April 10, 2025 • 17 mins
This Haunted AF is packed with spooky goodness, like a funeral home ghost, a creepy summer vaca and what appears to be a human skull that a listeners in-laws recently bought. We've also got what might be a cursed book that we're sharing with our listeners. Remember to watch the episode on YouTube and find more exclusive content at Patreon.com/HauntedAF. Check out the companion blog & pick up some cute merch at HauntedAF.com/Shop. And please keep sending your scary stories to hauntedafpodcast@gmail.com so we can use them on the next Haunted AF!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have got some ghost stories for you. I'm hearing
these voices, but there's nobody else around. I don't like
the skeleton man.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
He's so mean to me.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And he bites me at night. And suddenly this stool,
completely of its own volition, slid good to maybe three
feet out into the center of the bar. He walks
towards the ocean and he gets through the water.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
He just disappeared.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I feel someone run their hand under my butt cheek,
just sliding under my butt. So that is my ghost story.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hi, and welcome to Honda's the podcast The Real ghost
Story is told by real people.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We are your hosts. I'm Julie Fisz and I Rebecca Black.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So coming up, we've got some updates to a few
recent social media posts, because once again, the comments are
better than the posts themselves. We're also going to discuss
the activity around a haunted book that we gave away recently.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm excited about this, yep.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And we're going to meet a funeral home goo named
Floyd All Floyd.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah like him already, me too.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
First, we need to say thank you to our newest patron,
Caroline Bennett. Actually, welcome back, Caroline. Many of our patrons
will come and go signing back up once they've binged
all of our regular content so that they can binge
all the pre games. But remember Patreon is where you
can get episodes early and ad free, as well as
the pregames, So go ahead and find that at patreon
dot com slash hontid af Yeah, people.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Come and go all the time, all the time, and
you can do that. We're very flexing with it. So
we want to start with some updates. First to the
story about Todd, who found Michael's ashes and spread them.
Still one of my favorite stories recently. So quick message
to everybody who's been saying why didn't he contact Michael's family.
Todd's been looking for the family ever since he found
the ashes, so and he still is so calm down.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Just please be nice. It bums me out so much.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I know this really cool thing and people are like
coming after him.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Why you gotta do that? Just be nice, you guys.
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We also got this message from Rita in regards to
the found ashes. She says, ladies, since you've had a
few stories about people finding cremains in weird places, want
to see what my in laws bought at a thrift
store for ten dollars in a senior's discount Hills.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, we do like a senior disco.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh, of course she has sent us pictures. We checked
and apparently it's legal to own it. We are one
hundred percent convinced this is real. I can send pics
of the underside where you can see like lattice, bone,
marrow and staining. That would be really hard to fake.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Here, let me show you the pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So, yeah, I knew this was a human skull.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, look at the underside that is so.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, human head.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That is so.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We googled it and we found a website where, yeah,
you can buy human skulls.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's bone room dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And according to the website quote, it's perfectly legal to
possess and sell human bones in the United States. There
are a few exceptions to this. A few states have
banned import and export, and of course, all archaeological resources
protected the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. So
the Bone Room cannot ship any human bones to Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana,
(03:08):
and now Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh but good Texas is why I open it. And
international restrictions may apply.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So we'll post a link to all of this, but honestly,
looking at them gave me the willies, So enter at
your own risk.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
They have children's skulls, that's tough.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, they have some that were used for like studies
in science, like sick or you know, somebody who got
beaten in the head, all kinds of crazy stuff. But yeah,
you can actually own a human skull.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What are we buying doing? And they're expensive doing it?
Hell no, I've had like a humorous bone.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah I've had oh yet, Oh no, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You wanted it and I gave it? Yeah you did. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So we also shared this really fun video from terror
Rule on Instagram, and she's been obsessing over that seal
song Kiss from a Rose, as we all did in
the nineties, and decided that her apartment ghost must have
been sending her messages. So she played the song and
one of her lights started flickering to the beat of
the song.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's such a great video.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yes, I love that amazing, But there was something amazing
in the comments as well, and it came from thrive
By and says, in March of nineteen ninety six, my
father died in a skiing accident. This song Kiss from
a Rose was on the radio non stop at the time.
