Ghost Stories DELUXE - Compilation Episode (Encore)

[00:00:11] Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story, the late night call-in podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore the eerie and unexplained. I'm your host, Michelle Newman. This podcast features true stories from our callers that will send shivers down your spine and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife.

[00:00:38] So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights. My name is Carlo. First time caller, long time listener in Los Angeles. And my ghost story is, is kind of like, it's almost like a misconnection ghost story. Or, anyway, I'll just explain.

[00:01:07] So, I had just moved to Los Angeles. I was in my early twenties, kind of fresh out of college. And I was living in downtown in the arts district in a big loft. Like, like, imagine like the loft in the movie Big. Like, it's kind of, it was like that. It was just like open floor plan, really spacious. You know, just me and two other guys who are also in their early twenties.

[00:01:34] And it was, yeah, it was a dream, really dreamy place to live. And I was there late one night by myself. And I was, I was drawing or working on something. And it was like late at night. And all of a sudden on the other side of the loft, I was sitting at the kitchen table.

[00:02:02] And then from the other side of the loft, I hear a, and I was like, yes. Like who, hello. Cause it was like, I could, it, it wasn't like in my head. Like it was in the, it was in the room, like very clearly in the room. And I walked to the other side and like looked around the corner and yeah, there was like definitely no one there.

[00:02:31] And it was just like, it was just really strange. Cause I'm not like, I don't hallucinate. Like I don't, I'm yeah. It's just like not hearing voices is not part of my history. The next day I'm in like the courtyard and my upstairs neighbors, they've been living in the lofts for a long time. And they actually used to live in my loft. Now they live on the top floor.

[00:02:57] But back when they were, you know, 10 years ago or whatever, 15 years ago, they lived in the loft I was living in. And I was like, Hey guys, just like real quick, kind of random. But like, is, is the loft haunted? Cause like I heard, I heard someone say my name last night and it was just kind of like, it was really strange. And they just like, they're a, they're a husband and wife. And they just like look at each other.

[00:03:26] And then they look at me and they go, Daisy. And I was like, Daisy. And they're like, yes, Daisy. And they explained that like when they were like in art school, like then they're living in the loft. They had this like friend named Daisy who apparently just like cherished the loft. And it wasn't like, it was a really special place. So I get it. And they're like, she loved it.

[00:03:53] And then somehow I don't, I don't remember like what the terminal on this was, but you came down with like a, like some disease that she ended up dying. And it was very like, you know, a young, tragic, sad thing. But they're like, she just never left. She was just always with us in the loft.

[00:04:11] And they're like, you know, sometimes Phil to this day, like if we like feel like we're stuck or like need some advice, like, well, I just call out to Daisy and you know, like the lights will flicker or like, you know, she'll like find a way to like interact. And I was like, that's pretty wild. And I think I probably lived there for like another year, two years after that.

[00:04:38] And Daisy called my name probably about three more times. And, but she would hang out with me a lot in when I was taking a shower. And like, I would be like in the shower. It was like a big bathtub shower with like a circular curtain around it. And I could see her out of the corner of my eye, like standing in the corner of the room.

[00:05:03] And like when I would like turn to look at her, it would be like in a movie where there's like a crossfade where like we dissolve into the next scene and she would just like disappear as I would turn. And I don't, so I just start talking to her. I'd be like, Daisy, like you can hang out with me. Like, I don't mind, I don't mind you being here with me. Like, it's, it's fine. And, and I even started asking her for advice. Like, I remember this one night, like, I was really broke at the time and I finally got like a check in the mail.

[00:05:33] And it was like late at night and I was probably like overdrawn. And my bank was like right on the edge of Skid Row. And this was, yeah, I mean, it's Skid Row. It's not, not ideal, especially like late at night. And I was really like on the verge of like, I should just go deposit this check. So like, I can just get the process started of like not being overdrawn.

