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hey weirdos I'm Alina I'm Ash and this is [Music] morbid and it's listener Tales which
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means that it's brought to you by you for you from you and all about you baby whoa I don't know I don't know
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I don't know shrug large shrug I don't know shrug shrug shruggy shrug we love a listener Tales moment you know this we
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know this everybody knows everybody knows this listener Tales five [ __ ] ever it always feels like we have not
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done a listener Tales episode in 46 years I know oh every time it's so weird yeah and it's like nah it's only been a
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couple weeks few weeks couple weeks few weeks yeah like a few yeah cuz a few is like three or more right you're like in
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case you didn't know yeah so it really hasn't been that long but every time I'm like we haven't done this in 3 years
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isn't that weird it is weird time I think that's the only thing I've said in response to I'm
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sorry I'm just like how weird is it though she was just like picking at her nails being like that's so weird but no
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I was listening that was just my genuine response I was like I did I did have a little bit of um pizza sauce under my
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nail which is really gross you did not need to share but you did yeah I'm that we are appreciative
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and also horrified also I just ate pizza for lunch like that's not old yeah like
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last night she just got pizza for lunch it's right there I can still see it it's
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not all they SAR no I wash my hands prob I know I actually did wash my hands damn
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that's even worse I know Yik didn't do a good job well guys more less about me more about you less about my hygiene
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more about your Tails I'm going to kick you I am I'm going to kick you in the shin would you like to go first uh sure
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I'll go first why don't I start this out with a bang oh uh listen or tail the time my baby sat for a cold-blooded
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killer that'll do it that will do it let's see oh we have a ptif hi Ash and Elena this is Al
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which is my real name use it all you want Ali Aly Ali Aly Aly Aly Aly Aly just makes me think of James Kennedy
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going Ali Bal there you go and this is a listener tale for you good it's a listener Tale
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episode there you go like most things in my life I'm going into this email with no preparations beforehand so I
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apologize I'm kind of just typing things up as they come to me but I'll try to keep it as straightforward as I can
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first of all can I just say that I love you ladies you can because I love you too Ally I also love you too Ali B I'm
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just going to Fan girl for a minute if you don't mind to be honest I've never been much of a podcast person but I came
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across morbid when I was on maternity leave at the beginning of last year I had a baby girl on December 28th of 2021
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she shares your birthday Elena no big deal no big deal she's a Cappy we love it real talk we named her Fiona I love
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that name and that was also on your list that was on my list I love that name that's a like really that's weird yeah
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she was actually born one day after my own birthday oh my gosh we're all Cappies together so you and I almost
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share a birthday no big deal no big deal Capricorn's forever hell yeah my God imagine being a leader on your birthday
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though I hope you weren't if you were what if she was in labor on her birthday that's not a great birthday but like
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you're getting like a baby out of it that's the greatest part that's good yeah you know you got a birthday present
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after your birthday there you go look at it that way anyway well I'm maternity Le
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I spent the first month or so of sleepless nights binging a lot of Television eventually I started to go a
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little stir crazy sitting on the couch all the time and decided to try to find a podcast I could carry around with me
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as I did house George took the baby on walks Etc I had just finished rewatching a ton of old X Files episodes love that
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so much my favorite television show in all of history ever and was still feeling that spooky Vibe I had never
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heard of morbid or you guys tragic I know so when I searched True Crime podcasts and so morbid pop up I randomly
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clicked on a recent episode where is Brandon Swanson oh that's really weird why do these things happen I was
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just looking through our suggested cases yeah to like just kind of like compile a
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few of what you guys want to hear and I just opened an email where someone said they just listened to the Brandon
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Swanson episode that's weird and that they wanted like a different one cover and I was like whoo that was a random
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episode and then you just mentioned it again like what a random [ __ ] episode also I was looking for cases last
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weekend and I was just like reading a bunch of different like um countdown things online and Brandon Swanson was
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one of the ones featured what's going on with that like that's weird of all the cases we've done I mean we've done
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almost how many episodes we're in 500 and something at this point I don't we're close to 600 yeah that many
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episodes and you mention the one episode I just opened a random suggestion that also mentioned that episode that's
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bizarre sorry that's weird sorry I hope something comes out of that I don't know
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maybe it will very strange stranger things have happened it's true so well you clicked on where is Brandon Swanson
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and you never looked back so that's amazing and now I just hang out with you all week every week and because my
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daughter was the equivalent of a sack of beans back then the sack of beans time goes by really fast a she couldn't
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understand a word either of you were saying I was free to listen to as many tales of ghosts and decapitations and
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murdering [ __ ] as I wanted without fear of traumatizing her my daughter had a lot of issues eating and sleeping
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during her first few months we later found out she had some undiagnosed food allergies a so postpartum was rough on
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all of us your podcast became a space for me to just escape a little bit thank you so much for hanging out with me then
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and now you bet I love that okay so my taale kind of forgot that's why I started this whole thing here we go I'm
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going to change the names of the people involved because you can actually look up the case I'm going to talk about and
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I want to maintain a little privacy for one person in particular I'll put a footnote at the end with the real names
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in case you two want to look it up this is the story about how I babysat for a coldblooded killer when I was in Middle
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School a family moved into the house next door to ours a married couple and their young son I'll call the married
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couple John and Tracy Carter and I'll call their son Ben Tracy was actually a radio personality at the time and was
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fairly well known in the area John was incredibly outgoing Charming guy I don't remember what he did for a living it's
