Two Hot Takes - 37: Paranormal.. Nothing Normal About it

Episode Date: October 14, 2021

TW: 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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Starting point is 00:00:30 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.
Starting point is 00:00:45 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?
Starting point is 00:01:01 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.
Starting point is 00:01:14 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.
Starting point is 00:01:54 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.
Starting point is 00:02:16 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.
Starting point is 00:02:30 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?
Starting point is 00:02:56 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.
Starting point is 00:03:12 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.
Starting point is 00:03:20 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.
Starting point is 00:03:31 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
Starting point is 00:03:57 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.
Starting point is 00:04:23 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
Starting point is 00:04:53 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
Starting point is 00:05:17 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.
Starting point is 00:05:37 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.
Starting point is 00:06:01 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.
Starting point is 00:06:30 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.
Starting point is 00:06:55 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.
Starting point is 00:07:15 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.
Starting point is 00:07:36 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.
Starting point is 00:07:58 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.
Starting point is 00:08:24 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.
Starting point is 00:08:51 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
Starting point is 00:09:14 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
Starting point is 00:09:46 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.
Starting point is 00:10:11 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
Starting point is 00:10:34 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
Starting point is 00:11:00 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?
Starting point is 00:11:31 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?
Starting point is 00:12:02 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,
Starting point is 00:12:25 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
Starting point is 00:12:49 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.
Starting point is 00:13:12 OK, well, up next. Yeah, if you're watching on YouTube, me and Alejandra are going to go back and forth with headphones, because I need to go buy another pair. Sharing is caring. Sharing is caring, except COVID. We don't share COVID. OK, so this next one is actually from a paranormal investigator. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:13:33 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
Starting point is 00:13:53 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
Starting point is 00:14:09 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.
Starting point is 00:14:26 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
Starting point is 00:14:47 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,
Starting point is 00:15:15 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
Starting point is 00:15:37 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. At Weed Man, we use only golf course quality, time-release granular fertilizer, which meters out over 8 to 10 weeks and makes environmental sense.
Starting point is 00:15:59 This means no mowing like crazy after the application and then lost the color a few weeks later like some competitors' results. 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,
Starting point is 00:16:34 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
Starting point is 00:17:07 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
Starting point is 00:17:43 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.
Starting point is 00:18:14 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,
Starting point is 00:18:45 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.
Starting point is 00:19:18 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
Starting point is 00:19:49 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.
Starting point is 00:20:13 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.
Starting point is 00:20:38 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.
Starting point is 00:21:09 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.
Starting point is 00:21:26 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.
Starting point is 00:21:40 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?
Starting point is 00:21:59 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.
Starting point is 00:22:14 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
Starting point is 00:22:32 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.
Starting point is 00:23:06 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.
Starting point is 00:23:38 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.
Starting point is 00:24:05 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.
Starting point is 00:24:25 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.
Starting point is 00:24:39 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.
Starting point is 00:24:55 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
Starting point is 00:25:17 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.
Starting point is 00:25:42 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.
Starting point is 00:26:00 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?
Starting point is 00:26:11 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?
Starting point is 00:26:24 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.
Starting point is 00:26:32 If we never came back. No, we'll be. It's restored now. People stay there. Peace. What a way to go. Wow. Insane.
Starting point is 00:26:41 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.
Starting point is 00:26:50 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.
Starting point is 00:26:58 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.
Starting point is 00:27:08 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.
Starting point is 00:27:20 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. So up next, another listener right in.
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Starting point is 00:28:13 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.
Starting point is 00:28:36 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.
Starting point is 00:28:56 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,
Starting point is 00:29:18 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
Starting point is 00:29:41 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.
Starting point is 00:30:03 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
Starting point is 00:30:22 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
Starting point is 00:30:40 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
Starting point is 00:31:01 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.
Starting point is 00:31:17 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
Starting point is 00:31:33 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.
Starting point is 00:31:49 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.
Starting point is 00:32:05 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.
Starting point is 00:32:21 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.
Starting point is 00:32:37 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.
Starting point is 00:32:53 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.
Starting point is 00:33:09 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
Starting point is 00:33:25 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.
Starting point is 00:33:41 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
Starting point is 00:33:57 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
Starting point is 00:34:13 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.
Starting point is 00:34:29 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
Starting point is 00:34:45 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.
