Encounters x305 - Halloween Horrors

Summary

Two Girls One Ghost – Episode Summary

Podcast: Two Girls One Ghost — Sony Music Entertainment
Episode: Encounters x305 – Halloween Horrors
Air Date: October 30, 2025
Hosts: Corinne Vien & Sabrina Deana-Roga

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Episode Overview

This highly anticipated Halloween episode of “Two Girls One Ghost” is a festive, freewheeling celebration of listener-submitted paranormal encounters, many with a Halloween twist. Hosts Corinne and Sabrina—the self-proclaimed “ghostesses”—lean hard into both tricks and treats, discussing witchy family lore, haunted Ouija boards, malevolent entities, and even a ghost with a penchant for playful spanking. The episode is wrapped in humor and friendship but doesn’t shy from genuinely disturbing tales. With equal parts giggles and goosebumps, it’s a love letter to Halloween for the show’s loyal—and new—listeners.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Halloween Festivities and Ghostly Mindset

Timestamps: 02:17–03:15

• The hosts open with excitement for Halloween Eve and reflect on how spooky season lasts all year for them.
• Sabrina reveals she will be in Scotland for Halloween but has made zero travel plans, highlighting a theme of spontaneity and embracing the unknown.

“This whole month has been Halloween. And if you're like us, all year is Halloween.” – Sabrina (02:50)

2. Trick-or-Treat Themed Story Swapping

Timestamps: 03:16–04:24

• Corinne and Sabrina discuss their dynamic, pondering if they could successfully trick each other with “Two Truths and a Lie.”
• The episode’s theme is established: a collection of Halloween-adjacent stories, both funny and frightening.

“It's a day of tricks and treats. So the stories are not tricks, they're actually the treats.” – Sabrina (04:25)

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Spooky Listener Stories

3. “The Time I Was a Demon’s Bitch” (Sarah/Katie’s Story)

Timestamps: 04:34–13:58
A chaotic and darkly humorous account from a listener about sharing an apartment with an entity (possibly a bogart or demon) that torments her during a difficult period in life.

• After a friend reads a Bible she found (despite being atheist), sleep paralysis and apparitions begin.
• Manifestations escalate: objects levitate, a glass of grape juice is thrown by unseen hands.
• The entity follows the listener home. On one occasion, it physically restrains her while driving, nearly causing an accident.
• Culminates in a nightmarish sleep paralysis event where the entity "puts [her] on like a sweater":
  • “I literally feel him putting his arms into my arms.” – Sarah/Katie (12:47)
  • “...he rolls me to his side, rips me open down the middle of my back and literally puts my body on him like a fucking sweater.” – Sarah/Katie (12:41)
• In discussing the incident, the hosts relate it to horror novels and speculate on whether the being was acting under compulsion or fulfilling some supernatural “quota.”
• The hosts are shaken but amused by the candid retelling.
• Memorable humor: “Why did he have to do it? Like, does he have a boss? He's got quota.” – Corinne (13:36)

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4. Witchy Family Lore: “Uncle Doug in the Graveyard” (Marie’s Story)

Timestamps: 19:12–23:08
Marie, from a family of witches, recounts how her uncle’s “Book of Shadows” became the centerpiece of a dangerous Halloween ritual gone awry.

• Her teenage brother finds the book, performs a chant in a cemetery on Halloween, and witnesses a grave begin to open.
• The matriarchs perform a counter-ritual with a salt circle and burn the book to prevent further consequences.
• Hosts mourn the loss of a valuable piece of family history, urging listeners to preserve such artifacts:

  “Because of this, we lost a wonderful family artifact.” – Marie (21:26)

• Insightful: Corinne and Sabrina relate the story to their own families and speculate on the importance of documenting spooky family histories.

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5. “Haunted by the Podcast” (Peyton’s Story)

Timestamps: 26:12–31:16
Listener Peyton describes how listening to the show (specifically episodes about the Smurl Family Possession) appears to invite supernatural activity.

• On Halloween, a decorative skeleton repeatedly falls and cannot be photographed without blurriness.
• Later, objects begin falling with no explanation and her partner becomes nauseous (matching documented reactions from other listeners).
• Plays with the hosts’ oft-repeated warning:

  “Obviously, the ghost can't haunt me if they can't hear the podcast. Right?” – Peyton (27:35)

• The story is meta-haunted, with Peyton reporting more activity as she types out her email.

