0:00

Alright, so Matt, what do you get when you

0:02

forget to put your fire in the fireplace

0:04

out on Christmas Eve? Hmm...

0:09

I don't know. A crisp crinkle? Yeah,

0:14

yeah, that's right. That's what you get. It's

0:16

good. Good

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evening everybody and welcome to the

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graveyard. Thank you for joining us

0:30

tonight. My name is

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Adam. And my name's Matt.

0:35

Now, roll up a tombstone

0:37

or settle into your casket

0:39

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Alright, everybody. Here we are

0:50

again. Matt, how you doing tonight, brother? Man,

0:54

I am doing fantastic. Good, good.

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This is one of our favorite

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1:02

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1:08

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bah humbug thing around Christmas because it's

1:13

funny to me to pick

1:15

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So Matt, why don't we just get

2:26

straight into this thing? I'm

2:29

sure everybody knows what we're doing, but

2:31

to keep the tradition, Matt, tell us

2:33

what we're doing tonight, brother. So

2:36

tonight we are celebrating the

2:38

Victorian tradition of

2:40

telling ghost stories around the fire

2:42

on Christmas Eve. It's

2:45

an old tradition. Back

2:49

when you didn't

2:51

have Christmas movies to watch,

2:55

you couldn't tell Alexa

2:57

to play Christmas songs. Hey,

3:00

you're welcome for everybody's it just turned on.

3:03

But you would sit down and

3:05

you would tell these stories. And

3:09

they were ghost stories because this

3:12

is the time where the

3:15

darkness is around a lot longer. Now

3:17

we're talking about Victorian England here. So

3:20

it would get very dark, very early.

3:22

It does that here. Yeah,

3:25

it does that here, but it doesn't

3:27

in Australia. Yeah, that's true. Not

3:30

this time of year. But

3:33

anyway, this is when

3:36

people feel like the

3:38

veil is still thin.

3:42

And it's a

3:44

time that you're remembering past loved

3:46

ones, maybe

3:49

family members that have died. And

3:52

this is a way to

3:55

show that connection to the spirit

3:57

world. got

4:00

to remember, you know, Christmas wasn't

4:02

all about Santa

4:04

Claus and Frosty

4:06

the Snowman and Jingle

4:08

Bells. From

4:10

its inception, there

4:13

were a lot of traditions that have, you

4:15

know, died off over the last few centuries.

4:17

And we think this is a cool one to bring back.

4:19

Yep. Trying to revive this one one

4:21

year at a time, if we can. All

4:24

right. So what we're going to do is,

4:27

again, this year we're just going to

4:29

use initials instead of asking for permission

4:31

for each one of these to use

4:33

a name and all that stuff. It

4:35

worked out great last year with just

4:37

initials. You know who you are, so

4:39

you'll know when we read your story.

4:42

We hope you know who you are. We hope you

4:44

know who you are. If not, you got bigger issues

4:46

than us

4:48

reading your name on a podcast. So

4:52

listen for your initials and your story, but

4:54

that's how we're going to do it. Read the initials

4:57

first and then get into the story. So the first

4:59

one I've got is from L.W. So

5:04

I've been wanting to send this to y'all for

5:06

some time now, and it's a story that my

5:09

mom shared with me a few years back, and

5:11

it hasn't left my head since. It's

5:13

one of those disturbing things someone recounts to

5:16

you that pops in your head at like

5:18

3 a.m. and suddenly you're wide awake. Unlike

5:21

me, and I have

5:23

those, trust me, unlike

5:26

me, it says my mom doesn't

5:28

believe in the supernatural. She's never believed

5:30

in ghosts, creatures, spirits, etc. That's

5:33

why I was so shocked when she told me

5:35

the following story. I know she

5:37

wouldn't lie about an experience based on

5:39

the fact that she's never acknowledged the

5:42

supernatural. So again, there

5:44

is some important backstory information needed

5:47

in order to understand the paranormal

5:49

incident. All

5:51

of this took place in Harlingen,

5:53

Texas, when my mom was

5:55

about 8 years old, her father passed away.

5:58

About a year or so later, I was in

6:00

the hospital. Later, my grandmother remarried and

6:03

she had been left

6:05

to raise her five young girls by

6:07

herself. This was the mid-70s. It

6:10

was difficult for her to make enough income

6:12

to support everyone on her own. It

6:15

says, I will call the man she married Bob.

6:19

Bob was an evil man and I'm not

6:21

wanting to use the word evil lightly. He

6:24

verbally and physically abused my grandmother.

6:26

My mom has told me

6:28

stories of how she remembers inserting herself

6:30

between him and my grandmother, screaming at

6:32

him to get his hands off her

6:34

mom. She would hear him

6:36

yelling at her or hurting her in the bedroom

6:39

almost every night. My grandmother endured a

6:42

few years of this until she discovered

6:44

that Bob had exposed himself to

6:46

one of my mom's sisters. She kicked

6:48

him out and divorced him immediately. About

6:51

10 years after this, it was discovered

6:53

that Bob was and had been a

6:56

registered sex offender. He had

6:58

a history of exposing himself to

7:02

people he shouldn't. People that

7:04

didn't want to see it. That extended

7:06

long before he married my grandmother. Long story

7:09

short, he was a horrible person. After

7:11

Bob was gone, things settled down

7:13

for my mom, her sisters, and my

7:16

grandmother. When my mom's oldest

7:18

sister went off to college, my grandmother

7:20

did some rearranging in the house and

7:22

my mother was given

7:25

my grandmother's old bedroom. This

7:27

is the bedroom that her and Bob slept in when

7:29

they were married. My mom was excited

7:32

as she no longer had to share a room

7:34

with one of her younger sisters and began sleeping

7:36

in there as soon as she could. The

7:38

fourth night she slept in that bedroom, she

7:41

awoke in the middle of the night unable

7:43

to move her body or speak. My

7:47

mom told me she opened her

7:49

eyes and observed her surroundings. Her room was

7:51

dark and quiet. She kept trying to sit

7:53

up but she couldn't. She

7:55

began to cry and panic. Her breathing quickened

7:58

and she felt afraid. never

8:00

happened to her before. All of a

8:02

sudden she begins to hear something whisper

8:04

her name. It was a

8:06

slow, drawn out kind of whisper. My

8:08

mom said it sounded like, PIZZA.

8:13

She says it was as if someone

8:15

or something was right next to her

8:17

ear, whispering or calling her name.

8:20

Though she couldn't turn her head to see what it

8:22

was. I asked her about the

8:25

voice specifically and she told me all she could

8:27

remember about it was that it sounded

8:29

like whatever it was, was smiling.

8:31

You know, when you can tell someone

8:33

smiling when they're saying something and

8:36

yeah, you can kind of hear that in somebody's voice. It

8:39

goes on to say that she

8:41

says she felt like she was lying

8:43

there frozen for about five minutes, listening

8:45

to this thing, calling out to her

8:47

as she stared straight ahead

8:49

in her dark room. Eventually

8:51

she was finally able to move and

8:54

she bolted from her bed and sprinted to

8:56

my grandmother's room. She sobbed as

8:58

she told my grandmother what had happened. My

9:01

mom didn't sleep in that room until

9:03

about a week later when the incident

9:05

was distant enough to be passed off

9:07

as a bad dream. There

9:10

were a few nights of peace before the

9:12

incident happened again. She woke

9:14

frozen and fearfully listened as something

9:17

in the dark beckoned and called

9:19

to her. The next day

9:21

my grandmother grew concerned. Her daughter wasn't

9:23

sleeping and was swearing that there was

9:25

something in her room. She

9:28

was a very religious woman and after the

9:30

second incident, she decided it must be more

9:32

than a nightmare. My grandmother was

9:34

good friends with the wife of the pastor

9:36

from her church. This woman, we'll

9:39

call her Barbara, wasn't a

9:41

pastor or leader of the church herself,

9:44

but she did house calls for any reason for

9:46

members of the church. My grandmother called

9:48

and asked her if she would come bless

9:50

the house. At the

9:52

time, my mom had a

9:54

black mutt named Chip. Chip

9:56

was a very happy dog who absolutely

10:00

doored people. He never barked or

10:02

showed signs of aggression when someone entered the house.

10:05

He was always ecstatic to see new people.

10:07

My mom specifically remembers when Barbara showed

10:09

up to the house because

10:11

Chip went absolutely crazy. He

10:14

was aggressively barking at Barbara as she walked

10:16

through the door and was trying to nip

10:18

at her feet. My mom couldn't

10:20

get Chip under control and ended up having to

10:22

pick him up and put him

10:24

in the backyard where he continued to bark and claw

10:26

at the door. Barbara

10:29

asked to see the bedroom and my mom

10:31

and my grandmother led her to it. With

10:34

the three of them in the bedroom, Barbara

10:36

began to recite scripture and pray over the

10:38

room. She said several prayers but

10:40

she ended on one that

10:43

asked any evil spirits or demons to

10:45

leave that they were not welcome

10:47

there and were no longer allowed to harm

10:49

the family. The moment after speaking

10:51

this prayer, my mom says a strong gust

10:54

of wind blew past the three of them

10:56

and out of the bedroom door. No

10:59

windows were open and my mom said it

11:01

felt like something flew past her face. She

11:04

asked if I'd ever had something

11:07

like a ball thrown at me and barely

11:09

missed me. She said that's what it felt

11:11

like but a much larger mass than a

11:13

ball. Gah! Yeah, crazy.

11:17

My grandmother grew lightheaded in

11:20

the moment that this wind blew past them

11:22

and had to kneel down so as not

11:24

to collapse. She was okay, just startled

11:26

and my mom and Barbara helped her out

11:28

of the room. My mom had

11:30

no other experiences sleeping in that room

11:32

after that. I understand how fake the

11:35

part about the gust of wind might sound but

11:37

as I said in the beginning my mom has

11:39

no interest or belief in ghost or ghost stories

11:42

and she's the furthest thing from a liar

11:44

so for her to recount something like this

11:47

to me gives me all the validation I

11:49

need to know that that actually

11:51

happened. She says I'm a

11:54

firm believer that strong energy

11:56

can remain in spaces and

11:58

I truly believe that Bob Was

12:00

evil enough and did evil enough.

12:03

Did enough evil things to my

12:05

grandmother in that room that he

12:07

left some terrible energy behind or

12:10

possibly manifested or attracted something evil

12:12

because of it. So

12:14

she goes on a little bit more but i'll

12:17

stop there yeah i agree with you

12:19

i think i have percent he had

12:21

some attachment or attachments. Because

12:24

of how he was and

12:26

he probably did versa yeah that's

12:28

right. I mean let's let's be

12:31

real about it i mean. Who

12:34

who's we've all

12:36

seen these stories on the

12:38

news of these type people and when

12:41

they get arrested and everything and some of them

12:43

you look at him and you're just like. What

12:46

this guy looks like his huge nerd

12:48

like he's you know he's going

12:50

to tell you how to do some chemistry experiment

12:52

you know he's he's wearing the short sleeve button

12:55

up shirt and the stupid pants pulled up to

12:57

him and you're like. Does

12:59

it does it fit so i have

13:03

always wondered if not

13:06

all but if if some a

13:08

fraction of these cases are due

13:10

to some type of attachment right.

13:14

I mean it's just i agree i

13:16

think. I think a

13:19

good majority of them probably are i

13:21

mean you can't discount that there are

13:23

just evil people but well

13:25

yeah i think in in. A

13:28

lot of these cases like you look at people

13:30

like. Dom or btk.

13:36

They were normal people most of the

13:38

time i mean even gacy. Normal

13:42

people most of the time let a normal life and

13:44

then they had a side

13:46

that just went crazy so what

13:48

if. What

13:51

if that was when some evil

13:53

attachment took over you know

13:55

it could just be that they're evil and

13:57

crazy but the only

13:59

caveat. I have to that is I think

14:03

there's got to be something there

14:05

that would draw something to attack.

14:07

Sure. You know what I'm saying? Oh

14:09

yeah. You know, you're not just,

14:12

you know, an all American, you

14:14

know, person and you're just walking down the

14:16

street one day and something jumps out from

14:19

the bushes and attaches itself to you and

14:21

the next thing you know, you're some kind

14:23

of predator. Sure. Not that.

