Therésa: Sorry, I'm late. Please tell me you already started.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Thank god
HR: module four posthumous policies for respect in the workplace. Now that
HR: we've covered corporate consideration.
Therésa: Welcome back, hauntos Therésa here with another episode of haunting. Unfortunately,
Therésa: we've got some business to attend to today.
HR: Let's talk about the R word.
Therésa: To recap
HR: respect
Therésa: for those of you who missed our last little get together.
Therésa: I called HR on Len because he asked me to
Therésa: help him rezip his zip off cargo shorts.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: I shouldn't ever have to think about your knees. Anyway,
Therésa: They turn the tables on me because apparently it's inappropriate
Therésa: to interagate your coworker on their romantic life. And now
Therésa: we all have to complete a mandatory HR training. If
Therésa: we don't pass, the pod will be suspended until we
Therésa: do so. Moral of the story, HR is not your friend.
HR: Vesparn is a poultergeist who works in IT at the
HR: Squeaky Hinge Factory.
Therésa: Naturally,
HR: his coworker, Jessica, a Pulsating orb in field Sales, has given him
HR: the nickname the Sultan of Shriek. Is this an example
HR: of unlawful harassment? A no, as the nickname was not
HR: given with malicious intent. B Yes, the nickname appears to
HR: be rooted in offensive stereotypes. C yes because the dark
HR: forces are strong in Jessica and she's just bad news.
Therésa: A.
Therésa: Why would it be C Naomi? Are you deaf? She's a
Therésa: flashing orb. She's basically mist.
HR: The correct answer is B
Therésa: damn it.
HR: Module five reporting.
Therésa: Ugh,
HR: if there's something strange in your neighborhood, who are you
HR: gonna call? That's right, your company's in human resources team.
Therésa: Well, we suffer through this. Take a listen to Chris
Therésa: from Massachusetts, who, believe it or not, is having a
Therésa: worse go of things than we are.
STORY A: It had the dirt driveway, lots of potholes, lots of
STORY A: tall grass. It was one of those houses that If
STORY A: you had kids in the neighborhood throwing rocks at it
STORY A: and they told stories, Well, that was my house. While I was in
STORY A: the house, I just felt like I was being watched,
STORY A: like someone was over my shoulder or something was just
STORY A: There with me.
STORY A: It's an uneasy feeling. My name is Chris, and I
STORY A: had a demon in my house. I was in the
STORY A: market for a house. My great aunt said there was
STORY A: one in town. It's an old house. It was your
STORY A: great uncle's. He had passed away a few years before,
STORY A: so the house had been sitting for a couple of years.
STORY A: Even though I was a little bit concerned about it,
STORY A: I decided I'd go take a look. The house was
STORY A: originally built in nineteen twelve and it was in the
STORY A: family since the beginning. This big, dark, brown, two story
STORY A: house sat on The corner between two different side streets. At sunset,
STORY A: it looked like it was black.
STORY A: The grass was overgrown. We were talking two three foot tall.
STORY A: They had probably twenty three twenty four windows in it,
STORY A: the old big knee high vintage style ones.
STORY A: None of the windows opened, they were all rotted closed.
STORY A: The doors creaked, every Board creaked, and it looked like
STORY A: the roof was sagging in. You ever thought of a classic
STORY A: haunted house. That was it.
STORY A: I just talked to myself, well, it is kind of
STORY A: creepy and scary in some Parts, but I can make
STORY A: this work.
STORY A: I was really excited because it was my first house. I
STORY A: moved in right away. For some reason, all the kids
STORY A: in the neighborhood were afraid of it. I didn't understand why,
STORY A: at least until after I had moved in, and then
STORY A: I started to understand. From the first moment that I
STORY A: walked in, it always seemed as though there was a
STORY A: heaviness in the air. It was opressive. While I was
STORY A: in the house, I just felt like I was being
STORY A: watched all the time, and I never felt like I
STORY A: was alone. I always felt like someone was over my shoulder.
STORY A: It's an uneasy feeling, and I felt a lot of anxiety.
STORY A: And at this point I don't really believe in ghosts
STORY A: or spirits or anything like that. So I started gutting it.
