WEBVTT - S1: EP 7 — “I Was Never One to Believe in Ghosts” 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.480 Hello, hauntis welcome back to another episode of Haunting. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.680 For all our newbie haunters tuning in. I'm your host Therésa, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.560 dead and killing it, and this is our producer, Len 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:33.080 (mumbles) 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:39.800 and our undead abomination turned interned Naomi. Purgatory is all 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:41.800 a buzz right now because we've had a lot of 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.280 high profilers passing through lately, Hollywood royalty, politicians, my old 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.400 sugar daddy, Rick. I don't really care because to me, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.800 celebrities are just people. I grew up in LA. Calista Flockhart's 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.960 niece was in my kindergarten class okay. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.960 She was Ali McBeal and Ali. It doesn't matter. Point is, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.480 I'm not phased. It actually only depresses me more because 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.440 when will I pass through? I think my caseworker Sharon 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.760 noticed I was feeling down about the whole not crossing 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.200 over thing. She signed me up for a Haunting one 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.280 oh one class. At first, I was like, ew, I 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.840 have no interest in spending my unlimited free time in 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.839 a rec hall basement with a bunch of sad sack, spooky wannabes. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.880 But it's actually been pretty fun and kind of breakfast 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.400 club chic. One thing I learned recently that surprised me 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.760 is that pretty much any noun can be haunted things, places, houses, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.160 of course. But I once saw on a Nat Geo 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:42.440 special that the entire Florida Keys are haunted. Now, personally, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.720 I think all of Florida is haunted. But I'll let 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.000 you guys have that debate in the comments. I digress 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.920 people can be haunted too. Obviously, the best example of 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.880 this is Nicholas Cage. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:55.600 (MUMBLES) 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.280 Of course he is. Kristen Stewart too, and Mitch McConnell , 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.120 Ted Cruz, Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Jean Simmons, Courtney Cox. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:11.680 Yeah surprising, Yeah, definitely. Some people are just more porous 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.320 to the supernatural. It's like getting gum stuck on the 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.080 bottom of your shoe. But it takes a powerful spirit 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.440 to haunt a person. It's a real commitment. You're dealing 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:27.040 with personalities, travel, always being on Sorry, right, getting off track. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.200 All of this is relevant today's episode because it features 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.160 not one, but two haunted people. First up, is William 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.920 from Ohio and his experience with the Potter House. And 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.440 before all, you millennials, cream your skinny jeans, it's not 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.880 that Potter House, so relax. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.600 When I was in high school, we started hearing about 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.400 this house called the Potter House. It was a little 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.760 farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by fields 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.280 on either side, and it's just flat with long, barren 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:07.440 country roads. Turns out the Potter House had a dark history. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.000 The story was there was a man who lived there 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:15.240 who shot his wife and children and then took his 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.600 own life in the house. The murder suicide happened in 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.519 the seventies, and then the house just kind of sat abandoned. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.880 Kids from other high schools visited it, and to my knowledge, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.600 nobody in my school had gone yet. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.120 We were all just kind of learning about it. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.960 So we decided to go there and check it out 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.040 and cure our boredom and our curiosity by going inside 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:39.840 this house and seeing. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.640 What it was all about. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.760 But I didn't know at the time it would have 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.640 such a dark power over me for a really long time. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.560 My name is William, and I believe I was haunted 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:59.280 after going to a house where murder once happened. I 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.040 just remember hearing it over and over again. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.440 Oh, the Potter house, Potter house, Potter house said, well, you know, it's 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:05.120 not far away. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.000 It's like fifteen minutes away from my house, maybe twenty 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.640 be easy just to go there and check it out. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.760 Mainly we were bored and curious. This house is supposedly haunted. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:21.479 Before heading over, I have this crazy idea about a prank. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.880 I'm going to pretend like I get hit by a ghost. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.680 I put this fake blood on me and everyone freaks out, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.400 and then afterward everyone has a laugh. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:32.360 So that was my plan. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.560 My mother had different types of food coloring, and when 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.520 you put it on fresh, it really does look like blood. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.680 So I took the little oval Vial and I put 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.440 it in my pocket and I said, this is definitely 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:45.400 going to come in handy. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.640 There was eight or nine of us and we all 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:53.680 carpooled there. We had two cars. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.640 One car I remember had the girls in it, and 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.320 then the other car had the guys in it. To 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.200 get to the house, we drive down these barren country 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.400 roads with fields on either side and maybe a small 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.160 forest here or there, but it's just flat and it's 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:18.839 kind of spooky. It was around October, and I remember 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:25.600 that specifically because we had school the next day. I 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.560 remember feeling how spongy the grass was. I'm like sinking 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.560 into the ground, as if it were kind of rotted 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.719 with a disease. There was this big dead tree in 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.400 the middle of the yard. It just fit into everything perfectly, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.520 you know, even the grass is dead. It kind of 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.560 set the tone from the start, and it just felt 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.200 like really kind of eerie to me. I thought, Wow, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:53.279 this is going to be a spooky experience. As we 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.040 got to the front door, it was partially boarded up. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.800 We crouched through to get into the home. As you enter, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.560 you're in the kitchen, but if you look to your 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:07.960 left there's the living room area, and straight back on. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.560 The very back wall there was like old floral wallpaper, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.159 very dingy looking, and you see what appears to be 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.120 blood splatter. It was a very faded brownish red color. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.719 Just beside that, there are Multiple holes which looked like 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.359 bullet holes. I remember there were a couple holes in 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.599 the ceiling, and then there were at least one or 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.880 two in the floor. We start walking up the stairs 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.640 and they're very creaky. They didn't feel very stable. I 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.800 would just say that I truly felt as though we 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.479 could crash through these stairs at any point in time, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.359 and a little voice in my head was like, probably 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.600 shouldn't go up there, But at the same time, I'm like, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.920 we're here, let's just go up there because we're probably 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.280 never going to come back. A couple of the girls 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.840 stayed downstairs in the kitchen because they didn't want to 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.360 go upstairs. They were all kind of freaked out at 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.719 that point, but we were so stupid we had to 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.040 see what's up there. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:07.640 There were two bedrooms. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:12.800 I only remember walking into one. There was an old 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.240 box spring on the floor and that was it. We 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:17.640 stood in the middle of the room and we were 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.360 kind of talking like, oh man, I can't believe we're here. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.960 So we walked back down the stairs and everyone's kind 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.760 of giving the downstairs area a little once over, and 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:35.920 I noticed a door to the right of where the 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.840 bullet holes and the blood were splattered. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.720 I go, hold on, guys, I got to check something out. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.960 So I walked back there and I go, this has 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.280 to be the place where I pull this prank. I 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.760 tilted my head back and I filled my eye socket 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.960 with as much food coloring as I could, and I 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.720 took my flashlight and I banged it against the wall 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.880 as hard as I could, and then I just started screaming, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.120 bloody murder. Oh, something hit me, something hit me, Like, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.280 we gotta Go, and everyone's freaking out. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.520 Oh my god, what happened? 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:10.160 What happened? 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.280 What looks like blood running down my hand, running down 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:14.120 my face. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.200 And I go, I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.920 Let's go, let's go. And everyone comes, you know, barreling 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.760 out the door as fast as we can. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.040 The house was situated up on a hill. This is 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.559 the part I've just never forget and I feel really badly 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.560 about this, but I remember one girl that she's running 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.319 down the hill. She plows right into her passenger side door. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.960 Just I was in the back just kind of like 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.400 hunched over, keeping my hand over my eye, and the 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.280 girl in the front passenger seat, she was like freaking 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.559 out the most and she just kept screaming, get him 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.360 to the er, get him to the er, like yelling 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:54.559 at the girl to drive faster. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.840 I'm just sitting there like, okay. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.920 At some point I have to let them know that 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.920 this is all ruse. So we pulled into the hospital 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.719 and we're walking toward the er, and I told them 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.040 right before we entered the hospital that it was a prank. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.439 The girls were so mad and then the guys just 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.080 bust up laughing. They thought it was the funniest thing. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.160 The next morning, I woke up for school, probably around 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:28.760 seven o'clock, and I remember walking over to my closet 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:34.719 and there was a freezing cold spot in my room. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.839 It was really strange. There was no central air or 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.440 anything like that. When I opened my closet door, all 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.240 my clothes were kind of in a ball on the floor. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.920 That was very odd because I always hang up everything. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.080 It didn't make any sense to me, but you know, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.400 it's like the morning. I'm just kind of like, all 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.600 right whatever, not trying to think too much about it. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.720 And then I started to hear this whispering. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.360 It sounded like if you're at a wake or something 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:13.040 where everyone's talking but they're quiet. It sounded like an 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.040 entire room of people were speaking at just above a whisper. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:26.480 It was an eerie sound. At first, I thought I'm just 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.319 waking up. Am I just groggy? 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.240 Or what's the deal here? 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.520 And then I went to the bathroom and brushed my 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.680 teeth and all that kind of stuff, and it kind 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:35.800 of intensified. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:36.480 It got louder. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.080 It just kept going, and that's when I realized, Okay, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.280 this isn't me like waking up or having the morning cobwebs. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:56.240 This is actually happening, Like I'm really experiencing this. This 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.360 whispering persisted on my drive to school, as I walked 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.080 into school, as I'm sitting in my classes, it just 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.280 didn't stop. I kind of began to panic. I was 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.240 never one to believe in ghosts or anything like that, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.440 but I was afraid of them, if that makes sense. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.000 I was just like, I really hope ghosts aren't real 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.000 because I'm not built to deal with this, and I 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.920 was scared. I don't know what's going on, but we 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.760 did this stupid thing. I went to this house, I 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.959 pulled this prank, and now I'm hearing all these sounds 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:29.560 in my head. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:36.880 It kept going for two weeks. Two or three nights after, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.440 I started hearing the whispers, I'm laying in my bed 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.800 and seeing like just a shadow and it's four feet 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:51.200 high or so, and I realized it's moving. There's no 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.000 face or anything like that. It's just a black figure. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.520 It looks like it could be a little girl. I 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.760 don't know, but it's something that's like coming toward me 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.199 all the way across my room. Probably fifteen feet from 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.920 my bedroom door to directly in front of where I'm 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.240 resting my head. There were no sounds. It was dead silent. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.840 I'm staring at it. I felt so powerless, and you know, like, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.720 what am I going to do? Start punching at the air? 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.200 I have the chills, and then I start sweating like crazy. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:26.360 I felt like a little kid. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.440 I just pulled the covers over my head and I 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.440 was like, Okay, I'm officially afraid of the dark. I 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.319 didn't pull my head up the rest of the night. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.480 I was really spooked at this point because I feel 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.880 like I'm losing my mind. One of my friends was 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.200 a devout Christian, so I said, can you pray for me? 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.320 He kind of looked at me like I'm crazy or 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.960 I'm making a joke. He wasn't taking me seriously, and 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.880 that's what really hurt. So I ultimately had to go 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.880 to my mom and tell her what I did. She's like, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.840 I think you need to go to the church. It 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.760 was a Catholic church. I went there and I spoke 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.000 with someone and they recommended the cleanse or something like that. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.559 The priest came to my house and put some candles 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.839 and read some scripture and asked whatever evil spirit was 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:25.880 entering my sphere to stay away. I just remember not 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.520 hearing whispers after that point, and then the little figure 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.520 I saw that was the end of that too. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.160 You know, It truly was a very hard time of 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.599 my life, and I hope that I've somehow made amends 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:49.360 to whatever it was. That house held power over me, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.520 power over my subconscious or my reality, whatever you want 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.040 to say. It had a grasp on me for longer 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.839 than I was comfortable with. Thankfully, I was able to 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.320 ask for help at the right time. You know, I 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.080 could have let that house completely destroy me. I could 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.439 have completely fallen apart, but it didn't, and that conquered 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.880 whatever I was dealing with. So I feel a little 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.240 triumphant about the whole thing. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.640 Funny how suddenly everyone's a Catholic when there's a ghost 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:27.120 in town. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.480 I like that whispering thing, though, that's pretty freaky. So far, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:36.400 all I've learned in class is how to do this. Oh, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:43.400 come on, did anyone's lights flicker? Somebody please? Okay, I'm 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.040 going again, comment if your lights are flickering. Okay, I'm 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.400 trying kind of a blanket haunt thing, right, now just 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:56.920 astral projecting myself into as many homes as possible. Oh, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:02.040 we got a flicker in the studio that was all me okay, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.040 how about this. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.480 I'll give away a free personal haunting to one lucky listener. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.400 All you have to do is follow the haunting account 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.480 my personal account and tag two friends in the comments 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.520 with a note about why you deserve to be possessed 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.880 and what a supernatural experience would mean to you. Oh 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.120 and actually lighting a long stem black candle would be helpful. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.720 Screw it, I'll throw in every month of Goodbye fresh 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:24.640 meal kits. Why not? 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.280 While we select our giveaway winner, take a listen to 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:34.240 our next guest, Amber from Alaska, whose haunted friend tracked 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.280 a little demonic dirt into her home. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.640 She was scared. She was really scared. She's like something 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.280 follows me around and it is always with me. Just 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.960 gives me chills again, Like I'm getting chills again from it. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.040 I never really dealt with angry ghosts before. My name 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.120 is Amber and I live in Alaska. And this is 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.960 a story of when my old friend came by and 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:09.480 brought an unexpected visitor Soldotna, Alaska. It's pretty small. We 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.680 got like one Fred Myers. We have a safe way, a Walgreens. 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.040 I don't ever hear my neighbors ever. Like, it was 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.440 really quiet in town and where I live, Like in 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.760 this small town late at night time, it's pretty dang 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.120 quiet here, like sometimes it'll be, you know, like a 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:31.880 ghost town. I was sitting on my couch watching TV. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.640 It was late at night, the kids were in bed. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.480 I got a message on Facebook messenger from an old 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.360 family friend. Brittany's mom and my mom were best friends, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.560 like our whole lives, ever since we were babies. We 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.320 grew up together. We did everything together. We would go 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.840 on road trips together. We just spent like a lot 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:56.240 of our childhood together. And her mom and my mom 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.960 both unfortunately passed away. I was fifteen and I think 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.760 she was like eleven when her mom passed away. You know, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.480 like after we just kind of lost touch. But you know how 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.800 some friendships like just never change no matter how much 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.879 time goes by. Our relationship has always been the same, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.960 and she's like family to me. She randomly messaged me 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.800 one night when I was sitting there and I haven't 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.200 heard from her in a long time, And I replied 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.080 back and she said that she was staying at a 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:29.199 hotel Soldotna. Just around where I live. There's probably like 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.600 four or five hotels within like five minutes. I asked 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.560 her where at She just happened to be in the 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.320 one that was right across the street from me. So 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:42.080 I thought that was pretty crazy. So I told her, Oh, well, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:49.359 come over. I hugged her. Just from looking at the 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.800 expression on her face, I could tell that she's been 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.000 going through some hard times. She was telling me some crazy, 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.440 crazy things that happened to her within the past couple 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.840 of years. One she woke up and her boyfriend had 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.679 passed away. She said that she woke up and he 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.159 was gone, and that, you know, it was devastating to me, Like, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.760 I felt so bad for her. She said, oh yeah, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:16.800 And that's not even the worst of it. She told me. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:22.199 It was her dad and her stepmom's anniversary. They were 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.879 all having a good time celebrating the anniversary. They were 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.639 drinking and stuff. They have birds there at the house. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.160 All of a sudden, one of the birds got out. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.359 I think it was a parakeet. The stepmom like, just 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.919 it set her off. She comes out all mad and 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.000 she's like, this is something you guys, will never forget 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.080 for the rest of your life, and then holds a 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.800 gun to her head and shoots herself right in front 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:56.200 of Brittany and her dad. It gives me goosebumps every 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:00.920 time I even talk about it. To have someone do that, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:06.600 that's intense. I couldn't imagine going through that. She's like 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.199 family to me, like we grew up together, and like, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.640 I just I hate that she had to go through that. 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.680 Right when she was talking about her stepmom, that is 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:23.000 when it all happened, She's like, fuck her. We had 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.080 this little pop up tent in my living room and 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:29.960 it like moved a little bit. We both noticed that 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.240 at the same time, like what the heck? And then 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.240 right after that toy, like one of those ones you push a 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.360 button and it makes noise. It's like a little kid 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.600 toy starts going off and we're like, what the fuck? 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:49.359 And then we hear this bang. It was so frickin' loud. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.159 We could feel it, it sounded like an explosion, but it 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.119 was in my house. What if that loud bang was 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.960 like mimicking a gunshot. We were in the living room, 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.679 we had the front door open. But right after that 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:14.879 loud bang, the front door slammed shut. It was terrifying. 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.960 I've never ever went through anything like this, and I've 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.880 had some crazy stuff happened to me. She was more 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:23.920 scared than I was because what we were talking about, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.080 like she kind of knew because she said something about 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:31.120 she feels like something's falling around, like something's attached to her. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.919 I feel like Brittany just talking about what happened with 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:39.560 her stepmom in the manner that it happened, saying fuck her, 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.920 that pissed off her stepmom's spirit. When you talk about 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.879 someone that has passed away, like in a negative tone, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:55.040 bad things can happen. I try to debunk it myself, like, 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.280 there's no frickin way with that loud bang. I don't 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.760 know what could have caused that. It was nothing in 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.600 my house. You know, everyone was sleeping, It was just me, 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.960 the kids being Brittany. It just felt like something moved 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.960 through my house. The pop up tent and the toy 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.240 and then the bang, and the next thing, you know, 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:16.040 my front door slam shut. It's not a coincidence that she's 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.240 gonna tell me all this crazy shit that happened to her, 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:20.760 and then you know all that happened at one time. 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:23.840 I know that I have angels with me, like my 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:25.960 mom and my sister, like they would never ever, ever 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.120 let anything happen to me. With the front door being 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.320 slammed shut, I think my mom was getting her stepmom's 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:38.280 spirit out. What happened with Brittany was not compared to 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.960 anything that I've ever witnessed or been through the most 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.879 intense thing I've been through with the paranormal. It was terrifying. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.439 Ooh, yikes, Brittany's stepmom is one spirit I hope I 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.840 do not cross paths with. Sounds like she's definitely creeping 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.639 around purg somewhere. But let's announce our winner. Who do 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:08.440 we have, Naomi? 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:13.880 What do you mean there's no winner. No one wants 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:20.960 a free personal haunt. Let me see that. Therésa, The 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.399 light flickering was super cool. Oh thank you. My friends 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.320 and I are terrified of Naomi. Do you think we could, what? 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.679 Hi haunting crew, I've been reading a lot about the 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.280 appearance of succubi in medieval folklore. A visit from Naomi 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.680 would be huge for my thesis. Let's just see here. 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.960 I can't imagine anything scarier than a visit from Naomi, 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.720 she sounds like a terrifying badass. I'm also a huge 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:54.359 fan of Goodbye Fresh. Okay, Naomi has a lot of fans. 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:58.760 That's so fun. I love that. Unfortunately, we're out of 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.360 time for today, I know, bummer and no time to announce 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.639 a winner. Ah shoot, guess that means the contest is 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:10.080 off whomp whomp. Well, thanks for joining us anyway. 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