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6. “Ouija Board Encounters—Meeting ZOZO & Toby” (Georgia’s Story)

Timestamps: 31:59–39:40
Georgia recounts several encounters with a Ouija board, and potentially with the infamous entity ZOZO.

• As a child, she is gifted a glow-in-the-dark Ouija board and makes contact with what appears to be a young girl spirit, Z, later realizing the connection might be with the dark entity ZOZO.
• Describes a chilling moment when a plastic sheet thrown over her sofa forms the shape of a tall, skinny man.
• Notes losing time and seeing eerie visions after Ouija sessions.
• Disturbing psychological twist: In her drafted email, a sentence appears she “doesn't remember writing” about “a guy living in a cage in my room.”
• Hosts express major concern for Georgia, debate whether she should destroy the board, and invite listeners to offer advice.

“There's no doubt in my mind that the guy living in a cage in my room is evil. Okay, what the fuck?” – Georgia (38:24)

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7. “The Handsy Halloween Ghost” (Andrew’s Story)

Timestamps: 41:24–44:38

Andrew recounts a pair of stories:

• Encounters with deer-like creatures in the Midwest displaying almost predatory or supernatural behavior (hints of skinwalker/cryptid folklore).
• On Halloween morning, he is inexplicably spanked on the ass by an invisible force in his driveway.
  • “Like something spanked me. Obviously, I whip around ready to rip someone a new one... But no one was there.” – Andrew (43:30)

Hosts riff on the potential for mischievous ghostly antics and joke about boundaries in both life and death.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "I have to go in and change some things… it's like a mechanic." – Sabrina, speculating on the demon’s agenda (17:15)
• “Would you rather have a unicorn in your pocket or a pleasant fae?” – Sabrina (49:16), illustrating the episode’s whimsical tone
• “What would you do as a ghost? Would you smack ass? Or would you watch from afar?” – Corinne (49:42)
• "It's a love tap. It's not like a full wind up." – Sabrina (48:11), in a tangent about ghostly and real-life butt-smacking

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Important Timestamps

• 02:17 — Halloween celebrations, hosts’ current plans
• 04:34 — Beginning of “The Time I Was a Demon’s Bitch”
• 19:12 — "Uncle Doug in the Graveyard": family witchcraft lore
• 26:12 — “Haunted by the Podcast” meta-story
• 31:59 — Ouija board experiences with ZOZO/Toby
• 41:24 — The “Handsy” Halloween ghost story
• 49:16 & 49:42 — Whimsical closing conversation (“Would you rather…”; ghostly ass-smacking)

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Episode Tone & Host Persona

• Conversational & Playful: Corinne and Sabrina openly riff, interject, and chase tangents (often to hilarious effect).
• Genuine Engagement: They empathize deeply with listener experiences, gasping at scary moments and laughing at the absurd.
• Meta-aware: Poke fun at their own haunted podcast reputation and invite audience participation in ongoing listener dilemmas.
• Community-driven: Encourage costume-sharing and discussion online.

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Closing Thoughts

This “Halloween Horrors” episode expertly balances fear and fun. The hosts’ natural chemistry, dark humor, and sincere connection to their audience keep the atmosphere buoyant even during the episode’s most chilling tales. Listeners are left with a satisfying assortment of haunted tales and the feeling of spending time with good friends on the spookiest night of the year.

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Host Sign-off:
“We love you all. Happy Halloween. And we will see you on the other side.” – Corinne (50:55)

Transcript

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[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

Nicole Ernest Pate was 21 years old when a predator assaulted her in her own home.

[Corinne]

He is kind of the boogeyman. In the night that you are truly.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

Afraid of, she went straight to the cops.

[Sabrina]

She said this sounds like some sort of movie plot.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

No one believed her. Until one day, the man who helped put the Golden State Killer behind bars helped figure out the serial predator's pattern.

[Sabrina]

The Cesaris offender.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

He'd been hiding in plain sight. But even when the attacker was unmasked, Nicole still had questions.

[Sabrina]

The why? The what? The why me?

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

She wanted to meet him. From Sony Music Entertainment and perfect Cadence. This is hunting The Boogeyman. Coming November 1st to the Binge. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

[Corinne]

Very spooky. Happy.

[Sabrina]

I like how we looked at each other as if we didn't know what we were gonna like. Like Cat and Garth.

[Corinne]

Yeah, but we knew what we were saying.

