Real Ghost Stories for Cleaning Your House - Mixtape Vol. 4

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That's gonna go. You got them there. We

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It's a shadow, like a black shadow, and it's a woman weeping.

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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. So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights.

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Hey, Michelle. My name is Rock. I live here in Orange County, and I have a ghost story to share with you. I have many. So my parents used to own a house here in Fontana, and it was fairly new, and I can give out the exact location.

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It's off of Summit, and that's very eerie from the get go. And mind you, I'm an intuitive person. So fast forward, we move into the house, and when we lived in this house specifically, and we've been hearing creaking noises. It sounded like people were walking on the roof, and there were things falling on the ceiling and my parents always disregarded it. So couple years, we're jumping forward and we just had a series of like unfortunate events.

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And it was just one thing after another. My grandparents had passed away. All my animals, they would not even last, like, a year. There was always something happening with my animals. In my journey, I went through, 50.

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It's just insane. Like, I had rabbits. I had birds. I couldn't really keep them alive. I was going through a rough time with Max.

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And he really wasn't, like, the type of person to believe in the paranormal. So one day, I hear my mom in my in her room. So I go in there and I'm like, hey, mom, you know, what's going on? And I see her sitting on the edge of the bed and she's just crying hysterically. And it sounded like someone had just died.

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So I'm trying to reconsole her by patting her on her back, you know, brushing her hair. And she all of a sudden, her crying stops. Then she starts cackling and she starts laughing and she's like. And then the laugh started becoming like more louder and louder as it was echoing throughout the whole room. And it was just so insane because I'm like, who the hell is this person?

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And I'm like, why are you crying? Why are you laughing? So I reached over and moved her hair out of her face and her face was scorched. It looked like someone had threw acid on her face. Like her eyes were white and she was just cackling and then she vanished in front of me.

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So mind you, we also have like a little goldfish in the corner at the time. It's what I bought for my little sister and her name was Dorothy. And my sister loved her to death. So mind you, my mom and dad were out at Costco. I'm freaking out because I can't explain where the hell this woman went.

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It wasn't even my mother. And I just kept hearing her laughing and cackling echoing throughout her whole room. I called my mom and I said, hey, where you at? And she's like, I'm at Costco with your dad. Why?

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And I said, well, I just saw you in the room. She was like, that's impossible. I'm not home. And run over to my room where my ex was getting ready. And I told him, I was like, hey.

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I was like, my mom was in the room, but it wasn't my mom. And he

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didn't believe me. So he ran into the room and then

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he heard the same thing. And he said that he saw my mom and she was standing in the corner crying and she had her hair over her face, like the grudge. And then as she was crying, he went and touched her and she was just cackling. And he comes running, and I said, happened? He goes, holy.

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And I said, I told you so. So I waited an hour to go to her room. And as I go to her room, I see this figure sticking her hand in the goldfish tank, like squeezing the hell out of it. And you just see this woman just laughing and cackling. So I said, you know what?

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You need to leave my goldfish alone. Need to get the hell out of here. It disappeared. Surprisingly, the fish survived. And I had met one of my friends and her mother told me that I should gather 50 candles in a tray and light it overnight and toss it in a river bait.

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So I did as instructed, and as I lit these candles in the middle of the night, there was like so much shadows flying throughout the wall in the house. So it was the next day where I had to gather the candles, and I told my ex, we need to go to Lytle Creek. And if you guys know about Lytle Creek, it's super active there. And so I went, got the candles, put in the bag, and I tossed it in the riverbank as I was told. So I went back home, didn't think nothing of it.

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And did you this is, the week of my sister's birthday. And her birthday is around this time in December. So my mom is telling my ex and I to go ahead and clean the garage because we're having her birthday party. And as I was cleaning the garage, the cement was all wet and all of a sudden, the little girl the footprint started appearing. So I told Maddox, I was like, hey, this is weird.

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There's a footprint on the floor and there's no way that my sister could possibly have stepped foot in the garage because she was about two years old at the time. And mind you, this was like the size of a four year old or a five year old footprint. So as I'm cleaning the garage, I look over to I pull up the blinds in the window and as I pulled up, we see nothing but little kids handprints and footprints on the window. So I rang my mom and I told her, was like, hey, look at this. And my mom was like, what the hell?

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Like, whose footprints and handprints are those? She looks and she looks at the ground where the cement was, somebody had walked towards the door. And my mom goes, okay. That's totally weird. So my mom started seeing a little girl with a little Victorian dress with baby doll socks and baby doll hair.

