September 13, 2025 • 46 mins
Three podcasters from The Activity Continues share their true Minnesota ghost stories with Becky and Diana and what makes them continue exploring the paranormal. Their experiences range from protective ancestral spirits to aggressive supernatural entities in the Middle East.
• Becky shares a recent experience she can't explain that happened at her new job as a violin teacher in Atlanta
• AP describes encounters with her grandfather's spirit, including a specific electronic device that started functioning a little differently after his death
• Amy deliberately bought a haunted Victorian house where she saw multiple apparitions; was one of them the ghost of Kid Can, a notorious Minneapolis bootlegger?
• Megan had a spirit named Frank attach to her in college. He followed her to Bahrain...but perhaps to protect her from something more sinister?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Do you have holes in the walls of your home?
Few can claim pristine plasterthroughout their abode.
Oftentimes these indentationscome from critters or an angry
construction project, butsometimes they are made out of
fear.
Today, we speak with the hostsof the podcast the Activity
(00:24):
Continues and learn firsthandwhat things they have
experienced that could make themrun screaming through a wall.
Listen, laugh and lean into thescares today.
On Homespun Haints Hello,hainted Loves, welcome to
(00:45):
Homespun Haints.
I'm Becky, hey, I'm Diana.
Today on the show have we got afun one for you?
It is a fivesome.
We've got the lovely ladies.
What, what do you want me tocall it A quintet?
I mean, oh, I like quintet.
We got a quintet.
(01:06):
Yes, we have the wonderful hostof the Activity Continues.
Amy, ap and Megan are going tobe on the show with us today and
we're so excited because, asyou can imagine, triple the
guests, triple the fun, triplethe ghosts.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, that's right, Five of us.
What can we do with five?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
people that you couldn't do with three.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You could play the Baccarini quintet, See that's
the traditional meaning ofquintet, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, speaking of music, I had a little experience
the other day at my new job.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You told me you got haunted recently.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, for those of you that don't know, I just got
a new job I had been with withDiana as my sidekick, a web
developer, for 25 years and yeah, it kind of sucks, like I hate
it, but I just kept doing itbecause I was like damn it if I
just try hard enough.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I can actually work goes yeah, especially when
you're an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes, exactly.
But an opportunity opened upand I decided you know what this
whole web design thing isn'tworking out.
Being a professional musiciansurely must.
Plus, it keeps your fiddlingfingers fit.
I like that.
That's a lot of alliteration.
You're welcome.
So I took a job teaching violinat a local music school, the
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studio that I work at.
I actually have two locationsthat I teach out of because they
have multiple locationsthroughout the area, but I teach
at two of them and the firstone that I spend most of my time
at is just, you know, yourtypical like office-y kind of
building.
Like you know, yourpsychiatrist might be in that
type of building.
It's like an office park andthey've got it subdivided into
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different rooms and things.
When you go in there, it's fine.
It's nice, it's close to home.
But the other location, theiroriginal location, is a very old
house of questionable ageQuestionable.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
How is this possible?
I don't know.
It just sprung up one night andthe locals were like it's
always been there.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It could be, I have no idea.
Okay, plus, it has one of thosefloor grates just like yours.
I took a photo of it the veryfirst time I was in this
building.
I'm in this little back roomand you know, us musicians we're
.
I like to say that now, usmusicians oh, that sounds so
good.
Oh, my God, I love this.
We're not the most organizedbunch and we like to collect
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things like recording equipmentand instruments.
So this room, literally, islike a storeroom slash music
studio.
I mean, there's an old pianothat may even be older than the
house.
Sitting in the corner I sawsome recording equipment from
the 80s shoved under one of thetables.
Okay, so I'm in this room withlike an ancient piano and gobs
of ancient gear and equipmentand I'm teaching and it's
getting darker and darker.
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I've been an old house, I amfine, I love my job, I love my
students.
I'm just tickled pink, well,anyway.
So my last student finished upand there's still a little bit
of light coming in through thewindows and I get the lights
turned off so I can still see,okay, but it is like it's around
seven o'clock at night so, andit's summer, so you know, it's a
(04:21):
little shaded in there by now.
I gather all my stuff up andthe room next to mine doesn't
have a door and there's a lessongoing on next to it, so I have
to like tiptoe by them.
So I don't, you know, don'tdisturb them.
And I come out into the mainroom, the waiting area, carrying
two violin and a viola on onearm and my bag of music over one
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shoulder.
And then on my other hand Ihave my purse and I do my
cursory like wallet, phone keys,check no phone, what, like why
would my phone not be in mypurse?
I know I had it because I hadactually shown one of my earlier
students.
I had shown him Vivaldi'sviolin because I had seen that
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in Venice and I was like youwant to see what Vivaldi's
violin looks like, and so Ipulled up a photo and of course
he was like that's not really.
Are you pulling my leg?
And I was like no, I actuallywent to Venice and saw this damn
violin.
I'm not making this up.
Why would I make this up?
I'm your teacher.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Remember when we were young and we trusted adults.
I don't think that's the caseanymore trusted adults.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't think that's the case anymore.
Right?
So can't find my phone and I'mlike I know I had it.
I know I put it back in mypurse Because I'm very careful
about that Because, like Imentioned, this room is full of
stuff I have to be very carefulabout, like putting things back
exactly where they found them,otherwise who knows what could
happen?
Can't find my phone, put down myinstruments, tiptoe back into
the room, look around, look oneverything, every surface, on
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the chair, on the piano.
It's not a very big room,there's not a lot of places to
search.
I got the light back on.
I'm looking around.
Cannot find the phone anywhere.
Tiptoe back out into the lobby.
Maybe I set it down here, maybeI put it in another bag.
Looking through everything,can't find it.
Tiptoe back into the room.
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I'm like stunned.
I'm like it's not anywhere andnow I'm starting to freak out.
I don't know what could happen.
It's really weird, like I hadit and then I didn't.
So I'm spinning around, I putmy purse down, I look at all of
the chairs that we had all beensitting in.
There's like two chairs.
So I look on the surfaces ofthe chairs, don't see anything.
(06:32):
Look at my bags again.
Don't see anything.
Turn around, look at this likereally messy table that I've
like kind of scooped stuff outof the way to like make room for
a violin case open.
It's not there.
Turn back around to that chairthat I had just looked at and
there's my phone Not the samecolor as the chair, so it was
(06:54):
camouflaged, nothing like that,no, hidden in the darkness.
No, no no Anything.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
or stuffed in between the cushion and the arm of the
chair.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, it was like it's got a shiny back and I saw it
because it was like glinting thelight and it's high contrast.
The back it was like face down.
So it was the back of the phone, not the black mirror side.
So it was the back of the phonewhich is like a light platinum
color.
How?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
did the house get your phone there without you
noticing or hearing something?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
think it was playing with me.
Oh, it felt playful, but youknow, it reminded me of that
story that we had with a guestway back when with a guitar,
pick same thing a musician.
So I'm like I wonder if thatlike musician equipment stealing
ghost followed me through theairwaves and settled in and when
I saw it I I almost like hadthat like feeling where my heart
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skipped a little bit of a beatbecause it wasn't.
It was like oh, that, that thatI knew that wasn't there a
minute ago.
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So there was either something playfully hiding it
from you or there was somereason why you could not see it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh, as if maybe me getting in my car a few minutes
later avoided some tragedy.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Perhaps, and your vision was clouded to the truth
momentarily, so that you wouldstick around for a few more
minutes.
Going by the everything happensfor a reason theory.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Could be, though could just be, that a ghost
wanted to play a joke on me.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh man, losing your phone is terrifying, especially
when somebody might have takenit from you.
I swear I felt somebodypickpocket me once and my phone
was gone and I freaked out and Iasked everybody in the building
to help me call it.
Nobody found it, and I finallygot back to my car and
discovered it was likeunderneath my seat and had
fallen out of my pocket while Iwas getting out of my car.
So somebody just touched mybutt, which is a relief.
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Oh, thank God, I was justgroped.
Yeah, that was what I saidliterally to the people helping
me look for my phone.
But now that I've had thatexperience because what's the
difference between actuallyexperiencing a pickpocketing and
thinking you experienced apickpocketing Nothing for the
first several minutes of it,right?
(09:12):
So it's the same in your headand your heart, and so I still
like my phone every time.
Reach for my pocket, every timeI feel something brush up
against me like.
I am so glad you found yourphone, though, because that
would have been a terrible placefor it to spend the weekend
with the ghost, imagine it wouldhave gotten some good photos on
it, though.
Yeah, it'd been a ghost party,or maybe it would just be scared
(09:35):
, maybe, well you know, thething is I knew.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I knew I never had that feeling that had been
stolen.
I knew it hadn't been stolen.
I knew I mean I was.
There was absolutely no wayunless a ghost.
Yeah, hi, I know, come here.
Come here, say hi to the camera.
Hi, dear.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Ella, I hear you've been bulking up on your new diet
.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
She's been doing good .
She says I've gained a wholepound, I'm getting a pooch.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, listeners, what do you think?
