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0:00Today I have some of the scariest true
0:03terrifying stories that we were able to
0:05find. And joining me I have Silus Dean
0:08and welcome back to the show Silus.
0:09>> I'm so happy to be here.
0:11>> And you kept me waiting for quite a long
0:12time in that lobby as you can see.
0:14>> Years. You aged 60 years.
0:17>> It's been a while.
0:19>> No, thank you so much for coming back.
0:20You Wait, you were just telling me that
0:23you went camping.
0:24>> I did go camping. Oh, you want the story
0:25up front? Well, I want to hear about
0:27camping because when you told me you
0:29were going camping, I was like, is Silus
0:30a camping person?
0:32>> I am.
0:32>> You are.
0:33>> I am. Are you not?
0:34>> I mean, we talked about this a little
0:35bit last time.
0:36>> I haven't camped in a long time and now
0:38that I have a baby, it's going to be
0:39probably a minute before I go back.
0:42>> Start them young.
0:43>> That's true. That is true. It could be
0:44like the perfect time.
0:45>> Bring the toddler out. Ruin your entire
0:46camping trip.
0:47>> Yeah. Just have a bad time.
0:49>> I would say I'm a camping person to an
0:50extent where there are certain things
0:52that I need while camping. Like I have
0:53some friends that I think are real
0:55campers where they just want to be out
0:56in the middle of nowhere. I grew up
0:58doing family campgrounds where you've
1:00got access to a bathroom to running
1:01water, a shower.
1:03>> Okay.
1:03>> So, that's what I'm doing. I do like it,
1:06but while Do you want the story now? Cuz
1:07if I'm going to go into it,
1:09>> do you want to hear the story? Silus
1:10told me he had a story for me earlier,
1:11and now I just kind of want to hear it.
1:13>> All right. All right. I'm I'm bringing
1:14it to you, and I I just shared it on the
1:16sinister cuz I can't shut up about it. I
1:18also told it to Stu. This will be the
1:20third time I'm telling it, but I think
1:21you need to hear it. So, when I was
1:23camping, uh, we were like sitting around
1:25a fire and it was me. I'm going to omit
1:27names for this. It was my friend. His
1:28little brother came who's 24, right?
1:30And, you know, he's like warming up to
1:32us and telling us stuff and we're
1:33sitting by the fire and I have the
1:34bright idea. I'm like, "Does anyone have
1:36a ghost story? Does anyone have a spooky
1:38story?" And his brother was like, "Oh,
1:40you should tell him the story about what
1:41just happened to you on this trip."
1:43Context: His little brother just did a
1:46crosscountry bicycle trip from
1:49Connecticut to California. Whoa.
1:52>> CT to Cali. Literally
1:54>> 3,000 miles. That's a lot.
1:56>> 60 days of pedaling.
1:57>> 60
1:58>> 60 days. And he I literally saw the
2:00video where he arrived in Santa Monica
2:02on the pier. He went all the way to the
2:03pier and that was like his finish line.
2:05>> Oh, that's so impressive.
2:06>> And I'm like, "Oh my god, you must have
2:07had crazy experiences." And he's like
2:10getting nervous going into this for how
2:12crazy this is. He's like, "Well,
2:14something did happen on the way." And
2:16he's like telling me the story. He's
2:18like, "I was riding through the West."
2:20He's like, "I had made it all the way
2:21to, I think he said, New Mexico, a very
2:23rural part of New Mexico." And he's
2:24like, "When you're out that far, there
2:26are just long, long stretches of road
2:29where like nothing's around you. Like,
2:30you're not going to find a rest stop.
2:31You're not going to find a Walmart." His
2:33back tire popped. So, his bike is
2:36screwed and he's like, "I don't know
2:38what I'm going to do." So, he just
2:39starts hitchhiking.
2:41My body, my nervous system, he starts
2:44hitchhiking. a guy pulls over and he's
2:47like a backwoods kind of like he's
2:49clearly from these rural parts and he's
2:50like he needs some help and he's like
2:51hey I know this is like a long shot but
2:54could I maybe pay you to like pick me
2:55and my bike up and drive me to Santa Fe
2:58which is why I think it was in New
2:59Mexico and he's like I'll pay you and
3:00the guy's like yeah let me go um swap
3:03out for another car my truck. So he
3:05leaves comes back with the truck but now
3:07he has another guy in the passenger
3:09seat. It's an old man like when I say
3:11old like 50s or 60s young for me. Yeah.
3:15>> And this guy, so he gets in, loads his
3:17bike in, and the old guy has real bad
3:19vibes. And he turns around and he turns
3:21to him and he goes, "You seem nervous.
3:25Are you nervous?" And this kid's trying
3:27to play it cool cuz he's 24. So he's
3:28like, "No, man. I'm I'm cool. I'm good."
3:31So then they get back to the other guy's
3:32house, the original guy who picked him
3:34up cuz he's going to like tell his wife
3:35like, "I'm by the way, I'm driving this
3:36kid to Santa Fe." These are like
3:38backwoods good old boys. So they're like
3:40drinking while they're driving. So, by
3:42the time they get to the house, the wife
3:43is like, "You are not taking that boy.
3:45You're not taking him to Santa Fe.
3:46You're drunk as hell. You're going to
3:48stay here. He'll stay the night." So,
3:50this kid's like, "I don't want to cause
3:51any trouble. Can I just like camp in
3:53your front yard?" And the guy is like,
3:54"Yeah, I don't care." But then the older
3:56guy who was like, "You nervous?" He
3:58goes, "You know, I've got a spare room
4:01at my place. Why don't you just stay at
4:04mine?" And this kid's got bad vibes. So,
4:05he's like, "Um, you know, I'm I'm really
4:07like kind of doing a camping thing. I
4:09just kind of want to be outside." But
4:11this guy's insistent. So he's like, "No,
4:12no, no. Come over to my place. If you
4:14see the room, you don't want it. You can
4:16camp in my front yard." So this kid gets
4:18pressured. He goes to the guy's house in
4:20his car. And it, by the way, he does not
4:22live in a shack. He lives in like a
4:24McMansion in the middle of the desert.
4:26So like rich guy, he's got money. Walks
4:29in liinal eerie space of a mansion.
4:32Walls are covered in like mounted animal
4:35heads. So he's a hunter obviously.
4:37>> Yeah. takes him to the spare bedroom and
4:40then while they're standing there and
4:41this kid's like falling silent, the the
4:43old guy turns to him and he goes, "You
4:46ever seen the movie Deliverance?" Which
4:48do you have a point of reference for
4:49that movie?
4:50>> Remind me.
4:50>> Because okay, nobody at the campsite
4:52did. And this kid did not either. So
4:54when he's telling me this at the
4:55campsite, I'm like, "What?" And he goes,
4:57"Yeah, I I told him I didn't know the
4:59movie. It's like an alien movie or
5:01something." And I said, "No, no, baby.
5:03It's not an alien movie. It's a very
5:06graphic movie from the 90s with a very
5:08infamous male onmale scene. That's where
5:11squeal piggy squeal comes from. So when
5:14I said the whole campsite was like what?
5:17What? So then he said he said no I
5:19haven't seen deliverance. And the guy
5:20goes well tonight's going to be just
5:22like deliverance.
5:26And then the kid's like he's just he
5:28doesn't know what to how to react. He
5:29has no point of reference.
5:30>> Are we getting abducted by aliens?
5:32>> He doesn't know what the movie is.
5:33>> He has no point of reference. Then the
5:34guy says, "How about you watch it with
5:36me right now?" And this kid, he just
5:38gets bad vibes of
5:39>> Jeffrey Dmer. It's literally like Dmer.
5:41>> I was blowing up at this campsite. I was
5:44losing my mind, like shaking like I was
5:46in the ward. And then this kid says, you
5:48know, um I I appreciate you like offer
5:50in the room. He's like, "But I really am
5:51doing like a camping thing, so if it's
5:53cool with you, could I just post up in
5:54your front yard?" This isn't even the
5:56crazier part. Can I just post up in your
5:58front yard? And the old guy's like,
5:59"Yeah, that's that's fine." So all night
6:02this kid is sure this guy's gonna come
6:04to his tent and like do something to
6:06mess with him. So he sleeps with a knife
6:07at his chest. Can't sleep. The hours are
6:10rolling out like around like 2 3 4:00
6:12a.m. and he's watching through the mesh
6:14of the tent to the house cuz the guy
6:15kept the lights on all night and he sees
6:17him. I'm getting chills. Stumbling from
6:20like room to room cuz he's getting more
6:21and more drunk as the night goes on.
6:24Then 5:00 a.m. comes and that's when the
6:27other guy, the original guy who was
6:28like, his wife was like, "You're not
6:30driving that kid to Santa Fe." He's
6:31supposed to pull up to pick him up.
6:33Truck comes soaring up to the property
6:36and the guy gets out and he goes, "Get
6:38in now. We're leaving." So the kid grab
6:40he grabs his like tent, throws it in the
6:42back of the truck, gets in. There are
6:43like other friends and people in the
6:44truck and then the old guy starts
6:46stumbling out from the house to try to
6:48get to the truck. Truck speeds off at 60
6:51mph. just leaves him in the dust and the
6:54kid is like what the hell just happened?
6:56Like why are we like frantically like
6:58taking off and then everybody in the
7:00truck, their phone starts blowing up,
7:02texts, calls, somebody plays a
7:05voicemail, it's the old guy and they
7:07play it out loud and this kid hears it
7:09and the old man's like, "You promised
7:11me. You promised me I was going to get
7:13time with the boy with the biker boy."
7:17And this kid is like, "What the fuck?"
7:20So then he's like, "What's going on?"
7:22And everyone in the truck is like,
7:22"Yeah, that guy, he's really wellknown
7:25in town. He's got a lot of money, but
7:26he's a bad dude." Like really bad dude.
7:30And this kid had no idea that he
7:32narrowly escaped
7:34>> whatever was going down there.
7:36>> Oh my god.
7:37>> Telling me this, I was like, "You've got
7:39to be kidding me. You're serving me a
7:41story. I'm a podcaster. You're serving
7:43me a story to tell to the world on a
7:46silver platter. The Sinister." I was
7:48like bouncing off the wall. Sharing it.
7:50>> Yeah. Isn't that wild?
7:52>> That is so horrifying. That's like it's
7:54my biggest fear. But I wonder why the
7:56other people let the boy go with
7:58>> I had questions about that too cuz this
8:00kid also I think asked he was like why
8:02did you guys like set me up? Like why
8:04did you let me sleep there? And they I
8:05think that they're afraid of this guy
8:07because remember the very first guy he
8:09went to get his truck and swap out and
8:10came back with the dude. So I'm like
8:12there must be some like weird relational
8:14thing where I think maybe he employs
8:16people in that area or has like enough
8:18money to do stuff. And that was the guy
8:20that drove him away was the same guy
8:22that picked him up.
8:23>> Yeah.
8:23>> Okay. Okay.