Starting point is 00:35:01 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
Starting point is 00:35:17 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
Starting point is 00:35:33 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
Starting point is 00:35:49 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
Starting point is 00:36:05 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
Starting point is 00:36:21 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
Starting point is 00:36:37 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
Starting point is 00:36:53 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
Starting point is 00:37:09 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
Starting point is 00:37:25 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
Starting point is 00:37:41 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
Starting point is 00:37:57 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
Starting point is 00:38:13 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
Starting point is 00:38:29 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
Starting point is 00:38:45 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
Starting point is 00:39:01 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
Starting point is 00:39:17 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
Starting point is 00:39:33 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
Starting point is 00:39:49 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
Starting point is 00:40:05 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
Starting point is 00:40:21 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
Starting point is 00:40:37 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
Starting point is 00:40:55 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
Starting point is 00:41:11 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
Starting point is 00:41:27 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
Starting point is 00:41:43 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
Starting point is 00:41:59 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
Starting point is 00:42:15 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
Starting point is 00:42:31 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
Starting point is 00:42:47 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
Starting point is 00:43:03 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
Starting point is 00:43:19 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
Starting point is 00:43:35 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
Starting point is 00:43:51 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
Starting point is 00:44:07 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
Starting point is 00:44:53 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
Starting point is 00:45:09 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
Starting point is 00:45:25 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
Starting point is 00:45:41 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
Starting point is 00:45:57 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
Starting point is 00:46:13 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
Starting point is 00:46:29 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
Starting point is 00:46:45 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
Starting point is 00:47:01 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
Starting point is 00:47:17 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
Starting point is 00:47:33 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
Starting point is 00:47:49 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
Starting point is 00:48:05 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
Starting point is 00:48:21 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
Starting point is 00:48:37 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
Starting point is 00:48:53 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
Starting point is 00:49:09 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
Starting point is 00:49:25 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
Starting point is 00:49:41 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
Starting point is 00:49:57 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
Starting point is 00:50:13 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
Starting point is 00:50:29 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
Starting point is 00:50:47 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
Starting point is 00:51:03 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
Starting point is 00:51:19 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
Starting point is 00:51:35 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
Starting point is 00:51:51 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
Starting point is 00:52:07 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
Starting point is 00:52:23 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
Starting point is 00:52:39 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
Starting point is 00:52:55 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
Starting point is 00:53:11 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
Starting point is 00:53:27 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
Starting point is 00:53:43 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
Starting point is 00:53:59 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
Starting point is 00:54:15 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
Starting point is 00:54:31 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
Starting point is 00:54:47 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
Starting point is 00:55:03 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
Starting point is 00:55:19 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
Starting point is 00:55:35 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
Starting point is 00:55:51 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
Starting point is 00:56:07 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
Starting point is 00:56:23 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
Starting point is 00:56:39 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
Starting point is 00:56:55 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
Starting point is 00:57:11 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
Starting point is 00:57:27 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 I'm gonna use this to get a new drink today's episode is brought to you guys by Ana Luisa
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Starting point is 00:59:03 and I'll listen to it couple more Reddit stories honestly the listener writings came came hard literally they came hard okay Lauren buckle up
Starting point is 00:59:19 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
Starting point is 00:59:35 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
Starting point is 00:59:51 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
Starting point is 01:00:07 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
Starting point is 01:00:23 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
Starting point is 01:00:39 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
Starting point is 01:00:55 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
Starting point is 01:01:11 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
Starting point is 01:01:27 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
Starting point is 01:01:43 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
Starting point is 01:01:59 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
Starting point is 01:02:15 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
Starting point is 01:02:31 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
Starting point is 01:02:47 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
Starting point is 01:03:03 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
Starting point is 01:03:21 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
Starting point is 01:03:39 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
Starting point is 01:03:55 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
Starting point is 01:04:11 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
Starting point is 01:04:27 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
Starting point is 01:04:43 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
Starting point is 01:04:59 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
Starting point is 01:05:15 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
Starting point is 01:05:31 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
Starting point is 01:05:47 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
Starting point is 01:06:03 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
Starting point is 01:06:19 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
Starting point is 01:06:35 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
Starting point is 01:06:51 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
Starting point is 01:07:07 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
Starting point is 01:07:23 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
Starting point is 01:07:39 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
Starting point is 01:07:55 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
Starting point is 01:08:11 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
Starting point is 01:08:27 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
