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Therésa: Sorry, I'm late. Please tell me you already started.

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Len: (MUMBLES)

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Therésa: Thank god

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HR: module four posthumous policies for respect in the workplace. Now that

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HR: we've covered corporate consideration.

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Therésa: Welcome back, hauntos Therésa here with another episode of haunting. Unfortunately,

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Therésa: we've got some business to attend to today.

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HR: Let's talk about the R word.

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Therésa: To recap

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HR: respect

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Therésa: for those of you who missed our last little get together.

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Therésa: I called HR on Len because he asked me to

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Therésa: help him rezip his zip off cargo shorts.

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Len: (MUMBLES)

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Therésa: I shouldn't ever have to think about your knees. Anyway,

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Therésa: They turn the tables on me because apparently it's inappropriate

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Therésa: to interagate your coworker on their romantic life. And now

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Therésa: we all have to complete a mandatory HR training. If

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Therésa: we don't pass, the pod will be suspended until we

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Therésa: do so. Moral of the story, HR is not your friend.

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HR: Vesparn is a poultergeist who works in IT at the

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HR: Squeaky Hinge Factory.

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Therésa: Naturally,

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HR: his coworker, Jessica, a Pulsating orb in field Sales, has given him

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HR: the nickname the Sultan of Shriek. Is this an example

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HR: of unlawful harassment? A no, as the nickname was not

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HR: given with malicious intent. B Yes, the nickname appears to

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HR: be rooted in offensive stereotypes. C yes because the dark

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HR: forces are strong in Jessica and she's just bad news.

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Therésa: A.

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Therésa: Why would it be C Naomi? Are you deaf? She's a

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Therésa: flashing orb. She's basically mist.

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HR: The correct answer is B

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Therésa: damn it.

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HR: Module five reporting.

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Therésa: Ugh,

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HR: if there's something strange in your neighborhood, who are you

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HR: gonna call? That's right, your company's in human resources team.

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Therésa: Well, we suffer through this. Take a listen to Chris

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Therésa: from Massachusetts, who, believe it or not, is having a

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Therésa: worse go of things than we are.

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STORY A: It had the dirt driveway, lots of potholes, lots of

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STORY A: tall grass. It was one of those houses that If

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STORY A: you had kids in the neighborhood throwing rocks at it

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STORY A: and they told stories, Well, that was my house. While I was in

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STORY A: the house, I just felt like I was being watched,

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STORY A: like someone was over my shoulder or something was just

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STORY A: There with me.

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STORY A: It's an uneasy feeling. My name is Chris, and I

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STORY A: had a demon in my house. I was in the

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STORY A: market for a house. My great aunt said there was

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STORY A: one in town. It's an old house. It was your

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STORY A: so the house had been sitting for a couple of years.

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STORY A: Even though I was a little bit concerned about it,

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STORY A: I decided I'd go take a look. The house was

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STORY A: originally built in nineteen twelve and it was in the

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STORY A: family since the beginning. This big, dark, brown, two story

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STORY A: house sat on The corner between two different side streets. At sunset,

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STORY A: it looked like it was black.

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STORY A: The grass was overgrown. We were talking two three foot tall.

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STORY A: They had probably twenty three twenty four windows in it,

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STORY A: None of the windows opened, they were all rotted closed.

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STORY A: The doors creaked, every Board creaked, and it looked like

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STORY A: the roof was sagging in. You ever thought of a classic

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STORY A: haunted house. That was it.

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STORY A: I just talked to myself, well, it is kind of

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STORY A: creepy and scary in some Parts, but I can make

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STORY A: I was really excited because it was my first house. I

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STORY A: heaviness in the air. It was opressive. While I was

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STORY A: It's an uneasy feeling, and I felt a lot of anxiety.

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STORY A: or spirits or anything like that. So I started gutting it.

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STORY A: It finally felt like I was going to start seeing

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STORY A: I'm sitting there and out of the corner of my eye,

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STORY A: It looked like a person or something. I'm a skeptic.

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STORY A: My backgrounds law enforcement, engineering. I take over them to the

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STORY A: into it. But over the course of weeks, all kinds

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STORY A: of events happened me. At the same time in this house.

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STORY A: We had a guy's night, and we all hear this

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STORY A: It sounds like heavy footsteps, like a guy with boots

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STORY A: One night, maybe two am, I was in my bedroom

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STORY A: So I got a German shepherd puppy, and that dog

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STORY A: She never would go to the second floor. She would

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STORY A: always hang at the bottom of the staircase, as though she

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STORY A: was Looking at something and she would growl at whatever

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STORY A: it was she thought it was an enemy or something to

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STORY A: There was a very heavy, dense energy in the house.

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STORY A: I was angry all the time. Whenever I could, I

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STORY A: Well, that was until this one Friday I went to dinner and

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STORY A: The entire house. Every single light was lit up. All

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STORY A: up to the door, unlocked it, and I ran Through

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STORY A: all the lights on and I'm sorry, and all that

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STORY A: No had turned any lights on. And so I said, Okay, that's

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STORY A: kind of strange. Maybe I was tired and I forgot.

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STORY A: You know, I'm a skeptic. So the next day I

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STORY A: went to go get my mail.

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STORY A: My mailbox is directly across from my neighbor's mailbox, and

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STORY A: she comes walking out and she gestures to me. She

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STORY A: introduces herself. She's been in the neighborhood for over thirty years,

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STORY A: and she said, were you at the house last night?