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And she said that she would always follow my sister, but my sister always had the most craziest experiences living in the house. And even all my friends that I grew up in high school were even like, who is your sister talking to? Or they would say and I told them, I was like, oh, it's a little girl, Sofia. And they said, who's Sofia? And I said, well, she's my sister's imaginary friend, but check this out.

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So I did my research about Lido Creek, and apparently, there was a little girl named Sofia whose father took her to the Ladder Creek and unaligned her, and this was back in the day. So one day, my little sister was missing in the middle of the night. And my mom went in my room and she was panicking and she was screaming. She's like, where's your sister? Where is she at?

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Like, I can't find her. We'll just gonna call her Annie. Well, like, we can't find Annie. Where the heck is she at? And we hear her, but we couldn't see her.

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And mind you, my mom has a cow king-size bed. So we just kept hearing giggling, like a little girl's giggle and my sister's giggling and we're looking under the bed and there's no one there. So I told my mom, I was like, look under the bed again, but we had to do it at the same time. So we both looked under the bed at the same time and my sister was in the farthest corner of the bed and there was a dark figure next to her laughing. And my dad goes and directs sister and says, you don't need to do that.

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My mom's like crying and screaming and she's like, what the hell? You know?

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And she's yelling at the

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air and she's like, you need to leave my daughter alone. And I told my mom, I said, well, remember, she had a little imaginary friend named Sofia. And I told my mom, like, you really need to not let her play with this entity because we don't even know if it's an actual girl, especially how active the house is. So my mom had called in a priest, didn't even work. So she called it again.

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She called a Catholic priest to come in to bless the house. Nothing happened. So she called Indian priest and they did the traditional, like, ceremonies and they, you know, busted open a coconut. That's what you do to, you know, to expolve negative energies and that didn't work either. So I took it in my matter of my own hands and using my native side, I used Sage and I smudged it to my house every almost every single day.

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I basically commanded Sofia to leave and she was completely gone. So I hope you guys like the story. I hope you enjoy this. I have plenty more stories to tell as well. And that is my story of Sofia.

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Rock, thank you for your story. Intuitively, do you think Sofia and your mom's doppelganger were the same spirits? Or do you believe that banishing the first spirit allowed Sofia to follow you home from the river? Send in more stories. I'd love to hear them.

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I've experienced a lot of paranormal things in my life. But one of the more recent tales that sticks with me is that I was working a job as a photographer in my boss's house. And this house was decorated with things from the store HomeGoods. You know, the stuff that you walk into that store and you're like, who buys that? Basically, this guy buys it.

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Yeah. I'm talking floor to ceiling, floor to lease. I'm talking fake food set out on a banquet table so you could have a fake dessert party. There was it was it was an odd place. It was an odd place, and there were three staircases.

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One in the middle and then two going up on the right and the left side. And I was standing there on one of the staircases with my camera, and then all of a sudden, I felt someone rush up behind me. Like if someone was sprinting really, really fast, and then just stopped right behind you. And I just thought that was that was weird. It really it felt like a person.

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I've never felt that feeling before, and turned around and had no one there. And so, anyway, I didn't mention it to anybody, and I just went on. We were finishing the job. My boss had sent his assistant out to grab some sandwiches, and there was an alarm in the driveway that that let people know when people arrived. It's just like a bell, like

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a

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doorbell. And so, you know, he left. It made a little noise. You know, he was gone for a while. It was like a half an hour, and we're just killing time.

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And then all of a sudden, the driveway bell starts going off again. And he's not back, and it just keeps going off and going off. I mean, we were just sitting there being like, what is that? And then my boss was like, oh, don't worry about it. That's just our ghost, Lola.

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Anyway, next message.

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Hi. This is Nelly from Clinton, Illinois. I have a few ghost stories, but this is gonna be the first one. They're all from when I was a little girl, and I lived in Chicago. So we lived in a house, And in that house, supposedly, the realtor told my parents, actually, this was when I was, like, 12 years old.

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But the realtor told my parents that an older woman, elderly lady passed away in that house. So on this night, my brother and I, we shared the same bedroom. So my brother's bed was on one side and my bed was on the right side of the room. And my parents, they were in their own bedroom and they always had the door lock. And on this night, I was sleeping and usually I will sleep with my head covered.

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I don't know why. It's it's some I guess it's it was just it offers comfort. But, I remember hearing a woman weeping, like, close to my bed, like it was just standing on my bed facing me. And it was just weeping, like going like, like, kinda like weeping like that. And I opened my eyes and I only see, like, the shadow.

