July 30, 2024 • 13 mins
Strange childhood memory of a picture of a dead man and paranormal activity around an ancient hearth.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
We walk amongst ghosts every day, be it sights of
war and strife, are poverty and horror. The twisting, snaking
paths are beautiful but can lead us to some things
undiscovered and terrifying. From the Mississippi Delta to the jungles
of the far East, the dead demand to be acknowledged.
(00:42):
This is what we do here.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Welcome to the House of Asher. Yes, and welcome to
the House of Ashure. This is your host, Steve Asher,
and I hope you guys are doing well. My goodness,
you know, as far as I'm concerned, this is this
is the Halloween season. We're here, you know, we're scared
(01:08):
to get used to it. And that's just how it is.
Baby boy or baby girl.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So anyway, I was remembering a really really freaky series
of events.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
My father, after my mother and father divorced, settled in
a nearby town known as Dawson Springs, Kentucky. Well, Dawson
Springs is smaller than Princeton, Kentucky, which is where I'm from.
Which it's not saying a lot, but very interesting old
school roads almost like almost like not quite cobblestone roads,
(01:50):
but like stone streets, you know, around houses and a
lot of places, especially in the area where my father lived,
which was an older sections. I'll go atad and tell
you where it was at. It was on East Hall
Street in Dawson Springs. You can google it check it out.
(02:12):
And I'm trying to remember. I thought it was like
three eleven. I can't remember the exact address anyway, So
I would go over there. I'd meet my father at
the county line between Caldwell County and Hopkins County, and
it would be in an area called the Blue Bridge. Well,
the Blue Bridge again was just on the outskirts of
(02:37):
Dawson and it kind of wind down Dawson Road happily
named from Princeton. Well, I would ride that bus over
there on Friday afternoons and my dad would be there
ready to pick me up. I remember he had a
black van kind of like like it would look totally
(02:59):
totally apt to have like the like free candy written
on it anyway, but yeah, so he'd picked me up,
and like on Monday mornings, he would drive me back
to the same Blue Bridge. The bus would pick me
up like five thirty or six. It was it was out,
you know, good ways out, so they had to have
(03:19):
to pick me up. It was about about a thirteen
off trip, so anyway, and I would hang out with
my dad and that was great, you know, Like I said,
I love spending time with my pop. That's what I
always caught on my pops. And a lot of times
we'd go fishing. A lot of times we would go out,
maybe go shooting. You know, he taught me about you know, hunting,
(03:42):
hunting squirrels and rabbits and things like that. And he
also just has taught me those male life lessons that
you just don't necessarily get from mom.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You get.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There's just a lot of times there's a different energies
with moms, at least back then. Well, we would hang
out this house. Now. The thing about this house, it
was a duplex that he rented from an older woman
and her daughter. The older woman, I would say, man,
she was probably in her seventies or something, and the
(04:13):
daughter was probably already in her fifties or later. Very wispy,
thin kind of you know what happened to baby Jane
Betty Davis, you know, thin kind of I don't know,
I don't know what was going but they had cat
sort of us like sickly looking eyes almost like their
eyes were kind of yellow. I don't know, maybe if
(04:34):
they had liver issues or god knows why, but they
were very kind people. Anyway, we rented the left side
of the house again that they turned from a standard
home into like a duplex. Well, everything was just fine.
We'd hang out, me and Dad. We'd go go down
(04:57):
to the spillover. You know, that would be you know,
I'd take my Star Wars toys and we play and
I don't play in the water, and you know, he's
show me how to catch fish and how to you know,
bait hooks and figure out you know, well, this type
of fish you want to fish at the bottom, This
type of fish you want to fish at the top.
This one takes fluors, This gonna takes crickets. Anyway, sorry
to bore you with that, but anyway, that's that was
(05:18):
all part of it. Important things I needed to know
at seven apparently. So anyway, I did notice certain nights
I would hear stuff. Now there was a bedroom, like
there was a bedroom what would was meant to sort
of be like a living room or something, but it
(05:40):
also had a bed that I could sleep in, and
then the kitchen and then we had an adjoining bathroom.
