my young age,
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I could recognize that he was kind of mean, so
I did not like him. Mrs. Pike was frail, thin, short.
She had these long, thin, bony fingers and had kind eyes.
I could tell that she was nice. Mister Pike immediately
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asked my mom and dad if they would like to
walk through and look at all of the rooms in
the home. And missus Pike turns to me and says,
you can stay here with me while your mom and
dad go and tour the house. I sat down on
the couch. She starts talking to me about random things,
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just kind of trying to entertain me, I guess. I
tell her that I don't really want to move out there.
We lived right beside my cousins. My closest cousin she
was four years younger than me. You know, this was
the eighties, so we were outside all day every day.
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So I felt like I was leaving all of that behind.
Like I was scared I was going to be isolated
out there with just my brother. But we're sitting there,
and she leaned in closely and put her hand on
my knee and said, Oh, I'm sure you're going to
like it. I know it seems like it's out in
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the middle of nowhere, but you're going to love it here.
Then she whispered, don't worry, sweetie, I would stay here
forever if I could. The way she said that and
how she said it gave me an uneasy feeling. So
I was like, ooh, like why'd she say it like that?
Like what does she mean? And why does she call
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me sweetie? We were there maybe fifteen minutes if that,
because my dad already had his mind made up that
he was getting it. He was just kind of like
courtesy showing it to my mom and luckily she loved
it too, so it worked out. We moved in almost immediately.
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My room was huge compared to my last one, and
it had like a huge walk in closet. It felt
like a mini playhouse. It was so large, so I
was happy about it. It was on the corner of
the house. I had two windows, like a view to the backyard,
a view to the side yard. I was trying to
find the positives of it, but I was still not
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excited about moving so far away from my cousins. It
was just normal every day going to school, I was
in dance. Everything just kind of continued on as usual,
and it did suck. Like after school, I was used
to going and playing with my cousins and stuff, but
now I didn't have anything to do. I would just
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come home and that's when I started reading a lot.
A couple of months after we moved in, my dad
got a phone call from Butch telling us that his
mom had passed away. Two months after that, things started
happening at the house. My mom was noticing things going
missing or showing up where they shouldn't have been, and
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she's very like OCD on where she puts things. After a while,
she said that she kind of put it together that
it may be a ghost, but she didn't really want
to think, Okay, you know, is Mrs. Pike back or whatever.
And then she said that she would be like, okay,
Mrs Pike, if this is you, can you move this
over here? And then it would take a few days,
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but then she would find what she said moved where
she asked it to be moved, so she was like, okay,
that was Mrs. Pike. I didn't really have anything significant
happened to me until I was in my room reading
one night. It was a school night. I got in
trouble all the time for staying up too late to read.
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My mom had already came into my room twice to
tell me to knock it off to go to bed,
so I told her I would be done with it.
I put my book over on my nightstand and then
as soon as she left, I just grabbed my flashlight
and got under the covers to go back to reading again.
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I don't know how much longer it had been since
my mom had originally left. I'm reading for a while,
but then I hear the door open again, so I'm like,
oh my gosh, I am busted big time. She's coming
back to like take my book. So I immediately flip
the flashlight off and try to pretend like I'm asleep,
and then I feel her sit down on the bed.
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I wait for her to say something like give me
the book or whatever, but she just kind of pats
me on the leg and then she whispers, don't worry sweetie,
everything's going to be okay. I was like, what the hell?
What does that even mean? What was going to be okay?
And why does she call me sweetie? Like I'd never
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heard her call me sweetie. And it was like the
way it was said, it was so creepy. The whole
interaction was weird and it didn't really make sense. After
I heard her leave the room, I had all of
these things going through my mind. I waited for a
little bit trying to process like what she meant, and
then I thought, no, I can't sleep. I'm going to
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have to go ask her. When I went into her room,
she was asleep. The first words out of my mouth
was what did you mean by that? And then she
like jolted awake. I could see the look of confusion
on her face, and she's like, what are you talking about?
I said, what did you mean? Everything's going to be okay?
She was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
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I have been in here the whole time. I just
went back to my room. I was like laying in
there trying to figure out what had happened or why
that was so creepy. And it was because it was familiar,
Like I knew the voice, but I couldn't place it,
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so I just kept laying there. But when the memory clicked,
I shot up in bed. It was Mrs. Pike. She
had called me sweetie when I met her. That's where
I knew the voice.
THERÉSA (09:59):
Honestly, I would love for someone to pat me on
the back and tell me everything's going to be okay
right about now.
LEN (10:04):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (10:04):
No, not you, Len. Oh, I really didn't think ghost
could get this hungover. The mouth sweats are starting, so
let's go to ads.
(10:29):
Okay, I spewed a lot of something black, spiky and
sentient all over the bathroom. Sorry, Len, facilities will get
to it, but I wouldn't go in there today if
you can help it
LEN (10:38):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (10:41):
Okay. Back to missus Pike.
TIFFIANY (10:46):
We had a full size basement. My mom had set
it up kind of like a mini apartment. There was
a couch that folded out into a bed, a coffee table,
two end tables, a large entertainment center that had a
TV and VCR. There was a dining room table with
four chairs, and there were two massive area rugs. One
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of them was like fifteen by twenty, and then on
top of that was another area rug. It was like
an eight x ten and then off in one corner
was like a play area for my little brother and
all of the board games and things like that. Shortly
after Mrs. Pike came into my room, it was almost
Christmas and we had a lot of presents that we
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needed to wrap. My mom had turned the basement into
like a gift wrapping headquarters. We had everything down there
you could possibly think of, tons of boxes, ribbon, different
types of wrapping paper, scissors, tape, everything you would need
to wrap up gift. I go upstairs to get more tape,
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and when I come back down, my mom is sitting
there confused. She's looking around everywhere, lifting up paper and things.
And she asked me, did you take the scissors with
you when you went upstairs? I'm like no, and she said,
I set them down right here, but now they're not anywhere.
I'm as confused as she is. Scissors don't just disappear
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into thin air. We looked in all of the boxes,
we shook out all of the like scraps of paper.
We checked under the couch cushions, we looked under the
end tables. Then, I noticed a spot under the coffee
table that's like a lump under the area rug. I
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turned to my mom and I'm like, did you notice
this lump over here? What's that? She comes over and
she looks at it and she's like, I don't know
what that is. I'm like, let's just move all of
this stuff and roll the rug up. I almost wanted
to prove that it wasn't the scissors. We moved the couch,
the two end tables, the coffee table, everything off of
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fifteen by twenty massive area rug. We each get on
one end of the rug to start rolling it, and
the rug is so heavy and we're having to push
it out of the way. And then there were the scissors.
