This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. All three of these calls were later incorporated into longer compilation episodes with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.
Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has three true ghost stories that are each stranger than the last.
Phil from Chattanooga, Tennessee, calls in with his fourth story for the show, and this one is rooted in one of the most disturbing real-life scandals in Georgia history. Phil picked up a young man home from the Marine Corps who told him what had happened the day before when he tried to take a shortcut through the woods behind his house to his grandmother's. He got deep into the trees and stopped. Something felt wrong. Shadow figures appeared behind him. Then in front of him. Then, when he turned a full circle, they were all the way around him. The woods in question were the grounds of the Tri-State Crematorium in Noble, Georgia, where owner Brent Marsh was discovered to have stored over three hundred bodies in a barn rather than cremating them. A neighbor's dog dug up a skull. The FBI, the TBI, and state and local law enforcement descended on the town. The pond was drained. The property was demolished. Nothing can be built there. The bodies that could be identified were taken to Atlanta. The ones that could not were not. Phil says you can fact-check it. He is right.
Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana, calls in with a true creature encounter from the 1980s that her family has never forgotten. One evening, the power went out across the house. The dogs ran from the room in fear. Her mother opened the living room drapes and found a six-foot creature covered in black hair standing at the sliding glass door, growling, snarling, and slapping the glass as if trying to break through. Her father identified it as a Dogman and ran to his bedroom for his silver coin chest. He presented it to the creature through the glass. It howled and ran into the darkness. Michelle's research confirmed that the Michigan Dogman has been reported by over a hundred witnesses since disc jockey Steve Cook recorded a song about the legend in 1987 as an April Fool's joke and began receiving calls from listeners who said they had seen exactly what he described.
Hendel from Long Island, New York, calls in with three nights at a hostel in Los Angeles that built from unsettling to impossible. On the second night, a girl in the bunk room laughed loudly for fifteen minutes, and when Hendel turned on her phone light discovered the girl's head was now at the opposite end of the bed from where the laughter had come, her body completely switched with no way to have done it silently. On the third night, Hendel woke at 1 AM to the entire room shaking violently for twenty seconds. Every bed. Every object in the room. The next morning, the hostel reception had no idea what she was talking about. There was no earthquake recorded in Los Angeles that night. No geological sensor registered anything. Hendel is willing to dismiss one incident. Two incidents on consecutive nights with no explanation is something else.
Three real callers. Three true ghost stories from a crematorium in Georgia, a living room in Indiana, and a hostel in Los Angeles.
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[00:00:06] And then maybe an hour later, I hear, it's really loud, tackling.
[00:00:20] Come to tell me a ghost story.
[00:00:23] The late night calling podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore
[00:00:28] the eerie and unexplained.
[00:00:32] I'm your host, Michelle Newman.
[00:00:35] This podcast features true stories from our callers that will send shivers down your spine
[00:00:42] and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife.
[00:00:47] So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights.
[00:00:53] I'm Phil from Chaternuga.
[00:00:56] I'm a property manager, I'm an empty vacant and foreclosed properties.
[00:01:03] And this story happened in Noble Georgia.
[00:01:06] I was given a work order to go to a town called LaFayette Georgia.
[00:01:12] Noble was on the way so I called the young man up that helps me from time to time.
[00:01:17] And he was home from the Marine Corps for 50 months.
[00:01:22] And he began to tell me a story about what happened to him in night before, the accident
[00:01:29] before he was going to take a shortcut from his house to his grandmother's house.
[00:01:35] And he had to go through the woods.
[00:01:39] And he said he got into a certain point and he stopped.
[00:01:44] And he felt like he was being watched.
[00:01:49] And then he turned around and there were these shadow figures in back having.
[00:01:57] And as he turned around, as he turned back forward, there were some shadow figures there again.
[00:02:02] And he began to tell me he did a 360 and they were all the way around.
[00:02:07] And I asked him, what part of the woods were you in?
[00:02:11] And he told me he said, you remember the old cross-state criminal tour?
[00:02:15] I said, yeah. He said, well that's in my backyard.
[00:02:19] He said, I was taking a shortcut and I was going through the old criminal tour.
[00:02:23] And I said, why in this shell would you do that?
[00:02:27] Because everybody around here knows that the guy who owned that place was not creating bodies.
[00:02:34] He was piling them up in a barn.
[00:02:37] He had over 300 bodies that had not been cremated in his barn.
[00:02:43] And then when the FBI found out about it, because of the neighbor's dog digging up a skull,
[00:02:49] the FBI, the TGBI, the state and local, all of that police just blew up that little town of Noble.