We had a small hall that went to a joining bathroom.
They had a door on their side. We had a
door on our side. You go in there, you use it,
you like it, you use it, you unlock it, and
you leave. Anyway, there would be man I can't describe it,
(06:02):
just quirky noises. Yeah, it's an old house, my dad's son.
It's an old house. You know, walls, breathe, floors, creek,
It's just the nature of an old home. And this
is true. I'm in where I'm at now. I live
in an older home and you'll hear the occasional bump,
(06:26):
thump or skitter, you know. So anyway, I get that. Anyway,
so we're chilling. I remember my dad had made shaking
back port shops, the barbecue kind my favorite. Anyway, after
we had this great meal, I tried to sleep in
(06:48):
the middle bedroom, which is close to the kitchen. Kept
just kept getting a weird feeling wake up. I think
I'd hear something moving or rattling, could have been pipes
come in, whatever. But you know what, I said, Hey,
hey Dad, it's too hot in there, which is it
was warm and he had the ac in his room,
(07:08):
blowing to the other room, but mainly in there. I said, Pops,
I'm too hot, man, I'm too hot natured, he said, well, boy,
hop up here on the bed. That's fine, not a
big deal. Uh. He let me sleep on the right side,
and he slept on the left side. It was all groovy,
and honestly, I thought safer. I didn't want to tell
him I was a scaredy cat, but I was so
Sometimes we could hear asad as the chairs move. Well,
(07:31):
I'm assuming it's from the other side of the house,
but this is like three three thirty going on four.
Usually happened anywhere between two to about three thirty. You
would hear just activity. It would kind of get to
the point where, you know, it would get to the
(07:56):
point where it would be chairs, moving feet, shuffling glasses, cutlery, silverware,
almost like someone was having a little dinner party, and
you kind of hear like it wouldn't be like, hey, Jim,
how are you doing or whatever, It would be sort
of like a sage.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I guess you got sue just just below the audible spectrum, and.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That was freaky. We got to where we would put
a fan in between that room in our room actually
put up a little curtain to cut it off. Not
that that's gonna block sound, but it just it just
made it cooler. We stayed in there.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
It was high.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, uh, it got to the point where I'd hear
things falling over and crashing. I would not go in
there in the morning. Dave would walk through. I knew
he heard it. I think he was playing it off.
I said he would go through in the morning, take
a look at the glass, make sure nobody threw rock
or look around the floor. Generally, there wasn't a lot
of stuff scattered. It wasn't like a poltergeist like that,
(09:07):
but it was freaky. Anyway. That was not long before. No, no, no,
wait a minute, I let me digress. When we were
first moving in. Rather, I was helping Dad clear out
the middle room. Well, we're cleaning and this and that,
(09:29):
and there was a mantlepiece and I'm looking around and
I'm dusting off the stuff for the you know, slow washrag.
There so many people oka wash rag in the north
wash cloth maybe. Anyways, I was cleaning with this washrag
and knocked something off. I don't know what it was.
(09:51):
It's kind of weird. Picked it up. You know, it
looked like it was a polaroid. Picked it up, flipped
it over. You scared the hell out of me. It
was an image of an old man dressed in a
suit and a coffin. Terrified me. I said, Dad, there's
(10:12):
a dead guy. There's a picture of a dad. What
are you talking about, boy, Dad, just go in the
other room. Man, it's on the floor. I don't want
to mess with it. So my dad walked in there
and looked around, found a little polaroid, picked it up,
and he went. He said, let me explain son. A
lot of people, when they lose their loved ones, sometimes
(10:34):
that's the last time they'll see them, so they want
something to remember them by, maybe a last parting goodbye,
which I never quite understood. You know, I know a
lot of people want to see their loved ones in
good health, but I also know the times when people
would lose their children or whatever, they would have those
(10:55):
momental mooris, little things, blockets of hair. I've lost family,
I've done the same thing. But anyway, definitely freaked me out.
