Speaker 1: What's that anthem of my bed? It's spooky and joky.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's dead. It's coming this way. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I got I los Nanda's.
Speaker 2: Pllease Hey boo, it's me Ros and welcome to Ghosted
Speaker 2: by Rose Hernandez, the podcast where I talk to people
Speaker 2: that I like about the paranormal. It's another listener phone
Speaker 2: call extravaganza. Oh god, I love talking to you people.
Speaker 1: As always, you know what to do. I mean, for
Speaker 1: the most part, I think you guys know what to do.
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes it's confusing. I know, I know, But to
Speaker 1: be honest, a listener episode, please send me an email
Speaker 1: that says listener episode in the subject line with one
Speaker 1: sentence bullet points detaelling some of your stories and that's that.
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Speaker 1: want and you send that over to Ghosted by Roz
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Okay, we've got three of them
Speaker 1: for you today. And this first one is from Josh,
Speaker 1: who is a former punk rock drag queen that's got
Speaker 1: a story about living on a farm in Texas. Give
Speaker 1: it to us, Josh. I am joined by Josh in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: Howdy Howdy, Diva, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm great?
Speaker 1: How are you so good? I'm gonna say it on record.
Speaker 1: I have got to get to Dallas to do some
Speaker 1: kind of show stand up. I don't know what something,
Speaker 1: because I love Dallas and I'm missing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Great city. We would love to have you here.
Speaker 3: I'll take you to all the best places. We'll get
Speaker 3: all the good vegan food.
Speaker 1: But you grew up in a haunted house? That was
Speaker 1: that in Dallas? Where was that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't So. I've lived in Dallas for a
Speaker 3: really long time. But I'm actually a country girl. I
Speaker 3: grew up on a farm in the middle of East Texas,
Speaker 3: super close to the Louisiana borders. So lots of woods,
Speaker 3: lots of ponds and swamps, and lots of weird, weird,
Speaker 3: creepy shit that happens behind the pine curtain.
Speaker 1: If we like to call it a haunted farmhouse in Texas,
Speaker 1: I mean this is I am strapped in and ready
Speaker 1: to hear this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's kind of crazy. The story kind of
Speaker 3: starts and end with a fire, not to be dramatic,
Speaker 3: but the house that my family originally lived in until
Speaker 3: I was three years old burned down just in the
Speaker 3: middle of an I still not really sure what happened there.
Speaker 3: I'm sure my parents know. But we then moved into
Speaker 3: what we call the farm. So it's sort of a typical,
Speaker 3: nondescript looking Greek revival ranch. Our house on twelve acres
Speaker 3: the tons of land.
Speaker 1: Is this the kind of thing where no one can
Speaker 1: hear you scream?
Speaker 3: Exactly? Our nearest neighbor was literally two miles down the room,
Speaker 3: like so literally in the middle of the woods, in
Speaker 3: the middle of nowhere, East Texas, like five hundred people
Speaker 3: in the town. One stoplight literally just one stoplight. So
Speaker 3: that kind of gig growing.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the movie X no X X. It's
Speaker 1: like a trilogy of movies. There's X, there's Maxine, there's Pearl.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, I have, Yeah, of course, X is like.
Speaker 1: I feel like it takes place in I thought it
Speaker 1: was Texas, but then there's also crocodiles I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's like a farmhouse.
Speaker 3: We do have alligators.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so did you watch the movie X and
Speaker 1: you said, oh, this is a documentary, I will.
Speaker 3: Watching almost like, yeah, this all looks familiar, I mean,
Speaker 3: other than like murderous old people. But who knows there
Speaker 3: might be one in the story. We don't know for sure. Okay,
Speaker 3: but yeah, So just to kind of give you a
Speaker 3: lot of really weird stuff, happened so pretty much as
Speaker 3: soon as we moved in, So sorry happening. I don't
Speaker 3: remember a lot of the early stuff because I was
Speaker 3: literally three years old, but my older brother and sister
Speaker 3: have told me like the first night we were in
Speaker 3: the house, all the lights kept flickering on and off
Speaker 3: and just like you know, creepy stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: then as growing up, I started noticing things like we
Speaker 3: had an attic and you would hear footsteps in.
Speaker 1: The attic all day every day, terrifying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was the kind of attic that was like
Speaker 3: completely you know, not paved, but you couldn't like it
Speaker 3: was just rafters and then feeling but it sounded like
Speaker 3: someone was literally like just walking across the floor, like
Speaker 3: like there was an actual floor, I can't seep, so
Speaker 3: lots of creepy stuff in the attic we would hear.
Speaker 3: My parents would always say it's probably a raccoon or squirrels,
Speaker 3: and I would say, okay, probably, but then the older
Speaker 3: gotten like, I think she goes to here. You could
Speaker 3: also hear whisperings throughout the house, which was super creepy.
Speaker 3: And I grew up in the nineties. I'm the latch
Speaker 3: key kid, so I was home alone a lot, me
Speaker 3: and my siblings and or were you exactly so the
Speaker 3: original part of the house had been added on to
Speaker 3: you over the years before we bought it. So in
Speaker 3: one of the additions, which was my parents' room, I
Speaker 3: would usually go in there and watch their TV and
Speaker 3: you would literally hear like it would almost sell like
Speaker 3: something going. So that was always a fun time. We
Speaker 3: did have farm animals. We didn't have a lot, it
Speaker 3: was a smaller farm, but we had We had a
Speaker 3: few hap of paddle we had some chickens. Almost nightly,
Speaker 3: every animal would freak out at pretty much at the
Speaker 3: same time.
Speaker 1: What was that all about, Well, we don't know, So I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if you've ever been around a bunch of
Speaker 3: farm animals, but I have not. I didn't think so.
Speaker 1: I've been around people that smell like farm animals.
Speaker 3: Now, But it's when an animal is distressed, especially a cowl,
Speaker 3: it makes this loud, almost screaming down to the move,
Speaker 3: and so almost nightly you just hear this cacophony of
Speaker 3: animals freaking out. But it would only last for a
Speaker 3: few minutes and then.
Speaker 1: Stop as aliens.
