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Paint It Black

Released Friday, 6th September 2024
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Paint It Black

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ahead on the Starbucks app. When

1:42

someone tells you that they can communicate with

1:45

the other side, maybe

1:47

they can. Maybe.

2:00

abused the suckers. Don't

2:04

be a sucker see. It's

2:08

relatively easy to see

2:10

through this confusion. I

2:13

found in my experience that

2:15

if you know anything about

2:18

how this works that

2:20

you don't speak any kind of foggy language but

2:23

you don't misunderstand the symbols and

2:25

add a bunch of hokey's pokey's

2:27

nonsense no no no no

2:30

instead you speak

2:33

crisply and you say precisely

2:35

what it is you mean

2:37

because if you don't know

2:40

or if you only half know what

2:42

you're talking about hmm wow

2:49

that's when bad things start to

2:51

happen when

2:59

it was in Washington don't believe everything

3:01

you hear always

3:03

believe everything you say

3:07

smooth start Now

3:47

Now then, some say,

3:50

what is this thing you speak

3:52

of? The other side?

3:56

Beyond the veil? The shadowlands? This

3:58

is stuff in nonsense. It's

4:00

a fever to imagination, that's what you

4:03

got. Where is the proof? Well,

4:06

a few months back, we got an

4:08

email from a listener who gave us

4:11

what for them is the

4:13

ultimate proof that something,

4:15

something is out there. Here's

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food producer, Eliza Smith.

4:25

A little while back, I got an

4:27

email from a listener named Bridget Mahoflek.

4:30

She told me that she had a ghost story. Well,

4:32

it wasn't really her ghost story. It

4:34

was a story that she had heard all the

4:37

time growing up because it happened to her dad

4:39

and her brother, Chris. And

4:42

before she reached out to our team, she wrote

4:44

to her brother to jog his memory.

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Bridget sent me a email

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and it said dad's story and

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I clicked on it and I had ear buds in

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and I thought that this was gonna be some

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like, some like

5:02

fun, cool story about my dad's life

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or something. And

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I remember just

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hearing my dad retell

5:12

this story that happened to us a long

5:15

time ago. I

5:19

had realized I hadn't told anybody that story in

5:22

probably over 20 years. So

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I sat down with Bridget, Chris, her mom, Mary

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and her dad, Brian. Now Brian has been painting

5:31

houses for years and back when

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the kids still lived at home, he landed

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a good gig with a sweet client on the

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Ritzy side of town. I

5:47

worked for this client a couple of times. We painted the exterior

5:50

of our house the previous year. I

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met the client's son, Eddie, when we

5:54

were painting the exterior of his parents'

5:57

house. You

6:00

know that we were kind of in

6:03

the same age bracket and

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he was just a very outgoing guy and we

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would be yes when he

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would be home. Eddie

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lived in a very affluent neighborhood. Everybody

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had nice manicured lawns.

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Everybody kept their houses

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very tidy. Everybody

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got their houses painted when the

6:27

paint started to peel. The

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client is so happy with Brian's work, he asks

6:34

him to paint the inside of his house. So

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we go in and set up everything, put

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our tarps down, our paint, our

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ladders. I

6:48

was there for five days, Monday through

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Friday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Thursday were real

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good. Friday

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was a different story. Friday,

7:03

it was pretty warm out.

7:06

It's real muggy. And

7:09

I'm driving up to the house, I

7:12

punched in the garage code, and

7:14

I walked into the house and I noticed

7:17

that how cold it was. And

7:20

right away I got a chill right up my back. So

7:26

I went over to the thermostat

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and the thermostat was

7:31

off. There was no

7:34

air conditioning going on. That

7:37

day all I wanted to do was get

7:39

finished and get

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out of there and start another job Monday.

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And I

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went outside, smoked a cigarette, came

7:53

back in and just totally forgot about it.

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and I was painting the ceiling

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in the living room. That's when

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I started to hear the footsteps. The

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first footsteps sounded

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like someone walking around upstairs.

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I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me.

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When I was finalizing the deal with

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the owner of the house, he specifically

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told me, me and my wife

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are working and Eddie's at

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school and nobody will be

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home while you're here. The

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first time I heard it, it sounded like

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just one person. But

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as I progressed with the paint

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job, the footsteps started getting louder.

8:58

It sounded like there were two people up there. You

9:02

know when you get scared and you get to tinkle

9:04

up your back and your hair feels

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like it's standing on edge? Well, that's where I was

9:08

at. And

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I decided to take a break. I went outside, had

9:17

a cup of coffee, and I said,

9:19

oh, I got to get my head together here because I got to

9:21

get this job done. And

9:23

so I went back inside, started

9:25

painting again. And

9:30

there were the footsteps again. And

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that's when I realized I

9:35

better call my wife to get my son out here

9:37

to help me. Me

9:46

and my friends were walking home and one of

9:48

my friends was like, yo, I think that's your

9:50

mom. And I remember

9:52

being like, what are you doing here? And

9:56

she was like, get in, got in the car.

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And she told me that dad

10:03

had an emergency at a

10:06

paint job and that he needed my help. And

10:12

I'm looking at my

10:14

mom and I'm like, what kind of emergency

10:16

is a paint job emergency? I didn't understand

10:18

at all. And

10:21

I'd gotten there though, my dad was acting a

10:23

little strange. He

10:25

told me to paint the living room ceiling. And

10:28

he had never asked me to paint an entire ceiling by

10:31

myself at the time. And I

10:33

thought that that was weird. And he went into

10:35

the other room. And then

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so I started painting. Starbucks

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ahead on the Starbucks app. So

11:07

I was painting the ceiling and I started

11:10

to hear people, from

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what I heard it sounded more like people

11:16

were stomping upstairs. I

11:22

remember envisioning people like with giant clogs

11:24

on their feet, like jumping up and

11:26

down. Or there

11:29

was another contractor up there, like

11:32

hammering up drywall or replacing

11:36

floorboards or something. It

11:39

was that loud. And

11:45

I remember I had gotten to the point where I was

11:47

getting kind of annoyed. So

11:53

my dad always had a rule on his paint

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jobs that we had to be almost

11:59

overly respected. of the customers.

12:01

Yes sir, no sir. After

12:04

a while, to be

12:06

honest, I was getting so annoyed, I was annoyed at

12:08

the whole situation. You know,

12:10

being a teenage punk kid, I was pissed

12:13

off. And

12:15

I almost on purpose said it loud enough

12:17

for the people upstairs to hear. And

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I said, I'm gonna go up there. So

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I did, I went upstairs, and I was like,

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and I got up to the main

12:32

landing, and I looked and sure enough, there was nobody

12:34

there. When

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I got up there and I saw there was nobody up there, my

12:45

anger dissipated and my emotions were

12:47

just almost

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betrayed me. Like I

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didn't know what to feel. I didn't

12:58

know what to think. I

13:08

was so 100% absolutely positive that

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there were people up there doing something.

13:14

There wasn't a cat, there was no dog, and they're

13:16

sure as hell were no people up there. But

13:18

it definitely felt like the house was alive in a

13:21

way, as

13:31

silly as that might sound. Like

13:43

there was some kind of a

13:45

heartbeat to it or something. When

13:52

Christian was upstairs checking the upstairs out, I

13:55

was down in a utility room, and

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just in that certain spot right there.

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