December 31, 2024 • 32 mins
It's been such a crazy year...and ending on such a strange note with all of these drones! Here's a look back at some of our favorite stories of 2024. Remember to find the companion blog with all the pictures and videos we mention or just watch it all on the YouTube episode. Haunted AF is taking January off for some updates but you can still find years of exclusive content on our Patreon page. We'll be back on February 6th so please keep sending all those scary stories and dreams to be analyzed to hauntedafpodcast@gmail.com so we can use them next year on Haunted AF! Support the show
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have got some ghost stories for you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I feel something crawl into the bed with me and
it starts to spoon me.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
There was a time where I would be in bed,
falling asleep, and I would hear my name being called,
different voices call my name.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Poof the person disappeared right in front of her eyes,
and we were.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Both like, did you see that?
Speaker 6 (00:22):
There was this figure of a woman.
Speaker 7 (00:24):
Her skin was bluish and her hands were clawed and
her mouth was wide open.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
So that is my ghost story.
Speaker 8 (00:36):
Hi, and welcome to Hanaday's. The podcast are real ghost stories,
told by real people. We are your hosts. I'm Julie
Fuss and I'm Rebecca Black, and welcome to our.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Top ten countdown of twenty four.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
Can you believe we have made six of these now
over the years?
Speaker 9 (00:50):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I cannot. I can't believe it. That's so much, It
really it, really much.
Speaker 8 (00:54):
She had to go win and count because I was like, no,
it's been five, surely is just five?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Six? We're going on six years, Rebecca.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Somebody asked me the other day how long have y'all
been doing this podcast?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was like, Billie years, just.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
The floor Well, COVID landed right in the middle of it,
which just screws up every the time.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Warp of covid is a real thing. Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Traditionally these are some of our most listened to episodes.
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Speaker 5 (01:28):
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the stories, we have to say big time thank you
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and love to our friend.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Michelle go tear.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Oh my gosh, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Incredible shirts for us don't be in.
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After squatch.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Amazing she made them.
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Yes, what's her cute bigfoot is?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I know this is a really good it's like a
Harry and the Henderson's.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Big Yes, which is my favorite, you know.
Speaker 8 (02:12):
And Michelle, we love you. We love all of our
listeners and our patrons. You guys are amazing, so thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
All Right, you guys, let's jump into it with our
number ten story of the Year, which is a great
example of how a story doesn't actually have to be
a scary story to simply be weird.
Speaker 11 (02:28):
Shit.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
That's the greatest theme song ever.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Like I know, we were doing the Wayne's World. That
sounds like the Turkey, The Turkey that speaks.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Turkeys for sure, so but it's appropriate for this story
from our c Hi, Julian Rebecca. I'm finally sharing this
weird childhood experience that has baffled me for nearly fifty years.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh Man.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
For decades, I told no one about it and avoided
even thinking about it because despite the innocuous and even
silly circumstances, it freaked me the f out. When I
was a kid in the seventies, I loved watching TV
and I loved playing Yatzi.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I went through a phase where I would.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Sit on the floor in our finished basement and play
Yazzi by myself. While watching TV. I'd keep score and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I love that. I've me too.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
It sounds so dumb now, but I guess it was
like the olden times equivalent of playing a game on
my phone while listening.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
To podcasts, which I do.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You're totally right, that's a great way to describe that.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Yes, I guess I should explain yatzi to the uninitiated. First,
you have five dice and a little cup that you
used to roll them. The object is to roll certain
combinations for points, and the highest scoring move is five
of a kind or a yatzi. So one day, I
was around twelve years old, doing my TV yazzi thing
in the basement. I ran upstairs during a commercial break.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
While I was up there, I had some sort.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Of argument with my mom. I can't imagine what would
have caused her a blow up because they were rare
for us, but I remember being really angry. I stopped downstairs,
plopped in front of the TV, grabbed the yazi cup
and immediately rolled five sixes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Lucky roll.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
I put the dice back in the cup, shook it
and rolled five sixes again. No way, and something's off.
So I kept going and I swear to you. The
all six rolls continued, Holy crap.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
After about five yatzis.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
In a row, I decided to take a break from
the dice because it seemed wrong. I tried to pretend
it had never happened, but a few days later I
pulled out the game and tried to recreate the experience.
After several random rolls, I remembered that my earlier experience
happened when I was angry, so I tried thinking angry
dark thoughts. Y'all, I rolled five sixes.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
No freaking way.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
I replicated my yazi experiment on one other occasion before
fear took over, and I ended my career as an
adolescent claravoyance.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
That's probably smart.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Yeah, this story might not strike your listeners as scary,
but as a kid, I truly felt that I had
crept into some weird and dark world and then made
the conscious decision to turn away from it. Today, I
consider myself a skeptic, but I also believe the human
mind and spirit are powerful, and that some phenomenon simply
can't be explained by science. I've always wondered if I
had some kernel of psychicability that could have been developed
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if I hadn't noped right out of that yachtzi experiment.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I hope you can.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Use this story.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Thanks for the fun show. And that is from RC.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean you could try again, RC. I'm just saying,
that's what I asked, did you?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I was like I sent the email. I was like,
have you tried as an adult? Have you tried this again?
I haven't heard back yet. Never in a million years
that I think YACHTSI would be scary, you know, or
possessed something.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Those sixes come on, I know that feels evil for sure.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
This next story came from a listener who encountered a
pervy ghost. That's what we call her number nine Lizzie's grope.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Hello, ladies, it's Lizzy here in Atlanta or a Lana
got to say it right, right. And So I was
listening to an old episode of your podcast, and I
just had a memory about this time that I was
ghost hunting in this very old and I mean very old,
(06:18):
one of the first houses built in Massachusetts. So we
are ghost hunting in this historic home. I was in
this room where this woman used to sit and look
out the window and wait for her husband to come home.
So I'm standing in the middle of the room and
I've got a ponytail in my hair, like in the
back of my head, and someone bleue on my neck
(06:40):
and then touched my back, and I'm like, And then
we're sitting in that room, just sitting quietly, and we're recording,
and all of a sudden, I feel it was like
someone took their hand because I'm sitting on the floor
like cross legged, and I feel someone run their hand
under my butche like a deal of fingers coming and
(07:05):
just sliding under my butt. So I get killed up.
It happens even with live people. Not so much anymore
because I have an old butt now. But yeah, back then,
even the ghosties wanted to fail me off, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We also collaborated with some really great podcasters this year,
including Laura Krantz from Wild Things We love her and
the boys from This Paranormal Life, who I think might
be like our twins on the other side of.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
The pod, Kitting Rory.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They're so great.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Some of our favorite stories this year came from Beyond
the Shadows podcast, including this one from Scott.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Here is number eight.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
I was three to four years old and I was
at my grandparents' house. My grandfather was building a barn
behind his house, and my brother and I were playing
on the woodpiles. My brother's probably he's five years older
than me, so wherever he went, I was following behind him.
