What's that at the bed.
It's kooky and kooky.
I'm pretty sure it's dead. It's coming this way.
Wait a minute, hey, I goes said, Hi.
Ross dress, Hey boo, it's me Ros dress for last. And I am so excited because today we have another listener episode, Quarantine Edition. We have got incredible stories. We've got Molly telling a story that involves dogs and a very fast running ghost. We've got Moe who is a witch and has all kinds of stories. We've got Jeremy that has one of the most beautiful but kind of creepy ghost stories I've ever heard. That's just an adorable
love story at the same time. And Emily, who you know, I'm not I'm not the one that can diagnose somebody as a psychic, but Emily has some stories that have some sort of Clare Sentient kind of vibes to them. Claire Sentient. That's a good drag name. All right, let's get on with the show.
There's a ghost in my house.
Hello, Molly, Hi Rides. Where are you, Molly?
I am in Minsicola, Florida.
Ooh, I hope you're staying out of those beaches, you know.
I am.
I'm here at home almost all the time.
Oh that's great to hear. Well, speaking of being at home, you told me that you have a story about house sitting, which.
Yeah, I've done it.
I've done a lot of house sitting in my day, and I am I mean, I'm always house sitting for houses that are bigger than the one that I live in. So it always just makes me think of how many rooms a ghost could be in. So I just am full of anxiety every time I'm house sitting. So please scare me so that I'll never want to do it again.
Yeah, I have not house that since then.
I mean, I just I haven't been asked.
You know, I was a college student then. It was about.
I think about twelve.
Years ago, so it was it was a little while ago. I'm thirty two now, so I was still in college and I'm a violinist, and at that time, I was teaching lessons just on the side, you know, getting through college. And there was this really really sweet lady that had tigned up to take lessons with me, and she was, you know, about my mom's age, and she wanted to start learning. So she was an adult beginner, which I really love, and you know, She was a great student.
She practiced and you know, was making good progress. But she had had some trauma in her life because she had a daughter who was really close to my age, who had passed away like a year before that. So when she was in lessons with me, we spent a lot of time talking. And at first I kind of felt a little uncomfortable with that because it's not usually the dynamic, you know, during a violin lesson. But she was, you know, an adult beginner. I think we're just a
little bit different. She was really really sweet, and we kind of bonded, and as we got to know each other, I kind of grew to assume that I might remind her of her daughter a little bit. Yeah, so I may have felt a little conflicted about that, But she was a really sweet lady and we had a good time and lessons together. She after she had been taking for a few months, she said that her husband and
her were trying to sell their house. He was a maybe chaplain, so he had gotten a position elsewhere in this state and had to go ahead and move to start that position. So she was hanging out here in town.
In their house by herself.
And I actually think that's one of the reasons she started lessons because she was kind of bored and probably a little bit lonely. But she asked me to houseit her house. Her house was in like this really nice neighborhood right by the college I was attending, and she offered me twenty five dollars a day for like one or two weeks each time, and she had a couple
of really sweet dogs. So it was, you know, so like, yeah, of course I love to and she was supper sweet and stopped like asked me what my favorite foods were, and stopped the fridge and pantry and it was like this is freaking awesome, and so yeah, the first time that I went shit, I was trying to think what kind of dogs they were. I knew one was an Airdale like that, you know, like the big fluffy, kind of curly doggies. Oh yeah, yeah, and I can't I
just can't remember what the other dogs like. But they were both big and old and it was really sweet. Yeah, so most of what I did there was taking care of them, right, So the first time that I went over to house that everything was cool, Like I think
it was a week that time. You know, I was just doing a lot of homework and practicing and playing with the dogs and going to school and like it was all good and it was fine, and she paid me at the end and that was great, and I was like, I hope she asked me to do that again, and she did, so I was like cool. So then the second time, and I don't think I said this yet,
but this was a big house. It was a five bedroom, three bath house, two stories, and it was you know, like on a golf course, you know, I kind of like nice new build kind of situations. I think the house was built in the nineties, so it's not like, you know, this is like some old Victorian, creepy, creaky kind of house. It was just kind of a normal New Florida big house. I guess this is the best thing I can just credit. But anyway, the second time, the second time I went over there, you know, I
had my own little guest room, which was upstairs. There's one bedroom downstairs and then the rest were upstairs. And she just kept all the other doors closed. And I didn't want I didn't want to be a snoop. Like I was like, maybe she has like a nanny cam, like I don't want her to like reveal the footage or so I was paranoid. I didn't want to look in the other I was definitely curious, but I was
able not to look in them. But I had my bedroom upstairs, and then a bathroom right across the hall, and there was bedrooms to the right and to the left, and another one down closer to this stailway. So I'm falling asleep at night, and I definitely had vibes, you know, but I you know, I was twenty. I kind of had a whole lot of creepy things happened to me until this point. There are a couple of little things when I was a kid that I look back on
now and think are really weird. But at this point, I wasn't like, oh, I hope this host is in holler, Like I kind of wasn't thinking about it. I was. I was creeped out a little bit just being alone in this big house. So I would leave the TD on when I was going to sleep, just to you know,
have like something going on. I guess. So I'm falling asleep, it's like right at that point where I'm probably about to go to sleep, and I hear there's this closet next to my bed, and I hear this big bank like it sounded like something falling and hitting the back of the door of the closet. So you know, I kind of jump up in bed and I'm like, look like to do because I was just falling asleep. And you know, I took that minute of like do I what do I do?
Am I so scared?
And it took a deep breath and opened the turn on the line, opened the closet door, and there was straight up nothing in there. It was just like a couple of pillows up on a shelf toward the back of the closet, otherwise totally empty, nothing in there at all. And I even took my hands and slapped the back of the door to try to recreate the sound, and it sounded just like what I heard.
Oh my god, I'm so bumps.
