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Woooo! Yes folks,

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hey you and welcome! My name is

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Mike and today it is another episode

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of Your Stories. It's

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episode two of Listener

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Stories. I'm very excited to get into this

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and actually, so everybody listen to

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a couple of thank yous. One,

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to myself. Thanks, Rimi. Second

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of all, listeners, I should really thank the

0:21

listeners. A, thanks so much for, okay, so

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we're not actually recording this one visually. Oh wait, you know

0:25

what? I'm gonna take a picture of Keith. You

0:28

look so dumb. I

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think because I caught you mid-blink. Yeah,

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this is a great one. I'll put up both.

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Okay. So that way, actually, I'll stick it in

0:37

the video. I always forget to do that. I'm

0:39

always like, oh, I'll put it in the video.

0:41

It goes on YouTube and I always

0:43

forget to put it in. Anyway, here,

0:45

listen folks, thanks so much for listening to the

0:47

first Listener Stories, which we did record and Keith

0:49

Attic. People really liked it, so thanks so much

0:51

for that. We are not recording

0:53

this one because we just aren't. But

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we will record more. I genuinely want to

0:58

record more podcast episodes. I'd actually like

1:00

eventually to have all of our

1:03

episodes video done, video done style, but I'd like to

1:05

have a set and shit. Plus, that's a whole ordeal

1:07

of work. I'd probably have to hire an editor and

1:09

stuff like that. But, okay, it'd be cool. The actual

1:11

shooting of it, I think, was fine. Oh boy, it

1:13

was the, I didn't know it, but I know from

1:16

you all the editing trying to get everyone matched up.

1:18

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the problem. So

1:20

I'd love to do that for every episode and then

1:23

have relevant clips in and pictures and stuff

1:26

like that. But anyway, that's neither here nor

1:28

there. Second, thank you, or third,

1:30

I've lost count, but none are for you.

1:33

Oh. Is everybody sending

1:35

their listener tails. Keep sending them in, folks.

1:37

So I have a Google Doc where I

1:39

save them all as soon as I get

1:42

them in. It's over 60 pages, so

1:44

there's quite a few. Keep them coming. If we

1:46

haven't gotten to your, if you've sent one in,

1:48

we haven't gotten to it. We

1:50

probably will, unless it's bad. Maybe we won't.

1:54

We'll let you know, don't worry. But

1:56

thank you so much. No, here's seriously, everybody sent them

1:59

in. We got some great stories. here so thank

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you to everybody who sent in a story appreciate

2:03

you taking the time to do that and yeah

2:05

so today we're gonna listen out some more of

2:07

your stories Keith are you

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excited I'm super excited I cannot wait

2:12

excellent by the way speaking of listener

2:14

stories cuz I love to use these

2:16

listeners stories because they're always creepy and

2:18

spooky anything spooky happen in the infamous

2:21

attic not yet but I

2:23

have recently purchased a

2:25

Ouija board which we could actually made me

2:27

do in one of our video podcast things

2:29

I think we should definitely do it yeah

2:32

we actually have a quite a lot of

2:34

stuff recorded like when like we mentioned it

2:36

before how we we were in Boston together

2:38

we recorded some stuff I have so much

2:40

fucking video shit I just don't have time

2:43

because I edit all my own stuff sorry I

2:45

need to hire video but yes we should definitely

2:47

film that what who do you want to talk

2:49

to you should talk to like fans people or

2:51

something anyone anyone who listen I'm gonna talk back

2:53

that's the main goal so I feel like like

2:55

as I said I think I said before this

2:57

we had the usual like bumps in the night

2:59

and stuff like I'm like sounds of like doors

3:01

of clothes but like nothing to kind of I

3:03

said like not a right homeboat nothing mad so

3:05

I feel the Ouija board could entice them spirits

3:07

out yeah I think we could have a lot

3:09

of fun with us okay I mean

3:12

here listen it's your house so I don't

3:14

care look man I'm for the content I

3:16

didn't think for the content hey listen this

3:18

is this is gold I don't move houses

3:20

only one podcast yeah that's true Keith

3:23

you've knocked it apart yet again with your

3:25

logic I was reading through

3:27

the Ouija board that I got and how's like

3:29

a rule booklet in it really hmm wow what

3:31

are the whole point

3:33

of Ouija board is talking to like dead people

3:35

or like spirits or whatever to fuck what do

3:37

you need a rule book well there was one

3:40

rule and it says to not ask when

3:42

you'll die first thing I'm gonna ask I think

3:46

I'd like to know what I wouldn't like

3:48

to know no why would you want to

3:50

know when you're gonna die I'll take the

3:52

week off work I could make sure that

3:55

they're gonna die I'm tremendously hungover cuz I

3:57

don't want to die yeah I

4:00

hung over like, oh fuck this, I am done. I

4:02

would just, day before, just do all of the

4:04

drugs in the world. There you go, yeah. You

4:06

wouldn't even know. Although then again, it would be

4:08

kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's true, that

4:10

is true. Yeah, if you kind of knew, yeah.

4:12

I don't know, I don't like this Final Destination

4:14

style shit. No, I wouldn't want to know. Plus,

4:17

it would just be in my head the whole time. What

4:19

I'm gonna ask is, I'm gonna ask when you die.

4:21

Yeah. My

4:25

friend, you have me there. You

4:27

gotta stop me. First

4:29

thing is, when does Mike die? Oh

4:32

no! Not if I ask it first.

4:36

Alright, okay folks, so let's get

4:39

into some of your stories. As

4:42

I said, the stories we're gonna tell here,

4:44

these aren't in order of sense. I

4:47

kind of just randomly went through this

4:49

big ass file and picked

4:51

out some ones that I just thought on face

4:53

file. You looked good. We have not mean, Keith,

4:55

I've not read through these stories. So we're raw

4:57

dogging it, bite the pillow, we're going in raw.

5:00

This is a spit on your

5:02

hand job and run it in.

5:06

Maybe you should make this visual. It's

5:10

one of those ones folks, so yeah. You

5:12

know what, I'll begin. I'm gonna read out the story here. Okay,

5:14

I've talked some stuff into it. I always

5:16

do this. Half of this podcast

5:18

is me trying to get ahead of what's gonna happen in

5:20

a main show. Oh, that's not actually what happened. I always

5:22

think I know what's gonna happen. I've

5:25

seen too many movies. I watch too much shit. Bear

5:28

with me folks who are listening at home because

5:30

the person who sent this in did not write

5:32

their name on it, so I don't

5:34

know who it is. It looks like a good

5:36

story, but I kind of want to credit people

5:38

who sent it in. Oh man, I actually

5:40

don't know who sent it in. I

5:42

can't find the reference email because I just copied

5:45

and pasted from emails and their name

5:47

wasn't in the email. I don't think. Or

5:49

it's not here. Okay, well

5:51

whoever sent this in, thanks. So,

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hey guys, I have some interesting and scary

5:56

moments in my life I thought you'd be

5:58

interested in. Susanna Martin, one of the... Many

6:00

women who was hung in Salem, MA, is

6:02

one of my ancestors. There

6:04

you go, Keats already in love with you, he wishes he could

6:06

meet you. My mom's

6:09

side of the family is what you would call

6:11

sensitives or mediums, as well as some of them

6:13

do practice different types of witchcraft. Keats eyes! Alright

6:15

guys, you should see how Keats eyes is lit

6:18

up. Well I'm a large one. I

6:21

grew up like a normal kid, do all the

6:23

things that normal kids do. However, I did have

6:25

moments growing up that weren't so typical for a

6:27

kid. I like other kids, have a cool kid.

6:31

When I was in elementary school, I used to go

6:33

over to my aunt's and uncle's house a lot, hanging

6:35

out with my cousins. We liked to walk around the

6:37

town, go to friends houses, walk into the woods, go

6:39

to the store for candy, usual kid shit. I however

6:41

made the candy runs very difficult. Every

6:43

time we would start walking to the store, there was

6:46

this one house on the left with a very old

6:48

tree with a huge hole in the middle in the

6:50

front yard. And for some reason, it

6:52

put my fight or fight into gear and I would

6:54

panic and start crying and telling everybody I didn't want

6:57

to go this way, I don't want to go by

6:59

this house, can we take it different way? And everybody

7:01

would get upset because the other way was way longer

7:03

but I don't know something about this house, it was

7:05

freaking me out. I refused to move any

7:07

further past that house than that tree, it just didn't make

7:10

me feel good, it scared the living hell out of me

7:12

for some reason. Years later when

7:14

I was in my late teens, someone new purchased the

7:16

house and decided that they didn't like the old tree

7:18

in the front yard. They cut down

7:20

the old tree, they found really

7:23

old human remains inside.