And he's jumping along from woodpile the woodpile. It's all
(08:01):
the woods stacked up to build the barn. And I
remember as he was jumping down, I was jumping down
behind him, and on one of the piles he jumped off,
and then when I jumped off, I tripped off the
top of the pile and I fell. And when I
fell and hit the ground, the entire wood pile slid
down over the top of me, and I was stuck underneath.
There was a bunch of people because they're all working
(08:23):
on the barn, building the barn. So my brother starts screaming.
He's like he's stuck under the pile. He's under the pile,
and he's trying to show him where it's at, and
my mother and my brother are pulling wood. They're trying
to get it off of him. My brother is probably
only maybe ten years old at the time, nine ten
years old. And then I remember my grandfather comes running
out from inside of the house. I remember the whole
(08:44):
thing because I'm literally watching it from above. I never
used to be able to explain how what it would
look like, but nowadays it's kind of like when you
see a drone, you know, like that view from a drone.
It's almost like a three sixty view. I was above
watching the whole thing happen, and then instantly I go
from above seeing it all, and then I'm gone and
(09:05):
I'm in a room that's completely black, and I'm sitting
on the lap of an old man who's got a
long white beard. He's wearing a white gown, and we're
in a rocking chair, and he's just holding me, rocking
back and forth, and he's saying to me, it's okay,
You're going to be all right. I remember the room
was like the walls were like black, but they're giving
off like light. It's really hard to explain, kind of
(09:27):
like space is how I picture, you know, space, being
like we just sat there in the room. He just
rocked back and forth, back and forth, telling me I
was going to be okay. The only way I can
describe him is what maybe a small child would think
image of God would look like I mean, he was glowing, white,
white beard, white gown, white, everything just rocking back and forth.
And then all of a sudden, instantly I'm not in
(09:50):
that room anymore. I'm in my mom's arms. My mother
pulled me out from under the pile. They got the
wood off, and she pulled me out from under the pile.
And she said when I talked to her about a
that I was absolutely purple. She pulled me out from
under the pile and like instantly, right back in her arms.
I was back.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Sometimes a story will stick with us for a few weeks,
like everybody keeps wanting to share their input and thoughts.
That was the case when Stephanie sent in this EVP
from the Shawshank Redemption Prison, which is our number seven.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
That's a good one.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I went to the Ohio State Reformatory in June as
a birthday gift from my sister. We did the overnight
tour and let me tell you so many stars. Also,
since Shawshank Redemption was filmed there, they have character cutouts
and Morgan Freeman scared me a couple.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Of times, which he was so sweet. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Anyhow, we were in the basement and I caught an EVP.
To me, it sounds like someone saying I'm here or
I heard all in all, it was fun, but we
had major car issues when we left, and I didn't
know if we were going to make it back home.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Was it ghost related?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Who knows? And that is from Stephanie. So this is
the audio that Rebecca and I were playing around with
yesterday that was tripping us out.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
So listen careful.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
I've got it turned up a little bit so you
can hear his voice more. So here's the wild thing here.
Let's play it one more time.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Okay, So what do you think that sounds like? I
feel like it sounds First of all, I think it
sounds like an English accent and it's somebody going tiger around.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Oh my god, now you hear it?
Speaker 13 (11:32):
What I mean?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
What is he saying?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So what do you hear?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
It doesn't sound like a word to me, but.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
It just hear it though it's something.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
It's yes, and it sounds like a voice. It's so strange.
But the really wild thing about it, the first time
I listened to it, I wrote her back and I'm like,
are you sure it's nobody in your group whispering? She's
like no, No, that wasn't it. But when you when
we record it the wave file, there's always this little
wave that goes through you guys know what it looks
like the audio files. It does not register right, And
(12:03):
that was crazy to me.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So you literally emailed to me and I was like,
let me put it into my in my audio software and.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
See what's up. And you had the same experience, same experience.
I even like normalized the volumes.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And lifted everything up and try to like even it out,
and it still didn't raise at all in that one section.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Yeah, meaning it does not register as a sound or
a human voice or anything, which is crazy because there
are you see, like the ups and downs there at
the end from her turning off the recording.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
It's weird.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
I don't even know what to do with that, right,
listen one more time, Tiger, I can't hear it.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And it always amazes us how often we hear similar
stories just to see how we really are experiencing so
many of the same things. But every now and then
a story pops up that we've truly never heard before.
Such was the case with our number six story from Jonathan.
All Right, so here is Jonathan's ghost story, ghost and
Quotations because it's only one of two rational explanations I've
(13:04):
come up with. One day, during summer break in middle school,
me and my brother were sitting in the living room.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Watching Mari You Not the Father. Yeah, sorry, I've been
waiting for that joke all day.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It was a bright summer day and no one was
home because our parents were at work. In our living
room was a TV and two sofas with a potted
tree between them. I don't know what kind of tree
it was, but it was. It basically looked like a
palm tree with a very skinny trunk. My grandma had
one of those I know exactly what you're talking about sils.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
We had them all over our house picas.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I put Christmas tree lights in it, and they would
never stay on. It was sad.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You could wrap your thumb and index finger around it. Yeah,
it is tiny. While I'm sitting directly in front of
the TV and my brother's on the sofa to my left,
went out of nowhere, the tree starts shaking. It was
like someone grabbed the trunk and started violently shaking it
to get our attention. As soon as we turned to
look at it, which took only a second or two.
It stopped moving the eaves. We're still settling though. Oh
(14:02):
that's crazy. We sat in silence for a few seconds,
looking at the tree, thinking there had to be a
squirrel or a rat in it, even though the tree
was so thin it.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Couldn't hold anything.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
That's true, because you remember, yes, and you would see
something in it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Absolutely, There's no doubt in my mind that you would
be able to see if it was some sort of something.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
Yeah, it's not like against leaves or something.
Speaker 11 (14:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Then we got up and started looking around, checking behind
the couch and even under the pillows, but nothing. We
didn't know what to do and tried to keep watching
TV when a few minutes later we heard a bunch
of coins fall down the hall. At that point we
were panicking. I gathered some courage and checked the room
we shared, where I found that our one hundred and
one Dalmatian's piggy bank had dumped all of our coins out.
(14:46):
This piggy bank had a round hole on the bottom,
but we'd lost the cap and had taped it closed
to keep the coins in.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I think every kid had to do that at something
at some point.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yes, the tape had given way, which is why all
of the coins fell out. I mean, maybe it was
just a coincident, but it happened right after the tree incident.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
My brother and I couldn't make sense of it all.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Later that day we told our parents and a renter
who was living with us, but of course none.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Of them believed us.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And then a week later, my brother and I were
watching TV again, but this time with the renter, and
the tree started shaking again.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Right a witness is time.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yes, And just like last time, as soon as we
looked at it, it stopped.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Me and my brother freaked.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Out, and do you be last Well, the renter was shocked,
and like we had before, he got up to look
for answers.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
And just like the last time, there was nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It's been almost twenty years and me and my brother
remember the whole thing like it happened yesterday. I came
up with one logical explanation that maybe plants and trees
have spasms, but it's never been witnessed or recorded. After all,
they are living things, and some plants, like the venus
fly trap, really do move. I totally understand this thought process.