14:25

I think that you

14:27

have a propensity. Maybe you

14:29

have some thoughts, you

14:31

know, maybe, you know, in the

14:34

darkest realms of your brain, you

14:36

know, things go a little haywire and it

14:38

draws an energy to you that

14:41

allows you to act

14:43

on these things. I

14:45

don't know. This is all speculation, but I

14:47

mean, when you're talking about stories like this,

14:49

you just have to think. What

14:52

am? Yeah. You

14:54

know, there's evil out there. What

14:58

if what if these people that we see

15:00

that we think, God, they are so just

15:02

evil. Maybe

15:05

they're that evil because there's something

15:07

evil attached to them. True. Maybe

15:09

they drew something to themselves. True. All

15:13

right. Well, that's one way to

15:15

start it off with a bang.

15:18

Start it off there. All

15:21

right. So this next one comes from JR

15:24

and JR says, I would

15:26

like to share two stories of mine with you.

15:29

The first is rather short. I was

15:31

sleeping in my room one night and

15:33

at some point something stirred me out of

15:35

my sleep. I was on

15:37

my stomach facing left with my left hand

15:39

on the bed by my pillow. I

15:42

shifted my weight and went to adjust my blanket

15:44

when I felt a weight on my back.

15:47

I initially thought it was my mother's cat

15:50

sleeping on me. I moved again

15:52

and the weight felt very

15:54

large, larger than the

15:56

cat. The weight

15:58

laid across my shoulders. squared

16:00

down to my hips and it

16:03

was heavy. When I realized

16:05

it wasn't the cat, I started

16:07

to breathe faster and get scared.

16:10

I couldn't move to shake it off and I

16:12

couldn't turn my head to see what it was.

16:15

At the height of my panic, I

16:17

felt something caress my left hand gently

16:20

as if to tell me it was okay

16:22

and not to be afraid. I

16:24

inhaled sharply and jerked my body. The

16:27

hand and the weight lifted straight up

16:29

off my body as if pulled by a

16:32

rope. I turned the light

16:34

on and looked around my room and saw

16:36

nothing. No cat, no

16:38

anything. I was alone. Well,

16:43

that almost sounds like sleep

16:45

paralysis. Almost, yeah. Not quite.

16:47

Maybe a variation of it. Yeah, it could

16:49

be a variation of it. Sounds

16:52

similar to what I had sleep

16:54

paralysis wise with the inability

16:57

to move but I never had anything

16:59

caress me while

17:03

in that state. Just me. Right.

17:06

That was just you taking

17:08

advantage of me not being able to fight

17:10

back. You, but I know this

17:12

was, he brought up the cat because he thought

17:14

it was a real cat but you saw a

17:16

cat one time, didn't you? Yeah, I

17:18

did. There was a, like

17:22

a white, whiteish

17:24

cat that

17:26

was exiting my room. So,

17:30

yeah. And I didn't have a whiteish

17:32

cat. It's really weird. Yeah.

17:35

All right, so the second one he says,

17:38

he said, he says this one's a bit

17:40

longer, requires a slight amount

17:43

of background so we'll get into this one. He says

17:45

one of my hobbies is photographing abandoned places.

17:48

Man, I love looking at those. I don't

17:50

know what it is. He

17:53

said I've been to the

17:55

Pennhurst Asylum, Trans Allegheny, Lunatic

17:57

Asylum, the Washoe Club, and

17:59

Letchworth, Village along with a

18:01

bunch of other locations to mention. We've

18:04

talked about what at least three

18:06

of these places? Yeah. The Washoe

18:09

Club just recently. Yep. Trans-Allegheny.

18:12

Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of

18:15

cool. I think we need to

18:17

we need to follow up on this. He

18:20

says on July 5th a few years

18:22

ago I went to Hillview Manor in

18:24

Newcastle, Pennsylvania for a day of photography.

18:27

Hillview started out as a poor farm

18:29

and later a nursing home and is

18:31

supposedly very haunted. I was

18:33

the only person in the building that day for

18:36

tours. I have to point

18:38

out that this was a daytime tour

18:40

not an overnight exploration. I

18:42

got a small tour from the guide and then

18:44

was allowed to roam the building for the next

18:47

two hours. The first stop on the guided

18:49

tour we both heard a loud sound

18:52

coming from one of the rooms. We

18:54

both turned and went into the room to

18:56

investigate. The room

18:58

looked like a standard hospital room. No

19:00

bad but the electric panel on the wall

19:02

behind where the bed would be, the bathroom

19:04

in the closet and the ceiling, had

19:07

the track for the privacy screen. The room

19:09

also had plastic over the windows and a

19:11

group of flies were bumping into it trying

19:13

to get out. The guide

19:15

said that the sound he heard was

19:18

if someone pulled the privacy screen. Yeah.

19:21

Yeah. That's what I thought. Those little

19:23

metal hooks is like flying? Yeah.

19:25

When he said there was a privacy rail

19:28

that was the first thought. I was like, oh

19:31

that sounds as you pull it closed. He

19:35

said the tour finished without any incidents and I

19:37

went to hunt out some good shots. The

19:40

first odd thing that happened was as I was

19:42

setting up for a shot at the far end

19:44

of the building. I set

19:46

my tripod up and as

19:48

I was adjusting my camera I felt something

19:51

brush between my legs. I've

19:53

been around cats my entire life and recognized this

19:55

feeling as a tale from a cat weaving in

19:57

and out of my feet. took

20:00

a few pictures and moved on. The

20:02

next location I shot was at a nurses station

20:04

on the third floor. The ceiling

20:06

tile had fallen out above it and there

20:08

was some light filtering through which created

20:10

a pattern I wanted to photograph. I

20:13

had to get behind the desk to shoot

20:16

outward and behind me on either side of

20:18

my tripod are rooms that were pitch black.

20:21

I used my flashlight to see what

20:23

was in the rooms, just storage space

20:25

for files, meds, etc. I

20:28

took my backpack off and laid it out of

20:30

the shot as I was setting up. I

20:33

couldn't bring myself to stand behind the camera. I

20:36

didn't like my back to those rooms. I

20:39

had chills and I felt like I was being

20:41

watched. I tried multiple times to

20:43

do it but I eventually

20:45

had to peek around from the side of

20:47

my tripod into the viewfinder to get the

20:49

picture. When

20:52

I was finished I got my equipment out of

20:54

that area as fast as possible. Many

20:56

times during the day I had to pass by

20:58

that first stop, the tour guide, and I heard

21:00

the sounds. Each time I

21:03

walked by it I heard the buzzing of the

21:05

flies and the temp in

21:07

the hallway in front of the room

21:09

was very, very cold. He

21:11

says remember it was July in a

21:14

building with no heat or air conditioning. He

21:17

said a feeling around the room bothered me so

21:19

much that I had to go upstairs and use

21:21

the second floor hallway to move around the building

21:23

as would I have done. He

21:26

said I was on the first floor again

21:28

right by that room and I told myself

21:30

that going back upstairs and taking the long

21:32

way back was silly and I

21:34

was being paranoid. I decided to

21:36

pass the room on my way to the waiting room

21:38

to leave. As I got close to the

21:40

room I heard nothing.

21:43

No flies against the plastic,

21:45

just dead silence, and

21:47

it was a lot colder than it was

21:49

before. I felt like

21:52

I was being watched and my body was

21:54

reacting to something around me. I

21:56

got past the room but the cold felt like

21:58

it was still around me. He

22:01

said, I'm a devout atheist and even

22:03

after all this, I'm still skeptical about

22:05

the paranormal. I turned

22:07

without thinking and said very forcefully, no,

22:10

I don't allow it. Your place

22:12

is here. I do not give

22:14

you permission and turned

22:16

and started to walk away. The

22:19

air warmed around me as I left that area

22:22

and I started to feel a little more relaxed.

22:25

I told the guide some of the things that happened

22:27

to me and he offered up some interpretations on the

22:29

events. That night I reviewed

22:31

the videos that I took. One

22:33

of them is me talking into my phone

22:35

as I tried to flip the camera on the

22:37

phone around. You can hear

22:39

a loud bang coming from a closed metal

22:42

door a few feet behind me. As

22:44

if the door was slammed or hit with a fist.

22:47

He said, I didn't hear this in real time while

22:50

recording. The

22:52

other video I took was me

22:54

walking the halls and just shooting

22:56

straight ahead. As I passed

22:58

through a doorway, you can hear what sounds

23:00

like a breath. The

23:02

door was open. There was no vacuum

23:05

to mimic a breath. And again, I'm

23:08

the only one in the

23:10

building. The last piece of evidence

23:12

I got that day was found by my wife

23:14

that night. We were laying in bed. I

23:16

had my shirt off with my back to her. She

23:19

gasps and asked me how I got

23:22

those scratches. I

23:24

said, what scratches? She

23:26

took her phone out and took a pic and showed

23:28

me and there in the center of my back was

23:31

a tic-tac-toe pattern in scratches.

23:34

I tried to think about me bumping into anything

23:36

that could have caused it and

23:39

couldn't recall having my camera bag

23:41

off at any point during the day.

23:44

Except where I took

23:46

photos on the third floor where

23:48

I couldn't stand behind my

23:51

camera. That's

23:53

crazy. Yes, absolutely. I

23:56

mean, that is just… I

24:01

mean that story gives me chills. I

24:03

don't I don't know that I Would

24:06

be one that would that would be willing to stay

24:08

in one of those places by myself even during the

24:10

day I have I

24:12

have a tendency to creep myself out anyway

24:16

But that's pretty bold, but that's that's that's

24:18

pretty cool. That is a that is a

24:20

cool story cool Event

24:22

that you can share we appreciate

24:24

you sharing it with us Yep,

24:27

I've told Ashley before that haunted

24:29

places like that that I've been

24:31

I feel better When

24:34

I'm with at least one other person

24:36

for some reason my my courage is

24:38

bolstered when I got one other person

24:41

And it's not because I think oh Nothing's

24:44

gonna happen to me. I just

24:46

think oh if something bad

24:49

happens to me There's somebody here to

24:51

pull me out Yeah,

24:53

you know if I go down if

24:55

I pass out if something knocks

24:57

me out whatever I'm like Okay, there's somebody here

24:59

that can get me help if I'm

25:01

by myself I'm

25:04

on my own and I don't

25:06

like you know I would be helpless in that

25:08

thing and you and I have talked me

25:13

It's a control thing I understand, but I

25:16

have this thing where I Get

25:19

anxious, and I don't like not

25:22

being able to control an outcome Right

25:24

you know that that's I prefer

25:26

driving for that reason I

25:29

don't like being driven around for that

25:31

reason and that's why I hate Tornadoes

25:34

I have no control over that

25:36

situation whatsoever It's been a fear

25:38

of mine since I was a kid yeah, and you know

25:40

you're just up to the mark, and I don't like that

25:43

It's the same way if I was by

25:45

myself and something happened to me No

25:48

control. I'm knocked out. I'm

25:50

hurt whatever and At

25:53

least you know if you're there or

25:55

Ashley's there. Hey y'all can get me help

25:57

even if y'all can't render

26:00

quick aid and you could get somebody

26:02

that could render aid. Yeah, and I

26:04

get that. I get that completely, because

26:06

I'm the same way I would want

26:09

somebody else to be

26:11

around. I think for me it's because

26:14

my imagination does run away with

26:16

me. I've read so much, I've

26:18

watched and seen and

26:22

spoken firsthand with people who

26:24

have experienced things. I've experienced

26:26

things myself that

26:29

in my head all bets are off. Anything

26:33

and everything can and will happen

26:35

if I go into this supposed

26:38

haunted place alone. And

26:41

that's gonna be playing on the loop in my head.

26:44

So I would

26:46

need somebody else there just to kind of keep me

26:48

grounded and focused. Right, exactly.

