THERÉSA: Hi, Hello, Howdy Haunting fam. No, your ears don't deceive you.
THERÉSA: We're back. We had to take a hiatus while Len
THERÉSA: was out of the office. He has a timeshare on
THERÉSA: the River Styx and I guess the dates are pretty
THERÉSA: set on those things. Although again, time seems kind of
THERÉSA: hard To track down here.
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: That's okay, Len, No need to explain how time shares work.
THERÉSA: I'll be haunting my family's Malibu house this season. That
THERÉSA: is if my brother isn't already "haunting" it himself. And
THERÉSA: by that, I mean rotting in the living room working
THERÉSA: on the investor pitch for his Pokemon themed nightclub aka
THERÉSA: a Virgin meetup.
THERÉSA: He says the ocean air clears his head, but I've
THERÉSA: been checking up and so far all he's doing is
THERÉSA: smoking weed and mining doge coin.
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: Yes, you're right, I'm getting off topic. I said, less
THERÉSA: personal stuff. Anyway, Welcome back, listeners. For those of you
THERÉSA: tuning in for the first time, I'm your host, Therésa
THERÉSA: Dead influencer doomed to host this podcast in Purgatory for
THERÉSA: all eternity, and I'm joined in the studio by the
THERÉSA: Haunting team, our producer Len
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: and our former UCLA student turned succubus turned intern, Naomi. Nay,
THERÉSA: say hello
THERÉSA: Naomi.
THERÉSA: So that's why there's no coffee today. Len, you need
THERÉSA: to talk to her. She can't just not show up
THERÉSA: to work. I don't care if it's unpaid or indefinite.
THERÉSA: It's an internship, and I may have fan mail that
THERÉSA: needs sorting. Find her
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: While Len figures that out. Let's get into it. Our
THERÉSA: first story today comes to us from one second Naomi
THERÉSA: prepares my intros.
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: Just forget it! Our first story comes from our good
THERÉSA: friend [unintelligible mumble] who's supernatural encounter left them totally spooked. Do
THERÉSA: I have to do everything around here? Find her notes, Len!
STORY A: They had a conference center. They would do different exhibits
STORY A: and stuff, and you'd have to check all the doors
STORY A: and everything. It was just always this feeling of somebody's
STORY A: watching you, and I knew there's nobody there, so it
STORY A: was always weird walking around. But that wasn't the worst.
STORY A: The worst was in the actual hospital. I'm JJ. While
STORY A: working the graveyard shift as a security guard, I saw
STORY A: and heard things that I still cannot explain. Back a
STORY A: few winters ago, the world was shut down due to
STORY A: COVID and I needed work. I was looking for different
STORY A: things that I could do, and I saw security officer.
STORY A: It's at a hospital nearby, I can do that. It
STORY A: was the graveyard shift, which was fine because I've always
STORY A: been a night owl. It's the hospital, Right? how much could happen?
STORY A: The job basically consisted of doing rounds. You would patrol
STORY A: the building. Once an hour, you're walking around, checking on
STORY A: the hospital, making sure nothing's out of place. It's a
STORY A: very boring job. On a normal night really you're just
STORY A: sitting around waiting for something to happen. There's different areas
STORY A: of the hospital that are restricted, such as lobby E.
STORY A: It was laid out kind of like a square. If
STORY A: you looked up, you could see the glass railings of
STORY A: each level and it echoed, so if you yelled something down, HI,
STORY A: how you doing? It was, you know, like a big chamber.
STORY A: I would hear it down where I am, especially in
STORY A: the middle of the night. It was actually a really
STORY A: quiet night, and I was sitting at the desk and
STORY A: the lobby was always boring until something happens. And then
STORY A: something happens. All of a sudden, I started hearing things.
STORY A: I heard footsteps, but there's nobody else in that building,
STORY A: so how can I be hearing footsteps. I try to
STORY A: figure out where it's coming from. I got up. I looked,
STORY A: there's nobody down the hallway. It's coming from upstairs. And
STORY A: then I looked at the monitor. If you've ever seen
STORY A: a hospital security setup, there's about sixty cameras on this screen.
STORY A: You can see every angle. I'm leaning into the monitor
STORY A: and I'm going through each camera, clicking on it and
STORY A: enlarging it, making it bigger, and there's nothing, nothing there,
STORY A: But there's still footsteps. You know, I had the full
STORY A: view of, are any of these cameras out? Am I
STORY A: missing anything? Nope. Everything is in order. It doesn't seem believable,
STORY A: but you're hearing it. Obviously there's something there, but I
STORY A: have every camera angle up and I can't see it.