If it comes on unexpectedly, like in a grocery store
or something, I have to leave. Even though it's been
(04:29):
such a long time, it puts me right back in
that time. My mother is a ghost non believer, but
she had a freaky encounter on a business trip a
year or so after. A complete stranger approached her saying
that my dad didn't know he was dead, but a
friend on the other side was helping him. Then he
proceeded to say intricate private details that only my mother
(04:52):
could know. WHOA that's a lot. Yeah, I was just
saying to my daughter that it's been a few years
since I've gotten a sign from my dad. I just
opened Instagram and this was the first thing that popped up.
I got instant head to toe goose pops.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You've got to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and
YouTube because we're always sharing good stuff like that. And
if you're watching on YouTube, please like and subscribe while
you're here. So we got to share this message from Katie.
This story is from when I.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Was about seven years old.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
My aunt and uncle live in a very old farmhouse,
probably the eighteen nineties. It never felt scary, but was
always one hundred percent haunted. There were a bunch of
us spending the night one night, probably eleven cousins.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I was in this little room at the.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Top of the stairs, which was dark except for a
light from a floodlight outside the window. So I woke
up sometime in the middle of the night and there
was someone standing by the window. The person wasn't solid,
though I could clearly see through them, and the light
from outside almost made them glow. They had a dress
on and it looked like old fashioned garb. So I
(06:00):
wasn't scared at all because it had a pleasant, nanny
like presence and it was even calming. I even remember
the feeling of them helping me fall back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So years later we went back and my aunt had
found photos of the house from long ago. She also
discovered that it was a home for unwed mothers. They
had nurses on site, and when I saw the pictures
of the nurses standing in.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Front of the house, I knew that's who I saw.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
One of the nurses must have been on her rounds
that night and helped me go back to sleep. That
is the sweetest and that beautiful, And that's from Katie.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So I've asked Katie, I want to see the picture
of the nurse steady out front. I love it tooch.
News is weird, but real haunted houses a jo slee
seel not your doors. Don't take us news. It's time
for news. Sorry, I cannot resist. No, it's good. It's
(06:54):
that good.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That is from Scott arkisaur t t is his website.
So thank you again for all the amazing theme songs
that he's made for us.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Right, we really should be paying him.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We really were poor. Hush your mouth, We're poor. Were
you in love? On the podcast?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, So back in our October third episode of last
year Voices of Shawshank Redemption, we shared a listener's EVP
that she captured at the Ohio State Reformatory. That was
the Tiger Tiger audio. I can't do it any other way.
I'm sorry Tiger that we played over and over again.
You guys heard that a million times. Well, we just
(07:33):
found out that you can now rent two of the
buildings that were used in the movie, which were adjacent
to the Reformatory, so you can actually get this real
immersive experience, so to speak. These homes were originally used
to house the guards, so they are old, but thankfully
have been renovated and sound pretty nice. They could be
the perfect spooky summer vacation because you also get discounted
(07:54):
tickets to the Reformatory tour. But there are only two houses,
so we recommend that you go ahead and reserve those now.
We will post a link in the story with the
details and last year's episode with the audio, so if
you want to revisit, check it out, go for it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That was a great episode.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Two.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Also, I saw this incredible post on Instagram from Crime
with Court about the butterfly people of Joplin. Have you
ever heard this story?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I had not either, and I was fascinated. So oh wait,
my husband was watching this last night?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Was he? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
When I walked in?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay, well, this part is actually not in the Netflix documentary.
That's why she posted this, because there's this big documentary
on Netflix right now about.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well it's called the Twister Cotton Storm.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's about the EF five tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri,
and twenty eleven killed about one hundred and sixty one people.
