Full Transcript for Spectral Connections

00;07;07;01 Andrea Janes Her husband passed away also by his own hand. Seems like that kind of woman on my story. And she was like I had recently been widowed. My husband had just committed suicide, I was bereft, I was distraught, I was on my own for the first time, and I decided I was going to do the, you know, one thing I had wanted to do my whole life that I never did. 00;07;07;01 - 00;07;28;17 Andrea Janes I was going to buy myself an apartment. I was going to buy myself a home. I was alone, but I was going to have a home. And me and my dog, we're going to have a home. And she poured everything she had into buying a condominium. And it was cheap. Really cheap. Suspiciously cheap, for the Upper East Side. 00;07;28;17 - 00;07;46;23 Andrea Janes But she bought it. She fixed it up, she renovated it. It took months and months and months, and like every cent she had was in this place. And it was such an intense renovation, like a studs down renovation, you know, like she didn't even live in the place for the first couple of months. She owned it. She spent a lot of time at her home. 00;07;46;23 - 00;07;59;26 Andrea Janes She's from Long Island. It's just been a long time home, and she would drive back and forth to check on the place. And it was just about the end of the summers Labor Day weekend. She was driving in. She was stuck in traffic. She was checking on the place. She was in a car, their dog under her arm. 00;07;59;26 - 00;08;28;00 Andrea Janes She finally gets to her apartment, her new apartment, her home that she longed for for so long. And she gets up in there and she is shocked to discover that though all of the beautiful renovations have been executed to her precise specifications, the walls of her freshly painted home have been scrawled with mysterious graffiti that she can only describe as obscene, obscene, pornographic, disgusting. 00;08;28;00 - 00;08;47;03 Andrea Janes She can't go into any further detail about it, but she's shocked. She's like, what do the workmen do this? What is going on? Meanwhile, she's looking at this aghast and her dog has wriggled out from under her arm. Run out the door, has sat in the hallway and refuses to cross the threshold. Won't go into this apartment. So I'm not. 00;08;47;04 - 00;09;06;02 Andrea Janes I'm not going in. And she's like, okay, this is weird. She goes downstairs and she's talking to the doorman of the building and she's like, this is really strange. My dog hates this apartment. He won't go in. There's some writing on the walls. It's very upsetting. I don't know what is happening. And the guy just says, oh, Mrs. Spencer is back. 00;09;06;05 - 00;09;30;09 Andrea Janes Mrs. Spencer is back. Turns out, apparently there was a woman named Julia Spencer who lived in that house before her with a really, like, apparently fairly famous and wealthy family. She's got a pretty good pedigree. She apparently was the niece of J.P. Morgan. Back before the building became condominiums. It was a single family home. It was a mansion, and it was this fine ladies home. 00;09;30;11 - 00;09;53;27 Andrea Janes So suddenly this woman's, like, got to contend with the fact that her dream home that she sunk every cent she has into, is haunted by Mrs. Spencer. But she's like, look, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to do something about this. And she brings and this is her terminology. She brings a voodoo priestess from New Orleans. She flies her up from New Orleans, and she has her come in. 00;09;54;00 - 00;10;08;18 Andrea Janes She has her cleanse the house, and they do her ritual. And she's like, it was like something out of a bad horror movie. It was really cheesy, was really over the top. And I'm like, this is not going to work. This is insane. And yet, lo and behold, by the time they're done, it's about 230 in the morning. 00;10;08;20 - 00;10;35;21 Andrea Janes She feels a strange sort of peace settle over her, and she feels calm, and she's like, I feel as though this is actually effective. And they do this very weird thing. They go around knocking on the doors of every other apartment in the building. It's 230 in the morning and they're like, listen, we just had this cleansing ceremony and we're here and we would like to offer you a chance to have it done in your apartment as well. 00;10;35;23 - 00;10;58;01 Andrea Janes And not one single person slammed the door in their face, which is astonishing because I'm pretty sure I would have anyway. So she's feeling good. She's feeling confident. She's like, I'm going to move in. This is done. It's finished. Close the book on Mrs. Spencer. Goodbye. She moves in. But fairly soon after she moves in. Some strange disturbances start to happen in her apartment again, and she's like, I don't feel like I'm alone. 