Strangetober Macabre Minisode #7 | True Paranormal Stories for Halloween

All October long, Madame Strangeways celebrates Strangetober and Strangeoween with bonus mini episodes of spooky paranormal stories for Halloween! These macabre minisodes are narrations only, no commentary, but full episodes will still be released every other Wednesday as usual.

Thank you to Jason, Duchess and Anonymous for granting permission to read their stories from Reddit. Remember, Strangers & Strangelings & Strangecetera: you can feel afraid and not be in danger.

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Episode Transcript

(00:03):
Welcome back stranger. It's strange Tober Eve eve and
I'm celebrating with another mini Strange O Ween episode.
These macabre minisodes will be story narrations only, but every
other Wednesday I still release a main episode with my usual
commentary after the story, including dragging you kicking
and screaming down endless rabbit holes.

(00:24):
Obviously, before we get to our true strange story.
Just a quick reminder, if you'reingesting a whole lot more scary
content lately and you find yourself scared and wide awake
at 3:00 AM, remember that you can feel afraid and not be in
danger. Definitely, probably, maybe.
And a special spectral shout outto my Patreon patrons who helped

(00:45):
make the podcast possible. TJ Hotter of Tapes of
Trepidation podcast, G Man MusicTed, Keith and Tori, thank you
to my Fiendish 5 for supporting the show.
Now it sounds like it's about torain Hellcats and Hell hounds
out there, so you know what thatmeans.
On to the true Strangel wean stories here on Madam Strange

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Ways. Phantom Cat by Jason So about 8

(01:37):
years ago my older brother and Iwere driving to a nearby gas
station to fill up the car. My brother was driving and I was
in the passenger seat. As we were pulling into the
station, I saw a black cat that was running across the road.
Which is odd in itself because the station is on a pretty busy
highway and I've gone to that station for years and have never

(02:00):
seen a cat anywhere near there before or afterwards to this
day. Yet as I was watching this cat
run across the road, it got about halfway across when
suddenly it just faded away intoa plume of smoke right before my
eyes. I was completely stunned and was

(02:21):
super confused. I was watching a cat one second
and the next it turned into smoke.
I remained totally silent and I didn't say anything to my
brother next to me because I wasstill processing it and I was
wondering if I was going crazy or if my eyes were just playing
tricks on me. But then out of nowhere my

(02:43):
brother suddenly spoke up and said hey did did you just see a
cat running across the road thatfaded away into smoke?
And I was super relieved and waslike oh good you saw that too.
I thought I was going crazy. Turns out both of us saw the
exact same thing, what was clearly a black cat running

(03:06):
across the road and then suddenly fading into smoke and
dissipating away. We still bring this up to each
other and talk about it once in a while when we're driving along
somewhere together. It was such an odd and strange
experience, but I'm glad we bothgot to experience it together as
it made for a cool talking topic.

(03:40):
Saw something in my grandparentsold trailer by Anonymous.
All right so this is stuck with me for years and I still can't
explain it. I lived in Oklahoma from about
2014 to 2017. Small town, middle of nowhere,
and at the time there was this abandoned trailer house on our

(04:02):
property used to belong to my grandma.
She and my grandpa lived in it back in the day, but by the time
I was a kid it was long abandoned and used for storage.
It was literally falling apart. One day I was doing yard work
with my brother and we were heading back to the main house.
On impulse, I looked into the broken back window of that

(04:24):
trailer, which was the bedroom window, and I saw a pale, long
limbed figure standing in the shadows of the room, just
silently waving at me. I turned to my brother and
asked, Do you see that? And the second he looked, he

(04:45):
just started running. And of course, I also ran for
the hills with him, Tripped on adamn water pipe too.
So yeah, we both saw it. And a year later, I asked him
again out of nowhere, remember what we saw in the window.
And he described it exactly how I remembered.

(05:07):
Same figure, same window, same feeling of being watched by
something. Now the weird part, When I was
way younger, possibly even before I was born, I had this
memory that always stuck with me.
My first conscious memory ever. I was in this shed, brand new,

(05:32):
looking totally clean and bright.
A man I didn't recognize was talking to me, gently smiling.
My brother was with me, putting a necklace around my neck.
Then the man walked into the backroom of the shed and that
was it. Years later, I realized that
shed from the memory existed in real life, but I had no way of

(05:56):
knowing that at the time. It was my grandfather's old work
shed connected to the same property.
I never saw it up close as a kid, yet the memory matched it
perfectly, literally down the layout and how it looked when it
was new. I eventually told my dad the
memory years after the fact and he froze, asked me to describe

(06:20):
the man. I did.
Tall, pale, short hair, kind butserious face.
My dad showed me a photo. It was my grandfather, a man who
died long before I was born. I never saw a picture of him
before then, but I knew that face.

(06:41):
So now I'm left with all of this.
A memory from before I had any context where I met my deceased
grandfather. A necklace placed on me by my
brother, almost like a ritual ormarking.
A silent pale figure waving fromthe trailer years later, The
same trailer my grandparents shared.

(07:03):
Could the figure have been him trying to reach back out or
something tied to that land and memory?
Is it possible to remember something from before you were
even born? I'm open to thoughts.
Paranormal, spiritual, ancestral, whatever angle you've
got. This still gives me the chills
to this day. Thanks.

(07:39):
Midsummer Festival by Duchess 5788.
I work in a pharmaceutical company.
Our site is big, think multiple buildings, roughly 800 people
working in shifts and away from the general population. 20 plus
minutes drive to the nearest residential area.

(08:02):
Last year we had A Midsummer festival A2 hour event where
employees could hang out, play some games and have some snacks.
I was volunteering. It was set outdoors on a lawn
under a tent. I was talking to a participant
and had the urge to look behind me, away from all the buildings

(08:22):
and near the woods. On the asphalt Rd., which is
only used for delivery trucks, was a child about four or five
years old in a Halloween costumeof a black bear and holding a
pail, the pumpkin shaped one kids use to collect candies.
We kept looking at each other. Then I walked to another

(08:45):
volunteer and asked them what's that kid doing here?
They looked in the general direction of my sight and said
what kid? I asked one more person if they
could see a kid and they said no.
Then I turned around trying to find someone I knew and when I
looked back there was no one. There could be a perfectly

(09:10):
normal explanation for this, butI couldn't figure out why no one
else was able to see the kid. And even if a delivery driver
brought a kid with them, we are not allowed as it's a
manufacturing site. Why would they be walking around
in a bear costume in the sweltering heat of August?

(09:40):
Thank you for joining me. For more true strange stories of
the unexplained, remember that you can feel afraid and not be
in danger. You're safe here with me,
probably. Please follow the podcast, leave
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The underworld, obviously. I mean, come on.
Was that not? Was that not clear?
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it to [e-mail].
See you soon, she said ominously.