I think it injured close to one thousand as well.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I remember that being the news story headline for what
seemed like months.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh it was devastating, horrific. So there was so much
death and devastation at that point in time. But afterwards,
kids started telling stories about seeing butterfly people who had
come to protect them. These were, for the most part,
kids were old, don't have to know the difference between
like angels and whatever, but they specifically said butterfly people.
So I looked it up and I found tons of
(09:07):
stories about this, and we'll post a link to some
of them in the show notes.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But the cool thing is the kids all started drawing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Pictures of the butterfly people love and they were eerily similar.
So it's been chalked up as a mass hallucination after
a devastating even which of course is likely, but is
still an amazing story. So go get all the details
at hauntedaf dot com in the companion blog.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm sorry, I believe the children over a mass hallucination.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, and you know what a butterfly person sounds like
to me? What a mothman? I totally and you know
Mothman was supposed to be a harbinger of tragedy.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That totally makes sense now, all right. Our next one
comes from Kelly. I used to work at a funeral
home as an assistant. I did everything from setting up
flowers for the services to dressing and applying makeup on bodies.
I worked there for about four years and would occasionally
hear high heels clicking down the hallway, even though it
was completely carpeted. Oh God, bless if I am dead
in high heels. I'm sorry, my feet hurt. That's why
(10:03):
I'm clogging so hard.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, get the burks out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There was a set of double doors at the far
end of the building and you would sometimes hear it
slam shut, even though it was kept locked at all times.
We would go down to see if someone actually was
in the building, and no one was ever there. We
had an elderly funeral director named Floyd who had a
specific routine. He would come in the back door, which
would slam shut when he walked in, then head down
(10:28):
the hall to the kitchen and get a coffee and
a doughnut before starting his stay. After he died, we
would hear the back door slam, then footsteps and a
chair slide at the kitchen table. We said it was
Floyd's still coming to work and eating his heavenly donut.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh Floyd, I know, I love him.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We even saw Floyd occasionally.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh, I saw him.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I saw him once while I was setting up the
casket and flowers and asked him to come help me,
but he disappeared. Whenever I saw him in the chapel,
I would talk to him while I worked. He never spoke,
he never frightened us. He was just there to make
sure the rest of us were still doing the job right. OHI,
Floyd is amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I love Floyd, But I want to know is that
him in the high heels?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh? Hello, Floyd is showing you a different side of him?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
This more Floyd. No, I love that story. It's beautiful.
Sure I do too.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Please, Kelly, if you get a chance, can we see
a picture of the funeral home because that's awesome. So
here is something that we've been following on Patreon, but
I feel like it's time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
To share it here.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We both me especially for whatever reason, and having extremely
bad luck ever since January.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
After we returned from our trip to Mineola.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I feel like my bad luck sort of ended pretty
quick after the trip.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
We had a week of bad No then, oh no, no,
mine has been high now on for so long.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So we've been joking about it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And remember that we actually bought this old book about
ghost hunting from the Haunted Curiosity Shop and we decided
that that might be the thing causing the problems. We
actually gave it away on our Patreon page.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Which makes us kind of dicks. No, then, she just
wanted it. She wanted it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
This was our We were doing an experiment to see
if we handed this off to somebody, were they going
to end up having bad luck or weird shit as well.
So Tony was our lucky winner. And we told Tony
to keep us posted on any activity, and nothing happened
until now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yep, we got it updates.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yes, all right, Tony says, hello, ladies, I just started
reading the haunted Ish book and it's pretty interesting. I
say haunted Ish because a couple of nights ago, I
woke up and saw from my room that there was
a light on in my home office down the hall
from my bedroom. I had left a word document open
with something I was working on, and the next morning
I discovered thirty seven typed pages of nothing but the
(12:48):
number three, no.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Crappy thirty sent pages.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Okay, Oh, I'm getting shining vibes here.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, the book is sitting right under my monitor. However,
earlier in the day I had knocked over a soda
on my desk, and I'm sure it just fried something
in the keyboard rather than a ghost.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That types. Ah, maybe I'm a little led down. Maybe not.
