Therésa: Hello, hauntis welcome back to another episode of Haunting.
Therésa: For all our newbie haunters tuning in. I'm your host Therésa,
Therésa: dead and killing it, and this is our producer, Len
Len: (mumbles)
Therésa: and our undead abomination turned interned Naomi. Purgatory is all
Therésa: a buzz right now because we've had a lot of
Therésa: high profilers passing through lately, Hollywood royalty, politicians, my old
Therésa: sugar daddy, Rick. I don't really care because to me,
Therésa: celebrities are just people. I grew up in LA. Calista Flockhart's
Therésa: niece was in my kindergarten class okay.
Therésa: She was Ali McBeal and Ali. It doesn't matter. Point is,
Therésa: I'm not phased. It actually only depresses me more because
Therésa: when will I pass through? I think my caseworker Sharon
Therésa: noticed I was feeling down about the whole not crossing
Therésa: over thing. She signed me up for a Haunting one
Therésa: oh one class. At first, I was like, ew, I
Therésa: have no interest in spending my unlimited free time in
Therésa: a rec hall basement with a bunch of sad sack, spooky wannabes.
Therésa: But it's actually been pretty fun and kind of breakfast
Therésa: club chic. One thing I learned recently that surprised me
Therésa: is that pretty much any noun can be haunted things, places, houses,
Therésa: of course. But I once saw on a Nat Geo
Therésa: special that the entire Florida Keys are haunted. Now, personally,
Therésa: I think all of Florida is haunted. But I'll let
Therésa: you guys have that debate in the comments. I digress
Therésa: people can be haunted too. Obviously, the best example of
Therésa: this is Nicholas Cage.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Of course he is. Kristen Stewart too, and Mitch McConnell ,
Therésa: Ted Cruz, Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Jean Simmons, Courtney Cox.
Therésa: Yeah surprising, Yeah, definitely. Some people are just more porous
Therésa: to the supernatural. It's like getting gum stuck on the
Therésa: bottom of your shoe. But it takes a powerful spirit
Therésa: to haunt a person. It's a real commitment. You're dealing
Therésa: with personalities, travel, always being on Sorry, right, getting off track.
Therésa: All of this is relevant today's episode because it features
Therésa: not one, but two haunted people. First up, is William
Therésa: from Ohio and his experience with the Potter House. And
Therésa: before all, you millennials, cream your skinny jeans, it's not
Therésa: that Potter House, so relax.
STORY A: When I was in high school, we started hearing about
STORY A: this house called the Potter House. It was a little
STORY A: farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by fields
STORY A: on either side, and it's just flat with long, barren
STORY A: country roads. Turns out the Potter House had a dark history.
STORY A: The story was there was a man who lived there
STORY A: who shot his wife and children and then took his
STORY A: own life in the house. The murder suicide happened in
STORY A: the seventies, and then the house just kind of sat abandoned.
STORY A: Kids from other high schools visited it, and to my knowledge,
STORY A: nobody in my school had gone yet.
STORY A: We were all just kind of learning about it.
STORY A: So we decided to go there and check it out
STORY A: and cure our boredom and our curiosity by going inside
STORY A: this house and seeing.
STORY A: What it was all about.
STORY A: But I didn't know at the time it would have
STORY A: such a dark power over me for a really long time.
STORY A: My name is William, and I believe I was haunted
STORY A: after going to a house where murder once happened. I
STORY A: just remember hearing it over and over again.
STORY A: Oh, the Potter house, Potter house, Potter house said, well, you know, it's
STORY A: not far away.
STORY A: It's like fifteen minutes away from my house, maybe twenty
STORY A: be easy just to go there and check it out.
STORY A: Mainly we were bored and curious. This house is supposedly haunted.
STORY A: Before heading over, I have this crazy idea about a prank.
STORY A: I'm going to pretend like I get hit by a ghost.
STORY A: I put this fake blood on me and everyone freaks out,
STORY A: and then afterward everyone has a laugh.
STORY A: So that was my plan.
STORY A: My mother had different types of food coloring, and when
STORY A: you put it on fresh, it really does look like blood.
