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KQED and PRX You've

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crossed over to Spooked When

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I was a kid, sometimes

1:31

something was wrong I

1:55

would pull me awake in the dead of

1:57

night Rocket

2:00

fuel sitting on the edge of my

2:02

bed soon. One. Seems

2:05

to turn that. I

2:11

have been frozen of able to

2:14

do more than blink my eyes

2:16

at a tear, never seen the

2:18

face that held me prisoner. my

2:21

limbs immobile, First.

2:24

Tears streaming down paralyzed seeks

2:26

condemned to wade through this

2:28

might have cold silence. To

2:33

finally released by the morning. As

2:38

my mother their about the monster at

2:40

the foot of my bath once said,

2:43

i do. From. Of

2:45

evil even to squeeze. Spins

2:49

down on her knees to grab

2:51

and we press. We

2:54

pray the Lord will see me from

2:56

the saddle and blessed in the days

2:58

to be an hour. Later.

3:07

When I'm older, no longer a

3:09

child, I learn about sleep paralysis.

3:13

How millions of people find

3:15

themselves frozen, jolted, awake, slumber

3:17

in the lighthouse. That

3:20

it is in fact a medical

3:22

condition. I

3:24

tell this to my mother. Was

3:27

sunny afternoon over eggs or

3:29

French tosi Smiles. Glasses

3:32

back over at me. Feel

3:36

really believe that? Do you. Cause

3:39

I believe it. She

3:42

looks serious now. Serious.

3:46

Takes a sip of. His

3:52

these. Things at the

3:54

end of the. you'd

3:57

know My

4:12

name is Glen Washington. You

4:14

only know what you know. I

4:18

am JoAnden. My name is thread. From

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my cross. I am English. Some

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men who start

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to transitional things.

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invented here as a resource... We

4:55

begin with Ellie. Now

4:58

when Ellie was a little kid, she'd lie in bed

5:00

and listen to the house settle. Start

5:02

drifting off to sleep and she'd hear it. Closet

5:05

door opening and closing, opening and closing.

5:09

Then the footsteps up

5:11

and down the hallway. But

5:13

she knew, she knew, that

5:16

her mom and her brother, they were already asleep.

5:18

She knew this. So

5:20

she pulled the covers up over her head in

5:22

the hope that whatever it was, making

5:25

those noises, that

5:28

it would stop. Scoop,

5:31

scoop, scoop, scoop, scoop. It's

6:00

springtime on a weekend and

6:02

I'm sitting in my room.

