March 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Kimberli thought she had found her dream home—until unseen footsteps, ghostly voices, and a lingering presence made it clear she wasn’t alone. Meanwhile, Mila’s college dorm sits on haunted ground, and a late-night Ouija board session invites something sinister. As Therésa battles a relentless time loop in the studio, one question lingers: can you escape a haunting once it takes hold?
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello, Hello, my chickenees, Welcome back to another episode of Haunting.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wait into a judger level.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Seriously, lent cast test? Are we good?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yep? All good? Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Great next time. Let's try to be ready when I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Okay, right? Excuse me, nolle.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Hmmm. Hello, Hello, my chickenees. Welcome back to another episode
of Haunting. I am joined in studio by our producer
Len and my familiar Merlin the Great Horn Merlin. Oh
my god, there's coffee all over my notes? Lyn, can
I get some towels in here? Merlin? What has gotten
into you? Let's just keep things moving. I would love
(00:58):
to get this episode off the ground. If everyone done
with the interruptions, Thank you. First up, we'll hear from Kimberly,
who found her dream home on Zillo. I mean, who hasn't.
It's pornhum for real estate. But it gets better. She
actually bought the house and moved in with her young siblings.
They were living the dream. But that's the thing about dreams,
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they end.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Up. Until two months ago, my sister didn't think that
they were ghosts until she saw one in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
She was having full on conversation, but there was no
one there.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The rest of us are like, what the heck is happening,
Like this is real, We're all experiencing it at the
same time. My name's Kimberly and I bought my dream house,
which turned out to be haunted.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I was not really looking for a house.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I was actually living in South America and was just
browsing Zillow and I saw this pretty house and I thought,
oh my gosh, that's.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
My dream house.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I was not planning on living in America, but here
i am because I bought this house.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I live in the historic town. It's called Malden. There
are several historic houses. I love history. I have historic
furniture in my house. I have keys, I have letters.
Always loved old things.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
My house is a historic house from eighteen thirty six.
Several generations of the same family lived here. It was
built by a doctor, and he was one of the
first doctors in the entire area. The neighborhood was one
of the biggest salt manufacturing areas in the whole country.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
This whole area was filled with salt barrens.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's a big, imposing brick white house in.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
A flat, big yard.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Back then, it was classified as a mansion. It's beautiful,
especially on the inside. There's ornate would work everywhere, and
it's all white and pretty. Everything was antique, everything was old.
I've been here for three and a half years. My
parents adopted four kids who are biological siblings. Unfortunately, my
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father passed away, so my mom was raising four kids
at almost seventy years old. So I help out as
much as I can. I have three little brothers who
are thirteen, twelve, eleven, and my little sister who's six
living with me during the week because their schools across
the street. So I wanted to make their room really
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nice for them. Wanted everything set up before they came in.
I just moved in and the first night I started
experiencing things. I had spent most of the day dragging
stuff from my car into this house up the stairs.
By the time I got to putting things together, I
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was exhausted. I was up in my little brother's room
and I heard someone walking in the hallway.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Immediately I thought somebody was in the house.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I heard someone walking around out the hallway, down the stairs.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Up the stairs.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Sounds like someone with shoes on and they're walking slowly, like.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Up the stairs and then down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Kind of like they don't want you to hear them,
but they can't be quiet because they have boots on.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm terrified. First instinct is there's someone run away. I
did not stay here that I left, stayed at my
mom's house. Two months later, I was cleaning. It was nighttime.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's easier to clean when the kids are asleep because
they can't run right behind you and destroy it. I
went up the stairs to my little brother's room.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Everybody's sleeping in their beds, sleeping soundly. I was just
straightening up their room. I noticed that one of their
dinosaur toys was out of place.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I picked up the dinosaur to put it back where
it belonged, and as I was reaching up, I heard
someone say, what are you doing in here?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
The voice was a kid's voice.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I turned around. No one's there. It was not my
brother's they were asleep. It was so clear it sounded
like there was a kid standing two feet behind me.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I got the feeling that I don't belong there.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So I slowly backed up. I didn't want to bring
any more attention to myself, and then I turned around
and went downstairs. I was starting to process what had
just happened. My heart was beating really fast. It was
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not my brother's. It couldn't have been my little sister
because she's downstairs. There are no TVs on, there's no
phone on, There's nothing else that could have been.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It was just so clear. I was in shock and
I was scared.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So I called my mom and I told her what
happened and said, I think it's a ghost. But she
doesn't believe in ghosts. She just says, I don't want
to talk about it. I went to sleep, and then
nothing else happened until a few weeks later.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It was night.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I was going to get a snack from the kitchen.
