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Lost In The Ghost Stories
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This week we're taking a break from movies and continuing our talk on some personal ghost stories, as well as some from a couple of you!
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Campfire Story Introduction
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After a long day at Camp Lost in the Frame, you find yourself tired and weary. It's late October and the weather outside is dreary. Just when you think it's time to sleep, you get pulled away, out to the campfire where the children will stay.
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So listen up and gather gather closely as your camp counselors tell you a story.
Host Introductions and Halloween Episode Teaser
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Welcome back to Lost in the Frame. I'm your host, Alex. I'm your host, Malik. And I'm your host, Tachi.
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And tonight we have a little bit of a special episode because we're not going to talk about any movies. Maybe. Maybe one will come up. I don't know. But that's not the plan.
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ah We are in the midst of making our Halloween special. um and But we did not want to leave you hanging on your regular Tuesday listening day. ah We thought it'd be fun to tell the rest of our ghost stories and pick some from our listeners to tell as well.
Spooky Encounters: Tachi's Eerie Piano Story
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um But first, how's everyone doing today? I'm getting Ghostwatch vibes. um saying So I'm just going to open this and say i rebuke anything.
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um No thank you. We're just telling fun stories. Alex, i don't know if I told you this, but after our last episode, Cam and I were watching TV and then the video or the show ended and it was quiet.
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And we just hear this like creepy piano music like like in the background and we were sitting there looking at each other. We were like... what the fuck is that? We're where's that coming from? And so I come into my office and it's coming from my computer and YouTube is playing this like autumn piano mix that I did not have up.
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like youtube was open but like i was not playing that i wasn't playing any videos i had just shut everything down from the podcast and it was just playing this like creepy slow piano music and it was really weird and i did not like it so i'm rebuking everything right now yeah if one of us doesn't show up next episode um Let's just assume a ghost had a hand in that.
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It got us. What if I've never like, you know, like I rebuke it, this negative energy, I rebuke this, I rebuke that. What if the ghost rebukes your rebuking? Um, I know ghost law and yeah, and they can't do that.
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If they do, they lose their privileges. Oh, okay. I didn't realize ghosts had
Humorous Ghostly Discussions
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privileges. They do. You'd be surprised how many privileges they have. It's quite a lot.
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um What they're allowed to get away with is frankly disturbing. so And they're big fans of it too, so they don't want to lose out on that privilege. so they They be whispering in the night, they be making things go bump, and they be touching you a little bit. Just a little bit.
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They don't want to lose that ability. Not at all. not at all
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Oh, it will
Origins of Ghost Stories
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be okay. I want to start us off real quick with the first recorded um first recorded ghost story is on a <unk> this a Babylonian clay tablet from approximately 2,500 years ago.
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So roughly 400 I bet it was garbage. It kind of looks like it.
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Unclear lines. Dude was so scared he had to carve a tablet.
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I didn't mean he scared of a rock. Tracking down some guy the one guy in the village who can write in cuneiform to write down your ghost story and then someone's like, I don't believe this crap. This is stupid. Dude, this is easily explainable. You're just making this up.
Malik's Haunted Toy Tale
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So Malik, do you want to start us off with the first story? Sure Yeah, I'm ready. Okay. You take a moment to compose yourself. I'm okay.
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Okay. I just want to make sure I got the name of this guy right. Sure. So when I was a boy,
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i had this bear. His name was Bedtime Bubba.
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Now we can't, that wasn't the name I gave him. That was the that was the name of the actual bear. It was made by Tyco, an old 90s toy company. Probably picked him up at Toys R Us, but since this is audio only, I'll describe what he looks like.
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He's a redneck bear, and he's wearing red pajamas with a red little sleepy time hat, and he has a flashlight in his right hand. And he would talk. He had lots of cool catchphrases like,
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Was this the plastic one or was this the one with the fuzzy face? With the fuzzy Because looks like there's Yeah, with the fuzzy face. Okay, the plastic one is disgusting. I think the plastic one came like maybe past 2004, 2005.
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past two thousand and four two thousand and five But I think the plot the like soft, plushy, cuddly one, that one was first I loved this thing. I'd go to sleep with it.
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We'll take it everywhere we go There's pictures of me with it in the car, me outside just like walking with him. Like i was saying, he had some catchphrases. I don't remember all of the catchphrases he's had he had, but the most significant one was you'd push his button and he'd go, are you afraid of the dark?
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Yeah. And then and then his like and his flashlight would turn off and on like he was a sleeping buddy. So if you're afraid of the dark, you can turn on the flashlight. And so that way you're not scared.
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So I think that's a really sketchy saying for a stuffed bear. Anyway, i don't fully remember like the full timeline, but basically what had ended up happening was one night,
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My brother had to be a baby. was with my mom in the living room. And i think i was like five or six when all this went down. But the bear was sitting across the room and we're watching TV.
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And then he just starts talking. Now, a lot of these toys had these malfunctions. I think that was like a normal thing. Anyone that had like any type of talking, anything in the 90s probably experienced something similar.
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But I mean, this dude's just, it's it's just a little creepy. Like it's nighttime or watching TV. The flashlight's going on and off and he won't stop talking. And my mom is getting like freaked out. So she runs over and she takes out the batteries. And I was like, like, what's going on? She was like, oh, that was really weird. And that I wasn't like scared right there, but she was just a little freaked out.
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And so she took out the batteries and put it down and it kept going. She, she told me, she's like, I took out the batteries and the flashlight was going on and off and it kept going. Are you afraid of the dark?
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Are you afraid of the dark? So she grabbed me. We went outside, not to the trash can, to the further dumpster. She gave me the bear and she's like, I need you to throw this away.
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She's like, can do you throw this away? She was very, she was very persistent in making sure that I was the one who threw it away. Severed the tie, I'm sure. And I was like, yeah, this is weird. you So I threw it in the dumpster and we walked home.
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Did it say that the whole way down the street? I don't remember if it like stopped at some point, but the batteries were out, and he was still asking if we're afraid of the dark. Imagine if you got louder and louder the further away you got. That would be insane.
Family Ghost Stories: Tachi's Haunted Apartment
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ah that would be so scary. Imagine being the trash man who's coming up to pick up. Are you afraid of the dark? What the fuck? Does your mom still talk about that story? like I brought it up to her the other day, and she's like, oh, my God.
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Yes. Yeah, that's terrifying. She said, so it wasn't in this house. We were living in Arizona at this time. And it wasn't at this apartment, but she said there was another apartment that we had lived in in Goodyear that she was like 100% convinced was haunted. And she doesn't remember like exact happenings, but we had signed the lease for a year, she said. And she said within three to four months we were out because things just kept happening. Like she feels like she just blocked it all out, but she just didn't feel like safe there. She didn't feel comfortable, like enough to like...
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Get her two kids and move four months after signing a lease. That's crazy. So who knows what happened? I was like four at the time. Nathan had to be one.
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So no memory of that place or what happened. I'm going to guess like, mean, if I had to wager being the paranormal expert that I am, don't know, maybe a little poltergeist activity or something. Maybe. and Then maybe it followed us in...
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Made a new home in Bubba. You know, you joke, but that's like a thing. I know. well That's why I had to throw the Bubba away. That's why had to be the one to throw him away. But if you threw him away, there's nothing stopping it. If it was attached to you or to your mom, nothing's stopping it from leaving.
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Did you just release it into the ether and now it's just haunting other families?
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I'd prefer other families and and it not be still tied to me somehow. Do you think Bedtime Bubba is like the monkey? oh that would suck.
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Just death everywhere it goes.
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What a good movie, right? ter Yeah. Where was Bedtime Bubba on 9-11? Hmm. You're asking the right questions.
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Um... Holy shit. You're like 50, so this is probably in
Personal Ghostly Experiences
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70s. 2001. 2001 2002, this was pretty likely post 9-11.
