Two Hot Takes - 37: Paranormal.. Nothing Normal About it
Episode Date: October 14, 2021TW: ghost stories.. also includes talks of murder/suicide Two Hot Takes host, Morgan, is joined by guest co-hosts Alejandra and Lauren!! The trio is back and they're taking on all things paranormal. T...hey had no idea what they were getting themselves into... Maybe don't listen to this one alone! As always your support is very appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/TwoHotTakes Full length Video episodes available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TwoHotTakes Direct Inquiries: TwoHotTakes@gmail.com
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Okay, let's introduce ourselves before we forget and get to the end and we're doing it.
Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of Two Hot Takes.
I'm your host, Morgan.
And I'm Alejandra.
And I'm Lauren.
That was better.
Good job.
That was better.
Perfect.
That was better.
Coming at you guys with a trio episode, we're so excited for this.
It's been like a fricking, a request.
People have been, trio, bring them back.
Yeah.
When was the first one?
Months ago?
Forever.
First and only, actually.
Yeah.
We were scared to do another trio.
Yeah, we were.
Here we are.
But here we are, with truly spooky vibes.
Paranormal.
Are you shocked she's doing this one?
Yeah, a little bit.
I mean, how scary can it be?
I have some listener read-ins that actually sent in pictures of their ghost.
It's pretty scary.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Paranum is really, really scared of scary movies.
She cannot listen to true crime podcasts.
She can't really watch scary movies.
And so, before we started recording tonight, she's like, should I watch Squid Game?
And we're like, no.
You will cry and have a nervous breakdown.
Well, I originally thought that Squid Games was another, like, the circle, or like, do
you want to handle?
I thought it was just like a reality show.
Can you imagine?
Yeah.
No, it is.
It is very much not.
It is dark.
Yeah, dark.
But I did go to the Stanley Hotel last weekend, which it's in Estes Park, and apparently
it's where the Shining was filmed.
And our driver was saying that, I said driver because it wasn't an Uber driver.
Apparently they only do like safe rides there, but then the driver sounded very like elite,
like my driver.
But no.
But anyway, he was saying that Jim Carrey filmed there for Dumb and Dumber, or stayed
there when they were filming there.
And apparently he ran out and said, I refuse to stay at this hotel.
It's haunted?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's super haunted.
Our server said that he's only been working there for like six months, but he said that
he had a guest that took all of her clothes off and ran around naked in the lobby saying
that a ghost was chasing her.
And I had drinks there.
That's impressive.
Thank you.
Do you know this going into it?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Wow.
I didn't know like the other stories, but I knew that it was like haunted.
Okay.
Wow.
This is kind of funny that you mentioned that because we have a listener right in from the
Stanley.
Ooh.
Yeah.
And it happened six months ago.
Oh, it was her.
She was naked.
Let's see.
So listener writes in and she goes, what happened to me at the Stanley Hotel?
Hello.
This happened to me about six months ago when I was visiting Colorado with my family for
context.
Myself and my boyfriend had booked night tour tickets to the Stanley and I was thrilled.
For clarification, I'm something of a hopeful skeptic and my boyfriend is more on the side
of disbelief entirely.
I would just go ahead and call him a skeptic, but his conviction goes far beyond the ramifications
of the word in this context to my belief.
I think he thinks the whole idea of ghosts and the paranormal is fun, but it just doesn't
seem realistic to him.
Any outright refuses to put any belief in the idea.
I was genuinely excited for the whole thing.
Me being the little ghoul I am had already done research into the whole history of the
building and was mainly just excited to be there and see what the tour had to offer.
My boyfriend, the trooper he is, was just along for the ride.
The tour guide allegedly warned us before we began that due to the high altitude we may
feel feigned or pass out and if we felt we were going to, it was okay to step out or
take a moment and that the tour would circle back around.
Important note, I suffer from heart palpitations and they have been intense enough in the past
that I had to fight to stay conscious.
I have almost passed out before due to them, but the cause wouldn't be something such
as altitude.
And even if that did happen, I declined the prospect of missing any of the tour at the
beginning.
In all seriousness, I was going to stay in the tour even if I had severe palpitations.
Let's cut to the chase.
And I will say this while leaving out as much as possible so it's an entirely blank slate
experience for any who might wish to attend.
It was time to enter Lucy's room.
There was no light whatsoever in this room except for a red light, which was the only
light in the hallway, which spilled into the entryway of the room, but did absolutely
nothing in the way of revealing the interior.
My boyfriend was actually a little jumpy and hot-footed it since he was a little wary
of entering.
I remember pushing him out of the way, not literally, I just got in front of him and
saying, don't be scared, and entering.
Why would I say this, you might ask?
I want it to be known.
I was genuinely excited to be there.
I was genuinely excited at the prospect of seeing something I couldn't explain and having
a reason to believe.
There was an ounce of fear in me, of course, but I couldn't imagine any time being wasted
due to fear.
I was too elated at the entire situation and the prospects it held.
We entered, and I put myself in the corner so I had a view of the door and the people
coming in.
From the moment I entered, I began to see little white shapes dance across my vision.
No biggie.
I had seen similar shapes in dark rooms as a child.
Nothing new there.
Something to do with my eyes adjusting to the light, no doubt.
However, just under a minute of me being in this corner, I noticed as I was watching
people file into the room, I started seeing their after images, follow behind them.
Not anything like a little blur that covered the next people coming in to make that effect.
I kept seeing the same person enter, over and over again, like a haze.
And it was happening for everyone.
For instance, guy number one is super buff and short.
After he enters the first time, I would see the exact same shape follow closely behind.
Girl number two who's super tall and lanky would enter for the first time.
And I would see her shape follow closely behind and enter the room over and over again.
And it wouldn't stop.
I think there's a term for this experience actually, and in those stories the visual
effect follows the person.
These kept going.
I started to think my eyes were playing tricks on me due to the light, and I wiped my eyes
to get rid of it.
Nope, kept happening.
I began to feel light like I was floating and light as a feather.
I can no longer feel the floor beneath me or anything for that matter.
I don't imagine it as being lifted.
It was suddenly like all sense just disappeared except sight.
Nothing around me.
Like I was there, but I wasn't.
And even that doesn't describe it.
It almost felt like I was being held off the ground in suspension, but there was no weight
pulling me down.
I felt like I weighed nothing at all.
And I remember envisioning a feather in the center of my chest.
I felt what can only be described as my head falling backwards and my eyes closing.
But I could see perfectly, and there was no concept of shape.
I remember having to fight to regain control over my body again, and when I looked up the
hazes were still happening.
Same guy number one entering the room over and over again.
Same girl number one entering the room over and over again.
And I remember feeling a sense of danger and knowing I needed to leave.
So I said, I need to go, and waited to see if the hazes cleared.
They didn't.
But the hazes seemed to move out of the way instead.
I remembered gunning it for the door and hoping I didn't hit anybody.
The hallway was distorted, like looking through a fisheye lens.
The walls were tall and round, and the floor was thin and long, and the red light was intense.
I ran back to the stairs.
I initially came down and noticed the carpet was distorted as well.
No color changes, but certain areas of the pattern were bulged and round, and other parts
were thin and spindly.
I ran up the stairs as best I could, and my vision began to blink.
When I remember this part now, I distinctly remember it in frames, like I remember being
by one chair when I came up the stairs, and being much farther away and closer to the
doors next.
Not like a fluid memory that plays normally in your head.
And the moment I got out of those doors, it was normal again.
It took a few seconds to clear up, but almost instantly, after I was fine again.
Completely fine.
Now, as I said, I've almost passed out before on multiple occasions, and for me, there's
always a warning and a sense of dread.
There's panic, and I know it's coming ahead of time.
And now, due to a more recent event, I have almost passed out due to low blood sugar,
so I still haven't experienced anything like this.
As well, in the moment I felt like I was falling back, I felt no fear.
Only confusion and peace.
I wondered what was happening, but I wasn't terrified and panicking in the moment, like
I have been since.
I've never experienced anything visual like this either, not since or before.
In fact, nothing I experienced in the story I've ever experienced before or after, which
is why this experience excited me.
The moment everything cleared away after I got outside as well, I remember being super
angry with myself for not sticking through it and seeing what happened, because I got
exactly what I wanted, a super cool experience with no explanation from my end.
I heard later on from another person on the tour that she thought I was an actor, which
was fun.
And the buff guy was a real guy.
He told me later on his wife had to stop him from running too.
I understand this sounds super made up and crazy because even though I have fun telling
my friends and family the story, it definitely comes across as a short fiction on paper.
But I promise, for what it's worth, it's actually happened.
And this is actually one of the best stories I'll ever most likely have.
She sounds like a paranormal lover.
Wait, so what about her boyfriend?
Did he experience anything?
That's my question.
So top comment, isn't this related to the lack of oxygen?
And she goes, it's entirely possible, but I would assume passing out from lack of oxygen
would feel the same as passing out from hyperventilating or low blood sugar.
I'm actually dumbfounded I didn't look into this more, so I will.
Just personally haven't had any issues with high altitude, and I didn't assume passing
out like that would include whole hallucinations.
And someone else goes, did your boyfriend say anything about how you were acting during
all of this?
And they go, in the moment after I returned to the group, he was super supportive and
comforting.
When I returned, the little white shapes I mentioned previously came back and stayed
until we left the room.
He did the good boyfriend thing and comforted me and tried to get them to go away, since
in all seriousness, he thought I was experiencing an intense panic attack.
Before and during the experience, he didn't really react because, to be fair, he didn't
really have much time to.
The way I wrote it probably conveys that this happened over the course of a few minutes,
whereas in reality, the actual experience occurred over the course of a minute or two
at most, possibly less.
He has heard the recounting of the tail from my lips and seems to be on the side of, she
just had a wild ass panic attack, which is unfortunate, but what can one do?