Was it a kleptogeist?
Or was it my guardian angel orspirit guide, keeping me in the
studio for a few minutes longerto avoid something?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
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Speaker 1 (10:43):
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What happened, honey?
I was out with the guys andthey well, and, and they said I
wasn't spooky enough.
Oh honey, how could they saythat to you?
You're hella spooky.
You think so, of course.
After all, you came up with theectoplasm being ghost jizz
theory and you've been scratchedby more horny ghosts than
anyone else.
I know.
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Today on the show, we are sothrilled to bring on some fellow
podcasters, fellow spookypodcasters Megan AP and Amy of
(12:09):
the Activity Continues podcast.
They're spooky ladies like us.
Thank you guys so much forbeing here today.
This is a real joy to get toknow you and talk to you.
Tell us about the Activity.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Continues.
It started during the pandemic,of course, like most podcasts
do, or have I started watchingthis show called the Dead Files
and I had never heard of itbefore.
It had already been on for like12 or 13 years by then and I
was texting Megan like everycouple days and being like you
(12:40):
have to watch this show, theshow is so good.
She finally did watch it, andthen we would watch it and then
text each other what we thoughtabout it.
And then I was like why don'twe just record ourselves talking
about this and make it apodcast?
And she was like I'm in that'sawesome.
That's how that started.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
She had to twist my arm.
She really had to convince me.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And I'm pretty sure right after that Megan's like
hey, we're starting this podcast, you should listen.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You all are in Minnesota.
I've only been to Minnesotaonce.
I just gotten out of a terriblerelationship and I decided I
was going to drive.
I was living in Chicago and Iwas like I'm going to drive to
Minneapolis in my piece of shitcar with no cell phone reception
.
This is the 90s, with, you know, in a 1986 Corolla that I have
to like constantly pour brakefluid in through.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Western Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I mean it was a very, very unsafe.
What could go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong InChicago?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
it was April, it was maybe like 50, 60 degrees, so of
course, chicago.
I'm like in a sundress, right,because it's 50 degrees and I
drive to Minneapolis.
I have never had my snot freezebefore.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It's the worst when your nose hairs freeze and it
feels like you have like snot inyour nose, but it's just your
nose hairs frozen.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean, I had my hair freeze once in Wisconsin but
this was my nose.
I was like what the hell?
I'm a Chicagoan.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Welcome to Minnesota.
You guys are tough.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So, I understand that each of you have some
experiences.
Who wants to go first?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I can start.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Okay, ap, let's do it .
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, you know.
One that really comes to mindwas when I was younger.
We moved into the house that Ilive in now, july 25th of 2000.
And my grandpa had been in acoma and passed away the night
that we we actually the firstnight was the 24th into the 25th
and he passed away that night Acouple months later.
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I was in my room and this wasbefore I had any dogs or
anything sleeping in my roomwith me.
I heard and I felt likesomething sit on the edge of my
bed and then I felt thatdepression go up and then I
heard that kind of shufflingsound and I had a box still by
the door and I remember thesound of something hitting that
box and I didn't feel likeoverwhelmed but I was just kind
of like what was that?
(15:06):
And I I was blind as a bat,like I have had my eyes
corrected, but I was squintingand like wear my glasses, trying
to flip on the light and openthe door and the cat's laying
outside going what the hell areyou doing?
Turn it off, lady.
Never figured it out, but Ithink it was my grandpa that was
there, just like letting usknow, like hey, I know where you
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guys are now Like I'm okay andI know where you guys are, and
then every time we have adoorbell that would plug in to
the downstairs area and youcould be standing next to the
door and the doorbell would ring, but there's nobody there and
it was not consistent.
One of my cousins was like, oh,it's somebody's garage door
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opener causing that to happen.
But it always happened when mygrandma was sick, his wife when
it was a holiday or a birthday,and after she passed it barely
rang again.
And my parents had.
When I was off at college.
They had all of our pictures upon the mantle and they were
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sitting downstairs and one byone they fell off.
The glass broke out of them.
They weren't touching eachother, they all just went chunk,
chunk, chunk, chunk, one by oneoff the mantle.
I don't remember the timing asto when that happened, but I
remember I was in college, aswas my sister, and it was our
high school graduation picturesthat the glass broke out of.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
With a doorbell?
Was that after your grandfatherhad passed?
Yep, okay, so it was almostlike he was coming by to check
on your grandma.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And it wasn't like you'd gotten a new doorbell
since he passed away.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Nope, it was the doorbell that was here when we
moved in.
He never saw this house and shedidn't live with us or anything
.
They had some things thathappened there.
My grandma swears she saw himin the hallway one time.
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And my aunt at the time saw thesalt and pepper shaker, lift up
the table and move across thetable and come back down.
None of my experiences I'veever felt afraid in the things
that I've had.
I've had excitement, I've hadconfusion, but I've never had
fear, except for one time, butthat was not related to my
grandpa.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Don't forget the Lutzen one.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, so Lutzen, totally unrelated.
This was a couple years ago.
Lutzen Resort was a resortlodge that was up on the North
Shore of Minnesota and it's a.
It was for three nights.
First night I woke up, noissues.
The next morning, saturdaymorning, I woke up and I heard
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no.
My TV came on.
The remote was on the other bedunder some clothes that I had
thrown over there, and the TVcame on loud to a channel not to
like.
The menu source page.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh weird.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I was like, okay, who's doing that?
And I just like, can you notwake me up like that again
please?
That was really rude and justwent back to bed Later that day.
I was getting ready for thewedding, was wearing a t-shirt
that said Girls Trip 2021 ischeaper than therapy.
It was one.
My sister, my mom, my cousinsand my aunts we all got when we
went to Nashville the yearbefore and came back that
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evening getting ready for bed,went to go grab that shirt.
Can't find it.
I look around, I look around,I'm like, fine, I'll just sleep
in a different shirt tonight,whatever, go to bed, get up the
next morning I hear hellowhispered in my ear.
I had my window open and I wentout to go look to see if
anybody was outside.
And there were some people atthe parking lot but you couldn't
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hear them because the waves ofthe water was coming in off of
the lake and I always put atowel underneath my door so that
nothing can come in underneaththe door and I don't like having
that crack available or hearing, and it was an old place so it
had a big space underneath thedoor.
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Was not anybody in the hallway?
And so I was like, okay, do youknow where my shirt is?
Like no, nope, I packed up thatday.
I looked everywhere.
I tore the room apart.
I looked in the fridge, Ilooked in the ice bucket, I
looked under the beds.
I found a lot of dust and hairthat wasn't mine.
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I looked everywhere.
I never found it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Never.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Never found it.
I lost it that weekend, May of2022.
I guess some spirit wanted myshirt.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, it's better than therapy, Exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That wasn't the scary time.
No, that wasn't the scary one.
No, the only scary one I havewas I was sleeping one night and
I don't know if I was in likethat dream world where you're in
between the dream and awakeworlds, but I remember looking
up to the corner and there wasthis big black splotch and I
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remember looking at it and thenall of a sudden it came flying
at me.
I flipped my covers over.
It felt like it was in a movie.
At that point I flipped mycovers over and just went like
my heart was in my chest and Iwas like, okay, okay, okay, I'm
just going to turn over now.
And I went back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
But that was the only I know Total Becky move.
That's what Becky does too.
What did you do then?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I fell asleep.
There was not an AP size holein the wall.
There should have been, butthat's the only time I've ever
felt like scared of anything.
But again, I don't know if Iwas fully awake or if it was in
the dream world, but it was justlike as it came at me.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't think it matters, I think I think we're
able to perceive things in that,like in between space.
Yeah, so was this in your, inyour house where this happened?
Yeah, the same house where thepictures fell off the mantle?
Yep, okay, years separationSounds like there was something
in that house that was not justyour grandpa.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Could be, and it's never come back, so maybe it was
just something that was passingthrough.
I think the picture thing wasan attention seeker.
But you no longer live in thishouse, right?
No, I live here.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh, oh, okay.
So this is okay.
And you didn't move when youheard the crazy blast Okay.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
No no.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Like I said, people in Minnesota are tough.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We have to weather 94 degrees with 100% humidity and
negative 50.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
With windchill.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So, ap, those are terrifying, but you seem to be
fine with it.
You know, know, you just rolledback over and went to sleep, so
but that's just ap too.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Like ap, it takes a lot to rattle her like it really
does, like that would have keptme up for a month.
And ap is like, oh, you know, Ijust I gotta work tomorrow I
talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It's my logic brain, or the rational brain
rationalizes what somethingmight be, and so it's like Might
be.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So Amy.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You also have some stories.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I do Mostly just little things, like I lived in
an apartment where my cat I hadone cat and she used to see
things that weren't there andshe would like play with, like
she was playing with another cat, but there was nothing there.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh, that's creepy.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Sweet.
And then there was one timewhen I was sitting on the couch
and I had a coffee table infront of me.
I was watching TV and theremote was sitting on the table.