We both look at each other. My mom just picks
them off really quick, and then we really never talked
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about it again. It would have been impossible for either
me or my mom to put them under the rug.
There's no other way that they could have gotten there,
because there was no way to get to the middle
of that rug without rolling it up. It was in
the dead center, like you could not reach underneath it.
Mrs Pike had to have put the scissors under the rug.
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A year later, my mom enrolled me in a new school,
so I finally, after a few weeks, found a group
of girls. They would be what you would call the
cool group of girls, the main one and I clicked
pretty quick. And then she came to me one day
and she was like, Hey, why don't we have a
sleepover at your house? Oh, hell yeah, she wants to
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come to my house, you know, like they really do
want to be my friend. I asked my mom. My
Mom's like, yeah, it'll be fine, we can get movies, pizza.
And then I'm like, you think Mrs. Pike would do
anything while she's here. My mom assured me. She said,
it's going to be fine. Just you know, be a kid,
have a good time. For like the next week, I
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just like, out loud kind of whisper, Miss Pike, please
don't ruin this for me. I have a new friend.
She's going to be coming over. I don't want you
to scare her. When I would get up in the morning,
I would say it. I would say it when I
got home from school, before I went to bed. Anytime
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I was by myself, I would out loud ask her
not to scare us. Finally, that Friday came, Melissa brought
everything with her to school, so that afternoon, when my
mom picked me up, she could just ride home from
school with us. We're downstairs playing board games. We watched
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one of the movies that we'd rented, had some pizza,
made some prank phone calls, and then we got bored
and decided we wanted to go outside. It was probably
around seven, but the sun was still up. We go
to the trampoline. We're jumping. I'm showing her a few tricks,
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like easy things to do, so she's trying to learn those,
and then she stops and points to my bedroom window,
and she said, oh, your mom's watching us. We see
my mom in the window, but she's wearing this black dress.
It was long sleeve and had a white bow in
the front. So I would do a trick, then Melissa
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would do a trick, and then she would do like
a thumbs up clapping. You know, just rooting us on
everything that we were doing. This goes on for a
few minutes and then we hear someone say, hey, who
are you waving at? We both stop and turn around
and it's my mom standing behind us. So then we
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turned back to my window and the woman was still
in the window. It scared me because if it wasn't
my mom, who is this woman? As soon as Melissa
sees my mom behind us, she turned and looked back
at the window, and then she screamed out, who's in
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the window? And drops down to her butt and scoots and
hops off the trampoline and runs and gets behind my mom.
My mom was holding a clothes basket. She immediately dropped it,
turned around and gave Melissa a hug and tried to
comfort her, tells her, you know, it's okay, it's okay,
it's fine, don't be scared. Melissa's asking her who is that?
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My mom said, oh, well, she used to live here.
She's a friend of the family. She just pops in
every once in a while. She's not scary though. And
then Melissa's just kind of looking at my mom and
then goes silent for a moment and then yells, so
it's a ghost? I was like, oh my god, this
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is it. Mrs Pike has done exactly what I thought
she was going to do. She's scared, Melissa. Mrs Pike
has ruined everything. We went back downstairs. We turn on
one of our movies. Melissa sits like really close to
my mom hugged up to her on the couch watching
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the movie. But then she started to relax a little
bit as the movie went on and noticed that nothing
else was happening scary in the house. While we were
watching the movie, I was twisting my bracelet because I
was nervous. She was kind of like, that's a cute bracelet.
Where'd you get it? I had the bracelet kit in
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my room, so we went upstairs to my bedroom. I
drug it out from under the bed and we opened
that up. We're sitting in the floor, we're going through it.
Picking out the threads and the things that we like.
And then that's when she says, who is Mrs Pike?
I tell her about how we moved into the house
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when I was eight, and that she used to live
in the house with her husband, and I said I'd
met her before she passed away and she was really nice.
She said, well, you said she's nice, but I think
she's a jerk. And I just stopped and told her,
don't say that. You're gonna make her mad, and then
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she's going to do something. She's like, oh, yeah, do
you hear that, Mrs Pike? I think you're a jerk.
I immediately scoot away from her. I like distanced myself
in between us is this bracelet kit with all of
these beads and charms and things. A minute passes and
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we're both staring at each other waiting for something to happen. Then,
we noticed one of those thick red beads lifts up
from the center of the kit and it just kind
of hovers. We're both watching it. She hadn't been thinking
the same thing I was. There's no way that this
bead is levitating in front of us. Then it just
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shot across and hit her right between the eyebrows above
her nose. So Melissa immediately both hands clasp over where
the bead had just hit her, and the bead fell
down and landed in Melissa's lap. She was sitting criss
cross apple sauce. It landed right down in the center.
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So she puts both hands over her head and just goes,
no way, and she moves her hands away, and I
put my hand over my mouth and I just was like,
no way. I said, you have a huge red mark
on your forehead. And she reaches down and picks up
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the bead and she's holding it. That mark stayed on
her head for about four hours. I was in shock
that I had just witnessed it, but I felt like
she kind of deserved it. That's what you get. Then
when she said what do I do now? I was like,
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you made her mad. I said, if I was you,
I would apologize. She's like, Missus Pike, I'm so sorry.
I didn't mean it. You're not a jerk. So then
we both just sat completely still, waiting to see if
anything's going to happen. We probably sit there for like
fifteen minutes. Nothing happens. The next morning, she's getting ready
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to go home and she asked me for a pen
and paper. She said, I want to write Missus Pike
an apology letter. I want to tell her I'm sorry
because you said she pops in and out, so maybe
she wasn't here when I apologized, I'm going to tape
it to your door, and I want you to leave
it there for three days. I was like, okay, it said,
Mrs Pike, I'm so sorry for saying you were a jerk.
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Please forgive me. I'm like, are you gonna go tell
everybody that I'm weird? And she's like, no way. Everybody's
going to love this. From that point on, everyone wanted
to come to my house. I experienced a lot of
things in that house growing up. Most of them weren't
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very scary until years later, when one night I see
Missus Pike and her husband, Mister Pike, both of them
standing in the living room.
THERÉSA (22:09):
Wait wait, wait, sorry, I love where this is going.
I just need another moment to collect myself. I feel
more dead than usual today. You guys listen to these ads.