Anyway, I just was like, you know, I still have to be here for a few days. Maybe it was the ice maker downstairs, like whatever, I just have to It's probably fine. I was falling asleep. Maybe it was on the TV. I don't know. I was trying to rationalize it and just get through. So that was uncomfortable, but it didn't bother me too much by the time that I left. So then she asked me to how sit a third time.
There are four times total.
I probably should have cooled it after the third time, but the third time that she asked, I said yes again. And this is going to be I think for less than a week. It wasn't going to be very long. So everything's fine for a few days. Then again, I'm in the bedroom trying to fall asleep. TV is on. I'm getting sleepy, my eyes are closing and probably drifting off, and then I hear a huge sound that was in the room behind mine, like at the end of the hall, and.
The sound was it was like somebody kicked over a bookcase full of books, and it was like a big like thud, and then like a tumbling kind of rumbling sound, like a bunch of stuff was just going everywhere.
Like a.
And so that really freaked me out. I remember it just took a long time to kind of get up turn on a light, and I was like, I mean, I have to look in that room because it sounds like something to sell over.
So but wait, where were the dogs at this point?
Oh?
So the dogs are not also not reacting at all. They sleep downstairs in the living room, and these dogs spark at everything, right, I mean every little thing, any little squirrel or bird outside, anybody walking by the house. They're going absolutely nuts. But when these two things happened with the closet and now with the bedroom in the middle of the night, they didn't do anything. They I just presumed that they were still asleep.
I mean. But also, those dogs, they've been listening to a woman learn how to play violin for the past couple of months. They're probably a little desensitized to crazy.
Yeah, you're right, and they were old, so maybe they were a little bit death and a little bit like everything sounds terrible in the douse. That's a good.
Point when they see squirrels outside and they're going crazy because they want to be outside.
Yeah, beginning violin is is not for the fate of heart, for sure, to listen to good grief. But yeah, the dogs didn't seem to notice at all. But I made my way into the hall and opened the door of the room that was behind mine, which was all the way at the end of the upstairs hall where I was staying. And first of all, I turn on the light and nothing is out of place at all. There's nothing that's fallen over. Everything is like immaculate. It's really clean.
There's a lot of stuff in there, but everything's in its place. And I start looking around and I realized, this is the room where she keeps all of this stuff that belongs to her daughter that had died recently, like toys and books and quilts and prom dresses, the guest book from her funeral, like notes from.
Wow, all in there.
And I even looked in the closet. I mean, nothing fell down. So I didn't feel great about that. But I had this thought like, well, maybe, you know, maybe her energy is like in her stuff. Maybe she's kind of here in some capacity, and I'm just a stranger in her house, Like maybe I was trying to, you know, make a noise too if I were her or something like that. So I just remember talking to her out loud.
I was like, Okay, I'm cool, don't worry, I'm not trying to do anything weird, just house sitting for your mom. I'm I'm sorry you died. And I just kind of talked out loud like that. Anytime I felt peeped out for the rest of that time, and I guess I was kind of comforted by maybe the thought that it was her and you know, not like a demon or something.
Yeah.
So did it stop after that?
No? Oh, okay. So once I had decided that that was probably her daughter, she asked me to.
House it again and I said yes again, and this last time I I did not house it anymore after this time because the weirdest thing that I've ever experienced happened.
So, just like the other times, everything was good for the last few days and then or the last the first few days I was there, and then the last night that I was to be house sitting, I was downstairs in the kitchen cooking some dinner and I heard the dogs from the other room barking, which was, you know, normal, They barked a lot. They usually wanted to go outside, so I, you know, reached the point where I could
go in there and let them out. And I went to let them out, but they were not by the door. They were in like the front part of the living room, just kind of in the middle of the room, and I was like, you want to go out, and they didn't, So I just went back into the kitchen. And they kept barking, and they started to like snarl and just like get really agitated. And I'd go back in there and they were like jumping up at the ceiling, like pawing towards the ceiling, barking at the ceiling. So oh,
it's always freaked me out to talk about. I you know, this house was in a pretty chill neighborhood. I don't think that there's any way somebody would be in the house without me knowing because of the dogs. You know, they would just absolutely, you know, just about knock me over every time I came into the garage. You know, they knew what was going on. And I did not think that there was like, you know, somebody had broken
in or something like that. But as I was in there looking up at the ceilings, the dogs stop barking, and I hear footsteps upstairs. I guess where we were in the house would be that just to my left looking up would be like that room at the end of the hall where all of the daughter's things were, and it would do kind of a little rainbow shape and over to the top of the stairs which were
to my right. And what I heard was very slow footsteps that went from that end of the hall to the other end of the hall where the staircase was, and then turning around and going back towards the room and back towards the staircase and back towards the room, and they got faster. It started off really slow, and then it got a little bit faster, kind of like normal walking speed. And then I'm just I'm just standing here like, oh, like this can't be real good.
Did the dogs like go to the stairs or like what were the dogs doing at that point?
The dogs that this point, we're standing right with me in the living room looking up following the sounds with their noses like just like me, just kind of like looking from one end of the ceiling to the other. They weren't even barking. It's like we were all just standing there listening to the ceiling. So it got so fast, like it was like a like a run, and then like a full sprint, and then like umly it got so fast that it was like no human like like back.
And that's the second time I made that sound effect. But I guess it's my go to learning new things about myself every day in quarantine. But it's just I mean, like superhuman speeds back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and then it just stopped, at which point I was so so freaked out, and I'm having this moment of like, this cannot be real because that is not possible. I know, there's no one in here, and what would even that
even be, right? And yeah, like.
If that was an intruder, they're not just gonna like sprint upstairs.
No, And they would have had to walk past me in the kitchen even if they did, unless they had been hiding there. But you know, I was pretty certain that nobody was in the house. So I Keith in nine one one on my phone. It was just like a razor or something. I didn't you know, press like, you know, call, but I just had it ready to go just in case. I don't know if this is the right thing to do, but this is what I did.