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What if the next day, after you threw away Bubba, that's when it happened?
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The ether just went up into the sky. yeah
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Bubba did 9-11.
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You know, someone's going to be listening to this. and Maybe someone who's new to the pod and has looking for ghost stories and they see this pop up and they're going to be like, yes, these are going to be scary and I can you know get creeped out. And I'm just listening to us talk 9-11.
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For you, if you are that new listener, we ended our last few episodes with other ghost stories. So feel free to check those out as well. You should let the whole thing run, though, just so we get like the view credit and then you can listen to the end.
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So like. Figure out something to do like the hour and a half before it starts. Do the dishes. You know, you you you want us in your ear when you're doing the dishes, doing your chores. We're good company.
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Malik and Tachi have good voices. Very sultry. I think we all think we all have good voices for this. agree. I didn't during the ah the Bella Dawn on Perfect Blue episode because I was fighting a wicked cold.
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You could hear it. You could hear it. you could hear it I was editing and I was like, oh, poor Alex. There was one sniffle because I was trying to take out any sniffles. There was one I didn't get and I was like, oops.
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It was like a big booger. There's... um guys belladonna sadness is a disturbing movie it scared me
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i love that story i remember you telling that to me in the um job that will not be named lunchroom and i don't remember what i said after it but i remember you just burst out laughing i don't remember either I said something absurd.
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Yeah. But that is the only like lived experience closest to a ghost story thing that I have. Cause like the malfunctioning, whatever the battery is coming out.
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and the flashlight still flickering. That's weird. okay it's not a fan Not a fan of that. i Sure, my electric and circuits class that I took my senior year of college got cut short during COVID, but I do remember that you need to have electricity and something to make a light go on.
00:12:34
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Where does electricity sheet come from? Batteries. and Wake up. And ghosts have electric currents. You know, they actually do like they do.
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If you subscribed like the ghost hunter stuff and all that science or parapsychology, I should really call it. One of the ways that they detect ghosts allegedly is with an EMF reader, which um measures like electromagnetic fields. Exactly.
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Yeah. Science. Yes. Real science. Something scientific. And this is coming from like a true believer.
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And I am big into that, but it's like, i don't know how scientific some of it is, but ah ah like it. I really wish I had the ah that believer song by Imagine Dragons on cue after you said true believer.
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make me up or Make me a believer. but e Is that one? Yeah, that one. We do imagine dragons. guys like Imagine Dragons?
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Yeah. I like early Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons. When it was cool. Sorry, I fucked up your chat. Okay.
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I didn't think I was going to finish it.
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Maybe I saved you. Maybe. right. Yeah. right. This one is personal story from me. Um...
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from me um one of two so this one happened back at my house my childhood i was roughly in 11th grade and came home after high school and i was home alone so usually what i would do as i would just throw my backpack down take my shoes off go sit on the couch decompress for a few minutes because high school is really hard yes uh so hard and um today
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or not today that day, um my cat Dexter may he rest in peace, um, was sitting in my lap and we were just, just hanging out, staring at a, uh, a TV that wasn't even on.
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And, um, once again, only ones at the house.
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And suddenly there's a, okay, so there's a staircase to my right. Mm-hmm. But the staircase is covered by a wall, so it's it's like an isolated hallway, essentially.
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um
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And yeah, so I hear a footstep in in that little hallway where the staircase is at, about halfway down. And um then I hear another footstep, and then another. So it's like, doom, doom.
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And I can, I feel like I know that it's going down towards the bottom of the steps. Like something is descending the staircase. Well, you can tell. I mean. yeah And especially if you've lived in a place long enough, you can tell who is walking down the steps.
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And this was not like any of my family members walking down the steps. It was slow and maybe not malicious, but like just something unknown.
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And so I hear these footsteps going down the stairs and I freeze, like I'm petrified. I don't know who is in the house with me. and And even, even Dexter's ears were, you know, perked up.
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He thought something was strange too. And the stairs were also carpeted. So once the footsteps reached the bottom of the staircase, The bottom step is like this kind of like a, I wouldn't say rocky thing, but it's like smooth rock tile in front of the front door.
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And the sound of the footstep changed from the carpet step to the rock step. Oh, hell no. So it wasn't really muffled and soft anymore. It's like a doom.
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And then I heard two more steps towards me in my direction. And since I'm in the living room, it opens up to the rest of the house. So I'm stuck like in this little, do you want to call it?
00:17:04
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At the end of a road, like in a neighborhood. It's like a cul-de-sac. Yeah. So I'm basically stuck inside this little area between the, the ghost is between me and the front door.
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And I don't have anywhere else to go. And I don't want to stay in that room. So I pick up Dexter. I'm holding him as tightly as I can. And I just book it straight towards the ghost where the where the front door is because I don't have anywhere else.
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And nothing happens. But I wait outside for about an hour um just to calm down and and wait for someone else to get home. But that's it.
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What's that? It was that bad that you had to wait outside for an hour? Yeah, like it was really scary. I heard like very definite footsteps going down the steps and then towards me.
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That's insane. Was this the L to the M house? Yes, same house. So it had to be him. It could be. There was something sort of blocking my view. It was like another couch of like the bottom of the stairs.
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So maybe he was just too little for me to see.
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Do you know anything else about this house? like How long did you guys live there? um Well, we built it. okay We don't know what happened on the property prior, but it was a brand new built house, basically.
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um And so no one else has lived there but us. Well, clearly something else was living there. Something. And he wasn't paying rent.
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He was short. Perhaps the worst crime of all.
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Yeah. That's creepy. That's really creepy. Yeah. How did you feel going to bed that night? Do you remember? Not good. and Did you, I assume your mom came home after that hour, right? Yeah. Did you tell her what happened? She usually got home around 530. Yeah.
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Um, I also called my sister cause she would get home around like the time that my mom would too. And, um, just gave her a little heads up.
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I heard footsteps.
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Oh, let's just yell to the end. Up to no good. and Did your family believe you? i don't know. I don't know how they feel about ghosts now or then.
00:19:27
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but because Because your mom experienced L to the M, right? I know we had fun with L to the I don't know if my mom still believes a it could have been. Didn't your mom see L to the M?
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She saw a silhouette of LCM. That's him. No discernible features other than he was like the size and shape of Chucky. I don't get like, there's no disrespect to like anybody out there, but I, e you know, in the Bible, Thomas, you know, if I see it, I'll believe it.
00:19:58
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If I touch the wounds of Christ, I'll know it's him. And he does it and he believes.
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Isn't seeing a ghost silhouette that you can't account for who it is in your house and then it just kind of disappears and no one leaves your house.
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I feel like that's. feel like it wouldn't be not believing after that, you know, like you pretty. That's basically all you need at that point. my I guess my only defense there is just that the brain is really powerful.
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So it could conjure imagery and you may not know if it's real or not, depending on your state of mind. That's true. Brains are weird.
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But you were just decompressing from high school. I was just sitting there. That was so hard. It was silent, home alone, and I hear footsteps. Like, why would my brain do that if my brain did that? For no reason. And the fact that Dexter's ears also perked up.
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If an animal is also kind of giving you the indication, they're like, yo. At that point, I'm like, all right. right we got We got to do something about this.
Listener's Ghost Stories
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so i Yeah, I just feel like I cannot deny that ghosts are real.
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of that so let us know what you think do you think tachi decompressed too hard do you believe but text one for yes text two for decompress too hard
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do you want to get to our first voice voice message let's do no oh no no don't want okay i'm scared you're scared i'm scared i haven't listened to it yet yeah okay Yeah, I'm scared of this one because I haven't listened to it yet either. This could be anything.
00:21:41
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Okay, so this one, everyone's strapping. This one's about four about five minutes long, but this was sent in by Miles, and this is a loss in the frame first time. Oh, I have actually. We're playing voicemail. Friend of the show, Miles. Yeah, all right.