I'm gonna go stick my head in a freezer somewhere.
Meet back here in a few minutes.
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I'm back. You ever feel so hungover just regular old
dead is an improvement.
LEN (22:35):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (22:37):
I don't know why you're so perky today. You were
having just as much fun as I was. Anyway, when
we left off, Mrs. Pike had just killed at the
sleepover and really boosted Tiffiany's middle school social status. But
it sounds like things are about to take a turn
for the terrifying.
TIFFIANY (22:54):
So a year later, my brother, who's five years younger
than me, got a bunk bed for his room. It's one
of those old metal bunk beds from the nineties. It
was a twin bed on the top and a full
sized bed on the bottom. We each had our own room,
but bunk beds were cool, and I'd never like slept
in a bunk bed before, so I wanted to sleep
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on the top bunk for the first night. That night,
we're in the bed. I'm on the top bunk reading,
he's on the bottom. He falls asleep, and then I
start hearing him snore, and I'm like, I cannot listen
to this anymore. My brother had a very bright night light,
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so the room was still pretty lit up. I started
to go down the ladder. As my foot hit the
bottom wrung of the ladder, I felt something cold brush
against my foot. I look down to see what it was.
That's when I saw a hand coming out from under
the blanket. I knew the hand wasn't my brother's. He
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was sleeping at the other end of the bed, and
it was this bony, frail, very white hand crawling out
from under the comforter. Before I could even like realize
what was happening, it jolts out and grabs me by
the ankle. I scream out and fall backwards, like hit
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the deck and land on my back and scramble backwards,
watching the hand right there on top of the mattress.
My mom heard me fall, and she comes running in
and she kneels down beside me. She's like, what happened?
What's going on? What happened? How did you fall? I
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was like trying to catch my breath, and I just
point at the bed and said, she grabbed me. My
Mom's like, who grabbed you? I recognize the hand that
looked exactly like Mrs Pike's hands. I knew it was
hers because when I met her when she was alive,
she was like really thin and she had long, bony fingers,
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and I was like, it's Mrs. Pike. Mrs. Pike's hand
grabbed me. I lift up my pajama pants to show
her where she had gripped me so hard, and I
had like red lines where her fingers held on to
my ankle. She said, maybe you hit it on the
ladder when you fell. I'm like, no, Look, it looks
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like a handprint. In between each finger was a red line,
almost like when you have a sunburn and then you
push down on it and it'll turn white when you
lift off of it. That's what it looked like. Also,
my skin where the handprint was felt colder than the
rest of my body. I was in shock. I couldn't
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believe that it actually left a mark. Mrs. Pike had
patted me on the leg once before, but she'd never
touched me in a way that it hurt. So this
time was really different and I knew I was never
going to sleep in that bunk bed again.
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When I was sixteen, I'd just gotten my driver's license.
I was babysitting my little brother. My mom and dad
had gone out for dinner when this freak storm just
rolled in. It was like this massive shake the windows
type of storm coming. As soon as it started raining,
I went downstairs and collected candles and flashlights and things,
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because I knew that the power was going to go out.
It always did when it rained. So we were in
the living room watching TV already had a few of
the candles lit when the power went out. Now I'm like, great.
How am I going to keep him entertained? He wanted
to go back to his room to play. I was like,
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that sounds great. We'll go back there. Let me grab
a book on the way. So I stop in my room,
I pick out one of my books, and we go
into his room and we set up all of these
candles and lights everywhere to light up the room, and
we just kind of hang out in there for a
little while. We're in there for about an hour, when
I hear the TV turn on from the living room
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on the other end of the house. I was like, oh,
the power's back on. And he said, I want to
stay back here and play, and I'm like, well, let
me go turn the TV down. It was like very loud.
I head down the hallway and I can hear the
voices and I'm able to make out that it's actually
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two people talking. It sounds like a man and a woman.
So I slow down and I'm listening to them and
I can tell that they're arguing, and it sounds like
they're arguing over bills. It sounded like a sitcom. I'm thinking, like,
is this Roseanne or something? So I keep heading down
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the hallway. Then as I passed the bathroom, I reach
in to flip the switch to turn the lights on
to light up the hall a little bit, but nothing happens.
So I flip it back down and then try it again.
Still no lights. Well that's weird. That's when it clicked
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in my head. The power's not working anywhere else in
the house, so it can't be the TV. There's actually
people in the living room. And then I hear a
woman say, someone's coming. Then a man says, I don't
hear anything, so I stop, and I'm like, surely they're
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not talking about me. So I take a few more
steps towards the living room and then I hear her say,
she's in the hallway. Oh my god, they are they're
talking about me. Who is in the living room? Who
is talking about me? I made up my mind. I'm
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going to confront whoever it is. I had this maglight flashlight.
I had it on already but I held it up
like a baseball bat. So I stepped into the living room,
and that's when I see them standing there. I immediately
recognize both of them. It's Mrs. and Mr. Pike. They
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both stop arguing, turn and look at me. And Mrs.
Pike's face, she looked sad and he just kind of
looked mean. They were both older. She was small and frail.
He was slightly taller than her, but not by much.
And they were solid appearing, but not really. They looked
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like two people, but not like living people. It stopped
me in my tracks. Mrs. Pike was wearing a long
black dress with long sleeves and a white bow in
the front. Mister Pike, he was wearing dark pants and
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a button up shirt and appeared to have like a
sweater vest over it. He's staring at her, She's staring
at me, and she looked like she felt bad that
we had heard them arguing and caught them there. She
felt bad that she'd scared me, like all of these things.
I could tell just by the look on her face.
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And he's still staring at her, and then when he
sees that she's looking at me, he turns to me,
and he was scary looking. As I'm looking at him, Mrs.
Pike pushed Mr. Pike into the coat closet, but the
door was closed. They just kind of walked right through it.
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My immediate thought was, are they still in there? I
run over to the closet and I throw the door open.
I could not believe it. The coats were swaying as
if someone had passed through them, but no one was
in the coat closet. So then I shut it and
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then pulled it open the exact same way that I
did the first time, and nothing happened. So I thought, well,
maybe I pulled it harder than I thought to let
me pull it more quickly and see if that makes
the coats move. So I'm standing there just like shutting
the door, pulling it open, shutting, you know, like back
and forth, and I could not get the coats to sway.