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not important they were actually kind of an Odd Couple at least from an outsider's perspective
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we lived on a very small and isolated Street seven houses with a called a sack at the end our little Street had a lot
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of block parties at the time so everyone knew each other very well John and Tracy
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were at a lot of these GE togethers to be fair I was about 13 during this time so I was more interested in teenage girl
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drama than anything adults were ever talking about I do remember Tracy was pretty being pretty reserved a little
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standoffish maybe John on the other hand was always boy cracking jokes and talking to anyone and
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everyone with ease now that I'm an adult myself I recognize that I am the Tracy in this situation I hate mingling and
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forcing Small Talk At block parties it's literally the worst set a capricorn yeah
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I was going to say that's your Capricorn in there said like a true Cappy John and
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Tracy's son Ben was about 4ish years old when we first met the Carters he was the
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most adorable kid with a mop of blonde hair and a whip smart personality oh a couple years passed and the Carters had
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become friends with my parents to be more specific John Carter had become friends with my parents Tracy was a rare
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sighting in the neighborhood at that point she worked a lot and also attended various functions and events outside of
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her job I want to say Jon was unemployed for stretches of time but I could be making that up like I said my memory of
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what he did for a living is hazy in any case Jon would come over to sit on the back deck and chitchat while Ben showed
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off a new toy or ran around in the backyard eventually in the summer of 2002 I started Babys sitting for John
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and Tracy I would watch Ben a handful of nights a month it was an easy gig because Ben was an easy kid I would see
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and speak with Tracy occasionally mostly business dinner's in the fridge Ben's bedtime is this could you feed the
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hamster kind of stuff mostly it was John that would greet me when I arrive ask questions about how school was going and
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walk me the 10 steps home at the end of the night I always felt very comfortable
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around JN he was very a very harmless fatherly Vibe he wasn't scary at all false untrue in correct oh ooh One Night
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in early 2003 I was babysitting Ben we had fallen into a routine we were in the middle of looking through his dinosaur
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trading cards when Jon came home early he seemed a little off I guess kind of hurried and frazzled like he was
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surprised to find himself at home as well my 15-year-old self didn't make much of it but I remembered I was
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supposed to be there a couple more hours he didn't say much which was unusual and
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he didn't walk me home before I left he asked if I could babysit the next night it was a school night and I had
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something going on a test to study for a project I had to finish I can't remember
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so I said I couldn't that was the end of our conversation and the last conversation I ever had with him it was
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also the last time I ever stepped foot into that house oh that's chilling the next night I was at home with my family
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it was about sevenish I remembered American Idol was on that night at some point our dog started barking
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hysterically our dog was a maltes terrier named Dart and his piercing squawk was not my favorite sound so I
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was yelling at him shut up sorry Dart I was also not studying or working on a project sorry John but actually not
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because [ __ ] you for what's about to happen no no one bothered to investigate why Dart was barking because like most
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dogs He barked at an uous [ __ ] all the time about an hour later American Idol was coming to an end and dart was
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barking again GH however when I glanced out the front windows I saw a massive amount of flashing lights outside there
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were police cars and emergency vehicles packing the street and parking in the grass this was not common on our street
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so a lot of gawking ensued by the surrounding neighbors a police officer knocked on our door and asked if we had
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seen or heard anything unusual that evening we had not we later learned that JN had shot Tracy in their master
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bedroom multiple times while Ben sat at the table downstairs wearing headphones and playing video games oh my God
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according to rumors we heard later Ben heard the shots and asked what had happened John told him they had dropped
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something upstairs he told Ben that Tracy was going to stay home to clean up the mess while he and Ben visited
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relatives John took Ben to his relatives left and called the police to turn himself in not a super thrilling end to
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the whole thing but I'm glad he didn't try to flee with Ben or do something else horrible here's the thing whenever
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I think about that story I can't help zooming in on the fact that I was alone in that house with that man he asked me
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to babysit Ben the night of the murder and I'm always torn on what could that could have meant for his story would I
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have been there when he killed Tracy would he have asked if Ben could stay at our house so he wasn't home during the
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event would he have not killed Tracy because I was there watching Ben or did he honestly just think he needed a
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babysitter and this whole thing transpired after that conversation I don't blame you for having so many
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[ __ ] questions what a horrible yeah you did I hope you have no guilt over this because that's a mind you were a
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15-year-old kid and you couldn't babysit like that's but holy [ __ ] I don't blame
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you for thinking through every single outcome that could have happened that's crazy I also wonder if Dart heard those
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gunshots because according to the loose timeline they put together JN would have
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shot Tracy near the time Dart started going off like an ill tuned bugle dogs know man yeah they do it breaks my heart
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that Ben was home when his mother was taken from him I'm so glad he didn't witness The Killing and I'm so glad it
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didn't turn into some crazier murder the whole family than Comm suicide type of thing I was so worried for that where
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this was going to I was too I changed their names in the story for Ben's sake he's out there somewhere trying to live
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his life after losing both of his parents to this horrible tragedy he'd be in his mid 20s by now which is Bonkers
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to me I don't know why Jon killed Tracy articles about the case say that the two
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had marital problems and that John was struggling with uh suicidal ideation and mental illness either way he's still a
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murdering [ __ ] and I'm not going to try and throw logic at any of his actions so that's the story of how I Babys sat
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for a coldblooded killer as you can imagine I didn't take a lot of babysitting gigs after that my parents
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still live in the house I grew up in and the Carter's house has gained a reputation for being cursed to add to