26:51

All right, so this next one is from B.N. Now

26:54

B.N. says, the house I grew up in

26:57

was well over 100 years old when we moved

26:59

in in the early

27:01

2000s. I don't know why,

27:03

sorry, I'm jumping in. I don't know why, but the

27:05

word in back to back just screwed me up. They

27:10

said when I moved in in the early

27:12

2000s, it's a

27:14

completely legit sentence and

27:17

phrase, but I saw it twice

27:19

and my brain went in and in and in for

27:22

some reason. That's like when you see had

27:24

had together. Yeah. I

27:27

had had had had had had had had. I just

27:29

get stuck on this loop. It's

27:32

only twice. Why are you saying it 80

27:34

times? It's a weird stutter. Yeah, for some

27:36

reason. All right, sorry about that. Jumping

27:38

back into it. Says it was built

27:40

by a pair of, a pair

27:43

known as the Moon Brothers. They

27:45

were a fairly prolific family in the area

27:48

and many of the houses they built are

27:50

registered historic sites for our city. They

27:52

had built this house for their sisters who

27:55

was a local school teacher and

27:58

she actually owned the first. first

28:00

home radio in our county. The

28:04

house was built within walking distance of the

28:06

school she taught at and she would often

28:08

bring her elementary class to the house to

28:11

listen to the radio as a reward for

28:13

good behavior. It says, could you

28:15

imagine that nowadays? No. No.

28:20

Now, it says this house had

28:22

its fair share of typical quote

28:25

ghost activity. It was an

28:27

almost daily occurrence to hear loud steady

28:29

boot steps going down the basement stairs

28:32

or the sound of crashes and knocking in the

28:34

basement when no one was there. It

28:37

is not uncommon to feel like you are being

28:39

watched when alone in a room or to see

28:41

the shadow of a person out of the corner

28:43

of your eye. There

28:45

was even a time when I watched

28:48

the bathroom faucets physically turn themselves to

28:50

turn the water on and another

28:53

time every TV in the

28:55

house turned on at the exact same

28:57

moment to the same eerie static channel.

29:00

It says even the

29:02

ones hooked up to devices that were

29:04

turned on. So

29:08

even the ones that like could have

29:10

when you turned it on picked up a station.

29:12

They all went to a static channel.

29:15

Yeah, have you ever seen that movie white noise

29:17

with Michael? Mm-hmm. Yep. And

29:20

then after that, up until the end, that movie

29:22

is creepy as hell. I

29:24

thought the ending ruined it, but yeah, leading up

29:26

to it. And

29:29

then when you said that, I was like, damn. On

29:33

every one of them. It

29:36

says, I personally believe that there are at

29:38

least two entities in the house, an old

29:40

man who resides on the back porch and

29:42

basement and a young girl I named Katie.

29:45

I don't know why I chose that name, but that

29:47

is what I have called her since I was about

29:49

six. It has always just felt right.

29:52

Katie likes to take things. I

29:54

cannot tell tell you how many times

29:56

keys, wallets, phones or whatever else has

29:59

have gone missing. and return

30:01

to their original spot after hours of hunting.

30:04

My usual trick to getting my things back

30:06

is to loudly shout, Hey Katie, I know

30:08

you took my blank. I'm going to walk

30:10

out of the room and when I return,

30:12

please make sure it is back where you

30:15

got it from. It says

30:17

nine times out of 10, when I return

30:19

to the room, my missing item will be

30:21

exactly where I left it. That's awesome. That

30:23

is pretty cool. It

30:26

says there was one instance of missing items

30:28

that happened when I was an adult that

30:30

has really stuck with me. I had moved

30:32

back in with my mom while waiting for

30:34

my new house to be ready to move

30:37

into. Two days after I moved in,

30:39

my razor went missing from the bathroom. I

30:42

tried my usual trick with no luck. At

30:45

that point, I assumed it was a living person in

30:47

the house who had moved it. However,

30:49

they all denied taking it. I

30:51

eventually gave up the hunt and chalked it up

30:53

to one of my brothers, quote, borrowing it and

30:56

just not owning up to the theft. That

30:58

is until one day

31:01

about two months later, I was in the shower and

31:03

I grabbed the bar of soap off

31:05

of the built-in soap shelf. I

31:08

turned around to use the soap and

31:10

when I turned back to return it,

31:13

somehow perfectly dry in

31:15

the ring of soap and water left

31:17

behind by the bar was my razor.

31:20

There was no way this could have been

31:22

there before. There

31:25

would not, yeah, there would not have been

31:27

room for the razor and the bar of

31:29

soap to both sit on the shelf so

31:31

it's not like I could have missed it. Even

31:34

if I had somehow overlooked it sitting there

31:36

in plain sight for two months, how

31:39

was it dry when everything else in the

31:41

shower was wet? The only

31:43

explanation I can come up with is that it

31:45

was Katie. Though the

31:47

usual activity in the house is playful at best

31:51

and a nuisance at worst, there

31:53

was one night that I will always remember

31:55

when the activity didn't seem so benevolent. I

31:58

was about eight years old and had... Woken up

32:00

suddenly in the middle of the night there was

32:02

a rare that was rare occurrence for me even

32:05

as a child as i was one of those

32:07

people who. Are dead to

32:09

the world once i fall asleep yeah

32:11

that's michael when michael now he

32:14

out man. Fire alarm

32:17

can go off which is right outside

32:19

his bedroom. He'll sleep through

32:21

it now if anything happens

32:23

i'm gonna have to just go pick him up

32:25

cuz he ain't waking up for anything. Except

32:29

on this night i laid there for a while

32:31

and eventually decided that i would get up and

32:33

go use the bathroom since i was already awake.

32:36

I tiptoed out of my room into the

32:38

living room and noticed that my mom had

32:40

fallen asleep on the couch playing on the

32:42

gameboy the house was dark but

32:45

there was a slight glow from the

32:47

kitchen as my mom always left the

32:49

light above the stove on. Yeah

32:52

i my grandmother did that always

32:54

left light on downstairs just in case

32:56

don't lie but always did. I

32:59

made my way through the living room and

33:02

just had to make it through the dining

33:04

room to get to the bathroom on the other

33:06

side however. When i made it

33:08

to the doorway between the living room and

33:10

dining room i stopped dead my tracks there

33:12

was a man standing on the right side

33:14

of the dining room table. That

33:16

sat in the middle of the room he was

33:19

tall and seem to be wearing a hat and

33:21

a long coat i couldn't make out any

33:23

features. As even with the

33:25

glow of the stove light coming from

33:27

the kitchen door directly behind him he

33:29

was darker than dark. The

33:31

only thing i can discern about his face

33:34

was that he was standing facing me but

33:36

his head was turned to the right and

33:39

he was staring into the mirror that was across

33:41

the dining room table from him. I

33:44

stood there frozen for

33:46

what seemed like forever debating whether i should

33:48

try to quietly wake my mom or just

33:51

scream and bring the whole house running my

33:53

decision making was cut short however when the

33:55

figure turned his head and looked directly at

33:58

me it was like before that. That

34:00

moment he hadn't even realized I was there. This

34:02

triggered my fight or flight and for some

34:05

reason I didn't run to my mother or

34:07

the safety of my bedroom I ran towards

34:09

the man. Don't

34:12

ask me why. That

34:15

takes some cojones right there. Don't

34:17

ask me why but I ran past him

34:19

between the table and the mirror he

34:21

had been staring into and hunkered down

34:23

in the bathroom. I kept

34:26

the light off and the bathroom door cracked

34:28

so I could hear when he came for

34:30

me but the footsteps never came. As

34:32

I said before this is an old house. You

34:35

can hear when someone thinks too hard. I've

34:39

been in those before. Let

34:42

alone a grown man walking through it yet

34:44

I never heard a thing. No

34:46

breathing, no footsteps and neither of the bells

34:48

that my mother had attached to the front

34:50

and back doors so I know he never

34:53

opened either of them. Eventually

34:55

I mustered up all the courage my little

34:57

8 year old body could and slowly crept

34:59

out of the bathroom. He was gone without

35:01

a trace. I immediately ran back to

35:03

the living room and tried to wake my mom but

35:05

had no luck. In fact I couldn't

35:08

get anyone in the house to wake up, even

35:10

the dog. So I did

35:12

the only thing I knew to do,

35:14

crawled back into bed, pulled the

35:16

covers up tight and snuggled

35:18

in until morning. When I

35:21

woke up the next day the first thing I did

35:23

was ask mom who was in the house the night

35:25

before. Of course she didn't believe me

35:27

and blamed it all on a dream but I

35:29

know I was awake and I know

35:31

what I saw. It wasn't until

35:33

many years later that I realized what had

35:36

visited me that night. And

35:38

this is what I thought. They say it

35:40

was the hat man. Yeah that's exactly

35:42

what I thought. I don't think

35:44

I was supposed to wake up that night and

35:46

I definitely don't think I was supposed to see

35:48

him doing whatever he was doing in the mirror

35:51

but thankfully so far that has been

35:53

my only encounter with him. And

35:56

that's exactly what I thought too. As soon

35:58

as they started describing this... figure, I

36:00

thought hat man. And

36:02

we know the paranormal has a

36:05

thing with mirrors. They're like a gateway. I

36:07

was, I was thinking about that too. Maybe

36:10

that was like his doorway in and

36:12

out of your house. You

36:14

know, I would love to know the history of that

36:16

mirror. Yeah. And

36:18

I would, um, I'd put

36:20

something over that mirror. No

36:22

joke. If you still got it, put something over that

36:24

mirror at night. Anything,

36:28

you know, just a sheet, something,

36:30

you know, I

36:32

mean, you know, we, we've seen that done for,

36:35

you know, centuries. Yeah.

36:38

I wouldn't, I wouldn't leave it open. I mean,

36:40

you might as well be leaving a door open.

36:42

It's almost a cliche at this point, but it,

36:44

it seems to work. You know, people wouldn't keep

36:46

doing it if it didn't work. All

36:48

right. Our next one comes from AB. No,

36:51

it's not me. It's not me.

36:54

Or Ashley. Okay.

36:58

This is another AB. I know. Well, I

37:00

know. Cause I, you, you've never

37:02

lived in Ohio. So no, that's

37:04

a very good point. All

37:07

right. So we live in central Ohio, but

37:09

enjoy visiting Kentucky. I

37:11

enjoy the hiking and my husband enjoys restocking

37:13

his bourbon bar. And

37:16

June of 2020, just as the country

37:18

was beginning to wipe the sleep from

37:20

its eyes after the forced hibernation of

37:22

the COVID lockdown, we

37:24

planned such a trip. Waverly

37:26

Sanatorium has been on my bucket list

37:28

for several years. So on

37:30

a whim two weeks before the planned

37:33

weekend, I checked their website to see

37:35

if they had resumed giving tours. The

37:38

fates must have been smiling because the

37:40

weekend we plan to travel was the

37:43

second weekend Waverly was to be opened

37:45

after the lockdown. They

37:47

just said, um, yeah,

37:49

they still had COVID restrictions, but you

37:52

know, you, she managed to get a couple of tickets for

37:54

the tour. And that's good luck

37:56

right there. My husband may have been

37:59

more excited than I. I was when I told him

38:01

he couldn't wait to visit this

38:03

notoriously haunted place. And

38:05

by the way, my husband is a pastor. We

38:09

showed up the night of the tour and

38:11

my husband immediately began wishing out loud that

38:13

the paranormal would make itself visible. I

38:16

dare say he was taunting the entities

38:18

to show themselves. And I

38:20

repeatedly told him to be careful what he wished

38:22

for. Yeah, not a good idea,

38:24

brother. Yeah, nothing good

38:26

comes from getting sassy with the spirit

38:28

world. Amen to that. Now

38:32

anyone who's heard of Waverly Sanatorium knows

38:34

that the fourth floor is

38:36

notorious for its otherworldly activity, which is

38:38

why it is the last stop on

38:40

the tour. The guide

38:43

asked the group to line up along the

38:45

walls of the dark corridor and look toward

38:47

a window in the door at the opposite

38:49

end of the hall. Supposedly,

38:53

you can see shadow people passing

38:55

in front of the window. Personally,

38:58

I thought anything I saw

39:00

could be a trick of the

39:02

light or lack thereof, floaters

39:05

in my own eyes or the power

39:07

of suggestion, since the guide essentially told

39:09

us what to look for. After

39:12

a minute or two of staring down this corridor,

39:14

the guide asked for volunteers to walk down the

39:17

hallway towards the door. I

39:19

had been standing in front of my husband

39:21

and he literally pushed me out of the

39:23

way so that he could jump into the

39:25

middle of the hall waving his hand above

39:27

his head, almost shouting, I'll do it. Did

39:32

I mention that my husband is a pastor? The

39:36

guide instructed him to walk to

39:39

a certain point and then turn to

39:41

face the group. When

39:43

he turned around, she asked if he felt anything at

39:45

the end of the hall. When

39:48

he said it was colder down here, my

39:50

logical brain said, yeah, no body heat from

39:52

the rest of the group down there. The

39:55

guide then told my husband to stretch his

39:57

arm out to his sides and very slowly

40:00

slowly walk back towards the group.

