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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Welcome back to our open line segment

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Speaker 1: here on Coast to Coast AM. Richard Sarah's sitting in

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Speaker 1: First time caller Bob is in Quincy, Illinois, and he's

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Speaker 1: got a haunted house story. Bob, good morning, welcome, Hi.

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Speaker 1: I'm well yourself, good good good good. Yeah. Back in

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Speaker 1: the late seventies, my wife and I got married, and

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Speaker 1: uh we back then we live in separate departments, and

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Speaker 1: uh we were trying to find a place to live

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Speaker 1: and we moved into a well, she moved in first

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Speaker 1: to kind of get it ready. We found a house

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Speaker 1: behind the house. It was like about about a twenty

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Speaker 1: five ft square I don't know if I used to

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Speaker 1: be a little barn or whatever, but it was a

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Speaker 1: two story built on a slab. The first floor was

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Speaker 1: pretty much open except for a small bathroom, and in

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Speaker 1: the upstairs was basically a bedroom. Um. I moved in

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Speaker 1: and then about I don't know, about a week or

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Speaker 1: so after we lived up. Like I said, we slept upstairs.

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Speaker 1: We had one of those little red light clock radios.

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Speaker 1: At about three o'clock in the morning, we would hear

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Speaker 1: basically it sounded like a basketball bouncing on the floor

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Speaker 1: downstairs going downstairs. Nothing. Um. And then this continued, not

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Speaker 1: every night, but it continued enough that Um. The landlord

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Speaker 1: lived in the front house and I asked him when

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Speaker 1: I paid the rent, I said, is any are You

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Speaker 1: haven't any problems with raccoons or anything like that? And

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Speaker 1: he and he said, well, you don't pay attention to

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Speaker 1: what people say about that house. At the time, I

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Speaker 1: knew nothing about the history of the house. Uh. So

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Speaker 1: it got to the point where things would move on

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Speaker 1: the table. We would not see it move. We would

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Speaker 1: hear I would hear sniffing the basketball bouncing noise would continue,

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Speaker 1: and we would at a door open on where there

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Speaker 1: was no wind or anything opened by itself. Uh, it

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Speaker 1: got to be. I was in a club called j

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Speaker 1: CS back then. My wife is in a club called JACZ.

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Speaker 1: And it got to be where I would sleep with

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Speaker 1: a knife under my pillow. One night, she came home

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Speaker 1: from j c S and I had the Bible laid

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Speaker 1: out on the bottom step. Um it it got around

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Speaker 1: Christmas time we and this was around in the fall,

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Speaker 1: around Christmas time. Uh, she was kneeled down taking that

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Speaker 1: taking the ornaments off of the tree. And we had

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Speaker 1: one of those instematics where you take the picture, pull

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Speaker 1: it out, wait sixty seconds to peel it off. The

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Speaker 1: old polaroids. I used to hate that smell. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: old polaroid. Anyway, I took, I took her picture, peeled

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Speaker 1: it off, and over her left shoulder was a face

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Speaker 1: of this guy and it was it was transparent, but

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Speaker 1: it was real obvious that it was this guy's face.

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Speaker 1: We were obviously freaked out because we had known something

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Speaker 1: was going on there, so we started showing this picture

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Speaker 1: around and then people go, oh, you're living in that house.

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Speaker 1: Come to find out that a couple of years before

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Speaker 1: we moved in, uh, a guy and his wife had

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Speaker 1: met a guy who had no place to stay, so

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Speaker 1: he moved in two to stay with them. He got

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Speaker 1: he got the wife pregnant and ended up leave, but

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Speaker 1: the husband and wife were having problems and the wife

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Speaker 1: had he The husband talked his wife into going out

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Speaker 1: of town. This is according police reports. And on Broad

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Speaker 1: invited this guy over and according to the autopsy, hit

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Speaker 1: him in the head with a baseball bat and knocked

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Speaker 1: him out and used a brush saw one of those

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Speaker 1: so they found they found this guy's head, his hands,

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Speaker 1: at about about a block or so, and they found

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Speaker 1: So we were obviously freaked out about this picture that

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Speaker 1: to Amityville Horror Ed and Ed and Lorraine Warren who

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Speaker 1: were famous investigators. Anyway, they were doing a talk at

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Speaker 1: um at the at the university. So we had this

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Speaker 1: and stuff. They showed photos of lamps floating and then

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Speaker 1: they also did have recorded voices stuff and then just

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Speaker 1: warned everybody not to record these voices that you could,

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Speaker 1: you know, bring them bring the spirits back home with you, right, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we were scared to death, so we uh, after

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Speaker 1: it got over, we tried to get up towards them,

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Speaker 1: but they were mobbed with people and stuff. And we

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Speaker 1: never got to show this picture to him, and we

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Speaker 1: ended up spending the night at my wife's brother's house.