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the weirdness about a month after Tracy's murder an older woman showed up on our street she was standing in the
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road staring up at the Carter's house I had just gotten home from school and was
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taking dart out to pee the woman called out to me and asked if I knew the woman who had been killed I figured she was
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just a nosy bra and told her that yes I knew Tracy she told me she was gathering
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flowers from Tracy's yard to add to the memorial wreath her church group was making it was February and there were
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definitely no flowers growing at the time so okay she stared quietly at me and dart for an uncomfortable amount of
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time before asking if I wanted to pray with her I told her no thank you and she said in a dead pan voice she said you
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wouldn't want to bye what the [ __ ] and she says bye I dragged dart back inside and watched she
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wandered around our street for a few more minutes before getting in her car son's flowers and driving off and that
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officially concludes the weird that is [ __ ] she said you wouldn't want to I'd be like get the [ __ ] out of here
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yeah you got to go girl that's weird I hope you ladies have a spook alicious day and of course I hope you keep
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keeping it weird but not so weird that you socialize all easy breezy at block parties who does that okay actually
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plenty of people just not me not us either that was Ally I mean that was wild wild tale seriously and I truly
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cannot believe that you have to think of the fact that you were babysitting at this house with that man alone I know
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that he would walk you home that is just to like to have memories of him like at
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block parties just shooting the [ __ ] coming to your house and sitting on your back deck like to know somebody that
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intimately and to know what they did is so scary and especially to have seen him
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the night before like such a different human and like for Ally to see the state that he was in the night before like
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clearly something was way off I wonder what the hell was going on there like that's a lot yeah
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jeez wow that was quite a tale Ally for sharing that with us and I'm glad that you're okay all right my next one is
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listener Tale the ghost of very much alive me a growl broken mirrors Etc wo hello you fantastic weirdos my name is
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not Ralph but that's the name we'll go with I also changed the names of everybody in this story for their
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privacy it's nice to finally be sending this listener tale to my best friends but I must say for being my best friends
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you sure never respond to my awesome commentary as I'm driving cleaning cooking Etc and you usually interrupt my
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astute observations what's that about I'm so sorry I feel ter like every other listener I must say you two bring me so
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much joy and entertainment the latter of which is not easy to do as I'm a psychologist in a prison hence the fake
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name so I hear some wild [ __ ] on a daily basis I bet I'd love to regel you with
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more stories but we haven't have the we haven't the time right now I'm not going
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to apologize for the length nor encourage you to edit as you see fit because you've made it abundantly clear
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time and time again you will do no such thing and apologies are not needed hell no never and let's be real this story is
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perfection just the way it is however I will say there are a lot of commas in here as I am not really sure how to use
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commas versus semicolons really who understands grammar here's a here's a little little secret no one no one I
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thought you were going to like really like drop some hot grammar news on us no one understands grammar the only thing
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that I remember about a semicolon is a use it if you're going to list that's the only thing I remember but other than
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that it I'm just really glad that I have an editor yeah there you go there's that
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I put a lot of commas everywhere whenever I write something I also love the confidence here like the the you
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know that they feel like they're like this is perfection so so don't change it and I you like I know you won't and
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that's okay is perfection good for you I love that I like that I am a man of science like a nerd who loves to H up
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Journal rep repositories and go down the research rabbit hole with that said I have so much weird [ __ ] happened to me
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over most of my life that I am here to say with certainty there might be ghosts I love this already I love the way this
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person writes I have no idea what's going on out there oh same this story involved my boyfriend and I we will call
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him Bob and two roommates who we will call Karen and Frank Bob and I moved into Karen and Frank's 100 plusy old
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home in a semi-rough neighborhood of a large city rough as in I heard gunshots all the time and some literal drug users
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well under the influence walked into our yard passed a fence picked apples off a
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tree more than once I mean I'm glad that's all they did I mean yeah let there be
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apples at the time I worked in an inpatient Psychiatry unit at the safety net hospital for the metro area
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basically I worked with the most mentally ill patients possible like other hospitals could not handle them so
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they sent the patients to us wow one patient painted their children purple not sure why but she did oh man that's
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sad that's really sad I know and as I said I currently work in a prison so I have seen enough [ __ ] literally to know
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what is and is not Bonkers and my haunted ghosty house was Bonkers side notee while walking through the
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partially lit Supply Closet on an overnight shift at the hospital I felt a full hand fingers and all press up
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against my upper back and shoulder area as if to sing signal hey wait my first thought was what the [ __ ] is a patient
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doing in here I'm not in the mood it's 4:00 a.m. I'm tired but I turn around and no one was there I'm pretty sure
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humans cannot fly but I flew out of that closet and never went back in during a shift again I believe you oh my God and
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never went back in during a night shift I don't know why he's like I quit I don't work there anymore back to the
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house in the Attic there was this wooden box that was affixed randomly to the floor at the place where the floor and
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uh steeped ceiling met I bet there's a much better way to describe that or some architectural term but the latter
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probably would not help many it opened on the front as if it were to be a little Playhouse some might say a
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dollhous what was inside this random box you ask a [ __ ] doll why why did the previous owner a single man leave
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nothing in the entire house except a doll in the Attic box from hell my question exactly no one knows oh no also
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in the Attic a small portion was walled off with the door inside the room/ coffin were claw marks deep claw marks