If that was the case, though, why did it stop
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as soon as we looked at it?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Still no idea what that tree show?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It still kind of creeps me out.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
I love things that don't seem scary, yes, but just
because it's so weird and random, it becomes scary.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
And since we're midway through.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Our countdown, we want to take a second for some
honorable mentions, like we're still chuckling over Doug's pantless woman
in the New Zealand cemetery. No idea what was going
on with that? The deceased grandpa who taught his grandchild
how to roll joints. We're still puzzling over the woman
who found a selenite crystal hidden in one of her
socks while staying at a Hot Springs rental. And I
(16:30):
was just in Hot Springs. That is a creepy little town.
We need to go back there.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Okay, I'm down, I'm on board.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We should probably also send some love to our chaos
goblin out of Canada, Scott. Damn you, Scott, Oh, Scott,
be nice, be nice, terrorized not only the museum he haunted,
but also our very own podcast with his technical glitches.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Scott, We love you, but please please make your way
to the light bud, just go on in. We cannot
have any more of that.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
All right, back to the countdown, which wouldn't be complete
without some creepy kids. Page shared some of her son's
stories with us, and they are number five this year.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
All right, ky ladies, I hope you're still taking submissions.
I literally just found you on TikTok and I have
been bringing you the past week. But I have so
many stories, but one is from when my son was three.
So this is about nine years ago. We lived with
my in laws and my brother in law. He always said,
(17:24):
oh my god, the house is so hot. It they
all still say it. Friends would sleepover, they all heard
voices blah blah blah. Well, our three year old. I'm
trying to put him down and we're talking and he's like, mom,
you know, and his little kid boys do not leave.
And I'm like, what's wrong? And he said, I don't
like the skeleton Man. And I said, okay, I don't
get the Chelsey to talk about this. But he's like
(17:45):
the Skeleton Man. He's so mean to me and he
bites me.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
At night and I was like, excuse me, and he goes,
he bites me so hard and he wakes me up.
So I'm like, okay, buddy, like where is he? Is
he here now? And he goes, he's not in me,
but he's outside, and I went where and he said
he's standing by the pool and he's staring up at
the window.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
He's waiting for you to leave the room.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
And I was like no, no, no, like that's no, thank you.
Speaker 13 (18:10):
So I like show him to the window and he goes, yep,
he's down there, and I was like, okay, buddy, like,
you know, you just.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Tell him go away.
Speaker 13 (18:18):
You don't want him here. He's not okay, and he goes, Mom,
it's okay, though, because when he's really being mean to me,
there's a really really nice lady at the foot of my.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Bed and she yells at him and she tells him to.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Go away, and I knew it was my mother.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
She is all of our guardian angels.
Speaker 13 (18:34):
Another instance, putting them in a bed again and he's like,
you should sleep in here with me, don't go in
there with daddy, And I said, oh, what's wrong, buddy,
And it's about the same, you know, free for Oh,
there's two men in your room and they do not
like you. And they are not happy, and I went, honey,
I'm sleeping with Chase.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh don't that sound?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Sound goes Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So sometimes we get a goo story that is really great,
but it gets even better when we see the encounter
where it took place. That's what happened when we heard
Allison's story, which is number four on this countdown.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
In two thousand and two, I went to Oregon to
visit someone I've been talking to online, which in retrospect
was stupid.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Yeah, but I think people do that all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It's common now.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Anyway, we were driving to the coast and ended up
at a hotel called Seagull Inn in Lincoln City. My
friend and I immediately went to the beach when we
got unpacked. At this point, it was like ten thirty
eleven PM, so very dark. We were sitting pretty far
back from the water when I looked to my right
and I saw a woman with a long white dress
carrying a basket. I turned to my friend and said, oh, Gray,
we've got company. In the two seconds it took to
(19:42):
turn and say that, I looked back and she was
like fifteen to twenty feet out on the water. Oh day,
I was stunned, but thought that's weird. So to test
it again, I looked back at my friend and then
back at the woman, who was back on the beach. Again.
I closed my eyes like a blink, and she was
back out on the water. I told my friend, Yeah,
I'm pretty sure that's a ghost. We watched her for
like ten minutes and even had to walk past her
(20:03):
to get back to the hotel. That's when we noticed
she had no feet and was like floating. Her dress
had also changed from white to black. Never saw her face,
and I don't think she noticed we were there because
she never disappeared. Now, my husband and I honeymoon in
Oregon and went to that same hotel. My husband went
out on the beach one night and sat in the
dark hoping to see her, but no such luck. Ah
(20:24):
that's so cute, I know, it really is. I need
to know, though, why she didn't go back out there. Yeah,
maybe scared. I even emailed the hotel to see if
anyone else had seen her, but didn't get a reply.
Thanks for reading, and again that is from Allison Ghosty
ten minutes show. Yeah, in that amazing long time to
see an apparition. So I asked Alison and I. So
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when she was out on the water, was she like
in the water or she said she was like floating.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
The cover of the water. There it is.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
It's kind of like tell me you're a haunted hotel
without saying you're yes.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
If you're listening to the podcast, make sure you go
find that picture, because just looking at it, you're like, oh,
hell yeah, that place is haunt totally. Our number three
story this year is another example of a story we
just have to keep coming back to. Elizabeth sent a
video that her friend took of something walking down a
highway in Charleston, South Carolina. We debated it greatly for
a couple of weeks, and you know what, we decided,
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it's just got to be a ghost.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Gotta This next one comes from Elizabeth. Hi, y'all wanted
to send you this video my friend captured from her
dash cam last Friday morning. She was traveling down Highway
sixty one in Charleston, South Carolina, and saw this figure
on the left side of the road. Highway sixty one
has three historic plantations along it, but it's very unusual
to see anyone walking along.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
It, let alone. At four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
When she showed us at work that morning, we thought
it looked possibly like a woman from the seventeenth or
eighteen hundreds carrying something in her hands.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
What do y'all think, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Let's take a look at this one.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Look at that? Did you just notice how dark it got?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
That's weird. That was creepy. There she is.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Okay, I have frozen this so many times.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, that is I think that's a ghost. Yeah, I
think it is as well. I legit think that that's
a ghost. I actually thought it might be a person
on a horse.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Look.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Look, that looks like a horsehead to me, that looks
like a horse head. Yeah, and then like a person
is on top of it. So what do you guys think?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Hanadaf dot com go check it out on our social
media's we're going to post all of this.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
To me, I think it's a ghost. I would agree,
all right.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So we were actually super pumped when Danielle and Cassie
from National Park after Dark agreed to come on our show.
But what we did not expect was for them to
lay down one of these scariest stories that we heard
all year. Both of them had some chilling experiences but
Danielle's Ferbo story that is number two.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
My partner Ian passed away in May of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We were living in Washington.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
At the time, and I decided to move back to
Colorado in the months after his passing, and I was
renting a really small cabin. It so one bedroom cabin
from the nineteen thirties. It was like five hundred square feet,
it's really small. A couple of months after moving in,
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there were three incidents in rapid succession that definitely I
got haunted. So the first incident, it started small. I
started hearing footsteps in the living room when I was
in the bedroom, which is again it's basically one giant
room with you know, half a wall separating the rooms.
