April 24, 2025 • 29 mins
We had so many questions after listening to Chad's EVP from Mineral Wells, we decided to have him on the podcast again this week. We've also got some creepy ghost stories from an Essex Joke Shop and a haunted hotel in Turkey. Stay to the end for Lorin's story about the ghost who brought them gifts and liked to tickle. This particular Haunted AF has lots of photo evidence so watch it on YouTube or find the companion blog at HauntedAF.com. And keep sending your spooky stories to hauntedafpodcast@gmail.com so we can use them this season on Haunted AF!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have got some ghost stories for you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm hearing these voices, but there's nobody else around.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I don't like the skeleton man.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
He's so mean to me and he bites me at night.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And suddenly this stool, completely of his own volition, slid
good to maybe three feet out into the center of
the bar.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
He walks towards the ocean and he gets through the water.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I feel someone run their hand under my buttcheet just
sliding under my butt.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
So that is my ghost story.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hi, and welcome to Honaday Up the podcast. A real
ghost story is told by real people.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We are your hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm Julie Fiss and I'm Rebecca Black. So coming up,
we're going to talk to Chad from Doctor ghost Hunters
about his experiences at the Haunted Hill House in Mineral Wells.
We talked about this last week and we really came
out of it with a lot of questions. We're also
going to talk to my friend Lauren about the wild
rental that she lived in for a little while. So
that's all coming up.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
First, we need to send love to our newest patron,
Luis Fouber, who is from Denmark and worried about sending
audio because we might not understand their accent, which, as
you all know, it makes us want to hear the
audio even more.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Send it. Luise.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Please do remember if you become a patron, it only
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and you're gonna get them with a pregame. Don't knock
by the pre game. It's essentially our blooper real It
is fun. It hit our warm up.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, and we do share some really good stories over there,
so it's definitely worth the five bucks a month. Okay,
So last week all of us came out of that
episode with questions from Chad, or for Chad from Doctor
ghost Hunters about his experience at Hillhouse. So we've got
Chad with us from Doctor ghost Hunters or all three
of you. How many of you are on the team for.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The trip of the hunted Hillhouse that I sent you.
There's me, my buddy Jason, and he's always with me
whenever we go. My dad went with me on that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Particular trip that's so cute.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But typically we have my wife and then two of
her friends that also.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Come along, but you had a really big experience there,
multiple ones that made you feel like there might be
something really going on. Can you tell us a little
bit about that?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, sure, thing, And I want to start by following
up a little bit what you said on the podcast
that before we went to the Hillhouse, we had consumed
a lot of the content that was on YouTube, both
of the people who claimed to find demons, but also
the debunker channels, which a lot of for Haunted Hillhouse.
You were pretty skeptical going there, and in fact, our
(02:37):
goal to first night was to find some sort of
hydraulic system like thumping the wall upstairs and to look
for hidden cameras or microphones. We ultimately didn't find it.
So the experiences that we had there were a few.
The first night that we were there, we were upstairs
kind of in between Toby's room and Emily's room, and
(03:00):
we started to have a few pieces happen, like I
felt as though there was a gush of air hanging
here with me. With this, I heard what I thought
was a voice coming from Toby's room. Right after that,
the rempod starts to go off. My dad was holding
an ovulus, which we don't have, but they had as
part of the equipment there, and it finally started to
trigger with some words, which it hadn't for the previous
(03:21):
half an hour or so, and then we all heard
what we thought was a disembodied voice coming from the
third bedroom. All of that is within the span of
about a minute. We captured a little bit of that audio,
but it's not great and it's not a clear EVP.
And one of the things that we were excited about
is we had a camquarder in that room and so
once we got home, all of our cam quarter footage uploaded,
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with the exception of one piece that was corrupt, and
you can guess which piece it was, and it was
that And so that experience, while it wasn't the biggest
one that was there, it's the multiple layers of different
things that would happen that couldn't be controlled by someone
owning the house in my opinion. And then the other
short pieces that we heard. Jason and my dad both
(04:03):
heard what they thought was the disembodied voice of a
girl moaning. There's no clear word that we could pick
up through it. And that was equip that I sent
last week where you can see Jason who had his
goofy helmet on.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, we might have a crush on Jason now just
because the help.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Anyway, they heard that sound, and Jason also happened to
have a digital audio recorder going in there, so we
immediately go back and play like, well, you asked a
question if someone made the sound, and that's when we
hear initially just like this guttural sound that was like
to us, it sounded like it said get out, like
get out, And that for us was a real eyebit opener,
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because let's just say on the extreme that the owners
of the house plant evidence for people to have an experience.
How would you do that to where you don't hear
it in real time and it is only picked up
on a digital audio and not even to the point
where you have to amplify the audio to hear it.
I can and explain that I don't know how that
would happen. So to us that was pretty significant.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Did you guys have multiple recording devices where you could
take the audio from each thing and then line them
all up at the same time to see if it
all pops in the same area.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
We did, and in that particular instance, in the scratcher room. Yeah,
the GoPro is the one that was on Jason's helmet
facing him, and that one has audio, and he also
had his digital audio and we lined it up and
it's on both of them.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So you heard hello. I thought it said hello, and
we had other people say get out. We did get
a couple of get outs, and then one person said,
what's up.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
From the nineties Budweizer commercials.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I was sure changed the context of that suitingly.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So okay, keep in touch and we'll just talk soon.
Sounds great, thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
All Right, here we go. This is from Mara. My
grandma whom I called Nan, passed away about two months ago,
just shy of her hundredth birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What a life though, I mean, come on, nine years amazing.
She had a heart attack and heart surgery wasn't really
the best option. My family made the difficult choice to
put her into hospice. I live across the country at
this point and was using video calls to talk to her.
We even celebrated a virtual early one hundredth birthday with her.