Nobody was touching it, cat wassitting next to me and the
remote just slid across thetable and then, like like, it
accelerated and took off andslammed onto the, onto the floor
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.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Just so you guys know , diana and Becky, I've heard
this before, but every time itjust gets me.
It sounds like I'm hearing itfor the same with AP, like it
sounds like, but I just everytime I'm just like holy cow.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
It wasn't scary to me .
I mean, I was weird, I was likewhat, the?
I'm sorry, what?
But?
But I didn't feel scared and Ilived in that apartment alone
with just me and my cat and I.
I never felt unsafe or anything.
How long did you live there?
Maybe a year and a half, twoyears maybe.
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So you actually renewed?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
the lease.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, I mean, I loved that apartment.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
It was super cool, it was in a really cool part of
town and it was big and it wascheap.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
That's my drag name big and cheap.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
And then after that I lived in another house which
didn't really have anything.
But that's when I was livingthere is when I started getting
more and more interested inparanormal stuff and really
starting to kind of dig into it.
Then by the time we were movingout of that house and into our
what I call our haunted house.
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I was actually looking for ahaunted house and we ended up in
an old Victorian built in 1887.
And the second we toured it asecond.
I walked in.
I was like this is haunted andI want it.
And we asked the realtor if itwas haunted and she said I don't
(24:36):
think so, not that I know of.
And I was like, oh, I was kindof, oh well, and then she
realized that I wanted a hauntedhouse, and so she did tell me
that the owners had told hersome stories, but she didn't
tell me exactly what they were.
Oh, when we first moved in, whenyou walked into the house, it
had a really nice big foyer with, like you know, wood paneling
(24:58):
on the walls and a big staircasethat went up to the second
floor.
And I was walking up to thesecond floor and just as I got
up there, out of the corner ofmy eye, so what would be right?
Hanging over the rest of thestaircase, I saw a woman hanging
, just hanging from the ceiling,and when I like spun to look it
(25:22):
was gone.
But I definitely saw her and Ididn't have my hair like this.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
And it was not a Halloween decoration, no, no, we
moved in August.
It'd be even creep, and it wasnot a Halloween decoration, no,
no.
Because it was gone.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We moved in August.
It would be even creepier if itwas a Halloween decoration that
just disappeared.
Yeah, exactly I had expectedfrom a ghost.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And that's where I was like oh okay, so yeah,
there's something going on here.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
What made you so sure she was a woman?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
You said specifically a woman, even though you just
barely I feel like I saw longhair and like a flowy nightgown
sort of oh even creepier.
So it felt like I don't know.
I mean I don't know how much ofit I registered, but like I saw
it.
And then when I went, you knowdouble take, it was gone In that
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house.
This repeatedly happened.
I would hear somebody yelling inmy ear when I'm sleeping or
laying in bed trying to sleep.
I would hear, and it soundedlike Amy and I couldn't tell if
it was a whisper that was realclose or if it was shouting from
far away.
Kind of was hard to distinguishthat and I told my husband
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about it and he's a skeptic andso he was like, oh, you probably
just dreamed it.
And then at one point he heardit.
He heard somebody calling inhis ear.
He thought it was me.
I was sleeping in the guestbedroom because he had been
snoring, and so he got up to seewhat I wanted.
And he found me in the in theguest bedroom because he had
been snoring, and so he got upto see what I wanted and he
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found me in the guest bedroomfast asleep.
But he still doesn't believe inanything.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I have the same problem with my husband.
They can't handle.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
They can't handle the truth.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's easier to deny it than to like come to terms
with the fact that it actuallyhappened to along those same
lines.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It's hard to to acknowledge that the unknown and
something that you don't havecontrol over that's true, that's
definitely.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
he's an engineer and he's uh, he's, he knows
everything, and so if there'ssomething he doesn't understand,
it doesn't exist.
It's a struggle.
Give him time.
It's been 30 years, but 31, isthat lucky number?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
How many years in the haunted house?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
specifically, we were in that house for 13 years.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Exactly 13.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah, isn't that weird.
Yeah, there were a bunch ofthings in there too.
I also saw a full bodyapparition in our dining room
just standing there, a man inlike a tunic and like floppy
pants, and he was just standingthere kind of like looking down,
pointing down at the ground,and he disappeared pretty
quickly too.
And then I mentioned somethingto my neighbors and they were
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like oh, I bet that was one ofthe guys that lived there when
this was a rooming house and hewas probably one of the guys
that worked on the propertysomewhere.
Oh sure, I think everybody inthat neighborhood had hauntings.
It was.
Every time I brought it up atneighborhood get-togethers
people were like, oh yeah, yeah,I got this over here, whatever
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it wasn't.
Like, oh God, that lady, she'scrazy.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Everybody believed me because they all had stuff
going on too.
Well, amy, you said that youalso had a story that wasn't
yours but took place in thehouse.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yes, so when we were moving out of this house which I
did not want to leave because Idid not want to leave my ghost
but um, my ghost but um, but we,we had an open house and my
friend Melissa was our realtorand she and her husband were
were our realtors.
They were doing an open house.
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And she told me about this, noteven right away, because she
wasn't sure if I was, you know,a believer.
And so one day she was justlike um, I have a question for
you.
This was in between the haunted, the open house and when we
actually sold.
And she's like do you believein like spirits or ghosts and
(29:23):
stuff like that?
I'm like uh, yeah.
And she told me that she's asensitive and I didn't even know
that until this.
But her story is that she wasgetting ready for the haunted
house, she's getting ready forthe open house, and she was just
sort of walking around andlooking at the room and stuff
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and she saw a man in the diningroom doing something.
It looked like he was handingout something, like he was.
He was.
She said it looked like he wasserving something or giving
people something, and she saidit seemed like less like a party
and more like a businesstransaction sort of thing.
(30:10):
And so she, just sort of withher mind the way she describes
it, asked him what his name wasand he said he said what sounded
to her like Jim, cam and she orcan.
And she was like oh, cam andshe or can.
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And she was like oh, cam, cam,and he's like no, can, can.
And so then she was like shegoes, oh, I must be just
thinking like Jim the, jimCameron, that director you know,
I'm making this up in my ownhead or whatever.
And then people started comingin so he disappeared.
Then, after everybody left, shewas going around turning off
lights, closing up things, andshe was in the dining room again
and the dining room hadwallpaper like it had
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wainscoting on the bottom, so itwas wood on the bottom.
And then this really like kindof almost garish red wallpaper
it looked like a brothel.
I loved it, sweet.
And she was like had her handon the wallpaper and was like
touching it where I loved it,sweet.
And she was like had her handon the on the wallpaper and was
like touching it where it metthe thing, and she felt this
spirit, come over, lean over herand whisper in her ear.
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You'll never find it.
And she was like what?
And she said she never feltscared.
He had more of an attitude oflike kind of wink, wink, smarmy,
kind of thing.
And then the second thing hesaid to her was I'm a bootlegger
.
Okay so we know what she willnever find.
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He disappeared.
She was on her phone and sheGoogled bootlegger Minneapolis
cam or something like that andup came this very notorious
gangster in Minnesota named KidCan.
His real name is IsidoreBlumenfield, his nickname, his
gangster name, was Kid Can.
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Real name is IsidoreBlumenfield, his nickname, his
gangster name was Kid Can and hewas a bootlegger and he was
like the godfather ofMinneapolis back in the
bootlegging days and she hadnever heard of him before.
But when she pulled it up onher phone and she saw the
picture of him, she's likethat's him, whoa.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Wow, so you never found the entrance to the
speakeasy in your basement?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
No, I mean we had.
It was a big basement, it was afull, like you know, it wasn't
finished, but it was a very tallbasement, like you absolutely
could have done something downthere.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
How close were you to like Nicolette or Harriet or
any of those islands?
Because there's a lot oftunnels that ran through
Minneapolis.
There's a lot of tunnels thatran through Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
We were not super close to any of those.
However, we were half of ablock from the synagogue and I
do remember he was a Jewishgangster and I do remember
hearing later, when I did a lotof research on this, that there
were tunnels from the temple toa bunch of the nearby homes.
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So there very well could havebeen a tunnel to our house.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, Megan.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Let me go get some popcorn quick.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I feel like they've really hyped me up.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Megan won't even tell the story we're thinking of.
She'll tell all the other ones.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
No it will involve a Megan shaped hole in the wall.
At some point they should allhonestly.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
So I actually a spirit.
So I went to school inWisconsin.
I went to school in StevensPoint and I rented a house and a
spirit attached itself to me atthat house and it followed me
everywhere.
I mean, I would have dreamswhere everything in the dream
was the way that it was in reallife, down to the clock changing
(33:57):
, but I couldn't move.
So I hate those dreams.
But he followed me.
Oh my gosh.
He followed me overseas.
So I lived in the Middle Eastfor two and a half years and my
first apartment that I lived inthere was super duper haunted
with something very negativethat clearly wanted me out.
I would have terrifying dreamswhere a black shape would emerge
(34:20):
from like my closet and screamthis house is mine and like fly
at me the doors in that house.
