April 21, 2025 • 8 mins
'Ghost Story,' the podcast that unearths the spectral secrets from beyond the grave. In each episode, we bring you firsthand accounts of ghostly encounters, as told by those who have experienced the unexplained firsthand. Brace yourself for tales of restless spirits, haunted locations, and inexplicable phenomena. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, prepare to be captivated by the tales that will send shivers down your spine. Feel free to check out our sister podcasts, Bone Chilling Tales to Keep You Awake Podcast, A Truly Haunted Podcast, Forever Haunted Podcast and True Whispers a True Crime Podcast. See you on the next dreadful episode. #scarystories #realstories #horrorpodcasts are #horrorpodcasts #horrorpodcast #horror #horrormovies #podcast #horrorfilms #horrorfilm #podcasts #horrormovie #film #films #movies #movie #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #damnedmovies #moviesofthedamned #horrorobsessed #horrorfans #halloween #horrornerd #horrorfanatic #horrorpod #horrorfan #slasher #paranormal #horrorjunkie #horrorpodcaster #horrorgram #horrorcomedy #scarystories #scary #creepy #horrorstories #horror #scaryfacts #creepypasta #creepyfacts #creepystories #creepyfact #scaryfact #horrormovies #halloween #conspiracytheory #conspiracy #horrorstory #scarymovie #scaryposts #conspiracytheories #scarythreads #spooky #scaryvideo #horrorfacts #paranormal #horrorfan #horrors #scarymemes #haunted #horrorfact #ghost Warning: This podcast may be: frightening · scaring · hair-raising · terrifying · petrifying · spine-chilling · bloodcurdling · chilling · horrifying · alarming · appalling · daunting · formidable · fearsome · nerve-racking · unnerving · eerie · sinister #murdermystery #bookstagram #death #buzzfeedunsolved #crimescene #truecrimepodcasts #missingperson #missing #halloween #crimejunkie #news #myfavoritemurder #spooky #supernatural
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the ghost Story, the podcast that on earths
the spectral secrets from beyond the grave. In each episode,
we bring you first hand accounts of ghostly encounters as
told by those who've experienced the unexplained firsthand. Brace yourself
(00:27):
for tales of restless spirits, haunted locations, and inexplicable phenomena.
Whether you're a sceptic or a believer, prepared to be
captivated by the tales that will send shivers down your spine.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to ghost Story Podcast. I'm your host, author Eve s. Evans.
I invite you to explore the realm of the supernatural
with me, from haunted houses to ghostly apparitions. We're going
to uncover the secrets behind the unexplained. Join us as
we listen attentively to individuals who have faced the spectral unknown,
(01:30):
sharing their spine chilling experiences and the lingering questions that
still haunt them. Get ready to confront the paranormal and
discover the truth behind each bone chilling tale. And with that,
let's begin.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
In all of my years as a medical examiner, I
saw a lot of strange things. People die for a
number of reasons, and when I received their remains to
analyze and determine the actual reason for the miracle that
is the human body to shut down. They can have
some strange things going on. Almost everything I've seen can
be attributed to the body no longer being able to
stop or slow the eventual and unceasing power of time.
(02:09):
Everything had a reason until one day it didn't, and
I was forced to consider other possibilities. She came in
on a gurney like any other body. Nothing about her
was unique or different when it came to someone in
their mid twenties dying. People of that age don't die
of natural causes. It's always some sort of tragedy that
has befallen them. Even after all the years I've done this,
they still leave within me a feeling of wrongness. It
(02:32):
doesn't matter the cause. It could be an accident, violence,
some pathogen being introduced, or the body itself going haywire
like cancer. People that age shouldn't be lost to the world.
The chart that came with her told me everything I
needed to know as far as the cause of death.