I put nine one one on the phone and I like forced the dogs to go upstairs in front of me, and we went upstairs and opened every single door and every looking in every closet, looked every corner of the upstairs and there, I mean, there was just nothing.
Everything was normal, you were so brave.
I right, I do. Looking back, I'm like, I don't know why or how I even did that? Really?
So did you stay the night?
No?
I didn't. I okay. So it was such a big house. There was an AC unit for upstairs and for downstairs, so I don't know. Maybe that's normal for two Philly houses.
I don't.
I live in small houses. But up the owner, the lady had told me, you know, when you leave the speed water the dogs, ut them out and turned the upstairs air to seventy five degrees and turned the downstairs air to seventy degrees. So I did that. I just kind of like wreathed myself through taking the dogs out, making sure they went to the bathroom, getting them food and water, and then I left, locked up and went
to my boyfriend's house to the night. Who's down My husband and we were talking about it last night and I was like, did I even tell you what happened? And he was like, no, I have no memory of that. You were just kind of like I got a little freaked out. I couldn't. Could I come sleep over here tonight?
Oh wow?
But the worst part is that when I woke up, you know, that was probably I think this happened around seven pm, and I was probably at his house by nine and I was back over at the other house by seven am to check on the dogs. And when I walked in, it was so hot and both of the AC units had been set to ninety degrees on heat.
Oh wow, And I.
Can't explain that. I just turned them back on to school at the you know, around seventy degrees. And it took a couple hours and it got a little cooler and the dogs were okay. And and did you.
Ever talk to the woman about it?
I didn't. And here's where I landed on that. You know, she did not say anything about anything weird happening when she asked me to house, did you know. And she was a very sensitive, kind of conservative lady. You know, they were a Christian family, and the house was actually owned by another Christian family, like a pastor of a really big church here. I don't know if they had it built, but he lived there for many years before then.
I think is kind of weird. But I just figured, you know, either she would have known that there was something weird and didn't tell me because maybe she would be embarrassed or didn't want to scare me, or she didn't know that there was anything weird at all, and if I told her, maybe that would terrify her. You know, I just didn't feel like, yeah, so.
I never die that like her daughter just died.
You know.
It's kind of it's kind of hard to be like, hey, I think she's a ghost.
Yeah, yeah, I think she got really mad at me too. I'm sorry, I just wondered. I'm like, was that that ghost and did she get that or was it? I mean to me that felt really dark, Like that felt really scary and dark to back and have the heat on, and it was like a very intimidating experience. So I don't know if my narrative of it being her daughter worked anymore after that.
You know, Moe, hey, Russ, how are you doing.
I'm so good. You're like, you're in San Diego just like me right now.
Yes, we're practically neighbors.
Right Well, I you send me an email that fascinated me. So you're a witch and you've had all kinds of really interesting experiences. So I don't even know where to start. What is like your go to? Do you have like a go to story?
I guess the go to would definitely be the one the hat Man.
The hat Man was, Okay, what's this about. So I worked in.
Pacific Beach about five I would say, about oh more than five. Dang, I'm old, maybe like eight years ago. I've lived in San Diego for about ten years, and so I worked. I was a prep cook, an overnight prep cook for a place in Pacific Beach, and so I'd go in at like ten PM and work till about three or four. And during this time, I was a student at San Diego State, so like I was tired all the time. I'd go to school and then i'd go there work at night, and then be doing
the next the next thing. And so when i'd be there, I feel like I would be really vulnerable, and especially because I told you I'm a witch, so like I just was very vulnerable and open at the time. And so essentially there was I guess I think there was someone you had previously that was talking about shadow people in the hat Man entity. Yeah, so there, So essentially
I was working. It started I would say like a few months into me doing overnights, and there was this essentially where I worked, I would i'd be facing a wall, and I would have music playing, and I'm not someone that gets really scared of this stuff, but I would feel this energy and out of the corner of my eye, like you know, like everyone says when they see shadow people, they see it out of the corner of their eyes. Well, I saw it out of the corner of my eyes.
And normally for the way I handle stuff like that is I just acknowledge it and then I just keep going about. I feel like when things when you acknowledge it, but you acknowledge that you're not scared, they kind of leave you alone. That's kind of what I've experienced, and so I would let alone.
I'm looking for like they're like they want you to be scared. You're like it's not working, and then they're like, oh, okay, finally are the next person.
Yeah, they're like girl by pretty much like.
That's how I feel. And so I pretty much this thing was inside. It was I can make it out as like a tall I would say, like at least six or five, and it was like hovering kind of over not over me, but like to the side, and it was in a doorway and it was kind of like peeking at me.
And I was.
I look and for the first few times I saw, it would just kind of go away, and I didn't think much of it. But then it started, I think because I wasn't scared, it kind of stuck around. And so then there was one night where I was working and I would say it was about midnight, maybe close to one, like twelve thirty, and so the thing he well I call it, I say he because I saw it as masculine presenting, and so it had this big hat.
It was like very well dressed, kind of like Harlie Chaplin almost, and I looked out of this, you know, looked at the corner, and then I was just like, okay, so you're back.
And then.
Kind of like it was, it would be like looking I would say, you could see a face, but like every time that I would look directly at it, it would disappear. But then when I would look away and I could see it again out of my peripherals, so it.
Would show up.
It was like almost an optical illusion almost, and so I was like, Okay, this is definitely like more than just a shadow person shadow person, because I feel like those the shadow people, they're more scared of us.
Whereas like this hat.
Man thing, I think that they they're they're a little more evolved. I say, I think like higher in the food chain.
And so.