40:03

He had taken two steps when

40:05

a black head and shoulders appeared

40:08

over my husband's left shoulder.

40:10

My husband is six foot two and

40:13

this thing's chin was at the level of

40:15

his forehead. As

40:17

gasps and whispers of, did you see that

40:19

arose from the group? My only

40:22

thought was, please dear God, don't let

40:24

that thing follow us home. Yeah.

40:26

My husband excitedly asked what was

40:28

going on when

40:31

he was standing behind me once again, I told

40:34

him what we saw. He

40:36

was super stoked that something happened to him and

40:38

couldn't wait to see it for himself when

40:40

the next volunteer took their turn. Two

40:43

more people took the walk, but nothing else

40:45

happened on the fourth floor. Since

40:48

the moment we got out of the

40:50

car, my husband had been asking, almost

40:52

demanding to experience something and until the

40:55

fourth floor, the tour had been pretty

40:57

uneventful. My husband was

40:59

disappointed that the only real paranormal occurrence

41:01

had happened when he wasn't able to

41:03

see it. I reminded

41:05

him that the paranormal is not a

41:07

theater and the entities are not actors

41:09

giving a command performance. I

41:12

suggested that the spirits intentionally didn't reveal

41:14

themselves out of spite because he had

41:16

spent the entire evening acting like a

41:19

jerk. And she

41:21

once again reiterates that her husband is a

41:23

pastor. She

41:26

goes on to say, as for her personal experience

41:28

at Waverly, I

41:30

did feel a cold breeze periodically wrap around

41:32

my legs in June in a

41:34

building with no AC. And a

41:36

few times I felt a little hand tried

41:39

to slip into mine. Nothing

41:41

I would call earth shattering, but still worth the

41:43

trip. Yeah, that's still

41:45

pretty cool. And you know what? I

41:47

think that's great. And I would say that

41:49

is probably an extraordinarily

41:52

eventful tour. Yeah.

41:55

Um, because we've talked to

41:57

a lot of people that have been on these

41:59

tours, not just waverly but all over

42:01

the country and in

42:03

other countries and you

42:06

know nothing absolutely zero

42:08

happens so I think

42:10

if you take a tour of somewhere

42:13

like this and anything happens consider yourself

42:15

pretty fortunate if that's what you were

42:17

banking on. Yeah I agree

42:20

and yeah I mean like like

42:23

she said the the paranormal

42:25

isn't you

42:27

know it I can't remember oh

42:29

it's Shaun of the Dead where one

42:32

of the actors they're trying to get one of the

42:34

actors to do something and he goes I'm not a

42:36

trained monkey you know and

42:38

so it's like the the paranormal

42:41

you can't expect them to do

42:43

something just because you want to

42:45

see it like she said

42:47

they may have because he was so intent on

42:49

seeing it they may have said now not this

42:52

time you don't get to see it and

42:55

I kind of think if something

42:57

happened every time you

42:59

would begin to be a little suspect right

43:01

right yeah I mean if if you

43:03

consistently saw the same thing every

43:06

time this tour happened I

43:08

would begin to think this is phony you

43:10

know this is staged so yep

43:13

that's true all right

43:15

so the next one is

43:18

from DR and

43:21

she sent one in last year as well

43:23

and she says

43:26

hey it's me again with another story

43:28

and another haunted army base I love

43:31

these oh yeah says this

43:34

time we're coming to you from Fort

43:36

Campbell Kentucky we know that

43:38

one right up the road yeah yep I

43:40

actually as a side bar I had

43:43

a friend who is stationed up there and

43:45

I it was

43:48

ill-advised but when they came back

43:50

from Lee you know came back on leave he

43:52

invited me to come drink with him it's

43:55

very ill-advised to drink with

43:58

soldiers who are just back from

44:00

war, especially when

44:02

you're a lightweight like I am and

44:04

they were drinking green label Jack. So

44:07

let's just say I did not

44:10

make it back home that night and

44:12

was in very much pain the next

44:14

day. Oh Lord. So I can only

44:16

imagine those, those Fort Campbell army guys

44:18

just back killed me. Yeah.

44:21

Anyway, so

44:24

it says coming to you from Fort

44:26

Campbell, Kentucky, home of 101st

44:28

screaming Eagles. And we

44:31

have been here almost three years. And

44:33

to say the least, it's never been

44:35

boring here. The house here is much

44:37

more chill than the last ones at

44:39

Bragg and hood, which have,

44:41

uh, which has been nice. However,

44:44

my husband was deployed last year and

44:46

my mom would come up from Texas

44:48

every other month to help and

44:50

give me a break. One of

44:52

the first time she was here, she

44:54

was upstairs and found tiny footprints in

44:56

resin ink coming out of

44:58

the closet where I store all my resin

45:00

stuff. Thing, uh,

45:04

thing is at the time, the closet was

45:06

full of pallets and you were not

45:08

getting in there. I don't care how small of a

45:10

person you are. We thought, Oh,

45:12

the kids had some hidden.

45:14

Nope. There was no explanation. After

45:17

that, there has been a lot of times

45:19

I've heard my name being called says, but

45:22

you know, if you hear that, no, you

45:24

don't. And about a

45:26

month ago, I heard my kids calling

45:28

and yelling, Hey, no one

45:31

was here, but me at the time, but

45:33

the really freaky thing that

45:36

goes on here are out

45:39

at the back 40 dog

45:42

men, strange sites and sounds.

45:44

My husband, who is a

45:46

nonbeliever said, I don't know what I saw

45:48

out there, but I never want to go

45:50

back. I wish I

45:52

had had the recording and the

45:54

pics, but it was downright insane.

45:57

We have also come out of there on.

46:00

The Harley at night and I have

46:02

seen things running out of the side

46:04

of running out beside us

46:06

just outside the tree lines and heard

46:08

things yelling and asking for help. But

46:11

once again, no, you didn't hear

46:13

that. So I think

46:15

says I think the worst thing that's happened

46:17

to me personally since we have been here

46:20

was the sound of a small child asking

46:22

for me. I will never get

46:24

over that one. My kids were

46:26

asleep in my bed when it happened

46:28

and nothing I have done here seems

46:30

to deter whatever is going on. So

46:33

the crazy part to me

46:35

about this, I know

46:38

where this is and I have been

46:42

there and there are she's

46:44

had dog man sightings there like

46:47

large bipedal. Walking

46:50

things and seeing them running along the

46:52

tree line when they were riding their

46:54

Harley down the road. I

46:57

don't know what it is, but we

46:59

get a lot of bipedal hominid sightings

47:01

at military bases. And

47:05

and in Kentucky. Yeah,

47:07

yeah, I mean Kentucky. You

47:10

know northern Tennessee, you know

47:12

southern Kentucky, you know, Fort Campbell sits right

47:14

on the Tennessee Kentucky

47:17

state line. You

47:20

do if you in

47:22

fact if you look at it, you know,

47:24

Kentucky has quite a few Bigfoot sightings, but

47:28

when you start digging in, you

47:30

realize that a lot of those sightings

47:33

that are attributed to Bigfoot are actually

47:35

more like a dog man sighting.

47:38

And you're like, well, you know, tomato,

47:41

tomato. But

47:44

you know, from what

47:46

we understand, the dog

47:49

man sightings, these entities, these

47:51

creatures move very quickly. You

47:55

know, they are not the big

47:57

lumbering, you know, species. Sasquatch,

48:00

like we've kind of

48:03

learned to attribute to

48:05

those sightings. You know, these things are quick.

48:08

Um, so yeah, I mean, you know, this,

48:11

it's not surprising at all. Um,

48:13

and you know, I think,

48:16

I think it's pretty cool, but those, those

48:18

dogmen sightings from Northern Tennessee, Southern Kentucky, they've

48:20

been around a long time. Yep.

48:22

Yep. Cool that she's seen

48:25

one and that her husband,

48:27

a nonbeliever has. Yeah. All

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52:49

this next one comes to us from JP. JP

52:53

says, this happened to one of my dad's

52:55

closest friends and it's a story I've heard

52:57

many times growing up. Doug

53:00

was a big old farm boy at 370 pounds,

53:03

6 foot 5 and not the kind of guy

53:05

you wanted to

53:08

mess with. In the

53:10

winter of 1987 at 4am Doug

53:12

found himself kicked out of his

53:14

house by his now ex-wife. She

53:17

hadn't even let him grab his truck keys on

53:19

the way out the door. Doug

53:22

lived in a very rural part of

53:24

Amish country Pennsylvania. The sky

53:27

was a dark hazy gray with a few

53:29

snowflakes drifting in the breeze. He

53:31

found himself faced with a long dark

53:34

misty walk in the falling snow. On

53:37

his walk to the farm where

53:39

he worked he passed by

53:41

an Amish cemetery. There

53:43

was a freshly dug grave along the

53:46

fence line half in and half out.

53:50

I'm not sure I know what that means. Half

53:54

in half out. Probably

53:56

half inside the fence and half

53:58

out. In

54:01

the Amish community, if you leave the

54:03

church, you aren't allowed a normal burial,

54:05

but are buried

54:07

along the fence line, half in

54:09

the cemetery and half out of

54:12

the cemetery. It's interesting. The

54:16

sight of freshly turned dirt on top of

54:18

snow set him on edge. There

54:20

wasn't much Doug was scared of, but

54:22

the idea of the supernatural chilled him

54:24

to the bone. As

54:27

he kept walking his way towards work, something

54:29

just didn't feel right. The air

54:31

felt uneasy. He could feel that

54:33

something or someone was following him.

54:37

Doug slowly glanced over his shoulder and

54:39

could see something behind him in the

54:41

sky glowing. He quickly

54:43

spun around and the glow was gone.

54:46

It had disappeared. Needless

54:48

to say, Doug was spooked. He

54:51

tried to act normal and kept walking

54:53

his way towards work, but every time

54:55

he glanced over his shoulder, the

54:57

glowing was behind him. After

55:00

a few more yards, he couldn't handle it

55:02

and the panic was boiling up inside him.