I would close them and I wouldwake up and they'd be wide open
and my cats would be in the room.
And they weren't the pull downhandles where you're like well,
cats could do that.
They were the round ones thatyou need a poseable thumbs to
(34:41):
turn Right.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Which cats notoriously lack.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
It's one of their few flaws.
They would look at areas andlike they'd wake from a dead
sleep and look out this samearea every night, just like
stare at it.
This is your house in theMiddle East.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, this was my apartment in the Middle East, so
would it say this is my housein English, or was it in?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, it said.
It said this is mine, this ismine.
And it was this huge, verymenacing.
And after that dream I wasawake for a week.
I couldn't sleep for a weekafter that and unfortunately
horrible coincidence there was a, an earthquake, I think, in
Pakistan and we felt tremors ofit in Bahrain.
So I was laying in bed and mybed shook right after I'd had
(35:23):
this dream.
I almost cracked my pants.
I almost joined the spiritsbecause I was petrified.
I had the light on in my roomall night.
So I get back to America andwhen I was in Minnesota, I was
living with the guy that I wasdating and I was in my apartment
that I shared with him and Iwill swear on a stack of Bibles.
(35:45):
I was in the shower and I heardthe door open and close and he
started.
We started talking.
We had a conversation.
I said, oh, I'm glad you'rehome.
Like I'm glad you're safe.
Bleep, bloop, blop, whatever.
So I'm like, okay, well, hejust went to watch TV and I
finished drying, you know, theshower.
I get out and the door opensand closes again and I'm like
that's weird.
I, you know, went out and Ilooked at him.
(36:07):
I'm like, well, where did yougo?
And he goes what are youtalking about?
And I said, well, you came homeand we talked and then you left
.
Where did you go again?
And he's like I just got home?
And I said, no, you didn't.
I said you came home and I wasin the shower.
We had a conversation throughthe bathroom.
It sounded just like you.
(36:28):
I said what are you doing?
Like stop playing with me.
And he was like no, I swear, Ijust got home.
So I lived all over the UnitedStates.
I married somebody in the Navyand when I was in, when I was
living in Texas, so the way thatthe bedroom was was the bed was
(36:51):
here and then there was likekind of a wall and then the
bathroom you would walk out to.
And so one night a man walkedout of the bathroom, stood at
the end of my bed, turned andlooked at me and had long hair
like to my shoulder, like mylength.
Hair was very thin, dark hair,and I like blinked and he was
(37:13):
gone and I don't know why therewasn't a Megan shapes hole in
the wall at that point.
Like I was just like too, likewhat the hell's happening, to be
scared.
So then I went to Madison withthis guy that I was dating and
we were sleeping and I was inthe wedding and do you remember
from the 90s those like twirlythings, the gems that you would
(37:34):
twirl into your hair?
So I had a bunch of those in myhair and I put them on the
nightstand and my then partnerhad gone up to go to the
bathroom, I thought, because hecame back and walked around the
bed and next to me and reacheddown to the nightstand and I
thought he was just grabbingchapstick.
So I'm like whatever.
(37:54):
There was a very defined manshape and he very clearly
reached down to grab something.
So I was like, oh, it's justhim.
Well, imagine my shock when hewalked through the door a couple
minutes later and I said I waslike what the hell?
I mean, this is so cliche.
But like I never got like whenthat happened, it was curiosity
(38:17):
from this thing Like what arethese?
I don't know what they are.
There was a medium, a group ofparanormal mediums, here in the
Twin Cities and I found them ina meetup and I contacted them
and I'm like I have X, y and Zhappening at my house.
I'm watched all the time.
Like this happens.
Frank, he was from the 1800sand I reminded him of his sister
(38:47):
and so that's why he kind ofattached to me and was
protecting me.
But there was one time when Ihad first moved back to the
States from the Middle East andI was at a stoplight in Madison,
wisconsin, and this girl jumpedin my car and she said Can you
give me a ride?
And I was young and stupid andI said Sure no problem.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Why were your car doors not locked at this point
in time?
That's my question.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I want to ask she shouldn't be already in the car
when she asks you that?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Because my car was old and it didn't automatically
lock.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Okay, Okay, fair.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
I don't have the push start car, I still have a key
like a peasant.
So she got in my car and shehad a backpack and she put the
backpack on her lap and we'resitting there at the red light
because it's still stopped, likewe're still at the red light,
and she paused and she looked atme and she said I don't think
this is a good idea and she left, she got out of the car and I
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think that that was Frankprotecting me from whatever she
was going to do to me.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Ooh oh.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Ooh, okay, I mean, he was with me.
He moved with me everywhere Iwas in the Middle East.
There was a lot of negativespirits that I had in the Middle
East.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Do you think that he protected you?
Speaker 4 (39:59):
in some way when you were over there.
I do.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Okay, but you eventually got him to go away.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yep, they helped him move on when they came to visit
me.
Well, do you miss him?
I mean Sometimes, shockingly,it's funny because of the three
of us, I'm the scarediest whichis a word AP is very like okay,
well, let's figure this out.
And Amy's like okay, well, thatcould be something, but let's
maybe try to narrow down thelist.
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And I'm like, oh my God, it'sreal.
Oh my God, we're all gonna die.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
But and I would have been as soon as I knew his name
was Frank I'd been like Okay,frank, here's the deal and I
would just talk through.
I would talk to him constantly.
I still talk to.
All of my grandparents havepassed.
I talked to them all atdifferent times.
I lost a friend at uh suddenlyfrom an accident and, uh, when I
found out about that, I yelledand screamed at her and then I
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actually went to a mediumshortly after that.
I had already had a meetingscheduled and that medium said
I've never had someone who hasdied this recently come back
this strong.
She was there and she's like.
She wants you to know, she'ssorry for all the things.
She called you that you neverheard.
We had had a falling out at onepoint and we had just
(41:13):
reconnected a couple monthsbefore her death.
But that's where I don't knowif you ever did, megan.
But I always would have beenlike okay, frank, what are we
doing today?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
What's going on?
Never, no, I would have donethat too.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I know, but this was me, you know, 12 years ago, 13
years ago, because I went to theMiddle East in 2010 and he was
with me since college, which was2006.
So where did you pick him up?
In this house that I rented,okay, and I know the night that
it happened, because I was myroommate and I had been watching
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a movie in my bedroom and hehad fallen asleep in my bed and
I'm like, well, I'm gonna gotake your bed then I'm not
sleeping on the floor.
So I went in his bedroom andthat's the first night that I
had that dream, where everythingwas the same, the clock was
moving.
I just couldn't move.
And that's when, I think heattached to me, because a couple
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of nights later, I saw a blackspot, a black cloud, um, up
above my bedroom.
So I think that's plus.
He was from Wisconsin, he was afarmer in Wisconsin, I was
gonna say he was probably afarmer I'm.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I don't know why, but I keep feeling like he was
german heritage, with all thattoo, just because I mean
wisconsin is heavily in thoseareas too.
Very german.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Yeah, yeah, so he might have lived in that house.
I think he did, I think heprobably lived on that land, or
yeah, in your roommate's room.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So then when you went in there, it was like oh, it's
my sister, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
The scariest ones, though, were I think they were
the djinn in the Middle East.
They were very aggressive, soyou think they were djinn.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yeah.
I think they were djinn yeah,did you hear from your like
landlord or anything?
Did anybody else?
Were you friends with your?
Speaker 4 (43:01):
neighbors.
People in the Middle East, fromwhat I've understood, are very
superstitious, so they believethat if you talk about something
you're kind of manifesting it,and so we didn't really talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Okay, so, megan, you're very haunted.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yes, which is so unfortunate because I'm the
scaredest of them all.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Well, those are some ghost stories.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
This has been so much fun to talk to you guys.
Thank you, it's been so greatto get to know you and see your
faces.
After hearing your voices, youguys have some really, really
scary stories, so tell peoplebefore we close out.
Tell people where they can findyou.
The activity continues.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
Same for your podcast .
You're available on allplatform providers and YouTube,
and you have a website Yep, it'stheactivitycontinuescom and
everything is there.
So I mean that's like yourone-stop shop for everything.
And on our website too, we haveour RSS feeds.
So if you have like a kind ofquirky app but you can add shows
by RSS feed, you can copy thatand use it that way.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
And if you go to our website, we have a spot you can
share your ghost stories withand we will read them on our
podcast at any point in time.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
And we also on our website have a little thing at
the bottom of the screen that'sa little microphone, and if you
click on that you can leave avoice message.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Ah so, hainted Loves, if you've always wanted to tell
your ghost story but you'rejust a little too not cool with
being interviewed live, thismight be an opportunity for you
to tell it.
Just say no hard feelings.
If you end up on someone else'sshow, just give us a shout out,
we will find you.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Thank you for having us.
We really really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Yeah, thanks for entertaining our winding path of
thoughts.
Yes, appreciate you all.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Well, Hainted Loves, what do you think If a strange
woman leapt into your car andasked you to drive away?
Would you ask Frank to scareher out, or would you just have
a spooky day?
