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 Roc is back. If you heard his last call about the man shot outside his grandparents' motel in Pomona, the spirit at the bedroom window at 3 AM, the phantom phone calls from a disconnected booth, and the spiritual cleansing that may or may not have worked, you already know that Roc's life has had more paranormal contact in it than most people experience in a lifetime. This is his next chapter.
Roc was outside in the middle of the night when he saw a woman crying on the sidewalk. That is the kind of thing that most people would approach carefully and with concern. A woman alone. Visibly distressed. In the middle of the night. Roc went toward her because that is what you do. What happened when he got close enough to see her properly is what he called in to tell us about, and it is the kind of real ghost encounter that reframes everything that came before it in his story.
The question the original description asks is exactly the right one. What would you do if you saw a woman crying on the sidewalk in the middle of the night? The answer most people give before they hear Roc's call is different from the answer they give after.
One returning caller. One true ghost story about a woman on a sidewalk who was not what she appeared to be. 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] The late-night colon 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.
[00:00:46] Hey Michelle, let's me rock again.
[00:00:48] So I have a very story to share with everyone.
[00:00:53] So I remember living with my ex in Ontario, California.
[00:00:58] This happened where four when everything was set my farmland and this happened on
[00:01:03] Dineard.
[00:01:04] And I remember coming home one night from the club and this was around before Halloween.
[00:01:11] And it was me, my ex, and two friends of ours.
[00:01:16] So we get to the apartment and we see a woman crying on this sidewalk.
[00:01:23] And she has long hair and she's crying so scarcely.
[00:01:30] Her cries are echoing throughout the whole neighborhood and on the street.
[00:01:34] It was surprisingly on that night.
[00:01:35] It was a full moon and it was starting to get a little colder and there was a mist
[00:01:40] warning.
[00:01:41] So one of the girls her name was Karen said, I don't think it's a good idea to pull over.
[00:01:49] Something doesn't feel right about the girl.
[00:01:52] So me and my ex and another friend were like, I don't see why not.
[00:01:55] Like what did she?
[00:01:56] Maybe she lost, maybe you know someone dumped her on the side of the road because she
[00:02:00] was super momy.
[00:02:02] So I tell my ex I'm like, go ahead and please drive over.
[00:02:07] I think some means it doesn't go right with her.
[00:02:08] Like I need to console her and see what's wrong.
[00:02:13] So as we pull up, we get on the car and Karen says again, I don't know guys this doesn't
[00:02:20] go right.
[00:02:21] It just feels really odd and it feels really weird.
[00:02:23] I don't know.
[00:02:24] I just can't put my finger on it.
[00:02:26] So I approached the lady and I said, hey are you okay?
[00:02:31] Do you need a ride?
[00:02:32] I was like did you get dropped off or something?
[00:02:34] She just started falling her eyes out even more.
[00:02:40] So I'm like, it's really weird and I see my friend Karen.
[00:02:44] She's just running to the car.
[00:02:45] She's like, after I'm going to go to the car and you just hear the car door slam shot
[00:02:50] and she's like, hurry up and get in the car and I said no.
[00:02:54] And so my ex started running.
[00:02:56] He just started stunning into the car and he was like, nope, something doesn't go right.
[00:03:00] He's like, I'm just going to go to the car.
[00:03:01] So it was just me and my friend.
[00:03:04] So the woman started crying louder and louder as I'm standing right next to her.
[00:03:09] And so I kneel down to look at her and wipe her hair out of her face and she started crying
[00:03:18] even harder.
[00:03:19] And as she looks up, she looked like she was struck in the head.
[00:03:25] She was bleeding and she started cackling and she started laughing so hard.
[00:03:31] I was looking at her and I was like, why are you laughing?
[00:03:39] I was just so confused.
[00:03:40] I was the only sober one out of everybody else.
[00:03:45] Everybody was drunk but they sobered up the moment that they saw her.
[00:03:49] So my friend, she started running towards the car and she's like, I'm out of here.
[00:03:53] I cannot.
[00:03:54] This doesn't, this isn't right.
[00:03:56] Like we should've listened Karen.
[00:03:58] And I'm like, why is everyone running?
[00:04:00] And this woman just keeps laughing and she gets up.
[00:04:04] She starts standing up and she started saying, everybody left me.
[00:04:09] I'm alone and I'm cold and she's like, it just starts to laugh concernedly and then
[00:04:14] she just appears right before my eyes.
[00:04:18] And my friend that jumps in the car, she looks back and she says, did this woman just
[00:04:22] really disappear?
[00:04:23] She just disappeared right in front of her eyes.
[00:04:25] Like what the hell?
[00:04:26] Karen and I brought get in the car, get in the car.
[00:04:29] And we were only around the corner from the apartment.
[00:04:34] And it just kind of puzzled us.
[00:04:36] So we went to the apartment and we were all kind of freaked out trying to process everything
[00:04:40] that was going on.
[00:04:41] We all saw what we saw, correct?
[00:04:43] And everybody was just kind of like frantic, like hysterical.
[00:04:48] Everybody was just like, you know what?
[00:04:49] We just had a long night.
[00:04:50] I told everybody let's just stay over because who knows if you guys were to leave right
[00:04:54] now, maybe she'll come back.
[00:04:57] So we all liked to laugh that night in the apartment because we were all scared so we all
[00:05:02] held up on the floor because we were just so tired and just shook in by the experience
[00:05:08] that we had.
[00:05:09] So the next day as we're walking out and we were talking about like, oh it's really
[00:05:17] crazy.
[00:05:18] You know we tell the woman and how like the fact that she said that she was scared and
[00:05:21] that she was lonely just really didn't, couldn't make any sense about.
[00:05:25] And as we were walking this gentleman and this lady was like how dare you disrespect
[00:05:34] my wife like that?
[00:05:36] And this and this and that.
[00:05:38] And he's like, you know she just passed away and it just hit us like we were like wait.
[00:05:46] I described her exactly from head to toe what she was wearing.
[00:05:50] It turns out it was her husband and her sister.
[00:05:54] And I told them I was like, well she's kind of confused.
[00:05:58] She wanted to know where she was at why she was alone, why no one could see her.
[00:06:02] And apparently this woman had gotten, she was unalived by a drive by by a gang and she
[00:06:11] was so happened to just walk home from work one day.
[00:06:17] And as she was walking towards her house, the she got in the middle of these games.
[00:06:22] It took a couple blows to her head.
[00:06:24] So I told her husband and I said you know, I said just light a white candle.
[00:06:29] Make sure you tell her that she's that you're going to be taken care of everybody.
[00:06:34] He was kind of relieved and his sister was relieved to hear what we had to say.
[00:06:42] Thank you for your story, Rock.
[00:06:44] Another question though.
[00:06:47] Why do you think she was laughing?
[00:06:49] Was she just relieved you could see her or did you think it was something else?
[00:06:58] That's all we have this week folks.
[00:07:00] Do you have a ghost story?
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[00:07:29] Was something particularly scary in this episode or maybe you've had a similar experience?
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[00:07:39] Thank you to all the collars who left messages this week.
[00:07:42] And as always, I'm your host, Michelle Newman signing off.
[00:07:48] See you next week.