Therésa: Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to the tenth episode of
Therésa: Haunting Purgatory's premiere podcast, where we share original, one hundred
Therésa: percent real stories about mortal encounters with the paranormal. Our
Therésa: little old podcast is officially double digits today. Now, I
Therésa: know that's not some big, crazy milestone or anything, but
Therésa: as my therapist used to preach, it's about celebrating the
Therésa: little wins. Of course, she was referring to managing my
Therésa: Real Housewives addiction, but I think the sentiment applies here too,
Therésa: and for what it's worth, by the end, I was
Therésa: only watching Salt Lake, Yes, by far, the best of
Therésa: the franchise. Now, I'm not usually one to get sappy on main ,
Therésa: but I'm really proud of what we've accomplished in the
Therésa: last ten episodes. A lot of people have been truly terrified,
Therésa: maybe even had life changing experiences that haunt them to
Therésa: this day. But what matters more is that I've really grown.
Therésa: When I died and found out I'd be stuck in
Therésa: Purgatory hosting this podcast for the rest of eternity, or
Therésa: until my unfinished business was finished, I kind of freaked,
Therésa: but after a meltdown in my rage room, My rage
Therésa: room is an abandoned tuberculosis hospital where I go and
Therésa: bang on pipes to get my aggression out. I came
Therésa: to terms with my new reality and decided to turn
Therésa: my lemons into lemon infused charcoal detox water
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: It's Gwyneth's take on lemonade, Len.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Oh my god, Len. Keep up. But I have to say
Therésa: I've really learned a lot, not just about the afterlife,
Therésa: but about expressing myself in a non visual medium. For example,
Therésa: as a spirit, I don't show up in photos anymore.
Therésa: So if I want people to know I spent my
Therésa: weekend haunting the VIP section of Pacha Ibiza with Liberace
Therésa: and River Phoenix, I have to mention it repeatedly. You
Therésa: could say I'm feeling pretty at peace these days, almost
Therésa: like my business is finished. Yep, don't tell my caseworker
Therésa: Sharon that my business is feeling pretty finished. I thought
Therésa: that might work, but okay, no, I get it. You
Therésa: gotta trust the process. Anyway, Now we're gonna hear from Karlyn,
Therésa: who is every supernatural podcast host dream listener, because well
Therésa: she can actually hear us.
STORY A: I'm not really sure what to call it. When it starts,
STORY A: it will go in and out, like you're popping your
STORY A: head above water and then going under again, like when
STORY A: water rushes into your ear. I mostly hear voices, but
STORY A: it's hard to distinguish what they're saying because it's usually
STORY A: many voices. But it's just me hearing this. No one
STORY A: else can hear it. This has happened before to me,
STORY A: so I kind of just like brush it off. But
STORY A: this one time it really scared me. Hi I'm Karlyn.
STORY A: I think that ghost might be trying to communicate with me.
STORY A: This was a couple of years ago. I was in
STORY A: my apartment. It was just a normal night in New
STORY A: York City. My boyfriend and I had gone to bed,
STORY A: but the light was still on in the living room.
STORY A: It's not like we shut everything off. We were in
STORY A: bed for maybe ten minutes and then he dozed off.
STORY A: My apartment's a railroad apartment. There's a straight line going
STORY A: from the left. There's a backyard, and then there is
STORY A: my bedroom, then the living room, and then there's a
STORY A: really long hallway where the kitchen is in. I had
STORY A: my eyes closed, but I was awake, and I hear
STORY A: this seventies rock music playing, and I also hear people
STORY A: laughing and talking. The voices get like louder, like someone's
STORY A: like shouting and excitement, and it sounds like it's a
STORY A: karaoke party. So I opened my eyes. It's silent. There's
STORY A: no party going on. The light was still on in
STORY A: the living room, but nothing else. Nothing was on. We
STORY A: didn't have a TV or radio on. It was weird,
STORY A: but I brush it off and I'm just laying down
STORY A: like awake you know, when your eyes are just closed,
STORY A: but you're not really sleeping, you're just on the cusp
STORY A: of it. And then my ears pop. The best way
STORY A: for me to describe it is when you go under
STORY A: water and the water fills your ears and it sounds empty,
STORY A: kind of like an echo of nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
STORY A: And then it changes. There's radio static. It sounds like
STORY A: someone is changing the radio station , like someone's trying
STORY A: to look for a channel. And then it'll be like voices,
STORY A: and then it'll change again to something else, and it's
STORY A: very quick, and then I hear a very clear nine
STORY A: one one call. I hear the operator first the address
STORY A: of your emergency typical operator, like where are you, like,
STORY A: what can I do for you? You know, It's a
STORY A: woman and she's very frantic. She is trapped in a
STORY A: house and the nine one one operator asks her if
STORY A: someone is in the house with her. She says, yes,
STORY A: he's in here. He's trapped me in the house. I
STORY A: can hear this woman's panic and it kind of just
STORY A: escalated to her screaming for help, and it's so loud,
STORY A: and then it changes very fast. Other voices start to
STORY A: come in. Some are speaking different languages. Some are whispery
STORY A: and very fast, like they're rushed to say what they're saying,
STORY A: very creepy. And then some are really loud, but it's
STORY A: kind of muffled and far away, so it's hard to
STORY A: make out what they're saying. And it's just like a
STORY A: whirlwind of voices trying to talk to me. I can't
STORY A: hear what they're saying. They're all talking over each other.
