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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I'm Edward October, creator, host of October pod Am. The
sounds you hear are the sweet music of a verdant meadow.
Spring moves in the air above and penetrates even the
deepest places in the earth, awakening crocus, daffodil, and a hyacinthe,
to say nothing of lilac and forsythia. Bees and other
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small pollinators dart among the colorful april blooms, and small
tufted purple martins flit from perch to perch, seeking what
insect morsels they may devour. If you listen closely, you
can hear them chirping at cheerful springtime. Ye you know what,
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fuck all that noise? The sound you hear is rumbling
thunder from an approaching storm. Those aren't birds singing. It's
the squeaking of bats, vampire bats and wolves. Howling wolves, No,
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howling weir wolves. The swirling, impenetrable mist blankets the ground
and gives off a spectral glow in the light of
the full moon. Off in the distance, on a steep
barren hill stands a dilapidated old mansion. They say that
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it's haunted. This is the start of the rogue transmissions,
halfway to Halloween hullabaloo. Every day helpless radio signals float
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unseen through our airwaves. Many of these originate from the
airline industry, the military, police, fire and rescue. But then
there are other signals. Their source is unknown, they're barely detectable,
and their message is dangerous.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We give you road transmissions. Halloween or Hallows, even being
the eb or vigil of all Hallows or All Saints Day,
is the last night of October, and no holiday in
all the year is so informal or so marked by fun,
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both for grown ups as well as children, as this one.
On this night there should be nothing but laughter, fun
and mystery. It is the night when fairies dance, ghosts,
witches and mischief making devils wander around. It is the
night when all sorts of charms and spells are invoked
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for prying into the future by all young folk, and sometimes.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
By folk who are not quite so young. In getting
up a Halloween party or just a halfway to Halloween party,
everything should be made as mysterious as possible. The room
or rooms in which most of the games are to
be played should be decorated as grotesquely as possible with
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jack o lanterns made from apples, cucumbers, squash, and of
course pumpkins with incisions made for eyes, nose, and mouth,
and a lighted candle placed within. Jack o' lanterns should
be placed around on tables, mantles, corners, et cetera. A
skull and crossbones placed over the door entering the house
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would be very appropriate. The hall should be in total
darkness except for the light coming from the jack o
lanterns of all shapes and sizes in various places throughout
the house. Autumn leaves, moms, apples, and corn should also
play an important part in the decorations. Black and yellow
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cheese cloth or crape paper make very effective and inexpensive decorations.
The dining room should be decorated with autumn leaves, golden rod,
yellow chrysanthemums, and strings of cranberries. For a table centerpiece,
a large pumpkin could be used with the top cut
off and partly filled with water, in which a large
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bunch of yellow chrysanthemums or golden rod could be placed.
Bay leaves can be scattered over the table. Place cards
representing pumpkins, black cats, which is hats ghosts and goblins
are most appropriate. The dining room should also be in
total darkness except for the light given by the jack
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o lanterns, until the in their disguises are seated, at
which point they should all unmask. The supper could either
be served in this dim light or with the lights
turned up to make the room really.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Go off.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
All lights go out and the monsters are released from
their coffins, they may grab you.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
I freaking love Halloween.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Halloween is she.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Does one of my favorite you can ask her. My
roommate and I are what I call Halloween adults. It's
kind of like Disney adults, but instead of Disney stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
But fo your body.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Welcome to chick Lit slash Rogue Transmissions. Halfway to Halloween
Hulla Blue.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Sorry, I just felt like there should be a robot.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Was that your rogue transmission?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
I am the guy from what is it? What's that movie?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
What airplane?
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Michael Winslow?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Sorry anyway, Yeah, So we have like little Halloween decorations
up all year round all over the house. We have
like a weedy board pillow and like.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Oh that's cute.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I Like, there's there's a little sign in our kitchen
that says Salem's garage and there's like a broom underneath it.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Oh, that's cute.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
We have like a little mini haunted house in our kitchen.
Everything in our kitchen is Halloween theme, so it's all
like pokins and yeah, like like all of our towels
and plates and cups and everything.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I was like, wow, we truly are. It's about the year.
We have like our roommate website, so it was kind
of perfect.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
It is my favorite time of year, and it never
lasts long enough. So that's why I'm glad we have
We're in good company here. It's Halloween all year round, baby,
Halloween three sixty five.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Boom.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
One of my favorite things is like when you when
a building closes down and like a strip mall, and
you just know it's gonna be a spirit Halloween.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
You hope it is. You're like, oh, that would be
the perfect location. Look at the look how big it is.
It's gonna store so many costumes, and they.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Don't care how dilapidated the building is, Like it's always
they just put it up and then as mysteriously as
it appears, it's gone at the end. Of the month.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
I am always really sad when I drive by and
like it's already gone. You're like, oh, what the what's
the heck, it's an abandoned just here you were here.
We need an all year round spirit Halloween. I feel
like that exists somewhere.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
We do have one where I live in my hometown,
and it's called Halloween three sixty five.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Oh well, that's dope. Shout out to them.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Them this is We're not sponsored though, we.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Just love the same holiday.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
We just love Halloween. That's where I get all my
ben Ni stuff for a theater if I need it.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I think you're gonna say Bill Nye.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Benny the makeup guy Ben ben Nor.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
After the supper is over. At your Halloween party and
while the guests are still seated, a splendid idea would
be to extinguish all the lights and to have one
or more of the partygoers tell ghost.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Story some of our spooky, creepy encounters. I've had a
fair few because I went to a school called Meredith
College that was ranked by some arbitrary website that I
don't think is real as one of the most haunted
campuses in the United States. But it definitely is, and
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we'll get into why. But Aubrey, you had a creepy,
creepy thing happened to you at your I think two
apartments ago.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Yeah. Well, I have always believed in ghosts or spirit
or whatever, energy and that kind of shit. We've talked
about that on our podcast.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Only like, I've only had like a couple of different
like little things happen, nothing like big. I've never seen
an image of somebody standing there at the end of
the whole way, which I want. That's why I watch
ghost adventures and crap like that, because I'm like, that's
so cool it happened to me. Please back bag, come.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
To my house.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
But when I was in my senior year of high school,
I lived with my best friend and her family in
Washington State and we lived in this house and it
was really cute and it was like three stories, a
little three story and that like all the houses like
really small, and like the roads are all like numbered roads.
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So yeah, it's like a city. Yeah, you know, And
I love my best friend Rosanna shout out, She's never
gonna listen to this, she like on a podcast. No,
I'm just kidding. She loves us, but she has like
two kids, so she's busy.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
She's too busy.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Her and her family are like very spiritual, and so
one day I was like chilling and I was on
the computer, and I was like, I don't know what
the heck I was doing. I was just on the
computer all the time at that point because I was
just a little sad senior girl in like two thousand
and seven, you know, and that's all you did. I
had a Facebook before you could like be publicly on
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a Facebook when they were like you could only be
a college student. And I was technically going to a
college my senior year, so I was like, because.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
You had to have like a dot edu.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Yeah, you had to have a school email. That's how
old I am. And I was on the computer and
behind me, I'm trying to like make sure you guys
can see it. It's like there's like a hallway and
there's a bathroom in the middle and a bedroom on
either end. It's like a small hallway, and like I
just felt something like I don't know what it was.
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I just felt like something was behind me, and like
I turned and I see this from one end of
the hallway to the next, and I'm like, what the heck?
And I'm alone at home, so I'm freaking out, and
I go and I look. I think I grabbed a
knife from the kitchen, like because that's gonna kill a
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ghost and let you know, stab the spirit. But I
grabbed a knife, and I obviously couldn't find anything. I
didn't see anything, I didn't feel anything else. Like as
quickly as it happened, it was, it was gone. And
so when Rosanna and her mom and like family were
home later that day, I asked Raisianna and her mom
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and I was like, this happened.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Like, what the heck?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Go, I think it was a ghost, And her mom
was basically like, yeah, I'm pretty sure spirit live was
he Because she had been laying on the bed one time,
and you know how you can feel somebody sit on
the mattress that like dips in a certain way. She
felt that, and she like looked over her shoulder like
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to where on the corner of the bed that she
felt it, and it was like dipped down and nobody
was there.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Oh, it looked like.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
It was looked like somebody was sitting there without being there.
And so I was like, oh, so I was like,
let me just be respectful of this house, let me
just look like you are. Let's be friends. Please don't
kill me.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Please don't.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And then.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
The only time really after that was like in the
last few years. Henry has this piece of a rock
he got in the woods in Ohio and it has
words on it. I'm pretty sure it's like from a graystone.
He's not convinced. I have seen it, and it looks
like a legitimately looks like it. Somebody broke a gravestone
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and took the rock home, which I can't be good
like you no, but like we were living in the yeah,
a couple apartments ago from this place. I was sitting
in there and a person who's not my friend anymore
was with me. I'm pretty sure the devil the devil, uh.
And I felt something pull my shirt and my bra
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like some you know how when somebody snapped your bra
strap in the bag, like, but it wasn't like the strap,
it was the actual like bra part.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So so we think that this gravestone belonged to a
teenage boy.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Who is essaying me right now, hello not cool. I
was freaked out and like I immediately like still, like what
the heck, oh my god, what the what the heck happened?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
What was that like?
Speaker 8 (13:56):
And my friend at the time was like, and I
told them what happened. They were like, oh my god.
And I told Henry And it didn't until later didn't
put it together that like I think that we have
like a haunted piece of rock. I don't know for sure,
but there's been other like little random things here and
there that I'm like, ghost.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
That piece of rock needs to go in like the
Warren's basement with like Annabel and like.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Yeah, I don't like the fact that they would immediately
for like a bra snap. That was not cool ghosts.
And I mean, I want to be friends, but if
you're gonna keep doing that, we might.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
I have.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
This house, I'm gonna kick you out. You've been evicted.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
It's like ghost evictions. That's like you're new.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
That's my new job.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
You just like serve them with like paper, just going.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Around to random people's houses.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Again, the ghost is like, what I live here, This
is the.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Ghost of the was your name Doug? Like what, oh,
you've been served Doug. Anyway, So that's kind of where
I'm at. I do believe in I know lots of
people who have had ghost experiences, and I always love
hearing what's happened to people.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Well, I've probably told you mine like a thousand times,
but I can tell me again.
Speaker 8 (15:24):
I have a terrible memory. It'll be like the first time. Yes,
that's what she said.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Sorry, oh man, who listen to our show? Normally you
can take a step of whatever you're drinking. Since that
was technically an office quote. I so I went to
Meredith College and that is a women's college. Yes, I
sounded like a police go avenging angels, so SNOOPI in so,
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so I went there. I was there from twenty twelve
to twenty sixteen. The actual campus that's there now has
only been there I think since like the nineteen fifties
verse sixties. The original campus is actually on the site
of what is now the Governor's Mansion of North Carolina.
Fun fact, but they tore down the original campus when
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they built the new one. Interesting, yeah, super interesting.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I don't think.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I don't think it's actually where the governors is. Like
there's like a parking lot now for the Governor's mansion,
and it's like that's what used to be Meredith's campus.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
So anyways, I lived in the dorms for most of
my time there, and Mereth Meredith has this tradition where
every class, every graduating class, gets a doll, and so
they dress the doll up like the fashions of the time.