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Homespun Haints is hosted by Becky Kielimnik and
Diana Doty and produced byHomespun Haints Media LLC.
Editing and music by BeckyKielimnik.
Show notes by Diana Doty.
If you have a ghost story andyou'd like to be considered as a
guest for this podcast, pleasevisit our website at
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Slash submit.
Do you have holes in the walls of your home?
Few can claim pristine plasterthroughout their abode.
Oftentimes these indentationscome from critters or an angry
construction project, butsometimes they are made out of
fear.
Today, we speak with the hostsof the podcast the Activity
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Continues and learn firsthandwhat things they have
experienced that could make themrun screaming through a wall.
Listen, laugh and lean into thescares today.
On Homespun Haints Hello,hainted Loves, welcome to
(00:45):
Homespun Haints.
I'm Becky, hey, I'm Diana.
Today on the show have we got afun one for you?
It is a fivesome.
We've got the lovely ladies.
What, what do you want me tocall it A quintet?
I mean, oh, I like quintet.
We got a quintet.
(01:06):
Yes, we have the wonderful hostof the Activity Continues.
Amy, ap and Megan are going tobe on the show with us today and
we're so excited because, asyou can imagine, triple the
guests, triple the fun, triplethe ghosts.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh, that's right, Five of us.
What can we do with five?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
people that you couldn't do with three.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You could play the Baccarini quintet, See that's
the traditional meaning ofquintet, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, speaking of music, I had a little experience
the other day at my new job.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You told me you got haunted recently.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, for those of you that don't know, I just got
a new job I had been with withDiana as my sidekick, a web
developer, for 25 years and yeah, it kind of sucks, like I hate
it, but I just kept doing itbecause I was like damn it if I
just try hard enough.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I can actually work goes yeah, especially when
you're an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes, exactly.
But an opportunity opened upand I decided you know what this
whole web design thing isn'tworking out.
Being a professional musiciansurely must.
Plus, it keeps your fiddlingfingers fit.
I like that.
That's a lot of alliteration.
You're welcome.
So I took a job teaching violinat a local music school, the
(02:27):
studio that I work at.
I actually have two locationsthat I teach out of because they
have multiple locationsthroughout the area, but I teach
at two of them and the firstone that I spend most of my time
at is just, you know, yourtypical like office-y kind of
building.
Like you know, yourpsychiatrist might be in that
type of building.
It's like an office park andthey've got it subdivided into
(02:48):
different rooms and things.
When you go in there, it's fine.
It's nice, it's close to home.
But the other location, theiroriginal location, is a very old
house of questionable ageQuestionable.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
How is this possible?
I don't know.
It just sprung up one night andthe locals were like it's
always been there.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It could be, I have no idea.
Okay, plus, it has one of thosefloor grates just like yours.
I took a photo of it the veryfirst time I was in this
building.
I'm in this little back roomand you know, us musicians we're
.
I like to say that now, usmusicians oh, that sounds so
good.
Oh, my God, I love this.
We're not the most organizedbunch and we like to collect
(03:40):
things like recording equipmentand instruments.
So this room, literally, islike a storeroom slash music
studio.
I mean, there's an old pianothat may even be older than the
house.
Sitting in the corner I sawsome recording equipment from
the 80s shoved under one of thetables.
Okay, so I'm in this room withlike an ancient piano and gobs
of ancient gear and equipmentand I'm teaching and it's
getting darker and darker.
(04:00):
I've been an old house, I amfine, I love my job, I love my
students.
I'm just tickled pink, well,anyway.
So my last student finished upand there's still a little bit
of light coming in through thewindows and I get the lights
turned off so I can still see,okay, but it is like it's around
seven o'clock at night so, andit's summer, so you know, it's a
(04:21):
little shaded in there by now.
I gather all my stuff up andthe room next to mine doesn't
have a door and there's a lessongoing on next to it, so I have
to like tiptoe by them.
So I don't, you know, don'tdisturb them.
And I come out into the mainroom, the waiting area, carrying
two violin and a viola on onearm and my bag of music over one
(04:42):
shoulder.
And then on my other hand Ihave my purse and I do my
cursory like wallet, phone keys,check no phone, what, like why
would my phone not be in mypurse?
I know I had it because I hadactually shown one of my earlier
students.
I had shown him Vivaldi'sviolin because I had seen that
(05:03):
in Venice and I was like youwant to see what Vivaldi's
violin looks like, and so Ipulled up a photo and of course
he was like that's not really.
Are you pulling my leg?
And I was like no, I actuallywent to Venice and saw this damn
violin.
I'm not making this up.
Why would I make this up?
I'm your teacher.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Remember when we were young and we trusted adults.
I don't think that's the caseanymore trusted adults.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't think that's the case anymore.
Right?
So can't find my phone and I'mlike I know I had it.
I know I put it back in mypurse Because I'm very careful
about that Because, like Imentioned, this room is full of
stuff I have to be very carefulabout, like putting things back
exactly where they found them,otherwise who knows what could
happen?
Can't find my phone, put down myinstruments, tiptoe back into
the room, look around, look oneverything, every surface, on
(05:51):
the chair, on the piano.
It's not a very big room,there's not a lot of places to
search.
I got the light back on.
I'm looking around.
Cannot find the phone anywhere.
Tiptoe back out into the lobby.
Maybe I set it down here, maybeI put it in another bag.
Looking through everything,can't find it.
Tiptoe back into the room.
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I'm like stunned.
I'm like it's not anywhere andnow I'm starting to freak out.
I don't know what could happen.
It's really weird, like I hadit and then I didn't.
So I'm spinning around, I putmy purse down, I look at all of
the chairs that we had all beensitting in.
There's like two chairs.
So I look on the surfaces ofthe chairs, don't see anything.
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Look at my bags again.
Don't see anything.
Turn around, look at this likereally messy table that I've
like kind of scooped stuff outof the way to like make room for
a violin case open.
It's not there.
Turn back around to that chairthat I had just looked at and
there's my phone Not the samecolor as the chair, so it was
(06:54):
camouflaged, nothing like that,no, hidden in the darkness.
No, no no Anything.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
or stuffed in between the cushion and the arm of the
chair.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, it was like it's got a shiny back and I saw it
because it was like glinting thelight and it's high contrast.
The back it was like face down.
So it was the back of the phone, not the black mirror side.
So it was the back of the phonewhich is like a light platinum
color.
How?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
did the house get your phone there without you
noticing or hearing something?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
think it was playing with me.
Oh, it felt playful, but youknow, it reminded me of that
story that we had with a guestway back when with a guitar,
pick same thing a musician.
So I'm like I wonder if thatlike musician equipment stealing
ghost followed me through theairwaves and settled in and when
I saw it I I almost like hadthat like feeling where my heart
(07:47):
skipped a little bit of a beatbecause it wasn't.
It was like oh, that, that thatI knew that wasn't there a
minute ago.
I know.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So there was either something playfully hiding it
from you or there was somereason why you could not see it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh, as if maybe me getting in my car a few minutes
later avoided some tragedy.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Perhaps, and your vision was clouded to the truth
momentarily, so that you wouldstick around for a few more
minutes.
Going by the everything happensfor a reason theory.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Could be, though could just be, that a ghost
wanted to play a joke on me.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh man, losing your phone is terrifying, especially
when somebody might have takenit from you.
I swear I felt somebodypickpocket me once and my phone
was gone and I freaked out and Iasked everybody in the building
to help me call it.
Nobody found it, and I finallygot back to my car and
discovered it was likeunderneath my seat and had
fallen out of my pocket while Iwas getting out of my car.
So somebody just touched mybutt, which is a relief.
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Oh, thank God, I was justgroped.
Yeah, that was what I saidliterally to the people helping
me look for my phone.
But now that I've had thatexperience because what's the
difference between actuallyexperiencing a pickpocketing and
thinking you experienced apickpocketing Nothing for the
first several minutes of it,right?
(09:12):
So it's the same in your headand your heart, and so I still
like my phone every time.
Reach for my pocket, every timeI feel something brush up
against me like.
I am so glad you found yourphone, though, because that
would have been a terrible placefor it to spend the weekend
with the ghost, imagine it wouldhave gotten some good photos on
it, though.
Yeah, it'd been a ghost party,or maybe it would just be scared
(09:35):
, maybe, well you know, thething is I knew.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I knew I never had that feeling that had been
stolen.
I knew it hadn't been stolen.
I knew I mean I was.
There was absolutely no wayunless a ghost.
Yeah, hi, I know, come here.
Come here, say hi to the camera.
Hi, dear.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Ella, I hear you've been bulking up on your new diet
.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
She's been doing good .
She says I've gained a wholepound, I'm getting a pooch.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, listeners, what do you think?
Was it a kleptogeist?
Or was it my guardian angel orspirit guide, keeping me in the
studio for a few minutes longerto avoid something?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
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Today on the show, we are sothrilled to bring on some fellow
podcasters, fellow spookypodcasters Megan AP and Amy of
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the Activity Continues podcast.
They're spooky ladies like us.
