July 24, 2025

JUMPSCARE: It's Haunted...What Now?

JUMPSCARE: It's Haunted...What Now?
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A girl friends, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way

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you are still listening to Sustal, Well, you may not

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be this time for real. So as you probably have

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seen in the title of this episode, I am taking

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a week off. Don't worry, it's just this week. I

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will follow my regular schedule, so we're not going to prolong.

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It's just this week and then you know, in two

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more weeks, as as always, I will have a new

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episode for you. Things have just been pretty hectic of

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here between work and I did take a quick weekend vacation.

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If you all follow online at Sustal podcast on every

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social media plot, you may have seen that I took

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a trip to Vegas. I went with my best friend

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and my boyfriend and we saw Lady Gaga in Las

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Vegas and oh my god. Basically I need time to

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process all this. For those of you who know me

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at all, you know I am a little monster. I

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have been for many, many years, and I was just

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so so exciting to get to see her. The show

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is so good. If you are thinking about it, if

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you have any reservations, I highly recommend. It is an

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amazing show. The production was great and it was it

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was a perfect set list in my opinion, So please again,

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if you're thinking about it, do yourself a favor if

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you can, and go see her live. It was such

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a good show, and it was also my first time

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in Vegas. That was a whole experience of itself. I

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actually love Vegas. I had so much fun out there.

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I didn't do one hundred things, you know, we had

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stuff planned for each day, one of those being visiting

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the Zach Bagan's Haunted Museum, which was a lot of

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fun in and of itself, and you can see more

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about my experience there if you've YouTube dot com, slash

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at Hoostal podcast. Yeah, I'm making a vlog about my

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Vegas trip, and like I said before, I'm going to

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start making videos and I have another one up there

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from last week about my process of making my T

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shirt for the Gaga concert, which I ended up buying merch,

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but I wanted to have something to wear there so

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I could, you know, just enjoy the show and think

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about merch afterwards. Anyway, The point is, go visit my YouTube,

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check out the vlogs. Thank you all so much for

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all of your support, Thank you for your patients, and

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I hope that you enjoy this week's feature. This is

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a special feed drop coming to you from none other

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than one of my best girl friends, one of my

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podcast mentors. I think I've said this before, the one

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and only Laney Hobbs, or as I like to call her,

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Slaney Hobbes. She has been so generous and so kind

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as to deliver us with an episode from one of

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her podcasts, It's Haunted what Now for this week? So

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enjoy that episode. Make sure that you go follow Laney

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on everything as well, and I will see you all

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in the next episode. Enjoy this one. Thank you for

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the time off. I already miss you' all. Oh and

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one last reminder, we have the Susto spell book Club again.

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Keep an eye out on social media. This month is

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already at an end, which is how does that happen?

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Time flies? But with that being said, I am going

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to schedule the meeting right now. I'm thinking August. Second,

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it's a Saturday, so it is you know, this month

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is over and it is the very beginning of next month.

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So if you are a girl friend on Patreon at

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the middle tier or higher, remember you have access to

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the book club discord channel and if you sign up

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on Patreon, you get automatic access to that when you

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plug in your discord information, so that gives you access

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to vote on the next book that we're going to read,

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and you will have had access to that chat this

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whole time, so we've been kind of chatting about our

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experience with the book in there. Again. Either way, keep

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an eye out on social media. That's where I will

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post all final information. But most likely we are going

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to be meeting on the second of August online to

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have our discussion about the book. Also, if you saw

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on social media, I got to meet Stephen Graham Jones.

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I went to a screening of the movie Silver Bullet

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to Stephen King movie and this was hosted by The

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King Cast, which is a horror podcast, and they focus

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of course on you guessed it, Stephen King work and films.

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It was so fun. I love that movie. It was

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my first time seeing it. It was so campy. It

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was like the story was really well done. I think,

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I don't know, I enjoyed it. Like we were laughing

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throughout the movie, right, because it's kind of silly, these

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older movies when we look back on them. But it

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was still a really good time. I really enjoyed it,

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so if you haven't seen that movie, check it out.

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Thank you King Cast for hosting it, and thank you

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for Awesome Film Society for opening your theater for them

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to do that. And of course they did a live

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taping of their show after the movie featuring Stephen Graham Jones.

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I got signed copy of his latest book and I

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got my copy of Buffalo Hunter Hunter signed. So excited

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to have those in the collection. Okay, either way, Sorry,

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I feel like I've taken up a lot of times,

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just like gossiping with you all. But you know me.