00;10;58;01 - 00;11;14;08 Andrea Janes I feel like there's a presence here with me. She's later cleaning out her storage unit in the basement, and she finds an old oil painting buried beneath layers and layers and layers of years and years and years of junk and detritus like you find in a basement. She's like, this is an oil painting of. I'm pretty sure this is a mrs. Spencer. 00;11;14;10 - 00;11;37;22 Andrea Janes So she consults her friend from New Orleans again. She says, what should I do? And she is told that she should put this oil painting in the lobby, which she does. She's already like on the board at this point. She's on the condo board. She's going to put this painting in the lobby. You're going to do it. And her friend from New Orleans says you should always have fresh flowers by the painting and in your apartment at all times. 00;11;37;24 - 00;12;05;29 Andrea Janes So she has fresh flowers by the painting. She's fresh flowers in her apartment at all times. And she says that eventually the disturbances became more and more innocuous, more and more gentle. And as time passed, and as the fresh flowers were maintained, and as the portrait had its pride of place in the lobby, events, when the

spirit would wake her up at three in the morning, which she did with regularity, it would just wake her and speak to her, just be a presence next to her bed. 00;12;06;02 - 00;12;36;23 Andrea Janes It became a sort of benevolent, comforting presence and somehow made her feel less lonely in her widowhood. And she formed a sort of bond with Mrs. Spencer. It's a kind of beautiful story, and in the end, even the dog learned to put up with her. That woman, by the way, is Joan Rivers. 00;12;36;25 - 00;13;14;07 Sasha Graham There's a ghost story with a happy and glitzy ending. Joan sure was lucky to find a voodoo priestess to help her navigate her unseemly poltergeist. Sometimes, as our next storyteller found out, you don't have to look too far for advice on how to make friends with a specter who is keeping you from getting your freak on. Nyssa Lozano is an actor, performance artist, and intuitive tarot card reader who often appeared at my Sasha Graham's Spirited Away paranormal and psychic event. 00;13;14;09 - 00;13;46;28 Sasha Graham Nyssa told her story on the same evening as Andrea Jayne's ghostly tale on May 10th, 2022. By the way, you'll often hear my voice interacting with the audience and introducing storytellers at my crowdsourced ghost story events. As in the case of the following story. Now here's Nyssa with the unknown roommate. 00;13;47;00 - 00;14;06;19 Sasha Graham Nyssa is one of our sister tarot card readers. She often can be found here reading tarot cards at Spirited Away and she is amazing. And I'm just so excited that you're here and you're going to tell a story because you're going to love her as much as I do. Everyone, Nyssa. 00;14;06;22 - 00;14;28;16  Neysa Lozano Oh. Thank you. That was that was so lovely. So I have, like, I don't know, I have interactions with ghosts often when I was a kid, I came out and I told my mom, like, mommy, there's a man in my room. And then older, I remember being in a theater, and feeling someone tap my shoulder. And I turned around and nobody was there, and I was like, oh, great. 00;14;28;18 - 00;14;51;28  Neysa Lozano But that was shortly after this, like, really fun summer for me. So this is the story that I spent a summer and the Ezra Pound house in, Hailey, Idaho. Yeah. Ezra was not the ghost that I met, but it was super. It was like a very old house. Had been there since, like, the 1800s, and everyone kind of joked that it was haunted. 00;14;51;28 - 00;15;11;27  Neysa Lozano And the first day that we were there, like we heard running upstairs is the one thing. And my friend and I who were there like, we decided which room was which. And I got this giant addict room and and it was like this beautiful four post bed and like an old school TV, the kind that had like a button. 