June 6, 2025

Summer Break: It's Haunted What Now

Summer Break: It's Haunted What Now

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Hi, this is Christina and this is As Booky tell Us,

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the podcast for all things as Booky Hunted places true

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crime in Latin America. But today's not a normal episode

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you might know by now, but Carmen and I were

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invited to leave the La Latino International Film Festival and

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that took up some time for us, and because of that,

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we were not able to have an episode out, and

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catch up and actually get episodes on time. Not be rushing,

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but we're not going to leave you hanging in these

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two weeks because we were never or maybe we have,

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but we would never now. So instead of one of

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our episodes, I got one of our podcast besties to

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send us an episode of that you can all hear,

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because we should all be listening to Lady. Lady hosts

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a bunch of podcasts, but the spooky one is It's

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Haunted What Now. It's one of my favorites. First of all,

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Leady has the best voice ever in podcasting, So you

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need to be listening to all of our podcasts, of course,

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but because you like a spooky things, then this is

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the one. This is the one that you need to

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listen to and It's Haunted What Now? It's their one

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hundredth episode. That's where we're going to listen to. And

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then next week we're going to have another bestie setting

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us a different episode, and after that we'll be back

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and it's just going to be back to normal, Me

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and Carmen, sometimes the guests whatever. Back to normal. I

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hope you don't hear the sirens passed about my house

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right now. Anyway, enjoy this episode of It's Haunted What Now?

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But maybe don't listen at night.

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Welcome back to It's Haunted What Now? I'm your host, Laney.

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When the lights go out and the world is quiet,

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that's when they make themselves known. Strange whispers at home

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to footsteps echoing where no one should be at work.

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These chilling stories of hauntings that follow you from home

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to the workplace will make you question what's real and

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maybe make you wish you had an AUDI to your

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any Okay, ready to get spooked? Fall Mega zero one

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gives us a couple stories about something sinister boldly making

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itself known. Story one. As a Brazilian, I grew up

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in a country where African rooted religion are common. These

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religions often deal directly with the spiritual world, spirits, entities,

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and everything in between. Because of my exposure to these

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beliefs and practices, I've become somewhat accustomed to these kinds

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of experiences. While they can be unsettling, I usually know

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how to handle myself in such situations. However, on this

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particular night, I encountered something that truly terrified me. It

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was late at night and I was walking home from

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the gym alone. I was in a bad place in

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life emotionally and mentally, and I had my headphones on

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listening to music. This song playing was slow chemical. I

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remember this detail vividly because even now, that song brings

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me back to that night. As I approached the cemetery

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near my house, I started to feel like I was

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being followed. At first, I brushed it off, thinking it

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was just paranoia or the usual fear of being mugged.

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But the closer I got to the cemetery, the more

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certain I became that I wasn't alone. It was an

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overwhelming feeling, as if something heavy was pressing down on me.

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When I reached the street directly in front of the cemetery, gates.

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My whole body went into survival mode. It was like

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my instincts knew I was in danger. The sensation of

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being followed turned into something far worse. It wasn't a

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subtle following anymore. Whatever it was felt like it was

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running toward me, getting closer. The pressure was suffocating. In

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sheer panic, I started running. I wasn't far from home,

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but in hindsight, running was a terrible idea. Whatever was

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following me knew that I knew it was there, and

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it began chasing me with even more intensity. I was

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praying desperately as I ran, hoping to encounter another person

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on the street, anything to break this overwhelming terror. When

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I finally got home, I immediately lit candles and prayed

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for whatever it was to leave me alone. That's when

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I realized it was a female spirit, a disembodied soul

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that had followed me. I have no idea what she

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wanted from me, but the pressure she exerted on me

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was unlike anything I've ever experienced. Story two. Because of

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the religious influences I grew up with, experiences with spirits

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became somewhat routine for me. One day, I was talking

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with a friend about protective guides. Think of them as

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guardian angels. My friend said he felt a strong connection

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to his guide and shared some personal experiences. I cautioned

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him to be careful. Sometimes malevolent spirits pretend to be

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benevolent to drain your energy. The moment I said that,

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I regretted it, immediately, the light bulb in my room exploded.

