1 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:22,079 THERÉSA: Hi, it's me, Therésa. This is Haunting. One hundred percent real ghost 2 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,279 THERÉSA: stories told by you, our loyal and devoted listeners. I'm 3 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,920 THERÉSA: here today with our producer Len, 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:27,920 THERÉSA: Ill have it. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,840 THERÉSA: And my familiar, Merlin. I'll be honest with you guys. I 6 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,839 THERÉSA: am not firing on all cylinders today. Len and I 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,559 THERÉSA: fumbled the bag on dry January after work yesterday with 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,400 THERÉSA: two for one happy hour at Haunt and Haven. In 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,240 THERÉSA: our defense, we were going for Monday karaoke. You guys 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,120 THERÉSA: know I love an open mic. I stick with the classics. 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,400 THERÉSA: Shania Twain, Vanessa Carlton, that song from the Lizzie McGuire movie. 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,559 THERÉSA: Len's repertoire is a lot of Broadway show tunes and 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,000 THERÉSA: pre Saturday Night Fever Era BeeGees, which was crazy because 14 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,320 THERÉSA: Andy Gibb showed up and I swear to god, he 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,933 THERÉSA: was making eyes at me the whole night 16 00:01:00,933 --> 00:01:00,960 LEN: [MUMBLES] 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,191 THERÉSA: It was definitely him, Len. 18 00:01:05,191 --> 00:01:05,919 LEN: [MUMBLES] 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,760 THERÉSA: Whatever, I don't have it in me to argue with you. 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,160 THERÉSA: Let's just get this show on the road. We've got 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,000 THERÉSA: a really juicy three parter today. Our guest Tiffany claims 22 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,560 THERÉSA: to have actually met the woman who later haunted her 23 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,240 THERÉSA: childhood home. It's like the opposite of don't meet your heroes, 24 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,040 THERÉSA: do meet your horrors, or something like that. Yeah, I 25 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:26,400 THERÉSA: think that works. 26 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,240 TIFFIANY: I could feel my heartbeat in my throat. I did 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,960 TIFFIANY: not know what was going to happen next. I run 28 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,120 TIFFIANY: out and the storms like starting to brew now, and the 29 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,720 TIFFIANY: winds like whipping around, and I'm trying to frantically get 30 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,760 TIFFIANY: him in the car and buckle him up. As soon 31 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,200 TIFFIANY: as I know that he's safe, I shut the door 32 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,840 TIFFIANY: and I turned around, and I could not believe what 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:56,760 TIFFIANY: I was seeing. I'm Tiffiany, and I met the woman 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:02,200 TIFFIANY: who haunted my family home. When I was a child, 35 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,920 TIFFIANY: my dad had this friend named Butch that he had 36 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,120 TIFFIANY: grown up with. He'd spent a lot of time with him, 37 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,399 TIFFIANY: and his parents were needing to sell their home because 38 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,520 TIFFIANY: they were getting older. My dad, who had spent a 39 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,400 TIFFIANY: lot of his childhood growing up in that home, had 40 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,639 TIFFIANY: always liked it. He liked the house, he liked the area, 41 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,720 TIFFIANY: and he had mentioned when he was younger that if 42 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,519 TIFFIANY: they ever wanted to sell the house, to think of him. 43 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,080 TIFFIANY: So when it came time to sell it, Butch called 44 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,000 TIFFIANY: my dad to see if he wanted the house. My 45 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,440 TIFFIANY: dad took my mom to show her the house, hoping 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,080 TIFFIANY: that she was going to love it as much as 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:44,400 TIFFIANY: he did growing up, and I went with them. It 48 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,880 TIFFIANY: felt like we were driving out into the middle of nowhere. 49 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,920 TIFFIANY: The house was on this long, windy, curvy road and 50 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,840 TIFFIANY: it was very narrow. I'm not even sure two cars 51 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,079 TIFFIANY: could fit on it comfortably. But then when we got 52 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,480 TIFFIANY: to the house, you come around a corner, and there were about 53 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,960 TIFFIANY: four or five houses that were pretty close together, so 54 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,400 TIFFIANY: it wasn't completely isolated, but to me it felt like 55 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:14,160 TIFFIANY: it was. We pull into the driveway. The house was cute. 56 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,720 TIFFIANY: It was yellow. It had flowers and things all around it. 57 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:24,359 TIFFIANY: It seemed inviting. We walk up to the house, there 58 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,839 TIFFIANY: was a little screened in porch and were greeted at 59 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:33,560 TIFFIANY: the door by Butch's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pike. Mister 60 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,840 TIFFIANY: Pike was shorter than my dad, but he had this 61 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,160 TIFFIANY: arrogance to him that was unmistakable. Even at my young age, 62 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,480 TIFFIANY: I could recognize that he was kind of mean, so 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,559 TIFFIANY: I did not like him. Mrs. Pike was frail, thin, short. 64 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:01,600 TIFFIANY: She had these long, thin, bony fingers and had kind eyes. 65 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,440 TIFFIANY: I could tell that she was nice. Mister Pike immediately 66 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,000 TIFFIANY: asked my mom and dad if they would like to 67 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,840 TIFFIANY: walk through and look at all of the rooms in 68 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,880 TIFFIANY: the home. And missus Pike turns to me and says, 69 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,320 TIFFIANY: you can stay here with me while your mom and 70 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,680 TIFFIANY: dad go and tour the house. I sat down on 71 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,080 TIFFIANY: the couch. She starts talking to me about random things, 72 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:32,320 TIFFIANY: just kind of trying to entertain me, I guess. I 73 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,400 TIFFIANY: tell her that I don't really want to move out there. 74 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,320 TIFFIANY: We lived right beside my cousins. My closest cousin she 75 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,159 TIFFIANY: was four years younger than me. You know, this was 76 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,040 TIFFIANY: the eighties, so we were outside all day every day. 77 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,800 TIFFIANY: So I felt like I was leaving all of that behind. 