To get to the kitchen, I have to go through
the dining room, and when I turned the corner, and
I saw what.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Looked like a little boy leaning up against the.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Cabinet, like he was trying to hide from me or
trying not to be seen.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
He was probably seven or eight years old.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He had light brown hair. He had beige pants and
a white button up shirt that was rolled up at
the sleeves. He just looked like a little boy, but
his color was off. It was like he stepped out
of an old photograph. I looked at him, he looked
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at me, and I felt like, I'm not supposed to
be here. I'm not supposed to see this, and I
backed out of the room and left. I walked into
my bedroom. I shut the door and then like barricaded
myself in. I sat there thinking about it for a while,
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trying to process what had just happened.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And I knew at that point it couldn't have been
somebody broken at my house because I have an alarm system.
I got on the.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Phone and tried to distract myself from what I'd just seen.
I did not leave my room till the next day.
I'm convinced that there's a little boy haunting my house.
At this point, we hadn't talked about it in front
of my sibling because we don't want to scare them.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We don't want them to feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
One day, my family and I are hanging out in
the living room. My little sister went to the bathroom
and we heard her talking to someone.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm like, who are you talking to?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
She points to the dining room and says the boy.
The boy and I didn't see anyone, but she was
having a full on conversation in front of all of us.
None of us can see anything. It was like no
big deal to her. She didn't think ghost. She went
scared of him. There was just some little boy that
was here. The dining room is where.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I saw what looked like a little boy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It was confirmation that we're all seeing things. My most
recent experience happened about a month ago. I was laying
in bed. It was very early in the morning, probably
four AM. And often my little sister will get up
out of bed and come stand in the doorway. She
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will stand there and wait until I say you can
get in bed with me. She knows she's supposed to
be sleeping in her bed. So I saw my little
sister standing up against the doorframe and I said, do
you want to come into bed with me? She just
stands there, and I'm like half asleep. So I'm getting
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in the wave a little bit because I'm like, I
only have a little bit of time left sleep before
I have to get them up for school. I got
out of bed and I walked over to the bathroom door.
I reached over my sister's head to turn the light on,
and when I turned the light on, there was no
one there. My sister wasn't there and I was all alone,
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but I since the presence of the little boy. I
went to my sister's room and she's completely sound asleep.
I felt so weird, like what if he's there and
I just can't see him. That's just too much for me.
I had already planned on doing research on the house,
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but now that I have what I think are goes,
I'm even more motivated to find out more. I found
out the original owner built this house in eighteen thirty six.
He had a wife and several kids and had a
funeral here, and then two of his sons passed away.
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My mouse and the old pastor died in this house,
so there's at least three people who died here. So
I think some of them are still here, haunting this house.
I found his daughter's journal in the.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
State archive from a newspaper clipping, and she wrote a.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Poem about death. It's called friendly dust. Beneath the western
shadow of a church. So still, forever I shall rest
and dream, I shall not see the waving of the birch,
nor smell the locust blooms beside the stream, All through
the endless lengthening of days, my heart will hear the
words of those beside me. Our dust will mingle hid
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for mortal view, my four bears and the child they
never knew. I can't leave the house.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
This is where I live. I mean, what else can
you do?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I've lived with these ghosts for years now I just
have to accept it and move on.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Hello, Hello, my chickadees, Welcome back to another episode of Haunting.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Wait, I need to a judge your level.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
When are we good?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yep? All good? Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Didn't we just talk about this? Please be ready when
I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Wait, we did already do this. You adjusted the levels,
said some choice things that I know you regret, and
then we threw to Kimberly's story about her dream home
turned nightmare. And now it's time for ads. Yeah, we
just did this. See and Merlin spills my coffee all
over my notes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yes, I'm I'm fine. I know time is wonky here,
but this is weirder than usual. Well, nothing a little
retail therapy can't fix, I'm sure. Hello, Hello, my chickadees,
Welcome back to another episode of Haunting. Wait, I need
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to adjust the levels test test We good? Yep, all good,
go ahead, Merlin.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's a time loop. This place is so unserious real
heh not really, Lynn, not really. You wouldn't know it
because you and Merlin are in it. But it seems
our studio is stuck in.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
A time loop.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why the time loop?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Come on, you've heard of a time loop before? Russian Doll,
palm springs, huh, Groundhog Day?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, Bill Murray funny.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, yes, we all love Bill Murray. But believe it
or not, this isn't my first time loop. My mom's
been married to four different guys, and two of them
were orthodontists. I had braces for like eight years, just
on and off and on and off. All the enamel
on my front four teeth is synthetic. But maybe if
I just pushed through to our second story, we can
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break the loop. It's worth a shot. Next up, we
have Mela, who's haunted door. It's Mela. I'm telling you, Len,
it's Mela.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Into the first story.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Len, do not hit that button. If you throw it
to the first story, I will fucking end you.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
We just started going to classes, you know, starting our
whole college experience.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
My roommate and I went on a walk.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
It was dark right out there sunset. Our dorm is
right up.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Against the graveyard. We were walking along the tombs.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It was entirely silent, and out of nowhere, a ton
of crows start circling right above our heads.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
But crows don't fly at night.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
It felt eerie, like we shouldn't be there, almost like
a warning to leave. My name is Mila, and I
was terrorized at my haunted college in Pennsylvania. I started
at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA in the fall
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twenty nineteen. Saint Vincent College is pretty old and it
actually has the first Benedictine monastery in the United States,
so we have monks and priests that work on campus,
and it's just a very strong religious community, as well
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as the area being.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Small, tight knit.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I was kind of drawn to Saint Vincent because of
the uniqueness of the campus. It's very Victorian and picturesque,
very beautiful religious buildings, and they had a great education department.