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I don't see, like, it's a shadow, like a black shadow. And it's a woman weeping. And I know it's on my mom because it did not sound like my mom. So it was just scary. And I immediately, like, covered my head, and I just stayed there.

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And I remember just closing my eyes and yeah, I don't remember hearing it anymore. But it was so scary because I was like, what the heck was the head? So and I know for sure it was not my brother. Definitely not my brother. So who knows?

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Thank you for calling, Nelly. And please call in with more of your stories. I can't wait to hear them. I've experienced a crying ghost myself. And I told the story on an episode of Scary FM's True Scary Story.

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It's called Lady of the Desert. Go check it out if you wanna hear it. And it's interesting. There is crying ghost lore from all over the world. From the banshee to La Llorona, maybe that old woman just wanted some attention.

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Or maybe it was a warning.

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Hi, Michelle. It's me again, Yvonne from The Philippines. I just wanted to share a short story that happened, way back when I was still living with my parents and my brother. It was possibly like sixteen-eighteen years old, late two thousand when this happened and it was possibly like 5PM to 7PM. Just a little context before this happened.

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I like and enjoy scaring my brother. I know it sounds cruel but I like hiding and just popping out of nowhere and just scaring. But jeez, it's not him. So he, in turn, as a revenge, tries to do it. But more often than not, I catch him in the act even before he gets to scare me because he's a really big boy at that time even at his age so we can actually see him in the corner whenever he does something.

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So given that the lights were off in my room and the only source of light was outside of my bedroom door which was coming from the living room dining room anybody who would walk past the door would cast a shadow or I would see their silhouette. So while I was sitting down I noticed him, my brother, walk in. Although I couldn't really actually see his face, I know it was him. It was shaped as him, a little boy. And he was just walking slowly.

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And he stopped to the foot of my bed still thinking I couldn't see him and he just stuck down. I wanted to give him the benefit doubt but I had to tell him off because I really needed that time alone at that point. I can't remember why but I was asking him to stop and told him, I saw you it's okay. You can get out of the room now. It's fine.

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And he wouldn't respond. And I think maybe he's thinking that I would check so it could scare me. But I was a little bit impatient at that point so I was like a little bit annoyed and asked him to get out of the room. He still wouldn't budge so I had no choice but to peep down with the foot of the bed to see Nasina go away. When it peeped down, he wasn't there.

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So logically, you would think, check under the bed. He's under the bed. There's no way for him to fit there because under the bed are boxes and boxes and boxes of his toys. It's basically the storage of all his toys so there's no way that he would fit there. But I still checked because I couldn't understand how he could just disappear after seeing him a few seconds ago just ducking down hiding there.

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So I checked every corner possibly where he could fit, I can't see him. So her only option was to just tell on him. So I just yelled out to mom and then told her, do you leave me alone? Please ask him to stop. Stuff like that.

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And when I looked up to look at my mom, she had this really confused face. Like, what are you talking about? And then she told me, you do know that your brother is not at home. And he hasn't come back home since this afternoon. And that was when I deduced that I saw something else.

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Thanks again, Yvonne, for another spooky treat. Keep those stories coming.

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Hey, Michelle. Edwin here from Los Angeles, California. And I wanna tell the story of when I first moved into a house when I was a kid. By the way, my family and I used to live in apartments for pretty much all of my childhood. So when I was like eight or nine, around that age, I was really excited to move into a house because I was going to be able to have a dog, you know, have a backyard, and we had trees, you know, it was cool.

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And I was finally gonna be able to to have that. And but, you know, after moving in, we started experiencing strange things in the house, and I think they started with me. I I went I was in the bathroom, and, I had just gotten in. Like, I had just shut the door. I look up toward the corner of the bathroom, and there is this jacket looking towel floating in the corner of the bathroom.

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It was dark blue, like a very dark, dark color. And as soon as I saw it, I I I kinda froze for a bit. I was thinking like, what is that? Right? It doesn't make any sense.

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And I just took off running. Like, I just ran down the hall. And as I was running through my dad, he's like, hey. Like, what happened? And I told him, like, I just saw something in the corner of the bathroom.

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And he was like, well, that's that's weird. He believes me. Right? Like, whenever I would tell him something like that, like some odd things, would he would believe them. Now I wouldn't tell him that many things because it was just like, you know, it was just like, oh, if you ever see a ghost, talk to it or or, it's not a big deal.

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It's nothing to be afraid of. You know? I actually felt, like, hurt as a kid, when it came to that kind of stuff. But anyway, this time, I had actually seen something and he said, like, let's go check it out. So he went with me and we looked around.

