So Supernatural - HAUNTED: Cranmer Family Demon with Two Girls One Ghost
Episode Date: June 13, 2025In this special crossover, we're joined by the hosts of Two Girls One Ghost, Corinne Vien and Sabrina Deana-Roga.In 1988, Bob Cranmer moved his family into the home of his dreams on Brownsville Road, ...outside of Pittsburgh, PA. But as they settled in, it became clear they weren’t alone. As furniture moved, and blood oozed from the walls, the Cranmers and their four kids juggled a very public facing life because of Bob’s career… and a very secret life of being tortured by demons. For a full list of sources, please visit: sosupernaturalpodcast.com/haunted-cranmer-family-demonFollow Two Girls One Ghost:Apple PodcastsSpotifySo Supernatural is an audiochuck and Crime House production. Find us on social!Instagram: @sosupernatualpodTwitter: @_sosupernaturalFacebook: /sosupernaturalpod
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One thing I've learned from my years of working in true crime is to always check a source.
Where does the information come from?
What does this person stand to gain from offering up their version of events?
Can they be trusted?
But this might be even more applicable when it comes to what we're doing here on So Supernatural.
Because there are a lot of wild stories out there.
And while you know I love to believe in stuff, there's always a part of me asking,
or wondering, could this be made up for attention?
How might someone benefit from sharing their ghost stories,
their alien encounters, their run-ins with a cryptid?
Or more importantly, when it comes to the stigma surrounding the supernatural,
the question becomes, what do they stand to lose?
In some cases, the answer is literally everything.
That's what's so interesting about today's story.
In 1988, Bob Cranmer and his wife Lisa bought their dream house in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
But it wasn't long until that dream turned into a nightmare. Bob Cranmer and his wife Lisa bought their dream house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
But it wasn't long until that dream turned into a nightmare.
Bob and his family experienced so much paranormal activity in that house that it turned their
lives upside down.
But the wildest thing about it is, Bob wasn't someone who was out for money or even his
fifteen minutes of fame.
Quite the opposite, actually.
His job would have had him dodging the controversy like the plague.
Because Bob was a former army officer turned politician, and his haunted house was such
a big scandal it could have cost him his career.
Yet he shared his story anyway.
And today, Rasha and Yvette are gonna share it with you
with a twist.
I'm Ashley Flowers.
Welcome back to So Supernatural. Hi, y'all, I'm Eva Gentile.
And I'm Rasha Piccarero.
And we are beyond excited for today's topic because we aren't alone.
No, and we're not just referring to ghosts and spirits that we're going to meet in this
episode.
We have two of our friends join us to share this story.
The host of Two Girls, One Ghost.
We had to do that.
We couldn't resist.
That was so good and so unexpected.
We have Sabrina Deanna Rogge and Corinne Vian in the house.
Ladies, welcome to Sew Supernatural.
Hello.
Thank you.
Thank you for having us.
We're so honored.
We're so excited.
We might have a ghost with us.
That's why, you know, when we say two girls, one ghost,
there is a ghost or many ghosts that do haunt our show.
And so we always caution people who listen to our podcast
that we might haunt you
and we're sorry or you're welcome, depending on what you want.
You're sorry or you're welcome.
And for the team it's so supernatural, maybe we're sorry because oftentimes it does interfere with the technology,
so let us pray that nothing happens when recording today.
Knock on wood.
Knock on wood all the prayers.
We're going to be fine.
We are divinely blessed.
We're going to be just fine.
Okay.
Good intentions.
Manifest.
Amen to that.
Amen.
Okay.
So I think we have the perfect topic because from what I understand, this particular topic
we're going to be talking about, you guys have not covered on your show.
We have not. Well, today, we're exploring the terrifying case of the Cranmer family demon.
And I know you just said you haven't covered this story before, but had you even heard
about it?
You know what's so interesting is on my bookshelf, there is a book, the book, the Brownsville
Demon book that a listener had given to us a couple years ago.
And it's just been sitting on my bookshelf, so I've never read it. the book, the Brownsville Demon book that a listener had given to us a couple
years ago and it's just been sitting on my bookshelf so I've never read it and
then in preparation obviously for this episode it did a little Google
search but not too much because I wanted to be surprised and I found out that
there is a very similar by name case that happened in Cranford, New Jersey
which is like very close to
where I grew up in New Jersey. Oh wow. But the family name is Cramner, so the M
and N are switched. Oh that's so confusing. That's wild. But it's a different
demon case, I know. But is the demon the same? Did the demon get confused trying
to hunt down the family, find them again? I don't think so.
Maybe.
Right?
A demon with dyslexia.
All right, but any potential dyslexic demons aside?
Otherwise, no, we are coming in blind and we're excited.
We are so excited too.
So let's dive right into it.
It's the 1970s and Bob Cranmer is a teenager
living in a Pittsburgh suburb called Brentwood, Pennsylvania.
And for the most part, Bob's dear average kid.
He loves to be out riding bikes with his friends,
pushing the boundaries of his curfew,
you know, that sort of thing.
Though Bob has one weird fascination
that other kids might not,
one that started back when he was in the second grade.
Bob's obsessed with riding his bike
past this particular house at 3406 Brownsville Road.
The house was completed around 1910.
So yeah, it looks a little bit older,
but to him, it feels like something out of a fairy tale.
This sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King novel.
Doesn't it?
It totally does.
The house is red with white trim
and it's covered in windows and ivy.
It's three stories tall with a big front porch
and a balcony on the second floor.
You can't tell from the outside,
but it has 14 rooms in total.
It also has, I think they call it a foyer or a den,
a dedicated music room, and three working fireplaces.
So it's really, really majestic.
There's also this beautiful grand staircase.
All to say, this home is incredibly striking.
It's the sort of place that catches your attention,
even if you've only ever seen the outside. It sounds beautiful.
It does.
I'm like, I want to see this Zillow listing.
I know, it's one of those things where you're like,
is this going to be like 2.4 million or is this going to be 200,000?
I don't know anything about this area.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
I don't either.
Yeah.
Well, each time he passes it, Bob can't help but just stop and stare.
He kind of feels like something is drawing him towards the house, almost as if it's
pulling him in.
In fact, he's so drawn to it that his biggest dream in life is to own the house himself
one day.
There's a creepiness to that because it's like, well, is the house calling him?
Like, is this something that came from within him himself?
Right. Yeah.
Or was this implanted?
Yeah, given the fact that this is so supernatural and we already know
Demon is a part of this story title, I'm apprehensive about this lure from the house.
Agreed.
Well, even though it's Bob's biggest dream
to own this house, it's a long road for him to get there.
And he has a tough time in high school.