Speaker 3: Of course, growing up, my parents were like, oh, it's
Speaker 3: probably a coyote, or there's bobcasts in that area and
Speaker 3: things like that, but so that was terrifying. Also, people
Speaker 3: would see a man and a cowboy hat out in
Speaker 3: our pasture and yeah, so my sister the first time
Speaker 3: I remember being talked about, my sister saw it and
Speaker 3: she was like, there's somebody out in the pasture. My
Speaker 3: dad goes out there, nobody's out there. And then there's
Speaker 3: been multiple times where neighbors. Even though it is in
Speaker 3: the middle of nowhere, it's one of maybe like six
Speaker 3: paced roads in the whole town, so people would drive
Speaker 3: by a lot and people would be like, oh, I
Speaker 3: saw you out in the pasture and I waved and
Speaker 3: you didn't. I guess you didn't see me. But as
Speaker 3: like I was out of the country for business. Oh,
Speaker 3: and I've looked into it and currently a lot of
Speaker 3: people with sleep prolyzecye a man And I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's connective.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean not a cowboy hat though exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or maybe people maybe this is an interesting conversation. Do
Speaker 1: people in Texas see the hat man with a cowboy
Speaker 1: hat a.
Speaker 3: Cowboy hat specifically Texas? But there's probably something to that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like I've seen it a few times. And
Speaker 3: you know, we would just kind of run wild in
Speaker 3: the summers and we had twelve ages of land and
Speaker 3: woods that we could just explore, and we of course
Speaker 3: had a fort because that's the kids in the nineties did.
Speaker 3: And we'd be in the fort and you would look
Speaker 3: out the little window and like sort of past the
Speaker 3: tree line, you would see someone in a hat standing there. No,
Speaker 3: and it's always very nondescripts wasn't really scary. It just
Speaker 3: looked like a man in jeans and a button up
Speaker 3: like cowboy shirts, like an old Dentum type shirt and
Speaker 3: a hat literally everyone in the town wears. And we
Speaker 3: didn't really think much of it because we were like,
Speaker 3: maybe you know this backups are another property. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: somebody else. Like things like that happened all the time,
Speaker 3: but started getting really creepy. One night, me and my cousins,
Speaker 3: because I'm from a big family and so all the
Speaker 3: cousins always you know, came over to our house. We
Speaker 3: were on the trampoline in the front yard and my
Speaker 3: cousin just sort of stops and looks towards the backyard
Speaker 3: where our sense was and she's like, there's somebody in
Speaker 3: the backyard, and so of course the three of us
Speaker 3: run over and we're trying to look and see and
Speaker 3: as soon as we open the gates to the backyard,
Speaker 3: there's another gate beyond that. On the other side that
Speaker 3: gate was closing. You could see someone walking.
Speaker 1: Ut the man in the hat or somebody else.
Speaker 4: No, it was a man in the hat.
Speaker 3: We saw the hat. Freaked out ran told my parents.
Speaker 3: They were like, it's nothing, don't worry about it. Another
Speaker 3: thing that how and pretty regularly is there would be
Speaker 3: lights in the woods and him getting chills just talking
Speaker 3: about it. So this this is the one that gets me.
Speaker 3: Every time we would see lights in the woods and
Speaker 3: it wouldn't look like slash light it would almost look
Speaker 3: like like a classic like ORB. But my dad, being
Speaker 3: died in the old Texas born and bred redneck, always
Speaker 3: thought someone was flecking with us out in the woods,
Speaker 3: so he would grab a shotgun, grab whatever gun was
Speaker 3: around in Texas there everywhere, hell yeah, yeah, right on.
Speaker 3: So he would grab whatever gun was handy, run out
Speaker 3: in the woods and there would be no one there,
Speaker 3: and then he would come back in mad. So he's like,
Speaker 3: as soon as I got there, the lights were gone,
Speaker 3: there's no one there, but he would be mad thinking
Speaker 3: someone was fucking with him. And the whole time, me
Speaker 3: and my siblings are like, there's a ghost here, but
Speaker 3: we're kids, so nobody looks this.
Speaker 1: Did your dad ever like allude to like him thinking
Speaker 1: that there was a ghost.
Speaker 3: My dad would never, like he's very much macho machismo,
Speaker 3: like he would never admit to being scared of anything.
Speaker 3: My mom, on the other hand, she is a hardcore
Speaker 3: skeptic of everything, like if she can't see it, touch it,
Speaker 3: like it doesn't exist. And I just called her yesterday
Speaker 3: and sort of like corroborate some of these things, just
Speaker 3: make sure I got some of the details right. And
Speaker 3: she's just like I'm not. I don't believe in ghosts.
Speaker 3: There was something there, so having her say that, it's like, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's really creepy to hear my mom say that, like
Speaker 3: even twenty thirty years later, it's freaky, and I think
Speaker 3: the scariest thing that truly ever happened. This might be
Speaker 3: a light profession story. I don't know. Me and my
Speaker 3: brother and sisters her home alone. Of course, we're in
Speaker 3: the den watching a movie or TV or something like
Speaker 3: sisch falls asleep and she starts talking in her sleep.
Speaker 3: So me and my brother are trying to listen to
Speaker 3: what she's saying. She's saying words that I'm not really understanding,
Speaker 3: and my brother is like, it sounds like she's speaking German.
Speaker 3: And I should say my siblings are older. They're ten
Speaker 3: eleven years older than me, so he would know if
Speaker 3: it was German. He's like, I think she's speaking German,
Speaker 3: and so we just sort of like left the room,
Speaker 3: like we'll just let her figure that. Nowhere in East
Speaker 3: Texas was anyone learning German. There's nowhere in the nineties,
Speaker 3: like they barely taught it to basic Spanish, Like there's
Speaker 3: no place in the nineties. My sister would have learned that. Oh,
Speaker 3: but the history of the area, there was a huge
Speaker 3: German immigrant population in like the late eighteen hundreds early
Speaker 3: nineteen hundred, so, like, my last name is very German,
Speaker 3: like a lot of the people around there have a
Speaker 3: German last name. So we're not sure if it was
Speaker 3: like the original owner of the property. I have talked
Speaker 3: through my sister, Like.
Speaker 1: I have no idea how she was possessed.
Speaker 3: Probably probably still lives, to be honest, did.
Speaker 1: You ever find out anything about the property itself?
Speaker 3: So we tried and I've tried, and we can't really
Speaker 3: find anything. But the people that we did buy the
Speaker 3: property and the house from, my mom did talk to them,
Speaker 3: you know, years later, and they had just casually mentioned, yeah,
Speaker 3: we've had a preacher come out and pray over that
Speaker 3: property twice. And my mom was like why, and they
Speaker 3: basically said, like, we would hear voices, we would you know,
Speaker 3: see people walking around. The grandkids would come out in
Speaker 3: the middle of the night screaming that there was someone
Speaker 3: in their room, just like things like that. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: So do you think we bought it from knew the
Speaker 3: house was haunted or had some freaky shit going on,
Speaker 3: and just didn't think to mention it to my parents
Speaker 3: when they were buying property.