8:24>> Yeah. Not the old man, but I was like I
8:26was hearing this and then I I really
8:28killed the vibe when I was like, "By the
8:29way, everyone, Deliverance, not not an
8:31alien movie. We're not doing Return to
8:33Mars. This this is a very graphic movie
8:36about up in the backwoods."
8:38>> Yeah,
8:39>> that's a crazy thing to say, know that
8:41someone has no point of reference for it
8:42and then not to explain it and just say,
8:45>> "Tonight's going to be just like that."
8:48>> Wow. horrifying. Was that kid okay when
8:50you were talking to him? Like
8:52>> he seemed great.
8:53>> Okay. [laughter]
8:54>> It takes a special breed to really if if
8:56you're listening, please know I I admire
8:58everything of what you did.
9:00>> Well, you've already set the stage.
9:02>> That might be the best story of the
9:04>> Oh my gosh. I know. I'm like, do I have
9:06anything that's that level? I actually
9:08have Okay, so this is a story that I
9:09found on Reddit. It's coming from Let's
9:12Not Meet. And it I guess really the
9:17story that you just told is very Let's
9:18Not Meetesque, right? It's the
9:20>> very much
9:20>> stranger danger. Okay. So that's what
9:22this story is too. And it takes place on
9:24Halloween.
9:25>> So I wanted to bring this one to you. So
9:27this one that I'm going to read is from
9:293 years ago. User Underpants Bandit
9:34and it's called The Worst Halloween
9:36Hideandsek Ever.
9:38>> I'm ready.
9:39>> And it begins. This one has
9:41illustrations unfortunately. So, if
9:43you're listening to this, I will be
9:44posting those on our Instagram. That's
9:46Poundounding. My husband Jim and I own
9:48an antique business in a big old bizarre
9:51barn of a building. Five floors,
9:53multiple other tenants, including a
9:55restaurant. Halloween was a Monday last
9:57year. We locked up the business at 5:00
9:59p.m. and we went to an early dinner
10:01across town. [music] Then, we got a call
10:04from our security monitoring company at
10:076:30. [music]
10:08A motion was detected on the lower
10:10level. And then another motion. We left
10:14in a tearing hurry, but I figured, oh,
10:17it's got to be a bird or a rat. We don't
10:19have rats, but you know, it's something.
10:21Maybe a cat got in. It was way too early
10:24in the night for a breakin. At 6:30, I
10:27went inside the main level upstairs, and
10:29I disarmed the alarm, and I started
10:31fumbling noisily with the keys and the
10:33big iron gate, one of many that separate
10:36the floors at night. Jim checked the
10:38perimeter outside for signs of a
10:39break-in. Nothing. Doors and windows
10:42intact. Definitely absolutely a bird or
10:45a rat or a cat. Dusk was now long gone.
10:48The shadows had settled in and taken
10:50over. Just wardrobes loomed in the dark.
10:53Wardrobes and nothing [music] more,
10:55right? I headed down below to the
10:57location of the alarm, trusting that Jim
10:59would follow behind. After all, it was
11:02just a rat or a bird. I am accustomed to
11:06the building after dark, so I just
11:08turned on my phone light, not the
11:09overheads, and I walked around boldly
11:12like I own the place. I looked in the
11:14corner with the motion detector.
11:16Nothing, just the red eye blinking
11:19mindlessly at me. No animals, no rats,
11:22no cats, no birds. I turned and went the
11:24other way while Jim poked around a few
11:26aisles over and there it was. It was
11:30what looked like a burglary kit sitting
11:33in the middle of the floor. Bolt
11:35cutters, a fire extinguisher, just
11:38sitting there waiting. I have a picture
11:40of it for you. [snorts]
11:42>> Wait, that I can see?
11:43>> Yeah. So, you can describe what you see.
11:45>> Wa. Okay, now my eyes aren't as good as
11:47they used to be. You understand?
11:49>> Oh, yes.
11:50>> I am seeing a fire I'm so curious about
11:52this fire extinguisher. I'm seeing a
11:54bolt cutter. I mean, I would have said
11:55those are pliers, but that lets you know
11:56my Home Depot knowledge.
11:58>> Yeah. Yeah. And why else is missing?
11:59What am I missing?
12:00>> So, it's I think it's just this fire
12:02extinguisher. Like maybe they were they
12:04brought it in to break something and but
12:06a fire extinguisher shouldn't be sitting
12:08there. So, you would think you you would
12:10like notice that immediately like
12:12>> why are these two things just sitting
12:14out in the middle of nowhere?
12:16>> It's an odd thing to bring in.
12:19>> Now, I've never gotten a bigger case of
12:21sheer terror so fast. After all, there
12:23was no broken window or door. So,
12:26whoever was there was still in the
12:29basement with me in the dark somewhere.
12:32I hissed, "Jim, Jim, Jim, please,
12:35please, please." But he didn't hear me.
12:37I literally couldn't scream. Just like
12:38in those stupid goddamn dreams, my voice
12:41was stuck. Just me, the spotlight
12:44burglary tools, and a hostile presence I
12:47could feel lurking in the dusty shadows,
12:50watching while I whispered for someone
12:51to save me. Finally, a thousand years or
12:54maybe 10 seconds later, Jim wondered why
12:57I had taken root in the hallway, and he
12:58came to see what was going on. He saw
13:00what I was frozen and pointing at, and
13:02he was like, "Oh, God." We bolted out
13:05the front door to call 911 and wait, and
13:08we abandoned the building to the
13:09burglar. An eternal 5 minutes later, the
13:12police showed up and were initially
13:14pretty unimpressed with our find of the
13:16crowbar and fire extinguisher until we
13:18pulled up the security footage that
13:21revealed the actual horror. The face of
13:23my new sleep paralysis demon. I'll share
13:26with you. This is what they saw.
13:28>> Stop. Stop.
13:31>> You're going to put this up online?
13:33>> Yeah.
13:33>> Oh my god.
13:34>> I'm going to put this so you'll see it
13:36on our Instagram. It's also on our
13:37YouTube.
13:38>> What is it? He's wearing a mask, I'm
13:40guessing. Or like what kind of a
13:41>> covering is that? Yeah, but like why
13:43that mask?
13:44>> Looks like an Avengers outfit or
13:46something like all spandex. Like does he
13:48have stuff on his
13:49>> hands? He's a little built. [laughter]
13:53>> Well, he looks strong.
13:54>> He look like those are muscles. Those
13:56are pecs coming through. Like he looks
13:58strong and like he definitely has
13:59something.
14:01>> What? That would do me in. Caitlyn,
14:04could you imagine seeing that? Do you
14:06have a security system? I have one.
14:07>> We do? Yeah. Yeah. And I I am constantly
14:10fearful I'm going to see something on
14:11like a camera or have you ever heard
14:13like cuz I don't know what system you
14:14have but mine have the monitors like on
14:17the window so when the window opens it
14:19goes like ding
14:20>> ding. Yeah.
14:21>> I was in bed one night and heard that.
14:23>> No.
14:24>> And I was like well it's been a great
14:26ride.
14:27>> Was it someone opening your window?
14:29>> No. I don't even malfunction and went
14:31off.
14:31>> Yeah. Yeah. I think maybe it could have
14:33been windy or something like that. But
14:34even so, you wouldn't think that that
14:36would happen.
14:37>> Yes. I don't know.
14:38>> So, the the poster goes on to say, "This
14:40guy, as is obvious, he's built like a
14:43lean, mean brick. He crouched on a
14:46landing behind a bookcase when we
14:48closed, and he watched me and my staff
14:51lock up." This is what they're seeing on
14:53the video. He bited his time and then,
14:55as calm as could be, he walked out and
14:58went to the men's restroom in the
15:00hallway downstairs. That area isn't set
15:03for motion detect for a variety of
15:04reasons. He spent a while in there
15:06moving around with the door open. He
15:09constructed the mask using one of ours
15:12and a fake flower wreath to hold it on.
15:15Purple plastic clatus. He looked right
15:18into the camera barefaced and then put
15:20the mask on, stared at it fixedly in his
15:23mask for a time, and then finally pulled
15:25his gloves on. This is another image
15:28that they shared. So that was him before
15:30he put the mask on.
15:32>> Even that's kind of scary to me.
15:33>> I know. It's the blank look in the eyes.
15:36>> He and he just doesn't care. Like he saw
15:37the camera and then put the mask on cuz
15:39he didn't care.
15:40>> Oh god.
15:41>> And then they go on to say he stacked a
15:44few solid body vintage suitcases in
15:46front of a tall iron gate and he hopped
15:47right over like it was nothing. He ran
15:49down the hall which triggered the 6:30
15:51silent alarm and looped the floor. He
15:53ran back into the hall, moved a ladder
15:55to hop back to the other side of the
15:57gate and bizarrely just repeated this
15:59whole thing a few times. Then he went
16:01into the basement. He wormed over a
16:0415-inch gap, over another iron gate, and
16:07back into the hall again. And then he
16:09stared into the camera more. And then he
16:11repeated that again. He was moving fast,
16:13up, over, back, forth, upstairs,
16:15downstairs, parkour style almost. And
16:18then he got the tools out and peeled
16:20apart one of our steel lock boxes with
16:21the crowbar and stole a handful of our
16:24keys to access showcases.
16:27There's another.
16:28>> So they show I guess
16:30>> I It's so rare. I see story submissions
16:32that have photos. So, this is wild to
16:34contextualize it. Wo!
16:36>> I know all these pictures of like the
16:37stuff that he had done of how he broke
16:39in. And then they go on to say, "At this
16:41point, he heard me fumbling with our
16:43gate keys upstairs. He ditched the
16:46stolen keys and tools and he hid
16:48watching me while he waited in the dark.
16:51We exited to call 911 and then he ran
16:53back into the basement. In the basement,
16:55there's access to a dirt tunnel that
16:56circles the perimeter of the building.
16:58He broke the door open and entered.
17:00spiders the size of dinner plates live
17:02in there. He had no light. It's muddy.
17:04It's dark. It is petrifying in there.
17:07And then again, they sure didn't like
17:11this is exit.
17:14>> Sounds really agile.
17:16>> I know. Like the parkour that he's
17:17doing. There's a tiny exit hatch, and if
17:20you walk the whole thing and take
17:21multiple turns, it dumps you into the
17:24busy kitchen of a restaurant, whereupon
17:26you would need to stroll past the line
17:28cooks out into the restaurant proper,
17:29which has cameras, and then one could
17:32leave their [music] front door,
17:33plastered with mud, which does leave
17:36tracks. When we found it, there was his
17:38clear entrance into the tunnel, but
17:40there were no exit tracks, no money
17:42footprints, nobody walking out on the
17:44restaurant cameras. The cooks noticed
17:47nothing. Reviewing the footage, the
17:50timing of it all, tracing his path from
17:51camera to camera and searching the
17:53building all took hours. And by the end,
17:55all of us, including the police, were
17:57starting to lose our collective cool and
17:59freak out. There was no chill. Even the
18:01guys with the guns, were rattled. After
18:03all, where did this guy go? Jim and the
18:06two officers had no choice but to walk
18:08the dirt tunnel, but there was nothing
18:09there, just spiders. Jim got the okay
18:12from them to board up both ends of the
18:14tunnel, which he did. solidly and thus
18:17the story ends. The pictures got spread
18:19widely, but we got no useful leads
18:21despite the decent face shot. Did he
18:24indeed crawl out of a hatch into the
18:25busy kitchen and stroll out past the
18:27cooks, leaving no trace of mud? Maybe.