STORY A: So it's making no sense to me. And all of
STORY A: a sudden, they're just gone, just vanished. What the hell
STORY A: is this and what's gonna happen next. I was actually
STORY A: very scared at that point, is whatever it is going
STORY A: to come down and appear in front of me? About
STORY A: five minutes later, my relief gets there, but it really
STORY A: felt like it was about an hour. There's usually about
STORY A: a five minute changeover, so we brief each other of
STORY A: anything unusual, anything like that. I said, yeah, all the
STORY A: checks are good. Everything's great. By the way, I heard
STORY A: some footsteps upstairs. Have fun with that, and just down
STORY A: the hallway. I was out of there. I got home,
STORY A: but I could not go to sleep. I'm tossing, I'm turning.
STORY A: I think I slept two or three hours. I got
STORY A: called in for day shift because I was a per
STORY A: diem so if somebody called out, there were a lot
STORY A: of times where I would have to go and cover.
STORY A: so I went back. I started with a shift at
STORY A: the wellness center, which is where you'll go in for
STORY A: different doctors appointments, and in there you had a bunch
STORY A: of different areas, one of which was where all of
STORY A: the pediatric patients would be, so all your kids. One of
STORY A: my responsibilities was to check on this very important machine. It
STORY A: was down a long hallway and we were the only
STORY A: hospital in the area to have it, so we had
STORY A: to check it at least once an hour to make
STORY A: sure it was online and ready to go, because if
STORY A: it went down, it took hours to come back online.
STORY A: But you had to walk a decent ways to get there.
STORY A: So I decided I'm gonna go check that first, I
STORY A: started walking down this long hallway and there's multiple doors
STORY A: you have to get through. It was like a high
STORY A: priority area, restricted posted everywhere. It would be dark in
STORY A: all these places. You'd be carrying flashlights around. It's just
STORY A: me alone, and it's really quiet, definitely creepy, and the
STORY A: doors would close because you're going through multiple doors, it
STORY A: would echo. You know, you could hear a pin drop,
STORY A: that's how quiet it is. So I'm going down and
STORY A: it starts getting colder. As I'm going down the hallway,
STORY A: I'm like, something don't feel right here, but I have
STORY A: to go check this machine. So I get to the
STORY A: last door. I swiped my badge and it would not open.
STORY A: What the heck? I kept trying. I kept trying. I
STORY A: kept trying nothing. That's weird, and it's really cold. So
STORY A: I'm looking around. I'm looking around, like what the hell
STORY A: do I do now? Eventually, I was able to open
STORY A: that door, and as I'm walking in probably no more
STORY A: than three steps, I heard something in my left ear.
STORY A: It was just like a voice and it just went, "Don't!"
STORY A: Almost like I had an ear piece in. That's how
STORY A: close in my ear I heard it. It was definitely
STORY A: a male voice, and it was really soft. It was
STORY A: so quiet. If you were standing next to me, I
STORY A: don't think you'd hear it. Okay, footsteps one thing, But
STORY A: now I've actually heard something go "don't." That's chilling. Sticks
STORY A: the hair up on your back. You don't know if
STORY A: you want to scream or if you want to just run.
STORY A: I go back.
STORY A: I play the camera back. There's nothing there. It wasn't
STORY A: even a question. Did I just hear that? I know
STORY A: for a fact that I heard it. Apparently, I wasn't
STORY A: the only one that happened to. One of the security
STORY A: officers told me that he had also heard a voice.
STORY A: He wasn't able to make out exactly what it said,
STORY A: but he had an encounter down that hallway in that same section.
STORY A: Another one said, that's not uncommon to hear stuff in
STORY A: that area. He remembers walking around the same building, going
STORY A: upstairs and hearing like a little kid go "mama", And
STORY A: he said he did the same thing. He ran away.
STORY A: He's like, I ain't dealing with this. They said that part
STORY A: of the building is the most haunted, and that's where
STORY A: the most activity is. Putting all the puzzle pieces and
STORY A: thinking about it. Now, I think that it might have
STORY A: been a dead patient. You know, somebody passed away there
STORY A: and now they're looking around at where they passed. I
STORY A: do wonder, were they trying to warn me of something?
STORY A: What did they not want me to do? I guess
STORY A: I'll never know for sure.
THERÉSA: If I was working the graveyard shift, I wouldn't need
THERÉSA: to be told "don't." Of course, it doesn't matter when
THERÉSA: you're working, in a hospital you're bound to cross paths
THERÉSA: with a wandering spirit trapped between realms at some point.
THERÉSA: We might be recording this from a hospital right now,
THERÉSA: for all I know.