She died during childbirth. If there was a positive that
(02:53):
could come out of such a tragic event, the baby,
a little girl survived. Maybe one day she will know
her My mom fought to the end to make sure
she had a chance to live, at least, I hoped,
so I went about doing my due diligence, making sure
there wasn't some sort of mistake made by the doctors
and the nurses. In the end, everything comes down to
money and reducing the hospital's liability. My exam concluded that
(03:17):
the woman suffered massive hemorrhaging within the uterus, but there
were no signs of medical error. In the end, though,
death is death. I finished the exam and sewed up
the incision and started to prepare the paperwork so we
could release the body to the family. What made her
her was now gone, but I found it important for
those left behind to be able to have some closure.
(03:39):
It was getting late, though, and I decided to finish
up the last few pages in the morning that contained
my findings, placed the remains in the walk in, and
went home for the night. The following morning, I walked
in and immediately grabbed the clipboard containing the forms before
walking over to the door to the refrigerator. When I
opened the door, I can tell you that I didn't
immediately know anything was wrong. The white sheet that I
(03:59):
had covered the body with was still in place, and frankly,
I wouldn't have known if someone had moved it as
long as it still shrouded the entire body. I maneuvered
the guarniya under the light overhead and pulled the drape back,
revealing her naked form. Nothing in my entire medical history
could have prepared me for what I saw, and I
took a few steps away and could only gape at
her stomach. It was a handprint, but not like one
(04:20):
might think. This wasn't the liquid that someone had on
their hand when they touched the body. No, the body
had turned a sickly brown and began to decay in
the perfect shape of someone's hand. I could clearly make
out the forefingers and thumb, the palm everything. I'd seen
bodies in various states of decay, from the freshly dead
to others whose soft tissues had decomposed, leaving only skeletal remains.
(04:43):
One thing that is always consistent is that the body
tends to decay in a certain order, depending on exposure
to elements and other environmental factors. This didn't fit with
that the rest of her body had begun to lose
its normal color as the blood began to settle in
the lower half of the body, which only made the
hand itself stand out. My first thought was a staff
member had some sort of caustic chemical on some gloves
(05:06):
and it had begun to eat away at the surface.
My first thought was a staff member had some sort
of caustic chemical on some gloves and it had begun
to eat away at the surface. But when I tested
for this, there was no trace of any foreign contaminant.
I even placed a sample of the skin under a microscope,
and it exhibited all the normal traits of deterioration that
would have been consistent with someone who died over two
weeks past, not a day before, when the body had
(05:28):
been placed in cold storage overnight. I even had checked
her chart on the computer to see if there had
been any notes made about the strange occurrence before her
transport to me. Again, I came up with nothing. Nothing
about this was sitting right with me, so I gave
the doctor who'd done the delivery a call and asked
her to come down to the morgue. It took her
about an hour before she was free, and by that
(05:48):
time I had gone over every part of her body,
looking for any further signs of the strange decomposition, but
finding none. I didn't have to point out to her
my reason for calling. When she took one look at
the woman, she swore once and went over to put
on a pair of gloves to begin her own examination
of the woman and her stomach. I didn't take it
personally when she asked me what I'd done to cause
the damage to her body, But I can't say she
(06:10):
was understanding when I told her I was going to
ask her the same thing. I understand her concern because
if she had I could be accusing her, possibly causing
the death of the woman in front of us. It
took me a minute to calm her down as I
went about my report in my findings, including the fact
that I hadn't found anything in or around the handprint
that would have explained away its existence. By the time
I was done, and she also reviewed and verified my findings,
(06:32):
we'd gotten the results from the llow that said there
wasn't anything present in the blood that wasn't supposed to
be there, so science couldn't explain what we were looking at.
What did that leave us with? Truthfully, I didn't really
have an answer or even a suggestion as to what
could cause a body to decompose in the shape of
a hand that would be limited to the stomach of
a woman who died during childbirth. My hope was no
(06:53):
one would ever ask, or even better notice it. It
was the other doctor that came up with a supernatural possibility.
As a mother herself and also a believer in spirits,
she thought it could have been the ghost of the
mother saying goodbye to her child before she passed on.
