MIdnight Mailbox - TRUE Listener Submissions with Steve Stockton

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Welcome, dear listeners, to Midnight Mailbox, the podcast that unlocks
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the eerie secrets hidden in the shadows of the night.
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I'm your host, Steve Stockton, and tonight we embark on
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a journey into the supernatural guided by the tales that
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arrive in our mysterious mailbox. Each episode, we delve into
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the unexplained, the otherworldly, and the downright spine-chilling experiences shared
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by you, our brave listeners. Picture this. It's the dead
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of night, and you find yourself alone, surrounded by an
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atmosphere thick with mystery. That's when the unexplainable happens. Maybe
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it's a ghostly encounter, an extraterrestrial rendezvous, or a brush
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with the unknown that sends shivers down your spine. Now,
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Imagine sharing that story with the world under the cloak
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of darkness. Join us as we open the Midnight Mailbox,
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revealing the emails, the whispered confessions, and the spine-tingling encounters
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that defy reason. Each episode is a journey into the paranormal,
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a peek behind the veil of our reality, and a
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celebration of the uncharted territories of the supernatural. So, grab
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a blanket, turn down the lights, and prepare to be
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captivated by the tales that defy explanation. Midnight Mailbox is
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here to make the unexplained a little less lonely and
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a lot more thrilling. Are you ready to step into
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the shadows and explore the mysteries that await in the
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heart of the night? Because, my friends, the Midnight Mailbox
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is now open. Civil War Ghosts The listener writes, Hey there,
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Steve and listeners. So happy that you're doing these listener
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stories again. I really miss them. Gather around, because I've
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got a wild tale from the 80s that'll give you
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the heebie-jeebies. It was me and my buddies, Jake and Brent,
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on a summer night in Alabama, headed to this haunted
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battlefield we'd heard about. I ain't one to buy into
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all this ghost hype, but this night, well, it was
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something else. We set up camp, cracked open some cold ones,
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and laughed off the eerie vibes. But then, it was
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like the woods started talking. Whispers like old soldiers chatting
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about war. At first, we thought maybe it was just
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the wind, but deep down, we knew better. Suddenly, a
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chill hit us, and we heard what sounded like distant drums,
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slow and mournful. We followed them to what must have
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been the battlefield's center, where moonlight danced on ancient gnarled trees.
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And there they were, ghostly soldiers, marching with a weight
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of sorrow in their eyes. One guy, in a gray uniform,
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gave me what appeared to be a spectral salute. It
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was like they were lost, just like us. The drums
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hit their peak, and then, poof. The soldiers vanished, leaving
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us in the quiet aftermath, surrounded by the echoes of
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a long-gone war. We stumbled back to camp in a daze,
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packed up just as dawn was breaking, and hightailed it
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out of there. But that haunted night, it stuck in
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my head like a catchy tune that you just can't shake.
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So there it is, my brush with ghostly soldiers in
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the 1980s. Did we really cross paths with the past?
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Who knows? Anyway, keep those lights on and catch you
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on the creepy flip side. Thanks again. Signed, George College
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UFO Encounter Hey Steve, love the show and thought I'd
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toss my hat into the ring with a wild story
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that still gives me the chills. So, back in college,
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I had this totally bizarre run-in with a UFO. Yeah,
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I know, it sounds crazy, but hear me out. It
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was crisp fall night and I'm strolling back to my
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dorm after a late night library sesh. Everything's chill until
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I spot this weird light in the sky. At first
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I'm thinking, oh, it's just a plane doing plane things.
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But nope, this thing's playing hopscotch up there, zigzagging like
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it's on a joyride. I stop dead in my tracks,
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trying to make sense of the cosmic disco show. The
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light gets brighter. and I swear the air feels electric
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or something. My heart's about to beat out of my chest,
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and here's where it gets fuzzy. I don't know how
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much time passed, but suddenly, it was gone. The light
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disappeared faster than I could imagine. I shake my head,
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try to collect myself, and notice it's completely quiet. No
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usual night sounds, just silence. I glance at my watch,
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and it's like I've lost a pretty good chunk of time.
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like a plot hole in my life story. Next day,
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I told my friends, expected a, whoa, that's nuts, but instead,
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I get a laugh track. They blame caffeine and stress.
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I even hit the books digging into the UFO tales,
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feeling like a character out of a paranormal TV show.
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I can't explain it. Was it a caffeine-induced space trip,
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or did I witness something out of E.T.? I've read
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up on other folks' stories, and it turns out I'm
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not alone in this weird cosmic club. I'm not saying
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it's Little Green Men, but hey, maybe there's more to
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the night sky than meets the eye. Please keep the
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spookiness rolling on the podcast. Cheers, your friend, Andy. Hat
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Man Encounter Here's what happened. One night, I was in
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bed and couldn't sleep. It felt kind of weird, you know?
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The room was super dark, and it was all quiet
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and spooky. And suddenly, I got this creepy feeling, like
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I wasn't alone. I peeked to the end of my bed,
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and guess what? There was this tall, shadowy figure in
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a big hat. Yep, the hat man. He looked pretty
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scary with that hat, making his face all shadowy. I
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got really, really scared. The hat man had this bad vibe,
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and it felt like the room was getting all stuffy.
