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What's up you guys? I'm Hailey, and I'm Andrea.

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And this is listener stories

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volume eight of inhuman

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entry prem podcasts.

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Welcome back to you guys.

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We are doing another listener stories

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out your name, then be sure to let us know.

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We had a lot of aliases today.

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So Oh, I like it. Yeah. Okay.

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Alright. we're just gonna get right into

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it. This story is from

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Gracie k. So hello Gracie.

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Hi. Hey,

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guys. I just wanted to start out by saying I found

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your podcast through a tech talk about Brian Schafer.

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I went

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to OSU and had a lot and

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a lot of us heard his story as freshman

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and to learn more I listened to the episodes since

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I and since then I've been hooked. I've listened

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to all hundred and six episodes in a month

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and can't wait for far. Oh my gosh.

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Mhmm. Well, hello, Gracie. Thank you

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for listening. Yes. And

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thanks for coming over here from TikTok. We

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love you. Yeah. Okay. So I have

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two stories to share. One being

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a more spooky story and the

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other being a close

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call story. Let's start with the spooky

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story. When was about eight,

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my uncle and his family were living with us

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in a small, older house. I've

1:58

always been scared of the dark, but for whatever reason,

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one night my older cousin dared me to sleep

2:03

in the living room with him instead of my room.

2:05

because we were tight on space, pretty much

2:07

all of us had to double up. I

2:09

agreed and while the adults were getting ready for

2:11

bed, my cousin and I turned off the lights and

2:13

started to get ready for bed. It was

2:15

quiet with low mumbles coming from

2:18

the bedrooms and I was trying to fall asleep. I

2:21

opened my eyes but can't remember why

2:23

when I saw a black silhouette of a

2:25

man wearing a top hat.

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the

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Oh, no. Thank you. he

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was stand he was just standing there as I

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stared at him, but then he started to

2:35

move towards me. So I booked it

2:37

back to my mom's room and told her about what

2:39

happened. She didn't tell

2:41

anyone else because she didn't think anything

2:43

of it and honestly forgot about it by the

2:45

next day. Months go by

2:47

and nothing else happened, until my grandma

2:49

woke up in absolute terror, screaming

2:52

for my mom once my uncle and

2:54

his family

2:55

moved out.

2:56

Apparently, she was having

2:58

a bad dream. And when she woke up, she

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saw a black silhouette of a man wearing

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a top hat standing at the foot

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of her bed. Mind

3:07

you, my mom never told my grandma

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about what I saw, so it was

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shocking when my mom heard her account

3:13

of the event. Since

3:16

then, nothing has happened, but I am

3:18

one hundred thousand percent convinced

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the house is haunted. Yeah.

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Your house is haunted. That's so freaky that

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you never told she never

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told your grandma and your grandma saw the exact

3:29

same thing. Yeah. Like, No.

3:32

Thank you. That's really freaky.

3:34

And it's like it sounds like a

3:37

like a period ghost. You

3:39

know? Like, yeah. Yeah.

3:40

A blanket or something with the top

3:42

of this before -- Yeah. --

3:44

which is always like -- Peaky. --

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super creepy.

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Okay. On to a more recent and true

3:49

crime related story.

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Sometime last year, I was taking my dog out

3:53

in middle of the night like I had done a ton

3:55

of times before. I lived in an

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off campus apartment near sketchy part

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of a main road in Columbus, so

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homeless people and sketchy people frequented

4:05

the area so this was nothing new

4:06

to my dog or I.

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However, this time I took him

4:10

out and after he went potty, he locked

4:12

onto something in the shadows. and

4:14

started growling and barking. No.

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He can be quite the guard dog, so I

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just told him to leave it and headed towards

4:21

towards upstairs to my apartment.

4:24

As

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I was walking, my gut told me something

4:26

was wrong. And so my dog and I

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ran up the two flights of flights

4:31

of outside stairs to get to my apartment. when

4:33

we stopped so I could unlock my door. While

4:36

I was doing this, thin my dog

4:38

oh, this is a cute dog name. stood

4:42

at the landing of the stairs and was staring

4:44

like someone was coming up. I

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heard someone or something Who

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knows? Because I didn't have my glasses on.

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Running towards us up the stairs. Oh

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my god. No. No. I think my

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dog's leash and basically threw

4:58

us both inside, slamming

5:00

the door behind us and locking it. I

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don't know if it was someone trying to do some

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shady shit or just my imagination because

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I never actually saw something. But

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Finn was definitely locked onto something

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so it had to have been there. Yeah.

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Yeah. Trust your dogs and say, at least

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something or someone. Dogs are,

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like, so aware, so their one

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hundred percent was something and

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you heard it. Oh, that is

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so scary. I hope that you, like, don't go

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outside alone in middle of the night. And I know

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sometimes you can't help it if you have to

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take your dog out. But

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yeah. Wow. I would have just been, like,

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a dog, then you're peeing in the house

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-- Yeah. -- in the middle of the night now on. I don't They're all

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puppy pads everywhere. Yeah. Here's

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the puppy pad even though you're not a puppy, and

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I'm not taking you out in the middle of the day. Yeah.

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Same. Oh, well, thank you for

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sharing your stories with us, Gracie. We appreciate

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it so much. And we're glad you're okay. Yeah.

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yeah

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Okay. So this next one is from Leah

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m. She says, hi, your

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listener stories made me think of situation that

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I had when I was three or four years old.

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When my parents talk about the house that we lived

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in back in nineteen ninety seven. They

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tell stories of how they could hear footsteps

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walking across the ceiling, the ceiling.