18:30We got no suspicious smells coming out
18:32of the tunnel in later weeks and months.
18:34Nobody has really walked to the far side
18:36since, though. We only onboarded the
18:38tunnel last week for the split water
18:40main shenanigans. I have vowed that I
18:43will use his skull in this year's
18:44Halloween display if he is dead down
18:46there.
18:46>> Oh god.
18:47>> And that's how it ends.
18:48>> Took a real severe turn at the end.
18:50>> That's how it ends.
18:51>> Imagine he's just the health inspector.
18:52They're really doing a number these
18:54days.
18:54>> Oh my gosh. Oh my [laughter] gosh. Where
18:57did he go? That's the thing that I don't
18:58like is where did he go? Cuz was he
19:00living there the whole time? I just
19:01think about like we've covered stories
19:03on hearts pounding like the Denver
19:04Spider-Man where someone was living in
19:06your house for years.
19:06>> Please. Please. I can't. My nervous
19:08system can't take stuff like this. It's
19:10so crazy you're bringing this up cuz I
19:12was I just did the sinister last night
19:14and I was remembering a story when I
19:16worked at a restaurant of something not
19:19nearly to this degree but like um do you
19:21ever work in a restaurant and like you
19:22know how dry storage isn't always like
19:23on the same floor of the restaurant?
19:24It's like in the basement or something.
19:25>> I only did fast food, not like a real
19:27restaurant.
19:27>> Oh, so you were really in the trenches.
19:29>> Oh yeah, in the trenches.
19:30>> You were at the front lines of war.
19:32>> Yes.
19:33>> We had this was a big one in Century
19:34City. So like and it was in the mall. So
19:37the dry storage was several floors down
19:39and it was like very open like a huge
19:41like basement storage level but there
19:42was one hatch in the wall that if you it
19:45was padlocked but if you opened it there
19:46was extra storage in there. They called
19:48it the dungeon. I had never gone in
19:50there and then like to get in you have
19:51to crawl through the hatch. Like not
19:53crawl but like step in cuz it doesn't
19:55meet the floor. And I went down there
19:56one time during a private event with my
19:58manager and she came cuz only managers
20:01have the key and she went to go unlock
20:02it and she opened it and I looked in.
20:04It's pitch black in there, but if you
20:05like look really far in, you can see
20:07like, oh yeah, there's like old like
20:09faux plants, like stuff from 10 years
20:11ago. And we're like, all right, let's go
20:13in and like get the extra chairs. And
20:15right when we're about to step in, we
20:17both heard something in there move.
20:19>> Yeah,
20:20>> like AAM's razor. Was it probably an
20:22animal? Even though there are no
20:23windows, maybe.
20:24>> Still, I don't want to see a rat down
20:25there. That's also terrifying. It
20:26>> did not sound like a rat. It sounded
20:28heavy.
20:28>> Oh,
20:29>> it almost sounded like something was
20:30shifting in there. But we we looked at
20:32each other and I'm happy she kind of
20:33took her manager hat off and she was
20:35like,
20:36>> "They can stand.
20:37>> We're not doing it."
20:38>> Yeah. How about they stand? She locked
20:39that thing so quick. We went right back
20:41upstairs.
20:42>> So scary. I mean, I told the story on
20:43this show like a long time ago, but I
20:45got locked in the back freezer of the
20:48fast food restaurant that I worked at.
20:49>> Are you kidding? I was going to die.
20:51>> You would have died.
20:52>> This would have This was probably 2010.
20:56So, we had cell phones, but not like
20:58good cell phones. How were you working
20:59when you were 6 years old, Kaitlin?
21:01>> I know. When I was a [laughter] near
21:03year child labor.
21:05>> Yes, cuz I was born in 2004. [laughter]
21:08>> No, but I Yeah. had to go in the back
21:11freezer for something. I was closing, so
21:13it was just me and my manager who did
21:14not care if I lived or died. And went
21:17back there and I just So, there's the
21:19fridge and there's back freezer. walked
21:21through the fridge, got some stuff, open
21:23the back freezer door, it closes behind
21:25me and I hear like
21:27>> and a bunch of produce had just fallen
21:29in front of the door and I go to open it
21:30and it's stuck.
21:32>> No, no, no.
21:33>> And I I don't even think I had my cell
21:34phone. If I did have my cell phone,
21:36there would have been no service, but I
21:37don't even think I had my cell phone on
21:38me. So, I start banging on the door
21:40like, "Hey, [screaming] hey." But my
21:42manager is in the other room. And
21:44eventually, I was able to throw my body
21:46against the door so hard that it just
21:47opened. And so, I get out. I'm like
21:49sobbing. I'm like my tears into my face
21:52and he's like, "What happened?" And I
21:54was like, "I got stuck in the back
21:56freezer." And he was like, "Oh yeah, Pam
21:59got stuck back there and she had to go
22:00to the hospital. She almost died. Like,
22:02be careful." [laughter] And I was like,
22:04>> imagine. He's like, "That's great. Can
22:06you um how's your Sunday looking like?
22:07Can you cover the PM shift?"
22:09>> Yeah. All right. Do you have a story for
22:10me?
22:10>> I do. Oh my gosh.
22:11>> I have stories, which I'm really excited
22:12about because the last time you brought
22:14a story, it was so scary.
22:16>> I brought it to you today, just so you
22:17have an option.
22:18>> My day. [laughter] Yeah. Amazing.
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24:26>> Well, this is I found a paranormal story
24:29actually. Actually, could you hold my my
24:31cane for me?
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24:33>> Good. Wait, is this Did you order it for
24:35your costume or did you like have this
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24:39[laughter]
24:40>> It's like just at home.
24:41>> Yeah.
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24:49>> Now, this story, it came in anonymous. I
24:52titled it. You know what? I'm not going
24:53to share the title of it. Actually,
24:54you're going to go in blind
24:55>> last time, too. You did tell me the
24:57story.
24:57>> My instinct kick again. I was never
24:59really a believer of the paranormal,
25:01which is a laugh in hindsight, but
25:04sometimes it takes a bit of personal
25:05experience before you come around to an
25:07[music] idea. And this was an experience
25:10that definitely left a mark on me. Back
25:12in 2006, my husband and I were newly
25:14married and we were both hustling with
25:16our jobs, trying to climb quick at our
25:18companies. We hadn't really started a
25:19family yet, and we had not bought our
25:21first home together. That changed one
25:23day when I saw a listing in the paper
25:25for a place that was a good few towns
25:27over, but it looked adorable. I remember
25:30it was a quaint little two-bedroom spot,
25:32had white paneling on the outside and
25:34these gorgeous rose bushes that lined
25:37the windows underneath, but really it
25:39caught my eye because we could afford
25:41it. It was cheap, surprisingly cheap.
25:45But I remember thinking, you miss 100%
25:47of the shots you don't take. So, I
25:48called the number for the listing agent
25:49and before I knew it, we had the option
25:52to tour the place and we put in an
25:54offer. Now, I'll admit we jumped on it
25:57pretty quick and I have definitely
25:58learned my lesson in years gone by that
26:00you should always do an inspection of a
26:02home before you move into a place. But,
26:06we started having issues with the HVAC
26:07unit right away since it was getting
26:09warmer out. So, we had to call a repair
26:11man and figured we might as well call an
26:13inspector to come do a full sweep
26:15[music] of the house to figure out what
26:16we had gotten ourselves into and if
26:18there were any other hidden issues. But
26:21this was when we actually learned about
26:22the history of the home. The inspector
26:25that we called was local and he came
26:28through the place and definitely noted
26:29the HVAC unit was an obvious problem,
26:32but couldn't see any other noticeable
26:33issues in the home other than normal
26:35wear and tear. And it wasn't very old
26:37really. It was built in the 1990s. But
26:40what he had also mentioned were the
26:42people who lived in that house before
26:44us. And he said that they were good
26:46people and a lot of folks miss them. I
26:49guess I'd stuck my nose out where it
26:50shouldn't belong. And I decided to ask
26:52him what he meant by that, which I
26:54remember is when he looked at me and
26:56realized I had no idea who lived in the
26:59house before we moved in and really why
27:01we got the place so cheap. the couple
27:03that had lived in that house, so we were
27:05told, had died in a murder suicide.
27:09He wasn't going to be forthcoming with
27:11the details, but I kept on prying,
27:13almost like I couldn't stop asking
27:14questions since it was all lining up now
27:16as to why we got the place at such a
27:18good price. The wife had become
27:20unstable, I guess, and was paranoid that
27:22her husband had been having an affair
27:24behind her back. And although this guy
27:26described her as a sweet woman, it
27:28sounds like her mental state had kind of
27:29declined. And she grew suspicious of her
27:32husband to the point where when he
27:34threatened to finally leave over the
27:36accusations, she shot him with his own
27:39gun that he kept in the closet and then
27:41took her own life in the master bathroom
27:44with the same gun. [music]
27:46It was almost 2 weeks before anybody had
27:48gone to check on them and the bodies
27:50were discovered. And when the house had
27:52been passed to the family, they kept it
27:54off the market for over a year just
27:56before they listed it. My husband and I
27:58had no idea. But I would say shortly
28:01after this was when I started to notice
28:03things around the house, which honestly
28:06complicated things because I wasn't sure
28:07if we were picking up on things that
28:09were a part of my own paranoia just from
28:11knowing who had been living in that
28:12house before us and that there were two
28:14people who were found dead the year
28:16prior. It was little things at first,
28:18like small objects that would go
28:20missing. I was often losing earrings
28:22that I was sure I had left on the
28:24dresser, sometimes a pen that my husband
28:26was convinced he had left on the desk in
28:28our second bedroom, which we used as an
28:30office. Suddenly wasn't there anymore
28:33after a few hours. I also had a repeat
28:36issue with this mirror in the house. It
28:38was a small vintage mirror that I hung
28:40up on the outside of the doorway that
28:43would enter our kitchen. And no matter
28:44how many times I would straighten it, I
28:46would fix it, I would check the level on
28:48it, I would constantly walk away, come
28:50back, and find the mirror tilted ever so
28:53slightly. It was a strange time to be a
28:56skeptic. And at times, I myself felt
28:58like I was losing my mind and just
29:00couldn't tell if I was psyching myself
29:02out, repeatedly thinking about what had
29:04happened in that house and which rooms
29:07it had happened in. Hell, which room she
29:09took her life in, which was my bathroom.
29:13But that's exactly where I saw what I
29:15saw.