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I tried to breathe, but it was hard. I kept
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telling myself it was just my imagination, but nope, the
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hat man stuck around, just standing there at the end
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of my bed. I could feel him looking at me,
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even though I couldn't see his face. And then the
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room got cold, and it felt like something heavy on
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my chest. It was like the hat man was taking
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all the air out of the room and I couldn't
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breathe right. I wanted to scream, but I couldn't get
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my voice to work. It felt like forever that he
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just stayed there. I could tell he wasn't a nice person.
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He had this dark and mean feeling, almost demonic. I
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closed my eyes, hoping he'd be gone when I opened them.
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When I was finally brave enough to peek again, he
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was gone. But I still felt scared. It was all
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weird and made me think a lot. Whether it was
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just my mind playing tricks or something spooky, I couldn't
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forget about the hat man. It was like this strange
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thing that stuck with me. Thank you for letting me
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share my story. Signed, Anonymous The Haunted Dairy Farm Hey Steve,
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glad you're taking stories again. I've got one about an
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abandoned dairy farm in rural Ohio that'll make your hair
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stand on end. There was a bunch of us, fueled
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by a mix of curiosity and some courage. We decided
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to check out this old farm that's been sitting there,
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almost like a forgotten ghost town. Rolled up in our truck,
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parked a good distance away to avoid getting caught trespassing.
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Armed with flashlights and, hopefully, nerves of steel, we made
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our way through this creaky gate that sounded like it
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was straight out of a horror movie. The night was
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dark as sin. Clouds hide in the moon and the
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whole scene felt like something out of a Stephen King novel.
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As we approached these old barns, the smell hit us.
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A weird mix of damp hay and something sour that
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made my stomach turn. The air felt thick and the
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only sound was the occasional crunch of gravel under our boots.
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And then we heard it. This low, creepy moan that
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sent shivers down our spines. It wasn't an animal sound,
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mind you, but something straight out of a paranormal book. Normally,
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I don't even believe in stuff like this, but there
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was something in the air that night. There were shadows
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playing tricks. The air felt like it does sometimes before
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a storm. We tried to laugh it off, made some jokes,
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but deep down, we were all getting really nervous. We
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wandered through the farm, checking out the barns, and stumbled
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upon the old milking parlor, a place that smelled like
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death warmed over. I swear, I heard whispers in the wind,
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telling tales of days gone by. And in the flicker... light,
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I caught a glimpse of shadowy figures moving just out
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of sight, like in my peripheral vision. Creepy, huh? But
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the real freakout happened in the farmhouse. Inside, the temperature
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dropped like crazy, and we started feeling watched. Footsteps echoed
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behind us, But every time we turned around, there was
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no one or nothing there. Classic haunted house type stuff.
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In one of the rooms, we found this old photo
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album that gave us the serious creeps. Pictures of a family, kids, cows.
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Like a snapshot of a long lost time. And there
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was this picture of a woman staring at me like
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she had a bone to pick. I just couldn't shake
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the feeling that she was the source of those mournful
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mourns we'd heard earlier. We decided to bail, but as
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we headed out, things got even weirder. Now the air
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crackled with energy, and the shadows in my peripheral vision
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were going crazy. And I swear, I felt a cold
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hand on my arm. We ran out there like our
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lives depended on it. It was like the whispers chased
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us out of there. I can't explain what happened that night,
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whether it was the spirits of the past or just
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our imaginations running wild. But one thing's for sure, that
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old dairy farm's got some serious spooky vibes. So, if
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you ever find yourselves in rural Ohio and hear about
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an abandoned farm, take my advice and steer clear. It
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ain't a place for the faint of heart. Signed, Adam
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The Haunted Rocking Chair Hello, people. I've got a crazy
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story for you. So, a couple weeks ago, I found
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an old rocking chair in a thrift store. Well, turns out,
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I believe it's haunted. Yeah, I know. Sounds like I'm
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cooking up a horror movie plot. But stick with me.
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From the beginning, the chair was all creaky, and I'd
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occasionally catch it rocking by itself. Not like a gentle sway,
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but a full-on I'm-doing-my-own-thing kind of vibe. At first, I
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thought it was probably the wind or a draft in
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the house or something. But then I started to hear
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what sounded like whispers. I'm not joking. Whispers. Like the
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chair had its own secret gossip club. It sounded like
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it was saying things like, Why did you bring me here? Or,
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I don't want to be in this place. I thought
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I was losing my mind. And you know what else?
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The chair played musical chairs when I wasn't looking. I'd
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leave it in the living room, and the next day, bam,
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it'd be back in my room, rocking away. I swear,
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it was like it had a GPS set for my bedroom. Creepy, huh?
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Now let's talk about nightmares. Every time I dozed off
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near that thing, I had these crazy dreams about a
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shadowy figure watching me. It was like a horror movie
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marathon in my head every night. I even tried recording
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the whispers just to make sure I wasn't going bonkers,
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but I didn't get anything substantial. Things really hit the
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fan one night and the chair went berserk, rocking like
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it was auditioning for a horror movie. The room turned
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ice cold and I saw some sort of shadowy figure.