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STORY A: I said no, I went to dinner and a movie. I

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STORY A: asked her, did you see anything in the house? She says,

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STORY A: all of the lights in the house, one by one,

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STORY A: turned on, as though someone was walking through the rooms

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STORY A: one at a time, turning the lights on. I wasn't

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STORY A: sure if someone was breaking into your house, and so

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STORY A: I kept watching. I could see them in the big

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STORY A: and then went around downstairs, and then he went to

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STORY A: like you, and she said, I tried to look for

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STORY A: its face, and all it was was this tall, thin,

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STORY A: just looking for answers, really. I had posted my experiences

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STORY A: on several different haunted forums and ghosts forums and all that.

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STORY A: And this woman responds back to me and says, I

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STORY A: My name is Amy. I am a rescue medium. I

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STORY A: told Chris, why don't you tell me what's going on

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STORY A: in the home, and maybe I can give you a

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STORY A: few answers to clarify things for you.

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STORY A: She's very knowledgeable, which I was very impressed with.

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STORY A: And I eventually got to the point where I trusted

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STORY A: When I pull up to the property, this place looked

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STORY A: like the traditional haunted home that you would usually see

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STORY A: in a movie.

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STORY A: I feel this foreboding presence,

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STORY A: and so Amy's walking around looking in each one of

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STORY A: I get to the staircase and I feel something staring

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STORY A: stop in my tracks, I look up the staircase, and

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STORY A: standing at the top of the stairs, I saw a

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STORY A: dark shadow. It has the silhouette of a man, but

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STORY A: I didn't see the soul essence inside of it. It

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STORY A: looked hollow. It didn't have a face. It just had

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STORY A: red eyes staring back at me. I looked straight at

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STORY A: it and I told it that it was leaving the property,

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STORY A: and it yelled at me to get out of the house.

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STORY A: I look at Chris and I'm like, this is not

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STORY A: an earthbound spirit, this is not a fragmented soul. It's

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STORY A: not a spirit from the other side. You have a

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STORY A: demon in your house and it wants to feed off

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STORY A: of you and anyone who comes into this property.

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STORY A: Thankfully, Amy is a rescue medium and a rescue medium

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STORY A: some of it actually releases negative entities, things like that.

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STORY A: Over the course of a few weeks, she was able

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STORY A: to help me by smudging the house. I was able

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STORY A: to clear the house, and it was as though energetically

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STORY A: the house was a completely different animal. The visitations got less

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STORY A: and less. I didn't have as many cold spots. I

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STORY A: didn't feel like I was being watched all the time. I

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STORY A: do really believe that had there not been an intervention,

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STORY A: I would have died in that house.

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Therésa: Glowing red eyes hmmm, demon stereotype much?

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Len: (MUMBLES)

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STORY B: I'm terrified, what is happening? Why is there a person here?

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STORY B: I'm the only person that's supposed to be up here.

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STORY B: My name's Rose.

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STORY B: You know, I don't usually believe in haunted stuff, but

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STORY B: I don't like doing it because it's kind of creepy,

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STORY B: I think, just because that's one of the spaces that's

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STORY B: The room that the ghost chair is in is like

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STORY B: You have to swing a right and continue walking through darkness.

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STORY B: And dead center in the middle of the room is

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STORY B: just the chair and the spotlight looking weird. As I

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STORY B: It's just sitting there. I'm like terrified, what is happening?

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STORY B: I actually see a ghost? I just sort of stare

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STORY B: at the wall for a minute, trying to rationalize what

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STORY B: And why is it when I'm alone? At that point,

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STORY B: Weren't you supposed to be sorting things

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STORY B: when I first get up there, Rose is out of it.

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STORY B: She didn't really say anything to me. I asked her

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STORY B: It takes her a second and then she kind of

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STORY B: kind of like shrug, and I'm like, okay are you pulling

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STORY B: I tell her, I swear I just saw someone sitting

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STORY B: in the ghost chair. Please go back over there with

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STORY B: me so we can make sure I'm not going insane.

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STORY B: I think she. Wanted to check it out again to

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STORY B: You make the journey back over to the ghost Chair

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STORY B: and look in, but there is nothing there.

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STORY B: It's just the chair,

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STORY B: No ghost at all. She's like, okay, sure, sure there

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STORY B: And then she had an experience. It didn't really make

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STORY B: a ghost, and I'm known to make jokes about things.

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STORY B: I said something like, welcome to the club, and you

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STORY B: She was proud. I haven't gone to look at the

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Therésa: Good news everyone, After many good faith attempts, we finally

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Therésa: passed our sensitivity training and our workplace has been declared

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Therésa: non toxic. Take that HR overlords. (GROWL) Oops, didn't realize they

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Therésa: could hear me.

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HR: Congratulations you passed the course. But remember, spectral sensitivity is

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HR: an after lifelong endeavor. Respecting your fellow co workers is

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HR: of the utmost importance because many of you will be

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HR: with them forever.

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Therésa: Well that's our episode for today. Tune in next time

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Therésa: for more twisted tales from the Great Beyond, and remember,

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Therésa: if you have a scare to share or want to

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Therésa: help hold us accountable for keeping Purgatory a safe space,

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Therésa: email us at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com. HR Services and spectral sensitivity training

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Therésa: by the Scared Not Scarred Initiative. Everyone deserves to feel

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Therésa: safe and respected at work. If you're being unfairly targeted

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Therésa: on the job, Honestly, I would not cry about it

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Therésa: to HR unless you want to lose four hours of

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Therésa: your life to some bullshit PowerPoint,

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Len: (MUMBLES)

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Therésa: Remember you are not alone. Reach out to a trusted

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Therésa: coworker or superior for support and explore your options with

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Therésa: the Scared Not Scarred Initiative. Together we can build a

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Therésa: better purgatory for everyone.

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Credits: It is hosted by Lauren Lapkus as her character Therésa.

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Credits: Haunting is directed by Aleah Welsh and produced by Trey Morgan.

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