[Sabrina]

How are we gonna say it, right?

[Corinne]

This is Halloween. Halloween. This is Halloween.

[Sabrina]

Hi.

[Corinne]

This is Two Girls and Ghost. Two girls, one ghost. It's the best day of the year.

[Sabrina]

Actually, technically, this comes out on the 30th, but it's basically Halloween.

[Corinne]

It's Halloween Eve.

[Sabrina]

This whole month has been Halloween. And if you're like us, all year is Halloween.

[Corinne]

Yes, but we get to celebrate it, especially extra, extra.

[Sabrina]

Oh, we are your ghostesses. That is Corinne. Hi, I'm Sabrina. And the Theme for today was just Halloween. So I think we just have a variety of stories that are Halloween ish. Relate to Halloween, make you feel spooky and in the mood.

[Corinne]

Could argue every single story we get is related to Halloween.

[Sabrina]

That's true.

[Corinne]

Ghost stories and ghouls and goblins.

[Sabrina]

I am going to be in Scotland.

[Corinne]

I know.

[Sabrina]

For Halloween.

[Corinne]

I wanted to ask what your itinerary is.

[Sabrina]

I don't know.

[Corinne]

But I also don't want you to just share where you are.

[Sabrina]

Well, I have zero itinerary as of right now when we're recording. I don't even know where I'm staying.

[Corinne]

Okay.

[Sabrina]

So unknown. I haven't had the time to plan. We have too much other stuff going on that like.

[Corinne]

So you have flights there and then nothing.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Why don't you use a travel agent? No, you're the one that said that your family used them growing up all the time. You used them before.

[Sabrina]

No, I haven't.

[Corinne]

Why'd you play in Africa?

[Sabrina]

I didn't use a travel agent.

[Corinne]

You did that yourself?

[Sabrina]

Basically, yeah.

[Corinne]

I thought you said your family used them all the time when you were growing up.

[Sabrina]

No, my sister. My soon to be sister in law, Charlotte, her mom is a travel agent. Oh, no, that's where I'm. And my mom loves to do travel groups, which, not knocking that, but also, it ain't for me.

[Corinne]

Okay, this is where I'm kidding. I just got bits and pieces and made up a story.

[Sabrina]

Messed up. Yeah. We could totally play Two Tooths and a lie. And I feel like there would be some things that we don't know.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Ooh, that's a good idea.

[Sabrina]

We should see if we can trick one another. It's a day of tricks and treats. So the stories are not tricks, they're actually the treats.

[Corinne]

Okay. Okay. As in like, I don't know what's about to happen.

[Sabrina]

I'll go first. I'm going to start with this one because it made me giggle. The time I was a demon's bitch.

[Corinne]

What an entry into a story.

[Sabrina]

But then they said actually it might have been a bogart, which I don't know much about.

[Corinne]

Yeah. No.

[Sabrina]

Hello, friends. Hi, how are you?

[Corinne]

Do you want to yodel it? Oh. Oh, that was really good.

[Sabrina]

That was pretty bad. That was.

[Corinne]

Put her on a stick.

[Sabrina]

She's tricking me. Lying.

[Corinne]

Lying.

[Sabrina]

Okay, side note, I worked at a daycare when I love how they're like. Side note, I know it's at the top, but like, before I get into it. Okay. I worked at a Daycare, where it was a requirement to refer to everyone as friends, which was absolutely adorable, in my opinion. And just like how now I can no longer ever say, I'm going to the bathroom. Instead, I say, I have to go potty. I still refer to everyone in my life as friends.

[Corinne]

Hi, friend.

[Sabrina]

Hi, friend. Except now I work at an urgent care, and so I'll be like, your friend is ready. Or, my friend is in this room. And at the beginning, all the providers were like, what's happening? Like, is it, like, your actual friend in the room?

[Corinne]

Wait, what's going on?

[Sabrina]

But no. So now everyone reversed.

[Corinne]

Everyone feels, like, not appropriate for that setting either. To be like, oh, the friend's over here. And the friend is like, got a fork in their throat?

[Sabrina]

At urgent care, I feel like that's the hospital. For that.

[Corinne]

I go to urgent care.

[Sabrina]

This isn't an emergency. Okay. My name is Katie. Sarah. Sarah with an H. If you nasty.

[Corinne]

Oh, wow.

[Sabrina]

And if you're confused, Katie is my alias. Sarah is my government name. Please use my name. Whichever one you prefer.