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You know that I love the cheese man and I

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love to hear yours too. So show some love on

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social media, show some love on the YouTube channel. As always.

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If you would like to share your own story on

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visit my linktree, linktr dot e slash sustal and there

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is a submit your story, tell Me a Story button

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on both of those. You can send your story, an

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your video, audio recording, anything you think should be featured

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on an episode or on social media, please send it

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in to me. We're gonna go ahead and jump into

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this episode. Thank you once again, Lanye for sharing an

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episode with us to drop in the feed while I

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am taking this time off. I'm gonna go now and

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let you enjoy that episode. I'll talk to you later.

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

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You know that feeling when you hear a story so strange,

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so unsettling, it just kind of latches onto your brain

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and refuses to let go, The kind that makes you

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glance over your shoulder, double check the locks, or leave

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a hallway light on just in case. We've gathered some

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of the strangest, creepiest, and most bone chilling stories, things

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that start off quiet, maybe even funny. Believe you wide

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awake at night thinking what if? Because let's be honest,

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we've all heard about shadow people, but what about mister man.

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So when the episode's over, well, if you start to

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hear faint footsteps or you feel like something's watching you

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from the corner of the room, don't worry, it's probably nothing.

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Probably okay, Ready to get spooped. The first twisted tale

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comes from Nits and Knots Lady, who tells us about

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the mysterious mister coffee Man. When my son was a toddler,

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he kept pointing at the corner of the room and giggling, saying, Mama,

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mister coffee Man. I didn't really take it that seriously

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and thought it was some sort of imaginary friend. He

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did this maybe five or so times when he was

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a toddler, and I would sometimes catch him talking to

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some one that wasn't there, then stop and giggle when

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I entered the room. This went on for a good

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couple of years until mister Coffeeman was mainly forgotten as

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we got busy with sports, school, et cetera. Recently, while

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having a family dinner, we were talking about imaginary friends

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and I told them how my son had one named

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mister coffee Man. My mother in law just about choked

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on her roast when I said that. She said, my

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husband would point at the corner of the room when

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he was about two years old and would clap and

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giggle and yell coffee man. Mind you, we didn't live

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in the same house. My husband and I live in

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a house about two hours away from where he grew up.

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My husband also never talked about mister Coffeeman. He said

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he vaguely remembers, and when I asked my son he's

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seven now, he said he barely remembers, but he thought

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mister coffee Man was a distant relative or a friend

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we are not close with anymore. When I quizzed them

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both about what he looked like, they both pretty much

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just said tall, big smile, funny, but couldn't remember facial

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features or details. Also, I don't know why they both

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call him mister coffee man. We still couldn't figure out

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who mister coffee Man was and why they saw the

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same imaginary friend or maybe an entity. Does anyone have

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an experience like this or know what this is? I

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got chills when I read this the first time. I

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was like, oh no, ma'am. Could you imagine if my

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daughter and my husband both were like haunted or saw

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the same thing when they were both children, I'd be like, hmmm,

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cursed beings, sage Immediately, I don't know what to do. Also,

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there was I want to touch on a comment that

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we got where we said that kids are creepy and

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they were like, they're innocent all this stuff. Yes, we

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know that we're not saying that ds are creepy intentionally,

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we're saying that, like the things they say are creepy

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out that the actual child is creepy. So I just

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want to offer that clarification. Okay, we're not kid haters here.

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Maybe some of you and the audience are, but I'm

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not a kid hater, right, Okay, kids are creepy, but

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they're all so cute, so it's fine. Creepy cute. We

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love things like that. Now back to mister coffee man.

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The things that I imagine immediately as I was hearing this.

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I don't know if you guys remember like Unsolved Mysteries

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or like that A and E show where it's like

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my kid saw a ghost or whatever. Do you remember

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the case of mister Gordy, right, and the girl would

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be like on a swing and she'd be like, mom,

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I'm talking to mister Gordy. And they found out like

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mister Gordy was an old man living in the house

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all that stuff. Okay, that's exactly who I thought of it.

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I was like, oh, it's like mister Gordy, he's like

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a jolly old man with a coffee cup. That's the

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only way I could think of why anybody would call

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somebody a coffee man unless he had a co cowplant

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in his hand. But honestly, I think it's probably because

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he had like a coffee cup in his hand or

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something like that. That's what I thought anyways. But the

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name being so specific is wild enough. Again, but completely

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different houses, different years apart. I still say no on

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this one, like, absolutely not past me. I will not

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collect two hundred dollars, and neither of them fully remember

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him now. So I swear that family hauntings are generational

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spirits like this feel so much heavier, Like this isn't random,

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It's connected, And I wonder if, eventually, if your child

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decides to have a child in the future, if mister

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coffee Man will pop up again, or if someone else

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in the family starts suddenly talking in the corner. I'm

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really invested now, so check back in like twenty years now.