78 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,200 TIFFIANY: Like I was scared I was going to be isolated 79 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,760 TIFFIANY: out there with just my brother. But we're sitting there, 80 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,040 TIFFIANY: and she leaned in closely and put her hand on 81 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,320 TIFFIANY: my knee and said, Oh, I'm sure you're going to 82 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,599 TIFFIANY: like it. I know it seems like it's out in 83 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,159 TIFFIANY: the middle of nowhere, but you're going to love it here. 84 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,840 TIFFIANY: Then she whispered, don't worry, sweetie, I would stay here 85 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,000 TIFFIANY: forever if I could. The way she said that and 86 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,880 TIFFIANY: how she said it gave me an uneasy feeling. So 87 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,640 TIFFIANY: I was like, ooh, like why'd she say it like that? 88 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,720 TIFFIANY: Like what does she mean? And why does she call 89 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,080 TIFFIANY: me sweetie? We were there maybe fifteen minutes if that, 90 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,440 TIFFIANY: because my dad already had his mind made up that 91 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,719 TIFFIANY: he was getting it. He was just kind of like 92 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,120 TIFFIANY: courtesy showing it to my mom and luckily she loved 93 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:47,480 TIFFIANY: it too, so it worked out. We moved in almost immediately. 94 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,760 TIFFIANY: My room was huge compared to my last one, and 95 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,960 TIFFIANY: it had like a huge walk in closet. It felt 96 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,560 TIFFIANY: like a mini playhouse. It was so large, so I 97 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,000 TIFFIANY: was happy about it. It was on the corner of 98 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,080 TIFFIANY: the house. I had two windows, like a view to the backyard, 99 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,599 TIFFIANY: a view to the side yard. I was trying to 100 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,240 TIFFIANY: find the positives of it, but I was still not 101 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:15,120 TIFFIANY: excited about moving so far away from my cousins. It 102 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,440 TIFFIANY: was just normal every day going to school, I was 103 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,440 TIFFIANY: in dance. Everything just kind of continued on as usual, 104 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,279 TIFFIANY: and it did suck. Like after school, I was used 105 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:29,039 TIFFIANY: to going and playing with my cousins and stuff, but 106 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,440 TIFFIANY: now I didn't have anything to do. I would just 107 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,359 TIFFIANY: come home and that's when I started reading a lot. 108 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,160 TIFFIANY: A couple of months after we moved in, my dad 109 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,040 TIFFIANY: got a phone call from Butch telling us that his 110 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,159 TIFFIANY: mom had passed away. Two months after that, things started 111 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,719 TIFFIANY: happening at the house. My mom was noticing things going 112 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,599 TIFFIANY: missing or showing up where they shouldn't have been, and 113 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,520 TIFFIANY: she's very like OCD on where she puts things. After a while, 114 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,520 TIFFIANY: she said that she kind of put it together that 115 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,240 TIFFIANY: it may be a ghost, but she didn't really want 116 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,799 TIFFIANY: to think, Okay, you know, is Mrs. Pike back or whatever. 117 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,920 TIFFIANY: And then she said that she would be like, okay, 118 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,880 TIFFIANY: Mrs Pike, if this is you, can you move this 119 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,880 TIFFIANY: over here? And then it would take a few days, 120 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,080 TIFFIANY: but then she would find what she said moved where 121 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,920 TIFFIANY: she asked it to be moved, so she was like, okay, 122 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:23,600 TIFFIANY: that was Mrs. Pike. I didn't really have anything significant 123 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,560 TIFFIANY: happened to me until I was in my room reading 124 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,920 TIFFIANY: one night. It was a school night. I got in 125 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,040 TIFFIANY: trouble all the time for staying up too late to read. 126 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,880 TIFFIANY: My mom had already came into my room twice to 127 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,600 TIFFIANY: tell me to knock it off to go to bed, 128 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,120 TIFFIANY: so I told her I would be done with it. 129 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,280 TIFFIANY: I put my book over on my nightstand and then 130 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,560 TIFFIANY: as soon as she left, I just grabbed my flashlight 131 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,920 TIFFIANY: and got under the covers to go back to reading again. 132 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,760 TIFFIANY: I don't know how much longer it had been since 133 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,280 TIFFIANY: my mom had originally left. I'm reading for a while, 134 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,040 TIFFIANY: but then I hear the door open again, so I'm like, 135 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,160 TIFFIANY: oh my gosh, I am busted big time. She's coming 136 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,239 TIFFIANY: back to like take my book. So I immediately flip 137 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,960 TIFFIANY: the flashlight off and try to pretend like I'm asleep, 138 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,720 TIFFIANY: and then I feel her sit down on the bed. 139 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:20,600 TIFFIANY: I wait for her to say something like give me 140 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,840 TIFFIANY: the book or whatever, but she just kind of pats 141 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:28,120 TIFFIANY: me on the leg and then she whispers, don't worry sweetie, 142 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,720 TIFFIANY: everything's going to be okay. I was like, what the hell? 143 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,560 TIFFIANY: What does that even mean? What was going to be okay? 144 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,760 TIFFIANY: And why does she call me sweetie? Like I'd never 145 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,280 TIFFIANY: heard her call me sweetie. And it was like the 146 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,040 TIFFIANY: way it was said, it was so creepy. The whole 147 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,280 TIFFIANY: interaction was weird and it didn't really make sense. After 148 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,640 TIFFIANY: I heard her leave the room, I had all of 149 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,559 TIFFIANY: these things going through my mind. I waited for a 150 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,320 TIFFIANY: little bit trying to process like what she meant, and 151 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:59,800 TIFFIANY: then I thought, no, I can't sleep. I'm going to 152 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,240 TIFFIANY: have to go ask her. When I went into her room, 153 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,720 TIFFIANY: she was asleep. The first words out of my mouth 154 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,800 TIFFIANY: was what did you mean by that? And then she 155 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,840 TIFFIANY: like jolted awake. I could see the look of confusion 156 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,760 TIFFIANY: on her face, and she's like, what are you talking about? 157 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,040 TIFFIANY: I said, what did you mean? Everything's going to be okay? 158 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,720 TIFFIANY: She was like, I don't know what you're talking about. 