[Corinne]

Oh.

[Sabrina]

Damon knows where I am if he needs me. This is chaotic, and I'm so here for it. It's a trick and a treat. Okay, so this is all over the place. Sorry. I'm an ADH dear, and I'm also the worst at proofreading before I send it. I like to see all the errors after I've sent it because it's already too late. Anyway, welcome to my thoughts. I've just recently started listening to y' all thanks to Morbid, and while I absolutely love them, I love that you guys focus on ghosts and experiences that you incorporate encounters into each episode.

[Corinne]

Let me just say at the top, the way that Sarah Katie is writing this is also the reason that I couldn't journal, because my journal entries were very similar to this. It's just like, a bunch of different things.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, I have gone down a rabbit hole of. There's this girl on TikTok who reads journal entries from, like, 2012, and one of them killed me. It was like, my mom got me a lip gloss today. I ate the entire tube. I'm a dirty, disgusting girl. But it tasted so good. It is hilarious.

[Corinne]

Oh, yuck.

[Sabrina]

Okay. Sarah Katie said, I usually.

[Corinne]

Sarah Katie.

[Sabrina]

Sarah Katie. I usually listen to episodes, but randomly I'll watch on YouTube. But if you do read this, can you text me? Because I want to know which episode to listen to. Don't call me. I won't answer. But if you need answers, I'll respond to Your text. Okay, so in 2018, I was going through some shit, trigger warning for suicide talk and an ungodly amount of profanity. Sorry, not sorry. But in 2018, I was depressed and suicidal and I was going through some personal issues at home. My coworkers were trying to convince me to take a mental health day the next day, but I told them that I would be there because I didn't trust myself to be home alone. And I didn't go. I texted my manager that I wasn't feeling well and I went back to sleep. I woke up, oh, that's like, thank goodness for these people at work. I woke up to the police banging on my door for a welfare check. Like I was in a bad place. My best friend lived in a duplex and she found a Bible in her closet and the dumb bitch decided to read it. As an atheist and non believer, she also kept a Ouija board, or still keeps a Ouija board in the trunk of her car with the planchette because her now husband doesn't allow that shit in their house. I don't blame him. So it's actually still in her car to this day. But anywho, ever since she read the Bible, weird stuff started happening. She had sleep paralysis every single night. And when you walked past her bedroom to go to the bathroom, you would see a dark figure sitting on her bed out of the corner of your eye. The shape was almost like someone was sitting under the covers, but you could also tell it was a dark figure. It was weird. I would tell myself it was nothing and keep going. No double takes. It was later confirmed that it wasn't just me who saw this, so I wasn't crazy. And it made me glad that I never double looked to confirm what I was seeing. One night our friend group was hanging out at her place and she was in a bad mood because it was late and she was a grandma who's usually in bed by 8. We were watching scary movies and talking about Waverly Hills Asylum and we were drinking grape juice out of wine glasses because we're classy like that. But I wasn't a fan of mine. So it was sitting on the ottoman, we're all on the couch, and the glass of juice straight up lifts up, levitating off the table, scoots over an inch or two and bam. Slams on the floor, spilling juice everywhere.

[Corinne]

My God.

[Sabrina]

I immediately got up off the couch and started cussing the bitch out, telling him I think the entity that I didn't sign up to be Cinderella and I'M not his bitch. I'm not cleaning up after his fucking mess. Now remember, I was in a bad place and at this point I did not care if I lived or died. I at one point got so numb I literally couldn't feel anything. Clearly bad energy all the way. Just what demons prefer. Or Damons As Sarah Katie writes, I went home that night. I left her house at like 5 or 5:30am by the way, and I was sitting in my living room. So at this point it's like 5:30 or 6am and I live by myself, when all of a sudden I heard rustling in my kitchen. After contemplating whether I should check it out, I walked into the kitchen and I need you guys to know I'm never that white bitch that investigates. But this time I was. And I figured it was just him, the entity that had been messing with my friend. And there was a bag of plastic cups that had been on my fridge, now on the floor. And I asked him, the fuck bro? Why are you so obsessed with cups? Fast forward a couple of weeks I was driving in my car again in a shitty mood as I had been, and I realized I was going 60 in a 30 mph zone and I was like, oh shit. So I went to take my foot off the gas to hit the brake because I didn't need a ticket. On top of everything else in my life, when I cannot move my leg, there is literal pressure on my leg pushing it down, preventing me from lifting it. So I start crying and I start going even faster because I can't take my leg off the gas and it's being pushed down making me go faster. Thankfully it's late at night, thankfully there are hardly any other cars on the road, but I was terrified. And this whole time I'm trying to lift my leg until finally the pressure is removed and my leg slams into the dashboard because I was trying so hard to move it. Meaning like the pressure pushing against it.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

When it let go, her like leg flew up.