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near the door jam again not okay why not sure maybe they were dog claw marks as some suggested but if there was a dog
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locked in the Attic in that small room that's extra [ __ ] up okay thank you I was like even someone suggest you're
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like that makes it worse what do you mean is a dog just locked in a room in a addict that's also bad yeah it's so hot
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in addicts I hate this I hate it I wondered if in the early 1900s there could have been a mentally ill family
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member locked up there hidden away from the world because at the time it was unfortunately a thing that's the thing
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that I was thinking of to be honest makes you think of um it's very much a thing American Horror Story yeah it's
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very much a thing oh that's so sad that they would like you'll find those kind of rooms in a lot of old houses and
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those that was what the purpose was a lot of the time I did not that it's really sad oh that's horrific there was
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a what which one which one one of those ghost shows was it the Atlantic Paranormal Society I think it is um they
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Ghost Hunters yeah Ghost Hunters I love that show that's a great show um and those guys are awesome and I love that
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they're from Rhode Island I'm like New England let's go uh but they had a couple of episodes where they went into
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these old houses and they found rooms like that and they like were talking and they would find like scratch marks and
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[ __ ] the [ __ ] yeah I remember it like vividly cuz I immediately started looking it up oh my God that makes my
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heart very sad I know it's horrible yeah yeah well every time I was up there I felt like I was being watched Karen's
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friend was known to be a psychic and one day she came over and she felt the presence of a man and overalls fun fact
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as she walked up these as she walked up the stairs to the attic I love that that's a fun fact like
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fun fact overall well I just love like imagine being like so in tune with the other side that you're like I sense a
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man and you're like oh you can sense that it's a man and you're like he's wearing overalls like it's just like how
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do you feel the overalls like how was that part of the sensation I love that like do you feel it or do you see it
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yeah like do you I hope she feels the overalls it does say she felt the presence of a man in overalls exactly
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she's feeling the overalls maybe she feels the rough denim what her overalls feel overalls feel like rough yeah
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scratchy rustic rustic is rustic a feeling yeah yeah sure why not you feel rustic right sometimes I don't know the
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overalls made me laugh now strangely when I felt like I was being watched I always joked it was a man well not a
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funny joke after the psychic said that but In fairness it's a 50/50 chance well in the US it's more like a 4951 chance
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favoring women yeah so close one day Bob was playing piano on the main level it's
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a large open space a living room to his right the dining room behind him and windows along the entire wall uh Through
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the Windows we could see a neighbor's house no one else was home and it was mid-afternoon so not a scary time of day
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wrong he heard a crystal clear here aloud wait for it growl right next to his ear we don't have a dog nor a lion
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nor a cougar nor anything else that could make that sound I was going to ask I love that you were like we don't have
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a dog and before you ask we also don't have a lion and nope don't even we don't have a cougar but do you have a panther
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you didn't answer that no nothing else that could make that sound he looked outside to see if there was a dog near
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the window despite hearing it directly next to his ear and he saw nothing the windows were also not open feels like a
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d yeah that's a Damon speaking of piano sometime later my sister slept over and in the middle of the night she heard the
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piano playing downstairs but everyone was asleep upstairs who was playing the piano crying distressed face I love how
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this is written that's like hell house see the little that movie [ __ ] me up for like
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two weeks I'll Forever sing the Praises of Hell House LLC as you should and never will I stop it's a great movie
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it's great and it's horrifying it's scary watch it spooky season is upon us everybody it's scared Drew too yeah and
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he thinks movies like that are kind of dumb so John got vertigo from all the movement but which is also scary vertigo
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is a scary thing to deal with it made him sick that's how scary it was Wo well a few weeks or even months later Bob and
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I were home alone watching TV one night from the living room no one can see the dining room as the two are attached and
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and off the wait no I said no one can see the dining room but one can see the dining room one can you're like it's
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attached but no one can see it it's kind of like a figment of your imagination it's kind of a thing we don't let anyone
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see the dining room no it's okay you can see the dining room as the two are attached and off the dining room is a
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large Archway into the office this would be to the right of the piano for my position on the couch I could not see
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the office as Bob could as we innocently watched TV he suddenly jolted his body back into the couch while he gasped and
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looked directly at the archway with wide unblinking eyes remember we live in a roughish neighborhood so I immediately
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thought that somebody came in one of the windows and I needed to get a knife and
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stab stab stab away but you cannot knife a ghost you can though Ash says you can
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catch one in a jar have I said that I probably have said some [ __ ] like that wait when was I going to catch a ghost
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in a jar I'm positive you said that oh I'm positive too there was only there was minimal doubt when did I want to
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catch a jar a ghost I love it he's like you can't knife a ghost but Ash did say you can catch one of the I'm trying to
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think about when I wanted to do that I'm sure it was one of our spooky episodes you were like did you know fun fact or
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you were probably like I wonder yeah you probably stated it as fact I just bought
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a bun a bunch of mason jars the other day so maybe you're think CU there are um isn't there like a
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place where you can buy a ghost or adopt a ghost in like London or something it's
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like in Europe that's really like Gam I think there's like a place where you can
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I'm going to look it up because every I'm sure people over there are like you dumbass this is what it's called um how
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do you like pay for that hold [Music] on yeah here they are it's the uh let's see Matlock ghost Emporium yeah what
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does a Ghost cost you let's let's look at a boat because I think it's supposed to be that like each ghost is has like a
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real ghost oh my God they're so cute I want them don't I want them don't I think we have
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one I don't know if they're the same that's what these are you too I don't know if they're those also is that what
