Speaker 1: A pod Shape production.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Chills, the Spooky Story podcast. That's
Speaker 2: hard to believe unless, of course, it happened to you.
Speaker 2: Today's story comes from Rachel from Brisbane, who loves the Chills.
Speaker 3: I listened to them all. I binged them so you're
Speaker 3: at work and put them on and binged off a lot.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite one so far?
Speaker 3: I love the one from Gimp on the Motorbike.
Speaker 2: That was just.
Speaker 1: Awesome, freaked me out, freak.
Speaker 3: I think it's because we live in Australia. I love
Speaker 3: hearing Australian ghost stories or you know, things that happen
Speaker 3: around Australia.
Speaker 2: Thanks for supporting The Chills, Rach, and thanks for emailing
Speaker 2: us your story at the Chills at podshape dot com.
Speaker 2: It's easy to do and I don't buy it.
Speaker 3: Sort of just went, oh, I've got a story and
Speaker 3: i'd love to tell it. So getting getting it into
Speaker 3: words sometimes because sometimes people look, really, that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: Oh you're both asleep. You're just seeing things and I go, nah,
Speaker 3: I know what I saw.
Speaker 2: You know, Okay, So let's get into the story. It's
Speaker 2: not just Rachel's story, it's a friend Stacy's story as well.
Speaker 3: Stacey's my best friend. We grew up together and I
Speaker 3: used to spend a lot of time at her house.
Speaker 1: Where'd you live back in the day?
Speaker 3: Campbelltown, so New South Wales and she lived in Claymore,
Speaker 3: So we're like she lived in housing Commission and yeah,
Speaker 3: it was all a bit of a vibe up there.
Speaker 1: So where is the story going to take us back
Speaker 1: to Claymore?
Speaker 3: In about let's say nineteen eighty five, I would have
Speaker 3: been about fourteen, she was probably sixteen, and I used
Speaker 3: to stay at her house a lot. Normally we'd sleep
Speaker 3: in the same room. This night, however, it was summer.
Speaker 3: Summer in Sydney's were always hot, so the whole house
Speaker 3: was just left open, you know, the back screen door
Speaker 3: was left open. That's when you could do things like that.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so what i'd done, like we're sort of
Speaker 3: probably hung out all day, watch movies at night, who knows.
Speaker 3: I'd gone to sleep on the lounge and Stacy must
Speaker 3: have just gone a blanket over me and I'd gone
Speaker 3: to sleep. I woke up to one of her cats
Speaker 3: like clawing me in her cat's claw like, and I
Speaker 3: looked at it if this cat looked at me and
Speaker 3: it was freaked out. It was sort of clawing and
Speaker 3: freaked out. And I went, oh, that's a bit weird
Speaker 3: and for summer. And I looked down the hallway and
Speaker 3: the back door slammed, and I went, it's like it
Speaker 3: was three o'clock in the morning, and I saw two
Speaker 3: figures outside walking down the pathway. But they didn't look right.
Speaker 3: They looked really shabby, like they didn't look like they
Speaker 3: belonged to this world or you know, modern society. They
Speaker 3: just looked quite shabby.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? They looked like olden
Speaker 1: day figures.
Speaker 3: Yes, the olden day figures. They sort of they were clothed.
Speaker 3: There was I remember there was a lady and a
Speaker 3: man and they they and they just sort of wandered off,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it was It didn't freak me out. I
Speaker 3: just went back to sleep, the cats settled down, we
Speaker 3: were all good.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is about cats and spooky stories.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't really hear stories about dogs and ghosts,
Speaker 2: or guinea pigs and ghosts. What is it about cats
Speaker 2: and the walking dead? Anyway, Let's get back to nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty five with Rachel at her mate Stacy's house, and
Speaker 2: the next morning when they wake up, we.