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That's great. When all of us were downstairs,

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or big thuds they would hear when

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they knew nobody was upstairs. They

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would tell stories of how our cat would be

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in a dead sleep and then all of a sudden

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would be hissing up at the ceiling

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and that all the hair on the back of his neck

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would stand up because something was disturbing

6:31

him. That's

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creepy.

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My bed at the time was against the wall

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across from the top of the staircase

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when the light was on downstairs, but

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off upstairs, you could obviously see

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shadows. Every night when I

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would lay in bed, I would see two figures walking

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at the stairs. One

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man was really tall and skinny,

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and the other was really

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short and fat. They both wore

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long trench coats and top hats,

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which that's making me feel like But the freaking top

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hat I know. I think there's three stories in

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here that have top hats, actually, now that I'm thinking

7:05

about it. I feel like that's such a ghost,

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like, period, ghosty thing to do.

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And it's reminding me of, like, one hundred and one

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Dalmatians, the Oh, yeah.

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can't Horace and I can't Yeah.

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Jasp Jasper? don't know. Anyway, Jasper.

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Yeah. Okay.

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They would walk up the stairs together and walk

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straight toward me. No.

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Mm-mm. No.

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I wasn't even I wasn't ever scared

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of the shadows. I'm not sure if it was because

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I was so young or because I could tell

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they weren't mean spirits. Yeah.

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But as soon as I would close my eyes and open

7:37

them, they would be gone, but then they would start

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walking up the stairs towards me again.

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Oh, my gosh.

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We moved into my parents forever home nineteen

7:47

ninety eight and I never spoke of it because I was

7:49

so little.

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In two thousand eleven, my parents, myself,

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and my two sisters were talking about

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all of the crazy shit that used to happen in that house.

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My parents were shocked that I was seeing

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shadows

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and questioning why I never told them. My

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sister who was seven years older than me

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was shocked saying that she too

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has seen the shadows but never sent anything to

8:08

anyone about it.

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I started describing the men. She

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started finishing my sin senses on

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what they looked like and and what they were

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wearing. My hair is standing up on my

8:18

arms just typing this out. We

8:21

all sat in my parents living room with our jaws

8:23

on the floor, then we all just

8:25

looked at each other and we're speechless. My

8:28

jaws on the floor. Oh my god. this

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is why you share spooky stories

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with the people in your house because because

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if more than one of you has it, you need to move out of there

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right this time. Immediately. Yes. Even if

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they I mean, I guess it's good they weren't

8:42

threatening spirits, but -- Yeah.

8:44

Yeah. -- still that's so freaky that both

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you and your sisters saw the exact same thing

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and

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neither of you had told each other. So, like, there's

8:52

no way one of you could have been, like, making

8:54

it up. Right. Exactly. Wow.

8:56

That is so freaky.

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Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Leah. Yeah.

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Okay.

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Next story is from Emily.

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First, I wanted to thank you for telling these stories.

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You keep me entertained while doing mindless work.

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Well, thank you for listening. I was

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listening to your listener stories and it

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reminded me of something that happened to me.

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When I was in college, I was interning

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in New York. I live in New Jersey and

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was commuting by train. One

9:23

night, my office was having an outing, so

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I knew I would be getting home late and needed to find

9:27

a ride home from the train. A

9:29

guy friend of mine who lives in a few towns

9:32

over, a few towns away agreed to pick

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me up. He lives in a really nice town,

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ranked one of the best places to raise a family.

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When I got off the train, he was still a few

9:41

minutes away, but I didn't think anything

9:43

of it. and went to wait by the parking

9:45

lot. Another woman got off the

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train with me. She got in her

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car and immediately got back out. She

9:52

stood next to me and said her husband spotted

9:54

someone hiding in the bushes, so

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she was going to wait with me until my ride

9:59

got there. Look

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at oh my gosh. Thank

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god. They were there. I

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know. I had never been

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so thankful of an observant stranger

10:08

before in my life. The man ran

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off after her husband put his high beams on.

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A good reminder to always say something

10:15

when something doesn't seem right. Who

10:17

knows what would have happened if they

10:19

had left me there?

10:21

Wow. Wow. That is so

10:23

true though. Like, it's better to

10:25

be wrong and, you know,

10:27

be embarrassed and say something than

10:30

it is. to, you know,

10:32

get her -- No worries. Yeah. --

10:35

or have someone

10:35

else get her. I'm so glad

10:37

that she was there and that her husband had, like,

10:40

been mad and seen it. Mhmm. And

10:42

then was, like, you need to wait with her. Like, we're

10:44

gonna wait. Yeah. Oh, I'm so

10:46

glad you're okay. But, yes, good reminder to

10:48

if you see something, say something always.

10:50

And if your gut is telling you something

10:53

is wrong, then listen to it.

10:56

and do whatever you need to do to keep yourself

10:58

safe. And always be hyper

11:00

aware of your surroundings, like,

11:02

yes, and this is just another reminder

11:05

to not walk out to the parking lot while looking

11:07

at your phone because I am so

11:09

bad about that because it's like, you're done shopping,

11:11

you're done at the store. Okay. I'm gonna like check what

11:13

I missed on my phone -- Right. -- while I'm walking

11:15

up to the parking lot. Like, no. Pay

11:17

attention, get in your car, lock your doors,

11:19

and then look get your phone. Yeah. Like, ever since

11:22

you brought that up, I made make

11:24

sure I mean, I didn't really do it that much to begin

11:26

with because I have, like, kids and stuff,

11:28

but -- Yeah. -- even even when

11:30

I'm alone, like, I just I'm like,

11:33

my head's going back and forth, like, paranoid,

11:35

you know. And you're always like,

11:38

oh, like, the town I live in is safe. Nothing's

11:40

gonna happen here, but you just never know. I

11:42

don't think that. I don't think anything can happen

11:44

anywhere. I mean, I

11:46

do too. But, like, I've always felt like my

11:48

town is very safe, which, like, it is,

11:50

but you still never know what happened.