It kind of looked like it wasn't going away, and then so my heart kind of sank a little bit because I was like, Okay, I'm about to have this like mental conversation with this thing, because that's kind of how I would talk to energy when I was actively practicing a lot of witchcraft, because I would say, right now, I'm non practicing because I'm really busy with work and stuff. But so at the time I was practicing, and so essentially kept saying, oh, what's your name, Like what kind
of witchcraft do you practice? And do you want to you want to do stuff with me? And you know, kind of asking more questions, and I would just say no, no, thank you. I appreciate it, but no thanks, I respect you, I respectfully decline, and I go about my work. And so it would go away. But then it started becoming like every night it would show up and it would just keep asking me, like like a broken record, and so then I would I would I didn't my coworkers.
I never really like told them much about the stuff because I feel like there's a certain connotation with with being a witch, and so I would I would I would just tell them, oh, hey, like do you do you like ever feel scared here at night or do you like feel things?
And they were like, uh sometimes.
And you know, I was a young there's this I worked with this younger couple that also worked at night, but not never at the same time as me, and I was like, yeah, I feel like I feel uneasy. There's this guy. Like I kind of led into a conversation pretty much asked them like do you guys see like a hat shadow person or a person like with the hat and they were like, oh my god, have you ever heard of the hat Man entity? Or have
you ever heard of shadow people? And so I like, I knew of shadow people, but I've never heard of the hat man. And so they were like, yeah, the shat the hat Man entity, he like he's pretty much like crazy. You can look him up on YouTube. And so essentially, like after that, I was like, Okay, I definitely can't, like I should not even talk to this thing anymore because it's not.
Going to leave me alone.
And so I stopped acknowledging it over and over, and it would just keep doing stuff to the point where it'd start tripping the alarms in the.
In the restaurant.
And so it'd be like twelve thirty to one or two, and all of a sudden, the alarms would go off, and so like I'd freak out because I'm there by myself, and I'd grab like a kitchen knife run to the front because there's only one way into the restaurant, and so I was like, someone's breaking in, and so I kind of like run, but kind of peak, and I'm a little scared, and no one's there, like there's no
like broken windows or anything. And so so then the security tapes they call, or the security people they call the store and they're like, hey, like we're the security, We're so and so, can you give us the code? And I gave them the code and they were like, so, can you describe trust what happened? And I told him, honestly, I don't know. Like I work here at night. My name's my legal name's Mauricios. I'd be like, my name's Mauricio, I work for Papa Lunas and I'm here every night.
I don't know why the alarms went off, They're like okay, like no worries, and so it would do it a lot. So then my boss like would ask me, He's like, what's going on at night? And I'm like, I.
Don't want to sound crazy, but this stuff like i'd explain what would happen, and he would he'd be like, okay, that's kind of weird, but he kind of just like.
It, dismissed it. And then the day that it really like, I guess overwhelmed me because I wouldn't say I was scared, but I was overwhelmed. Is that it was midday and I was I had stopped working overnights because I was like,
this is just too much on me. And I was there during the day with one of the other cooks, the day cook, and it was weird because I was working, and then I looked I could hear the other cook talking, and I was like, what are you doing and he and he kind of laughed and then he's like, no, I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to other things and then things yeah, and so I was like, oh shit, my heart sink again. And then as soon as he said that, all the alarms went off, and so all
the alarms went off. Our manager like ran to the back. He's like, what happened? And so he went and like disabled the alarm, had a whole talk with the with the security people, and then they came like I think a few days later, and they were like, yeah, we don't know why it might be faulty.
And my manager didn't tell them anything, of.
Course, But then I talked to that day to the day cook and I was like, there's it. I was pretty much told him. I was like, there's this fucking like that man dude that I see all the time. And I've talked to the other the couple and they said they see it. And he's like oh, He's like yeah, I didn't know you could like see it or you know. And we kind of like talked about it and he's like, don't worry, it won't hurt you or anything. I'm like, well, I'm not worry it'll hurt me. I'm just like I
want this to stop. And so he's like, no, don't worry, it will and then after that it like never happened again.
Well do you think that do you think that it was like a ghost that haunted the restaurant or like you know, a spirit or entity or whatever that haunted the restaurant or do you think that it was you know, the result of something that you were doing, or like where did it come from?
I don't think it was nothing on my end, because like anytime i'd practice witchcraft or like meditation or anything, it would be in the confines of my house, and so I would never do stuff outside. But like one of I guess another side note is that I had one of my good friends his mom's shaman, and so every time stuff like this would happen and I'd be in over my head, she'd be like, okay, like do
this or do that and then it'll help. And so I told her about this, and essentially she said that it was older energy that was just there before the building was even there.
Oh wow, yeah.
And so that's why it's like it kind of noticed what I was and started talking to me, and because I wasn't scared, it kind of and to like tried to see how far it could go.
So when an energy like that, like you were saying, like it wanted to kind of like collab, it was like looking for like you know, you want to you know, to want to get yeah, do you want to like, you know, do some some which stuff together? What what what does an energy like that have to offer?
Like?
What what can that? What are they trying to do?
I honestly, I feel like it depends on like it's subjective to the energy.
I think.
I think with that one, I think it was just trying to mess with me. I didn't feel like it was even really trying to like it. The demeanor wasn't serious. It seemed like a bully. And so that's why I did not. I did not partake. Whereas like whereas like I was telling you.
About how I have, I had.
Like a spirit guyde so like that that energy of the spirit guide, it's way different where like his name is Norman, and where Norman he's like completely different. We're like even just the way that it feels, it feels more inviting, where like this felt like the bully during lunch trying to take my lunch money, you know.
Okay, so what's the story with Norman?
Okay, So with Norman, So essentially Norman is this energy that I associate it with like Celtic old like pagan energy. And around this time, pretty much I was before I started like heavily practicing winchcraft. I was in a really bad, like bad relationship has kind of toxic and thankfully I got out of it.
But I think after that I.
