Therésa: Hey, Hantos, I'm back. The meeting with my caseworker Sharon
Therésa: didn't go as planned. I haven't crossed over, and I'm
Therésa: still here, at least for now, or I guess possibly forever.
Therésa: You know, I'm starting to wonder if my unfinished business
Therésa: maybe isn't my follower count. I also found out Sharon's
Therésa: taking on Jimmy Buffett as a client now too, and
Therésa: I'm just worried I'm not gonna get as much attention.
Therésa: You know what, whatever, I don't need Sharon. Okay, I've
Therésa: eaten at the Margaritaville in the Fort Lauderdale Airport, so I've
Therésa: already been to hell. Screw you, Jimmy Buffett.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Oh sick Glenn. If I ever meet him, I'll be
Therésa: sure to mention what a fan you are. Yeah. Sorry,
Therésa: I'm not really feeling like myself today. Normally, when I
Therésa: felt off in the real world, i'd get super high
Therésa: and binge One Tree Hill. Anyway, if any of the
Therésa: ghouls listening want to share the ways they cheer themselves up,
Therésa: I'm all ears boy smells huh oh boys souls. Yeah,
Therésa: that's not a bad idea, all Right before we get
Therésa: into today's episode, we have got a quick message from
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Therésa: Are you kidding me for the millionth time? I'm a formless,
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Therésa: Great you forgot the promo code.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: No. I don't want to oversell, but this next story
Therésa: even had me on edge. Ronnie and Amanda thought they'd
Therésa: found their dream home, but they couldn't escape the evil
Therésa: in the basement.
STORY A: I started seeing a shadow figure around the house. Over time,
STORY A: it kind of felt like when you walked inside of
STORY A: the home, you were walking into this thick fog. It
STORY A: was just unsettling, uncomfortable.
STORY A: And I was kind of getting worried, thinking that we've
STORY A: moved into a house that was haunted. I'm Ronnie
STORY A: and this is his wife, Amanda.
STORY A: And there was something evil in our basement. We were
STORY A: in the process of putting our house on the market,
STORY A: so we were looking for houses within the general area
STORY A: of where we were living at in Tennessee and we
STORY A: came across an auction, so we decided to go check
STORY A: it out.
STORY A: The house was located in a very rural area.
STORY A: Had a long driveway. The front yard was opened up
STORY A: pretty good.
STORY A: It had some big, tall trees, but then the rest
STORY A: of it was surrounded by woods on twelve acres. Peaceful,
STORY A: no neighbors, no noise. It was all original. It had
STORY A: the dark wood paneling, really old wallpaper and shag carpet,
STORY A: had a full sized basement unfinished. We'd like the idea
STORY A: could gradually fix it up, and we had the time
STORY A: and the money, and immediately we kind of fell in
STORY A: love with it. We put an offer in ended up
STORY A: getting it. It was mid September when we finally started
STORY A: moving in. As we moved in, it was just something
STORY A: about the basement. It was just this weird, eerie feeling.
STORY A: You go down old wooden stairs. The ceiling height was
STORY A: maybe six feet. I'm six foot three, so I'm having
STORY A: to duck my head through there. But it's something about
STORY A: the back corner of that basement. It had a darkness
STORY A: to it, almost as if you could see it. It
STORY A: was very uncomfortable, but as time grew on, it became
STORY A: stronger and more noticeable.
STORY A: The basement was all open, and then off to the
STORY A: side there was a little door in the wall.
STORY A: I've never seen anything like it. It was very strange,
STORY A: kind of like who ever lived there before made it themselves.
STORY A: Ronnie crawled through. There was a wall on the side
STORY A: with another door, so he went through the doorway and
STORY A: he disappeared.
STORY A: And I turned the corner.
STORY A: I started stepping down these makeshift stairs, and then it
STORY A: just stepped down to nothing, and then there was ashes.
STORY A: It was so bizarre, super creepy.
STORY A: It could have been a red flag. But then we
STORY A: didn't know what to make of it. My brother and
STORY A: sister were over helping us get some of the heavy
STORY A: stuff moved in, and we were found in the basement
STORY A: putting all these boxes away. I just glance up and
STORY A: I happened to see this really slim box on top
STORY A: of the duckwork. I'd go to pull it down and
STORY A: see what it is, and there was an old nineteen
STORY A: seventies Ouija board still in the box and everything. Of course,
STORY A: the box looks like it's been used quite a bit,
STORY A: you know, it was barely hanging together. But I bring
STORY A: it upstairs and show Amanda. I'm like, check this out.