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About thirty minutes later, my mom and dad get home
from their date, and immediately I tell my mom what happened,
and then my dad came in there and she told
him what I'd said. He's like, oh, well, you just
must have opened the door to quickly, or you must
have pulled it open really fast, and the gust of
wind would have made the coats swing. I told him no,
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I tried that and I couldn't get it to do it.
He didn't believe me, so he made me follow him
into the living room so that he could show me
that it was just me opening the door too quickly
that caused the coats to move. He opens the door,
the coats don't move, so he shuts the door. Then
he pulls it open like way quicker than I could have,
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and the coats still didn't move. And then he said, well,
you must have just imagined the coats moving, and I said,
I know what I saw, and the coats were moving.
Missus and mister Pike went into the closet.
Several years later, I've moved out, I'm married, I have
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a son, his name is Austin. There's a storm rolling in,
so I decide that I'm going to need more candles
and flashlights than I already have, and I knew that
I could go out to my mom and dad's to
get endless amounts of them. So I put Austin, who's
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three at the time, into the car seat and we
head out to my parents' house. My mom and dad
weren't home at the time. Both were at work. I
knew this. I wasn't worried about it because I had
a key to the house. We pull into the driveway,
I get Austin out of the car seat. We head
up to the front door. We walk in and we
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take our shoes off, and then we head downstairs to
the basement to get the candles. Austin had a play
area in the basement. We go over to that area.
I find him a toy. He starts playing with it.
I walk over to the other side of the basement
to get the candles. I pick out about five or
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six of them and put them into the bag, and
then head back over to get Austin. We go upstairs.
I set him on the couch and then set the
candles beside him, and I go to get his shoes
to put back on him so we can leave. I
get the first shoe on, and then as I'm putting
the second shoe on, I hear a woman say, who's there?
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In the distance, it sounded like it came from the basement.
I freeze and I turn in the direction of the
basement door. Who's there? Who was that? Did I hear that?
Did I actually hear somebody yell from the basement, and
I turned back to Austin and I noticed that he's
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also looking in that direction. While I'm looking at him,
I hear, hey, don't go. But this time I could
hear the creaks of the stairs. Whoever was yelling from
the basement was now also walking up the stairs. I
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knew that my mom wasn't home. I knew that she
was at work, and I knew my dad wasn't there.
But this sounded like a woman. And I knew no
one was in the home because I had already been
through the entire house. And then not only was I
hearing it, I could tell that Austin could hear it
as well. He turns to me and he said, where's Nana?
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And I said, Nana's at work, Nana's not here. That's
not Nana. And as soon as I said that, she
called out again, wait, don't go, and I could tell
that she was closer, and it almost kind of sounded
like my mom, so much so that Austin was like
Nana and jumped off the couch to try to run
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to the sound. I reached out and grabbed his shirt
and I pulled him in real close, and I just
whispered because I was scared. At this point, I was
just like, that's not Nana, and I was just trying
to be like as quiet as possible because I did
not know what was going to happen next, and then
having him there with me, just the mother instinct kicked in.
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I didn't want anyone to hurt him, and I didn't
know if it was an actual person or not. When
I get scared, I just freeze. I could feel like
my heartbeat in my throat, and then without giving it
a second thought, I just jerked him up, stood up
really quickly, and just headed straight for the front door.
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I ran out the front door, and I just left
the door open, and I just wanted to get Austin
out and in the car. I put him in his
car seat. My hands were shaking trying to get his
car seat buckled and make sure that he was like
actually buckled in. I shut his door, and the storm
was starting at this point, so my hair was like
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whipping across my face, and I'm just trying to get
my hair out of my face. I turn and look
at the front door and see the front door just
slam shut. Someone or something had slammed the door shut.
I get into the driver's side seat and I see
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the curtain beside the front door move. Whatever I had
shut the door was now looking out the window at
me. I just threw it into reverse and go out of there.
I had like a death grip on the steering wheel
because just my entire like my adrenaline was pumping. I
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called Mom and I'm like, hey, You're never gonna believe
what just happened. I was like, I wanted to make
sure that you were at work because we heard something
in the house and I think it was Mrs. Pike
yelling out to us. She said, yeah, no, one's there.
Things happening just kind of became the norm, and everyone
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that came over had some sort of experience with Mrs. Pike.
I've had so many experiences with Miss Pike, and I
remember the first time I met her, she said I
would live here forever if I could. I guess she
meant it.
THERÉSA (38:28):
We love a woman who keeps her word, and this
really has been a lifelong haunt for Tiffiany. At this point, Mrs.
Pike is basically family and no judgment. I've run screaming
from plenty of family members on countless occasions. It's a
canon event. We mustn't interfere. Well, I'm finally feeling better,
and since I already broke dry January, it's time for
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a little hair of the dog. Len, should we go
round two? You could show me that high C you
swear you can hit.
LEN (38:54):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (38:56):
If you have a ghost story to share, email us
at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com and you could tell your story on an upcoming episode.
I'm feeling generous. Len, take us out!
LEN (39:07):
[SINGING]
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Hi, it's me, Therésa. This is Haunting. One hundred percent real ghost
stories told by you, our loyal and devoted listeners. I'm
here today with our producer Len,
Ill have it.
And my familiar, Merlin. I'll be honest with you guys. I
am not firing on all cylinders today. Len and I
fumbled the bag on dry January after work yesterday with
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two for one happy hour at Haunt and Haven. In
our defense, we were going for Monday karaoke. You guys
know I love an open mic. I stick with the classics.
Shania Twain, Vanessa Carlton, that song from the Lizzie McGuire movie.
Len's repertoire is a lot of Broadway show tunes and
pre Saturday Night Fever Era BeeGees, which was crazy because
Andy Gibb showed up and I swear to god, he
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was making eyes at me the whole night
LEN (01:00):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (01:03):
It was definitely him, Len.
LEN (01:05):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (01:06):
Whatever, I don't have it in me to argue with you.
Let's just get this show on the road. We've got
a really juicy three parter today. Our guest Tiffany claims
to have actually met the woman who later haunted her
childhood home. It's like the opposite of don't meet your heroes,
do meet your horrors, or something like that. Yeah, I
think that works.
TIFFIANY (01:28):
I could feel my heartbeat in my throat. I did
not know what was going to happen next. I run
out and the storms like starting to brew now, and the
winds like whipping around, and I'm trying to frantically get
him in the car and buckle him up. As soon
as I know that he's safe, I shut the door
and I turned around, and I could not believe what
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I was seeing. I'm Tiffiany, and I met the woman
who haunted my family home. When I was a child,
my dad had this friend named Butch that he had
grown up with. He'd spent a lot of time with him,
and his parents were needing to sell their home because
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they were getting older. My dad, who had spent a
lot of his childhood growing up in that home, had
always liked it. He liked the house, he liked the area,
and he had mentioned when he was younger that if
they ever wanted to sell the house, to think of him.
