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Haunting with Lauren Lapkus: S1: EP 14 — “I Told You, He Didn't Want You to Come In” · Spooky Season Podcasts 🎃

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  THERÉSA: Hello, Hello, Welcome back, Ghouls and Girls. This is Haunting,
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  THERÉSA: Purgatory's top podcast.
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  LEN: [MUMBLES]
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  THERÉSA: Only podcast which still makes it the top, Len. It's
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  THERÉSA: called spin. Where we share listener-submitted spooky stories that are
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  THERÉSA: guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your
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  THERÉSA: neck or not if you're me. I had all of
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  THERÉSA: my body hair follicles dissolved in a non-FDA-approved experimental procedure
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  THERÉSA: in Istanbul, hair transplant capital of the World, which, of
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  THERÉSA: course is neither here nor there since I'm dead and
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  THERÉSA: wasting what would have been my hottest years here in Purgatory,
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  THERÉSA: for the rest of time. So anyway, it's a very
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  THERÉSA: exciting time for the in-between. It's Halloween.
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  LEN: [MUMBLES]
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  THERÉSA: Oh, you're right, almost Halloween. Although, if I were still alive,
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  THERÉSA: I'd say Halloween is practically over. If you have any
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  THERÉSA: semblance of a social life, it's the weekend before that
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  THERÉSA: really counts. I used to throw an annual Halloween party,
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  THERÉSA: Ghoul Gala, a night of nefarious, naughtiness and wanton witchy wonder.
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  THERÉSA: One year, I went as a sexy toucan, which was
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  THERÉSA: iconic except the beak made it almost impossible to eat
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  THERÉSA: or drink, mingle, dance or flirt with the DJ. It
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  THERÉSA: was the best though MySpace Tom showed up, but I
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  THERÉSA: broke into my dad's stash of quaaludes from like the eighties.
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  THERÉSA: Everyone started taking their clothes off and the zombies became
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  THERÉSA: like real zombies.
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  LEN: [MUMBLES]
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  THERÉSA: Oh right, Sorry, getting off track. We want to hear
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  THERÉSA: how you're planning to celebrate Halloween this year, so drop
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  THERÉSA: us a note in the comments and we might just
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  THERÉSA: liven up your holiday with an unexpected visit from the
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  THERÉSA: great beyond. MySpace Tom style! Now let's get into it.
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  THERÉSA: Today we're keeping it classic with two good old fashioned
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  THERÉSA: haunted house stories. Our first comes to us from Roger,
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  THERÉSA: who was tormented in his neighbor's old farmhouse. I know
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  THERÉSA: what you're thinking. In a different context, it sounds quaint, charming.
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  THERÉSA: It's giving Chip and Joanna, the Barefoot Contessa. Well not
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  THERÉSA: for Roger.
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  STORY A: My brother and I are sleeping there overnight. We're in
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  STORY A: the living room and this sound wakes me up. I
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  STORY A: knew what the sound was immediately. There's this big oak
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  STORY A: rocking chair that sat in the living room. This thing
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  STORY A: weighed at least one hundred and twenty five pounds. I
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  STORY A: heard it creaking. I look around. The chair's not in there.
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  STORY A: It's been moved, but I can still hear it. I
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  STORY A: start following this sound and I can see that this chair
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  STORY A: is perched at the top of the basement stairs. It
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  STORY A: was rocking back and forth without slowing down. I reached
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  STORY A: forward to grab it, and it stopped in that forward position,
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  STORY A: and then it flew forward and broke into a bunch
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  STORY A: of pieces falling down the stairs. My name is Roger,
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  STORY A: and this is the story of the haunting of the
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  STORY A: farmhouse that I was babysat in. We were living in
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  STORY A: the middle of nowhere in the Midwest on a farm.
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  STORY A: I was just a kid at the time. My mom
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  STORY A: worked a lot of different graveyard shifts, and often my
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  STORY A: brother and I would end up at a house down
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  STORY A: the road with a family that also had children of
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  STORY A: a similar age, and some strange things started to happen.
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  STORY A: It was a small house, one story with a large basement.
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  STORY A: The mom and dad typical Midwest farm couple, you know.