If that's so sweet. Here's where the spooky stuff comes
(06:18):
into the picture. In my apartment. I have motion lights
at the top and bottom of my stairs, so I
don't have to turn on the lights at night if
I go to the bathroom. I understand this well. One
day after Grandma went into hospice, my boyfriend and I
were sitting on the couch. I was sad and crying,
and he was comforting me. I made a joke about her,
and then suddenly the motion light at the bottom of
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the stairs turned on. We both looked, and of course
nothing was there. He isn't a believer in the spookies,
surprise and hulled his eyes. He said it must be
because the battery was dying, even though that has never
happened before. I charged it anyway and put it back
at the bottom of the stairs. The next night, I
was on the couch alone and sad when the motion
light went off again. I was very startled, but got
(07:02):
up and turned it off. In the following days, the
motion light would go off randomly, sometimes multiple times a day,
and me being me, I wanted to roll out anything logical.
We totally understand that. I swapped the lights at the
top and the bottom of the stairs to see if
one was faulty. I timed it to see if it
happened at a regular cadence, and I looked for little
(07:23):
fruitflies anything. Do fruit flies mess with that kind of stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, it could trigger them, I think, Oh something that small, Yeah,
oh smart girl here all right?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nothing added up. Nan passed away a week after entering hospice,
and I was about to fly home for her celebration
of life. Before I left, though, my boyfriend and I
were watching a movie, and just as something tends happened
on screen, the light at the bottom of the stairs
went off, scared the daylights out of both of us,
and then at first the light at the top of
the stairs turned on.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh Nan was a trick stairs.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
She was After her celebration of life, I went to
NaN's house, which was a my childhood home. My parents
moved around a lot, so I spent every weekend there
as a child. The house was going to be sold,
so I walked around and said goodbye to it. At
one point I went upstairs and stood in my childhood bedroom.
I started talking out loud to my grandma, thanking her
for all the memories and teaching me about life. Then
(08:18):
on a whim, I added, and man, if you're at
all related to the stair lights going off. I love you,
but it's getting creepy. That was just over a month
ago and the light hasn't gone off since. Oh wow wow.
So next time it happens, though, I'll definitely smile instead
of startle. Mara. Oh that's so sweet, what a great story.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I love that all right. So this next story comes
from Lee.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Hi, Julia and Rebecca. My name's Lee and I'm from
a lovely little village in a county called Essex, very
close to London. I've been binging on your podcast now
for a couple of months while I've been making bits
and bobs, first starting up my doggy business called Sophie
Bear's pull Craft Gifts. I'm all up to date now,
(09:02):
so obviously you need content and I know you love
an accent, so I thought i'd send some experiences that
my mom has had. So these stories take place in
a good old London town, specifically bethnal Green, where my
great great grandparents bought a shop. My mum thinks that
(09:24):
it was used as a wax flower shop and then
when my great grandparents took it over, I think they
turned it into a toy shop and then when my
grandparents took it over, they turned it into a joke
shop slash fancy dress which had like wigs and makeup
and fake cigarettes and practical joke things. And then in
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the back was like a little room where we'd all
sit when we had our lunch. And then you had
a narrow staircase that went up to the first floor.
So to give you a little bit more of a backstory,
my great uncle call died there of testicular cancer when
he was I think he was only like seven or eight,
which is really sad. And my great grandfather died there
(10:10):
as well. So I went to my mum's ghost stories.
The first one is when she was heavily pregnant with
my oldest brother and she was sitting in the back
room and there was this clock on the mantelpiece and
it literally just flew across the room. Second story, i'd
(10:30):
like to tell you about when she was on the
top floor and she had some boxes. She was going
to trip down the stairs, but she literally felt something
push her back, so she was about to fall forward,
and she was pushed back so that she didn't fall
down the stairs. The third story, i'd like to tell
(10:53):
you about is probably the freakiest one.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I think.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
My mum had put some boxes on the floor and
they had a load of hats in it, and above
those boxes on the ceiling there were also some more
hats sort of like pegged along the top of the ceiling,
and there were some shelves which also had like masks
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and wigs and more hats on. She came in the
next day and the boxes had been tipped over, so
all the hats in the boxes had fallen out, all
the hats on the pegs had been pulled off, and
all of the wigs and the masks on the mannequin
(11:40):
heads they'd all been thrown off as well. My grandparents
decided to sell the shop, so we feel quite sad
that we've got family members that have sort of been
left behind. Really, I've got a few other bits that
you might be interested in. I've got a photo over
half and also I might potentially have a dead pet
(12:04):
of the week, but that could be a wishful thinking
because our beloved pop died only four weeks ago. So
just let me know and I'll speak to you soon.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Bye bye, Lee, Thank you so much for that. Sorry
about your puppy. That's so sad. I do want to
go through some hats.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Though, like you made me want to wear a hat
so bad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, we also got this from Lee, so why don't
you read this all right?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I've attached my ghost caught on camera too. This was
a place in Turkey called and I did look up
the pronunciation, but I'm still probably gonna butcher it Cappadocia.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It was really cool because they carved the whole hotel
out of the rocks. Oh, that sounds awesome. So it
was like staying at the Flintstone's House. That's like every
kid's dream.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
My parents and I were sharing a room and they
decided to go to the bar while I took some photos.
So I was the only person in the room at
the time. When I first saw this picture, I thought
it a bag in the corner of the room, but
then I saw the shadow coming from it. It's a
pair of bloody legs, bluddy. I would love to know
the skeptics perspective, as I can't think of an explanation
(13:11):
other than it's definitely a ghost. My dad is a
massive non believer, and even he can't think of an answer.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, you ready to look.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
At this picture to see those bloody legs.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Here you go. So this is the picture of the room,
and you can see how instantly you can see it. Yes,
you can see. Everything's just stone. And she did send
another picture of the room. There's nothing here. This is
just a little walkway, but you can see it looks
like shorts or skirt and very clear.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Very clear legs, legs right the Yeah, that's definitely a
calf muscle. That's definitely a heel. I wish we could
see some toes, but I don't. You can tell that
it's going into that foot shape and what happened.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Up here, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's great, so awesome. Yeah, if you're not watching on YouTube,
go to honadayf dot com look for the Companion blog.