7:25

Oh shit. Wow wow

7:28

wow. When I

7:30

was in my teens, my mom used to clean a

7:32

house for this elderly man named Bob and when she

7:34

was done cleaning they would just sit and hang out

7:36

and talk. They really became friends.

7:39

One day Bob passed away and obviously

7:41

my mother was very sad because they

7:43

were quite close, she was even allowed

7:45

to bring his favorite chair home, oh

7:47

heck and heckerino I see where this

7:49

is going folks. Yeah, haunted chair. Yeah,

7:51

cheer, fuck you, don't bring it home.

7:55

My mom absolutely loves antiques, our whole house has always

7:57

been filled with them and now she has a piece

7:59

that I'm going to make. That is not only an

8:01

antique, but she also has an emotional connection to the

8:03

person who owned it. When I was 17, I

8:06

went to go visit my mom. She lived in

8:08

these condominiums that every single one looked exactly the

8:10

same from the front and the back. She

8:13

lived in this house since I was about two years

8:15

old and we moved in and out of it my

8:17

entire life. One day, she asked me

8:20

to go grab something for her from the basement and of

8:22

course I said yes. Our basement was

8:24

a finished basement and I had a living room and

8:26

I had another room for laundry. I

8:28

was descending the stairs into the basement and I

8:31

wasn't really thinking of anything. When I got to

8:33

the last few steps, instead of walking down them,

8:35

I jumped and turned. When I did

8:37

that and I looked up, I saw a man in

8:39

the living room in the basement wearing

8:41

sweatpants and a sweatshirt with white hair

8:44

and he looked really confused. My

8:46

first thought was that I could be one of our

8:49

neighbours who was dementia or something like that and thought our

8:51

house was his. As I said before, all

8:54

the houses looked the exact same. He looked

8:56

me right in the face and I got so frightened

8:58

because there was a stranger in my basement that I

9:00

ran back up the stairs. Once

9:02

I was up the stairs, I found my mom in

9:04

the kitchen and I was talking very fast because there

9:07

was a strange guy in the basement and I told

9:09

her what had happened, what the man looks like and

9:11

he's in her basement and she should lock the basement

9:13

and she told me that the basement door has been

9:15

locked. There is no way anyone could have gotten into

9:17

our basement and she kindly told me

9:19

that her friend Bob's chair is in the basement

9:22

and from the description I gave to her, it

9:24

sounded like it was Bob. That's

9:29

like a sixth sense. I

9:31

see dead people? Yeah, they look like living people.

9:36

I think that kind of makes it creepier. If

9:39

they look like, if they're not translucent or whatever. It was

9:41

not like clear, oh that's a ghost. It

9:43

was just like, oh is she this person to kill

9:45

me or this ghost person? Exactly. So

9:48

he didn't look like the ghosts you see on TV. He was

9:50

full figured from head to toe, I could see him like

9:52

a normal person and I think that's what

9:54

really scared me the most is I couldn't tell. That's

9:56

what we were just saying. In

9:58

my late teens my bros- brother-in-law died

10:01

overseas. We all grouped together, he

10:03

lived a few houses down from us and his home

10:05

life wasn't very stable so he spent a lot of

10:07

time with us and ended up falling in love with

10:09

one of my sisters. Him and

10:11

I were very close. We would exchange CDs,

10:13

play video games, and of course get each

10:15

other in trouble with Mom. It was the

10:18

hardest loss I ever had. That evening we got

10:20

the news about him, it was hard for everybody. We'd

10:22

all lost a brother, a son, and a husband. My

10:24

mom liked to say that he was the rooster of the

10:27

hen house because my whole house was full of women. Okay,

10:29

see I was right there. When

10:31

we finally got home that night and tried to go to

10:33

bed I just couldn't sleep, my life was turned upside down.

10:36

Once the morning got closer, I'd say about two

10:38

or three in the morning, my eyes were starting

10:40

to get heavy and right before I closed my

10:43

eyes I looked at the foot of my bed

10:45

and I saw him standing there in his regular

10:47

clothes. He always wore a black

10:49

t-shirt and blue jeans. He

10:51

looked right at me, he looked sad, more

10:53

like at peace, he just smiled a little

10:55

bit, then his eyes closed. The

10:57

next morning I woke up, my mind immediately remembered

10:59

what happened and I jumped out of bed and

11:01

ran into my mom's room and I told her

11:04

what had happened. I was so frightened

11:06

by that event that I had to sleep in

11:08

my bed with my mom for three days. I knew

11:10

that my brother couldn't hurt me but

11:12

it was just a scary moment. Mid

11:14

twenties. I was living with my boyfriend in

11:16

his apartment and it was a very old

11:18

apartment building and it was falling apart. The

11:21

building you could tell was sectioned off differently back

11:23

in the day. We had a staircase

11:25

from the basement going up to the floor

11:27

of our closet. What? So

11:30

a staircase that went nowhere. That's

11:32

creepy, I don't like that at all. Dirt

11:35

floors in the basement with dripping water from

11:37

god knows where. We also had a different

11:39

variety of people living in this building. We

11:41

had a drug dealer and a prostitute living

11:43

in our building and people were constantly fighting

11:45

in the other apartments. So you know there

11:47

was just a lot of negative energy flowing

11:49

through our building as well as a woman

11:52

with five or six kids. This

11:54

apartment, I didn't like being alone in it for

11:56

some reason. It always made me feel like someone

11:58

was in the other room watching me or... waiting

12:00

in one of the closets. Some

12:02

mornings were normal, others I was

12:04

too scared to pull the cover off my head.

12:06

I would get the sensation that

12:08

there was something negative standing by the bed waiting

12:10

for me to pull the covers off my head.

12:13

I've also had an image in my mind

12:15

of a human puppet basically with the limbs

12:17

cut and was dancing over my bed like

12:20

a puppeteer would make a puppet dance. You

12:23

should see Keats expression as I was reading that he

12:25

looked very disgusted. That

12:27

is very creepy. You would think that I probably

12:29

saw this in a movie or online or something

12:31

and that's how it got into my brain but

12:33

I've never seen any scary movie that shows a

12:35

puppet a human puppet with their limbs snapped and

12:37

dancing. We used to try and burn a lot

12:39

of sage and smudge our surroundings and that helped

12:41

a little bit. In the same

12:43

apartment I was taking a shower. I tilted

12:46

my head back to rinse the conditioner out

12:48

of my hair and face and wash off

12:50

my face. When I tilted my head forward

12:52

there was an elderly woman in the shower

12:55

with me. Oh that's terrifying. Yeah she

12:57

was a short old lady with white wavy short

13:00

hair and she'd close on and she was looking

13:02

at me. I just got so scared

13:04

I don't think I rinsed the rest of my body and just

13:06

jumped out of the shower and ran out of a room. After

13:09

that I would make my boyfriend sit in

13:11

the bathroom while I showered. Oh

13:14

poor him. Yeah hey

13:16

what show for it's the worst for it. A month

13:19

or so later my boyfriend found out from a friend

13:21

who is a medium that he works with. It said

13:23

there is an elderly woman in our apartment and that

13:25

she drowned in a lake in our town that she

13:27

used to live in this building. Come to find out

13:30

it was one of his friends moms that also lived

13:32

in the building quite a few years ago that drowned

13:34

in a lake in our town. They

13:36

do say water is like a conduit like a

13:38

doorway between our world and the next. Hmm I

13:40

think we've got like pure or something. Hmm yeah

13:43

moving flowing. Who knows. Something like like have you

13:45

ever had like a shower

13:47

at night when like the lights gone in your bathroom?