29:17My husband had joined a golf club with a
29:19few of his buddies, and they met every
29:21Sunday, which meant that I had the
29:23afternoons alone in the house to sleep
29:24in, catch up on some cleaning, I could
29:26run out and do errands. He had gone
29:28right after 9:00 a.m. since it was a bit
29:31of a drive and he had to pick up a
29:32couple of his friends. So, I remember
29:34being in the living room folding some
29:35laundry that morning that I had left in
29:37the dryer the night before when I
29:39suddenly had a very bad feeling come
29:41over me. It wasn't a very obvious
29:43feeling. It felt more like I was getting
29:45sick or nauseous out of nowhere. I
29:48couldn't figure out what had brought
29:49that on and why the room suddenly felt
29:51so heavy, but I decided I wasn't going
29:53to force myself to fold clothes if I
29:55wasn't feeling great. I remember I stood
29:58up from the couch where I'd been sorting
30:00socks from underwear. And when I did, I
30:02went to go cross over the living room
30:04towards the kitchen. And I could have
30:06sworn for a very split second in the
30:09reflection of that glass mirror, the
30:10vintage one, which was also now crooked.
30:13I caught a quick glimpse of myself
30:15moving past it and thought I saw another
30:17person in the reflection as well. I
30:20remember it happened very quick. And
30:22just as quick as I thought I saw it, I
30:25looked back and it was just me in the
30:27mirror. At this point, I really thought
30:30I was losing it. Maybe it was just early
30:33and I was tired. Maybe I was really
30:35coming down with something. So, I
30:36decided to shake it off and just put a
30:38pause on the laundry. And I decided I
30:39was actually going to shower and get
30:41dressed and maybe carry on with my day.
30:43Maybe heading out of the house for a few
30:44could do me some good. I walked back to
30:47our bedroom still with that heavy
30:49feeling in my legs and the paranoia that
30:51I couldn't shake. And I told myself,
30:53"You're tired. You're tired. You're home
30:55alone. you spooked yourself. Because I
30:58couldn't stop thinking about that couple
31:00in this house. Let it go. Let it go. Go
31:02on with your day. So, I got into the
31:04bathroom. I turned on the hot water
31:06hoping that it was going to jolt me out
31:07of this feeling. And I remember being in
31:09the shower [music] and still feeling
31:12that something was wrong and it wouldn't
31:14let up. It's like as if you left a
31:16burner on on the stove top and
31:17something's burning and you know it, but
31:20you're actively choosing to ignore it.
31:21Pretend like it's not happening. like
31:24you can smell the char in the pot even
31:26though you're not looking at it. Still,
31:29I pushed myself to shake it off. Wash
31:31your hair, wash your face, wake yourself
31:33up. But in the shower is where I
31:36experienced the moment that made me a
31:38believer. I had my head under the shower
31:41head for a bit, was rinsing out the very
31:43last of my shampoo, so my eyes were
31:45closed for just a minute. When I opened
31:47them, I pressed my hands to my face to
31:49rub the water out of my eyes, still
31:51feeling that nauseous pit in my stomach.
31:53And when I turned over my shoulder to
31:55reach for the conditioner, I felt like
31:57my heart stopped.
32:00I'd come face to face with the corner of
32:02my shower curtain, where I could see the
32:04partial and close-up view of another
32:07woman's face peeking into the shower,
32:10looking at me.
32:12It was a woman with her face right up
32:15against the curtain's edge, and I could
32:17only see one side of her face. So, I saw
32:19her big, wide eyes staring at me, and
32:22her mouth just hanging open like she was
32:24stunned. Her skin looked colorless. I
32:28can't even really say she looked gray or
32:30white like a ghost. It was just like her
32:31skin had no color at all. I remember the
32:35feeling of trying to scream, but I was
32:37so scared. It felt like my chest locked
32:39up for a second and I couldn't even get
32:41a breath in. I fell backwards towards
32:43the opposite wall of the shower and
32:45knocked some bottles off the ledge,
32:47which hit my feet and broke my focus
32:49from her face for only a second as I
32:51looked down at the tub. When I looked
32:53back up, she wasn't there. I ripped the
32:56shower curtain open, the water still
32:58running and getting everywhere, and
33:00there was no one in the bathroom. What I
33:03saw was so clear, I was momentarily
33:05convinced there was a woman in the
33:06house.
33:07>> [music]
33:07>> So, I immediately thought, I'm going to
33:09have to call the police. I walked
33:10straight out of the shower. I pulled the
33:12towel off from the rack to cover myself
33:13up. And I walked into my bedroom. There
33:16was nothing. It was all silent. It was
33:19totally still. If there had been
33:21somebody in the bathroom, I couldn't
33:22imagine how they had gotten out of there
33:24so quickly. So, I started to run through
33:26the house frantically, looking in every
33:27room. I checked the front door, which
33:29was still locked, and I picked up our
33:31phone in the kitchen to try to get a
33:32hold of my husband, who had a cell phone
33:33from work at the time. He drove straight
33:36back to the house where he found me
33:38still in the towel, trying my best to
33:41explain to him what I had just seen.
33:44Well, we only lived in that house for
33:46another year. After that, we redid the
33:48kitchen, put it back up on the market,
33:51and we still talk about our experiences
33:53in that place from time to time.
33:55Sometimes he makes me think that it's
33:57all in my mind, that maybe my eyes were
33:59playing tricks on me that day, and I was
34:00just paranoid being home alone knowing
34:02what happened there. But I know what I
34:05saw. I remember what I saw that morning.
34:08And it was real. It was another woman
34:10looking right at me in the shower.
34:17>> Oh my god.
34:19>> Just
34:21>> Oh, on. [laughter]
34:23>> Was that a listener writing?
34:26>> Is this a submission?
34:28>> They're crazy for the sinister. The
34:30things they send. I'm like I sit at home
34:32reading them like scanning them crying.
34:35[laughter]
34:35>> Yeah. Truly. Oh my gosh.
34:38>> Imagine walk me through this. Imagine
34:40being in your shower cuz you were so
34:41vulnerable.
34:42>> So vulnerable there.
34:43>> Nothing can happen to me in the shower.
34:45>> Yeah. Well, yeah. That's like es being
34:48in the shower especially cuz it's like
34:49if someone breaks in is the worst spot
34:51for you to be in.
34:52>> I'm wet. I'm slippery.
34:53>> You're naked. You don't
34:54>> I'm not I'm not in my best shape. Give
34:55me until the summer. Like
34:58>> you look bad. But [laughter] I think
35:00about that too. Glasses like I've
35:02started sleeping with like glasses next
35:04to my bed cuz I'm like what if something
35:05happens and I don't have and I can't see
35:07anything and like in the shower.
35:09>> Think about that. No, cuz when I take my
35:10contacts out at night, I don't even
35:11think about that. If I would have to run
35:13out in the middle of the night.
35:14>> Now that I have a baby, glasses on the
35:16bedside just anything happens, I throw
35:18them on. I'm good.
35:19>> But you know what's weird is that's not
35:21the first story I've heard about
35:22something peeking over a shower watching
35:25you
35:26>> while you shower. I hope doing that.
35:29Come on.
35:30>> I know. Some of them are like
35:32>> freaky.
35:34>> It's bad. It's really bad.
35:36>> But I Yeah, that one too. It's like
35:39I don't know because the the stuff was
35:41going missing. There's something about
35:43this woman go I imagine it's the woman
35:46cuz she thought she saw a woman
35:48>> who was like very curious about this
35:50other woman that moved into the house
35:51cuz why she
35:53>> she killed her husband over fears of
35:55infidelity.
35:55>> Oh my god. I wasn't even thinking about
35:56that. I think there's something you just
35:58gave me chills.
35:59>> I think there's something there about
36:00like but who's this woman?
36:01>> Yeah. Like there's a woman in my master
36:04>> brought her to my home.
36:05>> I wasn't even thinking about that
36:06because if you remember the description
36:07that she said, she was like she had wide
36:09eyes and her mouth was hung open like
36:11she was in shock almost like I can't
36:13believe there's a woman in my house.
36:15>> Yes.
36:18>> Get the gun. Get the gun.
36:20>> Oh my gosh. Oh,
36:21>> it's so bad.
36:22>> That's so scary. That's so scary. I um I
36:26was at a friend's engagement party once.
36:29This made me this made me think of this
36:31story,
36:31>> okay?
36:32>> Where she had moved. She was telling me
36:35the story of when she first moved into
36:36her boyfriend's house. So, he like was
36:39renting this house, had other roommates,
36:41but he loved this house. He lived there
36:42for so long. Like, a couple of roommates
36:44would come in and out. Someone would
36:46stay for a year, leave, they'd get
36:48another roommate. There's like always
36:49three people in this house, but he was
36:51he was always there the longest.
36:52>> Okay. And so he had like the biggest
36:54bedroom. She moves in to be with him.
36:57And one morning, like 2:00 in the
37:00morning, she wakes up and there's
37:01someone standing at the foot of her bed.
37:04>> Come on.
37:04>> And she just remembers that they're
37:06wearing what looks like a cowboy hat.
37:09It's just the outline of a person. And
37:12as she like gets up to look at him, he
37:15kind of like flashes and is gone.
37:18>> Wow. And she like and grabs her
37:21boyfriend who's sleeping soundly next to
37:22her. She starts freaking out. She's
37:24like, "There's someone in the house."
37:25Like I don't if I don't know if it was
37:26one of your roommates. They were in our
37:27room. Like someone was at the photo bed.
37:29And he just goes, "Oh, was it the guy
37:30with the cowboy hat?" And she's like,
37:33"Yes, how'd you know?" She And he goes,
37:35"Everyone who has moved into this house
37:37sees that guy.
37:38>> Stop."
37:38>> He's like, "Every single roommate has
37:40told me about that guy. We just we kind
37:42of like joke about it now. I didn't know
37:43that it would happen if you were here.
37:45But yeah, there's it's just like a the
37:46cowboy ghost that lives in this.
37:48>> How can you be so casual about that?
37:49>> So casual about it. Like both and both
37:51of them were telling me the story
37:52together and she's like cracking up
37:53about it cuz then it became like a
37:54thing. But
37:55>> oh my god,
37:56>> scared in that moment. But yeah, just
37:57like something that lives in the house
37:59that like people are seeing and oh my
38:01god.
38:01>> Do you find that comforting though that
38:03like other people like if you were to
38:04see a ghost and then somebody was like
38:05oh that's Todd. You know, like do you
38:07find that comforting being like okay I'm
38:09not alone in this. One, I'm not crazy,
38:10and two, at least it's showing itself to
38:13other people. Cuz if Ghost could really
38:15hurt us, I think we'd all be dead by
38:16now.
38:16>> I know. Yeah. There's part of me that's
38:18>> we'd be long gone.
38:20>> But if Todd didn't hurt anyone, you
38:21know, he just kind of shows up.
