WEBVTT - S1: EP 24 — " Who's Watching Us from the Window?” 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:22.079 Hi, it's me, Therésa. This is Haunting. One hundred percent real ghost 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.279 stories told by you, our loyal and devoted listeners. I'm 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:26.920 here today with our producer Len, 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:27.920 Ill have it. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.840 And my familiar, Merlin. I'll be honest with you guys. I 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.839 am not firing on all cylinders today. Len and I 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.559 fumbled the bag on dry January after work yesterday with 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.400 two for one happy hour at Haunt and Haven. In 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.240 our defense, we were going for Monday karaoke. You guys 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.120 know I love an open mic. I stick with the classics. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.400 Shania Twain, Vanessa Carlton, that song from the Lizzie McGuire movie. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.559 Len's repertoire is a lot of Broadway show tunes and 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.000 pre Saturday Night Fever Era BeeGees, which was crazy because 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.320 Andy Gibb showed up and I swear to god, he 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:00.933 was making eyes at me the whole night 0:01:00.933 --> 0:01:00.960 [MUMBLES] 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.191 It was definitely him, Len. 0:01:05.191 --> 0:01:05.919 [MUMBLES] 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.760 Whatever, I don't have it in me to argue with you. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.160 Let's just get this show on the road. We've got 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.000 a really juicy three parter today. Our guest Tiffany claims 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.560 to have actually met the woman who later haunted her 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.240 childhood home. It's like the opposite of don't meet your heroes, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.040 do meet your horrors, or something like that. Yeah, I 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:26.400 think that works. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:33.240 I could feel my heartbeat in my throat. I did 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:37.960 not know what was going to happen next. I run 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.120 out and the storms like starting to brew now, and the 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.720 winds like whipping around, and I'm trying to frantically get 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.760 him in the car and buckle him up. As soon 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.200 as I know that he's safe, I shut the door 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.840 and I turned around, and I could not believe what 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:56.760 I was seeing. I'm Tiffiany, and I met the woman 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.200 who haunted my family home. When I was a child, 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.920 my dad had this friend named Butch that he had 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.120 grown up with. He'd spent a lot of time with him, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.399 and his parents were needing to sell their home because 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.520 they were getting older. My dad, who had spent a 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.400 lot of his childhood growing up in that home, had 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.639 always liked it. He liked the house, he liked the area, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.720 and he had mentioned when he was younger that if 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.519 they ever wanted to sell the house, to think of him. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.080 So when it came time to sell it, Butch called 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.000 my dad to see if he wanted the house. My 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.440 dad took my mom to show her the house, hoping 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.080 that she was going to love it as much as 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:44.400 he did growing up, and I went with them. It 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.880 felt like we were driving out into the middle of nowhere. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.920 The house was on this long, windy, curvy road and 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.840 it was very narrow. I'm not even sure two cars 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.079 could fit on it comfortably. But then when we got 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.480 to the house, you come around a corner, and there were about 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.960 four or five houses that were pretty close together, so 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.400 it wasn't completely isolated, but to me it felt like 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:14.160 it was. We pull into the driveway. The house was cute. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.720 It was yellow. It had flowers and things all around it. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:24.359 It seemed inviting. We walk up to the house, there 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.839 was a little screened in porch and were greeted at 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:33.560 the door by Butch's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pike. Mister 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.840 Pike was shorter than my dad, but he had this 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:43.160 arrogance to him that was unmistakable. Even at my young age, 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.480 I could recognize that he was kind of mean, so 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:54.559 I did not like him. Mrs. Pike was frail, thin, short. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:04:01.600 She had these long, thin, bony fingers and had kind eyes. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.440 I could tell that she was nice. Mister Pike immediately 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.000 asked my mom and dad if they would like to 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.840 walk through and look at all of the rooms in 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.880 the home. And missus Pike turns to me and says, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.320 you can stay here with me while your mom and 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.680 dad go and tour the house. I sat down on 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.080 the couch. She starts talking to me about random things, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.320 just kind of trying to entertain me, I guess. I 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.400 tell her that I don't really want to move out there. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.320 We lived right beside my cousins. My closest cousin she 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.159 was four years younger than me. You know, this was 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.040 the eighties, so we were outside all day every day. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.800 So I felt like I was leaving all of that behind. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.200 Like I was scared I was going to be isolated 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.760 out there with just my brother. But we're sitting there, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:02.040 and she leaned in closely and put her hand on 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.320 my knee and said, Oh, I'm sure you're going to 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.599 like it. I know it seems like it's out in 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.159 the middle of nowhere, but you're going to love it here. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.840 Then she whispered, don't worry, sweetie, I would stay here 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.000 forever if I could. The way she said that and 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.880 how she said it gave me an uneasy feeling. So 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.640 I was like, ooh, like why'd she say it like that? 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.720 Like what does she mean? And why does she call 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.080 me sweetie? We were there maybe fifteen minutes if that, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.440 because my dad already had his mind made up that 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.719 he was getting it. He was just kind of like 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.120 courtesy showing it to my mom and luckily she loved 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:47.480 it too, so it worked out. We moved in almost immediately. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.760 My room was huge compared to my last one, and 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.960 it had like a huge walk in closet. It felt 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.560 like a mini playhouse. It was so large, so I 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.000 was happy about it. It was on the corner of 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.080 the house. I had two windows, like a view to the backyard, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.599 a view to the side yard. I was trying to 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.240 find the positives of it, but I was still not 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:15.120 excited about moving so far away from my cousins. It 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.440 was just normal every day going to school, I was 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:23.440 in dance. Everything just kind of continued on as usual, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.279 and it did suck. Like after school, I was used 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.039 to going and playing with my cousins and stuff, but 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.440 now I didn't have anything to do. I would just 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.359 come home and that's when I started reading a lot. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.160 A couple of months after we moved in, my dad 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.040 got a phone call from Butch telling us that his 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:45.159 mom had passed away. Two months after that, things started 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:49.719 happening at the house. My mom was noticing things going 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.599 missing or showing up where they shouldn't have been, and 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.520 she's very like OCD on where she puts things. After a while, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.520 she said that she kind of put it together that 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.240 it may be a ghost, but she didn't really want 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.799 to think, Okay, you know, is Mrs. Pike back or whatever. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.920 And then she said that she would be like, okay, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.880 Mrs Pike, if this is you, can you move this 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.880 over here? And then it would take a few days, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.080 but then she would find what she said moved where 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.920 she asked it to be moved, so she was like, okay, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:23.600 that was Mrs. Pike. I didn't really have anything significant 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.560 happened to me until I was in my room reading 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:31.920 one night. It was a school night. I got in 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.040 trouble all the time for staying up too late to read. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.880 My mom had already came into my room twice to 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.600 tell me to knock it off to go to bed, 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.120 so I told her I would be done with it. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.280 I put my book over on my nightstand and then 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.560 as soon as she left, I just grabbed my flashlight 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.920 and got under the covers to go back to reading again. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.760 I don't know how much longer it had been since 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.280 my mom had originally left. I'm reading for a while, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.040 but then I hear the door open again, so I'm like, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.160 oh my gosh, I am busted big time. She's coming 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.239 back to like take my book. So I immediately flip 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.960 the flashlight off and try to pretend like I'm asleep, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.720 and then I feel her sit down on the bed. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.600 I wait for her to say something like give me 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.840 the book or whatever, but she just kind of pats 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:28.120 me on the leg and then she whispers, don't worry sweetie, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.720 everything's going to be okay. I was like, what the hell? 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.560 What does that even mean? What was going to be okay? 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.760 And why does she call me sweetie? Like I'd never 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.280 heard her call me sweetie. And it was like the 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.040 way it was said, it was so creepy. The whole 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.280 interaction was weird and it didn't really make sense. After 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.640 I heard her leave the room, I had all of 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.559 these things going through my mind. I waited for a 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.320 little bit trying to process like what she meant, and 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.800 then I thought, no, I can't sleep. I'm going to 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.240 have to go ask her. When I went into her room, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.720 she was asleep. The first words out of my mouth 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.800 was what did you mean by that? And then she 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.840 like jolted awake. I could see the look of confusion 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.760 on her face, and she's like, what are you talking about? 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.040 I said, what did you mean? Everything's going to be okay? 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:19.720 She was like, I don't know what you're talking about. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:28.240 I have been in here the whole time. I just 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.680 went back to my room. I was like laying in 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:35.120 there trying to figure out what had happened or why 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.559 that was so creepy. And it was because it was familiar, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.600 Like I knew the voice, but I couldn't place it, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.400 so I just kept laying there. But when the memory clicked, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:52.160 I shot up in bed. It was Mrs. Pike. She 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.320 had called me sweetie when I met her. That's where 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.559 I knew the voice. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.640 Honestly, I would love for someone to pat me on 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.320 the back and tell me everything's going to be okay 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.040 right about now. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:04.386 [MUMBLES] 0:10:04.386 --> 0:10:09.280 No, not you, Len. Oh, I really didn't think ghost 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.320 could get this hungover. The mouth sweats are starting, so 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:13.160 let's go to ads. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.560 Okay, I spewed a lot of something black, spiky and 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.200 sentient all over the bathroom. Sorry, Len, facilities will get 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:37.760 to it, but I wouldn't go in there today if 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:38.320 you can help it 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.920 [MUMBLES] 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.360 Okay. Back to missus Pike. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.720 We had a full size basement. My mom had set 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.400 it up kind of like a mini apartment. There was 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.840 a couch that folded out into a bed, a coffee table, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.680 two end tables, a large entertainment center that had a 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.920 TV and VCR. There was a dining room table with 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.320 four chairs, and there were two massive area rugs. One 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.360 of them was like fifteen by twenty, and then on 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.920 top of that was another area rug. It was like 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.240 an eight x ten and then off in one corner 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.079 was like a play area for my little brother and 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.680 all of the board games and things like that. Shortly 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.400 after Mrs. Pike came into my room, it was almost 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.760 Christmas and we had a lot of presents that we 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:35.079 needed to wrap. My mom had turned the basement into 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.331 like a gift wrapping headquarters. We had everything down there 0:11:39.331 --> 0:11:45.360 you could possibly think of, tons of boxes, ribbon, different 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.520 types of wrapping paper, scissors, tape, everything you would need 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.440 to wrap up gift. I go upstairs to get more tape, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.199 and when I come back down, my mom is sitting 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.280 there confused. She's looking around everywhere, lifting up paper and things. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.680 And she asked me, did you take the scissors with 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.640 you when you went upstairs? I'm like no, and she said, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.800 I set them down right here, but now they're not anywhere. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.440 I'm as confused as she is. Scissors don't just disappear 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:20.400 into thin air. We looked in all of the boxes, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.480 we shook out all of the like scraps of paper. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:30.080 We checked under the couch cushions, we looked under the 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.000 end tables. Then, I noticed a spot under the coffee 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:38.040 table that's like a lump under the area rug. I 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.839 turned to my mom and I'm like, did you notice 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.920 this lump over here? What's that? She comes over and 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.520 she looks at it and she's like, I don't know 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.840 what that is. I'm like, let's just move all of 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.480 this stuff and roll the rug up. I almost wanted 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.160 to prove that it wasn't the scissors. We moved the couch, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.839 the two end tables, the coffee table, everything off of 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.880 fifteen by twenty massive area rug. We each get on 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.680 one end of the rug to start rolling it, and 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.240 the rug is so heavy and we're having to push 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:15.440 it out of the way. And then there were the scissors. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.079 We both look at each other. My mom just picks 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.440 them off really quick, and then we really never talked 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.360 about it again. It would have been impossible for either 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.439 me or my mom to put them under the rug. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.000 There's no other way that they could have gotten there, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.720 because there was no way to get to the middle 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.520 of that rug without rolling it up. It was in 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.240 the dead center, like you could not reach underneath it. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.920 Mrs Pike had to have put the scissors under the rug. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.280 A year later, my mom enrolled me in a new school, 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.720 so I finally, after a few weeks, found a group 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.920 of girls. They would be what you would call the 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.079 cool group of girls, the main one and I clicked 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.200 pretty quick. And then she came to me one day 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.400 and she was like, Hey, why don't we have a 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.240 sleepover at your house? Oh, hell yeah, she wants to 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:11.600 come to my house, you know, like they really do 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.280 want to be my friend. I asked my mom. My 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.960 Mom's like, yeah, it'll be fine, we can get movies, pizza. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.080 And then I'm like, you think Mrs. Pike would do 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.880 anything while she's here. My mom assured me. She said, 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.600 it's going to be fine. Just you know, be a kid, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:32.440 have a good time. For like the next week, I 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.360 just like, out loud kind of whisper, Miss Pike, please 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.960 don't ruin this for me. I have a new friend. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.120 She's going to be coming over. I don't want you 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.840 to scare her. When I would get up in the morning, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.480 I would say it. I would say it when I 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.240 got home from school, before I went to bed. Anytime 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.720 I was by myself, I would out loud ask her 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:01.240 not to scare us. Finally, that Friday came, Melissa brought 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.880 everything with her to school, so that afternoon, when my 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.800 mom picked me up, she could just ride home from 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:15.000 school with us. We're downstairs playing board games. We watched 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.920 one of the movies that we'd rented, had some pizza, 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.800 made some prank phone calls, and then we got bored 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:28.200 and decided we wanted to go outside. It was probably 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.040 around seven, but the sun was still up. We go 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:36.280 to the trampoline. We're jumping. I'm showing her a few tricks, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.760 like easy things to do, so she's trying to learn those, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.600 and then she stops and points to my bedroom window, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.400 and she said, oh, your mom's watching us. We see 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.640 my mom in the window, but she's wearing this black dress. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.880 It was long sleeve and had a white bow in 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.880 the front. So I would do a trick, then Melissa 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.520 would do a trick, and then she would do like 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.280 a thumbs up clapping. You know, just rooting us on 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.080 everything that we were doing. This goes on for a 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.680 few minutes and then we hear someone say, hey, who 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.080 are you waving at? We both stop and turn around 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:18.280 and it's my mom standing behind us. So then we 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:23.000 turned back to my window and the woman was still 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:28.640 in the window. It scared me because if it wasn't 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:34.480 my mom, who is this woman? As soon as Melissa 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.440 sees my mom behind us, she turned and looked back 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.520 at the window, and then she screamed out, who's in 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.000 the window? And drops down to her butt and scoots and 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.280 hops off the trampoline and runs and gets behind my mom. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.360 My mom was holding a clothes basket. She immediately dropped it, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.560 turned around and gave Melissa a hug and tried to 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.480 comfort her, tells her, you know, it's okay, it's okay, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:05.800 it's fine, don't be scared. Melissa's asking her who is that? 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.600 My mom said, oh, well, she used to live here. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.639 She's a friend of the family. She just pops in 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.199 every once in a while. She's not scary though. And 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.159 then Melissa's just kind of looking at my mom and 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.919 then goes silent for a moment and then yells, so 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:26.960 it's a ghost? I was like, oh my god, this 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.920 is it. Mrs Pike has done exactly what I thought 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.480 she was going to do. She's scared, Melissa. Mrs Pike 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:41.320 has ruined everything. We went back downstairs. We turn on 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.919 one of our movies. Melissa sits like really close to 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.760 my mom hugged up to her on the couch watching 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.720 the movie. But then she started to relax a little 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.280 bit as the movie went on and noticed that nothing 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.600 else was happening scary in the house. While we were 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.760 watching the movie, I was twisting my bracelet because I 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.040 was nervous. She was kind of like, that's a cute bracelet. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.159 Where'd you get it? I had the bracelet kit in 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.760 my room, so we went upstairs to my bedroom. I 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.399 drug it out from under the bed and we opened 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.840 that up. We're sitting in the floor, we're going through it. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.480 Picking out the threads and the things that we like. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.840 And then that's when she says, who is Mrs Pike? 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.920 I tell her about how we moved into the house 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:35.400 when I was eight, and that she used to live 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.240 in the house with her husband, and I said I'd 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.760 met her before she passed away and she was really nice. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.840 She said, well, you said she's nice, but I think 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.120 she's a jerk. And I just stopped and told her, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.720 don't say that. You're gonna make her mad, and then 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.960 she's going to do something. She's like, oh, yeah, do 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.199 you hear that, Mrs Pike? I think you're a jerk. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:07.960 I immediately scoot away from her. I like distanced myself 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.840 in between us is this bracelet kit with all of 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:16.000 these beads and charms and things. A minute passes and 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.920 we're both staring at each other waiting for something to happen. Then, 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.200 we noticed one of those thick red beads lifts up 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.200 from the center of the kit and it just kind 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:32.879 of hovers. We're both watching it. She hadn't been thinking 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.800 the same thing I was. There's no way that this 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.239 bead is levitating in front of us. Then it just 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:45.119 shot across and hit her right between the eyebrows above 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:51.840 her nose. So Melissa immediately both hands clasp over where 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.360 the bead had just hit her, and the bead fell 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.240 down and landed in Melissa's lap. She was sitting criss 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.119 cross apple sauce. It landed right down in the center. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.480 So she puts both hands over her head and just goes, 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.879 no way, and she moves her hands away, and I 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.320 put my hand over my mouth and I just was like, 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.800 no way. I said, you have a huge red mark 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:23.600 on your forehead. And she reaches down and picks up 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:28.159 the bead and she's holding it. That mark stayed on 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.600 her head for about four hours. I was in shock 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.639 that I had just witnessed it, but I felt like 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:39.400 she kind of deserved it. That's what you get. Then 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.879 when she said what do I do now? I was like, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.040 you made her mad. I said, if I was you, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.600 I would apologize. She's like, Missus Pike, I'm so sorry. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.959 I didn't mean it. You're not a jerk. So then 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:59.239 we both just sat completely still, waiting to see if 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.080 anything's going to happen. We probably sit there for like 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:08.720 fifteen minutes. Nothing happens. The next morning, she's getting ready 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.480 to go home and she asked me for a pen 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.920 and paper. She said, I want to write Missus Pike 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.520 an apology letter. I want to tell her I'm sorry 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.320 because you said she pops in and out, so maybe 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.200 she wasn't here when I apologized, I'm going to tape 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:21.280 it to your door, and I want you to leave 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:27.400 it there for three days. I was like, okay, it said, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.040 Mrs Pike, I'm so sorry for saying you were a jerk. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.280 Please forgive me. I'm like, are you gonna go tell 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:38.879 everybody that I'm weird? And she's like, no way. Everybody's 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:43.840 going to love this. From that point on, everyone wanted 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:49.280 to come to my house. I experienced a lot of 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.560 things in that house growing up. Most of them weren't 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.480 very scary until years later, when one night I see 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:01.760 Missus Pike and her husband, Mister Pike, both of them 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:07.440 standing in the living room. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.320 Wait wait, wait, sorry, I love where this is going. 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:13.760 I just need another moment to collect myself. I feel 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.040 more dead than usual today. You guys listen to these ads. 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.280 I'm gonna go stick my head in a freezer somewhere. 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:20.919 Meet back here in a few minutes. 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.640 I'm back. You ever feel so hungover just regular old 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:34.760 dead is an improvement. 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:35.240 [MUMBLES] 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.400 I don't know why you're so perky today. You were 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.360 having just as much fun as I was. Anyway, when 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:44.600 we left off, Mrs. Pike had just killed at the 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.600 sleepover and really boosted Tiffiany's middle school social status. But 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:50.680 it sounds like things are about to take a turn 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:51.760 for the terrifying. 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.960 So a year later, my brother, who's five years younger 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:02.280 than me, got a bunk bed for his room. It's one 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:04.680 of those old metal bunk beds from the nineties. It 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:06.240 was a twin bed on the top and a full 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:09.200 sized bed on the bottom. We each had our own room, 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.879 but bunk beds were cool, and I'd never like slept 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:15.800 in a bunk bed before, so I wanted to sleep 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:20.360 on the top bunk for the first night. That night, 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.920 we're in the bed. I'm on the top bunk reading, 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:26.960 he's on the bottom. He falls asleep, and then I 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.040 start hearing him snore, and I'm like, I cannot listen 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:35.840 to this anymore. My brother had a very bright night light, 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:38.400 so the room was still pretty lit up. I started 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.159 to go down the ladder. As my foot hit the 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.679 bottom wrung of the ladder, I felt something cold brush 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:48.359 against my foot. I look down to see what it was. 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:52.320 That's when I saw a hand coming out from under 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:58.080 the blanket. I knew the hand wasn't my brother's. He 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:00.679 was sleeping at the other end of the bed, and 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:07.560 it was this bony, frail, very white hand crawling out 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:13.680 from under the comforter. Before I could even like realize 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:16.959 what was happening, it jolts out and grabs me by 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.520 the ankle. I scream out and fall backwards, like hit 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:24.480 the deck and land on my back and scramble backwards, 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.320 watching the hand right there on top of the mattress. 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:33.840 My mom heard me fall, and she comes running in 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.399 and she kneels down beside me. She's like, what happened? 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.600