13:49

No. So that you're showering in the dark basically. No I've never

13:51

had that. It's terrifying. There's been a couple of times when like

13:54

I've got a spare bulb and it's middle of the night so

13:56

I have to have a shower. Yeah. It's like pitch black and

13:58

you definitely feel like someone's gonna be like. watching you. Ooh. And

14:00

like when you close your, like it's terrifying to close your eyes

14:02

because feel like when you open someone's gonna be there. Wait I

14:04

mean it's dark you want to see. Exactly. And

14:08

finally now I'm in my early turdies. My

14:10

family and I visited my mom at her

14:12

new house which was actually my pappy's house.

14:15

He also loved antiques and he would sell them and

14:17

they were all over the house. Even when my mom

14:19

was living it was still full of his antiques and

14:22

the antiques she brought from our old house. We went

14:24

to visit for my 34th birthday and we decided we

14:26

were going to spend the weekend there. Usually

14:28

my boyfriend and I would sleep upstairs with my

14:30

kids and my mom in the bedrooms up there.

14:32

But our room was so hot that we decided

14:34

we were gonna sleep in the TV room on

14:36

a blow up mattress. The night

14:39

before my actual birthday my kids decided

14:41

that they were going to sleep downstairs

14:43

with us too. I couldn't

14:45

sleep that night so I was doing a few

14:47

things around the house and then I finally lay

14:49

down I would say maybe 10 minutes later all

14:51

of a sudden there was a huge orb in

14:53

my face that was so bright it was the

14:55

brightest thing I'd ever seen like a pure white

14:58

light. I went through all the

15:00

thoughts of you know am I crazy is this

15:02

sleep paralysis maybe it was some kind of static

15:04

from the blankets. What if it was a

15:06

car driving by and the headlights lit up the room but

15:08

there's no way that would happen. I had

15:10

all these theories running through my mind and then all

15:12

of a sudden my boyfriend says to me did you

15:15

just see something really bright. He was

15:17

also facing the opposite way than I was so if

15:19

it was static electricity or something like that I don't

15:21

think you would have seen it. It

15:24

lit the room up so brightly and came just

15:26

as fast as it left. Maybe it

15:28

was someone just coming to visit to say happy

15:30

birthday or could have been a more personal message.

15:33

I've never seen an orb in real life only

15:35

in photos until this night and now I have

15:37

a witness that can say they saw the light

15:39

too. I'm sure as my life

15:41

will continue there will be more. Thank you

15:44

so much to this person who sent that story

15:46

in. The woman in the bathtub with you is

15:48

incredibly creepy. I think the story was sent in

15:50

by Robin by the way if that's your name

15:52

sorry I don't have I don't have it here

15:54

but thanks Robin if that's your name who sent

15:56

it in that story of though the woman in

15:58

the bath is fucking terrifying. Yeah I don't like

16:00

that. Yeah, kind of like I'm picturing like the

16:02

woman from general D shining. Yeah. Yeah, except she

16:04

was nude this woman had clothes on Yeah, yeah.

16:07

Yeah, I think that like really terrified

16:09

from that was like the ghost that she's seen

16:11

they were like confused Yeah, which is that reminds

16:13

me more of like the sixth sense? Yeah, cuz

16:15

I think the ghosts and that were like, well,

16:17

they don't Yeah, where am I?

16:19

Yeah. Yeah, it's always interesting these stories

16:21

mediums and stuff Yeah, my wife had

16:23

like an interest moment for where she

16:26

I'm like she she wouldn't claim she's

16:28

immediately rain or stuff, but she had

16:30

something happened so it was she was pregnant with

16:32

our daughter and the week

16:34

before My daughter

16:36

was born. My wife had a dream and in

16:38

the dream Her

16:41

dad's her her uncle came to her in a

16:43

dream. She's never met her uncle before it's So

16:46

her dad's brother died like years and years and years

16:48

ago So she never met him, but she knew when

16:50

he came in dream. She knew who was okay. She

16:52

must seen photos Before but

16:55

she does automatically knew who was she taught none

16:57

of it. She's like no that was a very

16:59

dream I must tell my dad but she kind

17:01

of forgot about it But then my

17:03

daughter and when she was

17:05

actually born and we were kind of chatting

17:07

around the days and her dad was like

17:09

Oh, that's so that's so and so his

17:12

birthday So our daughter was born on

17:14

the uncle that came to visit A

17:16

week before that's really crazy, isn't it?

17:19

Yeah Because it was only

17:21

when her dad said it she just remembers like

17:23

oh my god I was meant to tell you

17:25

last week I had a dream about your brother

17:27

and he's like what you've never met him I

17:29

was like, yeah, and but it was just mad

17:31

the way she had the dream week for and

17:33

then our daughter just happened to be Born. Yeah

17:35

birthday. Wow the man that she's never met. Yeah.

17:37

Yeah, that's that's crazy. Isn't it? It's a serious

17:39

set of them. Hmm interesting Alright

17:42

next story Keith. Which one do you want to do? Do

17:44

you want to cover in next one? Yeah,

17:46

I'll do this one looks like

17:49

it's nice short and sweet. Okay, who's

17:51

this from this is from? Denise

17:53

Denise shields in Pittsburgh

17:55

PA USA. Thanks Denise.

17:58

Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching Thanks for

18:00

doing your thing. So she says,

18:02

hello, I enjoy your videos and love listening

18:05

to your podcast with Keith, myself. Thank you.

18:07

Thank you very much. Keith's listening. Reading out your

18:09

story. I am. So my story takes place during

18:11

the 1980s. A key

18:14

element to this story is that during

18:16

this time, demonic influence and satanic worship

18:18

were a big concern in American culture.

18:20

I like this already. I know, you

18:22

love your satanic shit, Keith. Do.

18:25

Big fan. It's just really good stories. I really enjoy

18:27

it, you know? No, no. This was

18:29

an age when a lot of crimes

18:31

were attributed to satanic rituals and backward

18:33

masking was a thing. Wait, what? Backward

18:36

masking? What's that? Oh, it's literally about

18:38

to explain. No, guess, guess. You,

18:40

you, you, guess. I think it could be

18:43

when you. Oh, it's not really. Oh. Yeah.

18:46

Yeah. So backward

18:48

masking was when you would spin a record

18:50

backwards on a record player with the needle

18:52

down and could hear messages that were most

18:55

likely satanic that were hidden. You

18:57

couldn't hear these messages when the record was playing forward.

18:59

A clever way to get all of us to worship the

19:01

dark Lord. I think there was definitely stuff that I would

19:04

like Led Zeppelin and stuff. Oh, hell

19:06

yeah. Possibly maybe the Beatles. I

19:08

think I remember. So I was raised

19:11

as a Jehovah's Witness and priority one

19:13

was protecting ourselves from any demonic forces.

19:16

We were taught that any encounter with dark

19:18

spirits could be averted by calling on God

19:20

for help. Go away in the name of

19:23

Jehovah. As a child of the

19:25

eighties, I was terrified daily of a nuclear

19:27

attack. I was terrified

19:29

of nuclear attacks and satanic forces. It's all happening

19:31

in the eighties. Remember that countdown clock telling us

19:33

all how close we were to threat of nuclear

19:35

war. I do not, but I see. The

19:38

doomsday clocks, the minutes, minutes, the midnight. Apparently

19:40

it's that closer now than ever. Oh, that,

19:42

okay. Oh, no, no, we know. It's not

19:45

for explaining to you. Yeah, now you know. I just explained to

19:47

you, motherfucker. Oh, the

19:49

countdown clock. Okay, yeah, yeah. That's

19:54

bad writing. That's

19:56

not on me. Don't

19:58

blame Denise. was

22:00

in the middle of the night and everyone else

22:02

in my family was also in bed. I started

22:04

to hear a ping pong ball being

22:06

hit from one side of the ping pong table

22:08

to the other, from up in the attic. Not

22:11

too per with a ping pong table in the attic,

22:14

huh? Oh, so you had four things

22:16

and now you've got a ping pong? Back

22:19

and forth, back and forth, until I hit the floor. I

22:21

could hear it bounce a few times on the floor and

22:23

then roll across the floor. Then, as

22:25

I continued to stare straight ahead, trying

22:27

to make sense of what I was

22:29

hearing, I saw a smurf blue colored

22:31

mist appear from the attic door. Ooooh,

22:34

the smurfs are coming back for their

22:36

revenge. It was Papa

22:38

Smurf now. With

22:40

my greatest weapon at my disposal, I said,

22:42

Go away in the name of Jehovah. The

22:45

blue mist disappeared and I no longer heard

22:47

the ping pong ball rolling around. I

22:50

was convinced that because I wanted to keep those

22:52

smurfs in on

22:55

a Saturday morning that I had invited demons

22:57

into her home. I didn't

22:59

tell anyone about what had happened. I

23:01

am convinced now that it was my

23:04

imagination, but it scares me more because,

23:06

wow, brainwashing is real. I love this

23:08

story just because it's so dumb. I

23:12

love that, that was great. This smurfs

23:14

escapes came back to haunt you. Enjoy

23:17

my skates! I

23:20

grew up in a small ranch style house in a small town in mid

23:22

Michigan. The house itself was

23:46

purchased by my mom in 1985 soon

23:49

after I was born. There wasn't anything very

23:51

significant about the house itself, but the property

23:53

did have some interesting history associated with it.

