Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and this week we heard apparitions walking through doors, dolls escaping locked attics, workplace ghosts who never clocked out, spirits following stories home, and the kind of love that transcends death.
Sarah from Weaver, Alabama calls in with a true ghost story from Florida. Pulling into a friend's driveway, she watched a completely ordinary-looking man, long hair, shorts, a t-shirt, socks visible, walk straight through the front door and disappear. She made her ex-husband drive around the block before she could go inside. When she mentioned it to the homeowner months later, he told her his brother-in-law had seen the exact same man walking through the same door.
Tessa calls in with a haunted doll story from a three-story Victorian house in East Texas her military family rented when she was five. The attic held a glass case of about a hundred porcelain dolls. One with red hair, green eyes, and a blue silk dress caught her heart completely. Her father said no and locked the attic. A month later, the doll was sitting on her bed. Her father took it back. The door was still locked. His key was still in his pocket. Years later, Tessa learned the house's history. The original owner had a daughter who died at eight. Families then sometimes made dolls from the dead child's real hair, dressed in the clothes they wore when they died. That doll was that little girl.
James from San Francisco shares a story from 1993 about working alone in an estate jewelry office on Post Street, where the ghost was known to ring doorbells when employees were by themselves. The doorbell rang. Nobody was there. He saw a tall man in a red flannel shirt in the hallway; he assumed it was his coworker Brett. Seconds later, the phone rang. It was Brett calling from outside the building. The ghost, they later learned, was the man who had owned the estate jewelry business before the current owner took over.
Ashley from Salt Lake City calls in with a Queen Mary story that did not end when her family left the ship. Her aunt felt a small hand grab her knee in an empty elevator during the tour. Back home in Utah, the family found a little girl in a blue gown in their pool photographs. Ashley's mother began writing a book about the experience. Every time she sat down to work on it, the computer crashed, and the file came through in unreadable code. Wet footsteps woke Ashley at night and left puddles on the carpet. Children's laughter echoed through the house. Lights flickered. The second her mother typed the final word of the book, everything stopped at once.
Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana, calls in with a story about her grandfather after her grandmother Grace passed away in 1982. He woke at 1 AM to thumping in the bedroom and called out Grace's name. From that night forward, he heard a heartbeat every single night until his fatal heart attack on December 17, 1982. Doctors found nothing wrong. He told people he would not make it to Christmas. He was right.
00:00 Intro
01:07 Sarah from Alabama and the man who walked through the door
03:01 Tessa and the doll made from a dead girl's hair
05:14 The Post Street ghost in San Francisco
07:17 Ashley and the ghost of the Queen Mary
11:19 Cindy Ketron and her grandfather's heartbeat
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Theme music: Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade
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