55:05

He glanced over his shoulder again and

55:07

the glowing was still following him. So

55:11

Doug did the only thing he could. He

55:13

ran as fast and as far as he

55:15

could. He ran until he couldn't breathe. He

55:18

kept running until he couldn't feel his

55:20

legs. He ran until he

55:22

couldn't run a single step more and he

55:25

fell to his knees in the snow wheezing

55:27

and sputtering for breath. He

55:29

begged the spirit for mercy. He

55:32

sat there on his knees waiting to die,

55:35

but death never came. Turns

55:38

out the mag light in his back

55:40

pocket was on. His

55:47

Amish spirit was a flashlight beam

55:49

in the early morning haze. Now

56:00

for the real paranormal story Great

56:06

right. I was all right. I love

56:08

that good So

56:10

as we go on he said I worked

56:13

in a very large up-tail nursing home for

56:15

almost a decade One

56:17

night I was chef on duty in one

56:19

of the large kitchens and one of the

56:21

cooks needed something from the freezer I

56:24

was a freehand so I might made

56:26

my way to the large walk-in freezer

56:28

and stepped inside I've never had a

56:30

feeling like this before or after I Looked

56:33

and standing in the back corner was a little

56:35

old lady Wearing a

56:38

blue sweater red shirt and tan

56:40

pants She had

56:42

white hair and was completely solid

56:45

my hope. Well. Yeah, if she's been standing in the freezer

56:48

Yeah, and probably shatter if

56:50

she fell it says my whole

56:53

body was unsettled I

56:55

knew her and she had died

56:57

eight months ago Wow,

56:59

I asked her how she was in the freezer She

57:03

just looked at me with a flat expression

57:05

and vanished. I Still get chills

57:07

thinking about it to this day. I never

57:10

believed in ghost or spirits, but that

57:12

day changed everything Yeah,

57:15

what I want did this lady die in

57:17

that freezer, maybe Maybe

57:20

eight months ago. She got locked in

57:22

the freezer by mistake, and she died

57:24

that came back there. Yeah But

57:29

man, yeah, well, yeah, especially if

57:31

you recognize her Realize

57:34

that it's somebody that had lived there

57:36

prior and died Yeah

57:39

Yep, that's wild nursing homes

57:41

have a tendency to have some

57:44

lingering spirits for a period

57:46

of time, you know Most

57:49

people don't have the opportunity to be in

57:52

a nursing home late at night unless

57:54

you're working You know the

57:56

midnight shift But there

57:58

is some weird stuff that goes I've

58:00

worked in plenty of nursing homes over the

58:02

years and I've talked to nurses that work

58:04

night shift and for the most part things

58:06

are Uneventful, but every once in a while

58:08

something really weird happens. Oh Man,

58:10

I can only imagine I can only imagine All

58:15

right. So the next one I got comes from BK

58:18

Says I have a story That happened

58:21

to me a few years ago involving

58:23

everyone's favorite shadow people My

58:25

partner and I moved into an apartment

58:27

in the historic neighborhood of Capitol Hill

58:29

here in Dover Denver, Colorado It's

58:33

a neighborhood filled with old apartment

58:35

buildings and even older mansions the

58:37

building we moved into was a typical one for

58:39

the area a squat

58:41

three-story brick building from

58:43

the 1950s with walls that

58:45

had been painted over so many times you

58:48

couldn't get a thumbtack food through

58:50

all the layers it was

58:54

Gorgeous with giant

58:56

windows overlooking the tree-lined street below

58:58

and stunning hardwood floors throughout It was

59:01

perfect a few months or so

59:03

into living there I started noticing

59:05

dark shapes or shadows that I would catch

59:07

out of the corner of my eye I

59:10

can't say when it started as I

59:12

didn't really take note until it became

59:14

extremely frequent and more Let's

59:17

say full-bodied. I

59:19

would be sitting in one room and Constantly

59:21

catch a dark shape in the doorways or

59:23

behind me when I would turn my head

59:26

It freaked me out, but I kept talking it up

59:28

to my eyes playing tricks on me It

59:30

became harder to ignore when full-body

59:32

shadows began having a presence I

59:35

no longer had to see them to know they were there

59:38

after a few super creepy encounters I

59:40

finally told my partner about it He

59:42

immediately sat up and said he had been experiencing

59:44

the same thing for the last few months,

59:46

but didn't want to say anything We

59:49

nervously giggled while we told

59:51

our stories But ultimately shrugged it off

59:53

as nothing more than a creepy creepy

59:55

experience in our new home We

59:58

didn't know much if any thing

1:00:00

about shadow people at the time. Then

1:00:03

one night we had just gone to

1:00:05

bed when I suddenly remembered I hadn't submitted

1:00:07

a paper for my online class that was

1:00:09

due that night. A nightmare in its

1:00:11

own right, they say. So

1:00:14

I got up and went to the living room to take care

1:00:16

of it. We didn't have a coffee

1:00:18

table at the time so I sat on our

1:00:20

couch with my laptop on a tall kitchen chair

1:00:22

in front of me. I

1:00:24

didn't bother turning any lights on as it was

1:00:26

only going to take me a few minutes to

1:00:29

submit it. My computer screen lit up the living

1:00:31

room dimly as I got to work. I

1:00:34

noticed while I was double checking my paper

1:00:36

that something on the floor to my right

1:00:39

next to the chair legs kept catching my

1:00:41

eye. Every time I looked down

1:00:43

there was nothing there but an empty floor. I

1:00:46

kept thinking it had to be the computer screen

1:00:48

light messing with my eyes a bit. About

1:00:50

the third time I saw it in my peripheral,

1:00:53

I noticed it was a big black mass on

1:00:55

the floor. I didn't look at

1:00:58

it at first and kept viewing it through

1:01:00

my peripheral. It stayed the

1:01:02

whole time and I saw that it was

1:01:04

fairly large coming about half way up the

1:01:06

tall kitchen chair it was next to so

1:01:10

around my knee height, they say. Finally

1:01:14

I looked at it full on. This time

1:01:17

it didn't disappear. The black mass

1:01:19

was in the shape of a human crouched

1:01:21

down, knees to chest with arms on either

1:01:23

side touching the floor. It

1:01:25

slowly tilted its head to look up at

1:01:28

me and instead of a face it was

1:01:30

white tribal like mask. It

1:01:32

was elongated with the mouth area carved

1:01:34

out in an exaggerated grin and two

1:01:36

slits carved out from where the eyes

1:01:38

would be. I jumped to my

1:01:40

feet and it disappeared in front of me. The

1:01:43

next day I did my research and

1:01:45

discovered shadow people. I quickly found some

1:01:47

black tourmaline and we never saw them

1:01:50

again. Actually that's not entirely

1:01:52

true. You know how you need to

1:01:54

cleanse the stones every so often? I

1:01:56

was always reminded when that

1:01:59

needed to happen. because the shapes in the

1:02:01

corner of my eye would start up. As

1:02:04

soon as the stones were cleansed, the

1:02:06

shapes disappeared. We lived there for

1:02:08

another three years, and as long as the

1:02:10

stones were cleansed, we never dealt with anything

1:02:13

supernatural like that again. As

1:02:15

a little bonus, we found out what may

1:02:17

have been causing these shadow people. Right

1:02:19

next door to our building was a historic

1:02:22

mansion from the mid 1800s

1:02:24

that was turned into a boutique hotel.

1:02:27

The mansion was supposedly involved with

1:02:29

the 1890 transition of Denver

1:02:31

City Cemetery to what is

1:02:33

known today as Cheeseman Park.

1:02:36

In 1893, they hired a man to move 5,000 graves from

1:02:40

the cemetery. The guy was paid per

1:02:42

coffin, so naturally he and his men

1:02:44

would cut up the bodies for more

1:02:47

coffins. Supposedly, they performed this

1:02:49

task in the basement of the mansion

1:02:51

next door. Needless to say,

1:02:54

we always have some black tourmaline in

1:02:56

our home just in case. Absolutely. Yep,

1:03:00

Matt and I do too. We keep

1:03:02

it honest, and I make sure that Ash and

1:03:04

Michael have it too. And

1:03:06

it's funny, people

1:03:08

talk about this, the

1:03:13

whole black tourmaline thing. There's

1:03:19

a lot of questions about, yeah, this is

1:03:21

all a bunch of hooey, this is like

1:03:24

crystals, same difference, but let me tell you,

1:03:27

I have shadow people in the house that

1:03:29

I live in now. I had

1:03:31

seen them for about a year, and

1:03:36

just never, just tried

1:03:38

to not worry about it. And

1:03:42

then I got a big piece of

1:03:44

black tourmaline that was

1:03:46

sent to us by a listener. Adam

1:03:49

and I each have one that's a fairly large

1:03:52

piece, largest piece I own. And

1:03:55

it sits on my nightstand, and

1:03:58

we've never had them again. I

1:04:02

mean it just it sits it doesn't

1:04:04

move it gets dusty I dust it

1:04:06

off you know I'll cleanse it about

1:04:08

maybe every six months but

1:04:13

we never have them and it's

1:04:16

funny I usually

1:04:18

always have a piece on me

1:04:21

I wore one around my neck for

1:04:23

a long time and my

1:04:26

the the leather

1:04:29

strap that I had it attached to broke

1:04:32

and I just never fixed it and

1:04:35

I still had it I just wasn't

1:04:37

wearing it and I

1:04:39

mean things began to change

1:04:41

mmm and after about a month

1:04:44

of just I mean

1:04:46

things going haywire in my life my

1:04:49

couldn't couldn't think you

1:04:51

know I thought golly is this is this

1:04:54

kovat brain what the heck is going on

1:04:56

and I realized I

1:04:59

hadn't worn that piece of torvaline in

1:05:01

about a month yep

1:05:03

and I started wearing it again or at

1:05:05

the minimum I'll carry one in my pocket

1:05:08

and it is

1:05:10

every I've never had that specifically

1:05:14

happen again dude

1:05:16

I'm with you I'd I wear one

1:05:18

around my neck all the time I've got

1:05:20

it on a metal chain and I made

1:05:22

the wrapping for the stone myself

1:05:25

well I had

1:05:27

something similar happen where I caught my

1:05:30

necklace on something that I was moving

1:05:32

and it snapped the chain and

1:05:37

normally I sleep in it like

1:05:40

I go to bed and my necklaces stay

1:05:42

on well I didn't for a

1:05:44

couple days until I could go get more

1:05:47

chains and

1:05:49

I had a sleep paralysis incident that

1:05:51

night the first night that

1:05:53

I didn't have it on yeah I had a sleep

1:05:56

paralysis incident so I now

1:05:58

I make sure I have

1:06:00

a backup chain in

1:06:03

the bedroom just in case I break

1:06:05

mine. I've had to re-sauder the little

1:06:08

wire wrap that I made and everything just

1:06:10

to, it doesn't look the best, but it

1:06:12

doesn't come off my neck. Only when I

1:06:14

shower does it come off my neck. I

1:06:19

wear mine all the time. Even

1:06:22

in the shower, it

1:06:24

usually sits under my shirt. It's

1:06:27

not something I can easily take on and off. I

1:06:32

think that's what mine wear out because

1:06:35

I use the leather cord

1:06:38

and it wears out because I shower in it. My

1:06:43

dad has never been a big believer

1:06:45

even though they live in that house.

1:06:47

He's just always gone along with it

1:06:49

and said, I don't understand what's going

1:06:51

on. A

1:06:53

few years ago when he started seeing them,

1:06:58

you understand my dad, he's

1:07:00

a funny guy, but he

1:07:05

doesn't make up stories. I

1:07:08

can always tell when he pulls me to

1:07:10

the side and says something, he's being dead

1:07:12

serious. He was serious and I could tell

1:07:15

he was concerned. Got them

1:07:17

some tourmaline and it took care of

1:07:19

it. Say

1:07:21

what you will. Maybe it's psychosomatic. I

1:07:23

don't think it is, but me,

1:07:27

you, everybody we know that has

1:07:29

had experiences and then got black

1:07:31

tourmaline, it's helped.

1:07:34

As long as you keep it cleansed and do

1:07:37

it, use it the right way. I

1:07:40

was never a believer in crystal power,

1:07:42

yada, yada, yada, until

1:07:44

I tried the black tourmaline and my sleep

1:07:46

paralysis stopped. Then I went, okay.

1:07:50

You can say what you will. I

1:07:52

think people take it too far with a lot

1:07:55

of things, like a lot of things. This

1:07:58

can heal that. They don't

1:08:00

heal physical ailments, but

1:08:03

they'll help with the spiritual stuff. Yeah.

1:08:06

Oh yeah. All right. So

1:08:08

our next story comes to us from K.M. So

1:08:12

K.M. says, I sent you a story last

1:08:14

year with my adventures in reenacting in Tennessee.

1:08:18

After the episode came out, I sent it to

1:08:20

my family. The only one

1:08:22

that listened was my brother who

1:08:24

was with me that night. After

1:08:27

listening to the episode, he called me

1:08:29

and said, why don't you

1:08:31

tell them the story about Fig? To

1:08:34

be honest, I had forgotten it until he mentioned it. I

1:08:37

will spare you the backstory from

1:08:40

last year, but Fort Indian, Fort

1:08:42

Indian Town Gap, Pennsylvania, or Fig

1:08:45

at one time held the second

1:08:47

largest World War II reenactment east

1:08:49

of the Mississippi River. The

1:08:52

largest being D-Day, Ohio at

1:08:57

Canoe Township Park in

1:08:59

Ohio. I hope I said that right.

