WEBVTT - S1: EP 14 — “I Told You, He Didn't Want You to Come In” 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:23.639 Hello, Hello, Welcome back, Ghouls and Girls. This is Haunting, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.520 Purgatory's top podcast. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:27.080 [MUMBLES] 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.920 Only podcast which still makes it the top, Len. It's 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.479 called spin. Where we share listener-submitted spooky stories that are 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.159 guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.199 neck or not if you're me. I had all of 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.159 my body hair follicles dissolved in a non-FDA-approved experimental procedure 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.640 in Istanbul, hair transplant capital of the World, which, of 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.479 course is neither here nor there since I'm dead and 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.800 wasting what would have been my hottest years here in Purgatory, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.640 for the rest of time. So anyway, it's a very 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.640 exciting time for the in-between. It's Halloween. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:03.320 [MUMBLES] 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.480 Oh, you're right, almost Halloween. Although, if I were still alive, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.640 I'd say Halloween is practically over. If you have any 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.880 semblance of a social life, it's the weekend before that 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.160 really counts. I used to throw an annual Halloween party, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.120 Ghoul Gala, a night of nefarious, naughtiness and wanton witchy wonder. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.240 One year, I went as a sexy toucan, which was 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.479 iconic except the beak made it almost impossible to eat 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.160 or drink, mingle, dance or flirt with the DJ. It 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.360 was the best though MySpace Tom showed up, but I 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.560 broke into my dad's stash of quaaludes from like the eighties. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.320 Everyone started taking their clothes off and the zombies became 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.200 like real zombies. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:44.839 [MUMBLES] 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.760 Oh right, Sorry, getting off track. We want to hear 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.720 how you're planning to celebrate Halloween this year, so drop 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.520 us a note in the comments and we might just 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.160 liven up your holiday with an unexpected visit from the 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:00.720 great beyond. MySpace Tom style! Now let's get into it. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.360 Today we're keeping it classic with two good old fashioned 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.960 haunted house stories. Our first comes to us from Roger, 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.800 who was tormented in his neighbor's old farmhouse. I know 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.280 what you're thinking. In a different context, it sounds quaint, charming. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.440 It's giving Chip and Joanna, the Barefoot Contessa. Well not 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:20.240 for Roger. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.920 My brother and I are sleeping there overnight. We're in 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:36.000 the living room and this sound wakes me up. I 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.280 knew what the sound was immediately. There's this big oak 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.079 rocking chair that sat in the living room. This thing 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.960 weighed at least one hundred and twenty five pounds. I 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:54.160 heard it creaking. I look around. The chair's not in there. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.800 It's been moved, but I can still hear it. I 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:05.200 start following this sound and I can see that this chair 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.520 is perched at the top of the basement stairs. It 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.480 was rocking back and forth without slowing down. I reached 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:19.120 forward to grab it, and it stopped in that forward position, 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:26.560 and then it flew forward and broke into a bunch 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.320 of pieces falling down the stairs. My name is Roger, 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.440 and this is the story of the haunting of the 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:40.119 farmhouse that I was babysat in. We were living in 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.800 the middle of nowhere in the Midwest on a farm. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.720 I was just a kid at the time. My mom 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.320 worked a lot of different graveyard shifts, and often my 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.040 brother and I would end up at a house down 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.360 the road with a family that also had children of 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.080 a similar age, and some strange things started to happen. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.280 It was a small house, one story with a large basement. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.880 The mom and dad typical Midwest farm couple, you know. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.160 Mom stayed home, the father was great with kids. They 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.720 had an older daughter, Jackie, who was my age, and 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.200 they had a younger daughter, Susie, who was about five 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.239 years old, and she had an imaginary friend. We always 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.719 tried to involve her, but she just wanted to play 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:32.719 with her imaginary friend. My brother and I are sleeping 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.080 there overnight. We're in the living room. He was on 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.080 one sofa, I was on the other one, and they 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.960 had one of those old tiny radios on the corner 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.160 of the room. And it turned on in the middle 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:52.919 of the night and started changing stations. That scared the 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.440 shit out of my brother and I. If you know 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.479 anything about these old time radios, everything in that is mechanical, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.239 you actually got to physically turn the knob. It cannot 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:09.840 change to another station without that knob. I don't know 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.800 what it was, but something did indeed move that knob. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.000 My brother and I are sitting there looking at each other freaked out. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.000 He told me to shut it off. I was too 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.400 scared to go shut it off. I said, you shut 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:27.320 it off. So he crept across the room in the 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.440 dark of night, with the only thing illuminating it being 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.640 a little bit of light coming from the front of 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.640 the radio itself. He didn't know how to shut it off, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:42.040 so he just went and plugged it. The thing with 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.480 the radio happened at least five or six times. We 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.320 told our mom this place as scary as hell and 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.480 this is what happened, but she just kind of passed 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.359 it off as us being imaginative or making it up 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.719 or ,you know, outright lying. We didn't really feel that 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.600 we had any option about where we were going to 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.440 get babysat when she was at work, so we were stuck. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:13.159 So one day I was in this house, dinner's about ready, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.040 and the father told me to go grab Susie out 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:20.800 of her room. I had looked in her room and 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.600 I had stopped in the doorway, and I had said, "hey, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.320 Susie it's time for dinner", and she was just having a little 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.080 classic tea party. She had the little cups out and 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.520 some little stuffed animal friends and her imaginary friend was sitting 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.760 across from her, she says, well, I'm busy playing, And 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.240 I said, well, I don't care if you're busy planning, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.240 your dad said it's dinner time, and I was about 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.719 to walk in. She told me that her imaginary friend 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.279 did not want me to come in and told me 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.479 to stay out. And as I went to step into 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:56.240 that room, the door slammed in my face. That little 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.679 girl was fifteen feet away from that door. I totally 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.080 freaked out. I went and ran back and got the dad. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.680 I told him what happened. I said, I tried to 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.400 get her, and the door slammed in my face. He goes in there and he tries to 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.040 open the door. Susie! Susie! He can't get the door open. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.560 The door was not locked. You just couldn't open it. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.960 He's yelling her name, Susie! Dead silence in the room. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:30.400 The dad kicks the door in. Little Susie was just 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.360 sitting there in the middle of the floor like she 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.480 was before, completely unaffected, and just looked over and said, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.240 I told you he didn't want you to come in. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.960 I'm a little scared of this little girl at this point. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.960 When she was in a room by herself with her 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.840 imaginary friend, she would turn and look at you, and 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.400 you felt like something else was looking at you too. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.840 The best way I could describe it is that feeling 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.920 of a predator watching you, Like walking by a house 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.920 with a dog chained up in the yard that would 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.880 clearly just love to get a bite of you. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.520 One night, I hear all this commotion in the kitchen 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:25.440 cupboard just opening and slamming, dishes clinking, silverware rattling. I don't 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.560 know any other way to put this. It didn't seem 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.120 to be sounds that a person could accomplish. It wasn't 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.920 the sound of somebody getting the bowl out or whatever. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.360 The only thing that I could compute at the time, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.360 I thought that like the entire family had gotten up 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.640 and it was doing some kind of crazy thing in 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.320 the kitchen, because it didn't seem to be anything that 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.840 like one person would do. So I wake up and 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.520 the lights were off in the kitchen, I went in there. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.320 I turned the kitchen lights on. My brother was with me, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.200 and what we saw, I mean, it sticks with me 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.520 to this day. We were sitting there slack jaw looking 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.400 at all this stuff. All of the cupboards were open. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.520 Everything had been removed from the cupboards, pots, pans, plates, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.000 cereal boxes, canned goods, et cetera, and had been stacked 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:12.160 on the counters and on the table. It wasn't just 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:17.720 haphazardly piled up like a cup with a bowl on top, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.320 with a jar of spaghetti sauce and then a wooden 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.400 spoon balanced on that and then something on that. Somebody 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.360 would have had to go in there for hours and 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:32.360 hours and hours trying to do this. The parents woke up, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.720 came in and my brother the very first thing, he says, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.520 we didn't do it. They said, we know you didn't 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.199 do it. Go back to bed, and they just kind 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.040 of casually and calmly spent the next hour, hour and 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.160 a half putting all this stuff away, and not another 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:56.480 word was said about it. Two or three weeks later, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.440 they're having a barbecue. The mom asked me to go 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.760 see if I can find Susie. So I run around 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.440 outside for a little bit first, and then I said, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:09.040 you know, I gotta go check in the house, so, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.400 you know, yelling her name, Susie! Susie! Walk down the hall, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.160 look in her room. She's not in there. And then 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:21.200 I hear this creaking. It was the sound the floor 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.280 made when you were on the tire swing downstairs, because 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.680 it was hooked into the rafters in the basement. And 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.800 when the tire swing would go just you know that, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.480 you could hear the whole house. And I hear it. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.920 I was like, oh, you know, she's downstairs. She would 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.160 sometimes play in the basement in the pitch black with all 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:42.800 the lights off with her imaginary friend. Now I open 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:47.440 up the basement door. It was pitch black down there. So 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.720 I turned the light on and I called her name, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:58.120 Susie Susie! No response. As I come down the stairs, 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.599 that fight or flight feeling starts creeping up on me, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.959 you know, that feeling of a predator stalking up on you. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:11.760 And I see the swing swinging by itself. All of 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:17.839 a sudden, this tire swing goes boom, swinging all the 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:25.240 way up, nailing the ceiling. Boom, boom, boom. I turned 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.720 and ran up the stairs. I was so terrified running 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.040 back up those steps that the door was going to shut. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.240 Ran through the kitchen to the outside Susie's standing right 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:43.280 out there eating a hamburger. After that, my brother and 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.480 I told our mom that if she ever sent us 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.239 back to that house, we were going to run away. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.440 I have no doubt in my mind there was something 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.640 very real and supernatural happening in that home. Because I 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.880 saw it and experienced it for myself. 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There really wasn't a moment where you 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.240 didn't feel like someone else was in the room with 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:23.360 you in that house. My name is Andrea, and I 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.800 was always terrified of my grandmother's house. I lived at 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.440 my grandmother's house until I was about four or five. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 I don't have a lot of memories living there, but 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.360 what I do have is a ton of memories of 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:46.280 visiting my grandmother. Her house always had a creepy presence. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:53.359 It was over one hundred years old. When my grandmother, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.640 my mom, and her siblings moved in. It was just 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.000 a small farmhouse, and then over the years my grandfather 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.320 put in an addition. It's my understanding that once the 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:09.720 addition was put on, things started to happen. Something came 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.800 alive in the house. I don't know if it was 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:19.080 the work or whatever. It was like a disturbance. One 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:24.120 of my oldest memories was that we would never want 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.840 to be on the second floor of that house alone ever. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.040 And so if you have to go to the bathroom, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.520 you're making someone wait in the outside hallway for you 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:38.480 while you go. You're never going upstairs alone period. The 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.560 minute that I would get to the top of the stairs, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:47.600 I would get this eerie feeling. The energy felt thicker 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.760 and heavy. I always felt like I was being watched. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.840 I never felt like I was alone. And there were 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:01.840 certain areas like this one long hallway that was always dark. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.320 I don't think I can remember a time where a 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.800 light was on in that hallway. There wasn't a doubt 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.800 in my mind that if I looked down that hallway 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:19.280 at the wrong moment, I would see a figure. The 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.840 feeling of the house is really heavy, especially on the 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:27.760 second floor. All the grandchildren felt it, But you know, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.320 we weren't the only ones with these experiences or these feelings. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.200 I remember growing up hearing a story about my mom when 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.200 she was a teenager walking up the stairs, she would 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:44.320 hear footsteps behind her and my aunt she would have 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.200 sleep paralysis, and when she would wake up, she thought 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:52.120 she saw someone hovering above her. My cousin once said 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.320 she saw a figure, and just weird things would happen, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:02.280 and you just never felt comfortable. All of the activity 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.480 would happen, mostly on the second floor or in the 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.440 new part of the house. The house was an old nunnery, 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.560 and there was a woman who ran the nunnery that 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.960 passed away there on the second floor. Whether it was 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:25.066 family lore or this place was haunted by this woman 0:17:25.066 --> 0:17:31.560 we were terrified of being in this house alone. The 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.280 most terrifying part of the house was the second floor. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.439 At the top of the stairs, on the landing, you 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.840 can go left and walk down the hallway. Directly at 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.760 the end of the hallway was a bathroom that no 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.879 one would ever want to use, and if you made a 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:53.760 right that's where my grandmother's room is. She considered herself 0:17:54.119 --> 0:18:00.119 very witchy, and when my grandmother would babysit us, in one 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.800 of the rooms at the end of the hallway to 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.520 pass the time, she would get the granddaughters together and 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.920 do little seance ceremonies, and I remember thinking, I can 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.399 barely go to the bathroom alone in this house. I 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.320 cannot believe we're doing a seance. But it was really 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:25.960 entertaining and a good way to pass time with your grandma. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:32.119 I never liked sleeping at my grandmother's house. I was 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.520 always at my cousin's house. I was always at sleepovers 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:41.800 with my family. I really disliked sleeping there. The minute 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.720 you walked in for a family party or for a sleepover, 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.360 you're just kind of on edge and hoping you don't 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:52.760 experience something that you don't want to experience. It was 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.600 always in the back of your mind. I have like 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.080 thirty cousins. We all feel this way. It wasn't just me. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.919 There was always stress around where we were going to sleep. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.439 I just knew I would never get a good night's sleep. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.639 One night, when we were staying with my grandmother, we 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.560 were sleeping in her bedroom with her. It was just me, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.920 my grandmother, and my sister. We were watching TV. We 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.720 get in our jammies. We all pile into the bed. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.040 I managed to get into the middle. My grandmother's on 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.439 my right, my twin sister's on my left. In addition 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:41.400 to the three people, my grandmother's one hundred pounds great Dane, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.239 Dominique is at the end of the bed, all of 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.600 us packed in. I really had to fight to be 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:54.159 in the middle. I felt safest in the middle. It 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.320 was a really nice night out. There was a really 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.760 great breeze, the window was cracked, the room felt cool. 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:08.719 So we're all snuggled really comfortable under the blankets, and 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.720 so we're watching for like an hour, enjoying. I think 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:18.639 it was NYPD Blue, And eventually my grandmother dozes off. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.720 Before she fell asleep, she had let us know that 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.960 the way that the TV worked was if you turned 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:32.080 it on from the TV, it would go but if 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.640 you had the remote, you could actually control the channels. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.800 And then out of nowhere, Dominique starts to get agitated. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.560 She was sleeping on the foot of the bed. She 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:52.280 went from like a restful snoring to on alert. Her 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:57.919 ears are up and she's looking at the TV, you know, 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.920 a low growl like hm hmm, and the television just 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:08.040 turns off and then all of a sudden it turns 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:15.320 back on and it's just snow. It was almost like 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:20.120 the scene out of the Poltergeist, where it's just the 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:29.440 white noise and the TV fuzz. Dominique starts to get 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:34.399 her hackles up. She's getting more and more agitated. My 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:38.720 sister and I already don't trust this house. We're immediately 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:44.840 on edge and the channel starts to change another channel. 