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I had come in paired with a roommate. Our dorm
was strictly for freshmen, so I felt very comfortable there.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
We kind of had a.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Pod where several girls lived together and we had our
own room.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
The way I described it.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
There's the main hallway and along the outsides of the
pod there were dorm rooms for each paired roommates, and
then in the center we kind of had a living
area and the restrooms and showers.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
We heard a little.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Bit of talk about the mysteriousness of the area.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
There are a lot of stories that the campus was haunted.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
There was an old mill right past the monastery on campus,
and there was an incident long ago where a monk's
robe got caught in the mill and pulled him in him.
They say he still roams the campus and if you
look closely, he has no face. Some people say these
things are myths that were made up to spark excitement
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or give you the scary feeling. But I think there
is some truth to activity that happens at the campus.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I just tried to ignore it. We move in, decorate
the dorm, and made it home. It was super cute.
I was just so excited. My roommate had a Ouiji board.
I had never believed in the paranormal.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Even the movies seemed a little bit outlandish to me,
but we decided to test it out. We took it
out messed around with it, tried to ask it questions,
and nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
We got bored.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Pretty fast and just put it back in the box,
and it remained under her bed until one night. I
came back from a party with friends and wanted to
see if anything would happen.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I said, hey, guys, my roommate has a Ouiji board.
Let's play with it.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Me and two of my friends took it out from
under her bed, sat on the floor, and then messed
around with it. We asked if anyone was with us.
The plankqut started to spell.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
The name Zozo z o Zo.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Both my friends freaked out that it moved. I was like,
what does that even mean. I've never heard that before.
At this point I thought they were messing with me
and trying to.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Freak me out. I asked if it was good or bad.
It said bad.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
We just lifted our hands off and put it back
in the box. But because it was late at night,
we all went into our separate rooms and we went
to bed. The next day, I just went about like normal,
not really thinking about it, but I felt strange. I
felt this little creeping fear that I'd done something really bad.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I talked to my friend later in the day.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
He was really freaked out, and it started to freak
me out. We didn't say goodbye, and that was what
was really worrying him the most. He told me, if
you don't say goodbye, the portal stays open. After he
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told me that, I looked up information about Ouiji boards
and what they might communicate to you. It started to
scare me that we had actually talked to an entity
where it was trying to communicate with us.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
That night, my roommate was staying with her boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Around two forty five, I'm on my phone and I
started to feel.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
A sense of dread, like scared, and then out of.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Nowhere, I get a horrible, nauseating feeling. It's almost like
there's another presence with me in my room. I throw
my covers over my head like you do whenever you're
younger and are scared of monsters. I don't know where
this spear came from, but it was overwhelming. I just
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wanted to hide under the covers as I'm thinking of
what this could possibly be scaring me, and all of
a sudden, every picture comes off, all four walls, all
of it came crashing down. At the same time, my
curtains come forced off the wall. It sounded like a
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tree came through the window. I am like, what was that?
Pure fear before I can't even think about what just happened.
I threw the covers off. I'm out the door, no shoes.
I run down the hall out of my pod. I
see some people that are still up hanging out, and
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I'm frantic, telling them the craziest thing just happened to me.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And I'm too scared to go back to my dorm
room right now.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
There's no way that isn't just a picture falling off
the wall. That was some very strong forces that pulled
my curtains down in all my pictures off the wall.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
And it was the day after we played with the
Ouiji board.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
I felt like I was dealing with something intentional and
it wasn't just an accident. I actually go back to
my room, still scared, but I feel like whatever it
was died down.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I went back to bed and dozed off.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
The next night, I started to experience something I've never
experienced in my life. I woke up around three in
the morning and I'm completely paralyzed, but I was awake.
