8 Hour Sleep Music - 👻 5 Real Ghost Stories for Halloween | 25-Minutes of Ghost Stories with 8 Hours of Rain, Thunder, & Spooky Music 🕷️

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Starting point is 00:02:19 These cases are backed by eyewitness accounts. Police reports and investigators who swore they'd never seen anything like it before. Some of them even left their careers behind after what they experienced. So, if you're listening in the dark, if you're alone, thied Lake Wales, Florida. Disturbing detail. Missing since the previous evening concluded she had skidded off the road during heavy rain and drowned, unable to escape the vehicle. This was quickly closed as a tragic accident.

Starting point is 00:05:02 It was only the be years. People continued reporting a crying woman on that same stretch of road. Described her behavior as panicked, as though desperately searching for something or someone. A handful of motorists claimed they got close enough to see her. eyes. Hollow way patrol trooper named Daniel Castillo gave one of the most disturbing accounts. In 1964, he spotted a lone woman standing with her back to the highway. When he stepped out into the rain to check on her, she turned, opened into a silent scream. Castillo said she moved toward him quickly. Past, dulled sweat and rain chilled him simultaneously. And when he spun around,

Starting point is 00:06:25 she was gone. Sirs privately admitted similar encounters. One patrolman swore he heard a woman pounding on his squad car trunk. But when he looked, no one was there, frail of wet footprints leading into the darkness before disappearing mid-road. Decades later, in the late 90s, road improvements rerouted part of Highway 60. For a while, sightings dwindled. Locals believed the lost spirit had finally been laid to rest. In 2003, violent thunderstorm, driving home from Tampa slammed on their brakes as a woman darted into the road, blamed their car, passed through her, and they skidded to a stop. The husband got out to check for damage, but found only a single wet handbrand, smeared across the windshield.

Starting point is 00:07:42 Last year, a paranormal research group recorded a chilling EVP session near the canal. When asked, Margaret, do you need help? Woman's woman's voice replied through the static. I can't breathe. To this day, Florida troopers warn new recruits that if they see a woman weeping on Highway 60 during a storm, do not approach, offer her a ride. When single mother, Peggy Hodgson

Starting point is 00:08:49 heard her daughters Janet and Margaret screaming from their upstairs room in Enfield, North London, North London. She rushed up, expecting a child's nightmare. Instead, she witnessed a chest of drawers sliding across the floor by itself. When she tried to push it back, an invisible force shoved it forward again, nearly trapping one of her daughters against the wall. It was terrorized by escalating activity, the walls at night. Objects hurled themselves across rooms simultaneously. Cairs tipped and spun on single legs. Haunting was witnessed by more than 30 individuals, including police officers. Constable Carolyn Heaps wrote in her report that she watched a chair

Starting point is 00:10:07 lift off the ground and slide several feet without any visible cause. I checked for wires, she later stated. There were none. The strange voice started soon after. Eleven-year-old Janet would enter a trance-like state. Eyes rolled back and would speak in a deep growl, nothing like her own. Visitors asked the entity questions, and it answered with intelligence to be a man named had died in the house, a little investigator challenged the voice and asked the entity to speak

Starting point is 00:10:58 without Janet moving her lips. The voice complied and continued for hours. Ported the voice firsthand. The BBC even attempted to broadcast the segment about the haunting, but their taped audio vanished from the machine after they left the home. The tape was never recovered. Witnesses also documented levitations. One interviewer entered Janet's room just in time to see her lifted from her bed and thrown violently against the wall like a rag doll. The photographer captured Janet mid-air with her limbs twisted, as if pulled upward by invisible grips.

Starting point is 00:11:50 Skeptics accused the children of staging some events, But even the most doubtful investigators admitted that not everything could be explained. Too many outsiders saw too much. In 1979, the activity abruptly decreased, but never fully stopped. Now an adult has said the haunting still lingers. She avoids talking publicly about it, because every time she does, she hears knocking, on the walls of her home, and she knows without question that the voice that once spoke through her is still waiting for another chance to be heard.

Starting point is 00:13:10 1796 on native burial grounds and soaked in violent history, the estate has witnessed so much death that ghost sightings are practically expected. One spirit, however, has terrified visitors more than the rest. Suggest Chloe was an enslaved house servant, punished by the owner, after being caught eavesdropping. Her ear sliced off as retribution. Forced to wear a green turban to hide the wound, Chloe later baked a poisoned cake intended for revenge.