STORY A: Look what I found. We can decorate for Halloween. So
STORY A: we put it in the dining room hutch with all
STORY A: the other Fall decor. It was getting late in the evening,
STORY A: so instead of my brother and sister just going home,
STORY A: they were like, well we could stay at the night.
STORY A: All the bedrooms are upstairs. My wife and I take
STORY A: the master bedroom, and then across the hall was the
STORY A: other bedrooms that they decided to take.
STORY A: As soon as we went to bed and we were
STORY A: starting to get comfortable, we started hearing someone running back
STORY A: and forth in the hall. We had those sliding doors
STORY A: on the closets. We heard them sliding back and forth,
STORY A: back and forth, back and forth, running down the hall
STORY A: to the next room, sliding those closet doors back and forth,
STORY A: back and forth, over and over and over again. I
STORY A: was so tired. It was like aggravating that they were
STORY A: doing that. I was like, Ronnie, get up and tell
STORY A: them to stop. And then he came back and said,
STORY A: it's not them. They thought it was us.
STORY A: When I saw a look on their face and the
STORY A: fear that they had, I could tell that it wasn't
STORY A: something that they're messing with us with. So I'm like,
STORY A: maybe somebody broke into the house and they're trying to
STORY A: freak us out or something. I don't know, because I
STORY A: mean it was so loud, obviously somebody was doing it.
STORY A: So we walked through the house. We're going room by
STORY A: room like really slowly, and we didn't see anyone.
STORY A: Which I all the closets anywhere we can.
STORY A: And then his sister was like, the Ouija board. It's
STORY A: the Ouija board. You got to put that back where
STORY A: you found it. So Ronnie runs to that hutch, grabs it,
STORY A: runs down to the basement, runs back upstairs, and like
STORY A: slams the door shut. We're so scared we didn't want
STORY A: to go back to our rooms ourselves, so we all
STORY A: ended up sleeping in one room. Since all that happened
STORY A: the first night, I was thinking, is this something that
STORY A: we were going to continue having problems with?
STORY A: I'm thinking, okay, well, maybe we disturbed something paranormal.
STORY A: We ended up getting the Ouija board out. We give
STORY A: it to a lady that was looking for one, and
STORY A: then later on we were thinking about it, so I
STORY A: decided to message her, asking her if she ever used it.
STORY A: She replied they had used it, and she regretted ever
STORY A: picking that Ouija board up because she would see this
STORY A: older man all the time, and her boyfriend would see
STORY A: a little boy all the time, and they would hear things,
STORY A: they'd see things, So I think that Ouija board was
STORY A: pretty bad.
STORY A: As time went on, things just started getting stronger and stronger,
STORY A: and we started noticing more and more. Down in the basement.
STORY A: There was this big chest freezer.
STORY A: The things we found in the freezer were just very
STORY A: very unusual.
STORY A: There were birds, like crows were in there, and then
STORY A: there was weird animal bones.
STORY A: There was like a deer leg that had some fur.
STORY A: On it but no meat, and then at the very
STORY A: bottom was this gallon sized bucket of frozen blood. At
STORY A: that time, I was thinking the previous owners were just
STORY A: into some kind of dark satanic stuff in that basement,
STORY A: and I thought, if I move anything, are we going
STORY A: to wake something up?
STORY A: So I just left everything in that freezer.
STORY A: We just thought they were messing with some dark stuff here,
STORY A: and that's why we experienced what we experienced.
STORY A: We're starting to hear what sounds like walking going up
STORY A: the stairs, walking around the hallway up there, and then
STORY A: into the bedrooms. Of course, nobody's upstairs. And then other
STORY A: times we would notice the basement door would constantly be
STORY A: open and there was no explanation. We'd randomly get up
STORY A: in the morning basement door would be open. Throughout the day,
STORY A: basement door would be open, couldn't figure out why.
STORY A: And it always felt like someone was watching you when
STORY A: you were down there. It's like they did not want
STORY A: you in there at all. They just wanted you out.
STORY A: It got to the point where I wasn't really sleeping
STORY A: at all. I try to go to bed, and I'd
STORY A: wake up between two or three o'clock in the morning.
STORY A: I keep seeing this shadow figure. Three o'clock in the
STORY A: morning is like the Devil's hours, where demonic spirits have
STORY A: more power. I would be upright staring at our bedroom door,
STORY A: waiting for somebody to come in.
STORY A: It's like I was expecting them to come in.
STORY A: It became hell. You weren't sure what was going to
STORY A: happen next. You were terrified. There was a time where
STORY A: I'm walking past the basement door. I notice that it's open,
STORY A: so I'm going to go close it, and I hear
STORY A: Amanda call my name from the basement. It's all pitch black.