[00:02:58] And they tore everything down, they drained the pond, they took all the bodies that they could to Atlanta
[00:03:06] to try and identify them.
[00:03:09] But the county and the state that nothing can be built on that property.
[00:03:15] So everything else there was torn down like I said.
[00:03:18] And by now, everything's grown up and it's dense, freeze, and scrub, and private.
[00:03:24] And he was taking a shortcut, breathe there to get to his grandmother's house.
[00:03:31] And that's what he encountered on his way.
[00:03:33] You can fact check the crematorium.
[00:03:36] He was called Trostate, crematorium, Noble Georgia, a man who owned it.
[00:03:42] The name was Brent Marsh.
[00:03:44] Pull it up and just take a look at the chaos that was going on there.
[00:03:49] Just imagine the family secret is there's 300 rotting
[00:03:53] to hang bodies out in the barn.
[00:03:58] Take a look at it.
[00:04:01] Thank you, Phil, from Chat Nuga.
[00:04:04] I recommend listeners Google the bizarre story of the Tri-State crematorium scandal.
[00:04:11] In total, 334 bodies were recovered, out of which only 226 have been identified.
[00:04:22] Either way, I'd tell your friend to take the long way to grandma's house from now on.
[00:04:30] Next message.
[00:04:33] Hey, here's the C.A.C.T.
[00:04:34] Turn it hand, take your land by pulling from A-Bon Indiana.
[00:04:39] And anyway, here's another two-zone story from the 1980s.
[00:04:42] One evening, we've heard home in our living room watching the new color TV.
[00:04:47] Dad was so proud of that color TV.
[00:04:49] He's on the way to the power of the house.
[00:04:52] And the TV went off, and then my mom heard a granny said we had four dogs at the time
[00:04:58] and four cats, but they weren't doing anything.
[00:05:01] The dogs became frightened ran out of the room.
[00:05:04] And my mom opened up the living room drapes and much to our home.
[00:05:09] We saw an imaginary creature called dogman.
[00:05:14] It was a tall, and he was completely blind here.
[00:05:20] And he was frightened American wearable.
[00:05:23] And he was proud of him, and he was slapping the sliding glass doors.
[00:05:27] And if he was trying to break it, and mom said to her,
[00:05:30] Jake, all the police and dad said, no, I have a better idea.
[00:05:34] He said, where was our freedom?
[00:05:36] Silver bullets aren't there in the months,
[00:05:38] but we haven't got a gun, we haven't got silver bullets.
[00:05:41] And dad said, I've got something better.
[00:05:43] You ran into a bedroom to count a silver coin chest and presented it to the American world.
[00:05:49] Where were better known as dogmen?
[00:05:52] And it took one look at that and slanted how and ran into the darkness.
[00:05:57] So I said, I hope he has to share my stories and these are all three stories.
[00:06:02] So thank you for your time. Thank you.
[00:06:07] Thank you, Cindy, for your call.
[00:06:10] I've never heard of the dogman before, so I had to look him up.
[00:06:14] In folklore, the Michigan dogman.
[00:06:16] It was described as a seven foot tall, blue-eyed or amber-eyed,
[00:06:21] by Peter K. 9, like animal, with a torso of a man,
[00:06:26] and a fearsome howl that sounds like a human screen.
[00:06:30] In 1987, this jockey Steve Cook,
[00:06:34] introverse city Michigan, recorded a silly song titled, The Legend,
[00:06:39] about a dogman, which he initially played as an April Fool's joke.
[00:06:43] He based the song on myths and legends from around North America,
[00:06:47] and had never actually heard about the Michigan dogman at the time.
[00:06:51] He said he completely made up the song as a joke, from his own imagination.
[00:06:56] But then Cook started receiving calls from listeners,
[00:06:59] who said that they had encountered a similar creature.
[00:07:03] And over the years, Cook has received more than 100 reports of real dogmen sightings.
[00:07:12] Next caller.
[00:07:14] Hey, this is Handleton Long Island New York,
[00:07:17] and I have a ghost story for you all today.
[00:07:19] This ghost story happened a few years ago in a hostel
[00:07:24] that I was staying at in Los Angeles.
[00:07:28] It took place over the course of three days.
[00:07:32] The first day that I get to the hostel,
[00:07:34] first of all, I'm excited to see it's a big room filled with bunk beds.
[00:07:41] I could fit up to six to eight people.