38:23>> But curious,
38:24>> especially because I think about that
38:25like when I I did like the ghost hunt
38:27with Two Girls One Ghost. I've gone to
38:28some other ghosty places. I'm kind of
38:30always the first person that's just like
38:32looking for stuff.
38:33>> Like it doesn't
38:34>> The stories really scare me, but I don't
38:36think that's ever stopped me, you know?
38:38Like I just kind of do it scared. So I
38:40think even if if so if someone was like,
38:42"Oh, this thing is in the house." I
38:44would maybe be scared of it, but I don't
38:46think that would stop me from like being
38:47very curious about it.
38:48>> Interesting. I do get scared. I'm too
38:50scared to do almost anything
38:51>> really.
38:52>> I can't do I can barely do any in
38:53person. And Sue always wants to do stuff
38:55like in person. She's like, "We should
38:56go ghost hunting." And I'm like,
38:58>> "I can't go to a CVS. [laughter]
39:00>> Like
39:01>> I can't make it to the Walgreens.
39:03>> I can't even buy my own robbitasen."
39:05Actually speaking, I just want to share
39:07this story real quick cuz you reminded
39:08me of this as you were just saying it.
39:10She was at like I guess this would be
39:12like a not a wedding, but kind of like
39:15what's the thing that happens before a
39:16wedding that's not a bachelor party,
39:17>> rehearsal dinner?
39:18>> No. No. I guess
39:20>> maybe it was just like a friends
39:21celebration before the wedding and it
39:23was way up in like Montana or like some
39:24place remote and it was like most of
39:27like her then boyfriend's friends. So,
39:29she didn't know a lot of people there.
39:30So, it's a mix of guys and girls at this
39:32place, this like cottage, giant cottage
39:34they're renting. And they decided
39:35they're all going to go to like this
39:37lake, which was like really far, like an
39:38hour away. She wasn't feeling great, so
39:40she was going to hang back at the house.
39:42So, while she was there, she called. I
39:44remember her calling me about this, and
39:45I still get chills thinking about it.
39:46She was like getting out of the shower
39:48and looked through the window from the
39:50upstairs bathroom to the backyard. One
39:52of the guys who was like in the friend
39:54group who had a real bad vibe was back
39:57and like on the property like almost
39:59like he had come back to like I don't
40:02know do something because that's the
40:04thing is like he this is the scary part
40:06is she's like what the hell is he doing
40:07here and she like covers herself up goes
40:09downstairs goes outside nobody ever came
40:12in the house and like nobody's in the
40:13backyard but she very clearly saw him
40:15like lingering in the backyard
40:17>> calls her boyfriend after that and she
40:20was like hey is this guy like so and So
40:22she's like, "He left you guys down at
40:23the lake." And they were like, "Oh, he
40:25took off for like a little bit, but he
40:26didn't come back to the house." She goes
40:29out of her way that night when like
40:30everyone's back to like work up the
40:32nerve and question him. And she was
40:33like, "Hey, um, I'll call him Jeremy."
40:35She was like, "Jeremy, were were you
40:37here today? Were you at the house?" He
40:39says, "No, I was at the lake all day."
40:44>> But that's scary. It's scarier. The deni
40:46the denying is scarier because she knows
40:48what she saw.
40:49>> Yeah. And then everyone like not
40:50everyone but like her boyfriend was like
40:52maybe it was like
40:53>> in your head and she's like no no I saw
40:57him. He was in the backyard.
40:59>> Yeah. Jeremy was in the backyard.
41:00>> Jere So Jeremy was in the backyard.
41:02>> Yeah. Oh
41:03>> cuz like what if why deny it? Why was he
41:05there knowing that she was the only girl
41:07who hung back was going to be at the
41:09house alone? My questions.
41:11>> There's sickos out there cuz there's
41:12absolute sickos that walk among us.
41:17Anyways, I have another story for you.
41:19>> I can't wait to hear it.
41:20>> All righty. Let's see.
41:21>> You got my nervous system at a 10.
41:23>> Oh, me.
41:24>> My blood pressure is crying.
41:25>> Are you kidding me? You are stressing me
41:28out so much. Every time you bring a
41:29story, it's like the worst thing I've
41:30ever heard in my entire life.
41:31>> I I have a second one for you that I
41:33think is worse than that one, to be
41:34honest.
41:35>> Really? Okay. So, I have I have a couple
41:37ones on the shorter end that I want
41:39>> Oh, okay.
41:40>> So, this one is another Reddit story. It
41:43comes from a thread in Paranormal where
41:46people were asking about like the
41:47scariest thing that your kid ever said
41:49to you or saw and it comes from a user.
41:52The usernames are so unhinged on this
41:54whole episode, but it this is badass
41:55with two kids. It's from four months
41:58ago.
41:59>> I like to think that Reddit generated
42:01that for them.
42:02>> I know. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah.
42:03>> It's like one of the auto usernames have
42:05any control over it. So this so fat ass
42:08with two kids writes, "When I was a few
42:10months pregnant with my daughter, before
42:12we knew that she was a girl, I was
42:13folding laundry while my son watched
42:15Care Bears in the living room. And out
42:17of nowhere, he starts sobbing. I ask him
42:21what's wrong, and he starts asking me
42:23where his baby's sister was." He was 2
42:26and a half at the time, and he had a
42:28slight speech delay, but as he was
42:31asking me these questions, he started
42:32speaking a lot more clearly. He started
42:35trying to tell me that they hurt his
42:38baby sister, that they hurt her hands
42:40and her legs. And when I asked what he
42:43was talking about, he told me that his
42:45old mommy, his bad mommy, they hurt him
42:48and his sister, and everything went
42:50black and they chose to come to me and
42:53my husband. I started freaking out. I'm
42:56not super religious or really into
42:58anything spiritual like that. And also,
43:00I was hormonal and pregnant. And I was
43:02worried that my son had been exposed to
43:05something strange or scary. But I was a
43:07stay-at-home mom. He was never really
43:09out of my sight, not even when my
43:10parents would babysit him at that age.
43:12So, I kind of pocketed that experience,
43:15put it in the back of my mind. Now, when
43:17my daughter was born, my son was
43:20obsessed with her. He would constantly
43:22check up on her. He would count all of
43:23her fingers and toes constantly. And my
43:26daughter was an incredibly clingy baby.
43:28She would only fall asleep in my arms.
43:30If I left the room at all for that first
43:32year, she would start screaming bloody
43:34murder. When she started talking in full
43:36sentences at around 2 years old, she was
43:38a bit more advanced than her brother.
43:40She started calling me her good mama.
43:43And she would say it constantly. When I
43:45would ask why she was calling me that,
43:47she would say that I wasn't bad. I
43:49didn't hurt her like her bad mama. I'm
43:52telling y'all, hearing that come out of
43:54her mouth almost 3 years after my son
43:57had his tiny freakout, knowing that I'd
43:59never brought it up around her or made a
44:01point to tell anyone else about it other
44:03than my husband. It freaked me out. I
44:06started crying really hard. It just
44:08really messed with my head because it
44:09was coming from both my kids. I don't
44:11know if my son ever talked to his baby
44:13sister about their bad mama. They don't
44:16talk about it now at all since they're
44:19older, but I do go a little easy on them
44:21and I spoil them a little bit too much
44:24just in case there's truth to what
44:26they've told me.
44:28You know what's going to make me cry?
44:30>> What?
44:31>> That they founded each other in the next
44:33life. Stop.
44:35>> Like that to me is so
44:38>> Isn't that a part of like the
44:39reincarnation like theory though? It's
44:40like you're still with the same mix of
44:42people but like your sister like became
44:44your mom or something. I get those Tik
44:45Toks that are like
44:48me and my son in every lifetime.
44:52[gasps]
44:52>> Oh god.
44:53>> And I'm going to have my lawyer reach
44:54out to every single person that posts
44:56one of those cuz it's for emotional
44:58damages. Like it's so crazy. I get so
45:00worked up over those. But it is the idea
45:02of like like those Tik Toks that are
45:03like us in every lifetime, me and my
45:05sister in lifetime.
45:06>> I know. So I haven't thought about
45:07reincarnation in a minute. But you're
45:08also very appropriately dressed for like
45:10an other mommy scenario right now.
45:12>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. which is why I wanted
45:13to do that one.
45:14>> Was that the inspiration for the
45:15costume? Which came first? We have Bad
45:17Mommy.
45:18>> I know.
45:19>> I don't know about that. It's scary that
45:21it happened with two of them.
45:22>> I know. Which makes me think, but I Oh
45:24my god, what a blessing that you just
45:27have each other in your next life, too.
45:28>> Do you believe in reincarnation?
45:31>> I sometimes do reincarnation.
45:34>> There's a lot of very convincing past
45:37life stories out there. I've done past
45:39life regression. I definitely
45:42>> like covered it as an episode or you did
45:43it with like
45:44>> No, I did it. I went and I did a past
45:46life progression and you know my
45:47favorite part of this whole experience
45:48of standing in the bathroom in line to
45:50we're like going to go in and do the
45:52past life progression. I'm waiting in
45:53line in the bathroom and the guy in
45:54front of me is like you know I've done
45:56this before and I was like oh yeah you
45:59know what did what's it like? What did
46:01you see? He's like, "I was on the
46:03mountain with Moses when he got the Ten
46:06Commandments." And I was like, "You,
46:10>> you know,
46:10>> like a Santa Monica man bun guy." Now,
46:12>> girl, things I hear in the line at the
46:137-Eleven. [laughter]
46:15>> I was on the mountain with Moses.
46:17>> Yeah. I was like, it's always that
46:18they're always I was Cleopatra. You
46:21know, it's always something amazing in
46:22their past life. But what I will say is
46:24so I started doing it,
46:26>> you know, they have you go through the
46:27the past life regression. You're like
46:28doing this really intense meditation. I
46:30wasn't getting anything
46:33>> and then all of a sudden I started
46:36walking in the woods and I could tell it
46:38was a really long time ago and I've
46:40never had a meditation where sights just
46:43kind of take over my minds.
46:45>> I don't think I've had that either.
46:46>> So I was like, "Oh, maybe there is
46:48something to this. Maybe I really did
46:49reach something in my subconscious."
46:50Like I don't know. It was the woods. I
46:52was carrying sticks.
46:53>> Are you sure that you were a person in
46:55this? Because I always thought about
46:56that with past lives as I'm like, am I
46:57sure I was a person in every life? What
47:00if I was an animal?
47:00>> Do you feel like if you were an animal,
47:02which animal do you think you were in a
47:03past life?
47:03>> Wait, have we done this? The psychology
47:05trick of animals. We did do this, didn't
47:06we?
47:07>> I maybe we did. It's the
47:08>> three questions.
47:09>> Say the three questions cuz I I want the
47:11listeners at home to do this right now.
47:12>> Okay, so yes, everyone do this right
47:14now. Pick an animal. The first animal
47:16that comes to mind. Say yours out loud.
47:18>> Pig.
47:20[laughter]
47:20>> All right. Pick the second animal that
47:22comes to mind.
