The Haunted Queenslander

In the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Lily and Jack move into an old, fixer-upper Queenslander. Strange noises and mysterious footsteps fill the house, but what they uncover about the previous occupant might just send shivers down your spine.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Appoja Production. Welcome back to the Chills, the Spooky Story Podcast.
It's hard to believe unless, of course, it happened to you.
If you've got a story that you reckon can give
us the chills, then you can email us at the
Chills atpodshape dot com. And that's exactly what Lily's done.

(00:27):
From Brisbane. Let's get into a story. What a do
you secret? Now? So picture this Lily and Jack. They're
a young couple, just like us, and they're dreaming big,
saving up and finally snagging their first home in one
of Brisbane's North Side suburbs. The new house is a
classic Queenslander, a beautiful elevated home with those signature wide

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verandahs and high ceilings. It's the perfect blend of style
and comfort, just the way they liked it. The first
few months for Lily and Jack were sunshine and rainbows.
They painted the walls planet flowers and even tackled some
do it yourself projects. Jack tried his hand at fixing
the leaky tap. It wasn't perfect, but Lily says it

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was okay. Then one night, Lily began hearing soft footsteps downstairs.
When spoiler alert, No One was there. Jack started noticing
his keys would vanish, only to pop up in the
most random places, like the freezer. Maybe the ghost had

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a sweet tooth Jack joke one night, trying to lighten
the mood. Lily wasn't so sure. So then one weekend
in summer, Lily and Jack decided to explore underneath their Queenslander. Now,
if you've ever lived in one of these beauties, you
know the space beneath the house can be like its
own little world, filled with old boxes, forgotten treasures, and

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the occasional possum or rats. Lily started rummaging through a
few old boxes, which she didn't recognize. She stumbled across
a dusty old photo album tucked away in a corner.
In her curiosity, she called Jack over to try and
help her out. They sat down together, flipping through pages
filled with family photos. They weren't Lily and Jack's family photos.

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There were other people's. There were doggie had pages, and
one picture that made them both do a double take.
There she was a woman standing in their very living room,
looking very out of place. She had a sad smile
and was holding a teacup that screamed, I belong in
the nineteen fifties kitchen, not a modern day Brisbane house.

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Intrigued and a little bit creeped out, they started asking
around about the house's history. Enter the lady next door.
We'll call her Missus Thompson. She was the neighborhood's unofficial
history guru and Bingo night champion. She said the house
used to belong to the Anderson family, but she also

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said something terrible had happened about thirty years ago. Missus
Anderson just disappeared without a trace, and no one ever
found out what happened to her. Lily and Jack were
a little freaked out and couldn't believe that she just vanished.
So they got to the bottom of it, and they
dove into old newspaper articles. They found an article about

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Missus Anderson and a disappearance. She was a single lady
living alone in the Queenslander that they now occupied. One
night in a Brisbane storm, she went missing, and during
extensive searches, no one ever found out any clues about
where she went. As Lily and Jack dug deeper the

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strange happenings in their house. Ramped up doors would slam
shut on their own, and Lily often felt a cold
breeze sweep through the room, even though all the windows
were locked. Jack also started having vivid dreams about Missus Anderson,

(04:09):
seeing her standing by the window looking lost and annoyed.
One night, Lily decided she'd had enough. She wanted to
confront whatever was haunting their home. She lit some candles,
of course she did, because what's a ghost story without candles,
and she sat in the living room holding the old
photo of missus Anderson. She called Missus Anderson's name and said,

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we're sorry for what happened, but we want to help
you find peace. Suddenly, the room went cold, the candles
flickered like they were trying to send a message, and
Lily says she saw a faint figure of a woman
standing by the window. The woman's eyes were filled with
sadness and maybe a hint of frustration, just like Jack

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had seen in his dream. Please, the woman whispered, help me.
Lily and Jack knew that they had to do something,
so they dug a bit deeper into the story of
missus Anderson. They discovered that she had been seen arguing
with someone on the night she disappeared, but no one
knew who it was or what the argument was about

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there were no signs of break in, no struggle, just
an empty house and a lingering mystery. They were determined
to try and bring some closure, so Lily and Jack
decided to honor missus Anderson's memory. They hosted a small
gathering for the neighbors, sharing what they'd learned and asking
if anyone had any more information. Now, this next bit's unbelievable,

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but we'll call the person mister Harris. He was apparently
an old bloke that lived on the same street and
had been there for over forty years. He revealed that
he saw miss Anderson a few days before she vanished,
looking distressed and talking to herself in the garden. She
seemed like she had a lot on her mind, he said.
With his new lead, Lily and Jack organized a community search,

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hoping to find any looked evidence. They became essentially a
true crime podcast. While searching in the backyard under that
infamous Morton Bay fig tree, they found a hidden spot
where Missus Anderson used to sit. There beneath the tree
was a small box containing personal letters and some photos.
It turned out Missus Anderson had been planning all along

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to leave town and start fresh and something must have
gone wrong, and that was the end of Jack and
Lily's search to find out the truth for Missus Anderson,
apart from a small memorial that they set up under
that tree in the garden that often like candles and
plant flowers, where Missus Anderson had spent most of her time,

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And that was when things began to change inside the house.
The air felt lighter and the house returned to its
peaceful state. Lily and Jack felt a sense of relief
and fulfillment, knowing that they'd helped Missus Anderson find the
peace she'd been searching for. Unbelievably, Lily and Jack still

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live in that Queenslander on the north side of Brisbane.
The home itself now is quiet and peaceful, and Jack's
keys occasionally still go missing. If you've got a story
to tell like Lily and Jack's, maybe you want to
email us at the Chills at podshake dot com. We'll

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see you next time.