STORY A: And then it gets louder until everyone is shouting in
STORY A: my ears. It's so loud it hurts my ears, and
STORY A: then I start to freak out. There's a weight in
STORY A: the room. I can sense their presence right next to me.
STORY A: It's close, like it's right on top of me. It
STORY A: gets really overwhelming, so I just feel like I need
STORY A: to pull myself out of it, and it feels like
STORY A: it takes a long time. But all I do is
STORY A: just open my eyes and everything stops. I'm awake. My
STORY A: body's awake, my mind is awake, my adrenaline is rushing.
STORY A: And then I roll over and I look up right
STORY A: above me is this shadow figure floating above me. I
STORY A: was frozen in fear and awe. I've never seen a
STORY A: shadow person. It was massive, the very tall male shape,
STORY A: and it didn't seem friendly. I'm just in shock staring
STORY A: at it, and it starts to move towards me. I
STORY A: was like, oh my god, I can't believe what I'm
STORY A: actually seeing right now. And it's not really dark in
STORY A: the room, you know, there's light coming in from the
STORY A: living room, so I'm seeing it. It's not my shadow
STORY A: or anyone else's shadow. I don't take my eyes off it.
STORY A: I just start hitting my boyfriend, trying to wake him up.
STORY A: I want him to see what I'm seeing, but I
STORY A: also need protection. He just like grabs me and holds
STORY A: me and he's like ssh, like relax, and I like
STORY A: curl into him. I kind of take a deep breath,
STORY A: and then I look back up at the ceiling. The
STORY A: shadow figure is gone. It scared me. It was probably
STORY A: the scariest thing that's happened to me in a very
STORY A: long time. This wasn't a night terror, and it wasn't
STORY A: sleep paralysis. I've told this story to my friends. They
STORY A: think that it's spirits trying to communicate with me, like
STORY A: I'm almost a channel for these spirits or whatever. On the
STORY A: other side, I do think I'm sensitive to it, and
STORY A: I'm open to it, whether I want to be or not.
STORY A: But I'm scared, and I don't know how to get
STORY A: over my fear and really open up and listen to
STORY A: see if I can actually hear what they have to say.
STORY A: Because it's so many voices at one time it's overwhelming.
STORY A: But I felt like if I was less scared and
STORY A: more open to it, the voices would come through more clearly.
STORY A: In those moments, I feel very vulnerable, like I'm open
STORY A: for good things, but I'm also open for bad things,
STORY A: and I feel the bad things, like I feel the
STORY A: bad energy and I'm like, okay, I need to close
STORY A: it off. I feel like I've never had a good
STORY A: experience it's more like very neutral or it's very bad.
STORY A: I am interested in finding out if I am a medium,
STORY A: but it's also kind of scary.
Therésa: Karlyn Girl, tune into our channel. It's a party. No
Therésa: shadow people over here, just two well meaning spirits and
Therésa: one poorly adapted demonic intern celebrating a small but mighty
Therésa: milestone in their other worldly career endeavors. I'm sorry, Naomi,
Therésa: but your work ethic is inconsistent and your disregard for
Therésa: authority is troubling. Right, So I want to give you
Therésa: my rose, bud and thorn of this whole experience so far,
Therésa: I would say my rose was episode eight when I
Therésa: learned about the afterlife dating apps, and my thorn was
Therésa: probably in episode six when I accidentally alienated Jimmy Buffet's
Therésa: entire fan base. Len, maybe we just delete that one?
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Ugh, fine. Well, my bud, which is something I'm looking
Therésa: forward to that has blooming potential, is continuing to learn
Therésa: more about all the different types of spiritual entities out
Therésa: there and the creative ways they inflict suffering and terror
Therésa: on their human targets, and the potential for free stuff
Therésa: from pr people. Yeah, we like free stuff.