STORY A: I started ripping walls down, I started ripping ceiling down,
STORY A: fixing floors, built a brand new kitchen. The air inside was
STORY A: always cold in that house. One time I was playing
STORY A: video games in the living room. It was the middle
STORY A: of summer, I had all the windows open and it
STORY A: was ninety degrees, but there was a cold spot right
STORY A: next to me, just getting colder and colder.
STORY A: It finally felt like I was going to start seeing
STORY A: my breath.
STORY A: I'm sitting there and out of the corner of my eye,
STORY A: I saw a black shape.
STORY A: It looked like a person or something. I'm a skeptic.
STORY A: My backgrounds law enforcement, engineering. I take over them to the
STORY A: grain of salt, and I don't really put too much
STORY A: into it. But over the course of weeks, all kinds
STORY A: of events happened me. At the same time in this house.
STORY A: We had a guy's night, and we all hear this
STORY A: bang on the second floor.
STORY A: It sounds like heavy footsteps, like a guy with boots
STORY A: or something pacing. Boom, boom, boom. There shouldn't be anyone
STORY A: up there, because everyone's in the living room, and so
STORY A: we've run upstairs. And we don't see anything. That occurred
STORY A: a few more times by myself.
STORY A: One night, maybe two am, I was in my bedroom
STORY A: sleeping on the second floor. I heard these footsteps, one
STORY A: at a time on the stairs, some heavy kind of boom,
STORY A: these footsteps walked to the door, and something tries the doorknob.
STORY A: I jumped out of bed . I opened the door, and I
STORY A: look around the corner and nothing
STORY A: I'm thinking to myself, I'm just halucinating , and I
STORY A: started sleeping on a futon on the first floor. I
STORY A: thought maybe I have cabin fever. Maybe I needed companionship,
STORY A: and so I said, okay, fine, I'll get a dog.
STORY A: So I got a German shepherd puppy, and that dog
STORY A: grew in a few months, and this huge one hundred
STORY A: and twenty pound guard dog.
STORY A: She never would go to the second floor. She would
STORY A: always hang at the bottom of the staircase, as though she
STORY A: was Looking at something and she would growl at whatever
STORY A: it was she thought it was an enemy or something to
STORY A: protect me from.
STORY A: There was a very heavy, dense energy in the house.
STORY A: I was angry all the time. Whenever I could, I
STORY A: would try to work extra hours or I would go
STORY A: out with my friends because I didn't want to be there.
STORY A: The only time I would go home was to take
STORY A: care of the dog and to do some repairs in
STORY A: the house. I had no shades in the windows or
STORY A: anything like that, and so oftentimes the neighbors would see
STORY A: me working late into the night and I would just
STORY A: do my things.
STORY A: Well, that was until this one Friday I went to dinner and
STORY A: a movie.
STORY A: I left porchlight on and the front light on, locked
STORY A: up the house. I remember it because I was driving
STORY A: Home around midnight.
STORY A: As soon as I turned the corner into the neighborhood,
STORY A: that house sticks out. It's the very first house you see.
STORY A: The entire house. Every single light was lit up. All
STORY A: the lights, including the bathroom at the far end. I
STORY A: was genuinely concerned. I felt like someone had broken in
STORY A: or that it was on fire, and so I ran
STORY A: up to the door, unlocked it, and I ran Through
STORY A: the house looking for something. It turned out there was
STORY A: no one there.
STORY A: I was freaked out because I know I switched everything off. I
STORY A: started frantically calling my friends and family to see if
STORY A: one of them had stopped by. And oh, I turned
STORY A: all the lights on and I'm sorry, and all that
STORY A: I had finished calling, everyone.
STORY A: No had turned any lights on. And so I said, Okay, that's
STORY A: kind of strange. Maybe I was tired and I forgot.
STORY A: You know, I'm a skeptic. So the next day I
STORY A: went to go get my mail.
STORY A: My mailbox is directly across from my neighbor's mailbox, and
STORY A: she comes walking out and she gestures to me. She
STORY A: introduces herself. She's been in the neighborhood for over thirty years,
STORY A: and she said, were you at the house last night?
