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Episode 10: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL featuring stories from Sheryl, Tara, and our own Kristen Jones · Hidden Creatures: Stories, Sightings, and the Search for What Hides in the Dark

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Hidden Creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stories sightings and the search for what hides in the dark.
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  SPEAKER_06: Join us as we explore mysterious encounters, legendary creatures, and unexplained stories from around the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: From eyewitness accounts to local folklore, we'll follow the clues in search of the truth behind the unknown.
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  SPEAKER_06: Some stories may be unsettling, eerie, or hard to forget.
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  SPEAKER_06: Listener discretion is advice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something is out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Waiting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Join us as we step into the shadows and follow the trail into the unknown.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: This is Hidden Creatures.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's begin.
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  SPEAKER_05: Welcome to a very special Halloween Hidden Creatures episode.
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm your host, Lori Chen, and my co-hosts are Kristen Jones and Richard Seitz.
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  SPEAKER_05: Today we're diving into the eerie world of ghostly encounters, mysterious, shadowy figures, apparitions that can reach out and touch you, and chilling sounds that haunt the edges of our imagination.
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  SPEAKER_05: And the best part, we've got real eyewitness stories lined up for you today, accounts from people who've come face to face or as close as you can get with the unexplained.
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  SPEAKER_05: We even have a few stories from our own Kristen Jones.
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  SPEAKER_05: Hi everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Howdy all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Happy Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_05: It is Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_05: So, Kristen, you've been digging into all these different types of ghostly stories.
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  SPEAKER_05: Where should we start?
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  SPEAKER_06: Well, let's start with those sheer white figures.
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  SPEAKER_06: These kinds of apparitions have shown up in folklore from the Victorian era to modern day tales.
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  SPEAKER_06: They're often described as flowing figures that fade in and out of view.
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  SPEAKER_01: I haven't heard the audio for any of these stories.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll assume that we'll uh we'll get to hear an account of one of these uh kinds of apparitions.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to find out what our witnesses have experienced.
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  SPEAKER_05: All right, Richard.
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  SPEAKER_05: We won't wait any longer.
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  SPEAKER_05: Let's go ahead and hear our first ghost story of Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_05: This one comes to us from our wonderful new friend and future guest on this podcast, Cheryl.
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  SPEAKER_03: I moved to Dallas.
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  SPEAKER_03: I am living in a house in Flower Mound.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm working at the galleria at Saks.
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  SPEAKER_03: And one day, well, I'll have to, you know, explain the layout.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I was in my bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_03: The door to the bathroom was open to my bedroom.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then my bedroom door was open to the entryway of the house.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I would stand there at the mirror and do my makeup.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think I was probably getting ready to go out or something.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh out of the corner of my eye, there was a I want to say at least 10 foot tall.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was sheer.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was, I mean, nothing that you would ever see in this world.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was like a sheer floaty cloth kind of thing flying out my front door.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, well, by now, I, you know, it's not a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_03: But that was really cool.
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  SPEAKER_03: I I did not feel um afraid at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't feel anything at that time.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I met my husband several years later.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, uh of course I was not living in the Flower Mound house anymore.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh and then years later we bought a house, uh townhouse in Plano, and we were laying in bed one time watching television, and all of a sudden there was this light thingy that came from behind like behind over by the wall behind the television and came out and whooshed around the television and like into our fern.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it was this is it was I would say it's this is similar, it was very similar to what I had seen.
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  SPEAKER_03: That 10 foot tall sheer thingy, it was like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: But um, it was so funny because I didn't see anything.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bobby was like, My God, Cheryl, did you just see that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Of course, I jumped up, I'm like, oh my god, you saw it too.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because it's always nice to have, you know, affirmation that another person is seeing the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so yeah, so I'm like, oh yeah, I I saw it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Did it do this?
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  SPEAKER_03: He was like, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: It, you know, came around and went uh by the fern.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that was the story of the sheer white light.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, I've never seen it after that, but I've seen lots of shadows.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's okay, so that's another story.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is fascinating.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what about those shadowy figures?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are they the same kind of phenomenon or something else entirely?
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  SPEAKER_06: They're definitely their own category.
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  SPEAKER_06: Shadow figures are usually darker, harder to see in detail, and often appear in the corners of your vision.
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  SPEAKER_06: They've been recorded worldwide and are a staple of ghost lore.
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  SPEAKER_06: We'll definitely get to shadow entities in future episodes.
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  SPEAKER_06: But our next story is all about ghostly touches.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, so I'm gonna jump ahead to the house where we're living.
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  SPEAKER_03: This was about oh seven years ago.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are several things that have happened in this house.
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  SPEAKER_03: And no matter what, I honestly do not really get scared anymore.
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  SPEAKER_03: But this is what happened first to my husband.