[00:05:57] But then like on my way out, like, I just felt Daisy be like, no, don't go. And I was like, Daisy? And I could just like feel Daisy holding me back and being like, don't, don't, don't go do this right now. It's like one in the morning. Like, don't, don't go deposit a check in Skid Row at one in the morning. There's better things to do with your time.

[00:06:22] And when I left the loft, I like remember like when it was empty, just being like, hi, Daisy, I'm going to miss you. Thank you for like your company while I was here, like your good ghost. Yeah. And that was my story with Daisy. Yeah. Daisy's a sweetheart. Thank you, Carlo. Daisy sounds like a great roommate. If you get locked out, she can use her spare spooky to get you back in.

[00:06:52] But the trick is getting her to split the rent because no body can afford it. Get it? No body. Cause she's a ghost. Next message. Hi, my name is Heather. I'm calling from Mesa, Arizona. I have experienced a good ghost story.

[00:07:18] A couple of years ago, I did stay at the Grand Hotel in Jerome, Arizona, which is very haunted. I was in my room. It was nighttime. We were asleep. And I hear someone tell me, can you turn the TV off? I look over. My friend is asleep. The TV is off. I just ignored it and went back to sleep. A few minutes later, I felt someone tap on my shoulder.

[00:07:47] Can you turn the TV down? In a whisper, I looked over. The TV still wasn't on. I was asleep. A few minutes later, go back to sleep. Wake up. See the hotel door, bedroom door shut. And that was it. It did ask me several times. I turned on my TV.

[00:08:15] Mind you, this wasn't a remote control TV. This was a TV I had to get up and turn up and down. So, yeah. That's my scary ghost story. Thank you. Thank you, Heather, for calling in. That ghost probably went to complain to the manager about all the noise. But how do you explain to a ghost they are the noise? Next message.

[00:08:43] Hi, this is Greg from Echo Park. And I have a ghost story. My house growing up, we moved into it when I was five. And my parents let all of us know, my two brothers and I know that there was a murder suicide in the house before we moved in there. And the husband blew his brains out with a shotgun in the yard.

[00:09:13] And the wife was dead in the house. Anyway, they let us know that and told us that this particular bedroom was haunted. And they would lock us in that room if we were in trouble. And my little brother is the one who saw this ghost the most, but I also saw it. And everyone called it the lady in white. And the whole family had different times where they saw the lady in white.

[00:09:41] One time when I was maybe eight or nine, I was alone in the room that we were all sleeping in. And my brothers and I slept in the same room until I was like 10. And I was in there. It was during the day. Everyone was outside in the back. And there was this bathroom that went through two rooms. So it was like room, bathroom, and then another room. And it opened both rooms and the doors were open. And I looked and there was the lady in white just standing there in this white dress just looking at me.

[00:10:09] And I was terrified. And I was sitting on the bed and I put the sheet over my head. But it was, you know, very bright. It was daytime. I could see through the sheet and I could see her staring at me. And I just stared at her and she just stared at me. And this happened for, I don't even know how long. It could have been a half hour, an hour. And then I just closed my eyes and stayed under the sheet. And then I eventually fell asleep. And when I woke up, it was still daytime and she was gone. And that was my encounter with the lady in white.

[00:10:41] Thank you, Greg, for sharing that story. You know what's fascinating is that countries all over the world have versions of the legend of the woman in white. She's typically dressed in a white dress or something similar. She's reportedly seen in rural areas associated with local tragedy. And common to many of these legends is an accidental death, suicide or murder, the theme of loss and betrayal by a husband, fiance or unrequited love.

[00:11:10] I'm Michelle Liz Yvonne. I'm from the Philippines. And I'm here to share with you one of the scariest experiences I've ever had in my life. And I've had a few scary stories that I can't tell you about, but this one just takes the cake. So it was possibly around 2002 to 2004.