1:09:02

D-Day, Ohio happens every August and

1:09:05

the Fig event no longer happens.

1:09:07

The thing about Fig was that

1:09:09

it had a section that was

1:09:11

all buildings from the 1940s and

1:09:14

the early 1950s. Only

1:09:17

the heating and plumbing had been upgraded.

1:09:20

The event was in February. As

1:09:22

a boy from Tennessee, I was not

1:09:24

prepared for a Pennsylvania winter. We

1:09:28

crossed from West Virginia into Pennsylvania.

1:09:31

There was snow piled up on the side of I-81.

1:09:35

The younger members were excited to fight in

1:09:37

the snow. I was not. That

1:09:41

was until I saw the barracks. As

1:09:43

I said, these were built for World War II.

1:09:47

Everything was period correct, including the

1:09:49

heat. Downstairs you

1:09:51

had to keep an extra layer on

1:09:54

or be cold. Upstairs you

1:09:56

stripped down to your shorts or melted.

1:09:59

We were upstairs. We arrived

1:10:01

late Thursday night and left Sunday morning.

1:10:04

We only saw the barracks the first

1:10:06

night, but Friday morning, our

1:10:08

eyes were met with a sight straight out of

1:10:10

a history book. Jeeps,

1:10:12

trucks, half-tracks, and every other

1:10:14

manner of military vehicle clogged

1:10:17

the streets. In

1:10:20

the company offices were pubs,

1:10:22

restaurants, and other establishments for

1:10:24

entertainment. In the mess

1:10:26

hall and theater was a reenactor

1:10:29

flea market selling original and reproduction

1:10:31

uniforms, gear, and other paraphernalia of

1:10:33

the hobby. To

1:10:36

make a long, fond memory short, it

1:10:38

was everything we had been promised. After

1:10:41

Saturday's battle, we came back to get out

1:10:43

of our wet, cold clothes and into warm,

1:10:45

dry ones. We

1:10:48

then hit the vendors before they all packed up.

1:10:51

We then made a run for some adult soda water.

1:10:54

It was still a few hours before the

1:10:56

dinner and dance, so we sat to talk

1:10:59

with some new friends we made on this

1:11:01

trip. One was

1:11:03

not a new friend, but the brother of

1:11:05

one of our members. He showed us how

1:11:07

to wear our dress uniforms and told stories

1:11:09

of his time as a member of the

1:11:11

local reenacting group. It

1:11:13

was at this time that the strangeness occurred.

1:11:16

If you remember, I said we had

1:11:18

the top floor, and all the heat

1:11:21

ran up the stairwell and made the

1:11:23

second floor almost unbearably hot. Four

1:11:26

of us were sitting on a bunk with the

1:11:28

two chairs at the end of the barrack talking.

1:11:31

A cold draft came up out of

1:11:33

nowhere. We didn't think anything

1:11:35

about it because someone would crack the window to

1:11:37

get some relief every now and then. The

1:11:41

cold sensation stayed around us as

1:11:43

we talked about the 28th Division's

1:11:45

experience in the Hurtingen

1:11:47

Forest in 1944. This

1:11:51

was the unit that trained at Fig

1:11:53

before shipping overseas. Someone

1:11:55

brought up the nickname of the 28th

1:11:57

and asked why were they called

1:12:00

the Bloody Buckets. At

1:12:03

the mention of that name myself, my

1:12:05

brother, our sergeant friend who was with

1:12:08

us the night of the EVP, and

1:12:10

one other who has now passed

1:12:12

on, felt someone set on

1:12:14

the bunk behind us. The

1:12:17

springs creaked, causing our guest and his brother

1:12:19

to look with us to see who

1:12:21

had joined us. There was no

1:12:23

one within a hundred feet of us, and

1:12:26

he was asleep. At

1:12:28

that point, our guest sheepishly laughed

1:12:30

and said, some people think

1:12:32

these barracks are haunted. We laughed

1:12:35

it off and continued our conversation. We

1:12:38

got back late that night from the dance and we

1:12:40

laid down to sleep. Late

1:12:42

in the night, most of us were woken

1:12:44

up by someone walking around. Someone

1:12:47

at the other end told them

1:12:49

to get back in bed. The

1:12:51

next morning, we tried to

1:12:53

find our prowler. No one admitted

1:12:55

to it. This incident came

1:12:57

up a few months later, and one

1:12:59

of our members who had retired from

1:13:01

the army said he didn't

1:13:03

want to say anything, but he

1:13:06

had shined his flashlight down the aisle and

1:13:08

no one was there. He

1:13:10

also said it sounded like they were

1:13:12

on fire watch. Unlike

1:13:15

last year's story, this has no evidence

1:13:17

other than personal experience, but

1:13:20

everyone there still remembers it, even

1:13:22

if they write it off on

1:13:24

a tired mind. That's

1:13:27

cool. Yeah. Haunted barracks. Yeah. We've,

1:13:29

we've heard stuff like that before.

1:13:32

Cool story. Thank you so

1:13:34

much for sharing that. That's pretty cool. And

1:13:37

last year too, I remember the story from

1:13:39

last year when he mentioned that he was a

1:13:42

reenactor. Very cool. We appreciate it.

1:13:44

Yep. All right.

1:13:47

So this next one is from

1:13:50

FB and they're from

1:13:52

Britain. I mentioned that because I'm going

1:13:54

to have trouble saying probably

1:13:56

the town names and stuff, but

1:13:59

since I open a town called Stourbridge,

1:14:03

which is in the black country. It's

1:14:08

a hella old and

1:14:10

has a rich history with old mining

1:14:12

tunnels, glass factories and

1:14:14

ties to the first ever trained

1:14:17

steam engine. It's

1:14:19

first mentioned in the Doomsday Book, says

1:14:22

11th century I believe, is a market

1:14:24

town. By college, King

1:14:26

Edward VI was founded in 1552 with

1:14:29

portions of the building

1:14:32

being at least 200 years old.

1:14:35

1860s best bet. And

1:14:38

the town hall was built in 1887. The

1:14:41

high street itself is littered

1:14:43

with listed buildings and the town

1:14:45

has many churches. My

1:14:48

first experience was at the

1:14:50

Moorings Tavern, unfortunately now renamed

1:14:52

and remodeled as a

1:14:55

Ponce Cafe, which

1:14:57

was a Bed and Breakfast style pub that

1:14:59

sat on the canal. After

1:15:01

going down a Google wormhole,

1:15:03

I think it was built

1:15:06

around the start of the 18th century, possibly

1:15:10

1840, as that is what that part of

1:15:12

the canal and the other buildings that were

1:15:14

still standing were completed. When

1:15:17

I was about 12 or 13 years old, my

1:15:21

mom worked the bar there

1:15:23

and I would help clean the rooms

1:15:25

above. The upstairs had a heavy

1:15:27

atmosphere about it that wasn't present

1:15:29

downstairs. It felt like a

1:15:32

totally different building with a long narrow

1:15:34

corridor that sagged and seemed slanted. Local

1:15:36

legend said that a tall black

1:15:39

shadowed dog would roam the corridors.

1:15:41

Mom claimed to have seen it, but I never did.

1:15:44

I cannot explain why room 4 scared me

1:15:46

greatly and I refused to clean it. It

1:15:49

was cold, dark and oppressive. It felt

1:15:51

wrong in there. There

1:15:54

was a small church and graveyard at the bottom of

1:15:57

my road that I used to love going to. I

1:15:59

never got along Along with Christianity

1:16:01

it says, but that place was calm

1:16:03

and beautiful to me. A safe place.

1:16:06

Alternatively, there was a much grander

1:16:08

red brick church, St. Mary's, with a

1:16:10

larger graveyard the other side of town

1:16:12

that scared me for no good reason.

1:16:14

To me it seemed big, dark, and

1:16:16

imposing. It felt cold

1:16:19

and unwelcoming there. I

1:16:22

used to love scaring myself by wandering

1:16:24

around the graveyard despite never seeing anything.

1:16:27

By researching it I found out that it

1:16:30

was first built in the early

1:16:33

12th century and has three Knights

1:16:35

Templar gravestones. That's cool. At

1:16:39

the bottom of lower High

1:16:41

Street was a small square church that

1:16:43

seemed abandoned but apparently isn't and

1:16:45

that had the same scary vibe to

1:16:48

it. It had a

1:16:50

few gravestones hidden around the back too. I

1:16:53

would cross over to not pass it when

1:16:55

walking down the street. After looking for

1:16:57

a photo I discovered that

1:17:00

it's a Presbyterian church built in

1:17:02

1788 and that

1:17:04

there has been a chapel since 1698. As

1:17:08

a teenager my dad and I would go for

1:17:11

regular walks around the many local

1:17:13

woods and farmlands. It was an adventure. Once

1:17:15

we ventured further out into the rolling

1:17:18

hills and fields high above the towns with

1:17:20

only patches of woodland left. It

1:17:22

was beautiful until when

1:17:25

you were entering a particular patch of trees

1:17:27

it suddenly went very cold and dark and

1:17:30

I got scared. My dad

1:17:32

tried to calm me sensing that

1:17:35

nothing was wrong but I had to run.

1:17:37

Had to leave immediately. Exiting out

1:17:40

on the other side all felt normal again

1:17:42

but I spotted an odd shape down

1:17:44

behind the next hill. It was

1:17:46

a tall brick oblong tower on a

1:17:48

pedestal base. A folly I

1:17:51

later learned. A building

1:17:53

with no purpose. On it

1:17:55

was graffiti in all caps in thick

1:17:57

white letters who put

1:17:59

Bella in the house. in the Wilkes Elm. My

1:18:01

dad had no idea what it meant so I

1:18:04

researched it later that night and

1:18:07

became obsessed with the local legend for years.

1:18:10

In 1943 a body was found inside of

1:18:13

a witch elm tree on private

1:18:15

property which is now Hagley

1:18:17

and Witchberry Hills where

1:18:19

we'd been by

1:18:21

four young boys looking for bird eggs. She'd

1:18:24

been dead 18 months, was married, had

1:18:27

children, been to work, and

1:18:29

was dressed in more

1:18:31

gypsy-esque clothes. She

1:18:33

had taffeta stuff down her throat and

1:18:35

it was thought she was put inside

1:18:38

the tree alive. No one ever really

1:18:41

identified her and

1:18:43

her skeleton went missing years later.

1:18:45

Despite the investigation being kept secret,

1:18:48

due to the boys' illegal actions graffiti

1:18:50

appeared in the town within a few

1:18:52

days asking who put Bella,

1:18:55

sometimes Isabella, in the witch elm.

1:18:57

The graffiti we saw had been done in

1:18:59

the 2000s. The legend

1:19:02

is that she was a witch or

1:19:04

gypsy woman who had been killed for

1:19:07

her wicked ways and now her ghost

1:19:09

haunts those woods. Another

1:19:12

popular theory includes her being

1:19:14

a German spy dating a

1:19:16

high-ranking Nazi officer or being a

1:19:18

semi-famous cabaret singer. Despite

1:19:20

returning many times I never had that

1:19:23

experience again maybe because now I knew

1:19:25

who she was and told

1:19:27

everyone and anyone who had listened about her.

1:19:31

The house me and my mom moved into

1:19:34

when I was 12 was also haunted and

1:19:36

in the five or six years

1:19:38

we lived there I think we filled

1:19:40

out the bingo card of typical hauntings. The

1:19:43

house was built in the 1950s

1:19:45

and was remodeled just before we moved in.

1:19:47

We had phantom smells of cigars,

1:19:50

disembodied voices, cold spots and

1:19:52

a ghostly male figure that would stand in the garden.