He falls in with a bad crowd, he begins drinking a lot,
and he gets into trouble for a bunch of petty crimes.
His parents are devout Catholics,
so they're a little concerned about their son.
And they finally tell him that they want him to find Jesus, like he actually needs Jesus to save him.
But the thing is, Bob doesn't believe in God.
Eventually, Bob's bad behavior catches up to him, though.
And this is in May of 1975, when he's about 18 or 19 years old.
He and his friends get drunk one night, and they go for a little joy ride. Thankfully, you know, nobody gets hurt. But they do end up
getting a flat tire in front of this furniture store. Then one of Bob's
brilliant friends makes this decision to impulsively smash the window of this
particular store. Of course, the alarm sets off and Bob's afraid that the police are gonna be like right there
lickety-split. So he ditches his friends, he runs from the scene of the crime, and he just hitchhikes home.
But he ends up getting a ride from two men, like two strangers that he doesn't know he hasn't met before,
they're not from the neighborhood, and they don't have time to bring him
all the way back to his house.
So they offer to drop him off nearby in Brentwood.
And guess where they drop him off, y'all?
No, no.
I'm telling you, they drop him off
right in front of 3406 Brownsville Road.
I mean, what?
Oh my gosh.
My gosh.
Of all places.
It's like you couldn't have written this more perfectly
if this was a movie, right?
Like, of course he's delivered right back to the house
that's called him since he was young.
Yeah, exactly.
The same house that he has been obsessing over
since he was a kid.
But to Bob, he doesn't feel like this is a coincidence.
He actually feels like it's fate.
Yeah, well fate is such a positive word, right?
Right.
It makes you feel like, oh, it's destiny.
But like, I don't know.
I don't know if this is, well, I'm
going to say I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad
thing, but based on the subject of this episode,
I feel like this is a very bad thing.
Yeah.
We've actually read stories from listeners on our podcast before where for years they've
had dreams of the same house over and over and over.
And then there are good versions where like one person when they were in their 30s with
their family found the house that they had been dreaming about for so long
and bought it and moved in with their family, like, you know, happily ever after.
But then there's other iterations where it's nightmarish repeating of the house over and
over and then someone saw it in real life and it was like, I need to stay away from
here.
Wow.
It also makes me think, and this is, I mean, again, I don't know what's going to happen
here, but it does make me think a lot about past lives.
And it makes me curious about if this connection to the house that Bob felt at such a young
age, because this is a bizarre thing to experience.
Like second grade and he's feeling connected to this house?
Like that's a strange behavior for a second grader.
It makes me curious if the connection goes much further
than his present life.
Yeah, I definitely think that it does. And something about this interaction convinces
Bob to get his life in order. Bob finally listens to his family's advice and becomes
a devout Christian, specifically a Baptist. He even considers becoming a minister, though ultimately he decides not to pursue
that dream. Instead, he goes to college, then joins the army in the late 1970s when he's
in his early 20s. In 1979, while he's enlisted, his friends set him up on a blind date with
a woman named Lisa. So they end up hitting it off, they get married, and eventually have
four children together. Lisa and the kids live with Bob in Virginia, as he works in
Washington D.C. doing military intelligence. But eventually, Bob feels it's time for
a new chapter. So in October of 1988, the family decides to move back to Bob's hometown
of Brentwood while he looks for new work.
And they're looking for a house to live in and wouldn't you know it?
The Brownsville Street Mansion is up for sale.
I'm just shaking my head so much.
But it almost feels like, have you guys heard of the invisible string theory?
No, what's that?
It's basically like this theory that it kind of goes back to like fate and destiny,
where something is always meant to be and like whatever's meant to be will be sort of thing,
but like that your fate is predetermined and that you have these moments where you kind of pass by
someone or something that's meant to be in your life so many times before it actually solidifies.
So for someone who might find a romantic partner,
perhaps they're looking back at childhood photos
and they see a photo of themselves standing together
on the deck of a cruise ship that both of their families
went on vacation at the same time.
You know, something like that.
Where it's like, was this always meant to be?
And he just was always finding himself around this house
for this exact moment?
Yeah.
I love the idea of the invisible string theory
because it's almost like we're all in alignment
that leads us to the right place at the right time
no matter what.
Right, like what are the chances
that his family is looking for a house
when this house is up for sale
and that they're specifically looking in this area?
Like it has to perfectly align.
Yeah, agreed, agreed.
Totally, again, just like the invisible string theory.
So get this. The owners say they have to sell because they need a place closer to where they
work. But frankly, they seem a little too eager to get rid of the house. Bob figures he won't be
able to afford a home this big, this old, and this beautiful. Remember, he's been romanticizing this place for years,
but he figures it's worth an offer.
When he tells the owners what he's willing to pay,
they accept his offer literally on the spot.
No.
Yes.
That's the biggest sign.
Even though it's way less than the house should be worth.
Obviously, Bob is totally ecstatic.
My mind goes to, damn, you should have gone lower.
Right?
Oh my god.
And this is like a mansion.
Yeah, 14 rooms.
You would think people would be lined up to own this home.
Wow.
You totally think so.
But when the family goes to do a walkthrough with the sellers, things get a little weird.
The whole time, the former owners are acting extremely anxious and nervous. Like they're
obviously keeping something from the Cranmers. Then at one point, Bob notices that one of
his kids is missing.
Excuse me?
While everyone's been touring the home.
His two-year-old son, Bobby Jr., has somehow just wandered off, nobody noticing where he's
gone.
Why do I feel like he's going to be in like a dumb waiter?
I know.
Down to the basement.
I'm sure there's a dumb waiter in that house.
I'm sure, right?
Oh my goodness.
But Bob, you know, he's not too concerned.
But the former owners are freaking panicked.
So they start searching the house and they eventually find Bobby Jr. standing on the
first landing of the grand staircase.
But he's not just standing there, y'all.
He's screaming and crying because he is absolutely terrified of something.
I don't know what.
And when the adults actually ask him what happened, he won't say,
Oh no.
So not only won't Bobby Jr. say what happened to scare him, apparently the owners don't
explain why they were so worried either.
But for some reason, this doesn't deter Bob and his wife from signing this paperwork.
Let me just put you two into the situation.
If that was to happen to you, would you still want to sign those papers?
Actually, this reminds me so much of Corinna's having an experience right now in her house
with her 10-month-old son. So...
What?
Yeah. I think if you'd asked me this a year ago, I'd be like,
absolutely not. I'm not buying this house.
But now, given what's happening here and the house that I do own, I'm like, I might be
able to handle it.
I could have a mansion for a few pennies, sure.
Okay, but wait, wait, we totally need to hear about this.