Therésa: Now, if you have any favorite moments from the last
Therésa: ten episodes you'd like to share, email Len at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com
Therésa: and while you do, listen to Alex, who continues our
Therésa: celebratory theme of the auditory Haunt with this next story.
STORY B: I've heard a lot of the paranormal sounding stories from people.
STORY B: Part of me always was like, oh, man, I kind
STORY B: of wish something like that would happen to me. When
STORY B: it did, I instantly regret ever having a desire for
STORY B: something like this to happen to me. Our first thought was,
STORY B: something is behind us. We saw darkness. We can't see there,
STORY B: but whatever is there can see us. It's definitely very haunting.
STORY B: We make a run for it. We booked it. My
STORY B: name is Alex and one night in a forest in Spain,
STORY B: I heard something scream from behind me and it still
STORY B: haunts me to this day. It was in June of
STORY B: twenty thirteen. It took place in a small coastal farmtown
STORY B: in Galicia, which is in the northwest of Spain. I
STORY B: was about twenty four years old at the time. I
STORY B: have a lot of family in Spain. My mom is Spanish.
STORY B: Growing up going to Spain, it was something we did
STORY B: almost every summer to see family and stuff, and you know,
STORY B: it's a really unique, beautiful town. So it took a
STORY B: couple of weeks off of work and with a really
STORY B: good friend of mine. I think it had been like
STORY B: a couple of years since I had last went at
STORY B: that time. You know, I've been going there almost every
STORY B: summer of my life and wanted to share that with
STORY B: somebody else. So we made our way there. We brought
STORY B: our nice camera, so we were really hoping that we
STORY B: would get to practice some night photography while we were there.
STORY B: I've always felt very safe there. We always used to say,
STORY B: oh my god, this is a small town. Whatever bad
STORY B: could happen here. When we were young, we used to
STORY B: take night walks as a family, and we were just
STORY B: always kind of just think, oh my gosh, like, you know,
STORY B: this is so safe. We never heard anything about animals,
STORY B: We never heard anything about people coming through and doing
STORY B: any harm to anybody. We had about four days left
STORY B: on our trip, and you know, we really wanted to
STORY B: test out the camera. We had never done night photography before.
STORY B: We bought a remote shutter for it. The first night
STORY B: we wanted to go take pictures of this lighthouse they
STORY B: call it Alfaro. When you think of your traditional lighthouse,
STORY B: you think of the shape and you know the beacon
STORY B: at the top, and this one just it was a
STORY B: unique architecture. It's something a lot of people come to visit.
STORY B: This is, you know, this big rectangular building with a
STORY B: beacon on top that you know spins. Underneath the lighthouse,
STORY B: You have these like tunnels and these bunkers that were
STORY B: built during the Spanish Civil War. They were used as
STORY B: lookout points to see if the French were invading. It's
STORY B: been there for almost one hundred years or something. It
STORY B: just seemed like a natural thing to take night photos of.
STORY B: I would say you to get there from my house,
STORY B: it's got to be about forty five minutes to an
STORY B: hour walk. It's not too far away. You know, you
STORY B: have to walk through the town, you know, you walk
STORY B: past all these houses and then you get to the
STORY B: entrance of the forest. At night, you see the beacon
STORY B: of light spinning, so it's almost kind of like it
STORY B: draws you. It's pretty much a straight shot, you know,
STORY B: you just kind of follow the road. You get to
STORY B: the forest, and then that takes you up to the
STORY B: cliffs and then you make a right and you just kind
STORY B: of follow the road all the way and then kind
STORY B: of curves around and then you just kind of walk.
STORY B: Honestly, The biggest danger you might have a crazy spaniard just
STORY B: driving super fast on that road. First night went absolutely amazing.
STORY B: You know. We visited some of the bunkers underneath and
STORY B: we got some great photos. It was a moonless night.
STORY B: It was so dark, yet in a way, the sky
STORY B: was so bright with stars. I had never seen so
STORY B: many stars in my life, just like a mess of stars.
STORY B: We decided to come back at two in the morning.
STORY B: When we were walking back, we even stopped in the
STORY B: forest take a few night photos in there. So the
STORY B: next night we were like, let's do this again, let's
STORY B: go do more. It was the same situation. Couldn't see
STORY B: the moon, mess of stars in the sky. We were
STORY B: out there a little longer than the night before, because
STORY B: you just lose yourself when you're doing this one shot.
STORY B: You do a three minute exposure and you just keep
STORY B: doing that until you get one next thing. You know,
STORY B: oh wow, it's about three now I really should be
STORY B: walking home now. We're walking back now through the forest.