159 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:28,240 TIFFIANY: I have been in here the whole time. I just 160 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,680 TIFFIANY: went back to my room. I was like laying in 161 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:35,120 TIFFIANY: there trying to figure out what had happened or why 162 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:39,559 TIFFIANY: that was so creepy. And it was because it was familiar, 163 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,600 TIFFIANY: Like I knew the voice, but I couldn't place it, 164 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,400 TIFFIANY: so I just kept laying there. But when the memory clicked, 165 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,160 TIFFIANY: I shot up in bed. It was Mrs. Pike. She 166 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,320 TIFFIANY: had called me sweetie when I met her. That's where 167 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,559 TIFFIANY: I knew the voice. 168 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,640 THERÉSA: Honestly, I would love for someone to pat me on 169 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:03,320 THERÉSA: the back and tell me everything's going to be okay 170 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:04,040 THERÉSA: right about now. 171 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:04,386 LEN: [MUMBLES] 172 00:10:04,386 --> 00:10:09,280 THERÉSA: No, not you, Len. Oh, I really didn't think ghost 173 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,320 THERÉSA: could get this hungover. The mouth sweats are starting, so 174 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,160 THERÉSA: let's go to ads. 175 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,560 THERÉSA: Okay, I spewed a lot of something black, spiky and 176 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,200 THERÉSA: sentient all over the bathroom. Sorry, Len, facilities will get 177 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,760 THERÉSA: to it, but I wouldn't go in there today if 178 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,320 THERÉSA: you can help it 179 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,920 LEN: [MUMBLES] 180 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,360 THERÉSA: Okay. Back to missus Pike. 181 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,720 TIFFIANY: We had a full size basement. My mom had set 182 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,400 TIFFIANY: it up kind of like a mini apartment. There was 183 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,840 TIFFIANY: a couch that folded out into a bed, a coffee table, 184 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,680 TIFFIANY: two end tables, a large entertainment center that had a 185 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:04,920 TIFFIANY: TV and VCR. There was a dining room table with 186 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,320 TIFFIANY: four chairs, and there were two massive area rugs. One 187 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,360 TIFFIANY: of them was like fifteen by twenty, and then on 188 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:14,920 TIFFIANY: top of that was another area rug. It was like 189 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,240 TIFFIANY: an eight x ten and then off in one corner 190 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,079 TIFFIANY: was like a play area for my little brother and 191 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,680 TIFFIANY: all of the board games and things like that. Shortly 192 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,400 TIFFIANY: after Mrs. Pike came into my room, it was almost 193 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,760 TIFFIANY: Christmas and we had a lot of presents that we 194 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:35,079 TIFFIANY: needed to wrap. My mom had turned the basement into 195 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:39,331 TIFFIANY: like a gift wrapping headquarters. We had everything down there 196 00:11:39,331 --> 00:11:45,360 TIFFIANY: you could possibly think of, tons of boxes, ribbon, different 197 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,520 TIFFIANY: types of wrapping paper, scissors, tape, everything you would need 198 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,440 TIFFIANY: to wrap up gift. I go upstairs to get more tape, 199 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,199 TIFFIANY: and when I come back down, my mom is sitting 200 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:59,280 TIFFIANY: there confused. She's looking around everywhere, lifting up paper and things. 201 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,680 TIFFIANY: And she asked me, did you take the scissors with 202 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,640 TIFFIANY: you when you went upstairs? I'm like no, and she said, 203 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,800 TIFFIANY: I set them down right here, but now they're not anywhere. 204 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,440 TIFFIANY: I'm as confused as she is. Scissors don't just disappear 205 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:20,400 TIFFIANY: into thin air. We looked in all of the boxes, 206 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,480 TIFFIANY: we shook out all of the like scraps of paper. 207 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,080 TIFFIANY: We checked under the couch cushions, we looked under the 208 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,000 TIFFIANY: end tables. Then, I noticed a spot under the coffee 209 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,040 TIFFIANY: table that's like a lump under the area rug. I 210 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,839 TIFFIANY: turned to my mom and I'm like, did you notice 211 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,920 TIFFIANY: this lump over here? What's that? She comes over and 212 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,520 TIFFIANY: she looks at it and she's like, I don't know 213 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,840 TIFFIANY: what that is. I'm like, let's just move all of 214 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,480 TIFFIANY: this stuff and roll the rug up. I almost wanted 215 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:56,160 TIFFIANY: to prove that it wasn't the scissors. We moved the couch, 216 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,839 TIFFIANY: the two end tables, the coffee table, everything off of 217 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,880 TIFFIANY: fifteen by twenty massive area rug. We each get on 218 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,680 TIFFIANY: one end of the rug to start rolling it, and 219 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,240 TIFFIANY: the rug is so heavy and we're having to push 220 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,440 TIFFIANY: it out of the way. And then there were the scissors. 221 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,079 TIFFIANY: We both look at each other. My mom just picks 222 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,440 TIFFIANY: them off really quick, and then we really never talked 223 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,360 TIFFIANY: about it again. It would have been impossible for either 224 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,439 TIFFIANY: me or my mom to put them under the rug. 225 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,000 TIFFIANY: There's no other way that they could have gotten there, 226 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,720 TIFFIANY: because there was no way to get to the middle 227 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,520 TIFFIANY: of that rug without rolling it up. It was in 228 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,240 TIFFIANY: the dead center, like you could not reach underneath it. 229 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,920 TIFFIANY: Mrs Pike had to have put the scissors under the rug. 230 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,280 TIFFIANY: A year later, my mom enrolled me in a new school, 231 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,720 TIFFIANY: so I finally, after a few weeks, found a group 232 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,920 TIFFIANY: of girls. They would be what you would call the 233 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,079 TIFFIANY: cool group of girls, the main one and I clicked 234 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,200 TIFFIANY: pretty quick. And then she came to me one day 235 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,400 TIFFIANY: and she was like, Hey, why don't we have a 236 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,240 TIFFIANY: sleepover at your house? Oh, hell yeah, she wants to 237 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:11,600 TIFFIANY: come to my house, you know, like they really do 238 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,280 TIFFIANY: want to be my friend. I asked my mom. My 239 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,960 TIFFIANY: Mom's like, yeah, it'll be fine, we can get movies, pizza. 