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:48.639 We're grabbing the remote. We're trying to turn it on 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:54.639 and off. It's not working. The dog's really uncomfortable moving 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.919 around in the bed. It's jarring to see a dog nervous, 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:04.000 but like a big hundred pound protective dog that agitated 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:09.119 was really scary. We were just, you know, trying to 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.439 shake my grandmother and saying, someone's turning off and on 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:17.840 the TV. She is just like, oh, it's nothing. It's 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:22.960 the wind. It's the wind, And I'm just like, it 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:27.439 has nothing to do with the wind. The wind's not 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:32.480 touching the button on the television. Instinctively, I was like, 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:36.719 she's gone through this so much, she doesn't care. But 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:40.840 that only terrified me more because this is a reoccurring thing. 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:45.199 Neither one of us wanted to get out of the bed. 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.199 We were too afraid. The journey from the bed to 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:53.639 the window, I mean it was probably three feet but like, 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:55.680 what if we got off the bed and something grabbed 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.640 our feet. I had to take one for the team 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:04.919 and close the window. That journey felt so long. I 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:11.120 scurried back into bed. So we're watching TV again and 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:14.679 we're like fine for a little bit, and then all 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:21.000 of a sudden, turns off and it happens again, turns 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:27.920 back on, channels change, and it continued to do this cycle, 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:33.480 turning off and on, changing channels even after we closed 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.200 the window. So we definitely knew it wasn't the wind. 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:44.679 There was something in the room and whatever was was 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:50.440 changing the channels and messing with the TV as we're 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:54.000 tossing and turning. We're not asleep yet. My sister and 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:58.960 I are just trying to calm ourselves down and we 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:03.200 hear someone come in the house. They're kind of making 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:07.200 a ruckus downstairs. We can hear them in the kitchen, 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:11.639 and then we hear them walk up the stairs and 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:16.040 walk down the hallway. We just hear like clobbering boots 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:22.560 walk up and down the hallway. We wake up our 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:25.720 grandmother and we're saying, I think someone's here, I 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.639 think someone's here. She's like, it's okay, it's just your uncle. 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:35.560 My uncle Paul lived at my grandmother's house, and so 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:38.200 we were like, oh, okay, he was out that night, 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:42.879 he came home late. Now he's home, And for whatever reason, 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:45.320 knowing he was up and around made us feel so 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.840 much better. There was something comforting in that, and so 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:58.879 we finally drifted off to sleep. The next morning, we 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:05.160 go downstairs. My grandmother's making coffee, were eating breakfast. 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:13.320 Paul called. Paul had not come home from the night before. 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:19.320 My sister and I looked at each other and couldn't 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:25.680 make sense of what we heard outside that room. The 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:30.800 only people in the house is me, my grandmother, and 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:34.040 my twin sister and Dominique, who was at the foot 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:37.800 of the bed all night. Who and what was making 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:41.960 those sounds the night before. I don't think I would 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:46.439 ever go back into that house alone at night. I 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:50.960 can't explain it. Clearly, the house is fucking haunted. 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:01.320 I appreciate the directness in this one most people really 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:03.439 beat around the bush when it comes to hauntings. But 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:05.959 my theory is when you know, you know, and she knew. 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:09.280 Let's take a moment for the real debutante of this story. 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:12.960 Dominique dutifully lying at the end of the bed, A 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:16.320 protective growl at the television set. Now that's a dog. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.040 Ah. I love the idea of cozying up to a 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:22.040 sturdy Great Dane on a crisp fall night. All we 0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:24.920 had growing up was our Chiweenie, Lady Macbeth, who was 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:27.760 rehomed after she chewed the handle of my mom's Birkin. 0:26:28.600 --> 0:26:32.760 A taste for designer runs in the family. But let's 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:42.320 take a quick break, shall we. 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:45.680 Well, that's it for today. Thanks for tuning in. 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