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This is a Real Ghost

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Stories Online Extra. Hey,

1:36

Tony. My name is Mallory. I live in Stonbeck,

1:39

Wisconsin. I just want to start off by saying

1:41

thank you because I

1:44

have had several things

1:47

happen in my life since

1:49

we moved into this house, and your

1:51

podcast has made me feel less crazy.

1:55

We moved into our house in 2016 in Stonbeck. It

2:00

is the house was built in 1985 and I

2:02

am convinced that it's not the house

2:04

that is haunted but the land. I

2:07

am fully convinced. The

2:10

first thing that ever happened to me was in

2:12

the summer of 2016. My

2:16

sister and my brother-in-law spent the night

2:19

with their two daughters, my nieces, one

2:22

of which has autism and my children are the same

2:25

age. All four of the kids are the same age.

2:29

And after a few cocktails we spent the night

2:31

in a tent and

2:33

I woke up in the middle of the night and

2:36

I heard clear as day a

2:39

little girl's voice say, okay

2:41

ZZ come on play now. And

2:44

I wasn't afraid because immediately I

2:47

just thought it was like maybe

2:49

my knee, like my autistic

2:51

niece going out in the backyard and

2:53

wanting to play. So

2:55

I open the tent and I go outside

2:57

and there's nothing. It is pitch black outside

2:59

and I come back in the tent and

3:01

all four of the kids and my sister

3:04

are sound asleep. And I packed

3:06

my stuff up and went back to the house as quickly

3:08

as they could. And that

3:10

was the first time that this happened and

3:12

I know that people kind

3:14

of believed me but maybe thought it was a little bit crazy.

3:20

Then I worked from home. I

3:23

was walking down, there's, when

3:26

you walk out of my office door it is

3:29

very clear in front of me that there

3:31

is the basement door. And

3:33

at that time and still to this day we had

3:35

a chain, we have a chain lock on the basement

3:37

door to keep

3:40

the kids out of there because it's

3:42

unfinished so that chain lock

3:44

is always, is always large.

3:48

And I was on speaker phone with a

3:50

co-worker of mine around noon in the middle

3:53

of the day. And

3:55

you know when it's a beautiful summer

3:58

day and you have all your windows open. the

4:00

door slams, you don't think twice about it.

4:03

There's nothing like going through, you have to think twice about

4:05

it. Cause you know, the windows are open and

4:07

a door slammed. This is the

4:09

dead of winter in Wisconsin and

4:12

I'm halfway down the hallway and I turned

4:16

just past the basement door

4:19

and a door slams and

4:22

I paused. I

4:25

couldn't even breathe. And I remember my

4:28

partner on the other line say my

4:30

name, like, you there? Are

4:32

you there? Are you okay? Like they

4:34

heard that. So I

4:36

walk back and all

4:39

I see is a chain back to swinging back

4:41

and forth and back and forth.

4:45

So the second real situation,

4:48

like occasion that I had experienced,

4:54

my daughter has experienced a few things up in

4:56

her bedroom, which I feel like is where most

4:58

of it comes from. Uh,

5:00

the attic door is in

5:03

her room for a closet. I

5:05

mean, it's locked with key. I

5:08

mean, even when we want to show our friends, the

5:10

attic, have time, we have to find

5:12

the key because we cannot find it.

5:15

That's how little we

5:17

go up there. And there

5:20

was one day in, you know, probably

5:22

2017, 2018, she was freezing. She

5:26

came downstairs and said she was freezing. I

5:28

went upstairs and that attic door was wide

5:31

open, wide open, made

5:33

absolutely no sense before

5:37

July last year. And

5:40

I'm kind of bouncing around. Uh,

5:43

actually, you know what? I'm going to say first

5:45

July because I'm bouncing around. Right

5:48

around that same time, my daughter came downstairs one

5:50

day, they hit on the bus at seven,

5:52

10 in the morning, very

5:55

early. And we've, I've

5:58

been very cautious and asked her. I need this

6:00

in front of our kids because it's scary. She

6:04

came down at 7 o'clock in

6:06

the morning absolutely terrified. I

6:09

mean you can't make this up. She

6:12

said that her blinds had pulled out

6:15

in front of her because if somebody

6:17

was pulling them and slamming them up

6:19

against the wall. Then

6:27

this summer of 2021

6:30

last year I had

6:33

two significant things happen to me. The

6:36

4th of July after

6:39

we had a significant amount

6:41

of people over here and everybody

6:43

was spent. There was three

6:45

of us left. We

6:48

were sitting in a garage and the

6:50

back garage door was open and

6:52

we all saw a person

6:56

run past that pressure and we all

6:59

saw it. There was no

7:01

concern. None of us were scared because

7:03

we all saw it. We just thought

7:05

it was one of the

7:07

party goers just being stupid.