11:53

like, it just takes one bad egg even if

11:55

it's like a safe town. So yeah.

11:58

Another reminder to always be aware, and need

12:00

to be better about that. Yeah. Not that I go

12:01

many places because I literally can't

12:04

leave my dogs home alone because they fat

12:07

shit crazy, but that's a story for another

12:09

time.

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Okay.

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Thank you so much for sharing that, Emily. I'm really

12:13

glad you're safe. Yes. Okay. So this

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next one is from Caitlyn b.

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She says in the fall of two thousand

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ten, when I was fifteen, I was camping with my

12:22

best friend and her family. We

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were near McInall, McNall.

12:27

City, Michigan? Yeah. I think. And

12:30

the upper Peninsula of

12:32

Michigan, one of the days we were there

12:34

all of her family and I went to enter

12:36

downtown Maconall City where

12:38

all of the shops were located.

12:40

Her mom and dad gave each one of us

12:42

kids fifty dollars Wow. That is

12:44

really nice of them. Wow. So

12:48

everyone could go shopping for souvenirs. Her

12:50

and I were allowed to separate from the group

12:52

since we were older and we just agreed

12:55

to a meeting spot. Everything?

12:57

Oops. I

12:58

just did

12:59

something weird to my face. Scroll down -- Yes.

13:02

-- like way too fast. Hold on.

13:05

Everything

13:06

was going great. We did some window

13:08

shopping and went into a couple of different shops.

13:11

Well, we got to one shop and at first everything

13:14

seemed normal there or everything

13:16

seemed normal. There was a bunch of different things

13:18

to look at different nicknacks And

13:21

little trinkets, we were enjoying

13:23

ourselves. However, the longer we were in

13:25

the stores, we started feeling uneasy and

13:28

getting weird vibe. Eventually,

13:29

we noticed that the cashier

13:31

was watching us and we knew it. And

13:34

we knew it was because

13:35

we were the only ones in the store.

13:37

We weren't being obnoxious or messing around,

13:39

so there was no reason for him to be watching us.

13:42

The longer we were in there, the more uneasy

13:44

we felt. So we took our items

13:46

up to the cash register and we also

13:48

wanted to pick out some matching

13:50

sweaters to get a design printed on them.

13:53

As we were deciding on color and the design,

13:55

the cashier started asking us questions. At

13:58

first, it just seemed like small talk. How

13:59

are you? Are you on vacation? But

14:02

they started to take a turn. What

14:05

are your names? How old are you?

14:07

Are you guys here alone? Where do

14:09

you live? Where do you go to school?

14:12

And again, we got a really bad vibe.

14:14

Yes. Strangers should not be asking you those

14:16

questions, especially if you're a child,

14:18

even if you're like a teenager, it's

14:20

another fucking business. Yeah. Or an adult.

14:23

Yeah. Like, no. People don't

14:25

need to be asking you about your life. No.

14:27

They don't. Not not those kind of questions.

14:29

Like, no. Yeah.

14:31

We lied and said we were sisters

14:34

and her mom was right outside even though we

14:36

had no idea where they -- Yep. --

14:38

where they were also. gave

14:40

him fake names just in case he tried

14:42

to stalk us or something. Super smart.

14:46

We finished picking out our sweaters and

14:48

paid, and we rushed out of there so week.

14:50

I don't know what he had planned or why he was asking

14:52

those very personal questions to two young

14:54

girls, but we were not sticking

14:56

around to find out. good

14:59

for you for having the

15:02

basically,

15:02

just like we said, like it could have been absolutely

15:04

nothing and y'all could have just been, you know, a little

15:06

bit

15:06

more

15:08

paranoid for lack of better

15:11

terminology. But at

15:13

the same time, you never know what someone's tensions

15:15

are, like you said, and you

15:17

could have potentially saved yourself from

15:19

a very scary situation. So Yeah.

15:23

And honestly, never say

15:25

you're alone. Like, always say,

15:27

like, oh, yeah. I'm meeting.

15:28

Just make it up. My boyfriend, my mom, like,

15:31

whatever. over there or, oh, yeah, my

15:33

mom is has my location is gonna

15:35

be here in a minute. Like, just always say

15:37

that you are about to meet somebody

15:39

or somebody's right down the road or, like, whatever

15:42

because saying you're alone is, like, never

15:44

good. Right. So just lie. Just say, like, yeah, I'm

15:46

meeting so and so, like, whatever.

15:48

Yeah. Agreed.

15:50

Well, thank you, Caitlyn, for sending that in.

15:52

And again, we are glad you are safe.

15:55

Yeah.

15:56

Okay. The next story is from

15:59

Daisy as an alias.

16:02

Alright.

16:04

hey, Haley, Andrea, and listeners. After

16:07

much consideration, I have finally decided

16:09

to write to the two of you. Buckle in

16:11

because this is going to be a long one.

16:13

We're here for it.

16:15

Every summer, once the school year has passed,

16:17

my boyfriend and I move back down to his

16:19

parents place to save some extra money.

16:21

hashtag

16:21

broke uni students. Yeah.