1:19:55

Then as family trouble kicked up and

1:19:57

I became very upset and troubled we

1:19:59

had pulled poltergeist activity and

1:20:03

Says for for the bonus. I'm female

1:20:06

So that's that adds

1:20:08

to the poltergeist stories

1:20:10

there that it's usually Younger

1:20:14

females that cause the poltergeist stuff

1:20:18

But she goes on to

1:20:20

say we had stuff rearranged in the

1:20:22

kitchen mainly the spice rack for some

1:20:27

Or some unexplained reason and

1:20:29

the kettle randomly clicking on I

1:20:32

was alone one time And it kept moving the

1:20:34

bread. I'd placed on the countertop I'd

1:20:36

put it next to the toaster and I'd look

1:20:38

away and it would be back on the stovetop

1:20:41

It was funny, and I liked the kettle coming

1:20:43

on for me when I'd come home

1:20:45

from school or college So what I didn't

1:20:48

like was the pacing outside of my room

1:20:50

at night that terrified me and

1:20:52

no it was not the floorboards I know that

1:20:56

I know what that sounds like because

1:20:58

those did happen independently Only

1:21:01

once did I enter my room I could

1:21:03

hear it scuffling around across the room from

1:21:05

me It sounded like it

1:21:07

was shuffling through a huge pile of

1:21:10

papers and plastic bags But there

1:21:12

wasn't any in the room. It was just

1:21:14

cuddly toys and laundry I

1:21:16

sat petrified in bed frozen in fear

1:21:18

staring into the darkness seeing nothing Until

1:21:21

an almighty crash as

1:21:24

if a huge pile of books had toppled over made

1:21:26

me jump up And I hit

1:21:28

the light switch nothing was there

1:21:30

nothing had changed nothing moved and

1:21:33

nothing appeared Mom hadn't

1:21:35

woken up either as

1:21:37

if the sound hadn't really happened as

1:21:39

if that wasn't enough Whenever we

1:21:41

had someone new in the

1:21:44

house it would rip down the shower

1:21:46

curtain and make a huge echoing

1:21:48

crash We experimented with

1:21:50

that one it would take some

1:21:53

Force to pull down and when land

1:21:55

in the bath with some noise when

1:21:59

it Pull it down

1:22:01

it would land on the floor with a

1:22:03

huge crash sound so what they're saying

1:22:05

is when they pull it down. It

1:22:07

would land in the bathtub but not a whole lot

1:22:09

of noise but when the entity pulled down it would

1:22:12

land in the. Middle

1:22:15

of the floor and sound like crashing

1:22:17

noises. And

1:22:19

finally and more humorously it

1:22:21

once plucked a pair of knickers off

1:22:24

the top of a pile of clean

1:22:26

laundry and through it a good

1:22:28

few feet across the lounge so

1:22:30

for our american listeners that's underwear.

1:22:34

The pile didn't topple over nothing else in

1:22:36

the pile was disturbed and we felt no

1:22:38

draft plus the doors and windows were shut

1:22:41

as were the curtains they simply flew

1:22:43

across the lounge and we took it as

1:22:45

a sign that. Take the

1:22:48

laundry upstairs. So she

1:22:50

goes on a little bit but man

1:22:53

sounds like she has had some experiences in

1:22:55

her life. Yeah i'm

1:22:57

trying to in that house and

1:23:00

i'm heard that. Who

1:23:02

put bell in the which i have to

1:23:05

for many years but we

1:23:07

just never looked into it. Maybe

1:23:10

we should maybe there's something there when you

1:23:12

said that i was like i've

1:23:14

read that before. You know

1:23:16

i know i have come across that is not the

1:23:18

first time i've heard that. Right.

1:23:23

All right this next one comes from kk

1:23:26

and kk says i

1:23:28

hope you remember me i've been sending

1:23:30

listener stories for three years running now

1:23:33

and i told you last year that i

1:23:35

intend to keep sending stories in and addham

1:23:37

said quote bring it on. She

1:23:39

says well i'm bringing it now. This

1:23:43

particular story has been on my mind for a

1:23:45

long time i had a

1:23:47

very good friend when i was growing up we

1:23:49

met in first grade. J was

1:23:52

a very big personality in the sense of

1:23:54

humor was something to be reckoned with a

1:23:57

small group of friends including myself and j.

1:24:00

got bullied a lot in school. We

1:24:02

grew up in a very small town and

1:24:05

cliques were established early in our school years.

1:24:08

Somehow this never seemed to bother Jay. He

1:24:11

was the happiest guy. He was always ready

1:24:13

to cheer us up with a joke or

1:24:15

a funny story. The meanest

1:24:17

of mean kids couldn't get under his skin.

1:24:20

He lived life to the fullest in his short

1:24:22

time on this earth. He

1:24:25

traveled across the country, worked on a

1:24:27

ranch in Colorado and a farm in

1:24:29

Hawaii for several years before investing in

1:24:32

his own landscaping business. He

1:24:34

was very creative as well as hard working.

1:24:38

Our high school boasted a garden

1:24:40

of his own creation for several

1:24:42

years after graduation. Jay

1:24:44

was poised to burst into adulthood at full

1:24:46

speed and make a dent in the world.

1:24:50

Unfortunately this didn't happen.

1:24:53

Jay got very sick very suddenly and

1:24:55

passed away in October of 2010. He

1:24:59

was only 22 years old. Hell

1:25:02

man, this guy did a lot before

1:25:04

22. Jeez, that

1:25:06

is incredible. He said

1:25:09

live life to the fullest. He certainly

1:25:11

did. Our

1:25:13

little group of friends were devastated. Jay

1:25:16

was the glue that held us together. He

1:25:19

had seemed to be the best of us,

1:25:21

poised for big things, ready to pioneer changes

1:25:23

in the world. At

1:25:25

his funeral, as Jay had been

1:25:27

so dedicated to preserving the environment,

1:25:30

his mother requested we all plant a tree

1:25:32

in his honor. I

1:25:34

fell into a depression after Jay's passing. The

1:25:36

world didn't seem as bright without him in

1:25:38

it. I have always

1:25:41

suffered from nightmares and those worsened in

1:25:43

the weeks after losing Jay. One

1:25:46

night however, I had a very different sort

1:25:48

of dream. I dreamed that my

1:25:50

friends and I were at a class reunion. Jay

1:25:53

was there talking and having fun as

1:25:55

if nothing had happened. No

1:25:59

one seemed to remember. Remember that Jay had passed

1:26:01

away, not even myself. He

1:26:04

and I had spent a long while

1:26:06

catching up with each other and reminiscing

1:26:08

about our school-age shenanigans. Slowly,

1:26:10

however, I began to realize that

1:26:12

something wasn't right. I

1:26:15

seemed to be the only person who could see Jay.

1:26:18

The memory of Jay's funeral crept slowly

1:26:20

back into my mind and

1:26:22

I began to panic as I started to realize

1:26:24

that Jay had passed on and

1:26:26

could not be there. He

1:26:29

tried to calm me down, but I burst

1:26:32

into tears and began to shout, You're dead!

1:26:35

You're dead! That

1:26:38

was when Jay gently put his hand on

1:26:40

my shoulders and said, Kay, I

1:26:42

know that I'm not alive and

1:26:44

that's okay. I'm here to

1:26:46

check on you. I

1:26:48

told Jay how depressed that I had been and

1:26:50

how much I missed him. He

1:26:53

listened to me talk and he spoke comforting

1:26:55

words about how he was aware of what

1:26:57

had happened that he had

1:26:59

moved on and was very happy with where he

1:27:01

was. He gave me one

1:27:03

final hug and assured me that everything

1:27:05

would be okay and that he would

1:27:07

be back before he

1:27:09

slowly faded away. I

1:27:12

woke up from that dream feeling as if

1:27:14

a huge weight had come off my shoulders.

1:27:17

Over the next few weeks, my depression

1:27:20

eased, the world became brighter again and

1:27:22

I felt myself coming back to the

1:27:24

person I had been before Jay's passing.

1:27:28

I still dream of Jay. About once

1:27:30

a year, I have a similar dream. We

1:27:32

are at a class reunion again and

1:27:34

Jay is there, sometimes talking to

1:27:37

me, sometimes just in the background. I'm

1:27:40

aware that he is gone and his presence

1:27:42

instead fills me with happiness. I

1:27:45

cherish the time we spend together and he always

1:27:47

reminds me that he's there to check on me

1:27:49

and make sure that I'm okay. The

1:27:52

last of these dreams occurred about two weeks

1:27:55

ago. The reason this

1:27:57

story has a date to it is

1:27:59

because today was the day that for the first

1:28:02

time since the funeral 13 years ago, I ran

1:28:04

into Jay's

1:28:06

mother. We shed

1:28:09

happy tears as we recognized each

1:28:11

other, purely by chance, in a

1:28:13

small corner store. She invited me

1:28:15

over to her house, where we spent

1:28:17

hours reminiscing about Jay. Despite

1:28:20

the subject being a sad one, it

1:28:22

was very happy and a heartfelt reunion.

1:28:26

I felt Jay's presence overwhelmingly as we

1:28:28

shared a few beers and

1:28:30

swapped funny stories about him. Today

1:28:33

felt like the day to put this story to

1:28:35

paper. It was an

1:28:37

extra boost for both Jay's mother and myself

1:28:40

to remember the person who had shaped so

1:28:42

much of both of our lives. I

1:28:45

would like to add on a final note that Jay's

1:28:48

mother had intended to donate Jay's

1:28:50

organs after his passing. However,

1:28:53

due to the bacterial nature

1:28:55

of his illness, none of

1:28:57

his organs were viable. Instead,

1:29:00

his mother hosts a memorial blood drive

1:29:02

in his name three or four times

1:29:04

a year. She has donated

1:29:06

over 1,500 pints in

1:29:08

his name to date. Even

1:29:10

years after his passing, Jay is

1:29:12

still impacting the world. Jay,

1:29:17

that is an awesome story.

1:29:21

So many of these stories that

1:29:23

we get are scary

1:29:25

or creepy or

1:29:28

everything. That's great. We

1:29:32

get at least a few every year

1:29:34

that are not

1:29:36

scary, that are heartfelt,

1:29:40

heartwarming. They

1:29:45

make you feel good about what

1:29:47

might be on the other side. That

1:29:51

maybe all of those friends and family

1:29:54

that we've lost over the years, they're

1:29:58

still right there. So

1:30:00

they're just on the other side and they're keeping

1:30:02

an eye on us. And every

1:30:05

once in a while they

1:30:07

reach through the veil and let us know. Well,

1:30:11

and you

1:30:13

know, I've heard skeptics say, well, that's just

1:30:15

a dream. You're just remembering them, whatever. But

1:30:18

here's the thing. Yeah,

1:30:21

you can dream about it. But

1:30:23

as with most dreams, those

1:30:26

dreams fade in your memory. When

1:30:30

you have a dream that is so

1:30:32

impactful to you that you will never

1:30:34

forget it. And it

1:30:36

involves a past loved one. I

1:30:39

think that's them actually coming back

1:30:42

because in a sleep

1:30:44

state, you're not able

1:30:46

to have your logical brain brush

1:30:49

it off as, you know, just

1:30:51

your imagination. You just seeing something out of

1:30:53

the corner of your eye. There's

1:30:55

got to be a rational explanation. Yada, yada, yada. In

1:30:58

your sleep state, you're more receptive and they're

1:31:00

able to come and visit you and interact

1:31:03

with you. And to me,

1:31:05

those are the dreams that if you have that dream,

1:31:08

you'll never forget. She will

1:31:10

always remember Jay visiting her. And

1:31:13

I think that's that

1:31:15

to me, that's proof that

1:31:18

that was Jay coming and saying,

1:31:20

Hey, I'm okay. You

1:31:23

know, keep living your life. Have

1:31:25

fun. Don't be

1:31:27

so depressed over me because I'm

1:31:29

fine. And it, I

1:31:31

mean, she'll never forget that it

1:31:33

changed her mindset and

1:31:35

mood about everything. And

1:31:38

so to me, yeah, you can have dreams

1:31:40

and they can just be dreams. But

1:31:43

when their dreams that impactful, I

1:31:45

believe it is your loved one coming

1:31:47

back and talking. Yeah. Yeah,

1:31:50

I do too. And I've, I've had dreams

1:31:52

like this and you're right.