STORY A: I said no, I went to dinner and a movie. I
STORY A: asked her, did you see anything in the house? She says,
STORY A: all of the lights in the house, one by one,
STORY A: turned on, as though someone was walking through the rooms
STORY A: one at a time, turning the lights on. I wasn't
STORY A: sure if someone was breaking into your house, and so
STORY A: I kept watching. I could see them in the big
STORY A: windows that you had, walking from the back kitchen area
STORY A: and then went around downstairs, and then he went to
STORY A: the master bedroom. The light turned on, and then he
STORY A: went towards the window. And whoever it was didn't look
STORY A: like you, and she said, I tried to look for
STORY A: its face, and all it was was this tall, thin,
STORY A: black shape with two red eyes. I almost lost it
STORY A: right there. I needed someone to tell me that I
STORY A: was either crazy or that there was something going on,
STORY A: and that someone could do something about it. I was
STORY A: just looking for answers, really. I had posted my experiences
STORY A: on several different haunted forums and ghosts forums and all that.
STORY A: And this woman responds back to me and says, I
STORY A: can tell you a lot more about this.
STORY A: My name is Amy. I am a rescue medium. I
STORY A: told Chris, why don't you tell me what's going on
STORY A: in the home, and maybe I can give you a
STORY A: few answers to clarify things for you.
STORY A: She's very knowledgeable, which I was very impressed with.
STORY A: And I eventually got to the point where I trusted
STORY A: her enough and I invited her over.
STORY A: When I pull up to the property, this place looked
STORY A: like the traditional haunted home that you would usually see
STORY A: in a movie.
STORY A: I feel this foreboding presence,
STORY A: and so Amy's walking around looking in each one of
STORY A: the rooms.
STORY A: I get to the staircase and I feel something staring
STORY A: down at me the moment that I get there. I
STORY A: stop in my tracks, I look up the staircase, and
STORY A: standing at the top of the stairs, I saw a
STORY A: dark shadow. It has the silhouette of a man, but
STORY A: I didn't see the soul essence inside of it. It
STORY A: looked hollow. It didn't have a face. It just had
STORY A: red eyes staring back at me. I looked straight at
STORY A: it and I told it that it was leaving the property,
STORY A: and it yelled at me to get out of the house.
STORY A: I look at Chris and I'm like, this is not
STORY A: an earthbound spirit, this is not a fragmented soul. It's
STORY A: not a spirit from the other side. You have a
STORY A: demon in your house and it wants to feed off
STORY A: of you and anyone who comes into this property.
STORY A: Thankfully, Amy is a rescue medium and a rescue medium
STORY A: some of it actually releases negative entities, things like that.
STORY A: Over the course of a few weeks, she was able
STORY A: to help me by smudging the house. I was able
STORY A: to clear the house, and it was as though energetically
STORY A: the house was a completely different animal. The visitations got less
STORY A: and less. I didn't have as many cold spots. I
STORY A: didn't feel like I was being watched all the time. I
STORY A: do really believe that had there not been an intervention,
STORY A: I would have died in that house.
Therésa: Glowing red eyes hmmm, demon stereotype much?
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Of course they do. Hey not to sound like a boomer,
Therésa: but does it count if my intentions are good and I'm
Therésa: just confused? Okay, relax, you're getting just as many of
Therésa: these questions wrong as I am.
HR: Which of the following is not a protected category? A
HR: celestial classification B cause of death C Allegiance to the
HR: Dark Forces or D sexual orientation
Therésa: C
HR: The correct answer is C allegiance to the Dark Forces.
Therésa: Finally, nice job, team, Maybe we can right this ship after all.
HR: It's time for the sudden death round.
Therésa: That's different. I guess the good news is we're technically
Therésa: already dead. While we fight to the finish with an
Therésa: HR training module. Meet Rose and Kayla, Who are dealing with
Therésa: a little haunted workplace harassment of their own.
STORY B: I'm terrified, what is happening? Why is there a person here?
STORY B: I'm the only person that's supposed to be up here.
STORY B: I walk in. I was confused because why she's staring
STORY B: at nothing. I said something like you okay, or what
STORY B: are you doing? She's just like, I think I just
STORY B: saw a ghost.