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  SPEAKER_03: So the main living room, the back of the house, open to the upstairs, uh and the kitchen is oh, you know, right next to it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he was napping on the couch.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was an L-shaped couch.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was in the kitchen, and all of a sudden he starts yelling at me.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he he said, Stop messing with me, Cheryl.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, he said, Fing with me, Cheryl, but I'm like, um, I'm over here.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was like, No, you're not.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're you're touching me.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I said, No, I'm not.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, he proceeded to tell me that he woke up to somebody like messing with his face, to something touching his face.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, okay, but I don't think it was too long after that.
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  SPEAKER_03: But Benita, his sister, um, she's a bit younger, she was single at the time, and she was not feeling well.
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  SPEAKER_03: And she was over at our house just hanging out for the day.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I remember she was not feeling well, and so she fell asleep on the couch in the same spot.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was in the kitchen again, and she wakes up in a panic.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, what, what, Benita?
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  SPEAKER_03: And she's like, Oh my god, Cheryl, oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was crawling around on the floor, I was out of my body.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, oh, really?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because I had practiced uh different out-of-body techniques, you know, I'm just a weirdo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um I never got that far.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was I was kind of jealous because I got to the point where your body vibrates um before, you know, you have that out-of-body experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: So I was all excited.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, oh my God, really?
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  SPEAKER_03: And she's like, Oh, it's horrible.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was crawling around the floor.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was trying to call to you.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, of course you didn't hear me.
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  SPEAKER_03: But usually when people are um astral traveling or whatever, if they think about their body, they snap back right away.
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  SPEAKER_03: So she went right back to her body because she was afraid.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, third times of charm on the couch, I guess, because I was napping not too long after that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was on my stomach, napping on my stomach, and I woke up to sleep paralysis, and there was a hand on the back of well, I felt a hand on the back of my head rubbing my head just like my mother did when I was a kid.
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  SPEAKER_03: I would lay in bed and she would either rub my back or rub the back of my head, and it was like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It freaked me out a little bit, but um, I guess I'd been used to that before, so it wasn't as bad.
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  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, so I woke up to that hand massaging the back of my head, and it did really startle me, and it stopped.
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  SPEAKER_06: That is absolutely terrifying, and Cheryl's encounter mentions not only her, but two other people on separate occasions.
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  SPEAKER_01: I agree.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't want an entity reaching out a hand or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lori, you mentioned the sounds that ghosts make in your intro, which makes me think you have some witness accounts of this type of phenomenon, too.
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  SPEAKER_05: We sure do.
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  SPEAKER_05: I actually have two stories from Cheryl's daughter, Tara, and they are told in an honest-to-goodness way that's pretty chilly.
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  SPEAKER_05: Let's take a listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is story one out of two that I have to share and that I can recall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, this was after my great-grand grandmother died.
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  SPEAKER_00: She also happened to pass away in our house during um COVID.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to say it was it had to have been 2020, but it was freshman summer going into sophomore year.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was it was definitely during the summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, she passed away in our house.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen anything in my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know other people have, but I hear a lot of movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was upstairs in my room, and keep in mind I was the only one who had a bedroom upstairs, and my parents were downstairs basically on the other, like the opposite end of the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was around like 9 or 10 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought my parents were asleep, or I I I'm not really sure what was going on, but I didn't hear anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't hear the TV.
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  SPEAKER_00: And since I was upstairs a lot, my parents would come upstairs and tell me something or whatever, and I could distinguish their footsteps like up and down the stairs, or just like coming towards me down the hallway to my room.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my dad's footsteps were solid, they were solid steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he has uh flatter feet than my mom.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mom has an arch.
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  SPEAKER_00: So her footsteps are a little bit lighter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And neither of them shuffle their feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was only one person that I knew that shuffled their feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't hear anyone coming down the stairs, but I heard outside my room, and my room the door was like cracked a little, but I heard down this hallway just shuffling.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the time, we like we have wooden floors all upstairs, all of course, except in my bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm sure at the time we had a rug over the wood, but it sounded like slippers shuffling towards my room on wood floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, what the heck?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I go out and I'm about to greet my mom because at the time I thought it was my mom because I'm like, my dad doesn't wear slippers.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I go there and I expect to see her.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, there was there was no one there.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm pretty sure it was my great-grandmother.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that was the end of the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: On to the next one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this next one is quite honestly even more strange than the last because I'm used to hearing like little odd movements around my house.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't say our house is really old, but the stairs are super creaky.
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  SPEAKER_00: Things like I've heard things move, I've like I've heard things fall, but um, anyways, so this takes place in Shreveport.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my mom was picking me up from a Starbucks in Shreveport.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I had uh been on vacation with my I I like to call them my cousins because they basically are my cousins, but everything is fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And keep in mind, I was around like probably 11 or 12 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but I do remember one thing specifically.
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  SPEAKER_00: We got out of the car and it sounded like this woman was either right, like right by me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I heard it so clearly.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was like, help me, please help me, or just like pleading for my help.
