Speaker 1: At pod Shape Production. Welcome to season two of The Chills.
Speaker 1: It's the spooky story podcast that's hard to believe unless,
Speaker 1: of course, it happened to you. Now I've had to
Speaker 1: take a little season break because we needed more of
Speaker 1: your stories. If you've got a story that you'd love
Speaker 1: to share, then email us at the Chills at podshape
Speaker 1: dot com. That's the Chills at podshape dot com. Now
Speaker 1: you don't have to come on the show. You can
Speaker 1: simply send us a message and we can share your
Speaker 1: story with the world. Some people don't want to tell
Speaker 1: their stories because they think they'll be laughed at for
Speaker 1: being a bit weird or a little nuts, and that's
Speaker 1: what Kath thought when she emailed us. She hadn't told
Speaker 1: anyone this story for that very reason, where.
Speaker 2: I was really deliberating on whether to top fifteen or not.
Speaker 2: But I just thought, you know what, I'll give it
Speaker 2: a go. I buddy told close family friends and they
Speaker 2: all like me, so I.
Speaker 1: Can confirm Kath is not nuts, but her story will
Speaker 1: blow you away. It all started, like all spooky stories do,
Speaker 1: when Kath was just a kid.
Speaker 2: I grew up with a town called kaw Am in
Speaker 2: New South Wales, and it's on the outer skirts of
Speaker 2: Sydney and basically in the used to be an old
Speaker 2: railway town and so I think I was in them
Speaker 2: and hundreds or something like that, and our house was
Speaker 2: it was an old two bedroom fibro house and it
Speaker 2: was actually owned by my great grandfather. I think it
Speaker 2: was then passed on to my grandfather and then my parents.
Speaker 2: They purchased it off my grandfather in around about nine
Speaker 2: eighty I think it was ninety seven. When we were
Speaker 2: all little, there was a lot of strange things going on,
Speaker 2: and I really don't like to go some bit news
Speaker 2: about to talking about it. So when I was a
Speaker 2: little child, we just experienced things like footsteps, flickering, lights
Speaker 2: going on the off side positions like that, radios used
Speaker 2: to go off. There was coughing another rooms, there was
Speaker 2: some loud banging on the walls, and things just used
Speaker 2: to go missing. And sometimes. Yeah, it used to scare
Speaker 2: me as a kid, but I thought this was completely normal,
Speaker 2: and I thought it happened to everyone else. So some
Speaker 2: of them scared me, some of them didn't.
Speaker 1: So it does sound like you normalized it, like the
Speaker 1: way you were describing that, it sounds like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone would have had these strange apparitions walking through their
Speaker 1: house at night, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely, Because that was only a little when I
Speaker 2: was really young, like later on, I knew that they
Speaker 2: were goes. I need until I grew up and thought
Speaker 2: that's what it was. But I just thought it was normal.
Speaker 2: So when I was really little, I think I was
Speaker 2: about six years old, I used to I shared a
Speaker 2: bedroom with my sister, and it was in the front room,
Speaker 2: and I must have known. I must have known that
Speaker 2: this was a normal occurrence because I used to land
Speaker 2: my bed and I used to face the door, and
Speaker 2: I knew that they would come and they meaning just
Speaker 2: the heads of these people. And what I mean by
Speaker 2: just their heads and bodies, like at ground high.
Speaker 1: Talking, the heads are on almost on the floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So as you lay on the bed and you
Speaker 2: look and you're facing out, you just see the heads
Speaker 2: and the shoulders of these people. And I was only
Speaker 2: really little.
Speaker 1: Okay, carry on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when I'm so strange, I used to see
Speaker 2: these people and they used to come past me and
Speaker 2: then they disappear behind my bed heads, And so I
Speaker 2: knew that they weren't like me, because there was women
Speaker 2: with bonnets on. There were sometimes men with long beds.
Speaker 2: There was laughing children, sometimes some of them were baby
Speaker 2: some of them were smiling, some of them scoured at me,
Speaker 2: and some of them were even crying. But I remember
Speaker 2: actually being scared of some of them. But I did
Speaker 2: remember that the clothes they were wearing weren't like mine.
Speaker 2: So they had like peter Pan collars, they had funny
Speaker 2: hair styles, they had braces on, so I did know
Speaker 2: that those people didn't look like what. Yeah, as a child,
Speaker 2: I must have known that.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it sounds like these heads that kath is talking about,
Speaker 1: dressed in olden day garb from the past. It sounds
Speaker 1: like the sort of clothes that people might wear in
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2: I didn't make the connection at the time, but later
Speaker 2: on I did, of course, because I didn't really talk
Speaker 2: about it, because I just thought this happened to everybody.
Speaker 2: As a kid, I thought it was I just.
Speaker 3: Thought it was normal.
Speaker 2: So sometimes some of them would be really scary. So
Speaker 2: I just rut into my parents' room, and I slept
Speaker 2: with my parents a lot, so I'd run into their
Speaker 2: room and jump into their bed pretty much every night
Speaker 2: because probably because of this happening AnyWho. So I've run
Speaker 2: in this one night and there was a massive man
Speaker 2: standing in the doorway. While I was little, so he
Speaker 2: looked huge to me. So he was standing running front
Speaker 2: of me, and I thought I must have known that
Speaker 2: he was see through or something. So I just ran
Speaker 2: straight through him, and as I turned around, it was
Speaker 2: like he just dissipated. And I know, and I really rude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, Like I thought that was normal. I thought
Speaker 2: that was what everybody thought. So I jump in the parents'
Speaker 2: bed and I'd be in the middle of them because
Speaker 2: I was all nice and sniggy and cozy in face.