STORY B: My name's Rose.
STORY B: I'm Kayla and Rose is my friend.
STORY B: And this is the story of how I stumbled into
STORY B: a ghost sitting in the ghost chair. The Society for
STORY B: Castle Restoration exists to raise funds to restore a Gray
STORY B: Towers Castle, which is a National Historic Landmark in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
STORY B: We put on a few different events throughout the year
STORY B: based in the castle. We do a haunted house and
STORY B: we do a game of live action Clue. It's pretty
STORY B: late at night, getting pretty close to midnight. My club
STORY B: has just finished putting on an event in the castle
STORY B: and I'm up in the attic by myself sorting some
STORY B: stuff out.
STORY B: There is so much stuff up there, just debris lying
STORY B: around with props on either side. So before and after events,
STORY B: we have to sort through them and put them away.
STORY B: You know, I don't usually believe in haunted stuff, but
STORY B: it's really sketchy up there. You go up into a
STORY B: small circular room that has a spiral staircase that goes
STORY B: up to the attic. One of them is slightly broken.
STORY B: I think it's the third step. If you step too
STORY B: close to the edge of it, it's not actually attached
STORY B: to the step anymore, so it will like clatter a
STORY B: little bit. It freaks me out every time. When you
STORY B: get to the attic, there's this giant metal box full
STORY B: of wires blocking your pathway into the rest of the attic.
STORY B: I'm pretty sure it's either a mechanical box or like
STORY B: air conditioning. It's very industrial. To the right of this
STORY B: structure is a tiny, little narrow passageway you have to
STORY B: crawl your way through. You have to dodge over a
STORY B: lot of debris. It's basically just enough room to get
STORY B: your body through.
STORY B: I think there's a hole in the floor somewhere in
STORY B: the middle there. It's sort of a perilous journey to
STORY B: walk over there. I'm also really tall, I'm five ten,
STORY B: so it doesn't help in the attic. If you go right,
STORY B: there's this one giant room that spans the whole length
STORY B: of the building. It's probably about half a football field.
STORY B: It's a huge attic. There are beams on the ceiling
STORY B: and there are wires hanging off of some beams, so
STORY B: there's a lot of ducking involved, and There's like holes
STORY B: in the floor. It's above a room with a vaulted ceiling,
STORY B: so I always feel like I'm gonna die, And because
STORY B: the lights don't turn on, you usually can't see the back.
STORY B: There's also like the standard creaky old attic noises. It's
STORY B: very spooky. You can always hear voices up there. It's
STORY B: sort of like when you can hear talking that's like
STORY B: really far away and you can't quite make out what
STORY B: it is and it's really distant, but you can still
STORY B: like hear it in the background. It's really weird. Every
STORY B: time we're in the attic, it's tradition that you have
STORY B: to walk over and look at the ghost chair.
STORY B: The ghost chair is this metal folding chair in this
STORY B: weird room in the attic if you can call it
STORY B: a room, it's more like the space. It's kind of
STORY B: like a mini tradition like the first time I was
STORY B: taken up in the attic, we walked over and looked
STORY B: at the chair, and then we went on with our day.
STORY B: I don't like doing it because it's kind of creepy,
STORY B: but I'm not really doing anything at the moment, so
STORY B: I decide it's time to go look at the ghost chair,
STORY B: as we do when we're in the attic by ourselves.
STORY B: I think, just because that's one of the spaces that's
STORY B: had a lot of encounters, and I think in general
STORY B: it's just a creepy spot. So it's been nicknamed the
STORY B: ghost Chair.
STORY B: The room that the ghost chair is in is like
STORY B: halfway back.
STORY B: You have to swing a right and continue walking through darkness.
STORY B: With the lights behind you. You can see right and
STORY B: feet ahead of you.
STORY B: And dead center in the middle of the room is
STORY B: a folding metal chair. It's facing the door but at
STORY B: an angle, and there's this really strange spotlight sort of
STORY B: thing that's always shining directly down on it. I'm figuring,
STORY B: you know, I'll just look at it and then turn
STORY B: around and go back, and by then someone will be
STORY B: up here with more stuff that we can sort. You know,
STORY B: it's just going to be the ghost chair. It's always
STORY B: just the chair and the spotlight looking weird. As I
STORY B: glance into the room, I see this figure sitting on
STORY B: the ghost chair. I just sort of stand there for
STORY B: a moment, staring at it. It's not moving at all,
STORY B: It's just sitting there. I'm like terrified, what is happening?