[00:11:37] I went right next door to my auntie to use her computer because I didn't have one. So I was in the living room slash dining room. And I like keeping all the lights turned off. So every light was turned off. It was in the afternoons with perfect light just coming in through the windows. And while I was browsing the internet, I just felt something weird.

[00:12:08] You see, I am not a stranger to the paranormal. I've experienced it since I was a kid. And it only stopped when I went to college. But I've been so used to it that it really didn't bother me.

[00:12:28] So when I felt something as if it was looking at the back of my head, like thinking possibly it wanted me out of there, I just felt so uncomfortable. And that's not normal because I feel and see things or at least I used to when I was living there with my parents.

[00:12:56] And when I felt that, it just felt so unusual because I never would feel uncomfortable or unwanted whenever that happens. So I just turned off the computer, packed up my stuff and then tried to exit to go upstairs. My mom's house and my auntie's house, her sister, has a balcony that's connected.

[00:13:23] So I can just walk off, walk out the door upstairs, and then I can get into my house, which is our house, second floor. So I was making my way up the stairs and by the time I reached the top of the stairs, I had this feeling to look back down the stairs. I wish that I didn't have to, or I wish that I didn't at all.

[00:13:54] But I did and I saw a black figure. It was weird because, like I said, I could see the light coming in from outside the home. But I could clearly see a silhouette of something shaped like a human.

[00:14:18] And I think by the time it saw that I saw it, it started bolting up the stairs, which caused me to run down the hallway out the door right next to the master's bedroom. And I slammed the door behind me. My aunt at that time was freaked out. She said, why do you have to slam a door? Why do you have to run? What's happening?

[00:14:44] And then I was like screaming at her and it's like something was following me. Something ran from the bottom of the stairs to top the stairs and just started running after me. And even before I had the chance to slam the door, I could see the shadow just rushing, running towards me.

[00:15:05] And the reason why I know that it's true, aside from that I've seen a lot in my childhood and being a teen is that the next day from when it happened, I talked to my auntie and she confirmed that she saw what I saw. Only with the precaution not to acknowledge it the next time.

[00:15:33] Because apparently when I acknowledged it at the time, it actually stayed standing right next to her as she slept and she couldn't sleep because it wouldn't go away. So that's my story. See you around, Michelle. Thank you, Yvonne, for calling in. I admire your aunt's practicality in these matters. A good night's sleep is paramount.

[00:16:01] I, on the other hand, may never sleep again. Next message. Hi, my name is Hector and I'm from New Mexico. And this is more of a personal experience that I've had which started happening in 2013.

[00:16:26] It wasn't necessarily seeing any ghosts or apparitions, but more of being physically touched or scratched or attacked. However you want to interpret that. The first time this happened to me was in 2013 and I had went to my local gym, came home, got ready for the day. And as I was getting ready, I noticed I had three long scratches on the back of my forearm.

[00:16:55] Don't know how those scratches appeared or where they came from. So I took a picture of it only because it was just one of those situations that's kind of hard to believe that something like that happens. I wasn't necessarily scared, but definitely questioned a lot of things that go on. And as far as me trying to debunk it, I just wasn't able to.

[00:17:24] And so this went on over the course of the next 10 years. There would be times where I would just be doing normal everyday things and I would get scratched. Sometimes it was two scratches. Sometimes it was three scratches.

[00:17:44] So the most intense experience I've had with that was one night and I had a nightmare of something just kind of evil, menacing figure. They were short, maybe the height of a young adult, maybe. And they had this menacing look on their face and they were kind of laughing.

[00:18:11] And then they had approached me and then they just kind of sped off in the other direction like at the speed of light. It was pretty insane. Well, I woke up and it was 333 in the morning. So the following night, I'm sleeping sound asleep.

[00:18:32] And I hear this loud bang, like just a solid bang, loud enough to wake me up. Now my bedroom door at the time, I always kept it shut. And it was just a janky door that you had to kind of forcefully push to close it and kind of pull to open. And well, when I heard this loud bang, I woke up. I checked the time. It was 333 in the morning.