Starting point is 00:13:55 Two young daughters, the original negative, and confirmed. No double exposure and no trickery is only the beginning. Visitors hear footsteps pacing the second floor when no one is there. Antique doorknobs twist violently of their own accord. Plantation staff refused to enter after dark because the bed is often found soaked with blood is ever found. Especially daughters report the worst experience. One little girl claimed an unseen woman pulled her hair repeatedly.

Starting point is 00:15:35 Others say someone whispers their names from underneath the bed. The only once polished daily is still displayed. The staffs often reveal small handprints on the glass that do not match any living guests. Two thousands, a woman stopped near the staircase in place, pointed ahead with shaking hands. A man appeared at the landing, dressed in outdated military uniform with a gaping bullet wound in his chest

Starting point is 00:16:21 directly at a mid-step. Some believe the house isn't haunted by a few spirits, but by every soul who died on the property. Disease, violence, murder, and suffering, through its walls. Owners of Myrtle's plantation once hoped to capitalize on ghost tourism. But after years of reports,

Starting point is 00:16:58 screams, physical attacks, and guests fleeing into the night, they now admit privately, they no longer believe the dead are merely haunting, are still living there. And the visitors

Starting point is 00:17:17 are the intruders, voices, was refitted as a military troop ship, known as the Grey Ghost, more than 800,000 soldiers, and witnessing countless deaths at sea. Many who boarded never made it back to land. In its most infamous tragedy, the Queen Mary accidentally sliced through a smaller escort ship, the HMS Coracoa, killing over three. 300 sailors instantly.

Starting point is 00:18:16 Survivors reported hearing screams from the water, as the Queen Mary was ordered not to stop, for fear of enemy attack. Those screams are still heard today. Now permanently docked in Long Beach as a hotel and museum, the ship holds over 600 documented paranormal reports annually. reports annually. Security cameras capture doors slamming violently in empty corridors. Guests call the front desk complaining about children running and laughing in the night. But there are no children on their deck. The first-class swimming pool is sealed shut, yet staff hear splashing, laughing, and a young girl crying for help. B. Jackie, a passenger who drowned there in the 1940s.

Starting point is 00:19:19 Peas recorded in the pool area include a chilling small voice whispering. Mommy, 340, is so active it was once closed permanently. Guests claimed their bedding was ripped away, and objects hurled across the room. Several woke up to a dark figure. standing once became trapped in door 13 during a routine drill and was crushed to death. People report being shoved near the same spot by unseen hands, and some claim to see a man in coveralls who suddenly disappears,

Starting point is 00:20:21 leaving only bloody handprints smeared on a metal. The guides refuse to be alone aboard the ship after midnight. One overheard a child giggling behind her, only to turn and see a shadow crawling along the wall toward her. Whatever lingers aboard the Queen Mary remains restless. Underwater graves rarely stay silent. Sally House. A rotten smile. Six-year-old girl named Sally. Charles Finney's house, with severe abdominal. abdominal pain, appendicitis. Desperate to save her life, he attempted emergency surgery without anesthesia. Sally died in agony while staring into the doctor's eyes. More than

Starting point is 00:21:40 a century later in 1993, a young couple named Tony and Deborah Pickman. Within days, the haunting began. record, appliances burned out unpredictably. Their infant's toys activated by themselves. Sally began to show herself. Barbara saw a small girl in an old-fashioned dress, appearing around corners, watching. At first, even curious. But she hated Tony. He felt scratches burning into his skin.

Starting point is 00:22:32 Fwell's carved into his back, chest, and arms. These attacks often happened while he slept, but once right in front of an investigator. Three bloody claw marks appeared across his stomach instantly, his own home. He saw a girl's face inches from his own while he was frozen in bed. Her mouth twisted unnaturally wide, teeth rotten and black. boys sliding across the floor with no visible force. A teddy bear burst into flames during a recorded investigation. Normal researchers concluded the presence was not a child at all,

Starting point is 00:23:31 but something malicious imitating one to gain trust. After one year, aboard activity. Visitors hear a girl giggling from behind closet doors and feel their clothes tugged by tiny fingers when a seance once recorded a voice snarling. Some hauntings linger because of sadness.

Starting point is 00:24:04 Others because of rage. At the Sally House, it is impossible to tell the difference. Not every spirit finds peace. After hearing these stories, you might feel like something followed you home.

Starting point is 00:24:36 footsteps behind you tonight. If a shadow moves where nothing should be, just remember. Some ghosts don't stay where they died. They go where they're remembered into this Halloween special. If you made it all the way to the end, you're braver than most.

8 Hour Sleep Music - 👻 5 Real Ghost Stories for Halloween | 25-Minutes of Ghost Stories with 8 Hours of Rain, Thunder, & Spooky Music 🕷️

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