00:26:23
the [ __ ] is happening in this room nah those have been a while we got those while ago yeah and we've been haunted
00:26:30
for a while and one time the TV fell on my head Elena you never told is that what
00:26:37
that is I think I wrote I read the uh thing in this person Elena art I'm going to call your
00:26:52
mom I'm going to call her are you joking me I is there one behind me I don't [ __ ] with that I don't Maybe
00:27:05
I'm Wrong maybe that's not what it is oh backtrack now you allowed Spirits into this room
00:27:11
that we don't even know look at this little mechanical Maiden one I like that no no this is everything I stand against
00:27:21
inviting unknown Spirits into your space no no wonder the sage goes out around you you Willow it yeah I think it's I I
00:27:31
I'm pretty sure it's like a a thing you know well Elena just informed me that you can buy ghosts and
00:27:38
that we actually might have some in this room so that's good really excited about
00:27:41
that can you hear how thrilled I am in my voice you son of a [ __ ] these might just be a different one how are we to
00:27:49
know I don't know mine's cute though I like him I'm not saying I dislike them I like them you're a friend oh God I'm
00:27:56
going to Sage this place after this anyway uh let me find my place again now that
00:28:01
I've been demonically possessed so I said one time that you can catch a a ghost in a jar what he
00:28:07
actually saw was not an intruder thankfully but the upper half of a man floating across the
00:28:12
archway oh yeah just that okay if he had legs Bob would have been able to see them I will never forget the fear in his
00:28:19
eyes that night I should also note he was super uber Ultra adamant ghosts did not exist prior to moving into that
00:28:26
house to make matters was even more [ __ ] up on two other occasions Karen and Frank separately saw the same thing
00:28:33
the upper half of a man float past the same Archway this might be messed up to say but you two especially Elena will
00:28:40
get it I was pissed I was the only one who did not see anything yes I would be so I would be upset too a growling
00:28:49
diamond and a [ __ ] legless floating ghost time to Yeet right wrong I was working nearly full-time and I was in
00:28:56
grad school so I likely did not have the will to care so we stayed like [ __ ] it
00:29:01
sometime later Bob who's getting the brunt of this ghostly [ __ ] likely because they were pissed that he did not
00:29:06
believe they were real awoke in the middle of the night to see me standing in the window rocking back and forth he
00:29:12
was confused why the [ __ ] I was doing that creepy weirdness but it wasn't me it wasn't me it wasn't me he looked over
00:29:18
and I was laying in bed next to him sound asleep he then panicked thinking I was dead and he was seeing my ghost so
00:29:24
he slapped my back and I groaned and rolled over I'm alive when he looked to the window my question
00:29:31
mark ghost was gone my to be fair this could have been a hypnopompic hallucination which is
00:29:38
blurring of Dreams in reality or straight up hallucination in the weird time of waking but still being a bit
00:29:44
asleep they're not uncommon but not as common as hypn hypnogogic hallucinations I was just going to ask if he meant
00:29:53
hypnogogic gogic I think it's hypnogogic hypnogogic I don't remember how you say it but it's
00:29:59
like GG instead of Po o p you know yes I was GNA ask if that's what you meant but I
00:30:06
think he must be talking about something different oh well he says those occur when you're falling asleep think hypn go
00:30:14
yeah gick or J going to bed you're welcome is this the last creepy story nope good one drunk night a bunch of
00:30:22
friends were over and we were playing games in the living room upstairs the friend's children were sleeping as we
00:30:27
innocently play games laugh and have some of this world fun some ghost [ __ ] was like nah no more fun I assume this
00:30:33
is what they said because we heard a very loud shatter upstairs as there were literal children up there we all ran up
00:30:40
up the stairs to check on them their door was closed and upon opening it they were undisturbed odd because that
00:30:45
shatter was very loud though children can sleep through a tornado lucky yeah it's true down the hall in another room
00:30:51
was a shattered mirror haters be like oh it's it just fell off the wall but guess
00:30:56
what it [ __ ] did not just fall off the wall I love haters be like that I love it [ __ ] did not the mirror was
00:31:04
hanging by a wire on a screw the screw was unmoved nor was it slanted downward so the mirror did not and could not
00:31:13
slide off the wire was also unbroken so the mirror needed to be lifted off the screw it's [ __ ] up that [ __ ] ghost
00:31:20
lifted the mirror off the screw and threw it on the floor that's [ __ ] Karen put a new mirror in the same place
00:31:25
a full body mirror which was leaned up against the wall what happened to that mirror I'm glad you asked it too broke
00:31:31
mirr days later but did it simply slide down the wall and break when landing on its back nope it fell forward and
00:31:39
shattered so there's no way it slid down the wall now if a mirror is leaning against a wall it takes effort slforce
00:31:45
to flip it forward so that twatty ghost clearly had a problem with mirrors as I type this I feel bad because what if the
00:31:51
ghost has body image issues I was thinking that too if you're listening ghost I'm sorry I love you so much I'm
00:31:58
sorry I'm sorry finally One Last Story Karen was home alone in the upstairs bathroom alone which alone when she
00:32:06
heard footsteps slowly come up the stairs while home alone alone the house is over a hundred years old so you can
00:32:13
hear someone come up those stairs they creaked like my knees after a mid-afternoon nap JK I can't nap I can't
00:32:20
either I'm not so great at napping anymore either once it ascended that final stair she heard footsteps slowly
00:32:26
come down the hall and stopped directly outside the bathroom door no noise no breath no voice just silent pants
00:32:34
pooping Panic pants pooping panic she finally gathered the badass [ __ ] courage to open the door and no one was
00:32:41
there did she then promptly burn that [ __ ] to the ground nope she is tough and no ghost will ever scare her out Bob
00:32:48
and I finally moved out due to ghost Panic question mark nope to was simply time for a new home due to other
00:32:54
circumstances not ghostly related but don't worry there is some other weirdness occurring in our new home as
00:33:00
well like hearing whispers When we dropped in with Alexa twice or loud bangs on the wall with absolutely no
00:33:05
apparent cause like loud ass bangs I thought a tree branch hit the house it has happened at least three times now
00:33:12
another time I was in my happy place vacuuming and suddenly I felt something/ someone forcibly stop my vacuum as I as
00:33:19
I was minding my own GD business it was as if I backed the vacuum into a wall real unnerving I hope you enjoyed this
00:33:27
banana story which actually was quite long I have to say or I have a lot to say I kept my prison potty mouth at Bay
00:33:33
kudos to me I also I also kudos to me you're hilarious I also saw ghost Jesus in the middle of the woods overlooking a
00:33:42
lake from a small hill my sober friend saw it/ him too so no to the Skeptics out there I did not see things because I
00:33:49
was drunk how many times have you hallucinated due to alcohol don't bother answering I know the answer zero times
00:33:55
P.S imagination is an act of process so when people say it was just your imagination that's crap how many times
00:34:02
have you imagined a ghost if that I'm just cry I love how you are just like roasting everyone it's awesome if that
00:34:11
was the power of if that was the power of my imagination I would be imagining Zack
00:34:18
Efron all the time P.S again I cannot stop myself I wonder if I'm more attuned to the other worldly things because I'm
00:34:24
a psychologist and you know listen pretty well you you can throw some empathy in there too I sweat being
00:34:31
gay I sweat being gay I think it's supposed to say I swear I swear being gay plays a role
00:34:40
also it makes me less threatening to when and men and and women to men and women dead to Alive women do not need to
00:34:48
worry I will creep on them or worse and men don't have to worry about me getting
00:34:51
into some Neanderthal dick swinging contest that sounds like they said that it sounds like fun
00:34:58
that bit sounds like fun [ __ ] fighting over a female mate to bop over the head and drag to a cave note I do
00:35:06
not believe all straight men are like that I should be done now P.S again I'm the worst on my drive home I noticed on
00:35:12
a small on a small Silver Box on the edge of a bridge overhanging the highway morbid spray painted and green letters
00:35:19
my immediate thought my soon Tobe Axe Murderer knows I take this highway and knows I listen to morbid they are
00:35:24
sending me a message I saw that message like a year ago still here and kicking I
00:35:29
cannot go I cannot go on I am certain anyone who knows me and is listening knows this is my tale there is literally
00:35:36
no one like me Whispers gay prison psychologist who worked in an impatient psych and has a
00:35:44
ghost tailor too keep it weird but not so weird that you live in a house with a doll in an attic hellbox claw marks a
00:35:51
torso ghost a growl the ghost of when you are actually alive broken mirrors and creepy footsteps by
00:36:00
I am literally obsessed with you oh my God this is absolutely the best that was everything that was really funny I love
00:36:08
you so much Ralph Ralph you rule Ralph forever let's be friends Ralph we already are truly we already are we need