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I got up to go into my room, but when

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I reached the door, I froze. I couldn't step inside.

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My body was paralyzed, gripped by fear. It was as

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if my survival instincts were screaming at me to stay out.

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I tried again, but I couldn't do it. I stood there,

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panicked and unable to enter my own room. Eventually, I

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lit candles and prayed, asking whatever presence was there to leave.

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The atmosphere became icy cold, and my room felt even

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colder than the rest of the house. I had chewels, fear,

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and an overwhelming sense of dread. For a while after that,

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I couldn't bring myself to enter my room. My final

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thoughts my advice. Don't underestimate them, don't challenge or provoke them.

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Always ask respectfully to be left in peace. I will

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always advocate for leaving the spirits alone, and of course

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asking to be left alone. I'm curious how you knew

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the entity from your first story was a female. Was

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it the energy you felt or something else. I'm also

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wondering if it was the same one in your second story,

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what could have been listening to you say what you

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said to your friend. Heck, I'm even wondering if it

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was your friend's so called guide reacting to you, because

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maybe what you said was true and you just like

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showed their cards. I have no idea, but hopefully everything

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is okay now. The next story is told by Winter

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Links nine zero one nine, who also has multiple experiences

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and a house from the late nineteen hundreds. In the nineties,

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my parents bought a beautiful colonial house with a white

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picket fence in rural New England. They probably should have

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known from the low price and time and had been

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on the market that something was wrong, but unfortunately we

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didn't realize that the house was haunted af until after

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we moved in. Things started off pretty mundane. We'd occasionally

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smell cigarette smoke really strongly at the kitchen table. Me

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and my dad are asthmatic, and no one in our

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family smokes. My mom got sick of it after a

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while and asked the ghost to stop smoking, and it

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never happened again. Also, the heat would randomly get turned

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up to ninety on its own from time to time.

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These were the old style thermostats that you actually had

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to physically turn, and we sure as hell weren't turning

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the heat up to ninety, although I got blamed for

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it a few times. Then we started to hear heavy,

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slow footsteps in the house, but only if one of

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us was home alone. This actually terrified me, as I

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was a young teenage girl and thought an intruder had

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broken into the house. Times I ended up hiding under

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my bed or in a closet for hours until someone

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came home, only to realize that I had been home

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alone the whole time. My brother started to hear the

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footsteps in our unfinished attic and sometimes coming down the

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hallway and stopping outside his door. The dogs also started

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to react to something and would bark, growl, and snarl

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at something that we couldn't see. Eventually, it got so

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bad that one of the dogs would whimper and cower

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as if someone was attacking it. My brother, a marine,

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got sick of this and cussed out whatever demonic entity

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was in the house, and it left the dog alone.

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After that, we also started to feel very uneasy in

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some parts of the house. It always felt like something

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very angry was glaring at me and didn't want me

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there whenever I was in the basement, dining room, or

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central hallway. One day, my brother noticed that I was

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avoiding these parts of the house and he asked me

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if I also felt the angry spirit that was there.

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We had sleepovers with friends in high school and college,

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and some of my friends had upsetting and settling experiences

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of the entity messing with them, scaring them while they

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were sleeping in the basement. Once I saw a middle

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aged man walk up the front steps, open the door,

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and then vanish into thin air, literally five feet in

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front of me. My brother and his math tutor were

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home alone once and heard a woman screaming upstairs. The

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lights would go crazy sometimes too, which I'd blame on

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electric problems, except that you could ask the ghosts if

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it was them, and the lights would flicker on demand.

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I could go on and on, because this place was

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so haunted that things happened pretty much on a daily occurrence.