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The doll gets a name, there's like a whole story
they write about it, and then they put the doll
in this The main admin building has a giant rotunda,
which is like one of those like circular areas of
a large building. If you've ever seen the government buildings
have them a lot, You've never seen it. And so
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on the third floor of the rotunda in Johnson Hall
is the doll the wing of dolls. So you go
up there. I don't even think you can get up
there by elevator, Like I think you can take the
elevator the second floor and then you have to walk
up a flight of stairs.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
To already asking for problems.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Right, And there's people who work on the third floor too,
Like it's not just the dolls, but I'm like, imagine
having to work on the doll floor, right.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Be ticked off? Absolutely not so.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So anyway, the legend has it that there was a
young lady who worked at Meredith, who had a quote
unquote like illegitimate child. Like at the time, I think
obviously things were different. She was unmarried and had a child,
loved to take the dolls out and play with them,
but she wasn't supposed to. And then there was like
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some sort of tragic accident where she was hit by
a train and died. And they say that the ghost
of that lady's daughter still haunts some of the dorms
because she used to sneak around to The fourth floors
of the dorms are a lot like that too, where
it's like not a lot of people live up there.
There's like sketchy little hiding places that you could, you know,
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a kid could go hide in there pretty easily. So yeah,
So my experiences living in the dorms at Meredith were
my freshman dorm. I was on the third floor and
we we had what are called sweet style dorms. So
we had two rooms connected by a bathroom, so there
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was a door on either side for either person on
either side to get in, So there was two people
to a room. A suite was four people, so my
my sweet mates and I. The door is locked from
the inside, but my sweet mates and I had kind
of come to an agreement, like, hey, if we want
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to get in the bathroom, we'll just always knock, because
it's really annoying when somebody forgets to unlock the other
side before they go back to their side, and then
you're locked out of the bathroom. You have to go
knock on the door, like, and what if you're not
home and then you can't get into the bathroom. That's
just it's a whole thing. So we had an agreement that, like,
we would not lock the doors on the bathroom if
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we were using it. We would just everyone just knocks
before they go in.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
And it works pretty well.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
And one day, oh, I'm sorry, let me back up. Actually,
my first night at Meredith, I am walking to dinner
on the first floor of my dorm because it was
very close to the dining hall, and these two girls
come running screaming out of their room. Okay, fun, I'm like, cool,
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what's going on? Like you know, Nosey asked me. I'm like,
I gotta ask them plus to investigate. Yeah, and they're like,
our bathroom door just locked itself. And I was like,
what do you mean it locked itself? And they were like.
I was like, do you mean that it's locked and
there's no one in there? Or do you mean that
it literally turned like because it was like an actual
thing on the outside. You could see when someone locked
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and unlocked it. It was a creepy like yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were like it turned itself, and I said, are
you sure? I was like, are you sure? No one's
in there? And they're like, we don't have sweet mates.
The other like the other room that's attached to our
room is like I don't know, they're like working on
it or something. Nobody lives there and like there's no
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way that anyone could get in or out of there.
No one's working. I was like, is anyone working in
there right now? And they're like, no, they don't work
after certain hours. Like blah blah blah blah. That that
was crazy.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
So then sketchy.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Fast forward to like two weeks into the semester, my roommates,
my sweet mates, and I have this agreement. I go
to go to the bathroom and the door is locked,
and I'm thinking, ooh, what happened here? You know, like
why this has been working so well? Why would you
lock the door? So I go around to my sweet
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mates' room and I'm like, hey, the door is locked
on my side and they're like that's weird, and they're
like we haven't even like been in there lately, but like, yeah,
hold on, I'll fix it four you real quick. So
they go to unlock to go into their side of
the bathroom, and their side of the door is locked,
and all four of us are standing in one room,
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all four of us who live there, and nobody had
a person over, like we hadn't had anybody Like.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Why they go to each side of the door and
lock it, yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Right right, and so we're like banging on the I'm
like like knocking on the door, like, hey, is there
somebody in there? Because that's literally the only way that
the door would.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Lock, because it's it's insane.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You can't like nobody could crawl in. The window opened
about four inches, like it was not no one could
get in from the outside, like somebody would have had
to go in through one of our rooms into the bathroom,
lock both sides of the door, but there was nobody
in there.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Uh uh, how'd you get it open?
Speaker 6 (22:38):
I had to call maintenance and the main and sky
came and he was like it's really weird. It's been
a problem on this floor in particular this week. This
is like the third call I've gotten, and I was like,
oh my god, stop super weird. So yeah, those are
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my haunted stories, and I guess I think we have
a little bit more time. I just wanted to close
out the episode with what are some funny maybe not
so funny, maybe good, maybe like just notable Halloween memories
that you have from growing up?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Uh, we just always went to church, same same. They
would have stuff inside the fellows, Paul.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
They have like bales of hay. I feel like mine
always had bails of it.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
No, you know why because they were like five kids.
It was just a bunch of old white people. Oh no,
there weren't that many children. But they would set up
like in the Sunday school rooms, like bobbing for apples
or like little things like that where you could get
treats or crap like that.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Bobbing for apples is profoundly unsanitary, but it is also
one of my favorite childhood memories.
Speaker 8 (23:57):
I don't remember being good or bad at it. I
don't know. I don't remember. I feel like I probably didn't.
I probably didn't do it enough. I probably didn't put
myself out there enough.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
I also went to church a lot for Halloween stuff,
but I think that like they the church I went
to growing up for some reason, like didn't actually do
anything on Halloween, so like we would have fall festival
trunk or treat like on a separate night. So I
did actually get treat some in spirits, I know, right,
I did actually get to go trick or treating with
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my neighborhood friends. But I had this one friend in
our neighborhood who her mom was like the cool mom.
She threw the best parties. And like me and this
one friend and then like this other little boy that
lived down the street would always hang out together and
so he always got invited to the Halloween party, but
he was never allowed to go because his mom like
didn't believe in Halloween. And so we we go to
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this Halloween party. This is like right before middle school,
so like this is right on the cusp of like
people still dress up, but like we're starting to get
older and it's like, you know, we're happy. Yeah, cool
parties more fun than trick or treating. So like we're
all sitting there and like everyone we had a costume
contest every year. We're all dressed up to the nines
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and there's this kid that comes in and he's like
dressed up like a ring wraith from one of the rains,
and we're like, that's a sick ass costume, Like who
is that? And like the whole night, nobody could figure
out who it was. And it turns out it was
that little kid from down the street whose mom never
let him go to anything. And I don't know if
she just like had a change of heart that year,
or if like he stuck out or something, but he
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he was the ring wraith kid, and he like showed up.
We're like, what what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like costume broo, let you out of the house. We
will hopefully see you again. Close. Now here's an easy
Halloween souvenir game. Suspend apples from strings in the doorway
or from the ceiling at the proper height to be
caught between the teeth. The first successful player receives a prize.
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These prizes should be Halloween souvenirs like plastic spiders, rubber snakes,
chattery teeth, whoopee cushions, fingercuffs, or wax vampire fangs.
Speaker 9 (26:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Halloween is rich with many time honor traditions, games, and
rituals for divining the identity of one's true love. Here
are a few where dwells my lover steal out unobserved
at midnight, plucking a small lock of your own hair,
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then recite this rhyme, I pluck this lock of hair
off my head to tell whence comes the one. I
shall wed fly silken hair, fly all the world round
until you reach the spot where my true love is found.
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Cast these hairs into the breeze. Whatever direction it is
blown in is believed to be the location of your
future matrimonial partner. There is also the ritual of the
Magic Stairs. Walk backward down darkened stairs, holding a lighted
candle over your head. Upon reaching the bottom, turn suddenly,
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and before you will stand the object of your heart's
desire and sow.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
The journey down the magic stairs shall end in lovers meeting.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Jungle worms and swampbreads around your feet.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Hello.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
My name is Alicia Watson and I am one half
of the Twisted and Uncorked podcast. Nothing says Halloween to
me like a good old fashioned ghost story. And while
I grew up in a haunted house and worked in
a haunted restaurant packed with paranormal activity. Ghostly activity isn't
new to me. Eight years ago, my husband and I
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moved into our apartment, and I often wonder if there's
something attached to the unit or the building that we
live in in general, or if it's just something that
maybe I brought into the house by hosting this podcast.
I try to do regular cleanses and I'm very careful
never to invite anything in. But I have often been
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told that perhaps I have some sort of medium ability,
so maybe I don't have a choice in the matter.
But onto the spooky stuff. So, like I said, this
is the apartment that my husband and I bought, and
it is our our first home together. We moved in
and we didn't really have a ton of furniture in
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the place, unfortunately, as it was much larger than the
rental we had before. In our living room especially, it
often felt eerie and empty.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Within one of the.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
First few weeks that we lived there, I woke up
in the middle of the night to pee and I
was too afraid to get out of my bed because
it sounded like somebody was walking in the living room.
Now I know what you might be thinking. I live
in a condo. It could have been the floor above me.
But trust me, I grew up in a basement suite,
so I know what footsteps above me sound like. It
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sounded like large, piercing footsteps, like a man walking back
and forth. When Kevin went out into the living room
to investigate, the footsteps stopped and no one was in there.
On multiple occasions, I have seen ghostly shadow figures walk
by the door frames in the corners of the hallway,
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and one time I accidentally recorded an EVP right after
a shadow figure walked by. There was clearly a man's voice.
I caught a second, very angry EVP when I was
recording what intended to be a soundless video of me
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smiling and doing a Patreon plug for the podcast. Next,
we have what I refer to as the hair pulling ghost.
At the time, I had hair almost down to my butt,
and it does get caught from time to time, but
these are hard pulls from low down. For example, I
was cooking in the kitchen one evening and I felt
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a yank on the end of my hair. I turned around,
thinking that it was my husband goofing around with me,
but no one was standing there. It's almost like the
level of a little kid tucking on the end of
your shirt to get your attention. And this has happened
on four separate occasions, two times in the middle of
the night, which is so much fun. I also have
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an old timey style alarm clock in our living room
for decoration, the type that has bells on top of it,
and there are no batteries in it. We don't actually
use it for a clock, but one night my husband
woke up in the middle of the night to the
chiming in the living room. It was sitting on the
floor rattling around when it's normally up high on a shelf.
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There was no sign or how it could have fallen
on the floor, and it did scare the absolute crap
out of my little rabbit, Thumper. Speaking of Thumper, he
has recently been the subject of some of my mimic
slash double activity. Just this morning, when I went to
feed him, I saw him crawl under the couch, and
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when I went to coax him out for his breakfast,
he was in our bedroom, not under the couch. On
three separate occasions, something in my house has imitated my
husband's voice, and it's not been him either. In one instance,
he sounded like he was very hurt and I went
looking for him, and twice he was being his cheeky
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self with me. For example, I was sitting in the bathtub.
I got out of the bath to grab some things,
so I left a couple of wet footprints, and when
I went back in, all I heard was baby as
he would call me, thinking he was scolding me for
having left little footprints throughout the house. But he was
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not even home, so that's deeply unsettling. My lights flicker
in the podcast area randomly, and I have caught orb
like figures a few times in the podcasting videos. But
that said, thank you so much for listening to my
ghost story today. Happy halfway to Halloween, and remember to
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keep it twisted.
Speaker 11 (32:56):
Baby baby baby baby baby baby.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
Baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Well, I'm ready for Halloween.
Speaker 11 (33:09):
And if enough for contradas don't show up, you're ready
for next Halloween too.