23:55

It had once been the location of a

23:57

one room schoolhouse in the area. area and

23:59

some elderly neighbors who lived down the road

24:02

actually attended that very school as children. Okay,

24:04

I know where this is going, haunted school

24:06

house. I've seen this movie before. 100% yeah.

24:09

Yeah, yeah. Oh

24:12

yeah. But they're old. So they're like pre-ghosts.

24:14

Oh, okay. That's how you're gonna call old

24:16

people for now on pre-ghosts. Growing

24:21

up, my house consisted of my mom, my

24:23

sister, and myself. It was a three bedroom,

24:25

one bathroom home with a semi-finished basement that

24:27

consisted of a concrete floor and block walls.

24:30

My sister and I always felt like the basement

24:32

was a little creepy. But I

24:34

think most people feel that way about their basement,

24:36

like any kind of scary dark room that's empty.

24:38

It's always weird. It's gonna be creepy, yeah. I

24:41

don't remember anything paranormal happening when I was a

24:43

child, but I do remember always wanting to sleep

24:45

with my bedroom door open and a small fan

24:47

on when I would go to bed for the

24:50

night. That makes me, no, I hate

24:52

sleeping with an open door. It freaks me out, I

24:54

think, if I was like... Yeah. I

24:56

feel like somebody peeping around, you know, peeping ahead. Yeah, I

24:58

feel safe with the door closed unless it's already in there

25:00

with you. Oh, then I'm locking it in. It's not locked. Hey,

25:02

listen, the way I look at it, it's not locked in

25:04

here. I'm not locked in here with it. It's locked in

25:06

here with me. Absolutely, yeah. I'm not

25:08

wearing any clothes. Exactly. I was vigorously

25:10

masturbating in the corner while making furious eye contact.

25:12

What do you want to do? Exactly.

25:16

So that fact that they would sleep with the bedroom door

25:18

open and a small fan on when they go for bed,

25:20

that would make more sense as I get older and things

25:22

started. Anything

25:24

to help drown out the sounds in

25:27

that house. And to make sure

25:29

I always had an escape route out of my room.

25:31

Okay, this is still good. This

25:33

rock, you shocked me. The

25:36

first experience I can remember happening actually happened

25:38

quite a few times starting when I was

25:40

about 13. I would be

25:42

lying in bed at night after having just shut off

25:44

the lights. When all of a sudden

25:46

it sounded like the big bookcase in my

25:48

room had tipped over, dumping the contents all

25:50

over the room. I would jump

25:52

out of the bed and race over to the light

25:54

switch, which was on the completely other side of the

25:57

room, only to discover that nothing

25:59

had moved. at all. Ghost books.

26:01

Yeah, the worst kind of books. Everything

26:04

was right where I left it and right where

26:06

it should be. It wasn't just the sound of

26:08

the crash though. I could feel it hit the

26:11

ground and shake my room, but every time, no

26:13

matter when it happened, every time

26:15

I turned the lights on, nothing would be out of place. My

26:18

sister, who had the room right next to mine,

26:21

could also hear and feel the ground shake as

26:23

though the bookcase had tipped over, but it never

26:25

actually did. This probably happened

26:27

four or five times throughout my time at

26:29

that house, but I can never figure out

26:31

why or how this happened. It never happened

26:33

in any other room of the house. It

26:35

never happened to any other object. Always the

26:37

bookcase. Eventually, as I got

26:40

older, I no longer needed or wanted the

26:42

bookcase and once it was out at a

26:44

house, I never experienced that again. Little

26:46

did I know, that was the start of something

26:49

other- ooh, otherworldly. It

26:51

was the start of something that would change

26:53

my life and make me question everything I'd

26:56

ever known. Oh shit, this is good. Drama

26:58

Queen. I'm

27:01

hooked though. I am

27:03

hooked, this is good. The next experience I

27:05

had was one of the more fascinating, as it

27:07

wasn't just me who saw this, but my mom

27:09

was a witness as well. I

27:11

was about 14 and I was watching TV in the

27:13

living room and my mom was there too, but she

27:16

was actually reading a magazine instead of watching whatever was

27:18

on. Our TV sat inside an oak

27:20

entertainment center along with various VHS tapes, VCR and

27:22

other decorations that my mom had. The top of

27:24

the entertainment center was a great place to put

27:26

things and my mom had a hurricane lamp there

27:28

along with several other knickknacks. If you're unfamiliar with

27:31

what exactly a hurricane lamp is and I literally

27:33

just about to act like that. I've never heard

27:35

of a hurricane lamp before. I'm not against some

27:37

sort of lava lamp. Rocks there? I bet you

27:39

explain. But how about we ignore that and just

27:41

invent what a hurricane lamp is. Yeah, okay. What

27:43

do you think of a hurricane? Do you think

27:45

it's a lava lamp? I feel it's some sort

27:48

of lava lamp that kinda swirls. That's what

27:50

I'm picturing. Okay, I think what a hurricane lamp

27:52

is is basically a decorative candle that comes in

27:54

three parts. Wait, do you just read it? No.

28:00

Oh you're a spot on, brother. I just

28:03

guessed that I'm right. You

28:05

have the candle itself which sits on a ceramic

28:07

base and then a big glass cylinder fits over

28:09

the top of the candle. Oh

28:13

what a guess. Gee knocked

28:16

it out of our community. On

28:18

this night while watching TV I heard something

28:20

make a clinging sound coming from on top

28:23

of the entertainment center. It sounded as if

28:25

the glass cylinder of the hurricane lamp was

28:27

lightly hitting the base it sat on. As

28:30

the sound got progressively louder I watched

28:32

as the glass cylinder began to quickly

28:34

shake back and forth as I looked

28:36

on in terror. And

28:38

as I looked on in terror I saw

28:40

the cylinder lift off the base about 4-5

28:42

inches still slightly shaking back and forth and

28:44

after a few seconds it sat back down

28:46

where it was originally and everything was back

28:48

to normal. Yeah that's weird.

28:51

I saw it there staring at the lamp not

28:53

taking my eyes off it and I finally asked

28:55

my mom if she saw that as well to

28:57

which she thankfully replied that she had.

29:00

I asked her what happened and

29:02

she said she had no idea but she definitely

29:04

saw it lift up and heard the same sounds

29:07

that I had heard. I didn't have

29:09

the courage to sleep in my own bed that night

29:11

so I slept on her floor. My

29:13

mom has heard me talk about the bookcase sounding

29:15

like it tipped over in the past but she

29:17

assumed it was the result of an overactive imagination.

29:20

Now having seen the incident with the

29:22

hurricane lamp she could no longer deny that

29:24

there was something weird going on in

29:26

the house. My mom would

29:28

go on to have a few more encounters

29:30

herself but that night with the hurricane lamp

29:32

was unexplainable and for me it

29:35

was just getting started. It

29:39

wasn't much longer until the next paranormal event

29:41

would take place. We had

29:43

just received our class yearbook at school and I

29:46

was in my room laying on my bed facing

29:48

towards my bedroom door with the overhead light on

29:50

and the door to my room was resting shut

29:52

but not completely pushed close. As

29:55

I flipped through the pages I saw out of the corner of

29:57

my eye that the door was open about 3-4 inches. Almost

30:00

as if someone was looking at me. As

30:02

soon as I looked up from my yearbook, the

30:04

door would slowly close back to the

30:06

resting shut position as it had originally

30:09

been. Okay, now that's creepy as hell.