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  STORY A: Mom stayed home, the father was great with kids. They
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  STORY A: had an older daughter, Jackie, who was my age, and
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  STORY A: they had a younger daughter, Susie, who was about five
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  STORY A: years old, and she had an imaginary friend. We always
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  STORY A: tried to involve her, but she just wanted to play
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  STORY A: with her imaginary friend. My brother and I are sleeping
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  STORY A: there overnight. We're in the living room. He was on
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  STORY A: one sofa, I was on the other one, and they
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  STORY A: had one of those old tiny radios on the corner
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  STORY A: of the room. And it turned on in the middle
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  STORY A: of the night and started changing stations. That scared the
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  STORY A: shit out of my brother and I. If you know
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  STORY A: anything about these old time radios, everything in that is mechanical,
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  STORY A: you actually got to physically turn the knob. It cannot
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  STORY A: change to another station without that knob. I don't know
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  STORY A: what it was, but something did indeed move that knob.
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  STORY A: My brother and I are sitting there looking at each other freaked out.
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  STORY A: He told me to shut it off. I was too
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  STORY A: scared to go shut it off. I said, you shut
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  STORY A: it off. So he crept across the room in the
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  STORY A: dark of night, with the only thing illuminating it being
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  STORY A: a little bit of light coming from the front of
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  STORY A: the radio itself. He didn't know how to shut it off,
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  STORY A: so he just went and plugged it. The thing with
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  STORY A: the radio happened at least five or six times. We
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  STORY A: told our mom this place as scary as hell and
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  STORY A: this is what happened, but she just kind of passed
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  STORY A: it off as us being imaginative or making it up
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  STORY A: or ,you know, outright lying. We didn't really feel that
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  STORY A: we had any option about where we were going to
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  STORY A: get babysat when she was at work, so we were stuck.
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  STORY A: So one day I was in this house, dinner's about ready,
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  STORY A: and the father told me to go grab Susie out
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  STORY A: of her room. I had looked in her room and
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  STORY A: I had stopped in the doorway, and I had said, "hey,
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  STORY A: Susie it's time for dinner", and she was just having a little
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  STORY A: classic tea party. She had the little cups out and
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  STORY A: some little stuffed animal friends and her imaginary friend was sitting
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  STORY A: across from her, she says, well, I'm busy playing, And
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  STORY A: I said, well, I don't care if you're busy planning,
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  STORY A: your dad said it's dinner time, and I was about
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  STORY A: to walk in. She told me that her imaginary friend
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  STORY A: did not want me to come in and told me
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  STORY A: to stay out. And as I went to step into
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  STORY A: that room, the door slammed in my face. That little
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  STORY A: girl was fifteen feet away from that door. I totally
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  STORY A: freaked out. I went and ran back and got the dad.
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  STORY A: I told him what happened. I said, I tried to
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  STORY A: get her, and the door slammed in my face. He goes in there and he tries to
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  STORY A: open the door. Susie! Susie! He can't get the door open.
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  STORY A: The door was not locked. You just couldn't open it.
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  STORY A: He's yelling her name, Susie! Dead silence in the room.
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  STORY A: The dad kicks the door in. Little Susie was just
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  STORY A: sitting there in the middle of the floor like she
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  STORY A: was before, completely unaffected, and just looked over and said,
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  STORY A: I told you he didn't want you to come in.
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  STORY A: I'm a little scared of this little girl at this point.
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  STORY A: When she was in a room by herself with her
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  STORY A: imaginary friend, she would turn and look at you, and
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  STORY A: you felt like something else was looking at you too.
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  STORY A: The best way I could describe it is that feeling
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  STORY A: of a predator watching you, Like walking by a house
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  STORY A: with a dog chained up in the yard that would
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  STORY A: clearly just love to get a bite of you.
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  STORY A: One night, I hear all this commotion in the kitchen
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  STORY A: cupboard just opening and slamming, dishes clinking, silverware rattling. I don't
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  STORY A: know any other way to put this. It didn't seem
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  STORY A: to be sounds that a person could accomplish. It wasn't
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  STORY A: the sound of somebody getting the bowl out or whatever.