16:24

I totally get it. For context, his

16:26

parents live in a farmhouse in rural

16:29

rural I can never say that way, their

16:31

role. Role. Ontario

16:35

that was built in the eighteen fifties and

16:37

has been in the family for over a hundred years.

16:40

Yay. This story will cover both encounters

16:42

we've experienced while staying at our own

16:44

place during the school year as well as his

16:46

parents' place. While staying here

16:48

over the past four years, I have had

16:50

some interesting experiences to say

16:52

the least. Being who

16:55

I am and how I grew up with two immigrant

16:57

parents I'm hyper aware of my surroundings.

16:59

On

17:00

a typical school evening, after having

17:02

eaten my dinner, I would shove some headphones

17:05

on and listen to music, documentaries or

17:07

some other true crime podcast of my choosing.

17:10

I'd stand in the kitchen, kitchen scrubbing

17:12

dishes, and all of a sudden feel

17:14

a weird whipping sensation of

17:16

cold air passed by me. Oh.

17:19

I'd spin around to find no one

17:21

there. Mind you, my boyfriend and I were

17:23

only ones who lived in this basement suite

17:25

while our landlord lived upstairs.

17:28

Cold air is always ghosts.

17:29

Always. Yeah. I would

17:32

brush it off and carry on scrubbing the dirty

17:34

plates and cups when all of a sudden I'd

17:36

have the feeling of quick little

17:38

thumps like the trotting of someone's feet

17:40

past by me. Oh,

17:42

that gave me chills. Once again,

17:44

I'd quickly spin around to find no

17:46

one there. I'd take my headphones

17:49

off and call out to my boyfriend to see his

17:51

whereabouts in our small base in our

17:53

small basement. He'd call back

17:55

from the study to say he hadn't

17:57

moved or gotten up.

17:59

This happened

17:59

all too often and I found myself

18:02

getting used to it.

18:03

Oh my god. Oh, shit. just smacked my

18:06

my microphone. Sorry. Scary.

18:10

Okay. oh,

18:11

I'm already freaked out.

18:13

Other odd things had happened in this basement

18:16

such as my boyfriend studying in the spare room

18:18

that doubled as an office. He'd

18:20

shut himself in as I went to make us

18:22

both a cup of tea in kitchen and on my

18:24

way back to the study, tea cup in hand

18:26

I'd find myself unable to open the

18:28

door. Not because of the awkwardly

18:31

awkward handling of a hot tea

18:33

cup of tea in one hand and balancing it

18:35

ever so carefully as to not let it splash

18:38

over the lip of the cup. but because the door

18:40

seemed to be locked from the inside. I

18:42

wriggled it back and forth to find I still

18:44

could not open it. I called

18:46

out irritated and somewhat panicked to my

18:48

boyfriend who was sitting at the small desk

18:51

inside the room to open the door immediately.

18:54

only to find that he too could

18:56

not open the door.

18:58

Mind you, the only doors

19:01

in the whole basement that could be locked from

19:03

the inside was our bathroom, and

19:05

the door that led to the staircase

19:07

that went upstairs to our landlord's section

19:09

of the house. After

19:12

what felt like minutes worth of frantic

19:14

jerking at the sweaty silver knob

19:16

on the door, it felt it

19:18

felt loose in my clammy hand and

19:20

opened free.

19:22

Neither of us know how that door locked itself

19:24

without ever having a locking mechanism

19:26

them.

19:26

Oh my god. Nope.

19:30

I think that that little spirit that I'd

19:32

like to run by you was playing tricks,

19:34

keeping it shut. Yeah. Oh,

19:37

okay. Let's keep going. This

19:39

is really freaky and also you're a really good

19:41

writer. Mhmm. Since moving out

19:43

at the end of each school term to head back

19:45

down to the rural farmhouse, we drove

19:48

past multiple boarded up yellow

19:50

brick homes that probably once belonged to some

19:52

old dairy farmer. But now instead, stood

19:54

tall and timid with windows and front

19:56

porches sinking in almost like the home

19:58

began to swallow itself whole. Oh.

20:01

Wow. I can, like, actually picture that. Yeah. Same.

20:04

That's creepy.

20:05

These weren't new finds as

20:07

we drove this road multiple times in our journeys

20:10

back and forth between city and country.

20:13

While driving on these pitch black roads that

20:15

had never been equipped with street lights, we'd

20:17

find ourselves passing passing the

20:19

old car or creepy cornerstone store

20:22

with not a person in sight. Coming

20:24

closer to the big farmhouse that eagerly awaited

20:26

our arrival, we'd pass a barn that

20:28

we never paid much attention to at

20:31

first. It stood adjacent

20:33

to yet another rickety looking home,

20:35

but this barn was different. it

20:37

had it had what appeared to be two

20:39

chicken coop like squares that

20:42

sat to the top left and right of the

20:44

barn and a large square opening

20:46

where the barn door once stood. This

20:48

might sound normal upon

20:50

one's first listening, but to an

20:53

attentive passerby, one would

20:55

find it looked like a creepy old

20:57

face waiting to consume any

20:59

who entered its gaping mouth.

21:02

Oh my god.

21:04

I'm picturing like a clown barn

21:07

or something. That's really freaky. Well, there's

21:09

pictures. So if you scroll. Oh, yes.

21:11

Okay. At the end, or now, whatever you

21:13

wanna do. There's pictures. It really

21:15

does look like oh my god.

21:18

I like it. Yeah.

21:20

It's cute, but even all I can see is

21:22

the face. Yeah. It looks jolly though.

21:24

It looks like he's smiling. Yes.

21:27

I don't know. I'm

21:29

sure in bed. I'm sure at night. It's a lot more calmness.