30:11

That's paranormal. Yes. I

30:13

tried to push it off and went back to reading, but a

30:15

few seconds later, it did it again. I

30:18

could see the door open about 3-4

30:20

inches, and as I looked up it

30:22

slowly shut. I couldn't see anyone looking

30:24

in, however, because the hallway outside my

30:27

room was dark. Oh, that's creepy. This

30:30

happened 3 or 4 more times, and at this point I

30:33

knew something was going on. I thought maybe

30:35

it was my sister playing a joke on me, even

30:37

though she was not the sort of person to do

30:39

something like that. So I got out of bed, waiting

30:41

behind the door for it to open once again. If

30:44

it was my sister who was doing it, I was going

30:46

to hit the door back into her face and it would

30:48

be very hilarious. That's assault. You

30:50

can't assault your sibling, we all know that. But

30:52

as I waited, the door never moved. I waited

30:55

and I waited and I waited, but nothing happened. Finally,

30:57

I gave up and found my sister in her room. I

30:59

asked her if she was the one opening my door, but

31:01

she denied it. But she said from

31:04

her room she could see the door opening

31:06

and closing because the light in my room

31:08

would shine onto the floor in the hallway.

31:10

Apparently someone or something was keeping an eye on

31:12

me that night. At this point

31:15

in the story, my sister had moved out to go to

31:17

college, and I was about 15 years old, so it was

31:19

just my mom and I there. One

31:21

night, no more than 5 minutes after we

31:23

both decided to head to bed and I

31:25

turned out my light, I distinctly heard a

31:27

woman's voice. It sounded like

31:29

it was off in the distance, maybe in

31:31

another room in the house, but what she

31:34

was saying was unmistakable. It was

31:36

my name. I could clearly hear

31:38

Brock. But I assumed it

31:41

was my mom calling for me from her bedroom across the hall,

31:43

so I said what. Then

31:45

I heard it again and again. Brock.

31:48

Brock. Each time a little

31:50

louder than before. And every time I

31:52

responded with a louder, what, what. And

31:55

I was frustrated that my mom wasn't just

31:57

coming to my room and sharing it across

31:59

the I got out of bed, opened her door

32:01

and asked why she was calling my name. She

32:03

told me she hadn't been, but

32:06

she could hear me talking. I explained

32:08

what I heard and she said she never

32:10

heard a woman's voice but knew that I

32:12

had. It wasn't the situation where I was

32:14

in that sort of mind where you're

32:16

kind of asleep, but not totally. I had

32:18

just turned off my light and had gotten under my covers when

32:20

I heard it, so you're kind of sleepy but

32:22

not quite asleep. I can remember that I was

32:25

not tired yet, but this encounter had been trying

32:27

to communicate with

32:29

me. It was like the activity was increasing in

32:31

the house, each time getting more and more intense.

32:34

I never knew what was going to happen and I

32:36

could never imagine what was in store for me next.

32:41

Something else happened that still gives me chills to this

32:43

day. My mom had remarried and

32:45

my stepfather was now living with us. He

32:47

knew about my ghost stories but didn't really believe him.

32:49

He always figured there had to be some sort of

32:51

explanation. One night as we were

32:54

all getting ready for bed, I asked them to

32:56

please keep the door to their bedroom open. I

33:06

always wanted the doors opened in case something happened,

33:08

that way I could run across the hall to

33:10

their bedroom. They agreed and we all went to

33:12

our rooms. I remember it was

33:14

a clear night and the moon was bright because

33:16

even though my bedroom window blinds were closed, I

33:19

could still see inside my room even with the

33:21

lights off. I could always make sure that my

33:23

mom kept her door open because I could see

33:25

a red light on the cordless phone in their

33:28

bedroom if the door was open. As

33:33

I lay in bed, I remember rolling over to

33:35

face the door but as I did, I noticed

33:37

that I could no longer see the red light

33:39

in my mom's room. However,

33:41

I quickly realized that it wasn't

33:43

because her door was closed, it

33:46

was because something was standing

33:48

in my room. Just

33:51

inside the door. Okay,

33:53

this is the time when the cliffhanger actually

33:55

is paying off. I could

33:58

make out what I assumed to be too

34:00

sh- shapes. One was tall, maybe 6'2, 6'3,

34:03

the other one came up to that

34:05

one's shoulder. It looked like two people

34:07

were standing there, side by side. But

34:09

I couldn't see any other kind of

34:11

features. No face, no clothing, nothing but

34:14

the black masses. They

34:16

were darker than anything else in the room that I

34:18

could see by the moonlight. The first thing that came

34:21

to my mind was my mom and stepfather were playing

34:23

a joke on me, so I said to the shadows,

34:25

I see you guys, it's not funny. The

34:28

shadows didn't move and they didn't answer. I

34:31

started to get scared but just hoped it was

34:33

my mom and stepfather, so I said again, okay

34:35

guys, please stop, this is not funny. But

34:38

again, no movement, no response

34:40

from the shadowy figures. Now I

34:42

knew it wasn't them but something was standing there.

34:45

I knew I had to act fast, so I

34:47

decided I was going to throw my comforter from

34:49

my bed at the shadow and run for the

34:51

light by the door across from my room. That's

34:53

just going to piss them off if anything. I

34:59

counted to myself, one, two,

35:02

three. Now, I drew the blankets, jumped

35:04

for a light and as I turned it on, nothing

35:06

was there and the blanket fell to the floor. I

35:09

looked across the hall to see if my

35:11

mom's door was open and it was. I could

35:13

see the red light. I had clearly seen

35:16

something but now it's gone. What

35:18

was it? Why was it there? Why me?

35:20

I couldn't figure it out. Nothing made sense

35:22

anymore but it was clearly there. I

35:24

turned off the lights and decided to go back

35:26

to bed. Nervously, I crawled under the covers and

35:28

lay there facing my door as I had before.

35:30

I could see everything in my room again by

35:33

moonlight but this time there were no shadows in

35:35

my doorway. I tried to go to sleep but

35:37

my heart was racing. I was too afraid to

35:39

close my eyes because I didn't want something to

35:41

be even closer this time when I reopened my

35:43

eyes. I gave up and went

35:45

across the hall to my mom's room and slept on

35:47

the floor for the night and thankfully nothing else happened.

35:50

So all of these events

35:52

are leading, we're leading to the

35:54

big grand finale. I was looking

35:57

for his bookcase. Yeah, exactly. Hey,

35:59

bro. I see my bookcase,

36:01

man. I

36:03

heard things. I had seen inanimate objects levitate, shake

36:05

and move, and I had seen what many people

36:07

describe as shadow people. Which I think I thought,

36:10

did I tell this story on the podcast? But

36:12

that's what my wife said she saw in the

36:14

room, in her hotel in Budapest. Yeah,

36:16

yeah. Mm-hmm. Shadow people. This, you know, it's so funny

36:18

before we get to the ground for that. Is that

36:21

reading all these people's ghost stories, I'm not a believer

36:23

in ghosts at all. I think you were probably more

36:25

than I am. I'm probably more open to it. I've

36:27

never had experience. I'm still very skeptical. I've

36:29

had no hard proof, but I'd like to

36:31

believe. Yeah, me too. These stories, like the

36:34

stories we get in from listeners about the

36:36

shit they've seen, it definitely makes me question

36:38

my sanity. Yeah. These

36:40

stories here are driving me wild. So,

36:42

okay, so Brock heard things, seen inanimate objects

36:44

levitate, shake and move, and I had seen

36:47

what many people describe as shadow people. But

36:49

the worst was yet to come. It

36:53

was a cool fall evening and I was 17. I

36:56

was home alone and the sun was just beginning to set.