STORY A: There's no lights on down there. I quickly go down there.
STORY A: I look, I don't see her. I felt that dread
STORY A: and that wave of darkness hit me. I felt like
STORY A: if I didn't get out of that basement right away,
STORY A: something bad was going to happen, and I wasn't exactly
STORY A: sure what. So I run up to the second floor and
STORY A: I find Amanda in our bedroom.
STORY A: He was like "did you call me?" No, what are you talking about?
STORY A: If it was mimicking Amanda's voice, why was it wanting
STORY A: me down in the basement.
STORY A: It really creeped me out. They say, if a demonic
STORY A: spirit will call you with someone else's name to lure
STORY A: you on your own.
STORY A: We were just constantly stressed out. We were thinking, okay, well,
STORY A: what's coming next.
STORY A: We got some chicken coops, and I've always wanted to
STORY A: raise chickens, so I was super excited about that. We
STORY A: had about fifty chickens. One day we went to the store.
STORY A: We were gone for maybe an hour. We got back.
STORY A: I happened to glance out the window and I could
STORY A: see the chicken coops. I thought I saw something. I
STORY A: went out there. Ronnie followed behind me. As we were
STORY A: walking down we could see the chickens scattered around the
STORY A: whole backyard, all dead.
STORY A: We couldn't explain it.
STORY A: There was no markings on them where it looked like
STORY A: something attacked them. It kind of seemed like maybe they
STORY A: died from fear. I don't know.
STORY A: When you watch a movie about a haunted house and
STORY A: you question, well, why they're just leaving, there's nowhere to go.
STORY A: That's your house, and until you sell it, where could
STORY A: you go?
STORY A: We could feel the darkness, so we knew we had
STORY A: to get out.
STORY A: We're just like, enough is enough. We're going crazy.
STORY A: The day we finally got the call that somebody is
STORY A: buying the house, it was just instant relief.
STORY A: It felt like a blessing.
STORY A: And then we're moving into our new house. The owners
STORY A: left a bunch of stuff in the attic. Ronnie was
STORY A: digging stuff out of it and he pulled out a
STORY A: ouija board.
STORY A: I freaked out. I keep waiting to hear a sound
STORY A: or see a shadow or something. I'm hoping that it's
STORY A: behind us, but I don't know.
Therésa: Len remind me to look into Ouija boards. Seems like
Therésa: the door's always wide open with those things. Okay, next
Therésa: order of business. So apparently I've deeply offended a large
Therésa: group of Jimmy Buffett fans who call themselves parrot heads.
Therésa: I don't even know what that means.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: It's gotta be more than just a tropical state of mind.
Therésa: Len people are raging in the comments. You guys think
Therésa: I'm coming for Jimmy in the afterlife. But just to
Therésa: be clear, Jimmy is coming for me and my spot
Therésa: on the other side. And if you're really that upset
Therésa: about it, then just unfollow me. It's fine. I couldn't
Therésa: care less. Actually I don't care at all. You really
Therésa: think he just wasted away in Margeritaville? Grow up!
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: We really lost that many in the last eleven minutes. Just
Therésa: give me the next ad.
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: kumquat mattresses pulling out too, you're joking me. Okay, this
Therésa: is not my day. Dear Lord, Today is really not
Therésa: my day. Crusty tropical rock boomer ruining my eternal slumber.
Therésa: Jesus Christ.
Therésa: I would kill that guy.
STORY B: When I think of my days as an EMT, most
STORY B: of the calls that we had were just regular standard
STORY B: medical calls.
STORY B: Someone has stomach pain, chest pain, someone thinks they're having
STORY B: a heart attack, but there's one that scared the living
STORY B: crap out of me. My name is Brandon, and I
STORY B: saw what it was like to be scared to death.
STORY B: I signed up for EMT school when I was still
STORY B: in high school. It was just something that I'd always
STORY B: wanted to do. I've been a diabetic since I was eight,
STORY B: so I was in and out of hospitals quite a
STORY B: bit when I was a kid. Growing up, I figured
STORY B: EMT would be a good route to go down. Got
STORY B: my certification in two thousand and two. Everyone thinks that,
STORY B: you know, being on an ambulance, working for an ambulance service,
STORY B: it's constant adrenaline, and I guess it would be in
STORY B: cities like Dallas or Houston, but in rural East Texas
STORY B: not so much. You know, every one interesting call where
STORY B: you're crawling into a smashed up vehicle to hold someone's
STORY B: head up while they, you know, fire department rips the
STORY B: car apart around you. You'd have thirty to forty standard
STORY B: medical calls. So, hey, grandma's stomach hurts, can you come
STORY B: pick her up? Can you come to the nursing home
STORY B: and take this person to the hospital? Can you come
STORY B: here to do this? Go here to do that? Just
STORY B: standard patient transports.