Speaker 1: I think about this all the time. Now, let's if
Speaker 1: I was able to own a house. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe i'd be singing a different tune. But I I
Speaker 1: don't know what I would do if I was trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of a house. What I tell the people,
Speaker 1: it's not legal. It's a moral thing. I suppose, right,
Speaker 1: you want to make this sale. It's not like a
Speaker 1: legal thing necessarily to be like, yeah, we think it's haunted.
Speaker 1: I don't know. What would you do? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't know either. I mean, I've never been
Speaker 3: in a position where I've had a.
Speaker 1: Cell house, So no, I want to be in that
Speaker 1: position first, and then I'll complain, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: But with my friends, like people that I k need,
Speaker 3: be like, heyie, would you like to buy this house?
Speaker 3: It's possibly haunted by a German ghost? They would probably
Speaker 3: be all about it. But true in nineteen nineties e Texas,
Speaker 3: I don't need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So how long were you guys in that house?
Speaker 3: So we moved into the house in eighty seven. I
Speaker 3: am an old queen, so we moved in the house
Speaker 3: in eighty seven and I moved out. My parents eventually
Speaker 3: got divorced. I moved in with my dad in two thousands,
Speaker 3: and then in two thousand and two, my mom decided
Speaker 3: she was gonna sell the house. And at that point,
Speaker 3: my sister, her husband, and my niece were living in
Speaker 3: the house, still hearing shit, still seeing stuff like it
Speaker 3: never really stopped. So we sold the house to a
Speaker 3: man that my mom knew. He bought the house. A
Speaker 3: couple of years later, the house burns to the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why I say this story. The story starts and
Speaker 3: ends with the fire. The house burns to the ground.
Speaker 3: Now the rumor knows, the small town gossip rumor is
Speaker 3: that he may or may not have burned it for
Speaker 3: the insurance money exactly, But that's small town gossips. He
Speaker 3: claims it was a wiring issue. We don't know. I
Speaker 3: say it was a German ghost who was mad that
Speaker 3: we left and burned the house down. But who knows.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I called my sister to kind
Speaker 3: of corroborate everything. She remembers some stuff, some stuff she doesn't.
Speaker 3: My older brother unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: and I don't own Luigi board, so I can't ask him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, literally everyone who came in the house, friends
Speaker 3: that stay deny it, cousins at stay deny it. Everyone
Speaker 3: who's sent enough time in that house is like, your
Speaker 3: house is fucking horse. But there's something in this ouse.
Speaker 1: But you guys never saw the cowboy inside of the house.
Speaker 1: He always no knewest place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, never in the house, always around the property close
Speaker 3: to it, backyard. There was like a pond down in
Speaker 3: the property by the pond alive, like I said, people
Speaker 3: with mistake it with my dad working out in the pasture.
Speaker 3: But we never actually saw an actual like apparition or
Speaker 3: whatever in the house itself.
Speaker 1: Now, is there is there any possibility that there's just
Speaker 1: some creepy cowboy man that just lives up It's East Texas,
Speaker 1: Like did you ever see him disappear or I don't know,
Speaker 1: there is it possible that that could have just been
Speaker 1: the town creeper was living in your cowbarn and kind
Speaker 1: of sometimes wandering out at night.
Speaker 3: You would think, But we knew the town creeper.
Speaker 1: He didn't look like too.
Speaker 3: It wasn't him. So I still think it was a
Speaker 3: ghost or a spirit or something. There was just so
Speaker 3: much weird stuff that happened, you know, like mostly classic
Speaker 3: conted house stuff, things disappearing, showing up in different spots,
Speaker 3: things like that. But I love I mean, if it
Speaker 3: was the town creep, been good for him because he
Speaker 3: stood the ship out of us for at least decades.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's commitment if that is a real living
Speaker 1: exactly ten years.
Speaker 3: I just committment to.
Speaker 1: The yes and then probably never aged. If you know
Speaker 1: it's it was a ghost, I'm going with ghost.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with ghosts too.
Speaker 1: I have my gabble.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it. Well, I guess Josh, that'll do it.
Speaker 1: I so appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, I appreciate you letting me talk about
Speaker 3: Hillbily ghosts since I don't get to tell the stories
Speaker 3: too often, So I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh. This next phone call was with a
Speaker 1: listener named Christie who grew up in a haunted house. Christy, Hello,
Speaker 1: Christy and Illinois. How are you hi?
Speaker 4: Raf I'm good me too.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to hear what you've got for us,
Speaker 1: because you got a list here of some good ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where do we start? What's what's your best one?
Speaker 4: Well, the one that usually freaks people out when I
Speaker 4: tell it is so I suffer with sleep paralysis. I
Speaker 4: know that you've talked about like hitting it. Like for me,
Speaker 4: I can usually tell that I'm in sleep paralysis, like
Speaker 4: if I wake up in it, like you feel stuck
Speaker 4: all this like typical standard whatever, But sometimes it feels different.
Speaker 4: But one time I woke up in sleep paralysis. And
Speaker 4: I growing up at my parents' house. I always shut
Speaker 4: my bedroom door because it always felt like something was
Speaker 4: looking at me from the hallway, and my parents had
Speaker 4: this bad habit of checking on me, just like leaving
Speaker 4: the door cracked open, and I inevitably wind up with
Speaker 4: a sleep paralysis episode. And I always left with the
Speaker 4: lights on.
Speaker 3: I was My dad hated it.