36:58

I just made something to eat for dinner and decided

37:00

to watch a movie. I was laying

37:02

on my bed facing the TV when all of a

37:04

sudden I noticed movement out of the corner of my

37:06

eye. It was something big in

37:09

the hallway. As I turned my head

37:11

to see what caught my attention, I

37:13

saw a man walk past my door in

37:15

the hall. This wasn't a shadow or a

37:18

see-true apparition that you might see in ghost

37:20

documentaries. This was a man. Looked as real

37:22

as you or me. Unfortunately, I wasn't fast

37:24

enough to see all of them. What

37:27

I saw was the arm of a tall

37:29

man in a light brown tweed-style jacket and

37:31

his leg in dark brown trousers. I knew

37:33

exactly what I had just witnessed and I

37:36

was completely frozen in fear. I'd

37:38

been scared before with all the other incidents, but

37:40

this was different. I couldn't move. I didn't

37:42

even know if I was breathing. I just

37:45

kept looking at the door, eyes fixated, hoping he

37:47

wasn't going to come back or worse yet, walk

37:49

into my room. I

37:51

can't tell you how many seconds or minutes passed, but eventually

37:53

I got off my bed and peered around the open door

37:55

in my room to see if there was anything down the

37:57

hall. It was completely empty. No

38:00

footsteps, no noise of any kind. I

38:02

remember breathing really hard at this point because

38:05

someone was there in the house with me,

38:07

but I couldn't see them. Was he

38:10

going to reappear as soon as I stepped out of

38:12

my room? Was he right behind me now? I couldn't

38:14

wait around to find the answers to the numerous questions

38:16

running through my mind, so I ran in the hall,

38:18

grabbed the cordless phone and ran out of the front

38:21

door of the house. I called a

38:23

friend of mine just to calm me down, but I

38:25

didn't tell him why I was calling. I just wanted

38:27

to talk about anything other than what I just happened,

38:29

and there was no way I was going back into

38:31

the house until someone else came home. After

38:34

seeing the man walk past my bedroom, the activity

38:36

seemed to stop. Nothing else happened to me. However,

38:39

there have been other mysterious paranormal events that

38:41

happened to my mom and my sister while

38:43

all of these things were happening to me.

38:46

One night in the winter while I was asleep,

38:48

both my mom and my sister heard someone knocking

38:50

on the front door. When my mom

38:52

got up to see if someone needed help, she turned on

38:54

the porch light, but there was no one there. There

38:57

wasn't even footprints in the snow to indicate

38:59

anyone was there. She turned off

39:01

the light, went back to bed, but it

39:03

wasn't long before she heard

39:05

the… knocking yet again. More

39:07

intense this time. She

39:09

got out of bed to check it. My

39:11

sister met her in the hallway saying she

39:14

heard it too, but once again, they examined

39:16

the front door. No one there, nothing there,

39:18

no footprints, nada. My sister

39:20

had some strange encounters too. She swears she

39:22

heard my grandma Randolph's grandfather clock go off

39:24

in the middle of the night a couple

39:26

of times. The interesting thing was that though

39:28

my grandma had passed away a few months

39:30

before, we didn't own a grandfather clock. She

39:33

also claims to have woken up in the middle of

39:35

the night, seen someone standing in her room, then turned

39:37

and head across the hall to my mother's room. She

39:40

described it as a grayish, shadowy thing, but she

39:42

couldn't make out any details. She

39:44

also claims to have been touched on her ears and her

39:46

hair in the middle of the night by something. She

39:49

developed a phobia from it, where she had to sleep

39:51

with her hair covering her ears and covers all the

39:53

way up to her face, and she still sleeps that

39:55

way this very day because of it. We

39:57

also had this old antique mirror that just disappeared.

40:00

from her house one day as well. I remember

40:02

seeing it as I walked out the door to

40:04

go to school one morning because I was quickly

40:06

looking at myself and it was the very last

40:08

thing I did every day before I left. However,

40:10

when I got home, something felt off. I couldn't

40:12

figure it out, but I could just feel that

40:14

something didn't seem normal. I brushed the feeling aside

40:16

and continued on with my night, but when my

40:18

mother got home she asked me what had happened

40:20

to the mirror. I told her I had no

40:22

idea, but when I went to the kitchen to

40:24

see where it always had been hanging, it was

40:26

gone. We never found it. One

40:29

of my favourite stories that doesn't involve me

40:32

is fantastic because it involves another witness who

40:34

had no prior knowledge of any hauntings in

40:36

the house, but it verifies everything. You

40:39

see, eventually my mom remarried and had

40:41

another daughter named Grace. When she

40:43

was about three years old, she was downstairs with

40:46

my mom when changing over a load of laundry.

40:48

Grace was sitting on an old pink can and

40:51

looking straight ahead to an area around the corner

40:53

to where my mom couldn't see from her location

40:55

at the washing machine. Suddenly,

40:57

she saw Grace slowly lift her

40:59

hand and reluctantly wave to someone.

41:02

My mom was shocked and more than little frightened.

41:04

She asked Grace who she was waving at. Without

41:07

hesitation, Grace responded the man standing

41:10

over there. That's creepy. Yeah. Do

41:12

you know what's interesting is

41:14

that I've heard a lot of stories of

41:17

children seeing people

41:19

waving at people who are adults. I

41:22

can't see. My nephew.

41:26

So, him and his

41:28

family, they live in a house like it's an apartment in

41:31

a building and there's an underground car park

41:33

underneath the apartment building. My brother told me

41:35

he said he's seen the burned man down

41:37

there. I'll have to re-ask

41:39

him. My brother can be the next one to

41:41

the story, but he said something about that, like

41:43

he keeps asking about the burned man who lives

41:45

in the basement. I remember, I

41:47

remember we're at the pulpit and he told

41:49

us that. Yeah. Yeah. He said something. He's

41:52

also said some weird stuff. He's

41:54

told some weird stories. Again, this is my brother

41:56

telling me this stories, but like he remembers like

41:58

stuff like past lifestyle shit. Oh, that's mad like

42:01

stuff like like you the stuff a kid wouldn't

42:03

know yeah Yeah, you know about a life

42:05

and he would just talk about it like it's normal

42:08

like he wasn't mending it But I don't know you

42:10

know kids just talk weird shit, but yeah, they talk

42:12

all sorts Yeah, I'll have to go and get more

42:14

information on this, but he sold I know he sold

42:16

some weird stories you have a child since they ever

42:18

we had Creepy it was like a

42:20

couple of weeks ago. She was because we still have the

42:23

monitor in a room. Yeah, and She

42:26

woke up in like tree half tree in the

42:28

morning she woke up. I would hear over the

42:30

morning going I'm like alright,

42:32

and she's like there's someone in my room,

42:34

and I was like no there's not I

42:36

just like okay Which

42:44

is accepted issues like it's like no does not it's like

42:46

all right. Yeah, I literally fell back sleep. It's like okay

42:49

Definitely a really creepy story very creepy story

42:51

Thank you so much Brock for sending that

42:54

in yeah Similarities

42:56

about what he experienced what I've kind of

42:58

been talking about the podcast like this Yeah,

43:01

the knocking on the door did when my

43:03

wife heard me calling her yes,

43:05

and I wasn't called right yeah Yeah, yeah, you

43:07

have to stare. She's like what do you want?

43:09

It's like I wasn't going yeah Yeah, but what

43:11

I'm really interested in is our hurricane lamps The

43:14

one I described a real thing cuz if not I think it

43:16

should be I think we should delete this

43:18

round of podcast So we can invent it and make

43:20

our millions baby. That's it. That's it All

43:23

right Pivoting the

43:25

business yeah that chapter branded

43:29

Those are millions I've already have a lot

43:32

of them actually so hey listen kids like

43:34

love lumps Yeah, imagine that in the shape

43:36

for hurricane. Yeah, that's better. Rock me longer.

43:38

That's good. You're a next story Yeah, this

43:41

could be a good one so it's from

43:43

Emily mm-hmm. I don't know where she doesn't

43:45

say just Emily So she

43:47

says gentlemen very formal I

43:50

began listening to your recent subscriber stories

43:52

episode somewhat disappointed that I didn't have

43:54

a story of my own to share

43:56

Okay, that she's gonna leave it there

44:00

Moving on, next story. But a few

44:02

minutes in, as Mike mentioned, and Keith

44:04

soundly rejected the idea of bringing a

44:06

Ouija board to the haunted attic. A

44:08

voice from the depths of my memory

44:11

screamed, The Ouija board! I

44:13

shrugged it off at first because the Ouija

44:15

board story is tame and by spooky-boo standards.