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Speaker 1: Uh and uh so we ended up moving out of

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Speaker 1: there shortly afterwards. And uh, I wish many times I

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Speaker 1: hadn't done it, but I burned that picture because I

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Speaker 1: was afraid that when we moved, it would follow us.

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Speaker 1: Ah right now, just Bob, excuse the interruption, But the

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Speaker 1: the the image the ghostly image on that photograph. Were

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Speaker 1: you able to compare that with were there any pictures

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Speaker 1: of the deceased that you had him? Yeah, it was,

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Speaker 1: and I did. I did not know that. And then

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Speaker 1: so that happened back then, and I had told the

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Speaker 1: story countless times. And fast forward to Oh, I guess

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Speaker 1: it's been about six years ago. I blogged one of

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Speaker 1: the reporters who was a court reporter back then, had

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Speaker 1: mentioned it and when he was still a reporter at

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Speaker 1: our local newspaper and had mentioned it in one of

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Speaker 1: his columns. So I pretty much laid out all that

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Speaker 1: stuff that about the sniffing and the moving of the

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Speaker 1: stuff and all that in my letter to him, and um,

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Speaker 1: he called me back about out Oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks later and said, Bob, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna believe who called me, And it was the wife

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Speaker 1: who had got subsequently got divorced from the guy who

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Speaker 1: God found not guilty for killing this guy. Because this

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Speaker 1: was before d n A, it was so so he

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Speaker 1: was found innocent. M So. Um, so he's still around, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's still out west and she's but she what happened

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Speaker 1: was she saw the blogs. She was on the computer

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Speaker 1: with her grandson who was the illegitimate son son, and

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Speaker 1: she saw it freaked her out because of you know,

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Speaker 1: because he was had been romantically involved with this guy,

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Speaker 1: and she wanted to talk to me. And I did

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Speaker 1: talk to her on the phone and actually come to

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Speaker 1: ended up getting you know, because I was curious about it.

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Speaker 1: I got all the research and the guy's photo was

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Speaker 1: the picture the guy in the picture and the was

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Speaker 1: around his face. This guy had like an afro and

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Speaker 1: a big beard. And I can still, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I said, I wish I had kept that photo. I

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Speaker 1: still get an email like once a year from a company,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of like a ghost ghost hunter's company

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Speaker 1: to try to tell my story and that. But that's remarkable, Bob,

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Speaker 1: Is that how still there? No? Actually, we went right well,

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Speaker 1: I went back there after this happened with the reporter.

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Speaker 1: We went over there and they had been torn down

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Speaker 1: and they put a peace garden there, and the current

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Speaker 1: owners put a peace garden there because they felt that

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Speaker 1: it was unsettling. Actually the name of the his article

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Speaker 1: was Unsettled Spirit. And I found out more about it

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Speaker 1: because uh, I realized I learned that the guy who

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Speaker 1: was killed was a draftsman. He was going to school

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Speaker 1: to be a draftsman. And when he would come home,

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Speaker 1: he would move all the stuff on the table off

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Speaker 1: to the edge where we would see where the stuff

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Speaker 1: would My wife and I would be. We both worked

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Speaker 1: and we just she was and she isn't the free

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Speaker 1: and always kept the centerpiece in the middle and be

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Speaker 1: moved off to the side. This guy, he evidently did that.

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Speaker 1: And the sniffing. One night when I was upstairs sniffing,

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Speaker 1: we heard the sniffing. But one night I thought my

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Speaker 1: wife was crying. I was upstairs reading and I heard.

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Speaker 1: I thought she was crying, and she was downstairs taking

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Speaker 1: a bath in the bathtub. And come to find out

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Speaker 1: that this guy that got murdered was due to have

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Speaker 1: sinus surgery like a week after he was got he

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Speaker 1: was final murder. Remarkable, Bob, that is, I tell you,

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Speaker 1: the hackles on the back of my neck are standing up. Bob.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that. Okay, sure, thanks, have

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