She went on to explain that the woman's heart had
stopped before the baby had been removed. She even suggested
(07:13):
it might have even been her protecting her offspring from
the same fate. When I first heard her, I was
struck speechless for a moment. To hear a woman that
has spent as much time as I had suggests that
a ghost had been the one to leave a handprint
on the woman's stomach seemed nothing short of heresy. We
dealt with facts and things that could be proven, not
superstition in the like. Still, given everything else we'd done
(07:36):
to reason out what had happened had fallen short, who
was I to dispute what she suggested. I never did
hear back from the family after the funeral home picked
up her body. Did they know the handprint was there?
Or is it a secret that went into the ground
with her. To this day, I don't totally buy the
idea that the mother's ghost touched the place where her
on board child still remained after she passed on. I'm
(07:57):
not sure there's anything someone could say that would make
me leave it. However, nothing I could say for certain
would prove it didn't happen. Either a medical anomaly or
a mother saying her final goodbye to her child. That
is for you to decide.
Welcome to the ghost Story, the podcast that on earths
the spectral secrets from beyond the grave. In each episode,
we bring you first hand accounts of ghostly encounters as
told by those who've experienced the unexplained firsthand. Brace yourself
(00:27):
for tales of restless spirits, haunted locations, and inexplicable phenomena.
Whether you're a sceptic or a believer, prepared to be
captivated by the tales that will send shivers down your spine.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Welcome to ghost Story Podcast. I'm your host, author Eve s. Evans.
I invite you to explore the realm of the supernatural
with me, from haunted houses to ghostly apparitions. We're going
to uncover the secrets behind the unexplained. Join us as
we listen attentively to individuals who have faced the spectral unknown,
(01:30):
sharing their spine chilling experiences and the lingering questions that
still haunt them. Get ready to confront the paranormal and
discover the truth behind each bone chilling tale. And with that,
let's begin.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
In all of my years as a medical examiner, I
saw a lot of strange things. People die for a
number of reasons, and when I received their remains to
analyze and determine the actual reason for the miracle that
is the human body to shut down. They can have
some strange things going on. Almost everything I've seen can
be attributed to the body no longer being able to
stop or slow the eventual and unceasing power of time.
(02:09):
Everything had a reason until one day it didn't, and
I was forced to consider other possibilities. She came in
on a gurney like any other body. Nothing about her
was unique or different when it came to someone in
their mid twenties dying. People of that age don't die
of natural causes. It's always some sort of tragedy that
has befallen them. Even after all the years I've done this,
they still leave within me a feeling of wrongness. It
(02:32):
doesn't matter the cause. It could be an accident, violence,
some pathogen being introduced, or the body itself going haywire
like cancer. People that age shouldn't be lost to the world.
The chart that came with her told me everything I
needed to know as far as the cause of death.
She died during childbirth. If there was a positive that
(02:53):
could come out of such a tragic event, the baby,
a little girl survived. Maybe one day she will know
her My mom fought to the end to make sure
she had a chance to live, at least, I hoped,
so I went about doing my due diligence, making sure
there wasn't some sort of mistake made by the doctors
and the nurses. In the end, everything comes down to
money and reducing the hospital's liability. My exam concluded that
(03:17):
the woman suffered massive hemorrhaging within the uterus, but there
were no signs of medical error. In the end, though,
death is death. I finished the exam and sewed up
the incision and started to prepare the paperwork so we
could release the body to the family. What made her
her was now gone, but I found it important for
those left behind to be able to have some closure.