So the house that we moved into, my husband and I, a few years ago, we know the whole
history of the land, the people who've lived here before.
So there's by no accounts like any murders or anything that has happened before in this house
that would indicate it being haunted. But since my child was born, he's been interacting with people
that I can't see and specific to his room. It's always been just in his room and he's having a
good time. Like he's laughing, he's really enjoying
whoever's entertaining him.
And I struggled a lot with postpartum,
well, I guess still struggling with postpartum depression.
And multiple times through my like journey in the night
of feeding him multiple times,
the lights would turn on in his room
or I would hear someone walking
and stop like right at the
door of his bedroom. I'd see feet going back and forth like the musical aquarium, toy aquarium
would go on to like play a little jingle and all of those experiences felt generally positive.
But there's one space in my house which is where Sabrina and I record Two Girls One Goes.
Oh geez. Where you're sitting right now. Where I'm sitting right at this present
moment. And this is where the vibes don't feel so great. And we've had a lot of weird
things happen in here. Like weird noises coming from the bookshelf that we can't figure out
exactly what's happening or why. I had dirt materialize and fall on me from the ceiling.
No. Yeah. What?
But it's never been scary.
It's just been like little odd things
and then until recently something happened.
So Noah, my child, he comes in here
because he loves being in here
and he loves playing with a skeleton that we call Sven.
My daughter loves her big skeleton too.
She's 13 though.
Right?
Yeah.
We love a creepy kid.
We love an appreciation for the spooky.
But he's in here and he's having a good time
and he's seen everything, right?
He's seen Raggedy and Andy, the skeleton.
Nothing is surprising.
He's playing and he looks up directly
in the spot on our bookshelf where
we keep hearing these phantom noises that we cannot figure out
what's causing it.
And he starts shrieking like a bloody murder.
So scared, I've never ever seen him this scared in his life.
He could not calm down.
My mom was here visiting, she rushes in,
she's like, what scared him?
And then she's looking and she's like,
something right there, something right there.
Cause he was staring and he was so, so scared.
And neither of us could see anything.
And my mom and I both are pretty in tune
and often can like see and hear spirits,
but we couldn't see anything. So we get him, we rush him out, takes him a while to calm down.
He avoids the room for some time, but I left it at kind of like a light threat. So this is why I say
if I were in Bob's position, I might end up taking this house because I came back into the office,
I started the threshold and I said, whoever is in here, if you scare the baby again,
you're on borrowed time.
And then nothing has happened since.
Really?
Yeah.
Mama don't play.
I was like, you better behave
or you're getting kicked out my friend.
But then it is one of those things
where you already lived there, you're already in the friend. Yeah. But then it is one of those things where you already lived there.
You're already in the house.
Right.
But if something happened right before
you were about to sign papers,
maybe you would have had a different perspective.
And my family actually had,
this is when I was in eighth grade
and my family was moving to Princeton, New Jersey.
And there was one house that we looked at
that it was like among two or three that we were like
these are the top contenders brand new build and
The weirdest stuff happened there like my dad had nightmares about it when we would go to see it
My mom had a blackberry at the time and it was mostly when blackberries were used just for emails
So it was not set up to receive or have any phone calls
But she kept getting phone calls on her BlackBerry when we were in that house.
How weird.
And it was almost like a warning of like, get out. We did not buy that house. And I
think like someone moved in, sold it immediately, so there was something weird
about that house.
Yeah, sometimes there are signs like, get out.
Yeah. I mean I think for us, like growing up, our mom was all about signs and symbols.
So for me, like, if it was for me looking at a house and something like that happened,
that would be a, oh, hell no, that would be a major sign and symbol, you know?
He's like blinded by his obsession with it.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
For them, they're all in.
You know, he's been fantasizing about this house again since forever.
So on December 12, 1988, a moving truck pulls into the driveway
to start unloading all of their things.
The house is officially theirs.
But that doesn't mean it's unoccupied.
Bob Cranmer is talking to a friend one day when he shares his new address.
And the friend says something like, so you bought the haunted house, did you?
Bob's first thought is that his buddy must be confused.
But that's when the guy is like,
Bob, hello, are you living under a rock?
Everyone knows that house is haunted.
He says there have been weird rumors about it going all the way back to the 1930s at least.
Now Bob doesn't take his coworker that seriously.
I mean, this is his dream house after all.
But little by little, Bob starts to wonder if maybe there's some truth to it.
It starts when he's home alone.
He can't shake the feeling that he's being watched.
His wife Lisa even admits she kind of gets that same feeling too.
And on top of that, his son Bobby Jr. flat out refuses to sleep in his own bedroom.
Is this the same kid who was terrified?
Mm-hmm.
And it's not just him.
The other kids are pretty uneasy too.
Every single night, at least one of them gets scared and crawls into bed with Bob and Lisa.
Something they weren't doing in their old houses from what I can tell.
And poor little Bobby prefers to fall asleep hiding in his closet, which I think is just
so sad.
Oh poor baby.
I know.
But it's so much more than that.
Sometimes Bob wakes up in the morning to find that all of the downstairs lights are on,
even though he distinctly remembers turning them off the night before.
And at one point he also notices the furniture is getting rearranged overnight.
Like, what?
So Bob decides maybe it's time to appeal to a higher power.
And that is when he invites a priest to come bless his home.
So my question for the two of you, I know this area is literally your specialty.
Do you think this works, like bringing in like a shaman or a priest or someone to bless
the home? Do you think it has any merit to it?
We have heard that you should do whatever you feel most connected with. So if you do
not go to church, if you were not a devout Christian or whatever your religion
or beliefs to be, if that doesn't resonate with you, calling in a priest might not actually
do anything.
That makes sense.
So you have to figure out what speaks to you, what feels like it will do something.
And I don't know why that works.
It's just because your sheer belief in it working is what contributes to something
being like banished from the house.
We've also heard though, so many different stories, you know, especially the more notable
cases like the Smurl possession and different poltergeist cases where even when they bring
in a priest, it doesn't do anything and sometimes it happens to make it worse.
One of the houses I grew up in, so when I was like from four to 13, I lived in this
house, there was some weird dark things that happened in that house that led my dad to
calling a priest to bless the house.
Like truly my sister was like basically possessed.
And my dad called a priest.
And after that, whatever darkness, like it kind of got sent down to our basement, where my brother would have nightmares,
reoccurring nightmares of the one closet in our basement.
Oh, your poor brother.
It does seem like the priest coming and blessing it
at least pushed it downstairs.
So maybe this is just one of the things
that you have to check off your list when you have
a severely haunted home, where it's worth a shot. Will it work? Unknown, but maybe worth a try.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Like I'm not religious at all. I'm very spiritual and I would have like a Hawaiian
Kahuna or someone come in and bless the home for sure.