Speaker 14 (33:13):
This twelve ounce bag of Whoppers Milk chocolate or a
ten ounce bag of milk Dove's chocolate covered caramels only
one fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
My it got chilli in here, didn't it? Poor? Now,
we've all heard the ritual of gazing into a mirror
to summon bloody Mary or some other Malai spirit on Halloween,
but there are other such games and rituals one can
play with the aid of mirrors.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
For example, stand alone before a mirror. There by the
light of a candle, comb your hair. The face of
your lover, be that love are alive or dead, will
appear in the glass, peeping over your shoulder. There is
also the ritual of the mirror and apple, which works
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best in houses or other locations known to be haunted.
Stand in front of a mirror in a dimly lighted
room and begin eating an apple. If the spirits in
the home are friendly towards you, one will appear behind you,
just over your right shoulder, and ask where a bye
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at the apple. If the spirits be unfriendly, none will appear, but.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
The apple will be snatched from your hand with a
most violent rudeness.
Speaker 15 (34:46):
Where a nineteen years old?
Speaker 16 (34:47):
Where your wat you? O?
Speaker 17 (34:50):
Day?
Speaker 11 (34:52):
Hey, everybody, I'm Ever and I'm Maddie and we're wich
is talking tera?
Speaker 15 (34:58):
I think I remember Disney Channel used to do Halloween
in April. Never knew why they did that.
Speaker 18 (35:05):
Now I'm like, oh, because let's just haway Halloween.
Speaker 19 (35:08):
Hellowen.
Speaker 18 (35:09):
Now I'm like I need to go home and watch
some Halloween like movies. Like anyway, So one of.
Speaker 20 (35:17):
The experiences that I want to talk about is there
a little girl outside my bedroom.
Speaker 21 (35:22):
This is nuts.
Speaker 18 (35:23):
I think I was in the third grade. The third grade, okay,
so I was rather young. Yeah, it's a rented house.
It was two stories.
Speaker 15 (35:36):
Bottom half of the house was my brother and my
parents' top house with me and my sister, our sister's room.
Speaker 18 (35:42):
Are the stairs come up immediately to my sister's room.
I was like aloft, and then there was an added
wall and a doorway that led mine room. My sister
was asleep in my bedroom. I believe, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 13 (35:55):
I don't know where the shadow came from, but it
was truly a little girl standing in the doorway, just
like in her room, right to the doorway that led
to my room, and my sister and I both saw it,
and it was not my sister.
Speaker 18 (36:11):
Obviously, my sister was in my room, and I was terrified.
Refuse to sleep. I remember, like, refusing to sleep. I'm like, no,
like locked eyes with this little girl locked eyes. She
didn't move like our eyes were locked in. And my
sister went and told my mother, and my mom comes upstairs.
Speaker 15 (36:36):
I'm still staring at this little girl, like I imagine
if you're not a believer, you're like, this bitch was hallucinating.
Speaker 18 (36:44):
That's just your imaginary friend. I'm just kidding. Are you
just imagining this shit?
Speaker 22 (36:52):
No?
Speaker 20 (36:52):
I know I wasn't imagining it because I pointed it
out to my mom and at first she was like, there's.
Speaker 18 (36:57):
Nothing there, like, what are you talking And then she's like, no,
I do see it, like and it was literally the
shadow of a little girl. And when my mom saw
it and she was like, I do see it.
Speaker 22 (37:08):
What the fuck?
Speaker 23 (37:08):
That bitch was just staring at Oh sorry, lady, that
was just staring at me. And she stared the whole time.
She did not leave until my mom was like, oh,
I I.
Speaker 18 (37:20):
Will do see it.
Speaker 11 (37:22):
That makes sense if it's something that's praying on children,
right and adults.
Speaker 18 (37:26):
And oh my god, I generally see it. But you
forced your mom to see it by making her pay attention. Yes,
Because like that's the thing that gets me about a
lot of stuff.
Speaker 11 (37:36):
Is like people have paranormal experiences and they don't even
know it because they're just they're walking around without.
Speaker 18 (37:42):
Their eyes open. They do, I know, right, and they
don't know.
Speaker 20 (37:46):
It never occurred to me that it could not have
been a little girl but in fact an entity praying
on children.
Speaker 18 (37:51):
And when my mom saw it, it was like, oh god.
I always assumed that, like it was a little girl
that was reaching out to a child, and an adult
saw and it got scared. What you're saying makes a
lot more.
Speaker 11 (38:02):
Sense, Yeah, because your internals did not say, oh, that's
a little kid I want to play with.
Speaker 18 (38:06):
Your internals said like it was actually terrifying.
Speaker 15 (38:09):
The fact that like it was still there staring at
me and tell my mother saw it, And the fact
that I remember this often but I haven't told you
about it is what's crazy, because I do and have
remembered this. And as I say this out loud, it
wasn't just me and my sister. My friend was also
with us, my friend Sassha, So it was really and
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all three of us saw it. I it was how
old were you about?
Speaker 18 (38:39):
Third grade? Third grade? So eight nine?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 18 (38:43):
About it was terrible. Also, that's an energy that could
attract like that, like you know, to eight or nine
year olds and like.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
What a section?
Speaker 18 (38:52):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (38:54):
Six, yeah, So like I could I could see something
being attracted to that energy.
Speaker 18 (38:59):
And like popping up and being like, oh my god.
It was so scary. I also had another experience in
that house. This one is gonna be weird. And I
actually have.
Speaker 15 (39:12):
Thought about both of these experiences, and I wondered or
what the heck was going on in that house, Like
was I tripping? Was I having like a skitze moment
in that house? Because the second there was in your week.
Speaker 20 (39:25):
No, seriously, because the second incident in that house was
I was in bed and I was sleeping, My sister
was asleep in her room, and then I saw what
looked like glowing footprints.
Speaker 18 (39:42):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 15 (39:43):
I thought you were gonna say, I I have to
I around and tell you this because like no, and
it was like they went from my window to my
bed and there was one on my bed.
Speaker 18 (39:57):
They were like glowing green. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 11 (40:00):
No, I like I I as a child, I've actually
had a similar experience. That is what my face is
because I'm like, I get you. I thought they were
left for I thought they were like an alien sorr.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
But like.
Speaker 18 (40:18):
I got down, I was like shaky. I know, I
was like shaking.
Speaker 15 (40:24):
I get down, go downstairs to my mom's room, and
I'm like I'm scared.
Speaker 18 (40:31):
She's like should we go? So I finally go to bed.
I wake up. Never happened again because you caught whatever
was going on? Okay, but crazy does it?
Speaker 24 (40:42):
How was tripping in both of those like because this
is one of.
Speaker 18 (40:47):
Your shoes where your shoes cobbled the next day?
Speaker 25 (40:51):
I didn't love you know, like have you ever seen
the cartoon anywhere that is not Halloween? Little shoemakers coming
in to like mess with the shoes. Not even I
thought it was an alien footprint. So in the color
the brother did they have elongated toes?
Speaker 20 (41:07):
It looks like as an adult, I would describe like
swamp monster type foot prints.
Speaker 18 (41:13):
Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (41:15):
And they were green, they were growing or glowing a
line three yeah, lime green like bright green.
Speaker 18 (41:23):
Yes, yes, I thought it was a lepercun but it
didn't have toes.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
It was like yes it did long yeah.
Speaker 18 (41:29):
No toes, no toes.
Speaker 11 (41:30):
Oh okay, I guess when I think swamp monster, I
think three, but you know, three toe footprints.
Speaker 18 (41:36):
That's but I guess, like it doesn't mean that's what.
That's just what I thought was like, I need you
to be real with me.
Speaker 15 (41:42):
Do I sound like I had like a like weird
skitzo in that third grade went through some weird like you.
Speaker 11 (41:50):
Know, but I've had experiences my entire life, so like
to me, like that doesn't sound crazy. But furthermore, I
had an experience with green glowing footprints in that same
era of time, actually before and after as well.
Speaker 18 (42:04):
It's three times. That's weird. But I wonder is it
a thing?
Speaker 11 (42:10):
Have I been visited by alam and they were smaller
than my fe I just can't believe it was.
Speaker 26 (42:15):
They weren't tiny, but they're smaller than my feet. I
just can't believe that you also have had an experience. Truly,
I was not expecting this. Was I in a psychosis
at the.
Speaker 18 (42:26):
Time, Like both of those incidences are so INSI I mean,
but you saw the foodsteps too. Was this that night
when you saw it? I saw them in the morning.
Speaker 11 (42:36):
You saw them in the morning for meathing you know,
like I saw like you know when in the morning
and you see like the flood snail trail from when
they said that it was like that, but not because
it was like, you know, the spike snail trail is
like flat, right. Yes, this obviously had like dimension to it.
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It almost like was like evaporating weird. It was very
translucent and.
Speaker 18 (43:04):
Glowing. Yes, such is the best.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
That is crazy.
Speaker 18 (43:07):
I'm so glad that. I mean, I feel slightly less
crazy since it's not just me. One of the things
I was going to share with everyone on Halfway the
Halloween was an experience that makes me feel quite crazy.
So it was I was on my way to pick up.
Speaker 11 (43:28):
A client and the sun had not come up yet
and it was beginning to storm out, and it was dark.
Speaker 18 (43:37):
I mean like new moon dark, like there was no
light in the sky. This was at like five am. Okay, okay,
And I'm on a back country road and I have
some jerk in a geehaw boy.
Speaker 11 (43:53):
They all pick up truck with those led headlights that
are blinding them and like this guy's like practically blinding
me and I get past it and like my eyes,
I'm like trying to readjust to the darkness.
Speaker 18 (44:08):
I'm in an older model card does not.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
Have those bright led lights, you know, and I'm just like,
I'm just trying to, you know, stay down the road
as my vision readjusts to the darkness because it's like
the led lights blinded me full disclosure guns. And I'm
driving along and it's it's in the same timeframe that
we did our Bansheet episode, and you know, that was
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we had we were learning about the colioc and we
were learning about the Banshee, and we were learning about
all these feminine energies, some that are associated with wrath,
some that are associated with uh foretellings of doom.
Speaker 18 (44:54):
And I am driving and I city a black.
Speaker 11 (45:02):
Shape against the dark night sky, right, because the night
sky itself is not black.
Speaker 18 (45:08):
You can call it black, but it's not really black
when you look at it.
Speaker 11 (45:11):
It's like that it's like different hues of black and
blue and yeah, and it's like, you know, so a
black shape against the night sky.
Speaker 18 (45:20):
You can see it right even without light, you know.
Speaker 11 (45:24):
And this black shape that looks like an ink blot
with a tail is in the air up over on
the left side of the road, so the side of
the road I'm on, and it is just at first,
it's just hanging in the air and then it swoops
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down at my vehicle and I'm like, oh my god,
what the happening right, because it's like really dark and
I'm like just trying to stay on the road and
it comes down at my car and it seemingly bounced
is off my windshield. I'm a practicing witch and I
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have protections on myself and my vehicle.
Speaker 18 (46:08):
At all times, and like nothing got broken. Like I
had a bird unfortunately, and that little beak broke my
windshield right.
Speaker 24 (46:16):
So like this thing, it was as if something that
was soft but heavy had hit and.
Speaker 11 (46:25):
Rebounded because I felt it in my car and it
wasn't just augusta wind Like I was feeling the wind
as well, don't get me wrong, but the feeling the
jerking in my car came right along with the dark
thing I'm seeing that is glancing off my windshield and
then bouncing up again. And then it came back again,
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and like it came down at my car more than once,
and I was like, I felt like I'm like racing.