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I couldn't even scream. I felt like the star of
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a low-budget ghost movie. That was it for me. I
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grabbed the chair and put it outside like it was
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on fire and the next day dropped it off back
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at the thrift store. Since then, it's been all quiet
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on the spooky front. No more whispers, no more ghostly
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rocking sessions, and definitely no more nightmares. I did do
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a little detective work, though, and found out from the
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lady at the thrift store that I'd originally purchased the
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chair from that it used to belong to some lady
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who met a super creepy end. Call me crazy, but
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I'm officially on Team Haunted Chair now. Lesson learned. Vintage
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charm might come with a side of ghostly drama. From
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now on, I'm sticking to Ikea furniture. At least their
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chairs don't have a ghost mode. Thanks for reading my story, Annie.
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Hey there. Glad to see you doing the listener stories again.
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Here's mine. Imagine Savannah, Georgia, back in the 1980s. It's
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a place dripping with Spanish moss where every house seemed
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to whisper secrets. Now, my childhood home Well, it wasn't
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your typical haunted house. It was like living in a
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southern gothic horror novel. I remember one night, I was
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about ten, lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, when
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this whale started floating through the air. At first I
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thought it was just the wind playing tricks, but it
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started sounding like a ghostly woman singing the blues. I mean,
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who knew ghosts had a thing for blues tunes? But
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that was just a warm-up act. I'd wake up to
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shadows doing a mysterious tango in the corners of my room.
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Mischievous little imps, I swear. And there were the footsteps,
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like an invisible party happening every night. Confederate soldiers with
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a slow march, flappers with a jittery shuffle. Now, why
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didn't we hightail it out there, you ask? Well, ghosts
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don't come with eviction notices, my friend. We were stuck
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with our spectral roommates. who'd occasionally rearrange my toys like
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they were having a ghostly playdate. It eventually became paranormal,
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like living with the weirdest roommates ever. I finally got
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the guts to ask my grandma about the house's history.
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Turns out it had seen more action than I ever imagined.
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A Civil War hospital, a prohibition speakeasy, you name it.
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No wonder we had such haunted goings-on. Like I said,
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as the years passed, We just got used to it.
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Ghostly shenanigans were just a part of life in Savannah,
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like sweet tea and Sunday dinners. We coexisted, each respecting
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the other's space, for the most part. Sometimes I'd leave
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out biscuits for the southern bell ghost and hope that
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in return she'd serenade me with some of those otherworldly blues.
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We eventually moved out, though, leaving behind the ghosts and
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the memories. Still live in Savannah, but every time I
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stroll through the neighborhood where we used to live, I
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can't help but wonder if those ghosts are still hanging
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out on the moonlit balcony of our old house. Well,
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that's my tale of growing up in a haunted house
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in Savannah where ghosts are as real as the moss
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on those ancient oaks. If you ever catch a whiff
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of blues on a Savannah breeze, just know it might
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be the ghost of a southern belle getting down with
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the afterlife. Thanks for reading my story. Signed, Anonymous. The
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Old Truck Hey there. Years and years ago, I was
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this little dude tearing around my uncle's farm in Ohio.
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Now this farm was like a spooky adventure waiting to happen.
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So one day, I'm out rambling around, and I stumble
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upon this beat-up old pickup in the weeds out behind
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the barn. The thing looked like it had survived a tornado,
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but there was something off about it. I swear you
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could feel it in the air. had a huge creep factor.
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I was just waiting for mysterious music to start, you know?
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Being the brave, or maybe just dumb kid that I was,
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I decided to investigate this truck closer. When I got
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up near it, the air suddenly felt all charged and staticky,
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and the barn doors started creaking like they're in some movie.
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I took a peek inside the dusty window of the truck,
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and there, to my surprise, There's this ghostly farmer dude
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in the driver's seat. Overalls, worn out hat, the whole deal.
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I'm freaking out, thinking my eyes are playing tricks on me.
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But he just sits there and keeps on staring straight ahead. Fear?
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Oh yeah, it hit me hard, but I can't look away. Eventually,
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the prowess was broke and I stumbled my way back
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to the farmhouse. I told my uncle about what I'd seen,
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but he didn't buy it for a second. Kids and
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their wild imaginations, right? But man, every time I passed
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that truck, I swear it had this ghostly aura. Fast
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forward to today, thinking about that old Ohio farm gives
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me the willies. The haunted pickup with its ghostly farmer,
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it's one of those stories that just stays with you.
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Maybe the past really does have a way of hanging around,
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like that old truck rusting into the ground on my
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uncle's farm. Signed, Anonymous. The Headless Man Hey Steve, love
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your show. So I've got a creepy story to tell
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you about this crazy thing that happened to me back
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in the day. It was in Iowa, probably around 95.
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Cornfields had a bunch of clueless kids thinking they were invincible.
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There was a corn maze in the neighborhood and we
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decided to wander through it in the dead of night
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thinking we were on some next-level adventure. But oh boy,
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did it take a turn for the bizarre. It was
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so quiet, it was even as if the crickets took
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a break. And then we heard this creepy, thudding sound.
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like someone stomping around with no care in the world.
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Lo and behold, somewhere in the middle of the corn maze,
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there he was, a guy without a head, just strolling
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around like he was out for a casual evening walk.