I asked Corinne to come bless my house. Corinne is my guru. I grew
up in a very haunted house. So yeah, my house and the things that my mom and I owned and
would regularly use to try to get rid of some of the activity when things were getting bad,
we were basically our own little metaphysical shop.
Wow. So that's where it all began for you. I guess so. Obviously it was with your mom, right? Yeah.
I love that. Okay. So his friend said that everyone knew this house was haunted.
Do you think Bob knew and just blocked all of it out of his mind? That's so
tricky. Maybe it's partially Bob just not wanting to believe it, but I do have it a
hard time believing
that if he grew up in this neighborhood,
he never heard about it.
Right.
And what motives does a second grader have
to not believe in the haunted house, right?
Totally.
But whether or not Bob always knew the house was haunted,
it's pretty clear that by now, he definitely thinks it is.
And Bob's hope is that
maybe God, or at the very least the ritual, will drive out whatever evil spirit might be in the
home. And so the priest walks from one room to the next. In each one, he stops and he says a little
prayer. Overall, it's pretty uneventful. That is, until they get to the now three-year-old Bobby Jr.'s room.
When the priest approaches, Bobby Jr. stands in the doorway,
flat out refusing to let the priest come inside his room.
No!
Yeah, that's the one room that needs it!
I know!
There's little things that happen in the house,
like the lights are flickering on and off,
a chair or two is out of place,
and sometimes the kids still don't really like sleeping in their own beds. happen in the house, like the lights are flickering on and off, a chair or two is out of place,
and sometimes the kids still don't really like sleeping in their own beds, but they
just laugh it off, you know, with things like, oh, that's just Casper the friendly ghost.
I will say ignoring the activity is actually one of the recommended things to do when you
have a poltergeist or some dark demonic presence because they thrive off of the fear, they thrive
off of the recognition. So by ignoring it, yeah, you might ruffle some feathers and it might get
pissed off and try to do a little bit more to get your attention. But if you're consistent with it,
you give it a lot less energy to feed on and perhaps it might actually eventually give up
and slink away. Yeah, so basically it seems like that's the plan.
They're hoping that if they just ignore the weirdness,
it'll strip the demon of its power.
Which is helpful because Bob's very focused right now
on his new career.
Ever since he moved back to his hometown,
Bob wanted to get into local politics.
So after settling in, he ran for an elected position
and he actually won a spot
on the Brentwood
town council in 1991.
From there, he became the chairman of the county Republican committee.
Even people who don't agree with his party or his agenda seem to really respect him a
lot.
And he has a great reputation, and I guess he's under a lot of pressure to maintain
it.
And that means he's like always going to community events
and he's generally coming across
as this very upstanding, reasonable guy.
Even though in 1995,
things at home are anything but reasonable.
While Bob's living his politician life,
his wife, Lisa, is handling the bulk
of the housework in childcare.
And of course,
it's taking a toll on her. Not just because four kids is a lot to deal with, but also because her
partner is always out working or at charity events, dinners, you name it. And on top of that,
the house itself seems to be influencing her somehow. It's in 1995 when Bob senses something isn't right with his wife.
She's constantly tired and also very forgetful all of a sudden.
The house is getting neglected.
And even worse, she hasn't been handling a lot of the bills like she usually does.
It gets so bad that they fall really behind on their mortgage, to the point where they're
actually in danger of losing the house. Once Bob realizes this, he's able to help her sort everything out. But what's
really concerning Bob is how out of character Lisa's been acting. Lisa claims she's just
feeling overwhelmed and stressed, though she isn't 100% clear with Bob on what all of
that means. Either way, the two of them agree she should go to a mental health facility for two weeks.
So what do we think?
Is Lisa a mom experiencing normal burnout?
Or do you think this is the effects of living in a haunted house?
It's so hard because, and I think this is a result of, you know, Bob Kramer is the one
who has written a lot about this story
and his experience that we're not really getting Lisa's perspective. But yes, I mean, the life
that she's living, I can absolutely understand how that could lead to normal burnout, but
it's also very common for a dark entity to single someone out.
Oh, is it?
To take away their energy so they can become stronger.
Oh, wow.
And someone who is already feeling overwhelmed and tired, right?
Is vulnerable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And oftentimes it does end up being one of the children, which it does sound like perhaps
their youngest was the target.
But honestly, this demon, if this is kind of the moves that it's
making, that's a very strategic move to take down the mom who's also responsible for caring
probably the majority of the time for all of the children because then it makes the
children more susceptible to also being fed on by the demon. But I will say, and you guys
could speak to it too, motherhood is very tough. I can't imagine having four kids.
I can't imagine.
I know you and I only have one.
I don't have any.
I have a chihuahua, and that's already,
that's hard enough.
I have a cat.
So no.
You have a cat, that's your child.
Right, right.
Yeah.
I'm here in two weeks in a mental health facility,
and I'm like, man, maybe that would fix me.
Like maybe I need that.
That does sound like a nice vacation.
Well, after Lisa comes home from those two weeks,
I don't know if it was a vacation for her.
We don't really know Lisa's side as much as Bob's.
Something extremely weird happens in the house.
While they're there, the kids tell Bob they saw a stranger in the bathroom.
Someone dark and shadowy, who they say looks like, and get this, the Grim Reaper.
Great. Hmm.
Right. That's when Bob starts realizing, okay, maybe it's not just Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Maybe something is starting to really come alive in the house.
I mean, Lisa, his wife seems unsettled and distracted.
Both his kids and his kids' friends are seeing strange figures in this home, and now
they can't sleep throughout the night again.
But at the same time, Bob has a political career to maintain.
He's up for the County Board of Commissioners in 1995, and he ends up getting the seat and
begins service at the beginning of 1996.
So like any good politician, Bob keeps any and all drama in the Cranmer house from getting
out to the press. But come 2003, something happens that he just
can't keep under wraps.
In 2003, the Cranmer family has spent over a decade
in this house.
Bobby Jr., their second oldest, is now 16 and in high school.
And like his father, he's also going through a rebellious phase.
He's skipping class, he's disappearing for days at a time,
and he regularly takes his parents' car without asking,
even though he doesn't even have a license.
On September 14, 2003, Bob tries to get through to his son by planning a fun day out.
So they go to a baseball game and then they just drive around town just talking and bonding
and things seem to be going really well.
But when they get home, something shifts in Bobby Jr.