Speaker 18 (46:55):
To not die, and I'm like, is this abbe?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
And she?
Speaker 18 (47:01):
I mean I was wide awake. I had, you know,
I'd taken a shower. I was on my way to
my client. I had coffee.
Speaker 11 (47:08):
Yes, it was dark, but like I was awake. I
wasn't like sleepy or anything. I've never talked about it
on our show Two Lane Highway. And like they're still
oncoming traffic, you know, because like you know, I'm coming
from a bigger town heading out of town to smaller towns.
Speaker 18 (47:27):
So there's the early morning traffic of people of the
little towns who are making their way into town for work,
you know, so terrifying. It was terrifying, and like it
feels crazy, Like.
Speaker 11 (47:42):
That experience feels crazy because anyway that that was just
like a one time thing.
Speaker 18 (47:49):
But in this house, I have a more regular, parable
experience of my shadow Man.
Speaker 11 (48:02):
You know, in the first season of which is talking Taro,
I was talking about the shadow Man. I was telling
Maddie about the shadow and the broom fellow over outside
of History. Yeah I do remember that, yes, yes, And
he went away for a little while, and then Monday,
I was in the shower and he was back. And
I feel like he's a protector. I do, but like
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he has been really active recently. You know, my dog
used to go to the back door and bark at Yeah, yeah,
and I'd see him through the window to.
Speaker 18 (48:34):
The garage a lot.
Speaker 11 (48:36):
And I still sometimes see him through the window to
the garage. Sometimes he has a hat on, sometimes he
does not. But he is a shadow man, like I
do not see any features, you know, He's just he's
a dark, shadowy figure. My kid has started seeing him sometimes,
the youngest one, and he's never I don't feel like
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he's menacing, but I talk about.
Speaker 18 (49:00):
Him, I think on our poulter Geist episode.
Speaker 11 (49:04):
And I talked about the things that I experienced with
my house on our Polster Guys episode because I hear
scratching a lot and we don't have like there's not
a reason for the scratching. I hear footsteps above my head,
but we don't have an attic.
Speaker 27 (49:18):
He has been more active since that, since we talked
about that on that episode, and I am starting to
wonder if he's trying to tell me that there's something
in my house, because I'll be in my room and
I push my door closed because it's like I'm gonna
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change or something.
Speaker 18 (49:40):
He pushes it open like he does like and I
it's not like it just opens, it's not perverted. Well,
and I don't think it's perverted either, but like the
door's not just opening on it, so like it is
being opened and.
Speaker 11 (49:55):
There's no person around that's doing it, and I can
see that it's being pushed open because at a point
it stops being pushed open and then it starts falling,
and it's it's a little disconcerting.
Speaker 18 (50:08):
Yeah, for sure, would be so creep.
Speaker 11 (50:11):
It's additionally disconcerting when I because I hear him when
I'm in the shower.
Speaker 18 (50:15):
I hear him walking around, going around, and you're like,
it's not perverted, Okay.
Speaker 11 (50:22):
I hear him in the hallway, which makes me say,
think because it's almost like being vigilant.
Speaker 18 (50:27):
When I'm vulnerable. What is in my house, y'all? What's
the shadow guy for texting me from?
Speaker 11 (50:33):
Because there's absolutely a shadow guy, there's absolutely some other
weird stuff.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
You think I'm mad. You sit there scrupling your little
logs with nodding like I'm just another air drowned grease monkey,
grantic about ghosts and the gears. But I'm not mad.
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I'm I'm attuned and you well, you're about to hear
the truth, the kind of truth they scrub from the
brass walls of the sky ships, the kind of truth
that makes the air taste like iron and wakes you
with your lungs full of static. We were up in
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the upper clouds above this smog line, sailing on the
Loosenda bell, a minding dreadger turned patchwork patrol ship, held
together by rust and prayers. She groaned when she turned,
like it made her remember something terrible. And there was
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a man, Hobbs, engineer ex military, still wore his boots
like he expected to be called back toward any minute.
But it wasn't his discipline that set me off. It
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wasn't the way he slept like a statue, or the
fact that he never ate with the crew.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
It was.
Speaker 3 (52:36):
It was the eye, a glass ocular lens grafted straight
into the skull, humming with purple energy. I'd see it spinning, calculating,
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even when he was at rest, always always watching, always measuring.
You try to talk to him, and and and and
and and he just he'd just stare as if as
if trying to decide where your where your bolts went,
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And the others didn't mind. Oh, Hobbs is just quiet,
and he said, And a brilliant mind saved the aftercore
for meltdown twice last month. But but, but but they
didn't see what I saw. The way he disappeared into
the lower decks with with tools, no one recognized, the
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the way he'd whisper to the engines, his his breath
fogging with the cold of of the ether exhaust. And
and when the whispers began, not not my head, No, don't,
don't look at me like that. It was in the walls,
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in the steamlines. I'd be I'd be lying in my bunk,
dead of night, and I'd hear it.
Speaker 10 (54:22):
It's not dead, he remembers, it sees you.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
I followed him one night, quiet as a rat, in
the ducts, down to the engine womb, where the ship's
cortex thrums with with memory and hunger. And I saw it.
I saw it. He'd torn out the regulators, he rewired
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the cerebral boiler. Blood red glyphs drawn in oil crossed
the console. He wasn't just maintaining the ship, he was
fusing with it, feeding his mind into the core. I
couldn't let it happen. I saw what he was becoming,
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what he would turn us into. No thoughts, no freedom,
just just just cogs in his machine.
Speaker 18 (55:24):
So I.
Speaker 3 (55:27):
Stopped him, quietly, elegantly, a steam spanner to the base
of the skull. One twist, one final sigh, like a
bellows empty, and he collapsed among the wires and steam,
(55:55):
that fernal eye flickering like a dying star. And I
smiled peace at last. I I disassembled him, not not
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not with hate, no, no, not at all, with precision,
like an engineer does with with any faulty equipment. I
tucked the parts beneath the help, behind the floor panels,
buried deep, deep in the beating heart of the ship,
where no one would ever think to look.
Speaker 21 (56:42):
At.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
At first, the silence it was. It was beautiful, ringing silence.
The ship seemed to exheal the whispering stuff the walls.
The walls relaxed. But but then sound, It's soft, rhythmic, familiar,
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tick talk, tick talk. I blamed the boilers, recalibrated the
steam vowels, that there was no change. I rerouted the
ether conduits. Still it pulsed under the floorboards, behind them,
(57:32):
in the walls, his eye, his consciousness. It hadn't died,
simply moved. Every night I hear it, tick talk, it
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grows louder, closer, the crew doesn't hear it, or they
pretend not to, speaking to only me. Now, maybe I'll
a week to find messages etched in condensation on the pipes.
Still here, still watching. You are a part of me. Now.
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I tried everything, shut off the helm, core, disconnected, the
core text uplink. But now loosend a bell flies herself,
charts where, charts courses while we sleep, takes us to
places that aren't on any map, Places that that that
that that whisper back and I hear, I hear Hobb's
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voice in the events in in in the engine, per.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
You.
Speaker 3 (58:44):
You can't unmake me, dick.
Speaker 2 (58:49):
Duck.
Speaker 3 (58:52):
I told the captain. I begged him to burn the helm,
and he laughed, laughed, So so I locked myself in
this chamber far below deck, only metal and breath down here.
But the ticking, it's it's, it's it's here, it's in,
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it's in me. He he replaced me, one year at
a time while I slept, while I dreamed, And now
I feel it turning, winding, counting down to something, And
when it stops, I think, I think he walks again.
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So you sit there, you scribble your notes, you watch
me like I'm broken, but soon soon you'll hear it too.
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Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
The next time you're in southwest Virginia, you might want
to stop in at the Tavern for brunch. It's the
oldest building in historic Avingdon, Virginia, and dates back to
the seventeen seventies, and like nearly all.
Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Buildings that old, it's very haunted. It is said that
in this colonial era watering hole turned restaurant a ghostly
poker cheet and a flirty spectral prostitute known as the
Tavern tart Hold Court in the small hours of the night. Customers, bartenders, waitresses,
(01:02:23):
and staff have all witnessed paranormal activity there. When I
was a boy, one of our local newspapers even printed
a photograph of a ghostly figure staring out from a
second story window. The last time I ate there, I
asked our waitress if she'd ever seen any of the ghosts.
She said that no one ever wanted to be alone
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in the tavern after the restaurant closes, especially in the
night in the dark, because when you're alone, you can
feel an unseen presence watching you. She said that it's
for candles that have been blown out to relight themselves.
One of her co workers was working alone one night
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in the office having a conversation on the phone. This
woman had made some offhanded, joking remarks about one of
the ghosts to the person on the other line. She
then heard a loud crash downstairs. The office and kitchen
are both upstairs. The bar and seating areas are all downstairs.
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When she went downstairs, and she was the only person
in the building.
Speaker 17 (01:03:34):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
She found that all the bottles in the wine rack
had launched out of the rack and on to the floor.
Many of the bottles broke, with wine gushing out to
form a blood red puddle on the tiles. Some of
the old timers on staff believe that the puddle formed
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on the very spot where Captain Gordon William Rife was
shot dead by his lover's angry husband. A review of
the surveillance video showed that no one had touched the
wine rack. The bottles had fallen out of their own accord.
Speaker 4 (01:04:18):
Extra on stage, not from the grave, the sparent materialization
of Bruce Lee, King of Kong Fu.
Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Hey everyone, my name is Nikki Young and I'm the
host of Serial Knapper, the true crime podcast for NAPS.
I'm here with a true crime story to lull you
to sleep, or perhaps to give you nightmares. It was
April first, twenty fourteen. What should have been a tranquil
hike through the jungles of Panama turned into a mystery
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that would haunt the world. Two young women from the Netherlands,
Lizanne Frun and Chris Kremer's. They had come to Panama
with a simple mission to work with children, explore a
new country, and make a difference. Along for the journey
was a stray dog, a companion to guide them through
the dense, untamed wilderness. But when the sun set that day,
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only the dog returned.
Speaker 30 (01:05:13):
Lizanne and Chris were never seen again. Days passed, A
desperate search ensued, but what authorities uncovered only deepened the mystery.
Scattered remains, a severed foot, and no clear answers. What
had happened to these young women. Had they fallen victim
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to the dangers of the jungle, or was something darker,
something far more sinister, at play. As the days turned
to weeks, the case only grew stranger. While hikers often
succumbed to the perils of the wild, this one didn't
seem to follow the usual pattern. Among the items recovered
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from the scene was a camera still holding photos taken
out hours after Lezian and Chris had made their final
emergency calls. What happened in those eerie hours? What did
those pictures reveal, if anything at all? Some say the
jungle holds more than just its secrets. Perhaps something or
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someone was waiting in the shadows so dim the lights
put your phone down and prepare yourself for the unsettling
story of Leziane and Chris, the two hikers who vanished
into the heart of Panama, never to be seen again.
Speaker 31 (01:06:34):
So let's jump right in.
Speaker 30 (01:06:36):
On March fourteenth, twenty fourteen, Lee Zane Phroon and Chris
Kremers arrived in Panama with bright hopes and big plans.