STORY B: Everything's fine. We had a little radio with us that
STORY B: we were playing music, and all of a sudden we
STORY B: hear this loud, high pitched, female sounding shriek from very
STORY B: close behind us. Obviously, we got extremely startled. We just
STORY B: stopped in our tracks and both of us kind of
STORY B: whipped our bodies around to look and it was just
STORY B: darkness behind us. My mind was just racing and I'm
STORY B: trying to kind of give a facade like okay, okay, but on
STORY B: the inside, I'm like, something is about to emerge from
STORY B: the darkness, and the most I can do is buy
STORY B: five seconds for my friend here. We just didn't know
STORY B: what to do. And then another scream. It must have
STORY B: been fifteen seconds after. At that point, we do our
STORY B: best impression of an Olympic sprinter. We turn around and
STORY B: we just run. I'll never forget. As we're running, I hear
STORY B: the stream two more times. We get to the entrance
STORY B: of the forest and hear it again, but it sounds
STORY B: further enough. Adrenaline is pumping. I remember my heart beating
STORY B: so fast. It just felt like once we got to the
STORY B: entrance of the forest, we didn't need to run anymore.
STORY B: The screams were way behind us now, didn't seem like
STORY B: anything was following us. We felt safe at that point.
STORY B: We made our way back into the town and I
STORY B: remember all of the neighbors dogs barking, howling. Normally the
STORY B: dogs will bark at you if you walk by, but
STORY B: I remember that night like you could just hear all
STORY B: of the dogs barking from all the houses. I remember
STORY B: we were walking by my uncle's house and he had
STORY B: this really nice dog that would usually come and greet us,
STORY B: and I remember we kind of walked by and the
STORY B: dog came up, but the dog seemed very tense and
STORY B: almost kind of retreated a little bit and was growling.
STORY B: You know, I felt like we got a lot of
STORY B: bad energy on us right now, and it was agitating
STORY B: all the animals. I felt terrible. You know, I bring
STORY B: my really really great friend to Spain with me and
STORY B: tell her family, don't worry, I'll keep her safe. Well,
STORY B: it was so scary about it was just how close
STORY B: it was to us, and just how all four times
STORY B: that I heard the scream it was the same tone,
STORY B: the same length, the same. It just was definitely very haunting.
STORY B: When we got back to the house, we tried to
STORY B: think about it practically. Well, what could this have really been?
STORY B: You know, it felt paranormal. But you know, we're just
STORY B: trying to think, maybe it was an animal? Maybe it
STORY B: was a bird? I had never heard of any animals.
STORY B: I don't think I've ever really even seen deer in
STORY B: that forest. All my life growing up, nobody ever said, oh,
STORY B: watch out, there's big cats or something. It was certainly
STORY B: the most bizarre thing I had personally ever experienced in
STORY B: my life. With a female sounding scream, we would always
STORY B: call her the Little Banshee Woman of Spain. From what
STORY B: I know about banshee's, it's like screaming ghosts. You hear
STORY B: the scream and you want to get away from the scream.
STORY B: You know, some people ask me, do you think that
STORY B: the ghost put a curse on you or something? And
STORY B: I'm like, you know, I can't tell for sure, but
STORY B: hopefully I've done enough to lift that curse. I can't lie.
STORY B: I'm still a bit skeptical, but in my heart, it
STORY B: really did feel paranormal to me. I truly believe people
STORY B: experience things that are just out of this world.
Therésa: Spooky, yes, But the Little Banshee Woman of Spain is
Therésa: a great name for a band. Well, I've almost polished
Therésa: off this bottle of Champagne completely on my own because
Therésa: Len refuses to have any fun at all while we're
Therésa: on the clock. What clock, There's no time here. I
Therésa: don't even know how long I've been dead. But truly,
Therésa: from the bottom of my heart, thank you to our
Therésa: listeners for tuning in, sharing your stories, and engaging with
Therésa: us via email, the feed, dms, and psychic mediums. I
Therésa: read every single positive comment about me. Remember, everyone, this
Therésa: is just the beginning of Haunting, and we want to
Therésa: share your stories. So if you've ever been personally victimized
Therésa: by a malicious spirit, don't let it have been in vain.
Therésa: Share it on the pod. Email Len at Haunting ThePodcast@gmail.com. You
Therésa: never know. It might even feel cathartic. Oh boy, Naomi
Therésa: opened another. Here we go! Naomi, You're bad. You want
Therésa: to watch Real Housewives Salt Lake after this? Okay, betch.
Therésa: Bye Loves, see you next time. Wait, guys, should we
Therésa: go haunting like I'm in the mood to just Boo boo, boo,
Therésa: boo boo all over town. You get a boo, you
Therésa: get a boo, and you get a- It's okay, I'm okay,
Therésa: I'm fine.
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