August 11, 2024 • 10 mins
Kath has not told her story to many people because she was afraid that people would think she was nuts.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
At pod Shape Production. Welcome to season two of The Chills.
It's the spooky story podcast that's hard to believe unless,
of course, it happened to you. Now I've had to
take a little season break because we needed more of
your stories. If you've got a story that you'd love
(00:27):
to share, then email us at the Chills at podshape
dot com. That's the Chills at podshape dot com. Now
you don't have to come on the show. You can
simply send us a message and we can share your
story with the world. Some people don't want to tell
their stories because they think they'll be laughed at for
(00:48):
being a bit weird or a little nuts, and that's
what Kath thought when she emailed us. She hadn't told
anyone this story for that very reason, where.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I was really deliberating on whether to top fifteen or not.
But I just thought, you know what, I'll give it
a go. I buddy told close family friends and they
all like me, so I.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Can confirm Kath is not nuts, but her story will
blow you away. It all started, like all spooky stories do,
when Kath was just a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I grew up with a town called kaw Am in
New South Wales, and it's on the outer skirts of
Sydney and basically in the used to be an old
railway town and so I think I was in them
and hundreds or something like that, and our house was
it was an old two bedroom fibro house and it
(01:42):
was actually owned by my great grandfather. I think it
was then passed on to my grandfather and then my parents.
They purchased it off my grandfather in around about nine
eighty I think it was ninety seven. When we were
all little, there was a lot of strange things going on,
(02:03):
and I really don't like to go some bit news
about to talking about it. So when I was a
little child, we just experienced things like footsteps, flickering, lights
going on the off side positions like that, radios used
to go off. There was coughing another rooms, there was
some loud banging on the walls, and things just used
to go missing. And sometimes. Yeah, it used to scare
(02:23):
me as a kid, but I thought this was completely normal,
and I thought it happened to everyone else. So some
of them scared me, some of them didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So it does sound like you normalized it, like the
way you were describing that, it sounds like, oh, yeah,
everyone would have had these strange apparitions walking through their
house at night, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yep, absolutely, Because that was only a little when I
was really young, like later on, I knew that they
were goes. I need until I grew up and thought
that's what it was. But I just thought it was normal.
So when I was really little, I think I was
about six years old, I used to I shared a
bedroom with my sister, and it was in the front room,
(03:04):
and I must have known. I must have known that
this was a normal occurrence because I used to land
my bed and I used to face the door, and
I knew that they would come and they meaning just
the heads of these people. And what I mean by
just their heads and bodies, like at ground high.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Talking, the heads are on almost on the floor.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, So as you lay on the bed and you
look and you're facing out, you just see the heads
and the shoulders of these people. And I was only
really little.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, carry on.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, So when I'm so strange, I used to see
these people and they used to come past me and
then they disappear behind my bed heads, And so I
knew that they weren't like me, because there was women
with bonnets on. There were sometimes men with long beds.
There was laughing children, sometimes some of them were baby
(03:58):
some of them were smiling, some of them scoured at me,
and some of them were even crying. But I remember
actually being scared of some of them. But I did
remember that the clothes they were wearing weren't like mine.
So they had like peter Pan collars, they had funny
hair styles, they had braces on, so I did know
that those people didn't look like what. Yeah, as a child,
(04:19):
I must have known that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Anyway, it sounds like these heads that kath is talking about,
dressed in olden day garb from the past. It sounds
like the sort of clothes that people might wear in
the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I didn't make the connection at the time, but later
on I did, of course, because I didn't really talk
about it, because I just thought this happened to everybody.
As a kid, I thought it was I just.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Thought it was normal.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So sometimes some of them would be really scary. So
I just rut into my parents' room, and I slept
with my parents a lot, so I'd run into their
room and jump into their bed pretty much every night
because probably because of this happening AnyWho. So I've run
in this one night and there was a massive man
standing in the doorway. While I was little, so he
looked huge to me. So he was standing running front
(05:05):
of me, and I thought I must have known that
he was see through or something. So I just ran
straight through him, and as I turned around, it was
like he just dissipated. And I know, and I really rude. Yeah,
I know, Like I thought that was normal. I thought
that was what everybody thought. So I jump in the parents'
(05:26):
bed and I'd be in the middle of them because
I was all nice and sniggy and cozy in face.
