Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and this week's five calls include one of the strangest dream-legend matchups we've ever received.
An anonymous caller shares a dream from a weekend trip to the Bush House Inn in Index, Washington, in which her husband died and she chose to take her own life rather than live without him. The next morning, lobby literature revealed the inn's most famous ghost story: a woman who once believed her husband died in a mining accident, took her own life before learning it wasn't true, and has haunted the building ever since.
Emily from Chicago calls in about repeated tapping on her foot one night, initially dismissed as her cat, only to find the cat sound asleep downstairs and the front door standing wide open.
Sabrina Wu, calling in again from Los Angeles, revisits a childhood spent dreading specific corners of her Michigan home, a feeling she now suspects may have been validated when her mother mysteriously filled the house with sage-scented candles the moment Sabrina finally admitted, as an adult, that she'd always believed the home was haunted.
Elijah, a preacher of over 20 years from Tennessee, calls in about a house near the railroad tracks locals call cursed, where he was asked to pray after a young couple reported heavy nightly footsteps stopping outside their bedroom door. Walking room to room reading Psalms, he encountered a man-sized shadow moving across a wall with no light source anywhere nearby, and hasn't returned to that stretch of road since.
And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with a fifth-grade memory of a friend named Sarah, always dressed head to toe in red, who followed her home from school daily until one winter afternoon her footprints stopped abruptly in the middle of the schoolyard, disappearing entirely. Cindy later learned Sarah had died in a car accident near the school, despite never having attended it.
00:00 Intro
00:35 The dream that matched the Bush House Inn legend
03:39 Emily and the tapping on her foot
05:48 Sabrina and the sage candles
09:03 Elijah and the shadow in the cursed house
11:38 Cindy Ketron and the girl in red
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