6:05

The sun is pouring into

6:07

my window and it feels really

6:10

nice. And I can

6:12

hear birds chirping outside. My

6:15

brother is outside playing with his new

6:17

friends and my mom

6:19

is in her room sleeping. And

6:23

I'm doing

6:27

my paint by number. It's of

6:29

a cat and I'm really intensely

6:31

focused on this. There

6:34

was a sliding closet door in my

6:36

room and every

6:40

now and then it would sound like something

6:42

is on the inside just going bang that

6:44

keeps waking me up in the middle of

6:46

the night. And

6:48

so my closet is behind me at this point. And

6:52

I hear

6:55

the same thing, but

6:57

this time it's different because I hear

7:01

the closet door slide open and

7:04

I was shocked. What

7:07

do I do? What opened that door? And

7:11

so I turned around and

7:14

lo and behold, there's

7:17

my closet door open and I

7:20

hear coming from my

7:23

left side, a girl,

7:25

a little girl. And she says, do you

7:28

want to play a trick? I'll

7:31

please. Every hair on my body

7:34

is standing up. I did not just

7:36

hear that. What's going

7:38

on? I'm stuck

7:40

to the ground. I can't move. I'm

7:43

moving my eyes around, but I can't see

7:46

anybody in my room. And

7:49

so I just, I bolt right to my

7:51

mom's room and

7:53

I burst in there and I'm

7:56

shaking her like wake up, wake up, wake

7:58

up, mom, there's a a girl in

8:01

my room she's asking me to play tricks

8:04

but she's telling me no it's just your

8:06

brother like leave me alone

8:08

I'm sleeping and I'm telling her no

8:11

no my brother's outside

8:13

playing I'm scared

8:15

like out of my mind at this

8:17

point somebody just talked to me actually

8:19

talked to me and a door just

8:21

opened but

8:24

she's telling me that it's

8:26

not real and I'm trying

8:28

to decide do I go outside do

8:30

I stay in my mom's room what

8:33

do I do and ultimately I just

8:35

decided to run I run right out of

8:37

the house slam the door behind me and

8:39

I run into the backyard and I'm starting

8:41

to scream for my brother Travis Travis there's

8:43

somebody in the house there's a girl she's

8:45

asking me to play tricks and he's

8:48

telling me no no that's that can't be

8:50

that can't happen there's no one there you're

8:53

just making it up it

8:55

was like you know it doesn't matter anyway I have a

8:57

surprise for you and there's

9:01

this girl's hand like waving out

9:03

and Travis goes this is Sarah

9:07

the first thing I noticed was that she was

9:09

really really pretty like in

9:11

school she would have been one of those

9:13

like popular girls and so at first I

9:15

was really scared like she's not going to

9:17

want to be friends with me because this

9:19

is the type of girl that makes fun

9:21

of me at school I'm

9:25

an anxious type of person

9:27

I don't really have a lot of friends but

9:30

she was really really nice she was was

9:34

quiet at first when

9:37

we were first getting to know each other we were

9:39

all playing in the trees and playing in the

9:41

grass and it really it helped me

9:44

because I was able to get my mind off of what

9:46

just happened in the house there

9:49

was still that lingering like hey something

9:51

really weird just happened but

9:53

Travis kept brushing it off and telling me like

9:55

just leave it alone you know nothing's there so

9:57

I was able to Anna

10:00

ignore it and hang out with their

10:02

on her brother and my brother at

10:04

that point. It's

10:08

a. Hot. And

10:10

humid. Summer. Dame

10:12

and. So. Sarah

10:15

and her brother and my brother and

10:17

I decide to play over at my

10:19

house. My. Mom is

10:21

at work and were getting

10:23

kind of bored after playing

10:26

video games. Sarah says. Why?

10:29

Don't we play hide and go

10:31

seek downstairs in the basement and

10:33

make it hide and go seek

10:35

in the dark and my brother

10:37

and I were like no, no

10:39

no, we're not allowed to go

10:41

down there and plus is just

10:43

like a big empty basement, there's

10:45

nowhere to hide and she says

10:47

modify It matters because you can

10:49

hide anywhere in the dark and.

10:51

Role playing for a while and it's fine

10:54

and in you know our nerves are a

10:56

little bit like amplified because it's in the

10:58

dark and in college scary each other as

11:00

you're finding each other to sound you. With.

11:03

One of my turns at. When.

11:07

I don't know how long I counted for,

11:09

but I heard everybody powder in other directions

11:12

and I'm kinda like listening. Where are they

11:14

going to them? Want to try and find

11:16

them? And.

11:19

As. And counting I hear. This

11:22

like school. And I

11:24

say you're gonna have to hide better

11:26

than that because the mentally ill defined

11:28

you. So I

11:30

stopped counting. And I reach out to

11:33

where I heard that google but there's

11:35

nothing there. And

11:37

so as I'm standing there, I hear

11:39

this. Noise. Something

11:42

sell on the ground and it

11:44

sounded like it came from that

11:46

area where there was boxes in

11:48

the corner of some that room.

11:52

so i make my way over to

11:54

wear those boxes would be in a

11:56

reach out but there is nothing there

11:58

there's dozen boxes and for But

12:01

I can still hear whatever that noise

12:03

is coming from the

12:06

ground, so I'm like, ha ha,

12:08

very funny. But

12:11

no one's saying anything, like no

12:13

one's responding, and I can

12:16

still hear this noise, so that's

12:19

it. I like, I flicked all the light. And

12:22

what fell out of the

12:25

boxes is this small

12:28

rubber children's playing

12:30

ball, and it was

12:34

rolling back

12:36

and forth, just in the middle of

12:38

the room, as if there was two

12:40

people, like, kicking it back and forth,

12:42

but there's nobody standing there. And

12:46

I don't really know what to think,

12:48

like, what am I seeing, and my

12:51

reaction is to just cry. Like, I

12:53

just started crying, and so

12:55

that alerts my brother to come in

12:57

and see what the heck is going

13:00

on. And then Sarah and her brother came

13:02

into the room, and they're seeing it, and

13:05

Sarah just immediately

13:07

starts bawling her eyes out,

13:09

and she's running up the stairs. I'm

13:12

frozen in place, and my brother's telling me, come

13:14

on, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta get out

13:16

of here. But I can't move,

13:18

I'm just paralyzed watching the

13:21

balls move between

13:23

two invisible nothing. It

13:26

just felt so wrong. Like,

13:28

this should not be happening, and

13:31

I don't know what's doing it, but Travis

13:33

finally convinces me to run

13:35

up these stairs, and we

13:37

get upstairs, close the door. I

13:41

look over, and Sarah's like,

13:44

completely hysterical, and like, right

13:46

at that moment, my

13:48

mom comes into the house,

13:50

and she sees Sarah crying,

13:52

and there I am, tears

13:54

on my face, and she asks me what

13:56

on earth is going on. Though

14:00

I explained and like everybody's trying

14:02

to do then and explain that

14:04

everybody just thought that they spent

14:06

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And as if I'm not making this up