And it was very distinct, like typical boots on the
(23:31):
ground walking from one side of the living room to
the other. A couple of weeks after that, I was
sitting in my living room and I had do you
know what a ferbo is like?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The dog camera? Yeah, I had it set up.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
In my living room and I was sitting watching TV.
All of a sudden, my dog from the other room
comes rushing out. It's at night, all the lights are
off comes rushing out and sits directly on my feet
and is looking around the room. And I'm watching him
look around the room like he with his ears perked,
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like he's following something with his eyes, but I couldn't
see anything, I didn't hear anything. All of a sudden,
he is still looking around the room, and the furbo,
which I've had for years, starts clicking on and off,
like from day mode night moode day mode night mode.
Like I see the red light clicking and I can
hear it, and so I'm like, what the hell? And
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then all of a sudden, because it tracks movement, it started.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
To shift and me around the room.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Oh no, And so I open the app and I
can see me clear as day with my dog sitting
on the couch on the other end of the room.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And it's just shifting around. Their orbs flying everywhere.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Everywhere, and it's following what my dog is following with
his eyes sitting on the floor.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The third incident was on Day of the Dead.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
I always have like an altar up for and my
father who has also passed away, and I was sitting
and I was talking to them and doing some tribute
stuff for them. And that evening I fell asleep and
I woke up, but I didn't open my eyes yet,
and I just had this feeling that somebody was watching me.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Not in a.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Scary way, I just felt like there was another presence
around me.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And I opened my eyes and at the foot of.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
My bed, in the corner of my room, and I
don't know how else to explain it, but it looked
like a group of people, maybe like four or five people,
and they were just standing there. And as soon as
I in my mind recognized and registered what I was seeing,
they took a step towards me, and I went and
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they disappeared.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh my girl, how.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Jit leg chills.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Before we play our number one story of the year,
just a quick reminder that we are taking January off
of some podcast updates in the meantime, pretty please leave
us a good review. If you watch on YouTube, please
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Speaker 6 (26:17):
And all right, you.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Probably already know what our number one story is after
because after hearing it, we both said, I think that's
the best story we've had.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
All year long, hands down.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Yeah. Courtesy of Jason from the Beyond the Shadows podcast.
Is that poor old lady that they scared?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Or did that?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
So?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I grew up in a small town in southern Maine,
back when people actually left their doors unlocked and literally
everybody knew everybody. My friends and I traveled everywhere on
our bikes back then, and it wouldn't be unusual for
us to be like literally three or four downs away
in our explorations. So one day back when I was
maybe twelve, my friend Dan and I were out fishing
pretty far into the woods along a lazy creek we've
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been to many times before that day. We weren't having
much luck fishing. We kept moving further and further into
the woods looking for a better spot. It wasn't long
before we were much further in the woods than we
had ever been before. We came upon an old, abandoned
looking house along the side of the river. Shutters were
hanging off, the porch was sagging, and there was a
rusty old basketball hoop sagging way down in the yard.
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It was creepy and intriguing all the same time. There
was nothing around, no other houses, and the most strange
part was there was no sign of a trail, driveway
or any other means of getting two or from the house.
That moment was too much for two twelve year olds
to pass on, so we made our way inside of
the abandoned house. The ground floor was old and dusty,
(27:38):
and it appeared no one had been there in a
really long time. Strangely though, it wasn't empty, but rather
looked like someone had up and left in a hurry
one day and never come back. It was spooky, for sure,
but nothing terrifying. Eventually, we explored the whole floor and
got ready to make our way up to the second
I remember neither one of us being too excited to
go first, so we did a round of rock papers
(27:59):
or to settle it. I don't remember what I threw up,
but I do know that I had to go first.
We were maybe three steps from the top when someone
up above said hello. I just froze and looked over
my shoulder at Dan, and he looked just as scared
as me. So we stayed silent and motionless for what
seemed like a minute or two. So I start up
again when I hear, clear as day, who's there. We
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bolt down the stairs, out the door, and crossed the
porch in record time. As we're making our way back
down the hill to the river bank, I looked back
over my shoulder to the window, and there was the
face of an old woman looking back at us from
between the old curtains. I know my heart didn't stop
racing for hours, and we talked about how scary the
whole situation had been the whole way home. By the
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next morning, we'd both decided that if we were that scared,
then how must that old lady feel. We thought that
the house was abandoned, but it wasn't, so we decided
the only thing to do was to go back and apologize.
If we got in trouble, then so be it. It took
us some time to make our way all the way
back out there. Well, when we got to where we
were were positive it had been. There was no house,
only a burned out foundation and a basement. It was
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clear that whatever had occurred had been years earlier. The
previous day, as I've been running down the embankment, I
remember it seeing a strange granite column in the ground
with faded writing in an old iron rod in the middle.
As I turned around to see the old woman staring
down at us. Today, we walked around the site for
some time, trying to figure out what was going on.
When we finally gave up and walked down the bank,
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I saw the exact same stone and turned around to
look once more. No house, no old woman, but the
burned out basement was exactly where it should have been.
There was no doubt we were in the right spot.
We were just in the wrong time.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
That totally went where I wasn't expecting it to.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
No, not at all. Crap, the whole house was freaking.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Gone, the whole house. Wow, I love, I love.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
The best story we have had in a long time.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Yeah, I agree, good ones took. Holy crap.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
All Right, you guys, thanks again for everything. You are amazing.
We love you.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Thank you for your scary stories and your continued support
for honad Af, especially through.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
This crazy ass year. Seriously, it's been wild.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
We started it off by dropping only one episode a
month and ended up with more stories than we've done
since COVID, So thank you guys for that.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
It's been a roller coaster ride.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
And uh, we're just getting started, so keep sending all
those ghost stories or God, do.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
You have drones in your backyard?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Okay, we had a plane like go buy our window
and it was like ridiculously close, and I swear to
you it was like covering And James is like, it's
a plane.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I'm like, no, it's a drone. They're spying on us.
We need a plane.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
We need your drone stories. Maybe Bigfoot or some cryptid
we haven't met yet.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Oh hey, it's my turn. I got really invested in
the drones and Bigfoot.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Well, the drones are freaking me out because it's like
it's happening everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Did you see the old man that shot down the
Walmart one? No, it's such a Texas move, Like such
a Texas moved, it really is.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Don't forget you, guys.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
We are analyzing dreams now as well, so in our
Beyond the Pillow segment if you have not tuned in,
it is very sexy. So if you've got an especially
weird dream, please write it down send it our way
so that we can figure out what it means.
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at gmail dot com so we can use it in
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Speaker 3 (31:43):
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.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
All come back to Haunt YouTube. Rebecca, do you think
I have got some ghost stories for you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I feel something crawl into the bed with me and
it starts to spoon me.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
There was a time where I would be in bed,
falling asleep, and I would hear my name being called,
different voices call my name.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Poof the person disappeared right in front of her eyes,
and we were.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Both like, did you see that?
