Two Girls One Ghost: "Encounters x298 - Terrifying Stories from Appalachia with Ghosteas and… Grandparents?"

Release Date: September 11, 2025
Hosts: Corinne Vien & Sabrina Deana-Roga
Guests: Macy and Natalie from Ghost Teas Podcast
Theme: Appalachia’s spine-chilling supernatural—demons, cryptids, and haunted family lore

Overview

This special crossover episode features the hosts of Two Girls One Ghost teaming up with Macy and Natalie, sisters behind the Ghost Teas podcast, for their first-ever collaboration. Together, these four self-proclaimed spooky enthusiasts dig deep into ghostly encounters, listener stories from Appalachia, and the unique power of family lore and local superstitions. The episode is a blend of personal narratives, analysis of Appalachian legends, and genuinely creepy listener submissions—plus, a viral photo that haunts both the hosts and listeners alike.

Meet the Ghost Teas (00:59–07:45)

• Crossover Excitement: The hosts celebrate fulfilling their audiences’ requests for a partnership and draw parallels between their shows and listener experiences.
• Origins & Family Influences: Macy and Natalie share their roots in paranormal curiosity, heavily inspired by their grandmother’s spiritual interests—more “angels and past lives” than ghosts, but foundational to their worldview.
• First Podcast Hauntings: Both shows recount bizarre technical failures and “haunted” episodes—especially while covering notorious cases like the Smurl family.
  • Macy: “Sometimes our camera will just stop working for no reason... Right now we have a mirror behind our camera just in case.” (04:35)
  • Natalie: “When we're talking about the demon specifically, it won't open for me anymore.” (05:03)
• Listener Impact: Listeners reporting haunting experiences after listening (e.g., strange noises, electronics acting up), leading to existential podcast anxiety and amusement.

Quote:
Corinne: “Why is there so much difficulty? Like, it’s almost cock blocking our listeners from listening to us.” (07:02)

Personal Paranormal Encounters (07:46–25:07)

Family Ties and Ghostly Legacies

• Grandma’s Role: A lover of the otherworldly (“angel wing tattoos” and past life stories), instilling early openness to the paranormal.
• Childhood Hauntings:
  • Macy’s First Experience (Age 3): Hears ghostly footsteps—later finds out it may have been a recently deceased great-grandfather (08:20–08:53)
    • “In my mind, it was around Christmas time… Later on my mom told me... she had seen her grandfather walking that same path.”—Macy
  • Eerie Family Pattern: Each birth in their family is preceded by a death (“one in, one out”).
  • Natalie’s First Major Encounter (Age 8): Experiences terror in a high school bathroom—sees a black, misty shadow figure pursuing her.
    • “I got this rush of… intense fear, primal fear. I was like, I’m in danger.” (10:35–11:41)
  • The Mimic Incident: Sister Kayla repeatedly sees a “Natalie” in a black shirt running by her room – but both sisters were elsewhere (12:31–13:41)
    • Dread and the possibility of doppelgangers (“mimics”)

Ongoing Nighttime Terrors

• Natalie:
  • “Hear someone whisper my name”—believed it was normal childhood auditory experience (15:38–16:05).
• Macy:
  • Ongoing Nightmare/Demonic Attachment:
    • Recurring, escalating dreams of castles, forests, and a “birdlike” evil red-aura creature. Dreams end with a scream and paralysis, continue in different locations through college life—tied to a thrifted desk.
    • Physical hauntings: three knocks under her bed that intensify; an upside down cross later discovered carved into the hidden wood of her desk. (16:19–22:21)
    • Describes intense measures for protection (Jesus statues, crucifixes, prayer).
    • Family sands down and stains over the desk; hauntings cease.