We don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We don't know. Let's see where the store goes. But
is the book a harbinger of bad luck? That same day,
I spilled my diet PEPSI. I also tripped going up
the stairs and tweaked something in my knee, and then
later knocked over a box of glasses that I had
stored in my garage. Maybe it's just making me clumsy.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Lol.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
We could do a Sisterhood of the traveling book experiment.
Oh my god, amazing. I could send it to someone
else and see if they had anything happen. And speaking
of traveling, I vote for the first annual Hanadaf Cruise.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh can I vote for that too? I'm me too, Yeah,
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You could do some meat and greets tell ghost stories,
do some dream analysis, watch for UFOs, do dot mixed
in with cocktails, islands and pool time.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Tony a genie, Tony, Yes, love, we want all of this.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Okay, First of all, I have done nothing but fallover
and break things and screw shit up since bringing home
that damn book, right, so harbinger of bad luck one
hundred percent. In fact, even this past week, my cat
fell on my face and scratched it up.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You said to me a picture, but you look great now.
Oh I can barely see it.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I've got a little bit of a Harry Potter scratch
left on my forehead, but.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, it like your sign.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Literally after that, I staged the fuck out of my house.
I was like, I am so done with all of this.
So maybe we just need to burn it. Probably, but
we need to discuss this with Tony and see if
any of our patrons are really interested in doing the
Sisterhood of the Traveling Haunted book.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I love that idea experiment. I kind of love it.
But if she really did screw up her computer, right,
that does suck. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
At the same time, what a great story we'll have
when it travels all over the world, making people clumsy. Yeah,
as long as somebody gets hurt, right, I don't want
anybody to get hurt first.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, well that's the other thing. I did not
share this on the regular podcast, but I fell in
the middle of the mall and oh glass bottle and
pieces of glass went in my hand.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I mean, it's I've been a fucking disaster for months.
It's not cool.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm sorping. I'm hoping it's better now after ice age.
But let's talk about this cruise.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yes, yes, yes, If anybody is really wanting to take
a holiday f cruise, let us know. Send us a note.
We will look into it. We know that our friends
at National Park after Dark takes some amazing trips all
the time. They actually just came back from Antarctica with
a group of listeners, a trip that looked really cool
but also a little bit terrifying. Yes, may cruise through
the Drake passage between Antarctica and South America, which is
(15:40):
where that famous Drake Shake video that's making the rounds
came from. I don't know if that was the Npad trip,
but it does look an awful lot like the videos
that they were posting on their Instagram page. So we
will post the links to both of those in our
show notes.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But we just want to take a normal cruise.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, I know, nobody's falling over. There's no spilled drinks
unless we're super drunk.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yes, that is fine. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Remember you can find all that stuff in our companion blog,
hondaf dot com. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I keep going back and forth between the actual Drake
Shake video and between the npad Instagram page because they
have very similar videos.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They just did that trip wow, so it's like dang.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Also, we have a ton of new listeners right now,
and well, okay, we're hoping that we have a ton
of it. Yeah, we got a bunch of new followers
and uh, we're hoping that they're actually listening right now.
But this podcast is all about you. It's all about
your stories, which means you need to send them pretty please,
So we'll take them written or recorded, audio or video.