Speaker 6 (00:22):
There was this figure of a woman.
Speaker 7 (00:24):
Her skin was bluish and her hands were clawed and
her mouth was wide open.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
So that is my ghost story.
Speaker 8 (00:36):
Hi, and welcome to Hanaday's. The podcast are real ghost stories,
told by real people. We are your hosts. I'm Julie
Fuss and I'm Rebecca Black, and welcome to our.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
Top ten countdown of twenty four.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
Can you believe we have made six of these now
over the years?
Speaker 9 (00:50):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I cannot. I can't believe it. That's so much, It
really it, really much.
Speaker 8 (00:54):
She had to go win and count because I was like, no,
it's been five, surely is just five?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Six? We're going on six years, Rebecca.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Somebody asked me the other day how long have y'all
been doing this podcast?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was like, Billie years, just.
Speaker 8 (01:05):
The floor Well, COVID landed right in the middle of it,
which just screws up every the time.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Warp of covid is a real thing. Did you know that?
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Traditionally these are some of our most listened to episodes.
So if this is your first like four Way flour
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and love to our friend.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Michelle go tear.
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Oh my gosh, Yeah, she's.
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Incredible shirts for us don't be in.
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After squatch.
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Amazing she made them.
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Yes, what's her cute bigfoot is?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I know this is a really good it's like a
Harry and the Henderson's.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Big Yes, which is my favorite, you know.
Speaker 8 (02:12):
And Michelle, we love you. We love all of our
listeners and our patrons. You guys are amazing, so thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
All Right, you guys, let's jump into it with our
number ten story of the Year, which is a great
example of how a story doesn't actually have to be
a scary story to simply be weird.
Speaker 11 (02:28):
Shit.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
That's the greatest theme song ever.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Like I know, we were doing the Wayne's World. That
sounds like the Turkey, The Turkey that speaks.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Turkeys for sure, so but it's appropriate for this story
from our c Hi, Julian Rebecca. I'm finally sharing this
weird childhood experience that has baffled me for nearly fifty years.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh Man.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
For decades, I told no one about it and avoided
even thinking about it because despite the innocuous and even
silly circumstances, it freaked me the f out. When I
was a kid in the seventies, I loved watching TV
and I loved playing Yatzi.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I went through a phase where I would.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Sit on the floor in our finished basement and play
Yazzi by myself. While watching TV. I'd keep score and everything.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I love that. I've me too.
Speaker 8 (03:34):
It sounds so dumb now, but I guess it was
like the olden times equivalent of playing a game on
my phone while listening.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
To podcasts, which I do.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You're totally right, that's a great way to describe that.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Yes, I guess I should explain yatzi to the uninitiated. First,
you have five dice and a little cup that you
used to roll them. The object is to roll certain
combinations for points, and the highest scoring move is five
of a kind or a yatzi. So one day, I
was around twelve years old, doing my TV yazzi thing
in the basement. I ran upstairs during a commercial break.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
While I was up there, I had some sort.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Of argument with my mom. I can't imagine what would
have caused her a blow up because they were rare
for us, but I remember being really angry. I stopped downstairs,
plopped in front of the TV, grabbed the yazi cup
and immediately rolled five sixes.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Lucky roll.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
I put the dice back in the cup, shook it
and rolled five sixes again. No way, and something's off.
So I kept going and I swear to you. The
all six rolls continued, Holy crap.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
After about five yatzis.
Speaker 8 (04:32):
In a row, I decided to take a break from
the dice because it seemed wrong. I tried to pretend
it had never happened, but a few days later I
pulled out the game and tried to recreate the experience.
After several random rolls, I remembered that my earlier experience
happened when I was angry, so I tried thinking angry
dark thoughts. Y'all, I rolled five sixes.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
No freaking way.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
I replicated my yazi experiment on one other occasion before
fear took over, and I ended my career as an
adolescent claravoyance.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
That's probably smart.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Yeah, this story might not strike your listeners as scary,
but as a kid, I truly felt that I had
crept into some weird and dark world and then made
the conscious decision to turn away from it. Today, I
consider myself a skeptic, but I also believe the human
mind and spirit are powerful, and that some phenomenon simply
can't be explained by science. I've always wondered if I
had some kernel of psychicability that could have been developed
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if I hadn't noped right out of that yachtzi experiment.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I hope you can.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Use this story.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Thanks for the fun show. And that is from RC.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean you could try again, RC. I'm just saying,
that's what I asked, did you?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:35):
I was like I sent the email. I was like,
have you tried as an adult? Have you tried this again?
I haven't heard back yet. Never in a million years
that I think YACHTSI would be scary, you know, or
possessed something.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Those sixes come on, I know that feels evil for sure.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
This next story came from a listener who encountered a
pervy ghost. That's what we call her number nine Lizzie's grope.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Hello, ladies, it's Lizzy here in Atlanta or a Lana
got to say it right, right. And So I was
listening to an old episode of your podcast, and I
just had a memory about this time that I was
ghost hunting in this very old and I mean very old,
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one of the first houses built in Massachusetts. So we
are ghost hunting in this historic home. I was in
this room where this woman used to sit and look
out the window and wait for her husband to come home.
So I'm standing in the middle of the room and
I've got a ponytail in my hair, like in the
back of my head, and someone bleue on my neck
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and then touched my back, and I'm like, And then
we're sitting in that room, just sitting quietly, and we're recording,
and all of a sudden, I feel it was like
someone took their hand because I'm sitting on the floor
like cross legged, and I feel someone run their hand
under my butche like a deal of fingers coming and
(07:05):
just sliding under my butt. So I get killed up.
It happens even with live people. Not so much anymore
because I have an old butt now. But yeah, back then,
even the ghosties wanted to fail me off, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We also collaborated with some really great podcasters this year,
including Laura Krantz from Wild Things We love her and
the boys from This Paranormal Life, who I think might
be like our twins on the other side of.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
The pod, Kitting Rory.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They're so great.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Some of our favorite stories this year came from Beyond
the Shadows podcast, including this one from Scott.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Here is number eight.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
I was three to four years old and I was
at my grandparents' house. My grandfather was building a barn
behind his house, and my brother and I were playing
on the woodpiles. My brother's probably he's five years older
than me, so wherever he went, I was following behind him.
And he's jumping along from woodpile the woodpile. It's all
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the woods stacked up to build the barn. And I
remember as he was jumping down, I was jumping down
behind him, and on one of the piles he jumped off,
and then when I jumped off, I tripped off the
top of the pile and I fell. And when I
fell and hit the ground, the entire wood pile slid
down over the top of me, and I was stuck underneath.
There was a bunch of people because they're all working
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on the barn, building the barn. So my brother starts screaming.