Eager to make a difference. They had come to volunteer
with local communities, work with children, learn Spanish, and just
unwind a little. It was supposed to be the adventure
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of a lifetime, but things didn't go as expected. A
miscommunication led them to arriving far too early for their
volunteer program. Chris noted her frustration in one of her
diary entries, writing rude and not at all friendly, describing
the town's unwelcoming atmosphere. But they decided they would try
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to make the best of an unfortunate situation. They had
time to kill, and they were in a beautiful, warm destination,
so they thought they might take the opportunity to enjoy
some exploring. Panama has so much to offer, lush forests
and jungles. While both were fairly experienced hikers, they were
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new to the area, so they thought it might be
best to hire a tour guide to show them around.
They booked the guide for April second, but found themselves
wanting to try to do a hike the day prior.
Determined to make the most of their time, Lauzanne and
Chris decided to spend the day explore during the surrounding
area on their own, so on April first, they set
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out on the Pianista Trail, a path that winds its
way through the dense forest near the active Baru volcano.
According to a geographical expert, this three mile stretches relatively
easy to navigate, and most hikers return without issue. Lezan
and Chris spoke to a local innkeeper before they left,
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asking for directions. The innkeeper advised them to take a
taxi back to town if they planned to return before nightfall,
because if they attempted to hike back in the dark,
they could become lost and confused. The two women began
their hike around eleven am with only a single backpack
between them. The only companion on their journey was Blue,
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a stray dog well known to locals, who followed them
along the trail. By the end of the day, the
world would lose track of Leeziana and Chris, and it
was the last time anyone saw them alive. People in
town began to suspect something was terribly wrong. When the
dog blew arrived back without the two young women, still
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the community waited. They decided to hold off contacting authorities
until the following day, but the sense of unease grew
as April second passed and Luzanne and Chris missed their
appointment with their hired tour guide. That's when the first
real signs of trouble emerged. The young women had also
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failed to check in with their families, which was a
regular habit back in the Netherlands. Their families were growing
concerned by the hour, and they just felt like something
was wrong. By April third, authorities launched a full scale search. Unfortunately,
there was no sign of either of the girls. By
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April sixth, the parents of both women had flown to
Panama desp for answers, accompanied by detectives from the Netherlands.
They joined the search efforts, which now included on foot
search teams and trained dog units. For ten days, teams
combed the forests where the women had last been seen.
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Their hunt, growing more urgent as each day passed. For
a time, many suspected the women hadn't gotten lost in
the jungle at all, but instead had fallen a victim
to a crime in town before they left, But this
theory was soon disproven. The focus shifted back to the
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dense forests. Then, on April fourteenth, a breakthrough came. A
local tribe member turned in a blue backpack she claimed
to have found along the bank of a nearby river.
When investigators examined the contents of the backpack, they found
a disturbing assortment sunglasses, a camera, two cell phones, money
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to bras, a water bottle, and Chris Frun's passport. The
discovery of the backpack only deepened the mystery what had
happened to Leezianne and Chris. How had their belongings ended
up so far from their intended path. But the real
breakthrough came when authorities searched the content of the women's phones.
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What followed was a grim and confusing timeline that painted
a picture of desperation. The phones had remained active for
nearly ten days after Leeziane and Chris went missing. The
investigation revealed a chilling truth Lizanne and Chris had been
calling for help. The women made several emergency calls in
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the hours after they went missing, dialing both the Netherlands
emergency number one one two and Panama's nine to one one. However,
poor reception in the forest meant that they could only
connect once, just for two seconds. The call was stable
for a brief moment, but then cut off. The phones
remained on for several days after that. One of the phones, Chris's,
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showed multiple failed attempts to enter a pin. The phone
had been powered on one last time on April eleventh,
five days after their disappearance. After that, both phones went
dead and their batteries drained. Given the timeline, authorities believed
that at least one of the women was still alive.
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Five days into the search, there was even more alarming
evidence found on the camera still working, with photos taken
hours after their last distress calls. The camera held more
than one hundred photos. At first glance, they seemed like
typical tourist pictures, Lizanne and Chris smiling together enjoying their
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time in Panama, But as the images continued, the tone shifted.
One photo dated around the time of their emergency calls
showed Chris with a look of concern on her face.
In the next photo, the smile had disappeared, replaced by
something darker. Then came the images from April eighth, taken
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between one am and four am. These pictures were strange,
seemingly random objects like a stick with plastic wrapped around it,
scenes of foliage, canyons, and a bridge. The timing of
these photos was disturbing. They were taken during the same
window when the emergency calls had been made, suggesting that
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the women were still alive, still trying to survive, several
days after their initial disappearance. But why these random, seemingly
meaningless photos. Experts have offered various theories. Some believe the
photos were trail markers. Lezanne and Chris may have been
using the camera to help them navigate or to signal
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for help. The steady focus of the shots suggests that
they were taken intentionally. Someone was deliberately capturing these images.
Others speculate that the flash of the camera may have
been used as a light source in the dark jungle,
or perhaps to scare off wild animals. But there's another
chilling theory that neither Lizanne nor Chris actually took these photos.
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Some believe the women may have been abducted. The randomness
of the pictures, the strange objects and locations captured in
the dead of night, suggests something far darker. Someone may
have been holding the camera, someone else may have been
with them. There was also one photo that was particularly disturbing,
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focusing on the back of Chris's head showing a bloodied injury.
The image was captured around the time of their distress calls.
Was this Chris injured on the hike trying to document
her last moments or did someone else take these photos,
someone who may have been with them at the time.
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And then came another bizarre discovery, Chris's neatly folded clothing
found by the river's edge, placed above the waterline, nearly
a half mile upstream from where the backpack was found. Oddly,
they were located on the opposite side of the river
from where the last photos were taken. The investigation grew
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even darker as search teams discovered a shoe behind a
tree containing a sock and a human foot part of
lee Zan's remains. DNA tests later confirmed it was hers.
The search continued for weeks, uncovering more bones, more fragments,
thirty three skeletal pieces scattered throughout the jungle. They also
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found bits of Chris's skin, but the cause of death
remained a mystery. The remains had no obvious signs of injury,
no evidence of trauma, and the bones appeared strangely bleached,
as though they had been exposed to the elements for
a long time. Authorities faced a growing dilemma. How did
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these young women die? Was it an accident, a tragic
fall in the jungle, or was it something far more sinister?
And why had they ended up so far from the trail.
Another strange discovery came when police learned about a Facebook
post made by Lauzanne and Chris. It revealed that before
their hike, they had shared brunch with two dutch Men,
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men whom no one had heard from since. Theories began
to emerge. Had these men been with the women that day?
Were they somehow involved? As the investigation progressed, even more
unsettling connections were made. Between twenty nine and twenty seventeen,
more than twenty four tourists disappeared in this very area
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or were found dead. In twenty seventeen, the case was
revisited and fresh evidence surfaced suggesting that the disappearance may
be linked to a serial killer. Leaked law enforcement reports
indicated that the young women may have been deliberately dismembered,
and there remains scattered, a pattern seen in some.
Speaker 31 (01:17:24):
Of the other cases.
Speaker 30 (01:17:27):
The authorities had once claimed that the river and animals
were to blame for the scattered remains, but an eighteen
month investigation led to a chilling conclusion homicide, and with
that more questions arose what had happened to them in
those final harrowing days. The case remains mostly unsolved, and
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the internet is rife with speculation. Had someone been stalking
the area, Was there a serial killer at work preying
on vulnerable tourists, or was it something even darker, a
conspiracy to cover up what really happened to Louisiane Froun
and Chris Kremmer's in the wild of Panama. As the
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years pass, the truth remains elusive, but one thing is certain.
These two young tourists didn't die naturally. Something happened to them.
Whether that's something is human or not remains to be seen.
That's it for me tonight.
Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
Victims from the eye.
Speaker 32 (01:18:30):
Is will be thrown on the stage.
Speaker 9 (01:18:31):
Uppie at a time, human.
Speaker 21 (01:18:33):
Hair is shut off.
Speaker 8 (01:18:35):
Hi am Becky.
Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
Some fine chills and serial killers and I'm emma Hello,
so Ves.
Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Do you know what what? Well, apparently it's halfway to Halloween.
Speaker 7 (01:18:46):
Now, well you know what that means.
Speaker 33 (01:18:51):
To celebrate the halfway to Halloween mark, I thought, you know,
shall we tell each other some spooky stories?
Speaker 9 (01:18:57):
Have you got anything to tell me?
Speaker 7 (01:18:59):
Yeah? So, when I think about it, one of the
freakiest things that ever happened to me was after COVID
we moved back into a house that we'd lived in
years before. It wasn't anything grand. It was just a
well it was a small eighteenth century home, old but
full of character. I do like that house. Yeah, it
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is nice. Yeah, it's where we live in France, in
the countryside. There's lots of these very older properties that
are kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's good
for younger families and that to renovate and stuff, and
then you get a house a bit more house feedbuck.
Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:19:36):
So it was a two bedroomed home, but there was
a tiny third bedroom, so we could call it a
three bedroom house. But the third bedroom was absolutely teeny.
Speaker 9 (01:19:46):
Weeny teeny weenie.
Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
So when we lived there before, my husband always felt
uneasy there. He never liked being alone downstairs at night.
Bless him, all six foot hairy man of him.
Speaker 33 (01:20:00):
Don't knock it, because in fact, my story starts off
very similar those goot feelings generally, you know, because does
he get those feelings now in their house you're in now?
Speaker 7 (01:20:12):
No, because this is quite a new house, so there's
nothing much going on here, and it was nothing but
like bright good feelings here. But there are some houses
that you go in and you kind of get a
bit of a yeah, a bit of a feel from
when we were looking for houses, we had a few
of those. You go in and almost almost feels colder
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in one particular room.
Speaker 9 (01:20:34):
That's never a good sign. But no, I'm with Noel.
I'm with Noel. Sometimes you just get the ooh, I
don't like it.
Speaker 7 (01:20:43):
Yeah, So, yeah, he never really liked being downstairs alone
at night. It was in the middle of nowhere, down
the end. It was the last house on the left
as well, which is oh, is a little bit I'm
the last house on the left and I'm down a
little road.
Speaker 9 (01:21:01):
Oh my God, I never thought that I am the
last house down on the left.
Speaker 7 (01:21:06):
Yeah. He never really liked it because it was an
older property anyway, even though it was lovely inside, it
was all renovated or lovely, but he'd hear things like
little noises, movement, and sometimes after we put the kids
to bed, he swore that you could hear them running
around upstairs. So this normally happened when I wasn't there,
Like if I went out or if I was late
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back for something, kids to bed, you'd hear them running around.
He was like, oh, the kids are just not listening
to me, and he goes upstairs, fast asleep. Lovely, isn't
it spooky? So I used to be the one, the
one in the horror films that'd be like, eh, probably
just an old house just doing all the creeky stuff.
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Probably a mouse, we don't know, you know, it'd be okay, Yeah,
it'd be reap. So yeah, I used to brush it off.
It's just an old house. Old houses make noise, they do.
Speaker 9 (01:21:59):
When they're haunted.
Speaker 7 (01:22:03):
Houses mate nots when they're haunted. So when we finally
moved back after COVID, our friends all came over and
helped us unload everything. It was a long, hot, exhausting
day and by the evening we celebrated with a barbecue.
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It was great. It was a good light little housewarming,
but very light, low numbers because it was still COVID time.
We were still coming out of lockdown, so that's why
we had a barbecue outside. But when everyone left, we
were all absolutely shattered. We all just wanted to sleep.