(03:39):
It was getting late, though, and I decided to finish
up the last few pages in the morning that contained
my findings, placed the remains in the walk in, and
went home for the night. The following morning, I walked
in and immediately grabbed the clipboard containing the forms before
walking over to the door to the refrigerator. When I
opened the door, I can tell you that I didn't
immediately know anything was wrong. The white sheet that I
(03:59):
had covered the body with was still in place, and frankly,
I wouldn't have known if someone had moved it as
long as it still shrouded the entire body. I maneuvered
the guarniya under the light overhead and pulled the drape back,
revealing her naked form. Nothing in my entire medical history
could have prepared me for what I saw, and I
took a few steps away and could only gape at
her stomach. It was a handprint, but not like one
(04:20):
might think. This wasn't the liquid that someone had on
their hand when they touched the body. No, the body
had turned a sickly brown and began to decay in
the perfect shape of someone's hand. I could clearly make
out the forefingers and thumb, the palm everything. I'd seen
bodies in various states of decay, from the freshly dead
to others whose soft tissues had decomposed, leaving only skeletal remains.
(04:43):
One thing that is always consistent is that the body
tends to decay in a certain order, depending on exposure
to elements and other environmental factors. This didn't fit with
that the rest of her body had begun to lose
its normal color as the blood began to settle in
the lower half of the body, which only made the
hand itself stand out. My first thought was a staff
member had some sort of caustic chemical on some gloves
(05:06):
and it had begun to eat away at the surface.
My first thought was a staff member had some sort
of caustic chemical on some gloves and it had begun
to eat away at the surface. But when I tested
for this, there was no trace of any foreign contaminant.
I even placed a sample of the skin under a microscope,
and it exhibited all the normal traits of deterioration that
would have been consistent with someone who died over two
weeks past, not a day before, when the body had
(05:28):
been placed in cold storage overnight. I even had checked
her chart on the computer to see if there had
been any notes made about the strange occurrence before her
transport to me. Again, I came up with nothing. Nothing
about this was sitting right with me, so I gave
the doctor who'd done the delivery a call and asked
her to come down to the morgue. It took her
about an hour before she was free, and by that
(05:48):
time I had gone over every part of her body,
looking for any further signs of the strange decomposition, but
finding none. I didn't have to point out to her
my reason for calling. When she took one look at
the woman, she swore once and went over to put
on a pair of gloves to begin her own examination
of the woman and her stomach. I didn't take it
personally when she asked me what I'd done to cause
the damage to her body, But I can't say she
(06:10):
was understanding when I told her I was going to
ask her the same thing. I understand her concern because
if she had I could be accusing her, possibly causing
the death of the woman in front of us. It
took me a minute to calm her down as I
went about my report in my findings, including the fact
that I hadn't found anything in or around the handprint
that would have explained away its existence. By the time
I was done, and she also reviewed and verified my findings,
(06:32):
we'd gotten the results from the llow that said there
wasn't anything present in the blood that wasn't supposed to
be there, so science couldn't explain what we were looking at.
What did that leave us with? Truthfully, I didn't really
have an answer or even a suggestion as to what
could cause a body to decompose in the shape of
a hand that would be limited to the stomach of
a woman who died during childbirth. My hope was no
(06:53):
one would ever ask, or even better notice it. It
was the other doctor that came up with a supernatural possibility.
As a mother herself and also a believer in spirits,
she thought it could have been the ghost of the
mother saying goodbye to her child before she passed on.
She went on to explain that the woman's heart had
stopped before the baby had been removed. She even suggested
(07:13):
it might have even been her protecting her offspring from
the same fate. When I first heard her, I was
struck speechless for a moment. To hear a woman that
has spent as much time as I had suggests that
a ghost had been the one to leave a handprint
on the woman's stomach seemed nothing short of heresy. We
dealt with facts and things that could be proven, not
superstition in the like. Still, given everything else we'd done
(07:36):
to reason out what had happened had fallen short, who
was I to dispute what she suggested. I never did
hear back from the family after the funeral home picked
up her body. Did they know the handprint was there?
Or is it a secret that went into the ground
with her. To this day, I don't totally buy the
idea that the mother's ghost touched the place where her
on board child still remained after she passed on. I'm
(07:57):
not sure there's anything someone could say that would make
me leave it. However, nothing I could say for certain
would prove it didn't happen. Either a medical anomaly or
a mother saying her final goodbye to her child. That
is for you to decide.
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