00:36:15
to start answering Ralph's mid commentary I realized by the way that these are from the York um ghost
00:36:22
merchants and they're like a very renowned Merchant of ghosts they do not specifically say that there
00:36:30
are ghosts trapped in there it's heavily implied but it's not said I can't even express my overwhelming urge to throw my
00:36:38
Stanley at you just now they're they're just like specifically they're like a very renowned uh place to get ghosts
00:36:47
this one says listen her tail this is a good one I swear sorry I just boned to my Standley on my computer instead of
00:36:52
throwing it across the room I immediately got attached to this one so I'm glad I'm old and I don't know if
00:36:58
this if I did this correctly but here's my listener tale I thought you were still talking I mean me too me too they
00:37:06
wanted Ghost Whisper and I gave Courage the coodly dog it's about my ex who was dating me when uh but was involved with
00:37:13
four other people at the same time except they were dead so wow wow all right both of us just go Wow Wow Let's
00:37:23
go so listener tale they wanted go Swiss ER but got Courage the Cowardly Dog instead that show used to scare the [ __ ]
00:37:31
out of me when I was little yeah Ghost Whisper or courage dog actually I used to love Ghost Whisper oh damn used to be
00:37:38
on at like 6 o' after all my other programs I never watched it that's a Jennifer Love hu right y it is yeah it's
00:37:46
a girl it it was like um it was like a drama cuz there was always like a sad reason why they couldn't cross over oh
00:37:51
yeah of course there's one specific episode that I will never forget where this guy died it was like a football
00:37:58
player and he died because like another football player collided in just the right spot of his chest make his heart
00:38:04
go poof and it's called a certain thing and it's real and it's one of my biggest
00:38:08
fears yeah I mean don't play football I mean you never have to tell that even when I played in high school on the
00:38:15
Powderpuff thing I just walked the sidelines really no one wanted me to be there it's fine well this says hi you
00:38:23
ghoulish gals I am kayn you can wholeheartedly use my name because anyone who knows me knows that I am a
00:38:29
creepy freak and I more than okay with that I love your Vibe that's great I wanted to start off with you with you
00:38:34
two are amaz insanely amazing and what you do not only brightens many people's days but opens a lot of hearts and eyes
00:38:40
to horrible and morbid cases that need to be spoken of more thank you thanks I would spend more time loving on you but
00:38:46
sadly I have some traa and that stops me from being all mushy gushy and instead I
00:38:51
show my love by being a total smartass with sarcastic comments are you from New England I was going to say that's great
00:38:56
I spend my days is listening to you I'm a mail carrier so all I do is hand out bills and gruesome facts all day long
00:39:03
you're welcome folks who have come in contact with me I would listen to you guys when I am home but my husband says
00:39:08
I watch and listen to too many quote how to kill your husband and get away with it podcasts and shows I like to keep him
00:39:13
on his toes also I frequently say fresh airs for dead people because it makes it
00:39:18
a good reason as to why my hermit ass stays inside every chance I can but I digress anywh who this tale is about how
00:39:24
I dated as you how I dated an as Ju of a human who brought more people into our relationship than just us and all of
00:39:31
them were dead yep hold on to all your cheeks it gets creepy chaotic and it's just an allaround Horror Story from
00:39:38
beginning to end okay I will state that I am very very in touch with the spiritual side since I was young I was
00:39:45
able to speak to and see people who are not alive anymore I also knew things about people without realizing I should
00:39:50
not I told my uncle that his girlfriend was going to try and kill him I was five
00:39:55
and yes she in fact did try to kill him so he thought maybe that was a good time
00:39:58
to call it quits probably I guess having a [ __ ] picker having a [ __ ] picker runs
00:40:03
in our family or something I told my mom things about her her past I shouldn't have never known and I told my dad about
00:40:10
the woman who was going to die by Suicide below his apartment and she did as well 5 days after I left for
00:40:16
Christmas break so yeah damn the thing is the older I got the more I cut myself off from it because I am a total and
00:40:23
utter wuss you're not a wuss that's just like very over whelming and very intense
00:40:29
like I don't even like talking to people who are alive why would I want to socialize with dead ones you
00:40:34
know the thing is when I drink there is no cutting it off and that is a huge part of this story oh that makes sense
00:40:41
right cuz you're just like uninhibited yeah so I started dating this dumpster fire of a man when my life was at an
00:40:46
all-time low because that's what you do when you have abandonment issues parent issues surprise I have mommy and daddy
00:40:52
issues so you can call me an all-around winner because I got the two for one deal on shitty sperm and egg donor girl
00:40:57
I got the same one except my dad's half all right I'm so sorry about those deals
00:41:02
uh but but and you know what you are a winner because that was not your fault that you got dealt some [ __ ] cards you
00:41:10
just had to be here yeah you're the winner here okay winner winner chicken [ __ ] dinner we will call this
00:41:17
guy X it's funny because it goes off of his name and he's my ex ha yeah LOLOL we saw each other twice before he
00:41:26
asked me to move states away with him of course because I do everything I shouldn't I have to do it just to make
00:41:32
sure I shouldn't I told you drama so I gather a suitcase of my things and move across states with this
00:41:38
guy things seemed off from the very beginning he was in the military and lived off base the day we got to his
00:41:44
house he left to go in the field the house was nice but I just couldn't shake the feeling of it having a really dark
00:41:50
presence to it at night lights would go on and off the TV would blare at 3:00 almost every single night he he had this
00:41:57
huge mirror that sat across from the bed and it gave me the chills every time I looked at it I hated being alone there
00:42:03
not supposed to have a mirror at the foot of your bed oh yeah you always tell me that actually there's a mirror at the
00:42:08
foot of your bed isn't there it's off to the side it's still at the foot of your
00:42:12
bed you should actually move that why what is the the whole it's like a whole portal but isn't it a portal no matter
00:42:17
where it is in the room if it's there's some reason why if it's at the end it's like I don't know if it's like a fun
00:42:23
thing or something like that I think it's funu more than a port spiritual too is it yeah all I know is I don't like it
00:42:31
I don't know where else to put it I mean it looks good where it is but I'm like I
00:42:35
don't know it looks good maybe that's why there's a a second youu [ __ ] maybe I've created a portal with my put it
00:42:43
back where it was before it looked fine there but that's also right to the side of the end of the bed way less close
00:42:48
though I don't know this this feels nitpicky of the of the spiritual realm they're like if I bet they would
00:42:56
be picky though I'm 5 cm to the right then it's okay but if I'm facing it laugh now look I don't know I won't be
00:43:05
laughing when you get dragged off to a weird portal in the middle of nowhere damn do you see I said I wouldn't be
00:43:11
laughing but but damn I be up the [ __ ] I didn't know that was supposed to happen
00:43:18
I don't know what happens I'll move it slightly to the side you should to make you feel better thanks I'll do that for
00:43:22
you you should put it like we can talk about your mirror later no let's talk about
00:43:28
know no I want where where should I put my mirror guys where do I put my [ __ ] mirror sh take Instagram
00:43:35
votes later yeah tell me send me DMS where do I put my mirror comment on this on this episode uh post yeah there you
00:43:42
go my dogs are speaking about it right now I think you should get rid of it and move treats there they're like I don't
00:43:49
know I like looking at [Laughter] myself so I hated being alone there but I also know he would be home soon so yay
00:43:58
he comes back home 3 days later and surprises me with a bottle of tequila I was like oh sir don't temp me with a
00:44:04
good time we started taking that bottle down like it was the last bottle of water we had and dying in the desert I
00:44:10
mean it's unhealthy but your girl could throw it back then now I just throw up I
00:44:14
got drunk and then I started to sense there was more to this apartment than just being dark he was he was dark he
00:44:21
had this horrible thing that was attached to him and I could feel it I could feel her that night I felt and saw
00:44:27
a gray thin woman watching us from the hallway a gray thin woman watching you from the hallway you say that sounds
00:44:37
like it follows I hate that that's exactly what that sounds I hate that watching us from the ceiling so first
00:44:44
watching mostly watching him mostly I my my like the would be up I'd be like you
00:44:51
get your eyes somewhere else [ __ ] I would say you could have him goodbye I'm leaving
00:44:59
TR she doesn't mean it no not no this man's just dark throw this man to the curb if it was Drew I
00:45:07
would oh I'd square up with old girl saying I'm like if this was me be like let's go [ __ ] I think like past like
00:45:14
shitty people oh yeah take them you can take my ex go right ahead take him into the shadow realm with you of all right