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Although there were a lot of negative entities in the house,

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there were also positive ones that I interacted with. My

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room was the most protected place, and the negative entities

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mostly left me and my space alone. A few times

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I saw angels and orbs of light, which was an

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extremely positive experience that really affected me. My brother, on

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the other hand, got the worst of it and was

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constantly physically attacked and dealt with a lot of sleep

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paralysis and other problems. My parents finally sold the house

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after owning it for about twenty years. Since then, the

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house has had multiple owners, but no one ever stays

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in the house long, and they end up selling it

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for a lot less than what they could get. Although

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it was not always enjoyable living in such a haunted house,

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it taught me a lot about how to deal with

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spirits and different types of entities. My mother and brother

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both have some psychic abilities, and I'm a psychic channeller

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and medium. Growing up in this house kind of desensitized

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me to dealing with scary things of a spiritual nature

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and taught me a lot about psychic self defense. It's

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been a very long time since I lived in the house,

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but I still dream that I'm back there about once

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a week. I believe that this house has some kind

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of portal that allowed both positive and negative entities to cross. Anyways,

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I don't want to make this too long, but just

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wanted to share my experience. We also had a friendly

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dog ghost in the house for a while, which I

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can go into more detail about if anyone wants to hear.

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So believe it or not, I can definitely agree with

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your thought that this house may have been a portal

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of some sort. Being that there were so many entities,

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it seems like there were different types. I wouldn't chalk

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that up to just any old regular hauntings. Always feel

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free to tell us more, and if your brother wants

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in on the action, we'd be glad to hear more

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from him. And of course I want to hear about

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the ghost dog, even though I personally would never want

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to be haunted by an animal, because I don't want

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to be haunted by anything period. Our final story is

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told by imaginary breadth two two one, who learned to

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fear the early morning shift. I have been working in

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a supermarket since I was sixteen years old. This job

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started as a way to support myself as a student.

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Over the years, I've worked in multiple teams and completed

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countless shifts. For the past four years, I've regularly worked

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a specific early morning shift that runs from four to

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fifteen am to eight am. The shift involves unloading truck

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deliveries and organizing goods onto the carts correctly for inventory.

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On October third, twenty twenty three, something unusual happened during

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one of these ships. I live in the Netherlands, and

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at that time of year, the climate is typically mild.

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On this particular night, it was warm, about fifteen degrees

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celsius or fifty nine degrees fahrenheit. However, as I approached

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the store's entrance, I felt a sudden, icy chill, as

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if it were freezing outside. It felt strange, but I

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didn't think much of it. Shortly after, my colleague arrived

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and mentioned that he also felt as though it was freezing.

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I told him I had experienced the same thing. When

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I reached into my pocket for the keys, they felt

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unusually heavy, almost as if something was pulling them from

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my hand. I dropped them, picked them up and unlock

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the door. As we walked toward the back of the building,

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we heard footsteps behind us, as if someone were running

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through the supermarket. I turned to my colleague and asked,

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is it just me or did you hear that too?

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He nodded, confirming that he had also heard the sound.

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but I told myself we were probably imagining things. We

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headed upstairs to retrieve a handheld terminal and an internal phone,

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which is used for internal calls, customer inquiries, or to

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stay reachable for truck drivers. By this time, I had

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been working at the store for over six years and

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was familiar with its systems. I decided to check the

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security cameras for any movement or signs that someone might

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have stayed in the store overnight. The footage revealed nothing unusual,

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which reassured me for the time being. As we waited

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for the truck to arrive, we were asked to stalk

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some leftover goods from the previous day. We went to

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the stock room to grab a rollcage. Upon entering this

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part of the store, I noticed the air felt unusually heavy,

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and once again we heard footsteps. I started to feel

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genuinely uncomfortable, but being at work, I had no valid

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excuse to leave, so I ignored the feeling. We moved

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to the aisle near the self checkout registers to begin stalking.

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At around four forty am, we heard the distinctive bleep

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sound the self checkout registers make when scanning a barcode.

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The sound repeated three times, with five second intervals between

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each beep. My nerves shot up and I felt goosebumps

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all over. Beer began to creep in and I felt

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my heart. I wanted to leave, but my colleague and

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I knew that our bosses wouldn't understand such a decision,

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and I didn't want to risk my job. We decided

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to keep working and finish the shift. Around five am,

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we prepared for the truck's arrival by going back to

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the stock room and opening the dock gate. As we waited,

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the internal phone rang. I answered it and was met

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with the sound of deep breathing on the other end.