Speaker 3: Were making breakfast and I said, I say, I said,
Speaker 3: you're going to think I'm nuts. And she turned around
Speaker 3: and looked at me and she went, yeah. She said,
Speaker 3: what's up? And I went, think I saw a ghost
Speaker 3: in your house last night? And she went no, she said,
Speaker 3: don't think you're not. She said, I think I saw
Speaker 3: the same one, and I went, OK, you do. So
Speaker 3: then we started to compare notes and she had woken
Speaker 3: up in the middle of the night and her blanket
Speaker 3: had fallen off the bed. She wasn't worried about it
Speaker 3: because it was hot, so you just didn't worry about it.
Speaker 3: She woke up with her blanket covering her, but just
Speaker 3: covering like her body, not her feet or have been.
Speaker 3: The blanket had been put on sideways, and there was
Speaker 3: a guy in her doorway, just leaning against the doorway
Speaker 3: looking at us. And again she sort of said he
Speaker 3: didn't look to be modern day and she sort of
Speaker 3: looked at him, he looked at her. He turned around
Speaker 3: and walked out of the house. So I think what
Speaker 3: happened was I caught them walking out of the house,
Speaker 3: and yeah, and that is our story.
Speaker 1: Had Stacy ever seen them.
Speaker 3: Before, No, no, and I don't think that she ever
Speaker 3: saw them again. It was like a one night wander
Speaker 3: into the house and wander out.
Speaker 1: Maybe they were lost.
Speaker 3: Maybe they were Campbelltown itself is very like it was
Speaker 3: one of the first major city as they moved out
Speaker 3: through Liverpool and Campbelltown Camden, so you know, lots of
Speaker 3: colonial buildings and stuff. So it was really interesting.
Speaker 1: Have you since then, rach had any other encounters.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have. I have indeed, And again it's not
Speaker 3: that they scare me, because they don't. I live in
Speaker 3: Brisbane now, so I moved up to Brisbane about fifteen
Speaker 3: years ago with husband, kids and all that. My dad
Speaker 3: came up to live with us when he was dying
Speaker 3: of pancreatic cancer and he passed away. And about six
Speaker 3: months after he passed away, my marriage broke down, and
Speaker 3: you know that things got that happen. But I would
Speaker 3: be in the hallway and I could smell rum and cigarettes,
Speaker 3: like at night, at night i'd put my kids to bed,
Speaker 3: I'd walk into the hallway and go, oh, it's luck.
Speaker 3: I would smell Dad hanging in the hallway, just hanging
Speaker 3: around not and again it didn't It didn't worry me.
Speaker 3: It was sort of almost a comfort, you know. I
Speaker 3: was a single mother in a big house and didn't
Speaker 3: really worry me too much. Actually, I'll go back a
Speaker 3: little bit my fortieth birthday. He passed away in November.
Speaker 3: My fortieth birthday was in the January. My mom lived
Speaker 3: in Sydney. She'd driven up and then my mom came
Speaker 3: up to live with us about three or four months later.
Speaker 3: And I've never smelt that smell ever again. And she
Speaker 3: went to leave and she couldn't find a carca and
Speaker 3: to this day, her car keys have never been found.
Speaker 3: And I think that he hid the car keys because
Speaker 3: he knew that he didn't want her to leave. He
Speaker 3: knew that I'd need her. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That gave me the chills that way.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's really funny because I often walk down
Speaker 3: the hallway at night and go, hey, Dad, you can
Speaker 3: come out again. No, he doesn't. It's like he was
Speaker 3: just there for a little time, just to go look,
Speaker 3: I'm here, I'm looking after you. I've never ever told
Speaker 3: my kids about Dad being like me, being able to
Speaker 3: smell Dad, basically because my son used to sleep like
Speaker 3: Once my dad passed away, my son went moved into
Speaker 3: his room and I think that I would completely freak
Speaker 3: him out, so I've never ever told my kids.
Speaker 1: Apart from now on a podcast.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right exactly.
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Speaker 2: another spooky story.