47:23>> My dog Fitzgerald.
47:24>> Okay. So, dog.
47:25>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And then
47:27>> a standard poodle. [laughter]
47:28>> Aus poodle.
47:30>> The third animal that comes to your
47:31mind,
47:32>> a cardinal.
47:33>> So the psychology trick behind it or
47:36really the the thought is that the first
47:38animal that you chose is how you see
47:40yourself like in a very public
47:42[laughter] facing way, which is crazy.
47:45>> Just a little slap pig. [laughter]
47:48>> The second one that you chose is how you
47:50believe other people see you and
47:52perceive you
47:52>> as a beautiful standard poodle.
47:54>> Exactly. But the third one is the
47:56deepest layer. That is who you really
47:58believe yourself to be deep down.
48:00>> A cardinal.
48:01>> I wonder what that means.
48:03>> I did this while camping, too, and
48:04people had wild ones. Most people ended
48:06up being something between like a boar,
48:09a pig, a hog.
48:11>> Yeah, a boar.
48:12>> I'm the only one that's hogging it up.
48:13>> No, no, no, not at all. And then some
48:15people were like a penguin.
48:16>> Oh, interesting. Okay.
48:17>> I'm like, huh. Stoic. Majestic. Even
48:19>> majestic. Yeah, very majestic. Ooh,
48:22that's interesting. What do you What
48:23were yours? I don't really remember
48:24because I feel like it's tainted now
48:26because I I like administer the psych
48:28trick. So, I'm like, can I really choose
48:30like at at my most base level, but I
48:32feel like somewhere in there,
48:34>> I think the first one I did like a tiger
48:36or something like some kind of a lion,
48:38but I think I ended up as like a
48:40squirrel. [laughter]
48:40>> Yeah.
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51:47>> Shall we shift into the story?
51:48>> Please do.
51:49>> May you hold my hold my cane again?
51:50Thank you. My brittle hands, they need
51:52all the strength to hold this.
51:55So, this is a story that is from tour
51:58that was submitted to us. I am bringing
51:59it to you because it is truly one of the
52:01scarier ones I've come across.
52:02>> Oh my gosh.
52:03>> I don't really tell this story to many
52:05people kind of because people look at
52:07you strange when something awful like
52:09this happens to you, but also because
52:11it's a scary thing to remember. Just for
52:13the purposes of sending it to you,
52:14please do keep my name anonymous on this
52:17one. Back in 2017, I had just started my
52:19senior year in high school, and I was
52:21trying to get a job at a movie theater
52:23that was near my house to make a little
52:24extra money. This place was definitely a
52:26bit rundown. It was a smaller theater,
52:28kind of like an indie, and it was owned
52:30by this older couple who really, really
52:32needed the help at the time. I think it
52:34was a weekend. I remember I rode my bike
52:36over there because I didn't have a car
52:38yet and just asked the manager if they
52:40had any job openings and he pretty much
52:42hired me on the spot. They needed some
52:44extra help with really every part of the
52:46theater, like the snack bar, doing
52:48tickets, but they also really needed
52:50someone who could help them out in the
52:52projection booth to play the movies. The
52:54manager who interviewed me said
52:56something about the person who had been
52:57doing it basically stopped showing up
52:59for work out of nowhere, and I guess
53:00they'd quit. And the only other people
53:03who knew how to do it were that one
53:05manager and the owners. But honestly, I
53:08was fine to learn the ropes and learn
53:09how to work the projector. I really
53:11didn't care. I just needed any sort of
53:13job as an after school thing. But
53:15actually, working the projector, it
53:17isn't really that hard at all. The only
53:19thing that sucks about it is that you're
53:20pretty much alone up there the whole
53:22shift in that one room. So, you do get
53:24bored. Also, the theater was old. So,
53:27the projectionist booth had like no heat
53:29and it was small and cramped. But, you
53:32do get to chill up there. You can watch
53:34the movies from the booth, which is
53:35cool. It's just that the booth is not
53:38what makes this story scary. It's what I
53:40saw in that theater one night. It was 3
53:43weeks into me working there where this
53:45woman started coming in every single
53:48night. Like sometimes she would buy a
53:49ticket and sometimes she would just
53:51stand by the arcade corner. And when I
53:53tell you she had an eerie vibe to her,
53:55there was something off about this
53:57woman. She looked maybe middle-ag, sort
53:59of tired every time I saw her. And I
54:02only noticed her after maybe the third
54:03time of seeing her in our lobby that she
54:06was always wearing the same clothes. I
54:09wasn't sure if maybe she might have been
54:10homeless or something else could have
54:11been going on there, but the thing that
54:13stuck out about her when you looked at
54:15her was her hair. It was this wild
54:20frizzy mane and it also sort of covered
54:22most of her face. But if you actually
54:24locked eyes with her, she had these dark
54:27sunken eyes that were always really wide
54:29anytime I talked to her when she was
54:30buying a ticket. Just not your everyday
54:32kind of person. Not sure how else to
54:34describe her. I usually only worked with
54:36this one other girl, and we both knew
54:38this woman had something wrong with her,
54:40just from the way that she would walk
54:42about the theater. And I actually had
54:43one weird encounter with her in our
54:45parking lot before all of this went
54:46down. I always locked my bike up behind
54:49the building. And there was this one
54:51night where I wasn't the closer, so I
54:54was going to get to head out a bit
54:55early. And I went through the back exit
54:57from our office right at around 10:00
54:58p.m. And while I was out there getting
55:00my bike unlocked, I thought I heard
55:02something. So, I remember looking up
55:04just to make sure that everything was
55:06good. But it turns out something was
55:08very wrong here. Our parking lot was
55:10deep and way out in the distance of it
55:12in the dark where the grass meets the
55:14pavement was that woman standing there
55:18watching me. It was honestly too dark
55:20and too far for me to tell if she was
55:22actually facing me or if her back was
55:24turned to me and she was just standing
55:25there. But it was her. I could tell it
55:29was her from the hair alone. It was like
55:31she was stalking the building or
55:32something.
55:34That one was a freaky thing to see, but
55:36really I just got on my bike and took
55:38off without looking back. And I did
55:40think about her on my way home. But this
55:42wasn't going to be my last experience
55:44with this woman because something went
55:46down in our theater that one night that
55:49is easily the scariest thing that has
55:51ever happened to me. So, it was a Friday
55:53night when this happened, and I was
55:55working the late shift, which basically
55:57means that I'm going to be working the
55:59projectionist booth, and I am the closer
56:01cuz our latest showing is at 11:00 p.m.,
56:04but nobody really ever comes to see
56:05those, but we still had to run the movie
56:07because of some contract that we had
56:09with Disney or something like that. I'm
56:10not really sure. Usually, I kind of just
56:13sit around in the booth on my phone. I
56:14was texting people. I'd play games. And
56:17no one really comes up to check on you.
56:19So sometimes you just fall asleep cuz
56:21it's slow. So this one night we were
56:24playing a very late night screening and
56:26I was bored. So I started watching the
56:27movie in my chair until I accidentally
56:30fell asleep. When I woke up I got that
56:32really panicky feeling like if you're
56:35somewhere really late that you're not
56:36supposed to be. Also, I hadn't done
56:39anything to close up and we were way
56:40past closing. It was like 1:00 or
56:42something in the morning. I hadn't
56:44locked up. I hadn't cleaned the theater.
56:45So, I got up from my chair and I was
56:47going to head down from the booth to the
56:49theater to flip on the lights and just
56:50do a spot check for cleaning and then
56:51lock up. But before I even went
56:54downstairs, I see something through the
56:56window while looking down at the theater
56:59that still gives me chills to this day.
57:02Just from the silhouette of the hair, I
57:03could tell you it was that woman. that
57:06same frizzy wild hair from behind, by
57:10the way, because she was sat all alone
57:12in the center of the theater seats and
57:13was facing towards the screen, which was
57:16playing nothing. I know for a fact she
57:19wasn't in the theater when the movie
57:21started and before I fell asleep. Plus,
57:23we were closed, so I was annoyed at this
57:25point and started to rush down from the
57:27booth to ask her to leave the theater. I
57:30got my way down and kind of stormed into
57:32the entryway of the theater to be like,
57:34"Ma'am, you have to leave. We are
57:35closed." But the second I got in there,
57:37there was nobody in the audience. And I
57:39got down there pretty fast, so I took a
57:42second and I looked around all over the
57:44theater at different seats. She'd be
57:45hard to miss. But she definitely wasn't
57:48in the room anymore. Maybe she ran out
57:50through the emergency exit near the
57:52screen when she heard me coming. No
57:53idea. But at least the problem was
57:55solved. She was gone. So I walked back
57:59up the entrance I just came through to
58:00flip the lights on. But literally the
58:02second I turned around, I heard
58:04something in the theater. It was the
58:06sound of one of our theater seats
58:09flipping up to its upright position. And
58:11they don't do that on their own.
58:14So this was my confirmation. That woman
58:18was still in the theater. And at this
58:20point, I was creeped out, but mostly
58:22pissed. I remember turning back around
58:24and I went and stood in front of the
58:26seats again. And I said something like,
58:28"Listen, ma'am. I know you're here and I
58:31need you to leave right now. We are past
58:33closing." I didn't want to lose my
58:35confidence in saying it, but the more
58:37time that passed in the silence of
58:39waiting for a reply or to see her, the
58:41eerier it felt just standing there. But
58:44what was I going to do? I wasn't going
58:45to back down because at this point, this
58:46woman was hiding in our building. So, I
58:48turned and started walking up the stairs
58:50to check each row of the seats. And I
58:52was heading towards the back row. I was
58:55checking and checking and each time I
58:57didn't see her down a row, I was getting
58:58more and more nervous. Like the thought
59:00of all of this was crashing down on me
59:03just how creepy it was. Like this woman
59:05was hiding in our movie theater. So,
59:08while I was checking and made it to the
59:09very back row, I swear to God, I heard a
59:12noise that told me I had to get the hell
59:14out of that room. It was like a really
59:17quick series of thuds on the ground,
59:19like she was crawling through our
59:21theater on all fours.
59:24I wasn't really confident to confront
59:26her anymore. Something about all of this
59:28was getting way too creepy for me. This
59:30woman who I definitely knew was here was
59:32basically playing hideand seek with me
59:34in the dark of this theater. And I
59:37started to freak out. Like, it's not
59:39worth confronting some unstable woman
59:41when I was alone at work. So, at this
59:43point, I was just going to get the hell
59:44out of there, call the cops. But that's
59:46when I saw her. If you can imagine it,
59:49I'm standing near the back rows of the
59:50seats. So, I turned to get down the
59:52stairs from the aisle and go out through
59:54the exit in the hallway, get out of the
59:56theater. But when I turned around to go
59:58down those stairs, the woman crawls out
1:00:01from the aisle from [music] the front
1:00:02seats on all fours and turned her head
1:00:04up towards me. This had to be one of the
1:00:08scariest things I think I'd ever seen.
