WEBVTT - Rachel and Stacey's Scary Secret 

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<v Speaker 1>A pod Shape production.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to The Chills, the Spooky Story podcast. That's

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<v Speaker 2>hard to believe unless, of course, it happened to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Today's story comes from Rachel from Brisbane, who loves the Chills.

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<v Speaker 3>I listened to them all. I binged them so you're

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<v Speaker 3>at work and put them on and binged off a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>What was your favorite one so far?

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<v Speaker 3>I love the one from Gimp on the Motorbike.

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<v Speaker 2>That was just.

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<v Speaker 1>Awesome, freaked me out, freak.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's because we live in Australia. I love

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<v Speaker 3>hearing Australian ghost stories or you know, things that happen

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<v Speaker 3>around Australia.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for supporting The Chills, Rach, and thanks for emailing

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<v Speaker 2>us your story at the Chills at podshape dot com.

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<v Speaker 2>It's easy to do and I don't buy it.

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<v Speaker 3>Sort of just went, oh, I've got a story and

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<v Speaker 3>i'd love to tell it. So getting getting it into

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<v Speaker 3>words sometimes because sometimes people look, really, that didn't happen.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh you're both asleep. You're just seeing things and I go, nah,

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<v Speaker 3>I know what I saw.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, Okay, So let's get into the story. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not just Rachel's story, it's a friend Stacy's story as well.

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<v Speaker 3>Stacey's my best friend. We grew up together and I

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<v Speaker 3>used to spend a lot of time at her house.

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<v Speaker 1>Where'd you live back in the day?

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<v Speaker 3>Campbelltown, so New South Wales and she lived in Claymore,

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<v Speaker 3>So we're like she lived in housing Commission and yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>it was all a bit of a vibe up there.

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<v Speaker 1>So where is the story going to take us back

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<v Speaker 1>to Claymore?

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<v Speaker 3>In about let's say nineteen eighty five, I would have

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<v Speaker 3>been about fourteen, she was probably sixteen, and I used

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<v Speaker 3>to stay at her house a lot. Normally we'd sleep

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<v Speaker 3>in the same room. This night, however, it was summer.

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<v Speaker 3>Summer in Sydney's were always hot, so the whole house

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<v Speaker 3>was just left open, you know, the back screen door

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<v Speaker 3>was left open. That's when you could do things like that.

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<v Speaker 3>And yeah, so what i'd done, like we're sort of

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<v Speaker 3>probably hung out all day, watch movies at night, who knows.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd gone to sleep on the lounge and Stacy must

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<v Speaker 3>have just gone a blanket over me and I'd gone

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<v Speaker 3>to sleep. I woke up to one of her cats

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<v Speaker 3>like clawing me in her cat's claw like, and I

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<v Speaker 3>looked at it if this cat looked at me and

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<v Speaker 3>it was freaked out. It was sort of clawing and

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<v Speaker 3>freaked out. And I went, oh, that's a bit weird

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<v Speaker 3>and for summer. And I looked down the hallway and

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<v Speaker 3>the back door slammed, and I went, it's like it

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<v Speaker 3>was three o'clock in the morning, and I saw two

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<v Speaker 3>figures outside walking down the pathway. But they didn't look right.

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<v Speaker 3>They looked really shabby, like they didn't look like they

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<v Speaker 3>belonged to this world or you know, modern society. They

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<v Speaker 3>just looked quite shabby.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean by that? They looked like olden

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<v Speaker 1>day figures.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, the olden day figures. They sort of they were clothed.

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<v Speaker 3>There was I remember there was a lady and a

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<v Speaker 3>man and they they and they just sort of wandered off,

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<v Speaker 3>and yeah, it was It didn't freak me out. I

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<v Speaker 3>just went back to sleep, the cats settled down, we

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<v Speaker 3>were all good.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what it is about cats and spooky stories.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you don't really hear stories about dogs and ghosts,

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<v Speaker 2>or guinea pigs and ghosts. What is it about cats

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<v Speaker 2>and the walking dead? Anyway, Let's get back to nineteen

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<v Speaker 2>eighty five with Rachel at her mate Stacy's house, and

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<v Speaker 2>the next morning when they wake up, we.