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It was the strangest thing I've ever seen. We were frozen,
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just watching this headless guy doing his thing. He looked disheveled,
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but he moved with purpose, even without a head. We
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didn't dare to make a peep, thinking the thing might
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come after us. After what felt like an eternity, he
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sort of disappeared into the dark, and the cornfield went
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back to its eerie silence. We got the heck out
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of there, didn't say much, just trying to process what
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the heck we'd just witnessed. It messed with our heads
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for weeks. We just couldn't shake off that feeling that
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we stumbled upon something way beyond our imagination. It wasn't
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our mind playing tricks. We legitimately had a supernatural encounter
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with a headless man in the corn. I guess as
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time passed, I kind of buried the memory. But if
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I stop and think about it long enough, it still
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haunts me, sometimes when I least expect it. That cornfield,
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that corn maze, Our once upon a time playground turned
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into this weird, mysterious spot. I thought this tale might
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fit in with your creepy podcast. I hope you enjoyed it. Cheers,
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your friend, Chester. Massachusetts Shadows Dear Midnight Mailbox, Hope you're
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doing awesome. Have I got a story to share with you.
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It's about something that happened in a super old colonial
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house in Massachusetts. It was in the winter of 2003.
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There was a chill in the air, and I'm holed
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up in this ancient house, knee-deep in transcribing manuscripts. Now
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this house wasn't just old. It was practically dripping with history.
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It all started one evening when I was burning the
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midnight oil in the study. The fireplace was throwing shadows
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on the wall like it was putting on some kind
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of show, and that's when I first noticed them. Shadows,
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not from the fireplace, but shadow figures doing their thing
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in the kitchen. I know that sounds crazy. These shadows
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that I saw, they were weirdly human-shaped, but totally featureless.
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Imagine a shadow, but without the details. It was like
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they were stuck in limbo between form and no form
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at all. I was just too curious or maybe stubborn
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to be scared at that time. After that, for many nights,
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These shadows would just show up, just kind of moving
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around like they were up to something. They seemed to
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love hanging out near the fireplace, soaking up the warmth
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like they were reliving some old memories. And I'm just
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here going through these books, trying not to completely lose
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my mind. Eventually though, I went full detective mode, dug
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into the history of the house. Turns out, it had
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more skeleton in its closet than I thought. Family sagas,
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secret affairs, you name it, this place had seen it all.
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The shadows, it seemed, were like the keepers of these
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ancient stories. Sometimes they'd do a silent reenactment in the kitchen,
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like it was their own personal stage. And now the
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really crazy part, these shadows weren't just random blips. They
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seemed to acknowledge me in their own shadowy way. It
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was like we had this unspoken understanding. I'm typing away
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at these old stories. It felt like they were saying, yeah,
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you get us. Now, I'm not trying to convince you
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I was hanging out with Casper's extended family or anything,
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but there was this strange peace in the kitchen during
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those nightly spectacles. It was like the shadows and I
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were sharing this unspoken connection, bridging the gap between the
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living and whatever dimension they were from. Again, it's not
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about convincing anyone of what was happening in that colonial kitchen.
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It's more about the crazy goings-on between what we know
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and what's just beyond our grasp. This old house in Massachusetts,
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with its creaky floors and dark interior, became the silent
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witness to these things that defied the ticking clock. Well,
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there it is, my run-in with these shadows in a
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kitchen in an old house in Massachusetts. However you choose
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to see it, the mystery lives on. Here's to embracing
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the enigma and keeping the conversation spooky. Thank you for
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reading my story. Signed, Anonymous The Old House on the
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outskirts of town Here's my strange encounter. It was years
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and years ago when I was in my teens. I'd
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just finished high school. and one of my buddies lived
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in this old house on the outskirts of town. One night,
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things got crazy. I was crashing at his place, just
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shooting the breeze, and we were playing some tunes on
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his record player. Suddenly, we noticed these weird shadows moving around.
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Was it just our imagination? Nah, it was something else.
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These shadowy figures started appearing out of nowhere, like people
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made out of pure darkness. They didn't have any real features.
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just dark shapes that seemed to move in and out
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of the room. I remember the chill running down my
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spine like something wasn't right. We tried to ignore it
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and blamed it on the lights or whatever, but these
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shadow folks, they stuck around. They weren't doing anything, just
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lingering and giving us these really strange vibes. It was
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like they were watching us, even though they didn't have
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any eyes, if that makes any sense. There were times
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when the room would get cold and felt heavy. We
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tried talking to them, asking if they were there for
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a reason or something, but they just stayed silent shadows. Man,
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it was a trip. We couldn't figure out what was
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going on. We thought about bolding out of there. We
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were just kind of frozen, like scared to move. But
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then when we thought about it, where would we go?
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It was my friend's house. Eventually. After what felt like forever,
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the shadows eventually began to fade away. After they had gone,
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we were just left there, scratching our heads and wondering
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if we'd just lived through some strange supernatural episode. Never
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saw those shadow people again, but something like that, it
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stays with you, like some kind of weird puzzle from
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your past. Even with my high school education, I just
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couldn't wrap my head around what happened on those nights.
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Thank you for reading my story. If anybody else has
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had similar encounters, I hope they'll send theirs in too. Signed,
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Larry A Sleep Paralysis Encounter Hey Steve, hope this email
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finds you chilling and ready for some spooky stories. So
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here's the deal. I've been going through some seriously weird
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stuff at night, and I figured you or your audience
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might appreciate the bizarre tale. On a regular night, I'm
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out like a light after a day of high school chaos.