I could open my eyes and hear around me, but
I was frozen immediately.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I felt fearful.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I'm laying there wondering what is happening to me, and
I feel something brushing up against the back of my legs,
like someone is touching me.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
It was an actual physical.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Sensation of someone running a hand up the back of
your leg, lightly over and over. While I'm paralyzed in bed.
Every thought is running through my mind.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I just gasp for air.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I come out of this and I'm like, what just
happened to me? I'm looking for someone in my room
and no one is there. I'm like, did I imagine this?
I guess it was a sleep paralysis episode, and sometimes
sleep paralysis it's marked with hallucinations.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
But this was so real.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I have never had anything happen like that in my life.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I was genuinely scared. I start having sleep paralysis episodes
every time I fall asleep, whether.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
It's on my back, if I'm laying on my side,
if I'm taking an afternoon nap or going to bed
at night, and then eventually.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
It all escalates like a huge climax.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
There was a time where I was laying in bed
and I woke up.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I had been laying on my back and.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Was completely frozen, but I could move my eyes, and
in my peripheral vision there's a very tall black figure
towering over me and looking down on me. It felt
like it had power over me, like a dominating male presence.
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This thing is touching me, It's brushing my hair with
its hand.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Scream, but nothing comes out. I'm terrified there was an
entity in my room. I thought it was only myself
being targeted for playing with Luigi board, but the things
I was experiencing started to spread to other people in
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my dorm. So they told our ara that things have
been happening and I had used a Wigi board in
our living quarters.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
The ra called down to.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
The monastery and they brought in the priest. All of
the girls that lived in this pot we were called.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Out to have a meeting with him.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
He told us, I know you guys have had some
activity here and someone has a Ouiji board.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
All eyes were on me. I felt like the biggest ass.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
While ever, the priest explained to us that we are
sitting on an interesting plot of land and there tend
to be spirits that passed through he explained that they
would be doing an exorcism. The priest walked around with
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incense and holy water, blessing us so that we would
be safe from whatever energy is causing these occurrences.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
And honestly I felt relieved.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
The priest reassured me that these things happen sometimes spirits
are drawn to those that are open. He gave me
blessed holy water and salt to keep. After that, nothing happened.
I wasn't experiencing this sleep paralysis anymore. I didn't have
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the feeling of being on edge like something is watching me,
or in the room with me, like everything.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Was normal again. I wonder if it was.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
The Ouiji board or just the place we lived, Maybe
a combination of the two.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Hello, hello, my chicken. Ease, Yes, fine, you do your levels.
I'm thinking the loop resets every time we move on
to our next segment, so maybe if we just don't
throw to the next segment, the loop won't reset and
time will move forward. I don't have time to do
this with you each reset, len, so respectfully keep up,
and if you can't, you're just gonna have to be confused. Now,
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normally it's time for ads. But if you don't stop recording, then,
for the millionth time, I think I figured it out.
To escape the loop, I've got to get through the
entire episode, no cut, no stopping one take. Len, for
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the love of God, do not touch that dial. Here
we go. Hello, Hello, my chickeneaes, Welcome back to another
episode of Haunting. I'm your host, Terza. We've got my
producer Len am I familiar Merlin. Hello, Hoot hoot. Today
we're serving up two spooky stories that are sure to
give you goosebumps and raise the hairs on the back
of your neck. Our first is from Kimberly, who moved
into our dream home only to discover a total nightmare. Wow,
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is it just me? Or ghostly Victorian children? Impossible to shake?
Let's take a break and we're back up. Next, we've
got Mila, whose freshman experience was totally freaky and I
don't mean in a Kiki way. Oh man, another weedy boar.
You guys can't keep your fingers off them. Well, it's
that time again. I don't make the rules so much
to buy so little time. Speaking of which, we're out
of it. That's our show. If you've got a spooky
story to share, email us at Haunting the Podcast at
gmail dot com and you could be featured on an
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upcoming episode. Until then, keep the portals open and the
veils then and we'll see you next time for more haunting.