Speaker 4: But I woke up and I couldn't move, and I
Speaker 4: could feel someone stroking my leg just like back and
Speaker 4: force from like my ankle to my knee, and I
Speaker 4: didn't know who it was, and I could feel the
Speaker 4: weight on the bed and I couldn't move, and it
Speaker 4: was terrifying. And usually the fastest god of sleep paralysis
Speaker 4: to just relax and let it pass, which like easier
Speaker 4: said than done. But by the time I could open
Speaker 4: my eyes, nothing was there, and the door was open
Speaker 4: and my light was off, and it was just just
Speaker 4: like laughing. Like have you ever been in a room,
Speaker 4: Like you walk into a place and there's just like
Speaker 4: a feeling like it feels like you're not alone, or
Speaker 4: it feels heavy, and it just and it just felt
Speaker 4: like something was like ha, ha, got you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like that. That is It's one of
Speaker 1: the many things where if it wasn't a ghost, wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be sweet? You know, just to wake up and
Speaker 1: someone's cressing your leg, Oh, someone that you love. Oh,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be so nice?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would unless there's nobody there. Yeah, that's absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 1: Oh hearing a laugh in the middle of the night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be adorable if it's someone that you love
Speaker 1: from a disembodied voice. Absolutely not.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of friends who would not stay
Speaker 4: over after the first time, And it always felt like
Speaker 4: the house like wanted jew in bed by a certain time,
Speaker 4: like if it was late, you had a tiptoe around,
Speaker 4: Like even my parents would like be quiet at night,
Speaker 4: and I had gotten up really early. I wanted to
Speaker 4: watch something on TV before school, and it wasn't supposed
Speaker 4: to be up and I had stuck all the way
Speaker 4: up to that. We have like a multi level, like
Speaker 4: a split level house, and I snuck all the way
Speaker 4: upstairs so I could watch TV like in a corner,
Speaker 4: in a quiet room. And that room had doors that
Speaker 4: like in August, the wooden doors well from the humidity
Speaker 4: and you can you have to like pull them really hard,
Speaker 4: and they're audible when they open. And I was alone,
Speaker 4: and the doors were shut, and no one was in
Speaker 4: the room with me, and I was watching TV, and
Speaker 4: I heard a man's deep laugh from right over my shoulder. Ooh, girl,
Speaker 4: when I tell you, I flew low across the house
Speaker 4: like when I turned around, there was no one in
Speaker 4: the room with me. The doors were still shut to
Speaker 4: the room, and I had to go past whatever just
Speaker 4: laughed at me to get to my room, my whatever
Speaker 4: safe space. I didn't sleep.
Speaker 1: Do you think it was the same as the night
Speaker 1: the night caressor?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: Now, did your parents or anybody else in the house
Speaker 1: experience anything.
Speaker 4: Nobody else in the house ever experienced anything. I had
Speaker 4: friends who wouldn't sleep over because they didn't like the
Speaker 4: way the house felt. And I had friends who they
Speaker 4: would make me come because we had an alley for
Speaker 4: a driveway, who had like an easement, and they would
Speaker 4: not walk down by themselves. I had to come get
Speaker 4: them because the neighbor's house was too spooky for them
Speaker 4: to walk past. So there were like several like creepy
Speaker 4: older houses, and they said that the next door neighbor's
Speaker 4: house was really really scary. Sorry, my kitten just flipped
Speaker 4: something off the table.
Speaker 1: That actually creeped me out for a second.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I had friends who they would make me come
Speaker 4: get them at the street, and they would not walk
Speaker 4: past the neighbor's house because it was too scary. It
Speaker 4: sat empty for about ten years after they moved, and
Speaker 4: within the first year of it being bought, they started
Speaker 4: to renovate it and it almost immediately burnt down all
Speaker 4: the way to the ground, total loss. So it's a
Speaker 4: small town, lots of things get repurposed. I was told,
Speaker 4: which like here say whatever.
Speaker 3: Fine.
Speaker 4: I was told by a friend who lived in town
Speaker 4: up the street that they were able to salvage a
Speaker 4: manful like a piece over the fireplace only once they
Speaker 4: installed it in their house. They started getting like EVP stuff.
Speaker 4: They started getting like stuff moved around, stuff would go missing.
Speaker 4: So whatever was in the neighbor's house that used to
Speaker 4: scare with my friends, it is apparently now with their
Speaker 4: house now.
Speaker 1: Why was it empty for ten years? The whole family
Speaker 1: die in the house or something.
Speaker 4: No, while the he'd moved, he was previously when I
Speaker 4: was a kid, he was accused of filling his life.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well so he moved away.
Speaker 1: Oh interested Ooh tell me more, tell me more.
Speaker 4: So my childhood best friend and I, since I moved
Speaker 4: away from our hometown, we catch up once in a while,
Speaker 4: like our friendship is my poses and we get together
Speaker 4: when I come home. And I hadn't seen her for
Speaker 4: close to a year, and I texted her out of
Speaker 4: the blue. I just had that like feeling, just like
Speaker 4: I got a check in, Like I need to check in.
Speaker 4: I send a text now before I forget about it.
Speaker 4: And they've been talking about they wanted to buy a house,
Speaker 4: they want to start trying to have a family, et cetera.
Speaker 4: And I texted her, didn't say anything about the house.
Speaker 4: I just said, hey, how's baby stuff going? And she
Speaker 4: texted me back the next day and she was like,
Speaker 4: that was really freaky. She goes, we just found out.
Speaker 4: We haven't even told my mom yet. I'm like, that
Speaker 4: doesn't happen to me very often, but it's really cool
Speaker 4: what it does.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I've had that happen to me too before.
Speaker 1: Where Like I've told this story before in the podcast
Speaker 1: where I was staying at my friend's house. My friend
Speaker 1: Chelsea and I woke up and I asked her about
Speaker 1: the ghost in the house. I was like, Sarah the
Speaker 1: ghost in the house, and she was like, how'd you
Speaker 1: know her name was Sarah? And I'm like, oh though,
Speaker 1: I just She's like, we just found that out. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I don't know how that works, but
Speaker 1: maybe she whispered in my ear when I was sleeping
Speaker 1: or some then I mean, they live there too, So
Speaker 1: what is this one with a nurse? What does this
Speaker 1: say here?
Speaker 4: So I work in an emergency room and I work
Speaker 4: night shift. I do like front desk stuff. So sometimes
Speaker 4: I'll get a really like bed feeling like I need
Speaker 4: to bother a nurse, like I shove me into the
Speaker 4: first time, Like you need to call her again, like
Speaker 4: check in with her, like something going on and sometimes
Speaker 4: by the time they answered, they'll be like, oh, I
Speaker 4: meant to call you, like something bad's going on back here,
Speaker 4: we've got family coming in, Like, I'm glad you got
Speaker 4: ahold of me so we didn't leave them in the
Speaker 4: waiting room and miss something important. By the time that
Speaker 4: like I've got the thought, they'll call up and be like,
Speaker 4: did you need me? Did I miss a call from you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: How did you know?
Speaker 6: How?
Speaker 4: How did you know that I needed you?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're full on psycheg I.
Speaker 4: Mean like timing. I guess I've got good instincts, but
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't ever see anything. I don't
Speaker 4: want to see anything.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, that's good, but I mean we're all a
Speaker 1: little psychic. But I bet you if you just focused
Speaker 1: on not the seeing dead people part of it, but
Speaker 1: predicting and using your intuition, I.