15:07

and I looked at Sarah and I'm trying

15:09

to like come on stick up for me

15:12

He saw this to and I'm looking at

15:14

everybody else the tell her what you saw.

15:17

But they weren't saying anything like they were looking

15:19

at my mom like she was some tennis savior.

15:21

Those and save the day and tell them that

15:23

was all made up. And she did. She told

15:25

them. It's all may

15:27

up. You know she's just trying to

15:30

scare you. been on sorry that this

15:32

is happening. I as are getting mad

15:34

at her. I don't know. Why she

15:36

keeps trying to convince me that

15:38

these things aren't happening. And

15:41

I feel like something's really trying to

15:43

tell me if I'm here and I

15:45

want your attention. I know that something's

15:47

there, but no one is listening to

15:49

me. I

15:51

didn't know what it was that we were

15:54

dealing with because. nothing

15:56

felt like violent it's just

15:59

so playful But

16:01

almost like it could be dangerous,

16:04

only because the more I

16:06

ignored these things, the angrier

16:08

it got. It's

16:14

the evening of my 11th birthday,

16:17

and my friend Sarah

16:20

was able to convince a few

16:22

of our, like, kind of

16:25

mutual friends to come over to my house

16:27

because I was having a sleepover. We

16:30

were all in the living room, and

16:33

we're all, like, watching a movie.

16:35

Our sleeping bags are spread out, and

16:37

there's snacks and bowls. I

16:39

can see that Sarah's getting really uneasy.

16:42

She's just kind of getting antsy

16:44

sitting on the couch, and she

16:46

looks like she has something on

16:48

her mind. And

16:51

she decided she

16:53

doesn't want to stay over. She

16:57

wanted to go back to her house, and

17:00

my mom had said, you

17:02

know, okay, well, if you want, you can

17:04

go back. And so that kind of

17:06

piqued the interest of the

17:09

other girls at my party, like, what's

17:11

wrong, Sarah? Why are you going home? And

17:14

so Sarah broadcasted to everybody

17:16

that my house

17:18

is haunted, and she didn't want

17:20

to stay. And

17:23

my mom was there. She

17:26

was standing in the dining room, which overlooks the

17:28

living room, and she was listening to this, and

17:30

I looked over at my mom. And

17:34

she told me, like, this is what

17:36

you get when you make up stories to scare

17:39

your friends. You're going to lose your friends. They're not going to

17:41

want to stay over at your house. They're not going to want

17:43

to play with you. One

17:45

by one, each girl was like, I want to go home. I want to go home.

17:49

And so my mom agreed to

17:51

take them all back to their

17:53

houses, and that

17:56

turned into a really sad and

17:58

sad moment. lonely night and

18:01

my mom basically

18:04

just blaming me for it telling me

18:06

that well if

18:08

you wouldn't make stuff up you

18:10

would still have friends essentially that was

18:12

just a huge blow. I was

18:17

just sad because I

18:21

really am alone in

18:23

experiencing this I'm

18:25

sad because my best friend

18:27

who's been there for everything

18:30

I can tell her anything

18:32

she's suddenly really distant and

18:35

doesn't really want to hang out as often

18:38

as we used to definitely doesn't

18:40

sleep over anymore so it's just

18:42

me in my house again where

18:44

I'm alone. Five

18:49

months later my

18:51

mom is throwing this

18:53

valentine themed party and

18:57

my brother and I are in

18:59

the living room while everybody's doing

19:03

their thing, partying I guess.