So when it came time to sell it, Butch called
my dad to see if he wanted the house. My
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dad took my mom to show her the house, hoping
that she was going to love it as much as
he did growing up, and I went with them. It
felt like we were driving out into the middle of nowhere.
The house was on this long, windy, curvy road and
it was very narrow. I'm not even sure two cars
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could fit on it comfortably. But then when we got
to the house, you come around a corner, and there were about
four or five houses that were pretty close together, so
it wasn't completely isolated, but to me it felt like
it was. We pull into the driveway. The house was cute.
It was yellow. It had flowers and things all around it.
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It seemed inviting. We walk up to the house, there
was a little screened in porch and were greeted at
the door by Butch's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pike. Mister
Pike was shorter than my dad, but he had this
arrogance to him that was unmistakable. Even at my young age,
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I could recognize that he was kind of mean, so
I did not like him. Mrs. Pike was frail, thin, short.
She had these long, thin, bony fingers and had kind eyes.
I could tell that she was nice. Mister Pike immediately
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asked my mom and dad if they would like to
walk through and look at all of the rooms in
the home. And missus Pike turns to me and says,
you can stay here with me while your mom and
dad go and tour the house. I sat down on
the couch. She starts talking to me about random things,
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just kind of trying to entertain me, I guess. I
tell her that I don't really want to move out there.
We lived right beside my cousins. My closest cousin she
was four years younger than me. You know, this was
the eighties, so we were outside all day every day.
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So I felt like I was leaving all of that behind.
Like I was scared I was going to be isolated
out there with just my brother. But we're sitting there,
and she leaned in closely and put her hand on
my knee and said, Oh, I'm sure you're going to
like it. I know it seems like it's out in
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the middle of nowhere, but you're going to love it here.
Then she whispered, don't worry, sweetie, I would stay here
forever if I could. The way she said that and
how she said it gave me an uneasy feeling. So
I was like, ooh, like why'd she say it like that?
Like what does she mean? And why does she call
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me sweetie? We were there maybe fifteen minutes if that,
because my dad already had his mind made up that
he was getting it. He was just kind of like
courtesy showing it to my mom and luckily she loved
it too, so it worked out. We moved in almost immediately.
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My room was huge compared to my last one, and
it had like a huge walk in closet. It felt
like a mini playhouse. It was so large, so I
was happy about it. It was on the corner of
the house. I had two windows, like a view to the backyard,
a view to the side yard. I was trying to
find the positives of it, but I was still not
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excited about moving so far away from my cousins. It
was just normal every day going to school, I was
in dance. Everything just kind of continued on as usual,
and it did suck. Like after school, I was used
to going and playing with my cousins and stuff, but
now I didn't have anything to do. I would just
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come home and that's when I started reading a lot.
A couple of months after we moved in, my dad
got a phone call from Butch telling us that his
mom had passed away. Two months after that, things started
happening at the house. My mom was noticing things going
missing or showing up where they shouldn't have been, and
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she's very like OCD on where she puts things. After a while,
she said that she kind of put it together that
it may be a ghost, but she didn't really want
to think, Okay, you know, is Mrs. Pike back or whatever.
And then she said that she would be like, okay,
Mrs Pike, if this is you, can you move this
over here? And then it would take a few days,
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but then she would find what she said moved where
she asked it to be moved, so she was like, okay,
that was Mrs. Pike. I didn't really have anything significant
happened to me until I was in my room reading
one night. It was a school night. I got in
trouble all the time for staying up too late to read.
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My mom had already came into my room twice to
tell me to knock it off to go to bed,
so I told her I would be done with it.
I put my book over on my nightstand and then
as soon as she left, I just grabbed my flashlight
and got under the covers to go back to reading again.
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I don't know how much longer it had been since
my mom had originally left. I'm reading for a while,
but then I hear the door open again, so I'm like,
oh my gosh, I am busted big time. She's coming
back to like take my book. So I immediately flip
the flashlight off and try to pretend like I'm asleep,
and then I feel her sit down on the bed.
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I wait for her to say something like give me
the book or whatever, but she just kind of pats
me on the leg and then she whispers, don't worry sweetie,
everything's going to be okay. I was like, what the hell?
What does that even mean? What was going to be okay?
And why does she call me sweetie? Like I'd never
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heard her call me sweetie. And it was like the
way it was said, it was so creepy. The whole
interaction was weird and it didn't really make sense. After
I heard her leave the room, I had all of
these things going through my mind. I waited for a
little bit trying to process like what she meant, and
then I thought, no, I can't sleep. I'm going to
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have to go ask her. When I went into her room,
she was asleep. The first words out of my mouth
was what did you mean by that? And then she
like jolted awake. I could see the look of confusion
on her face, and she's like, what are you talking about?
I said, what did you mean? Everything's going to be okay?
She was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
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I have been in here the whole time. I just
went back to my room. I was like laying in
there trying to figure out what had happened or why
that was so creepy. And it was because it was familiar,
Like I knew the voice, but I couldn't place it,
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so I just kept laying there. But when the memory clicked,
I shot up in bed. It was Mrs. Pike. She
had called me sweetie when I met her. That's where
I knew the voice.
THERÉSA (09:59):
Honestly, I would love for someone to pat me on
the back and tell me everything's going to be okay
right about now.
LEN (10:04):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (10:04):
No, not you, Len. Oh, I really didn't think ghost
could get this hungover. The mouth sweats are starting, so
let's go to ads.
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Okay, I spewed a lot of something black, spiky and
sentient all over the bathroom. Sorry, Len, facilities will get
to it, but I wouldn't go in there today if
you can help it
LEN (10:38):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (10:41):
Okay. Back to missus Pike.