1:00:09Like, the full weight of being alone in
1:00:11this place just hit. I couldn't even see
1:00:14her face cuz the theater screen was
1:00:16still on and the lights in the theater
1:00:18were off. I never got a chance to flip
1:00:21them on. So, I'm just seeing this woman
1:00:23on her hands and knees, the silhouette
1:00:25of her hair facing me. All I could think
1:00:28to do was run, get [music] out as fast
1:00:30as I can. So, I start sprinting through
1:00:33the rows of the seats next to me to get
1:00:35to the left side of the theater and make
1:00:36a run for it to get to the emergency
1:00:38exit. And I kid you not, while I was
1:00:40running, I never looked back to actually
1:00:42see her. I could hear her get to her
1:00:45feet and start chasing me.
1:00:48Scariest feeling I had ever felt in my
1:00:51life. You can't even think about what
1:00:53happens. You just got to go. I ran into
1:00:55the dark area of the emergency exit and
1:00:57slammed myself against the door to get
1:00:59it open and took off as fast as I could.
1:01:01I didn't grab my bike since it was
1:01:03locked up and I was not going to pull my
1:01:05keys out or something like that. When I
1:01:07got to the furthest part of the parking
1:01:08lot, that's when I glanced behind me for
1:01:10the first time to see if she was chasing
1:01:12me. but she wasn't there, which
1:01:15immediately made me slow down since I
1:01:17was flying on adrenaline at this point.
1:01:20I kept darting my eyes from left to
1:01:22right across the back parking lot
1:01:23looking for the woman. But to me, it
1:01:25seemed like she had never left the
1:01:27theater behind me. She was still in
1:01:29there. To pretty much tell you how my
1:01:31experience ended, I kept running until I
1:01:33got to a 7-Eleven that was up the street
1:01:35and called 911. And I actually didn't go
1:01:38back to the theater that night. They
1:01:39sent one officer to the movie theater
1:01:41and another met with me at 7-Eleven to
1:01:43ask me exactly what happened. I ended up
1:01:46giving him my key cuz he said that he
1:01:48was going to go back to meet up with the
1:01:49other officer once they could get a hold
1:01:51of the owners and call them down just to
1:01:54clear the whole theater and make sure
1:01:55nobody was still in there. And I
1:01:58actually never went back to that theater
1:01:59at all. After [snorts] they called my
1:02:02parents that night, my mom came and
1:02:04picked me up and spoke with the officers
1:02:06about what I just saw. She didn't let me
1:02:08work there after that. But [snorts] the
1:02:10most unsettling part of the story is
1:02:12that they never found her. We had those
1:02:15security cameras in our lobby that
1:02:17caught her walking in very late at
1:02:19night, but they never saw her leaving
1:02:21the theater. So, cops assumed maybe
1:02:24after I saw her and I ran out, she
1:02:27probably ran to another part of the
1:02:28building and just slipped out through a
1:02:30side door. I really don't know how she
1:02:32got out, but if you want to know
1:02:34something sick about this, the next
1:02:35morning after all this happened, my mom
1:02:38got a call from the officer who I met
1:02:40the night before when I gave my
1:02:42interview and asked about something
1:02:45strange that he found in the theater.
1:02:47There was a large rolled up clump of
1:02:50hair found left on the carpet and he
1:02:54said it looked like it came from that
1:02:56woman and that maybe she had ripped it
1:02:58out of her own head.
1:03:02I have no idea what that could have
1:03:05been, but to me it was scarier to think
1:03:07just how unstable or dangerous that
1:03:09woman actually might have been. Now, if
1:03:11I close my eyes to picture her, the only
1:03:13thing that comes up is that silhouette,
1:03:15that frizzy wild hair and those sunken
1:03:17wild eyes and that horrible creepy sound
1:03:21of her crawling in the movie theater on
1:03:23all fours. I will never forget how that
1:03:26sounded.
1:03:30She's with that guy in the tunnel,
1:03:32>> you know,
1:03:32>> from the first story. Great minds think
1:03:34alike. [laughter]
1:03:35>> Tunnel people.
1:03:36>> The tunnel people. Wow. Can you like
1:03:41someone crawling after you? That's the
1:03:43thing. Cuz at first I was like I think
1:03:46cutting her a little bit of slack like
1:03:48oh she looks tired.
1:03:50>> She lost her contacts.
1:03:51>> She's tired. She's lost she's on all
1:03:53fours. She lost her contacts.
1:03:54>> We've all been there. That's me in the
1:03:56first like six months of postpartum.
1:03:58>> I peed on my diet. I'm ripping the hair
1:04:00out of my own head.
1:04:01>> Oh my gosh. But to cuz it was like 1 in
1:04:04the morning when they woke up still at
1:04:05the theater and she was still there just
1:04:06sitting.
1:04:07>> Part of that's part of what got me too
1:04:08was like you ever had that feeling where
1:04:10it's almost like being at school after
1:04:12school is over almost and you're there
1:04:14and it's just quiet and still and kind
1:04:16of like ooh I feel like I shouldn't be
1:04:19in this place kind of. That's what it
1:04:20felt like to me. Or like you're doing
1:04:22something wrong. you've overslept and
1:04:24you're like, "Oh, wait. This happened to
1:04:25me actually when I so I've had a million
1:04:27jobs. I used to work as a pool boy and
1:04:28my hours I know.
1:04:30>> Of course you did.
1:04:31>> I used to work as a pool boy for this
1:04:32apartment complex and my hours were
1:04:34really short. It was like a summer job.
1:04:35It was like 6:00 to 9. But
1:04:37>> yeah,
1:04:38>> allegedly sometimes since I had a
1:04:40skeleton key to everything, if I was
1:04:42done cleaning the pool, I would go into
1:04:44the one of the model units cuz they were
1:04:45furnished and I would take a nap in the
1:04:48bed
1:04:49>> like under the sheets and everything.
1:04:50>> Oh my gosh. So, one night I did that
1:04:52>> the unit they use to show other people.
1:04:54>> Yeah. It's like the guest room to be
1:04:56like, "Come to, can you believe this?
1:04:58Come to Alterara, the property of the
1:04:59future."
1:05:00>> Oh my gosh.
1:05:00>> But I was in that bed and I overslept
1:05:04and I woke up and it was like 2:00 a.m.
1:05:06I had I'd almost done an overnight in
1:05:08the guest unit and I was like, "Oh my
1:05:09god, the pool's not I had like a
1:05:11duplicate experience. I was like, "The
1:05:12pool's not locked up.
1:05:14>> I'm in this unit. All the lights are
1:05:15on." [laughter]
1:05:16>> It was crazy.
1:05:18>> That's really spook. That is spooky.
1:05:19Okay, I have one more that I'm gonna
1:05:21read.
1:05:21>> Should I hold this cane? You really Now
1:05:23it's kind of taking on a different thing
1:05:24with the cane. You looked a bit like
1:05:25Willy Wonka for a second.
1:05:26>> Yes, it does have a Wonka. I mean, it is
1:05:27like maroon.
1:05:28>> It is. It really goes I mean, the color
1:05:30scheme is really working with you.
1:05:31>> Okay, this is a a quick little short
1:05:33one. So, this is another one from Reddit
1:05:35posted 5 years ago by user Big Bull
1:05:38Thunder. And it goes, I think this is
1:05:40from another paranormal thread. I can't
1:05:42remember exactly which one it came from,
1:05:44but it goes, "This story sounds crazy,
1:05:46but is 100% true. At least my narrative.
1:05:49I used to live in a mobile home trailer
1:05:51park growing up. There was a hallway
1:05:52that went from one end of the trailer to
1:05:54the other with the bedrooms coming off
1:05:56of it on one side. My bed was on the
1:05:59wall opposite the hallway so I could see
1:06:01into the hallway but not down either
1:06:03side. When I was about maybe six or
1:06:06seven years old, if I stayed awake after
1:06:09my dad went to sleep and stared at the
1:06:12hallway, I would start to be able to
1:06:14make out a hand stretching from beyond
1:06:16the doorway in the hall from the right
1:06:18side of the door to the left.
1:06:20>> The longer I looked, the more the hand
1:06:22would appear until eventually over the
1:06:24course of a few minutes, I could see a
1:06:27red and white striped shirt or sweater
1:06:31sleeve. If I continued to stare after a
1:06:33longer period, the body of a boy would
1:06:35appear in the doorway. I specifically
1:06:38remember hiding under the covers most
1:06:39nights when this would happen, mostly at
1:06:41the first sight of him. I was never
1:06:43antagonized further than him, slowly
1:06:45moving, facing my bed from the right
1:06:47side of the door to the left. And if I
1:06:49continued to stare, he would eventually
1:06:52disappear beyond the left threshold. We
1:06:55moved out of that trailer into a home
1:06:56when I had just turned 9, and that was
1:06:58the end of it. I never really thought
1:07:00about it and I never told my dad or
1:07:02anyone else about it because by that
1:07:04time I had already just chocked it up to
1:07:06seeing things as a kid and I just
1:07:08thought it was my imagination.
1:07:10About 15 or 20 years later, my dad and I
1:07:13were talking about his best friend that
1:07:14had lived next door but had sadly just
1:07:17passed away. We started talking about
1:07:19our trailer and the older lady that had
1:07:21moved in after us. And my dad said
1:07:23something like, "Funny enough, but that
1:07:25friend told me a few years ago that the
1:07:28woman used to see a little boy in a red
1:07:30and white shirt, like a ghost or
1:07:32something." I was obviously taken aback
1:07:35and I told him about what I had seen
1:07:37almost every night for a few years. And
1:07:39we were both just a bit shocked at what
1:07:42this might mean. Never experienced
1:07:44anything else, but that completely
1:07:47stumps me.
1:07:49Oh, it's the confirmation of not one
1:07:52sighting like something that you think
1:07:53might have been your imagination or like
1:07:55just when you in your head when you were
1:07:56a little kid, but then having the
1:07:58confirmation of like, no, someone else
1:08:00saw that. Have you had anything like
1:08:02that happen to you?
1:08:03>> Any like kind of confirmation where
1:08:05you're like, maybe that wasn't what I
1:08:07thought it was, or maybe I didn't really
1:08:08see that. And then somebody was like,
1:08:09no, no, no, that actually happened.
1:08:12>> Personally, I don't know. I talk about
1:08:14it all the time, but the ghost hunt that
1:08:16we did with that I did with Two Girls
1:08:17One Ghost was
1:08:18>> Where did you do that, by the way?
1:08:19>> We did it at the Henry Derby House in
1:08:21Salem. It's the most haunted Airbnb you
1:08:23can rent in Salem.
1:08:25>> Coincidentally, also the most expensive.
1:08:26>> I know. [laughter]
1:08:28Don't even get me started. No, but it's
1:08:30a it's a great place. But we did part
1:08:32one on my channel, part two on their
1:08:34channel. Oh, cool.