Quote:
Macy: “[The demon] had a red aura around it and it snapped its head to me and screamed... I woke up still hearing the scream.” (18:15)

Appalachian Listener Stories & Unsettling Evidence (31:01–53:40)

The Viral Appalachian Cryptid Photo (31:13–34:53)

• Listener "V" shares an image from an Appalachian game cam:
  • Features a disfigured, hoofed creature. V and the family now believe it’s a “flush pedestrian” (“SW”)—avoiding the real name for safety.
  • The story is so unnerving, opening the photo allegedly leads to real-life paranormal activity.
• Reactions from Ghost Teas:
  • “Oh… No. The way its arms…”—Natalie (33:45)

Generations of Appalachian Rules & Survival (35:02–40:50)

• Listener Shay’s Story:
  • Generational rules for camping: “Don’t run, whistle, or sing in the woods.” Family honors rules with deadly seriousness, no explanation.
  • Shay, physically exhausted, dreams they become a predator stalking their own family’s campsite—sees it crawling into her tent, then wakes up to find deep scratches down her back and her tent open at 3:59 A.M.
  • Emphasizes the ancient, predatory feeling: “This wasn’t a dream. This shook me to my core. It felt old. Ancient.”

Quote:
Sabrina: “The darker version is that it had its sights set on Shay for so long... to make the experience even more terrifying.” (45:31)

• Group wonders: Was this a failed “Freaky Friday” body switch with a cryptid?

Cherokee Wisdom & Knocking in the Night (48:23–52:11)

• Listener Lucy’s Story:
  • Multiple paranormal events within one week: state of constant fear, orbs, and ancient “rules of survival.”
  • Grandfather foresees trouble, stays up all night guarding the family. Lucy later sees a pale, humanlike creature at the tree line. At midnight, something knocks and calls her name from outside her window. Lucy’s mom later reveals she had identical experiences and refuses to return.
  • Grandpa’s stoic silence underscores the generational/Indigenous knowledge around local entities.

Quote:
Macy (reacting to the knocking): “We had a story like that where they had knocking on their window and were trying to lure them outside. I would feel such primal fear.” (52:11)

Reflections, Coping Mechanisms, and Culture (54:06–54:32)

• Stories from Appalachia, Mexico, and the Philippines are noted as especially terrifying, possibly due to the ongoing presence of their paranormal beliefs in daily life.

• “What always gets me is when things are luring people out. If you went—what now?”—Natalie

• The hosts admit that after years of podcasting, “we still have no answers” for these phenomena.

Lighthearted Moments & Coping After Hauntings (34:56, 30:33–31:01)

• The group regularly decompresses after recording with comfort TV (Gilmore Girls, Family Guy, Modern Family) and by calling friends so as not to be alone with the darkness—relatable, funny breaks amid the tension.

Quote:
Macy: “I have to call someone on the phone while I drive home because I’m so scared. I have to drive through a wooded area... ‘Don’t look around, don’t look around.’” (30:19)

Where to Find Ghost Teas (54:53–55:13)

• Ghost Teas podcast streams on all major platforms, including YouTube and Instagram (@ghostiespod).
• To complete the crossover, the TGOG hosts then appear on Ghost Teas’ show.

Memorable Quotes

• “Sometimes our camera will just stop working for no reason... right now we have a mirror behind our camera just in case.” —Macy (04:35)
• “It’s almost cock blocking our listeners from listening to us.” —Corinne (07:02)
• “At just eight years old, I saw… a black, like misty shadowy figure thing, like following me. And in my little 8-year-old mind I was just like, I’m literally about to die.” —Natalie (11:41)
• “The darker version is that it had its sights set on Shay for so long…to make the experience even more terrifying.” —Sabrina (45:31)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:59 — Show introductions and podcast origins
• 04:35 — Paranormal technical glitches
• 07:46 — Personal haunting stories (grandparents, childhood, mimics)
• 16:19 — Macy’s recurring demon dreams and haunted furniture
• 31:13 — Appalachian cryptid photo/intermission
• 35:02 — Shay’s Appalachian camping premonition
• 48:23 — Lucy’s Cherokee family & rules for Appalachian hauntings
• 54:06 — Reflections on cultural hauntings and unanswered mysteries

Tone & Takeaways

The tone is conversational, spooked yet playful—four women with a deep love for creepy tales, bantering and supporting each other through both laughter and genuine fright. Listener stories provide the show with new chills, each more disturbing than the last. Whether the encounters are familial, demonic, or cryptid, the throughline is simple: trust your instincts, respect old rules, and be careful what you bring home from the woods—or from the thrift store.

Next up: Listen to Macy and Natalie host Sabrina and Corinne on the Ghost Teas podcast for more haunted tales.
Find Ghost Teas: All major podcast platforms & Instagram @ghostiespod

“We’ll see you on the other side.” 👻