TIFFIANY (10:46):
We had a full size basement. My mom had set
it up kind of like a mini apartment. There was
a couch that folded out into a bed, a coffee table,
two end tables, a large entertainment center that had a
TV and VCR. There was a dining room table with
four chairs, and there were two massive area rugs. One
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of them was like fifteen by twenty, and then on
top of that was another area rug. It was like
an eight x ten and then off in one corner
was like a play area for my little brother and
all of the board games and things like that. Shortly
after Mrs. Pike came into my room, it was almost
Christmas and we had a lot of presents that we
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needed to wrap. My mom had turned the basement into
like a gift wrapping headquarters. We had everything down there
you could possibly think of, tons of boxes, ribbon, different
types of wrapping paper, scissors, tape, everything you would need
to wrap up gift. I go upstairs to get more tape,
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and when I come back down, my mom is sitting
there confused. She's looking around everywhere, lifting up paper and things.
And she asked me, did you take the scissors with
you when you went upstairs? I'm like no, and she said,
I set them down right here, but now they're not anywhere.
I'm as confused as she is. Scissors don't just disappear
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into thin air. We looked in all of the boxes,
we shook out all of the like scraps of paper.
We checked under the couch cushions, we looked under the
end tables. Then, I noticed a spot under the coffee
table that's like a lump under the area rug. I
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turned to my mom and I'm like, did you notice
this lump over here? What's that? She comes over and
she looks at it and she's like, I don't know
what that is. I'm like, let's just move all of
this stuff and roll the rug up. I almost wanted
to prove that it wasn't the scissors. We moved the couch,
the two end tables, the coffee table, everything off of
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fifteen by twenty massive area rug. We each get on
one end of the rug to start rolling it, and
the rug is so heavy and we're having to push
it out of the way. And then there were the scissors.
We both look at each other. My mom just picks
them off really quick, and then we really never talked
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about it again. It would have been impossible for either
me or my mom to put them under the rug.
There's no other way that they could have gotten there,
because there was no way to get to the middle
of that rug without rolling it up. It was in
the dead center, like you could not reach underneath it.
Mrs Pike had to have put the scissors under the rug.
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A year later, my mom enrolled me in a new school,
so I finally, after a few weeks, found a group
of girls. They would be what you would call the
cool group of girls, the main one and I clicked
pretty quick. And then she came to me one day
and she was like, Hey, why don't we have a
sleepover at your house? Oh, hell yeah, she wants to
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come to my house, you know, like they really do
want to be my friend. I asked my mom. My
Mom's like, yeah, it'll be fine, we can get movies, pizza.
And then I'm like, you think Mrs. Pike would do
anything while she's here. My mom assured me. She said,
it's going to be fine. Just you know, be a kid,
have a good time. For like the next week, I
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just like, out loud kind of whisper, Miss Pike, please
don't ruin this for me. I have a new friend.
She's going to be coming over. I don't want you
to scare her. When I would get up in the morning,
I would say it. I would say it when I
got home from school, before I went to bed. Anytime
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I was by myself, I would out loud ask her
not to scare us. Finally, that Friday came, Melissa brought
everything with her to school, so that afternoon, when my
mom picked me up, she could just ride home from
school with us. We're downstairs playing board games. We watched
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one of the movies that we'd rented, had some pizza,
made some prank phone calls, and then we got bored
and decided we wanted to go outside. It was probably
around seven, but the sun was still up. We go
to the trampoline. We're jumping. I'm showing her a few tricks,
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like easy things to do, so she's trying to learn those,
and then she stops and points to my bedroom window,
and she said, oh, your mom's watching us. We see
my mom in the window, but she's wearing this black dress.
It was long sleeve and had a white bow in
the front. So I would do a trick, then Melissa
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would do a trick, and then she would do like
a thumbs up clapping. You know, just rooting us on
everything that we were doing. This goes on for a
few minutes and then we hear someone say, hey, who
are you waving at? We both stop and turn around
and it's my mom standing behind us. So then we
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turned back to my window and the woman was still
in the window. It scared me because if it wasn't
my mom, who is this woman? As soon as Melissa
sees my mom behind us, she turned and looked back
at the window, and then she screamed out, who's in
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the window? And drops down to her butt and scoots and
hops off the trampoline and runs and gets behind my mom.
My mom was holding a clothes basket. She immediately dropped it,
turned around and gave Melissa a hug and tried to
comfort her, tells her, you know, it's okay, it's okay,
it's fine, don't be scared. Melissa's asking her who is that?
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My mom said, oh, well, she used to live here.
She's a friend of the family. She just pops in
every once in a while. She's not scary though. And
then Melissa's just kind of looking at my mom and
then goes silent for a moment and then yells, so
it's a ghost? I was like, oh my god, this
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is it. Mrs Pike has done exactly what I thought
she was going to do. She's scared, Melissa. Mrs Pike
has ruined everything. We went back downstairs. We turn on
one of our movies. Melissa sits like really close to
my mom hugged up to her on the couch watching
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the movie. But then she started to relax a little
bit as the movie went on and noticed that nothing
else was happening scary in the house. While we were
watching the movie, I was twisting my bracelet because I
was nervous. She was kind of like, that's a cute bracelet.
Where'd you get it? I had the bracelet kit in
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my room, so we went upstairs to my bedroom. I
drug it out from under the bed and we opened
that up. We're sitting in the floor, we're going through it.
Picking out the threads and the things that we like.
And then that's when she says, who is Mrs Pike?
I tell her about how we moved into the house
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when I was eight, and that she used to live
in the house with her husband, and I said I'd
met her before she passed away and she was really nice.
She said, well, you said she's nice, but I think
she's a jerk. And I just stopped and told her,
don't say that. You're gonna make her mad, and then
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she's going to do something. She's like, oh, yeah, do
you hear that, Mrs Pike? I think you're a jerk.
I immediately scoot away from her. I like distanced myself
in between us is this bracelet kit with all of
these beads and charms and things. A minute passes and
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we're both staring at each other waiting for something to happen. Then,
we noticed one of those thick red beads lifts up
from the center of the kit and it just kind
of hovers. We're both watching it. She hadn't been thinking
the same thing I was. There's no way that this
bead is levitating in front of us. Then it just
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shot across and hit her right between the eyebrows above
her nose. So Melissa immediately both hands clasp over where
the bead had just hit her, and the bead fell
down and landed in Melissa's lap. She was sitting criss
cross apple sauce. It landed right down in the center.
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So she puts both hands over her head and just goes,
no way, and she moves her hands away, and I
put my hand over my mouth and I just was like,
no way. I said, you have a huge red mark
on your forehead. And she reaches down and picks up
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the bead and she's holding it. That mark stayed on
her head for about four hours. I was in shock
that I had just witnessed it, but I felt like
she kind of deserved it. That's what you get. Then
when she said what do I do now? I was like,
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you made her mad. I said, if I was you,
I would apologize. She's like, Missus Pike, I'm so sorry.
