Vault: We Can't Believe This Haunted House Audio

Summary

The Bert Show – "Vault: We Can't Believe This Haunted House Audio"

Date: December 23, 2025
Host: Bert (Birch), with Melissa, Jeff, and guests
Guest: Bill (Homeowner, from Douglasville)

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into spine-chilling listener tales with a focus on one Atlanta-area home’s haunting. Bill, the homeowner, calls in to recount terrifying paranormal happenings which he’s documented in photos and audio. The Bert Show team plays real audio clips from Bill's collection and interviews him in-depth about his experiences, the history of the house, and how his family copes. The tone is a lively mix of skeptical curiosity, fear, and fascinated humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bill’s Haunted House: The Backstory

• Bill, living in Douglasville, claims extraordinary hauntings in his home—and in his neighborhood.
• He emailed The Bert Show with audio files and photographs, now shared on the show’s website.
• The Bert Show team was initially unable to decipher all the supposed supernatural occurrences in the photos but describes a range of orbs, unusual lights, and “faces” which become creepier with close inspection.
  • Quote:
    "If you zoomed in and it's pointed out to you, you can see the area where you can make out some of the scary faces."
    — Jeff [03:16]

2. Audio Evidence & Listener Reactions

• Bill sets up recorders while the family is out, capturing inexplicable noises.
• The team plays particularly disturbing audio:
  • Apparent voices, including a child screaming “Mommy,” with no one present in the house.
    Quote:
    "If this is me, the first thing that happens like that, I'm out. I'm gone. For sale sign. Leaving."
    — Host (Birch) [04:39]

3. Daily Life Among Spirits

• Bill describes living with hauntings as “getting used to it” but admits some events are deeply unsettling.
• Paranormal activity fluctuates—days of dormancy broken by bursts of intense events, like footsteps, appliances switching on/off, or physical sensations (objects vibrating, sheets tugged off at night).
• Bill’s dogs react fearfully, sometimes barking or even urinating in terror.
• Parents minimize the truth for their kids, who still occasionally witness events like sheets being pulled or seeing shadow figures.
  • Quote:
    "They can have the house. I would not have kids in that house."
    — Melissa [04:45, 04:56]

4. History & Possible Explanations

• Bill recounts researching the house and land:
  • Original house built in 1879, demolished in the 1950s.
  • At least two children and their mother died there in the 1800s; at least eight deaths (some suicides and natural causes) in the immediate neighborhood over the past 20 years.
  • Neighboring houses are also reportedly haunted, with one exorcism recently performed.
• Bill and his wife have both directly heard childlike voices, such as a girl singing or crying out, with others captured on both regular audio and VCR.
  • Quote:
    "A lot of times you hear it with your regular ears... we've actually heard her say 'help Mommy.'"
    — Bill (Homeowner) [08:24]

5. Specific Phenomena

• Physical events:
  • Dresser and bed visibly vibrating for minutes at a time, witnessed and recorded (audio played).
  • Photos showing orbs, mist, and even apparitional faces—some with “bonnets,” others with “red, fiery” characteristics.
  • Feeling sudden, oppressive “walls” of negative energy in certain areas.
  • Occasionally seeing what appear as “fires” in pictures taken outside, with no actual blaze detected.
  • At times, hearing “growling,” described as ape-like in size and sound, encountered at human height.
    • Quote:
      "I've had a few times where someone's come up behind me with real heavy breathing and growled at me... like a big ape, breathing real heavy."
      — Bill [08:24]

6. Skepticism and Coping

• The hosts question Bill’s credibility, and Bill offers to invite them along with professional ghost-hunters.

• Bill admits to previous experiences on his grandparents’ farm but says this house's activity is far beyond anything he’s known.

• The Bert Show hosts joke about not wanting to visit the house—even if invited—due to the high creep factor.

  • Quote:
    "Yeah, I'm not going to that house. No, you're on your own."
    — Host (Birch), Jeff [14:30, 14:44]

• On befriending spirits:

  • Bill reports "good" and "bad" energy; certain entities exude a negativity that makes him avoid parts of the house and expect sleepless nights.
  • Some pictures seem to show “dragon heads” coming out of apparent spectral fire.
    • Quote:
      "That's the gate to hell."
      — Guest, in disbelief [15:49]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Moment | |-----------|---------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:16 | Jeff | "If you zoomed in and it's pointed out to you, you can see the area where you can make out some of the scary faces." | | 04:39 | Host (Birch) | "If this is me, the first thing that happens like that, I'm out. I'm gone. For sale sign. Leaving." | | 08:24 | Bill (Homeowner) | "A lot of times you hear it with your regular ears... we've actually heard her say 'help Mommy.'" | | 08:24 | Bill (Homeowner) | "I've had a few times where someone's come up behind me with real heavy breathing and growled at me... like a big ape, breathing real heavy." | | 13:11 | Bill (Homeowner) | "I did, but wife didn't because growing up as a kid my grandparents house was a little active on their farm..." | | 14:44 | Host (Birch), Jeff | "Yeah, I'm not going to that house. No, you're on your own." | | 15:49 | Guest | "That's the gate to hell." |