1:31:54

I mean, I can remember being in

1:31:56

eighth grade, probably 14 years old. And

1:32:01

having a dream of a family

1:32:03

member coming to me and waking up

1:32:06

the next morning to find out he had passed during

1:32:08

the night. So and it

1:32:10

sticks with you and I remember and I am

1:32:12

not one to remember dreams at all. I

1:32:16

will wake up realizing that I

1:32:18

have dreamed, but

1:32:20

man, they

1:32:22

go away fast. I

1:32:25

cannot hold on to them. Every once

1:32:27

in a while I'll be able

1:32:29

to recall some random detail, but

1:32:33

not that one. I can remember every

1:32:35

aspect of it. Right. All right.

1:32:38

So this next one comes from DW says

1:32:42

I am a senior police officer in the

1:32:44

UK with 22 years experience and I work

1:32:46

in a major city just outside of London.

1:32:49

In late 2022, I was

1:32:51

the commander for a major incident in

1:32:53

the city. I left the

1:32:55

location in the very early hours of the

1:32:57

morning to travel home while in

1:33:00

route home. I got a message that I

1:33:02

needed to do some further work regarding the

1:33:04

incident. Rather than going home

1:33:06

and waking my family up at 4 a.m. I

1:33:09

decided to stop off at what

1:33:11

is known as a satellite

1:33:13

station to complete this work. Most

1:33:16

police areas in the UK now use main

1:33:19

large purpose building, large

1:33:22

purpose built police stations constructed

1:33:24

in main locations. Older

1:33:27

community police stations or police

1:33:29

houses remain within further

1:33:32

reaching areas and are referred to

1:33:34

as satellite stations. No one

1:33:36

usually works from them. They are

1:33:38

pretty much abandoned. The satellite station

1:33:40

I stopped off at was built

1:33:43

in the late 1950s and

1:33:45

stopped being an operational station around 15 years

1:33:47

ago. It is

1:33:49

located within within a small town and

1:33:51

one of the furthest reaches of the

1:33:54

policing area it serves to

1:33:56

save this town as sleepy would be an

1:33:58

understatement. This

1:34:00

station has two floors but isn't

1:34:02

especially big. It has a long

1:34:04

corridor running through both levels and

1:34:07

either side are now disused

1:34:10

offices, storage areas, and dilapidated

1:34:12

jail area containing nine cells.

1:34:15

I've worked here a number of times over the

1:34:17

last few years as it is close to home,

1:34:19

but over the last 15 years

1:34:21

I have never seen another person present

1:34:23

in this station. Entry

1:34:26

to the station is by way

1:34:28

of secure swipe card causing the

1:34:30

set of large gates on the entrance to

1:34:33

the vehicle yard to slowly creek open.

1:34:36

Once into the small yard you are able to see

1:34:39

any other vehicles parked at the location.

1:34:42

As ever, my vehicle was the only one

1:34:44

present. Given

1:34:46

the rural and isolated location of the

1:34:48

station, I called control center to see

1:34:51

if the intruder alarm was set and

1:34:54

if not to gain the access code.

1:34:57

As I expected, I was told the intruder alarm

1:34:59

was set and was given the access code to

1:35:02

disable it on entry. I

1:35:04

went into the building with my laptop, disabled

1:35:06

the alarm, and looked for an office to

1:35:08

set myself up in. Walking

1:35:11

around the station is an odd experience.

1:35:13

I worked out of it for a few

1:35:15

years, many years ago, as a junior officer

1:35:17

so I know it well. It

1:35:20

is always an area experience to visit

1:35:22

one of the satellite stations as everything

1:35:24

appears abandoned in a way that

1:35:27

is what happens. Orders

1:35:29

are received to move operational staff elsewhere

1:35:32

and other than maintenance

1:35:34

visits from estate management,

1:35:36

only occasional visits are made for

1:35:39

short periods of time. Walking

1:35:41

around, one can find newspapers from 15

1:35:43

years ago on desk and the briefing

1:35:46

posters of wanted people still hanging on

1:35:48

the walls showing people who

1:35:50

have now aged beyond their youthful features

1:35:52

captured by these images. It says

1:35:56

I decided to set my temporary office up

1:35:58

on the second floor as much of

1:36:00

the first floor is

1:36:03

just operational storage areas. I

1:36:06

chose an office adjacent to the top of the

1:36:08

stairs with the corridor

1:36:10

going past in either direction. To

1:36:13

the east towards the report room and

1:36:15

to the west towards the toilet, toward

1:36:20

the toilet area and CID,

1:36:22

the detectives department, all

1:36:25

obviously now disused and abandoned.

1:36:28

Now I must stress at this stage,

1:36:30

I was wide awake, although it was

1:36:32

the early hours of the morning. I'm

1:36:35

used to working night shifts, have

1:36:37

never fallen asleep on duty, and I

1:36:39

was still very much primed from the

1:36:41

incident I had command over. As

1:36:45

I waited for my laptop to power up,

1:36:47

I heard footsteps walking toward the office where

1:36:50

I was sitting, coming from the west. They

1:36:52

were unmistakable, heavy steps

1:36:55

of someone wearing service boots and

1:36:57

a clinking that anyone in this

1:36:59

service will recognize as vehicle and

1:37:01

handcuff keys jangling on a

1:37:03

utility belt. The steps

1:37:05

continued to approach the office

1:37:07

where I was sitting. My only thought at

1:37:09

this time was, oh, it's an officer coming

1:37:12

to offer me a coffee

1:37:14

or say hi. I

1:37:16

knew by name many of the officers

1:37:18

that worked in this area and even

1:37:20

thought it may be someone checking me

1:37:22

out, given the station is rarely occupied.

1:37:26

As the footsteps approached, they stopped immediately

1:37:28

outside the office and I waited with

1:37:31

baited breath to see who would pop

1:37:33

their head in. After a few seconds,

1:37:35

no one did, which I thought was

1:37:37

odd. I then heard

1:37:39

the footsteps and jangling of keys turn and

1:37:41

return down the corridor back from the direction

1:37:43

from which they came. It

1:37:46

was now I became very interested in who it

1:37:48

was. The alarm was set when

1:37:50

I entered and given the small size of

1:37:52

the station, I know I would have heard

1:37:54

another officer come in. At

1:37:57

that time of the night, you could hear a

1:37:59

mouse sneeze any part of the building

1:38:01

let alone hear a patrol car park

1:38:04

after coming through the heavy iron gates.

1:38:07

I looked to my left out of the window to

1:38:10

the vehicle yard and only my car was there. Now

1:38:14

my thought process included only two possibilities

1:38:16

at this time. Either

1:38:18

it was a slacking officer who had

1:38:20

taken a night duty sleep break in

1:38:22

the station and made a mistake of

1:38:25

approaching a senior officer while doing so

1:38:28

or an external intruder

1:38:30

trespassing on a secure site.

1:38:33

All this went through my head in a few seconds before

1:38:36

I left my desk to follow the sound

1:38:38

of the footsteps. Suffice it to

1:38:40

say I searched that police station

1:38:42

from top to bottom including every covered

1:38:45

and storage area on both floors with

1:38:47

no trace of any person. I

1:38:50

logged onto officer tracking and noted

1:38:52

that no officers had been any

1:38:54

closer than 20 miles of the

1:38:56

station in the last two hours. I

1:38:59

was absolutely certain that no

1:39:01

person other than myself was in that station.

1:39:04

This left me with a dilemma. Either

1:39:06

I was mistaken or there

1:39:08

was someone present with me. I

1:39:10

was unwilling to accept either situation. I

1:39:14

just put it down to one of

1:39:17

those things but it did bother me as

1:39:19

I couldn't explain it. I spoke

1:39:21

about it with another officer who was also a

1:39:23

close friend who was familiar with the station. He

1:39:26

said that he often felt an isolated

1:39:28

sensation when there but put it down

1:39:30

to being its abandoned

1:39:32

status. Ultimately, I came

1:39:34

to the conclusion that I must

1:39:37

have been mistaken. Old stations are

1:39:39

drafty, doors banged and building

1:39:41

fabrics creek. I

1:39:44

hadn't fully convinced myself of this but it was

1:39:46

a more comfortable explanation than the alternative. On

1:39:49

a sunny Sunday morning in the summer of 2023, about 6 months

1:39:51

later, I returned to the

1:39:53

station. It was around 7am and

1:39:55

as I entered the station I knew I was

1:39:58

alone for all the reasons I mentioned my

1:40:00

last visit. I settled down in

1:40:02

the same office. After

1:40:04

an hour or so I decided I needed to use the

1:40:06

toilet. This is located to the

1:40:08

west of the corridor, if you recall

1:40:10

the direction of my mysterious footsteps. As

1:40:14

I walked into the small room that contained

1:40:16

a single toilet I could see and hear

1:40:19

that the two taps or faucets were

1:40:21

both fully turned on and running

1:40:23

water into the sink. I

1:40:25

also saw that the plug was in

1:40:27

the sink and the water level was

1:40:29

rising quickly. I rushed

1:40:31

to turn these off and take the

1:40:34

plug out to prevent a flooded floor.

1:40:37

As I stood at the sink the reality

1:40:39

set in. Whoever or

1:40:41

whatever had turned these taps on and put

1:40:43

the plug in must have

1:40:45

done this at the same time I decided

1:40:47

to use the toilet, only a few seconds

1:40:50

previously. This was evident by

1:40:52

the speed at which the sink was filling

1:40:54

and the lack of any flooding prior to

1:40:56

my arrival. I laughed and said out loud,

1:40:58

okay I believe you now. I

1:41:00

have many months to reflect on

1:41:03

these linked events. I am a

1:41:05

rational person probably swaying towards healthy

1:41:07

skeptics. I do believe in ghosts

1:41:09

but I don't subscribe to the thought that

1:41:11

they are manifestations of the dead. Neither

1:41:14

of the incidents caused me any distress.

1:41:16

I never felt threatened or scared. I

1:41:19

have no doubt that whatever was with me

1:41:21

on those days was intelligent and very much

1:41:23

aware of me. I like

1:41:25

to think the first event was this

1:41:27

intelligence checking me out, maybe

1:41:30

asking who is this

1:41:32

in my station and

1:41:34

when satisfied I was no threat let me

1:41:37

be. I am sure the

1:41:39

second incident was its way of telling me

1:41:41

it was real and I should believe it

1:41:44

succeeded. Yeah, no kidding.

1:42:00

that it hasn't been going on for a

1:42:02

long time. You know, it wasn't like a

1:42:04

previous officer was there, turned

1:42:07

them on and left them. It was very

1:42:10

recent thing or there would

1:42:12

have been flooding. Right. Man,

1:42:15

that's crazy. We had

1:42:17

one earlier that mentioned something about actually

1:42:20

seeing the water faucet

1:42:22

turn on. I

1:42:27

don't know what's worse, the water coming on and the

1:42:30

handles didn't turn or actually seeing

1:42:32

the handles turn. Yeah,

1:42:34

probably seeing the handles turn. Because

1:42:39

if the handles don't turn you can convince

1:42:42

yourself, oh there's a seal that's

1:42:44

broken. But

1:42:47

if you see the handles turn, a busted

1:42:49

seal ain't going to do that. That's

1:42:53

right. Alright, so our next one is

1:42:55

from ES. Let's

1:42:57

see. To start with some background, over

1:43:00

the last year my husband has begun to

1:43:02

sleep, begun to

1:43:04

sleepwalk occasionally. There

1:43:07

isn't really a pattern to it, but he has

1:43:09

a few, but if he has a few adult

1:43:11

beverages the likelihood seems to be higher. While

1:43:15

the incidents can sometimes be a little

1:43:17

startling, picture having to put

1:43:19

a six foot two man back to

1:43:21

bed when he has just startled you

1:43:24

awake by sleepwalking himself to stand in

1:43:26

your bedroom corner. They

1:43:28

haven't ever really been truly creepy

1:43:31

or scary until now. Last

1:43:33

month we went on a Halloween cruise

1:43:35

that left out of New Orleans. We

1:43:38

decided to get to New Orleans

1:43:40

a day and a half early in

1:43:42

order to enjoy the city since it's one of

1:43:44

our favorite places. On our

1:43:46

last night there we went on a ghost tour

1:43:48

through the French Quarter. One

1:43:51