I didn't mean it. You're not a jerk. So then
we both just sat completely still, waiting to see if
anything's going to happen. We probably sit there for like
fifteen minutes. Nothing happens. The next morning, she's getting ready
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to go home and she asked me for a pen
and paper. She said, I want to write Missus Pike
an apology letter. I want to tell her I'm sorry
because you said she pops in and out, so maybe
she wasn't here when I apologized, I'm going to tape
it to your door, and I want you to leave
it there for three days. I was like, okay, it said,
Mrs Pike, I'm so sorry for saying you were a jerk.
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Please forgive me. I'm like, are you gonna go tell
everybody that I'm weird? And she's like, no way. Everybody's
going to love this. From that point on, everyone wanted
to come to my house. I experienced a lot of
things in that house growing up. Most of them weren't
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very scary until years later, when one night I see
Missus Pike and her husband, Mister Pike, both of them
standing in the living room.
THERÉSA (22:09):
Wait wait, wait, sorry, I love where this is going.
I just need another moment to collect myself. I feel
more dead than usual today. You guys listen to these ads.
I'm gonna go stick my head in a freezer somewhere.
Meet back here in a few minutes.
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I'm back. You ever feel so hungover just regular old
dead is an improvement.
LEN (22:35):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (22:37):
I don't know why you're so perky today. You were
having just as much fun as I was. Anyway, when
we left off, Mrs. Pike had just killed at the
sleepover and really boosted Tiffiany's middle school social status. But
it sounds like things are about to take a turn
for the terrifying.
TIFFIANY (22:54):
So a year later, my brother, who's five years younger
than me, got a bunk bed for his room. It's one
of those old metal bunk beds from the nineties. It
was a twin bed on the top and a full
sized bed on the bottom. We each had our own room,
but bunk beds were cool, and I'd never like slept
in a bunk bed before, so I wanted to sleep
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on the top bunk for the first night. That night,
we're in the bed. I'm on the top bunk reading,
he's on the bottom. He falls asleep, and then I
start hearing him snore, and I'm like, I cannot listen
to this anymore. My brother had a very bright night light,
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so the room was still pretty lit up. I started
to go down the ladder. As my foot hit the
bottom wrung of the ladder, I felt something cold brush
against my foot. I look down to see what it was.
That's when I saw a hand coming out from under
the blanket. I knew the hand wasn't my brother's. He
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was sleeping at the other end of the bed, and
it was this bony, frail, very white hand crawling out
from under the comforter. Before I could even like realize
what was happening, it jolts out and grabs me by
the ankle. I scream out and fall backwards, like hit
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the deck and land on my back and scramble backwards,
watching the hand right there on top of the mattress.
My mom heard me fall, and she comes running in
and she kneels down beside me. She's like, what happened?
What's going on? What happened? How did you fall? I
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was like trying to catch my breath, and I just
point at the bed and said, she grabbed me. My
Mom's like, who grabbed you? I recognize the hand that
looked exactly like Mrs Pike's hands. I knew it was
hers because when I met her when she was alive,
she was like really thin and she had long, bony fingers,
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and I was like, it's Mrs. Pike. Mrs. Pike's hand
grabbed me. I lift up my pajama pants to show
her where she had gripped me so hard, and I
had like red lines where her fingers held on to
my ankle. She said, maybe you hit it on the
ladder when you fell. I'm like, no, Look, it looks
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like a handprint. In between each finger was a red line,
almost like when you have a sunburn and then you
push down on it and it'll turn white when you
lift off of it. That's what it looked like. Also,
my skin where the handprint was felt colder than the
rest of my body. I was in shock. I couldn't
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believe that it actually left a mark. Mrs. Pike had
patted me on the leg once before, but she'd never
touched me in a way that it hurt. So this
time was really different and I knew I was never
going to sleep in that bunk bed again.
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When I was sixteen, I'd just gotten my driver's license.
I was babysitting my little brother. My mom and dad
had gone out for dinner when this freak storm just
rolled in. It was like this massive shake the windows
type of storm coming. As soon as it started raining,
I went downstairs and collected candles and flashlights and things,
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because I knew that the power was going to go out.
It always did when it rained. So we were in
the living room watching TV already had a few of
the candles lit when the power went out. Now I'm like, great.
How am I going to keep him entertained? He wanted
to go back to his room to play. I was like,
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that sounds great. We'll go back there. Let me grab
a book on the way. So I stop in my room,
I pick out one of my books, and we go
into his room and we set up all of these
candles and lights everywhere to light up the room, and
we just kind of hang out in there for a
little while. We're in there for about an hour, when
I hear the TV turn on from the living room
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on the other end of the house. I was like, oh,
the power's back on. And he said, I want to
stay back here and play, and I'm like, well, let
me go turn the TV down. It was like very loud.
I head down the hallway and I can hear the
voices and I'm able to make out that it's actually
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two people talking. It sounds like a man and a woman.
So I slow down and I'm listening to them and
I can tell that they're arguing, and it sounds like
they're arguing over bills. It sounded like a sitcom. I'm thinking, like,
is this Roseanne or something? So I keep heading down
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the hallway. Then as I passed the bathroom, I reach
in to flip the switch to turn the lights on
to light up the hall a little bit, but nothing happens.
So I flip it back down and then try it again.
Still no lights. Well that's weird. That's when it clicked
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in my head. The power's not working anywhere else in
the house, so it can't be the TV. There's actually
people in the living room. And then I hear a
woman say, someone's coming. Then a man says, I don't
hear anything, so I stop, and I'm like, surely they're
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not talking about me. So I take a few more
steps towards the living room and then I hear her say,
she's in the hallway. Oh my god, they are they're
talking about me. Who is in the living room? Who
is talking about me? I made up my mind. I'm
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going to confront whoever it is. I had this maglight flashlight.
I had it on already but I held it up
like a baseball bat. So I stepped into the living room,
and that's when I see them standing there. I immediately
recognize both of them. It's Mrs. and Mr. Pike. They
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both stop arguing, turn and look at me. And Mrs.
Pike's face, she looked sad and he just kind of
looked mean. They were both older. She was small and frail.
He was slightly taller than her, but not by much.