STORY A: So I took the little oval Vial and I put
STORY A: it in my pocket and I said, this is definitely
STORY A: going to come in handy.
STORY A: There was eight or nine of us and we all
STORY A: carpooled there. We had two cars.
STORY A: One car I remember had the girls in it, and
STORY A: then the other car had the guys in it. To
STORY A: get to the house, we drive down these barren country
STORY A: roads with fields on either side and maybe a small
STORY A: forest here or there, but it's just flat and it's
STORY A: kind of spooky. It was around October, and I remember
STORY A: that specifically because we had school the next day. I
STORY A: remember feeling how spongy the grass was. I'm like sinking
STORY A: into the ground, as if it were kind of rotted
STORY A: with a disease. There was this big dead tree in
STORY A: the middle of the yard. It just fit into everything perfectly,
STORY A: you know, even the grass is dead. It kind of
STORY A: set the tone from the start, and it just felt
STORY A: like really kind of eerie to me. I thought, Wow,
STORY A: this is going to be a spooky experience. As we
STORY A: got to the front door, it was partially boarded up.
STORY A: We crouched through to get into the home. As you enter,
STORY A: you're in the kitchen, but if you look to your
STORY A: left there's the living room area, and straight back on.
STORY A: The very back wall there was like old floral wallpaper,
STORY A: very dingy looking, and you see what appears to be
STORY A: blood splatter. It was a very faded brownish red color.
STORY A: Just beside that, there are Multiple holes which looked like
STORY A: bullet holes. I remember there were a couple holes in
STORY A: the ceiling, and then there were at least one or
STORY A: two in the floor. We start walking up the stairs
STORY A: and they're very creaky. They didn't feel very stable. I
STORY A: would just say that I truly felt as though we
STORY A: could crash through these stairs at any point in time,
STORY A: and a little voice in my head was like, probably
STORY A: shouldn't go up there, But at the same time, I'm like,
STORY A: we're here, let's just go up there because we're probably
STORY A: never going to come back. A couple of the girls
STORY A: stayed downstairs in the kitchen because they didn't want to
STORY A: go upstairs. They were all kind of freaked out at
STORY A: that point, but we were so stupid we had to
STORY A: see what's up there.
STORY A: There were two bedrooms.
STORY A: I only remember walking into one. There was an old
STORY A: box spring on the floor and that was it. We
STORY A: stood in the middle of the room and we were
STORY A: kind of talking like, oh man, I can't believe we're here.
STORY A: So we walked back down the stairs and everyone's kind
STORY A: of giving the downstairs area a little once over, and
STORY A: I noticed a door to the right of where the
STORY A: bullet holes and the blood were splattered.
STORY A: I go, hold on, guys, I got to check something out.
STORY A: So I walked back there and I go, this has
STORY A: to be the place where I pull this prank. I
STORY A: tilted my head back and I filled my eye socket
STORY A: with as much food coloring as I could, and I
STORY A: took my flashlight and I banged it against the wall
STORY A: as hard as I could, and then I just started screaming,
STORY A: bloody murder. Oh, something hit me, something hit me, Like,
STORY A: we gotta Go, and everyone's freaking out.
STORY A: Oh my god, what happened?
STORY A: What happened?
STORY A: What looks like blood running down my hand, running down
STORY A: my face.
STORY A: And I go, I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding.
STORY A: Let's go, let's go. And everyone comes, you know, barreling
STORY A: out the door as fast as we can.
STORY A: The house was situated up on a hill. This is
STORY A: the part I've just never forget and I feel really badly
STORY A: about this, but I remember one girl that she's running
STORY A: down the hill. She plows right into her passenger side door.
STORY A: Just I was in the back just kind of like
STORY A: hunched over, keeping my hand over my eye, and the
STORY A: girl in the front passenger seat, she was like freaking
STORY A: out the most and she just kept screaming, get him
STORY A: to the er, get him to the er, like yelling
STORY A: at the girl to drive faster.
STORY A: I'm just sitting there like, okay.
STORY A: At some point I have to let them know that
STORY A: this is all ruse. So we pulled into the hospital
STORY A: and we're walking toward the er, and I told them
STORY A: right before we entered the hospital that it was a prank.