He's like he's stuck under the pile. He's under the pile,
and he's trying to show him where it's at, and
my mother and my brother are pulling wood. They're trying
to get it off of him. My brother is probably
only maybe ten years old at the time, nine ten
years old. And then I remember my grandfather comes running
out from inside of the house. I remember the whole
(08:44):
thing because I'm literally watching it from above. I never
used to be able to explain how what it would
look like, but nowadays it's kind of like when you
see a drone, you know, like that view from a drone.
It's almost like a three sixty view. I was above
watching the whole thing happen, and then instantly I go
from above seeing it all, and then I'm gone and
(09:05):
I'm in a room that's completely black, and I'm sitting
on the lap of an old man who's got a
long white beard. He's wearing a white gown, and we're
in a rocking chair, and he's just holding me, rocking
back and forth, and he's saying to me, it's okay,
You're going to be all right. I remember the room
was like the walls were like black, but they're giving
off like light. It's really hard to explain, kind of
(09:27):
like space is how I picture, you know, space, being
like we just sat there in the room. He just
rocked back and forth, back and forth, telling me I
was going to be okay. The only way I can
describe him is what maybe a small child would think
image of God would look like I mean, he was glowing, white,
white beard, white gown, white, everything just rocking back and forth.
And then all of a sudden, instantly I'm not in
(09:50):
that room anymore. I'm in my mom's arms. My mother
pulled me out from under the pile. They got the
wood off, and she pulled me out from under the pile.
And she said when I talked to her about a
that I was absolutely purple. She pulled me out from
under the pile and like instantly, right back in her arms.
I was back.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Sometimes a story will stick with us for a few weeks,
like everybody keeps wanting to share their input and thoughts.
That was the case when Stephanie sent in this EVP
from the Shawshank Redemption Prison, which is our number seven.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
That's a good one.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I went to the Ohio State Reformatory in June as
a birthday gift from my sister. We did the overnight
tour and let me tell you so many stars. Also,
since Shawshank Redemption was filmed there, they have character cutouts
and Morgan Freeman scared me a couple.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Of times, which he was so sweet. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Anyhow, we were in the basement and I caught an EVP.
To me, it sounds like someone saying I'm here or
I heard all in all, it was fun, but we
had major car issues when we left, and I didn't
know if we were going to make it back home.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Was it ghost related?
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Who knows? And that is from Stephanie. So this is
the audio that Rebecca and I were playing around with
yesterday that was tripping us out.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
So listen careful.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
I've got it turned up a little bit so you
can hear his voice more. So here's the wild thing here.
Let's play it one more time.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Okay, So what do you think that sounds like? I
feel like it sounds First of all, I think it
sounds like an English accent and it's somebody going tiger around.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Oh my god, now you hear it?
Speaker 13 (11:32):
What I mean?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
What is he saying?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So what do you hear?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
It doesn't sound like a word to me, but.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
It just hear it though it's something.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
It's yes, and it sounds like a voice. It's so strange.
But the really wild thing about it, the first time
I listened to it, I wrote her back and I'm like,
are you sure it's nobody in your group whispering? She's
like no, No, that wasn't it. But when you when
we record it the wave file, there's always this little
wave that goes through you guys know what it looks
like the audio files. It does not register right, And
(12:03):
that was crazy to me.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So you literally emailed to me and I was like,
let me put it into my in my audio software and.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
See what's up. And you had the same experience, same experience.
I even like normalized the volumes.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
And lifted everything up and try to like even it out,
and it still didn't raise at all in that one section.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Yeah, meaning it does not register as a sound or
a human voice or anything, which is crazy because there
are you see, like the ups and downs there at
the end from her turning off the recording.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
It's weird.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
I don't even know what to do with that, right,
listen one more time, Tiger, I can't hear it.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And it always amazes us how often we hear similar
stories just to see how we really are experiencing so
many of the same things. But every now and then
a story pops up that we've truly never heard before.
Such was the case with our number six story from Jonathan.
All Right, so here is Jonathan's ghost story, ghost and
Quotations because it's only one of two rational explanations I've
(13:04):
come up with. One day, during summer break in middle school,
me and my brother were sitting in the living room.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Watching Mari You Not the Father. Yeah, sorry, I've been
waiting for that joke all day.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
It was a bright summer day and no one was
home because our parents were at work. In our living
room was a TV and two sofas with a potted
tree between them. I don't know what kind of tree
it was, but it was. It basically looked like a
palm tree with a very skinny trunk. My grandma had
one of those I know exactly what you're talking about sils.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
We had them all over our house picas.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I put Christmas tree lights in it, and they would
never stay on. It was sad.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
You could wrap your thumb and index finger around it. Yeah,
it is tiny. While I'm sitting directly in front of
the TV and my brother's on the sofa to my left,
went out of nowhere, the tree starts shaking. It was
like someone grabbed the trunk and started violently shaking it
to get our attention. As soon as we turned to
look at it, which took only a second or two.
It stopped moving the eaves. We're still settling though. Oh
(14:02):
that's crazy. We sat in silence for a few seconds,
looking at the tree, thinking there had to be a
squirrel or a rat in it, even though the tree
was so thin it.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Couldn't hold anything.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
That's true, because you remember, yes, and you would see
something in it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Absolutely, There's no doubt in my mind that you would
be able to see if it was some sort of something.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
Yeah, it's not like against leaves or something.
Speaker 11 (14:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Then we got up and started looking around, checking behind
the couch and even under the pillows, but nothing. We
didn't know what to do and tried to keep watching
TV when a few minutes later we heard a bunch
of coins fall down the hall. At that point we
were panicking. I gathered some courage and checked the room
we shared, where I found that our one hundred and
one Dalmatian's piggy bank had dumped all of our coins out.
(14:46):
This piggy bank had a round hole on the bottom,
but we'd lost the cap and had taped it closed
to keep the coins in.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
I think every kid had to do that at something
at some point.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yes, the tape had given way, which is why all
of the coins fell out. I mean, maybe it was
just a coincident, but it happened right after the tree incident.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
My brother and I couldn't make sense of it all.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Later that day we told our parents and a renter
who was living with us, but of course none.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Of them believed us.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And then a week later, my brother and I were
watching TV again, but this time with the renter, and
the tree started shaking again.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Right a witness is time.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yes, And just like last time, as soon as we
looked at it, it stopped.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Me and my brother freaked.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Out, and do you be last Well, the renter was shocked,
and like we had before, he got up to look
for answers.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
And just like the last time, there was nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It's been almost twenty years and me and my brother
remember the whole thing like it happened yesterday. I came
up with one logical explanation that maybe plants and trees
have spasms, but it's never been witnessed or recorded. After all,
they are living things, and some plants, like the venus
fly trap, really do move. I totally understand this thought process.
If that was the case, though, why did it stop
(15:57):
as soon as we looked at it?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Still no idea what that tree show?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It still kind of creeps me out.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
I love things that don't seem scary, yes, but just
because it's so weird and random, it becomes scary.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
And since we're midway through.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Our countdown, we want to take a second for some
honorable mentions, like we're still chuckling over Doug's pantless woman
in the New Zealand cemetery. No idea what was going
on with that? The deceased grandpa who taught his grandchild
how to roll joints. We're still puzzling over the woman
who found a selenite crystal hidden in one of her
socks while staying at a Hot Springs rental. And I
(16:30):
was just in Hot Springs. That is a creepy little town.
