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grew up sitting next to

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my brother in the

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church watching people be healed we

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nodded together in faith as

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a preacher, preached no disease

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and faced the power of our almighty God that

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sickness is just

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another name for Satan Come

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out, Satan! I command

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you in the name of the almighty

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God to vacate this person's cancer! I

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cast you out in firmity I

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saw people begging a preacher

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to please please place

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his hands upon their forehead

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to please make the

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pain go away they

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expected a miracle, a miracle

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and later as a grown man I stopped

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believing in miracles because

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instead I'm angry for

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the time wasted in the company of

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charlatans with men who twist God and

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faith and healing into fancy cars

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and gold jewelry Liars telling

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lies I

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share this with my brother and he agrees we

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laugh at the foolishness

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of it, the stolen time

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later he asked me

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if I have stolen from him the

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millions of dollars in jewels we had buried

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together under the sea I laugh again but

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this time he

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does not laugh later

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he grows angry asks

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where I've hidden his secret daughter

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rages to know how I

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sneak messages into his food he

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tells me he knows

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that I edit his thoughts that

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came down out of it. And each

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of the bells was labeled with a room. And

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throughout the house, you would see

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these little levers. And

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when one of those levers were

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pushed, the bell outside of the

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maid's bedroom would ring. So

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about my third or fourth day being in

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the office, I

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was sitting at my desk and I

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heard... And

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I turned around and I looked at it. It

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was the dining room bell that was going off. My

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first reaction was that it must be

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a guest in the museum that

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is, you know, pushing the

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lever that's on the wall. And

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I went downstairs and I looked in the dining room and there

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was no one in the dining room. There

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were no guests in the museum at the time.

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I figured, well, maybe the receptionist called

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me using the bell system just to

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be silly or, you know, to

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show me what the bell system was like. And

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so I went to the front office.

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The receptionist told me, oh,

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don't worry about it. That happens all the time. And

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I said, well, what do you mean?

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And she said, oh, well, you know,

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everybody that works here has strange experiences.

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And again, I would say, well, what do you

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mean? And

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she said, everybody has run-ins with

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some kind of ghost here. And

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so... I took that information

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and just didn't

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know how to react and went

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back to my office and sat down thinking

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to myself, okay, I'm working in a haunted

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mansion. Shouldn't they have told me

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that during my interview? After

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working at the museum for a few

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weeks, I started to notice

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more and more activity. One

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day I was in my office, I

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was sitting at my desk, and my back was

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to the door. And immediately

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on the other side of the door was the

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small hallway and the set of stairs that went

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down to the kitchen. And all

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of a sudden I hear steps

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on the stairs. And

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I slowly turned around and

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there was nobody there. But

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I clearly heard very

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distinctive footsteps continuing up

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the steps. I

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kept watching and I heard... But

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no one appeared. No head showed up,

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no body showed up. It

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was just the sound of the

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footsteps on the stairs and

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no actual person. And

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the sound just eventually stopped. It

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was like someone came up to the top of the

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stairs and just... We were looking

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at each other, but there was nobody there. And

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I wasn't scared. I was a little

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more intrigued than anything. else. Over

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time, Jen came to realize that everyone who

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worked at the Hoyt Institute felt the same

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way. These little encounters were

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just part of the job. So

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the museum staff would always get together.

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We would go into the kitchen

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and there was a big table in there

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and we would gather around the table and

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have lunch in there. And

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that's when a lot of stories were swapped

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of, oh, did you hear the music

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in the ballroom today? Kind of

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a big band swinging type of music.

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And the sound of what sounded like people

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dancing, like a big party going on. No,

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I didn't hear that, but I heard footsteps on the

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stairs. The bell system went

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off again. To

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me, it makes sense that it was Mae Emma

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that was doing those things. I

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feel like she was just a

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real socialite and still wanted to

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be a socialite and have fun

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and play pranks and get

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people's attention and be the center of attention.

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And that personality is shining through

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in the things that happened after she

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passed away. Now,

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on the other side, I did

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not spend much time in Hoyt West,

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which was Alexander's home. The

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stories that I was told during those lunches

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of people that spent much more time over

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there was that it was a little bit of a

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darker, more oppressive

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atmosphere over there. And that makes sense

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because his personality was like that. Sometimes

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I can even help them out. This

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is not news. We understand that here.

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Instead, I want to ask you,

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how do you decide if you want to

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use that gift in the first

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place? Spooked. My

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dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

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I was about eight years old. My

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sister was a nurse, and I would always see her

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taking care of him. And

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I wanted to take care of him, but I didn't

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know what to do. So oftentimes I would

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feel helpless because I wanted

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to know how to make him feel better. Unfortunately,

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he ended up passing away about a year later,

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but that kind of

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steered my course to become a

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nurse or just be in the medical field. I'm

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a new nurse, and I get hired at

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this hospital through job fair. And I'm

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just super ecstatic about it. It

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was definitely not my first choice to be a night shift, but it was

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the only one available. I'm

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being oriented onto the floor. The nurse that's training me

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is just kind of showing me the ropes. This

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particular wing is somewhat V-shaped. The

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hall is pretty well-kept. Floors are

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super shiny. We try to be

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as discreet as possible during the night. We're walking slowly room by room,

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kind of peeking our heads into the patient's

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room just to make sure that they're okay.

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As we continue to progress down the hall,

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I just noticed

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there is a shift in energy. At first it's subtle, but

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then as we approach towards the end of the hall,

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it gets heavier and heavier. I

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could feel it start from my feet and slowly

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rising up, and crawl up my spine. I

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felt like little tingles. We finally get to the

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end of the hall.