And they were solid appearing, but not really. They looked
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like two people, but not like living people. It stopped
me in my tracks. Mrs. Pike was wearing a long
black dress with long sleeves and a white bow in
the front. Mister Pike, he was wearing dark pants and
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a button up shirt and appeared to have like a
sweater vest over it. He's staring at her, She's staring
at me, and she looked like she felt bad that
we had heard them arguing and caught them there. She
felt bad that she'd scared me, like all of these things.
I could tell just by the look on her face.
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And he's still staring at her, and then when he
sees that she's looking at me, he turns to me,
and he was scary looking. As I'm looking at him, Mrs.
Pike pushed Mr. Pike into the coat closet, but the
door was closed. They just kind of walked right through it.
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My immediate thought was, are they still in there? I
run over to the closet and I throw the door open.
I could not believe it. The coats were swaying as
if someone had passed through them, but no one was
in the coat closet. So then I shut it and
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then pulled it open the exact same way that I
did the first time, and nothing happened. So I thought, well,
maybe I pulled it harder than I thought to let
me pull it more quickly and see if that makes
the coats move. So I'm standing there just like shutting
the door, pulling it open, shutting, you know, like back
and forth, and I could not get the coats to sway.
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About thirty minutes later, my mom and dad get home
from their date, and immediately I tell my mom what happened,
and then my dad came in there and she told
him what I'd said. He's like, oh, well, you just
must have opened the door to quickly, or you must
have pulled it open really fast, and the gust of
wind would have made the coats swing. I told him no,
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I tried that and I couldn't get it to do it.
He didn't believe me, so he made me follow him
into the living room so that he could show me
that it was just me opening the door too quickly
that caused the coats to move. He opens the door,
the coats don't move, so he shuts the door. Then
he pulls it open like way quicker than I could have,
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and the coats still didn't move. And then he said, well,
you must have just imagined the coats moving, and I said,
I know what I saw, and the coats were moving.
Missus and mister Pike went into the closet.
Several years later, I've moved out, I'm married, I have
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a son, his name is Austin. There's a storm rolling in,
so I decide that I'm going to need more candles
and flashlights than I already have, and I knew that
I could go out to my mom and dad's to
get endless amounts of them. So I put Austin, who's
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three at the time, into the car seat and we
head out to my parents' house. My mom and dad
weren't home at the time. Both were at work. I
knew this. I wasn't worried about it because I had
a key to the house. We pull into the driveway,
I get Austin out of the car seat. We head
up to the front door. We walk in and we
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take our shoes off, and then we head downstairs to
the basement to get the candles. Austin had a play
area in the basement. We go over to that area.
I find him a toy. He starts playing with it.
I walk over to the other side of the basement
to get the candles. I pick out about five or
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six of them and put them into the bag, and
then head back over to get Austin. We go upstairs.
I set him on the couch and then set the
candles beside him, and I go to get his shoes
to put back on him so we can leave. I
get the first shoe on, and then as I'm putting
the second shoe on, I hear a woman say, who's there?
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In the distance, it sounded like it came from the basement.
I freeze and I turn in the direction of the
basement door. Who's there? Who was that? Did I hear that?
Did I actually hear somebody yell from the basement, and
I turned back to Austin and I noticed that he's
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also looking in that direction. While I'm looking at him,
I hear, hey, don't go. But this time I could
hear the creaks of the stairs. Whoever was yelling from
the basement was now also walking up the stairs. I
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knew that my mom wasn't home. I knew that she
was at work, and I knew my dad wasn't there.
But this sounded like a woman. And I knew no
one was in the home because I had already been
through the entire house. And then not only was I
hearing it, I could tell that Austin could hear it
as well. He turns to me and he said, where's Nana?
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And I said, Nana's at work, Nana's not here. That's
not Nana. And as soon as I said that, she
called out again, wait, don't go, and I could tell
that she was closer, and it almost kind of sounded
like my mom, so much so that Austin was like
Nana and jumped off the couch to try to run
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to the sound. I reached out and grabbed his shirt
and I pulled him in real close, and I just
whispered because I was scared. At this point, I was
just like, that's not Nana, and I was just trying
to be like as quiet as possible because I did
not know what was going to happen next, and then
having him there with me, just the mother instinct kicked in.
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I didn't want anyone to hurt him, and I didn't
know if it was an actual person or not. When
I get scared, I just freeze. I could feel like
my heartbeat in my throat, and then without giving it
a second thought, I just jerked him up, stood up
really quickly, and just headed straight for the front door.
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I ran out the front door, and I just left
the door open, and I just wanted to get Austin
out and in the car. I put him in his
car seat. My hands were shaking trying to get his
car seat buckled and make sure that he was like
actually buckled in. I shut his door, and the storm
was starting at this point, so my hair was like
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whipping across my face, and I'm just trying to get
my hair out of my face. I turn and look
at the front door and see the front door just
slam shut. Someone or something had slammed the door shut.
I get into the driver's side seat and I see
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the curtain beside the front door move. Whatever I had
shut the door was now looking out the window at
me. I just threw it into reverse and go out of there.
I had like a death grip on the steering wheel
because just my entire like my adrenaline was pumping. I
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called Mom and I'm like, hey, You're never gonna believe
what just happened. I was like, I wanted to make
sure that you were at work because we heard something
in the house and I think it was Mrs. Pike
yelling out to us. She said, yeah, no, one's there.
Things happening just kind of became the norm, and everyone
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that came over had some sort of experience with Mrs. Pike.
I've had so many experiences with Miss Pike, and I
remember the first time I met her, she said I
would live here forever if I could. I guess she
meant it.
THERÉSA (38:28):
We love a woman who keeps her word, and this
really has been a lifelong haunt for Tiffiany. At this point, Mrs.
Pike is basically family and no judgment. I've run screaming
from plenty of family members on countless occasions. It's a
canon event. We mustn't interfere. Well, I'm finally feeling better,
and since I already broke dry January, it's time for
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a little hair of the dog. Len, should we go
round two? You could show me that high C you
swear you can hit.
LEN (38:54):
[MUMBLES]
THERÉSA (38:56):
If you have a ghost story to share, email us
at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com and you could tell your story on an upcoming episode.
I'm feeling generous. Len, take us out!
LEN (39:07):
[SINGING]
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Haunting is a production of Glass Podcasts in partnership with
iHeart Podcast. Haunting is created and executive produced by Nancy Glass,
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Andrea Gunning, Ben Fetterman, and Lauren Lapkus, and it is
hosted by Lauren 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.
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Haunting's theme and original compositions were composed by Oliver Baines
and Dorry Macaulay of Noiser. Music library provided by Mybe Music.
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