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But then, I start waking up, or at least I
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think I am. Turns out, my body's on vacation mode,
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but my mind is wide awake, playing hide-and-seek, if you will.
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And oh boy, it gets weirder. There's this pressure on
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my chest, like someone decided my ribcage is the comfiest
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spot in town. It's not just the immobility. It's the
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feeling that there is some invisible guest sitting on me,
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throwing a party on my bed without an invitation. Now,
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the first time it happened, I thought, okay, this is
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just some sort of freak incident. But nope, it soon
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became a nightly thing. It's like my body no longer
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belongs to me at night when I go to sleep.
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And the hallucinations, I guess they're hallucinations, shadowy figures in
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my room, gives me the kind of shivers that you
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get from reading the scariest ghost story. So, I googled it,
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and turns out it's called sleep paralysis. Apparently, stress is
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the trigger, and with the high school drama and family chaos,
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it's like my brain is throwing a sleep-deprived party. Although
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some people claim it's a supernatural thing. I've tried everything.
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New sleeping positions, calming bedtime routines, you name it. But
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this thing, It's got a mind of its own. It's
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like my brain's the puppet master, and I'm just along
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for a spooky ride. Some people even call it the
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old hag syndrome. Talking to my friends about it feels awkward.
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I mean, how do you explain that you're being haunted
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by invisible creatures? They'd probably think I've been watching too
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much television. So I'm keeping it on the down low,
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smiling by day and dreading the night. I've read about
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therapy and meds helping, but it feels like slapping a
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band-aid on a deeper issue. Call me stubborn, but I'm
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not ready to go down the medical path just yet.
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Feels like admitting defeat, you know? The reason why I'm
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spilling this to you and your audience is I thought
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maybe putting it into words will lift a creepy cloud. Steve,
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if you've got any thoughts or advice or any of
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your audience, I'm all ears. Thank you for letting me
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share my personal horror story. Looking forward to more spooky episodes. Sincerely,
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Dwayne Hi Steve, I saw your call for stories for
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Midnight Mailbox and I thought I'd send you one of
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my strange encounters. This is totally serious and it really happened.
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It was the weirdest hiking trip of my life. I
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was out in the tall trees, the ones that make
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you feel like you're in some giant's backyard. Deep, dark woods,
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straight out of a movie, where the sunlight barely pokes through.
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I usually don't get scared, but on this hike, I
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was frightened out of my wits. First of all, I'd
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strayed from the usual trail. Classic mistake, I know. But
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curiosity had gotten the better of me. The deeper into
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the woods I went, the quieter it got. Suddenly, I
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noticed there were no bird sounds, no leaf rustling, nothing.
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Just this creepy silence that was all around me. Then,
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all of a sudden, I stepped into a clearing. Sunlight
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beaming through the trees. And in the middle, an ancient-looking
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circle of stones. It wasn't very big, but it was
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indeed placed there by human hands. As I'm circling these rocks,
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I spot these funky symbols etched into them. Not gonna lie,
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it looked like some kind of bizarre alien tic-tac-toe game.
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And then I hear what sounds like people chatting in
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the distance. I'm standing there thinking, what is happening? It
467
00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:37.240
sounded ancient. I felt this weird energy. But that's what happened.
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The next strange thing that was part of this hike.
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I'm on this narrow trail. Trees closing in like a tunnel.
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And I hear footsteps behind me. Leaves crunching. But every
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time I stop, it stops. I turn. Nothing. It's just me,
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my echoing footsteps, and this feeling of being watched. And then,
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off in the trees, I see a misty figure. I'm squinting,
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making sure that my mind's not playing tricks. But no,
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it's a shadowy somebody or something, just standing there. I
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wanted to call out, but it was like my voice
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was gone. I started to take a step closer, and
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it was gone. I'm standing there with my heart racing.
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wondering what I just had a close encounter with. The
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last part of this particular hiking adventure, I'd set up
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camp by a stream and cooked up some beans out
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of a can when I hear like this soft humming noise.
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And again, I'm like, what is that? I followed the
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sound to another clearing, but this time it was full
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of fireflies. If you've ever seen the synchronous fireflies with
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the Smokies, that's what it looked like. It looked like
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they were making these crazy patterns in the air. Then,
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in the same clearing, a deer wanders through. Not an
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average deer. This deer was blacker than black, and its
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eyes were glowing. And the deer and I, we had
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this deep moment, locked eyes and all that, like the
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forest is putting on a show just for me. Somehow,
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I managed to fall asleep, and when morning breaks, it's
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back to normal. I could hear birds chirping, leaves rustling
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in the trees. The stone circle's still there, but it
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00:33:28.369 --> 00:33:32.109
looks benign and old, with the shadow figure and the
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whispers all gone, like some kind of bizarre dream. I
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packed up my camp, thinking the trail back home might
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not even be there, but thankfully it was. I can't
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explain the things that happened, but it felt like I
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crashed a secret party in the woods. Either I had
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some sort of weird hallucination, or Mother Nature is hiding
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some wild secrets. If you'd like to hear more stories,
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let me know. You won't believe the other things that
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have happened to me. Thanks again for reading my story,
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and I look forward to the show. Signed, Anonymous Well friends,
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I responded back to this anonymous listener. and they sent
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me another story. This time he writes, Once more, I
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decided to take a solo hike in the woods. Right now,
510
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I get chills just thinking about it. I wandered into
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the woods thinking, it's going to be a chill day
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of communing with nature. I couldn't have been more wrong.