And then I would just see all these cups and
sauces flying around the room, and sometimes I'd reach out
and try and grab them. And I never like mom
and dad up, and I never really spoke about it
because I just thought they happened to everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
These cups and sauces, the pots and pans. They're not
there though, right, No, I knew that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
They were see through, so I was trying to reach
out and grab them.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If that first part of the story hasn't yet given
you the chills, maybe this next bit will. As Kath
gets older, she starts to put the pieces together.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All these strange occurrences have only recently going to make
sense to me. And it started with my dad. Now,
he was an Irish immigrant from Ireland officy, and he
came out in his twenties, and so obviously they bought
the house. And I did pass these memories of as
a child because he'd always tell these fairy tales and
ghost stories, and he came from a fairly grounded background
(06:25):
in superstitions, and they believed in legends and folklore and
letoicorns and Misterio feruitions, and he was just so fascinated
with the mysteries and UFOs and time travel and inexplicable then,
and we always roll ourrise and think it was nuts.
One night, when I was about eight years old, my
siblings and I were all away for the night, including months,
except that he had to work because he was a
(06:47):
shift worker on the tollway and he was staying in
the house and he don't so he was suddenly woken
up at two am by a really loud party going on.
But looking back now I don't he was talking. That
was a different sort of party. Anyway, I'll explain later.
So after starting in turning for about fifteen minutes, and
this is going on for quite some time, he tells
of a band playing really loud music, but because being
(07:08):
he said, it sounded like an Irish band, and there
was clinking glasses and lots of yelling and raucous laughter.
So he decided to get up, and so he crankly
stormed out in the kitchen to peek through the curtains,
expecting to see some raty teenagers never breaking bottles on
the road and drinking and lasted a round. But as
soon as he reached the curtain and he twipp the
pulls back to shout at them, it suddenly stopped. It
(07:30):
stops like there's nothing. There's absolutely no sounds. It was
actually definitely quiet, and he thought, well, I thought to
the next day he went out to the shed to
mow the lawn and there on the perth way he
was just fresh ting on the ground. I sicknot. He
picked it up, and I think it was from around
about the year eighteen to fifty, and it was just
lying there and he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And he said he'd.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Forgotten about the party of the night before, and he
didn't make any connections, but later later he did obviously,
so we all thought he was bonkers, but he swore
this was to be true. And yes I have, I've
actually seen that penny he still got years later, he's
still got the pair. I've got the fact since part
so I've actually got the penny somewhere in his coin collection.
(08:12):
So years later we were speaking to a very old
lady and she has a very old residents and lived
down the road, and it was rumored to be where
our house was built. There used to be an old
tabn hotel with a seller, and a yard was actually
where they tied up the horses. So I thought calam
being a really old railway town, I guess there would
(08:32):
have been a few travelers and workers warning a few
years after work and yearn with fakes and the soft
bet before heading on through to the Hawkstree. But I
researched this, and I went to the local libraries, I
went googling. I actually I never found out if it
was true or not. There's actually no proof that there
actually ever was a pat with any accommodation, but it
(08:54):
makes sense to me seeing all the heads and maybe
the lad maybe the party going on that he heard
in the middle of the night. So the weirdest thing,
as it turns out, with a house being bought and
sold a few times and it has been renovated, and
someone I know discovered that the current owner had ripped
up the kitchen fall and this reveals some really old
(09:17):
newspapers like Lino. It's always offline up always has old
newspapers in it, so that's nothing fantastic. But they discussed
it actual gaping whole underneath, and it looks to be
a big, deep bunker, they said. And they said it
actually looked like an old wine cellar.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And I was just when my brother told me they
like no way, he goes, yeah, way, and I'm like,
but how good that they didn't They couldn't possibly know us,
or they couldn't possibly make it up because they didn't
know us, we didn't know them, and they.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Had no idea who lived there prior or anything like that.
And I actually don't have the courage knock on the
door to ask these people if you've got a bunker
under men you.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Have, if you've got a story that could give us
the chills, then we'd love to hear it. Email us
at the chill at podshape dot com. We'll see you
next time for more spooky stories.
