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Therésa: Hello, my Haunting crew! Happy whatever day it is in

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Therésa: the mortal realm when these episodes drop. Again, time is

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Therésa: very abstract here. I want to kick off today's ep. by

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Therésa: saying thank you. Our subscriber count continues to grow, and

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Therésa: my personal social following has also ballooned since starting Haunting.

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Therésa: I'm getting closer than ever to getting my blue check,

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Therésa: finishing my business and crossing over into, I'm gonna assume Heaven. Sharon,

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Therésa: my caseworker, has been pretty tight lipped on those details. So,

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Therésa: from the bottom of my no- longer- beating heart, thank

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Therésa: you to all the Hauntingers haunters?

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Therésa: (mumbles)

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Therésa: Haunter- sizers? Hmm, okay, we'll keep pitching on it though.

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Therésa: In honor of all our new friends. I thought it

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Therésa: would be a good time for an AMA.

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Therésa: (mumbles)

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Therésa: People know what that is, Len!

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Therésa: (mumbles)

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Therésa: Fine? Fine, it stands for ask me anything. It's when

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Therésa: you that yet to be named Listeners comment your questions

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Therésa: and I answer them live on the pod or I

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Therésa: guess unlive. Okay, let's get into it. Josh from New England.

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Therésa: I used to date a Josh from New England. Maybe

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Therésa: it's the same one. Hmm.

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Therésa: We'll have to listen and see if he's constantly talking

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Therésa: about his seventy seven classic Ford Bronco. Anyway, Josh makes

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Therésa: some pretty serious late night accusations against a ghost. Like

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Therésa: my nanny Mildred used to say, nothing good happens after midnight.

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Therésa: Turns out that's when she would take my mom's value

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Therésa: and pass out with her schnops. Ugh.

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Story A: I'm Josh, I grew up in New England and this

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Story A: is a story about how a ghost inappropriately touched me

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Story A: in my sleep.

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Story A: This happened many, many years ago, when I was in

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Story A: high school. I signed up to go and study ghosts, myths

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Story A: and legends in Ireland for two and a half months

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Story A: over the summer. It was like an exchange program. Not

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Story A: the US as well. Because we were together for a

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Story A: long time. We would talk about lore and folklore. But

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Story A: once we were dismissed from our class structure, we were

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Story A: pretty much unsupervised for the rest of the day. We'd

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Story A: We did a lot of other stuff and then just

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Story A: Our leader's name he was Donal. It's a pretty common

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Story A: One day he comes in, he goes, all right, guys,

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Story A: We were like, "oh cool, what are we doing? Are

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Story A: seven girls and two guys, and Donal's not telling us

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Story A: We pile in the van. We drive from Cork to

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Story A: As our food comes, he starts to tell us we're

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Story A: The story of the house is kind of sad. It

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Story A: One day, he's out and the mother goes to the

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Story A: During that time, the father has a couple of drinks.

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Story A: And the baby starts howling, screaming, crying through its lungs.

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Story A: The accounts that were written said that the baby was

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Story A: how's the baby? He said, all the baby was crying

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Story A: So she walks over to the bacinet. She looks in

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Story A: We're being told this story over dinner. Donald goes the

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Story A: reason that we're staying in this house is because it's haunted,

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Story A: and then he proceeds to tell us what the actual

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Story A: If there are any knives in the house, they're stuck

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Story A: it usually ends up by windowsills, and there's a baby

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Story A: that cries. The nine of us were just like, "oh man,

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Story A: what do we sign up for? What are we doing?"

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Story A: So, we finish our food and we go into this

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Story A: small house. We're all sitting and he asked us to

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Story A: that in the pocket of my cargo pants. We're all

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Story A: hanging out and we're having fun and we're talking about stuff,

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Story A: and we're talking about music and this and that, you know.

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Story A: Talking about how oh Galway is, you know, so pretty. Maybe

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Story A: we'll go into the town tomorrow before we leave, Yada, Yada.

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Story A: the sleeping bag. At about four am, somebody woke up.

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Story A: They woke a couple other people up, and they were like,

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Story A: The stress ball was ripped in half, like it was

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Story A: it that didn't make any sense, like what a child

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Story A: The change that was around someone else was scattered all

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Story A: Somebody would have woken up.

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Story A: Now we get to me. I woke up, my shirt

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Story A: I go to the bathroom and I look in the mirror.