Was kind of reckless a little bit and just was doing all this stuff, couldn't care less about the repercussions and stuff like that. And so essentially one night I was doing witchcraft and this, uh, this entity came to me like while I was meditating, and it came in the guise of like a big bear, like have you seen Brave?
Oh yeah, okay, so like.
Meredis mom, that's like kind of what it looked like.
And it was really tall.
And he just kind of came like in this like deep like trance. He came up and like pretty much said like you need to stop doing this stuff. And at first it really scared me, but he just said, like I'm I'm here to like not you should not be doing this stuff. You need to like calm down, you need to you know, really like if you're gonna do this stuff, you need to really focus your energy on your on your intent and just you know, be wary because things are always watching. And so but like
the catches is that I don't. I don't believe that energy, like the spirit, so to say, the spirit realm, I don't believe that it has like it doesn't subscribe to like our morality, like our human morality.
I don't.
I don't believe in good or evil. And I think.
It's because like I whereas like with energy, I I personally believe it's kind of like a food chain, so like there's a lot of anarchy, and it's just like it can be overwhelming at times. But like, for instance, if you saw, you know, when people go in the Safari and they see cheetahs and stuff and they see them eat prey and stuff. They don't think cheetahs are evil or they don't think lines are evil. They they understand like, oh, that's just what they do.
They need eat.
And I think that energy is the same way. I just think that you know, of course I wouldn't I practice witchcraft in the comforts of my home. But of course I wouldn't be like Zach Baggins and go to some random mass building that has a lot of trauma in the past. And I wouldn't try to antagonize that energy because then you're gonna get of course, you're going to get a response.
I've been ghosted too. Hello Jeremy from my home state of Michigan.
Hello, how are you?
Oh?
You know, I'm doing the best I can. I mean, I get to hear ghost stories, so I'm excited about that.
That's awesome. I'm envious of all your ghost stories, but I do love listening to them. So good job with the podcast. I'm loving it.
Thank you. So okay, you sent me a message saying that you have a bit. You wrote a big story that is one hundred percent real.
Let's hear it.
Would be the Judge.
And the reason I say that is because it's I don't know, it's sort of like you could totally make a little movie out of this, I think. So all right, this story is it's kind of a surrounding my great grandparents in their house. And this is in Michigan, in Conning, Michigan, which is like on the Sagana on the east side of the state. The house is a house that my great grandfather actually built himself, which I actually just learned that this year. I was very surprised. And yeah, I
don't know when they got married. I'm assuming based on the pictures it was probably back like the nineteen thirties, and they lived there their entire life. So this happened late eighties into the early nineties. I was younger, probly maybe eight ish eight nine years old somewhere around there when it started. So my great grandfather he had passed away, and there was never anything weird or anything that ever happened in that house. I never had any odd feelings.
After he passed away is when everything started. So the first thing was actually the day of his burial, so it was like the last day of the funeral. Everybody came back to my great grandparents' house, and out of nowhere, a parakeet flew out of just the sky. A parakeet, A parakeet a parent. Okay, and so let me preface this a little bit too. My great grandmother loved parakeets.
She always had one, and I always remember her having them, and I always thought it I actually thought it was my great grandfather that I always saw him playing with them and stuff, But apparently it was her. She always liked them, she always kept them.
And anybody that has never been to Michigan or you just don't know this fact. Those are not indigenous to me.
No, no, not whatever.
I will add a lot of people don't know about this place called Meyer. Do they have that in your.
Well, of course they do. They're everywhere. Yeah, I had two to choose from in my area.
I'm jealous. But I have tried to explain to people what Meyer is, and it's it's almost like Walmart, but like way better because you can literally get a head of lettuce, you could get a haircut, you could get a live parakeet. Yeah, they sell they sell birds and oh as well as workout equipment, sweatpants, whatever you need the one stop shop. Okay, So a parakeet that might may or may not have escaped from my.
Yeah, yeah, you never know. Yeah, So it was weird. It literally flew out of nowhere and it started flying at the windows of the house like it was trying to get into the house.
Wow.
And yeah, and they're all like, you know, my dad was Now I wasn't there on this particular portion, but my dad told me about this, you know, and they're all just like, what the heck, And they're all kind of laughing about it, you know, because they all knew that, you know, great Grandma liked barricades. And they opened up the door to the house and it flew right into the house. It landed it let them kick it up, and they put it into a cage, and they just joked,
They're like, well, just here's Grandpa, here's great Grandpa. He's back, you know, And it was kind of a joke, but at the same time, it was sort of like ha ha ha, No, this is really kind of weird.
Yeah.
So yeah, so once that bird came into the house,
that's when the weird things started happening. So again, my great grandparents, they were I mean, when my great grandfather died, I mean, he was probably in his mid to late eighties, and my great grandmother's right around the same age, and unfortunately, her health kind of started to go down the hill a little bit, and my grandma and grandpa they left their creepy little farmhouse, which that's whole other stuff, and they came over and moved in there to help take
care of her. So I would go over there every once in a while. At this point, my father, he was a truck driver, and my parents are divorced, so there would be some weekends I would go over to my dad's and he might be gone and not come back until Saturday morning or something, so I'd stay with them.
And I stayed with them a lot around this time, and there was some nights where I don't know, you just you know, when you had that feeling like there's somebody else there in that room other than the people you see, you just sense it. And that was the sense that I got. And it was, you know, again, I'm kind of younger to kind of creep me out a little bit, but nothing had really happened at that point. So one night I stayed the night. Now here's the
other part of the story. My great grandparents got a grandfather clock. Now not like a big one, not the kind that like you know, you see in movies. But it's like one of the smaller ones, maybe like I don't know, two and a half three feet high that they hang.
On the wall.