STORY A: The girls were so mad and then the guys just
STORY A: bust up laughing. They thought it was the funniest thing.
STORY A: The next morning, I woke up for school, probably around
STORY A: seven o'clock, and I remember walking over to my closet
STORY A: and there was a freezing cold spot in my room.
STORY A: It was really strange. There was no central air or
STORY A: anything like that. When I opened my closet door, all
STORY A: my clothes were kind of in a ball on the floor.
STORY A: That was very odd because I always hang up everything.
STORY A: It didn't make any sense to me, but you know,
STORY A: it's like the morning. I'm just kind of like, all
STORY A: right whatever, not trying to think too much about it.
STORY A: And then I started to hear this whispering.
STORY A: It sounded like if you're at a wake or something
STORY A: where everyone's talking but they're quiet. It sounded like an
STORY A: entire room of people were speaking at just above a whisper.
STORY A: It was an eerie sound. At first, I thought I'm just
STORY A: waking up. Am I just groggy?
STORY A: Or what's the deal here?
STORY A: And then I went to the bathroom and brushed my
STORY A: teeth and all that kind of stuff, and it kind
STORY A: of intensified.
STORY A: It got louder.
STORY A: It just kept going, and that's when I realized, Okay,
STORY A: this isn't me like waking up or having the morning cobwebs.
STORY A: This is actually happening, Like I'm really experiencing this. This
STORY A: whispering persisted on my drive to school, as I walked
STORY A: into school, as I'm sitting in my classes, it just
STORY A: didn't stop. I kind of began to panic. I was
STORY A: never one to believe in ghosts or anything like that,
STORY A: but I was afraid of them, if that makes sense.
STORY A: I was just like, I really hope ghosts aren't real
STORY A: because I'm not built to deal with this, and I
STORY A: was scared. I don't know what's going on, but we
STORY A: did this stupid thing. I went to this house, I
STORY A: pulled this prank, and now I'm hearing all these sounds
STORY A: in my head.
STORY A: It kept going for two weeks. Two or three nights after,
STORY A: I started hearing the whispers, I'm laying in my bed
STORY A: and seeing like just a shadow and it's four feet
STORY A: high or so, and I realized it's moving. There's no
STORY A: face or anything like that. It's just a black figure.
STORY A: It looks like it could be a little girl. I
STORY A: don't know, but it's something that's like coming toward me
STORY A: all the way across my room. Probably fifteen feet from
STORY A: my bedroom door to directly in front of where I'm
STORY A: resting my head. There were no sounds. It was dead silent.
STORY A: I'm staring at it. I felt so powerless, and you know, like,
STORY A: what am I going to do? Start punching at the air?
STORY A: I have the chills, and then I start sweating like crazy.
STORY A: I felt like a little kid.
STORY A: I just pulled the covers over my head and I
STORY A: was like, Okay, I'm officially afraid of the dark. I
STORY A: didn't pull my head up the rest of the night.
STORY A: I was really spooked at this point because I feel
STORY A: like I'm losing my mind. One of my friends was
STORY A: a devout Christian, so I said, can you pray for me?
STORY A: He kind of looked at me like I'm crazy or
STORY A: I'm making a joke. He wasn't taking me seriously, and
STORY A: that's what really hurt. So I ultimately had to go
STORY A: to my mom and tell her what I did. She's like,
STORY A: I think you need to go to the church. It
STORY A: was a Catholic church. I went there and I spoke
STORY A: with someone and they recommended the cleanse or something like that.
STORY A: The priest came to my house and put some candles
STORY A: and read some scripture and asked whatever evil spirit was
STORY A: entering my sphere to stay away. I just remember not
STORY A: hearing whispers after that point, and then the little figure
STORY A: I saw that was the end of that too.
STORY A: You know, It truly was a very hard time of
STORY A: my life, and I hope that I've somehow made amends
STORY A: to whatever it was. That house held power over me,
STORY A: power over my subconscious or my reality, whatever you want
STORY A: to say. It had a grasp on me for longer
STORY A: than I was comfortable with. Thankfully, I was able to
STORY A: ask for help at the right time. You know, I
STORY A: could have let that house completely destroy me. I could
STORY A: have completely fallen apart, but it didn't, and that conquered
STORY A: whatever I was dealing with. So I feel a little
STORY A: triumphant about the whole thing.