(16:38):
But Ghost, Bigfoot, UFOs, Matrix, glitches, dead pets, crazy dreams,
even that serial killer who lived next door We had
a really great one in the pre game this week
as well. Send all that good stuff to Haunted AF
podcast at gmail dot com so we can use it
on the next Haunted AF.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
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Speaker 3 (17:08):
Got to say thanks to Andrew Mamaliga and Travis Vance
for the Hontiday of theme song, and to on Air
Media for titles and technical support. Also big thanks to
all of the Honiday of Patreon supporters.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Most of all, we have to thank you for listening
and for sharing your stories with us. By the way, Julie,
if I die first, I'm coming back to haunt you, I'll.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Come back to haunt you. Toub Rebecca
I have got some ghost stories for you. I'm hearing
these voices, but there's nobody else around. I don't like
the skeleton man.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
He's so mean to me.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
And he bites me at night. And suddenly this stool,
completely of its own volition, slid good to maybe three
feet out into the center of the bar. He walks
towards the ocean and he gets through the water.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
He just disappeared.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I feel someone run their hand under my butt cheek,
just sliding under my butt. So that is my ghost story.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hi, and welcome to Honda's the podcast The Real ghost
Story is told by real people.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
We are your hosts. I'm Julie Fisz and I Rebecca Black.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So coming up, we've got some updates to a few
recent social media posts, because once again, the comments are
better than the posts themselves. We're also going to discuss
the activity around a haunted book that we gave away recently.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm excited about this, yep.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And we're going to meet a funeral home goo named
Floyd All Floyd.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah like him already, me too.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
First, we need to say thank you to our newest patron,
Caroline Bennett. Actually, welcome back, Caroline. Many of our patrons
will come and go signing back up once they've binged
all of our regular content so that they can binge
all the pre games. But remember Patreon is where you
can get episodes early and ad free, as well as
the pregames, So go ahead and find that at patreon
dot com slash hontid af Yeah, people.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Come and go all the time, all the time, and
you can do that. We're very flexing with it. So
we want to start with some updates. First to the
story about Todd, who found Michael's ashes and spread them.
Still one of my favorite stories recently. So quick message
to everybody who's been saying why didn't he contact Michael's family.
Todd's been looking for the family ever since he found
the ashes, so and he still is so calm down.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Just please be nice. It bums me out so much.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I know this really cool thing and people are like
coming after him.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Why you gotta do that? Just be nice, you guys.
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We also got this message from Rita in regards to
the found ashes. She says, ladies, since you've had a
few stories about people finding cremains in weird places, want
to see what my in laws bought at a thrift
store for ten dollars in a senior's discount Hills.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, we do like a senior disco.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh, of course she has sent us pictures. We checked
and apparently it's legal to own it. We are one
hundred percent convinced this is real. I can send pics
of the underside where you can see like lattice, bone,
marrow and staining. That would be really hard to fake.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Here, let me show you the pictures.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
So, yeah, I knew this was a human skull.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, look at the underside that is so.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, human head.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That is so.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
We googled it and we found a website where, yeah,
you can buy human skulls.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's bone room dot com.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
And according to the website quote, it's perfectly legal to
possess and sell human bones in the United States. There
are a few exceptions to this. A few states have
banned import and export, and of course, all archaeological resources
protected the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. So
the Bone Room cannot ship any human bones to Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana,
(03:08):
and now Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh but good Texas is why I open it. And
international restrictions may apply.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So we'll post a link to all of this, but honestly,
looking at them gave me the willies, So enter at
your own risk.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
They have children's skulls, that's tough.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, they have some that were used for like studies
in science, like sick or you know, somebody who got
beaten in the head, all kinds of crazy stuff. But yeah,
you can actually own a human skull.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
What are we buying doing? And they're expensive doing it?
Hell no, I've had like a humorous bone.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah I've had oh yet, Oh no, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You wanted it and I gave it? Yeah you did. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So we also shared this really fun video from terror
Rule on Instagram, and she's been obsessing over that seal
song Kiss from a Rose, as we all did in
the nineties, and decided that her apartment ghost must have
been sending her messages. So she played the song and
one of her lights started flickering to the beat of
the song.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's such a great video.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yes, I love that amazing, But there was something amazing
in the comments as well, and it came from thrive
By and says, in March of nineteen ninety six, my
father died in a skiing accident. This song Kiss from
a Rose was on the radio non stop at the time.