STORY B: Kind of a funny story. I was working for a
STORY B: BLS basic life support service and it was very cold
STORY B: that night. We got a call to the middle of nowhere.
STORY B: The neighbors had noticed an elderly man that lived in
STORY B: the house was sitting on his porch and he wasn't
STORY B: moving and it didn't appear to be breathing.He was unresponsive
STORY B: We get out there and there are three sheriff deputies
STORY B: standing around a porch. They'd been there for twenty thirty minutes,
STORY B: and no one had assessed the guy. No one had
STORY B: walked up, no one had checked to see if he
STORY B: had a pulse, see if he was breathing.
STORY B: We all just assumed he was dead.
STORY B: I walk up on the porch and I'm doing the assessment,
STORY B: and I touch his wrists and he just goes. I
STORY B: had never seen so many East Texas sheriff deputies move
STORY B: so fast in my life. That scared everybody. We were
STORY B: over the rail, off the porch, and halfway back to
STORY B: the ambulance before we all kind of came to our
STORY B: senses and like, oh shit, we got to help this guy.
STORY B: You know, occasionally you'd have something like that that you
STORY B: remember just because it brings a smile to your face. Phrase
STORY B: that I had heard whenever I first got into EMS.
STORY B: Nurses would talk about it, Doctors wouldn't mention it. You
STORY B: can smell death. Anytime a patient is either recently deceased
STORY B: or in the process of dying, you start to notice
STORY B: this weird smell. It's very hard to describe, kind of
STORY B: like pungent, musty smell. It's just something that gets in
STORY B: your nostrils and you only smell it for a second
STORY B: and then it's gone. It's always shortly after the person's
STORY B: passed away. I've seen quite a few dead bodies, but
STORY B: occasionally you will have a patient that just very quietly
STORY B: tells you I'm gonna die, and then they die. I
STORY B: had that happened a couple of times. We had a
STORY B: call out in the middle of the night and we
STORY B: picked this elderly guy up and he thought he was
STORY B: having a heart attack, and sure enough he was. We're in the
STORY B: back of the ambulance and he's calm you know, he's
STORY B: asking me about, you know, my favorite fishing holes, and
STORY B: that was just kind of a common topic. I'm writing
STORY B: down his assessment report.
STORY B: Blood pressure that type Of thing, and he's just very
STORY B: very softly says son, I'm about to die.
STORY B: I'm like, no, no
STORY B: You're all right, pat him on the shoulder, and I
STORY B: told my partner up in the front to speed it up.
STORY B: When I looked back, he was unresponsive. He passed away.
STORY B: That really bothered me.
STORY B: That was more give you goosebumps. But there was one
STORY B: in particular that scared the crap out of me. Still
STORY B: bothers me to this day. It was dark when we
STORY B: got to the nursing home. The sun was just coming up.
STORY B: It was a standard patient transport from a nursing home
STORY B: to a wound treatment center. We had done this several
STORY B: times with this same patient.
STORY B: He wasn't a pleasant guy. Again.
STORY B: We transported this same gentleman several times. It wasn't a
STORY B: fun trip. Anytime I was in the back with him,
STORY B: I was creeped out.
STORY B: He always looked mad, never spoke to us, to me,
STORY B: to my partner. Anytime you'd ask him a question, he
STORY B: would either growl or grunt. He was probably eighty years old,
STORY B: six three six four. You could tell at one point
STORY B: he was a big guy. He had the frame of
STORY B: a big guy, but he was very light. He was
STORY B: maybe one hundred and fifty pounds. I'd never seen him mobile.
STORY B: He was always on a cot. Rarely did I ever
STORY B: see him move his arms or his legs or even
STORY B: lift his head. A sad story all around. It was
STORY B: twice a week that we went and got him for treatment.
STORY B: On this particular trip, I was stuck in the back
STORY B: and I saw that he was looking to the back
STORY B: left hand side of the ambulance. About ten minutes into
STORY B: the ride, he asked me, what is that? It shot
STORY B: me because he'd never spoken to me before, and I
STORY B: saw where he was looking. There's nothing there, and no, no.
STORY B: No, what is that? What is that? What is that?
STORY B: He just kept saying, what is that? What is that?
STORY B: He probably said what is that? Probably twelve times.