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I glanced at the phone screen and saw that the

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call was coming from phone number four oh five. This

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startled me because I was carrying four oh one that night.

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The store's phones are numbered four oh one through four

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oh eight and four oh five shouldn't have been operational.

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It had fallen into a scene two weeks earlier and

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had yet to be replaced or repaired. I quickly put

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the phone on speaker and asked my colleague do you

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hear this too? The fear in his eyes answered my question,

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and I hung up immediately. Finally, at five oh five am,

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the truck arrived, bringing some relief and a distraction from

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the strange events. The truck driver parked and approached us,

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saying it's quite cold in ear which reignited my unease.

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As we unloaded the truck, my colleague and I discussed

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the eerie experiences we had just encountered. He mentioned that

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his grandmother used to tell him stories about the paranormal

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and unexplained phenomena, though he had never believed them because

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of his lack of faith. While we continued working, we

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both felt as if someone was watching us. The truck driver,

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who didn't speak English fluently, couldn't understand our knees and

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left soon after. Later, while splitting the goods, we played

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music on our phones to distract ourselves. At exactly six

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thirty am, two bottles of beer stored about five meters

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away suddenly exploded. They had been placed in a grate

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on a roll container that neither of us had touched.

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After the shift, we discussed what had happened and realized

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we both felt pain and old injuries, his knee and

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neck and my lower back and wrist. We concluded that

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something unexplainable had been with us that morning. My colleague,

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who was still in his trial period, decided to quit

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that same day. For a year, nothing else happened. I

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took a seven month sabatical from February to August twenty

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twenty four. However, on October secon in twenty twenty four,

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my boss called and asked if I could cover the

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next morning shift because someone had called in sick. I refused,

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without explaining. To this day, I firmly believe in what

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I saw, heard, and felt that night. I still work

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at the supermarket because it pays well and I've made

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good friends there. Some people don't believe my story, and

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I understand that they may never experience anything like this,

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but I know my truth. As a twenty three year

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old biology student who has always been skeptical of the paranormal,

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this experience profoundly changed my perspective. The memory of that

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night resurfaced recently when I heard my name whispered while

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working alone in the stock room. Gross. Okay, so I

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do not like to use this phrase very often, but

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I really did have full body chills reading the story

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from beginning to end. I honestly couldn't wait to finish

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reading it. I was like, it keeps going, it keeps going,

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and I'm freaking out a little bit. As you guys know,

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I record these at night in my little vocal booth,

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and I have a glass store that's reflective and showing me.

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So every time I see something, I try not to

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be paranoid in my periphery going like, that's just you,

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and then my brain goes, but what if it's not you?

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I digress. Okay, sorry about that little rant, but there

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is something so unsett about being in a public place

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with no one there and suddenly you start hearing things.

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And you really had me losing my mind with the

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internal phone call from a broken phone. Do you guys

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remember that story from the prison when they had a

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prison guard getting a call from a broken prison phone

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from like the nineteen eighties. Things like that cannot be explained.

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I don't care what you say. I don't understand it anyhow.

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And the fact that it like whispered your name. No,

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thank you. I know that pay is quite good and

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you are insanely brave to even continue working there, even

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if it's not in the early morning shift anymore. Well

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that does it for this episode. Now, this is our

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one hundredth episode, So kudos to all of us for

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keeping it going. Thank you so much for your support,

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your likes, your shares, all of it, your reviews, your

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snarky little comments on Spotify. I love you guys so much.

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You're so funny. But truly I do appreciate it because

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they are hilarious to me and it helps me with

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figuring out where the show's going, et cetera. So thank

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you so much for your participation because it shows that

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you're engaged and I actually I love it. Now, this

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is the final story for this episode, unless you're an

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Apple subscriber, in which case stay tuned after the credits. Well,

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you'll get to hear two additional stories as a special treat.

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Well that does it for this episode. If you'd like

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to submit your own personal spooky tale to be read

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on the show at a Hauntedpond dot com and click

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of Dreams or We Talk of Dreams dot com. Until

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next time?

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Did you hear that.