So our home, how it was. The layout was the
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living room and our main bedroom upstairs were part of
the extension of this property, the new part of the property,
so they were like separate from the original bones of
the of the house. The kitchen and the kid's bedrooms
were part of the old structure, so those were the
part of the house where the walls are about a
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meter thick. There's very very old property that part. So
that night, around three am, I woke up. So that's
never a good time to wake up now that the
shit goes down. Yeah, so I woke up and something
in me was like on hire alert mother's instinct. Maybe
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I was already worried that one of the kids would
wake up sleepy in the middle of the night and
not really know where they are and I was especially
worried about my then six year old son, as he
was quite a deep sleeper and would like walk around
half awake trying to go to the toilet in the
middle of the night. So I thought he might wander
around confused and maybe mistake a cupboard for the bathroom.
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Never know, I didn't really want that to deal with
the first you know, no, after we've just moved in
sale there in the dark listening, the house creaked. But
it was nothing unusual because like I said, houses make noise.
Old wood settling. Can just imagine me lying in bed
with the covers up to my chain, going, that's the
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old wood settling. It's just to convince myself.
Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
But we all do it.
Speaker 7 (01:24:20):
We're all like it's just the wood shifting the wood.
It's just like everyone knows. Houses move around. Oh but
then there were footsteps, not random pops and groans of
an aging home, but the deliberate, steady movement. Someone was
walking around. So at the top of the stairs was
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a tiny little landing which light goes, and then there's
all the three doors of the separate bedrooms, so our
bedroom door. As you were lying in bed and looking
at the rest of the bedroom. The door was at
the far left of the room, so you couldn't see
out into the hallway from where I was lying down
in bed. But the bedroom door was open and I
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could just hear someone walking around. It was like a
soft but distinct presence. So I called out, half expecting
to hear the sleepy mumble of my little boy, and
I said, how are you okay? Silence, The footsteps stopped,
so then you get that prickly yeah. I don't really
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want to go and check. Yeah, but I'm still kind
of convinced that it was my son's.
Speaker 9 (01:25:33):
Well, you have to go check, you have to.
Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:25:37):
So the foot set stopped, but the weight of something
lingered just beyond the door. I could feel that someone
was there. You know, sometimes you can hear you can
see where they are with the sound. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I sat up and called again. I said, are
you okay? Still no answer. The hallway felt like dick
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with something there, something that I couldn't see, and something
just waiting for me to look. So I was like, well,
I'm just going to have to look. So I got
up climbed out of bed. So my heartbeat was kind
of in my throat at this point, because I was
still a little bit scared. It's quite you know, I'd
gone from living in a town for a few years
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to back into the middle of nowhere, pitch back countryside.
So as I went up to the door, expecting to
see my son standing there, groggy and confused, there was
no one. The hallway was completely empty. The gate to
go downstairs was still closed. We had a baby gate there,
but I was worried that the kids would wounder downstairs.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So I thought it's just a wood,
It's just a wood. I quickly moved into the kids
rooms and each of them were curled up belief. They're blankets,
breathing deep and sound asleep. Ah, when you have kids,
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or when you've seen a kid that's been you can
tell that they're in a deep sleep where they've got
almost like it. They're almost molded to how they're lying
and then sticky up and sweaty yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know how they are. I was like, no, these
kids are asleep asleep, These in waking up. These haven't
just woken up.
Speaker 9 (01:27:25):
Kids are damp when they sleep, they get damn.
Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:27:29):
It was hot as well, so I think they're all
a bit sweaty, extra extra damp. Yeah, our kids great.
So yeah, each of them sound asleep.
Speaker 9 (01:27:42):
But I knew what I heard.
Speaker 7 (01:27:43):
I had heard footsteps, someone was standing there, and it
was as if they could only walk around in the
original part of the house, as if they couldn't come
into our room because that was the extension that was
the new part.
Speaker 5 (01:27:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:28:00):
It's as almost as if either it was an echo
of like a memory of something from before, from when
the original os years and years ago was just having
another walk around again like a memory. Yeah, or it
was a ghost child and they couldn't come in our
room because that room didn't exist when they were alive.
Speaker 6 (01:28:23):
Oh well, that's definitely why.
Speaker 7 (01:28:25):
That's definitely why one of those reasons. No, so yeah,
but I couldn't sleep very well after that. But I
definitely heard it. I'd heard footsteps, I had heard someone
standing there, and I could feel it as well.
Speaker 9 (01:28:42):
Yeah, yeah, no, I totally know what you mean.
Speaker 7 (01:28:45):
Yeah. So, maybe it was just an exhausted mother's imagination.
Maybe it was the house settling. It was taking its
time because it was three in the morning. But in
that moment, standing in the dark, I didn't believe that,
and I still don't. No, I must admit I don't
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believe that either.
Speaker 9 (01:29:07):
I think you had a ghost.
Speaker 7 (01:29:10):
It sounds like it was the same sort of thing
that my husband used to describe being there. Yeah, but
it's almost if I had to move out and then
back in again to hear it, yeah, or to let
myself hear it.
Speaker 9 (01:29:21):
I don't like it.
Speaker 33 (01:29:23):
I don't like it, and it's very strange because actually
I have quite a similar story.
Speaker 7 (01:29:28):
Oh go on, then, do you want to hear it?
Tell me, tell me more, tell me more.
Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
So.
Speaker 33 (01:29:34):
Back in the day, I used to run a pub,
classic setup pints, locals, the occasional drunken brawl for no
reason except drunkenness. But the real drama that lived upstairs above.
Speaker 9 (01:29:46):
The bar was a flat. Do you remember the flat?
Speaker 5 (01:29:48):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (01:29:49):
How did you feel about the flat? Just like random question?
Were you are right? Did you have a good feeling
about it?
Speaker 22 (01:29:55):
Well?
Speaker 7 (01:29:55):
The first time I went up there was because I
wasn't very well and I to be sick in your
private toilet, away from away from the punters, because I
was a little bit drunk. But going up there sober,
it was always like it felt like the corners were
a bit too dark, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (01:30:12):
Yes, yeah, it had a feel.
Speaker 33 (01:30:15):
It had this like massively long corridor. There was like
you went up and you're in the main part of
the flat, and then to get to the bedrooms was
this really long corridor. Now I'm not a fan of
corridors because I think they're creepy, but it was always
just dark and I didn't like it. The flat in
itself gave me the hebgb's and it wasn't like, oh,
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you know, just a bit awkward. When I had to
go up there to like grab cigarettes out of the
safe because we kept all the cigarettes up in a
safe up there, I would sprint up the stairs, not
look at the corridor, like just go past it, just
look straight at the safe, grab the SIGs, run back downstairs,
which wasn't an easy feat because I don't know if
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you remember the staircase, but it was deadly.
Speaker 7 (01:31:00):
Oh that was horror, horrific staircase. It was all wonky
and nothing was the same height and it was just deadly.
I bet it would have had to have settled staircase.
Speaker 9 (01:31:11):
Definitely. It's the wood. It's the wood.
Speaker 33 (01:31:17):
Now, the flat was home to my barman and best mate, Tom,
big guy, heavy footed, And one day I'm working in
the bar pulling pine three, stocking shelves, usual stuff, and
I can hear him clumping about upstairs, walking back and forth, clumping,
just like.
Speaker 7 (01:31:36):
Yeah, you could hear someone in that, you could hear
when someone was upstairs.
Speaker 33 (01:31:40):
And he was just walking back and forth, oating drawers,
dropping stuff. I mean, to be fair, it sounded like
he was doing a massive cleanup, you know. It was
that kind of furniture moving. And I'm like, oh, well,
you know that's cool he's cleaning up. Yeah, because you know,
single bloke living in a flat not the cleanest. So
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imagine the sheer confusion because I'd been hearing this for
hours at this point, when Tom walks through the front
door from outside, fresh as a daisy. Turns out he'd
left before I'd even arrived that morning. He'd been out
all day, no one had been in the flat, and
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when he went to check, everything was exactly where it
should have been. There weren't any open drawers, no mess,
it was just quiet and everything was normal.
Speaker 7 (01:32:30):
He didn't have a surprise flatmate then.
Speaker 9 (01:32:33):
No, no, no, no animals either. At that time.
Speaker 7 (01:32:37):
No cats, nothing, Oh, a cat would have a trouble
moving us over.
Speaker 9 (01:32:41):
Indeed it would.
Speaker 33 (01:32:43):
But if there had been a cat, I would have
definitely in my brain, you know, like you're going it's
the wood. I would have been like, ah, it's a.
Speaker 8 (01:32:50):
Cat, it's a cat.
Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
Yeah, well, when you have cats, you know what cats
sound like. That is like scuttling around tiptoe in, tiptoe, win,
tipto through the jew lip.
Speaker 9 (01:33:07):
That's such a fucking creepy song.
Speaker 7 (01:33:11):
The lips with me.
Speaker 6 (01:33:17):
It's the beginning where it goes.
Speaker 7 (01:33:23):
Give them, making myself cringe, freaking myself out.
Speaker 33 (01:33:28):
Okay, yeah, Tom's walked in. I've heard footsteps all day
and you know, there was no explanation for it. So
that was the first time I was like, actually, maybe
the fact that I'm creeped out by the flat there's
you know, there might be a reason for it. And
it didn't stop there. The footsteps became a regular feature,
so even to the point where the customers would hear
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them and kind of listen and be like, it's Tom upstairs,
and I'd just give them a look.
Speaker 9 (01:33:56):
Like no, no, I wish he was, but no, not,
I wish he was.
Speaker 7 (01:34:04):
I wish it was that simple, Brian.
Speaker 33 (01:34:09):
Then came the breakup, so my long term boyfriend and
I called it quits and I had nowhere else to go,
so I moved into the flat with Tom. Roommates with
your bestie sounds like a bit of a you know, sitcom.
Oh you've got a friend's t shirt on? So it
was like, Oh, is it going to be like friends?
Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
And for a bit it was.
Speaker 30 (01:34:31):
It was.
Speaker 9 (01:34:32):
It was fine.
Speaker 33 (01:34:32):
We had a good time, and I kind of forgot
about how creeped out I was once I was living
there and all my stuff was there. I just got
used to it and I wasn't really frightened anymore. I
let my guard down.
Speaker 7 (01:34:45):
Mistake.
Speaker 33 (01:34:46):
Wa One evening after closing, Tom and I were just
chilling watching TV and there was a knock at the
flat door. So, just to explain, the only way to
get to the flat door was through the bar, So
you'd have to come into the bar, then through the
staff door and up the stairs and then you'd knock
on the flat door.
Speaker 7 (01:35:04):
Oh don't tell me, I have a knocking ghost.
Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Now.
Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
The footstep ghost was bad.
Speaker 33 (01:35:08):
Enough, but the bar was shut, the bar was locked,
and our motion detector alarm was set, so when you
hear that knock, your heart kind of sinks and you're like, what.
Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
The foodge.
Speaker 7 (01:35:22):
Yes, So we kind of look at each other like
did I hear that right?
Speaker 33 (01:35:27):
And we both did, and I said, oh, do you
know it must be the co owner because there was
a I owned it and somebody else owned another half,
and she often just kind of nipped in for a
packet of Siggi's if she'd drawn out.
Speaker 9 (01:35:39):
So that's what I thought it was.
Speaker 33 (01:35:40):
So I got up, opened the door, and all that
there is there is that bloody dark, horrible staircase with
nobody on it. So me and Tom kind of get brave,
go downstairs, check the bar. The bar still pitch black,
the doors still locked, and the alarm was still on.