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  STORY A: The only thing that I could compute at the time,
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  STORY A: I thought that like the entire family had gotten up
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  STORY A: and it was doing some kind of crazy thing in
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  STORY A: the kitchen, because it didn't seem to be anything that
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  STORY A: like one person would do. So I wake up and
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  STORY A: the lights were off in the kitchen, I went in there.
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  STORY A: I turned the kitchen lights on. My brother was with me,
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  STORY A: and what we saw, I mean, it sticks with me
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  STORY A: to this day. We were sitting there slack jaw looking
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  STORY A: at all this stuff. All of the cupboards were open.
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  STORY A: Everything had been removed from the cupboards, pots, pans, plates,
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  STORY A: cereal boxes, canned goods, et cetera, and had been stacked
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  STORY A: on the counters and on the table. It wasn't just
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  STORY A: haphazardly piled up like a cup with a bowl on top,
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  STORY A: with a jar of spaghetti sauce and then a wooden
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  STORY A: spoon balanced on that and then something on that. Somebody
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  STORY A: would have had to go in there for hours and
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  STORY A: hours and hours trying to do this. The parents woke up,
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  STORY A: came in and my brother the very first thing, he says,
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  STORY A: we didn't do it. They said, we know you didn't
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  STORY A: do it. Go back to bed, and they just kind
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  STORY A: of casually and calmly spent the next hour, hour and
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  STORY A: a half putting all this stuff away, and not another
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  STORY A: word was said about it. Two or three weeks later,
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  STORY A: they're having a barbecue. The mom asked me to go
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  STORY A: see if I can find Susie. So I run around
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  STORY A: outside for a little bit first, and then I said,
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  STORY A: you know, I gotta go check in the house, so,
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  STORY A: you know, yelling her name, Susie! Susie! Walk down the hall,
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  STORY A: look in her room. She's not in there. And then
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  STORY A: I hear this creaking. It was the sound the floor
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  STORY A: made when you were on the tire swing downstairs, because
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  STORY A: it was hooked into the rafters in the basement. And
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  STORY A: when the tire swing would go just you know that,
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  STORY A: you could hear the whole house. And I hear it.
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  STORY A: I was like, oh, you know, she's downstairs. She would
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  STORY A: sometimes play in the basement in the pitch black with all
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  STORY A: the lights off with her imaginary friend. Now I open
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  STORY A: up the basement door. It was pitch black down there. So
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  STORY A: I turned the light on and I called her name,
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  STORY A: Susie Susie! No response. As I come down the stairs,
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  STORY A: that fight or flight feeling starts creeping up on me,
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  STORY A: you know, that feeling of a predator stalking up on you.
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  STORY A: And I see the swing swinging by itself. All of
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  STORY A: a sudden, this tire swing goes boom, swinging all the
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  STORY A: way up, nailing the ceiling. Boom, boom, boom. I turned
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  STORY A: and ran up the stairs. I was so terrified running
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  STORY A: back up those steps that the door was going to shut.
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  STORY A: Ran through the kitchen to the outside Susie's standing right
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  STORY A: out there eating a hamburger. After that, my brother and
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  STORY A: I told our mom that if she ever sent us
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  STORY A: back to that house, we were going to run away.
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  STORY A: I have no doubt in my mind there was something
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  STORY A: very real and supernatural happening in that home. Because I
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  STORY A: saw it and experienced it for myself. It convinced me forever that
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  STORY A: there are unseen and unknown things that we're not privy to.
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  STORY A: I think one of the real tragedies of people that
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  STORY A: this happens too, is that you have nowhere to go.
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  THERÉSA: Yikes. Roger raises a good point, though. A hearty paranormal
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  THERÉSA: infestation can really upend your life. I wonder if hauntings
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  THERÉSA: are covered by homeowners insurance. That's actually not a bad idea. Len,
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  THERÉSA: write that down. We'd make a killing, especially this time
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  THERÉSA: of year. We could call it Haunt Safe
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  THERÉSA: For most kids, grandmother's house is synonymous with good times,
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  THERÉSA: new toys, endless sugar highs, that one hot cousin who
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  THERÉSA: taught you to smoke. Hi Colin. But for Andrea and
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  THERÉSA: her sister, time spent at their grandmother's house wasn't all
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  THERÉSA: stale Werther's and shag carpet. They were up against something
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  THERÉSA: much more sinister.