240 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,080 TIFFIANY: And then I'm like, you think Mrs. Pike would do 241 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,880 TIFFIANY: anything while she's here. My mom assured me. She said, 242 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,600 TIFFIANY: it's going to be fine. Just you know, be a kid, 243 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,440 TIFFIANY: have a good time. For like the next week, I 244 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,360 TIFFIANY: just like, out loud kind of whisper, Miss Pike, please 245 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,960 TIFFIANY: don't ruin this for me. I have a new friend. 246 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,120 TIFFIANY: She's going to be coming over. I don't want you 247 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,840 TIFFIANY: to scare her. When I would get up in the morning, 248 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:49,480 TIFFIANY: I would say it. I would say it when I 249 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,240 TIFFIANY: got home from school, before I went to bed. Anytime 250 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,720 TIFFIANY: I was by myself, I would out loud ask her 251 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:01,240 TIFFIANY: not to scare us. Finally, that Friday came, Melissa brought 252 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,880 TIFFIANY: everything with her to school, so that afternoon, when my 253 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,800 TIFFIANY: mom picked me up, she could just ride home from 254 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:15,000 TIFFIANY: school with us. We're downstairs playing board games. We watched 255 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,920 TIFFIANY: one of the movies that we'd rented, had some pizza, 256 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,800 TIFFIANY: made some prank phone calls, and then we got bored 257 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:28,200 TIFFIANY: and decided we wanted to go outside. It was probably 258 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,040 TIFFIANY: around seven, but the sun was still up. We go 259 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,280 TIFFIANY: to the trampoline. We're jumping. I'm showing her a few tricks, 260 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,760 TIFFIANY: like easy things to do, so she's trying to learn those, 261 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,600 TIFFIANY: and then she stops and points to my bedroom window, 262 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,400 TIFFIANY: and she said, oh, your mom's watching us. We see 263 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,640 TIFFIANY: my mom in the window, but she's wearing this black dress. 264 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,880 TIFFIANY: It was long sleeve and had a white bow in 265 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,880 TIFFIANY: the front. So I would do a trick, then Melissa 266 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,520 TIFFIANY: would do a trick, and then she would do like 267 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,280 TIFFIANY: a thumbs up clapping. You know, just rooting us on 268 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:05,080 TIFFIANY: everything that we were doing. This goes on for a 269 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,680 TIFFIANY: few minutes and then we hear someone say, hey, who 270 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,080 TIFFIANY: are you waving at? We both stop and turn around 271 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:18,280 TIFFIANY: and it's my mom standing behind us. So then we 272 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:23,000 TIFFIANY: turned back to my window and the woman was still 273 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:28,640 TIFFIANY: in the window. It scared me because if it wasn't 274 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:34,480 TIFFIANY: my mom, who is this woman? As soon as Melissa 275 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,440 TIFFIANY: sees my mom behind us, she turned and looked back 276 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,520 TIFFIANY: at the window, and then she screamed out, who's in 277 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,000 TIFFIANY: the window? And drops down to her butt and scoots and 278 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,280 TIFFIANY: hops off the trampoline and runs and gets behind my mom. 279 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,360 TIFFIANY: My mom was holding a clothes basket. She immediately dropped it, 280 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,560 TIFFIANY: turned around and gave Melissa a hug and tried to 281 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,480 TIFFIANY: comfort her, tells her, you know, it's okay, it's okay, 282 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:05,800 TIFFIANY: it's fine, don't be scared. Melissa's asking her who is that? 283 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,600 TIFFIANY: My mom said, oh, well, she used to live here. 284 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,639 TIFFIANY: She's a friend of the family. She just pops in 285 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,199 TIFFIANY: every once in a while. She's not scary though. And 286 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,159 TIFFIANY: then Melissa's just kind of looking at my mom and 287 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,919 TIFFIANY: then goes silent for a moment and then yells, so 288 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,960 TIFFIANY: it's a ghost? I was like, oh my god, this 289 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,920 TIFFIANY: is it. Mrs Pike has done exactly what I thought 290 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,480 TIFFIANY: she was going to do. She's scared, Melissa. Mrs Pike 291 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:41,320 TIFFIANY: has ruined everything. We went back downstairs. We turn on 292 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,919 TIFFIANY: one of our movies. Melissa sits like really close to 293 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,760 TIFFIANY: my mom hugged up to her on the couch watching 294 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,720 TIFFIANY: the movie. But then she started to relax a little 295 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,280 TIFFIANY: bit as the movie went on and noticed that nothing 296 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,600 TIFFIANY: else was happening scary in the house. While we were 297 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,760 TIFFIANY: watching the movie, I was twisting my bracelet because I 298 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,040 TIFFIANY: was nervous. She was kind of like, that's a cute bracelet. 299 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,159 TIFFIANY: Where'd you get it? I had the bracelet kit in 300 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,760 TIFFIANY: my room, so we went upstairs to my bedroom. I 301 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,399 TIFFIANY: drug it out from under the bed and we opened 302 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,840 TIFFIANY: that up. We're sitting in the floor, we're going through it. 303 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,480 TIFFIANY: Picking out the threads and the things that we like. 304 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,840 TIFFIANY: And then that's when she says, who is Mrs Pike? 305 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,920 TIFFIANY: I tell her about how we moved into the house 306 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:35,400 TIFFIANY: when I was eight, and that she used to live 307 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,240 TIFFIANY: in the house with her husband, and I said I'd 308 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,760 TIFFIANY: met her before she passed away and she was really nice. 309 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,840 TIFFIANY: She said, well, you said she's nice, but I think 310 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,120 TIFFIANY: she's a jerk. And I just stopped and told her, 311 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,720 TIFFIANY: don't say that. You're gonna make her mad, and then 312 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,960 TIFFIANY: she's going to do something. She's like, oh, yeah, do 313 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,199 TIFFIANY: you hear that, Mrs Pike? I think you're a jerk. 314 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:07,960 TIFFIANY: I immediately scoot away from her. I like distanced myself 315 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,840 TIFFIANY: in between us is this bracelet kit with all of 316 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,000 TIFFIANY: these beads and charms and things. A minute passes and 317 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,920 TIFFIANY: we're both staring at each other waiting for something to happen. Then, 318 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,200 TIFFIANY: we noticed one of those thick red beads lifts up 319 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,200 TIFFIANY: from the center of the kit and it just kind 320 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,879 TIFFIANY: of hovers. We're both watching it. She hadn't been thinking 321 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,800 TIFFIANY: the same thing I was. There's no way that this 322 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,239 TIFFIANY: bead is levitating in front of us. Then it just 323 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:45,119 TIFFIANY: shot across and hit her right between the eyebrows above 324 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:51,840 TIFFIANY: her nose. So Melissa immediately both hands clasp over where 325 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,360 TIFFIANY: the bead had just hit her, and the bead fell 326 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,240 TIFFIANY: down and landed in Melissa's lap. She was sitting criss 327 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,119 TIFFIANY: cross apple sauce. It landed right down in the center. 