He gets into an argument with his dad over something so small and Bobby Jr. just flies
into this massive rage. He starts cursing at his
father, and then he actually begins beating him. And
according to Bob, he has no choice but to defend himself
from his son. It's so bad that their other son Charlie joins in
attacking his father and then he feels like he's got to call 911.
The police actually arrive and since Bob is the adult, Bobby Jr. is the minor, Bob
is arrested for assaulting his son.
And this is seriously upsetting, but it makes a light bulb go off in Bob's head because
he thinks Bobby Jr. is not inherently violent and neither is he.
Bob decides something is going on in his house that he can simply no longer
ignore. Maybe his family is being influenced by something sinister.
Perhaps something that's just been reawakened. Well especially because it happened the moment they pulled back into the driveway.
It's like everything was fine, great day.
The second they're in the influence of this house, something changed.
I also, I don't know, I'm becoming a little bit suspicious of Bob.
The fact that the youngest son joined in to attack his father made me question,
is this demonic influence or is there something else where Charlie is seeing this?
And he presumes that his father did something and immediately joins his brother in the fight,
rather than saying, oh no, there's a quarrel going on there.
I need to try to
stop both parties here. I just find it bizarre that he immediately jumped to also attacking
his father.
And start fighting, yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And defending his brother.
Heavy stuff.
Yeah.
For sure.
Well, to find out more, Bob finally reaches out to every spiritual leader in town, ministers, priests, and nuns.
And when he talks to one nun in particular, he learns something new about his home.
She says from everything that she's heard, Bob's house isn't actually haunted, it's
possessed by a demon.
I'm just also so confused, like, this nun is like, oh yeah, your house is possessed by a demon. I'm just also so confused. This nun is like, oh yeah, your house is possessed by a demon.
It's not just any spirit.
How would she know?
If people know this, yeah.
How did she know that, yeah.
And also, wouldn't the priest have done more if it was a demon?
Yeah.
If that were common knowledge within the church?
Right.
We've also talked a lot about this on our podcast where I feel like when you give something power,
maybe there is a haunting happening,
but if you start to say,
oh, there's a demon haunting my house,
you do give it more power,
and can our minds manifest something more sinister
than what was actually there to start off.
It's totally possible. But according to the nun, this only happens when serious sins are committed.
Things like adultery, suicide, even murder. So it's not like demons can possess just any old house.
According to her, there has to be a dark history there. The nun asks Bob if he knows of any serious sins that have happened in his home prior
to him owning it.
And he can't think of any offhand.
But something about her theory resonates with him.
After their conversation, he's convinced he has to be dealing with some sort of possession.
But it's almost like once Bob catches onto this,
the demon acts up even more.
And the thing is, he and the family, they can't rest.
They're waking up to unexplainable scratches
on their arms and their legs.
Geez.
Yeah, this is some heavy duty stuff.
Which is like, how do you explain that?
Like all of the things that have happened so far,
we could attribute to burnout, to developing mines,
to old kooky houses, right?
Like there's ways to write them all off,
but random scratches that you wake up to.
I mean, what's your explanation?
That's the question that I have for all the skeptics out there.
How do you explain that?
Right, exactly.
And I agree with you 100%.
And it's not just the scratches.
On some occasions, they're even waking up
where the walls are bleeding.
This is where I get like really freaked out
because this is, you know,
people are actually seeing this, right?
So he and his wife, Lisa,
they said that they woke up
one morning and they literally found pools of blood
on the floor.
Now, Bob certainly doesn't know what to do with this.
So again, he goes back to the priest for advice
and he gets this.
The priest says the best response is to pretend
not to notice.
If the demon realizes the bloody walls are bothering
the family, it'll just keep doing it. Instead, the priest advises Bob to keep sleeping in
the room with the bleeding walls and to continue to have regular sex with his wife, blood or
no blood.
In that room.
What?
In the world? Ew.
Is this guy okay?
Yeah, the priest, I don't know.
I mean, I've never heard of anything like this
in the stories that we've done
when we were talking about priests to stay in the room.
And advise to have sex.
No, never.
Okay, so we covered recently the San Pedro poltergeist,
and they had a similar situation
where some weird liquid was oozing out of the wall,
and they tested it in a lab,
and it showed up as blood,
like belonging to a male human.
And now I'm so curious if they tested this blood.
Not that I know of.
Geez.
Can you imagine, this is not what Bob was imagining,
like for the priest to tell him, you know,
stay in the room, have sex while the walls are bleeding.
So he sort of takes the matters into his own hands.
So one night, Bob shuts himself in his closet
and he starts to read the Bible out loud.
He's hoping that God's word
will make the evil spirit go away. Instead, the more Bob reads, the more he gets this horrible feeling of dread, like something
even more terrible is coming.
And night after night, he sits and he reads the Bible for as long as he can stand it,
but the demons, they don't go away.
They're still there.
And what a scary thing, too, for him now as a religious man who looks to God for protection,
to do it consistently, to constantly call out, to use all of the tools he has been told
to use, and it changed nothing.
Yeah.
Seems like it's making it worse more than anything.
For sure. And whether it's a demon or several demons, they start acting up even more after this
point.
So for example, at one point, Bob has, do you remember that movie?
You too might be a little too young, but The Passion of the Christ?
I feel like I probably watched it in like CCD.
Yeah, I've seen clips of it, but I've never watched it.
Yeah.
I don't know why I watched it, but I remember watching it.
But anyway, Bob has the Passion of the Christ playing on loop in the living room.
He thinks it might just annoy the demon enough so much that it leaves his home.
Instead, the spirit just keeps shutting off the television. Okay, well, let me interject once here and say I am almost positive that The Passion
of the Christ is one of those movie sets that has the reputation of having been horribly
haunted.
I think you are correct.
So maybe not the best movie for him to pick.
So he was just making it even worse. I'm just picturing like the same demon was the one to pick. So he was just, yeah, making it even worse.
I'm just picturing like the same demon was the one who
haunted that set and was like, that wasn't my best work.
I need to turn this off.
I know.
Bob should have picked something else.
But of course, there's other eerie things happening
around this time.
Bob keeps finding loose change around the house,
only it's standing upright on the rim.
Bob thinks this is the demon trying to catch his attention.
So the family starts hanging crosses and crucifixes all over the house, only to find they never
really last.
They're always torn off the walls and broken by morning.
So the one thing Yvette and I are always screaming at this point
of the story is get the F out. When in doubt, move out. Move out. Yes, when in doubt. See ya.
Well in Bob's case, he can't move out. He ends up listing the home for sale, but no one is even
remotely interested, which is actually sort of a relief for Bob at the same time, because he's feeling a
little bit of guilt about putting another family through what his family is going through.
It seems irresponsible and unfair on his part.