I mean, it does, the way she's explaining it, does kind of sound like somebody who's
on the brink of fainting.
And when she describes certain aspects, I'm like, that's kind of how I feel when I'm
in a strobe-like situation, where I start to disassociate with my surroundings, and
all of a sudden, I'm just watching myself move in slow motion.
So, I mean, I'm not doubting her experience at all.
It's just so hard, because you're like, is this a visceral response to something, or is it like,
I know, is it true paranormal?
I would feel the exact same way, and that's kind of where my head was at, too.
But just because of the Stanley Hotel having all these weird stories that happened.
What's the story, though?
What happened there?
I actually have no idea.
I don't know.
The only thing that I knew about it is that they say it's haunted, and that the
Shining was filmed there, which is kind of funny that I went to that building,
because I wouldn't even watch The Shining with you and Sarah.
When you guys tried to make me remember, I was like, it was more Sarah.
But yeah, I don't even think I could tell you what happened to that movie.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I don't know if I could subject myself to that.
Well, I didn't do the tour, but they were all sold out.
We did look into doing the tours.
We just got drinks in the restaurant, so we didn't actually get to go fully immersed
in there.
I probably would be a little bit more nervous if we did.
What else did the server that you hung out with that worked there to say?
That's all he said.
Just the naked girl story.
Oh, I was just laughing, because we were making fun of the server, and we were like,
oh, see your ex-girlfriend.
Kept pretending that was his ex-girlfriend.
OK, well, up next.
Yeah, if you're watching on YouTube, me and Alejandra are going to go back and forth
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OK, so this next one is actually from a paranormal investigator.
Oh, nice.
That's a job.
Yeah.
You didn't know that either.
I knew there was like ghost hunters or whatever, not the spusters, but like.
Well, he like basically.
No, you know, the like shows, I'm blanking on the names, but they're actually like,
that's their job, and they shut down the area, and they like take a little like.
Yeah, temperatures of the room, and they're like, they have all the little
ghost machines 10 degrees, like paranormal is here.
You know what I mean?
They like they do it.
They study it.
I'm like, I think that's him.
Yeah, like anyone out there is like, fuck you, you're butchering this profession.
But I know it's a real job.
It's so funny, because do you we had the circle on and that's the only time I ever
saw is when we were we had a bunch of people over and we were all watching
this reality show.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
When like Kendrick and all them were there.
So they had this like fake occupation in the circle where this guy
like said that he was a ghost hunter and he was explaining what it was like
to be a ghost hunter and how he came into that career.
And everybody like their reactions were so priceless, but he was making everything up.
But well, this guy isn't.
OK, let's hear it.
So this listener actually wrote this to me in June of like 2021.
So like months ago.
So he goes to start, I think it is relevant that I provide a little background
information.
My name is Jake, 28 male, and I've been studying the occult and paranormal
for the better part of 13 years and almost 10 semi professionally.
I have personally investigated over 150 alleged hauntings and have been a part
of three teams.
I've been able to meet many interesting people doing this.
I was even able to meet and have a very personal conversation with Lorraine Warren,
the person whose case files the Conjuring movies are based off of.
Oh, my gosh, damn.
Despite all of the recent criticism from the paranormal community,
she was a wonderful woman to meet.
Why is this important?
I don't mean to sound arrogant.
It serves a purpose.
Most of my research is mundane and boring.
Many things that appear to be supernatural can usually be explained away by sometimes
complex, however, usually mundane and normal scientific means.
I try to stay skeptical and look for sound reasons in everything, even where there
is none.
In my 10 plus years of research, I've only had a handful of things ever baffle me.
And of those experiences, none of them shook me to my core more than this one.
Give it to us.
I got the chills.
I know, I'm excited.
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In the summer of 2012, around a family get-together, my uncle had mentioned that he had previously
purchased a property and that his workers have reported weird happenings.
My uncle is a businessman that makes his money by buying foreclosed or derelict commercial
properties in and around the Chicagoland area and essentially flipping them by turning
them back into either functional businesses or renovated commercial buildings.
As it is common knowledge among my family that I am heavily invested in paranormal research,
he brought the complaints to me, mostly in just at the time.
After some prodding and convincing, I was able to have his ear long enough to have him
agree that me and my team would be allowed to set up an investigation.
He seemed to think little of the stories that his employees would tell.
I took them differently as many of them sounded like the employees were genuinely terrified.
One of the reasons I became a paranormal researcher was to help debunk fears when someone had
no one to turn to.
My uncle was mostly a shrewd man when it came to money, so I offered my services free of
charge in hopes that I may be able to bring some closure or peace to the employees.
After a month, my team and I were Chicago bound with all of our equipment.
I had with me my best friend Derek, 21 male at the time, and my other friend Eric, 22
male at the time.
Between us, we had several cameras, sensors, and various instruments of the trade.
When we arrived, it was clear that renovations were in full swing and mostly complete.
The building was a large three-story and housed a hotel with a full restaurant and ballroom.
Despite my uncle's wealth, my immediate family was lower middle class, and it was very obvious
to all of us in our Bantees and Rusty Astrovan that we were gravely underdressed.
We made our way inside to the front desk, weaving in between the hustle and bustle of
what was happening around us.
We were met by a receptionist, and he asked what we needed and asked if we were lost,
obviously alluding to our shabby college appearances.
We tried our best, LOL.
I explained that our uncle had told us that he was going to allow us to set up for the
night and do a lockdown style investigation.
The receptionist seemed confused by this information, stating that he did not doubt that my uncle
gave us that permission, but that it would be difficult to achieve as they would be having
guests there that night, and they had just recently opened for business.
At this point, I was feeling quite disappointed, and he saw that on my face.
He excused himself and stated that he would talk to his manager, and if need be, contact
my uncle to sort it out.
After a few moments, he comes back.
He says that there was a slight misunderstanding with the schedule and says that regardless,
we can have a room and stay the night, and as long as we would like, that we were free
to set up and investigate, as long as it did not interfere with other guests.
The other nice-looking man walks up as our talk with the receptionist ends and says that
he will provide a tour of the place so that we can become acquainted with the layout.
He took us to the lobby, into the packed restaurant, and showed us the kitchen that was in full
production dinner fury.
After that, he showed us to the ballroom that was empty and closed for further renovation.
However, showed us around backstage in case we wished to investigate there.
Finally, we were shown around the corridors and rooms.
After the tour, we returned to our van to retrieve our equipment.
We were overly excited to be staying in such a nice place, and I called my uncle to thank
him and explain the schedule mix-up.
When I asked him why he had us investigating in the full swing of business day, he responded
with confusion.
He asked us to verify the address as we began to unpack things.
He explained that we must be in the wrong place since he had only just begun renovations
on the building, and it was supposed to be empty.
As he said that, a shiver ran down my spine.
My phone then died in my hand, and Derek's and Eric's phones began to rapidly ring before
also dying.
We all turned around to look back across the street to see a building in ruin.
No.
Oh my god, I got full body chills.
Same.
The same building we had just walked through somehow.
We checked the chained door and boarded up windows and even tried to retrace our steps
on our tour, and parts of the building that we were supposedly just in were even completely
missing.
At this point, we were beyond scared, but tried to talk through it rationally as we climbed
back in our van.
We had nothing.
We couldn't all have hallucinated the same, with the exact same details.
Even recalling such details among each other, down to the color of the napkins the dining
people were using.
We debated staying, but as we were deciding, we checked all of our equipment and all of
our batteries, backup batteries, and backup backup batteries were completely drained.
Holy shit, this is insane.
At this point, we were really terrified and just wanted to leave.
Luckily, our van started and we pulled away quickly, not once looking back.
Holy shit.
I feel like, what's insane.
What creeped me out is that you're all walking through the same hallucination, because you're
like, you're not here.
Whatever.
How the hell?
I've never heard anything like that before.
I feel like I would be institutionalized after this.
I don't say that lightly.
I would honestly be in an asylum after this.
I would check myself in.
I'd be like, clearly, I can't trust my own sight.
But the fact that all of them, that is so crazy.
I would need therapy.
You have three separate people.
You know what's crazy?
It's not crazy.
But when you were talking about this, his uncle sounds like a developer and it sounds
very developed, meaning it's out of his hands at this point.
Why are they touring a full building if that's in business?
Clearly, it's past inspection.
It doesn't matter anymore.
It's kind of like, his hands are clean.
So I was a little confused by that detail, but then I was like, oh my god.
So were there any people there?
There were people.
But I'm saying were there still people once they looked back?
No.
I assume there's nothing.
The building was in ruin.
My god.
Parts of it were missing, he said.
Parts of the building that we were supposedly just in were even completely missing.
So the receptionist wasn't real?
Like that didn't happen?
None of it was real.
Holy shit.
It was literally a ghost vision.
How does that happen?
Does he have an analysis of what this could be?
So he goes on to say, to this day, this is the only investigation I have ever abandoned
and hope that someday I get to return to finish.
Since 2012, the building has been restored to its original hotel restaurant combo.
My uncle asked me to be vague about business details as he still owns and operates his
property and has let me know that many guests and employees continue to see people walk
into dead ends, then vanish, and other ghostly encounters.
As stated before, most investigations turn out to be mundane or debunked.
Hauntings are never like in the movie, but in this circumstance, we were completely floored
and it made me a believer for life.
After some background research on the building, it was clear that there was never any tragedy
or out of the ordinary desks on the premises.
I like to believe that we simply somehow walked into an echo or ripple in time, like a ghost
of the atmosphere and happenings and maybe even a snapshot of some people too.
That is so wild.
There's a theory.
And that's actually a really cool theory that he brought up.
It is an actual theory that there are alternative universes simultaneously happening.
Every little decision that you made today could have one other one and another universe
could ripple it.