19:06

It was around 9 p.m. or

19:08

something like that and she had come and told

19:12

us that we have to go up to bed so I

19:14

make my way upstairs

19:18

and I purposefully

19:20

left my door open waiting for

19:22

her to come upstairs and

19:26

tuck me in because she told me that she

19:28

would be up shortly after to come say

19:31

goodnight. So I'm

19:33

sitting there in my bed and I'm waiting and I'm

19:35

waiting for her to come up

19:37

and the music's going and I can hear people talking and

19:42

I look over and I

19:44

see this shadow in front of

19:46

the linen closet. There's

19:49

light coming from downstairs and

19:51

I'm thinking maybe there's

19:53

somebody standing like in the stairway and

19:55

it's casting a shadow onto the linen

19:57

closet And

20:00

it was tall, so it

20:03

definitely wasn't my mom. Maybe

20:05

it was my mom's boyfriend

20:07

who's coming upstairs to make sure that

20:09

we're actually in bed. So

20:13

I call out like Graham,

20:15

and there was no reply,

20:17

and I can still hear everyone downstairs.

20:21

And so looking at the

20:23

shape of this figure, that's

20:26

when I realized it's

20:28

not actually a shadow, because

20:31

I cannot see the linen

20:33

closet behind it. It's just

20:35

a solid black figure,

20:39

and I cannot see any features.

20:43

I can only see the

20:45

outline of what looks like a

20:47

really tall man, hunched over,

20:49

looking into my room,

20:53

right at me. I'm

20:56

staring at it, trying to

20:58

figure out, like rubbing my eyes, what is this? Is

21:00

it going to go away? Is it a shadow? I'm

21:02

calling out the names of all the men that I

21:04

know at that party, but no one's responding, and this

21:06

thing is just standing there.

21:10

And it's not going away. And

21:13

so I pull my covers over my head,

21:15

and I'm just, I keep peeking

21:17

out and seeing if it's gone, but it's still standing there,

21:19

and I pull the covers over my head. My

21:23

heart rate's getting faster, my breathing's getting

21:26

weird, and I peek out, and

21:28

now the position of it is

21:30

changed. Now it's profile view, and

21:32

it's got its arms outstretched in

21:35

front of it. This

21:37

thing is massive. There's no way that

21:39

this is fitting in my house. This

21:41

is why it's hunched over,

21:43

and it's so tall. Its

21:47

arms are long, and the fingers

21:49

are long, and it's not

21:51

human. And it's

21:53

staring at me, and I can feel it

21:55

staring at me, and it won't go away.

22:00

My covers over my head. And

22:02

a screen. I'll just go away.

22:05

And I look out of my covers and

22:08

it's his gun is just completely gone. There's

22:10

nothing there. the linen closets there. And

22:13

I'd. I'd look at I'm

22:15

down the stairs, I'm. Crying.

22:17

Where's my mom? was the mom. My

22:20

mom's boyfriend like what's going on and

22:22

I'm trying to explain what I just

22:24

saw and he's trying to calm me

22:27

down. My mom was outside on the

22:29

balcony and she comes in and and

22:31

she's like why crying, what's going on

22:34

and I'm saying they're exploiting mama Mama

22:36

I saw this thing. there was something.

22:38

Upstairs staring at me with huge was. Tall,

22:40

it's it. was reaching out and

22:43

she does. Her

22:46

her demeanor changed. she went

22:48

from you know being alarmed,

22:50

been com. And

22:53

see got down to

22:55

my level and she.

22:58

She. Said okay you know just go

23:01

upstairs to my bedroom. will be a.

23:05

And she comes up

23:07

and. She tells me.

23:10

I believe you. Don't worry

23:13

like we're gonna get this figured out. I.

23:17

Feel like my mom finally

23:19

actually believe me? And

23:22

I don't know what it was that I said

23:24

that night and made her believe me. Strangely.

23:28

She's not telling me I'm a liar. She's not telling

23:30

you they're making it up. She's

23:33

telling me that she's gonna get

23:35

to speak. With

23:40

seems. So.

23:45

Very shortly after that

23:47

night, she started setting

23:49

up all of these

23:52

doctors appointments for. Me:

23:55

To get tested for whatever

23:57

she thought it was Alice

23:59

getting. What has done

24:01

physical done? I know that there

24:03

was sleep studies there with e

24:06

se geez there was some. Like

24:10

these. Just different

24:12

tests where they just put all of

24:14

these liga things all of my body

24:16

to monitor me while they're asking me

24:18

questions. I was

24:21

seeing a psychiatrist and would ask

24:23

me questions about. What

24:25

I was seeing and if

24:27

I could describe. It my mom.

24:29

She thought I was delusional when

24:31

she told me that she. Believed

24:33

me. She.