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  SPEAKER_00: And keep in mind, like there was a there was a lot of cars in the parking lot, but the only people in the vicinity were my mom and I, Haley, Livy, and then their mother Carol.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I right after I heard that, I was like, What in the world?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was I was further apart from the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do remember I was like in the back, my mom was kind of leading me in front of me, and then Haley, Livy, and Miss Carol were almost inside the Starbucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just remember like, what in what in the hell?
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: What in the hell was that?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I tell my mom, I'm like, oh my gosh, that was really weird.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just heard this one, like it was practically in my ear.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, I looked around and saw if there was anyone in the vicinity, in in this area.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: No, there was no one.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one in the cars, no one by the cars, no one anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then seconds after, almost immediately after I told my mom that was really weird.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just heard that.
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  SPEAKER_00: A bunch of emergency vehicles speed by this Starbucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just kind of shocked.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, what in the world?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I heard it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: I heard it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was not some sort of hallucination.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was not making anything up for attention, anything like that.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: I never would.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: Even when I was younger, I wouldn't make things up like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it never did scare me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just, if anything, it just made me mad because I was like, where is this coming from?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: I need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think I've always been pretty logical and realistic, like, oh, okay, where is this coming from?
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  SPEAKER_00: But no, I never received an answer for that.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: And later on, um my mom was trying to look up what happened and maybe where these emergency vehicles were headed, but um, we never found out anything from that.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I don't know how to explain Tara's grandmother's slippers shuffling upstairs, uh, especially if her room was the only one on the second floor.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: It seems pretty unlikely that someone else was going up and down the hall and the stairs for no reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that that second story gives me the willies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh hearing someone call for help is so ominous and it gives cause for alarm, concern, um, a little weird.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it definitely grabs your attention.
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  SPEAKER_05: Speaking of terrifying situations, let's go to our final story for Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_05: We have Kristen's stories from her house out in the country in Kerrville, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_05: There's one from her bedroom where I've spent the night plenty of times.
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  SPEAKER_05: I can say this: we never really felt alone in there.
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  SPEAKER_05: And there was just something about the property that always felt haunted from the moment you pull your car onto the gravel driveway and you park under the trees.
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  SPEAKER_05: You're far from town and out there.
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  SPEAKER_05: I'm not sure who would hear you if you screamed and needed help.
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  SPEAKER_06: Lori knows firsthand how creepy it was in my house.
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  SPEAKER_06: Now I'll tell you a few of my stories so you'll know too.
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  SPEAKER_06: When I was about 12, I shared a room with my stepsister until my brother moved out.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_06: And then I moved into his room.
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  SPEAKER_06: He never mentioned anything unusual about the room, but from the time I moved in, I had trouble sleeping in the dark.
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  SPEAKER_06: There was a consistent feeling that someone else was in the room with me.
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  SPEAKER_06: I started sleeping with the TV on, but muted, just so there was some light.
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  SPEAKER_06: During the years that I lived in that room from about 12 to 18, I experienced sleepwalking, night terrors, and a general sense of uneasiness at night.
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  SPEAKER_06: I got to the point where I would regularly leave my room and sleep on my sister's floor.
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  SPEAKER_06: One night when I was around 16, I woke up to the sensation of someone tapping on my head.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_06: I had immediately looked around.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_06: No one was there.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_06: I left the room right away and went to my sister's room.
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  SPEAKER_06: On another night, I woke up and saw a small figure on the floor near me.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_06: It looks almost cartoonish.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_06: And I it was just staring at me.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_06: And as soon as I reacted and screamed very loudly, it disappeared right into the wall.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_06: All of these experiences were limited to that room, and the feeling of not being alone was consistent the entire time I lived there.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Boy, I'm glad I didn't grow up near you too.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it was pretty spooky out there.
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  SPEAKER_05: Well, that brings us to the close of our Halloween special.
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  SPEAKER_05: We hope these chilling tales have made you glance over your shoulder and question what might be lurking in the shadows.
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  SPEAKER_05: But remember, the unknown doesn't have to be something to fear.
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  SPEAKER_05: Sometimes it's just a reminder to keep an open mind and stay curious about the world around us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you ever find yourself hearing or seeing something out of the ordinary, just remember you're not alone in your experience.
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  SPEAKER_06: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_06: There's a whole community of curious minds out there exploring these mysteries together.
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  SPEAKER_06: Stay safe, stay curious, and have a truly haunting Halloween.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_04: These are the encounters as they happened, told by the people who lived through them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Whether they reveal the unknown or simply deepen the mystery.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's for you to decide.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_04: And if you've had a terrible experience you'd like to share on this podcast, email us at Hidden Creatures Podcast at Gmail.com.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_04: Until next time, stay safe and don't wander too far alone in the dark.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_04: We have plenty more thrilling stories to share with you.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_04: And maybe one day we'll share your story too.