This is episode twelve, season eleven, and look for this
photo because it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So I've been teasing this one for a while. Rebecca
has yet to hear this story. I met Lauren and
her husband last night at dinner. It was a birthday
party for our friend Chris, and it was funny because
as soon as I showed up, Chris said, oh my gosh,
you have to meet my friends, they lived in a
haunted house. So, Lauren, thank you so much for coming
on to Haunted AF. I'm so excited for Rebecca to
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hear this story of yours. So first of all, where
did you and your husband live?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We were in Philadelphia for a few years. We lived
in Dallas and moved to Philadelphia, and then now we're
back in Dallas obviously, but when we lived in Philadelphia,
we lived in this house. It was built merrily nineteen hundred,
so it was super old and kind of just had
old vibes.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
First of all, I have to say, what is your
husband's name?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
His name is Mark.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Okay, So one of the things that we notice about
dudes on the podcast all the time is that they
never believe it. He seemed like he was completely on
board with everything you told us last night.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, I think we would probably both call ourselves ghost
believer adjacent, like sort of open to the idea. But
I do tend to try to go to like the
rational explanation first. So several of these things that we'll
talk about I tried to like explain with science or
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just you know, logical answers. But the first story that
said it all off for us, which was divers just
kind of despised explanation, like we could not figure out.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, that was the first story you told me, and
it blew my mind. It was the first time I've
ever heard anything like this. So tell everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
We drove cross country with our family, you know, from
Datlas to Philadelphia, so a couple of days of driving.
We didn't have any of our stuff though, just fall
suitcase that we could set in the car, so we
had no furniture whatnot. We walked in the top. We
rented this house side their team, so it kind of
threw me off when I first went into the house.
I'll be honest, like, I was not loving it. It's
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a whole different vibe than houses here. And part of
that is that I have a lot of houses in
Philadelphia have basement, many of which are sort of unfinished
or semi finished, which this house had. It has a basement.
One part of it kind of has a concrete floor,
but the rest of it is just dirt floor, the
unfinished stones of the exterior of the house and a
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damp and you know, must be smelling and just kind
of gross and viby.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I totally I immediately see the conjuring basement, and.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
In the back of the basement was this room that
didn't have a closed off doors. You could kind of
see into it, and it has this light that just
always blinked, oh good. We lived there for four years.
I never went into that space, but our watcher dryer
were in the basement, so I had to go in
the basement a lot. So when we first got there again,
no furniture. The house has been vacant for a couple
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of months, I think, so I ran this target and
bought like broom, mop, dustyan et cetera. And came back
and you know, we all did some cleaning to get
the house in better shape. When we're done, we put
broom and mop and everything kind of in this little
walkway that connected the kitchen to the stairway down into
the basement. So it was a little bit separate from
the main part of the house, but just off the
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kitchen inside the house. That's important to know. So brand
new broom and mop hadn't been there. Put them in
that walkway and kind of went, you know, to hang out.
I think we worked some pizza and we're sitting in
a NMF house eating dinner, and I heard the smoke
detector down in the basement go off, and not like
a full alarm, and also not like the kind of
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periodic chirping that it starts to do when the batteries
run out, but like somewhere in the middle, like a rhythmic,
slow paced beep. So I went to check that out walkdown,
couldn't figure out why I was going off, so I
ended up just taking it down, taking the batteries out
of it after, you know, kind of making sure there's
no smoke. And as I walked back up the stairs,
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I saw the broom and mop, and hanging in the
cross that they were sort of making the handles was
a dead bird. And like I said, I just bought
them off at room. So it's not like they've been there,
you know, for very long, not more than an hour probably,
And this was an internal space, and there was this
dead bird, and it was under some shelves, so it
hadn't like fallen into this spot. And we just can't
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explain how that bird got there in that particular position.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Okay, a couple of questions, the questions everybody will ask,
did you have a cat? No, that's pretty much all
the old counts so and you actually have a picture
of this, Like when you saw it, did you run
in and get your phone and like, like, I have
to get a picture of this. This is crazy, basically.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean I think there were some minutes of that. Yeah.
I definitely called the family in to look at it.
There were some minutes of us kind of standing around
trying to figure out where it might have come from.
And you know, in doing that, I think I took
a picture just to document it or share it with friends, like, great,
this is the house we've just moved into.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh, and I'm so glad that you did. It really
does give you an idea. It's like the little bird
is just kind of hanging over, but it almost looks
like it was placed there. Yeah, and it's a little precarious.
Everybody needs to look at the picture because that is alarming.
How old were your kids at this point and were
they freaked out? Like how do you move beyond that moment?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So our kids were four and six when we moved in.
I mean, any misgivings I was having about the house,
we tried very hard to hide that from the kids.
You know, we're new home. We don't want them having
weird feelings about it, sure, so I think again we
tried to just write it off as nothing alarming, and
then later that night, I think my husband and I
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sort of debriefed about how freaky that was.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, like the panicky whispers in the bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Oh my god. So speaking of later in the bedroom,
we again no furniture. We had taken air mattresses with us,
so all of us were sort of camping out in
what is the like master bedroom of the house, which
was on the top floor. So in Philly, you know,
houses are tall and narrow, so it was three living
floors and then the basement, so we're four floors up
from the basement in this room. As we all got
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settled in to go to sleep, the smoke detector in
that room started doing that slow beep no yes. And
that was a whole ordeal because the ceilings in that
room were I don't know, I think like ten twelve
feet and we didn't have any furniture, so we didn't
have a like chair or ladder or anything to reach
(20:30):
the smoke detecture up there. So my husband had to
basically scale this like decorative scaffolding that was over the stairwall.
I mean it was like life endangering to get that
smoke detector down, but it was just so weird how
it was doing exactly the same kind of rhythmic beat. Yes,
and like throughout the years that we lived in that house,
that would happen in different areas. So we just started
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to say that was how our ghost was communicating with us.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I mean that very first time is like the
smoke detector goes off, you go over to deal with it,
and coming back is when you see the bird. So
it's almost like you were being like summon dumly, you know, right,
like come see this beautiful gift I gave you, and
you said you lived there for years?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, four years?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, did anything else happen after this?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, So like it just says very smoke detector, you know,
messages that we were never able to really decode, but
kind of felt like it was intentional somehow from the
other side, you know, weird things like our net our
adult nephew came to stay with us, and he is
very very organized and kind of like meticulous about keeping
his stuff in order and his keys witnessing, and we
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never found them, Like we were always sort of like,
oh when we move the furniture. Maybe we'll show up
or when we move out. We thought we would find them.