I think Justin would fucking know about this, this little space Stephen Hawking genius boy,
but it is an actual thing.
Yeah, no, there's a documentary.
They believe that the Rumiida Triangle has something to do with that and there's something
called the zone of death or something like that, where there's no gravitate.
Pilots who fly in there have completely lost direction.
There's no, all of their compasses stop working and there's somebody who came out of there
and it was a different year.
It's like some manifest shit.
Yeah, it's literally like the show manifest.
I wish I knew the Netflix documentary so I wasn't just speaking out of my ass right
now, but it is something that Brett was watching and I was watching it too.
We'll find it.
We'll put it in the YouTube.
Unexplained.
Yeah, we'll find it.
So crazy.
It's kind of cool that he was like, nothing bad happened there.
We genuinely think that we entered like a ripple in time or something crazy like that.
It's honestly kind of cool.
Like it's very chilling, but I would kind of like...
But nothing scary happened necessarily.
He didn't have any one mess with it.
I mean, yes, of course, the whole thing was scary, but like nobody was being mean to him.
Like the guy was really nice at the counter.
It sounded like...
Well, and it's really crazy.
It almost, it reminds me of a lot of things.
It reminds me of like the Titanic where they are in the bones of the Titanic and then like
the movie.
And then all of a sudden it flashes like back to the actual like Titanic.
Or like, there's a movie with Owen Wilson, Lauren, your favorite person.
But there's a movie with him called Midnight in Paris where he...
Yeah, me and my mom literally just watched that.
That's the movie I was telling you guys about.
It's so good.
That's literally the movie.
So it reminds me of that where it's like, all of a sudden you're like in this alternative
universe, but like everything is so real, like you're just transported back in time.
It's crazy to me, the chains were on the gates of this.
Like how did they walk in so freely in this building?
This was a true like ghost world.
Yeah, and the fact that their phones, everything lost battery, it's like the gravitational
pull or whatever, whatever happened.
Magnetic field or some crazy shit.
Which is similar to the duck man I was watching.
That's so crazy.
I know.
It's like the minute that he was on the phone with the uncle, they just took all of the
technology out.
Yeah.
Well, like their batteries, their backup batteries, their backup backup batteries, the fact that
the phones, like his friend's phone started like ringing rapidly and then all of a sudden
died.
Yeah.
Unreal.
Unreal.
I still have the chills.
Me too.
I have constant goosebumps.
I'm literally going to email him back now and be like, absolutely insane.
Also what hotel?
So I can stay there the next time I get home.
Yeah, I think he was saying that he doesn't want to because his uncle still does business
here.
But he'll tell me, right?
Maybe like Hush, Hush, Hush.
Shake, you're going to tell us, right?
I would tell him.
When you go, let's say he told you, would you?
If I was with people.
Yeah.
Like us three.
Yeah, let's do it.
Yeah.
If we all agreed on it.
Okay.
Let's do it.
If we never came back.
No, we'll be.
It's restored now.
People stay there.
Peace.
What a way to go.
Wow.
Insane.
I wouldn't stay there.
We can go.
I would like.
We'll check out the ballroom.
Yeah, I wouldn't stay there.
I would definitely be.
Unless we were all cuddled.
Nope.
Even so.
We'll hold hands the whole time.
Yeah, but not staying there.
Yeah.
I'm not staying there.
We'll just hold hands.
But I'm okay.
Not sleeping there.
Yeah.
No, we can go stay at.
We can stay at another place, but.
Okay.
I think it would be good.
Oh, that's fucked up.
That's like the craziest, coolest.
I don't think anything can top that.
No.
Well, this next one, she sent in a picture.
Sorry.
That was so.
I am so sorry.
Cut that out.
No, it's staying.
It's good.
Start the episode with that.
Yeah.
Add it to the two hot takes soundtrack.
It's like layers.
Justin, can you like chop and screw that into the song?
Yeah.
We'll add it in.
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We're starting off today with listener right in.
I kind of like it.
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Okay.
So I don't know if you're still taking paranormal stories
for a future episode, but I figure I send in my experience.
So my freshman year, I was in a triple dorm
with two girls who I genuinely did not get along with.
However, we're all united on the front that something weird
slash spooky was happening in our room.
We were on the second story of our dorm building,
and often we would begin to hear Jack and the box music.
We would go investigate with all three of us
to see if anyone in the hallway was playing music
or outside our window, but never found anyone.
This would happen frequently.
Other times, we would all be watching something
on the television we shared, and suddenly,
books would fall from the shelves they had been on
and the TV would glitch.
One time while watching TV, it turned itself off
and the TV stand shook and the flat screen fell over.
We all watched in horror of it and screamed.
After a few occurrences like this, we decided to tell our RA
about our weird experiences together
because we did not want to seem crazy.
So we all went together and she informed us
that lots of people on the floors above us,
but in the same room, i.e. the room directly above us
on each floor, so like 101, 202, 302, et cetera,
had reported similar happenings to their RA's.
The freakiest happening didn't come
until we shared with our RA, though.
Our dorm room doors were on the hydraulic hinges,
so no one could slam the door
and they would shut slowly behind
for moving efficiency from the university.
This meant that no one could pull the door shut quickly.
It simply couldn't be done with the weight of the hinges
and the weight of the door.
All of my roommates and I had anxiety,
so this feature was rather nice
because we knew when the door was being opened and closed
since it was so heavy and had those special hinges.
Every night, we all triple checked the door
being locked before bed
because of how bad all of our anxiety was.
On one night, after we had all checked on the door
and gone to lay down in our lofted beds,
the door slammed open
and was slammed shut again just as quickly.
We all three screamed
because it shocked and terrified us
from not only the noise,
but realization it should not have been physically possible
due to the door being locked
and the hinges the door used.
Our screams were so loud
that our RA and other people on our floor
ran to see what was wrong
and tried to open our door.
It was locked again just as it had been
when we checked it before the incident.
However, none of us had gone out of the bed
before they'd reached the door to check on us.
After the incident, we all struggled to live there.
It was scary and my anxiety increased 100%.
Small things happened here and there
like the Bluetooth speaker turning on
and playing creepy classical music.
Oh no. Shut up.
Despite my roommate being the only one connected to it
with a password.
Thankfully, nothing like the door incident
ever happened again,
but my RA did share a picture of the ghost.
We all believed it was haunting us.
From one of the residents
that lived above us,
I attached the picture here.
I got so stressed out living there,
I decided to move out early.
Freaky occurrences really stressed me out.
I'm convinced that a previous student
from the dorm is haunting it.
The building has been on campus since 1940.
Ever since, every time I hear a ghost story,
I instantly believe people.
Oh, okay, let's see it.
Wait, I'm so scared to see this picture.
It's not going to be that creepy.
What if it is? You don't know.
Do you think it is?
It gives me the chills, for sure.
I just, the fact that they all three
were already stressed out
of all triple checking the locks,
and then that happens.
Oh my God.
I want to unsee it.
I want to unsee it.
I want to unsee it,
but I almost won't look again.
Did I see that correctly?
No.
It's not just a person in a black jumpsuit.
No, think of it that way.
That helps me stomach it.
It's a person in a black jumpsuit
and it's glowy.
It's like a glowy light.
Are you crying?
Oh my God.
Wait, I see boots.
It's hovering off the ground.
Shut up.
It's literally hovering off the ground.
It's not connected.
You are fucking with me.
This is a real listener write-in.
Here's the email.
What if they're just fucking with us?
I think they're fucking with us.
I'm crying.
I didn't either. I don't scream.
My arms are numb right now.
My arms are going numb during the story.
Oh my God.
I don't know.
What? No.
I had another listener write-in
send in pictures too.
Are you crying?
Yeah, just from laughing at you guys.
I'm not scared. I'm laughing at you.
But I do have someone
that sent in a video
that sent in pictures of them
after a ghost attacked them
and they have scratch marks
and hand prints all over.
And I can't find the story anymore
so if you're the listener hearing this
but basically how to ghost.
Dude, I'm sleeping in your bed tonight.
Oh my God, seriously.
I think, wait, I have a story that I could
it's probably the best to tell right now.
Okay. Tell it.
I know you have a personal ghost experience.
This is one of them.
It's not that crazy but
do I know it? No.
I don't think so.
When I lived in Minnesota
my mom moved into a house
in Eden Prairie
with her second husband
like my stepdad.
And
things always happened
where we thought the house was haunted
or maybe not haunted.
When you were leaving
to go to LA when we were kids
I remember being in your basement
and everybody was just like
oh yeah, you know.
Oh really? Yeah.
And I was like, fuck, why are we here?
I'll give you really quick instances for context.
We had a basement, we finished it.
So in Minnesota you have basements
and sometimes they're unfinished
meaning they're just like
framework but then people finish them
and furnish them, whatever.
So we finished ours but when we bought it it wasn't.
And little weird things would happen
we had a dog and the dog would go down there
and it wasn't a very yappy dog
and it would go down there and just bark at a corner
as if it saw something
and we're just kind of like come on
it would just sit there and bark
and then Fernanda who they say that
kids and animals have more of a window
into these things. Definitely.
And so Fernanda was like
three or four and she's a very
even-keeled child, doesn't cause
scenes, nothing.