44:17

But I kept dwelling on it and then

44:20

I remembered the other things that happened the

44:22

night of the Ouija board story. The other

44:24

thing? What's the other thing? I don't know,

44:26

it ends there. No. Yeah. Moving

44:29

on, next time on The Ouija board. I'm now 44, but

44:31

back when I was 19, 20ish, I

44:34

worked as a pizza delivery driver. The

44:37

restaurant where I worked was open until midnight

44:39

and one weekend I was eager to finish

44:41

my shift and meet up with a few

44:43

friends of mine. Said friends were Michelle, Lisa

44:45

and Brad, all of whom were already hanging

44:47

out at Dylan's house. Dylan lived about 10

44:50

miles, 16 kilometres, thank you, outside the town

44:52

on a gravel road in a pretty rural

44:54

area. You were thinking kilometres? Yeah, I was

44:56

thinking. Do you not? I mean, I know,

44:58

I think in miles. Do you? Yeah.

45:00

Yeah, I have to think in kilometres. Even though we

45:02

used the metric system in Ireland, I think it's because

45:04

we didn't, when I was growing up though, we didn't

45:06

use metrics. Yeah, we started off in miles

45:09

and then we switched over to kilometres. Yeah, but

45:11

I still think in miles. Just certain things I

45:13

think of in metric and

45:15

I think do it away for a reason.

45:17

You really? Yeah, yeah. Okay, interesting. Yeah, not

45:19

that interesting. I mean, I'm just trying to

45:21

make conversations. Yeah, okay. I'm trying to

45:24

fill the air, man. Yeah. After

45:27

the restaurant closed for the night, I

45:29

called Dylan's Landline and told Michelle I

45:31

would be leaving in a few minutes,

45:33

about 12.15. From

45:35

the restaurant to Dylan's house was about a 20-minute drive,

45:37

so I expected to be there by 12.35 or so.

45:41

It's important to note that at the time, 1999, 2000,

45:44

none of us had cell phones,

45:46

so there was no way to find my

45:48

friends, no Life360, and no option to text

45:50

updates on your location. As I

45:53

left the restaurant, I noticed I was low on gas, so

45:55

I stopped to fill up my tank. I

45:57

then noticed that one of my tyres was a bit low, so I went and used this to

45:59

fill up my tank. station's air compressor, but it was

46:01

out of order. Annoyed, I went

46:04

to the next station down the road. Their

46:06

compressor was out of order as well. The

46:08

third station compressor, that was working, so I

46:10

hurriedly filled the tire and got back on

46:12

the road, now delayed by nearly 30 minutes.

46:15

Bummer. When I arrived, Dylan threw

46:17

the door open, and Evan inside

46:19

started screaming. I've

46:22

been known to inspire that response from time

46:24

to time, but it was unusual for this

46:26

group. Michelle finally pulled herself together enough to

46:28

tell me that they'd been playing with the

46:30

Ouija board before I called, and

46:32

it had told them that I would arrive at 1.03am.

46:35

They dismissed it, since I told them that

46:38

I would be there well before that, and

46:40

they had no idea that I'd be as

46:42

delayed as I was. I glanced at my

46:44

watch, and it was 1.03. Interesting.

46:48

That's a very specific Ouija board. Isn't it?

46:50

That's actually quite handy. Really handy, yeah. I

46:52

mean, like, you didn't have text rattling, or

46:54

phones, cell phones, but you had a Ouija

46:57

board. Just carry a Ouija board at

46:59

all times. So that's boring

47:01

as shit for a Ouija board story. No

47:03

possessions, no rotating heads, no spontaneous levitation, but

47:06

it was later in the evening that my

47:08

nerves were rattled a bit. It's important to

47:10

mention that while the rest of my friends

47:13

drank pretty regularly, I didn't twitch the stuff

47:15

at the time, so I was sober as

47:17

a judge all night. At

47:19

about 3am, Michelle, Dylan, and I stood

47:22

out on the porch to have a

47:24

wee cigarette. Dylan's nearest neighbour was about

47:26

a quarter of a mile, a 0.4km

47:28

away, with a row of trees marking

47:30

the property line. During the

47:33

daylight, you could see the next house over, and on

47:35

the rare occasion that a car came up the dirt

47:37

road, you could see the headlights clearly through the trees,

47:39

but at night the tree row was basically a brick

47:41

wall. As the tree was

47:44

stood on the porch, each randomly raising

47:46

our cigarettes to her lips, Michelle quietly

47:48

elbowed me, and nodded her head towards

47:50

the tree row. I watched for

47:52

a minute and seeing nothing was about to ask what

47:54

she was looking at, when I saw

47:56

it too. Against the darkness

47:58

over the tree I saw what looked

48:01

to be the lit end of a

48:03

cigarette, flaring a light. I looked

48:05

over at Dylan who could barely hold his head

48:07

up moments ago and realize he'd seen it too.

48:10

The folks next door were in their 80s. Typically

48:12

went to bed about 8 p.m. and they

48:14

weren't smokers. I briefly wondered if it could

48:16

have been a reflection, but as we all

48:19

stood there watching, cigarettes dangling from our fingers,

48:21

it happened again. Dylan slowly stubbed his cigarette

48:23

out and turned to go inside, presumably to

48:25

get a gun. We lived in one of

48:27

those yee-haw states. When a truck turned onto

48:30

the road, the lights filtered through the trees

48:32

to illuminate the yard and revealed nothing.

48:35

There was nothing and no one in Dylan's

48:37

yard. We stood there for a few

48:40

minutes longer, quietly contemplating whether we'd seen anything

48:42

at all. As we

48:44

turned to go back inside, I looked back

48:46

across the yard and saw the flare of

48:48

a match in the darkness. Ooh,

48:51

that's good. It is good. I like that. That's

48:53

a good story. That is good. Appreciate it. Thanks,

48:55

Emily. That was good. Yeah, that's great. Thanks for

48:57

memories. Love you both. Love you too, Emily. That's

49:00

a good story. I like that a lot. Yeah, that was good. All

49:03

right. Let's do one more. Okay, so this

49:05

next story, this is from Morgan M. from

49:07

Oregon. I like this. So she's hooky and

49:09

sensitive. Hello, Mike and Keith. I

49:12

wanted to say that I thoroughly... You

49:15

know, okay, fine. You just

49:17

read the story. That

49:19

was fine. It's good. I

49:22

wanted to say that you did it. You did it.

49:24

You fucking did. I

49:26

wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the podcast and

49:28

videos. Keep up the good work. I've

49:30

had so many paranormal experiences during my life so

49:32

far. I'm going to do my best to explain

49:35

them. Feel free to read all or none. It's

49:37

up to you. Thanks for giving me the option,

49:39

Morgan. I choose them. All right,

49:41

let's go. All right, number one. When

49:43

I was five, I saw the Hat Man.

49:46

The Hat Man is something a lot of people

49:48

have seen. Oh yeah? Yeah. It's a recurring ghost

49:50

that people around the world keep seeing. Oh,

49:52

it's kind of like the Dream Man. The Yes. Yeah.

49:55

Yeah, very similar. It could even be the same person.

49:58

I was lying in my bed and some. That's

52:00

creepy. I didn't know that. Yeah. Learn something new about

52:02

you every day. You're just

52:04

a man who's continually surprising me. Wow.

52:06

That's, that's fucking creepy. It is creepy.

52:08

Yeah. Again, I've never experienced any of this

52:10

shit. But like, it's, it's never long enough to

52:12

scare you. Yeah. It's more just like, Oh, yeah.

52:14

Yeah. It's cool. Okay. Yeah. I'm scared

52:17

of real things. I've been pulled into pictures. Witches,

52:21

of course. Um, so one

52:23

of them, one of these child sized black figures

52:26

was standing between the wall and a small table

52:28

while the smaller one was sitting on the table.