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Nick is here to terrify us about a beloved place

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of water slides and an entity out of a cosmic

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hore novella. Hello everyone, my family and I had a

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weird night at the Great Wolf Lodge and wanted to

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check in if anyone else had similar encounters at this place.

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We've stayed here three times before with no problems ever,

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but this was the first time anything like this has

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ever happened. We stayed in a sweet room that had

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two conjoining rooms with two doors where you can lock

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the room from either side. The kids stayed in the

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kid style room with bunk beds, and we stayed in

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the non kid's room. We kept the conjoining doors open

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for both sides, and I made sure the main doors

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for both rooms were fully locked, including the lock where

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you can't fully open the door from the outside. At midnight,

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my son, who's six years old, ran into our room.

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He was next to our bed and was crying, half asleep.

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I asked him if he had a bad dream, and

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he said no, I really saw something scary in the room.

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It was a big kid with a dark shadow walking round.

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I ran right past him to get here. I knew

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i'd checked the room before we went to sleep, and

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I figured it was his imagination, so we went back

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to sleep. Then at three a m my wife sat

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up frantically looking around, and I asked her, what's the matter.

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She said, someone yelled, Mom, you honestly didn't hear that.

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I told her no, I didn't. Then she asked me

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to go check on our daughter. I go to the

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kid's bunk bed den in the next room and found

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her out of the bed, bundled up in the corner,

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hyperventilating and full of tears. I swooped her up, and

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she started saying, be careful, dad, he's still in here.

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I ran her back to our room and laid her

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in our bed with my wife and started searching the

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whole place. I turned all the lights on and checked

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literally everywhere, and there was no one. The doors were untouched,

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locked still in place, and windows unable to open. Honestly,

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I was feeling the walls and mirror looking for hidden doors.

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I asked my daughter what she saw, and she said

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she was laying on the top bunk and thought at

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first it was me walking towards her bunk, but as

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I got closer, she realized it wasn't me. She said.

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The person was taller and skinnier than me. It also

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had smooth, white paper skin and neck longer than a

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normal person. It was smooth, and it looked naked, but

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wasn't naked. It didn't appear to have much facial features.

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I asked if maybe it was a blanket, and she

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said no. Its skin was smooth without wrinkles, and it

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walked straight up to me and I covered myself. Then

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I watched it walk towards the door where your room is.

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I came down the bunk when it walked away and

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peeked out the den window, but saw it was still

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walking towards your room. So I hid in the corner.

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You found me, and I tried to stay quiet so

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wouldn't hear me, because I thought it would kill me.

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But I started panicking and couldn't breathe good trying to

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be quiet. I was thinking of running out the front

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door into the hallway. My wife asked our daughter if

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she was trying to be quiet, why did she yell

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mom Our daughter said no, I never said anything because

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I didn't want it to hear me and kill me.

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I didn't even hear our daughter say anything besides her

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hyperventilating as I got close to the bunk beds. I

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told my daughter not to mention what she'd seen to

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our son. I know he would be spooked if he

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found out his sister had a similar encounter a few

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hours after him. Both of our kids consistently slept in

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their own rooms since they were little and have never

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run into our room in the middle of the night,

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unless our son had a rare bathroom accident. At this point,

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we figured the kid's room was sketchy, so we kept

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them with us, then closed and locked our room from

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that room. It took an hour for my wife to

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fall back asleep. I was honestly spooked by this whole thing,

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so I left the hallway light on and figured I'd

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just keep watch and stay awake until daylight. After she

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fell back asleep, the closet light I left on turned off,

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and it wouldn't let me turn it back on, so

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I turned the bathroom light on. A little later, I

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heard loud knocking on the conjoining room door I had locked.