STORY B: Why is there a person here? At that point, I
STORY B: turned right around and walk right back to where I
STORY B: was before. What did I just see? What's happening? Did
STORY B: I actually see a ghost? I just sort of stare
STORY B: at the wall for a minute, trying to rationalize what
STORY B: had just happened. I was very confused. Why is it
STORY B: now that a ghost has suddenly decided to show up?
STORY B: And why is it when I'm alone? At that point,
STORY B: my friend Kayla walked in with some other props and
STORY B: was like, why are you staring at the wall? What happened?
STORY B: Weren't you supposed to be sorting things
STORY B: when I first get up there, Rose is out of it.
STORY B: She didn't really say anything to me. I asked her
STORY B: what she was doing because she was kind of blankly staring.
STORY B: I was there for a while trying to figure out
STORY B: what was happening.
STORY B: It takes her a second and then she kind of
STORY B: is like, I think I just saw a ghost. I
STORY B: kind of like shrug, and I'm like, okay are you pulling
STORY B: a practical joke on me?
STORY B: I tell her, I swear I just saw someone sitting
STORY B: in the ghost chair. Please go back over there with
STORY B: me so we can make sure I'm not going insane.
STORY B: I think she. Wanted to check it out again to
STORY B: see if it was a person or not.
STORY B: You make the journey back over to the ghost Chair
STORY B: and look in, but there is nothing there.
STORY B: It's just the chair,
STORY B: ominously sitting in the middle of the room.
STORY B: No ghost at all. She's like, okay, sure, sure there
STORY B: was someone sitting in the ghost chair Rose. I swear
STORY B: I saw a sort of dark figure sitting on the chair,
STORY B: and I was very freaked out.
STORY B: She was always skeptical of this kind of stuff. She
STORY B: was just like, if they exist, okay, I'm not sure
STORY B: about that, but I don't think they're real type deal.
STORY B: And then she had an experience. It didn't really make
STORY B: any sense to her or me. There's no way for
STORY B: someone to get up in the attic other than the
STORY B: way I came, so I would have seen someone or something.
STORY B: She's usually the level headed one based on the fact
STORY B: that she Doesn't believe in that stuff, and after seeing
STORY B: how Shaken up she was, I knew she had seen
STORY B: a ghost, and I'm known to make jokes about things.
STORY B: I said something like, welcome to the club, and you
STORY B: just had a ghost encounter.
STORY B: She was proud. I haven't gone to look at the
STORY B: ghost chair by myself, since I'm too freaked out to
STORY B: do it. I think i would consider going back, but
STORY B: not in the middle of the night.
Therésa: Good news everyone, After many good faith attempts, we finally
Therésa: passed our sensitivity training and our workplace has been declared
Therésa: non toxic. Take that HR overlords. (GROWL) Oops, didn't realize they
Therésa: could hear me.
HR: Congratulations you passed the course. But remember, spectral sensitivity is
HR: an after lifelong endeavor. Respecting your fellow co workers is
HR: of the utmost importance because many of you will be
HR: with them forever.
Therésa: Well that's our episode for today. Tune in next time
Therésa: for more twisted tales from the Great Beyond, and remember,
Therésa: if you have a scare to share or want to
Therésa: help hold us accountable for keeping Purgatory a safe space,
Therésa: email us at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com. HR Services and spectral sensitivity training
Therésa: by the Scared Not Scarred Initiative. Everyone deserves to feel
Therésa: safe and respected at work. If you're being unfairly targeted
Therésa: on the job, Honestly, I would not cry about it
Therésa: to HR unless you want to lose four hours of
Therésa: your life to some bullshit PowerPoint,
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Remember you are not alone. Reach out to a trusted
Therésa: coworker or superior for support and explore your options with
Therésa: the Scared Not Scarred Initiative. Together we can build a
Therésa: better purgatory for everyone.
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