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<v Speaker 3>Were making breakfast and I said, I say, I said,

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<v Speaker 3>you're going to think I'm nuts. And she turned around

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<v Speaker 3>and looked at me and she went, yeah. She said,

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<v Speaker 3>what's up? And I went, think I saw a ghost

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<v Speaker 3>in your house last night? And she went no, she said,

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<v Speaker 3>don't think you're not. She said, I think I saw

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<v Speaker 3>the same one, and I went, OK, you do. So

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<v Speaker 3>then we started to compare notes and she had woken

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<v Speaker 3>up in the middle of the night and her blanket

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<v Speaker 3>had fallen off the bed. She wasn't worried about it

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<v Speaker 3>because it was hot, so you just didn't worry about it.

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<v Speaker 3>She woke up with her blanket covering her, but just

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<v Speaker 3>covering like her body, not her feet or have been.

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<v Speaker 3>The blanket had been put on sideways, and there was

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<v Speaker 3>a guy in her doorway, just leaning against the doorway

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<v Speaker 3>looking at us. And again she sort of said he

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<v Speaker 3>didn't look to be modern day and she sort of

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<v Speaker 3>looked at him, he looked at her. He turned around

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<v Speaker 3>and walked out of the house. So I think what

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<v Speaker 3>happened was I caught them walking out of the house,

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<v Speaker 3>and yeah, and that is our story.

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<v Speaker 1>Had Stacy ever seen them.

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<v Speaker 3>Before, No, no, and I don't think that she ever

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<v Speaker 3>saw them again. It was like a one night wander

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<v Speaker 3>into the house and wander out.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe they were lost.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe they were Campbelltown itself is very like it was

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<v Speaker 3>one of the first major city as they moved out

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<v Speaker 3>through Liverpool and Campbelltown Camden, so you know, lots of

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<v Speaker 3>colonial buildings and stuff. So it was really interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you since then, rach had any other encounters.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I have. I have indeed, And again it's not

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<v Speaker 3>that they scare me, because they don't. I live in

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<v Speaker 3>Brisbane now, so I moved up to Brisbane about fifteen

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<v Speaker 3>years ago with husband, kids and all that. My dad

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<v Speaker 3>came up to live with us when he was dying

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<v Speaker 3>of pancreatic cancer and he passed away. And about six

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<v Speaker 3>months after he passed away, my marriage broke down, and

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<v Speaker 3>you know that things got that happen. But I would

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<v Speaker 3>be in the hallway and I could smell rum and cigarettes,

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<v Speaker 3>like at night, at night i'd put my kids to bed,

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<v Speaker 3>I'd walk into the hallway and go, oh, it's luck.

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<v Speaker 3>I would smell Dad hanging in the hallway, just hanging

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<v Speaker 3>around not and again it didn't It didn't worry me.

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<v Speaker 3>It was sort of almost a comfort, you know. I

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<v Speaker 3>was a single mother in a big house and didn't

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<v Speaker 3>really worry me too much. Actually, I'll go back a

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<v Speaker 3>little bit my fortieth birthday. He passed away in November.

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<v Speaker 3>My fortieth birthday was in the January. My mom lived

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<v Speaker 3>in Sydney. She'd driven up and then my mom came

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<v Speaker 3>up to live with us about three or four months later.

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<v Speaker 3>And I've never smelt that smell ever again. And she

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<v Speaker 3>went to leave and she couldn't find a carca and

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<v Speaker 3>to this day, her car keys have never been found.

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<v Speaker 3>And I think that he hid the car keys because

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<v Speaker 3>he knew that he didn't want her to leave. He

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<v Speaker 3>knew that I'd need her. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>That gave me the chills that way.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, it's really funny because I often walk down

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<v Speaker 3>the hallway at night and go, hey, Dad, you can

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<v Speaker 3>come out again. No, he doesn't. It's like he was

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<v Speaker 3>just there for a little time, just to go look,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm here, I'm looking after you. I've never ever told

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<v Speaker 3>my kids about Dad being like me, being able to

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<v Speaker 3>smell Dad, basically because my son used to sleep like

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<v Speaker 3>Once my dad passed away, my son went moved into

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<v Speaker 3>his room and I think that I would completely freak

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<v Speaker 3>him out, so I've never ever told my kids.

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<v Speaker 1>Apart from now on a podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, that's right exactly.

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