Thank you guys so much forbeing here today.
This is a real joy to get toknow you and talk to you.
Tell us about the Activity.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Continues.
It started during the pandemic,of course, like most podcasts
do, or have I started watchingthis show called the Dead Files
and I had never heard of itbefore.
It had already been on for like12 or 13 years by then and I
was texting Megan like everycouple days and being like you
(12:40):
have to watch this show, theshow is so good.
She finally did watch it, andthen we would watch it and then
text each other what we thoughtabout it.
And then I was like why don'twe just record ourselves talking
about this and make it apodcast?
And she was like I'm in that'sawesome.
That's how that started.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
She had to twist my arm.
She really had to convince me.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And I'm pretty sure right after that Megan's like
hey, we're starting this podcast, you should listen.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You all are in Minnesota.
I've only been to Minnesotaonce.
I just gotten out of a terriblerelationship and I decided I
was going to drive.
I was living in Chicago and Iwas like I'm going to drive to
Minneapolis in my piece of shitcar with no cell phone reception
.
This is the 90s, with, you know, in a 1986 Corolla that I have
to like constantly pour brakefluid in through.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Western Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I mean it was a very, very unsafe.
What could go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong InChicago?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
it was April, it was maybe like 50, 60 degrees, so of
course, chicago.
I'm like in a sundress, right,because it's 50 degrees and I
drive to Minneapolis.
I have never had my snot freezebefore.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It's the worst when your nose hairs freeze and it
feels like you have like snot inyour nose, but it's just your
nose hairs frozen.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean, I had my hair freeze once in Wisconsin but
this was my nose.
I was like what the hell?
I'm a Chicagoan.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Welcome to Minnesota.
You guys are tough.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So, I understand that each of you have some
experiences.
Who wants to go first?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I can start.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Okay, ap, let's do it .
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, you know.
One that really comes to mindwas when I was younger.
We moved into the house that Ilive in now, july 25th of 2000.
And my grandpa had been in acoma and passed away the night
that we we actually the firstnight was the 24th into the 25th
and he passed away that night Acouple months later.
(14:45):
I was in my room and this wasbefore I had any dogs or
anything sleeping in my roomwith me.
I heard and I felt likesomething sit on the edge of my
bed and then I felt thatdepression go up and then I
heard that kind of shufflingsound and I had a box still by
the door and I remember thesound of something hitting that
box and I didn't feel likeoverwhelmed but I was just kind
of like what was that?
(15:06):
And I I was blind as a bat,like I have had my eyes
corrected, but I was squintingand like wear my glasses, trying
to flip on the light and openthe door and the cat's laying
outside going what the hell areyou doing?
Turn it off, lady.
Never figured it out, but Ithink it was my grandpa that was
there, just like letting usknow, like hey, I know where you
(15:28):
guys are now Like I'm okay andI know where you guys are, and
then every time we have adoorbell that would plug in to
the downstairs area and youcould be standing next to the
door and the doorbell would ring, but there's nobody there and
it was not consistent.
One of my cousins was like, oh,it's somebody's garage door
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opener causing that to happen.
But it always happened when mygrandma was sick, his wife when
it was a holiday or a birthday,and after she passed it barely
rang again.
And my parents had.
When I was off at college.
They had all of our pictures upon the mantle and they were
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sitting downstairs and one byone they fell off.
The glass broke out of them.
They weren't touching eachother, they all just went chunk,
chunk, chunk, chunk, one by oneoff the mantle.
I don't remember the timing asto when that happened, but I
remember I was in college, aswas my sister, and it was our
high school graduation picturesthat the glass broke out of.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
With a doorbell?
Was that after your grandfatherhad passed?
Yep, okay, so it was almostlike he was coming by to check
on your grandma.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And it wasn't like you'd gotten a new doorbell
since he passed away.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Nope, it was the doorbell that was here when we
moved in.
He never saw this house and shedidn't live with us or anything
.
They had some things thathappened there.
My grandma swears she saw himin the hallway one time.
(17:03):
And my aunt at the time saw thesalt and pepper shaker, lift up
the table and move across thetable and come back down.
None of my experiences I'veever felt afraid in the things
that I've had.
I've had excitement, I've hadconfusion, but I've never had
fear, except for one time, butthat was not related to my
grandpa.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Don't forget the Lutzen one.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, so Lutzen, totally unrelated.
This was a couple years ago.
Lutzen Resort was a resortlodge that was up on the North
Shore of Minnesota and it's a.
It was for three nights.
First night I woke up, noissues.
The next morning, saturdaymorning, I woke up and I heard
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no.
My TV came on.
The remote was on the other bedunder some clothes that I had
thrown over there, and the TVcame on loud to a channel not to
like.
The menu source page.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Oh weird.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I was like, okay, who's doing that?
And I just like, can you notwake me up like that again
please?
That was really rude and justwent back to bed Later that day.
I was getting ready for thewedding, was wearing a t-shirt
that said Girls Trip 2021 ischeaper than therapy.
It was one.
My sister, my mom, my cousinsand my aunts we all got when we
went to Nashville the yearbefore and came back that
(18:32):
evening getting ready for bed,went to go grab that shirt.
Can't find it.
I look around, I look around,I'm like, fine, I'll just sleep
in a different shirt tonight,whatever, go to bed, get up the
next morning I hear hellowhispered in my ear.
I had my window open and I wentout to go look to see if
anybody was outside.
And there were some people atthe parking lot but you couldn't
(18:54):
hear them because the waves ofthe water was coming in off of
the lake and I always put atowel underneath my door so that
nothing can come in underneaththe door and I don't like having
that crack available or hearing, and it was an old place so it
had a big space underneath thedoor.
(19:15):
Was not anybody in the hallway?
And so I was like, okay, do youknow where my shirt is?
Like no, nope, I packed up thatday.
I looked everywhere.
I tore the room apart.
I looked in the fridge, Ilooked in the ice bucket, I
looked under the beds.
I found a lot of dust and hairthat wasn't mine.
(19:36):
I looked everywhere.
I never found it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Never.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Never found it.
I lost it that weekend, May of2022.
I guess some spirit wanted myshirt.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, it's better than therapy, Exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That wasn't the scary time.
No, that wasn't the scary one.
No, the only scary one I havewas I was sleeping one night and
I don't know if I was in likethat dream world where you're in
between the dream and awakeworlds, but I remember looking
up to the corner and there wasthis big black splotch and I
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remember looking at it and thenall of a sudden it came flying
at me.
I flipped my covers over.
It felt like it was in a movie.
At that point I flipped mycovers over and just went like
my heart was in my chest and Iwas like, okay, okay, okay, I'm
just going to turn over now.
And I went back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
But that was the only I know Total Becky move.
That's what Becky does too.
What did you do then?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I fell asleep.
There was not an AP size holein the wall.
There should have been, butthat's the only time I've ever
felt like scared of anything.
But again, I don't know if Iwas fully awake or if it was in
the dream world, but it was justlike as it came at me.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't think it matters, I think I think we're
able to perceive things in that,like in between space.
Yeah, so was this in your, inyour house where this happened?
Yeah, the same house where thepictures fell off the mantle?
Yep, okay, years separationSounds like there was something
in that house that was not justyour grandpa.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Could be, and it's never come back, so maybe it was
just something that was passingthrough.
I think the picture thing wasan attention seeker.
But you no longer live in thishouse, right?
No, I live here.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh, oh, okay.
So this is okay.
And you didn't move when youheard the crazy blast Okay.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
No no.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Like I said, people in Minnesota are tough.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We have to weather 94 degrees with 100% humidity and
negative 50.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
With windchill.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So, ap, those are terrifying, but you seem to be
fine with it.
You know, know, you just rolledback over and went to sleep, so
but that's just ap too.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Like ap, it takes a lot to rattle her like it really
does, like that would have keptme up for a month.
And ap is like, oh, you know, Ijust I gotta work tomorrow I
talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It's my logic brain, or the rational brain
rationalizes what somethingmight be, and so it's like Might
be.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
So Amy.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You also have some stories.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I do Mostly just little things, like I lived in
an apartment where my cat I hadone cat and she used to see
things that weren't there andshe would like play with, like
she was playing with another cat, but there was nothing there.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh, that's creepy.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Sweet.
And then there was one timewhen I was sitting on the couch
and I had a coffee table infront of me.
I was watching TV and theremote was sitting on the table.
Nobody was touching it, cat wassitting next to me and the
remote just slid across thetable and then, like like, it
accelerated and took off andslammed onto the, onto the floor
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.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Just so you guys know , diana and Becky, I've heard
this before, but every time itjust gets me.
It sounds like I'm hearing itfor the same with AP, like it
sounds like, but I just everytime I'm just like holy cow.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
It wasn't scary to me .
I mean, I was weird, I was likewhat, the?
I'm sorry, what?
But?
But I didn't feel scared and Ilived in that apartment alone
with just me and my cat and I.
I never felt unsafe or anything.
How long did you live there?
Maybe a year and a half, twoyears maybe.