Speaker 3: Bet you you.
Speaker 1: I bet you could make some money on the.
Speaker 4: Side the I don't ever want to see anything. But
Speaker 4: do you ever like walk into a room and you
Speaker 4: can't take your eyes off, like a corner or you
Speaker 4: have a bad feeling about a hallway?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, So in.
Speaker 4: A couple of different friend's houses, I used to call
Speaker 4: from the front door, like they would like, oh, let
Speaker 4: yourself in, we're upstairs, and I let myself in, but
Speaker 4: I would stand right by the front door and be
Speaker 4: like someone has to come and walk me up a staircase.
Speaker 3: Like I will not.
Speaker 4: I can't even flights are on. I cannot see the
Speaker 4: hallway by myself. It was like made fun of me
Speaker 4: for like two or three years. They made fun of me,
Speaker 4: and then finally, like one of the days I let
Speaker 4: myself in, his mom was finally home and he was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: like everybody's upstairs.
Speaker 3: Just come up.
Speaker 4: And I was like, no, you have to come get me.
Speaker 4: And his mom calls in the living room and she's like,
Speaker 4: what does a little girl bother you? Uh uh excuse me?
Speaker 4: She goes, yeah, she I don't know. Sometimes she like
Speaker 4: makes herself known, but she's up in that hallway, like
Speaker 4: that's why I can't go up the stairs because I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't get to the landing. I cannot eat the
Speaker 4: hallway by myself. She's like, just tell her to leave
Speaker 4: you alone and it'll be fine. I don't think.
Speaker 1: So you are the Illinois Medium, this is going to
Speaker 1: be your reality show.
Speaker 4: As long as they stop touching me, Do they touch you?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: Have you had experiences recently with like ghosts like that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, just that one time.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you a question. Working in an
Speaker 1: emergency room setting, have you ever heard people talk about ghosts?
Speaker 4: Most of us believe in something, but not a ton
Speaker 4: of us have experiences that like they've shared that have
Speaker 4: happened like work, a lot of us have our own
Speaker 4: like outside of work stuff. I've been really fortunate that
Speaker 4: work is always like a calm, I mean, like for
Speaker 4: being an emergency room, there's not like spooky stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Like even when I walk around, I'll take my break
Speaker 4: and like go and walk around with security staff and
Speaker 4: like even walking around in like the like less lit
Speaker 4: areas or like done by the lab and the work.
Speaker 4: Like I don't get bad ceilings. I don't get like
Speaker 4: booky what's that? Like? I always sleep on my lunch break,
Speaker 4: so I get like a thirty minute nap, and I
Speaker 4: will just go into like an unoccupied area, like and
Speaker 4: I don't care if it's like a lobby chair or
Speaker 4: like a like a doctor's lounge. Like sometimes I sleep
Speaker 4: in like the empty exam rooms and then change the linens,
Speaker 4: like so the room is clean for the morning, then
Speaker 4: nothing's ever bothered me. Like I don't get sleep paralysis,
Speaker 4: I don't get bad ceilings. Like work's always like a
Speaker 4: surprisingly calm energy. Maybe it's just because there's so.
Speaker 1: Much happening interesting, Yeah, yeah, is it a busy place
Speaker 1: where there's you know, just non stop all the.
Speaker 4: Time or yeah, we have thirty five beds in our year.
Speaker 1: So probably not very often where there's moments where it's
Speaker 1: like wow, slow day to day, nothing's going on now.
Speaker 4: Almost never. Yeah, we have unfortunately long wait sometimes huh.
Speaker 1: Because I wonder what it would be like completely quiet.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's happened before, and it's that. I think
Speaker 4: that's probably spookier when like the PA system cuts out
Speaker 4: and there's nobody in the lobby and all you can
Speaker 4: hear is like the air conditioner. I think that's spookier
Speaker 4: in like a big mechanical like just empty facility like
Speaker 4: that when it's like supposed to be busy, like those
Speaker 4: limital type spaces.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I've been in a couple of theme parks
Speaker 1: when it's like after hours or like not you know,
Speaker 1: not time for people to be everywhere and it's like,
Speaker 1: this is spooky as hell. It's so strange when there's
Speaker 1: you're just used to that energy of people everywhere and
Speaker 1: it's just quiet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like empty auditorium.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't like it. Tell me the story about
Speaker 1: what your house sitting or something. Your baby's sitting at
Speaker 1: a house that was haunted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So they've gone out of town for like a week.
Speaker 4: They were neighbors across the streets, so our houses on
Speaker 4: our houses, I guess are on the older side of town,
Speaker 4: so everything's like creaky and old and anyway, they asked
Speaker 4: if I'd watched their two dogs so i'd be like
Speaker 4: in and out of the house, and they clarified, I'm
Speaker 4: the only one with the key, and the cleaning lady
Speaker 4: would be coming by, so one of the days I
Speaker 4: was going to have to make sure I went over
Speaker 4: early and unlocked the house so that the cleaning people
Speaker 4: could come by and then go over after and lock up.
Speaker 4: And then they called and said the Queen teaeople were
Speaker 4: able to get in because the house was locked, And
Speaker 4: I was like, that's funny because I went over and
Speaker 4: like set up everything, and the house was like old
Speaker 4: and creaky and like sometimes houses settle and make funny noises,
Speaker 4: but it always was like too noisy, like someone else
Speaker 4: in the house noisy, like someone walking around upstairs noisy.
Speaker 4: And the dogs would like follow me from room to
Speaker 4: room like they would not be left alone if everybody
Speaker 4: was home. They were fine and settled, but they would
Speaker 4: like stay right next to me, and they were like
Speaker 4: not happy to be in their crates when it wasn't
Speaker 4: over there. And I would turn off the TV and
Speaker 4: turn off the fans and turn off the lights as
Speaker 4: I like walked out and left, and when i'd come back,
Speaker 4: like the fan would be back on with the TV
Speaker 4: be back on, and like sure fine, like somebody bumps something,
Speaker 4: and I would just try to like write stuff off.
Speaker 4: It just was really really spooky, and it always it
Speaker 4: just always felt like there was someone else in the house.
Speaker 4: I never really had anything that I heard or saw
Speaker 4: there as far as like, oh, that was definitely a ghost,
Speaker 4: but it just was such a bad feeling to like,
Speaker 4: I have the key, I have the only key. Apparently
Speaker 4: I went and unlocked the house and now it's locked.
Speaker 4: I went and turned everything off and now it's on.
Speaker 4: And I just finished my week with them and was like, no, thanks,
Speaker 4: I don't think i'll house it for you anymore.