21:32

Yeah. True.

21:33

Okay.

21:35

That's not all that's odd about

21:37

these parts of town. When heading back

21:39

into the city, we found ourselves passing the

21:41

same old, dilapidated homes

21:44

as usual except This time,

21:46

we found our eyes drawn to a home that used

21:48

to be an old school house or

21:51

an old school house.

21:53

I emphasized the wrong word

21:54

then. Made

21:57

of old red brick and a white peaked

21:59

roof, it stood

21:59

empty. To

22:01

the right of the school was a rusted yellow

22:03

swing set made for two and just behind

22:05

that stood an old jungle gym muddied with

22:07

memories of children who once played there.

22:10

Let me just say there were no cars

22:12

in sight except those to

22:14

the one side of the home. It

22:17

was clear they hadn't been driven in years. They

22:19

had begun sinking into the wet grass,

22:22

moss and vines cleverly grew over

22:24

the rusting rims. Looking

22:27

back to the swing set, sat a small child

22:29

that appeared to be a young girl. Her head

22:31

hung down where her two pigtails

22:34

flanked

22:34

either side of her obscured face.

22:36

She wasn't swinging happily like most children

22:39

would. She simply sat there, arms

22:41

hanging by either side of the yellow chains

22:43

that

22:43

barely held her up.

22:45

Having passed the schoolhouse, my boyfriend

22:47

and I both yelled excitedly at one another.

22:49

Did you see that? There was a girl, a kid,

22:52

on the swings. No. No.

22:54

We sat in silence both at a complete

22:57

we sat in silence both at a complete loss

22:59

for our words as to what we

23:01

should say next. Having driven

23:03

past that same house hundreds of times now,

23:05

I can safely say we've never seen another

23:07

car, person or child on

23:10

that property since. The

23:12

swing set still stands, although the chains

23:14

on the swing, she wants sat upon,

23:16

have since broken. Whoa.

23:19

Mm-mm. She was definitely not

23:21

a real little girl. No.

23:24

No. No. No. Oh,

23:26

that's freaky. As

23:28

for the old White Farm House in which I'm currently

23:30

writing, it has

23:31

stories of its own. The

23:33

staircase is lined with old photographs

23:35

and drawings of family members past.

23:38

The doors will creak open without anyone

23:40

turning their rusted old knobs. There

23:42

are small doors that leave nowhere and

23:44

too many cats to count. Some

23:47

say it's easier for animals to see what humans

23:49

cannot, and for that, I am sure.

23:51

Mhmm. Too many times I have seen

23:53

the cats shoot their heads up towards

23:55

the ceiling, peering at things I cannot

23:58

find. Following whatever they see

24:00

down the corridors of the home, and

24:03

stopping where old wooden canes once

24:05

used are hung. One

24:08

cat in particular who I'll call k

24:10

for now will often sit at the bottom of the

24:12

stairs at night and peer back up at the staircase

24:15

at two drawings of my boyfriend's great,

24:17

great, great grandparents. And

24:19

out of nowhere, Scurry back up

24:21

the steps and run into my boyfriend's grandmother's

24:24

room. Kaye won't sleep anywhere

24:26

else in the whole house except for that

24:28

room. I can't help but think

24:30

she's she feels something there. Yeah.

24:32

Definitely. My

24:35

boyfriend and I well, actually, before

24:37

I move on, animals one hundred percent. I

24:39

completely agree with you. Like, anytime

24:42

my dogs stare at

24:43

something that I can't

24:44

see. You're like, nope. I get

24:47

so scared. Like, it just No.

24:50

My boyfriend and I share the room

24:52

next to his grandmother's and I've woken up on many

24:54

occasions with the feeling of someone staring

24:56

at me from the doorway or lingering near the

24:58

foot of bed. I know for a fact

25:00

it wasn't someone in our room because

25:02

our door doesn't shut properly. Now

25:06

It's one of those old doors that used to be locked

25:08

and unlocked using a key. And since

25:10

it's now summer, the wood swells, so we'd

25:12

simply jam a sock in the latch mechanism

25:15

to shut it tightly. Meaning that if

25:17

the door was to be opened, the wood would

25:19

creep rather loudly, indicating someone

25:21

had entered the room. Nonetheless,

25:23

the dark shadowy figure would loom giving

25:25

off an unsettling presence waking

25:27

me from a

25:28

dead sleep.

25:30

I've often woken up with dark scratches

25:32

to these marked oh, wait. escalate the

25:34

line. I've often woken up with dark scratches

25:36

on my back in the shape of an x

25:39

or in the shape of a diamond between

25:41

my shoulder blades. I'd

25:43

be alerted to these marks by an awful burning

25:46

between my shoulder blades. The scratches

25:48

would vanish within a day or two and

25:50

not too long after they'd they'd appear

25:52

once again. Speaking of bedrooms,

25:55

I might briefly mention that the mention

25:57

the fact that I sleep talk and used

25:59

to sleep

25:59

walk. although haven't slept walks since I lived

26:02

at home as a small child.

26:03

While at our place during the school year,

26:06

not the farmhouse, I found myself struggling

26:08

to sleep, but one night, I miraculously

26:11

slept for hours. I woke up the next

26:13

morning with the memory of my wriggling

26:16

in the bed after seeing a small hooded

26:18

child next to me. Oh, mm-mm,

26:20

next to my bed. Nope. I mentioned

26:22

this to my boyfriend when he recounted that

26:25

I spent half the night mumbling to the wall

26:27

on my right where I had seen the small

26:29

boy. No. You're talking to

26:31

him. His child

26:33

was only about four feet tall, wore a red

26:35

raincoat and yellow boots and had Sallow

26:38

skin with a shadowed face due due

26:40

to his dark mop of hair that cast

26:43

a shadow across his face, but I just

26:45

stinkly remember him not having

26:47

eyes.