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Story A: There was writing on my chest. Unintelligible writing, more than scribbles,

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Story A: So then another person came in and said, "Oh what?"

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Story A: She was like, "you told me your thing was inside

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Story A: I was like, "yeah, but I didn't tell anybody else."

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Story A: I went to go in my pocket to find my

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Story A: way that if a person did that, I wouldn't have

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Story A: to unzip the sleeping bag, find what pocket the marker

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Story A: is in, extract the marker, then pull my shirt off,

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Story A: then write it on my chest. Wet ink on my chest!

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Story A: I should have woken up. It was after that night,

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Story A: after that experience, that solidified the feeling that I always

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Therésa: Not the josh I dated, But this one sounds like

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Therésa: a cutie. I actually had a really similar thing happened

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Therésa: when I was pledging Tri- Delt. It wasn't a ghost, though,

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Therésa: it was a Girl named Hannah, and she didn't write scribbles.

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Therésa: She wrote (BLEEP). Now she teaches first grade, and I can

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Therésa: say with total confidence that her penmanship is delightful. But

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Therésa: let's get to your questions. I had Naomi pull some

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Therésa: of the more interesting ones, so let's see what we got.

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Therésa: Kooky Spooky 027 wants to know Therésa , how did

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Therésa: you die? Naomi, I said, we're not doing these ones. Remember,

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Therésa: I don't care how many people ask, We're not doing that,

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Therésa: got it?

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Therésa: Here's one! From All- Things- Alyssa- XO. Hi Therésa, Alyssa

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Therésa: here from Cincinnati pre- mortem fan, post- mortem caller. I

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Therésa: cannot express how much I look up to you and

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Therésa: appreciate what you do. Your videos, product res and ootds

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Therésa: are always the best part of my day. And since

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Therésa: you've started haunting, I've even begun dabbling in the occult.

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Therésa: I've really come into my power, the divine, feminine and supernatural,

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Therésa: and it's all thanks to you. Stop! No, that is

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Therésa: so sweet. Light a candle on a pentacle under the

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Therésa: next full moon and I might just pop by to say, hey,

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Therésa: ideally something earthy or a light floral Santall twenty six

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Therésa: if you have. But I'm not picky.

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Therésa: I love that.

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Therésa: Let's send her some swag. Well we still don't have swag.

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Therésa: You guys are really testing me today.

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Therésa: Moving on, this next time totally true story is more

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Therésa: of a feel good moment. Our friend Lindsay lost her

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Therésa: dad a few years back. But just because someone's passed

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Therésa: on doesn't mean we'll never see them again.

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Story B: My name is Lindsay Bell, and this is the story

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Story B: of when my dad saved my life. It was just

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Story B: over five years ago when my dad died. I was fifteen.

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Story B: He was a lawyer and sometimes he would have to

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Story B: work on research or prepare for court or something. It

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Story B: was one of those nights, you know, where he had

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Story B: a stayly. So my mom thought it would be you know,

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Story B: fun if we maybe had you know, a little girl time.

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Story B: My mom ordered a pizza, we gave each other manicures,

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Story B: and we watched a movie. God, I don't even remember

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Story B: which one at this point. I think it might have

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Story B: been Pitch Perfect or something. And the movie ended. It

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Story B: was way past my bedtime, like around eleven thirty. Before

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Story B: and then finally I turned around. I guess i'd like

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Story B: It was like this bright red SCV and with a

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Story B: And then her brother pulled up, and then I started

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Story B: was okay, But I wasn't okay. I didn't get in

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Story B: The next day I found out that my friend got

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Story B: But I'd like to think that my dad came to

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Story B: was still looking out for me. I still think he's

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Story B: always looking out for me.

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Therésa: Oh, we love a happy ending. I'm sure he always

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Therésa: is looking out for you, and clearly in a very

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Therésa: casper Ghost of Christmas Present kind of way, and less of

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Therésa: a Freddy Krueger, Boba Duke or whatever situation Josh was

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Therésa: dealing with.

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Therésa: All right, my scare crew, maybe are we identifying with

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Therésa: that one? We'll keep experimenting.

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Therésa: That's our show for today. I always love answering your question,

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Therésa: so keep writing to me in the comments, and if

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Therésa: you have a scare to share, hit up Len at

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Therésa: HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com and your experience could be featured on an episode.

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Therésa: A dialogue between the living and the dead is absolutely crucial,

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Therésa: so let's keep the portals open and the veils thin

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Therésa: until next time.

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