52:31

I was never scared of them and fell back to sleep. Sometime

52:33

later, I woke up again to see them at

52:36

the end of my bed. Again, one was standing,

52:38

one sitting. I fell back to sleep, never

52:40

saw them again. Another time I was

52:42

looking at my bedroom window at night and saw

52:44

them swinging on the place set, swinging back and

52:46

forth. They were not swinging together, but

52:48

we're passing each other. One

52:50

suddenly stopped and then the other eventually

52:52

slowed down. I saw this a

52:55

few different times while at this house. None worse

52:57

than scary children, spooky children. Oh yeah. So

53:00

we got another one here. It is from April. April.

53:03

And she is from Dublin. Dublin,

53:06

a dirty dub. So

53:08

she starts off with hi, Mike and Keita.

53:10

I'm a long time fan. I'm

53:13

a long time fan of the podcast and

53:15

YouTube channel. It's an absolute honor to be

53:17

able to send in my own story for

53:19

your spooky pleasure. For context, I

53:22

grew up in a group and lived most

53:24

my life in a flat in the liberties

53:26

in Dublin, right beside the Guinness Brewery. I

53:28

think it also has that, um, tealings

53:30

is out in the liberties. I think. Is it?

53:32

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I don't know. My favorite

53:34

whiskey. It's good shit for folks at home. If

53:36

you ever see tealings, whiskey, tealings, Irish whiskey, get

53:38

it. By the way, liberties is not where the

53:40

other story from the first listener stories was the

53:42

liberties to that was entered by Fonsha. It was

53:45

like a member. She'd been living in an apartment

53:47

with her boyfriend, Aaron. Yeah, they go get it.

53:49

Yeah. Yeah. Alleged.

53:52

He wrote it down. Yeah.

53:56

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, bad. So this is a

53:58

second story. Say liberties in Dublin. going

54:00

on out there. We should do a ghost

54:02

tour of Dublin. There's loads of ghosts. Yeah.

54:04

I'm pretty sure there's a serial killer in

54:06

Dublin. There around the time of Jack River.

54:08

That was actually a good, good story. That

54:10

was good. That was like a very end.

54:12

Oh man. April. Yeah. Tell us, tell us

54:14

more. Tell us your story. Okay. I am

54:16

intrigued. So close to it. In

54:18

fact, that from the windows, I could see

54:20

right down into part of the brewery itself

54:23

and see all the people busy working in

54:25

there in the Guinness brewery. Making all the

54:27

delicious skin. Oh man. I'd love to work

54:29

there. Then the Guinness brewery. Yeah. You probably

54:31

get sick again. So quick. I don't think

54:37

so. After all these years, if

54:40

not now, when. So

54:43

the flats I grew up in were built in the

54:45

1930s. So it's safe. Oh, that's when my husband built.

54:47

So it's safe to say. House buddies. House buddies.

54:50

So it's safe to say that a lot of

54:52

people and families pass through and lived there over

54:55

the years. The one I lived

54:57

in was actually my dad's childhood home. And

54:59

right before I was born, his mom suddenly

55:01

passed away in the flat. I always knew

55:03

this, but it never creeped me out. I

55:05

just accepted it because the buildings were so

55:07

old. A lot of people probably died in

55:10

and around them over the years. Doors

55:12

opening and closing. The TV turning on and

55:14

off by itself. The taps being turned on.

55:17

The toilet flushing without anybody being there. Well,

55:19

it was just a part of our day

55:21

to day life. That's OK.

55:23

Yeah. Creepy shit. But OK. I mean, like I'm

55:25

right there with you. Right. Yeah. Which April. It

55:27

was so normal that when it would happen, my

55:29

mom would make an extra cup of tea for

55:31

who we assumed to be my grandmother hanging around.

55:33

That's nice. It never scared me

55:36

because in my mind, it was my lovely

55:38

grandmother who I never got to meet. But

55:40

that changed one night when I was seven.

55:42

Done. Done. Done. Done.

55:44

Done. Done. Diddly-dly done. When I couldn't sleep

55:46

as a kid, I would kneel up on

55:49

a sofa and watch everybody busy at work

55:51

in the Guinness. I remember one night I

55:53

was doing just that. My mom was busy

55:55

putting my baby sister's sleep in the other

55:57

room. It was it was just us

55:59

in the house. I had my back to the

56:01

rest of the room and I could hear everything that was going

56:03

on in the other room I heard the

56:05

sitting room door open and close assuming It

56:07

was my mom and felt a really cold

56:09

breeze all of a sudden the type to

56:11

give you proper goosebumps I

56:14

said something about the call there to my mom and

56:16

still with my back to the room thinking she was

56:18

there But something or someone

56:20

answered back with a deep grunting

56:22

sound. Oh fuck. Okay, it barely

56:24

sounded human And it was definitely

56:26

not my mom I

56:29

don't like this at all. No, I

56:31

froze I couldn't move or make myself turn

56:33

to look I was sure

56:36

I could feel something right behind me.

56:38

That's when thank God I heard my

56:40

mom coming towards the sitting room except

56:42

she couldn't open the door to get

56:44

in. Okay I don't like this

56:46

shit at all. The doors had no locks

56:48

and had never gotten jammed closed before She

56:51

was pushing on the door and tried to open it and

56:53

calling me thinking that I was playing a trick on her

56:55

and blocking At the stage

56:57

I was absolutely sobbing and still way too

56:59

scared to turn around and look behind me

57:01

It felt like a good five minutes of

57:03

this but it was probably only about 30

57:05

seconds And my mom suddenly got the door

57:07

open the coldness and feeling of something behind

57:09

me completely left at that second She obviously

57:11

had no clue what had happened or why

57:13

I was crying, but she believed me straight

57:15

away Goes without saying we obviously

57:18

stopped making cups of tea for whatever the fuck was

57:20

in the flat You

57:22

are you do not deserve to eat No barriers for

57:25

you man Funnily

57:28

enough about a week later the council

57:30

decided to paint the outside of the

57:32

flats the grossest orange color for some

57:34

reason So I like to think it

57:36

was somebody throwing a tantrum about their

57:38

previous home being painted the ugliest color

57:40

ever I'm 24 now and I don't

57:42

live there anymore cause the living in Dublin and all

57:44

that But my dad still does

57:46

and still to this day has weird

57:48

stuff happen almost daily Thanks

57:51

much for the opportunity to send this in and

57:53

I hope it was creepy enough for you it

57:55

absolutely was yes I was definitely right out there

57:57

April. That was a very very creepy If I

57:59

might be one of the creeper ones you're right

58:02

really good. Yeah, hunting sound is fucking terrific It's

58:04

at the door pin jams closed. Yeah, that's creepy.

58:06

Yeah, so I just had a quick look It

58:08

was the dollar cur was like the serial killer

58:10

who was in the liberties end up on a

58:13

couple hundred years ago Very

58:15

creepy stuff. Let's go. We should do some other liberties

58:17

are haunted. Oh, yeah Yeah,

58:19

it has to be yeah. Yeah, well, it's kind of a

58:21

creepy part of the city actually I don't know. It's all

58:23

it's very old parts very old part of city I mean

58:25

I'm not like a huge chunk of it is always taken

58:27

up with the Guinness Factory Yeah, even the Guinness Factory. It's

58:29

like it's a super old building like the Guinness Factory

58:31

is kind of creepy when you think about it Like yeah, I

58:34

don't know. It's just this yeah, I don't know very

58:36

old lot of history there. Yeah Yeah,

58:38

very good story April. Thank you All

58:42

right. Thank you so much to everybody who sent in

58:44

stories. There's some really really good ones there Thank you

58:46

so much for taking the time and effort to write

58:48

out those stories and send them in We

58:51

will definitely be doing more of these listener stories because

58:53

as I said There's 60 odd pages of stories here

58:55

to get to so if you sent one in we

58:58

haven't got to do it We probably will so what's

59:00

the email? The email it's in

59:02

the if you go into the description of the podcast.

59:04

It's right there, but it's also Mike Oh Hello,

59:07

so m I ke oh h

59:10

h e l l o@gmail.com Mike.

59:12

Oh, hello@gmail.com Give it a go.

59:15

Please do and we will

59:17

catch it on the flipside motherfucker. The

59:19

people all right. Thanks so much for

59:21

listening Bye. Thanks guys. Bye you