We never found those keys. I mean did various things.
And it's a little creepier because I think I sent
you the picture. But the third floor was added on,
and they tried to keep the like facade of the
bunt of the house intact, so they kept a little
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tiny window and maybe about two feet of like roof
space between the front of the house and where the
third floor addition started back a little bit, so there
was a little space left behind. It was closed off.
It was not accessible, and to be honest, we never
even really thought about it. We didn't even think of
it as like space being there. But it was right
above our kids' bedroom, and some weird things would kind
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of happen in our kids bedroom, Like we would go
in to check on them at night, and it was
looked like the blanket had been straight pulled off their bed,
not like you know, they tossed and turn and like
the blankets fell off on the side, but like pulled
off toward the end of the bed. And both of
our kids have like some sleep disorders. One of my
kids had nights here and was like wake up, just
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st of panic kind of a night, so some weird stuff,
and we just kind of chucked it up to like
childhood sleep troubles blankets. I think as parents we just
sort of tried to like rationalize somehow and ignore because
we don't want to move out of this house. And
then one morning, my son, my older son, was eating
breakfast in the kitchen and he's just really nonchalantly as
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he's eating byes of cereal, slowly just says, the ghost
of Zinger lives in our attic. And that was the space,
the little facade space that was right above their room.
And I, again, we had tried not to talk about
any of these bizarre things in terms of like ghost
language to not scare the kids, and I just tried
to keep the very neutral things. And I was like,
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what do you mean? I think? I said, how do
you know that? And he said, he tickles me to
sleep at night.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm sorry, say that again? What was that?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He said? He tickles me to sleep that night, and
he just keeps eating his cereal like no big deal.
Now as an older person, I actually just brought this
story up with him after talking about it last night,
and he claims now that he made it up. Oh,
I don't know. It was so specific. He named the
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name we had never heard or talked about.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh yeah, how old is he now?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
He's now fourteen.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Does he remember any of these things?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I asked both of them. Neither one of them remember
any of the specifics of these things happening.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Oh my gosh, so wait, Zanger Is that what he said? Zanger?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Banger? V A. N. Gar is how we now write
it as a family.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That feels like something that would be easy to kind
of look up. Were you able to do some research
on that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
There was some sort of similar names like V. A. N. Gar,
I I think is kind of common there. I never
found anything that was exactly related, you know, would have
made for a very good story if I'd found, you know,
a certain person had died in the area, you know,
a fifty years before or something. But we didn't find
that jet pot of information.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, that is amazing. I'm glad that you're no longer
in that house.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I will say we never felt it like scary or
the ghost had bill intentions. We just sort of felt
like it was like we were cohabitating and he was
trying to send us some messages.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So did you ever try to sage or cleanse the
house or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We never did. We never again really kind of felt
like it was something we needed to get rid of.
I think the stuff, you know, happening in the kids
room probably gave us the most pause. But I think
that was the stuff we were sort of able to
rationalize in our minds a bit more. Yeah, and nobody
seemed like scared of being in the house. It just
seemed like an interesting part of living there.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I will also at our house in Philadelphia was very
near to a pretty major battle site in the Revolutionary War,
so you know, lots of Pelley spirits are unsettled in
that area.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Right right, How old was the house again?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It was built in the early nineteen hundred, Okay, so
just for a little over one hundred years old when
we were living in it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, thank you so much for sharing the photos. Everybody
needs to go and take a look at those. Honadayf
dot Com. Go check the Companion blog if you're not
watching on YouTube, and look at the bird photo. I
think that's a starling. Honestly, I've been looking at it
trying to figure out what kind of bird that is
not that it makes a difference. I mean, it's it's
creepy no matter what. But if anybody has ideas as
(26:15):
to how that could have happened, if there's not a
cat in the house, because that is really alarming to me.
I've never out of all the stories we've had, I've
never heard of something like that. So thank you so much, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, it was great. Thanks for the fun.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Okay, I made you sit through that whole thing without candles,
made a sleep.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Mer.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Are you ready to see the bird photo? I know
Rebecca hasn't seen it yet. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I've seen the outside. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
So you could see but of the handles, they're kind
of crossed over. There's a little bird delicately hanging right there. Yeah,
it's a sad little photo. So sad little birdie feet.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I know he like hung himself.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
That's yeah. But it's weird.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's like because I don't know how you would get
like that position.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, so first of all, that wouldn't kill a bird
to land in that position. Well, we never like naturally land,
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So it looks like he's been gently placed in the
crux of the broom handle.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yes, exactly. So again, if you guys have any ideas
as to how that happens, interesting, especially when there's not
a cat.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah. Yeah, And I don't know how to explain the
fire alarms going off at a different rate than normal.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It was anger.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But I literally think of like the TV show Ghosts
and they're like, we would like you to cook bacon
for us, or yes, so we can smell it. All right, y'all,
heads up, that hotiday f is rapidly approaching our summer break.
Our final episode of season eleven is going to drop
four weeks from now. That's May twenty second. We will
be ending then because while let's be real, Julie's got
a lot of shit. It's graduation day for her daughter. Yeah,
(27:56):
so she's gonna be a little busy that week, so
she didn't have any time to edit some ghost stories. Sorry,
not that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, we will be taking June.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
July, and August off after that, catch our brass, try
to collect some more stories. We've been going since before October.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Correct we took January off, did we? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So, but not feel like it.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I know we took one month off, but also during
that time we were doing a whole lot of update
work on the podcast, is true, and we went to Mineola,
so sure it wasn't a real break, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
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Speaker 2 (28:36):
So yeah, check it out. I know, and I know
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dry and we need a break. We still have four
more episodes to get through, though, so send us those stories.