And that's when I started sleeping in the other room. Well,
we ended up there was a leap and me and
my pop started cleaning out the kitchen and this is
(11:16):
close to where the old hearth was, where the sink
is now. Well, here we go. We're moving things out.
We're pulling all this stuff up. We started morning time
because we didn't want to work in the heat, so
we started probably eight thirty or nine. It was about
eleven eleven thirty by the time we got stuff. Mood
started popping up these old punky boards that we need
to replace. I notice it looks like part of a foundation.
(11:41):
I was like, well, maybe the foundation shifted. I don't know,
maybe it's a support for a support beam. We're pulling
it back. We're clicking its back, and I'll be danged.
It was sort of an oblong looking flat stone that
had kind of gravel around it. It really strange, very
much out of place. Everything in my gut went get
(12:10):
out of there. I saw this just about the time
my dad looked around and looked at it. I said, Pop,
He said, yes, son, he says, I said, that looks
a whole lot like you know, I didn't even have
to finish, and he said, m h. I said, uh,
should we Yeah, let's get We're getting out of here.
(12:31):
So we went and sat on that porch. My dad
probably smoked four or five cigarettes. He smoked more cigarettes
back in the day. And that was just done. You know.
We we we fixed it, covered it back up. But
you know what's crazy, After all that went down, nothing
else ever happened. It was really strange. And that being said,
(12:58):
that was the story of the stone beneath the hearth.
I want to make sure you guys go check out
stuff on YouTube, Spotify, spreaker. iHeart all those different places.
But go enjoy the sun. Go out there and enjoy
all the play of summer. But as the sun sets
behind the pines and the shadows grow long, check in
(13:20):
your basement, check in that hallway. Maybe pick a gander
at that strange block under your house. Maybe you're living
on a burial ground. But I do want to say
it's okay, because there's learning in fearful situations. And I
beg you please to heed my advice. Always stays scared
We walk amongst ghosts every day, be it sights of
war and strife, are poverty and horror. The twisting, snaking
paths are beautiful but can lead us to some things
undiscovered and terrifying. From the Mississippi Delta to the jungles
of the far East, the dead demand to be acknowledged.
(00:42):
This is what we do here.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Welcome to the House of Asher. Yes, and welcome to
the House of Ashure. This is your host, Steve Asher,
and I hope you guys are doing well. My goodness,
you know, as far as I'm concerned, this is this
is the Halloween season. We're here, you know, we're scared
(01:08):
to get used to it. And that's just how it is.
Baby boy or baby girl.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So anyway, I was remembering a really really freaky series
of events.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
My father, after my mother and father divorced, settled in
a nearby town known as Dawson Springs, Kentucky. Well, Dawson
Springs is smaller than Princeton, Kentucky, which is where I'm from.
Which it's not saying a lot, but very interesting old
school roads almost like almost like not quite cobblestone roads,
(01:50):
but like stone streets, you know, around houses and a
lot of places, especially in the area where my father lived,
which was an older sections. I'll go atad and tell
you where it was at. It was on East Hall
Street in Dawson Springs. You can google it check it out.