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The air seemed thick, like walking through molasses, and the
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leaves were crunching under my feet a lot louder than
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they normally do. But then, somewhere off in the distance,
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I started hearing voices. Not just any voices, but voices
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that sounded like my Aunt Mary and my best friend Sarah,
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and at once, even my own voice. What in the
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00:35:05.110 --> 00:35:09.949
world was going on? So I start calling out, asking
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who's there. All I get back is this echo of
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00:35:13.110 --> 00:35:18.769
my own voice. But it gets stranger. the voices start
522
00:35:18.949 --> 00:35:23.030
mimicking conversations I've had with people, laughing at inside jokes,
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and even bringing up embarrassing moments I thought were buried
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deep in my memory vault. I finally decided just to
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sit down and take a breather on a fallen log,
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00:35:34.070 --> 00:35:37.889
thinking I'll figure out what's going on. But that's when
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00:35:37.929 --> 00:35:43.969
the voices continued whispering. Secrets. Personal stuff. Like family skeletons
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and old crushes. It's like the woods turned into my therapist.
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Now if that wasn't enough, I caught a glimpse of
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something moving between the trees. Some kind of shadowy figure
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that would occasionally peek out. I tried to spot it,
532
00:36:00.469 --> 00:36:03.510
but it's like chasing smoke. I can see it out
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00:36:03.530 --> 00:36:05.789
of the corner of my eye, but when I look
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00:36:05.809 --> 00:36:09.929
directly at it, there's nothing there. I decided the best
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00:36:09.969 --> 00:36:11.670
thing for me to do was to get out of there,
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and that's what I did. As I headed back to
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civilization at a steady clip, the voices faded away. It's
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like the woods knew that it had messed with my
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head long enough and decided to let me off the hook.
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I don't know what happened, and I'm not sure I
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want to. Maybe the woods have a secret society of
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their own, or maybe I just stumbled into some ghostly place.
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Either way, I don't think I'll be venturing back into
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the great unknown anytime soon, not alone anyway. So, what
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do y'all think? Am I crazy, or did I stumble
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into a forest freak show? I can't wait to hear
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your comments. Signed, Anonymous The Black Mass Hi Steve, so
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glad you've joined us here in New England. I have
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a story from my childhood that I'd like to share
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for your new show. During my childhood, I lived in
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a small town in Massachusetts that held great historical significance.
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It was the birthplace of the term Minutemen, which originated
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during the Revolutionary War. As I grew older, I learned
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from a friend who lived nearby that he'd seen Revolutionary
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War soldiers in the woods behind his house preparing for battle.
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When I was three years old, My mother and I
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moved into an apartment and were excited to have our
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own little space. I'm now 38 years old, but I
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vividly remember it all as if it happened yesterday. I
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remember having problems sleeping immediately after we moved in. I
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developed night terrors and would wake up in the middle
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of the night at the same time, 3 a.m., experiencing
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utter terror. I was so young that I couldn't rationalize
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what was going on and would scream for my mother
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to get me and take me to her room. Every
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night at the same time, this happened. It'd be like
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I was woken up out of a sound sleep because
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of sheer terror and just had to get out of
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that room. In my mom's room, I would hear strange
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music coming from nowhere in the silence of the night
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and see bizarre flashing lights soaring around the room. It's
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a wonder I ever slept at all. Flash forward two years.
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At this point, I'm five years old. This one particular night,
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I went to bed and woke up, as you guessed it,
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at 3 a.m. So I'm just laying in bed, but
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only this time, I'm not screaming for my mother. I'm
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laying there waiting, as if something is going to happen.
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I can sense it in my soul. All of a sudden,
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in the pure silence of the night, I heard the
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knob turn and the door to my room opened. The
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door just glided extremely slowly across the carpeted floor. Something
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in my gut told me not to look. I knew
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if I looked, whatever I saw looking back at me
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would ruin me forever. So I just lay there, silently
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staring at the wall, while doing everything I could to
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avoid looking at the door. Suddenly, the door slammed shut.
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The clamorous noise escalated. the darkness. I lay in fear
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and eventually, somehow, rocked myself to sleep. When I woke
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up the following morning, I immediately asked my mother if
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she'd gone in to check on me the previous night.
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She said no, because she'd been asleep herself, probably ecstatic
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not to have been disturbed for once. The look of
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sheer terror on my face must have been one for
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the books, because someone or something definitely opened that door
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last night. I was wide awake. I know I was.
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I heard that door open and physically felt someone or
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00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:12.099
something standing there looking at me. If it wasn't my mom,
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then who was it? It was just the two of
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us living there. I knew she wasn't lying. She was
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always honest with me. I try to forget this experience
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and go on with life. Now, my mom loved having
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fish tanks, and all varieties of fish since we weren't
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allowed to have other pets where we lived. The fish
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would just keep dying. I know fish die, and it
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could be a coincidence. But my mom knew how to
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take care of them, and it was just odd how
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frequently it was happening. We came home one day, and
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all of them were dead. All of them. My mom
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just shrugged, said she had no idea what happened, and
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chalked it off to bacteria or something in the water.