Oh okay, you know. But it still has the pendulum that swings back and forth, and it has that very loud noise to it, and it chimed very deep chime on every hour. And I think they, like I said, I think that was a wedding or a i'm not wedding, an anniversary present like they. I think they got it either. The late sixties or the early seventies, and when my grandfather was alive, I would remember he would, you know, everyone's well, get up, open up the clock face and
wind it up, because apparently it's that old. It was one of the kind that you would wind it up, and that was the common thing. You did it all the time. So one night I stay the night and I remember that night too. I was a little bit creeped out because it sounded like somebody was walking through the living room, and you know, like how you know
that sounds. You know, you can hear the floor creaks in a certain way when somebody walks through, and I would hear that, and it was a little bit creepy, but I'm just like, it's just the house settling whatever.
It's fine, you know, and went to bed. That morning I woke up and I just woke it up, and I notice I'm hearing a noise and it's just this this clicklicklick click click click click clicklick noise, and I'm kind of woke up and it was coming from the clock and I realized it was the sound of the clock winding up. Now, it didn't freak me out. One hundred percent yet because in my mind I'm going, well, maybe it does that, maybe it'll wind itself a little bit every once in a while.
Yeah, yeah, you have to like put a key in there or whatever.
Right, yeah, exactly, there's like, yeah, there's like a little wind up key that you have to use. And there was no wind up key in it. You know, it wasn't in the little hole. There was nothing turning, like, I didn't see anything on the clock itself happening other than you know, it was clicking and telling time, but it was making that wind up noise. And I was like,
this is a little odd. So later on and I was down in the basement with my grandma and just out of the blue, like it's nothing, She's like, oh, did you hear Grandpa winding the clock this morning? Uh huh? Apparently this happened all the time. Weird. Uh huh.
Yeah, Well, you know, I maybe I'm just making this up. I'm like pretty sure that a smaller grandfather's clock they call a grandmother.
Clock, is it? Oh, I don't know.
There's whoever started the clock industry put these weird gender roles on the size of Oh.
So the smaller ones, Yeah, Okay, I see it's got to be the woman apparently.
Huh apparently, So that's them, I believe. So I might be making that up.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Wait, let me ask you this. So what is the parakeet doing all this time?
Like, is the part it's there, it's living, it's fine, it's doing its parakeet thing. So yeah, So so my grandma told me that, and then my you know, I kind of probably went white. And that's when it kind of cemented everything to me, like, Okay, there's some weird
shit going on here. Now, you know, there's a part of me that's going like, okay, so if there is something weird going down in this house by a ghost, at least it's my great grandfather and he's not going to do anything that I would think, you know, to horror anybody or to be creepy on purpose or anything
like that. So that was kind of like my own little way of trying to you with that, and that was cool, but I still always was a little bit freaked out going in there, you know, especially stay in the night, and there was you know, and since then, there was a couple nights I would stay the night and I would hear that damn walking and I would think in my head, really loud, Grandpa, please don't do that.
It scares me, and it would stop. And I remember there was one time we were sitting there, we were watching TV, and I remember I looked kind of like the living room is really it's really weird. It's good. Like the living room like spans almost the entire one side of the house. It's a really odd design. I think back in the day, maybe half of it they used as a more of a dining area, I'm not sure, but we were like over kind of all the way over on one side they kind of had a set up.
The TV was over there, and they had some like recliners and stuff, and I remember I looked back and like my grandma was on the couch across for me, and my grandpa was in one of the recliners, but there was still one more recliner nobody was in it. And I remember I look back and like that reciner was like facing towards the TV, and I looked away, and then that dan klock started its winding a little bit.
That was it wasn't the full one, it was just and immediately my blood turns cold, and again I think really loudly, Grandpa, please don't do that. You're scaring me. And it stopped. So I feel like, you know, maybe if that's what was going on, maybe he you know, because I always kind of heard that, you know, you don't necessarily have to verbally say things for a spirit to really hear you, so I kind of you know, and I never voiced anything, you know, and my grandparents
didn't say anything. I never really said it because I don't want to, you know, I didn't even really want to talk about it, not when I'm sitting in there, you know. Years later, now I can talk about it. But yeah, back then, uh uh. And I remember I turned around and I looked back again, and that damn recliner was facing in the opposite direction and nobody had gotten up, nobody walked through or anything. So that, yeah,
I saw that. I didn't see it move, but it was in a different direction, like not but five minutes later, and that really, uh, that kind of freaked me out too.
So it was a lot of stuff like that. And it wasn't always you know, it wasn't always creepy, you know, as long as there was other people there I was fine, you know, but it was like if you know, everybody was outside and Grandma'd be like, you know, hey, can you go get some pop out of that creepy ass old basement, you know and bring it out here and be like do I have to you know? Gosh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that basement. That's a whole Nothing ever creepy happened in that basement, but Jesus, that basement was the creepiest thing ever. So anyway, so time goes on. My great grandmother's health was really declining and my grandparents was They had a really hard time being able to take care of her, so they ended up having to put her into a nursing facility so she could get the care that she needed. So there was the kind of like this is what
this is coming up to here. I was over there with my dad within my grandparents, and we were watching a movie and we noticed that the bird was acting funny, like it was kind of like stumbling around, almost like it was dizzy or something like it wasn't acting right.
And we took it out of the cage and kind of and set it down like on the table, and it was just kind of like it would kind of fall over and then get back up, and it was just acting really weird, and it was sort of like an onset thing where we're all like, uh oh, you know, like this this if everything that you know was in the back of everybody's mind is true, then this is
probably not a good sign. So two days later, I think it was two days, just a couple of days, my grandparents got the call from the nursing home that hey, you guys better get over here because we think that she's probably gonna pass sous. So they did. They went, and uh yeah, they were right. They uh she she had passed. They came home and the first thing they noticed was that the bird was dead in the cage, and then the grandfather clock the time had stopped on the time of her death.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, so that kind of cemented it for everybody that yep. Now, whether great Grandpa was in the bird the whole time probably would I don't know how that's gonna work, but they pretty much were just like he came back and he waited for Grandma and when she died, then they left together, which is really kind of a really beautiful story.