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I honestly got goosebumps and tried to convince myself it

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was coming from the front door, but knew it was

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from the conjoining door. I debated whether to ignore it

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or check. I felt vulnerable lying down without checking, so

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I went and there was nothing an empty room with

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the lights still on. Half an hour later, my wife,

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still asleep, started freaking out. She appeared to be having

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a night terror, which she has had before about one

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to two times per year in past. I woke her

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up and she was frantic. She stood up and said

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she dreamt she woke up from a dream in the

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same bed. She went to the bathroom in our room,

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came out, and ended up being stuck in the other room,

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locked in with the evil entity. She said, I had

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locked her in the other room and she was knocking

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like crazy in her dream, trying to get back in

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our side before the entity got her. Later in the morning,

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our son woke up and we asked him to describe

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what he saw. He said he saw what looked like

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a shape of a big, tall kid with a long

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neck that was white or gray in color and had

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a big, scary, dark shadow walking around the room. He

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said it was making weird noises like it was speaking

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words he didn't understand. He said it walked right up

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to him in the bed and had big eyes that

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glowed like our cat's eyes look in the dark. As

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the sun came came out, we got the courage to

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go in the room and grab our belongings to leave.

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The last weird thing is the room had a weird

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smell which wasn't present there the day prior. It smelled

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like a weird incense was lit kind of reminded me

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of those stick incense that were popular back in the nineties.

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So I personally didn't see this thing. But both of

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my kids, who have never had encounters like this, saw

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the same thing three hours apart from each other and

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had similar descriptions of it without knowing each other's account.

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The only thing that differed in their description was my

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daughter said it appeared faceless, and my son said it

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had big glowy eyes and a white and gray tinged

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to it, not just white. However, my daughter covered herself

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when it got closer, and my son watched it approach.

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I've never really been a big believer in hauntings and

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paranormal stuff, but after this, I'm left questioning it in

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my head and find myself thinking about it all the time.

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Anyone else with a similar experience at the Great Wolf

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Lodge or have any ideas of what it could could

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have been? Oh my gosh. Honestly, Josh Hollmer, one of

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my greatest friends from the podcast True Crime BS, went

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to the Great Wolf Fleddge as a single person because

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he was with some family friends and stuff and was like,

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absolutely not. So I already marked great wolfledge out for

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me and myself in general. I would have packed up

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my family at three oh one am, eat it out

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of there without a backward glance. I would have called

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the front desk and be like, listen, you need to

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move my room because there's something going on here. Send

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whoever you need to send up, get my room ready.

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I don't think you're crazy for questioning everything. After this,

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I would be googling the history of that land, every

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urban legend, pass the guest stories, Reddit threads, anything, and yes,

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I am very curious whether anyone else else to experience

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anything similar there. I swear that places that seem fun

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for kids sometimes have the most haunted bones under them.

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Our next story is told by Julianne and Minnesota about

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something behaving human adjacent moving around in our world like

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it belongs. Around ten years ago. I used to work

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in a library whose front entrance was all glass, a

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wall of glass that was about twenty by forty five.

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One afternoon, a nasty thunderstorm broke out. To be on

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the safe side, we used the PA to announce that

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a trip to the basement was imminent. The storm was

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getting darker and louder. The town's tornado sirens started blasting.

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We hurried everyone down the basement steps. There were a

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few stragglers watching near the entrance. As the sky turned

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black and winds picked up, rain lashed across the entrance,

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making it impossible to see out the front doors. Now

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the strange part, bad weather is normal around where I was,

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and everyone knows the drill we start practicing in kindergarten

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on how to stay safe. There were two people that

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just weren't moving toward the basement door. They started to

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walk straight out the front doors, smack into the mail storm.

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They didn't even hesitate, wash out the door, and gone.

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I didn't even have time to yell for them to stop.

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Hours passed and we finally got the all clear call

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and everyone left the building. I went outside and it

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was a mess of down trees and power lines. I

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never thought much of the story until a friend said

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to me they probably weren't human in the first place.

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What human would walk out into a blinding storm as

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sirens are blaring, thoughts, Well, if you ask my husband,

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it would probably be one of the greatest tornado catchers

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of all time, whose name I don't care to know,

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But this is a kind of story that worms its

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way into your head at two am and refuses to

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leave because on the surface, it feels like one of

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those weird, almost explainable moments until you sit with it

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for a second and realize how deeply wrong it actually is.

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Nobody with any kind of lived experience in a tornado

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town is just casually strolling into a wall of lashing

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rain and eighty mile per hour winds like it's a

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Tuesday afternoon. It gives me liminal space energy, like they

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weren't really part of your reality to begin with, just

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placeholders or something passing through, or again, maybe some really

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excited tornado hunters storm chasers. The next story is told

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by Celebration Full seventy two oh nine, who swears they

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pressed zero. This happened in April when I was staying

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at my cousin's place in Noise. They live in a

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high rise, not super fancy, just a regular ten floor

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apartment building. I took the elevator down around eleven PM

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to get something from the convenience store. I clearly remember

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pressing zero for ground, but instead of going down, it

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went up. Weird, but I thought maybe someone called it.

