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<v Speaker 1>At pod Shape Production. Welcome to season two of The Chills.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the spooky story podcast that's hard to believe unless,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, it happened to you. Now I've had to

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<v Speaker 1>take a little season break because we needed more of

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<v Speaker 1>your stories. If you've got a story that you'd love

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<v Speaker 1>to share, then email us at the Chills at podshape

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<v Speaker 1>dot com. That's the Chills at podshape dot com. Now

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have to come on the show. You can

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<v Speaker 1>simply send us a message and we can share your

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<v Speaker 1>story with the world. Some people don't want to tell

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<v Speaker 1>their stories because they think they'll be laughed at for

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<v Speaker 1>being a bit weird or a little nuts, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>what Kath thought when she emailed us. She hadn't told

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<v Speaker 1>anyone this story for that very reason, where.

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<v Speaker 2>I was really deliberating on whether to top fifteen or not.

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<v Speaker 2>But I just thought, you know what, I'll give it

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<v Speaker 2>a go. I buddy told close family friends and they

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<v Speaker 2>all like me, so I.

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<v Speaker 1>Can confirm Kath is not nuts, but her story will

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<v Speaker 1>blow you away. It all started, like all spooky stories do,

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<v Speaker 1>when Kath was just a kid.

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<v Speaker 2>I grew up with a town called kaw Am in

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<v Speaker 2>New South Wales, and it's on the outer skirts of

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<v Speaker 2>Sydney and basically in the used to be an old

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<v Speaker 2>railway town and so I think I was in them

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<v Speaker 2>and hundreds or something like that, and our house was

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<v Speaker 2>it was an old two bedroom fibro house and it

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<v Speaker 2>was actually owned by my great grandfather. I think it

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<v Speaker 2>was then passed on to my grandfather and then my parents.

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<v Speaker 2>They purchased it off my grandfather in around about nine

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<v Speaker 2>eighty I think it was ninety seven. When we were

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<v Speaker 2>all little, there was a lot of strange things going on,

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<v Speaker 2>and I really don't like to go some bit news

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<v Speaker 2>about to talking about it. So when I was a

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<v Speaker 2>little child, we just experienced things like footsteps, flickering, lights

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<v Speaker 2>going on the off side positions like that, radios used

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<v Speaker 2>to go off. There was coughing another rooms, there was

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<v Speaker 2>some loud banging on the walls, and things just used

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<v Speaker 2>to go missing. And sometimes. Yeah, it used to scare

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<v Speaker 2>me as a kid, but I thought this was completely normal,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought it happened to everyone else. So some

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<v Speaker 2>of them scared me, some of them didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>So it does sound like you normalized it, like the

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<v Speaker 1>way you were describing that, it sounds like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>everyone would have had these strange apparitions walking through their

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<v Speaker 1>house at night, right, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, absolutely, Because that was only a little when I

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<v Speaker 2>was really young, like later on, I knew that they

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<v Speaker 2>were goes. I need until I grew up and thought

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<v Speaker 2>that's what it was. But I just thought it was normal.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I was really little, I think I was

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<v Speaker 2>about six years old, I used to I shared a

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<v Speaker 2>bedroom with my sister, and it was in the front room,

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<v Speaker 2>and I must have known. I must have known that

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<v Speaker 2>this was a normal occurrence because I used to land

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<v Speaker 2>my bed and I used to face the door, and

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<v Speaker 2>I knew that they would come and they meaning just

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<v Speaker 2>the heads of these people. And what I mean by

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<v Speaker 2>just their heads and bodies, like at ground high.

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<v Speaker 1>Talking, the heads are on almost on the floor.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So as you lay on the bed and you

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<v Speaker 2>look and you're facing out, you just see the heads

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<v Speaker 2>and the shoulders of these people. And I was only

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<v Speaker 2>really little.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, carry on.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So when I'm so strange, I used to see

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<v Speaker 2>these people and they used to come past me and

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<v Speaker 2>then they disappear behind my bed heads, And so I

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<v Speaker 2>knew that they weren't like me, because there was women

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<v Speaker 2>with bonnets on. There were sometimes men with long beds.