Oh my god, that's a romance.
Novel.
I know, Yeah, exactly, it's just a little more creepy. Yeah, I mean, and that's why I say, like it's so hollywood ish. But yeah, I swear to God that that is, like, that's the big weird creepy story that happened in my family that I had a little bit of. Part of that is.
A good one. Wait, so did how was the activity in the house after that?
So the activity stopped after that? There really wasn't anything. But here's the weird part. So it's been you know, it's been like, god, twenty years now. So my dad is actually he's living there right now. My grand my grandfather, he passed away from a farming accident early nineties, early to mid nineties, and my grandma lived there and there was never anything weird. Now my grandmother she unfortunately, she has developed really really bad dementia and she is and
she's in care herself now. So my dad's there taking care of the house. So gosh, how long has he been there? Probably like just over a year. So he actually we uh, I'm trying to think, but I think we had gotten together and he went home, Yeah, he went home, and that night he went home. He's back in that house, and he texts me, Oh my god, I'm so freaked out right now, and I'm like, WHOA, what's going on?
You know?
And so he said, so there's the kitchen. There's like a little bedroom off the kitchen, which is really just used for storage. They don't really use. I don't think anybody's even slept in that room in years. And he said he was in the living room and he was in his recliner watching TV. He's got his little dog on his lap, which cracks me up, by the way, because my father is just like two hundred and fifty pounds mullet murk elven biker with tattoos and you know,
like total badass kind of guy. And he's got this little multi shitsu that is like his third child. So yeah, so she's on his lap and he's just sitting there and he said, all of a sudden, he said, it sounded like the door to that bedroom slam shut with so much force that the walls shook in the house. And he jumped up, and the dog went crazy and ran into the into the dining or the kitchen and
was going crazy and barking. My Daan's looking around and he's like, you know, what the hell was that, you know, and he said it sounded just like that door closing, but the door was closed. So he's looking around. He went down in the basement to see if there's anything, and there was nothing out of place, and he's like, Jeremy, I swear to God that it was that door. He's like, I know what that door sounds like when it gets closed, and it was slammed, and I'm like, well, that's weird
because that's like the first time. Yeah, that's the first time that anything weird had happened. And then he had something else happen again, I know, probably a few months ago. I think he told me where again. He's like in the living room, he's like watching TV, and he said it sounded like somebody took like a like a pizza pan or something and just dropped it, you know, from like five feet off the floor and it just hit the floor and made that noise, and again the dog
went crazy. He's running around looking and there's nothing out of place anywhere. So he's had a couple of those experiences and yeah, that I don't know, I don't know where that would be coming from.
And so like but nothing was happening up until No.
Wow.
Yeah, it's so weird.
Yeah, it's just like out of nowhere. So yeah, I don't know. I'm kind of interested to know what what else is. I haven't talked to him like in a week or so, and I'll have to ask him next time if there's anything else that's happened. Usually he'll tell me, because you know, he's very into ghosts and all that stuff too, so he's you know, he will definitely let me know if something happens. But yeah, he had that those couple of things happened there, which I thought was interesting.
Oh my god, Emily, Hello, Hi Emily, where are you.
I'm in Boulder, Colorado right now?
Have you been to the Stanley Hotel?
I have?
It's crazy, it's really creepy, but I've actually been to three hotels in Colorado that I've had haunted.
Experiences that oh I took. I took a tour of the.
Stanley Hotel and and like that was the least scary place that I've been.
Yeah, sours was it? It was it like a ghost tour or was it just like a tour of the property.
Yeah, I went on a ghost tour. Around Halloween, and I didn't feel any like weird vibes or anything anywhere. I didn't see anything. The only kind of weird thing was when we were standing outside of the door that Stephen King stayed in when he got the inspiration the inspiration for the shining, and I felt like weird, like I was about to pass out.
But that was it interesting. So what happened at the other hotels?
So the first one that I went to, I was just driving back from spring break in California and last minute. I was with my boyfriend at the time, and we decided that we It was like three am and we couldn't make the drives all the way back like four more hours, so we were looking around seeing if there were any hotels that still had last minute rooms open that we could stay in, and we just found like a really cheap room at I don't I don't even
remember what hotel it was. It was just some chain hotel like the Holiday In or something, and and they had one room available and it was like super cheap, especially because it was so last minute, And as soon as we walk up to the door, before we even go inside, I felt like this really weird vibe like
there was just something dark in that room. And I'm sure it's like you know that feeling that I'm talking about, yeah, and yeah, And I didn't say anything because I didn't want to freak out my boyfriend and we were just exhausted and just wanted to go to sleep, and he fell asleep like right away, and I for some reason, like I was so tired on the drive, but when I was in there, I could not fall asleep, and I got I got these really weird like flu symptoms all of a sudden, like I felt like I had
a fever and I had a stomach ache, and I was up literally until like six in the morning, just like blowing my nose and coughing and like just like into so much pain all over the place. And and then like as soon as it showed up, because it just it just hit me out of nowhere, and then it just went away out of nowhere at about like six or seven in the morning. And then when me and my boyfriend, we both like woke up, and I said to him that I didn't want to freak him
out last night, so I didn't say it. But I have a feeling that there's something like dark in this room like it was haunted, and and he looked at me and he was like, I didn't want to tell you this either, but I felt the exact same way before we were walked into the room. And and he told me that he has like this really really scary nightmare about like being in a haunted house and like having to save this little boy from like all the demons
and stuff. And he never had dreams ever, so the fact that even dreams it all was super rare, but like it was such a vivid nightmare that he remembered. And there's also like there were mirrors all over the room, like two really big mirrors facing the bed, which I've never seen a hotel laid out like that. I don't know why there's so many mirrors, but like I've heard that mirrors are like sometimes they're a kind of portal.