Ha is it over?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Wait? I need to levels.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
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Ben Fetterman, and Lauren lap And it is hosted by
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played by Trey Morgan. Haunting is written by Aleiah Welsh,
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Editing and sound designed by Matt Delvecchio and mixed by
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Hello, Hello, my chickenees, Welcome back to another episode of Haunting.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wait into a judger level.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Seriously, lent cast test? Are we good?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yep? All good? Go ahead?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Great next time. Let's try to be ready when I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Okay, right? Excuse me, nolle.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Hmmm. Hello, Hello, my chickenees. Welcome back to another episode
of Haunting. I am joined in studio by our producer
Len and my familiar Merlin the Great Horn Merlin. Oh
my god, there's coffee all over my notes? Lyn, can
I get some towels in here? Merlin? What has gotten
into you? Let's just keep things moving. I would love
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to get this episode off the ground. If everyone done
with the interruptions, Thank you. First up, we'll hear from Kimberly,
who found her dream home on Zillo. I mean, who hasn't.
It's pornhum for real estate. But it gets better. She
actually bought the house and moved in with her young siblings.
They were living the dream. But that's the thing about dreams,
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they end.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Up. Until two months ago, my sister didn't think that
they were ghosts until she saw one in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
She was having full on conversation, but there was no
one there.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The rest of us are like, what the heck is happening,
Like this is real, We're all experiencing it at the
same time. My name's Kimberly and I bought my dream house,
which turned out to be haunted.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I was not really looking for a house.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I was actually living in South America and was just
browsing Zillow and I saw this pretty house and I thought,
oh my gosh, that's.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
My dream house.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I was not planning on living in America, but here
i am because I bought this house.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I live in the historic town. It's called Malden. There
are several historic houses. I love history. I have historic
furniture in my house. I have keys, I have letters.
Always loved old things.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
My house is a historic house from eighteen thirty six.
Several generations of the same family lived here. It was
built by a doctor, and he was one of the
first doctors in the entire area. The neighborhood was one
of the biggest salt manufacturing areas in the whole country.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
This whole area was filled with salt barrens.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's a big, imposing brick white house in.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
A flat, big yard.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Back then, it was classified as a mansion. It's beautiful,
especially on the inside. There's ornate would work everywhere, and
it's all white and pretty. Everything was antique, everything was old.
I've been here for three and a half years. My
parents adopted four kids who are biological siblings. Unfortunately, my
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father passed away, so my mom was raising four kids
at almost seventy years old. So I help out as
much as I can. I have three little brothers who
are thirteen, twelve, eleven, and my little sister who's six
living with me during the week because their schools across
the street. So I wanted to make their room really
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nice for them. Wanted everything set up before they came in.
I just moved in and the first night I started
experiencing things. I had spent most of the day dragging
stuff from my car into this house up the stairs.
By the time I got to putting things together, I
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was exhausted. I was up in my little brother's room
and I heard someone walking in the hallway.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Immediately I thought somebody was in the house.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I heard someone walking around out the hallway, down the stairs.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Up the stairs.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Sounds like someone with shoes on and they're walking slowly, like.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Up the stairs and then down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Kind of like they don't want you to hear them,
but they can't be quiet because they have boots on.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm terrified. First instinct is there's someone run away. I
did not stay here that I left, stayed at my
mom's house. Two months later, I was cleaning. It was nighttime.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's easier to clean when the kids are asleep because
they can't run right behind you and destroy it. I
went up the stairs to my little brother's room.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Everybody's sleeping in their beds, sleeping soundly. I was just
straightening up their room. I noticed that one of their
dinosaur toys was out of place.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I picked up the dinosaur to put it back where
it belonged, and as I was reaching up, I heard
someone say, what are you doing in here?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
The voice was a kid's voice.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I turned around. No one's there. It was not my
brother's they were asleep. It was so clear it sounded
like there was a kid standing two feet behind me.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I got the feeling that I don't belong there.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So I slowly backed up. I didn't want to bring
any more attention to myself, and then I turned around
and went downstairs. I was starting to process what had
just happened. My heart was beating really fast. It was
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not my brother's. It couldn't have been my little sister
because she's downstairs. There are no TVs on, there's no
phone on, There's nothing else that could have been.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It was just so clear. I was in shock and
I was scared.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So I called my mom and I told her what
happened and said, I think it's a ghost. But she
doesn't believe in ghosts. She just says, I don't want
to talk about it. I went to sleep, and then
nothing else happened until a few weeks later.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It was night.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I was going to get a snack from the kitchen.