328 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,480 TIFFIANY: So she puts both hands over her head and just goes, 329 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,879 TIFFIANY: no way, and she moves her hands away, and I 330 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,320 TIFFIANY: put my hand over my mouth and I just was like, 331 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,800 TIFFIANY: no way. I said, you have a huge red mark 332 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:23,600 TIFFIANY: on your forehead. And she reaches down and picks up 333 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:28,159 TIFFIANY: the bead and she's holding it. That mark stayed on 334 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,600 TIFFIANY: her head for about four hours. I was in shock 335 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,639 TIFFIANY: that I had just witnessed it, but I felt like 336 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:39,400 TIFFIANY: she kind of deserved it. That's what you get. Then 337 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,879 TIFFIANY: when she said what do I do now? I was like, 338 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,040 TIFFIANY: you made her mad. I said, if I was you, 339 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,600 TIFFIANY: I would apologize. She's like, Missus Pike, I'm so sorry. 340 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,959 TIFFIANY: I didn't mean it. You're not a jerk. So then 341 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,239 TIFFIANY: we both just sat completely still, waiting to see if 342 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,080 TIFFIANY: anything's going to happen. We probably sit there for like 343 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:08,720 TIFFIANY: fifteen minutes. Nothing happens. The next morning, she's getting ready 344 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,480 TIFFIANY: to go home and she asked me for a pen 345 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,920 TIFFIANY: and paper. She said, I want to write Missus Pike 346 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,520 TIFFIANY: an apology letter. I want to tell her I'm sorry 347 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,320 TIFFIANY: because you said she pops in and out, so maybe 348 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,200 TIFFIANY: she wasn't here when I apologized, I'm going to tape 349 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:21,280 TIFFIANY: it to your door, and I want you to leave 350 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:27,400 TIFFIANY: it there for three days. I was like, okay, it said, 351 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,040 TIFFIANY: Mrs Pike, I'm so sorry for saying you were a jerk. 352 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,280 TIFFIANY: Please forgive me. I'm like, are you gonna go tell 353 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,879 TIFFIANY: everybody that I'm weird? And she's like, no way. Everybody's 354 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:43,840 TIFFIANY: going to love this. From that point on, everyone wanted 355 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:49,280 TIFFIANY: to come to my house. I experienced a lot of 356 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,560 TIFFIANY: things in that house growing up. Most of them weren't 357 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,480 TIFFIANY: very scary until years later, when one night I see 358 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:01,760 TIFFIANY: Missus Pike and her husband, Mister Pike, both of them 359 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:07,440 TIFFIANY: standing in the living room. 360 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,320 THERÉSA: Wait wait, wait, sorry, I love where this is going. 361 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,760 THERÉSA: I just need another moment to collect myself. I feel 362 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,040 THERÉSA: more dead than usual today. You guys listen to these ads. 363 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,280 THERÉSA: I'm gonna go stick my head in a freezer somewhere. 364 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:20,919 THERÉSA: Meet back here in a few minutes. 365 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,640 THERÉSA: I'm back. You ever feel so hungover just regular old 366 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,760 THERÉSA: dead is an improvement. 367 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:35,240 LEN: [MUMBLES] 368 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,400 THERÉSA: I don't know why you're so perky today. You were 369 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,360 THERÉSA: having just as much fun as I was. Anyway, when 370 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,600 THERÉSA: we left off, Mrs. Pike had just killed at the 371 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,600 THERÉSA: sleepover and really boosted Tiffiany's middle school social status. But 372 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,680 THERÉSA: it sounds like things are about to take a turn 373 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:51,760 THERÉSA: for the terrifying. 374 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,960 TIFFIANY: So a year later, my brother, who's five years younger 375 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,280 TIFFIANY: than me, got a bunk bed for his room. It's one 376 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,680 TIFFIANY: of those old metal bunk beds from the nineties. It 377 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,240 TIFFIANY: was a twin bed on the top and a full 378 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,200 TIFFIANY: sized bed on the bottom. We each had our own room, 379 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,879 TIFFIANY: but bunk beds were cool, and I'd never like slept 380 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,800 TIFFIANY: in a bunk bed before, so I wanted to sleep 381 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:20,360 TIFFIANY: on the top bunk for the first night. That night, 382 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,920 TIFFIANY: we're in the bed. I'm on the top bunk reading, 383 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,960 TIFFIANY: he's on the bottom. He falls asleep, and then I 384 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,040 TIFFIANY: start hearing him snore, and I'm like, I cannot listen 385 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:35,840 TIFFIANY: to this anymore. My brother had a very bright night light, 386 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,400 TIFFIANY: so the room was still pretty lit up. I started 387 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,159 TIFFIANY: to go down the ladder. As my foot hit the 388 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,679 TIFFIANY: bottom wrung of the ladder, I felt something cold brush 389 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,359 TIFFIANY: against my foot. I look down to see what it was. 390 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,320 TIFFIANY: That's when I saw a hand coming out from under 391 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:58,080 TIFFIANY: the blanket. I knew the hand wasn't my brother's. He 392 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,679 TIFFIANY: was sleeping at the other end of the bed, and 393 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:07,560 TIFFIANY: it was this bony, frail, very white hand crawling out 394 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:13,680 TIFFIANY: from under the comforter. Before I could even like realize 395 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,959 TIFFIANY: what was happening, it jolts out and grabs me by 396 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,520 TIFFIANY: the ankle. I scream out and fall backwards, like hit 397 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,480 TIFFIANY: the deck and land on my back and scramble backwards, 398 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,320 TIFFIANY: watching the hand right there on top of the mattress. 399 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,840 TIFFIANY: My mom heard me fall, and she comes running in 400 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,399 TIFFIANY: and she kneels down beside me. She's like, what happened? 