If it comes on unexpectedly, like in a grocery store
or something, I have to leave. Even though it's been
(04:29):
such a long time, it puts me right back in
that time. My mother is a ghost non believer, but
she had a freaky encounter on a business trip a
year or so after. A complete stranger approached her saying
that my dad didn't know he was dead, but a
friend on the other side was helping him. Then he
proceeded to say intricate private details that only my mother
(04:52):
could know. WHOA that's a lot. Yeah, I was just
saying to my daughter that it's been a few years
since I've gotten a sign from my dad. I just
opened Instagram and this was the first thing that popped up.
I got instant head to toe goose pops.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You've got to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and
YouTube because we're always sharing good stuff like that. And
if you're watching on YouTube, please like and subscribe while
you're here. So we got to share this message from Katie.
This story is from when I.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Was about seven years old.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
My aunt and uncle live in a very old farmhouse,
probably the eighteen nineties. It never felt scary, but was
always one hundred percent haunted. There were a bunch of
us spending the night one night, probably eleven cousins.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I was in this little room at the.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Top of the stairs, which was dark except for a
light from a floodlight outside the window. So I woke
up sometime in the middle of the night and there
was someone standing by the window. The person wasn't solid,
though I could clearly see through them, and the light
from outside almost made them glow. They had a dress
on and it looked like old fashioned garb. So I
(06:00):
wasn't scared at all because it had a pleasant, nanny
like presence and it was even calming. I even remember
the feeling of them helping me fall back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So years later we went back and my aunt had
found photos of the house from long ago. She also
discovered that it was a home for unwed mothers. They
had nurses on site, and when I saw the pictures
of the nurses standing in.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Front of the house, I knew that's who I saw.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
One of the nurses must have been on her rounds
that night and helped me go back to sleep. That
is the sweetest and that beautiful, And that's from Katie.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So I've asked Katie, I want to see the picture
of the nurse steady out front. I love it tooch.
News is weird, but real haunted houses a jo slee
seel not your doors. Don't take us news. It's time
for news. Sorry, I cannot resist. No, it's good. It's
(06:54):
that good.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That is from Scott arkisaur t t is his website.
So thank you again for all the amazing theme songs
that he's made for us.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Right, we really should be paying him.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We really were poor. Hush your mouth, We're poor. Were
you in love? On the podcast?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, So back in our October third episode of last
year Voices of Shawshank Redemption, we shared a listener's EVP
that she captured at the Ohio State Reformatory. That was
the Tiger Tiger audio. I can't do it any other way.
I'm sorry Tiger that we played over and over again.
You guys heard that a million times. Well, we just
(07:33):
found out that you can now rent two of the
buildings that were used in the movie, which were adjacent
to the Reformatory, so you can actually get this real
immersive experience, so to speak. These homes were originally used
to house the guards, so they are old, but thankfully
have been renovated and sound pretty nice. They could be
the perfect spooky summer vacation because you also get discounted
(07:54):
tickets to the Reformatory tour. But there are only two houses,
so we recommend that you go ahead and reserve those now.
We will post a link in the story with the
details and last year's episode with the audio, so if
you want to revisit, check it out, go for it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That was a great episode.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Two.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Also, I saw this incredible post on Instagram from Crime
with Court about the butterfly people of Joplin. Have you
ever heard this story?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I had not either, and I was fascinated. So oh wait,
my husband was watching this last night?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Was he? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
When I walked in?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay, well, this part is actually not in the Netflix documentary.
That's why she posted this, because there's this big documentary
on Netflix right now about.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well it's called the Twister Cotton Storm.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's about the EF five tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri,
and twenty eleven killed about one hundred and sixty one people.
I think it injured close to one thousand as well.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I remember that being the news story headline for what
seemed like months.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh it was devastating, horrific. So there was so much
death and devastation at that point in time. But afterwards,
kids started telling stories about seeing butterfly people who had
come to protect them. These were, for the most part,
kids were old, don't have to know the difference between
like angels and whatever, but they specifically said butterfly people.