At pod Shape Production. Welcome to season two of The Chills.
It's the spooky story podcast that's hard to believe unless,
of course, it happened to you. Now I've had to
take a little season break because we needed more of
your stories. If you've got a story that you'd love
(00:27):
to share, then email us at the Chills at podshape
dot com. That's the Chills at podshape dot com. Now
you don't have to come on the show. You can
simply send us a message and we can share your
story with the world. Some people don't want to tell
their stories because they think they'll be laughed at for
(00:48):
being a bit weird or a little nuts, and that's
what Kath thought when she emailed us. She hadn't told
anyone this story for that very reason, where.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I was really deliberating on whether to top fifteen or not.
But I just thought, you know what, I'll give it
a go. I buddy told close family friends and they
all like me, so I.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Can confirm Kath is not nuts, but her story will
blow you away. It all started, like all spooky stories do,
when Kath was just a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I grew up with a town called kaw Am in
New South Wales, and it's on the outer skirts of
Sydney and basically in the used to be an old
railway town and so I think I was in them
and hundreds or something like that, and our house was
it was an old two bedroom fibro house and it
(01:42):
was actually owned by my great grandfather. I think it
was then passed on to my grandfather and then my parents.
They purchased it off my grandfather in around about nine
eighty I think it was ninety seven. When we were
all little, there was a lot of strange things going on,
(02:03):
and I really don't like to go some bit news
about to talking about it. So when I was a
little child, we just experienced things like footsteps, flickering, lights
going on the off side positions like that, radios used
to go off. There was coughing another rooms, there was
some loud banging on the walls, and things just used
to go missing. And sometimes. Yeah, it used to scare
(02:23):
me as a kid, but I thought this was completely normal,
and I thought it happened to everyone else. So some
of them scared me, some of them didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So it does sound like you normalized it, like the
way you were describing that, it sounds like, oh, yeah,
everyone would have had these strange apparitions walking through their
house at night, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yep, absolutely, Because that was only a little when I
was really young, like later on, I knew that they
were goes. I need until I grew up and thought
that's what it was. But I just thought it was normal.
So when I was really little, I think I was
about six years old, I used to I shared a
bedroom with my sister, and it was in the front room,
(03:04):
and I must have known. I must have known that
this was a normal occurrence because I used to land
my bed and I used to face the door, and
I knew that they would come and they meaning just
the heads of these people. And what I mean by
just their heads and bodies, like at ground high.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Talking, the heads are on almost on the floor.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, So as you lay on the bed and you
look and you're facing out, you just see the heads
and the shoulders of these people. And I was only
really little.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Okay, carry on.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, So when I'm so strange, I used to see
these people and they used to come past me and
then they disappear behind my bed heads, And so I
knew that they weren't like me, because there was women
with bonnets on. There were sometimes men with long beds.
There was laughing children, sometimes some of them were baby
(03:58):
some of them were smiling, some of them scoured at me,
and some of them were even crying. But I remember
actually being scared of some of them. But I did
remember that the clothes they were wearing weren't like mine.
So they had like peter Pan collars, they had funny
hair styles, they had braces on, so I did know
that those people didn't look like what. Yeah, as a child,
(04:19):
I must have known that.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Anyway, it sounds like these heads that kath is talking about,
dressed in olden day garb from the past. It sounds
like the sort of clothes that people might wear in
the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I didn't make the connection at the time, but later
on I did, of course, because I didn't really talk
about it, because I just thought this happened to everybody.
As a kid, I thought it was I just.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Thought it was normal.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So sometimes some of them would be really scary. So
I just rut into my parents' room, and I slept
with my parents a lot, so I'd run into their
room and jump into their bed pretty much every night
because probably because of this happening AnyWho. So I've run
in this one night and there was a massive man
standing in the doorway. While I was little, so he
looked huge to me. So he was standing running front
(05:05):
of me, and I thought I must have known that
he was see through or something. So I just ran
straight through him, and as I turned around, it was
like he just dissipated. And I know, and I really rude. Yeah,
I know, Like I thought that was normal. I thought
that was what everybody thought. So I jump in the parents'
(05:26):
bed and I'd be in the middle of them because
I was all nice and sniggy and cozy in face.