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  STORY B: The minute you walked in, you're just kind of on
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  STORY B: edge and hoping you don't experience something that you don't
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  STORY B: want to experience. There really wasn't a moment where you
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  STORY B: didn't feel like someone else was in the room with
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  STORY B: you in that house. My name is Andrea, and I
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  STORY B: was always terrified of my grandmother's house. I lived at
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  STORY B: my grandmother's house until I was about four or five.
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  STORY B: I don't have a lot of memories living there, but
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  STORY B: what I do have is a ton of memories of
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  STORY B: visiting my grandmother. Her house always had a creepy presence.
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  STORY B: It was over one hundred years old. When my grandmother,
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  STORY B: my mom, and her siblings moved in. It was just
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  STORY B: a small farmhouse, and then over the years my grandfather
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  STORY B: put in an addition. It's my understanding that once the
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  STORY B: addition was put on, things started to happen. Something came
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  STORY B: alive in the house. I don't know if it was
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  STORY B: the work or whatever. It was like a disturbance. One
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  STORY B: of my oldest memories was that we would never want
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  STORY B: to be on the second floor of that house alone ever.
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  STORY B: And so if you have to go to the bathroom,
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  STORY B: you're making someone wait in the outside hallway for you
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  STORY B: while you go. You're never going upstairs alone period. The
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  STORY B: minute that I would get to the top of the stairs,
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  STORY B: I would get this eerie feeling. The energy felt thicker
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  STORY B: and heavy. I always felt like I was being watched.
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  STORY B: I never felt like I was alone. And there were
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  STORY B: certain areas like this one long hallway that was always dark.
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  STORY B: I don't think I can remember a time where a
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  STORY B: light was on in that hallway. There wasn't a doubt
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  STORY B: in my mind that if I looked down that hallway
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  STORY B: at the wrong moment, I would see a figure. The
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  STORY B: feeling of the house is really heavy, especially on the
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  STORY B: second floor. All the grandchildren felt it, But you know,
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  STORY B: we weren't the only ones with these experiences or these feelings.
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  STORY B: I remember growing up hearing a story about my mom when
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  STORY B: she was a teenager walking up the stairs, she would
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  STORY B: hear footsteps behind her and my aunt she would have
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  STORY B: sleep paralysis, and when she would wake up, she thought
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  STORY B: she saw someone hovering above her. My cousin once said
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  STORY B: she saw a figure, and just weird things would happen,
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  STORY B: and you just never felt comfortable. All of the activity
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  STORY B: would happen, mostly on the second floor or in the
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  STORY B: new part of the house. The house was an old nunnery,
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  STORY B: and there was a woman who ran the nunnery that
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  STORY B: passed away there on the second floor. Whether it was
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  STORY B: family lore or this place was haunted by this woman
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  STORY B: we were terrified of being in this house alone. The
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  STORY B: most terrifying part of the house was the second floor.
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  STORY B: At the top of the stairs, on the landing, you
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  STORY B: can go left and walk down the hallway. Directly at
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  STORY B: the end of the hallway was a bathroom that no
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  STORY B: one would ever want to use, and if you made a
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  STORY B: right that's where my grandmother's room is. She considered herself
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  STORY B: very witchy, and when my grandmother would babysit us, in one
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  STORY B: of the rooms at the end of the hallway to
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  STORY B: pass the time, she would get the granddaughters together and
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  STORY B: do little seance ceremonies, and I remember thinking, I can
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  STORY B: barely go to the bathroom alone in this house. I
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  STORY B: cannot believe we're doing a seance. But it was really
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  STORY B: entertaining and a good way to pass time with your grandma.
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  STORY B: I never liked sleeping at my grandmother's house. I was
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  STORY B: always at my cousin's house. I was always at sleepovers
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  STORY B: with my family. I really disliked sleeping there. The minute
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  STORY B: you walked in for a family party or for a sleepover,
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  STORY B: you're just kind of on edge and hoping you don't
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  STORY B: experience something that you don't want to experience. It was
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  STORY B: always in the back of your mind. I have like
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  STORY B: thirty cousins. We all feel this way. It wasn't just me.