1:08:35>> And while we were there, we had a really
1:08:38confusing experience with what felt like
1:08:40a ghost in the house. We just like
1:08:41couldn't figure it out. But there was
1:08:43>> What do you mean?
1:08:44>> It led us to the third floor of the
1:08:46house and it kept like we kept trying to
1:08:48figure out where the most where the most
1:08:52uh was.
1:08:53>> Mhm.
1:08:54>> And the most activity was right outside
1:08:56of the this little linen closet. It just
1:08:59kept like nothing in the basement,
1:09:01nothing on the first floor, nothing on
1:09:03the second floor. Finally went up to the
1:09:05third floor. Started feeling a little
1:09:06bit of movement. The like little ghost
1:09:08boxes and stuff that the girls brought
1:09:09like start going off. And so we're kind
1:09:11of following it around being like
1:09:12where's the stuff most happening and it
1:09:14was right outside of like right when you
1:09:16get to the tops of the stairs there's a
1:09:18linen closet one bedroom to the left and
1:09:20then a hallway to the right but clearly
1:09:22my god
1:09:23>> we opened the linen closet and inside
1:09:26there's a Ouija board. I'm not kidding.
1:09:28And it was sail novelty Ouija board like
1:09:31someone had stayed in the house and
1:09:32probably bought it in town and brought
1:09:34it to use it.
1:09:36So, we get the Ouija board out and we
1:09:38start kind of playing with it and it's
1:09:40really confusing. It like feels just
1:09:42from talking to it. It's like it feels
1:09:45like it's a woman. Feels like she's
1:09:47trapped in the house and she said like
1:09:49God can let me out but like
1:09:52and that was it. And then she's like
1:09:54really not talking like it's moving so
1:09:56slowly and she's not really
1:09:57communicating. It was like a very
1:09:58strange experience like she didn't want
1:09:59to talk to us.
1:10:00>> Mhm.
1:10:01>> And we were like that was so weird. And
1:10:03even like Karen and Sabrina left and
1:10:07they were thinking that it was like a
1:10:09bad experience and you know we didn't
1:10:11really have a lot of activity. How are
1:10:12we going to cut this video together? But
1:10:13I stayed there overnight.
1:10:15>> They went home to their homes cuz they
1:10:16live nearby and I stayed in the Airbnb
1:10:18with my mom.
1:10:19>> Oh wow.
1:10:20>> And the next morning cuz my mom works
1:10:21customer service so she will talk to
1:10:23anyone. But the next morning there's
1:10:25like a guy cleaning the leaves outside
1:10:27and so she opens the door and just
1:10:28starts talking to him and it turns out
1:10:30he's the owner of the Airbnb.
1:10:31>> Oh. And she's chit chatting with him.
1:10:34She's like, "They did a ghost hunt last
1:10:36night. They had And I start talking to
1:10:39the guy, too." And he's like, "Oh,
1:10:42like, how did it go last night? You did
1:10:43a ghost hunt. You know, a lot of people
1:10:45do ghost hunts in this house." And they
1:10:46always like see stuff. And I I would
1:10:47always see a girl on the third floor.
1:10:50Like my friends would come over and my
1:10:52friends would come over and think that
1:10:53my sister was up on the third floor when
1:10:55she wasn't home. Like there was always
1:10:56like a woman up like a girl upstairs on
1:10:57the third floor. And we were like,
1:10:59"Okay." So I tell him that
1:11:01>> that's literally that's confirmation.
1:11:03>> We did we did this experience and we
1:11:06were up on the third floor and you know
1:11:07we a lot of the it felt like this woman
1:11:10was by this pantry and we open or this
1:11:11linen closet. We opened it and there was
1:11:13a Ouija board inside and he goes,
1:11:14[gasps]
1:11:15"Oh my god, thank you so much for
1:11:16telling me like I really don't like when
1:11:18there's Ouija boards inside and I don't
1:11:20and the spirit seemed to be
1:11:21uncomfortable with it too. They really
1:11:23don't like Ouija boards. Thank you for
1:11:24telling me. I'll throw it out." What?
1:11:25And I was like, the girl, like that
1:11:27ghost in the house was telling us where
1:11:29the Ouija board was. Cuz what are the
1:11:31odds, too, that he showed up the next
1:11:32day and I was able to tell him about it.
1:11:33He was able to go upstairs. He would
1:11:35have never found it unless he was
1:11:36opening all the doors in the house. So,
1:11:37I think she really was like, "There's a
1:11:39Ouija board in here. Like, go the
1:11:40owner's going to come tomorrow, tell him
1:11:42so that he can throw it out cuz I don't
1:11:43like it being in the house."
1:11:44>> She's efficient.
1:11:44>> She's efficient. She was like, "We're on
1:11:46a mission, ladies."
1:11:47>> And I went upstairs and I used
1:11:50>> the spirit box app.
1:11:52>> Uhhuh. And I started asking her
1:11:54questions and I literally it's on the
1:11:55two girls one ghost channel but I start
1:11:57asking like was there a reason you
1:11:59wanted me to come here and she's saying
1:12:00like upstairs closet throw out like it
1:12:03it just like literally starts saying
1:12:05that it was cra I was like they have my
1:12:07camera I just start crying.
1:12:08>> Yeah I was going to say
1:12:10I think I probably have to book a hill
1:12:12or something.
1:12:12>> I'm getting emotional. I'm crying cuz
1:12:14I'm scared but I'm also like
1:12:15communicating with a ghost it feels
1:12:16like. So it's very emotional. Well,
1:12:18because I mean so much of that is what
1:12:20are the odds? Those like those key
1:12:22words. I mean, unless the phone is
1:12:23listening, I suppose, but like what are
1:12:24the odds?
1:12:25>> I know. It was really It was just all of
1:12:27it together. And then I told the girls
1:12:29about it when we did our follow-up and
1:12:30they couldn't believe it. It just felt
1:12:31like it tied everything up after having
1:12:34a very strange experience the night
1:12:36before. So, that was really cool.
1:12:37>> Crazy they didn't say the night with
1:12:39you.
1:12:39>> That they like kind of bowed out. You're
1:12:41a real one for really sticking around.
1:12:42>> Me and my mom. And my mom just like
1:12:44>> was she scared? She wasn't spooked.
1:12:45>> No, she believes in ghosts, too. And
1:12:47she's not scared. She's like, "Okay,
1:12:48we'll just sleep with the spirits
1:12:49tonight."
1:12:51>> Is she from Fargo? Oh my god. [laughter]
1:12:54>> That's how she talks. No, she's so
1:12:56funny. I think I also didn't tell her
1:12:57everything we experienced so that as to
1:12:59not scare her.
1:13:00>> Mhm. Let them go in with a clean slate.
1:13:02I think that's actually better to like
1:13:04keep it
1:13:05>> after the fact and before. Especially if
1:13:07you want someone to go in with a clean
1:13:08slate so they're not corrupted to be
1:13:11like looking around every corner and at
1:13:13every shadow.
1:13:13>> I think you hear things that Yeah.
1:13:15Because sometimes in some places you
1:13:16just don't.
1:13:17>> Like I I forget if this was on the
1:13:18sinister or creep time, but I just
1:13:19covered a case the both hell house. Have
1:13:21you heard of that?
1:13:22>> And it was apparently like a very very
1:13:24serious like more modern haunt up in
1:13:27Washington on um
1:13:28>> Stafford Way I think. And Zach Bean even
1:13:31came like Ghost Adventures came to the
1:13:33house. But ironically of all the
1:13:34religious groups, all the independent
1:13:36paranormal researchers, him and his team
1:13:38were the only ones who didn't have a
1:13:40paranormal experience there.
1:13:41>> Wow.
1:13:42>> And they only stayed for 5 hours. I
1:13:43guess like production was kind of like
1:13:44in and out, but they're the only ones.
1:13:47And Stu thinks that it's because the
1:13:49ghosts were like,
1:13:50>> "We're not giving you anything."
1:13:52>> No, of course. They're like, "We've seen
1:13:53your show. You do not portray us in the
1:13:55best light."
1:13:55>> Yeah. They're like, "We're not giving
1:13:56you this footage, girl. [laughter] You
1:13:58think we're going to help you with the
1:13:59ratings?"
1:14:00>> Yeah.
1:14:00>> Think again.
1:14:01>> You pay me. My agent will be reaching
1:14:03out.
1:14:04>> The ghosts looking for residuals. That's
1:14:05the kind of ghost we're going to be.
1:14:07>> I know. Ghosts that want to get paid.
1:14:10>> Mhm. Is that ghost sag? It's the ghost
1:14:11union. Oh my gosh, we're starting go sag
1:14:14after this. Um, well, thank you so much
1:14:16for coming on. Thank you so much for
1:14:18dressing up. I'm going to play a clip,
1:14:19too, of us seeing each other's costumes
1:14:21for the first time
1:14:23>> because that's hysterical.
1:14:24>> It was my pleasure. I'm so happy to be
1:14:25here. Thank you for having me.
1:14:27>> We are going to be back next week. This
1:14:28is This kind of concludes our October
1:14:31Halloween spooky programming, but we're
1:14:33headed straight into the end of the
1:14:34year. We have a lot more great episodes
1:14:36coming for the the rest of the year. So,
1:14:37stick around. I'm going to be here every
1:14:39week with more episodes, and I'll see
1:14:40you guys next time. Stay curious.
1:14:43Woohoo.
1:14:47>> Close your eyesight.
1:14:48>> All right. My eyes are closed.
1:14:53[laughter]
1:14:54>> It's starting to hit me. I'm just kind
1:14:55of kind of wondering. I'm like, I'm
1:14:56really going in blind. I have no idea
1:14:58what she could be.
1:15:02Eyes are closed. Eyes are staying
1:15:04closed. It's
1:15:05>> good.
1:15:06>> I I promise you I did this in the last
1:15:08hour, so it's nothing special. Eyes
1:15:11[laughter]
1:15:12are staying closed.
1:15:13>> Let me Okay. Okay. Pause right here.
1:15:15>> Okay.
1:15:16>> There you go. All right.
1:15:17>> Okay. Cheat out. We'll cheat out.
1:15:19>> Oh, I'm out. [laughter]
1:15:21>> My mobility is compromised.
1:15:24>> Okay. Say it on the count of three. One,
1:15:27two, three. [laughter]
1:15:33>> That did not take you an hour.
1:15:35>> Oh, but it did. It did, my child.
1:15:38>> No,
1:15:39>> my heart. It's not built for stuff like
1:15:41this. [laughter]
1:15:42>> Are you wearing
1:15:44>> What is on your face?
1:15:45>> Just a little light foundation. That's
1:15:47[laughter]
1:15:49>> You did this in an hour.
1:15:51>> I did. It's a little liquid latex. Wow.
1:15:53You look You look cute as a button.
1:15:56>> Oh my gosh. Down. And we both have
1:15:58freckles just for very [laughter]
1:15:59different reasons.
1:16:00>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. These are more
1:16:01like sunspots.
1:16:02>> Yeah. Liver spots. Yeah. [laughter]
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