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<v Speaker 2>There was laughing children, sometimes some of them were baby

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<v Speaker 2>some of them were smiling, some of them scoured at me,

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<v Speaker 2>and some of them were even crying. But I remember

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<v Speaker 2>actually being scared of some of them. But I did

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<v Speaker 2>remember that the clothes they were wearing weren't like mine.

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<v Speaker 2>So they had like peter Pan collars, they had funny

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<v Speaker 2>hair styles, they had braces on, so I did know

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<v Speaker 2>that those people didn't look like what. Yeah, as a child,

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<v Speaker 2>I must have known that.

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<v Speaker 1>Anyway, it sounds like these heads that kath is talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>dressed in olden day garb from the past. It sounds

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<v Speaker 1>like the sort of clothes that people might wear in

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<v Speaker 1>the eighteen hundreds.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't make the connection at the time, but later

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<v Speaker 2>on I did, of course, because I didn't really talk

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<v Speaker 2>about it, because I just thought this happened to everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>As a kid, I thought it was I just.

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<v Speaker 3>Thought it was normal.

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<v Speaker 2>So sometimes some of them would be really scary. So

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<v Speaker 2>I just rut into my parents' room, and I slept

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<v Speaker 2>with my parents a lot, so I'd run into their

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<v Speaker 2>room and jump into their bed pretty much every night

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<v Speaker 2>because probably because of this happening AnyWho. So I've run

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<v Speaker 2>in this one night and there was a massive man

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<v Speaker 2>standing in the doorway. While I was little, so he

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<v Speaker 2>looked huge to me. So he was standing running front

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<v Speaker 2>of me, and I thought I must have known that

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<v Speaker 2>he was see through or something. So I just ran

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<v Speaker 2>straight through him, and as I turned around, it was

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<v Speaker 2>like he just dissipated. And I know, and I really rude. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I know, Like I thought that was normal. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>that was what everybody thought. So I jump in the parents'

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<v Speaker 2>bed and I'd be in the middle of them because

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<v Speaker 2>I was all nice and sniggy and cozy in face.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I would just see all these cups and

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<v Speaker 2>sauces flying around the room, and sometimes I'd reach out

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<v Speaker 2>and try and grab them. And I never like mom

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<v Speaker 2>and dad up, and I never really spoke about it

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<v Speaker 2>because I just thought they happened to everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>These cups and sauces, the pots and pans. They're not

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<v Speaker 1>there though, right, No, I knew that.

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<v Speaker 2>They were see through, so I was trying to reach

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<v Speaker 2>out and grab them.

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<v Speaker 1>If that first part of the story hasn't yet given

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<v Speaker 1>you the chills, maybe this next bit will. As Kath

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<v Speaker 1>gets older, she starts to put the pieces together.

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<v Speaker 2>All these strange occurrences have only recently going to make

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<v Speaker 2>sense to me. And it started with my dad. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>he was an Irish immigrant from Ireland officy, and he

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<v Speaker 2>came out in his twenties, and so obviously they bought

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<v Speaker 2>the house. And I did pass these memories of as

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<v Speaker 2>a child because he'd always tell these fairy tales and

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<v Speaker 2>ghost stories, and he came from a fairly grounded background

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<v Speaker 2>in superstitions, and they believed in legends and folklore and

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<v Speaker 2>letoicorns and Misterio feruitions, and he was just so fascinated

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<v Speaker 2>with the mysteries and UFOs and time travel and inexplicable then,

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<v Speaker 2>and we always roll ourrise and think it was nuts.

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<v Speaker 2>One night, when I was about eight years old, my

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<v Speaker 2>siblings and I were all away for the night, including months,

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<v Speaker 2>except that he had to work because he was a

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<v Speaker 2>shift worker on the tollway and he was staying in

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<v Speaker 2>the house and he don't so he was suddenly woken

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<v Speaker 2>up at two am by a really loud party going on.

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<v Speaker 2>But looking back now I don't he was talking. That

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<v Speaker 2>was a different sort of party. Anyway, I'll explain later.

