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THERÉSA: Hello, Hello, Welcome back, Ghouls and Girls. This is Haunting,

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THERÉSA: Purgatory's top podcast.

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: Only podcast which still makes it the top, Len. It's

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THERÉSA: called spin. Where we share listener-submitted spooky stories that are

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THERÉSA: guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your

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THERÉSA: neck or not if you're me. I had all of

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THERÉSA: my body hair follicles dissolved in a non-FDA-approved experimental procedure

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THERÉSA: in Istanbul, hair transplant capital of the World, which, of

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THERÉSA: course is neither here nor there since I'm dead and

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THERÉSA: wasting what would have been my hottest years here in Purgatory,

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THERÉSA: for the rest of time. So anyway, it's a very

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THERÉSA: exciting time for the in-between. It's Halloween.

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: Oh, you're right, almost Halloween. Although, if I were still alive,

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THERÉSA: I'd say Halloween is practically over. If you have any

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THERÉSA: semblance of a social life, it's the weekend before that

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THERÉSA: really counts. I used to throw an annual Halloween party,

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THERÉSA: Ghoul Gala, a night of nefarious, naughtiness and wanton witchy wonder.

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THERÉSA: One year, I went as a sexy toucan, which was

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THERÉSA: iconic except the beak made it almost impossible to eat

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THERÉSA: or drink, mingle, dance or flirt with the DJ. It

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THERÉSA: was the best though MySpace Tom showed up, but I

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THERÉSA: broke into my dad's stash of quaaludes from like the eighties.

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THERÉSA: Everyone started taking their clothes off and the zombies became

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THERÉSA: like real zombies.

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THERÉSA: Oh right, Sorry, getting off track. We want to hear

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THERÉSA: how you're planning to celebrate Halloween this year, so drop

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THERÉSA: us a note in the comments and we might just

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THERÉSA: liven up your holiday with an unexpected visit from the

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THERÉSA: great beyond. MySpace Tom style! Now let's get into it.

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THERÉSA: Today we're keeping it classic with two good old fashioned

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THERÉSA: haunted house stories. Our first comes to us from Roger,

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THERÉSA: who was tormented in his neighbor's old farmhouse. I know

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THERÉSA: what you're thinking. In a different context, it sounds quaint, charming.

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THERÉSA: It's giving Chip and Joanna, the Barefoot Contessa. Well not

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THERÉSA: for Roger.

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STORY A: My brother and I are sleeping there overnight. We're in

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STORY A: the living room and this sound wakes me up. I

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STORY A: knew what the sound was immediately. There's this big oak

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STORY A: rocking chair that sat in the living room. This thing

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STORY A: weighed at least one hundred and twenty five pounds. I

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STORY A: It's been moved, but I can still hear it. I

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STORY A: is perched at the top of the basement stairs. It

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STORY A: of pieces falling down the stairs. My name is Roger,

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STORY A: and this is the story of the haunting of the

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STORY A: farmhouse that I was babysat in. We were living in

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STORY A: I was just a kid at the time. My mom

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STORY A: It was a small house, one story with a large basement.

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THERÉSA: Yikes. Roger raises a good point, though. A hearty paranormal

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THERÉSA: infestation can really upend your life. I wonder if hauntings

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THERÉSA: are covered by homeowners insurance. That's actually not a bad idea. Len,

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THERÉSA: write that down. We'd make a killing, especially this time

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THERÉSA: of year. We could call it Haunt Safe

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: Ooh, Ghoul Guard. That's good. While we work on this,

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THERÉSA: because they won't rest in peace, doesn't mean you can't.

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THERÉSA: Eh pretty good, right, I think we're onto something here,

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THERÉSA: and our next guest would make for the perfect first customer.

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THERÉSA: For most kids, grandmother's house is synonymous with good times,

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THERÉSA: taught you to smoke. Hi Colin. But for Andrea and

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STORY B: The minute you walked in, you're just kind of on

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STORY B: It was over one hundred years old. When my grandmother,

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STORY B: I would get this eerie feeling. The energy felt thicker

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STORY B: I never felt like I was alone. And there were

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STORY B: At the top of the stairs, on the landing, you

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STORY B: one would ever want to use, and if you made a

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STORY B: right that's where my grandmother's room is. She considered herself

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STORY B: of the rooms at the end of the hallway to

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STORY B: I never liked sleeping at my grandmother's house. I was

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STORY B: One night, when we were staying with my grandmother, we

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STORY B: I managed to get into the middle. My grandmother's on

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STORY B: Dominique is at the end of the bed, all of

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STORY B: in the middle. I felt safest in the middle. It

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STORY B: was a really nice night out. There was a really

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STORY B: So we're all snuggled really comfortable under the blankets, and

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STORY B: so we're watching for like an hour, enjoying. I think

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STORY B: it was NYPD Blue, And eventually my grandmother dozes off.