I had to turn it off so we could go
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into the bar. No one could have been there, great,
So that was unnerving. Eventually I met my now husband,
he'd come into the pub and we kind of just clicked.
Speaker 8 (01:36:15):
Fast forward.
Speaker 33 (01:36:17):
I get pregnant and I'm packing up my bags to
move in with him into a rental house. So poor
Tom got left behind to brave the haunted flat on
his own. One night he's in bed. When he hears
the knocking at the door again, he gets up, checks nothing,
gets back into bed. Knock, knock again. This time it's
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the woodnock.
Speaker 24 (01:36:43):
So it's just settling.
Speaker 33 (01:36:45):
It's been here for hundreds of years, but it still
needs to settle, needs to.
Speaker 7 (01:36:51):
Knock itself a few times.
Speaker 33 (01:36:55):
So the second time he hears knocking, he doesn't go
and check. He's scared, and rightly so, so he gets
his chest to drawers and he barricades his bloody bedroom
door because I.
Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
Would be in tears. Yeah, he would cry so much.
Speaker 9 (01:37:10):
He was scared.
Speaker 33 (01:37:11):
But it didn't stop there. He didn't get to sleep
that night because the knocking continued all night, and not
only was it on the flat door, but it moved
to his actual bedroom door. Oh oh no, horrible right,
just I don't know how he actually continued to live there,
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but he did. Bless him, he did, anyway. Fast forward,
I don't know, a couple of months and a customer
comes into the bar one night or casual and says,
I'm a psychic medium. You do know this place is haunted, right,
And I'm like, yeah, no kidding. Whilst you're for a drink,
do you think you could possibly tell him to keep
it down.
Speaker 7 (01:37:52):
I think you took that very cool. Yeah, that was
a very very cool answer to that. There's a lot
of them in what you already knew. But I don't
know what I would have done with that information. Yeah,
I was very very much like, is there anything you
can do about it? And no, that wasn't, in fact
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so helpful, so helpful anyway, I think we've scared ourselves
enough for a halfway to Halloween. What do you think
there's no there's no end to the story. There wasn't
an exorcist, and.
Speaker 18 (01:38:27):
No one got the gool out.
Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
No.
Speaker 7 (01:38:30):
The second meeting was just like, oh, by the way,
there is a go So I'll just confirm your fears
and fun off.
Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Pretty much much.
Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
The weather will be a treat in our Halloween forecast
and night cast.
Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
It's times like these that I can't shake the feeling
that I'm being watched. Shadow Play makes for a splendid
party game at Halloween. Shadow buff for example, is a
game especially suitable for a large party. A white bed
sheet or white tablecloth is first of all stretched right
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out across the room, and on a table behind it
is placed a bright lamp. All The other lights in
the room are then extinguished, and one of the players
takes a seat upon a low stool midway between the
lamp and the sheet. The other players endeavor to disguise
themselves as much as possible by distorting their features, rumpling
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their hair, wearing wigs, false noses, et cetera, and pass
one by one behind the player seated on the stool.
Their shadows are thus thrown upon the sheet. The aim
of the seated player is to guess the identity of
the shadows as they pass before him, and the aim
of the others is to endeavor by every means in
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their power to keep him from guessing them. As maybe
imagined that the task of the single player is not
an easy one, the distorted shadows being vastly different from
the originals as seen before the lights were extinguished.
Speaker 22 (01:40:16):
Hi, I'm Jen and I'm co host of our true
crime podcast. So my family loves to vacation at amusement parks.
We've vacationed at many of the big parks. I mean,
Disney World, Universal, Cedar Point, Bush Gardens, Silver Dollar City,
et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 31 (01:40:32):
I mean, you get the point. So two years ago,
we decided that we were going to stay closer to
home and go to Dollywood, and I was thrilled. And
I don't really like theme parks, but Gatlinburg was perfect.
It's only a day's drive to Saint Louis, or it's
only a day's drive from Saint Louis, and there's so
many other things to do there, you know, which is
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great because I don't like theme parks. I've got something
to do besides stay there and hold everybody drinks. So
we're all excited for Gallinburg, neither of us, none of
us had ever been there before, so and one of
the fun things is instead of getting your hotel, we
decided that we were going to rent a cabin in
the Smoky Mountains. Now I was kind of lear it
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first about staying in a cabin, because you know, I'm
thinking all Laura Ingalls Wilder type stuff. But this one
was great. When you drive up the mountain, it's incredible.
I mean a bear across the road while we were
going up there, a black bear, and of course my
youngest daughter freaked out. My oldest daughter thought it was cool,
but it's just amazing to be out there in the
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middle of nothing right, just trees. So anyway, once you
get to the cabin, you enter the place through the
galley kitchen, and once you get through the galley kitchen,
it opens up to this big open living room and
it's got windows in it, and it's from floor to
ceiling just the whole wall is nothing but glass windows,
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and you can see for miles because you're up in
the mountains. Right, the primary bedroom is downstairs too, and
then to the right is a staircase that winds up
to the second floor. And on the second floor is
this big open space and there's a pool table, a
foosball table, and a bed out in the open. There's
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like no separate rooms. There's also a bathroom up there. Well,
on top of the bathroom is like a loft, and
to get to that loft, there's a ladder. You know,
it's kind of like going up into a treehouse. So
once you climb up the ladder, there's the loft and
there's like just mattresses thrown there. Now, that little loft
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area only has one wall. The rest of the walls
are covered in a banister with like railings. Right, no
other walls, so the only way up and down is
this treehouse type ladder, so both floors have their own.
Speaker 3 (01:42:59):
Door to the deck.
Speaker 31 (01:43:00):
As you walk out to the deck upstairs, there's kind
of like a balcony, almost like a catwalk that when
you get there, you can look down from the banisters
and you see the living room. So it's like this
whole big open space and it was so nice. I mean,
we loved it. We loved getting into the hot dub
on the upper deck and just to take into fantastic
view of the Smoky mountains. I mean, it's just breathtaking.
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You really do feel like you're on top of the
world and you're nobody for miles and it's fantastic. On
our first night there, there's this horrible storm. There's tons
of lightning, and it just seemed to strike everywhere around us.
I mean, at one point I was scared to death
that was going to hit the cabin. And then the wind,
Oh my gosh, the wind was so strong that I
(01:43:44):
thought the ceiling was going to fly right off. But
what I was most worried about was my youngest daughter.
She took the loft space and it's close to the
roof and she's terrified by the storm. She hates storms,
oh and bears, and so she's worried about the storm.
She was worried about the bears, and needless to say,
(01:44:05):
she didn't sleep well. And the following day when we
were getting up to go get breakfast and then to
get groceries to stay, she was so crabby, so crabby
(01:44:27):
because she didn't get to sleep at all, and so
she wanted to stay behind at the cabin while we
went into town. I thought, it's fine, that's fine, let
her sleep. It's easier to let a crabby teen sleep
than to deal with her.
Speaker 16 (01:44:38):
Right.
Speaker 31 (01:44:38):
So we were gone for just a few hours when
I get a call and it's the youngest and she's
telling us she wanted to come get her. She was ready,
she was ready to go. She wanted to go. I'm like, okay,
that's odd, that's weird. But who knows what's going on
inside the teen's head, right, you can't figure that out.
We told her we'd be home soon, not to worry. Well,
barely fifteen minutes went by and she called again. She
(01:45:00):
was when are you coming home? I want you to
come home. I'm like, okay, weird, it's odd, but like,
be home in a few minutes. We're on our way
close to the road to go up to the cabin,
and we just honestly just blamed it on her being
anxious because she wanted to go down the mountain coasters.
She was looking forward to going down the mountain coasters,
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and right when we got there, she was right by
the door. When we got home, she was standing. She
opened up the door right when we pulled up. She
started helping us put groceries away, and she was trying
to get out of the house like she wanted to go.
We spent most of that day out seeing what Gatlinburg
had to offer, and we didn't get back to the
cabin until after dark, and of course the girls put
on their swimsuits and went and hopped in the hot tub,
(01:45:43):
and my husband and I sat in the living room
just reading. It was nice and quiet and you could
hear the insects. It was fantastic. And then I hear
somebody come down the stairs and I looked up just
in time to catch a glimpse of my oldest and
a black T shirt and jeans, and I said, wow,
you didn't spend much time in the water. And my
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husband looked at me funny and said what are you doing.
I'm like, I'm talking to our daughter. She's coming down.
Speaker 17 (01:46:08):
And then I.
Speaker 31 (01:46:09):
Noticed nobody came down to this. Nobody came downstairs. I'm like, huh,
I go, well, gosh, I must be tired. Then my
husband's like, yeah, that's that's weird. Yeah, must be tired.
Just whatever, we just missed it. And you know what,
(01:46:31):
I saw that figure go down the stairs three or
four more times while we stayed there. Once was when
I was alone in the house during the day even
and I got this feeling. It was a young, dark
haired teenage boy that was wearing a black concert t shirt.
I would never really see him at the top of
the stairs. I would only catch a glimpse of him
as he was like two steps down, and then he
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would walk further down, hit the landing, turn the corner,
walk a few more steps down, and then disappear. He
would never make it to the ground floor. As a
matter of fact, I never even saw his face. Now,
as much as I loved the cabin, I couldn't sleep there.
I would wake up in the middle of the night
hearing somebody call my name. I would get up and
(01:47:14):
softly call to my kids to see if they were up,
but nobody ever answered. I guess they were asleep. I
would hear tapping on the deck windows, I mean, most likely.
I told myself it was bugs hitting the window, you know.
That's what I told myself to keep me sane. But
bugs don't hit the window multiple times in a rhythmic pattern.
Speaker 3 (01:47:36):
It was like this.
Speaker 31 (01:47:42):
Over and over again. One night, around three am, I
heard a loud bang scared me half to death. I
jumped up because I thought my youngest had gotten up
to go to the bathroom and to falling down the
ladder and just hit the ground. But when I rushed upstairs,
I found both girls were sound asleep. So I had
adrenaline surging through my veins then, and I couldn't get
(01:48:05):
back to sleep, so I picked up my book and
headed to the couch. I hoped reading a few chapters
would calm me down. And as I got settled in
with the book, I heard the floor creek above me.
I looked up at the balcony, and there I saw
an old woman. She was crouched down with her face
in between the banisters, and she was looking right at me.
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Her gray hair was flying about her head, and she
had a smile on her face, and the smile wasn't
exactly evil, but it wasn't exactly pleasant either. She also
had this really weird white glow about her, like it
was emanating from the inside out. I was petrified, I
(01:48:49):
admit I was scared to death. I couldn't even move.
I was scared. And then I noticed her body kind
of started to shake, and I realized she was laughing.
I mean, I felt that she was like delighted that
she scared me so much. And finally I got my
wits about me and I ran into the bedroom, and
of course I didn't sleep for the rest of the night.
(01:49:11):
And I never dared tell my family while we were there.
I didn't say one word about seeing anything or hearing anything.
I mean, I didn't want my girls to be scared,
and I just knew my husband would dismiss it, so
I kept it from them. I mean, I did tell
my best friend and co host Cam because I had
(01:49:31):
to tell somebody. But we had such a great time
in Gatlinburg. We did everything you can do. I mean,
the mountain coasters were a big hit, and so was
Zi Blinding. My husband and girls even went whitewater rafting,
so if you ever get a chance to go to
Gatlinburg or Pigeonforge, I strongly suggest you do it. It's
very fun. So anyway, on the last night in the cabin,
(01:49:52):
my husband was snoring up a storm and I couldn't
take it anymore, couldn't sleep, just I had it. I
know some of you, oh your partners do the same thing,
I'm sure. So anyway, I begrudgingly went to the couch.