401 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,600 TIFFIANY: What's going on? What happened? How did you fall? I 402 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,919 TIFFIANY: was like trying to catch my breath, and I just 403 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,000 TIFFIANY: point at the bed and said, she grabbed me. My 404 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:51,520 TIFFIANY: Mom's like, who grabbed you? I recognize the hand that 405 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,639 TIFFIANY: looked exactly like Mrs Pike's hands. I knew it was 406 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,400 TIFFIANY: hers because when I met her when she was alive, 407 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,879 TIFFIANY: she was like really thin and she had long, bony fingers, 408 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,160 TIFFIANY: and I was like, it's Mrs. Pike. Mrs. Pike's hand 409 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,200 TIFFIANY: grabbed me. I lift up my pajama pants to show 410 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,879 TIFFIANY: her where she had gripped me so hard, and I 411 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,119 TIFFIANY: had like red lines where her fingers held on to 412 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:20,200 TIFFIANY: my ankle. She said, maybe you hit it on the 413 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,680 TIFFIANY: ladder when you fell. I'm like, no, Look, it looks 414 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:27,600 TIFFIANY: like a handprint. In between each finger was a red line, 415 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,240 TIFFIANY: almost like when you have a sunburn and then you 416 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,760 TIFFIANY: push down on it and it'll turn white when you 417 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,560 TIFFIANY: lift off of it. That's what it looked like. Also, 418 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,840 TIFFIANY: my skin where the handprint was felt colder than the 419 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:46,439 TIFFIANY: rest of my body. I was in shock. I couldn't 420 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,439 TIFFIANY: believe that it actually left a mark. Mrs. Pike had 421 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,120 TIFFIANY: patted me on the leg once before, but she'd never 422 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,960 TIFFIANY: touched me in a way that it hurt. So this 423 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,040 TIFFIANY: time was really different and I knew I was never 424 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,639 TIFFIANY: going to sleep in that bunk bed again. 425 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,200 TIFFIANY: When I was sixteen, I'd just gotten my driver's license. 426 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,440 TIFFIANY: I was babysitting my little brother. My mom and dad 427 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,560 TIFFIANY: had gone out for dinner when this freak storm just 428 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,680 TIFFIANY: rolled in. It was like this massive shake the windows 429 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,040 TIFFIANY: type of storm coming. As soon as it started raining, 430 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:30,240 TIFFIANY: I went downstairs and collected candles and flashlights and things, 431 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,639 TIFFIANY: because I knew that the power was going to go out. 432 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,439 TIFFIANY: It always did when it rained. So we were in 433 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,679 TIFFIANY: the living room watching TV already had a few of 434 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:44,440 TIFFIANY: the candles lit when the power went out. Now I'm like, great. 435 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,760 TIFFIANY: How am I going to keep him entertained? He wanted 436 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,439 TIFFIANY: to go back to his room to play. I was like, 437 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,440 TIFFIANY: that sounds great. We'll go back there. Let me grab 438 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,240 TIFFIANY: a book on the way. So I stop in my room, 439 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,840 TIFFIANY: I pick out one of my books, and we go 440 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,800 TIFFIANY: into his room and we set up all of these 441 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,840 TIFFIANY: candles and lights everywhere to light up the room, and 442 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,240 TIFFIANY: we just kind of hang out in there for a 443 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,279 TIFFIANY: little while. We're in there for about an hour, when 444 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,160 TIFFIANY: I hear the TV turn on from the living room 445 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,919 TIFFIANY: on the other end of the house. I was like, oh, 446 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,080 TIFFIANY: the power's back on. And he said, I want to 447 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,239 TIFFIANY: stay back here and play, and I'm like, well, let 448 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,680 TIFFIANY: me go turn the TV down. It was like very loud. 449 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,199 TIFFIANY: I head down the hallway and I can hear the 450 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,360 TIFFIANY: voices and I'm able to make out that it's actually 451 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,720 TIFFIANY: two people talking. It sounds like a man and a woman. 452 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,199 TIFFIANY: So I slow down and I'm listening to them and 453 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,639 TIFFIANY: I can tell that they're arguing, and it sounds like 454 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:51,879 TIFFIANY: they're arguing over bills. It sounded like a sitcom. I'm thinking, like, 455 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,560 TIFFIANY: is this Roseanne or something? So I keep heading down 456 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:03,000 TIFFIANY: the hallway. Then as I passed the bathroom, I reach 457 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,720 TIFFIANY: in to flip the switch to turn the lights on 458 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,960 TIFFIANY: to light up the hall a little bit, but nothing happens. 459 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,680 TIFFIANY: So I flip it back down and then try it again. 460 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,879 TIFFIANY: Still no lights. Well that's weird. That's when it clicked 461 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,040 TIFFIANY: in my head. The power's not working anywhere else in 462 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,479 TIFFIANY: the house, so it can't be the TV. There's actually 463 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,560 TIFFIANY: people in the living room. And then I hear a 464 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:38,680 TIFFIANY: woman say, someone's coming. Then a man says, I don't 465 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,440 TIFFIANY: hear anything, so I stop, and I'm like, surely they're 466 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,760 TIFFIANY: not talking about me. So I take a few more 467 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,600 TIFFIANY: steps towards the living room and then I hear her say, 468 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,400 TIFFIANY: she's in the hallway. Oh my god, they are they're 469 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,480 TIFFIANY: talking about me. Who is in the living room? Who 470 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,800 TIFFIANY: is talking about me? I made up my mind. I'm 471 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,160 TIFFIANY: going to confront whoever it is. I had this maglight flashlight. 472 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,160 TIFFIANY: I had it on already but I held it up 473 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:18,120 TIFFIANY: like a baseball bat. So I stepped into the living room, 474 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,480 TIFFIANY: and that's when I see them standing there. I immediately 475 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:30,200 TIFFIANY: recognize both of them. It's Mrs. and Mr. Pike. They 476 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,440 TIFFIANY: both stop arguing, turn and look at me. And Mrs. 477 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,160 TIFFIANY: Pike's face, she looked sad and he just kind of 478 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:42,960 TIFFIANY: looked mean. They were both older. She was small and frail. 