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  STORY B: There was always stress around where we were going to sleep.
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  STORY B: I just knew I would never get a good night's sleep.
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  STORY B: One night, when we were staying with my grandmother, we
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  STORY B: were sleeping in her bedroom with her. It was just me,
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  STORY B: my grandmother, and my sister. We were watching TV. We
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  STORY B: get in our jammies. We all pile into the bed.
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  STORY B: I managed to get into the middle. My grandmother's on
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  STORY B: my right, my twin sister's on my left. In addition
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  STORY B: to the three people, my grandmother's one hundred pounds great Dane,
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  STORY B: Dominique is at the end of the bed, all of
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  STORY B: us packed in. I really had to fight to be
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  STORY B: in the middle. I felt safest in the middle. It
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  STORY B: was a really nice night out. There was a really
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  STORY B: great breeze, the window was cracked, the room felt cool.
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  STORY B: So we're all snuggled really comfortable under the blankets, and
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  STORY B: so we're watching for like an hour, enjoying. I think
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  STORY B: it was NYPD Blue, And eventually my grandmother dozes off.
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  STORY B: Before she fell asleep, she had let us know that
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  STORY B: the way that the TV worked was if you turned
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  STORY B: it on from the TV, it would go but if
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  STORY B: you had the remote, you could actually control the channels.
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  STORY B: And then out of nowhere, Dominique starts to get agitated.
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  STORY B: She was sleeping on the foot of the bed. She
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  STORY B: went from like a restful snoring to on alert. Her
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  STORY B: ears are up and she's looking at the TV, you know,
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  STORY B: a low growl like hm hmm, and the television just
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  STORY B: turns off and then all of a sudden it turns
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  STORY B: back on and it's just snow. It was almost like
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  STORY B: the scene out of the Poltergeist, where it's just the
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  STORY B: white noise and the TV fuzz. Dominique starts to get
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  STORY B: her hackles up. She's getting more and more agitated. My
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  STORY B: sister and I already don't trust this house. We're immediately
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  STORY B: on edge and the channel starts to change another channel.
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  STORY B: We're grabbing the remote. We're trying to turn it on
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  STORY B: and off. It's not working. The dog's really uncomfortable moving
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  STORY B: around in the bed. It's jarring to see a dog nervous,
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  STORY B: but like a big hundred pound protective dog that agitated
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  STORY B: was really scary. We were just, you know, trying to
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  STORY B: shake my grandmother and saying, someone's turning off and on
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  STORY B: the TV. She is just like, oh, it's nothing. It's
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  STORY B: the wind. It's the wind, And I'm just like, it
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  STORY B: has nothing to do with the wind. The wind's not
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  STORY B: touching the button on the television. Instinctively, I was like,
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  STORY B: she's gone through this so much, she doesn't care. But
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  STORY B: that only terrified me more because this is a reoccurring thing.
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  STORY B: Neither one of us wanted to get out of the bed.
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  STORY B: We were too afraid. The journey from the bed to
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  STORY B: the window, I mean it was probably three feet but like,
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  STORY B: what if we got off the bed and something grabbed
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  STORY B: our feet. I had to take one for the team
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  STORY B: and close the window. That journey felt so long. I
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  STORY B: scurried back into bed. So we're watching TV again and
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  STORY B: we're like fine for a little bit, and then all
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  STORY B: of a sudden, turns off and it happens again, turns
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  STORY B: back on, channels change, and it continued to do this cycle,
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  STORY B: turning off and on, changing channels even after we closed
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  STORY B: the window. So we definitely knew it wasn't the wind.