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That's not what I think it was. I went to
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bed that night and woke up, you guessed it, at
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the same time, 3 a.m. I groggily looked over to
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my closet, which was directly across from my bed, and
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saw through the darkness a huge black shadow or black
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mass just hovering over the closet. This thing was massive
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and the blackest black I've ever seen to this day.
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I was paralyzed with fear and screamed for my mother
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and rushed in to see what was wrong. And, to
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my horror, she saw it too. She hurriedly turned the
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light on and the black mass still hovered over the closet.
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Looking back as an adult, I know how terrified she
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must have been. She didn't want me to be scared, though,
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and I commend her for this. so she just got
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in my bed with me, pulled the covers up over
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us both, and held me close until we finally fell asleep.
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I have no idea how long that thing hovered there.
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To this day, I have no idea what we saw
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that night or what was actually happening there. Whatever was
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00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:10.070
there didn't seem to have any good intentions for us,
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and we ultimately moved not long after that terrifying night.
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It frightens me to think that something was actually watching me.
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on all those sleepless nights, and just praying on my innocence. Unfortunately,
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my mom is not with us anymore. But I asked
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00:42:28.219 --> 00:42:31.340
her about that night about 15 years ago, and she
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remembered it vividly, but could not explain it. I could
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00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:38.699
tell she was uncomfortable talking about it, and she hurriedly
638
00:42:38.739 --> 00:42:42.579
changed the subject. I was hoping she said she didn't remember,
639
00:42:42.820 --> 00:42:44.570
so it could all be chalked up to my young,
640
00:42:44.699 --> 00:42:49.079
wild imagination. but her confirming that it happened chills me
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to the core to this day. If you ever find
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yourself in central Massachusetts, beware. You never know what might
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be watching you while you sleep. I hope you enjoy
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00:43:01.929 --> 00:43:15.309
this story. Signed, Parker. Ouija Board Story I bought this
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Ouija board when I was nineteen. so in the year
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of 2018. My friend and I saw it on Amazon
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00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:23.820
for cheap and grabbed it because we were planning a
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00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:27.309
trip to Centralia in Pennsylvania and thought we could use
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it there. Fast forward to about a week later, we
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00:43:31.449 --> 00:43:34.510
end up in Centralia, and we're in a graveyard during
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sunset at the grave of a young girl named Jane.
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She was supposedly known as one of the first victims there,
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and I believe her uncle may have been responsible for
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what happened to her in the mines before the fires
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had started. We soon got a lot of activity after
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00:43:50.050 --> 00:43:53.250
asking if Jane was there. The Ouija board answered that
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it was Jane, and almost every question it either spelled
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Jane or the number 7 with both the numbers or letters.
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We thought it was weird because we didn't understand what
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7 had to do with anything. This went on for
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almost an hour until we said goodbye and thought to
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try our spirit box. The spirit box then kept yelling
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out the same thing over again. and soon after went
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completely silent and wouldn't work again until we left the cemetery.
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We thought nothing of it and went back home to
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Massachusetts the next day. We wanted to try it again
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to see if it was real or if we were
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scaring ourselves, so we went to the graveyard that my
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grandmother was buried in and tried to reach her. We
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did not mention her name or anything so nothing could
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try and trick us, and we only got the same
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answers of Jane and the number 7 again. We closed
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out the session and drove to the closest McDonald's because
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it was only a mile away and we wanted to
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be somewhere where there was a lot of people. Curiosity
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kicked in and my friend opened the box to make
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sure we had put it away properly. And as she
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did that, my new 2016 Nissan Juke started to idle
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and the lights went crazy. To this day, until I
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00:45:08.809 --> 00:45:11.289
turned it in that car, my Juke would do that
681
00:45:11.590 --> 00:45:14.010
any time it stopped and it never did this before
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that day. We put it away and left it for
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a month or so in the trunk storage of my car.
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There is a place known as the Rocking Horse Graveyard
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in Massachusetts that we wanted to visit and we have
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visited before. It's nothing scary. It's just people dropping off
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rocking horses and the owner of the land moves them
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around in fun designs for a little girl that used
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to run a lemonade stand there. We've never had a
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00:45:39.429 --> 00:45:42.050
scary experience here, but the Ouija board was still in
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my car. We went at night, so it was dark,
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and we both looked up and saw what we thought
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was a pole in the field, but then we both
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saw it move. I moved closer to get a better
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look in case it was someone that needed help. As
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I got closer, it disappeared completely in front of me,
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and we got two spoke to stay there. The next day,
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I was at work at 4 a.m., and I left
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around 12 to find out my brake lines were sliced,
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and I couldn't use them. I don't know if that
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was because I was in a bad area with a
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Ouija board, but it still made me aware. That was
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the last time we noticed anything for a couple of months.
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I soon quit that job and worked with my sister,
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but we carpooled because she had car issues, so I
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moved into her apartment with her boyfriend and her young daughter.
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I had to empty my car because I was trying
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to trade it in, so I brought everything into the apartment.
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I didn't end up trading in that car yet, but
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I forgot everything from the car in my room at
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my sister's for a while. After about three days of
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the board being in their apartment, There was problems with
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their Xbox turning on and making strange noises at 3 a.m.