(23:36):
So you actually renewed?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
the lease.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, I mean, I loved that apartment.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
It was super cool, it was in a really cool part of
town and it was big and it wascheap.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I loved it.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
That's my drag name big and cheap.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
And then after that I lived in another house which
didn't really have anything.
But that's when I was livingthere is when I started getting
more and more interested inparanormal stuff and really
starting to kind of dig into it.
Then by the time we were movingout of that house and into our
what I call our haunted house.
(24:14):
I was actually looking for ahaunted house and we ended up in
an old Victorian built in 1887.
And the second we toured it asecond.
I walked in.
I was like this is haunted andI want it.
And we asked the realtor if itwas haunted and she said I don't
(24:36):
think so, not that I know of.
And I was like, oh, I was kindof, oh well, and then she
realized that I wanted a hauntedhouse, and so she did tell me
that the owners had told hersome stories, but she didn't
tell me exactly what they were.
Oh, when we first moved in, whenyou walked into the house, it
had a really nice big foyer with, like you know, wood paneling
(24:58):
on the walls and a big staircasethat went up to the second
floor.
And I was walking up to thesecond floor and just as I got
up there, out of the corner ofmy eye, so what would be right?
Hanging over the rest of thestaircase, I saw a woman hanging
, just hanging from the ceiling,and when I like spun to look it
(25:22):
was gone.
But I definitely saw her and Ididn't have my hair like this.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
And it was not a Halloween decoration, no, no, we
moved in August.
It'd be even creep, and it wasnot a Halloween decoration, no,
no.
Because it was gone.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We moved in August.
It would be even creepier if itwas a Halloween decoration that
just disappeared.
Yeah, exactly I had expectedfrom a ghost.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
And that's where I was like oh okay, so yeah,
there's something going on here.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
What made you so sure she was a woman?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
You said specifically a woman, even though you just
barely I feel like I saw longhair and like a flowy nightgown
sort of oh even creepier.
So it felt like I don't know.
I mean I don't know how much ofit I registered, but like I saw
it.
And then when I went, you knowdouble take, it was gone In that
(26:10):
house.
This repeatedly happened.
I would hear somebody yelling inmy ear when I'm sleeping or
laying in bed trying to sleep.
I would hear, and it soundedlike Amy and I couldn't tell if
it was a whisper that was realclose or if it was shouting from
far away.
Kind of was hard to distinguishthat and I told my husband
(26:30):
about it and he's a skeptic andso he was like, oh, you probably
just dreamed it.
And then at one point he heardit.
He heard somebody calling inhis ear.
He thought it was me.
I was sleeping in the guestbedroom because he had been
snoring, and so he got up to seewhat I wanted.
And he found me in the in theguest bedroom because he had
been snoring, and so he got upto see what I wanted and he
(26:52):
found me in the guest bedroomfast asleep.
But he still doesn't believe inanything.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I have the same problem with my husband.
They can't handle.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
They can't handle the truth.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's easier to deny it than to like come to terms
with the fact that it actuallyhappened to along those same
lines.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It's hard to to acknowledge that the unknown and
something that you don't havecontrol over that's true, that's
definitely.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
he's an engineer and he's uh, he's, he knows
everything, and so if there'ssomething he doesn't understand,
it doesn't exist.
It's a struggle.
Give him time.
It's been 30 years, but 31, isthat lucky number?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
How many years in the haunted house?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
specifically, we were in that house for 13 years.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Exactly 13.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah, isn't that weird.
Yeah, there were a bunch ofthings in there too.
I also saw a full bodyapparition in our dining room
just standing there, a man inlike a tunic and like floppy
pants, and he was just standingthere kind of like looking down,
pointing down at the ground,and he disappeared pretty
quickly too.
And then I mentioned somethingto my neighbors and they were
(28:06):
like oh, I bet that was one ofthe guys that lived there when
this was a rooming house and hewas probably one of the guys
that worked on the propertysomewhere.
Oh sure, I think everybody inthat neighborhood had hauntings.
It was.
Every time I brought it up atneighborhood get-togethers
people were like, oh yeah, yeah,I got this over here, whatever
(28:27):
it wasn't.
Like, oh God, that lady, she'scrazy.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Everybody believed me because they all had stuff
going on too.
Well, amy, you said that youalso had a story that wasn't
yours but took place in thehouse.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yes, so when we were moving out of this house which I
did not want to leave because Idid not want to leave my ghost
but um, my ghost but um, but we,we had an open house and my
friend Melissa was our realtorand she and her husband were
were our realtors.
They were doing an open house.
(28:59):
And she told me about this, noteven right away, because she
wasn't sure if I was, you know,a believer.
And so one day she was justlike um, I have a question for
you.
This was in between the haunted, the open house and when we
actually sold.
And she's like do you believein like spirits or ghosts and
(29:23):
stuff like that?
I'm like uh, yeah.
And she told me that she's asensitive and I didn't even know
that until this.
But her story is that she wasgetting ready for the haunted
house, she's getting ready forthe open house, and she was just
sort of walking around andlooking at the room and stuff
(29:48):
and she saw a man in the diningroom doing something.
It looked like he was handingout something, like he was.
He was.
She said it looked like he wasserving something or giving
people something, and she saidit seemed like less like a party
and more like a businesstransaction sort of thing.
(30:10):
And so she, just sort of withher mind the way she describes
it, asked him what his name wasand he said he said what sounded
to her like Jim, cam and she orcan.
And she was like oh, cam andshe or can.
(30:36):
And she was like oh, cam, cam,and he's like no, can, can.
And so then she was like shegoes, oh, I must be just
thinking like Jim the, jimCameron, that director you know,
I'm making this up in my ownhead or whatever.
And then people started comingin so he disappeared.
Then, after everybody left, shewas going around turning off
lights, closing up things, andshe was in the dining room again
and the dining room hadwallpaper like it had
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wainscoting on the bottom, so itwas wood on the bottom.
And then this really like kindof almost garish red wallpaper
it looked like a brothel.
I loved it, sweet.
And she was like had her handon the wallpaper and was like
touching it where I loved it,sweet.
And she was like had her handon the on the wallpaper and was
like touching it where it metthe thing, and she felt this
spirit, come over, lean over herand whisper in her ear.
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You'll never find it.
And she was like what?
And she said she never feltscared.
He had more of an attitude oflike kind of wink, wink, smarmy,
kind of thing.
And then the second thing hesaid to her was I'm a bootlegger
.
Okay so we know what she willnever find.
(31:49):
He disappeared.
She was on her phone and sheGoogled bootlegger Minneapolis
cam or something like that andup came this very notorious
gangster in Minnesota named KidCan.
His real name is IsidoreBlumenfield, his nickname, his
gangster name, was Kid Can.
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Real name is IsidoreBlumenfield, his nickname, his
gangster name was Kid Can and hewas a bootlegger and he was
like the godfather ofMinneapolis back in the
bootlegging days and she hadnever heard of him before.
But when she pulled it up onher phone and she saw the
picture of him, she's likethat's him, whoa.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Wow, so you never found the entrance to the
speakeasy in your basement?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
No, I mean we had.
It was a big basement, it was afull, like you know, it wasn't
finished, but it was a very tallbasement, like you absolutely
could have done something downthere.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
How close were you to like Nicolette or Harriet or
any of those islands?
Because there's a lot oftunnels that ran through
Minneapolis.
There's a lot of tunnels thatran through Minneapolis.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
We were not super close to any of those.
However, we were half of ablock from the synagogue and I
do remember he was a Jewishgangster and I do remember
hearing later, when I did a lotof research on this, that there
were tunnels from the temple toa bunch of the nearby homes.
(33:15):
So there very well could havebeen a tunnel to our house.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, Megan.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Let me go get some popcorn quick.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I feel like they've really hyped me up.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Megan won't even tell the story we're thinking of.
She'll tell all the other ones.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
No it will involve a Megan shaped hole in the wall.
At some point they should allhonestly.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
So I actually a spirit.
So I went to school inWisconsin.
I went to school in StevensPoint and I rented a house and a
spirit attached itself to me atthat house and it followed me
everywhere.
I mean, I would have dreamswhere everything in the dream
was the way that it was in reallife, down to the clock changing
(33:57):
, but I couldn't move.
So I hate those dreams.
But he followed me.
Oh my gosh.
He followed me overseas.
So I lived in the Middle Eastfor two and a half years and my
first apartment that I lived inthere was super duper haunted
with something very negativethat clearly wanted me out.
I would have terrifying dreamswhere a black shape would emerge
(34:20):
from like my closet and screamthis house is mine and like fly
at me the doors in that house.
I would close them and I wouldwake up and they'd be wide open
and my cats would be in the room.
And they weren't the pull downhandles where you're like well,
cats could do that.
They were the round ones thatyou need a poseable thumbs to
(34:41):
turn Right.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Which cats notoriously lack.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
It's one of their few flaws.
They would look at areas andlike they'd wake from a dead
sleep and look out this samearea every night, just like
stare at it.