26:47

No. Yes. You read that right.

26:50

No eyes.

26:51

Just deep shadowy pits where

26:53

eyes should be. I

26:55

remember talking to him and knocking a response

26:57

and frustratedly turning over. Right

26:59

after turning over, I felt a poking at my

27:01

back. I turned over to tell him to go

27:03

away when I noticed his small face

27:05

suddenly became more frightening than it already

27:08

was. His mouth gaped

27:10

open. Oh. And in a sharp

27:12

tone, he said, come with me.

27:14

Negative.

27:15

I gocked back at him as a swarm

27:17

of small black flies flew

27:20

out of his mouth. He was gripping

27:22

the edge of the mattress, his closeness, frightened

27:24

me, and I screamed and wriggled around

27:26

in my bed when my boyfriend shook me awake and

27:28

held me close the remainder of the night. To

27:31

this day, I still don't know if was awake when I

27:33

saw him or asleep, although

27:34

I truly felt he was there.

27:37

Oh, and I've attached pictures. Your

27:39

dedicated listener, Daisy.

27:41

ah

27:43

That little boy was

27:45

Definitely there. And a demon

27:48

probably? Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

27:50

Oh, that's scary. And the cat Okay.

27:53

First all,

27:54

Yeah. These cats are so adorable.

27:56

And you see the cauldron? Yeah.

27:58

That's awesome. And

28:00

the picture is there's a picture of

28:03

the staircase with the photos. And, like,

28:05

I can totally see how the cats would be,

28:07

like, drawn to that. Yeah. And what

28:09

a neat little house? Like,

28:12

Yeah. Okay. Farmhouses are always so cool.

28:14

Yeah. Other

28:15

than the fact that it's haunted. Like, they're -- Yeah. --

28:18

they're all they're all haunted. Yeah. They're pretty

28:20

much all haunted. But

28:22

thank you so much, Daisy. That story was

28:24

awesome and thoroughly freaked

28:26

me out. So, you know, I'm not sleeping tonight,

28:29

but I loved all the the visual details. sounds

28:31

good.

28:31

Yeah.

28:33

Okay. So this next one did not have a name,

28:37

but it says I am sharing

28:39

the this story because I think a lot of women

28:41

need to hear it. I've always trained my daughter to

28:43

pay attention to everything and

28:45

that she can come to me anytime she needs

28:48

something when it comes to her safety,

28:50

and she would not get in trouble, which

28:52

is such a good thing to have as a parent,

28:55

like, just across the board. That's

28:57

what my parents it and, like, I will

28:59

definitely be doing that with my kids. Yeah. So

29:02

she comes to me a lot usually about incidences

29:04

between her and her friends, making sure

29:06

she didn't overreact or underreact. Just

29:09

not being mean. So one day, she talked

29:11

to me about a boy she's talking to on social

29:13

media. She said it was no big deal at first

29:15

because he was in different state, but

29:17

then he's but then he started getting a little

29:19

bit perverted. He said that he was

29:21

going to be in the city that we were and

29:24

wanted to know if they could meet up. And she

29:26

felt really

29:26

weird about this and came to me. Good

29:28

for her. I'm so That's awesome that she could

29:30

go to you. Yeah. Yeah.

29:32

Now I've

29:33

been through some things in my life and

29:35

seen a lot, and I know people in

29:37

a lot of different fields of work. So

29:40

I contacted some friends of mine,

29:42

in one field and to let them

29:44

know what was going on, and

29:46

they took over. Come to find out, it was

29:48

a sex trafficking ring. Oh,

29:50

no. I tell you

29:52

that because as a young teen, she was able

29:54

to discern what was wrong and what it

29:57

and what it was it could be. I started

29:59

training her on self defense

30:02

and in watching her surroundings. So

30:05

now fast forward ten years, she's in

30:07

college and this is in twenty twenty

30:09

two so recently. And she's back

30:11

home for the weekend, and she was meeting

30:13

up with a friend for brunch.

30:15

I get a phone call from her where

30:17

she's where

30:18

she says, tell

30:20

me if I'm overreacting, please. Tell

30:23

me I'm overreacting. I'm thinking, It's

30:25

issues between her and her friend,

30:28

like a friend of her friend is

30:30

maybe running late. So she tells me she arrived

30:32

at the restaurant early, like she usually

30:34

does. I told her to do this, so

30:37

she's never running late and always able

30:39

to pay

30:40

attention to her surroundings. because

30:42

if you're running late, you're more apt to miss

30:44

something, which is very true as

30:46

well. Yeah. I've never

30:48

thought about that, but that's smart.