00:45:22
so yeah thin gray woman watching from the hallway watching from the ceiling watching him mostly but she knew I could
00:45:27
feel her around us why do you how do you know what she knows this the best visual
00:45:32
I can give is if the Grudge girl was an all black and white oh my God I hate it when you said the best visual that's
00:45:40
that's the worst visual actually I told him what I was feeling and that she had made her presence known to me and he
00:45:46
stopped and just stared at me I thought he thought I was crazy but instead he told me since he was a little boy he had
00:45:51
an attachment his family who practices santoria tried to do everything they could to protect him from it but this
00:46:00
succubus wouldn't let him go everyone go Google what a succubus is that's the ghost that foxy
00:46:10
read Googles it's a sex one she looks so serious at me she was like I'm correct right leave it in
00:46:27
oh man that's that kind of ghost that's that kind of ghost and now that I was there she was angrier than ever again
00:46:34
got to go you could have him I got to go we went to bed that night and I was awoken to death curdling screams in my
00:46:42
ears it was as if my brain was screaming whoa when I shot up out of bed he was sitting up just looking at me I asked
00:46:50
him X did you hear that nothing I asked again he just kept staring at me and didn't even blink once
00:46:57
I had chills all over my body I looked at him and realized it was as if he had turned a stone no movement I couldn't
00:47:04
even tell if he was breathing so I started shaking him pleading with him to wake up and acknowledge what the [ __ ]
00:47:09
just happened he never did he sat there for two hours and never moved plenty of time for you to book a plane ticket and
00:47:17
get the [ __ ] out of there get out of there I am not making this up I wish I was but that will live with me till I
00:47:23
die it was the first time I ever felt truly helpless and fearful of what the Paranormal world could do yeah I bet I
00:47:30
stayed there with him till he laid down and went back to his normal sleep I couldn't sleep I couldn't even put
00:47:35
together what the actual [ __ ] was happening did I dream this was I that drunk no it just got worse when we would
00:47:41
he would leave for the field I would be awoken to the same scream I hate the scream I hate a scream and one night
00:47:47
while I laid there I saw in that stupid hauntingly creepy but beautiful mirror a
00:47:52
shadow crossed behind me mind you the bed was against the wall there was nowhere for someone to cross behind me I
00:47:58
jumped out of bed and told whoever was there to leave they were not welcome I cried I straight up cried for hours
00:48:04
trying to turn on the TV never helped they would just turn it back off that would piss me off yeah I love the office
00:48:12
it's like what calms me I have to have the TV on at night I'd be really irritated if I was trying to get in my
00:48:17
cozy mood and they were like no silence it is that sounds like like the the wait
00:48:22
I'll let you read the rest of this cuz it sounds like um Poltergeist like says they would just turn it back off they
00:48:28
would blast the volume they would shake the bed shake the sofa every time he came back home he was different more
00:48:34
angry at me for things I wasn't allowed to use certain cups or plates the he told me that I what I could and couldn't
00:48:40
eat he told me how to wear my hair and how to dress it became a nightmare all around me I'm so sorry I know he'd leave
00:48:46
and though it sucked to be alone I almost felt like I had some time to breathe till the ghost steep back into
00:48:51
play and yes multiple the more sad I became the more I would drink I know I know I'm a healthy Co um I'm a healthy
00:48:59
copper zero out of 10 would recommend I think coer probably but sometimes you do
00:49:04
what you think you got to do while one night of drinking myself to sleep I got a text from Mr wasted space and he tells
00:49:10
me I need to be out the next day this that his Leader found out he was dating someone and living with them while he
00:49:16
was still married your girl your girl lost it after going on a full-blown hunt to find
00:49:22
his said wife I messaged her I told her I had no idea and that I was heartbroken
00:49:26
broken for her more than anyone after us girls banding together because that's what the [ __ ] you do good for you I kept
00:49:33
drinking that night because that's not what you do and I let every single wall down I started writing everything I felt
00:49:39
and everyone who came to me the succubus stayed back but let herself be known then an older woman came forward long
00:49:47
black hair and definitely not a fan of mine she told me she was his grandmother and did not approve of me being with him
00:49:55
oh another step Ste forward a soldier he was young and extremely protective over
00:50:00
me he told me I was safe but I needed to leave immediately and then another man mid-40s maybe and had drown drowned in a
00:50:08
lake nearby he told me he had two children and a wife not even 5 miles away from where I was my God I was
00:50:14
writing scribbles everywhere trying to coherently take in all their stories 10 pages of stuff definitely looked like a
00:50:20
doctor wrote it because it was my Loosey Goosey writing stage of half cursive and
00:50:24
half who knows what the [ __ ] it is these spirit came to me looking for the Ghost
00:50:28
Whisperer and I straight up gave them drunken Courage the Cowardly Dog not my best moment but definitely not my worst
00:50:35
the next day I gathered my things and left the hell house I will say while moving my things out I took every Fork
00:50:40
but one and also took the microwave plate the microwave plate that's [ __ ] genius that is amazing to take the
00:50:48
microwave plate as a power move I have never known the power moves of power moves like that is wow the microwave
00:50:55
play cuz that's going to hit that's going to and that's going to hit in a moment just like oh I wanted those ramen
00:51:01
noodles so bad moment the worst moment I'm not I'm not a petty person usually but I was horrifically hung over and
00:51:09
feeling a little spicy that day no good for you also the dick [ __ ] deserved it
00:51:12
and those Forks belonged to his wife to begin with so whatever [ __ ] that I left
00:51:17
my chicken scratch notes right on top of the kitchen counter that I took down the
00:51:20
night before and without skipping a beat he called me that night when he came back to the house he said what was his
00:51:25
name the soldier what was his name I told him it was John the man started to cry I mean could barely speak I soon
00:51:33
figured out a lot that night the succubus that had followed him around was due to him playing with a Ouija
00:51:37
board when he was very young he had become possessed his family members had cast spells of protection on him and it
00:51:43
seemed to help until his grandmother had passed away his grandmother was the older woman I spoke to that night when
00:51:49
she passed he said the succubus clung to him and never let go of him after that the soldier I spoke to was a guy he was
00:51:55
in the military with one day they had switched places on a Humvee and had sadly hit an IED the side my ex was
00:52:02
supposed to be on got hit the hardest and ended up with Jon losing his life that day ex always blamed himself with
00:52:08
that feeding at him it only ever fueled his succubus more he told me he never had dreams only nightmares and always
00:52:15
felt like his body his mind and body were at two different places at night he was happy to hear John was still there
00:52:21
and making sure everyone was safe that's all he ever did for X when they were serving together wow now the mid-40s man
00:52:27
he had no idea about didn't know him but did hear about an accidental drowning the year he moved there the wife and two
00:52:33
children were begging to help find him they did shortly after when his body was recovered 2 miles away from our house
00:52:40
with all that being said I did get my [ __ ] together and ended up marrying my best friend three years later we have
00:52:45
two beautiful children and I couldn't ask for a better husband and father oh that makes me really happy that's
00:52:50
incredible I sometimes wish I never had to go through that but man am I glad to be married to a Preacher's Son who never
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once been possessed yay for me to add to add my three-year-old son is just like I am poor guy he tells me
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about the man in our house he has woken me up to point at the wall and ask who's
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that I debated on selling him on Etsy because you know he's homemade and you'll never get more money that
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way and you'll get more money that way but he also started talking about my [Laughter]
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grandmother I de selling him on Etsy because you know he's homemade that's incredible you'll get more money that
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way but he also started talking about my grandmother a day after she passed he tells me how she sits on the sofa with
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us and watches TV so I guess I'll just keep my little Ghostbusters thank you ladies and
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congratulations on all you two have done and will continue to accomplish keep it
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weird but don't keep it this weird take it away Ash keep it so weird but not so weird that you sell your son on Etsy