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Major Segments & Timestamps

• [01:39] Introduction and setup for Bill’s story
• [03:16] Hosts review and react to the submitted photos and audio
• [04:09 – 04:45] First set of chilling audio discussed, including “child calling for mommy”
• [05:23 – 15:57] Main interview with Bill, touching on phenomena, house history, personal experiences, and neighborhood context
• [10:14 – 11:58] Details on objects vibrating, recording evidence, and analysis of visuals (orbs, faces)
• [15:49 – 15:57] Spectral “fires,” negative energy, and culminating disbelief

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Flow & Tone

The episode uses the Bert Show’s trademark blend of humor and authenticity to balance fear and intrigue. There’s a sense of casual camaraderie among the hosts and a willingness to entertain the possibility of the paranormal, but they remain cautious (and a little terrified) about getting too close to the action themselves. Listeners will feel drawn in by Bill’s matter-of-fact delivery, the hosts’ lively interjection, and the “Did you hear that?!” element of the real audio clips.

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Summary

This episode stands out as a classic haunted house tale grounded in personal testimony, genuine fright, and the Bert Show’s skeptical-yet-playful approach. Bill’s Douglasville home is positioned as a hotbed of paranormal activity, with decades of tragedy, chilling evidence (audio/visual), and unexplainable events affecting daily life. The hosts express a mix of intrigue and aversion, ensuring listeners are both entertained and unsettled—all from the safety of their own, hopefully un-haunted, homes.

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Transcript

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[Host (Birch)]

The Birch Show I'm not exactly sure where this thing starts, so let me play a second of it to see if I have to play all the sound effects and stuff for you guys again. Hey, Bill.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yes, sir.

[Host (Birch)]

How are you this morning?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Great.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah, I do. All right, let's back up a step here. Melissa, you were out on Friday, but we got an email from this guy Bill, who lives up in Douglasville. I guess it happened on Wednesday. And we were talking about haunted homes here in the Atlanta area. And he said, if you're talking about that, you gotta talk about my house. And he sent us a bunch of audio files and a bunch of photographs of things that freaky things that happened around his house also. Now all those pictures are up on the website now. But I went over the weekend and I really couldn't tell what was in those pictures.

[Melissa]

The only thing, yeah, the pictures are up, and there's some that are supposedly reflections of faces and windows and stuff. And I couldn't make those out very well. But I have heard before that if you take a picture and you get it developed and there's either. Some people call it an orb, you know, big light circle or flecks of light or whatever that sometimes can be, you know, some considered, you know, spirits. Because if there's no debris in the air, no dust in the air, no dust particles. And there's one picture that he brought that there was light specks all over the room where she's sitting, which, I mean, is an indication that something was going on.

[Host (Birch)]

Well, and one picture we saw on Friday, though, that wasn't there, like a face in the window. Then there was a face on somebody's arm.

[Jeff]

Yeah, there were a couple faces, but you had to zoom in on the picture. And in here, Jeff had pulled him up on his computer over here, and he had zoomed in. I don't know if they're zoomed in on the website or not, because I didn't. I didn't have to go look. I had already seen him. But if you zoomed in and it's pointed out to you, you can see the area where you can make out some of the scary faces.

[Host (Birch)]

So the pictures are pretty scary. I mean, really scary. But the audio that he sent us freaked us all out. In fact, there was a woman that was driving to work in her car, and it was like 6:30 and she had her dome light on because she didn't want to be in the dark in the car driving to work.

[Melissa]

Yeah, I'm pretty confident now that the sun's. I'm one of those that, yeah, if there's sunlight, I'm not as scared, but, yeah, I could see where I would do that.

[Host (Birch)]

This is the sounds of. He had set up recorders in his house. Then he and his wife and his kids left. So there is absolutely nobody in the house. Well, when they come home, they start fast forwarding through the audio and then they hear this. Nobody in the house. All right, Fairly freaky. Fairly freaky.

[Jeff]

Seriously freaky.

[Melissa]

Yeah, like sixth sense. Like, I've heard, you know, where he was in the room by himself and the tape recorder was going on and the guy left and came back in and there was the, you know, another spirit in the room with him that got on the Tape recorder.

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[Host (Birch)]

Okay. Here is another piece of audio that he sent us also. And if you listen very closely, you can hear the child screaming out for mommy.

[Jeff]

Uh, no, that is just wrong.

[Host (Birch)]

Now, if this is me, the first thing that happens like that, I'm out. I'm gone. For sale sign. Leaving.