And my mom would be like go downstairs
and clean up your room because I think her playroom
upstairs, maybe she was older than three, like maybe five
came up the stairs like crying
and she said she saw something down there, like a person
and we were just like
okay she's a kid
but like weird things that happened
so like one of my
best friends Whitney like she'd be over
and we would be like watching TV on my main floor
so it had three floors upstairs
main floor basement
and we knew nobody was home
and you could like very clearly hear footsteps
and it wasn't like did you hear that
we'd both be like you hear that yep
and it would be like
you'd hear footsteps and
you could chalk it up. It wasn't a super old house
so like you, I don't know
like it was weird but not like super weird
and then
the weirdest thing that happened
one of the weird things that happened is
my mom was sleeping one night
and she had like a bad dream
or like it was a dream
and the dream was that like
it felt real, it was almost like lucid dreaming
where like you feel like
kind of feel like you're awake because you remember everything
and you feel like you're actually like
going through the motions
and she said she felt like a body hovering behind her
but she was sleeping alone
and she could like see the body
in her like dream or whatever
and it was like just long black hair
in front of the face
kind of like the grudge or whatever
and
she, my mom is like a religious person
so she tried to like do the like
the spirit like the cross and she said that like
she would get this far and then something would
whack her hand away
and she like couldn't do it.
Okay, this probably wasn't a dream.
She doesn't know, she feels like it was real
because she, I know and so then the next morning
Fernanda's still very young at this point
like I want to say five, something in that range
my mom's like brushing her hair getting her ready for the day
and my mom's like how'd you sleep when Fernanda's like
I slept okay, I just had like a bad dream
my mom was like oh what was it
she was like there was this person sleeping behind me
with long black hair in front of her face
and it was the same night
no and like yeah
I mean there wasn't a person in the house, let's put it that way
but it was more of like a paranormal situation
no this is for sure like a fucking ghost
or like evil spirit like
you could argue like okay this was like a sleep paralysis
demon but how do your mom and little sister
on the same night without talking to each other
exactly envision the same thing
it's either a wild coincidence
or like
there was some shared like energy that night
no there's a ghost for sure
yeah like some spirit
they both just like had this like weird like vision
that night and it was
that was like chilling and obviously
she's a child so my mom wouldn't like tell her that
no to like freak her out
and so my mom didn't she was like oh that sounds scary
and like but it's just a dream
she wasn't like oh my god girl me too you know
you don't tell that to a child
but yeah it was just weird things
happened in that house nothing to where
it was never like wow we need to get out of this house
it's so bad yeah but it was like
little things like the footsteps and
I feel like I don't really
remember like just weird noises
like stuff like that
it was never like harmful
that's like the most harmful it was probably
you guys know about my experience in Palm Springs
right oh you
you told my mom about this yeah
me too but like you and my mom were like bonding
that night okay so I
had to go to Palm Springs for like a field work
like one of my internships
and I
happened to know someone through my grad program
that like his mom owned an extra house
in Palm Springs
she was gonna turn it into an Airbnb so like
they let me stay there
but like I got to stay there
and it was just
me there for half the time and then like
his cousin moved in as well
and so
it used to be
an assisted living facility
it was like a three bedroom or four bedroom house
assisted living place and so I had
the master that had like my own bathroom
and whatever and so I'm like laying
down watching like
Great British Bake Off one night like trying
to fall asleep and
all of a sudden I hear
footsteps going up and down the hallway
and I could hear mumbled voices
down at the other end and like
if my bedroom was here
the hallway went in an L
and then there was like a washer and dryer
and so it sounded like they were like at
the end of the hallway talking
and then all of a sudden the light switch
on off on off
and I could look under the door and you could
see it going on off
and I just literally I was like this isn't real
this isn't real
pulled the sheet over my head and just laid
there all night it was
terrifying I was not
sleeping I hadn't fallen asleep yet
hadn't fallen asleep yet
it was so scary
and then like that was the first
experience and then
the cousin moved in
and the cousin wasn't living with me at that time
so it couldn't have been him and a friend
like no one was living with me yet
cousin moved in and there was a bedroom
at the end of the hall by the washer and dryer
and after this experience
I was always so scared that maybe someone was like living in there
without me knowing so every time I would hit
the door knobs to make sure they were still locked
locked all the time and so
I came home from work one
day and his cousin goes
super weird but like did you happen to go
into the bedroom at the end of the hall
and I was like no
like it's always locked and he goes
strange like
I came home from work today and the room was
wide open I didn't
unlock it and I talked to my aunt and she
didn't unlock it either
I'm like okay
and you never know how it got unlocked
no we no one we couldn't figure it out
it was just unlocked and open one day
ugh I hate it
yeah I was so so happy
I got to move out of there
yeah that's just it's scary
because it's like unexplained
yeah luckily it's not
malicious you know like to where you're like
you know what I mean
it's not
I have one like eerie story
I don't know if I've told you guys this before
but I was pretty young and I was with my siblings
and we were at my mom's
boyfriend's cabin
and my mom and her boyfriend like went out to this
bar like
it was super far away like this cabin was in the
middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere
like the closest like bar town was like
like miles and miles away
and all of a sudden like
we're all just you know watching TV hanging out
like just kids alone
and banging on
all of the doors
like one door then other door
like the next door like the window
like it was just like we were so
genuinely terrified that we all went
and I don't even know if we had like cell phones
at the time probably I don't know
but like we all went and like
hid underneath things like we were like hiding
underneath this like
coffee table and just were shaking
once we finally like got a hold
of my mom and her boyfriend
they told us that it was one of their friends playing
a prank on us I was that figured
no no wait for it
fucking ten years later or like five years whatever
it was my mom said no it wasn't
we have no idea
no idea till this day who
or what that was we just didn't want you guys
to be terrified and never go back to the cabin again
but weren't they concerned
oh I got the chills again
yeah but we I have
we have no idea did they like race home after that
to be like well I don't even know
if we got a hold of them at that point or if it was
until they got home and then we told them I don't
I don't I was pretty young like I was the youngest
out of all my siblings so I just remember being
terrified I don't remember all like the details but
I just when my mom told me that that wasn't
the truth
I was like you're
kidding me
so my god I've never heard that story
that is absolutely terrifying
I would yeah I would I'm like
I'm a scaredy cat like I get spooked
yeah like especially by loud
like I was just at not scary
farms last week oh fun
yeah except not if you're
spooked like I didn't know that you went there
yeah fun yeah and it was
um I went with Brett
for his birthday because he's like obsessed with that stuff
he like loves the scary
he loves it and he like I think
the thing that brings him the most joy is like me
being scared he like likes like me
being terrorized oh my god yeah and
so we went through like one of the haunted
or not the haunted mazes but I like the scary mazes
and I just like have like a heart attack
when I'm in there like I get
so spooked when things even though
I'm like I know something's about to jump out at me I can't
I know I hear a chainsaw noise
yeah yeah yeah
no no yeah
I know it's really crazy
too because like I mentioned it
in a couple episodes but I didn't like ever make a post
being like send me or paranormal stories
yeah but I had
probably close to a hundred
emails yeah I believe a hundred emails
of people sharing
and I'm like there's so many stories
that I want to share that like we're just not
yeah gonna be able to get to
but I'm just like I'm gonna have to figure out a way to like
screenshot and post like on a website
I gotta get a website up and going
okay so
I think this is gonna be the last listener
write in and then we'll get a couple reddit in
so
so when I
28 female now was 18
I lived with my boyfriend and his family
and next door to his brother and sister-in-law
a friend of my boyfriend's mom
owned and rented out a house
behind the one we lived in
and we were soon introduced to the new tenant
of that house whose nickname
we'll say is scorpion
he was a retired us marshal
tattoo artist
and minister
that is like the most eclectic
well-rounded
scorpion's a well-rounded
guy scorpion does it all
he had a former canine
police dog a white
german shepherd named Zeus
he was very friendly
he was very friendly and would always
come sit under our carport
and use our wi-fi a couple of months
after us knowing him he started talking
about waking up with scratches
hearing strange noises and his belongings
going missing he became
suspicious of paranormal activity in the house
he was renting so he would set up
his phone to record audio at night
he captured some audio
of himself growling
and speaking in tongues
while he thought he was asleep
but we wrote it off as him just trying
to scare us
and weren't really concerned
but he continued to tell us stories
of strange happenings in his house
so one day my boyfriend's sister
in law and I decided to go over
to scorpion's house with him and do a little
ghost hunting of our own
when we arrived we started with the usual
if there's anyone with us
give us a sign
commands not really expecting anything
to happen
well about 10 minutes in a walking around
and asking questions we heard knocking
coming from the master bathroom
we went in the master bedroom and couldn't find
any source for the noise
still asking questions and walking around
in the dark room we heard something heavy
drop onto the floor near the bed
we turned on the light and found
a brown leather baseball
that scorpion was shocked to see
and said he'd never seen it before
creepy but not
terrifying so we continued our ghost hunting
dude these people are brave as shit
sorry
I swear it was a little loud in the microphone
no it's okay
I just can't believe how brave they are
just wait just wait
after a while of getting no responses
to our questions we got bored
and all sat in the living room
the way scorpion had his living room set up
there were two couches back against
