Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and this classic season three episode is now available as a full video on both Spotify and YouTube for the first time.
Sophie from Los Angeles calls in with a true ghost story about the house her family bought when she was young. Her little brother refused to go into one room from the moment they arrived, insisting the man in the chair smelled. The family assumed imaginary friend until they discovered a man named Sal had died in that exact room. Sal apparently had a strong smell in life and kept it in death.
Brennan Storr from The Ghost Story Guys returns with more shadow figure encounters. If you heard his first call on Accidental Exorcism, you already know his history with shadow people. A house near his home in Victoria caused him and his wife to share the same intruder dream on two separate nights after simply driving past it. Then in Montreal, a shadow figure in a hooded robe appeared standing over him in the night. When he gasped, it did not disappear. It sucked back into the closet like the end of Poltergeist.
Cindy calls in with a ghost pet story. Her father's greyhound Sparky lived to fourteen, and after he died the family heard it downstairs. Click click click. Dog toenails on linoleum moving in the same familiar pattern to the top of the stairs, then stopping.
Jules from Santa Barbara calls in with a ghost story that begins at a youth hostel in Vancouver in 2001 and spans decades. She saw a man in a top hat walk through a solid wall at 2 AM. What followed over the years was a series of encounters, including a ghost child in a Brooklyn apartment who followed her everywhere and eventually had to be given firm boundaries about which rooms she could enter. Jules ultimately made a conscious decision to close herself off to the paranormal entirely and has been largely undisturbed since 2008.
Erica from San Diego returns with her fourth call. She woke on the couch at her mother's house to find a tall dark figure with a pointed hat at the entrance of the hallway. The moment she registered it, the figure darted down the hall, and she chased it. When she reached the hallway, it was gone. Her dog did not bark. What Erica encountered is what thousands of independent eyewitnesses call the Hat Man, a shadow figure described as seven to ten feet tall wearing a fedora-style hat, observed standing over people while they sleep across cultures and continents, making it one of the most documented shadow entity phenomena in paranormal research.
Nellie from Illinois returns. She and her mother were talking when both caught it at the same moment: a dark shadow the size of a child moving across the edge of their vision. Neither said anything until Nellie turned and asked did you see that. She had.
And Maggie from Everett, Washington calls in about the man in the suit, the resident ghost of the hundred-year-old building where she works. Polite. Slightly mischievous. Not malicious. Apparently still very much on the clock.
00:00 Intro
00:00 Sophie and the ghost named Sal
00:00 Brennan Storr and the shadow figure in the closet
00:00 Cindy and her greyhound Sparky
00:00 Jules and the man who walked through a wall
00:00 Erica and the Hat Man
00:00 Nellie and the shadow the size of a child
00:00 Maggie and the man in the suit
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