Speaker 1: It was cute, but I'm out of here. Yeah, bad vibes, weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that is so stressful and
Speaker 1: like dangerous or something, because it's how do you know
Speaker 1: if it's not an intruder, like I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to twenty four to seven be dealing with is
Speaker 1: there someone in my house trying to kill me? Or
Speaker 1: oh it's just an invisible human. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: not a great option, b if that's.
Speaker 3: What it is.
Speaker 4: Neither one is good. Yeah, yeah, I was just always like,
Speaker 4: can't relax. Vibes there.
Speaker 1: I hate that. But I love your stories. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for sharing them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ron, thanks for your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Christy, And we've got one more for you.
Speaker 1: This is Dominique and Dominique is a big fan of
Speaker 1: celebrity ghost stories, one of my favorites, and he has
Speaker 1: a connection to one iconic episode Take it Away, Dominique.
Speaker 1: I am joined now by Dominique in Jersey.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hey, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to have you. You have got stories
Speaker 1: you grew up with with some of this stuff where
Speaker 1: do we start.
Speaker 5: Let's start where I started, which is like as a
Speaker 5: kid listening to ghost stories being told about my grandmother's
Speaker 5: house through the eyes of my aunts and uncles and
Speaker 5: mother who lived them. Each of them has very unique stories,
Speaker 5: and it's to the point where, like so much has
Speaker 5: happened that if you mentioned ghosts to one of them,
Speaker 5: none of them are really in denial about it. They're
Speaker 5: all very much like, oh, yeah, no, that house was haunted,
Speaker 5: which is pretty cool to like paint you a picture
Speaker 5: of the house. Was like very small, I would say,
Speaker 5: it was like maybe a ranch house that they had
Speaker 5: built additions onto. And there were always places in the
Speaker 5: home that felt sort of heavier than the others, and
Speaker 5: sure enough those were like a part of the original structure.
Speaker 5: Like there was a central kitchen attached to this very
Speaker 5: long mirrored hallway, and there was always like this feeling
Speaker 5: of people watching you, Like even though you were the
Speaker 5: only one in the hallway, the amount of mirrors that
Speaker 5: were in there just made it feel like there were
Speaker 5: more eyes on you at once.
Speaker 1: That just seems like a fun house situation or something.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes it was.
Speaker 1: It was because you know, people will y'all hear people
Speaker 1: that I'll tell you, mayors are a portal to the
Speaker 1: other side.
Speaker 5: Oh, sis, I just interrupt you really quickly because the
Speaker 5: name of the road that they grew up on was veil.
Speaker 1: Oh it was the veil thin Honey, That veil was
Speaker 1: on ozempic honey. So okay, this this house in particular,
Speaker 1: did you ever go to this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it was my grandmother's house, so we would like
Speaker 5: visit her, you know, pretty regularly. The first time that
Speaker 5: I there was like a story that happened whilst I
Speaker 5: was in the house. Was we were moving from Long
Speaker 5: Island to New Jersey and it was myself, my multiple siblings,
Speaker 5: and my mother and father all staying in different you know,
Speaker 5: rooms of the house. And one day we were all
Speaker 5: sitting at breakfast and we had a dog also because
Speaker 5: that's just the suburban dream, and it was an old
Speaker 5: English sheep dog like Prince Eric's dog in the Little
Speaker 5: Mermaid Cute. Their name was Dandy. They were just this
Speaker 5: big white fluf And so one day we were all
Speaker 5: having breakfast in the kitchen and my grandfather comes in
Speaker 5: like kind of angry because he didn't get a good
Speaker 5: sleep that night, and started like asking my mother, like,
Speaker 5: why did you let the dog out of the cage
Speaker 5: last night? Like it was just at the end of
Speaker 5: the bed all evening. I kept rolling over waking up
Speaker 5: and just seeing like this giant white fluff. And my
Speaker 5: mother was like pretty insistent to my you know, senior grandfather,
Speaker 5: like the dog was in their cage the entire evening. No,
Speaker 5: was at the end of the cage. I kept at
Speaker 5: fans of the bed. I kept seeing it when I
Speaker 5: woke up. It was just this big white ball.
Speaker 6: The dog was in the cage the entire evening.
Speaker 5: So he was seeing something, but it wasn't the dog interresting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was like the first time.
Speaker 5: And then I think the more I learned about like
Speaker 5: sort of the spirits of the house, I would ask questions.
Speaker 5: My aunt Missy had a couple stories, one of which
Speaker 5: involved her as a child in the original part of
Speaker 5: the house with like a group of girls doing a
Speaker 5: wigi board in the seventies. Classic She said that there
Speaker 5: was no windows open, and because it was the seventies.
Speaker 6: I guess they had like just wind chimes everywhere. But
Speaker 6: I digress. They were doing the ouiji board and they
Speaker 6: weren't getting.
Speaker 5: Very many answers, and it was like her, my mother,
Speaker 5: and two girls from school, and she was like frustrated
Speaker 5: at the board.
Speaker 6: So they asked it a stupid question.
Speaker 5: And I remember what she had told me, which was,
Speaker 5: I asked it like a girl in our class's middle name.
Speaker 5: I figured it would be, you know, kind of a
Speaker 5: commonplace to like whatever spiritual entities we were communicating with.
Speaker 6: And so she yelled at the board.
Speaker 5: She goes, oh, come on, you should know this, and
Speaker 5: that's when the board responded and said, why, oh, you
Speaker 5: should too. And then the windchimes in the room without
Speaker 5: any windows open, started like you know, making noise, and
Speaker 5: they started screaming and ran into another part of the
Speaker 5: room to her home to find my grandma.
Speaker 1: They opened the port all that day.
Speaker 5: I guess, so one story that did happen, but I
Speaker 5: think I glazed over because it was pretty minute. But
Speaker 5: my uncle one time said that he was like lining
Speaker 5: up his vitamins to take in the morning, and like
Speaker 5: you know, on the counter, and let's say there was
Speaker 5: like five of them. They were all like pill shaped.
Speaker 3: What have you is?
Speaker 5: He went to go get water from the refrigerator and
Speaker 5: when he turned around, he said, all the pills were
Speaker 5: like standing long ways up.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good one. Isn't that nutty?
Speaker 5: That's just also like, I mean, you know, he was
Speaker 5: on a lot of medication, so I don't want to
Speaker 5: like impune his reception of things, but yeah, it was
Speaker 5: kind of nuts to be like, Wow.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's plausible because the pills hadn't kicked in yet,
Speaker 1: so maybe so we don't know, but I'm going with it.