two adjacent walls creating a 90 degree angle
my boyfriend's sister in law
and I sat on the couch closest
to the exterior door
and scorpion sat on the other couch
we are all in idle conversation
when suddenly
scorpions well trained
and well behaved german shepherd
went absolutely nuts
and started barking and growling
at scorpion
hair raised on his back
burying his teeth and looking ready
to attack we were shocked
because this was so unlike Zeus
my boyfriend's sister in law
and I both looked at scorpion to see
what his reaction to this was
and as soon as we looked his way
he slowly turned his head towards us
with a completely
unrecognizable change coming over his face
the only way I can describe it
is animalistic
like a feral evil looking
on his face
once he was making eye contact
his mouth started twitching
and he started snarling at us
all while his dog is still
in attack mode and freaking out on him
I'm gonna throw up
are you serious
I don't know what I would do
made list to say sister in law
and I flew out of the house not stopping
until we got back to my boyfriend's parents house
scorpion did not follow thankfully
I'm a big Googler and I immediately started
looking up everything that happened
and all signs were pointing to demonic possession
stop really because I was thinking
split personality disorder
have you seen that movie
about that person who has split personality
they say I've looked this up
that people with like severe cases
can change their physical appearance
like in some cases
their eye color can change
I remember you telling me that before actually
but that's not even like that's not demonic
no no no you were talking about this
it's just the brain yeah
if you watch videos like in my psych class
like you stop to watch videos
of like schizophrenia
or multiple personality disorder
and with each personality their person changes
their look totally changes
their mannerisms everything
so that would be my like rational thought
but there's probably more to it
there is more
I did not expect to be this like
that's why I was like Lauren I didn't surprise you
oh my god I thought I was totally
what did you think it was like boo
literally
no it's not
I was picturing Casper like the friendly ghost
this is out of control
well now I know
but I need to change what reddit
once I read
so fast forward a few hours
and I was leaving to go to work
the driveway at our house was kind of long
so I had a little ways to back down
before getting to the street
right after getting into my car and starting it
I saw Scorpion walking over
he went under the carport where my boyfriend's family
was sitting and sat down
I was backing down the driveway at this point
but I saw him look up and lock eyes with me
and say something
I was putting my car in a drive to pull off
when a truck that was parked in the
school parking lot across from our house
floored it and backed into me
once the police report was done and I had called
into work I walked back up to the carport
where everyone was sitting
thankfully it's like um
it's what you guys have at your
apartment that's a carport
it's just where you park your car
well only because that's what Jeff's thing is
it's a car it's just like a little awning
it's like an awning that you park your car under
oh I did not speak well
he does not have a bra bra bra
I didn't even hear that
thankfully Scorpion was gone
but my sister-in-law was white as a ghost
she told me that as I was backing down the driveway
Scorpion was staring at my car
and said in a taunting sing-song
tone be careful
about 30 seconds before
the truck backed into me
coincidence I'm not so sure
fast forward a few weeks and sister-in-law
while I'm at work to tell me Scorpion
got in touch with a local paranormal
investigation group and they're going to
investigate his house that night
I agreed to head over with sister-in-law
when I get off work so that night
we walk over and meet the team
they had five people and all of their equipment
we separated into two groups
myself and three of the investigators
and Scorpion, sister-in-law
and the other two members
of the team
my group went into Scorpion's bedroom
lights off and door shut and the other group
went into the adjacent spare bedroom
I backed into a wall near the door as the team
pulled out a Ouija board and started asking
questions bad idea
it's a real thing yeah people do that
apparently like
for purposes other than just like to fuck with people
yeah me and Alejandra looked at each other
we were like I'm sorry what
who are these amateurs you do that
yeah we're like this team is a bunch of 12 year olds
yeah bad idea I know
but I was too scared to leave the room by myself
I stayed they asked all the routine questions
that paranormal investigators ask
but got no response after about
15 minutes we all met
back in the living room everyone
from the other group was wide-eyed
and looking nervous
my sister-in-law asked us what happened
and why one of us screamed
our group all looked at each other confused
and told them that none of us had screamed
or even talked above a whisper
Q confusion
for everyone as they all tell
us they definitely heard a high-pitched scream
from the master bedroom
I quickly left after that
not long after this
scorpion was diagnosed with a terminal illness
and given less than a year to live
he was having frequent seizures
needing some sort of transfusion weekly
and was preparing to begin
hospice care
he had to quit his job and moved out of the house
he was renting to live with family
honestly we all forgot about him
until we saw him at the grocery store
a few years ago
which would have been about six years
after all of this happened
he looked completely normal
healthy even and all I can think is that
he's better because he got out of that creepy house
for sure
oh my god
I have a feeling these guys they call him scorpion
because he has a big scorpion tattoo
probably something like that
exactly
that's a side note but oh my god
yeah
you can't rule out multi-personality disorder
you can't rule it out
the scream is weird though
yeah
and the dog snarling at him
that's crazy
but the dogs can sense
so if he was going into that other personality
the dog could have sensed an energy shift
and been like this feels wrong
I don't know I'd love to look into this
about people who are in fact multi-personality disorder
I wonder if their dogs
have ever had reactions to the split in personality
I just can't believe that this group of people
kept going back to the house
yeah that's why I was wondering
they're brave
she was 18 at the time so she's probably like
this isn't real
we thought he was messing with us at first
but no it does sound like a
obsession
I thought so too but the dog doing that
there's no way he could like
I mean he could I don't know
but the dog is a natural reaction
so I don't know how he could get his dog
to turn on him like that
play a prank
unless he found a way to trigger the dog
I don't know
not much on it
the top link is
dog trained for women
with multiple personalities
it's supposed to be a companion dog
but not much saying
how dogs react to that
but apparently dogs can have schizophrenia
I did know that actually
that is a crazy story though
well speaking of dogs
and to lighten the mood
so Lauren doesn't have to tap out over here
thank god
so this is going to Reddit now
this is from the subreddit
paranormal
our family dog came back to visit my mom
picture in link
so Kota the best golden retriever that ever lived
died years ago
when my dad set up a trail cam to spy on a fox
he got this picture
of what looks like Kota visiting my mom
was her person
aww that is light
and then
I think I can go full screen
this is the picture
see if you can see the dog
oh I see it right here
that's like very distinctly
no way
wow
wow that is like very
so crazy
you don't have to like work to make it
so I didn't notice this when I first read this story
so they go on to say
Kota appears to be on the deck
on the left side of the picture
on the right side my mom is bent over
leaning half way out of the open door
to the sun room
if something was on the deck she would have seen it
two feet in front of her face
at this point the whole family is convinced it's a picture
of a ghost Kota
she's sitting right there
she would have seen it
like she's sitting right
at the top of the steps
that's really cool
yeah this is definitely going to be an episode to tune in
to youtube for the pictures
this is the paranormal we like
yeah
it doesn't last long guys
oh shit
fuck
that last one though
was just like so crazy
that's a really good point that you brought up
um
with
I don't know
but I'm so curious about that
cause like if he had it
he would be like
I have no idea cause he's disassociating
and it might be like a combination
of different things going on in that house
like him and the house
exactly at play and he moved out
and he got the treatment he needed
and that's why he looked so much better
I don't know we're totally speculating here
there's so much shit though
you look at like crazy shit too
like what is it
amityville house like where dad
this family they were totally happy
am I need to
there's like
I just like heard of this and I like don't want to re-hear it
I'm scared
if you just think about all these scary stories
that all these movies are based off of
the con drain, amityville horror
like whatever it is
these stories come from a speculation of truth
and so there's one story where this man and his family
they were
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came hard
literally
they came hard
okay Lauren
buckle up
you got this
you can do it
you're fine
no one's gonna hurt you
there's no ghosts in my house
we've had really good luck with our apartment
there's been no
paranormal type activity
there's never been anything unexplainable in our apartment
well it's so funny because
every time that you and Sarah are gone
I will
I will find something here outside
that I'm scared of
I've heard that too and I think that's our mind
I've literally been showering before
and I will get out
but I'll hear something
thank god you guys are moving out
I'll feel like I hear something
one time I literally FaceTimed Morgan
and made her look in every single
including your closet with me
kind of invasive sorry
did you catch the dead bodies while you were there?
no
I like Morgan do you remember that
I literally had my shower cap on
and I was like coming to each room
oh my god
I called the police one time and they checked every room
oh yeah that's right
I supported you
your door was open
okay so
you all good down there?
you ready? yes
so the title is
and again this is from the paranormal subreddit
the title goes
okay ghosts are real
I'm right now sitting
on my front porch smoking a cigarette
next to my ghost friend
next to Cass
you're laughing now but
although I don't know why I didn't mention this before
my white car is named ghost
and the white
SUV that I had before that was Casper
oh cute
a little spooky trend
a spooky bitch
haven't heard that one
sorry
spooky bitch fall
hey I got the spooky phone face for a reason
I'm right now sitting on my front porch
smoking a cigarette
I cannot bring myself to go back inside my house
there's someone in there
fuck
just over two months ago
I moved into a new house after losing nearly everything to COVID
I won't go into details or draw it out
typing this out
is making my eyes well and every hair on my body
is standing straight up
but god damn it I saw a human shaped
shadow in my walk in closet
am I going crazy?