30:49

She tells me that when she got to the parking

30:52

lot, it was completely full, and

30:54

she noticed that there was an animal

30:57

patrol vehicle there. but I

30:59

told her, you know, they're probably there to

31:01

eat too. She said yes, but it

31:03

was full and I was early. I

31:05

went over this I went over to this parking

31:07

lot, the larger parking lot,

31:09

which the building was closed because it was

31:12

a holiday. She said when she got

31:14

over there, the animal patrol truck

31:16

parked over by her in the

31:18

same parking lot. And

31:21

he seemed suspicious. but

31:23

he could have been working in the area. This

31:26

is when she tells me that he parked where

31:29

she could not see his truck number over

31:31

his license plate number, but it does

31:33

have the city animal control logo

31:35

on it. Like I said, I taught her

31:37

how to pay attention and look for details. Then

31:39

she tells me that he's wearing a mask and

31:42

his truck his truck

31:44

is now in this area. We do not normally

31:46

wear masks. Some people still

31:48

do wear the mask, but he was in his truck

31:50

by himself, and he was wearing a raincoat with

31:53

a hood on it. And she

31:56

She was doing her best. She

31:58

was doing she was doing her makeup

32:00

and looking for her friend for about ten

32:02

minutes or so. he was just

32:05

sitting there where he could see her,

32:07

but she couldn't really see him. So

32:09

I told her that she had all the rights

32:11

as pieces suspicious. If he

32:13

was legitimately working there, he was not

32:15

gonna be upset with her being suspicious.

32:18

I told her to start taking pictures and videos

32:21

and send them out and go live if you have

32:23

to, but not to get out of the car.

32:26

I told her I would call animal control,

32:28

which is that is so smart and that that

32:30

goes for the same with police. If

32:32

you're being pulled over and you don't feel safe, call

32:35

and make sure that it's actually an

32:37

officer pulling you over because they have

32:39

to report when they pull someone over.

32:42

Yeah. Find out if they have someone in the area

32:44

and I'll call you back and let you know.

32:46

when

32:47

I call it animal control, I hear

32:49

the city police department, and I responded

32:52

with I'm sorry. I was trying to get a hold of

32:54

animal troll. The dispatcher

32:56

the dispatcher responded with it's

32:58

a holiday. They are closed.

33:01

and we are taking care of all

33:04

the animal control issues. If

33:06

it's an emergency, we will deal with it ourselves.

33:10

Oh my god.

33:11

It will all be past county

33:13

animal control tomorrow. What's

33:15

your issue? I explained everything

33:17

to her that my daughter just explain to me

33:19

and she quickly responds with no, you're

33:21

correct, plea police are on

33:24

route. And

33:25

she asked if she could have my daughter's number

33:27

so she can get what information they can from

33:29

her, and I gave her my daughter's information.

33:32

And when my daughter's friend got there,

33:34

she drove my daughter

33:36

around back up to the front of the

33:38

restaurant, and that is when the police arrived.

33:41

Just after her just after

33:43

that, her animal or the animal control

33:45

truck left right

33:48

before the police arrived. Yeah. Realize

33:50

that even a girl who pays attention to everything

33:53

still questions when a

33:55

city vehicle was doing something suspicious

33:58

thinking that she was overreacting.

33:59

Luckily, she has somebody like me

34:02

that she can call to get a second opinion

34:04

on. In the animal control

34:06

vehicle, they can incapacitate

34:09

a girl shove her in one of those crates

34:11

and nobody would ever think anything of

34:13

it unless they saw the girl and

34:15

just think it's being an animal taken away.

34:18

Better to say something and

34:20

make somebody feel uncomfortable. It doesn't

34:22

matter if it's a police officer, animal control,

34:24

fireman,

34:26

whatever. they will be using

34:28

to make you put your guard down. That's

34:31

two times someone has tried to take her

34:33

better to be embarrassed and alive than

34:35

then to be taken, and God knows what

34:37

happened. I love your podcast,

34:39

listen all the time, and hope y'all

34:42

can get the message out to all the women

34:44

around the world. Yeah. Thank you

34:46

so much for sharing that because

34:49

that is crazy and so

34:51

scary. And I'm so glad that she was so aware.

34:53

Yeah. Exactly. Wow. But thank you so much for

34:55

sending that in and sharing your experience. And

34:57

I mean, you are absolutely right. It's always

35:00

better to be

35:01

whatever. and and

35:03

stay safe because you can apologize later,

35:06

but you can't apologize if something bad happens

35:08

to you. So that's good to teach her,

35:10

especially your daughters because I feel like you

35:12

know, women as we have

35:14

seen a lot in the in the media recently.

35:16

Unfortunately, like,

35:18

you know,

35:20

we're just

35:21

it seems like helpless little creatures and

35:23

it's easy for us to be preyed upon and,

35:25

you know, that's completely not fair. that

35:28

we have to worry so much about being out

35:30

in public, going on runs, going shopping,

35:32

whatever the case may be, going to be lunch

35:34

with your friend, like, it's completely

35:36

ridiculous. we have to be so

35:39

aware, but it's good to be so aware at the

35:41

same time. Yeah.

35:42

Thank you for sharing. I'm glad

35:44

your daughter was safe and everything worked

35:46

out. Okay? Yeah. Me too. Okay.

35:49

Next story is from Kendall. In

35:51

several cities across America, there are whispers

35:54

of mob tunnels. from

35:56

the nineteen twenties and mob era.

35:58

These tunnels allegedly connected houses

36:00

of mobsters that were how they

36:03

would move alcohol during prohibition.

36:06

They allegedly served another purpose of individuals

36:08

being able to move to houses

36:09

without being detected if the police came to

36:12

arrest them.

36:13

side note real quick.

36:14

At Purdue, this the college

36:16

I went to, there is a bar,

36:18

our favorite bar, is called Harry's chocolate

36:21

shop because during the prohibition, it

36:23

was a chocolate shop. Yeah.

36:26

Not a bar. And then allegedly, there's a tunnel

36:28

that runs from one of of fraternities that's,

36:30

like, pretty close to the bar underground

36:33

to Harry's -- Electrical. --

36:35

allegedly. And that was the fraternity

36:36

that Neil Armstrong was when he

36:39

attended Purdue. So it's like kind of a

36:41

cool little

36:42

fashion. But anyway,

36:43

I can confirm that in at least

36:46

one of those cities, these mob tunnels

36:48

are real. though I do not know their

36:50

purpose or how they got there. My

36:53

grandma grew up in a multifamily house

36:55

in the part of the city that was home to many

36:58

immigrants and also a lot of mob activity.