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(28:57):
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Speaker 3 (29:32):
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 all.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Come back to haunt you too. Rebecca
I have got some ghost stories for you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm hearing these voices, but there's nobody else around.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I don't like the skeleton man.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
He's so mean to me and he bites me at night.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And suddenly this stool, completely of his own volition, slid
good to maybe three feet out into the center of
the bar.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
He walks towards the ocean and he gets through the water.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
He just disappeared.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I feel someone run their hand under my buttcheet just
sliding under my butt.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
So that is my ghost story.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hi, and welcome to Honaday Up the podcast. A real
ghost story is told by real people.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We are your hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm Julie Fiss and I'm Rebecca Black. So coming up,
we're going to talk to Chad from Doctor ghost Hunters
about his experiences at the Haunted Hill House in Mineral Wells.
We talked about this last week and we really came
out of it with a lot of questions. We're also
going to talk to my friend Lauren about the wild
rental that she lived in for a little while. So
that's all coming up.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
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Luis Fouber, who is from Denmark and worried about sending
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you all know, it makes us want to hear the
audio even more.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Send it. Luise.
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Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, and we do share some really good stories over there,
so it's definitely worth the five bucks a month. Okay,
So last week all of us came out of that
episode with questions from Chad, or for Chad from Doctor
ghost Hunters about his experience at Hillhouse. So we've got
Chad with us from Doctor ghost Hunters or all three
of you. How many of you are on the team for.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
The trip of the hunted Hillhouse that I sent you.
There's me, my buddy Jason, and he's always with me
whenever we go. My dad went with me on that.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Particular trip that's so cute.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But typically we have my wife and then two of
her friends that also.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Come along, but you had a really big experience there,
multiple ones that made you feel like there might be
something really going on. Can you tell us a little
bit about that?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, sure, thing, And I want to start by following
up a little bit what you said on the podcast
that before we went to the Hillhouse, we had consumed
a lot of the content that was on YouTube, both
of the people who claimed to find demons, but also
the debunker channels, which a lot of for Haunted Hillhouse.
You were pretty skeptical going there, and in fact, our
(02:37):
goal to first night was to find some sort of
hydraulic system like thumping the wall upstairs and to look
for hidden cameras or microphones. We ultimately didn't find it.
So the experiences that we had there were a few.
The first night that we were there, we were upstairs
kind of in between Toby's room and Emily's room, and
(03:00):
we started to have a few pieces happen, like I
felt as though there was a gush of air hanging
here with me. With this, I heard what I thought
was a voice coming from Toby's room. Right after that,
the rempod starts to go off. My dad was holding
an ovulus, which we don't have, but they had as
part of the equipment there, and it finally started to
trigger with some words, which it hadn't for the previous
(03:21):
half an hour or so, and then we all heard
what we thought was a disembodied voice coming from the
third bedroom. All of that is within the span of
about a minute. We captured a little bit of that audio,
but it's not great and it's not a clear EVP.
And one of the things that we were excited about
is we had a camquarder in that room and so
once we got home, all of our cam quarter footage uploaded,
(03:42):
with the exception of one piece that was corrupt, and
you can guess which piece it was, and it was
that And so that experience, while it wasn't the biggest
one that was there, it's the multiple layers of different
things that would happen that couldn't be controlled by someone
owning the house in my opinion. And then the other
short pieces that we heard. Jason and my dad both
(04:03):
heard what they thought was the disembodied voice of a
girl moaning. There's no clear word that we could pick
up through it. And that was equip that I sent
last week where you can see Jason who had his
goofy helmet on.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, we might have a crush on Jason now just
because the help.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Anyway, they heard that sound, and Jason also happened to
have a digital audio recorder going in there, so we
immediately go back and play like, well, you asked a
question if someone made the sound, and that's when we
hear initially just like this guttural sound that was like
to us, it sounded like it said get out, like
get out, And that for us was a real eyebit opener,
(04:44):
because let's just say on the extreme that the owners
of the house plant evidence for people to have an experience.
How would you do that to where you don't hear
it in real time and it is only picked up
on a digital audio and not even to the point
where you have to amplify the audio to hear it.
I can and explain that I don't know how that
would happen. So to us that was pretty significant.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Did you guys have multiple recording devices where you could
take the audio from each thing and then line them
all up at the same time to see if it
all pops in the same area.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
We did, and in that particular instance, in the scratcher room. Yeah,
the GoPro is the one that was on Jason's helmet
facing him, and that one has audio, and he also
had his digital audio and we lined it up and
it's on both of them.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
So you heard hello. I thought it said hello, and
we had other people say get out. We did get
a couple of get outs, and then one person said,
what's up.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
From the nineties Budweizer commercials.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I was sure changed the context of that suitingly.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So okay, keep in touch and we'll just talk soon.
Sounds great, thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
All Right, here we go. This is from Mara. My
grandma whom I called Nan, passed away about two months ago,
just shy of her hundredth birthday.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
What a life though, I mean, come on, nine years amazing.
She had a heart attack and heart surgery wasn't really
the best option. My family made the difficult choice to
put her into hospice. I live across the country at
this point and was using video calls to talk to her.
We even celebrated a virtual early one hundredth birthday with her.
If that's so sweet. Here's where the spooky stuff comes
(06:18):
into the picture. In my apartment. I have motion lights
at the top and bottom of my stairs, so I
don't have to turn on the lights at night if
I go to the bathroom. I understand this well. One
day after Grandma went into hospice, my boyfriend and I
were sitting on the couch. I was sad and crying,
and he was comforting me. I made a joke about her,
and then suddenly the motion light at the bottom of
(06:39):
the stairs turned on. We both looked, and of course
nothing was there. He isn't a believer in the spookies,
surprise and hulled his eyes. He said it must be
because the battery was dying, even though that has never
happened before. I charged it anyway and put it back
at the bottom of the stairs. The next night, I
was on the couch alone and sad when the motion
light went off again. I was very startled, but got
(07:02):
up and turned it off. In the following days, the
motion light would go off randomly, sometimes multiple times a day,
and me being me, I wanted to roll out anything logical.