Therésa: Funny how suddenly everyone's a Catholic when there's a ghost
Therésa: in town.
Therésa: I like that whispering thing, though, that's pretty freaky. So far,
Therésa: all I've learned in class is how to do this. Oh,
Therésa: come on, did anyone's lights flicker? Somebody please? Okay, I'm
Therésa: going again, comment if your lights are flickering. Okay, I'm
Therésa: trying kind of a blanket haunt thing, right, now just
Therésa: astral projecting myself into as many homes as possible. Oh,
Therésa: we got a flicker in the studio that was all me okay,
Therésa: how about this.
Therésa: I'll give away a free personal haunting to one lucky listener.
Therésa: All you have to do is follow the haunting account
Therésa: my personal account and tag two friends in the comments
Therésa: with a note about why you deserve to be possessed
Therésa: and what a supernatural experience would mean to you. Oh
Therésa: and actually lighting a long stem black candle would be helpful.
Therésa: Screw it, I'll throw in every month of Goodbye fresh
Therésa: meal kits. Why not?
Therésa: While we select our giveaway winner, take a listen to
Therésa: our next guest, Amber from Alaska, whose haunted friend tracked
Therésa: a little demonic dirt into her home.
STORY B: She was scared. She was really scared. She's like something
STORY B: follows me around and it is always with me. Just
STORY B: gives me chills again, Like I'm getting chills again from it.
STORY B: I never really dealt with angry ghosts before. My name
STORY B: is Amber and I live in Alaska. And this is
STORY B: a story of when my old friend came by and
STORY B: brought an unexpected visitor Soldotna, Alaska. It's pretty small. We
STORY B: got like one Fred Myers. We have a safe way, a Walgreens.
STORY B: I don't ever hear my neighbors ever. Like, it was
STORY B: really quiet in town and where I live, Like in
STORY B: this small town late at night time, it's pretty dang
STORY B: quiet here, like sometimes it'll be, you know, like a
STORY B: ghost town. I was sitting on my couch watching TV.
STORY B: It was late at night, the kids were in bed.
STORY B: I got a message on Facebook messenger from an old
STORY B: family friend. Brittany's mom and my mom were best friends,
STORY B: like our whole lives, ever since we were babies. We
STORY B: grew up together. We did everything together. We would go
STORY B: on road trips together. We just spent like a lot
STORY B: of our childhood together. And her mom and my mom
STORY B: both unfortunately passed away. I was fifteen and I think
STORY B: she was like eleven when her mom passed away. You know,
STORY B: like after we just kind of lost touch. But you know how
STORY B: some friendships like just never change no matter how much
STORY B: time goes by. Our relationship has always been the same,
STORY B: and she's like family to me. She randomly messaged me
STORY B: one night when I was sitting there and I haven't
STORY B: heard from her in a long time, And I replied
STORY B: back and she said that she was staying at a
STORY B: hotel Soldotna. Just around where I live. There's probably like
STORY B: four or five hotels within like five minutes. I asked
STORY B: her where at She just happened to be in the
STORY B: one that was right across the street from me. So
STORY B: I thought that was pretty crazy. So I told her, Oh, well,
STORY B: come over. I hugged her. Just from looking at the
STORY B: expression on her face, I could tell that she's been
STORY B: going through some hard times. She was telling me some crazy,
STORY B: crazy things that happened to her within the past couple
STORY B: of years. One she woke up and her boyfriend had
STORY B: passed away. She said that she woke up and he
STORY B: was gone, and that, you know, it was devastating to me, Like,
STORY B: I felt so bad for her. She said, oh yeah,
STORY B: And that's not even the worst of it. She told me.
STORY B: It was her dad and her stepmom's anniversary. They were
STORY B: all having a good time celebrating the anniversary. They were
STORY B: drinking and stuff. They have birds there at the house.
STORY B: All of a sudden, one of the birds got out.