(02:12):
And I'm trying to remember. I thought it was like
three eleven. I can't remember the exact address anyway, So
I would go over there. I'd meet my father at
the county line between Caldwell County and Hopkins County, and
it would be in an area called the Blue Bridge. Well,
the Blue Bridge again was just on the outskirts of
(02:37):
Dawson and it kind of wind down Dawson Road happily
named from Princeton. Well, I would ride that bus over
there on Friday afternoons and my dad would be there
ready to pick me up. I remember he had a
black van kind of like like it would look totally
(02:59):
totally apt to have like the like free candy written
on it anyway, but yeah, so he'd picked me up,
and like on Monday mornings, he would drive me back
to the same Blue Bridge. The bus would pick me
up like five thirty or six. It was it was out,
you know, good ways out, so they had to have
(03:19):
to pick me up. It was about about a thirteen
off trip, so anyway, and I would hang out with
my dad and that was great, you know, Like I said,
I love spending time with my pop. That's what I
always caught on my pops. And a lot of times
we'd go fishing. A lot of times we would go out,
maybe go shooting. You know, he taught me about you know, hunting,
(03:42):
hunting squirrels and rabbits and things like that. And he
also just has taught me those male life lessons that
you just don't necessarily get from mom.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
You get.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There's just a lot of times there's a different energies
with moms, at least back then. Well, we would hang
out this house. Now. The thing about this house, it
was a duplex that he rented from an older woman
and her daughter. The older woman, I would say, man,
she was probably in her seventies or something, and the
(04:13):
daughter was probably already in her fifties or later. Very wispy,
thin kind of you know what happened to baby Jane
Betty Davis, you know, thin kind of I don't know,
I don't know what was going but they had cat
sort of us like sickly looking eyes almost like their
eyes were kind of yellow. I don't know, maybe if
(04:34):
they had liver issues or god knows why, but they
were very kind people. Anyway, we rented the left side
of the house again that they turned from a standard
home into like a duplex. Well, everything was just fine.
We'd hang out, me and Dad. We'd go go down
(04:57):
to the spillover. You know, that would be you know,
I'd take my Star Wars toys and we play and
I don't play in the water, and you know, he's
show me how to catch fish and how to you know,
bait hooks and figure out you know, well, this type
of fish you want to fish at the bottom, This
type of fish you want to fish at the top.
This one takes fluors, This gonna takes crickets. Anyway, sorry
to bore you with that, but anyway, that's that was
(05:18):
all part of it. Important things I needed to know
at seven apparently. So anyway, I did notice certain nights
I would hear stuff. Now there was a bedroom, like
there was a bedroom what would was meant to sort
of be like a living room or something, but it
(05:40):
also had a bed that I could sleep in, and
then the kitchen and then we had an adjoining bathroom.
We had a small hall that went to a joining bathroom.
They had a door on their side. We had a
door on our side. You go in there, you use it,
you like it, you use it, you unlock it, and
you leave. Anyway, there would be man I can't describe it,
(06:02):
just quirky noises. Yeah, it's an old house, my dad's son.
It's an old house. You know, walls, breathe, floors, creek,
It's just the nature of an old home. And this
is true. I'm in where I'm at now. I live
in an older home and you'll hear the occasional bump,
(06:26):
thump or skitter, you know. So anyway, I get that. Anyway,
so we're chilling. I remember my dad had made shaking
back port shops, the barbecue kind my favorite. Anyway, after
we had this great meal, I tried to sleep in
(06:48):
the middle bedroom, which is close to the kitchen. Kept
just kept getting a weird feeling wake up. I think
I'd hear something moving or rattling, could have been pipes
come in, whatever. But you know what, I said, Hey,
hey Dad, it's too hot in there, which is it
was warm and he had the ac in his room,
(07:08):
blowing to the other room, but mainly in there. I said, Pops,
I'm too hot, man, I'm too hot natured, he said, well, boy,
hop up here on the bed. That's fine, not a
big deal. Uh. He let me sleep on the right side,
and he slept on the left side. It was all groovy,
and honestly, I thought safer. I didn't want to tell
him I was a scaredy cat, but I was so
Sometimes we could hear asad as the chairs move. Well,
(07:31):
I'm assuming it's from the other side of the house,
but this is like three three thirty going on four.