We totally understand that. I swapped the lights at the
top and the bottom of the stairs to see if
one was faulty. I timed it to see if it
happened at a regular cadence, and I looked for little
(07:23):
fruitflies anything. Do fruit flies mess with that kind of stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, it could trigger them, I think, Oh something that small, Yeah,
oh smart girl here all right?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nothing added up. Nan passed away a week after entering hospice,
and I was about to fly home for her celebration
of life. Before I left, though, my boyfriend and I
were watching a movie, and just as something tends happened
on screen, the light at the bottom of the stairs
went off, scared the daylights out of both of us,
and then at first the light at the top of
the stairs turned on.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh Nan was a trick stairs.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
She was After her celebration of life, I went to
NaN's house, which was a my childhood home. My parents
moved around a lot, so I spent every weekend there
as a child. The house was going to be sold,
so I walked around and said goodbye to it. At
one point I went upstairs and stood in my childhood bedroom.
I started talking out loud to my grandma, thanking her
for all the memories and teaching me about life. Then
(08:18):
on a whim, I added, and man, if you're at
all related to the stair lights going off. I love you,
but it's getting creepy. That was just over a month
ago and the light hasn't gone off since. Oh wow wow.
So next time it happens, though, I'll definitely smile instead
of startle. Mara. Oh that's so sweet, what a great story.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I love that all right. So this next story comes
from Lee.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Hi, Julia and Rebecca. My name's Lee and I'm from
a lovely little village in a county called Essex, very
close to London. I've been binging on your podcast now
for a couple of months while I've been making bits
and bobs, first starting up my doggy business called Sophie
Bear's pull Craft Gifts. I'm all up to date now,
(09:02):
so obviously you need content and I know you love
an accent, so I thought i'd send some experiences that
my mom has had. So these stories take place in
a good old London town, specifically bethnal Green, where my
great great grandparents bought a shop. My mum thinks that
(09:24):
it was used as a wax flower shop and then
when my great grandparents took it over, I think they
turned it into a toy shop and then when my
grandparents took it over, they turned it into a joke
shop slash fancy dress which had like wigs and makeup
and fake cigarettes and practical joke things. And then in
(09:47):
the back was like a little room where we'd all
sit when we had our lunch. And then you had
a narrow staircase that went up to the first floor.
So to give you a little bit more of a backstory,
my great uncle call died there of testicular cancer when
he was I think he was only like seven or eight,
which is really sad. And my great grandfather died there
(10:10):
as well. So I went to my mum's ghost stories.
The first one is when she was heavily pregnant with
my oldest brother and she was sitting in the back
room and there was this clock on the mantelpiece and
it literally just flew across the room. Second story, i'd
(10:30):
like to tell you about when she was on the
top floor and she had some boxes. She was going
to trip down the stairs, but she literally felt something
push her back, so she was about to fall forward,
and she was pushed back so that she didn't fall
down the stairs. The third story, i'd like to tell
(10:53):
you about is probably the freakiest one.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I think.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
My mum had put some boxes on the floor and
they had a load of hats in it, and above
those boxes on the ceiling there were also some more
hats sort of like pegged along the top of the ceiling,
and there were some shelves which also had like masks
(11:17):
and wigs and more hats on. She came in the
next day and the boxes had been tipped over, so
all the hats in the boxes had fallen out, all
the hats on the pegs had been pulled off, and
all of the wigs and the masks on the mannequin
(11:40):
heads they'd all been thrown off as well. My grandparents
decided to sell the shop, so we feel quite sad
that we've got family members that have sort of been
left behind. Really, I've got a few other bits that
you might be interested in. I've got a photo over
half and also I might potentially have a dead pet
(12:04):
of the week, but that could be a wishful thinking
because our beloved pop died only four weeks ago. So
just let me know and I'll speak to you soon.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Bye bye, Lee, Thank you so much for that. Sorry
about your puppy. That's so sad. I do want to
go through some hats.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Though, like you made me want to wear a hat
so bad.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, we also got this from Lee, so why don't
you read this all right?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I've attached my ghost caught on camera too. This was
a place in Turkey called and I did look up
the pronunciation, but I'm still probably gonna butcher it Cappadocia.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It was really cool because they carved the whole hotel
out of the rocks. Oh, that sounds awesome. So it
was like staying at the Flintstone's House. That's like every
kid's dream.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
My parents and I were sharing a room and they
decided to go to the bar while I took some photos.
So I was the only person in the room at
the time. When I first saw this picture, I thought
it a bag in the corner of the room, but
then I saw the shadow coming from it. It's a
pair of bloody legs, bluddy. I would love to know
the skeptics perspective, as I can't think of an explanation
(13:11):
other than it's definitely a ghost. My dad is a
massive non believer, and even he can't think of an answer.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, you ready to look.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
At this picture to see those bloody legs.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Here you go. So this is the picture of the room,
and you can see how instantly you can see it. Yes,
you can see. Everything's just stone. And she did send
another picture of the room. There's nothing here. This is
just a little walkway, but you can see it looks
like shorts or skirt and very clear.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Very clear legs, legs right the Yeah, that's definitely a
calf muscle. That's definitely a heel. I wish we could
see some toes, but I don't. You can tell that
it's going into that foot shape and what happened.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Up here, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's great, so awesome. Yeah, if you're not watching on YouTube,
go to honadayf dot com look for the Companion blog.
This is episode twelve, season eleven, and look for this
photo because it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
All right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So I've been teasing this one for a while. Rebecca
has yet to hear this story. I met Lauren and
her husband last night at dinner. It was a birthday
party for our friend Chris, and it was funny because
as soon as I showed up, Chris said, oh my gosh,
you have to meet my friends, they lived in a
haunted house. So, Lauren, thank you so much for coming
on to Haunted AF. I'm so excited for Rebecca to
(14:23):
hear this story of yours. So first of all, where
did you and your husband live?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We were in Philadelphia for a few years. We lived
in Dallas and moved to Philadelphia, and then now we're
back in Dallas obviously, but when we lived in Philadelphia,
we lived in this house. It was built merrily nineteen hundred,
so it was super old and kind of just had
old vibes.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
First of all, I have to say, what is your
husband's name?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
His name is Mark.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Okay, So one of the things that we notice about
dudes on the podcast all the time is that they
never believe it. He seemed like he was completely on
board with everything you told us last night.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, I think we would probably both call ourselves ghost
believer adjacent, like sort of open to the idea. But
I do tend to try to go to like the
rational explanation first. So several of these things that we'll
talk about I tried to like explain with science or
(15:16):
just you know, logical answers. But the first story that
said it all off for us, which was divers just
kind of despised explanation, like we could not figure out.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, that was the first story you told me, and
it blew my mind. It was the first time I've
ever heard anything like this. So tell everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
We drove cross country with our family, you know, from
Datlas to Philadelphia, so a couple of days of driving.
