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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome back to the Chills. These are short, spooky stories
that you're most likely to get from a mate over
a whine or two a dinner. They're the sort of
stories that you don't believe unless, of course, they happen
to you. If you have a story that you think
could give us the chills, then email us at the
Chills at podshape dot com. Let's hear Ryan's story. Now.

(00:36):
I first heard this story as part of another podcast
I was recording. It starts off pretty macabre, but trust me,
it will give you the chills by the time Ryan's done.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
We were in Adelaide in my grandfather's house at the
time due to the fact that my grandfather had just
been murdered. How little did we know at that time.
It actually has turned out that my sister had actually
murdered him by dab again to that.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
So now you have the context. If you want to
hear that story about Ryan's granddad being killed by his sister,
then you can listen to it in the full podcast
My Sister the Murderer, which is out now on the
player you're listening to.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
So the first instance that we had is when we
first recovered the house. The police attended us over the keys.
My mum and I were the executors at the wheels,
so we were able to actually go back in once
they had cleaned it and whatnot. We decided that we
were going to re They changed the lock in the

(01:39):
front door and the back door as we thought that
the keys had gone astraight. When we were waiting for
the locksmith to come, we were sitting in the formal lantern,
which is the face we never really got to go in.
It had a lot of my great grandmother's furniture in there,
and a few other keeps eggs, a lot of crystal,

(01:59):
that sort of thing, and so the doors were always
closed and it was always dark. At this particular night,
we were sitting in there on an old lounge suite
which was my great grandmother's, one of those green olive
dark with the big wooden arm breast and they could
actually recline by pulling that big wooden lever. Anyway, we

(02:23):
were sitting in there and my mum was talking about
some difficulties she was having with another family member about
the will, and I think she felt a little bit defeated,
and at the time she said, oh, I think I'm
just going to give up and just let him have
whatever money he wants to have. And as she said that,
the whole armchair that she was sitting in completely opened

(02:44):
up and nearly flung her off the armchair. And she said, Uh, okay,
I take that as a sign I'm not going to succeed,
like not go ahead with theirs. I will buy that.
It was a bit speaking at the time. We all
looked at each other and had a bit of a
moment going, oh, my god, did that actually just have.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, Ryan had me at my sister killed my granddad.
But that story about the chair giving way, which felt
like someone from beyond was trying to tell Ryan something.
It's creepy. But the next one blew me away.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, funny enough. In the exact same room we were,
there was a mental peak clock that was in my
grandfather's house and I've always admired it from a little boy,
and I said, oh, what is that and who is that?
And I knew it to be again my great grandmother.
And I said to my grandfather as I was growing up,
I would love to have that one day, if you're

(03:46):
happy to pass it down. And so he said, yeah, absolutely,
it's yours, but it's broken. It's been broken for years.
I said, okay, no worries. Anyway, he did obviously pass away,
and when I was in the house with my sister
and my mom, I asked him my sister to help
in wrapping that. So I brought into the formal lunge

(04:06):
room again and I sat it on the floor and
I got the bubble wrap handy and I said, when
I pick up the bubble wrap and lay it, I
want you to pick up the mental piece clock and
lay it down for me, just so I can get
a flat And as she picked it up, it began
to chime so incredibly loudly throughout the whole house and

(04:28):
at times numerous times, and I went, oh, I thought
it was meant to be broken. And Britney's face went
wide as a ghost, and my mum on the other
side of the room like, what are you doing? What's
going on? What have you broken? Essentially, and she comes
in and this thing is still going off loud chime.

(04:50):
It eventually quietened, but it was still making like coe
chime noises. We wrapped it, we covered it, and I
ended up covering up with another layer of this paper,
and I could still hear it very quietly going in
the paper. Anyway, I put it into storage for about
a year, moved it up to prison eventually, and then

(05:10):
about another year later I got it out and I
wanted to put it in the house, and as I said,
it was broken, I couldn't seem to get the wine.
It wouldn't make any noise. And the clockface was broken
as well. It had the glass to be replaced. So
I took a tambourine mountains at the one of the
cuckoo clock places and I so, can you please fix

(05:33):
it for me? It's broken.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
That shop Ryan's talking about, I know, well, it's a
cool little shop on the outskirts of the Gold Coast
and the hinterland. It's a place that most people from
around these parts know. When you walk in, there's every
type of cuckoo clock you can imagine. So Ryan walks
in carrying his granddad's treasured possession. At this stage, Ryan

(06:00):
knows that the face is broken and it's damaged, but
the chiming is ok because just a year before at
his granddad's house, it chimed while it was in the
hands of his sister, who would eventually be charged by
police with Ryan's granddad's murder.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I said, but I think the times worked fine. They
might go see the tumor. Anyway, it was with him
for a few weeks and I went back up there
and he said, oh, it's going to cost a little
bit more than what you're expecting to pay because she
had to put in new times. And I said, oh,
what was wrong with the old one? They seem to
work perfectly fine. And they're like, there isn't any and

(06:39):
I said, oh, that's impossible because it was chiming when
I last it out. He said, no, it couldn't have.
There literally is nothing for it to bang against in
order for it to actually chime. And then we looked
back and obviously my sister was the one that actually
murdered my grandfather, and she was holding it at the

(06:59):
time of the prost off.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Another sign from granddad.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Absolutely, either granddad or my great grandmother, someone was trying
to tell her something.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Absolutely, And you still have the clock now, I don't have.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
The clock in my laundroom anymore. To be honest, it
to me the creeps a little bit. So it's downstairs
in the basement in storage. But yes, I still have it.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
If you've got a story like Ryan's that can give
us the chills, then reach out and tell us it's
the chills. Podshat dot com. See you next time.