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on the dot. Every day, even if it was unplugged.
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My sister had also taken a picture of my niece
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while home alone and in the background caught something standing
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very strangely in the hutch reflection behind. There was no
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TV or other person around at that time. The Xbox
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stopped doing that the day I moved out and took
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the board with me. I moved into my own place
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within the next couple months. and obviously brought the board
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with me. Within the very first night, my kitchen cabinets
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would open and slam shut by themselves every time I
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shut off the lights for bed. This went on for months,
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until my friend wanted to borrow the board because she
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was going back to Centralia with other friends. I stayed behind.
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I do not know her experiences with the board in
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Pennsylvania this time, but she came back a week later,
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and one of her friends came up to visit from Florida.
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He didn't believe this thing would cause this much destruction,
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so he wanted to try it in his hotel room. Now,
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his hotel room was right next to Rock Wall, where
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it was believed that someone was buried in, so we
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thought that would be a good spot. We played and
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got something very cheerful at first, until it started to
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spell out Jane and Seven again. Being curious, my friend
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broke out the spirit box again, while me and my
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Florida friend kept the board going. She was getting the
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exact same answers as we were. She put the spirit
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box away, and she put her hands back on the board,
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and it started going crazy, going back and forth. I
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know Zozo is the demon of the board, but that's
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all it was spelling, and I didn't believe it until
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that day. We quickly ended the session, and as we
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said goodbye, all the hangers in the closet went crazy,
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and my friend was too scared to stay in there alone,
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so I spent the night, and we did not sleep
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at all that night. My sister was throwing a Halloween
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party and my friend had brought the board and we
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thought it could be used as a prop, but we
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never touched the planchette to the board. It has been
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at my sister's house ever since and nothing happened that night,
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but since that day, the new Xbox has been turning
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on and off again and we've all seen things walking
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around the house. Things are happening to this day as
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we've opened the box for the first time since Halloween
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and within minutes, my sister's bearded dragon's tank started to
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smoke from the lamp that has never happened in the
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years that they've had him. Signed, Anonymous Hi Steve, this
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is AJK from the YouTube channel The Retrospective Vault. When
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I was a child, my parents divorced and they both
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remarried eventually, and my mother and I, along with my
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new step-family, moved to a new house. The house was
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located near a real nice subdivision named Buck Lake in
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northern Illinois. This place was a nice place to move to.
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It was out in the country and very quiet. There
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was also no shortage of children to run around the
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neighborhood with. This area had a pond and creek that
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ran into Buck Lake that was man-made by a small dam.
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People could fish, swim, and canoe on the lake, and
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even ice skate in the winter months. Nothing seemed out
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of the ordinary at first, I don't remember how long
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I'd been living in the house when I had my
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first encounter. I woke up one night and I could
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look out my bedroom door down the hall and into
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the kitchen. There stood two ghostly looking figures next to
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the refrigerator. A third orb looking thing was racing real
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fast around the soup tureen on top of the refrigerator.
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At my age and height, I thought the refrigerator was tall.
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The one ghostly figure standing next to the fridge was
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strangely contorted. It looked like it was bent in an
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awkward position. After that incident, I never slept with the
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bedroom door open. I don't understand why that house was haunted,
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but I could only guess. Either the previous owners invited
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them in, or the land around the area is cursed.
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Strange occurrences would happen to things in my room. I
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had a snow globe that was knocked over on the floor,
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which broke it. I would wake up with scratches on
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my body, and my mother would ask if I'd been
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playing rough with a dog. Another time, I was in
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my room but thankfully not alone in the house. I
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had a mirror that hung over my dresser drawers that
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reflected in the hallway outside my bedroom. A small pitch
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black figure walked past my room in the hallway. It
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was short, maybe three feet tall. It was holding what
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looked like a stick with a chicken egg on the
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end of it. It scared me real bad and I
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ran to the other side of the house where all
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the adults were. I don't know what was worse, seeing
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ghosts and being scared or nobody believing me when I
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told them what I'd seen. As time went on, we
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moved to another house in town, and I could walk
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to school. I didn't see anything in the new house.
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It wouldn't be until years later as an adult that
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I would experience paranormal activity again. To be continued. Thanks, AJK,
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for sending that in, and absolutely, feel free to send
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us more stories of your personal encounters. That brings us
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to the end of our first episode of a midnight
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mailbox featuring your paranormal stories and strange encounters. Are you
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someone who's experienced the unexplainable, the eerie, or the downright mysterious?
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Have you, dear listener, ever had a paranormal encounter that
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sent shivers down your spine? If so, we want to
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hear from you for future episodes. We invite you to
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share your personal paranormal experiences. Email your stories to midnightmailbox13
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at gmail.com. This podcast aims to create a space where
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individuals from all walks of life can come together to
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share their unexplained encounters with the supernatural. Whether you've encountered ghosts, UFOs, cryptids,
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or anything else that defies rational explanation, we want to
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hear your story. Your firsthand experiences can be a source
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of intrigue, inspiration, and even comfort for those who may
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have had similar encounters. Thank you for being a part
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of this thrilling journey into the world of the paranormal.
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We can't wait to listen to your spooky tales. Stay
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safe out there. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to
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you next time. Tell your animals I said hi.