24:36

Believed that I was seeing these things. but she

24:38

also believed it with all in my head. That

24:43

was really heartbreaking

24:46

because. I

24:48

had this. Fleeting

24:50

moment where oh my gosh, my mom

24:52

finally believe me. Maybe these things are

24:55

going to stop now because when you're

24:57

kid, your parents, your saviors, you know

24:59

your parents are gonna do everything they

25:01

can to protect your. or at least

25:03

that's what you believe in your kids.

25:05

I believe that if my mom just

25:07

believe me, she could make it stopped

25:09

somehow. I figured it

25:12

was only a matter of time until these things

25:14

would stop happening. That

25:16

know she thought I was sick.

25:24

I. Was. Upstairs

25:26

in my room it's night

25:29

time. I was drifting off

25:31

to sleep. And.

25:35

I was starting to feel flight vibrations

25:37

just enough. That. I don't

25:39

know what's actually happening. Squint

25:44

one. And

25:46

I hold my breath to train,

25:48

see if my bed is actually

25:50

a vibrating or not. And that's

25:52

when I realize that. My

25:55

bet is actually moving. And

25:59

ice. My covered. In

26:03

that moment, A

26:12

kid. And.

26:16

I'm bouncing around. And.

26:19

I just. Don't go to

26:21

bed and I run down the stairs. And

26:24

as I'm running down the stairs, I hear my better.

26:28

Has to smoke curling loud. Truman

26:30

never heard him scream like this.

26:33

And would induce years. And as I

26:35

get to the bottom of the stairs

26:37

I see my mom pulling out the

26:39

door, screaming what's Wrong to others, What's

26:41

wrong I can see my mom was

26:43

putting her whole body weight into opening

26:46

the door. And

26:48

it didn't have a lot. Screaming

26:50

And screaming. And things. And

26:54

and I needed to of so

26:57

thin. One

27:00

don't serve so fast. And

27:03

them, they're down there for a second and

27:05

they come back up. And.

27:07

My brother is shaking like a

27:09

leaf like he saw something really

27:12

scary and my mom is like,

27:14

what's going on Travis? What's going

27:16

on. And that's

27:18

when my brother said. I

27:22

was laying in my been. Trying.

27:25

To fall asleep. And. The.

27:28

Late on the landing. Turned off. And

27:31

I heard giggling. And

27:34

so I thought it was only. And

27:36

I told her stuff. That turn the

27:39

eight back on and go back upstairs. Go

27:41

to bed. But

27:43

it wouldn't. Tromso. I got up and I

27:45

turn the light back on. When

27:48

I got back into bed. And

27:50

when I got back into bed, the

27:53

light turned off again. and then I

27:55

heard footsteps coming down the stairs and.

27:58

As it got further down the said. It

28:00

started getting louder and faster until I

28:02

heard her i'm running up at the

28:04

same my bed and she just stood

28:06

there and was breathing heavily right beside

28:08

me and she wouldn't go away and

28:11

then she started shaking my bed. She.

28:13

Started moving method and shooting at all around and

28:15

I was screaming at her stop trying to push

28:17

her away but she. Wouldn't stop our

28:19

screenings for she wouldn't go

28:22

away and. My

28:25

mom looked at me and was like

28:27

it couldn't have been early because she

28:29

was just upstairs in her own room

28:31

And that's when I looked at my

28:34

mom and I said mom. The.

28:36

Same thing was just happening to me in

28:38

my bed. And

28:41

then. She just got this

28:43

look on her face. She.

28:45

Didn't even need to say it. I knew that she

28:47

finally believe me. She looked

28:49

at me. And she

28:51

said, you're not lying, are you.

28:54

And I said no, I'm not

28:56

lying. I've never have been lying

28:59

And. I actually live

29:01

in a haunted house. There's no

29:03

way that people cannot believe you

29:05

know from So I just felt

29:07

like for leaves happy like in

29:09

a really pathways am Sorry no

29:11

Travis, I'm not happy that it

29:14

happened to you. but you know.

29:17

I'm I'm happy that it happened to

29:19

him because. He know.

29:22

Now. My mom knows. Make

29:24

It is not just me. And

29:27

my brother also knows that it's

29:29

not just me. So

29:32

she looked at my brother

29:34

and I am. She. Said.

29:37

You know I'm gonna get on there. Some

29:39

fix says men do what I need to

29:41

do to get this thing out of her

29:43

house. She

29:47

had a medium.

29:49

Come to our house. And.