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<v Speaker 2>So after starting in turning for about fifteen minutes, and

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<v Speaker 2>this is going on for quite some time, he tells

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<v Speaker 2>of a band playing really loud music, but because being

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<v Speaker 2>he said, it sounded like an Irish band, and there

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<v Speaker 2>was clinking glasses and lots of yelling and raucous laughter.

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<v Speaker 2>So he decided to get up, and so he crankly

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<v Speaker 2>stormed out in the kitchen to peek through the curtains,

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<v Speaker 2>expecting to see some raty teenagers never breaking bottles on

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<v Speaker 2>the road and drinking and lasted a round. But as

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<v Speaker 2>soon as he reached the curtain and he twipp the

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<v Speaker 2>pulls back to shout at them, it suddenly stopped. It

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<v Speaker 2>stops like there's nothing. There's absolutely no sounds. It was

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<v Speaker 2>actually definitely quiet, and he thought, well, I thought to

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<v Speaker 2>the next day he went out to the shed to

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<v Speaker 2>mow the lawn and there on the perth way he

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<v Speaker 2>was just fresh ting on the ground. I sicknot. He

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<v Speaker 2>picked it up, and I think it was from around

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<v Speaker 2>about the year eighteen to fifty, and it was just

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<v Speaker 2>lying there and he couldn't believe it.

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<v Speaker 3>And he said he'd.

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<v Speaker 2>Forgotten about the party of the night before, and he

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<v Speaker 2>didn't make any connections, but later later he did obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>so we all thought he was bonkers, but he swore

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<v Speaker 2>this was to be true. And yes I have, I've

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<v Speaker 2>actually seen that penny he still got years later, he's

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<v Speaker 2>still got the pair. I've got the fact since part

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<v Speaker 2>so I've actually got the penny somewhere in his coin collection.

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<v Speaker 2>So years later we were speaking to a very old

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<v Speaker 2>lady and she has a very old residents and lived

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<v Speaker 2>down the road, and it was rumored to be where

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<v Speaker 2>our house was built. There used to be an old

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<v Speaker 2>tabn hotel with a seller, and a yard was actually

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<v Speaker 2>where they tied up the horses. So I thought calam

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<v Speaker 2>being a really old railway town, I guess there would

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<v Speaker 2>have been a few travelers and workers warning a few

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<v Speaker 2>years after work and yearn with fakes and the soft

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<v Speaker 2>bet before heading on through to the Hawkstree. But I

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<v Speaker 2>researched this, and I went to the local libraries, I

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<v Speaker 2>went googling. I actually I never found out if it

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<v Speaker 2>was true or not. There's actually no proof that there

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<v Speaker 2>actually ever was a pat with any accommodation, but it

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<v Speaker 2>makes sense to me seeing all the heads and maybe

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<v Speaker 2>the lad maybe the party going on that he heard

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<v Speaker 2>in the middle of the night. So the weirdest thing,

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<v Speaker 2>as it turns out, with a house being bought and

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<v Speaker 2>sold a few times and it has been renovated, and

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<v Speaker 2>someone I know discovered that the current owner had ripped

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<v Speaker 2>up the kitchen fall and this reveals some really old

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<v Speaker 2>newspapers like Lino. It's always offline up always has old

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<v Speaker 2>newspapers in it, so that's nothing fantastic. But they discussed

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<v Speaker 2>it actual gaping whole underneath, and it looks to be

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<v Speaker 2>a big, deep bunker, they said. And they said it

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<v Speaker 2>actually looked like an old wine cellar.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was just when my brother told me they

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<v Speaker 3>like no way, he goes, yeah, way, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>but how good that they didn't They couldn't possibly know us,

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<v Speaker 3>or they couldn't possibly make it up because they didn't

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<v Speaker 3>know us, we didn't know them, and they.

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<v Speaker 2>Had no idea who lived there prior or anything like that.

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<v Speaker 2>And I actually don't have the courage knock on the

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<v Speaker 2>door to ask these people if you've got a bunker

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<v Speaker 2>under men you.

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<v Speaker 1>Have, if you've got a story that could give us

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<v Speaker 1>the chills, then we'd love to hear it. Email us

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<v Speaker 1>at the chill at podshape dot com. We'll see you

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<v Speaker 1>next time for more spooky stories.