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There wasn't anything there. After that, my dad called me to the front. This was maybe the next day or later that day. It's hard for me to remember, but it was around that same week when he called me to the front of the yard. Like, they were fixing, you know, the fence and and doing a lot of new things when you get to a new house, you know, fixing things or fixing the garden or anyway.

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He tells me, if you look at this, and he points to the in the front gate, like in the there's a a gate to go get into the backyard. Right there was this red balloon. Like, it was a small imagine like a water balloon. It's red. It's like a rubbery looking ball.

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And my dad grabs a a lighter and just lights it on fire. He's like, this is weird. I don't know. He's poking at it. He's trying to figure it out too.

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You can tell he doesn't know what it is. It starts kind of dissolve not dissolving, but, like, the outer layer layer starts peeling off on its own. And then on the inside, there was this, like, I would call it a rice crispy texture. Like, it looked like that. I didn't touch it.

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Like a like a white dried rice looking stuff. And it was just itself, it was burning up. It was just like there was no smoke to it. Nothing. It was just kinda fading.

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Like, it was just kinda disappearing there. At the very inside, there's this coin right in the center. Like, it's just like this old coin. It wasn't a quarter. It wasn't a penny.

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It wasn't like a coin that I was familiar with. It was just this thing there. But Ed kinda looks at it. He picks up the coin, and he's just like, look at that. That's that's weird.

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And he just kinda doesn't explain anything. Doesn't do anything. He just kinda looks at it, and and that's all I remember from that. And I I remember searching around for a long time, sort of trying to find out what that is, like, that was. Eventually, listening to a a scary story from somebody, she's you know, I just asked because they said, oh, you know, she's familiar with all these objects, and and it turned out to be well, she said that if it's a rice thing, it's a good luck thing.

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But if it's, you know, you see coins or you see things like that, it might mean something else. Now, obviously, that didn't give me any clarity at all as to what this thing was, and I'm still wondering what it could be. It is strange because at the time, other things were going on, like, the they're I mean, I don't know if they're related, but we would see, for example, dead birds dead birds in the corners of the house, like actual corners of the property. And it was odd. Right?

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Because you're like, why are there dead birds here? Like, are the cats really that wild? Like, are they hunting and leaving the birds here? You know, you're not familiar with it's a lot bigger. Right?

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You're not familiar with all having all that open space. So I remember, like, sometimes my my dad and, you know, my mom too, like, she would just say, like, why were you up so late? Or, you know, kind of all these things that I mean, I I used to say, like, it wasn't me in the middle of the night, but but she would hear all these these noises, and I would hear them too. But I wasn't trying to, you know like, I didn't wanna I don't know. I guess in my mind, I thought that if I imagined that the place was haunted, it would be haunted.

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So I didn't want that because it was a new house and I was excited about it too. Eventually, five years later, like, things were, you know, around the house, it kinda died down. There there wasn't any, what I would call, paranormal activity. I mean, I never thought the house was actually haunted, haunted, but there were strange little quirks about it. And one night, I was trying to go to sleep.

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I was around 13 at the time, maybe 14. I was in high school already. And there was this flash of light coming from the closet. What I remember, and I still remember this vividly, was that it felt like a helicopter, like a search chopper, like a helicopter shining its bright light right at you through a window. That's what it looked like.

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It was this windy. It was this just a big dramatic scene of a bright light and just a lot of wind coming at you. And I remember screaming. This is the first time I actually do this. Right?

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Like, I just remember screaming. My dad came running in through the through the you know, opened the door. He's like, what's wrong? And I explained to him, I just saw this thing. Like, there was this bright, bright light coming from the closet.

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I don't know what it is. I was freaking out. The lights were on the whole night. I didn't go to sleep at all. And we never really sorted it out.

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But after that, I think that was a culmination. Like, I think that's where everything kind of ended because we never really experienced anything after that. Now my theories go into aliens, they go into you know, I used to have a lot of, you know, magazines and stories of ghosts and paranormal in the closet in a box. Eventually, my mom got rid of the my ghost stories books, but everything calmed down. The house has been pretty pretty chill since.

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Thank you, Edwin, for sharing your story. Does anyone else get the feeling that maybe Edwin's dad knew more than he was saying? I'd be curious about his experiences in that house and beyond. That's all we have this week, folks. Do you have a ghost story?

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Call (701) 484-2666. That's (701) 484-2666. Or go to tellmeaghoststory.com and leave your story there. Go ahead and leave me a five star review wherever you get your podcasts. Was something particularly scary in this episode or maybe you've had a similar experience?

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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.