STORY B: I think it was a parakeet. The stepmom like, just
STORY B: it set her off. She comes out all mad and
STORY B: she's like, this is something you guys, will never forget
STORY B: for the rest of your life, and then holds a
STORY B: gun to her head and shoots herself right in front
STORY B: of Brittany and her dad. It gives me goosebumps every
STORY B: time I even talk about it. To have someone do that,
STORY B: that's intense. I couldn't imagine going through that. She's like
STORY B: family to me, like we grew up together, and like,
STORY B: I just I hate that she had to go through that.
STORY B: Right when she was talking about her stepmom, that is
STORY B: when it all happened, She's like, fuck her. We had
STORY B: this little pop up tent in my living room and
STORY B: it like moved a little bit. We both noticed that
STORY B: at the same time, like what the heck? And then
STORY B: right after that toy, like one of those ones you push a
STORY B: button and it makes noise. It's like a little kid
STORY B: toy starts going off and we're like, what the fuck?
STORY B: And then we hear this bang. It was so frickin' loud.
STORY B: We could feel it, it sounded like an explosion, but it
STORY B: was in my house. What if that loud bang was
STORY B: like mimicking a gunshot. We were in the living room,
STORY B: we had the front door open. But right after that
STORY B: loud bang, the front door slammed shut. It was terrifying.
STORY B: I've never ever went through anything like this, and I've
STORY B: had some crazy stuff happened to me. She was more
STORY B: scared than I was because what we were talking about,
STORY B: like she kind of knew because she said something about
STORY B: she feels like something's falling around, like something's attached to her.
STORY B: I feel like Brittany just talking about what happened with
STORY B: her stepmom in the manner that it happened, saying fuck her,
STORY B: that pissed off her stepmom's spirit. When you talk about
STORY B: someone that has passed away, like in a negative tone,
STORY B: bad things can happen. I try to debunk it myself, like,
STORY B: there's no frickin way with that loud bang. I don't
STORY B: know what could have caused that. It was nothing in
STORY B: my house. You know, everyone was sleeping, It was just me,
STORY B: the kids being Brittany. It just felt like something moved
STORY B: through my house. The pop up tent and the toy
STORY B: and then the bang, and the next thing, you know,
STORY B: my front door slam shut. It's not a coincidence that she's
STORY B: gonna tell me all this crazy shit that happened to her,
STORY B: and then you know all that happened at one time.
STORY B: I know that I have angels with me, like my
STORY B: mom and my sister, like they would never ever, ever
STORY B: let anything happen to me. With the front door being
STORY B: slammed shut, I think my mom was getting her stepmom's
STORY B: spirit out. What happened with Brittany was not compared to
STORY B: anything that I've ever witnessed or been through the most
STORY B: intense thing I've been through with the paranormal. It was terrifying.
Therésa: Ooh, yikes, Brittany's stepmom is one spirit I hope I
Therésa: do not cross paths with. Sounds like she's definitely creeping
Therésa: around purg somewhere. But let's announce our winner. Who do
Therésa: we have, Naomi?
Therésa: What do you mean there's no winner. No one wants
Therésa: a free personal haunt. Let me see that. Therésa, The
Therésa: light flickering was super cool. Oh thank you. My friends
Therésa: and I are terrified of Naomi. Do you think we could, what?
Therésa: Hi haunting crew, I've been reading a lot about the
Therésa: appearance of succubi in medieval folklore. A visit from Naomi
Therésa: would be huge for my thesis. Let's just see here.
Therésa: I can't imagine anything scarier than a visit from Naomi,
Therésa: she sounds like a terrifying badass. I'm also a huge
Therésa: fan of Goodbye Fresh. Okay, Naomi has a lot of fans.
Therésa: That's so fun. I love that. Unfortunately, we're out of
Therésa: time for today, I know, bummer and no time to announce
Therésa: a winner. Ah shoot, guess that means the contest is
Therésa: off whomp whomp. Well, thanks for joining us anyway. As always,
Therésa: if you've got us scare to share, maybe my cool
Therésa: lights thing as an example, email Len at Hauntingthepodcast@gmail.com and
Therésa: join us next week for more Haunting. Len, a word please.
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