Instead, he decides, for better or worse, it's up to him to figure out how to get rid of
this spirit or demon.
So Bob returns to the private sector in the year of 2000, but one of the perks of being
a former government official is that Bob has connections.
He knows people.
So he reaches out to the mayor of Pittsburgh, and the mayor in turn is friends with a powerful
Catholic bishop.
And the bishop agrees to send an official exorcist to the house.
So in early January of 2004,
Bob has the priest come over,
and he hosts a short private religious service for Bob and his family.
And then he walks around the house,
and he prays in every single corner,
just like what happened, you know, shortly after they moved in.
And this time, the priest stops in every room,
including Bobby Jr's.
Now, Bob is hopeful that this will solve his demon problem,
but it doesn't, and here's how he knows.
Bob is a huge art fan.
He has a lot of framed pieces all over the house.
And the morning after the exorcism,
every single one of them is crooked or even upside down. Like the spirit spent the whole
night knocking them around just to show how unbothered it was by this exorcism.
So the priest comes back and they go through the whole thing again. And at this point, Bob has to be thinking,
well, this didn't work the last time.
I mean, are we gonna try something new?
Is this gonna work, right?
But the Holy man tells him that sometimes you need
to perform a whole bunch of exorcisms
to get rid of a demon permanently.
He says it's like fighting a war
and it's not like it's not over at the first battle.
So you have to keep fighting like again and again and again. Have you guys heard this before
where people do exorcisms over and over again? Yeah and I, Sabrina correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think it might have been the Smurl family possession case where they actually had many people from their church come over and had
this like massive prayer and exorcism on the house.
And unfortunately, it did very little for them.
Yeah.
But I also, and you know, we've been doing this for seven or eight years now at this
point.
So we've only scratched the surface really in terms of possession and exorcism cases, but like
a lot of them seem to like have this repetitive cycle of exorcisms performed. And yet it doesn't
really like it might put it to bay for a little bit, but it doesn't actually get rid of the
possession or the demon. And the demon, the only way it leaves is just like randomly out of the blue.
When it chooses to.
When it's ready to go.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, Bob seems to buy into this whole exorcisms, you know, is a war, like the war
is on for him.
Because he has two more priests come over for an exorcism on a Friday night in February
2004.
And then they come back in May and they do the same thing again.
And this goes on and on and on.
And Bob does what he can, I mean, between exorcisms to make his house as unpleasant for these evil demons as possible.
He does what we all would do.
I mean, I know Rasha and I do this where you sprinkle salt across your doorway in the home.
And that's what Bob does.
You know, he does the salt, he does the crosses.
And if you've ever seen the movie, The Exorcist,
you might imagine this is how it all played out, right?
For weeks, maybe months.
But no, you guys, do you know how long this took?
Two years of doing this regularly.
Like repeated exorcism after exorcism for two years.
I mean, is that not dedication?
I mean, this man obviously wants to stay in this home because how dedicated is he to be going through all of this
for how many years now with his family?
Also, what's happening to them within this two years?
I know. But then, okay, wait, I'm happening to them within these two years? I know.
But then, okay, wait, I'm trying to do some math here.
Is there only one child left in the house at this point?
Because his second oldest was 16, and now there's two years of exorcisms happening.
Did one child moving out happen at the same time that the exorcisms stopped?
That's another question I have.
That's a good question, Corinne.
Ooh.
We should have Sabrina grab the book on her shelf
and find out.
Yeah.
If I could just touch it, put my hand on the book,
and just consume everything it had in there.
Quick, Sabrina, read 300 pages
and let us know the answers in the book.
And let us know.
Yeah.
OK, so obviously, it was a long two years because even in 2006, the Cranmers are still waking up with bizarre scratches all over their bodies. They're actually
still seeing dark figures lurking around the home and the furniture is still moving. Well,
everyone is still irritable. They're exhausted, they're stressed. I mean,
it's like the house has this bad mojo and it's getting to all of them, which is obviously,
it's totally understandable. But that year, the exorcists do another ritual. And this time,
it actually seems to work. Bob is so relieved and impressed by the priest's work
that he actually converts back to his childhood faith
of Catholicism afterwards.
And to this day, he is a devout Catholic.
In fact, Bob goes on to write a book about his experience.
It's called The Demon of Brownsville Road.
And right on the first page, in the acknowledgments,
he says, and this is a quote,
I owe everything to the Lord Jesus Christ
who died for me on a Roman cross.
And speaking of Bob's book,
it generates a lot of controversy.
Now, some people love it.
Fans of ghost stories devour the spooky narrative.
And interestingly enough, devout Christians like how Bob's account highlights how good
and powerful God can be.
Copies fly off the shelves and lots of bookstores sell out.
But then of course, there are the critics.
Lots of people accuse Bob of making the whole story up for attention or money.
People end up taking sides. Some Brentwood residents are pro-Bob,
and others side with the skeptics, assuming he's being dishonest.
Either way, his credibility is shot, as is his political legacy. But as far as Bob's concerned,
it was worth the cost. And he's not afraid to tell his truth or to evangelize about his faith.
He and his family start getting the peace and quiet they were hoping for.
By 2019, his children are all grown up and living lives of their own.
Bob doesn't need the whole house to himself anymore.
But he still can't bring himself
to sell his dream home.
So he converts it into a bed and breakfast.
Interestingly, he's open with his customers about the house's history.
And okay, you might be thinking like, he must be marketing the B&B as a haunted house, right?
Maybe he had made up the whole story about the haunting to make money after all. But Bob is very clear with his clients that his home is not haunted.
At least not anymore. He doesn't want them to think of it as a spooky destination, or
that he's trying to profit off the earlier possession. The thing is, Bob seems almost
afraid of re-inviting the demon back in.
He even goes as far as to ban guests from using Ouija boards.
And he outright refuses to book ghost hunting teams.
Bob knows that the house has a dark history beyond the one he experienced.
Remember back in 2003 when Bob met with that nun?
She told him that demons only haunt places that have serious sins in their histories.
And at that time, Bob did look into this.
That's when he found out that his house didn't just have one tragedy in its past.
Turns out, the land's entire history is soaked in blood.
After Bob Cranmer met with a nun in 2003, he wanted to learn more about the house he
was living in.
In particular, he wanted to know what kind of evil could have happened on this property
to attract such a dark and sinister
entity.
So, he dove into historical research and he found records of a massacre that happened
all the way back in the year 1792.
This is right after the United States was established as a nation.
And in Brentwood, Pennsylvania, there was still a lot of unrest between the European settlers
and the indigenous people of that time.
Sometimes tensions erupted into violence.
At some point in early 1792, a European woman
was walking down the street with three of her children.