THERÉSA: No, I'm fairly certain our studio is in an old
THERÉSA: Hot Topic at an abandoned mall. Hard to know for
THERÉSA: sure though, the astral plane is tricky. What counts is
THERÉSA: that when the ghosts said "don't", JJ listened. It's more
THERÉSA: than can be said for my brother and the family
THERÉSA: court's very specific instructions regarding use of the Malibu house.
THERÉSA: I know you can hear me, Neil! Hopefully he gets
THERÉSA: the message. Now, let's take a quick ad break and
THERÉSA: we'll be back in just a minute.
THERÉSA: Hey, Len, where are we on that Naomi situation?
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: What do you mean crossed over? Crossed over what?
THERÉSA: Crossed over like "over the pond" in the cheeky British sense?
THERÉSA: Or like a "crossover episode" like she's guest appearing on
THERÉSA: Call Her Daddy? Are you saying she's successfully gone from
THERÉSA: pop to country? Is a "crossover" some kind of sports term?
THERÉSA: What do you mean crossed over?
LEN: [MUMBLES]
THERÉSA: I'm fine. I'm fine. Hey take over for a moment,
THERÉSA: will you? I need some air.
THERÉSA: When Sharon? When? I've been stuck in this hell hole
THERÉSA: for eons
THERÉSA: Okay, fine, Not literal hell because that would imply there's
THERÉSA: been any movement in my case at all. If you
THERÉSA: do not get me out of here, I will rip
THERÉSA: that fugly appliqué vest right off your undead body and
THERÉSA: shove up your little supernatural.
STORY B: I heard a loud crash, like something falling down. Maybe
STORY B: someone was downstairs and knocked over something. I thought that
STORY B: person might need help, And then when I came down
STORY B: the stairs, my gut told me to run, just run.
STORY B: My name is Priyanka, and I thought I saw Santa,
STORY B: but it was something else and it was much more frightening.
STORY B: I don't really tell people about my paranormal experiences. People
STORY B: tend to be skeptical. You know, oh, you're just tired,
STORY B: You're just hallucinating. Maybe that shadow is your own shadow.
STORY B: So I don't really tell people. I am a night owl.
STORY B: I tend to work better in the nighttime. It's just
STORY B: more peaceful, it's more silent at night. My ideas just
STORY B: flow better. It was very late at night. I was
STORY B: seventeen years old. I was studying in my room. That's
STORY B: when I heard a knock on my window. I thought
STORY B: I was just tired, so I try to ignore it,
STORY B: but then I heard the knock again. The first knocks
STORY B: were very soft, and then the next were like louder
STORY B: and louder. It came in threes, always in threes. The
STORY B: curtain is always closed and thank god because my room
STORY B: is on the second floor. If something is knocking on
STORY B: the window. Birds don't fly at night, so it's got
STORY B: to be something else definitely. The knocks were just the
STORY B: first stage. The second stage was whispers. It's as if
STORY B: it's beside me in the room with me, right near
STORY B: my ears. I know it's words, but I cannot make
STORY B: out because it sounds like many people. My heart beat
STORY B: really fast. I definitely have goosebumps. I couldn't move. I'm
STORY B: just too afraid I wouldn't dare turn and look whether, you know,
STORY B: it's really there or what. I just close my eyes
STORY B: and say my prayers. The whole week I experienced this
STORY B: paranormal thing. At that time, I didn't know that one
STORY B: of my neighbors passed away the very night it started.
STORY B: I am from Hindu culture. I'm an Indian. We do
STORY B: believe that there is afterlife, and if they die from
STORY B: natural causes like you know, health issues, they go straight
STORY B: to God. The ones who, you know, suicide, like forced death,
STORY B: they are the ones who roam around and haunt people.
STORY B: We believe in that. In my culture, if you talk
STORY B: about the spirits, it will attract them. They can be anything.
STORY B: Let's say you are afraid of snakes, it'll come in
STORY B: a form of a snake. If you're afraid of clowns,
STORY B: it will come as clowns. It can take the form
STORY B: of your fear. I'm very afraid of the dark, so
STORY B: it can come as anything. When I was twenty years old,
STORY B: I was doing my foundation in science. I was staying
STORY B: in the hostel and I wanted to, you know, go
STORY B: to my friend's room. You have to pass by an
STORY B: open study area with a huge tree. I saw this
STORY B: thing sitting under this tree. This thing had red eyes,
STORY B: long black hair, and it was wearing a white gown, but
STORY B: it has blood on it. This creature was smiling at me.
STORY B: That scared me. That smile wasn't a good energy smile.
STORY B: It was something else.
STORY B: The week after that, I was at my aunt's house.