[00:19:02] And once I got my senses about me, I looked over and sure enough, my door was open. It wasn't open all the way, but it was open to where I knew that I didn't get up and open the door. And so when I got out of bed, I just felt a really bad sensation. I had the chills up and down my body. All my senses were heightened.

[00:19:31] Just something felt like it was there for a brief moment that shouldn't be there. And after those few moments, the air was a little lighter. I felt okay after that, but that was probably the most intense experience that I had with that. Now, what are these scratches mean? I have no idea. They do happen in threes a lot more than anything.

[00:20:00] Sometimes it's a single scratch. I'm at a point now where I'm kind of just used to it. It doesn't really bother me because I don't let things like that bother me. And again, you know, just open to one's own personal beliefs. You know, I don't believe that anyone's particular belief is right or wrong. Definitely. I do keep an open mind about it, but just wanted to share that story. Thanks.

[00:20:29] Thanks, Hector, for your story. 333 AM, known to many as the witching hour, is thought to be a time when the veil separating our dimension from the next is at its thinnest. It sounds like you might have accidentally caught a glimpse of your scratcher. Next message. Hi, my name is Debra from Seattle.

[00:20:56] I wanted to tell you about the seance that was at Fort Wright College back in the early 70s. There were eight people. At nine o'clock, one more arrived making nine. The reasons they decided to do a seance were kind of confused. Everybody was grieving a death of somebody that had happened in Vietnam. And it was a college student.

[00:21:25] And it was just something that kind of spurred people's interest in what was going on after life and all that sort of thing. One of these things that happened that we didn't know was happening at the time. The fact that there'd been a mass in the theater where we were, we were in a theater. For some reason, they hadn't used the chapel for the mass. This is a Catholic college with a lot of nuns.

[00:21:54] And the tablecloth used in the mass was also used in the seance. You begin the seance and then you're low lights, everything's very quiet. And suddenly, one of the people, and I think her name was Dawn, I don't remember, one of the girls, starts sort of trancing out, talking to somebody that's not there. And she's talking to a couple of little children.

[00:22:23] And they say, she said, I don't know. I don't know what to do about this. I don't know what to do about this. To the children. And they were, apparently, they were dead. They were ghosts. And she saw them. And she said that somebody had taken their bodies and thrown them away. And they were looking for their bodies.

[00:22:49] And then after talking with them a little bit and starting to cry, she's starting to cry. And apparently the children were crying too. And she started to cry. And all of a sudden, they went away. And she said, they're gone. And suddenly the room was very heavy. And where we were in the theater, we were up on the stage using this table that had been used during the mass.

[00:23:17] And we were sitting in a circle. And the person who was sitting with her back to the audience suddenly turned around as if she'd heard something in the lobby. And we all wondered if somebody had wandered in or something like that. But it was still very heavy atmosphere. And suddenly we became very quiet and tried to listen to what was going on. Because we knew the door was locked in the lobby this time.

[00:23:46] No one could have come in. And all of a sudden, we started hearing these kind of strange footsteps. They weren't actually like somebody bustling about in the lobby. It was like very deliberate clicking sound footsteps as if somebody had boots of some kind. Old style boots on a hard floor.

[00:24:14] That's very strange because most of the lobby, a lot of the lobby, if you came in through the theater, through the audience from the lobby, a great deal of that's carpeted. That's not hard floor. It's just that we heard click, click, click, like about that pace. And the sound didn't stay out there. It kind of got up close to us. And at first it was like on stage right.

[00:24:43] And then it was on stage left. And we all kind of turned our attention toward it. I don't think it was imaginary. I think that, you know, everybody kind of turned in unison when they heard it. And then it suddenly kind of as if it, you know, like walked out through the back of the theater or something like that, you know, like straight back.