Without warning, a group of indigenous people
surrounded the four of them and in a heated
dispute ended up killing the woman and her children. The woman's husband who was on the other side of
town at the time of the attack ended up planting an oak tree at the site of the murder. It's still
standing today towering in the front yard of one particular house.
Bob's house. At least according to him. Now I want to be very clear. The murders have
been verified in numerous official records and news articles, but historians say that there's
no evidence that the massacre took place on Bob's property. This is all mostly coming from him. And I have to say, we don't really know the truth.
I mean, what if the Europeans were
provoking the indigenous people?
I just have to put that out there.
We don't know all the sides to the story.
Yeah, saying that there are records and newspaper articles
written by who?
Right, exactly.
And also, I feel like this is Bob really trying to find a
Reason and I totally get that because after going through something like this or enduring hauntings
You want to find a reason you want to be like, yeah
The reason this place is haunted is because XYZ terrible things happened here
But as we've learned through the years of our own personal encounters and through reading other people's and researching them
Sometimes there is no reason and it's kind of like anywhere in the world can be haunted any person can be haunted
Anything can be haunted
But as humans we want to find
rationale in the unknown
Right, right. We want the answer
In the unknown. Right, right. We want the answer.
Either way, I mean, Bob believes this tragedy helped attract evil energies to his house.
But he doesn't think it's the only factor that led to the possession.
Because about a hundred years go by after those four deaths that we just talked about.
And then in the early 1900s, a woman named Mrs. Malik and her husband buy the land.
She builds a house, namely the house that Bob lives in now.
But she's also married, which is a problem for one of the construction workers building the house,
because he has a huge crush on her.
Every day, Mrs. Malik comes out to the construction site to see how things are going.
You know, and of course she's wearing fancy clothes and her hair is done nicely.
This construction worker is just stunned every time he sees her.
But Mrs. Malick doesn't give him the time of day.
And it's not that she doesn't return his feelings, it's just that she doesn't even
realize that he exists.
So eventually the construction worker gets fed up,
or supposedly, this is what they say,
he puts a curse on the house.
So he was obsessed with her and...
Right, she didn't pay any attention to him,
so he's like, well, I'm gonna get you,
I'm gonna curse this house.
So supposedly, he puts a curse on one particular plank
that is left in the home's basement
and stays there until Bob moves in and actually learns about it.
I will say one thing.
I do think that this man was a little bit clever
in cursing just one singular plank of wood
because who could figure that out, right?
There was some thought behind this.
Have you heard about the egg technique to find out if you've been hexed or if
there's a curse on you? No. No. Okay, so if you crack an egg into a cup of water
and you give it like a couple minutes, you see how the yolk transforms in the
water and based on the pattern, it's almost like tea leaf rating, based on
what happens to the yolk it means different things and one of those things could be that there was
a hex or bad energy placed on you. And what's also very interesting, I actually
did it the other day because I had like a million car accidents and a bunch of
stuff happened to me and hospitalizations all at once and I was like,
what's happening to me? And someone told me about the egg thing and I did it and
it said that there was a curse placed on me.
How do you get rid of it?
That's a great question.
I asked everyone in our Two Girls One Ghost community to just send good vibes to me and
it seemed to have done the trick.
Hey, good vibes help.
Yeah.
But one thing I learned from some of the practicing witches in our community is that curses and
hexes don't have to be created with intention.
So like, someone doesn't have to consciously think,
I need to place a curse on this person.
It could just be so many negative thoughts and feelings that someone has
that's projecting through the space and onto this other person.
They don't know that they just cursed you,
but it does kind of speak to like the power of our thoughts
and our minds and how powerful we can be
and just trying to, you know,
manifest good and think good energetic things
and that will all come back to you in the end.
I love that.
Yeah, me too.
Well, after Bob learned about the cursewood in plain,
he also uncovers reports about a person he
calls Dr. M. Bob says that in the 1920s and 30s, this man lived in the Brownsville street
house.
He also had a bad reputation and a tendency to drink too much, which is not a good quality
for a doctor, especially one who performed illegal abortions out of his own home, which, according to Bob,
is exactly what Dr. M did.
The house's back door was impossible to see from the street because of how the doorway
and the porch were set up, so women could sneak in and out of the home late at night
with little risk of anyone knowing what they were up to.
Unfortunately, the door came to be known as the door of sorrows because of the bad treatment
many of the clients received during their surgeries.
Allegedly, Dr. M didn't really want to help his patients.
He looked down on them and was often rude and dismissive.
And he also didn't follow proper medical procedures.
My question though is, is this a rumor or are there documents about this?
The facts.
I think it's just according to Bob.
Okay.
I think.
But again, I haven't read his book, so I don't know 100% for sure. But allegedly, there was a report of at least one of Dr. M's patients who died.
And to cover up her death, Dr. M burned her body in the basement furnace.
Then he ended up burying the ashes in the backyard of the home.
Bob thinks that Dr. M's work may also be what attracted evil spirits to his house.
The woman's murder along with her children in 1792 and the curse on Mrs. Malick probably
didn't help either, but he believes Dr. M is the main reason that evil resides there.
Although Bob does say that the woman's ghost is still around
and she's definitely not evil.
To this day, people claim to see a woman
dressed like an 18th century Puritan
walking the grounds outside of Bob's house.
She doesn't harass anyone or hurt anyone.
She's not an angry spirit apparently.
She's just a restless
ghost going about her eternal business. Now here's a question. Do you believe that there
are good and evil ghosts and can they live in the same place?
Yeah.
Yes, totally.
100%.
Yes, without a doubt.
Yeah.
Okay, this is a random theory that because when I was briefly just in preparation for
this episode, looking up the case, there was this theory that I ran into that some people
speculated that the Cranmer family was targeted because of their bloodline.
Oh.
And allegedly, one of Bob Cranmer's ancestors was a real historical figure named Thomas Cranmer, who was the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury
during the English Reformation and worked
helping dismantle the Roman Catholic influence
with King Henry VIII.
Wow.
And was later executed, burnt alive at the stake
for heresy by Queen Mary I, aka Bloody Mary.
Stop.
What?
So again, allegedly, but when I read that, I was like, okay, this kind of makes sense
if Bob now is this devout Catholic and he comes from a family bloodline that dismantled
Catholicism, is there some darkness that his ancestors kind of sent to
him?
Got to break that generational trauma, baby.
Yeah.
Well, and also with the woman who's wandering the grounds, it's interesting because when
you guys were first saying that the family would come downstairs and all the lights would
be on, my first thought was someone else is in that house who is afraid,
like a spirit is in that house who's afraid of who's upstairs at night or who's in the basement.