[00:07:45] The first day that I get there, I had a couple of roommates,
[00:07:50] and everybody was very chill.
[00:07:53] You know, there were no signs of anything crazy going on.
[00:07:58] So it was just in my space.
[00:07:59] And then like, it was my first time staying at a hostel in Los Angeles.
[00:08:03] But already I had known of different hostels being haunted.
[00:08:09] So the second day, a couple of those roommates leave,
[00:08:16] and it's just me and another girl who stayed there that night.
[00:08:22] When I come into the hostel at the end of the conference day,
[00:08:27] I showered with my teeth, got ready for bed,
[00:08:31] and turned off the light.
[00:08:33] Now the girl she was calling on her phone.
[00:08:40] And then maybe an hour later I hear,
[00:08:44] she really loud cackling.
[00:08:47] Like she's giggling at her phone, but like really loudly,
[00:08:51] almost not just her head wasn't in my feet
[00:08:54] where I heard this loud cackling noise.
[00:08:57] And I just tried to like, me into sleep at off,
[00:09:01] but she was just really loud.
[00:09:03] So I would say I gave it maybe 15 minutes,
[00:09:07] and the cackling finally stopped,
[00:09:09] and then it's just about it.
[00:09:11] I put the flash on my phone on,
[00:09:15] but she, her head,
[00:09:20] was in the opposite direction where I don't explain this.
[00:09:25] So essentially her feet were in your might feet.
[00:09:28] So there was no way for her to have been laughing that loudly,
[00:09:32] and completely switched her position 360,
[00:09:36] and being the position that she was in now.
[00:09:39] So to me, that was a very creepy moment,
[00:09:46] almost impossible moment,
[00:09:49] but I showed the argument to sleep.
[00:09:52] The following night,
[00:09:55] so the girl had left,
[00:09:57] and now the room was full with about seven people,
[00:10:01] all staying in the boatbits.
[00:10:06] And I came in at the end of the night of the conference,
[00:10:11] and I shoured,
[00:10:12] I brushed my teeth, went to sleep.
[00:10:17] And I've been asleep for maybe five or ten minutes
[00:10:22] when I woke up,
[00:10:24] and I want to say this was around 1-1-30am.
[00:10:28] I just felt the entire room shaking.
[00:10:35] And I was shaking extremely hard,
[00:10:37] and everything in the room was shaking.
[00:10:40] Because it was in Earthquake.
[00:10:43] And I'm watching my body bounce on the bed
[00:10:46] and every 17 in the room shaking.
[00:10:49] So that lasted for about 20 seconds,
[00:10:54] and then stopped.
[00:10:55] And I said to myself,
[00:10:57] well, we have a class Angelist here for Earthquake.
[00:10:59] So we're here all the time.
[00:11:01] So I learned that to sleep.
[00:11:03] The next morning woke up,
[00:11:07] went down to reception,
[00:11:09] and asked them,
[00:11:11] I think I asked for a towel,
[00:11:12] and they said, you know, just casually.
[00:11:15] Hey, did everybody else do that earthquake yesterday?
[00:11:18] Last night.
[00:11:20] And they looked,
[00:11:22] did you just look at me with a black stare?
[00:11:26] Like, what earthquake?
[00:11:28] And so then I looked online.
[00:11:31] I looked at geological trackers,
[00:11:33] it's just everything.
[00:11:35] And there was no earthquake that happened in that area.
[00:11:39] Or in Los Angeles that day.
[00:11:41] Now,
[00:11:43] I think either incident could be dismissed
[00:11:47] as on the current right,
[00:11:48] that the first current could have been.
[00:11:51] I don't know, maybe the girl just really did.
[00:11:53] She turned tired body the opposite way
[00:11:58] after laughing really loudly on the phone.
[00:12:00] That could be plausible.
[00:12:02] The second one could be,
[00:12:04] maybe I had dreamt that there was another earthquake.
[00:12:08] But to me, the fact that each of these incidents happened back to back,
[00:12:12] you know, night after night.
[00:12:15] To me, just seems like a very supernatural phenomena
[00:12:19] happened at that hostel.
[00:12:24] Thank you, handle for calling in.
[00:12:26] People are always coming and going from hostels.
[00:12:30] You never know who.
[00:12:32] Or what?
[00:12:33] Could stay behind.
[00:12:36] That's all we have this week, folks.
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[00:13:17] Thank you to all the callers who left messages this week.
[00:13:21] And as always, I'm your host, Michelle Newman.
[00:13:25] Signing off.
[00:13:26] See you next week.