Speaker 2: And then I would just see all these cups and
Speaker 2: sauces flying around the room, and sometimes I'd reach out
Speaker 2: and try and grab them. And I never like mom
Speaker 2: and dad up, and I never really spoke about it
Speaker 2: because I just thought they happened to everybody.
Speaker 1: These cups and sauces, the pots and pans. They're not
Speaker 1: there though, right, No, I knew that.
Speaker 2: They were see through, so I was trying to reach
Speaker 2: out and grab them.
Speaker 1: If that first part of the story hasn't yet given
Speaker 1: you the chills, maybe this next bit will. As Kath
Speaker 1: gets older, she starts to put the pieces together.
Speaker 2: All these strange occurrences have only recently going to make
Speaker 2: sense to me. And it started with my dad. Now,
Speaker 2: he was an Irish immigrant from Ireland officy, and he
Speaker 2: came out in his twenties, and so obviously they bought
Speaker 2: the house. And I did pass these memories of as
Speaker 2: a child because he'd always tell these fairy tales and
Speaker 2: ghost stories, and he came from a fairly grounded background
Speaker 2: in superstitions, and they believed in legends and folklore and
Speaker 2: letoicorns and Misterio feruitions, and he was just so fascinated
Speaker 2: with the mysteries and UFOs and time travel and inexplicable then,
Speaker 2: and we always roll ourrise and think it was nuts.
Speaker 2: One night, when I was about eight years old, my
Speaker 2: siblings and I were all away for the night, including months,
Speaker 2: except that he had to work because he was a
Speaker 2: shift worker on the tollway and he was staying in
Speaker 2: the house and he don't so he was suddenly woken
Speaker 2: up at two am by a really loud party going on.
Speaker 2: But looking back now I don't he was talking. That
Speaker 2: was a different sort of party. Anyway, I'll explain later.
Speaker 2: So after starting in turning for about fifteen minutes, and
Speaker 2: this is going on for quite some time, he tells
Speaker 2: of a band playing really loud music, but because being
Speaker 2: he said, it sounded like an Irish band, and there
Speaker 2: was clinking glasses and lots of yelling and raucous laughter.
Speaker 2: So he decided to get up, and so he crankly
Speaker 2: stormed out in the kitchen to peek through the curtains,
Speaker 2: expecting to see some raty teenagers never breaking bottles on
Speaker 2: the road and drinking and lasted a round. But as
Speaker 2: soon as he reached the curtain and he twipp the
Speaker 2: pulls back to shout at them, it suddenly stopped. It
Speaker 2: stops like there's nothing. There's absolutely no sounds. It was
Speaker 2: actually definitely quiet, and he thought, well, I thought to
Speaker 2: the next day he went out to the shed to
Speaker 2: mow the lawn and there on the perth way he
Speaker 2: was just fresh ting on the ground. I sicknot. He
Speaker 2: picked it up, and I think it was from around
Speaker 2: about the year eighteen to fifty, and it was just
Speaker 2: lying there and he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: And he said he'd.
Speaker 2: Forgotten about the party of the night before, and he
Speaker 2: didn't make any connections, but later later he did obviously,
Speaker 2: so we all thought he was bonkers, but he swore
Speaker 2: this was to be true. And yes I have, I've
Speaker 2: actually seen that penny he still got years later, he's
Speaker 2: still got the pair. I've got the fact since part
Speaker 2: so I've actually got the penny somewhere in his coin collection.
Speaker 2: So years later we were speaking to a very old
Speaker 2: lady and she has a very old residents and lived
Speaker 2: down the road, and it was rumored to be where
Speaker 2: our house was built. There used to be an old
Speaker 2: tabn hotel with a seller, and a yard was actually
Speaker 2: where they tied up the horses. So I thought calam
Speaker 2: being a really old railway town, I guess there would
Speaker 2: have been a few travelers and workers warning a few
Speaker 2: years after work and yearn with fakes and the soft
Speaker 2: bet before heading on through to the Hawkstree. But I
Speaker 2: researched this, and I went to the local libraries, I
Speaker 2: went googling. I actually I never found out if it
Speaker 2: was true or not. There's actually no proof that there
Speaker 2: actually ever was a pat with any accommodation, but it
Speaker 2: makes sense to me seeing all the heads and maybe
Speaker 2: the lad maybe the party going on that he heard
Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. So the weirdest thing,
Speaker 2: as it turns out, with a house being bought and
Speaker 2: sold a few times and it has been renovated, and
Speaker 2: someone I know discovered that the current owner had ripped
Speaker 2: up the kitchen fall and this reveals some really old
Speaker 2: newspapers like Lino. It's always offline up always has old
Speaker 2: newspapers in it, so that's nothing fantastic. But they discussed
Speaker 2: it actual gaping whole underneath, and it looks to be
Speaker 2: a big, deep bunker, they said. And they said it
Speaker 2: actually looked like an old wine cellar.
Speaker 3: And I was just when my brother told me they
Speaker 3: like no way, he goes, yeah, way, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: but how good that they didn't They couldn't possibly know us,
Speaker 3: or they couldn't possibly make it up because they didn't
Speaker 3: know us, we didn't know them, and they.
Speaker 2: Had no idea who lived there prior or anything like that.
Speaker 2: And I actually don't have the courage knock on the
Speaker 2: door to ask these people if you've got a bunker
Speaker 2: under men you.
Speaker 1: Have, if you've got a story that could give us
Speaker 1: the chills, then we'd love to hear it. Email us
Speaker 1: at the chill at podshape dot com. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next time for more spooky stories.