To get to the kitchen, I have to go through
the dining room, and when I turned the corner, and
I saw what.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Looked like a little boy leaning up against the.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Cabinet, like he was trying to hide from me or
trying not to be seen.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
He was probably seven or eight years old.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
He had light brown hair. He had beige pants and
a white button up shirt that was rolled up at
the sleeves. He just looked like a little boy, but
his color was off. It was like he stepped out
of an old photograph. I looked at him, he looked
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at me, and I felt like, I'm not supposed to
be here. I'm not supposed to see this, and I
backed out of the room and left. I walked into
my bedroom. I shut the door and then like barricaded
myself in. I sat there thinking about it for a while,
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trying to process what had just happened.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And I knew at that point it couldn't have been
somebody broken at my house because I have an alarm system.
I got on the.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Phone and tried to distract myself from what I'd just seen.
I did not leave my room till the next day.
I'm convinced that there's a little boy haunting my house.
At this point, we hadn't talked about it in front
of my sibling because we don't want to scare them.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
We don't want them to feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
One day, my family and I are hanging out in
the living room. My little sister went to the bathroom
and we heard her talking to someone.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I'm like, who are you talking to?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
She points to the dining room and says the boy.
The boy and I didn't see anyone, but she was
having a full on conversation in front of all of us.
None of us can see anything. It was like no
big deal to her. She didn't think ghost. She went
scared of him. There was just some little boy that
was here. The dining room is where.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I saw what looked like a little boy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It was confirmation that we're all seeing things. My most
recent experience happened about a month ago. I was laying
in bed. It was very early in the morning, probably
four AM. And often my little sister will get up
out of bed and come stand in the doorway. She
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will stand there and wait until I say you can
get in bed with me. She knows she's supposed to
be sleeping in her bed. So I saw my little
sister standing up against the doorframe and I said, do
you want to come into bed with me? She just
stands there, and I'm like half asleep. So I'm getting
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in the wave a little bit because I'm like, I
only have a little bit of time left sleep before
I have to get them up for school. I got
out of bed and I walked over to the bathroom door.
I reached over my sister's head to turn the light on,
and when I turned the light on, there was no
one there. My sister wasn't there and I was all alone,
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but I since the presence of the little boy. I
went to my sister's room and she's completely sound asleep.
I felt so weird, like what if he's there and
I just can't see him. That's just too much for me.
I had already planned on doing research on the house,
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but now that I have what I think are goes,
I'm even more motivated to find out more. I found
out the original owner built this house in eighteen thirty six.
He had a wife and several kids and had a
funeral here, and then two of his sons passed away.
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My mouse and the old pastor died in this house,
so there's at least three people who died here. So
I think some of them are still here, haunting this house.
I found his daughter's journal in the.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
State archive from a newspaper clipping, and she wrote a.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Poem about death. It's called friendly dust. Beneath the western
shadow of a church. So still, forever I shall rest
and dream, I shall not see the waving of the birch,
nor smell the locust blooms beside the stream, All through
the endless lengthening of days, my heart will hear the
words of those beside me. Our dust will mingle hid
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for mortal view, my four bears and the child they
never knew. I can't leave the house.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
This is where I live. I mean, what else can
you do?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I've lived with these ghosts for years now I just
have to accept it and move on.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Hello, Hello, my chickadees, Welcome back to another episode of Haunting.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Wait, I need to a judge your level.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
When are we good?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yep? All good? Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Didn't we just talk about this? Please be ready when
I'm ready?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Wait, we did already do this. You adjusted the levels,
said some choice things that I know you regret, and
then we threw to Kimberly's story about her dream home
turned nightmare. And now it's time for ads. Yeah, we
just did this. See and Merlin spills my coffee all
over my notes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yes, I'm I'm fine. I know time is wonky here,
but this is weirder than usual. Well, nothing a little
retail therapy can't fix, I'm sure. Hello, Hello, my chickadees,
Welcome back to another episode of Haunting. Wait, I need
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to adjust the levels test test We good? Yep, all good,
go ahead, Merlin.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's a time loop. This place is so unserious real
heh not really, Lynn, not really. You wouldn't know it
because you and Merlin are in it. But it seems
our studio is stuck in.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
A time loop.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why the time loop?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Come on, you've heard of a time loop before? Russian Doll,
palm springs, huh, Groundhog Day?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, Bill Murray funny.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yes, yes, we all love Bill Murray. But believe it
or not, this isn't my first time loop. My mom's
been married to four different guys, and two of them
were orthodontists. I had braces for like eight years, just
on and off and on and off. All the enamel
on my front four teeth is synthetic. But maybe if
I just pushed through to our second story, we can
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break the loop. It's worth a shot. Next up, we
have Mela, who's haunted door. It's Mela. I'm telling you, Len,
it's Mela.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Into the first story.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Len, do not hit that button. If you throw it
to the first story, I will fucking end you.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
We just started going to classes, you know, starting our
whole college experience.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
My roommate and I went on a walk.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
It was dark right out there sunset. Our dorm is
right up.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Against the graveyard. We were walking along the tombs.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It was entirely silent, and out of nowhere, a ton
of crows start circling right above our heads.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
But crows don't fly at night.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
It felt eerie, like we shouldn't be there, almost like
a warning to leave. My name is Mila, and I
was terrorized at my haunted college in Pennsylvania. I started
at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA in the fall
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twenty nineteen. Saint Vincent College is pretty old and it
actually has the first Benedictine monastery in the United States,
so we have monks and priests that work on campus,
and it's just a very strong religious community, as well
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as the area being.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Small, tight knit.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I was kind of drawn to Saint Vincent because of
the uniqueness of the campus. It's very Victorian and picturesque,
very beautiful religious buildings, and they had a great education department.