We need to go back there.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Okay, I'm down, I'm on board.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We should probably also send some love to our chaos
goblin out of Canada, Scott. Damn you, Scott, Oh, Scott,
be nice, be nice, terrorized not only the museum he haunted,
but also our very own podcast with his technical glitches.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Scott, We love you, but please please make your way
to the light bud, just go on in. We cannot
have any more of that.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
All right, back to the countdown, which wouldn't be complete
without some creepy kids. Page shared some of her son's
stories with us, and they are number five this year.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
All right, ky ladies, I hope you're still taking submissions.
I literally just found you on TikTok and I have
been bringing you the past week. But I have so
many stories, but one is from when my son was three.
So this is about nine years ago. We lived with
my in laws and my brother in law. He always said,
(17:24):
oh my god, the house is so hot. It they
all still say it. Friends would sleepover, they all heard
voices blah blah blah. Well, our three year old. I'm
trying to put him down and we're talking and he's like, mom,
you know, and his little kid boys do not leave.
And I'm like, what's wrong? And he said, I don't
like the skeleton Man. And I said, okay, I don't
get the Chelsey to talk about this. But he's like
(17:45):
the Skeleton Man. He's so mean to me and he
bites me.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
At night and I was like, excuse me, and he goes,
he bites me so hard and he wakes me up.
So I'm like, okay, buddy, like where is he? Is
he here now? And he goes, he's not in me,
but he's outside, and I went where and he said
he's standing by the pool and he's staring up at
the window.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
He's waiting for you to leave the room.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
And I was like no, no, no, like that's no, thank you.
Speaker 13 (18:10):
So I like show him to the window and he goes, yep,
he's down there, and I was like, okay, buddy, like,
you know, you just.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Tell him go away.
Speaker 13 (18:18):
You don't want him here. He's not okay, and he goes, Mom,
it's okay, though, because when he's really being mean to me,
there's a really really nice lady at the foot of my.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Bed and she yells at him and she tells him to.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Go away, and I knew it was my mother.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
She is all of our guardian angels.
Speaker 13 (18:34):
Another instance, putting them in a bed again and he's like,
you should sleep in here with me, don't go in
there with daddy, And I said, oh, what's wrong, buddy,
And it's about the same, you know, free for Oh,
there's two men in your room and they do not
like you. And they are not happy, and I went, honey,
I'm sleeping with Chase.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh don't that sound?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Sound goes Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So sometimes we get a goo story that is really great,
but it gets even better when we see the encounter
where it took place. That's what happened when we heard
Allison's story, which is number four on this countdown.
Speaker 8 (19:10):
In two thousand and two, I went to Oregon to
visit someone I've been talking to online, which in retrospect
was stupid.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Yeah, but I think people do that all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
It's common now.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Anyway, we were driving to the coast and ended up
at a hotel called Seagull Inn in Lincoln City. My
friend and I immediately went to the beach when we
got unpacked. At this point, it was like ten thirty
eleven PM, so very dark. We were sitting pretty far
back from the water when I looked to my right
and I saw a woman with a long white dress
carrying a basket. I turned to my friend and said, oh, Gray,
we've got company. In the two seconds it took to
(19:42):
turn and say that, I looked back and she was
like fifteen to twenty feet out on the water. Oh day,
I was stunned, but thought that's weird. So to test
it again, I looked back at my friend and then
back at the woman, who was back on the beach. Again.
I closed my eyes like a blink, and she was
back out on the water. I told my friend, Yeah,
I'm pretty sure that's a ghost. We watched her for
like ten minutes and even had to walk past her
(20:03):
to get back to the hotel. That's when we noticed
she had no feet and was like floating. Her dress
had also changed from white to black. Never saw her face,
and I don't think she noticed we were there because
she never disappeared. Now, my husband and I honeymoon in
Oregon and went to that same hotel. My husband went
out on the beach one night and sat in the
dark hoping to see her, but no such luck. Ah
(20:24):
that's so cute, I know, it really is. I need
to know, though, why she didn't go back out there. Yeah,
maybe scared. I even emailed the hotel to see if
anyone else had seen her, but didn't get a reply.
Thanks for reading, and again that is from Allison Ghosty
ten minutes show. Yeah, in that amazing long time to
see an apparition. So I asked Alison and I. So
(20:44):
when she was out on the water, was she like
in the water or she said she was like floating.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
The cover of the water. There it is.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
It's kind of like tell me you're a haunted hotel
without saying you're yes.
Speaker 13 (20:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
If you're listening to the podcast, make sure you go
find that picture, because just looking at it, you're like, oh,
hell yeah, that place is haunt totally. Our number three
story this year is another example of a story we
just have to keep coming back to. Elizabeth sent a
video that her friend took of something walking down a
highway in Charleston, South Carolina. We debated it greatly for
a couple of weeks, and you know what, we decided,
(21:19):
it's just got to be a ghost.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Gotta This next one comes from Elizabeth. Hi, y'all wanted
to send you this video my friend captured from her
dash cam last Friday morning. She was traveling down Highway
sixty one in Charleston, South Carolina, and saw this figure
on the left side of the road. Highway sixty one
has three historic plantations along it, but it's very unusual
to see anyone walking along.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
It, let alone. At four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
When she showed us at work that morning, we thought
it looked possibly like a woman from the seventeenth or
eighteen hundreds carrying something in her hands.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
What do y'all think, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Let's take a look at this one.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Look at that? Did you just notice how dark it got?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
That's weird. That was creepy. There she is.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Okay, I have frozen this so many times.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Yeah, that is I think that's a ghost. Yeah, I
think it is as well. I legit think that that's
a ghost. I actually thought it might be a person
on a horse.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Look.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Look, that looks like a horsehead to me, that looks
like a horse head. Yeah, and then like a person
is on top of it. So what do you guys think?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Hanadaf dot com go check it out on our social
media's we're going to post all of this.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
To me, I think it's a ghost. I would agree,
all right.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So we were actually super pumped when Danielle and Cassie
from National Park after Dark agreed to come on our show.
But what we did not expect was for them to
lay down one of these scariest stories that we heard
all year. Both of them had some chilling experiences but
Danielle's Ferbo story that is number two.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
My partner Ian passed away in May of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We were living in Washington.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
At the time, and I decided to move back to
Colorado in the months after his passing, and I was
renting a really small cabin. It so one bedroom cabin
from the nineteen thirties. It was like five hundred square feet,
it's really small. A couple of months after moving in,
(23:09):
there were three incidents in rapid succession that definitely I
got haunted. So the first incident, it started small. I
started hearing footsteps in the living room when I was
in the bedroom, which is again it's basically one giant
room with you know, half a wall separating the rooms.
And it was very distinct, like typical boots on the
(23:31):
ground walking from one side of the living room to
the other. A couple of weeks after that, I was
sitting in my living room and I had do you
know what a ferbo is like?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The dog camera? Yeah, I had it set up.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
In my living room and I was sitting watching TV.