And then I would just see all these cups and
sauces flying around the room, and sometimes I'd reach out
and try and grab them. And I never like mom
and dad up, and I never really spoke about it
because I just thought they happened to everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
These cups and sauces, the pots and pans. They're not
there though, right, No, I knew that.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
They were see through, so I was trying to reach
out and grab them.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If that first part of the story hasn't yet given
you the chills, maybe this next bit will. As Kath
gets older, she starts to put the pieces together.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All these strange occurrences have only recently going to make
sense to me. And it started with my dad. Now,
he was an Irish immigrant from Ireland officy, and he
came out in his twenties, and so obviously they bought
the house. And I did pass these memories of as
a child because he'd always tell these fairy tales and
ghost stories, and he came from a fairly grounded background
(06:25):
in superstitions, and they believed in legends and folklore and
letoicorns and Misterio feruitions, and he was just so fascinated
with the mysteries and UFOs and time travel and inexplicable then,
and we always roll ourrise and think it was nuts.
One night, when I was about eight years old, my
siblings and I were all away for the night, including months,
except that he had to work because he was a
(06:47):
shift worker on the tollway and he was staying in
the house and he don't so he was suddenly woken
up at two am by a really loud party going on.
But looking back now I don't he was talking. That
was a different sort of party. Anyway, I'll explain later.
So after starting in turning for about fifteen minutes, and
this is going on for quite some time, he tells
of a band playing really loud music, but because being
(07:08):
he said, it sounded like an Irish band, and there
was clinking glasses and lots of yelling and raucous laughter.
So he decided to get up, and so he crankly
stormed out in the kitchen to peek through the curtains,
expecting to see some raty teenagers never breaking bottles on
the road and drinking and lasted a round. But as
soon as he reached the curtain and he twipp the
pulls back to shout at them, it suddenly stopped. It
(07:30):
stops like there's nothing. There's absolutely no sounds. It was
actually definitely quiet, and he thought, well, I thought to
the next day he went out to the shed to
mow the lawn and there on the perth way he
was just fresh ting on the ground. I sicknot. He
picked it up, and I think it was from around
about the year eighteen to fifty, and it was just
lying there and he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And he said he'd.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Forgotten about the party of the night before, and he
didn't make any connections, but later later he did obviously,
so we all thought he was bonkers, but he swore
this was to be true. And yes I have, I've
actually seen that penny he still got years later, he's
still got the pair. I've got the fact since part
so I've actually got the penny somewhere in his coin collection.
(08:12):
So years later we were speaking to a very old
lady and she has a very old residents and lived
down the road, and it was rumored to be where
our house was built. There used to be an old
tabn hotel with a seller, and a yard was actually
where they tied up the horses. So I thought calam
being a really old railway town, I guess there would
(08:32):
have been a few travelers and workers warning a few
years after work and yearn with fakes and the soft
bet before heading on through to the Hawkstree. But I
researched this, and I went to the local libraries, I
went googling. I actually I never found out if it
was true or not. There's actually no proof that there
actually ever was a pat with any accommodation, but it
(08:54):
makes sense to me seeing all the heads and maybe
the lad maybe the party going on that he heard
in the middle of the night. So the weirdest thing,
as it turns out, with a house being bought and
sold a few times and it has been renovated, and
someone I know discovered that the current owner had ripped
up the kitchen fall and this reveals some really old
(09:17):
newspapers like Lino. It's always offline up always has old
newspapers in it, so that's nothing fantastic. But they discussed
it actual gaping whole underneath, and it looks to be
a big, deep bunker, they said. And they said it
actually looked like an old wine cellar.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And I was just when my brother told me they
like no way, he goes, yeah, way, and I'm like,
but how good that they didn't They couldn't possibly know us,
or they couldn't possibly make it up because they didn't
know us, we didn't know them, and they.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Had no idea who lived there prior or anything like that.
And I actually don't have the courage knock on the
door to ask these people if you've got a bunker
under men you.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Have, if you've got a story that could give us
the chills, then we'd love to hear it. Email us
at the chill at podshape dot com. We'll see you
next time for more spooky stories.
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