00:21:54
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Let's go. This one, if give a little bit of context, speaking of scary stories and scary footage. Miles, if you may remember... From one of our earlier Lost in the Frame episodes.
00:22:08
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He participated in the lost film known as At First Sight. True. In fact, he's the star of the movie. that's ah That is scary. And now he's acting in things that win awards and also insurance ads. So.
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Shout out, Miles. You are... the you are only three degrees of separation away from at first sight at any given time. So watch your back. All right. You guys ready?
00:22:39
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I'm ready. All right. Here we go. Let's listen. Oh wait, you know what? Let me, hold on. Let me make sure my screen doesn't do that dimming thing. Auto lock. Never.
00:22:52
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All right. I'm going dim. I'm going to dim. Let's go. So when I was a kid I used to go to Cape Cod, um, from the ages of like two to probably eight, we would rent out a house with our extended family.
00:23:07
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And so the town was called Hyannis, which is a pretty common town like like vacation in Cape Cod. But the cool niche part about Hyannis is that for a period of time, it was very um prevalent of like where Native Americans were settling. And so when pilgrims were coming over,
00:23:27
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It was pretty fucking horrible. Like they basically pushed the Native Americans, killed a lot of them that lived there in Hyannis. So that was like a very pivotal part of the history of that town.
00:23:38
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And so essentially where the community we stayed in, we didn't know this growing up. When we got older, we realized and the town realized it was built upon Indian burial ground, which is like so fucking illegal. hell no. But that wasn't known or probably hid when they developed the community at the time.
00:23:57
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And so there was a lot of supernatural things just about Indians. Like people would see Indians in dreams or like they, you know, like little kids would say to their parents, like, Oh, like what's that man doing in that costume and things like that. um So that was like part of the ghost story. And there was a lot of experiences there, but the niche ghost story is that there was also this girl in the early 1900s that lived in the house that we rented out. Her name was Minnie and she died of like a horrible disease. I think it was cancer or something.
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And so as kids, like when we were little in the crib still, you know, our parents would leave us and then they would hear in our baby monitor, like a ton of commotion, like, you know, us basically having fun and laughing.
00:24:38
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And they were like, that's really weird. And then as we got older, like one of my cousins was upstairs, like running around and my aunt comes up and she was like, what are you doing?
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And she's like, oh, I'm playing tag with my friend. and He was probably like four at the time. Oh, And she was like, John, like everyone's at the beach. like It's just you and I in the house. So like little things like that would happen that were really weird.
00:25:00
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And then one time we went to the beach. And so we're walking to the beach and my uncle, we're starting to walk. He goes, oh, shh, I have to go shit. And so my aunt was like, that's fine, whatever. ever Go back to the house. I'll take the kids.
00:25:15
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So he goes back to the house. No one's there. Confirmed, everyone was on the walk to the beach and he was the only one that went back. So he's like going to the bathroom. And then all of a sudden he like hears the door like click lock from the outside because it was like an older house. So the lock was on the outside rather than the inside. it was really weird.
00:25:33
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So he was like, what the fuck? and he gets up and he tries the door and it's locked. he's like, this is weird. So he doesn't have his phone. This is also like early 2000s. And so he's like, this is fucking crazy.
00:25:46
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So then. He's sitting there he's like wondering what to do. And then all of a sudden he hears these like pitter pattering like all around the house, like upstairs. Like it's very distinct that it's children's feet like running around, fucking around.
00:25:58
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So he's like, oh my God, one of the kids is here. So like screaming for help. Eventually someone hears him outside that's walking past and just like but the house is open. It's like early 2000, security wasn't a thing.
00:26:10
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And hears him the bathroom and just like lets him out. Like it was just someone that we knew that was living in one of the neighboring houses. He's like, there's goddamn kids. So he goes upstairs no one's there. And he's like, what the fuck? And so then he gets to the beach and he looks at my aunt, Ray Lee, and he goes, hey, like did you leave one of the kids behind? and He counts all the kids and they're all at the beach.
00:26:28
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And he's like, that's so weird because I heard this like little kid running around. She's like, Jack, I don't know what you're talking about. I had all the kids at the whole time. So it's just very eerie things like that that would happen. And like there's a ton of more stories I can dread on about, but this little girl, Minnie, is like such a staple that The cleaning ladies for that house like are kind of scared to clean by themselves, so they clean in groups.
00:26:52
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And not that the spirit is like dominant or aggressive. It's just that they're just like nervous about it. so It's just like a wild, wild little spirit girl that just like hangs around this house we used to vacation in.
00:27:06
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That's insane. That's insane.
Cape Cod Ghost Experiences
00:27:09
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another that's insane mean There is a part two. Like he does. So I have listened to these voice moments. I have not listened to the other submission that we got that we chose for this episode.
00:27:21
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Okay. Part two. Yeah. Okay. Part two. Here we go. The vacation and that was in the same community. And this one's kind of fucking scary because this, uh, this year it was like more aggressive, but it was called, so they used to name their cottages after like a city, um, in new England. And so this one was called the Boston,
00:27:40
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And my cousin was sleeping one night. Him and i used to sleep like in two bunks, like twin beds in the same room. And so I'm a really heavy sleeper, but apparently he's pretty light. So one like one one night, he just heard this spirit whisper to him, like, what are you, like like, get out or like something of the sort, like just whispered something very distinct in his ear.
00:28:01
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But it was basically saying, like, you're in my house. Like, what the hell? And so he was so scared by this, like, wouldn't fall asleep. I didn't, I remember waking up being like, what the fuck is going on? But then I turned all lights on. was like kind of tweaking a little bit.
00:28:15
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And so from now, like to this day, he still sleeps with like earplugs or like music in his ears if he doesn't have any. Cause like its it was just such a fucking crazy experience.
00:28:28
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So that happened in that room. And then in the same trip, my uncle was sitting in the living room and he was just kind of being a goofball. And he was, like, doing, like, a finger gun. So he'd, like, point at something and go, like, pew, like that.
00:28:41
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And so he was doing it around the room like we were little. Like, we were just fucking around. And all of a sudden, he, like, points at this volleyball and, like, triggers a shot with his hand. And the volleyball just fucking explodes. Like, and it's, like, very hard to play with volleyball.
00:28:57
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Like, you know, like, a very sharp knife or something. Like, and it needs a lot of pressure to implode. So everyone just like sat there kind of just in awe, like what the fuck just happened? And then another breath, when we were leaving the house that trip, when you install like the new aged windows, there's like locks at the top of the pane. So if you want to pop it out, the window will actually fall backwards into you.
00:29:20
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And so we were all packing the car up. we were about to leave. And my aunt was like locking the house up. And so she goes to close the window and like, The window was not out.
00:29:31
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Like it just, was it was, she was just literally closing it. it was one of those like two pane windows. And then it just literally fell completely out of the window pane and she broke her fucking nose because it fell in her face.
00:29:45
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So this spirit was like super aggressive and for sure was like just basically telling us not to come back. And then that was the last summer we vacationed. That was the one and only summer we vacationed at that house because my aunt was so freaked out by all those experiences.
00:30:00
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I don't I don't blame her. Yeah, that's you blame her. No, not at all. I'd never go back. No, i the window one. I feel like is one of those ones like without the context of the rest of it. I'd be like, yeah, a window fell out like sorry, but the one that really strikes me from this submission that we had was the volleyball.
00:30:21
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I'm thinking of the volleyball like I can see that like in a movie. I don't know how that happens. I can't like as a believer, I always like to try and figure out the explanations for these.
00:30:33
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The volleyball one, it's like if you're not putting any pressure on it i don't know how it's going to burst. There's not going to be like such a sudden air pressure change in the room that would cause that to deflate or burst. That wouldn't affect you as well.