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I had come in paired with a roommate. Our dorm
was strictly for freshmen, so I felt very comfortable there.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
We kind of had a.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Pod where several girls lived together and we had our
own room.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
The way I described it.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
There's the main hallway and along the outsides of the
pod there were dorm rooms for each paired roommates, and
then in the center we kind of had a living
area and the restrooms and showers.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
We heard a little.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Bit of talk about the mysteriousness of the area.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
There are a lot of stories that the campus was haunted.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
There was an old mill right past the monastery on campus,
and there was an incident long ago where a monk's
robe got caught in the mill and pulled him in him.
They say he still roams the campus and if you
look closely, he has no face. Some people say these
things are myths that were made up to spark excitement
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or give you the scary feeling. But I think there
is some truth to activity that happens at the campus.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I just tried to ignore it. We move in, decorate
the dorm, and made it home. It was super cute.
I was just so excited. My roommate had a Ouiji board.
I had never believed in the paranormal.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Even the movies seemed a little bit outlandish to me,
but we decided to test it out. We took it
out messed around with it, tried to ask it questions,
and nothing happened.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
We got bored.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Pretty fast and just put it back in the box,
and it remained under her bed until one night. I
came back from a party with friends and wanted to
see if anything would happen.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I said, hey, guys, my roommate has a Ouiji board.
Let's play with it.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Me and two of my friends took it out from
under her bed, sat on the floor, and then messed
around with it. We asked if anyone was with us.
The plankqut started to spell.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
The name Zozo z o Zo.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Both my friends freaked out that it moved. I was like,
what does that even mean. I've never heard that before.
At this point I thought they were messing with me
and trying to.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Freak me out. I asked if it was good or bad.
It said bad.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
We just lifted our hands off and put it back
in the box. But because it was late at night,
we all went into our separate rooms and we went
to bed. The next day, I just went about like normal,
not really thinking about it, but I felt strange. I
felt this little creeping fear that I'd done something really bad.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I talked to my friend later in the day.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
He was really freaked out, and it started to freak
me out. We didn't say goodbye, and that was what
was really worrying him the most. He told me, if
you don't say goodbye, the portal stays open. After he
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told me that, I looked up information about Ouiji boards
and what they might communicate to you. It started to
scare me that we had actually talked to an entity
where it was trying to communicate with us.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
That night, my roommate was staying with her boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Around two forty five, I'm on my phone and I
started to feel.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
A sense of dread, like scared, and then out of.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Nowhere, I get a horrible, nauseating feeling. It's almost like
there's another presence with me in my room. I throw
my covers over my head like you do whenever you're
younger and are scared of monsters. I don't know where
this spear came from, but it was overwhelming. I just
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wanted to hide under the covers as I'm thinking of
what this could possibly be scaring me, and all of
a sudden, every picture comes off, all four walls, all
of it came crashing down. At the same time, my
curtains come forced off the wall. It sounded like a
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tree came through the window. I am like, what was that?
Pure fear before I can't even think about what just happened.
I threw the covers off. I'm out the door, no shoes.
I run down the hall out of my pod. I
see some people that are still up hanging out, and
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I'm frantic, telling them the craziest thing just happened to me.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And I'm too scared to go back to my dorm
room right now.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
There's no way that isn't just a picture falling off
the wall. That was some very strong forces that pulled
my curtains down in all my pictures off the wall.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
And it was the day after we played with the
Ouiji board.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
I felt like I was dealing with something intentional and
it wasn't just an accident. I actually go back to
my room, still scared, but I feel like whatever it
was died down.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I went back to bed and dozed off.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
The next night, I started to experience something I've never
experienced in my life. I woke up around three in
the morning and I'm completely paralyzed, but I was awake.