[Melissa]

Yeah, I said earlier, I said if it was like a battle between me and a spirit, I'm putting my money on the spirit. I'm not. I cannot win. So I. Yeah, they can have the house.

[Jeff]

And he's got kids in that house.

[Host (Birch)]

He's got kids in that house.

[Melissa]

I would not have kids in that house.

[Host (Birch)]

He'll tell you all of this. We're gonna play this whole interview that we had with him on Friday. But keep in mind, the neighbor's house is haunted also. He's also going to tell you, like, there have been eight deaths in the neighborhood, also suicides and accidents. It's enough to make me leave in a millisecond. This was Bill talking about his house in Douglasville on Friday. Hey, Bill.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yes, sir.

[Host (Birch)]

How are you this morning? Great. Since we don't know you, you have to make some kind of promise to us at you guys aren't pulling the wool over our eyes.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

I can definitely promise you that. And I could probably arrange it where y' all could actually come out with one of the ghost hunter teams.

[Host (Birch)]

Love to.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

When they come out and set up all their special equipment and, like, walk around the house and take pictures and all that kind of stuff. So I got one scheduled to come out, I believe, in about two weeks.

[Host (Birch)]

Love to come out there and see that. Now, a couple of us were talking about crashing at your house on Sunday night.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Well, the problem with that is I got kids that live in the house. And normally when we do have people over on the teams, we have the kids go to one of the friends houses for the weekend.

[Jeff]

So you don't scare them.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yeah, well, the kids know that something's going on, but we try to make up stuff so they don't get scared because they mostly concentrate on me and my wife.

[Host (Birch)]

The spirits will only, like, hang out with you and the wife in the house.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Not really, but they will do stuff to the kids, like change their channel on the radio, tv, and they might see maybe a shadow figure in the house, but with like, you know, getting, like, the bed sheets pulled off of you walking out of the shower and the faucetron or having stuff touch here or.

[Guest]

What is the single scariest thing that has happened to you or your wife in that house?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Well, one night I woke up with the bed sheets being tugged off me, and I have two dogs now in the house. And they usually let you know when something's around because they'll start growling or they'll start barking at something, both of them, at the same time. And, like a hair stand up. Sometimes they'll just pee right there to get so scared.

[Host (Birch)]

What is the history of the house? Have you done the research to find out who could be in there?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yeah, we've been researching for the last couple months. We've only been in the house for about six months. And the original house that was on the land was built in 1879 and tore down in 1950. And we've researched it back to the original owners because we have multiple spirits in the house. There's. I mean, we've had probably about six or seven seen at one time. One of the teams actually called out a couple names of the deceased that used to live in the house and had taken pictures while calling them. That's taking pictures of, like, a big, bright spirit orb. And we know for a fact that a little girl, age nine and one, about age five and a half, young boy, died in an old house along with. Well, their mom also died of a liver disease back in the late 1800s. And we first started, we moved in the house, we would hear the little girl maybe singing sometimes and calling for mommy and calling for help. And we would take pictures.

[Guest]

You hear this with your regular ears, because we played the audio and it sounds like, you know, process or slow down or whatever. Do you have to record it and manipulate it or do you hear it with your regular ears?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

A lot of times you hear it with your regular ears. Like, I've been in a bedroom with my wife, who's sitting on the bed when we first moved in, and actually heard the girl singing downstairs real softly. And we've actually heard her say, help Mommy. I mean, we moved in, we started taking pictures in the house, really not knowing something was there. And we'd give them develop and there would be these, like, spirit orbs inside the pictures, maybe next to my daughter or next to me or next to, you know, something in a house. And we thought it was just a film. But then stuff started happening. Like, I've had a few times where someone's come up behind me with real heavy breathing and growled at me. That's happened to one of my friends and also to my daughter. Me and her at the same time. We were leaving outside in the yard after our dog got spooked and ran off. We're looking for the dog around the woods and something came up behind us, breathing real heavy and growled at us. But the thing that growled at us was about my height. I'm about six, five. And this thing was like right. But like right around my height level. When it growled, it sounded like a real, like a big ape, like breathing real heavy.

[Host (Birch)]

Dude, what are you doing in that house? Why are you living there? Doesn't that freak you out?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yeah, I mean, you. I don't want to say you get used to it, but there's times where the house will go dormant for maybe about six or seven days where nothing will happen. I mean, maybe something small might happen. Just to let you know that there, you know, maybe the TV might turn off or turn on while you're in the room, or the door might open by itself. But then all of a sudden, maybe for like one or two days straight. I mean, you'll have, you know, footsteps walking down the stairs, you'll have your name being called right behind you. Or you'll hear like mumbling going on behind you or.

[Host (Birch)]

Hey Bill, explain this to us. Okay. That we've got like a 50 second clip of the dresser.