STORY B: He started to get louder and kind of violent. He's
STORY B: losing his mind. He's looking at the back left corner
STORY B: of the ambulance. At this point, he's screaming, what is that?
STORY B: What is that?
STORY B: No? Get it away, get it away. He managed to
STORY B: get one of his legs loose from the strap. We
STORY B: had him wrapped in a sheet too, so he managed
STORY B: to get his leg out from under the sheet and
STORY B: the buckle and he's kicking it whatever he's looking at.
STORY B: He got his arms out and grabbing my shirt. I'm
STORY B: trying to push his leg back down and get him
STORY B: back onto the strap, and he was flinging me all
STORY B: over the place, one arm flung me across his body.
STORY B: I was in fairly good shape and pretty strong. This
STORY B: was just insane. This guy was strong, like out of
STORY B: nowhere strong. This is a guy that hadn't moved in god
STORY B: knows how long when he grabbed me and flung me
STORY B: across him. I remember thinking, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit,
STORY B: shit,I yell for my partner to pull over and come help.
STORY B: She got in the back and she's trying to hold
STORY B: his leg down. I'm trying to get him to lay back.
STORY B: And he won't. He won't lay back. He was pushing
STORY B: both of us around.
STORY B: He's just screaming no, no, no, no, no, get it away,
STORY B: get it away.
STORY B: He wasn't fighting us in a way of get off me.
STORY B: He was waving his arms and his legs around like
STORY B: he was trying to get something off of him. And
STORY B: then he starts slapping at his stomach at his chest and
STORY B: he's fell back.
STORY B: He was unresponsive. My partner. She was freaked out.
STORY B: She got back in the front and turned on the
STORY B: lights and sirens and took off again. I started CPR
STORY B: on him. He never became responsive again. Sometimes when you're
STORY B: doing CPR on a patient, they will kind of stir moan,
STORY B: move around, they'll take a breath, might open their eyes,
STORY B: and then kind of go back out a couple of times. No,
STORY B: nothing with this guy.
STORY B: he was just gone.
STORY B: I don't know his personal history. He may have been
STORY B: a horrible person and in his mind he was going
STORY B: to a horrible place and this was the thing that
STORY B: was going to take him there.
STORY B: I don't know.
STORY B: I hope it was just his imagination, but it may
STORY B: not have been. I really don't know. I just got
STORY B: creeped out afterwards. I had nightmares about for a while.
STORY B: I still have a dream about it every now and then.
STORY B: I'll be sitting in that seat and he's asking what
STORY B: is that, and then then I'll wake up. I don't
STORY B: chalk it up to you know the paranormal. I also don't say, oh,
STORY B: there's always a scientific explanation. I mean, I'm very open minded.
STORY B: This is just one of those things that proves to
STORY B: me just based on my own experience that stuff like that
STORY B: is real. I honestly think something was there to drag
STORY B: him off.
STORY B: That's really what I think.
Therésa: I'm actually really glad Brandon mentioned dragging because earlier on
Therésa: today's episode, I did a little dragging of my own.
Therésa: Oh my god, Len did you write that?
Len: (MUMBLES)
Therésa: Yes, I said some very unfair things about deceased American
Therésa: hero Jimmy Buffett. I was upset and speaking out of turn.
Therésa: My words do not reflect my feelings towards Jimmy, the
Therésa: tropical rock genre, or parrot head community. My comments were
Therésa: ignorant and hurtful. I am deeply sorry. Haunting is about
Therésa: embracing all walks of life and death, and I am
Therésa: heartened to learn that Jimmy and I have such an
Therésa: overlapping fan base. At the end of the day, he
Therésa: and I share a mission pushing positivity into the world
Therésa: and towing the line of functioning alcoholism.
Therésa: I have found that no, I'm not saying this bar no, no, no, no, no.
Therésa: Oh at your urging, I've taken this opportunity to listen
Therésa: and learn. I started today in a pretty rotten mood,
Therésa: but after sampling some of Jimmy's discography. I have to
Therésa: say I'm feeling a lot better. Oh my god,Cheese Burger
Therésa: in Paradise is an anthem of our time, and in
Therésa: this void of timeless expanse with no beginning or end,
Therésa: it's comforting to know that it is, in fact five
Therésa: o'clock somewhere. Oh okay, that's our show as always. If
Therésa: you've got to scare to share, email Len at Hauntingthepodcast@gmail.com
Therésa: and you could be featured on an upcoming episode. In
Therésa: the meantime, keep it easy and breezy, friends, Absolutely.
Therésa: Not Jimmy Buffett, are you serious? Have you heard me
Therésa: all day? Okay? What the fuck is a parrot
Len: (MUMBLES)
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