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THERÉSA: Hi, Hello, Howdy Haunting fam. No, your ears don't deceive you.

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THERÉSA: We're back. We had to take a hiatus while Len

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THERÉSA: was out of the office. He has a timeshare on

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THERÉSA: the River Styx and I guess the dates are pretty

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THERÉSA: set on those things. Although again, time seems kind of

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THERÉSA: hard To track down here.

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: That's okay, Len, No need to explain how time shares work.

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THERÉSA: I'll be haunting my family's Malibu house this season. That

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THERÉSA: is if my brother isn't already "haunting" it himself. And

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THERÉSA: by that, I mean rotting in the living room working

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THERÉSA: on the investor pitch for his Pokemon themed nightclub aka

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THERÉSA: a Virgin meetup.

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THERÉSA: He says the ocean air clears his head, but I've

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THERÉSA: been checking up and so far all he's doing is

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THERÉSA: smoking weed and mining doge coin.

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: Yes, you're right, I'm getting off topic. I said, less

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THERÉSA: personal stuff. Anyway, Welcome back, listeners. For those of you

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THERÉSA: tuning in for the first time, I'm your host, Therésa

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THERÉSA: Dead influencer doomed to host this podcast in Purgatory for

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THERÉSA: all eternity, and I'm joined in the studio by the

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THERÉSA: Haunting team, our producer Len

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: and our former UCLA student turned succubus turned intern, Naomi. Nay,

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THERÉSA: say hello

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THERÉSA: Naomi.

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THERÉSA: So that's why there's no coffee today. Len, you need

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THERÉSA: to talk to her. She can't just not show up

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THERÉSA: to work. I don't care if it's unpaid or indefinite.

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THERÉSA: It's an internship, and I may have fan mail that

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THERÉSA: needs sorting. Find her

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: While Len figures that out. Let's get into it. Our

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THERÉSA: first story today comes to us from one second Naomi

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THERÉSA: prepares my intros.

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LEN: [MUMBLES]

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THERÉSA: Just forget it! Our first story comes from our good

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THERÉSA: friend [unintelligible mumble] who's supernatural encounter left them totally spooked. Do

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THERÉSA: I have to do everything around here? Find her notes, Len!

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STORY A: They had a conference center. They would do different exhibits

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STORY A: and stuff, and you'd have to check all the doors

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STORY A: and everything. It was just always this feeling of somebody's

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STORY A: watching you, and I knew there's nobody there, so it

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STORY A: was always weird walking around. But that wasn't the worst.

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STORY A: The worst was in the actual hospital. I'm JJ. While

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STORY A: working the graveyard shift as a security guard, I saw

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STORY A: and heard things that I still cannot explain. Back a

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STORY A: It's at a hospital nearby, I can do that. It

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STORY A: was the graveyard shift, which was fine because I've always

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STORY A: been a night owl. It's the hospital, Right? how much could happen?

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STORY A: The job basically consisted of doing rounds. You would patrol

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STORY A: very boring job. On a normal night really you're just

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STORY A: It was laid out kind of like a square. If

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STORY A: It was just like a voice and it just went, "Don't!"

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STORY A: I play the camera back. There's nothing there. It wasn't

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STORY A: upstairs and hearing like a little kid go "mama", And

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THERÉSA: If I was working the graveyard shift, I wouldn't need

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THERÉSA: We might be recording this from a hospital right now,

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THERÉSA: No, I'm fairly certain our studio is in an old

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THERÉSA: sure though, the astral plane is tricky. What counts is

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THERÉSA: that when the ghosts said "don't", JJ listened. It's more

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THERÉSA: court's very specific instructions regarding use of the Malibu house.

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THERÉSA: I know you can hear me, Neil! Hopefully he gets

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THERÉSA: the message. Now, let's take a quick ad break and

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THERÉSA: we'll be back in just a minute.

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THERÉSA: Hey, Len, where are we on that Naomi situation?

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THERÉSA: What do you mean crossed over? Crossed over what?

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THERÉSA: Crossed over like "over the pond" in the cheeky British sense?

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THERÉSA: Call Her Daddy? Are you saying she's successfully gone from

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THERÉSA: What do you mean crossed over?

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THERÉSA: I'm fine. I'm fine. Hey take over for a moment,

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THERÉSA: will you? I need some air.

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THERÉSA: When Sharon? When? I've been stuck in this hell hole

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THERÉSA: Okay, fine, Not literal hell because that would imply there's

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THERÉSA: been any movement in my case at all. If you

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THERÉSA: do not get me out of here, I will rip

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THERÉSA: that fugly appliqué vest right off your undead body and

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STORY B: I heard a loud crash, like something falling down. Maybe

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STORY B: someone was downstairs and knocked over something. I thought that

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STORY B: the stairs, my gut told me to run, just run.

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STORY B: My name is Priyanka, and I thought I saw Santa,

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STORY B: but it was something else and it was much more frightening.

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STORY B: I don't really tell people about my paranormal experiences. People

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STORY B: tend to be skeptical. You know, oh, you're just tired,

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STORY B: You're just hallucinating. Maybe that shadow is your own shadow.

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STORY B: So I don't really tell people. I am a night owl.

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STORY B: I tend to work better in the nighttime. It's just

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STORY B: more peaceful, it's more silent at night. My ideas just

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STORY B: seventeen years old. I was studying in my room. That's

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STORY B: when I heard a knock on my window. I thought

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STORY B: but then I heard the knock again. The first knocks

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STORY B: That scared me. That smile wasn't a good energy smile.

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STORY B: It was something else.

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STORY B: one woke up, surprisingly. My mind automatically was like, is

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STORY B: that Santa? I don't know why I said that. Don't

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STORY B: be crazy, you know it cannot be Santa Claus. I

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STORY B: then with a really really deep and harsh voice said "stop!"

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STORY B: It wasn't human at all. I was so afraid. I

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STORY B: I know very well it's not human, it's not someone,

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STORY B: were all on the floor broken. There's one shelf where

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STORY B: my aunt placed the cross and her bible there. The

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THERÉSA: Oh yikes. I haven't had a Christmas that brutal since

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THERÉSA: to stay to Marriott Residence Inn. We also never talked

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THERÉSA: It's not all disembodied footsteps and demonic Santas here on Haunting.

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THERÉSA: We actually have some good news today. It seems our

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THERÉSA: of course, all very thrilled for her. Such a deserving soul.

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THERÉSA: And we thank her for her contributions to the podcast.

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THERÉSA: We're now in need of a new intern. If you're

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THERÉSA: a self-starting spirit with incredible attention to detail who thrives

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THERÉSA: we'd love to hear from you. I'm late for my

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