479 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,440 TIFFIANY: He was slightly taller than her, but not by much. 480 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:54,680 TIFFIANY: And they were solid appearing, but not really. They looked 481 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:01,200 TIFFIANY: like two people, but not like living people. It stopped 482 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:09,320 TIFFIANY: me in my tracks. Mrs. Pike was wearing a long 483 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,560 TIFFIANY: black dress with long sleeves and a white bow in 484 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:19,240 TIFFIANY: the front. Mister Pike, he was wearing dark pants and 485 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,080 TIFFIANY: a button up shirt and appeared to have like a 486 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,480 TIFFIANY: sweater vest over it. He's staring at her, She's staring 487 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,800 TIFFIANY: at me, and she looked like she felt bad that 488 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,480 TIFFIANY: we had heard them arguing and caught them there. She 489 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,400 TIFFIANY: felt bad that she'd scared me, like all of these things. 490 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,440 TIFFIANY: I could tell just by the look on her face. 491 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,920 TIFFIANY: And he's still staring at her, and then when he 492 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,680 TIFFIANY: sees that she's looking at me, he turns to me, 493 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,840 TIFFIANY: and he was scary looking. As I'm looking at him, Mrs. 494 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,960 TIFFIANY: Pike pushed Mr. Pike into the coat closet, but the 495 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,040 TIFFIANY: door was closed. They just kind of walked right through it. 496 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,120 TIFFIANY: My immediate thought was, are they still in there? I 497 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,480 TIFFIANY: run over to the closet and I throw the door open. 498 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,280 TIFFIANY: I could not believe it. The coats were swaying as 499 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,480 TIFFIANY: if someone had passed through them, but no one was 500 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,959 TIFFIANY: in the coat closet. So then I shut it and 501 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,640 TIFFIANY: then pulled it open the exact same way that I 502 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,960 TIFFIANY: did the first time, and nothing happened. So I thought, well, 503 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,200 TIFFIANY: maybe I pulled it harder than I thought to let 504 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,760 TIFFIANY: me pull it more quickly and see if that makes 505 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,040 TIFFIANY: the coats move. So I'm standing there just like shutting 506 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,880 TIFFIANY: the door, pulling it open, shutting, you know, like back 507 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,160 TIFFIANY: and forth, and I could not get the coats to sway. 508 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,880 TIFFIANY: About thirty minutes later, my mom and dad get home 509 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,560 TIFFIANY: from their date, and immediately I tell my mom what happened, 510 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,080 TIFFIANY: and then my dad came in there and she told 511 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,440 TIFFIANY: him what I'd said. He's like, oh, well, you just 512 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,320 TIFFIANY: must have opened the door to quickly, or you must 513 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,920 TIFFIANY: have pulled it open really fast, and the gust of 514 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,800 TIFFIANY: wind would have made the coats swing. I told him no, 515 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,240 TIFFIANY: I tried that and I couldn't get it to do it. 516 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,120 TIFFIANY: He didn't believe me, so he made me follow him 517 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,600 TIFFIANY: into the living room so that he could show me 518 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,760 TIFFIANY: that it was just me opening the door too quickly 519 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,800 TIFFIANY: that caused the coats to move. He opens the door, 520 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,240 TIFFIANY: the coats don't move, so he shuts the door. Then 521 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,400 TIFFIANY: he pulls it open like way quicker than I could have, 522 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,320 TIFFIANY: and the coats still didn't move. And then he said, well, 523 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,920 TIFFIANY: you must have just imagined the coats moving, and I said, 524 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,280 TIFFIANY: I know what I saw, and the coats were moving. 525 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,720 TIFFIANY: Missus and mister Pike went into the closet. 526 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,720 TIFFIANY: Several years later, I've moved out, I'm married, I have 527 00:32:54,800 --> 00:33:01,080 TIFFIANY: a son, his name is Austin. There's a storm rolling in, 528 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,920 TIFFIANY: so I decide that I'm going to need more candles 529 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,960 TIFFIANY: and flashlights than I already have, and I knew that 530 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,800 TIFFIANY: I could go out to my mom and dad's to 531 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:16,800 TIFFIANY: get endless amounts of them. So I put Austin, who's 532 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,320 TIFFIANY: three at the time, into the car seat and we 533 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,160 TIFFIANY: head out to my parents' house. My mom and dad 534 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,560 TIFFIANY: weren't home at the time. Both were at work. I 535 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,520 TIFFIANY: knew this. I wasn't worried about it because I had 536 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,440 TIFFIANY: a key to the house. We pull into the driveway, 537 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,200 TIFFIANY: I get Austin out of the car seat. We head 538 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,680 TIFFIANY: up to the front door. We walk in and we 539 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,600 TIFFIANY: take our shoes off, and then we head downstairs to 540 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:50,440 TIFFIANY: the basement to get the candles. Austin had a play 541 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,760 TIFFIANY: area in the basement. We go over to that area. 542 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,080 TIFFIANY: I find him a toy. He starts playing with it. 543 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,479 TIFFIANY: I walk over to the other side of the basement 544 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,200 TIFFIANY: to get the candles. I pick out about five or 545 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,320 TIFFIANY: six of them and put them into the bag, and 546 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:11,640 TIFFIANY: then head back over to get Austin. We go upstairs. 547 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,560 TIFFIANY: I set him on the couch and then set the 548 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,800 TIFFIANY: candles beside him, and I go to get his shoes 549 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,040 TIFFIANY: to put back on him so we can leave. I 550 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,600 TIFFIANY: get the first shoe on, and then as I'm putting 551 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,879 TIFFIANY: the second shoe on, I hear a woman say, who's there? 552 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,480 TIFFIANY: In the distance, it sounded like it came from the basement. 553 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,680 TIFFIANY: I freeze and I turn in the direction of the 554 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:42,440 TIFFIANY: basement door. Who's there? Who was that? Did I hear that? 555 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,040 TIFFIANY: Did I actually hear somebody yell from the basement, and 556 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,319 TIFFIANY: I turned back to Austin and I noticed that he's 557 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:55,080 TIFFIANY: also looking in that direction. While I'm looking at him, 558 00:34:55,239 --> 00:35:01,319 TIFFIANY: I hear, hey, don't go. But this time I could 559 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,080 TIFFIANY: hear the creaks of the stairs. Whoever was yelling from 560 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:14,040 TIFFIANY: the basement was now also walking up the stairs. I 561 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,480 TIFFIANY: knew that my mom wasn't home. I knew that she 562 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,319 TIFFIANY: was at work, and I knew my dad wasn't there. 