37:00

The house they lived in had already been built before

37:02

they moved in, and had other

37:04

families living there when they moved in.

37:07

Because of this, there's a lot of uncertainty

37:09

of how the tunnels got there, what their purpose

37:12

was, and where they lead to. The

37:14

tunnels and how I found out about the tunnels has always

37:16

been very odd to me. When I was young,

37:18

somehow it had come up in conversation with

37:21

my grandma that they were there. But

37:23

several years after that initial conversation,

37:25

she denied their existence and

37:27

having ever said they were

37:29

real. So she was like, uh-uh, I never

37:32

said that. I never said that. What do you mean? Now

37:35

she talks about them being there, but my mom

37:37

and I have tried to figure out if it was a memory

37:39

lapse, it happens with age, and even sometimes

37:41

just a brain fart. Mhmm. Or if maybe

37:44

she had been told as a child to not mention

37:46

them, and that was subconsciously kicking

37:48

in years later. Or

37:50

if the tunnels slash them being used were

37:52

just such a part of her life, it did

37:54

not seem extraordinary. Who

37:57

knows? Last year, I had the opportunity

37:59

to see the sealed off tunnels for myself. We

38:01

would have loved to open them up and discover whatever

38:04

secrets were hidden, but because of the infrastructure,

38:06

we didn't think

38:07

it would have been safe. I

38:09

know for a fact, Donna, my family was in

38:11

the mob. though they did make wine

38:13

even in prohibition, which makes me wonder

38:15

if they used them for alcohol at the time.

38:18

I definitely feel like they could They definitely yeah.

38:20

I bet they did. But for all we know,

38:22

my family never used them. No one

38:25

alive in my family at least has any

38:27

definite answer despite looking

38:29

for them. if the walls of that house could

38:31

talk, I would love to hear what they would say.

38:34

Oh, yeah. Heck yeah. That is like

38:36

so interesting to me and would be so

38:38

cool to learn more about. So if you ever

38:40

learn more about it, please let us know

38:42

because that is wild.

38:45

Yeah. Alright. Thank you, Kendall.

38:48

Okay. This

38:50

is going to be the last one, and this is

38:52

from, I believe it's Alicia, but

38:54

maybe it's Alicia but I think it's Alesia

38:56

because it's ALYCIA

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Yeah. And Alesia yeah.

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Yeah. But either way, I'm sorry if I pronounced

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it wrong. Okay. So

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she says, this story isn't mine, but

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my parents, when my mom and dad were

39:10

young and just married, they rented a house.

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My dad worked regular nine to five hours,

39:15

but my mom was in our end, so she worked until

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eleven PM and wouldn't get home until

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around eleven thirty or midnight. Often

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after seeing my dad was

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or often after my dad was already

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asleep.

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My mom said that she would be

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settling into bed and drifting off to sleep,

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she would see a figure of a man

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in the corner of the bedroom.

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He was older, tall,

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and wore kind of a tan trench

39:40

coat. He

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never moved from the corner of the room. He

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just said they're watching. Oh, I

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know. She always said,

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while it sounds really creepy, I wasn't

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scared,

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he had almost a calming presence.

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My mom and dad never discussed this while they

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lived in the house, but after they moved, they had

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conversation about

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it. My dad told her that he too

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saw the man but also wasn't

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scared or concerned. Okay?

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I assume if he was a spirit, he

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was a friendly one. Yeah.

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The yeah. The weirdest part of the

40:13

story though involves a stray cat

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that my parents would feed. One

40:18

day, it was cold and pouring rain so they

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let the cat into the basement while they

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went to run errands. The cat

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seemed healthy and they left it with food and

40:26

water. They returned home

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after an hour or two and

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went to let the cat out of the basement only

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to find out that it had died. No.

40:37

Not only was the cat dead though, it was

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stiff as a board like it had been

40:41

dead for hours and rigor mortise had

40:43

set in.

40:44

I believe they moved shortly after

40:46

that. Wow. Yeah.

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Love the podcast. I recommend it to

40:51

everyone. Keep up the amazing work

40:53

ladies. Oh, thank you for writing it

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down. Yeah. Thank you so much. And that

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is so sad and so strange

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that -- Yeah. -- it was already stiff.

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Like, thought. Yeah. That's kinda creepy.

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Yeah. Like, he was

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I don't know. I have thoughts. So Yeah.

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It's -- Oh, yeah. -- that's really bizarre.

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But also kind of like I wonder

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if it's has anything to do with the spirit,

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you know, not with the spirit. Yeah. But, like, maybe

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he wasn't real. I don't know. Yeah.

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I mean, you guys need to pay pet him and stuff, but

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but still Maybe it was, like, possessors

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I don't know. That's really freaky.

41:29

That is really freaky.

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Well, that's Thank you guys so

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much for sending me stories. These were

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awesome and as always, with listener

41:36

stories, I am thoroughly freaked out. I'm gonna

41:39

watch no more girls and pretend

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none of this exists right now.

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But thank you guys so much. Continue

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sending in in these stories. We appreciate

41:49

them and enjoy them

41:51

and we hope you do too. Yeah.

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And, yeah, that's all we have for you guys

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today. We'll be back Monday with the new

41:58

episode and until then.

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keep making moment. Bye guys.

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Bye.