This is your house in theMiddle East.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, this was my apartment in the Middle East, so
would it say this is my housein English, or was it in?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, it said.
It said this is mine, this ismine.
And it was this huge, verymenacing.
And after that dream I wasawake for a week.
I couldn't sleep for a weekafter that and unfortunately
horrible coincidence there was a, an earthquake, I think, in
Pakistan and we felt tremors ofit in Bahrain.
So I was laying in bed and mybed shook right after I'd had
(35:23):
this dream.
I almost cracked my pants.
I almost joined the spiritsbecause I was petrified.
I had the light on in my roomall night.
So I get back to America andwhen I was in Minnesota, I was
living with the guy that I wasdating and I was in my apartment
that I shared with him and Iwill swear on a stack of Bibles.
(35:45):
I was in the shower and I heardthe door open and close and he
started.
We started talking.
We had a conversation.
I said, oh, I'm glad you'rehome.
Like I'm glad you're safe.
Bleep, bloop, blop, whatever.
So I'm like, okay, well, hejust went to watch TV and I
finished drying, you know, theshower.
I get out and the door opensand closes again and I'm like
that's weird.
I, you know, went out and Ilooked at him.
(36:07):
I'm like, well, where did yougo?
And he goes what are youtalking about?
And I said, well, you came homeand we talked and then you left
.
Where did you go again?
And he's like I just got home?
And I said, no, you didn't.
I said you came home and I wasin the shower.
We had a conversation throughthe bathroom.
It sounded just like you.
(36:28):
I said what are you doing?
Like stop playing with me.
And he was like no, I swear, Ijust got home.
So I lived all over the UnitedStates.
I married somebody in the Navyand when I was in, when I was
living in Texas, so the way thatthe bedroom was was the bed was
(36:51):
here and then there was likekind of a wall and then the
bathroom you would walk out to.
And so one night a man walkedout of the bathroom, stood at
the end of my bed, turned andlooked at me and had long hair
like to my shoulder, like mylength.
Hair was very thin, dark hair,and I like blinked and he was
(37:13):
gone and I don't know why therewasn't a Megan shapes hole in
the wall at that point.
Like I was just like too, likewhat the hell's happening, to be
scared.
So then I went to Madison withthis guy that I was dating and
we were sleeping and I was inthe wedding and do you remember
from the 90s those like twirlythings, the gems that you would
(37:34):
twirl into your hair?
So I had a bunch of those in myhair and I put them on the
nightstand and my then partnerhad gone up to go to the
bathroom, I thought, because hecame back and walked around the
bed and next to me and reacheddown to the nightstand and I
thought he was just grabbingchapstick.
So I'm like whatever.
(37:54):
There was a very defined manshape and he very clearly
reached down to grab something.
So I was like, oh, it's justhim.
Well, imagine my shock when hewalked through the door a couple
minutes later and I said I waslike what the hell?
I mean, this is so cliche.
But like I never got like whenthat happened, it was curiosity
(38:17):
from this thing Like what arethese?
I don't know what they are.
There was a medium, a group ofparanormal mediums, here in the
Twin Cities and I found them ina meetup and I contacted them
and I'm like I have X, y and Zhappening at my house.
I'm watched all the time.
Like this happens.
Frank, he was from the 1800sand I reminded him of his sister
(38:47):
and so that's why he kind ofattached to me and was
protecting me.
But there was one time when Ihad first moved back to the
States from the Middle East andI was at a stoplight in Madison,
wisconsin, and this girl jumpedin my car and she said Can you
give me a ride?
And I was young and stupid andI said Sure no problem.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Why were your car doors not locked at this point
in time?
That's my question.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I want to ask she shouldn't be already in the car
when she asks you that?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Because my car was old and it didn't automatically
lock.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Okay, Okay, fair.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
I don't have the push start car, I still have a key
like a peasant.
So she got in my car and shehad a backpack and she put the
backpack on her lap and we'resitting there at the red light
because it's still stopped, likewe're still at the red light,
and she paused and she looked atme and she said I don't think
this is a good idea and she left, she got out of the car and I
(39:39):
think that that was Frankprotecting me from whatever she
was going to do to me.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Ooh oh.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Ooh, okay, I mean, he was with me.
He moved with me everywhere Iwas in the Middle East.
There was a lot of negativespirits that I had in the Middle
East.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Do you think that he protected you?
Speaker 4 (39:59):
in some way when you were over there.
I do.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Okay, but you eventually got him to go away.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yep, they helped him move on when they came to visit
me.
Well, do you miss him?
I mean Sometimes, shockingly,it's funny because of the three
of us, I'm the scarediest whichis a word AP is very like okay,
well, let's figure this out.
And Amy's like okay, well, thatcould be something, but let's
maybe try to narrow down thelist.
(40:25):
And I'm like, oh my God, it'sreal.
Oh my God, we're all gonna die.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
But and I would have been as soon as I knew his name
was Frank I'd been like Okay,frank, here's the deal and I
would just talk through.
I would talk to him constantly.
I still talk to.
All of my grandparents havepassed.
I talked to them all atdifferent times.
I lost a friend at uh suddenlyfrom an accident and, uh, when I
found out about that, I yelledand screamed at her and then I
(40:51):
actually went to a mediumshortly after that.
I had already had a meetingscheduled and that medium said
I've never had someone who hasdied this recently come back
this strong.
She was there and she's like.
She wants you to know, she'ssorry for all the things.
She called you that you neverheard.
We had had a falling out at onepoint and we had just
(41:13):
reconnected a couple monthsbefore her death.
But that's where I don't knowif you ever did, megan.
But I always would have beenlike okay, frank, what are we
doing today?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
What's going on?
Never, no, I would have donethat too.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I know, but this was me, you know, 12 years ago, 13
years ago, because I went to theMiddle East in 2010 and he was
with me since college, which was2006.
So where did you pick him up?
In this house that I rented,okay, and I know the night that
it happened, because I was myroommate and I had been watching
(41:50):
a movie in my bedroom and hehad fallen asleep in my bed and
I'm like, well, I'm gonna gotake your bed then I'm not
sleeping on the floor.
So I went in his bedroom andthat's the first night that I
had that dream, where everythingwas the same, the clock was
moving.
I just couldn't move.
And that's when, I think heattached to me, because a couple
(42:11):
of nights later, I saw a blackspot, a black cloud, um, up
above my bedroom.
So I think that's plus.
He was from Wisconsin, he was afarmer in Wisconsin, I was
gonna say he was probably afarmer I'm.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I don't know why, but I keep feeling like he was
german heritage, with all thattoo, just because I mean
wisconsin is heavily in thoseareas too.
Very german.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Yeah, yeah, so he might have lived in that house.
I think he did, I think heprobably lived on that land, or
yeah, in your roommate's room.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So then when you went in there, it was like oh, it's
my sister, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
The scariest ones, though, were I think they were
the djinn in the Middle East.
They were very aggressive, soyou think they were djinn.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yeah.
I think they were djinn yeah,did you hear from your like
landlord or anything?
Did anybody else?
Were you friends with your?
Speaker 4 (43:01):
neighbors.
People in the Middle East, fromwhat I've understood, are very
superstitious, so they believethat if you talk about something
you're kind of manifesting it,and so we didn't really talk
about it.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Okay, so, megan, you're very haunted.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Yes, which is so unfortunate because I'm the
scaredest of them all.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Well, those are some ghost stories.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
This has been so much fun to talk to you guys.
Thank you, it's been so greatto get to know you and see your
faces.
After hearing your voices, youguys have some really, really
scary stories, so tell peoplebefore we close out.
Tell people where they can findyou.
The activity continues.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
Same for your podcast .
You're available on allplatform providers and YouTube,
and you have a website Yep, it'stheactivitycontinuescom and
everything is there.
So I mean that's like yourone-stop shop for everything.
And on our website too, we haveour RSS feeds.
So if you have like a kind ofquirky app but you can add shows
by RSS feed, you can copy thatand use it that way.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
And if you go to our website, we have a spot you can
share your ghost stories withand we will read them on our
podcast at any point in time.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
And we also on our website have a little thing at
the bottom of the screen that'sa little microphone, and if you
click on that you can leave avoice message.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Ah so, hainted Loves, if you've always wanted to tell
your ghost story but you'rejust a little too not cool with
being interviewed live, thismight be an opportunity for you
to tell it.
Just say no hard feelings.
If you end up on someone else'sshow, just give us a shout out,
we will find you.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Thank you for having us.
We really really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Yeah, thanks for entertaining our winding path of
thoughts.
Yes, appreciate you all.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Well, Hainted Loves, what do you think If a strange
woman leapt into your car andasked you to drive away?
Would you ask Frank to scareher out, or would you just have
a spooky day?
Speaker 1 (45:01):
Homespun Haints is hosted by Becky Kielimnik and
Diana Doty and produced byHomespun Haints Media LLC.
Editing and music by BeckyKielimnik.
Show notes by Diana Doty.
If you have a ghost story andyou'd like to be considered as a
guest for this podcast, pleasevisit our website at
homespunhaintscom.
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