Speaker 1: I like him. I wasn't hey, listen, I wasn't there.
Speaker 1: It's a good story.
Speaker 5: He did say he used to hear the sounds of
Speaker 5: chains being dragged on the roof, and where he described
Speaker 5: it as an adult aligned with when I remember as
Speaker 5: a kid, like not wanting to go into this one bathroom.
Speaker 6: It just looked scary. It was like long, like a hallway.
Speaker 5: It had the same colors as like room three twenty
Speaker 5: seven or whatever from the Shining. Don't drag me for
Speaker 5: not knowing, but I remember being a kid, like the
Speaker 5: only time it would want to be in that part
Speaker 5: of the house was like bathtime with my grandma, Like
Speaker 5: I was only cool if she was there too, because
Speaker 5: it just had like this heaviness to the atmosphere. That
Speaker 5: just made me feel much like the hallway with mirrors,
Speaker 5: like I'm not alone in this room, like there's someone here,
Speaker 5: except in that room it felt it felt heavier, it
Speaker 5: felt more menacing. So to hear him as when I'm
Speaker 5: an adult hear him retail, like, oh yeah, I used
Speaker 5: to hear someone like the sound of someone dragging chains
Speaker 5: in that part of the house.
Speaker 6: That was a That was a nutty thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you went to a haunted high school?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So my high school was indeed featured on a very
Speaker 5: fond show of yours as well as mine Celebrity ghost Stories.
Speaker 6: Hell yeah, which sidebar.
Speaker 5: I think when it premiered, that house was still in
Speaker 5: like the family, So I used to watch episodes from
Speaker 5: inside the haunted house, like hoping I would see something.
Speaker 3: I never did.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, there was this episode in particularly that
Speaker 5: my high.
Speaker 6: School was featured on.
Speaker 5: I didn't see when it aired originally, I saw like
Speaker 5: during COVID during a binge, because it was through a
Speaker 5: guy on this Pranos named Federico Caste Lucci.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 1: Oh, they had everybody ever on the Sopranos on that show.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, like every episode there's like a
Speaker 1: sopranos person. Those people on that show all had ghost stories.
Speaker 5: Well, the episode he was on was the same episode
Speaker 5: I'm again not seen probably the twenty years between it
Speaker 5: aired to now because I didn't know who that guy was,
Speaker 5: and also like I didn't I don't care about the sopranos, Like,
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's a wonderful show, you know, but Jersey,
Speaker 5: I know, I think it hits too close to home.
Speaker 5: It's like, my father looks like if if like Danny
Speaker 5: DeVito were a tall and tony soprano himself for the ventie.
Speaker 6: My father was kind of the grande. Oh okay, so
Speaker 6: it's just it's like too triggery. But I digress.
Speaker 5: The episode he was on Frederico was like rue McClanahan,
Speaker 5: Harry Fisher and John Waters.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I by this episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So by the time, like you know, Carrie got done
Speaker 5: talking about like her friend whose lights were flickering to
Speaker 5: say hello to her, where John Waters was talking about
Speaker 5: like his summer camp, I was like burnt out from
Speaker 5: like you know, my respective queer icons.
Speaker 6: By the time I got to that guy was like man.
Speaker 6: But during COVID, I was like, oh, I've actually never
Speaker 6: seen this guy.
Speaker 5: And then when it started, I was live texting my
Speaker 5: girlfriend who I went high school with. I was like, bitch,
Speaker 5: like listen to what this man is dropping. And he
Speaker 5: start he went into it. He said like, oh, it
Speaker 5: was a school in Madison and it was inside an
Speaker 5: old Victorian mansion. And I was like, this is sounding
Speaker 5: hauntingly familiar. And then he even name dropped the name
Speaker 5: of the the monsignor at the school, and I was like, girl,
Speaker 5: that was straight up monsignor so and so. And then
Speaker 5: he was talking about like the structure and that was
Speaker 5: haunted by a little girl named Alice. And I was like,
Speaker 5: holy fucking shit, like that's where that was.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Am I allowed to say the name of the school.
Speaker 5: It's no longer open, Yes say it Belly Eller Catholic
Speaker 5: High School.
Speaker 1: Okay it was.
Speaker 5: I was a part of the last graduating class in
Speaker 5: two thousand and five at shutdown. But it opened like
Speaker 5: you know I would gather the early nineteen hundreds. It
Speaker 5: was like built for a man named like Leland Parland,
Speaker 5: and it changed hands into like you know, the Walkers
Speaker 5: or something, and that was the sort of Laura on
Speaker 5: campus was was haunted by a little girl named Alice Walker.
Speaker 5: I once did a deep dive. I did not find
Speaker 5: evidence of a little girl named Alice Walker on the property.
Speaker 5: I did, however, find the story of a girl who
Speaker 5: passed away on the property around the same time Alice
Speaker 5: might have. It was a girl who died of like
Speaker 5: natural causes or like scarlet fever or something at the
Speaker 5: Victorian mansion that my high school was based in on
Speaker 5: the New Year's eve before her like sixteenth birthday.
Speaker 3: So that stood out to.
Speaker 5: Me because like the commonality of like a young girl,
Speaker 5: like not a girl, not yet a woman.
Speaker 6: That might be the unfinished business. The soul comes back
Speaker 6: as to haunt something totally.
Speaker 1: He probably wants to be around her peers.
Speaker 5: I do think that kind of escalated it. And on
Speaker 5: that note, because we have that activity of like it's
Speaker 5: a kid's school.
Speaker 6: It was high school.
Speaker 5: There were a lot of teachers who would have to
Speaker 5: like stay late to great papers, and each one of
Speaker 5: them had a story. My late teacher, her name is Jesse,
Speaker 5: she said that one time she was like going through
Speaker 5: the school, like in the classroom after a long evening
Speaker 5: of grading paper sometime in the fall, and again to set.
Speaker 6: It up for you.
Speaker 5: This is like repurpose bedrooms of a Victorian mansion set
Speaker 5: up to be classrooms. But I digress, tell people the
Speaker 5: name again, Baily Ellard, b A y l e y
Speaker 5: Lard e Lard.
Speaker 1: Yeah. People look at these pictures at google it yourself.
Speaker 1: It's because now it seems like it's abandoned. I guess it's.
Speaker 5: Well, it was abandoned for a great many year after
Speaker 5: two thousand and five, and then sometime in the twenty
Speaker 5: tens it was bought by like those people that like
Speaker 5: become priests or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So now it's like like a seminary. Yeah, seminary, a seminary,
Speaker 1: a priestory.