I could open my eyes and hear around me, but
I was frozen immediately.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I felt fearful.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I'm laying there wondering what is happening to me, and
I feel something brushing up against the back of my legs,
like someone is touching me.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
It was an actual physical.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Sensation of someone running a hand up the back of
your leg, lightly over and over. While I'm paralyzed in bed.
Every thought is running through my mind.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I just gasp for air.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I come out of this and I'm like, what just
happened to me? I'm looking for someone in my room
and no one is there. I'm like, did I imagine this?
I guess it was a sleep paralysis episode, and sometimes
sleep paralysis it's marked with hallucinations.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
But this was so real.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I have never had anything happen like that in my life.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I was genuinely scared. I start having sleep paralysis episodes
every time I fall asleep, whether.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
It's on my back, if I'm laying on my side,
if I'm taking an afternoon nap or going to bed
at night, and then eventually.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
It all escalates like a huge climax.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
There was a time where I was laying in bed
and I woke up.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I had been laying on my back and.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Was completely frozen, but I could move my eyes, and
in my peripheral vision there's a very tall black figure
towering over me and looking down on me. It felt
like it had power over me, like a dominating male presence.
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This thing is touching me, It's brushing my hair with
its hand.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Scream, but nothing comes out. I'm terrified there was an
entity in my room. I thought it was only myself
being targeted for playing with Luigi board, but the things
I was experiencing started to spread to other people in
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my dorm. So they told our ara that things have
been happening and I had used a Wigi board in
our living quarters.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
The ra called down to.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
The monastery and they brought in the priest. All of
the girls that lived in this pot we were called.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Out to have a meeting with him.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
He told us, I know you guys have had some
activity here and someone has a Ouiji board.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
All eyes were on me. I felt like the biggest ass.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
While ever, the priest explained to us that we are
sitting on an interesting plot of land and there tend
to be spirits that passed through he explained that they
would be doing an exorcism. The priest walked around with
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incense and holy water, blessing us so that we would
be safe from whatever energy is causing these occurrences.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
And honestly I felt relieved.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
The priest reassured me that these things happen sometimes spirits
are drawn to those that are open. He gave me
blessed holy water and salt to keep. After that, nothing happened.
I wasn't experiencing this sleep paralysis anymore. I didn't have
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the feeling of being on edge like something is watching me,
or in the room with me, like everything.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Was normal again. I wonder if it was.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
The Ouiji board or just the place we lived, Maybe
a combination of the two.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Hello, hello, my chicken. Ease, Yes, fine, you do your levels.
I'm thinking the loop resets every time we move on
to our next segment, so maybe if we just don't
throw to the next segment, the loop won't reset and
time will move forward. I don't have time to do
this with you each reset, len, so respectfully keep up,
and if you can't, you're just gonna have to be confused. Now,
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normally it's time for ads. But if you don't stop recording, then,
for the millionth time, I think I figured it out.
To escape the loop, I've got to get through the
entire episode, no cut, no stopping one take. Len, for
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the love of God, do not touch that dial. Here
we go. Hello, Hello, my chickeneaes, Welcome back to another
episode of Haunting. I'm your host, Terza. We've got my
producer Len am I familiar Merlin. Hello, Hoot hoot. Today
we're serving up two spooky stories that are sure to
give you goosebumps and raise the hairs on the back
of your neck. Our first is from Kimberly, who moved
into our dream home only to discover a total nightmare. Wow,
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is it just me? Or ghostly Victorian children? Impossible to shake?
Let's take a break and we're back up. Next, we've
got Mila, whose freshman experience was totally freaky and I
don't mean in a Kiki way. Oh man, another weedy boar.
You guys can't keep your fingers off them. Well, it's
that time again. I don't make the rules so much
to buy so little time. Speaking of which, we're out
of it. That's our show. If you've got a spooky
story to share, email us at Haunting the Podcast at
gmail dot com and you could be featured on an
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upcoming episode. Until then, keep the portals open and the
veils then and we'll see you next time for more haunting.
Ha is it over?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Wait? I need to levels.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
If you have a haunting story to share, email us
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is created and executive produced by Nancy Glass Andrey of Gunning,
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Ben Fetterman, and Lauren lap And it is hosted by
Laura Lampkis as her character Terreza. Producer Lynn Walker is
played by Trey Morgan. Haunting is written by Aleiah Welsh,
with additional writing by Nancy Glass, Trey Morgan, and Ben Fetterman.
Editing and sound designed by Matt Delvecchio and mixed by
Dave Seya. Operations and production support by Kristen Melcurie. Additional
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and original compositions were composed by Oliver Bains and Darry
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