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[Host (Birch)]

Let me play just a couple of seconds of the clip and then describe what's going on because it's a little tough to make out.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Sure. Hear that? This stuff on the dresser vibrating. Oh yeah.

[Host (Birch)]

Okay, so you have the recorded equipment. Is this happening in your bedroom?

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[Bill (Homeowner)]

Now I've had the bed do the same thing before, but that happened on.

[Guest]

Sunday four days ago.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

See the first time that happened on Sunday. It happened twice on Sunday. I was sitting on the bed and the dresser's eyes started vibrating for about four minutes. And I took a couple pictures in my room with my digital camera and I took a picture of about five or six of the orbs around my dresser. And stuff had been happening already that day. So I had my audio equipment already ready to run that night. So after that started vibrating, I went ahead and started taping maybe a half an hour after it started vibrating. And my wife had called me and I was telling her about it, about it vibrating earlier because we had the bed vibrate. And as I was telling her about it, maybe about five seconds later, it started vibrating again.

[Melissa]

Oh my God.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

So while I was talking to her, I moved the recorder closer to the dresser and then that's me talking to her on the phone. And I put the phone next to the dresser so she could hear it. But I got all the Original cassette tapes and I got original VCR tapes that we've taken because we've actually got pictures of like orbs flying around the room on actual tape.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah, we do. We've got some of those pictures that you sent us. Some of the faces and the pictures.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yeah, we get those a lot. Now the one of the little lady, that was taken about two weeks ago, we were walking around the house doing our own little investigation and one of my friends had this thermometer in his hand of Reza, the room temp in that one area. And it went up to about 120 degrees in that one area. So we took a picture and as you see coming out of the kitchen is like a mist and then attached to it is a face or a head attached to it. But we have probably about 15 pictures that are similar to that with faces attached to them. I got one of like a little baby looks like, has like a bonnet on its head. And I got them of like different entities in my yard that are kind of like evil looking but kind of, they're like red and just like kind of like fiery looking.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah.

[Guest]

And I think you wouldn't believe the look because Jen and Bert have both said, Jen is totally free.

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[Guest]

She said like because we talked about spending the night there and she's like I will not do it without my husband.

[Jeff]

Well Bill, here's my question. Did you believe in ghosts and so spirits and things before you moved into this house?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

I did, but wife didn't because growing up as a kid my grandparents house was a little active on their farm. So I had had experiences before growing up, but not up until I moved into the house because I remember when I was looking at a house to buy, I was in the backyard by the woods because we had like three acres. And I kept looking back at the house for some reason, like I was being watched. I'd always look back. But about a week after we moved in, that's when the faucet started turning on and the lights would turn on. You start hearing the footsteps.

[Host (Birch)]

Is it possible that the spirits in your. Did you say your grandparents house?

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[Host (Birch)]

Is it possible that they just following you from that house to your house here?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

I don't know. I doubt it because their house has been dormant for about the last 15 years. And my neighbor's house is also haunted. But they did an exorcism over there about two months ago. And the whole land, it's just like that. You can go in the backyard and take pictures of stuff. And my neighbor on the other side of me, they haven't had any activity inside their house, but on their land, they've had activities. And in the last 20 years, there's been eight deaths right in the vicinity of my house. So this is a mixture of. I mean, who knows?

[Guest]

Y' all have a good time over there.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah, I'm not going to that house.

[Jeff]

Eight deaths. And what were the eight deaths caused by?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

One was, like, a car wreck. I think four of them were suicides and a couple natural causes.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah, I'm not going to that house. No, you're on your own.

[Jeff]

Do you want to become friends with them?

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Some of them don't really bother me too much because you might know that they're around and you kind of got used to them. But there's one or two that are really not too nice. Like, you'll be walking through the house, and all of a sudden you'll hit, like, a real, real bad negative, like a wall. And you'll know, don't go no farther or just turn around and go away, because it'll be real, real negative. And that's usually when I know that it's going to be a rough night of sleeping. Like, you know, like, if you leave the bedroom door shut, sometimes you'll hear knocking at the door. Or there's been a few times where we've taken pictures outside the house at night, and you'll see, like, a fire coming out of the ground, a big bonfire, and there's no fire there burning at the time. Taking the pictures, and then you'll see, like, these red balls of, like, orbs coming out of them. And then I got one I sent you that has, like, two looks like dragon heads coming out of the fire.

[Guest]

Yeah, that's the gate to hell.

[Host (Birch)]

Yeah.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yeah.

[Host (Birch)]

Bill, you sold us. You sold us. All right, we'll talk to you, and we'll all come on over there when you get the professionals out.

[Bill (Homeowner)]

Yes, sir.

[Host (Birch)]

Okay, Bill, thanks for taking the time, man. I appreciate it.

[Guest]

The Birch Show.

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[Bill (Homeowner)]

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