Speaker 3: Yep, one of those.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I digress.
Speaker 5: Jesse was in her classroom which is potentially haunted by
Speaker 5: this little girl Alice, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: when she had done great papers, she was ready to
Speaker 5: go and she was looking for her keys, and like
Speaker 5: after twenty minutes, she just like gave up and plopped
Speaker 5: herself down in the chair and then like saw them
Speaker 5: across the room just magically appear on the fireplace mantle.
Speaker 5: And she's like I looked everywhere and this was twenty
Speaker 5: minutes of my time, Like, who was hiding these keys?
Speaker 1: Alice?
Speaker 3: It was Alice.
Speaker 1: It's Alice. She's sixty, she wants to learn how to drive.
Speaker 6: Yes, evidently, yes, yes, yes, correct, my godmother.
Speaker 5: Also she was the art teacher there, and I thought,
Speaker 5: I think that's what grabbed me about the Sopranos guy story.
Speaker 5: It was like, there's a chance he's talking about our
Speaker 5: art room, which was fucking huge. And also in the
Speaker 5: like the attic, the former attic of the mansion, and
Speaker 5: that's where actually I had my only paranormal encounter of
Speaker 5: my life. I like, at my Grandma's haunted house, I
Speaker 5: never saw anything, and even at Bailey in the mansion,
Speaker 5: I never saw anything. But I had my one experience
Speaker 5: that was like similar to what Jesse experienced in terms
Speaker 5: of like that mischievous kind of nonsense that a ghost
Speaker 5: would pull. So in the attic of the mansion, the
Speaker 5: top story, they like balled off half of it, and
Speaker 5: at the end of the hallway they were like those swinging,
Speaker 5: like metallic saloon style doors that like you know, I
Speaker 5: guess they're kind of industrial style because Catholic schools have
Speaker 5: money to like pay for the finer doors.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 5: Anyway, they opened up at like the same time, like
Speaker 5: they swung back and forth. So saloon style is the
Speaker 5: best they can describe book, and I was. I was
Speaker 5: an artsy kid, like I think my like sophomore junior year,
Speaker 5: I was literally the president of the drama and I
Speaker 5: was also helping to like paint the sets and later
Speaker 5: on got my degree in fine art. But in between,
Speaker 5: like rehearsals, I would go upstairs to the you know,
Speaker 5: the attic of the haunted mansion to just like paint
Speaker 5: like every.
Speaker 6: Normal high school boy.
Speaker 5: So there was one time that I was up there
Speaker 5: and it was pretty late at night, because that's when
Speaker 5: rehearsals are there after school. They run late, and I
Speaker 5: was like at the sink and behind me to like
Speaker 5: give you context is the double saloon industrial style of
Speaker 5: swinging doors. And I heard like a like what I
Speaker 5: in retrospect, like I think I romanticizes like the sound
Speaker 5: of like cowboy boots, because it was like a large clut.
Speaker 5: It was like the sounds of steps, but there was
Speaker 5: like a jingle almost like a stirrup or something, which
Speaker 5: makes no sense.
Speaker 6: But anyway, it could have been coins. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just heard like plunk and then like jingle clunk jingle.
Speaker 5: So I was like, oh, someone with like a large
Speaker 5: set of keys. I presume who is coming up to
Speaker 5: get me to tell me that they're ready for me
Speaker 5: in rehearsal, is you know, just coming up to grab me.
Speaker 5: So I like turn around with the paint brushes in
Speaker 5: my hand because my back is to the door, and
Speaker 5: as like the steps approach the doorway, No, I don't
Speaker 5: see anyone. However, both double doors begin to open at
Speaker 5: the same time. My heart goes kind of like crazy,
Speaker 5: like a flutter.
Speaker 3: I was like, what the fuck am I fucking looking at?
Speaker 5: And you know, I've just always been tapped into the shit.
Speaker 5: So I just yelled out no, and the door slammed shut.
Speaker 1: But you mean like because those doors don't open slow
Speaker 1: like those doors usually are opened or they're not like
Speaker 1: I feel, So this was like kind of going slow,
Speaker 1: going slow.
Speaker 6: It also ras if I may.
Speaker 5: I went to school there for four years, three of
Speaker 5: which I spent hunker down in that art room. I
Speaker 5: never saw those doors open by themselves again, Like there
Speaker 5: was never like oopsie, poopsie. It's a of wind like no,
Speaker 5: like in three years of classes within that classroom. Never
Speaker 5: again did that experience replicate. And also what like the steps,
Speaker 5: like had I not known to turn around because of
Speaker 5: those steps? Like it's just too much of a like
Speaker 5: unexplainable event for me, and it's like held with me
Speaker 5: to this day.
Speaker 1: Oh I bet Alice was like, can I help with
Speaker 1: your project?
Speaker 6: You're like, now, that's a really sweet thought.
Speaker 1: Was that man from the Sopranos? So his story was
Speaker 1: that he went to that school.
Speaker 5: No, his story was he approached the monts Signior because
Speaker 5: he had a large art commission and he with these
Speaker 5: insane dimensions and his studio was too small for it.
Speaker 5: So he was like, I guess he lived in the
Speaker 5: area and a friend of his had recommended to talk
Speaker 5: to this mont Signior at bailly Ellard and he did
Speaker 5: and he was like, yeah, you can use the art
Speaker 5: room or you can use whatever, and he was like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is huge, yay. And while he was painting, he
Speaker 5: heard like you know, ambient sounds, looked around and saw
Speaker 5: a little girl.
Speaker 3: Yeah I never saw.
Speaker 5: Anything, believe you me, I was looking, but yeah, I
Speaker 5: did have that one experience that like I can't explain it,
Speaker 5: and I like I can't. I'm usually pretty good at
Speaker 5: like justifying things with logic, and this was something that like, No,
Speaker 5: I heard footsteps, I saw two doors that I've never
Speaker 5: seen move slowly by themselves, move slowly by themselves. So yeah,
Speaker 5: maybe it was Alice just popping in to say, like, hey,
Speaker 5: can they like.
Speaker 1: Can I paint too? That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 6: It's a good theory.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: This has been great. I so appreciate you taking the
Speaker 1: time to do this.
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you very much for having me Roz.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Josh, Christy and Dominique. I'd
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Speaker 1: This episode was mixed and sound designed by the eerie
Speaker 1: Edson Choi. My guest booker is the petrifying Patrick. Additional
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