Usually happened anywhere between two to about three thirty. You
would hear just activity. It would kind of get to
the point where, you know, it would get to the
(07:56):
point where it would be chairs, moving feet, shuffling glasses, cutlery, silverware,
almost like someone was having a little dinner party, and
you kind of hear like it wouldn't be like, hey, Jim,
how are you doing or whatever, It would be sort
of like a sage.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I guess you got sue just just below the audible spectrum, and.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That was freaky. We got to where we would put
a fan in between that room in our room actually
put up a little curtain to cut it off. Not
that that's gonna block sound, but it just it just
made it cooler. We stayed in there.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
It was high.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, uh, it got to the point where I'd hear
things falling over and crashing. I would not go in
there in the morning. Dave would walk through. I knew
he heard it. I think he was playing it off.
I said he would go through in the morning, take
a look at the glass, make sure nobody threw rock
or look around the floor. Generally, there wasn't a lot
of stuff scattered. It wasn't like a poltergeist like that,
(09:07):
but it was freaky. Anyway. That was not long before. No, no, no,
wait a minute, I let me digress. When we were
first moving in. Rather, I was helping Dad clear out
the middle room. Well, we're cleaning and this and that,
(09:29):
and there was a mantlepiece and I'm looking around and
I'm dusting off the stuff for the you know, slow washrag.
There so many people oka wash rag in the north
wash cloth maybe. Anyways, I was cleaning with this washrag
and knocked something off. I don't know what it was.
(09:51):
It's kind of weird. Picked it up. You know, it
looked like it was a polaroid. Picked it up, flipped
it over. You scared the hell out of me. It
was an image of an old man dressed in a
suit and a coffin. Terrified me. I said, Dad, there's
(10:12):
a dead guy. There's a picture of a dad. What
are you talking about, boy, Dad, just go in the
other room. Man, it's on the floor. I don't want
to mess with it. So my dad walked in there
and looked around, found a little polaroid, picked it up,
and he went. He said, let me explain son. A
lot of people, when they lose their loved ones, sometimes
(10:34):
that's the last time they'll see them, so they want
something to remember them by, maybe a last parting goodbye,
which I never quite understood. You know, I know a
lot of people want to see their loved ones in
good health, but I also know the times when people
would lose their children or whatever, they would have those
(10:55):
momental mooris, little things, blockets of hair. I've lost family,
I've done the same thing. But anyway, definitely freaked me out.
And that's when I started sleeping in the other room. Well,
we ended up there was a leap and me and
my pop started cleaning out the kitchen and this is
(11:16):
close to where the old hearth was, where the sink
is now. Well, here we go. We're moving things out.
We're pulling all this stuff up. We started morning time
because we didn't want to work in the heat, so
we started probably eight thirty or nine. It was about
eleven eleven thirty by the time we got stuff. Mood
started popping up these old punky boards that we need
to replace. I notice it looks like part of a foundation.
(11:41):
I was like, well, maybe the foundation shifted. I don't know,
maybe it's a support for a support beam. We're pulling
it back. We're clicking its back, and I'll be danged.
It was sort of an oblong looking flat stone that
had kind of gravel around it. It really strange, very
much out of place. Everything in my gut went get
(12:10):
out of there. I saw this just about the time
my dad looked around and looked at it. I said, Pop,
He said, yes, son, he says, I said, that looks
a whole lot like you know, I didn't even have
to finish, and he said, m h. I said, uh,
should we Yeah, let's get We're getting out of here.
(12:31):
So we went and sat on that porch. My dad
probably smoked four or five cigarettes. He smoked more cigarettes
back in the day. And that was just done. You know.
We we we fixed it, covered it back up. But
you know what's crazy, After all that went down, nothing
else ever happened. It was really strange. And that being said,
(12:58):
that was the story of the stone beneath the hearth.
I want to make sure you guys go check out
stuff on YouTube, Spotify, spreaker. iHeart all those different places.
But go enjoy the sun. Go out there and enjoy
all the play of summer. But as the sun sets
behind the pines and the shadows grow long, check in
(13:20):
your basement, check in that hallway. Maybe pick a gander
at that strange block under your house. Maybe you're living
on a burial ground. But I do want to say
it's okay, because there's learning in fearful situations. And I
beg you please to heed my advice. Always stays scared
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