All of a sudden, my dog from the other room
comes rushing out. It's at night, all the lights are
off comes rushing out and sits directly on my feet
and is looking around the room. And I'm watching him
look around the room like he with his ears perked,
(24:06):
like he's following something with his eyes, but I couldn't
see anything, I didn't hear anything. All of a sudden,
he is still looking around the room, and the furbo,
which I've had for years, starts clicking on and off,
like from day mode night moode day mode night mode.
Like I see the red light clicking and I can
hear it, and so I'm like, what the hell? And
(24:28):
then all of a sudden, because it tracks movement, it started.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
To shift and me around the room.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Oh no, And so I open the app and I
can see me clear as day with my dog sitting
on the couch on the other end of the room.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And it's just shifting around. Their orbs flying everywhere.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Everywhere, and it's following what my dog is following with
his eyes sitting on the floor.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The third incident was on Day of the Dead.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
I always have like an altar up for and my
father who has also passed away, and I was sitting
and I was talking to them and doing some tribute
stuff for them. And that evening I fell asleep and
I woke up, but I didn't open my eyes yet,
and I just had this feeling that somebody was watching me.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Not in a.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Scary way, I just felt like there was another presence
around me.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And I opened my eyes and at the foot of.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
My bed, in the corner of my room, and I
don't know how else to explain it, but it looked
like a group of people, maybe like four or five people,
and they were just standing there. And as soon as
I in my mind recognized and registered what I was seeing,
they took a step towards me, and I went and
(25:51):
they disappeared.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Oh my girl, how.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Jit leg chills.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Before we play our number one story of the year,
just a quick reminder that we are taking January off
of some podcast updates in the meantime, pretty please leave
us a good review. If you watch on YouTube, please
subscribe follow the podcast so you'll know whenever we have
new episodes.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
And all right, you.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Probably already know what our number one story is after
because after hearing it, we both said, I think that's
the best story we've had.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
All year long, hands down.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Yeah. Courtesy of Jason from the Beyond the Shadows podcast.
Is that poor old lady that they scared?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Or did that?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
So?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I grew up in a small town in southern Maine,
back when people actually left their doors unlocked and literally
everybody knew everybody. My friends and I traveled everywhere on
our bikes back then, and it wouldn't be unusual for
us to be like literally three or four downs away
in our explorations. So one day back when I was
maybe twelve, my friend Dan and I were out fishing
pretty far into the woods along a lazy creek we've
(26:55):
been to many times before that day. We weren't having
much luck fishing. We kept moving further and further into
the woods looking for a better spot. It wasn't long
before we were much further in the woods than we
had ever been before. We came upon an old, abandoned
looking house along the side of the river. Shutters were
hanging off, the porch was sagging, and there was a
rusty old basketball hoop sagging way down in the yard.
(27:18):
It was creepy and intriguing all the same time. There
was nothing around, no other houses, and the most strange
part was there was no sign of a trail, driveway
or any other means of getting two or from the house.
That moment was too much for two twelve year olds
to pass on, so we made our way inside of
the abandoned house. The ground floor was old and dusty,
(27:38):
and it appeared no one had been there in a
really long time. Strangely though, it wasn't empty, but rather
looked like someone had up and left in a hurry
one day and never come back. It was spooky, for sure,
but nothing terrifying. Eventually, we explored the whole floor and
got ready to make our way up to the second
I remember neither one of us being too excited to
go first, so we did a round of rock papers
(27:59):
or to settle it. I don't remember what I threw up,
but I do know that I had to go first.
We were maybe three steps from the top when someone
up above said hello. I just froze and looked over
my shoulder at Dan, and he looked just as scared
as me. So we stayed silent and motionless for what
seemed like a minute or two. So I start up
again when I hear, clear as day, who's there. We
(28:22):
bolt down the stairs, out the door, and crossed the
porch in record time. As we're making our way back
down the hill to the river bank, I looked back
over my shoulder to the window, and there was the
face of an old woman looking back at us from
between the old curtains. I know my heart didn't stop
racing for hours, and we talked about how scary the
whole situation had been the whole way home. By the
(28:43):
next morning, we'd both decided that if we were that scared,
then how must that old lady feel. We thought that
the house was abandoned, but it wasn't, so we decided
the only thing to do was to go back and apologize.
If we got in trouble, then so be it. It took
us some time to make our way all the way
back out there. Well, when we got to where we
were were positive it had been. There was no house,
only a burned out foundation and a basement. It was
(29:05):
clear that whatever had occurred had been years earlier. The
previous day, as I've been running down the embankment, I
remember it seeing a strange granite column in the ground
with faded writing in an old iron rod in the middle.
As I turned around to see the old woman staring
down at us. Today, we walked around the site for
some time, trying to figure out what was going on.
When we finally gave up and walked down the bank,
(29:27):
I saw the exact same stone and turned around to
look once more. No house, no old woman, but the
burned out basement was exactly where it should have been.
There was no doubt we were in the right spot.
We were just in the wrong time.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
That totally went where I wasn't expecting it to.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
No, not at all. Crap, the whole house was freaking.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Gone, the whole house. Wow, I love, I love.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
The best story we have had in a long time.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Yeah, I agree, good ones took. Holy crap.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
All Right, you guys, thanks again for everything. You are amazing.
We love you.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Thank you for your scary stories and your continued support
for honad Af, especially through.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
This crazy ass year. Seriously, it's been wild.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
We started it off by dropping only one episode a
month and ended up with more stories than we've done
since COVID, So thank you guys for that.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
It's been a roller coaster ride.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
And uh, we're just getting started, so keep sending all
those ghost stories or God, do.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
You have drones in your backyard?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Okay, we had a plane like go buy our window
and it was like ridiculously close, and I swear to
you it was like covering And James is like, it's
a plane.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
I'm like, no, it's a drone. They're spying on us.
We need a plane.
Speaker 8 (30:34):
We need your drone stories. Maybe Bigfoot or some cryptid
we haven't met yet.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Oh hey, it's my turn. I got really invested in
the drones and Bigfoot.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Well, the drones are freaking me out because it's like
it's happening everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Did you see the old man that shot down the
Walmart one? No, it's such a Texas move, Like such
a Texas moved, it really is.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Don't forget you, guys.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
We are analyzing dreams now as well, so in our
Beyond the Pillow segment if you have not tuned in,
it is very sexy. So if you've got an especially
weird dream, please write it down send it our way
so that we can figure out what it means.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Yeah, and you know the drill yep. Write it or
record it audio or video, then send it to Hantedaypodcasts
at gmail dot com so we can use it in
twenty twenty five on Haunted af.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
And don't forget to subscribe to honted Aff on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitter,
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Speaker 5 (31:28):
And of course TikTok.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
You can even contact us directly through our website hantdaf
dot com.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
That'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 hontidayf Patreon supporters.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
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.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
All come back to Haunt YouTube. Rebecca, do you think
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