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It stopped at nine, the doors opened, The lights in

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the hallway were off, and it looked abandoned, dusty, But

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this was a working floor with families. I was confused,

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but stepped out for a second, thinking maybe I hit

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the wrong button. After a second, I got this crazy

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urge to leave, like goosebumps, full body anxiety. I got

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back in and hit the ground. When I got back,

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I casually told my cousin. He stared at me and said, bro,

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ninth floor hasn't been finished yet, no one lives there.

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It's locked. I thought he was kidding, so I double

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checked with a security guard, and no, he was not lying.

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The guard told me the same thing. We even went

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up the next morning. The lift skips that floor entirely.

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The button doesn't even light up anymore. I swear I

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pressed zero. Why is it always the elevators? They're weird

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little boxes that move through places we're not always supposed

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to go. Do you guys remember that one episode I

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did where they he went to like it was an

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old building in I want to say, like New Mexico,

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like Albuquerque or something, and his dad used to work there,

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and he went up to this floor and it was

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like rand I was so crazy you have to go

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back and find it. Honestly, you should be listening to

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the full episodes anyways. Okay, anyways, these elevators have a

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habit of just like taking you there anyway when it's

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not supposed to be open or it's lucked. But seriously,

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how many stories have we heard now where the elevator

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decides just to go rogue open up to some abandoned

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or impossible floor or the other one that was in

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that college and that. Okay, I'm getting off track, getting

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off track, Okay, either way, it's not fine, Okay, I

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hate that. Of course, that the button didn't work the

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next day. It's classic paranormal nonsense. Honestly, classic paranormal gaslighting.

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Like Reality did a quick little patch up date overnight

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so no one else stumbles into the wrong part of

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the simulation. It wasn't your imagination, It was just something

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you weren't meant to see. Incarnate Puppy fifty two brings

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us our final story for this episode, and it's all

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about their ghostly roomy. I lived in an apartment back

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around twenty twelve twenty fourteen. It was built on an

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old homestead where they said the bodies of a family

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were moved. There was one place in particular, next to

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the office building for the complex, at no one I

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mean no one stepped on the grass stayed perfect. I

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had multiple encounters there. I had a ghost cat. I

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had a child giggling at two in the morning. I

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had a guy who hummed on camera. I had something

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hit me in the head once when I first moved in,

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which kind of angered me, and once I threatened to

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stage their ass, never happened again. I ordered pizza pretty regularly,

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and most of the guys knew me. One time I

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opened the door, the guy smiled and said hey. He

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swiftly looked behind me. He turned pale. He actually shivered

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a bit and said are you alone? Yeah, I said,

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smiling because it was kind of a funny situation. He

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shoved the pizza into my hands. I handed him the tip,

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and he left, running down the stairwell. Honestly, at that

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point I was just so adjusted to the ghosts. I

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closed my door, turned and said, really, guys, don't do that.

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I swear, once you a certain number of weird experiences

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in the same place, you just get over it. Threaten

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to sage them once and suddenly your roommates with boundaries. Honestly,

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this whole story feels like the opening chapter of a

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haunted sitcom. I would absolutely watch you versus your team

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of weird ghosts Pizza Guy as a recurring side character

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who can see things ten out of ten haunting etiquette

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from you. Well that does it for this episode, unless

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you're an Apple subscriber, in which case stay tuned after

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the credits, where you'll get to hear two additional stories

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as a special treat. Well that does it for this episode.

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If you'd like to submit your own personal spooky tale

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to be read on the show at to hauntedpont dot

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com and click on the link to submit your story,

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You can also email me Haunted pod at gmail dot com.

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Did you hear that?

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The first bonus story is told by Teitel about a

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hotel whose price is are killer, but so is the company.

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This happened in a small hotel beside a busy highway.

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We were all sitting in the room, visiting my oldest

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brother in his town, having a good time, as our

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niece was trying to show everyone a new gymnastics move

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she learned. I was grabbing food for my mom and I,

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but when I tried to grab the sauce, it started

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sliding across the table, slowly and deliberately, as though someone

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was pushing it with their finger. I was looking at it,

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thinking I was seeing things, only to look over at

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my mom and see her staring at the same thing.

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We looked at each other, smiled in awe at what

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we were witnessing, then looked back at it. It only

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slid for a few seconds and never happened again. After

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it stopped, I started conducting research, jumping up and down

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near the table, shaking the table, waving a gust of

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when towards it, blowing on it, but it didn't budge.