7:11

If we walk out to

7:13

find them and there was nothing.

7:16

Then going back and

7:18

looking at it, the

7:21

figure looked like a human but it

7:23

was way too tall, way

7:25

too stretched out and the

7:28

speed that it ran at was

7:33

not possible for a human. What

7:38

really justified it for me was that

7:40

I was with two other people and we

7:44

all saw the exact same thing and

7:46

thought that was crazy. That

7:48

same summer I was ironing

7:51

clothes, dating

7:54

at the kitchen table and my

8:00

husband actually asked me if I

8:02

have a stroke because this is

8:05

crazy. I was only

8:07

ironing my clothes because there's certain shorts,

8:09

you know, that are, yeah, I'm

8:12

not going to wear them again. They're

8:14

just going to get shoved in your

8:16

throat. With a green pair of like

8:19

velvety shorts, I

8:21

ironed them, I turned around and folded them, put

8:23

them in the basket. Then

8:26

back around to

8:28

grab the next thing and I

8:30

grabbed the same pair of shorts. And

8:34

it was a little bit odd, but at

8:36

the same time, sometimes when you like shorts, you

8:38

buy more than one and so I just

8:40

assumed, you know, I probably just

8:42

bought more than one. So I

8:44

ironed them, folded them, threw

8:47

them in the basket next to me, turned

8:50

around and this thing

8:52

in the shorts, in the basket crumpled

8:54

up and I went and

8:56

woke my husband up. And I

8:58

think at this point he thought I was crazy. He

9:02

did think I was crazy. He asked me if I

9:04

had a stroke and

9:07

then nothing happened again

9:09

until just a few months ago in 2022.

9:12

You know, the

9:15

kids have to get on the bus, but you set it seven

9:18

o'clock in the morning. So mornings

9:20

can be hectic. Sometimes it's

9:22

a great morning and sometimes it's not, but

9:24

it's never a real, you know,

9:26

a real smooth morning at seven o'clock. But

9:29

there was something about this morning, you

9:32

know, I woke up at

9:35

seven o'clock, I woke up just in time

9:37

to go

9:40

crawl in bed with both kids and wake them up.

9:43

Relaxing, wake them up like, hey,

9:46

is everything okay? Like, let's

9:48

just have a good day. Now, mind

9:51

you, when I

9:54

had some texting in the morning, my

9:58

phone is plugged in to my head. board

10:00

and then my phone is on my

10:03

nightstand. And sorry, I need

10:08

to take it. Okay.

10:14

I'm going to just pause for a second

10:16

because this is – okay.

10:19

I'm sure you can edit this all out. So

10:21

it was

10:23

a really good morning. My kids get on the bus at 7

10:25

o'clock. This

10:27

morning I was up earlier than them,

10:30

like way earlier than usual. Great

10:33

morning. We are just down a

10:35

new bed where the USB for

10:37

my phone charger plugs into my

10:39

headboard and my phone

10:41

was always on my nightstand. And

10:44

naturally every morning my

10:47

husband's giving me a wake-up call. I

10:49

take my phone. I'm like, hey, yeah, we're up.

10:51

And I trucked it on my bed, right? Trucked

10:55

my phone on my bed. Move

10:57

on. So I go upstairs and

10:59

I lay in bed with my daughter. Never

11:02

happens. We never have as much time. Lay in

11:04

bed with my son. Never have

11:06

as much time. It was a fantastic frickin'

11:08

morning. Nobody was fighting. We

11:11

weren't screwing up where to find shoes

11:13

or jackets. It was a good morning.

11:16

So I go into my bedroom to find – to

11:18

grab my phone because it was

11:21

snowing and

11:23

I just wanted my phone. So

11:25

I can't find my phone. I

11:27

flip all my bedroom covers off my bed.

11:31

I go into my closet where I normally

11:33

put my phone, like maybe I'll put my

11:35

phone on the shelf while it's changing. Nothing.

11:38

Bathroom. Nothing.

11:41

My office. Nothing. Cannot find

11:43

my phone. Go back from the kitchen. I tell the kids,

11:45

hey, get in the car. I'll

11:49

be right out there in a second because at this

11:51

point now I'm irritated that I can't find my phone

11:54

and I'm concerned. It's snowing. I

11:56

don't want to drive without

11:58

my phone. So I tell him

12:00

to get in the car and I come back in. I

12:02

go back into my bedroom. Again,

12:06

this broke to my bed. I've

12:09

seen my nightstand a million times. There

12:12

is no phone there. I mean, you cannot miss

12:14

this. There is no phone there. And

12:18

I'm going through everything.