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This army starts off our bonus stories by telling us

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a heartwarming tale? Back in March twenty twenty one, my

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eighteen year old daughter was overwhelmed by an experience she

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had on a shuttle. She'd fallen asleep during her four

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hour journey, and when she awoke, two other passengers had

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gotten on. One of them a man, sat in front

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of her, and the other, a young beautiful woman with

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braided hair, sat beside her. Smiling. The woman spoke to her,

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asking young lady, Do you know who I am? My

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daughter looked at her closely and said no. The woman

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smiled and said, I'm your nana that raised you when

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you were little. My daughter looked more closely at her

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and realized it was a very young version of her

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great grandmother. She had seen photos of her when she

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was younger, but the woman looked even younger than the photographs,

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and she had a glow to her. She started to cry,

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and the woman said, be strong, wear a smile, and

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carry on. The shuttle stopped minutes later, and the man

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seated in front got off and walked in one direction,

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and the young woman got up to leave as well.

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She told my daughter, I have to go, now, take

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care of yourself. She got off the shuttle and disappeared.

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The words where a smile and carry on are from

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my grandmother's favorite song, to the Lights of London Shine Again,

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and it's something that she always said to us, or

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she'd seen a few lines from it when saying goodbye

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to us. Don't you cry when I'm gone, Wear a

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smile and carry on till the lights of London shine again.

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So was this her younger reborn spirit that my daughter encountered.

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I'm still unsure of what to make of it. My

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grandmother passed in twenty thirteen. I could believe that was

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her spirit and not a reborn one. She probably came

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back in a form she preferred to see her great

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granddaughter and give her words of wisdom and a time

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of need. You never know when we need a few

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kind words like that to keep our spirits up. So

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thank you for sharing this beautiful story. The second bonus

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story is from Weary Passage seventy five eighty two, whose

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new job is definitely haunted. So I started this job

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a month ago. I'm an overnight security officer in one

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of the multiple buildings on a large campus, assigned an NBA,

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so I really can't be more specific to potentially identify

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my client. Anyway, I started my job training on first shift,

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and I'll admit I was skeptical when I started hearing

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the stories. Things moving doors opening and closing, actual full

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bodied apparitions in the middle of the day, a little

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girl that throws things in one of the older buildings,

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stuff of that nature. I'm usually pretty sensitive to the paranormal,

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having experienced it often growing up. I've experienced many unexplainable things,

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but the buildings I trained in didn't feel threatening, so

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I dismissed it. I've been working my regular shift for

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two weeks now. On my first day on third shift,

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I was checking a bathroom when a shadow man leaned

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out and glared at me as the door shut. I

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felt paralyzed. I didn't feel safe, but I brushed it

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off again, told myself it would be fine. I needed

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this job. It's the only place in my area that

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pays a livable age. I put up with every whisper,

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every bang, every uneasy feeling of danger as I walked

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through the building, and I told myself it's an adjustment period,

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renewed to each other. It will calm down with time.

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Yesterday I learned that my building was specifically built on

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top of a historical graveyard, specifically a graveyard for slaves

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and their descendants. When the property was brought by my client,

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the bodies were exhumed and moved across the street, but

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their original resting place is under my feet every night

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when I go to work. Tonight, I was checking the

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emergency exits, which are enclosed in a stairwell. I checked

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the door was secure and there were no hazards. Then

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I tried to re enter the building from the stairwell,

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and the door was held tight. I would open it

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just enough to see no one on the other side,

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and it would slam shut again. A few minutes after

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I finally got out of the stairwell, I entered a

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loading area and was immediately confronted by a massive shadow

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figure hat man at least seven foot tall and watching me.

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I took a deep breath and kept going. Funnily enough,

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tonight was probably the least threatened I've felt since starting

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working nights. Oh come on, you guys, I do not

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like that one bet. There are too many things going

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on with the story that are huge red flags of

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absolutely effing not and I seriously commend you for remaining

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at this job, belivable wage or not. I could not

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do it. I would start selling my feed seriously, like

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not my I mean, you know, footpecks. I would be

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doing that because I just want everybody to stay safe

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and of course let us know of anything you want

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and are able to tell us about other happenings going on.