maybe but I know that I am not
at the same time okay this is what happened
I'm laying in my bed browsing reddit
and from the corner of my eye
I catch some movement coming from my closet
within literal milliseconds
I turn
and see someone standing inside of it
looking right at me
you guys I flipped the fuck out
sprung up ran out of my room
slammed the door and grabbed a kitchen knife
I yelled and screamed about calling the police
that I had a knife and basically acted like a scared monkey
no response
after about a minute of yelling I realized I left
my phone in my bedroom
to call 911
I slowly peeked in
there you guys nothing
no one could have gone anywhere
I'm fucking pissed and terrified about this
I saw this person
I saw their shape their movement
their arms there was a humanoid
figure in my closet and that is all I know
I don't know what to do from here
update number one
nothing at all back in the house
update number two
I took some advice from some of you
and feeling very very silly I spoke loudly
and assertively to my empty closet
and told the entity to leave
update number three
nothing has happened still but I found out some
really unfun news
apparently the previous owner of this house
committed suicide
I wasn't able to get any more info than that
that does not make me feel any better
I don't know if they were in the house when they did it
or if they were male or female
or if it's related at all
I will update this post if anything happens again
there's more
so
they posted
update number four
of course mods removed it
they go update number five
I left a comment in this thread to update anyone who cares
I left the house
after another incident
and so I'm going to scroll and find their comment
they go I tried to make another thread
to update everyone but the mods took it down
maybe some of you will see this comment
I left the house drove up to Sacramento to stay with friends
for a little while and even though they think I'm going crazy
they are being supportive
so I was asleep in my room
with the closet door closed
securely as I could
which means I stacked some furniture in front of it
LOL I was woken
with three very hard
and very loud bangs on the door
that was it for me
I was more scared this time than the last
I took off and don't even think I locked
the front door behind me
it was about 3 am
fuck
this to me though
I 100% believe in ghosts
I believe in bad energy
not saying that someone committed suicide
necessarily bad energy but I believe in that shit
but also you hear these insane stories
about people hearing
movement in their walls
or footsteps above them
and there's fucking people living in their attic
or there's people living
in their like a crawl space
in a wall that they didn't know existed
so I'm like maybe there's a fucking person
living in
his like attic that is like the door
is I never saw it
you guys haven't seen that
dude I did not
fuck with that movie would you watch it again with me and Morgan
no
we got it
we can handle it
a lot of people love it though but no everyone
wasn't for me when I say I haven't seen it
everyone's reactions like you have to watch it
it won so many awards
apparently there's a ton of metaphors in there that just
you know I missed
no one told
I was just kidding
thank you
I was too busy like waiting for like where
I'm gonna be scared and need to like protect myself
and like you know what I mean so I wasn't like looking out
for like I didn't know that it was
the poetic part of it I didn't realize that
I was just like waiting to be scared and have something jump out at me
and it's not like that
so I mean intense
yeah so at the end of the day like there are
I haven't said that in a while
there's definitely some
like connections that they make
with the real world
that are you know really powerful
that people really latched on to and that's
why the movie won so many awards but
the way that I viewed it when I was just expecting
something completely different I
yeah maybe if I watched it again but
the ending wasn't it for me
top comment
no no no go ahead
so top comment on this one I lived in a small apartment
where we'd experience odd noises in the lake
the most memorable experiences were
in the bathroom
where the bathroom taps turning themselves on
at full blast at 2am
and once while I was in the bathroom
I saw a shadow walk as clear as
day across the open doorway
I also saw one while at work in a
warehouse it walked through one wall
across the warehouse and vanished
through the opposite wall
that person has someone following them
oh yeah I don't like this
but you know what
I don't know my reaction was like
she's like I'm sitting here smoking a cigarette
what would compel you I'm not judging
but I'm gonna sound like I'm judging
if this happened like
like you're sitting down and you're like
read it like wouldn't you like call somebody
and be like I am terrified
wasn't this no she was like live
she's like I'm sitting on my doorstep
yeah and they posted on reddit
yes she's like I'm sitting outside my house
I'm too scared to go inside
when that happens like when the palm springs thing
happened I was just like this
I kept trying to tell myself this isn't real
this isn't real but like I hadn't been asleep
yet and like
when we did a um
I had like a sleep paralysis story
like a while ago and we've talked about it more recently
and so I started to think about it
and I'm like could that have been a sleep paralysis
type dream but
I hadn't fell asleep yet
yeah and so in this
situation like when it happened to me I'm just like
I kept telling myself it's not real it's fine
like you don't know who to call because it's like
it's not like an incident where you can call 911
like someone's breaking into my house
it's like oh I fucking saw a ghost
that's true you're right now that you say that it's like what do you do
and you're also like I had a really weird
instant sleep paralysis and like
you guys are like two of my closest friends and like
you've never heard these stories because it's like
you don't really know who's gonna take it
well and who's gonna like think you're crazy
because I've had even like more
crazy stories than like that
like I told you the grim reaper one
no no oh my god
did I tell you that one?
I feel like that sounds familiar was it a while ago?
yeah yeah you did
it was like it was basically I was
sleeping it was at one of our apartments
is at Meadows
and I this was
like a very lucid dream because I was in and out of sleep
to the point where I like
it was almost like inception I couldn't tell
when I was actually sleeping anymore because I was like so
conscious like I felt so real like
but I could hear them
like it was one of those I maybe I was still in school
or something because I was like sleeping in a little later
they were going to work yeah and I could hear
them like getting ready and stuff so I knew
I was actually awake unless I was like
sleeping but hearing them I don't know but I was
so in and out of slumber and then
it was to a
point where I literally tricked myself into like
literally not knowing if I was sleeping anymore
and I must have like it was an out of body
experience it was like I was
walking through my apartment but I'd never gotten
out of bed but I
tricked myself into thinking I was out of bed
oh my god and I like went
into the kitchen
like nobody was home so they had clearly left
and I went into the kitchen and the only thing standing
in the kitchen was a grim reaper and it was so
real
that I literally woke up and I literally
sat there for like a while and I was like did that
actually happen did I get up and sleep
walk and then not too long
and they say when you see the grim reaper it means
death is like upon you
I don't want to say my grandpa passed away and not too long after that
so it was kind of like
take that as you well as a foreshadowing
yeah like I don't know I don't think that
I don't think I didn't think much
of it but I will say that there was death
not that long after
and I've never in my life seen the grim reaper
until and that's the one and only time I've ever seen it
and I like have never even
seen
a movie with a grim reaper like I don't even know
where my mind like put that but it was
weird because it was full day
it was a morning there was sunlight
the apartment was cheery there was nothing
scary or dark about the apartment
it was as if everything was normal but the grim reaper
was just chilling in our kitchen having a coffee
like that was it
do you remember fairly odd parents
do you remember they always have like the grim reaper
or is it is that the right show
it's one on like cartoon network
there's something like that
it's not the fairly odd parents
but that's when you're telling that story
that's like what I'm picturing
like she's a little animated girl
oh what is that show
it's not very
I think it's
is it grim
she has it for almost like grim reaper
yeah
speaking of though I'm like browsing for more posts
homeless woman lived in a man's
closet for a year
that is parasite
oh wait I don't want to give anything away
it literally was in Japan
you know me
you know spoilers
weird
actually it's funny because you
as we all know
well I guess I don't know if everyone knows this
but like she will literally
Google the end of a movie while she's watching it
everyone knows now
but it's funny because it's my
what I would call
step-grandma
she told me once when I was younger
that she would read like the last like five pages
of a book
it was worth her time
I was like that's crazy
interesting
but I have like read a lot of books
where I get to the end and I'm like
I wasted all this fucking time
are you kidding me
but I can't like part of what keeps me
reading is wanting to know what happened
oh I skipped to the end a lot
and I still keep reading
okay so I think we do
one more scary
one like real spook
and like light-hearted
to feel good paranormal
okay like a playful ghost like Casper
do you have any stories of like a ghost
where they like are helpful
come
somewhat
or like a parent like
people have had
I feel like I've had situations
like we think
my friend's house is haunted by a ghost
that loves to torment me
not that
I didn't have the vibe check
you know what I mean
where a ghost like saved somebody from something
I really want to
read this crime scene one
my experience as a crime scene cleaner
but Lauren wouldn't she wouldn't be able to handle it
well I can just step out
no it's long
that's fine I have things to do
in your house
use a laundry
okay so
I feel like people are going to be mad at me
you don't say
the post is labeled my experiences
as a crime scene cleaner
basically
I'll find one paragraph that I can read that
like you won't flip out about it
no and I'll link it
it is super super long
so we would probably
be here all night
so the thought of my sons
growing up without me inspired me to quit smoking
I talked to my doctors
and then I threw away all my cigarettes
ashtrays and lighters
I started exercising instead of smoking
staying away from alcohol when I was
first quitting was key
I kept on trying, learned something each time
do whatever it takes
no matter how many times it takes
we did it so can you
for free and confidential help
call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or visit
waytoquit.org
developed by CDC
the next job that there was activity
suicide of a man that was middle aged
the corner had already removed the body but it was a mess
the guy had shot himself
with what was a large caliber handgun
and the spray was everywhere
in the basement
there were skull fragments and blah blah blah
first step in cleaning this
was using our backpack vacuum cleaner
to suck up all the bio matter
the corner told us when we went in
that he and his partner were extremely uneasy
in the house and it felt strange
and we immediately started getting claustrophobic
feelings when we went into the basement as well
to make matters worse
the family of the man had come over
and were crying upstairs but the vacuum noise
helped cancelled out while I was cleaning
the power to the lights went out
and it was completely pitch black
this was strange because my vacuum
was still powered my crewmate
started screaming at this point so I turned
off my vacuum and climbed off my ladder
I thought maybe he touched a wire
to the lights but when my vacuum unit
was turned off he was still screaming
I could hear things being knocked over
I started fumbling around for my flashlight
on my tool belt and yelled for my friend
asking what was going on
but all I got back was panic screaming
then I saw in the pitch black
something darker that was moving in my direction
and I will admit I freaked out
I slipped trying to back up
still looking in my belt for my flashlight
and found it when my back hit the basement wall
I turned on the light
aimed at the blackest shape I've ever seen
and when the light turned on
I saw the shape of a man wearing a flannel shirt
beard and an expression
like he was about to attack me
then it was just gone
my crewmate was behind
where the entity was sitting on the floor
rocking with his hands on his head