Starting point is 01:08:43 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
Starting point is 01:08:59 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
Starting point is 01:09:15 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
Starting point is 01:09:31 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
Starting point is 01:09:47 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
Starting point is 01:10:03 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
Starting point is 01:10:19 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
Starting point is 01:10:35 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
Starting point is 01:10:51 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
Starting point is 01:11:07 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
Starting point is 01:11:23 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
Starting point is 01:11:39 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
Starting point is 01:11:55 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
Starting point is 01:12:11 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
Starting point is 01:12:27 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
Starting point is 01:12:43 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
Starting point is 01:13:01 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
Starting point is 01:13:17 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
Starting point is 01:13:33 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
Starting point is 01:13:49 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
Starting point is 01:14:05 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
Starting point is 01:14:21 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
Starting point is 01:14:37 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
Starting point is 01:14:53 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
Starting point is 01:15:09 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
Starting point is 01:15:25 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
Starting point is 01:15:41 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
Starting point is 01:15:57 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
Starting point is 01:16:13 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
Starting point is 01:16:29 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
Starting point is 01:16:45 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
Starting point is 01:17:01 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
Starting point is 01:17:17 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
Starting point is 01:17:33 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
Starting point is 01:17:49 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
Starting point is 01:18:05 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
Starting point is 01:18:21 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
Starting point is 01:18:37 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
Starting point is 01:18:53 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
Starting point is 01:19:09 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
Starting point is 01:19:25 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
Starting point is 01:19:41 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
Starting point is 01:19:57 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
Starting point is 01:20:13 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
Starting point is 01:20:29 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
Starting point is 01:20:45 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
Starting point is 01:21:01 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
Starting point is 01:21:17 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
Starting point is 01:21:33 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
Starting point is 01:21:49 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
Starting point is 01:22:05 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
Starting point is 01:22:21 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
Starting point is 01:22:37 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
Starting point is 01:22:53 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
Starting point is 01:23:09 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
Starting point is 01:23:25 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
Starting point is 01:23:41 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
Starting point is 01:23:57 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
Starting point is 01:24:13 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.
Starting point is 01:24:29 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.
Starting point is 01:24:45 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
Starting point is 01:25:01 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
Starting point is 01:25:17 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
Starting point is 01:25:33 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.
Starting point is 01:25:49 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
Starting point is 01:26:05 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
Starting point is 01:26:21 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
Starting point is 01:26:37 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.
Starting point is 01:26:53 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
Starting point is 01:27:09 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.
Starting point is 01:27:25 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.
Starting point is 01:27:41 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
Starting point is 01:27:57 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
Starting point is 01:28:13 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.
Starting point is 01:28:29 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
Starting point is 01:28:45 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.
Starting point is 01:29:01 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
Starting point is 01:29:17 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
Starting point is 01:29:33 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.
Starting point is 01:29:49 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.
Starting point is 01:30:05 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
Starting point is 01:30:21 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
Starting point is 01:30:37 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.
Starting point is 01:30:53 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
Starting point is 01:31:09 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
Starting point is 01:31:25 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
Starting point is 01:31:41 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
Starting point is 01:31:57 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
Starting point is 01:32:13 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
Starting point is 01:32:29 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?
Starting point is 01:32:45 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
Starting point is 01:33:01 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
Starting point is 01:33:17 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
Starting point is 01:33:33 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
Starting point is 01:33:49 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
Starting point is 01:34:05 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
Starting point is 01:34:21 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
Starting point is 01:34:37 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
Starting point is 01:34:53 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
Starting point is 01:35:09 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
Starting point is 01:35:25 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
Starting point is 01:35:41 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
Starting point is 01:35:57 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
Starting point is 01:36:13 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
Starting point is 01:36:29 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
Starting point is 01:36:45 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
Starting point is 01:37:03 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
Starting point is 01:37:21 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
Starting point is 01:37:37 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
Starting point is 01:37:55 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
Starting point is 01:38:13 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
Starting point is 01:38:29 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
Starting point is 01:38:45 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
Starting point is 01:39:01 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
Starting point is 01:39:17 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
Starting point is 01:39:33 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
Starting point is 01:39:49 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
Starting point is 01:40:05 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
Starting point is 01:40:21 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
Starting point is 01:40:37 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
Starting point is 01:40:53 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
Starting point is 01:41:09 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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