We didn't have any of our stuff though, just fall
suitcase that we could set in the car, so we
had no furniture whatnot. We walked in the top. We
rented this house side their team, so it kind of
threw me off when I first went into the house.
I'll be honest, like, I was not loving it. It's
(15:55):
a whole different vibe than houses here. And part of
that is that I have a lot of houses in
Philadelphia have basement, many of which are sort of unfinished
or semi finished, which this house had. It has a basement.
One part of it kind of has a concrete floor,
but the rest of it is just dirt floor, the
unfinished stones of the exterior of the house and a
(16:18):
damp and you know, must be smelling and just kind
of gross and viby.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I totally I immediately see the conjuring basement, and.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
In the back of the basement was this room that
didn't have a closed off doors. You could kind of
see into it, and it has this light that just
always blinked, oh good. We lived there for four years.
I never went into that space, but our watcher dryer
were in the basement, so I had to go in
the basement a lot. So when we first got there again,
no furniture. The house has been vacant for a couple
(16:47):
of months, I think, so I ran this target and
bought like broom, mop, dustyan et cetera. And came back
and you know, we all did some cleaning to get
the house in better shape. When we're done, we put
broom and mop and everything kind of in this little
walkway that connected the kitchen to the stairway down into
the basement. So it was a little bit separate from
the main part of the house, but just off the
(17:09):
kitchen inside the house. That's important to know. So brand
new broom and mop hadn't been there. Put them in
that walkway and kind of went, you know, to hang out.
I think we worked some pizza and we're sitting in
a NMF house eating dinner, and I heard the smoke
detector down in the basement go off, and not like
a full alarm, and also not like the kind of
(17:31):
periodic chirping that it starts to do when the batteries
run out, but like somewhere in the middle, like a rhythmic,
slow paced beep. So I went to check that out walkdown,
couldn't figure out why I was going off, so I
ended up just taking it down, taking the batteries out
of it after, you know, kind of making sure there's
no smoke. And as I walked back up the stairs,
(17:51):
I saw the broom and mop, and hanging in the
cross that they were sort of making the handles was
a dead bird. And like I said, I just bought
them off at room. So it's not like they've been there,
you know, for very long, not more than an hour probably,
And this was an internal space, and there was this
dead bird, and it was under some shelves, so it
hadn't like fallen into this spot. And we just can't
(18:16):
explain how that bird got there in that particular position.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Okay, a couple of questions, the questions everybody will ask,
did you have a cat? No, that's pretty much all
the old counts so and you actually have a picture
of this, Like when you saw it, did you run
in and get your phone and like, like, I have
to get a picture of this. This is crazy, basically.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I mean I think there were some minutes of that. Yeah.
I definitely called the family in to look at it.
There were some minutes of us kind of standing around
trying to figure out where it might have come from.
And you know, in doing that, I think I took
a picture just to document it or share it with friends, like, great,
this is the house we've just moved into.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh, and I'm so glad that you did. It really
does give you an idea. It's like the little bird
is just kind of hanging over, but it almost looks
like it was placed there. Yeah, and it's a little precarious.
Everybody needs to look at the picture because that is alarming.
How old were your kids at this point and were
they freaked out? Like how do you move beyond that moment?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So our kids were four and six when we moved in.
I mean, any misgivings I was having about the house,
we tried very hard to hide that from the kids.
You know, we're new home. We don't want them having
weird feelings about it, sure, so I think again we
tried to just write it off as nothing alarming, and
then later that night, I think my husband and I
(19:40):
sort of debriefed about how freaky that was.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, like the panicky whispers in the bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Oh my god. So speaking of later in the bedroom,
we again no furniture. We had taken air mattresses with us,
so all of us were sort of camping out in
what is the like master bedroom of the house, which
was on the top floor. So in Philly, you know,
houses are tall and narrow, so it was three living
floors and then the basement, so we're four floors up
from the basement in this room. As we all got
(20:09):
settled in to go to sleep, the smoke detector in
that room started doing that slow beep no yes. And
that was a whole ordeal because the ceilings in that
room were I don't know, I think like ten twelve
feet and we didn't have any furniture, so we didn't
have a like chair or ladder or anything to reach
(20:30):
the smoke detecture up there. So my husband had to
basically scale this like decorative scaffolding that was over the stairwall.
I mean it was like life endangering to get that
smoke detector down, but it was just so weird how
it was doing exactly the same kind of rhythmic beat. Yes,
and like throughout the years that we lived in that house,
that would happen in different areas. So we just started
(20:53):
to say that was how our ghost was communicating with us.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, I mean that very first time is like the
smoke detector goes off, you go over to deal with it,
and coming back is when you see the bird. So
it's almost like you were being like summon dumly, you know, right,
like come see this beautiful gift I gave you, and
you said you lived there for years?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yes, four years?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Okay, did anything else happen after this?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, So like it just says very smoke detector, you know,
messages that we were never able to really decode, but
kind of felt like it was intentional somehow from the
other side, you know, weird things like our net our
adult nephew came to stay with us, and he is
very very organized and kind of like meticulous about keeping
his stuff in order and his keys witnessing, and we
(21:45):
never found them, Like we were always sort of like,
oh when we move the furniture. Maybe we'll show up
or when we move out. We thought we would find them.
We never found those keys. I mean did various things.
And it's a little creepier because I think I sent
you the picture. But the third floor was added on,
and they tried to keep the like facade of the
bunt of the house intact, so they kept a little
(22:08):
tiny window and maybe about two feet of like roof
space between the front of the house and where the
third floor addition started back a little bit, so there
was a little space left behind. It was closed off.