29:54

The woman came

29:56

in. she asked

29:58

me you

30:01

know, what's been going on? Where did

30:03

this thing happen? Where did this thing happen? When

30:05

did this thing happen? She wanted to

30:07

walk the whole house like room by room by

30:09

room and try and figure it out. So

30:12

she went down to the main floor first and

30:16

went upstairs to where my room would be

30:18

and she stopped right in

30:20

front of the linen closet and she was

30:22

like, have you ever

30:25

noticed a temperature difference here in

30:27

this closet? And that

30:30

is actually something that we noticed. That closet

30:32

was always like 10 degrees

30:34

colder than the rest of the house and

30:36

we didn't know why. We thought maybe it

30:39

was just like drafty or something like that

30:41

but it was always so cold just

30:44

in that closet area and

30:47

we said yeah we've noticed and she said this

30:49

is a um a portal or

30:54

opening or door for inhuman

30:57

entities and demons. It

31:01

just happens to be where

31:03

I saw that big tall

31:07

spooky man thing, whatever it

31:09

was. She didn't

31:11

even need to look at the

31:13

rest of the upstairs and she didn't even want

31:15

to go in the basement. She was like nope

31:18

whatever it doesn't want me here. She's

31:20

like it's it's only gonna become worse

31:23

for you if I explore more. So

31:26

we went to the dining room and

31:29

sat down. She looked at

31:31

me and she told me you have

31:33

three entities in your house. You

31:35

have a demon and

31:38

she explained that the

31:41

demon is the thing

31:43

that that I

31:45

saw in front of my closet. You have

31:47

a childlike playful

31:49

entity. It's the childlike

31:51

spirit that giggles around the house

31:54

and also it's the footsteps that

31:56

I can hear running around the

31:58

house sometimes. and

32:00

you have a poltergeist. And

32:03

she explained that it's the poltergeist that moved

32:05

things around the house as it was making

32:08

our beds go crazy. It

32:11

was... interesting

32:13

to have names for what

32:15

they were, but I mean it didn't really make

32:18

it any less... scary.

32:20

It's just like... maybe

32:23

you're sick and you don't know why you're sick. You

32:26

go to the doctor and you find out you have... you

32:28

have... this illness. I

32:30

mean there's an explanation, but it doesn't exactly make

32:33

it better. So the medium

32:35

person gave us a list of things we need

32:37

to go and buy. And

32:39

we went to this store.

32:43

It sells like crystals and sage and all

32:45

these different types of like candles. And

32:48

my mom bought so many

32:50

things. Like finally my nuts... my

32:52

nuts. Oh my god! My

32:58

mom went nuts finally believing

33:00

me. Okay,

33:05

my mom went nuts buying all of these things.

33:10

Like okay. Yeah, take your

33:13

sass. We're in the home stretch. Okay,

33:17

so she got

33:19

like these white candles. She got

33:21

these smudge sticks like sage. She

33:25

bought a whole bunch of like blessed

33:28

salt. She

33:31

gave us

33:33

like these little papers

33:35

that had these things like... basically

33:38

like prayers that we're supposed to say

33:40

like every day. She

33:42

would just go through the house saying these

33:45

prayers or chants or whatever. As

33:47

soon as she started believing me,

33:50

it's like it's all she could think about. She

33:53

became obsessed with it. She

33:55

didn't call me a liar anymore. I think

33:58

she started paying more attention. attention to the

34:00

things that would go on around the house, but from

34:03

whatever she was doing with all of these

34:06

cleansing things, whatever it was

34:09

really quieted down. So

34:11

is it the house itself that was haunted?

34:14

I don't know. But I do wonder

34:17

now, as an adult,

34:21

sometimes I think about going back there and

34:23

just knocking on the door and being

34:25

like, hey, I'm just checking to see if

34:27

your house is haunted, because I lived here when I was

34:29

a kid and it was. What

34:32

would that do? Would they even answer the door? Would

34:34

they chop the door in my face? Because I'm so

34:36

curious. I really

34:38

want to know, did it stop? Did it

34:40

continue? Are there other families that are going

34:43

through the same thing? I don't

34:45

know. Thank

34:54

you, Allie, for sharing your story with the

34:56

spook. We appreciate it. The original

34:58

score for that piece was by

35:00

Richard Hay. It comes to us

35:02

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spook correspondent. Really? Yeah. For

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Washington, and you know, you

36:33

only hear these noises, you only see

36:36

these apparitions for somebody. You

36:39

know, what do they want? It could

36:41

be any number

36:43

of things. You have to know

36:46

what to say, yes, I want to say no, my

36:48

advice, though. Whatever

36:50

they say they want. Ever,

36:55

ever. Ever, ever,

36:57

ever, ever, ever, ever. It's

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