STORY B: My aunt is a Christian, so we have celebrated Christmas
STORY B: since I was a baby. It was a few days
STORY B: before Christmas, so we were at my aunt's place for
STORY B: this Christmas celebration. My aunt would decorate the house with
STORY B: lights and the Christmas tree. I was really excited because
STORY B: of the bonding, the activities, the cookies. I see my cousins,
STORY B: my nephew, my nieces. It's a joyful moment. We spent
STORY B: hours telling each other stories. I think it was around
STORY B: nine thirty when my nephew, nieces, they, one by one, they
STORY B: started to, you know, go to bed. So we thought, okay,
STORY B: it's time to go to bed. I went to the
STORY B: bathroom and when I came out, I heard a loud crash.
STORY B: You know if a Christmas tree falls down. That sound?
STORY B: I thought that someone was downstairs and maybe someone accidentally
STORY B: knocked over something because it was really loud, but no
STORY B: one woke up, surprisingly. My mind automatically was like, is
STORY B: that Santa? I don't know why I said that. Don't
STORY B: be crazy, you know it cannot be Santa Claus. I
STORY B: decided to check out what was the noise about. My
STORY B: gut didn't have this good feeling. I tried to be brave.
STORY B: I must be brave to go down and check. I
STORY B: kind of walk down the stairs slowly. It was really dark.
STORY B: Who would be doing anything in the dark? They can't
STORY B: even see their own hand. When I came down the stairs,
STORY B: the decorations were still on the tree, the lights were
STORY B: still on the tree. It was just like how we
STORY B: left it. And then I saw this figure standing right
STORY B: in front of the Christmas tree, just looking at me.
STORY B: It was really huge. I couldn't see his face properly
STORY B: because it was dark, but I could see his eyes glowing.
STORY B: It was yellowish color. He was just standing there, and
STORY B: then with a really really deep and harsh voice said "stop!"
STORY B: It wasn't human at all. I was so afraid. I
STORY B: just wanted to run away. I felt goose bumps rising
STORY B: up and I had the chills. I just froze. My
STORY B: hands are shivering, like leaves, and I couldn't get my
STORY B: voice out. I couldn't bring myself to scream. My gut
STORY B: told me to run, just run. My legs were really wobbly,
STORY B: but I pull myself up and I said, I have
STORY B: to get out of this place. I ran up the stairs.
STORY B: Everyone was sleeping peacefully like nothing happened
STORY B: At that moment, I just curl up on my bed
STORY B: and I tried not to think about it. I was thinking,
STORY B: you know, what did I hear? What did I see?
STORY B: I know very well it's not human, it's not someone,
STORY B: It's something. The next morning, the decorations on the tree
STORY B: were all on the floor broken. There's one shelf where
STORY B: my aunt placed the cross and her bible there. The
STORY B: whole shelf was just on the floor, broken with the cross
STORY B: and the Bible on one side. I told my whole
STORY B: family that I saw something in the middle of the night.
STORY B: My aunt told me they've been having reports that the
STORY B: paranormal activities are going on in that area. She was like,
STORY B: I'm going to pray. So the whole family gathered and
STORY B: they started praying very loudly, and they started singing songs
STORY B: to remove the negative energy from there. I do not
STORY B: know whether it worked or not, but after this incident,
STORY B: I did not see anything after that or hear anything.
STORY B: No one talked about it after that it was normal again.
THERÉSA: Oh yikes. I haven't had a Christmas that brutal since
THERÉSA: the year the Fed seized our assets and we had
THERÉSA: to stay to Marriott Residence Inn. We also never talked
THERÉSA: about it again. We're going to take a quick break,
THERÉSA: but we will be right back.
THERÉSA: It's not all disembodied footsteps and demonic Santas here on Haunting.
THERÉSA: We actually have some good news today. It seems our
THERÉSA: beloved intern has left purgatory and crossed over to the other side. We're,
THERÉSA: of course, all very thrilled for her. Such a deserving soul.
THERÉSA: And we thank her for her contributions to the podcast.
THERÉSA: We're now in need of a new intern. If you're
THERÉSA: a self-starting spirit with incredible attention to detail who thrives
THERÉSA: in a fast paced environment and is looking for a
THERÉSA: way to spend eternity, email Len at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com. And to
THERÉSA: all our mortal listeners, if you've ever had a supernatural experience,
THERÉSA: we'd love to hear from you. I'm late for my
THERÉSA: caseworker reassignment hearing, but I hope everyone excluding a certain
THERÉSA: succubus has a great day. Naomi, I'd tell you to
THERÉSA: go to Hell, but you're probably already there, and I
THERÉSA: bet you're just loving it. Theresa out.
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