We were sitting there like taking all this information in and realizing that we were in a really haunted room, and we just booked it out of there so fast.
It's so funny how that was the only room. Like I'm sure that they tried to get like people to stay in that room and they're like, h I don't like it in here, it's like the last one that's like the room that gives you nightmares and temporary flu Yeah, and of.
Course it was like at the end of the hall, like super dark, sketchy hallway, and it was it was weird. It was cheaper in person when we paid than it was when they told us the price on the phone. Yeah, the up but yeah, the I had another experience in a hotel and Boulder that was like even more terrifying.
Okay, so it's the.
Hotel Bulderado and it's famous for being haunted, and my good friend was staying there and I was. I was going to sleep over in our hotel one night. So we were just like hanging out and staying up late, and we weren't like really drunk or any but we were just having a few drinks. But like I was, I was.
Pretty coherent, and.
Like I'm saying that now because like this sounds like maybe I was just like tripping or something, but I wasn't, and and neither were my friends. Like we were all like just a little bit tipsy. And we decided at three am that it would be a good idea to go ghost hunting and just see what happened. So we looked up what the most haunted place in that hotel was, and it were these two rooms that were right next to each other, and I think it used to be
one room. I probably should have looked this up beforehand, but.
I'm actually looking it up right now the bold Yeah.
Right, yeah, it used to be one room and there was something like a double suicide in it, and then they split it up into two rooms, so that that room that had happened it doesn't exist anymore because they they like redid the layout or whatever, but it's still like that area. And so we were sitting in the hallway outside of those two rooms, just like waiting to see if we heard or saw anything.
We're just sitting in.
Silence, and and like it was just it was dead silent in that area. And all of a sudden, I hear the sound of like like someone trying to open a locked door. And I looked around and I didn't see any like door handles like moving or anything. But I heard the sound really clearly, and I looked to see if maybe like there was someone like pushing a cart down the hall or anything, and there was none of that. Like it was just completely empty, and and so I asked, my friends, do you hear that noise?
And it was like they just didn't even hear me talking either, like they just kept sitting in silence, like nothing was happening.
And it was.
Weird because I couldn't tell which direction the sun was coming from because it felt like it was like inside of my head, like it didn't have like a like a a source or anything. But it just sounded like a door rattling. And after I asked them that and they didn't respond, the sound got like even like louder and like more aggressive, and like it sounded like they were really like pushing the door in, like they weren't just rattling the door handle anymore. They were really like
going at it, trying to open the door. And again I was like, come on, guys, like how do you
not hear that? And like I'm positive that I I was talking and I was positive that I heard that sound, and again they just like didn't even acknowledge me, Like I was sitting right next to them talking to them, and they did not It was like I didn't even exist and I was like in a different like dimension than them or something, and like and then it got even louder and like more aggressive, and I was like something, I felt like something was like coming after me, and
like only me, because I was the only one who've heard it. And I just like got up and like booked it out of there and like went down like two flights of stairs down to the lobby, and I was like freaking out. And then my friend called me and.
She was like where did you just go?
Like why did you just get up and run away without saying anything? And I was like, did you hear that noise? Like the door rattling noise? And she was like, no, what are you talking about? Like it was just silence the whole time. And they got up and ran away, and I was like, did you hear me, like at least talking to you, And she's like, no, you didn't say anything.
I think you're a little like psychic or something.
I don't know it was. I've never experienced anything like that in my life, and like I was so freaked out, Like I don't know if I have, because I have experiences with like like happy spirits, like my friends and family kind of like looking out for me, so and I know, like my parents are kind of doubtful of it, but like I know that, like I definitely have experiences with them, so I don't know if I might be a little but.
I'm looking up. Okay, So there's this article, Oh No, where to go? This is from the Genver Post. They're talking about it. It says this woman that worked at the front desk said that she received frequent haunted complaints.
When she worked the front desk. Two rooms get an overwhelming number of reports adjoining suites Room three oh two and three oh four, perhaps because of the speculation that the hotel's famous suicides occurred around those locations, even though the suite numbers were changed after a remodel.
Mm hmm, yeah, that's where we were. It was funny when when I ran down to the lobby there was someone on the front desk and they're just like, are you good, Like they weren't even phased by the fact that I just ran down there freaked out because I probably see it so often.
They're like, oh this again.
Yeah, Oh my gosh. I can't imagine working at a haunted hotel like that.
No, I also don't stay at a haunted hotel. Wait. I want to look at pictures of this place. Ooh, okay, it looks spooky. It's like a big brick building. I mean, it looks cool, it looks nice, but it also like looks old and looks like it has lots of secrets in there.
Lots of secrets.
Yeah, it's it's interesting.
Like reading about the hauntings, there's like there's a lot of different types of stories. There's a lot of people like seeing like full body like operations at like the foot of their bed in the middle of the night. Oh no, and like just like all all of that like crazy stuff. But I was like doing so much researching if anything had an experience like mine, and I couldn't find anything.
Well, to me, that sounds like you're some kind of channel or something. I mean, when you think about how you like physically got ill from that one room and then you're at the Stanley, you had like physical feels, it seems like there's something going on there. Would you want to explore that more?
It's like kind of scary to think about, but I think it would be definitely like interesting. I honestly, really, I don't know.
I mean that seems like of all the different kinds of ways that you can have psychic abilities. I feel like that I could imagine that being very like draining, you know, if you're like really tapping into going places that make you ill or make you feel weird or dizzy or I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, It's like those are the only two scary experiences that I've ever had, But like I have had a lot of just like really positive ones, like like with my Grammy and like with my friend, and like those are all just super comforting to me, and I feel like I'm good with just like having that in my life. But obviously it goes both ways.
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