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. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.
Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has two true ghost stories from two callers who both found themselves alone in historic buildings with something that wanted them to know it was there. One of them had a door open behind him. One of them was told to get out.
Jacob calls in with a real paranormal encounter from his time working on a paranormal television show, the second caller in the early archive has professional ghost hunting experience, and his story takes place in a historic mansion in Denver, where he was alone on the third floor. Jacob began noticing that the building was responding to him. Sounds that echoed his movements. An activity that seemed to track where he was in the room. And then a door behind him slowly creaked open with no one on the other side. What Jacob experienced is what paranormal researchers call ghostly mimicry, the specific and deeply unsettling phenomenon where a spirit appears to observe and respond to the behavior of the living rather than simply existing alongside them. Something in that Denver mansion was paying attention to Jacob specifically, and it wanted him to know it.
Then David calls in with a haunting experience from the Huguenot Street Historic Site in New Paltz, New York, one of the oldest documented settlement sites in the United States, with a history that runs back to the late 1600s. David was on a tour of the property when he heard a voice behind him tell him to get out. He turned around. There was nothing behind him but a wall. The voice was clear. The instruction was direct. David was not alone in hearing it.
The detail that gives David's story an additional layer is the painting. A portrait of a girl who died before her portrait could be completed hangs in one of the Huguenot homes, a piece of art frozen at the moment of her death with the specific weight that unfinished things carry when the person they were made for never got to see them completed. Whether the voice David heard was connected to that girl or to the four centuries of history compressed into that stretch of New Paltz stone is something the episode does not resolve. The voice was real. That is what matters.
Two real callers. Two true ghost stories from a Denver mansion and a 17th-century settlement in New York, where something spoke out loud to a man standing alone against a wall. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story.
[00:00:15] Late Night Collin Podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore
[00:00:20] the eerie and unexplained.
[00:00:23] I'm your host, Michelle Newman.
[00:00:27] This podcast features true stories from our collars that will send shivers down your
[00:00:32] spine and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife.
[00:00:39] So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights.
[00:00:43] Hey Michelle this is Jacob, I got one for you.
[00:00:49] So I worked on a show up in Denver, Colorado at least and it was an old historic mansion
[00:01:00] and to give you for the show we have a host that come in and do a meet and greet with
[00:01:07] the owners and see what kind of activities they have in the area.
[00:01:11] And then we would go once they're done we would come in, the crew would come in and
[00:01:16] they set up all the cameras in the designated spot that they're going to be focusing on.
[00:01:22] And so those are the night investigation, see if they capture anything and then present
[00:01:27] their reveal.
[00:01:28] Once they're done we come in and we take everything apart.
[00:01:32] And so they did the investigation, we had to come in, take everything out and there's
[00:01:38] like a couple levels to this location.
[00:01:42] And while my team was on the first floor taking everything apart I decided to go up to
[00:01:47] a third floor by myself and see if I can get ahead of things.
[00:01:51] And once I got up there, there was a big room in front of me, another room to the right
[00:01:57] of me and like a small little office to the left.
[00:02:00] So I decided to go into the room to the right and as I go in to take away the camera that
[00:02:06] we get set up behind me there is a door that I believe let's see their closet or its
[00:02:12] a glass or something but it was crept open and it was dark and I couldn't see inside
[00:02:16] but I noticed it while I take away the camera, we had set up a cable, put some paper tape
[00:02:23] on to keep it in place.
[00:02:25] And so I decided to pull on the cable to detach it.
[00:02:29] And so when you do that it makes a noise.
[00:02:31] It goes shhh.
[00:02:33] Right?
[00:02:34] And so when I did that a delayed echo occurred right behind me that really made me jump and
[00:02:42] just ended up staring at it.
[00:02:44] So I pulled it out and it goes shhh.
[00:02:46] And about a second later, shhh.
[00:02:48] Behind me.
[00:02:49] Freak me out.
[00:02:50] I stayed there for a second wait to see if it was my team coming up the stairs and nothing.
[00:02:55] Then I pull up on the cable again, just staring at the door and it goes shhh.
[00:03:01] It comes right out of that closet door.
[00:03:04] Freak me out and I was like nope, nope, nope, nope.
[00:03:06] Put the cable back down and walk out that room.
[00:03:09] And as I'm kind of like running down the stairs my team was coming up and I completely
[00:03:13] played it off.
[00:03:14] And the lay guys I was just starting everything up there.
[00:03:18] Turn around and went at the opposite room and just took everything out of all the years
[00:03:23] that I've done.
[00:03:24] Go some features by far that one was the one that impacted me the most.
[00:03:31] Thank you Jacob for your story.
[00:03:34] Who knew a ghost mimicking the sound of pulling tape would give me the chills?
[00:03:42] Next message.
[00:03:43] Hey it's David and Sue Fawls again.
[00:03:46] Almost 20 years ago started.
[00:03:49] One summer day when I didn't have work.
[00:03:51] My father had by now few and he wanted to do a day trip up to New Paul's New York which
[00:03:56] called out the Huguenot homes to historic site.
[00:04:00] And we're in a house, I think it's called LaPieper House.
[00:04:02] Very wooden, very early 19th century wooden house.
[00:04:06] And we're looking at these three paintings of a mother, father and daughter and there's
[00:04:11] only like seven of us you know in the total tour with the guide.
[00:04:14] And I'm in the back row, isn't it two rows?
[00:04:16] What up three rows of people listening to him talk about the house.
[00:04:20] And he glanced, looked, lost his over story right here later.
[00:04:24] But I just, I loud as clear I heard from behind me, he meant there's something behind me
[00:04:29] but a wall.
[00:04:30] Get him playing out, get the playing out.
[00:04:32] So I knew that they were scared and I kind of instored the door and we get outside, we're
[00:04:36] walking to the next stop.
[00:04:37] And I say to the tour guide, how do you go stories attached to these houses?
[00:04:42] It's like oh yeah, there's lots of them.
[00:04:44] Like one of our tour guides won't go on the next house.
[00:04:47] So later I did hear the story on another tour.
[00:04:50] Those two, the three paintings have been kept separately because the parents paintings
[00:04:55] were done some very much to parents were in the room but the daughter actually passed
[00:04:59] away of like I don't know if it was consumption or something a couple days before the painting
[00:05:03] was done but they propped her up and did a painting of this portal.
[00:05:08] And on the back the artist signed it with I did my best.
[00:05:12] And they said that for years they tried to hang the girls painting upstairs because
[00:05:18] it was so disconcerting and just had the parents downstairs.
[00:05:21] But they'd come in, they'd find the painting had basically jumped off the nail and landed
[00:05:24] on the floor trying to say hey I don't want to hang here.
[00:05:27] So finally they hung her downstairs with their parents and they'd believe it was referred
[00:05:31] to the painting as her and she never fell off again.
[00:05:36] So I thought that was trying to creep because I think that was the room where I heard
[00:05:39] it out.
[00:05:42] Thank you David from Sioux Falls for another great story.
[00:05:47] I can just imagine the words I tried my best at going through the halls of that house.
[00:05:54] That's all we have this week folks.
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[00:06:35] Thank you to all the collars who left messages this week.
[00:06:39] And as always I'm your host Michelle Newman signing off.
[00:06:44] See you next week.