00;15;11;29 - 00;15;38;23  Neysa Lozano And I was super excited and exhausted because I had been traveling all day. It was like I had a red eye and I go over and I collapsed on the bed to take a nap, and I feel one of my cats crawl into bed with me. Except that my cats didn't come with me. And I look up and I see something run out of the corner of my eye, and I start freaking out because I knew there was something in that room. 00;15;38;26 - 00;15;52;15  Neysa Lozano And later on, like the next day, I was talking to my mom. And my mom is also part of the paranormal world and the spiritual world and all of that goodness. So I'm talking to her and I'm like, I swear there's something in my room. And she goes, yeah, there's a little girl on the bed behind you. And I'm like, what? 00;15;52;16 - 00;16;11;23  Neysa Lozano And she's like, yeah, she's just bouncing on the bed. And I'm like, great. So the entire time I'm there, there was a little bit of an inappropriate part of the story. And so I'm sorry. I couldn't watch porn on that bed. My internet would be working great. I would put on porn and it would immediately stop. Nothing. 00;16;11;25 - 00;16;31;24  Neysa Lozano So I couldn't watch porn. And then things started getting taken from me, like, just little. Like my earrings went missing or like, a piece of chicken went missing. Just stuff just started disappearing. And then one day, this girl left the door open because you had to lock the door to close it. And so we all were really particular about closing it. 00;16;31;26 - 00;16;55;22  Neysa Lozano And we go over to the door and it is wide open and there is no way that could have happened. And we searched the entire house because we had been out and we searched the entire house for somebody. No one is there. And it happened to us twice that this person just opens the door. So finally, I, I wish that it had a more climactic ending, but I bought her a little toy, a little blue toy, and there was a second bed in the room. 00;16;55;22 - 00;17;13;26  Neysa Lozano So I put the blue toy there and I was like, this is your bed. And I sage the room. And from that moment on, she was very good at not bothering me. And I could watch porn again and she was fine. Thank you. 00;17;13;28 - 00;17;14;24 Unknown Oh my God. 00;17;14;24 - 00;17;17;08  Neysa Lozano I love it, I love it, I know, don't you. 00;17;17;08 - 00;17;43;10 Sasha Graham Wonder if they're like, watching you right when you're in the shower, when you're having, when you're treating your body like an amusement park. When you think nobody else is around. Right. You never know. I mean, I'd be down for that. If I could come back and haunt, I'd totally be a creeper. I would. Don't we all wonder when we are alone and intimate with ourselves, if there might be some observing intelligence in the room? 00;17;43;12 - 00;18;11;19 Sasha Graham Could it be a ghost, a god, a peeping roommate, or worse, hidden camera for a secret OnlyFans account? Thank you. Miss, here's to keeping your boundaries safe and secure, and making sure that all the ghosts in your life have what they need to stay satisfied. Speaking of boundaries, that fog Bank is now moving due east along one's hollow ridge.

00;18;11;22 - 00;18;40;01 Sasha Graham I can actually see it from the fire tower. So if any of you are out there listening in your car, stay focused, roll down your windows and know when to pull over. If the fog is too thick, don't worry, I'm right here with you. And I've got one last story to keep you company tonight. Our final tale comes from Leary to rock Leary. 00;18;40;01 - 00;19;19;03 Sasha Graham Durocher is a tarot reader, forager, and wild crafter. She comes from a family of farmers and grew up splitting her summers between her mother's natal Macedonia and her father's natal Kosovo. She is the founder of Potions by Leary, a combination of tarot and herbal services derived of intuitively crafted herbal preparations. Leary takes the hysteria and fear out of otherworldly encounters, and is a living example of honoring and sustaining relationships with the dead. 00;19;19;05 - 00;19;37;17 Sasha Graham Her story, The Golden Mirror, was recorded May 10th, 2022 at a Sasha Graham's Ghost Stories by the fire event at the Barrows Intense Tasting Room in Brooklyn, New York. 00;19;37;20 - 00;19;48;14 Sasha Graham Mary, would you like to come up? I happen to know this lovely lady. This is Leary, and I'm so happy she came tonight. Thank you. 00;19;48;16 - 00;20;12;23 Liri Duraku My name is Leary. And I see dead people. And I've always seen dead people since I was a kid. I have had this blessing and this curse since I was a child, where I would always know if someone was passing. I would always know who has passed. And sometimes they would visit me. And it was always really overwhelming, but also really beautiful. 