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. This call was 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 belongs entirely to David, who called in with a true ghost story from his childhood in Connecticut that has stayed with me since the first time I heard it. It starts with a near-death experience. It ends with a question about the woman who appeared after it that David has never been able to answer.
David had an early brush with death as a child. What followed in the wake of that experience was the appearance of a woman he came to think of as his babysitter. She watched over him. She was there when he looked for her and sometimes when he did not. She caused a specific kind of distress in his siblings that she did not seem to cause in David himself, which is one of the details that makes this story genuinely difficult to categorize. Whatever she was, she did not treat everyone in that house the same way.
The relationship between near-death experiences and subsequent paranormal encounters is one of the most consistently documented phenomena in supernatural research. People who have come close to death report seeing, hearing, and being visited by presences that were not accessible to them before at a rate that researchers across both the medical and paranormal fields have struggled to explain away. David's babysitter appeared after his brush with death and never entirely left. Whether she was a guardian, a spirit attached to him specifically, or something with intentions that were never fully revealed is a question this episode raises and deliberately leaves open.
What was her true purpose? Why did she linger? Why did his siblings fear her when David himself did not? One caller. One true ghost story from a Connecticut childhood that begins with almost dying and ends with a woman in the shadows who would not leave. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.
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[00:00:02] 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
[00:00:34] and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife. So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights. 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.
[00:00:54] And well, my earliest memory is actually having a spinal meningitis and dying in the hospital and seeing a woman standing over me and then waking up, I was about a year old.
[00:01:05] And then when I was a child, I had significantly older siblings but a sibling my own age. And the younger two would have a babysitter and the older ones would be out doing teenager things and it was never them babysitting us.
[00:01:17] 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 we should call CG. And anyway, this woman, young woman, anyway.
[00:01:34] Let's just add 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
[00:01:49] didn't have a little sister. And then my sibling, my own age, call her KL. She's like, David, we never had a babysitter alone. You were always with me. Whoever this was, I'm not telling you it didn't happen. It just didn't happen the way you remember.
[00:02:07] So fast forward, I never slept in the dark until I got married. Didn't know why. My father and grandmother also have never slept in the dark. And after I got married, I saw the person again, the babysitter in the shadows watching me sleep every so often.
[00:02:25] 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.
[00:02:38] But she would go away eventually, especially if I prayed not that I'm religious anymore. My wife never saw her, may now form her wife. Later I learned that two of my siblings have seen her watching them sleep.
[00:02:51] All I know is that since I got divorced and I'm asleep into 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 light you're staying on when I sleep. Thank you, David, for your story.
[00:03:08] I'm so glad I listened to this in the afternoon because it still scared me in the middle of the day. That's all we have this week, folks. Do you have a ghost story? Call 701-484-2666. Or go to tellmeagostory.com and leave your story there.
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[00:04:00] And as always, I'm your host, Michelle Newman, signing off. See you next week!