00:30:47
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That's just weird.
00:30:51
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I can see it. I can see it clear in my mind. The uncle hearing and someone running around when he went back. Also, so I love that he just was like, oh I can't find this kid.
00:31:03
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I'm going to go back. Hey, did we forget a kid?
00:31:08
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did you guys see how high he jumped yes that was crazy he was trying to get out until was trying to show him that way just was airborne um yeah i don't like the kids uh running around inside either was he in the bathroom did i understand that like he could hear it like while he was in the bathroom yeah that's supposed to be a place of solitude I'd be pissed.
00:31:32
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Why do they call it a restroom? um I'm never resting in there. I'm fighting for my life where there's actual demons outside. ah Oh, that's so creepy.
00:31:44
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Thank you for sending that in, Miles. We appreciate it. We really appreciate it. um His were good, and I don't think I'd ever heard them before. I've never heard those. Which is cool.
00:31:56
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Like a friend drops a little bit of lore that you just never really heard something about him, so... I really hope in 20 years, because we're all still going to be friends, that we don't have any new ghost stories.
00:32:08
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I literally got one while we were doing our October episode. So there's there's going to be more. I want there to be more. No, for you. You can have them Life is more interesting when there's...
00:32:22
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ghost stories to be had. I mean, the have you guys ever been to like a real life haunted house, like trying to look for something or like urban exploring? and Nope. I have. No. Real quick. What were you doing the other day?
00:32:33
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Yeah. What was that shot? Are you in the wooded area? You're like the most cryptic pictures. ah yeah i Yeah, so my buddy's father-in-law bought like 50 acres of land in Milano, Texas. So we're up in Milano, Texas exploring the land.
00:32:53
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um There's a little hunting cabin on it, which we slept in, and um but we running around the woods at night. Looking for trouble. Were you not scared? That looked terrifying.
00:33:04
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I don't think you understand how armed to the teeth that group was. Guns don't matter with ghosts. or big we We're really looking for hogs. We're looking for hogs. Hog watch. We look no further than your television screen.
00:33:19
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We got the best hogs of 2025. Coming up next.
00:33:23
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Um, yeah, that's our, uh, that's our Halloween special is hog-a-ween.
International Supernatural Tales
00:33:30
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it's But we we were looking for hogs and, um, we didn't find any, we didn't find any ghosts either.
00:33:37
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Aren't hogs like dangerous, like wild hogs? Extremely. Yes, that's why we're hunting them. And if they get you? Well, then I die a valiant ghost. glorious honorable death it's gourd it's and i go to valhalla it's we'll see you in valhalla see you involved yeah it's 2025 you don't need to be out there hunting hogs If you died by the horn of a hog, do they have horns?
00:34:03
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Tusks. Tusks. If you died by the tusk of a hog, I'd be pissed. I'd be so upset at your funeral. I'd be there with my arms crossed the entire time to let everyone know I didn't agree with what you were doing.
00:34:14
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I feel like it wouldn't be the hog bit. I feel like it'd be the the death bit that'd be controversial.
00:34:21
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Malik would be the one to haunt you. He would haunt your spirit. Yeah. I'm in heaven. You're not getting any rest. Like, bro, get out of heaven. Stop. Stop conjuring me.
00:34:35
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Just with a Ouija board calling Alex every day. but we got No, I won't. Bedtime Bubba. He's like, Bubba's here, by the way. Yeah.
00:34:47
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He wants to know if you're afraid of the dark.
00:34:54
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the All right. We ready for next next one? Yeah. All right. Here we go. This next one comes from Jackie. We'll listen to it now. All right.
00:35:05
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This is the one that I have not listened to, so I'm really scared.
00:35:12
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When my mom was about 11, she lived on a quiet ranch in Mexico. Every morning 5 a.m., my grandma would wake her up to collect eggs from the chicken coop. But this one particular morning, my mom refused. She talked back, rolled her eyes, and ignored my grandma's warning.
00:35:30
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Sete va a parecer el diablo, meaning if you kept misbehaving, the devil will reveal itself to you. Annoyed and frustrated, my mom finally went outside, muttering under her breath as the sun rose up.
00:35:45
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As she caught up to my mom, she got closer to a tree. That's when she saw it, a long, big tail dangling from the tree. At first, she thought it was a trick of the shadows until it moved.
00:35:57
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The figure slowly turned its head. Two large, glowing eyes, yellow eyes, locked into my mom's eyes. My mom froze. The air went cold in that moment.
00:36:10
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My mom knew my grandma hadn't been joking. She saw the devil. From that day on, she never spoke back to my grandma ever again. She always obeyed her from then.
00:36:24
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I hate this chat. Oh my god. Wow. i'm to ah I'm going to bill you for lost sleep. um That's weird. Also... also natural storyteller that was great that was great thank you jackie yeah really well said oh my god just perched up in the tree i don't like imagined it just like turning around oh like did it look like a cat or was it just a thing in my head i'm imagining like a big like i had like a komodo dragon komodo i don't know why
00:37:02
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I heard long tail and I went straight to dragon. Imagining a monkey. Get this. Imagine dragon.
00:37:12
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Back. That's yeah. That's unsettling. For sure. I would listen to my mom from that point on. If she had warned me like yo the devil's gonna get you. I'm like all right.
00:37:24
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Imagine like putting that on your kid, though, like. You five year old or 11 year old or how ah old the mom was in this story, it's just like. Yeah, the devil's coming and then he shows up like.
00:37:38
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It's like it's like the anti Santa Claus, like you tell your kids be good. So Santa can bring you gifts. You if you're to be bad the opposite of Santa's coming. Literally right there.
Haunted House Escape
00:37:48
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He's right behind you.
00:37:51
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So that just he's pissed. And like, do you feel bad if you tell your kid that like the devil is going to get you if you don't behave? And then like the devil shows up. Like, do you are like, oh, maybe I shouldn't have done that.
00:38:05
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Yeah, like I told you, like, bro, I've seen him. Like, i know. ball I was not kidding. I know ball. If I had been telling that to my kid. and then this same thing happens i'd freak out what would make it worse is if we both saw it together for sure then they look at me they're like is that him i'm like i guess it is because then it can't be doubted like at all yeah yeah no thanks i don't know i do know why but like whenever you hear a story about it's like the devil you hear like someone telling a ghost story and there's like a demon or like the devil involved
00:38:44
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That's just like when it's just like the classic devil. Yeah. Like, yeah at like actual, like satanic type. Those ones are the worst. I think that's why black Phillip gets me so bad because that was him. Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:00
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Oh, speaking of him, I watched it the other day. How was it? It's fine. It's not that great. And we talked about a movie. There we go. Lost in the frame. We did it.
00:39:10
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We're here. We're back. I'll say this. I'll give a quick 10 second review. It's got a lot of pretty shots in it. And that's about it. Marlon Wayans really enjoyed his performance in it.
00:39:22
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feel like the movie wanted to say something, but it culminated to a bunch of nothing. If you want to see a really scary movie, you guys should go see Tron Aries. It was terrifying.
00:39:36
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I do want to watch that. What did... Oh! I watched Rec last night. What is that? Is it Rec? R-E-C? Yeah. The found footage Spanish horror movie? Never heard of it.
00:39:50
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Is it famous? Is it well-known, Alex? Yeah. I feel like I've heard people talk about it. Yeah, that's I think one of the like. You know.
00:40:03
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One of like the found footage because it's it's the sister movie of quarantine. It's just the Spanish version. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Oh, I see. Yeah. Wow. This poster is really creepy.
00:40:15
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It was good. I enjoyed it. OK, had a good time. All right. Ready for the next one? ah believe i say I believe you're up next, Tachi, with Tachi Story Part 2. Yes.
00:40:28
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ah This one is a lot scarier. I'm going say that. ah This one I kind of hate to tell. But so this is, i don't know, probably 10 years ago.