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  STORY B: There was something in the room and whatever was was
• 23:44
  STORY B: changing the channels and messing with the TV as we're
• 23:50
  STORY B: tossing and turning. We're not asleep yet. My sister and
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  STORY B: I are just trying to calm ourselves down and we
• 23:59
  STORY B: hear someone come in the house. They're kind of making
• 24:03
  STORY B: a ruckus downstairs. We can hear them in the kitchen,
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  STORY B: and then we hear them walk up the stairs and
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  STORY B: walk down the hallway. We just hear like clobbering boots
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  STORY B: walk up and down the hallway. We wake up our
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  STORY B: grandmother and we're saying, I think someone's here, I
• 24:25
  STORY B: think someone's here. She's like, it's okay, it's just your uncle.
• 24:30
  STORY B: My uncle Paul lived at my grandmother's house, and so
• 24:35
  STORY B: we were like, oh, okay, he was out that night,
• 24:38
  STORY B: he came home late. Now he's home, And for whatever reason,
• 24:42
  STORY B: knowing he was up and around made us feel so
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  STORY B: much better. There was something comforting in that, and so
• 24:49
  STORY B: we finally drifted off to sleep. The next morning, we
• 24:59
  STORY B: go downstairs. My grandmother's making coffee, were eating breakfast.
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  STORY A: Paul called. Paul had not come home from the night before.
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  STORY A: My sister and I looked at each other and couldn't
• 25:19
  STORY A: make sense of what we heard outside that room. The
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  STORY A: only people in the house is me, my grandmother, and
• 25:30
  STORY A: my twin sister and Dominique, who was at the foot
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  STORY A: of the bed all night. Who and what was making
• 25:38
  STORY A: those sounds the night before. I don't think I would
• 25:41
  STORY A: ever go back into that house alone at night. I
• 25:46
  STORY A: can't explain it. Clearly, the house is fucking haunted.
• 25:58
  THERÉSA: I appreciate the directness in this one most people really
• 26:01
  THERÉSA: beat around the bush when it comes to hauntings. But
• 26:03
  THERÉSA: my theory is when you know, you know, and she knew.
• 26:06
  THERÉSA: Let's take a moment for the real debutante of this story.
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  THERÉSA: Dominique dutifully lying at the end of the bed, A
• 26:13
  THERÉSA: protective growl at the television set. Now that's a dog.
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  THERÉSA: Ah. I love the idea of cozying up to a
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  THERÉSA: sturdy Great Dane on a crisp fall night. All we
• 26:22
  THERÉSA: had growing up was our Chiweenie, Lady Macbeth, who was
• 26:25
  THERÉSA: rehomed after she chewed the handle of my mom's Birkin.
• 26:28
  THERÉSA: A taste for designer runs in the family. But let's
• 26:32
  THERÉSA: take a quick break, shall we.
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  THERÉSA: Well, that's it for today. Thanks for tuning in. As always,
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  THERÉSA: email us at HauntingThePodcast@gmail.com if you've had a paranormal experience
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  THERÉSA: you'd like to share on the pod, and if you
• 26:53
  THERÉSA: haven't had a paranormal experience yet, Halloween is the perfect opportunity.
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  THERÉSA: explore your neighbor's dusty old attic. Bust out the Ouija board. Seriously,
• 27:02
  THERÉSA: we get so many Ouija board stories. But whatever you
• 27:05
  THERÉSA: get up to this Halloween, be safe, have fun. And
• 27:08
  THERÉSA: if you see me haunting Heidi Klum's Halloween party, no,
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  THERÉSA: you didn't. Keep the portals open and the veils thin.
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  THERÉSA: Till next time.
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  CREDITS: Andrea Gunning, Ben Fetterman, and Lauren Lapkus, and it is
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  CREDITS: hosted by Lauren Lapkus as their character Therésa. The show
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  CREDITS: is directed by Aleah Welsh and produced by Trey Morgan.
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  CREDITS: It is written by Aleah Welsh, with additional writing by
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  CREDITS: Nancy Glass, Trey Morgan, and Ben Fetterman. Additional production support
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  CREDITS: by Curry Richman and Todd Ganz. Additional voice acting by
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  CREDITS: Trey Morgan as the character producer Len Walker. Editing and
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  CREDITS: sound designed by Matt Delvecchio and mixed by Dave Saia.
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  CREDITS: Operations and production support by Kristen Melchiorre. Haunting's theme and
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  CREDITS: original compositions were composed by Oliver Baines and Dorry Macaulay
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