WEBVTT - S1: EP 20 — “Three Scratches Almost Like A Claw” 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.040 Welcome back, Hauntos. You can probably already tell, but we're 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.479 not in our usual digs today. We're in Hudson for 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.280 my ex friend's wedding. Long story short, but I got 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.240 invited before I died. Then after some unimportant drama involving 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:40.120 a brand partnership with Mudwater, I was uninvited. I was 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.040 going to attend spitefully as our mutual guy friends plus one, 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.640 and now we're here. I tried to take today off 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.320 from work, but because of my ironclad eternal podcast contract, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.080 I'm multitasking and I had to bring Len as my date. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:53.920 I love weddings. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.960 The tuxedo T-shirt wasn't necessary. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:58.280 [MUMBLES] 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.800 I know, it seems insane to attend a wedding from 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.280 beyond the grave, and I want to hate this, but 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.800 the flowers are some of the best I've seen, and 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.760 the venue is stunning, especially this time of year with 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.440 the foliage. Merlin's having a field day in the woods. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.320 But whatever, we're just getting started. There's no way all 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:21.360 the bridesmaids are pulling off a yellow floral. Here we go, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.080 and yup, that is an awful shade of yellow. Yikes! 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.319 Okay, Len, keep an eye out for a groomsman, tall 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.200 like six two, six three, green eyes. Him, him! We 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.760 dated in college and oh wow, he used to have 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.839 a lot more hair. Time has not been your friend, Mark. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.480 He didn't take our breakup well. And whoever's been spreading 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.399 the Ozempic rumors does not seem to be the case. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.080 This feels good. I'm so glad we came. The best 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.120 part of weddings is getting the scoop on everyone you 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.800 knew in college. The friends you make in those four 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.800 years really do last a lifetime, or in my case, 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.640 even longer. And I was bounced out of USC after 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:06.000 only three semesters during that college admission scandal. Obviously, I 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.440 was never on the junior bobsled team. I grew up 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.320 in Los Angeles. That's on them. But we've all got 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.520 our demons, like Kat and her college friends, whose demons 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.440 were yeah, literal. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.400 I've never felt anything like that previously, and I've never 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.960 felt anything like that after the fact. Just all of 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:33.560 the worst feelings you can put into one. Instant fear, dread, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:44.280 darkness just consumed me. I screamed bloody murder and ran 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.480 down the stairs, out of the house and down the block. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.280 My name's Kat and in college I lived in a 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.280 really haunted house in Savannah, Georgia. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.320 Stacy was my best friend at the time. The two 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.720 of us were really really close. Our families lived pretty 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.840 close to each other in Manhattan Beach, LA Area. My 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.239 freshman year of college, I moved into this house down 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.760 in Savannah, Georgia. We show up at the house and 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:21.280 it's me and Stacy. We had driven together from California. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.079 At the time, Savannah was known as the most haunted 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.519 city in America. But I didn't really have any expectation 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.960 to see any of that. I'm going to art school. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.480 I'm not even worried or bothered by any of the history. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.600 I don't even know if I really believed in ghosts 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:45.880 per se. The first thing that our landlord said to 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.080 us was this place is haunted, but she's like joking 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.600 and laughing about it, Like, yeah, I don't know. It's 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.800 an old, historic Victorian house. It feels haunted, but who knows. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:06.360 But we didn't really believe it. The house is two 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.880 stories and it has two beautiful old bay windows, and 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.800 then it's got a red porch, a little porch swing. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.200 It's got that kind of Victorian roof style, which is 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.680 like pointy. There's a huge Spanish moss tree right out 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.760 front that has this moss hanging down on the roof. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.360 The windows are covered in ivy and different plants. It 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.160 would be a place where my mom would look it 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.240 up on Airbnb and then be like, I think I'm 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.239 going to try and find a newer build just because 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.560 of spooks. But we didn't really care. We just were 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.200 so excited. It's four girls, one house, Like we are 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.240 going to party, We are going to have so much fun. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.760 I already had been planning that I really wanted to 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:55.360 get a dog. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.400 The first week we were there, we went to the 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:04.400 Animal Shelter and we adopted my first dog, Cookie. She 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.360 was so sweet. She was a Golden Retriever and the 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.080 happiest dog on the planet. We're there for probably a 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:17.800 month or two and we start noticing small things. Three 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.760 of us lived upstairs. Stacy lived on the bottom floor, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.960 and she started complaining about hearing noise at night, swearing 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:31.479 up and down that she couldn't sleep. She described these 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:36.960 noises as like an old man grunting, walking on the floor. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.240 She started getting pissed off because she thought it was us, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.360 like what are you guys doing? Are you guys having 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.760 boys over? Like someone is screwing around at night and 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.080 I cannot sleep. We're all swearing up and down we 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.720 don't know who it is, we don't know what it is. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.880 This is not us. It started to freak her out 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.205 a little bit, like I feel like I'm going crazy. 0:06:02.205 --> 0:06:05.680 I swear this is happening. And we all kind of 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.880 were like, Okay, maybe she's really stressed out, homesick, whatever. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.239 And then all of us start hearing these noises, both 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.679 on the bottom floor and on the top floor, really 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.720 just everywhere in the house. It almost sounded like muffled 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:28.360 voices or footsteps. We just kind of chalked it up 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.119 to this is a very old house. The windows rattle, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.440 you know, the floor's creaked. It just is what it is, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.720 and so we didn't really take much note of it. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.920 But then, a few months down the line, all of 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.599 us are in a terrible mood, not being able to 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:53.400 sleep right. We are all at each other's throats, and 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.680 the four of us were best friends, so it was 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.259 really abnormal that our moods had shifted this drastically but 0:07:00.259 --> 0:07:06.640 we were just completely drained. I remember having conversations on 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.359 the phone with my mom being like this is crazy, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.200 like I don't understand why I feel so awful all 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.360 the time. And my Mom's going, well, you know, you're 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.040 living with three other girls. You guys are all young women, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.880 like this stuff happens. Finally, we have a roommate meeting 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.080 because we're being absolute bitches to each other. We are 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.200 all sitting in the living room. All of us kind 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.200 of coming into it with a little bit of angsty energy. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.080 We're talking about our feelings and kind of discovering that 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.680 we're having a lot of the same issues sleeping, and 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.360 we're all kind of looking at each other like something's 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.800 going on that is sucking the energy and life out 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.720 of us and making us feel crazy. And I was like, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:55.280 are you guys having weird dreams? We figured out that 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.520 we are all having the same reoccurring nightmare. A man 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.000 in a white latex gimp suit with a mask over 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:09.640 his face crawls through the doorway and up to the 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.200 base of the bed and put his hands up on 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.920 the bed, and then he would pop his head up 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:24.280 and he'd be looking at you. It felt so vivid 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.240 and real. There were nights where I was like I 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.480 just won't let myself even go to sleep because I 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.720 don't want to experience this. Every single one of us 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.360 was having this dream with this man crawling in in 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.439 a white latex suit. We all were like, oh my god, Okay, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.360 this is weird. We started talking about, okay, are you 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.760 guys getting bruises and scratches too? Because I'd wake up 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.440 and I have like a giant purple bruise on my 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:57.760 upper and inner thigh. I usually wore pants to bed, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.200 so I didn't really know how that was happening. I 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.160 didn't think it was my dog accidentally laying on me 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:09.319 wrong or anything. On top of that, I had scratches 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:14.079 down the middle of my back, but they weren't human hands. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:18.520 It was not five fingers scratching. It was always three scratches, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:24.319 almost like a claw. We're all waking up with bruises 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.320 and scratches and we don't know where they're coming from. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.720 We're really freaked out. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:36.560 These were huge, black and purple, painful bruises. I don't 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.240 think we would be able to sleep through someone causing 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.600 that sort of bruise. It would have to be someone 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:48.480 punching us. On top of that, these scratches were always 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.960 three claw like scratches. We did our research later and 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.920 apparently three scratches in a row is a sign of 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:04.880 a demonic haunting. We were like, oh, that's not good. This 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:12.400 was something that was over our head. We need some help. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.760 So we decided to go down to like a little 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.840 witch shop. It's a cool little shop that in the 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:26.080 middle of some random neighborhood in Savannah. While we're shopping around, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.079 the four of us are really taking our time because 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.160 we don't know what we're doing, and the woman who 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:37.439 runs it is a very eccentric woman. She's like Savannah's 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.080 witch doctor, is what they call her. But she came 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.880 over to us and started asking us about the issue. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.560 She sat with us for probably thirty minutes. Came up 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.880 with a plan, and then came over to the house, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.040 did her ritual, and then set us up with exactly 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.079 what we needed going forward. She went through each room 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:02.600 yelling at spirits. She went through each corner of every 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:09.600 inch of that house, saltings and incense and chanting, and 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.600 then for us, she had told us, the main thing 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:17.640 is this salt that she had us make. We'd put 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.560 it on the outside of our front door on the 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.640 outside of our back door, and we'd put it on 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:26.000 all of the windowsills everywhere in the house. The house 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.400 was always covered in salt. If we felt anything, she 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.280 would have us shake our hands as if like wafting 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.880 things away from us. She was like, that's energetic clearing, 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.820 Like you're telling things that they can't come near you 0:11:39.820 --> 0:11:42.760 and she would also just have us yell at any 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:47.000 spirits that we thought were nearby, just told them, no, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.600 you can't be here, get out, you're not welcome. And 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.320 we're like, okay, We're feeling prepared and the house just 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.800 in general feels better and things are getting back to normal. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.720 Until I was sitting in my upstairs office one night 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:03.760 with a friend, AJ. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:13.040 Sorry, pause! Len, I can't hear the ceremony and our 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.839 listeners can't hear the story over your blubbering. You need 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:16.520 to get it together. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:17.760 [MUMBLES] 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.720 You don't even know anyone at this wedding. We're gonna 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.680 take a break so Len can collect himself. We'll be 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.240 right back. Just take a lap or something. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.559 We're back. Len's regained his composure and to catch you up, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.160 the bride is in a gorgeous strapless drop waist dress. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.040 No surprise there. She's always had impeccable taste. The best man, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.360 on the other hand, is definitely drunk. He's uh, yep, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.640 he's wobbling. But the ceremony is winding down now. They 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.640 just read their vows. She called him pooky and he said, 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:02.120 I'm so glad I swiped right. Just when it seemed 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.839 like they were losing the crowd, Merlin perched on the 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.160 chuppah and everyone started freaking out, calling it a good omen. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.720 The photographer is going crazy. Even in death, I know 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.000 how to steal focus. But anyway, when we left off 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.439 with Kat, things were looking up, until they weren't. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.440 We're like, okay, we're feeling prepared, and the house just 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.560 in general feels better and things are getting back to 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:30.000 normal until I was sitting in my upstairs office one 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:31.320 night with a friend AJ. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.560 We were sitting in her upstairs studio office area, the 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.480 one that connects to the balcony in her room. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.680 AJ had been a close friend of mine for a 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:45.800 while now. She was doing a class project and came 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.840 over to my house to work in our office space upstairs. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.320 This office space was fairly small, and me and AJ 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.600 are seated together at my computer. It's late at night, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.480 probably around ten pm, and all of a sudden of 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.600 the room gets really cold. It was like a bone 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.560 chilling temperature. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.800 And out of the corner of my eye, I see 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.240 the trash can lid start to swing. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.920 It was moving back and forth on its own. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.120 And then I see on the floor that there's a 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.200 picture on the ground. In my head, okay, the picture 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.440 fell off the wall to hit a trash can. I 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.480 pointed at the picture on the ground and make a 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:35.720 joke like, oh, it's a ghost just kind of mocking 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.920 this situation. And Kat looks at me. She goes, oh, no, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.200 that's been there. I've just been too lazy to pick 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:47.960 it up. Okay, but why is the trash can lid swinging? 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.040 It was super weird. I feel icky 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.640 AJ didn't really believe in ghosts. But she starts getting 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.280 really freaked out. She's like, Kat, can you do what 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.040 you do when this stuff happens? So I go in 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.000 my room and I grab some incense and I grab 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.280 a lighter. I'm trying to light this incense and it 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.280 will not light. No matter how long I hold the 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.000 incense with the fire, I can't get it to light. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.960 I'm just standing there really confused. AJ is across the 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.040 room and AJ starts going, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:26.160 Hey. Kat, Kat, what's happening to me? What's happening to me? 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.200 And AJ starts doubling over in the chair holding her head, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.880 and I'm going, what's going on. I wasn't sure if 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.800 she was fainting. I didn't know if she was having 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.440 a seizure. I didn't know what was going on. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.200 I'm freaking out at this point, I am scared. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.040 AJ looks up at me, and the minute that me 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.320 and her make eye contacts. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.680 I just get this horrible, horrible feeling rushing over my body. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.560 I don't think I've ever been actually terrified in my 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:03.280 entire life until this moment. It was the definition of terror. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.920 And the instant that the two of us made eye contact, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.080 I have a feeling that goes throughout my entire being 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.240 that I have never felt and I hope I will 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:21.440 never feel again. It was the worst feeling in my life. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:30.640 I felt dread, dying, anxiety, every negative feeling combined in one. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.160 I feel dizzy, and I have this intense tunnel vision. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:41.240 I could not speak, and I have tunnel vision. My 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:46.600 body went into a fight flight freeze and I froze. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.160 I couldn't move. I felt like there was this tinglingness 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.400 behind me. I was so scared and I couldn't do 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.000 anything about it. So I think I'm gonna cry. I 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.600 don't know if I want to throw up. I just 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:06.160 feel horrible. The tingling behind me felt like an old 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:11.040 school TV static, or when you're in a science museum 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.399 then you're touching that orb and that statickiness is like 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.720 on your hands and it makes your hair stand up. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.960 It felt like it was standing over me like that static. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.800 That energy was right there behind me. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.040 The only way I could describe it is a feeling of, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.280 oh my god, you are in the most danger you 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.000 have ever been in. You're gonna die if you stay 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.440 in this room. You need to get out of this room. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.440 I screamed, bloody murder, ran out of the room, and 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.639 my dog followed right behind me. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.959 I hear Kat run downstairs and yell for her roommate. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.159 So I'm stuck there all alone. I don't know what 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.840 to do. The most terrified I've ever been. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.320 I'm screaming at Stacy, like I don't know what's going on. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.000 Can you get to AJ? I can't go up there. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.360 I don't know why I can't go up there. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.760 Kat's roommate runs up the stairs and is trying to 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.439 help me. She goes, are you okay? And I just 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:11.320 couldn't respond. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.879 Stacy picks her up out of the chair. I was like, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.040 we gotta leave the house right now. I grabbed the 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.800 dog leash and we booked it. We ran down the 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.800 street frantically trying to get away, and at that point 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.800 we're kind of starting to feel better a little bit. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.160 This feeling that we both had. Aj and I described 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:43.399 the same thing, just terrible, terrible energy, this feeling of darkness, dread, fear, 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.560 and particularly the same experience of tunnel vision. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.719 And I'm trying to come to terms with what's happening. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.640 I still feel like I have a brain fog. Kat 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:59.600 and I still feel like whatever just happened isn't over. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.800 We walk around and we're headed back towards the house. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.439 Me and AJ are still really really freaked out. I 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.840 did not want to go back, but we start crossing 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.720 the street to go to the house, and my dog 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:18.800 will not walk. She will not cross the street. We 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.119 are trying to pick her up. She's growling, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.840 And Cookie is just standing there. She will not go, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.600 no matter if you tug on her leash, no matter 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.440 if you're trying to bribe her. Cookie does not want 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:31.880 to move. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.399 Stacy goes inside to do like the cleansing rituals that 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.200 the Savannah witch doctor had told us to do, and 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.040 when she came outside and said Okay, it's done, my 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.760 dog ran back inside totally normal, like nothing had happened. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.280 I grabbed my stuff, even the dog, and slept over 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:02.199 at AJ's for that night. At that point, I was like, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:09.000 never going back in that house I'm done. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.320 Kat and I slept at my little apartment that night. We 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:20.520 tried to do like the cleansing rituals and just calm down. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.960 I felt a lot safer than anywhere near a Kat's house, 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:32.040 but it still felt like it was attached to us 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:33.920 for days afterwards. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.080 That was the worst feeling that I had ever had. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.400 I decided that it was not worth my mental health 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.840 to try and put up with that anymore, so I 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.840 moved out on my own. I'm not a Christian, I 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.000 don't really subscribe to a religion, but that was demonic, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:57.120 Like whatever it was was something really bad. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.080 They should have put the witch doctor on the payroll. 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.560 Who has the time to clean their own home, let 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.879 alone energetically cleanse it. Of course they were cranky all 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.199 the time, but there's nothing like a little demonic trauma 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.640 bonding between friends. Those girls will definitely be in each 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:26.919 other's weddings. Let's take a break. 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.399 Well, the ceremony is over. Turns out bringing Merlin was 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.159 a huge mistake. Who was I supposed to know that 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:40.320 after the kiss they'd be releasing a dozen white doves? Merlin, 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.320 the apex predator that he is, snatched one out of 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.919 the air and disemboweled it right there on the chuppah. 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.760 Blood splattered everywhere, all over the bride's dress. Needless to say, 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.679 the pictures are ruined and everyone is a little shaken up, 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.120 but all in all, not bad for our first Haunting 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.520 field trip, and Len's been having a great time. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.879 You guys know I love to dish, so if you 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.800 want to share your musings on love and weddings, email 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:19.400 us at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com. And of course, if you've ever had 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.480 to salt a demonic entity out of your home like 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.520 Kat did, we'd love to hear about that too. I'm 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.399 going to see what world of drama is going on 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.960 in the ladies room and don't let Len have any 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:31.760 more Champagne. 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