So I looked it up and I found tons of
(09:07):
stories about this, and we'll post a link to some
of them in the show notes.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But the cool thing is the kids all started drawing.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Pictures of the butterfly people love and they were eerily similar.
So it's been chalked up as a mass hallucination after
a devastating even which of course is likely, but is
still an amazing story. So go get all the details
at hauntedaf dot com in the companion blog.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I'm sorry, I believe the children over a mass hallucination.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, and you know what a butterfly person sounds like
to me? What a mothman? I totally and you know
Mothman was supposed to be a harbinger of tragedy.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
That totally makes sense now, all right. Our next one
comes from Kelly. I used to work at a funeral
home as an assistant. I did everything from setting up
flowers for the services to dressing and applying makeup on bodies.
I worked there for about four years and would occasionally
hear high heels clicking down the hallway, even though it
was completely carpeted. Oh God, bless if I am dead
in high heels. I'm sorry, my feet hurt. That's why
(10:03):
I'm clogging so hard.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, get the burks out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
There was a set of double doors at the far
end of the building and you would sometimes hear it
slam shut, even though it was kept locked at all times.
We would go down to see if someone actually was
in the building, and no one was ever there. We
had an elderly funeral director named Floyd who had a
specific routine. He would come in the back door, which
would slam shut when he walked in, then head down
(10:28):
the hall to the kitchen and get a coffee and
a doughnut before starting his stay. After he died, we
would hear the back door slam, then footsteps and a
chair slide at the kitchen table. We said it was
Floyd's still coming to work and eating his heavenly donut.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Oh Floyd, I know, I love him.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We even saw Floyd occasionally.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh, I saw him.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I saw him once while I was setting up the
casket and flowers and asked him to come help me,
but he disappeared. Whenever I saw him in the chapel,
I would talk to him while I worked. He never spoke,
he never frightened us. He was just there to make
sure the rest of us were still doing the job right. OHI,
Floyd is amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I love Floyd, But I want to know is that
him in the high heels?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh? Hello, Floyd is showing you a different side of him?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
This more Floyd. No, I love that story. It's beautiful.
Sure I do too.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Please, Kelly, if you get a chance, can we see
a picture of the funeral home because that's awesome. So
here is something that we've been following on Patreon, but
I feel like it's time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
To share it here.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We both me especially for whatever reason, and having extremely
bad luck ever since January.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
After we returned from our trip to Mineola.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I feel like my bad luck sort of ended pretty
quick after the trip.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
We had a week of bad No then, oh no, no,
mine has been high now on for so long.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
So we've been joking about it.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
And remember that we actually bought this old book about
ghost hunting from the Haunted Curiosity Shop and we decided
that that might be the thing causing the problems. We
actually gave it away on our Patreon page.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Which makes us kind of dicks. No, then, she just
wanted it. She wanted it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
This was our We were doing an experiment to see
if we handed this off to somebody, were they going
to end up having bad luck or weird shit as well.
So Tony was our lucky winner. And we told Tony
to keep us posted on any activity, and nothing happened
until now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yep, we got it updates.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yes, all right, Tony says, hello, ladies, I just started
reading the haunted Ish book and it's pretty interesting. I
say haunted Ish because a couple of nights ago, I
woke up and saw from my room that there was
a light on in my home office down the hall
from my bedroom. I had left a word document open
with something I was working on, and the next morning
I discovered thirty seven typed pages of nothing but the
(12:48):
number three, no.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Crappy thirty sent pages.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Okay, Oh, I'm getting shining vibes here.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yeah, the book is sitting right under my monitor. However,
earlier in the day I had knocked over a soda
on my desk, and I'm sure it just fried something
in the keyboard rather than a ghost.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That types. Ah, maybe I'm a little led down. Maybe not.