Family History and Ghostly Goodbyes
00:40:45
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And at this time, my stepdad worked I can't say the name probably, but he worked at a mental hospital back in my home state.
00:41:00
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And it was at one point, ah like known as an asylum. It was rebuilt, I believe, as a mental hospital. So, you know, maybe they were just hoping for a change of
00:41:17
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Everything except the place ah where they were at. Anyways, so he was out of town. i needed to go feed his dog every day for like a week or something. And on the last day, of course, I feed the dog.
00:41:33
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It's fine. Everything's good. um But this house is old. This was probably built in the <unk> s thir s And it's made of real, like real wood.
00:41:51
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So it's going to creak. It's a creaky house. It had two, two or three floors.
00:42:00
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So I feed the dog. I'm in the kitchen. I'm hanging out. oh And there's a moment that I think everyone will probably experience once in their lives where they will just have some sort of sixth sense that they're in danger. Like something is about to happen.
00:42:20
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Like my Spidey sense just really tingled hard. So I'm in the kitchen. i'm looking for a snack. And I'm about to leave. I hear a creek in the hallway.
00:42:32
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In the hallway is a staircase that goes into the basement. The basement leads into the backyard because the house is on a hill.
00:42:43
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That's not important. Mm-hmm. What's important is the hallway. So I hear creak in the hallway and this didn't feel like a normal creak. Not only was no one else walking in the house, it was not windy.
00:42:57
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There was no reason really for the house to creak. but it creaks and just something in me, some like instinctual primal thing tells me I need to leave right now.
00:43:13
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So I put all the stuff away that was eating. I start walking towards the door. Keys are in hand. Um, and I'm halfway through the living room.
00:43:25
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I'm in another living room situation.
00:43:29
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And across the room... is Is this the same living room? No, no, Different house. Okay, okay. Yeah, this house is on the property of the mental hospital. Like... Yeah, okay. Like a couple minute walk to the facility. and And I'm halfway to the door.
00:43:49
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And across the room, the TV turns on by itself. And it's that loud black and white static.
00:44:02
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It blares. It's so loud. I freeze for a half second. I'm like, holy shit. I book it into a run. i literally burst through the screen door. I break the door.
00:44:16
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I don't even lock it. i don't lock the outer door. I'm just running for my life at this point because I'm so scared. And um get in my car, drive away.
00:44:28
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i have been to the house a few times after that. um Eventually he moved out. Thank God. Yeah, that that was my mental hospital house on the property experience.
00:44:42
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That's insane. oh my God. hate that. It was really, something felt like it was ah about to attack me. Like malevolent. Yeah, it really felt sinister. The fact that you got that feeling, like that just shouldn't, like I got goosebumps.
00:44:56
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Yeah. The TV turning on for me is. It took it to another level. Did it ever do that any other time where just randomly turned on? Yeah. I asked my mom that. She said no.
00:45:09
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So i I don't know how to explain that one. um It was more than just my sense of my sense of hearing. it was my sight. i I don't know how to explain it, but it felt bad.
00:45:23
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So I got out.
00:45:27
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Yeah, you busted through a screen door. Yeah. and I would do the same. Unlike the Ganjom Asylum people, they so they stayed around. Yeah, I'm just thinking of Ganjom now. ah And the fact that the house was like two minutes away from what was an asylum.
00:45:41
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Yeah. Oh, my God. The setups they used to have with those are crazy. There was a place from Rhode Island growing up called the Ladd School. that They ended up tearing down before I was old enough to like get the urge to go into it. But my buddy had a sister go.
00:45:57
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she was older than us by like a good clip. Um, and against the scariest place I've ever been in my life. And there were like pictures of it. And it was just this sprawling complex of really actually like night once upon a time, they were probably nice looking buildings and,
00:46:15
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But that's not like unheard of. Like if you look at like some of the other like state hospitals that are like abandoned and show up on a ghost adventures, they have like all sorts of outbuildings on them.
00:46:26
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And some of them are just like a hotbed for horrible stuff in terms of history of what went on there and then paranormal activity. And I just.
00:46:41
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Yeah. If it wasn't destroyed, would you go back? Absolutely. You're nuts. ah therere So i feel like the Statue of Limitations has passed enough that I can tell this story.
00:46:56
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um So behind my high school, there was a nunnery, like a like a nun convent where people trained to be nuns. um I went to Catholic school growing up. And um honestly, you can probably find out which one that I went to.
00:47:11
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Just maybe I shouldn't tell this story, but. I'll decide if I want to leave it in, I guess, in post. um um But to to show you how committed I am to the ghost game, we were all convinced that this thing was haunted.
00:47:26
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There were allegations of abuse at this place. I don't think anything of like the you know stereotypical when you're Catholic Church and abuse. don't anything that. i think it' was just other abuse.
00:47:38
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Which isn't better. But it's, you know, not the really bad one. It's just the other bad one. Yeah. um But it ended up closing down and it was abandoned for a while.
00:47:56
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This building was creepy Even during the daytime, it was creepy. Even when the nuns were there, it was creepy. um And they were like, they would always be out and about. Like, I think it had, I'm 99% sure it had a dormitory.
00:48:12
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It's like they lived here. They lived back there. When it closed, it was like frozen in a moment in time. They didn't tear it down. They didn't do anything to it.
00:48:24
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Um, so senior year of high school, we all have our driver's license and we're like, okay, we gotta, we gotta go explore and we gotta go to this place.
00:48:36
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Apparently this happened. Like there were stories of people who got in, like we knew people who had attended our high school who had gotten in. They had either taken out an air conditioner in a window and climbed in that way, or like a door was unlocked and they went in.
00:48:53
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So we tried to do that. There was like a short bus next to the building that had been abandoned. And it was unlocked and open. You can go inside. And so it was 10 o'clock at night. We're in this bus. And it is just so creepy walking up it.
00:49:07
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But everything was locked except for the boiler room door. We went in there, but there was no way to access the actual house. Yeah. And the building from that room, which was weird, but whatever.
00:49:21
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um But I was committed to the bit. um I. We had talked about going back, like apparently someone had found a key somehow to it. Or like. Yeah, and they were able to get in and that was the last I heard of it, and now it's been repurposed into something else, but people were convinced it was haunted. There was no real explanation as to why.
00:49:44
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But, um you know, it it was just super creepy. But yeah, I would absolutely go in again. i went to, so the last last year, um because I didn't go up to the Texas State Fair this year, but but last year when I went up, my friend Will and I went to the Old Alton Bridge in Denton.
00:50:01
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um I don't know if you've heard of it under its more colloquially known name, Goatman's Bridge. It's supposed to be like one of those haunted spots in Texas. has history. It was on Ghost Adventures. It was really...
00:50:16
Speaker
Kind of one of those episodes where you realize the show's starting to go downhill a little bit, but, um, say la vie. Um, and then I did take, uh, a girlfriend at the time to those haunted train tracks in San Antonio that are actually on a slope.
00:50:29
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So it's like totally BS, but, um, I did it for the bit, but there is apparently, I think, i think there is an abandoned state hospital in San Antonio that has not been torn down yet, or at least it wasn't a couple years ago, but they're starting to,
00:50:45
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They're really starting to get rid of all the cool abandoned stuff, unfortunately, for you know real estate and development. And we got to have another rise. highrise Yeah, man. It's free real estate.
00:50:58
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Yeah, it's free real estate. but I love a strip mall. um Get me a McDonald's. Yeah, we love a good story, though. And I love a good scare, and I like trying to scare myself.
00:51:10
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How many...
00:51:13
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subscribers to the podcast would you guys would we need to like spend the night or like do an episode in a haunted hotel dude i will i will i would try and set up and book a trip and stay at the sally house tonight if you wanted to no not tonight like we need we know but i'm saying like it doesn't matter like right now it matters for me and tachi tachi what's your number 500,000 subscribers. What's reasonable? 50,000. 1 billion.