563 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,120 TIFFIANY: But this sounded like a woman. And I knew no 564 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,040 TIFFIANY: one was in the home because I had already been 565 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,960 TIFFIANY: through the entire house. And then not only was I 566 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,000 TIFFIANY: hearing it, I could tell that Austin could hear it 567 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,040 TIFFIANY: as well. He turns to me and he said, where's Nana? 568 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,560 TIFFIANY: And I said, Nana's at work, Nana's not here. That's 569 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,640 TIFFIANY: not Nana. And as soon as I said that, she 570 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:45,400 TIFFIANY: called out again, wait, don't go, and I could tell 571 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,400 TIFFIANY: that she was closer, and it almost kind of sounded 572 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,120 TIFFIANY: like my mom, so much so that Austin was like 573 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,319 TIFFIANY: Nana and jumped off the couch to try to run 574 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,000 TIFFIANY: to the sound. I reached out and grabbed his shirt 575 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,480 TIFFIANY: and I pulled him in real close, and I just 576 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,200 TIFFIANY: whispered because I was scared. At this point, I was 577 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,399 TIFFIANY: just like, that's not Nana, and I was just trying 578 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,919 TIFFIANY: to be like as quiet as possible because I did 579 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,839 TIFFIANY: not know what was going to happen next, and then 580 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,600 TIFFIANY: having him there with me, just the mother instinct kicked in. 581 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,720 TIFFIANY: I didn't want anyone to hurt him, and I didn't 582 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:25,879 TIFFIANY: know if it was an actual person or not. When 583 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,600 TIFFIANY: I get scared, I just freeze. I could feel like 584 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:33,120 TIFFIANY: my heartbeat in my throat, and then without giving it 585 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,920 TIFFIANY: a second thought, I just jerked him up, stood up 586 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,799 TIFFIANY: really quickly, and just headed straight for the front door. 587 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,560 TIFFIANY: I ran out the front door, and I just left 588 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,240 TIFFIANY: the door open, and I just wanted to get Austin 589 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,640 TIFFIANY: out and in the car. I put him in his 590 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,040 TIFFIANY: car seat. My hands were shaking trying to get his 591 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,000 TIFFIANY: car seat buckled and make sure that he was like 592 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,880 TIFFIANY: actually buckled in. I shut his door, and the storm 593 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,839 TIFFIANY: was starting at this point, so my hair was like 594 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,400 TIFFIANY: whipping across my face, and I'm just trying to get 595 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,399 TIFFIANY: my hair out of my face. I turn and look 596 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,319 TIFFIANY: at the front door and see the front door just 597 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:18,000 TIFFIANY: slam shut. Someone or something had slammed the door shut. 598 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:25,359 TIFFIANY: I get into the driver's side seat and I see 599 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:31,200 TIFFIANY: the curtain beside the front door move. Whatever I had 600 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,360 TIFFIANY: shut the door was now looking out the window at 601 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,800 TIFFIANY: me. I just threw it into reverse and go out of there. 602 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,720 TIFFIANY: I had like a death grip on the steering wheel 603 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,160 TIFFIANY: because just my entire like my adrenaline was pumping. I 604 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,400 TIFFIANY: called Mom and I'm like, hey, You're never gonna believe 605 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,880 TIFFIANY: what just happened. I was like, I wanted to make 606 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,520 TIFFIANY: sure that you were at work because we heard something 607 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,520 TIFFIANY: in the house and I think it was Mrs. Pike 608 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,200 TIFFIANY: yelling out to us. She said, yeah, no, one's there. 609 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,560 TIFFIANY: Things happening just kind of became the norm, and everyone 610 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,439 TIFFIANY: that came over had some sort of experience with Mrs. Pike. 611 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,440 TIFFIANY: I've had so many experiences with Miss Pike, and I 612 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,040 TIFFIANY: remember the first time I met her, she said I 613 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:26,160 TIFFIANY: would live here forever if I could. I guess she 614 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:26,680 TIFFIANY: meant it. 615 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,600 THERÉSA: We love a woman who keeps her word, and this 616 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,760 THERÉSA: really has been a lifelong haunt for Tiffiany. At this point, Mrs. 617 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,760 THERÉSA: Pike is basically family and no judgment. I've run screaming 618 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,480 THERÉSA: from plenty of family members on countless occasions. It's a 619 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:45,520 THERÉSA: canon event. We mustn't interfere. Well, I'm finally feeling better, 620 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,480 THERÉSA: and since I already broke dry January, it's time for 621 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,920 THERÉSA: a little hair of the dog. Len, should we go 622 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,759 THERÉSA: round two? You could show me that high C you 623 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:54,680 THERÉSA: swear you can hit. 624 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:55,680 LEN: [MUMBLES] 625 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,759 THERÉSA: If you have a ghost story to share, email us 626 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,879 THERÉSA: at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com and you could tell your story on an upcoming episode. 627 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,180 THERÉSA: I'm feeling generous. Len, take us out! 628 00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:07,239 LEN: [SINGING] 629 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,440 CREDITS: If you have a haunting story to share, email us 630 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,240 CREDITS: at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com , and if you like what you hear, please 631 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,759 CREDITS: like and subscribe. You can also follow us on social 632 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:31,040 CREDITS: media by searching for Glass Podcasts or by visiting glasspodcasts.com. 633 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,880 CREDITS: Haunting is a production of Glass Podcasts in partnership with 634 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:38,280 CREDITS: iHeart Podcast. Haunting is created and executive produced by Nancy Glass, 635 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,239 CREDITS: Andrea Gunning, Ben Fetterman, and Lauren Lapkus, and it is 636 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,799 CREDITS: hosted by Lauren Lapkus as her character Therésa. Producer Len 637 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,839 CREDITS: Walker is played by Trey Morgan. 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