when I approached he picked up his flashlight
off the ground and turned it on
then ran up the stairs and outside
and threw up
so they both saw the same thing
this man
like it's super super long
he talks about multiple crime scenes
like deaths that he's cleaned up
and paranormal
activities on them
it's a heavy that one's like
really heavy
so you have to
really be prepared to read that one
so
moving on to happier ghosts
I finally messaged my landlord
asking about the ghost
he'd never had tenants talk about hauntings
I go on telling him about Francis
the name I made up for my ghost roommate
he stops me mid-sentence
because Francis
used to own the house and lived here
decades ago
gave it a name and it's actually the real name
months back on a Sunday
I was having a nightmare where I was yelling
for someone to leave and they wouldn't
wake up to see this cloud of mist
at the foot of my bed and it just glides
out of the room
whole time I'm watching I'm just like
oh cool it's leaving
on me what I saw and I got spooked
but obs there are
a dozen ways to argue that it didn't happen
so although I know what I saw
I was like eh not worth it
my thermos
just a ghost
let it go this time
you can't picture what level of chill I can hear
really
just a cloud
just a ghost don't let it go
my thermostat is in my league
well maybe Francis is nice
my thermostat is in my living room
I know the consistent temp of my apartment
even through the night because I do a decent amount
of all-nighters big thing with ghosts
is they have a cold presence
on Sundays I'll always wake up sweating buckets
with the furnace running constantly
as though the thermostat is measuring the house
as really cold
but this only happens on Sunday nights
a while back my friend is over
and I just addressed the ghost being like
hey let's set some ground rules
what's your name Francis
I'm gonna call you Francis
I don't mind you but you can't be messing with me
ruining my sleep schedule
the random intense furnace
stuff stops
but still someone could say it was all in my head
selective stuff or some logical debunking
I will casually talk to Francis
when I get home from work
hey Francis I'm home or whatever
kind of funny Sunday
before the start of my three day
overnight shifts I go
yo Francis I'm gonna be doing overnights
the next three nights so you got the place
to yourself no parties though
Tuesday night my same friend
is over and I'm running late for work
by at least half an hour
clearly Francis is kind of salty because
I'm not giving him the space I told him
my friend can't find their socks
anywhere while I'm getting ready for work
get this I go to the bathroom
to brush my teeth and their socks
are up on the shelf in my bathroom
oh my god Francis is fucking around
I'm like what the fuck Francis
move your socks
the fuck Francis
there's no way in hell those socks were there before
I was in the bathroom earlier that night
and they were not there and my friend never went
to the bathroom the whole time they were over
that's the most unexplainable experience
of it all when I'm leaving my driveway
my car always shines
its lights through the back door window
all the way to the door of my downstairs neighbors
I'm nosy so I always
peer through
that night
I loved he is just like
I don't even know what they are
comical
that night I didn't
but my friend did
and jumps in their seat swearing they saw
a pale old man staring at them through the window
I didn't see it
so it still could be brain playing tricks
along with the trick of the lights
although I've never had a weird glare
or reflection any time I look through the window
so the next morning I have the combo
that's described in the post title
so I would always shrug off the constant
times I'd wake up from an app
or go to one of my doors and see it was unlocked
I'm a forgetful person
and didn't grow up locking doors
I'll often even be like oh yeah I recall
forgetting to lock it when I came home
but sometimes I don't recall
forgetting to lock it and now I'm thinking
that's cause Francis will be opening that shit
when he's moving around the house
that's all
sounds like Francis doesn't pay rent
and is ungrateful as fuck
what the hell
Francis is about to move in with you all
he's coming for ya
he's coming for your socks
I can't find them as it is
Francis is already fucking with me
he's the one who mismatches all of our socks
they're always mismatched
top comments on this are really cute
everyone's sharing their ghost stories
aww you have a resident ghost like me
it can be scary at first
but they become part of the family after
no way
great you talk to him like he already is
keep that up and just give him the basic respect
all people deserve
then you'll have a nice paranormal protector
for your living space
seriously these guys tend to be territorial
and won't just let any entity walk through your home
try to find out more information on Francis
his hobbies, likes and dislikes
Gramps as I call my ghost
loves to collect different types of batteries
found this out because they were always
disappearing
so I put out a basket full of them
and told him that they were for him
we switched them out every few months
to keep them fresh
Gramps seems to appreciate this very much
and began whistling for us on Sunday mornings
when I make breakfast
you know okay
I don't
I don't know how I feel about the friendly ghost
I'm struggling like part of me is like wow
okay amazing like you're accepting the situation
you're making the best of it
you're kind of like embracing it
I do love that I do
most of the time this is what I was getting at earlier
their energy is like not malignant
they're not there to like
they're not there to like inflict
any type of that's what I've
read and heard who knows
typically I think that's the case
they say that it's like an energy
or a spirit that's like stuck between
like two different
whatever you call them
have you guys seen the afterlife
of the party? no
it's like a really cute
ghost story
well it's like Casper
the friendly ghost
no no you finish
oh I was just saying
when I hear that story part of me is like okay amazing
you're just embracing this so you're trying to like
cause I mean they're really not causing you harm
none of these stories like these people didn't get injured
except for Scorpion had a weird
he had a moment where it was like it took over
it consumed him
possessive moment
but for the most part
hurting anything
they're not hurting anybody
they're scaring you maybe but if you embrace it
like the batteries it's kind of like okay you're making peace with it
but then I'm like
are you encouraging it?
yeah and I don't know if I would just
be fine with like whistling
my dad whistles
and like what they say is true
like you marry your father because my boyfriend
fucking whistles I'm like
I don't know who's walking in the door is it my boyfriend whistling
or my dad whistling? that's so cute
no parallels with Brett
no I love that her parallel
was like clearly married my dad
cause they both whistle
two guys who whistle?
they say that though
they say like guys marry their mom
girls marry their dad
it's like as gross as it
I see more overlap between me and Brett's mom
like I see it
but I don't see it between my dad and Brett
I could see it just happy
happy go lucky big guys
I'm like
very high maintenance and my dad's like so not
I don't know I just don't see it
that's the LA in them though
no there's another story though
that kind of relates to this
that I found and it's about a guy
who works in an EMT
service and so he was talking
about his experiences how
there's a lot of ghosts in the garage
that the ambulances are housed
and he kind of chalked it up as like
a lot of people die in our ambulances
and their spirits
are probably super confused and so
they are stuck
like in that ambulance
like garage, bay, like
area and so like they were describing experiences
where like papers would fly off the desk
when there was no wind or anything
and it was just like
I think a lot of spirits and energy does get
stuck you guys should watch the afterlife the party
because it was like basically
she doesn't
like right after she dies
she doesn't become
a ghost until like
years later so everyone's already been
accepting that she's been gone for years
and then they're like hey you need to do this
in between until you go to like
your next phase of life
Is this a recent Netflix?
You were watching it? Yeah.
I remember you were watching it
I came home one day. No? Must be Sarah.
No, it was you but maybe it's a different movie.
I was watching the airplane. Yeah so it moves a bit differently
There's a lot of like
ghost ones or like there's another ghost one
where she dies and then gets put in another body
You know the one where she's like
arguing with her friend and she's like you're supposed to be dead
and she's like I know and like they're arguing
with each other. Yeah.
Maybe I was watching. Yeah.
Lauren's got a bad memory over there.
Actually no I have the worst memory so maybe it was
Sarah. Maybe I've
maybe I've
No yeah I think it was Sarah.
Maybe it was Sarah. Yeah.
Okay two more short and sweet ones
Okay.
My cat came to say goodbye.
I'd posted this in a different forum
maybe a year ago but since I just discovered this subreddit
today I'm going to share it.
For my first birthday many moons ago
my parents surprised me with the kitten.
The kitten went through everything with me.
Countless dance recitals, many nights of
terrible instrument practicing,
high school graduation, etc.
She even slept on my bed most nights.
She passed away two days after I turned 18.
I didn't lose a pet that day I lost a sibling
my best friend and it was crushing.
About three days after she passed
I was laying down trying to sleep when I suddenly
hear her meow.
My kitty had a very distinct nasally meow
so I knew it was her.
Of course I jolt up.
Why am I hearing a dead cat meowing?
So as I'm looking around my room I hear it again
next to my window.
I heard it one more time and then
silence.
Just deafening silence.
I don't even remember hearing crickets outside.
I brought it up to my mom a few months later
and she told me,
I bet you she stopped by one last time
to say goodbye.
This happened to my mom.
So I had a childhood cat named
sweetheart. She passed away.
I was at college
and my mom
a couple nights after she died
kept hearing meowing in her closet
and she shined
or she shone her phone flashlight
towards the closet and saw two eyes
glowing from it.
Turned the lights on, went into the closet
nothing.
That's so cute.
I like those stories.
They come back.
I think I saw you in the video or maybe you too
on TikTok.
The dog had just passed away hours
before and the cat is like
what is the cat doing again?
It's just like it's pawing towards nothing
but I forget exactly how it is
but it used to like smush the dog or something
It used to do that to the dog
and then they cut the video and they show it doing it to the air
and the cat is like looking around
like it's looking at something.
That is so cute.
Okay, last one.
My sister came in my dream
before she passed.
My sister was an addict for over 20 years.
She had gone out of jail for the millions time.
I loved her dearly and never
was rude to her because she was an addict
as other family members would treat her shitty.
Anyways, she got out of jail October 1st, 2020.
Well, during the time she was out
she stole $20 from me.
I was angry because I used to be
in terrible financial situation
to where every dollar counted
on mine and my fiance's checks.
Well, he has become a successful YouTuber
so we overcame those issues.
She passed away October 13th, 2020.
Before I got the phone call
I laid down for a nap before my son's appointment.
During my nap she appeared in my dream
in a white room.
I clearly remember saying
and I turn around and she's there hand in me
the $20 she stole
and across necklace.
I didn't have time to ask questions
before she disappeared.
Ten minutes after I woke up from the dream
I received the call she passed from overdose.
No way.
Yeah.
Also October 13th is literally in
two days.
I have a story very similar to that.
But I didn't realize that's like
paranormal.
So I picked this one just for the fact
that when I was younger
and my great grandma passed
I had a dream
about her
and it was at her funeral.
I remember in the dream I was at her funeral
walking up to the casket
and all of a sudden she sits up from the casket
looks at me and goes
it's gonna be okay Morgan.
I picked this one because I think it is
a paranormal experience almost
when people that we love
visit us in our dreams.
Yeah, I agree.
I'm not even gonna go down my rabbit hole
because I fucking love
dreams. I think you both know this.
There's so much to be said about that.
I'll make my story very quick
but it's completely on topic with this.
It's so hard for me to tell the story
but I'll try not to cry.
My mom lost her cousin
right before I was born.
I think I told you this story.
She had this cousin she was very close to
and my mom was visiting Peru
after she had moved to the US.
He still lived in Peru. His name is Richard.