I didn't want to go, and I tried my darnedest
not to look at that balcony because I was scared
to death I was going to see that old woman again.
(01:50:14):
And I tossed and I turned on the couch and
I couldn't sleep. And after a while I finally got
up and went to the kitchen to get some water.
And that's when I heard my youngest say, Mom, is
that you? And I said, well, yeah, what's going on, sweetheart?
And she's like, I can't sleep. So I told her
to bring her pillow and blanket down and she could
sleep on the couch with me in the living room.
(01:50:36):
And once we settled in, we both tried to sleep,
but we didn't have much luck. The house would creak
and moan, and my daughter would ask, what's that noise?
And a few times I could say it was the
house settling, or maybe it was black bears outside trying
to get in the trash, but don't worry, they can't
come in. But I had a hard time convincing her
that the footsteps we heard upstairs were the air conditioning
(01:50:57):
making noises. Thankfully, had it to morning, and at the
first sign of the sun we started packing were my
daughter and I were just ready to go. We wanted
to leave a few hours into our journey, we start
talking about the trip and what we loved. I mean,
whitewater rafting was the favorite. Mountain coasters were next. Everybody
(01:51:17):
loved the mountain coasters. I think we did that six
or seven times. It's a lot of fun. You should
try that. Anyway, my husband started talking about the cabin
and how great it was, and my oldest agreed. I mean,
she loved how she had space for herself and how
she could just go out to a hot tub at
any time, and she was trying to convince her dad
to get us a hot tub. No luck, by the way,
(01:51:39):
So that's when I just decided to tell everybody. I
told them what I saw and what I heard, and
my husband, of course did what he I thought he
was going to do. He just dismissed it, and it's
just your imagination. You're fine, just your mind playing tricks
on you. My oldest thought it was kind of cool,
but she was really glad I didn't say anything while
we were there because she would have been scared. My
(01:51:59):
youngest was silent, and then after a while, I said, well,
maybe it was my imagination, I mean, but it really
seemed real. And that's when my youngest piped up. She
starts telling us how when we left her for the
first day, she tried to sleep, but she kept hearing
me call her name. She also heard her dad and
(01:52:22):
sister walk in the front door, or what she thought
was her dad and her sister walking in the front
door talking as they put groceries away. When she came downstairs,
there's nobody there. That's when she admitted that she didn't
sleep very well either. She would hear her name called
out at night now, and I told her it probably
(01:52:42):
was me, because I heard somebody calling for me, and
I called out for you guys, but I didn't get
an answer, and she goes, well, it could have been,
but I swear the voice I heard was deeper, was
a deeper voice, more like a boy or a kid
young man. But the thing that scared her the most
most happened that night, the night before we left, when
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she came down to sleep on the couch with me.
She said she was sleeping in the loft and she
woke up when she heard her name being called. She
of course was scared. She covered her head with a blanket,
and when the house was silent again and she was
telling herself it was just her imagination. When she calmed
down and uncovered her head, there on the ladder was
(01:53:29):
an old, glowing, wild haired woman smiling at her.
Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
Well, the clock is about to strike midnight, and we'll
be one day closer to Halloween.
Speaker 1 (01:53:48):
And with all the things that have happened so far
this year, Halloween can't come soon enough. I'd like to
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Hosek and Edward October. The Ring Raith Kid True Stories
recounted by Karen Rayner and Aubrey Summers, hosts of chick Lit.
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Ghostly Activity Isn't New to Me. True Accounts of the Paranormal,
presented by Alisha Watson, co host of Twisted and Uncorked.
Speaker 12 (01:55:08):
Hello, my name is Alisha Watson and I am one
half of the Twisted and Uncorked podcast. I also just
launched a second podcast in March called Truly Twisted. I
would highly encourage that you check those out. On Twisted
and Uncorked, we definitely cover our fair share of spooky
stories and Truly Twisted is dedicated to missing and unsolved cases.
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Ghastly Green Glowing Footprints. A conversation with Amber and Maddie,
hosts of Witches Talking Tarot.
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First Bell by the Clockwork Heart, an original story inspired
by the Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Written and
performed by JT. Hosek, co host of brew Crime.
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Stuff making myself cringe. True stories recounted by Emma and Becky,
co hosts of spine Chillers and Serial Killers, And if.
Speaker 33 (01:56:26):
You were suitably freaked out, we do actually do a
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And there's me and Emma and also our other co
hosts who couldn't make it tonight, Tasha. So we're a
fun threesome.
Speaker 9 (01:56:42):
A fun little threesome.
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The Strange Case of Chris Krimmer's and Lizanne From written,
researched and presented by Niki Young, creator host of Serial Napper.
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A Haunting in the Smoky Mountains a true story recounted
by Jen co host of our true crime podcast.
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Our true crime podcast, I host it with my best
friend of over forty years. Every Wednesday, we will bring
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Games for Halloween by Mary E. Blaine and The Tavern Haunting,
a true account of the paranormal, presented by octoberpod Am
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Halfway to Halloween Hallabaloo.
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Fx, Springtime Ambience Music, Springtime. I'm Edward here.
Speaker 31 (01:58:45):
Yeah, this is the second time for me recording it,
and I hope I do it a lot smoother than
I did the last time, So we shall see, all right.
Speaker 11 (01:58:53):
The first thing I ever shared with October thought actually
had to do with when I was in grade. And
you know, you could check out his Halloween episodes from
I think twenty twenty two you'll find that story.
Speaker 18 (01:59:08):
But so I'm not gonna go any I'm not sure.
I mean, oh yeah, I guess it's not. But he
doesn't do video. I mean, okay, so it doesn't matter, how,
I hope not, because we did not. I never clicked
to the video button. Okay, so it doesn't matter how. Yeah,
(01:59:30):
you can cut this out, October.
Speaker 11 (01:59:31):
Yeah, sorry, But anyway, I was in third grade for
that experience that I shared on his show for Halloween episode,
the Halloween Public episode.
Speaker 35 (01:59:43):
Yeah, oh my, oh sorry, idea, shit me, No, don't
work doesn't work as well. Beat those out to beat
those out? Beat me, yeah, beat me, beat me hard,
beat me so good?
Speaker 9 (01:59:58):
Shut up. I'm not drunk.
Speaker 7 (02:00:01):
What's in that kind of coke?
Speaker 32 (02:00:03):
There?
Speaker 7 (02:00:03):
I'm other child drinking.
Speaker 6 (02:00:06):
And in the meantime, listening to our show where oh,
Siri just said, I'm not sure I understand because I
I just.
Speaker 8 (02:00:12):
Tried to come on too.
Speaker 6 (02:00:14):
It's the ghost, the ghost, like that's so weird.
Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
I was just like, this is a very crinkling napkin.
Speaker 31 (02:00:24):
Listen to this.
Speaker 19 (02:00:32):
You know, in the old radio days, they would use
this to make a crackling fire. Does it sound like
a fireplace? Does it sound like something cracking you know,
smooshing up popeyes napkin next to a microphone?
Speaker 31 (02:00:54):
All right, kids, Nope, that was going to say that
tons of lightning?
Speaker 18 (02:01:00):
Whoa hold on? Almost?
Speaker 9 (02:01:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (02:01:06):
Feel free to share the EVPs with this story, Edward,
and I will keep you updated on any new things
that happen around the house. And I will send you
more of my crazy ghost story so as they come
up in the future.
Speaker 1 (02:01:20):
Hmm, all right for that, And.
Speaker 31 (02:01:32):
What do I want to say? We've been to do
for over forty years.
Speaker 18 (02:01:37):
And what is happening, right, damn it, darn it, I
tried really hard.
Speaker 1 (02:01:42):
Sorry, the room or rooms in which the games are
to be played, you know what, I want to skip
all of that first paragraph. So we're going to start
off after the intro with in getting up a Halloween
party overhall, which.
Speaker 18 (02:01:58):
Is talking taro wherever of the new we're waving in
our care. But it's our recording of the video, and
that's it.
Speaker 31 (02:02:07):
I think that's it. So all right, if you need
me to redo this or do anything, or if I'm
too messy, let me know.
Speaker 8 (02:02:18):
Stop.
Speaker 6 (02:02:19):
All right. I got to go call doctor Peter Bankman.
So we'll see you next time.
Speaker 8 (02:02:24):
Change my diaper on.
Speaker 6 (02:02:30):
Thank you for being here today. You for being here today,
goodbye bye.
Speaker 21 (02:02:38):
In my family, we think the wine you drink the
most should be the best. We like Paul my Son's Burgundy.
Speaker 17 (02:02:44):
It's smooth and rich.
Speaker 21 (02:02:46):
We serve it to our friends, and now a lot
of them are serving it to their friends. Why don't
you join us. Next time you go shopping and you're
choosing a wine, make it Paul my Son Burgundy. Pall
my Son himself said it nearly a century ago.
Speaker 17 (02:03:00):
We will sell no wine before its time.
Speaker 21 (02:03:07):
I like to cast a party the way I cast
to play with very special people in the champagne be
equally special. Por Masan, a premium California champagne of impeccable taste.
Pormisan wines taste so good because they're made with such care.
Or Pau Mason himself said it early a century ago,
we will sell no wine before its time. I'm here
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at Baemassan Chateau in California. Almost every night here there's
a wine tasting party, and one of the favorites is
all my son, Chabbli.
Speaker 17 (02:03:47):
It's lights and crisp.
Speaker 32 (02:03:48):
It's delicious.
Speaker 21 (02:03:50):
The wine you drink the most should be the best,
and they take special care with it here because they
know Chabli is America's most popular wine. Pumasan Chevlei, I
recommend it. Paul Mason will sell no wine before it's time.
Emerald dry from Paul Mason. It's silky smooth, it's fresh
(02:04:17):
and bright. It's emerald cool, it's crisp, it's sophisticated. It's
emerald dry. From Paul Mason, we will sell no wine
before it's time.
Speaker 32 (02:04:37):
So remember, if conservation's a problem, Gentle it away, as
millions do with tellogs all drowned. The good food way
to keep regular as partwork at your grocers.
Speaker 21 (02:04:49):
The taste of French champagne has always been celebrated for
its excellence. There's a California champagne by Paul Masson, inspired
by that same French excellence. It's fermented in the bottle.
I'd like the best French champagne. It's vintage dated. Paul
Maisson's super taste shouldn't be too surprising. This champagne doesn't
come from France, but it was created by a man
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who did par Masson. Poor Massan must sell no wine
for its time.
Speaker 17 (02:05:20):
Deep a little the plains of southern France, in a
mysterious process begun millions of years ago. Nature herself adds
life to the icy waters of a single spring period.
Its natural sparkle is more delicate than any made by man,
and therefore more quenching, more refreshing, and the mixer par
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excellence naturally sparkling from the center of the earth perier.
Speaker 21 (02:05:51):
A great deal of time and care going to the
production of a fine play, just as they go into
the making of a fine wine. All Maissans run wine castle,
But taste is smooth, flavorful, delicious. Pormsan wines taste so
good because they're made with such care. What far Masan
said nearly a century ago is still true today. We
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will sell no wine before its time