00:51:45
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bill
00:51:48
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all right. 1 more billion. Alex, you have a story to tell us? Yes, I do have a story to tell. um I've teased this one, I feel like, for a few episodes now. and i if you've been friends with me long enough, you just eventually end up hearing this story.
00:52:06
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um Malik, I swear you've heard it before. Okay. so I'll let you know at the end of it. Yeah. ah Tachi, you may have heard part of it. um because we've definitely talked about like ghost stuff pre podcast I remember we went to Malik's house we had that like dinner with remember the barbecue little grill and meat session yeah the memorial day cookout yeah that was it I couldn't remember the grill and meat session I love a good meat session we love meat meat session with the boys meat reveal 9pm be there
00:52:48
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um So you may have heard part of this one, but if you were listening this and you've heard it, get ready to hear it again. I tell it so well.
00:52:59
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And if you've never heard it, buckle up, because here is the story of my haunted house, and it's a long one. So... Hit pause, grab a water, grab a beer, grab a cigarette, whatever you do during this.
00:53:13
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beer sounds Preferably put your pants back on. um But away we go. So let me tell you a little bit about the history of the area before I dive into what happened specifically to my family.
00:53:29
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So the area that this takes place in is an area of Southern Rhode Island known as Quanticantod, Rhode Island. ah You can't spell it because I don't even know how to spell it. And I lived there for almost the majority. Actually, it's still the majority of my life. But Austin, Texas, is it's catching up.
00:53:49
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Um, but I lived in Quanah Cantalbert Island the majority of my life. Um, and my family has roots there. Uh, and you'll see why. And, um, if the area has kind of always been at least in the 20th century, like a beach side, like town slash like kind of resorty area, like at least once upon a time, it was a little bit more resorty, but lot A large part of it got wiped out by a hurricane.
00:54:20
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But before that, um in like the early days of Rhode Island, I believe there was... And I was i tried to research this before the episode, but the Quanticantag history website was down.
00:54:33
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So I don't know what's going on. they need They need to get their stuff together, but... I believe there was some sort of battle or massacre in the area between um settlers and the indigenous population.
00:54:49
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Um, just based on us history, I don't think it's a far ah assessment to like, just guess that there was and be right. Um, I feel like it's multiple choice. You know, it's either a that it it happened, B it didn't see it kind of happened. And d it probably happened.
00:55:06
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Um, but I had always heard that story growing up and the actual property that this house was on had a couple different um iterations, we'll call it.
00:55:20
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I do believe at one point in time there was some form of farm or plantation there. um There was a rumor of a graveyard somewhere on the property.
00:55:32
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I believe these were unmarked graves. um i but The story that I heard, and again, i don't know how true it was, we never found it despite looking, was that these were unmarked graves for slaves. um i Again, this is like, I'm not quite sure about some of this history, but um this is what I heard growing up.
00:55:56
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Now, what I do know for a fact was the house used to be on the land of a hotel that burned down in a controlled burn, like it was purposely burned down by the fire department.
00:56:09
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But um they are there was still a hotel there, and I don't know what went on that hotel, but I'm sure that there was history on the land. So my grandfather who is a big land developer.
00:56:22
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He has done construction basically his entire life. He's really good at building houses, and he wanted to, for my grandmother, to build her a dream house so that they could live and basically retire in.
00:56:36
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Um, so they picked out the plot of land. This land had, it was, it was very large. Um, there was still the dance hall from like the old Quantic and Tog days on it. So they gave it like a two stepping bar, but it's in Rhode Island.
00:56:52
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Um, you go there, you have your sock hop and you know, all that, but that dance hall was still there. Um, and well pre-renovation, it was pretty, i remember it and it probably would have been pretty creepy. It wasn't full of storage stuff.
00:57:05
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Um, but it's, it was a really cool building, like super cool. Um, So my grandfather puts the house up and it takes a couple years.
00:57:16
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But the first story we have from the house is actually courtesy of my uncle. And apparently when the house was near done, he was in town because at the time him and my aunt lived in, I believe, Massachusetts.
00:57:33
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So they they were both visiting or he was just visiting, helping out with something. And he's in the house and it's finished, but not quite fully finished, if that makes any sense.
00:57:46
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um There's furniture in it. I believe some of like the electrical work in some parts of the house hadn't been done yet. Maybe they're still working on like... um like the walls for some parts, something like that.
00:57:58
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um But it was like pretty livable at this point. You could stay in there. you know, I believe there was electricity in there whatnot, but he was in one of the upstairs bedrooms. So the house had three floors. There was the basement, ah which we called the apartment because it was a like fully furnished apartment in the basement that was built for family to come stay in.
00:58:18
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There was the main floor that had a you know kitchen. The master bedroom was on that floor, the main living room, um main dining room. And then upstairs, there were two bedrooms, a bathroom and a linen closet and the attic.
00:58:33
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um So I believe he was in one of the two bedrooms on the upstairs floor. And what he heard was furniture being dragged around the house at night. and he left and he never, so as far as I'm aware, he never stayed in the house alone or ever really again.
00:58:59
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He wouldn't do it. Now,
00:59:05
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for that one, it's like, I don't really have an explanation. Like I do know, like I remember my uncle not ever staying there. They would always stay like a motel or something. So I do kind of remember that. um you know But the the heavy furniture moving around, that's that's a hard one to just like, oh, that's this. you know um But he swears by it, and it was it was moving around, and he just was freaked out by it.
00:59:34
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Rightfully so, I may add. Now, agree these next two stories, I don't really tell in a specific order because I don't really remember what order they happened in.
00:59:45
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They were both happening. They both happened when I was really young, maybe three, four, ah that age. um I don't really remember it that well. My parents do. um One of them directly happened to me and I don't remember it.
00:59:58
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um But the other happened to my mom. So I'll tell the one that happened to me first. Uh, so at the end of the road, and this is totally doxing where I lived on top of saying where I lived, but, um, at the end of the road, there was a farmer's market on some guy's land. And this guy's name was Mr. Woody.
01:00:17
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Now, Mr. Woody was just this old guy who ran like the the farmer's market. had a little, like not a little garden. He had a pretty big garden that he would sell produce out of. And that was like his shtick. And his house at the end of the street. And so driving by, like I always knew, oh you know, we're almost at Nana and Papay's because there's Mr. Woody's house.
01:00:38
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So he was just this old guy. i mean, I can't even picture him. I don't really remember him. um But, you know, I do remember the name. and So one night we're all staying there and I'm in the upstairs bedroom and my parents are downstairs talking with, you know my grandparents and some other people who were there.
01:01:00
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Maybe some my grandparents' friends or something like that. But, um, so they come down at some point they're there and I come downstairs and I say, Hey mom, dad, uh, I can't sleep.
01:01:15
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Mr. Woody's in my room and he won't leave. Oh, wow.
01:01:22
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And then my parents are like, what? And it's like, yeah, he's sitting in the the recliner, the the chair in my room.
01:01:31
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And so they go upstairs, and is anyone up there? No. Remember, this is on the second floor, so if someone was going to, like, jump out the window, it... probably noticed that the screen was falling out and all that. Probably see them all out because you're on the ground floor and it was not like people weren't awake.
01:01:54
Speaker
Um, so they kind of they were just like, ah, Alex has an active little imagination. Um, and they put me back to bed. I don't remember it at all, to be honest.
01:02:05
Speaker
Um, one other thing that my mom always likes to bring up is, But I'll bring it up just because it's kind of funny before we get into her story.
01:02:17
Speaker
I do remember having dreams and being really scared of something called the craw when I was in this house. The craw? The craw. Yeah, like crawdad, the craw.