He lived in the jungle
so he had to take a small plane to get to Lima
where my mom was.
He was like a marine biologist
something like that. He had to be in the jungle
and my mom was like I'm in Peru.
I'm here for a few more weeks. You have to come visit me.
I'm here from the US. I only come once a year
or whatever and so he was like
okay, I'll try. I'll try.
He gets on a small plane to come back to Lima
in the 90s. It's like 93, 94.
My mom's watching the news
and all of a sudden a small plane
has gone down. No survivors.
Back then they would play the victim names
almost like movie credits.
Hate small planes. Yeah, on the news.
That was the only way to get to her from that area.
My mom's eating her popcorn
and she's watching
and all of a sudden they put his name on the screen
and it was a full name so she knew
it was his name.
She just said
it felt like someone took her voice box.
She couldn't talk.
She was like oh my god, her guilt read in
because she begged him to come back.
Got on a plane and died.
The plane went down. No survivors.
That's about the crazy part.
My mom was very, very close to him.
I didn't know
but at the time she was pregnant with me.
Oh my god. It must have been like
I think it was 93.
93.
She was pregnant with me
and he had a brother named Coco
and Coco was like deployed
in the military, improving forces
and apparently
I don't know why, maybe this is a 90's thing
maybe it's a Peru thing, I don't know.
They didn't notify him
of his brother's death because something about
they didn't really, it was hard to find
next of kin especially if he was deployed.
It was that though but it could have been
but what I was told is that
it would make him too mentally,
emotionally unstable in the field
to rock him when he's like
deployed.
Like assault rifles.
I don't know, that's the story I was told.
They didn't tell him because apparently he was
in such a vulnerable place that they were like
we don't know what he's going to do.
So he comes home three months later
and he's like telling
my mom or somebody about
he's like
how's Richard, my brother
and they're like
he died three months ago
and what's crazy is he
apparently like three months ago
four months ago he had a dream
or Coco had a dream that Richard
at the time he thinks Richard's alive
so he doesn't think anything of this dream
but his brother Richard comes to him in his dream
holding a little girl and he's like it's our niece
and he
Wow, I was going to tell
and he didn't know he was dead yet
so then he comes back and he's like oh my god
that was his angel, his spirit
and it's me, I'm the little girl
that's such a crazy story
That's insane
because I was the only girl who was born that year
It's so sad and then beautiful
I know, I know, it's so
my mom breaks down when she tells that story
I was your little guardian angel
he probably guided your soul
like it's so uh
I know, it's like
that's like a good story of a
paranormal visitation
or a spirit visit but
that you can't deny because it's like
he didn't pass at that point but he didn't know
he had no idea
so he's just thinking it's another dream of my brother
and he's holding a baby and he's telling me this is our niece
Did your mom even know what she was having at that point?
Oh actually, I don't know
because like that would be crazy if like
your mom didn't even know
and then it was like oh this is our niece
I don't know, that's a good question
timeline wise
I could do the math on it but I don't remember the timing exactly
I just know that I was born like a few months later
so I wasn't born yet when he like
was born as a niece or something like that
but it's just crazy
right?
it's so sad but like you said
it's like sad but like beautiful
you look like you had a visitation thing down there too
oh well no, I was just thinking
so I haven't thought about this in a long time
but when I was really little like my grandma died
when I was pretty young and at this time
I dream a lot now but like at this point
in my life like I didn't really remember my dreams
that often and I woke up and I was
I was telling my mom like
I dreamt of grandma
and my mom like just
paused and like froze because she was like
grandma was in my dream last night too
I love that stuff
and so that was
something that was like so beautiful to my mom
because she felt like that was grandma visiting us
it was
100% for sure
those are the moments I love
I welcome all the spirit
especially the dream visits
my dad has had some amazing
stories about like my grandma Doris
her favorite song
was um
I think it's called Clair de Lune
and it was played at the end of one of the ocean's movies
and so one of my cousins
was like sleeping one night
and all of a sudden woke up
and the tv like they fell asleep with the tv on
but they woke up and it was her song
playing at the end of that movie
and then another cousin happened to be like
I think
fell asleep with the tv on or had the tv on
while they were doing stuff
and all of a sudden they had like this urge to like
look at the tv
and it was my grandma Doris
on a seas candy special
like they had done a recorded tv show
on seas candy
and she was on the fucking tv
at the seas candy store
shopping
that's so crazy
I think it was kind of like a similar thing
where they woke up and then saw her on the tv
or like had the urge to turn it on
and that was what they turned on
and then my dad has had like so many dreams of her
like just
it's just amazing
I love that for anyone who like loves that kind of stuff
there's a book and I should know the author
it's called Signs
yeah it's all about stuff like that
where like you see signs of people
or like you see things that are
it's too uncanny to work
of all the channels
and of all the times
it's more than a coincidence
like you and your mom dreaming
at the same night of the same person
and your sister and your mom having the same
that's like a bad sign
but no but like there's just some things
that you cannot explain
like divine interventions or like
truly evil spirits
it's like the rainbow that I keep seeing
yeah I was thinking about this this whole time
or like when you started talking about
things I thought you were gonna bring up your rainbow
this is a light note we can end it on
but my grandma for some reason
I always think of rainbows
she passed away in like 2003
and I was telling my cousin Meredith
I'm like I always think of grandma Joan
like with rainbows and she was like me too
she was like apparently when I made her cards
when I was little when she was in the hospice
I would always put rainbows in them
and she loved the Wizard of Oz
and so every time I see the Sony Pictures rainbow
I think of her and like recently
I realized so like when my grandpa passed
so her husband passed years after her
he after his funeral literally the same day
I have a video with like the timestamp
the date there are two huge
like Hawaii size
double rainbows in Minnesota
right after we like buried my grandpa
and like when we went
to my uncle's funeral a few months ago
who was one of her sons
we all like the family gathered for the first time
in years at like this restaurant
and we pull up had it rained nothing
there's a huge rainbow going through the restaurant
and then like on my birthday
our photos I'll send you like it's me
there's rainbows going through them
and then in New England
which they didn't like Malibu was so dry
there was no reason to have rainbows
like that's the thing about Malibu
Malibu is dry it's like very desert
it's like a fire prone area like there's no
yeah okay maybe marine layer but like
we weren't we were inland we were so inland
so to have rainbows like insane
and the crazy part is like I moved locations
I don't know if you notice like for the photos
and the rainbows following me and it's always through me
and it's insane and I just took pictures
of you and there's a rainbow only through me
and I'm like it's so crazy but I'm like
that's my grandma like I always think of rainbows
when I see her incredible
I hate like thinking about death like it gives me
so much anxiety but like just
the fact that like meaningful
things like that can happen
yeah it's beautiful
okay you guys that's paranormal
you hung in there Lauren it's okay
you did good
contemplating her like lively yeah just contemplating
her existence no no I think
the way that this all
it's shaped up okay yeah
yeah the ending I'm really happy
about yeah yeah there you go
there you go brought it home
we are all wearing
the merch today you guys oh my god everyone
showed off you gotta like I want
you to stand up on the chair just so they can
like see the shorts they're so cute
wait make sure my underwear doesn't
show
hey yeah
look at those shorts
they're so cute and I'm not even just
plugging them they're actually so cute
I know I love them
merch is coming
Lauren's in a medium for reference on the sweatshirt
I don't know what I'm in
I'm in a large on the sweatshirt
I do recommend sizing up
but link is gonna be dropping
super super soon very excited
and we hope you guys
enjoyed this paranormal episode
I think we were really looking forward to it
and yeah maybe not Lauren but
no I love getting the gang back together
yeah I was just gonna say I think Lauren's
happy that the trio's back
so that means some sacrifices I'm in
trio will have some more episodes
I hear the people I hear
you see them it's just hard to edit
the trio ones but you know I'm
getting an assistant in November
wow
it'll be it'll be more manageable
we did on this one though we didn't cut each other off
no it was good we did
we did good the last two and I don't think we caused
much controversy on this one so it's okay
also I
would love to rewatch
my reaction to where she goes dude
everyone's reactions on this are gonna be hilarious
also when I was in the bathroom
I was on the other side of the place
and you guys go Lauren and I literally go
I don't think you heard me because I was so far away
I screamed because I was like thinking
I was like what if this bathroom has ghosts
and all this stuff and then you yelled my name
and I was like they're here
they're coming to get me
my place is not haunted
but yet after this
I know we could have
we could have summoned some shit
I don't even want to joke about it because I do believe in that
it's like you give evil energy that
recognition and just
latches on
do you have sage?
welcome francis into your house
he seems like a homie
I don't need any ghosts
I have a hard time being roommates with my dad
I don't need another one
I was just gonna say
he's not even gonna take another bedroom and he pays rent
you're not gonna accept him
he doesn't pay rent but if you do
what if francis pays rent
okay I have another question
I thought of this while we were doing the readings
would you guys
buy a foreclosed home
where somebody had
either been murdered or committed suicide
$2 million and they're selling it for like
$100,000
true
would you buy it and live in it?
no
it's a $2 million house for $100,000
oh well
does it have a place I can put my pony in the backyard?
huge yard
it's got a pool
good thing I don't have a pony
it's got like a cat sanctuary
you're really playing to my weaknesses
I don't know
is it super haunted?
there's not even any proof of hauntings
oh well then I'd give it a shot
yeah give it a shot
my great grandma died in my home
at the farm
didn't need to know that before visiting the farm
yeah no my great grandma died there
but there's no spookiness about it
sometimes you hear creaks on the stairs
that's normal for any house
it's a really old house it's like 100 years old
well that's the thing too is a lot of times
you have to realize that pipes
oh my god those pipes
let's go to dinner
alright let's go to fucking dinner
so until next time guys
until next time
bye
that my butt didn't sound normal
let's go to side egg
we can keep it fuck it
bye guys
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