Like the first floor is the safe zone. And that was my first thought. So I do wonder if this woman
perhaps was the person who was turning on the lights and is kind of around and responsible for
maybe some of the lulls in the demonic activity.
Ooh, that's a really interesting thought.
Okay, so let's just summarize everything.
So Bob thinks there's a lot of tragedy and heartache in his house's history, obviously,
right?
We know a lot of stuff went down on that particular land, going back to the European family's
murder, the curse on Mrs. Malik, and Dr.
Im's illegal medical practice.
Bob also believes there's only one person who was capable of getting rid of the demon,
and that was Bob himself.
In fact, he believes he was fated to fight this demon since before he was born.
At one point in his research, Bob talks to a psychic named Connie, who had helped with
his successful exorcism, and Connie tells Bob that he is a reincarnated soul.
She tells him his mother was one of the women who went to Dr. M for an illegal abortion.
The procedure killed him and his mother, but instead of moving on to the afterlife, Bob
had another shot at existence.
He was born as himself, Bob Cranmer, and that's why he's always been drawn to this house as a child.
Because he was literally fated to purify it from the evil forces that were possessing
it.
Drop the mic.
Boom!
Right?
I mean, if this were a movie that's a beautiful tie a bow on it story, but I have just reservations in terms of like, did Connie know all of the
information that Bob gave him?
And sure, maybe Bob was fated to defeat whatever evil was here.
And I love that for him if that's his narrative.
But I don't know, that feels almost too perfect.
I agree.
And it does make me think of just some
of the reincarnation stories that we have heard.
And I feel like there's often at least the energy
or the thoughts about a certain place
where the person had previously resided,
especially if it was a place where they lost their life.
It wasn't rosy rainbows, butterflies,
I wanna move here, this place is majestic. So I do find it interesting that he was so drawn to it.
If his mom lost her life in a really terrible way, he also lost his life here.
And if this was a place where, because one of the questions I had when thinking about this doctor
who was performing these illegal abortions and he was, you know, just treating people so poorly
and like, why even risk your license? Why operate like that? But in the end, it sounds like he was just
an evil dude who wanted access to these super vulnerable people. And so, yeah, it just does
make me question, I guess, like, well, I guess he's saying to his purpose was to go back
and banish the evil from this house. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, I'm also left with some questions and reservations.
But I also don't want to not believe someone's story.
I know, and this is the thing, you know.
I think it's the happy ending we would all want to think,
because you think about this man who has put his family through so much
by staying in this frickin' house for so long
and doing these exorcisms for two years.
But also, like, at the expense of who or what, right?
Like he's doing all of this to fix the past, but like what about his future?
What about his kids?
How much trauma has he created for them by keeping them in this house and performing
exorcisms?
Like what do they say about him and their childhood?
That's what I want to know too.
That's what I'm left so like in search of is what happened to his children and his wife.
Like what are their experiences?
And it kind of goes back to what I was saying earlier.
This whole story is coming from Bob, which it's his experience.
Like I'm happy to hear it, but there's so many perspectives we're not hearing.
There's other pieces to the story.
We need to save that for another episode.
But there is something else that we have to talk about. That the demons the Cranmer family
were fighting were real, but also metaphorical. It's important not to overlook the mental
health conversation here, right? Whether the house was the catalyst or a symptom to that isn't what's important.
What is important is that the family was struggling at times.
At some point while he lived in the house, Bobby Jr. was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Many medical professionals believe his mood swings and his aggression were symptoms of
his mental health condition, not an influence from a dark spirit,
much like what happened to Lisa.
And sadly, it's very common for people with disorders
like schizophrenia to believe
that they're being tormented by demons.
But more often than not,
the best way for them to get help
is by talking to a trained mental health professional,
not by getting an exorcism.
So it's possible that Bob latched onto the idea of this evil spirit or demon to help
him make sense of a very difficult situation.
If there's one thing we've learned from doing this show, it's that anything is possible.
But then again, we may never know the full story of what truly went on inside the Cranmer
House.
Because remember, it's not just the Cranmer saying this.
There were other people that experienced things there that to this day, they cannot explain.
You have the kids' friends who say they saw a shadowy figure in the home, priests
who came to perform exorcisms
multiple times.
And then there are some details that Bob definitely didn't imagine, like his walls bleeding
so bad that the liquid was puddling on the ground, which Lisa also saw.
Apparently this damaged the paint so bad that they had to put up brand new wallpaper when
he converted
his home into a B&B.
So yeah, I think it's more likely than not that the Cranmers were dealing with something
that they couldn't explain or control.
And if you believe the story Bob heard from the psychic, that he was literally reincarnated
to deal with the house, well, it sounds to me like this tale
is about destiny and fate,
and a reassurance that no matter how dark things get,
good will always find a way to overcome evil.
Well, that's a beautiful sentiment.
Right?
I mean, we have to have hope.
Yeah, yeah.
You have to, especially in telling all of these stories,
we always have to look for the light always
Right. I do want to know what happened to the family who lived there and sold the house to Bob
Because we don't have that story either and they were in such a rush to sell it
They were worried the whole time they were touring the house
They accepted a low offer so and people the rumors of the house being haunted since the 1930s.
There's clearly a lot of stories that went around.
Well, I know that, I mean, it's kind of a confusing thing,
the fact that Bob does not wanna discuss
the house being haunted today, which I understand
because he's not trying to attract the demonic energy
back to the place, but I am curious
if there are any reviews out there
of people who've stayed there
and what they may have experienced.
Because he can't control the review on the internet, right?
He can only control what he says.
Is it still a bed and breakfast?
It is, yeah.
It's still a bed and breakfast, it is.
Why do I wanna go?
Girls' trip?
Yeah, no.
No.
No.
No.
Me by myself. I have enough hauntings of my own over here.
I gotta read the script.
Right, right, right, right.
Corinne's like, I love you, but no.
No.
Well, you guys, I cannot tell you how much of a joy
it has been to have you on our show.
Sabrina, Corinne, like you guys are truly the experts, you know, of all of this.
Rasha and I...
With an asterisk.
Yeah, but truly, like Rasha and I are just diving into all of these, you know, hauntings and paranormal stories.
So to have you two on with us today has been the absolute
honor. So thank you so much. Everybody should listen to their podcast. It's
called Two Girls, One Ghost. Two Girls, One Ghost if you didn't hear us whisper. You can
find them on YouTube or wherever else you get your podcasts. Mahalo nui loa. Thank you guys so
much.
Thank you so much. And we're so excited. Can't wait to have you on our show to talk more
about your paranormal experiences and maybe, I don't know, maybe haunt you a little bit
on our show. I love it.
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