We don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We don't know. Let's see where the store goes. But
is the book a harbinger of bad luck? That same day,
I spilled my diet PEPSI. I also tripped going up
the stairs and tweaked something in my knee, and then
later knocked over a box of glasses that I had
stored in my garage. Maybe it's just making me clumsy.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Lol.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
We could do a Sisterhood of the traveling book experiment.
Oh my god, amazing. I could send it to someone
else and see if they had anything happen. And speaking
of traveling, I vote for the first annual Hanadaf Cruise.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh can I vote for that too? I'm me too, Yeah,
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You could do some meat and greets tell ghost stories,
do some dream analysis, watch for UFOs, do dot mixed
in with cocktails, islands and pool time.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Tony a genie, Tony, Yes, love, we want all of this.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Okay, First of all, I have done nothing but fallover
and break things and screw shit up since bringing home
that damn book, right, so harbinger of bad luck one
hundred percent. In fact, even this past week, my cat
fell on my face and scratched it up.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You said to me a picture, but you look great now.
Oh I can barely see it.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I've got a little bit of a Harry Potter scratch
left on my forehead, but.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, it like your sign.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Literally after that, I staged the fuck out of my house.
I was like, I am so done with all of this.
So maybe we just need to burn it. Probably, but
we need to discuss this with Tony and see if
any of our patrons are really interested in doing the
Sisterhood of the Traveling Haunted book.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I love that idea experiment. I kind of love it.
But if she really did screw up her computer, right,
that does suck. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
At the same time, what a great story we'll have
when it travels all over the world, making people clumsy. Yeah,
as long as somebody gets hurt, right, I don't want
anybody to get hurt first.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, well that's the other thing. I did not
share this on the regular podcast, but I fell in
the middle of the mall and oh glass bottle and
pieces of glass went in my hand.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I mean, it's I've been a fucking disaster for months.
It's not cool.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm sorping. I'm hoping it's better now after ice age.
But let's talk about this cruise.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yes, yes, yes, If anybody is really wanting to take
a holiday f cruise, let us know. Send us a note.
We will look into it. We know that our friends
at National Park after Dark takes some amazing trips all
the time. They actually just came back from Antarctica with
a group of listeners, a trip that looked really cool
but also a little bit terrifying. Yes, may cruise through
the Drake passage between Antarctica and South America, which is
(15:40):
where that famous Drake Shake video that's making the rounds
came from. I don't know if that was the Npad trip,
but it does look an awful lot like the videos
that they were posting on their Instagram page. So we
will post the links to both of those in our
show notes.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But we just want to take a normal cruise.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, I know, nobody's falling over. There's no spilled drinks
unless we're super drunk.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yes, that is fine. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Remember you can find all that stuff in our companion blog,
hondaf dot com. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I keep going back and forth between the actual Drake
Shake video and between the npad Instagram page because they
have very similar videos.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
They just did that trip wow, so it's like dang.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Also, we have a ton of new listeners right now,
and well, okay, we're hoping that we have a ton
of it. Yeah, we got a bunch of new followers
and uh, we're hoping that they're actually listening right now.
But this podcast is all about you. It's all about
your stories, which means you need to send them pretty please,
So we'll take them written or recorded, audio or video.
(16:38):
But Ghost, Bigfoot, UFOs, Matrix, glitches, dead pets, crazy dreams,
even that serial killer who lived next door We had
a really great one in the pre game this week
as well. Send all that good stuff to Haunted AF
podcast at gmail dot com so we can use it
on the next Haunted AF.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And don't forget to subscribe to honted Aff on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher,
wherever you listen to podcasts. Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
and of course TikTok. You can even contact us directly
through our website, hauntdaf dot com.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Got to say thanks to Andrew Mamaliga and Travis Vance
for the Hontiday of theme song, and to on Air
Media for titles and technical support. Also big thanks to
all of the Honiday of Patreon supporters.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Most of all, we have to thank you for listening
and for sharing your stories with us. By the way, Julie,
if I die first, I'm coming back to haunt you, I'll.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Come back to haunt you. Toub Rebecca
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