[00:25:10] And so we don't really know what that was, except that, you know, when it stopped making that noise. And it, you know, the feeling kind of lifted. Thank you, Deborah. Leave it to the theater kids to summon the devil. Hi, this is Nellie again from Clinton, Illinois. I was 12 years old.

[00:25:37] I remember I was sleeping on my back and I just wake up and I looked straight ahead and I see this little girl. I know it's, it sounds, it's crazy, but I see this little girl sitting on the bed.

[00:26:06] And the way she looked was, um, she had black hair. Like I can see her clearly. She had black hair. I can see her brown eyes. She looked like she was sitting on the bed and she was smiling at me. And all of a sudden while I'm looking at her, she makes these, these gestures that, oh, I'm falling.

[00:26:35] And she was like waving her arms like she was falling. And then she leaned back and I don't see her anymore. I was not sure if it was because I was half asleep. Um, I'm not sure what it was. And I just went back to bed.

[00:27:02] Until, till this day, I still think about that. Another occurrence was when I was in the bathroom. I was, um, it was at nighttime getting ready for bed. And I remember I was brushing my teeth, you know, just brushing my teeth, brushing my hair.

[00:27:29] And I'm looking in the mirror and the mirror, I can see, you know, the shower curtain, bathtub, all that. And, and I remember I was like brushing my hair and then I look up and I just see someone like, you know, when they're someone just peeking through the, you know, the shower curtain.

[00:27:55] Like, I just see the black hair and like, I'm not sure if it was a man or woman, but I just see someone looking at me peeking. So I just look up and I'm just looking at it in the mirror and I just stay frozen. Um, and then like I closed, I just blinked and it went away.

[00:28:27] Thank you, Nellie, for calling in again with another story. Next message. This is David in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but I grew up in Connecticut where I grew up in a house that was just not right. And, um, well, my earliest memory is actually having spinal meningitis and dying in the hospital and seeing a woman standing over me and then waking up. I was about a year old.

[00:28:53] And then when I was a child, I had significantly older siblings, but a sibling my own age. Um, and, uh, the younger two would have a babysitter and the older ones would be out doing teenager things. And it was never them babysitting us. And it was always the two of us. But I remember three times having a babysitter without her distinctly. I remember this was supposedly the younger sister of another babysitter, which call CG.

[00:29:17] And, um, anyway, this woman, young woman, um, anyway, let's just say I needed counseling because of a couple experiences with this individual. So 30 years later, I'm trying to piece together my childhood and make sense of this nightmare. And I call my siblings and my three older siblings who went to school with CG said CG didn't have a little sister. And then my sibling, my own age, um, call her, uh, KL. She's like, um, David, we never had a babysitter alone.

[00:29:47] You were always with me, whoever this was. I'm not telling you didn't happen. It just didn't happen the way you remember. So fast forward, I, I, um, never slept in the dark till I got married. Didn't know why. My father and grandmother also have never slept in the dark. And after I got married, um, I saw the person again, the babysitter in the shadows, watching me sleep every so often.

[00:30:13] Sometimes closer, sometimes further, never completely in the dark. And I was never paralyzed. It wasn't sleep paralysis. I could move, but she'd be just watching me sleep. Never told me why. Never said a word. Did grab my arm once. But she would go away eventually, especially if I prayed. Not that I'm religious anymore. Um, my wife never saw her. My now former wife. Later, I learned that two of my siblings have seen her watching them sleep.

[00:30:39] All I know is that since I got divorced and I'm asleep and the light on, I haven't seen her again. Who that was and what that was about? I don't know. All I know is the lights are staying on when I sleep. Thank you, David, for your story. I'm so glad I listened to this in the afternoon because, uh, it still scared me in the middle of the day. That's all we have this week, folks.

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[00:31:36] Was something particularly scary in this episode? Or maybe you've had a similar experience? Leave your comments via our Spotify page. Thank you to all the callers who left messages this week. And as always, I'm your host, Michelle Newman. Signing off. See you next week. I'll be there. I'll be there.