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STORY B: Before she fell asleep, she had let us know that

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STORY B: the way that the TV worked was if you turned

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STORY B: it on from the TV, it would go but if

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STORY B: you had the remote, you could actually control the channels.

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STORY B: And then out of nowhere, Dominique starts to get agitated.

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STORY B: She was sleeping on the foot of the bed. She

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STORY B: went from like a restful snoring to on alert. Her

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STORY B: a low growl like hm hmm, and the television just

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STORY B: back on and it's just snow. It was almost like

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STORY B: the scene out of the Poltergeist, where it's just the

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STORY B: white noise and the TV fuzz. Dominique starts to get

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STORY B: her hackles up. She's getting more and more agitated. My

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STORY B: sister and I already don't trust this house. We're immediately

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STORY B: on edge and the channel starts to change another channel.

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STORY B: We're grabbing the remote. We're trying to turn it on

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STORY B: and off. It's not working. The dog's really uncomfortable moving

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STORY B: around in the bed. It's jarring to see a dog nervous,

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STORY B: but like a big hundred pound protective dog that agitated

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STORY B: was really scary. We were just, you know, trying to

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STORY B: shake my grandmother and saying, someone's turning off and on

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STORY B: the TV. She is just like, oh, it's nothing. It's

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STORY B: the wind. It's the wind, And I'm just like, it

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STORY B: has nothing to do with the wind. The wind's not

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STORY B: touching the button on the television. Instinctively, I was like,

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STORY B: she's gone through this so much, she doesn't care. But

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STORY B: that only terrified me more because this is a reoccurring thing.

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STORY B: Neither one of us wanted to get out of the bed.

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STORY B: We were too afraid. The journey from the bed to

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STORY B: the window, I mean it was probably three feet but like,

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STORY B: our feet. I had to take one for the team

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STORY B: scurried back into bed. So we're watching TV again and

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STORY B: we're like fine for a little bit, and then all

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STORY B: of a sudden, turns off and it happens again, turns

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STORY B: back on, channels change, and it continued to do this cycle,

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STORY B: turning off and on, changing channels even after we closed

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STORY B: the window. So we definitely knew it wasn't the wind.

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STORY B: There was something in the room and whatever was was

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STORY B: changing the channels and messing with the TV as we're

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STORY B: tossing and turning. We're not asleep yet. My sister and

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STORY B: I are just trying to calm ourselves down and we

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STORY B: hear someone come in the house. They're kind of making

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STORY B: a ruckus downstairs. We can hear them in the kitchen,

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STORY B: and then we hear them walk up the stairs and

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STORY B: walk down the hallway. We just hear like clobbering boots

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STORY B: walk up and down the hallway. We wake up our

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STORY B: think someone's here. She's like, it's okay, it's just your uncle.

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STORY B: My uncle Paul lived at my grandmother's house, and so

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STORY B: he came home late. Now he's home, And for whatever reason,

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STORY B: much better. There was something comforting in that, and so

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STORY A: Paul called. Paul had not come home from the night before.

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STORY A: My sister and I looked at each other and couldn't

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STORY A: of the bed all night. Who and what was making

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STORY A: those sounds the night before. I don't think I would

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STORY A: can't explain it. Clearly, the house is fucking haunted.

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THERÉSA: I appreciate the directness in this one most people really

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THERÉSA: my theory is when you know, you know, and she knew.

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THERÉSA: Let's take a moment for the real debutante of this story.

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THERÉSA: Dominique dutifully lying at the end of the bed, A

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THERÉSA: protective growl at the television set. Now that's a dog.

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THERÉSA: Ah. I love the idea of cozying up to a

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THERÉSA: sturdy Great Dane on a crisp fall night. All we

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THERÉSA: A taste for designer runs in the family. But let's

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THERÉSA: Well, that's it for today. Thanks for tuning in. As always,

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THERÉSA: email us at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com if you've had a paranormal experience

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THERÉSA: you'd like to share on the pod, and if you

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THERÉSA: haven't had a paranormal experience yet, Halloween is the perfect opportunity.

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THERÉSA: explore your neighbor's dusty old attic. Bust out the Ouija board. Seriously,

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THERÉSA: we get so many Ouija board stories. But whatever you

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THERÉSA: get up to this Halloween, be safe, have fun. And

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THERÉSA: if you see me haunting Heidi Klum's Halloween party, no,

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THERÉSA: you didn't. Keep the portals open and the veils thin.

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