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even if he is H even if he is H wow I love wow oh my God that was great uh amazing all right we have one
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last listener tale for you today it's listener tales regarding episode 424 ancter nannies and kids who talk to
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ghosts um hi screams Canada like France my name like France like France my name is let me see CIT land I think
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right yeah cait land you can say it but you already did so you're welcome I love
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that but you already did all right let me go to the P the P oh it's the same thing and it says but
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you already did so you're welcome for a weird and brief period Of My Life I Lived in Hamilton the waterfall capital
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of the world and went to college with Tim bosma's niece a few years after the evil onion events took place damn safe
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to say the community will never recover I was driving when I heard this episode and it was 10:58 when I stopped it to
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listen when I had computer access you pronounced K Kajiji and a tobaco I think it is correctly hell yeah something
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about a truck is a country song by Kip Moore and you were so close on the words but it's farmer field not tan close oh
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so close fill in many various compliments I love you and I'm grateful for you here I love you and I'm grateful
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for you I love you and I'm grateful for you too on to the story when I was eight
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my nanny my maternal grandmother passed away suddenly and unexpectedly she was so funny she taught me how to craft and
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sew she played a mean game of cards and made a magical root beer float I want to
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root beer floats so badly now oh they're so good oh she loved Angels apples and having her face tickled to sleep by her
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granddaughters God what a grandma I know at Christmas time she filled 5 foot tall
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stockings for the grandkids that's amazing and would let us stay up late long as she got a foot massage out of
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the deal that's a boss [ __ ] right there yeah it is losing her was tough for all
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of us I'm sorry 23 years later my mom still thinks about picking up the phone to call her and I never take for granted
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being able to call my mom I had the odd spooky dream about her when I was young but never encountered her spirit until
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after she passed my nephew H who was born 11 years after she was already gone however got to meet his great n through
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ghost tea parties oh my God for a few days I know this is great for a few days he was sitting or standing near a corner
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of my sister's living room and babbling away my sister asked who he was speaking
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to and he would always say Nanny Buckley nobody in our family ever really called
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her that because she was just Nanny to us but had she been with us to see great grandchildren come into the world that's
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what she would have been called my mom was very excited to be nanny to her own grandkids it freaked my sister out but
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she let it go because it didn't make any sense my poppy Roy was having some health issues and my sister was spending
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extra time with him on a particularly hard day H said to my sister Nanny Buckley says hi back here's where my
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sister started to pay attention because she uh she talks aloud to my nanny when she's in her car alone so hearing her
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three-year-old say your dead grandma says high back was slightly alarming little bit he continued to have tea
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parties with her and would occasionally pass on a hello H and I hung out one day
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while my sister took my poppy to the hospital for test results the diagnosis was cancer and the prognosis was not
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good they returned home and my sister happily chatted away with my nephew pretending her world hadn't just been
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Shattered by a guy with a clipboard our badass mom was a single hardworking mom to four kids our Nanny and Poppy helped
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raise us and lived with us for most of our lives so he was a best friend a rock and the glue to all of us she asked H if
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he had tea with his anny and very knowingly without knowing anything at all cuz my sister was holding it so
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together and I didn't even know the news yet said no she was with poppy today he
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really needed her oh my God stop he had the odd encounter with her after that but it didn't last too long the bond he
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had with my poppy was unbreakable in the few short years they had together they created a true lifetime of memories of
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going for quote unquote coffee oh my God stop coffee for pop watered down hot chocolate and a Timbit for the kid a
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Timbit is a tiny donnut hole but way better from Tim Horton fishing in every season watching old western movies and
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playing with the Tickle Monster Poppy's hand of course this was a favorite of ours when we were little too oh my God I
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love your Nanny and Poppy I know eight months after his diagnosis H came to visit him at my mom's house where he was
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being taken care of they had their mostly silent visit and left a minute later H busted back through my parents'
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door threw his his little arms around Poppy and told him he loved him within a few hours my nanny and Poppy were we're
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finally reunited after too many years of him being so lost without her oh our world will never feel like home without
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them but I hope they're happy wherever they are they deserve it my nephew is 12 now doesn't see ghosts and doesn't think
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I'm cool anymore damn kids anyways keep it weird but not so weird that you let your nephew have tea parties with ghosts
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or maybe do definitely citn from screams Canada from Canada attached to her photos of my poppy and my nephew my
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poppy and I my nanny with my siblings and I I had to crop it because it was the 9s and nobody was wearing a shirt my
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now husband just like a bunch of pictures I love that oh my God let me see your poppy is exactly what I thought
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he would be oh I seen them now I couldn't see them at first oh my God he's so sweet what a cutie patootie oh
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oh I love these pictures oh my God I love them a oh your poppy is just so such a grandpa such a poppy like he's
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such a poppy a just love it wow that was a great story that was a perfect one to
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end on oh man thank you for that Kaitlyn you guys are the best you guys rule better than the rest that was a great
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batch I liked that one what a what a fascinating batch I know the we had so there really wasn't there wasn't I kind
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of like that when that happens yeah well we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it we but not so weird that
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somebody sees a ghost version of you in your house because you're still alive and that would be so scary definitely
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don't keep it so weird that you babysit for a cold butter killer even if you don't know because oh my God scary scary
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scary do keep it so weird that you have a kid who has ghost tea parties because I love that one and honestly maybe keep
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it so weird that you steal somebody's microwave plate cuz I love that that's the best kind of petty bye bye
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