12:20

Can't find it. Not because kids do like

12:23

for school, get in the car, take

12:25

me to school. On the way

12:28

back, I just had this, I wanted to call

12:30

my husband. We actually had

12:32

a great day, great

12:35

morning, finally. And

12:37

so I go straight into my office.

12:40

And if you can picture from what I

12:42

said earlier, my office is straight down the

12:45

hallway. And

12:47

then my bedroom is directly

12:50

next to my office, kitty corner.

12:53

So I go straight into my office and I dial my

12:55

cell phone from my

12:59

office phone and all I hear is brrrr. My

13:04

phone was not on silent because my husband had just

13:06

called me, my alarm went off. That

13:09

does not make sense. So I go

13:11

back into the hallway and I stand with my back

13:14

to a closet and

13:16

my phone is plugged into

13:18

the charger that I

13:21

saw empty multiple

13:23

times that morning, centered

13:26

in the middle of my back wall. I

13:30

stood there paralyzed for a few minutes. I

13:33

grabbed that phone as fast as I could. I don't

13:35

know how I had the

13:38

balls to grab it. Ran

13:40

out to my car. Now,

13:43

mind you, it was

13:46

a Wisconsin winter, but I had started my

13:48

car an hour before I dropped my kids

13:50

off to school. I

13:52

opened the car door to get into the car.

13:55

I opened my car door to let my kids out of

13:57

the car. I opened it again. home.

14:00

I opened again when I

14:02

ran back out there. So

14:05

I'm in my car, just keep that in

14:07

the back of your mind, right? So my

14:09

car door had been opened at least four

14:12

times and my car had been running for

14:14

at least a minimum of an

14:16

hour. So

14:18

I'm panicked and I'm in

14:20

my car and all I have is my

14:22

phone. Not my inhaler, not my work, not

14:24

my backpack, nothing. And I'm

14:27

panicked because it's 715 in the morning

14:30

who am I going to call that does not think

14:33

I'm crazy, right? Who am

14:35

I going to call that does not think I'm crazy. So

14:39

I decided just

14:41

to go to my

14:43

parents house which is about you

14:45

know 15 minutes 12 minutes away in

14:49

heartland and as I'm driving

14:51

there I'm passing my

14:54

good friend's house who's a doctor and I

14:56

just I just pulled in because

14:59

I was like in panic mode. I

15:02

called her while I was pulling in and she was getting ready for

15:04

work and she said come

15:06

on in. I was

15:08

locked in my car. She watched me from

15:11

inside her house try

15:14

to get out of my car. I could

15:16

not. My doors were either frozen shut or

15:18

my blocks were frozen shut. I

15:20

turned my car off. I turned it back on.

15:22

I turned it off. I turned it back on.

15:25

It wouldn't my car I

15:27

mean I was in full blown

15:29

panic mode. I felt like an

15:31

absolute lunatic because

15:34

I could knock it out of my car and

15:37

then my girlfriend comes down and just opens

15:39

my door. So

15:42

I end up at my parents house and I tell my

15:44

mom everything that happened and

15:46

it felt so good to feel justified

15:49

that they

15:51

I mean they're

15:54

everything that happened. It's

15:56

so crazy to talk about and a highly

16:00

doubt you're going to put me on your radio

16:02

or your podcast because

16:05

I'm all over the place. I

16:08

just want to thank you. Because I'm

16:12

not scared of my house. I'm

16:14

not. People ask me, like, how can you not?

16:17

I'm not. I don't think my house

16:19

was built in 1985. I

16:22

do think there was a lot of weird

16:25

things the family before us did. But I

16:27

don't think your house is haunted. I think

16:30

the land in Stone Bank

16:32

is absolutely haunted. I

16:34

think that if you're open to it, you're

16:38

more welcoming of it. And

16:40

I'm not scared to be here. I still work here

16:43

by myself. I'm still here

16:45

all the time alone. I'm not

16:47

scared to be here. But

16:50

I'm more frustrated that I've

16:53

had these experiences and that I

16:56

feel crazy about it. And

16:59

recently, actually, my husband has told

17:01

me that he has

17:03

had two experiences, but he doesn't

17:06

want to talk about it. So

17:08

I'd be really curious to know what has happened to

17:11

him. But Tony, I

17:13

just want to say thank you. I almost

17:17

don't want you to put this on the podcast.

17:19

Maybe we can read you this because

17:22

I'm just jabbering. But if

17:25

it wasn't for your podcast, I

17:28

would feel like a crazy lady. What

17:31

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17:33

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17:36

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17:38

there is a community of truth. And

17:41

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