01:02:27
Speaker
And I remember it being like this really angry lobster. i remember I remember it my dreams, like vividly. It was like bright red. Like, you know, when one gets cooked and it made like this, like noise, like, like, Oh my God.
01:02:44
Speaker
Yeah. Oh my goodness. That destroyed my throat. um Um, cross revenge. rightnor Um, so my mom was like, Oh, did it have something crowd? I'm like, no, because the crowd was like a really specific thing that I remember being scared of. It it was this bright red lobster.
01:03:01
Speaker
Um, and i don't think the craw was anything paranormal unless whatever ghost or demon in the house was, took the form of a red angry lobster. Now I think where the craw came from was i did see my grandfather cook a lobster.
01:03:21
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah. And it would be it being alive and then coming out bright red, I think really messed me up because it got boiled to death. And it's kind of sad. it is sad. As much as I love crawfish, when whenever you dunk them in. It's so sad.
01:03:34
Speaker
I kind of feel bad. I feel really bad. um But, you you know, maybe lost in the veganism comes down the line. Who knows? so oh
01:03:47
Speaker
Says the guy who was trying to hunt for hogs over the weekend. Yeah. On to the next story. So not we I didn't always spend the night upstairs. That usually only happened if my dad was in town, too.
01:04:01
Speaker
Now, my dad was in the army, so sometimes he wasn't in town. um Sometimes he was in the field. Sometimes he was on some sort of like trip and he'd be out gone for a couple of weeks and it'd be a good time for.
01:04:14
Speaker
you know my mom to bring myself and at this point my sister home, um, to see my grandparents and they help out a little bit. My mom was a stay at home mom. Uh, when we were in the art where when my, when a dad was in the army when we were growing up, so it was just her, uh, God bless her.
01:04:28
Speaker
But, um, you know, on nights where my dad or on trips where my dad wasn't there, maybe he was in Iraq.
01:04:39
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Uh,
01:04:42
Speaker
We would stay in the apartment in the basement. the layout of the apartment, like I said, there was a sort of bedroom area that was next to like a dining room next to a kitchen. It was all it was open floor plan.
01:04:55
Speaker
So the rooms just kind of like blended together. But when you got to the other end of the apartment from the bedroom, there were two doors. One of them went into what ended up becoming a pantry, but at the time was a little nursery where my sister was in a crib and there was other baby stuff there.
01:05:10
Speaker
And to the right of that was another door that went into the... area that would become our playroom, but at the time was my grandfather's office. And there was also a furnace back there. That's where the boiler was.
01:05:23
Speaker
um but it was kind of unfinished. ah It was very, like, you know, raw looking. um Finished enough that it's like you're not feeling like you're walking around like a dingy basement, but it definitely had a look like that something was missing.
01:05:38
Speaker
um But this, it had, like... it just didn't feel as like homey as other parts. So my mom gets up at like two in the morning, three in the morning to go check on my sister. Cause my sister's a baby and you know,
01:05:55
Speaker
she's she's a baby and you got to, you know, all that. So I don't remember if my sister was crying and that's what woke her up. I don't think she was. I think my mom just went to go check on her. because She was being a mom and she's going into the nursery and she looks to the right and she looks into the office area.
01:06:14
Speaker
The door was open and she sees this light. And have you ever seen one of those like old timey, like train conductors at night with their lanterns and they're swinging them like this?
01:06:28
Speaker
A back and forth, like a very natural back and forth, but not like it's dangling from something. Yeah. She said that's what the light was doing. Uh-uh. ah
01:06:42
Speaker
Now, she apparently said, sorry, Delia, and turned around and ran back to bed where I was. um I don't blame her, but that's exactly what I would have done.
01:06:53
Speaker
She will say, like, to this day, like, I just don't know what that was. It could have been anything. And I'm like, but you look at the context of everything. It's like the story with the old man. Like, if it was just that, but there was other stuff.
01:07:07
Speaker
There was a lot of things in between, a lot of things that went bump, um weird movements, things like that, strange noises, things moving around and you don't remember moving them to a certain spot, stuff like that.
01:07:20
Speaker
um You know, I wasn't really around for most of that because we lived wherever abroad, you know. ah But then my grandma passed away. She ah passed when I was in the third grade and she passed away of cancer.
01:07:35
Speaker
And um she apparently had told my mom that if she could give a sign from the other side that she would.
01:07:45
Speaker
So this is the, i think, weekend of the funeral. We're all in town. Whole family's in town. Now the bathroom in the basement, in the apartment, had this little lip on the wall that was probably about as high as maybe like my elbow at this point, maybe a little higher, like between elbow and shoulder.
01:08:08
Speaker
um and it was, I would say it's about like yay wide, uh, wide enough to put like a picture frame and some C, some C shells on it. Um, but,
01:08:21
Speaker
Not really wide enough for one of like my grandparents' cats to jump up on there or anything like that. um They just... it just and I never saw one of them try it. and i ended up living in that house for quite a long time with cats of our own.
01:08:36
Speaker
And they never tried it. And they tried to get into all sorts of weird places. so The weekend of the funeral...
01:08:50
Speaker
My mom goes in the bathroom and there's a picture of my grandma that is on that little lip. And the picture is pulled up and over and it's sitting in the top corner of the frame.
01:09:07
Speaker
Oh my God. So she comes out and she's like, oh my God, who did this? Everyone's like, what? No one took responsibility. She's like, look at this picture. And everyone's like, oh, wow, wow.
01:09:21
Speaker
I like that story. There's a, there's I like, like for media, I'm thinking of like the haunting of Hill house where it's really scary.
01:09:32
Speaker
And then you kind of get a little bit deeper into the story and it's just like really sad, but also like full of love. Like that's what that reminds me of. I like, I agree.
01:09:43
Speaker
i agree. Um, there's more. I'm sure there is.
01:09:52
Speaker
I see why you're a believer. After my grandmother passed, like any sort of activity or weird stuff like that apparently kind of took a nosedive. So we always like to say that my grandma exercised the house.
01:10:03
Speaker
Now, when I was really little and I heard that, I was like, what does her going for a run have to do with the ghost? um But then and I hit like middle school, like, oh, wait. Duh.
01:10:16
Speaker
Now I get it um
01:10:21
Speaker
But activity really started to cease. um There was, i believe, my first birthday in the house. We're in the basement. And the computer turns on and it starts playing iTunes. like It loads up the iTunes library and starts playing. We're all sitting down there having breakfast for my birthday.
01:10:40
Speaker
um Because we we did end up moving down. We ended up moving down. and um But so this was my first birthday in the house. And the computer turns on, starts up, iTunes opens, starts playing Dancing Queen.
01:10:53
Speaker
just It was the first song in the library. it was Dancing Queen by ABBA. We like to think that that was Nana saying, like, happy birthday one last time, you know? um So that happened.
01:11:06
Speaker
Now... There were a lot of moments where you had brought up ah cats doing stuff. And they would like perk their ears up and look at things and notice.
01:11:21
Speaker
Now, there were always those moments in the house, even after like the birthday debacle and all that. um Nothing ever really came of it.
01:11:33
Speaker
But man, there were so many moments where they would be looking at something. And to jump a little bit forward in the story, there was one night where I had all three cats on my bed. and this was maybe high school, middle school.
01:11:45
Speaker
It was definitely high school because we didn't have three until we got to high school. um
01:11:52
Speaker
And I remember they all sat up and looked at the door doorway at the same time. oh Yeah. No. um They all did it. no
01:12:04
Speaker
they They hit you with that neck movement. Yeah.
01:12:08
Speaker
But to rewind back to the actual timeline of the story, my grandfather died. and Not the one who built the house. He's he's still kicking, actually. He's doing good. um He did just have surgery, but he's doing really well. So if you're listening, Papay, we love you. Shout out. Glad you're making a full recovery. And ah here's to many more years.