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Only when I physically pushed it did it move. We

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didn't feel scared, though, until a separate encounter happened in

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the same room. We were all sleeping when a loud

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noise coming from the bathroom woke my mom up at

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three or four o'clock am. She woke up my dad.

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He went to check it out, and apparently mywash had

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flown off the bathroom counter, even though that would have

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been basically impossible. Now my mom never wants to stay

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in that room again, but we still stay in the

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hotel because the prices are insanely good. I love that

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you didn't stumble into a full blown horror movie with

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this one, and we can talk about how you immediately

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turned into a mini paranormal investigator, like you were gonna

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MythBusters your way out of a haunting. Also ghosts, Why

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three am do they keep union hours and can't haunt

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at reasonable times? Seriously, though I love this story. It's

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low key creepy, but still weirdly cozy, like a haunting

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you could put up with because it's God personality. Bonus

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story number two is from Pineapple Adept, who shows us

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that not every shadow in the dark is made of darkness.

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When I was about fourteen years old, my cousin, who

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was around twelve, was spending the night with me. We

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were in the living room sitting on the couch watching

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television at like two in the morning, with all the

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lights off. The laundry room is right across from the

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living room with a small hall in between. All of

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a sudden, my cousin grabbed my leg and pinched the

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crap out of me. All she could say was my

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name repeatedly a few times, and finally she told me

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to look in the laundry room. I turned my head

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to look and froze with my mouth hanging open and everything.

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I'll try to explain it the best I can. It

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was like looking at a shadow person, but the complete opposite.

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It was the full outline of a human body, but

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it was made of a bright white light. It was

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like staring at a bare light bulb. The thing didn't

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try to come at us or anything. It just seemed

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to float in place and kind of moved back and

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forth a little. We both probably sat there for like

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what felt like forever, but I'm sure it was no

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more than a few minutes, watching the thing. Then my

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cousin grabbed my hand and yanked me off the couch.

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We ran across the living room to turn on the lamp.

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Once we walked back to where we could see the

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entrance way, the thing was gone. I had all kinds

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of very weird experiences in this house since childhood, through

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my teen years, and even into adulthood, but this is

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the only time I've actually seen a physical manifestation. I've

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always tried to explain it away, even asking my cousin

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a few times as she remembered it, because I thought

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maybe I had made it up in my head. She

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definitely remembers it, though, Is this a ghost something more?

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I have no idea. This is one of those stories

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that creeps under your skin in the quietest, most unsettling way,

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because it's not the typical shadow person or lurking figure

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in the corner. Well gets me is how it didn't

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do anything. It just floated there watching, And honestly, sometimes

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that's scarier than something aggressive, because it means whatever it

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was had no problem being seen and no fear of you.

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That quiet confidence is bone chilling.

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Wow. Wah wah wah wah wah. Wahhuhah. Thank you Laney

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Slaney Hobbes, the don Diva herself for sharing that with us. Again.

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One final reminder you all before I go that we

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have the Susto spell book Club meeting coming up where

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I'm aiming to do that on August second. It's a Saturday,

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so again, make sure to keep an eye out on

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social media. That's at soustal podcast for any and all

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updates about the book club. You can also if you

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are a Patreon subscriber, you can visit patron dot com

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slashst podcast and if you are in the middle and

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higher tier, then you have access to the book Club

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discord channel where you have the chance to vote on

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our next book, and you have access to the chat

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throughout the entire reading of the book. Of course, we

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try to keep it spoiler free in there. Either way.

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The discussion itself is public for everyone to attend online,

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so just make sure you're following on social media and

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I'll share information about how to get to that. As always,

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your support and your patients means so so much to me,

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So thank you for showing me that grace while I

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take this week off. And a special thank you to

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this week's patrons. You are Liza, Rachel, Alejandra Luth, April

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d Josette, Sam, Mandy, Jules, Lauri, Genie, Desiree, c Ashes, Nedesa,

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rachel A, Asusena, Marlene, Chata, Laney, Desiree A, Carla Archer, Ricardo, Vanessa, Mariza, Nieves, Manormal, Iris,

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mad Floor, Selina Nightingville, Clint and Rachel w Thank you

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from the bottom of my cold, dead black heart. I

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think I feel a little don't don't, don't don't. You

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all are bringing it back to life. Thank you so much.

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I'll talk to you in the next episode. Until then,

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not Dea Sustas. Bye,