Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and this week's five calls include one of the most well-corroborated sightings we've ever received.
Mark from outside Des Moines, Iowa calls in about a night at his friend Dan's house, where both men simultaneously saw a pale gray face pressed directly against the window glass, shoulders too high and head seemingly floating, eyes unnaturally dark. It vanished without a sound in seconds, and when they ran outside, the wet grass held no footprints anywhere, despite the only approach being a gravel driveway that would have made noise.
An anonymous caller shares two separate experiences of overwhelming, intrusive dread focused on specific people days before their deaths, first as a child fixated on a classmate named Molly who died in a car accident, and again years later, unable to recall the name of a well-liked schoolmate the exact day he was fatally struck by a car in New York.
Harriet, calling from London about a trip to a church outside Galway, Ireland, shares the local legend of a preacher who reportedly dropped dead mid-sermon in the 1800s just before revealing a secret to his congregation. While photographing the church, she captured a run of images with an unexplained blurry human-shaped light in the center, despite no bright light source present.
Rebecca calls in after reconnecting with her sister about a childhood imaginary friend named Dodd, only for her sister's unprompted description (splotchy, patchy hair, sickly pale skin, dark black eyes, and a perpetually wet appearance) to leave them both realizing Dodd may not have been imaginary at all.
And Dan from Seattle closes the episode with an unsettling walk around Green Lake, where he heard crying seemingly surrounding him from every direction with no one visible anywhere nearby. Later research led him to the 1926 case of Sylvia Gaines, a young woman murdered and thrown into the lake by her father, whose translucent, weeping figure has reportedly been seen wandering the area ever since.
00:00 Intro
00:37 Mark and the face at the window
04:28 The precognitive dread that came true twice
09:46 Harriet and the haunted Irish church
12:47 Rebecca and the imaginary friend Dodd
15:22 Dan and the crying at Green Lake
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