01:12:28
Speaker
But... um
01:12:32
Speaker
So when my dad's dad passed, um that was the first death since I was in the fourth grade when my aunt passed. And this one hit me hard.
01:12:42
Speaker
It was weird. um It was tough, but the thing that affected me the most was I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep at all. Like, not in my room. I couldn't sleep alone.
01:12:55
Speaker
Like, someone had to be in the room. um i I was unable to fall asleep. I was in like the seventh grade, I think, when he passed. um But i I completely lost the ability to sleep alone.
01:13:09
Speaker
It all culminated... one night, this is like a week after he passed away when I wake up and it's probably about like two, three in the morning. It's early. Um, this is before I had like a phone right by my bed. So like, I don't really know what time it was. I'm just guessing based on vibes.
01:13:25
Speaker
Um, But like you, Tachi, I heard something coming up or down the stairs and it sounded like it was coming up the stairs. Big, heavy, plodding footsteps coming up.
01:13:38
Speaker
Now, I know what my dad sounds like. know what my cats sound like. know what my sister sounds like. she was We were in the upstairs bedrooms at this point in time.
01:13:49
Speaker
And i know it wasn't my sister. I know it wasn't the cats. I know wasn't my dad.
01:13:58
Speaker
It just, it fit another footstep patterns. And it was this creak. It almost sounded like it was coming around on time. I'd never heard it before. Not in this kind of repetition.
01:14:08
Speaker
Never heard it this way. um You hear creaks and bumps all the time. It's just like a one-off thing. But this was just constant. It sounded like it was coming up the stairs. And that sounded like it was in the hallway outside of my room.
01:14:22
Speaker
Oh, And I was laying in bed and I remember just being completely paralyzed in fear thinking, what the heck is this? What is going on? And my mind is imagining all sorts of like terrifying demons and werewolves and things like that. you know, just like, what is in my room? What is, what is standing in the hallway looking at me right now?
01:14:42
Speaker
Or what's looking at my sister?
01:14:46
Speaker
And my seventh grade mind decided that if it was going to die here and die now, least I'd die looking up and I'd look at it. So I said this whole time I've been praying the rosary, literally like Hail Mary full of grace, Lord is with thee, bless our thou moment, like the whole thing, silently under my breath because I thought I wasn't moving because I was like, whatever is in there, if it sees me move, it'll know.
01:15:11
Speaker
But i don't know if it was the rosary or what it gave me the courage that I'm going to look up and look this thing in the eye. And when I looked up, there was nothing there.
01:15:19
Speaker
And then the creaks kind of stopped.
01:15:23
Speaker
And then when I the wave of relief that washed over me was like, God, remember falling back down my bed. And the creek started back up again.
01:15:36
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's all. It's all. It's a no for me. And they kind of just went away. i never heard anything like that happen again.
01:15:49
Speaker
Not once. yeah It really sounded like someone was walking around. Gross. Really slowly.
01:15:57
Speaker
I can't really explain that one. um I didn't see anything. It's not like I heard a noise. That was like super out of the ordinary. But just the amount of creaks and the amount of repetition For me, it was, there's something weird happening here. I didn't know what it was.
01:16:12
Speaker
There was no branches by that window. and Nothing like that. I don't know what it would have been. I don't know what would have been making those noises. I feel like humans just had the capability of just feeling things.
01:16:24
Speaker
You had that sixth sense too, Tachi. Yeah. I was petrified. But um the story of this house does end on kind of like a bittersweet note.
01:16:38
Speaker
One of the other stipulations when my grandmother passed was to honor her memory. um We had to go every year on the anniversary of her death date. We had to go to the Cheesecake Factory and we had to get at least get the pink lemonade that they sell there.
01:16:52
Speaker
It's the most sugary, disgusting drink. And the last time I'm so sorry, Nana, because i'm I can't drink that every year. I had it at it. We did a ah team dinner at the Cheesecake Factory one time during work.
Memorial Traditions and Emotional Moments
01:17:06
Speaker
And I got it in honor of her. It wasn't even close to the date. And I had to excuse myself to the bathroom because I thought was going to be sick. Oh, that's how sugary it is. It is literally like I thought I was having like a diabetic reaction. I am not diabetic.
01:17:20
Speaker
That's what it felt like. Um, but we would always do this. And so my grandfather ended up converting the dance hall into a house. Um, he moved into that and we stayed in the main house and my grandmother's ashes were spread on a piece of the property that we called the Memorial Garden.
01:17:40
Speaker
There was a tree planted and a headstone there for her and for my aunt. Um, and Both their ashes were spread on the property and, uh, you know, we could go visit them anytime we wanted to.
01:17:53
Speaker
But on this date, we all went up to Providence to where the Cheesecake Factory was and we would go have that pink lemonade. So that morning, um, we were like, my, my,
01:18:06
Speaker
ah my my parents are getting ready and they're like Hey, can you go grab a pay? And, uh, so I go over, I walk over, I'm in my Sunday best and, uh, cause know, can't have anything less for the cheesecake factory.
01:18:21
Speaker
And I walk over there and, um, I see my grandpa sit on the front porch and he's crying.
01:18:29
Speaker
like, what? So I'm like, okay. It's always tough seeing adults cry, especially when you're a kid. And I go up and I'm like, hey, Pepe, we all miss Nana.
01:18:41
Speaker
Like we all do. And it's never getting easier. But we just kind of get have to learn about it. Learn it and deal with it. But we miss her so much. And I still do.
01:18:53
Speaker
Like, you know... It's always sad when a grandparent dies, but I feel like she was taken so prematurely that, um, especially in my life where it's like, I wonder what things would be like if she was still around. Like I think about that a lot actually, but I turn around and there's a dove on her gravestone.
01:19:19
Speaker
And that's what my grandfather was crying about. Oh, and he pointed over and there's a dove sitting on her gravestone in the memorial garden. And it's on like the wall. And then I try and go up to it and it doesn't really fly away.
01:19:34
Speaker
ah get up close to it and, you know, i see it has like a metal band around its leg. So it's not like a ghost dove or anything like that. But it let me get right up to it.
01:19:46
Speaker
And it walked with me for a little bit around the driveway.
Closure and Future Episodes Teaser
01:19:50
Speaker
And then it flew away.
01:19:54
Speaker
That's sweet. And that was the last story from the haunted house. Now we moved. That's cool.
01:20:02
Speaker
But. I've been, I've been looking in this corner of my room since you guys freaked me out last episode. All this entire episode. I've been just double checking. My bad.
01:20:13
Speaker
It doesn't help that Luna's sitting on the bed, like just keep him watch. Yeah. She's doing her own thing. Her head does repeatedly turn to look at it. Crack in the closet. That's okay. I don't need to know that.
01:20:26
Speaker
um But yeah, it's my story. Now, there are others that I have. My family's got a lot of them. But those are all the ones that happen in that house. So you just have to wait till next Halloween to hear the rest. Yeah, we got plenty of content for next Halloween.
01:20:40
Speaker
sounds good And if you don't want to hear us repeat the rest of these stories, tell your friends to listen. Tell your friends to submit ghost stories. Make a podcast about our podcast. Talking lost in the frame.
01:20:54
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01:20:58
Speaker
Well, I think that wraps up our ghost episode. I think it does too. We really hope you enjoyed this one. We're working diligently on our Halloween special. And if you like true stories you like hearing and weird things that are esoteric and not quite known to us, but are recorded, then I think you should stick around for next week on Halloween.
01:21:18
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This episode comes out Tuesday, the 20...
01:21:23
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8th, 27th. And we'll have our Halloween special come out this Friday on Halloween. So stay tuned for that because we'll be here. It's a good one.
01:21:33
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It'll be a good one. But until then, have a great night.
01:21:40
Speaker
And watch your back. Bye. See ya. see him