It was not accessible, and to be honest, we never
even really thought about it. We didn't even think of
it as like space being there. But it was right
above our kids' bedroom, and some weird things would kind
(22:31):
of happen in our kids bedroom, Like we would go
in to check on them at night, and it was
looked like the blanket had been straight pulled off their bed,
not like you know, they tossed and turn and like
the blankets fell off on the side, but like pulled
off toward the end of the bed. And both of
our kids have like some sleep disorders. One of my
kids had nights here and was like wake up, just
(22:52):
st of panic kind of a night, so some weird stuff,
and we just kind of chucked it up to like
childhood sleep troubles blankets. I think as parents we just
sort of tried to like rationalize somehow and ignore because
we don't want to move out of this house. And
then one morning, my son, my older son, was eating
breakfast in the kitchen and he's just really nonchalantly as
(23:14):
he's eating byes of cereal, slowly just says, the ghost
of Zinger lives in our attic. And that was the space,
the little facade space that was right above their room.
And I, again, we had tried not to talk about
any of these bizarre things in terms of like ghost
language to not scare the kids, and I just tried
to keep the very neutral things. And I was like,
(23:35):
what do you mean? I think? I said, how do
you know that? And he said, he tickles me to
sleep at night.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm sorry, say that again? What was that?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He said? He tickles me to sleep that night, and
he just keeps eating his cereal like no big deal.
Now as an older person, I actually just brought this
story up with him after talking about it last night,
and he claims now that he made it up. Oh,
I don't know. It was so specific. He named the
(24:04):
name we had never heard or talked about.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh yeah, how old is he now?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
He's now fourteen.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Does he remember any of these things?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I asked both of them. Neither one of them remember
any of the specifics of these things happening.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Oh my gosh, so wait, Zanger Is that what he said? Zanger?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Banger? V A. N. Gar is how we now write
it as a family.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That feels like something that would be easy to kind
of look up. Were you able to do some research
on that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
There was some sort of similar names like V. A. N. Gar,
I I think is kind of common there. I never
found anything that was exactly related, you know, would have
made for a very good story if I'd found, you know,
a certain person had died in the area, you know,
a fifty years before or something. But we didn't find
that jet pot of information.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Well, that is amazing. I'm glad that you're no longer
in that house.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I will say we never felt it like scary or
the ghost had bill intentions. We just sort of felt
like it was like we were cohabitating and he was
trying to send us some messages.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So did you ever try to sage or cleanse the
house or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
We never did. We never again really kind of felt
like it was something we needed to get rid of.
I think the stuff, you know, happening in the kids
room probably gave us the most pause. But I think
that was the stuff we were sort of able to
rationalize in our minds a bit more. Yeah, and nobody
seemed like scared of being in the house. It just
seemed like an interesting part of living there.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I will also at our house in Philadelphia was very
near to a pretty major battle site in the Revolutionary War,
so you know, lots of Pelley spirits are unsettled in
that area.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Right right, How old was the house again?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It was built in the early nineteen hundred, Okay, so
just for a little over one hundred years old when
we were living in it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, thank you so much for sharing the photos. Everybody
needs to go and take a look at those. Honadayf
dot Com. Go check the Companion blog if you're not
watching on YouTube, and look at the bird photo. I
think that's a starling. Honestly, I've been looking at it
trying to figure out what kind of bird that is
not that it makes a difference. I mean, it's it's
creepy no matter what. But if anybody has ideas as
(26:15):
to how that could have happened, if there's not a
cat in the house, because that is really alarming to me.
I've never out of all the stories we've had, I've
never heard of something like that. So thank you so much, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, it was great. Thanks for the fun.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Okay, I made you sit through that whole thing without candles,
made a sleep.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Mer.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Are you ready to see the bird photo? I know
Rebecca hasn't seen it yet. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
I've seen the outside. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
So you could see but of the handles, they're kind
of crossed over. There's a little bird delicately hanging right there. Yeah,
it's a sad little photo. So sad little birdie feet.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I know he like hung himself.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
That's yeah. But it's weird.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's like because I don't know how you would get
like that position.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, so first of all, that wouldn't kill a bird
to land in that position. Well, we never like naturally land,
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So it looks like he's been gently placed in the
crux of the broom handle.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yes, exactly. So again, if you guys have any ideas
as to how that happens, interesting, especially when there's not
a cat.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah. Yeah, And I don't know how to explain the
fire alarms going off at a different rate than normal.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It was anger.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
But I literally think of like the TV show Ghosts
and they're like, we would like you to cook bacon
for us, or yes, so we can smell it. All right, y'all,
heads up, that hotiday f is rapidly approaching our summer break.
Our final episode of season eleven is going to drop
four weeks from now. That's May twenty second. We will
be ending then because while let's be real, Julie's got
a lot of shit. It's graduation day for her daughter. Yeah,
(27:56):
so she's gonna be a little busy that week, so
she didn't have any time to edit some ghost stories. Sorry,
not that.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, we will be taking June.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
July, and August off after that, catch our brass, try
to collect some more stories. We've been going since before October.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Correct we took January off, did we? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So, but not feel like it.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I know we took one month off, but also during
that time we were doing a whole lot of update
work on the podcast, is true, and we went to Mineola,
so sure it wasn't a real break, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
So we're gonna be off June July August. That's the
perfect time for you to become a patron, a hontid
AF patron, so you can listen to all of the
pre games that we've taped over there throughout the years.
We'll also be posting minisos and updates over there throughout
the summer.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So yeah, check it out. I know, and I know
it's a bummer, but the well is getting kind of
dry and we need a break. We still have four
more episodes to get through, though, so send us those stories.
Tell us about your experiences at the Hill House in
Mineral Wells. Tell us how you think Laurens Bird got
there right, tell us about the big foot you saw,
the serial killer who lived down the street, the haunted
(28:57):
Joke shop that your great grandparents owned in Essex. That
was a cool story, right, that was so cool. So
all the good stuff to Haunted Afpodcasts at gmail dot
com so we can use it. This may on Haunted AF.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
And don't forget to subscribe to hanted AF on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher,
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Speaker 2 (29:23):
Got'll say thanks to Andrew Mamalica and Travis Vance for
the Hontidaef theme song, and to on Air Media for
titles and technical support. Also big thanks to all of
the HONTDAF Patreon supporters.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
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 all.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Come back to haunt you too. Rebecca
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