00;20;12;23 - 00;20;34;22 Liri Duraku And I felt really blessed to have this gift. And it's shaped my whole existence in the way that I see the world and the way that I just know that all of us are so deep and we have so much to offer. And I don't know, I mean, now that I'm older, I feel so grateful for the life that I've lived in the people, and they're not people that I've met. 00;20;34;24 - 00;20;57;00 Liri Duraku And it always feels like ghosts come into my life when, I'm in this space of an initiation and I'm ready to move into a new space or a new journey in my life, and these ghosts come in to welcome me. And so I'm going to tell a little bit of a story of this one ghost who, is my best friend. 00;20;57;02 - 00;21;16;19 Liri Duraku But I don't mean it in like, a literal sense, but, she lived in the house that I lived in for a really long time, and we became very close. And to this day, we have this, like, portal of connection. So when I was like 22, 23, around that age, I moved to Narrows Bridge, New York, which I know some of you are familiar with. 00;21;16;21 - 00;21;43;19 Liri Duraku And I lived in this old house that was big and ride in the farmhouse, and it was there since the 1860s. And, very immediately I met the spirit of this woman, and her name was Juliette. And we had this really intense connection, and I knew that she had been there for a long time, and she would communicate to me pretty easily just what she wanted and what she needed. 00;21;43;19 - 00;22;13;29 Liri Duraku And we had this reciprocal relationship and friendship. And, I was in a really interesting space in my life where I was really young, but also felt a little old to be doing what I was doing. And, she helped guide me through that space. And it almost felt like every time I called upon Juliette, I called also upon a deeper part of myself where I knew that I could be more than what I was, and that I had the potential to grow past who I am in this moment. 00;22;14;02 - 00;22;42;05 Liri Duraku And Juliette was this spirit or this ghost that also was that potential. And so every time I was in communion with her or in relationship with her conversation with her, I was also in conversation with myself. And we had this really beautiful reciprocal communication. And I found this cold mirror in the basement of that house and every place that I've ever lived since then, I've brought that golden year with me. 00;22;42;08 - 00;23;07;03 Liri Duraku And whenever I need a little bit of encouragement or just like a moment of somebody feeling like they have faith in me, I look in that gold mirror and I ask for Juliette to come forward. And that day I will always find either feathers or gold beads or crystal that shouldn't be there. And I know that that was Juliette's way of saying like, yes, you're in your next stage. 00;23;07;05 - 00;23;29;12 Liri Duraku So I don't know if this is much of a ghost story, but it's more so this combination of like, is it psyche? Is it spirit? Does it really matter? It's all coming from this space of encouragement, of growth and expansion. So no matter what, it's part of who we are. So thank you guys all for listening to me tonight. 00;23;29;15 - 00;23;39;12 Liri Duraku Thank you. 00;23;39;14 - 00;24;15;26 Sasha Graham I love Larry Story one because mirrors are highly charged magical items and doorways between worlds. But to Leary's story, her attitude serves as a reminder that the energy of the universe is always sending you messages. The question is, are you paying attention? Are you open to the messages that are coming at you? For any listeners who are curious about communicating with the dead, one of the easiest ways to do it is by using tarot cards. 00;24;15;29 - 00;24;47;10 Sasha Graham Tarot is much less intimidating than a Ouija board, and you only need yourself and the cards. Hold the tarot deck in your hands and clear your mind. Simply ask the space you're in or the presumed ghost who they are. Flip a card. Focus on the image and observe what pulls your attention. This will always be the answer. Continue asking questions of your cards and trust what unfolds. 00;24;47;16 - 00;25;12;02 Sasha Graham And always assert boundaries and manners when dealing with humans and spirits alike. Now for more information on beginning a tarot practice, see my book The Magic of Tarot, available at bookstores everywhere or through my website at slash graham.com. Speaking of which, do you have an interesting ghost story? I'd love to hear it. Maybe have you on my show. 00;25;12;05 - 00;37;47;15 Sasha Graham Drop me a line at Sasha graham.com and put ghost stories in the subject line. That's all for now. I'm your host, Sasha Graham, signing off for tonight on NY Western Catskills radio in wants. Hello. New York. I'm 93.6 FM. Stay spooky, stay cozy. You don't have to be afraid of the dark.