[Corinne]

Jesus Christ. This is terrifying for it to happen.

[Sabrina]

During While driving, I 1000% believe it was him. This entity would bounce around between me and my friend and he even once went to my friend's mom's house and then after that she never saw him at her place. My last instance with him pissed him off and thankfully he hasn't come around since. But I was having extreme anxiety issues and sleeping on my couch. I was struggling to stay asleep for more than an hour at a time and I was extremely sleep deprived, which is probably why I Was more susceptible to sleep paralysis. But I also do believe this was this entity as well. I had never before ever had sleep paralysis, and I haven't had it since. I was asleep and I was paralyzed. I tried to roll over, but I see a shadow in the doorway of the hall. And I said, you need to leave, and casually said, I don't have time for your shit. Next thing I know, this entity is sitting on the couch with me and says, I'm sorry, but I'm already here and I have to do it.

[Corinne]

What?

[Sabrina]

I fucking lose it every time I think about him saying that. Because, like, what. What does he have to do? But in that moment, I was like, ugh, whatever, fine. And next thing I know, he rolls me to his side, Rips me open down the middle of my back, and literally puts my body on him like a fucking sweater.

[Corinne]

Ooh. Ooh.

[Sabrina]

I literally feel him putting his arms into my arms.

[Corinne]

I hate this so much as it's happening.

[Sabrina]

I wake up, I'm on my back, my elbows are dug into the couch, and my back is arched, face bent backwards into the arm of the couch.

[Corinne]

Ew.

[Sabrina]

Like, fully. I don't know why, but it seemed like it took at least a full minute for me to really, like, wake up.

[Corinne]

Jesus. I'm, like, also picturing Because I had the emergency C section. I'm, like, picturing the tugging feeling. That's where. Oh, well.

[Sabrina]

And then she says, I have a shooting pain down my spine. All I could think about is, if I were living with someone and they saw me in that position, they would for sure think I was possessed. And I somehow managed to get into this position while I was sleeping. It took me a long time to get back to sleep, but I said.

[Corinne]

Why did he have to do it?

[Sabrina]

I don't know. Like, does he have a boss? He's got quota.

[Corinne]

Yeah. How many bodies can you possess? Yeah.

[Sabrina]

It took me a long time to get back to sleep, but after that, I never saw him again. I think maybe I pissed him off by being such a smartass or not caring or being scared. My friend is now having bouts of sleep paralysis again, and we joke that he's back, but if he is, we brought it on ourselves because we always talk about how we miss him.

[Corinne]

Why? Why do you miss him?

[Sabrina]

But then I was listening to Morbid's episode, and I realized that maybe this entity was a bogart because he loved fucking with my friends. Cats. That's the only thing I remember. That may make him a bogart, but I'm sure There were other things. He originally tried to catch me in sleep paralysis when I first stayed at her duplex. But I was smart ish my friend and I slept in the bed and kicked her now husband to the couch. And when I heard footsteps, and I immediately was like, fuck. But then I heard the cat toys, and I was like, oh, it's just the cats. Then I closed my eyes real tight, slid myself under the covers as one does, because safety. And I turned to face my friend towards the wall and kept saying in my head not to look because I had a feeling. I left the next morning before my friend woke up. And I texted her later that I heard footsteps, but it was probably just the cats. And she, nonchalant, texted me saying, no, that was the demon. You don't hear footsteps from my cats. They are not heavy enough to make boot walking sounds. That's my story of a daemon trying to fuck with me. Also, I have officially joined Patreon. You guys are awesome. And I may die trying to catch up between YouTube, Amazon, and now Patreon episodes, I'm so far behind, but love you all.

[Corinne]

Okay, Sarah, Katie or Katy? Sarah. Why the fuck would you say you missed this thing?

[Sabrina]

Maybe you don't have to, because it literally put you on, like, a sweater.

[Corinne]

It's always within you. It's a part of you now.

[Sabrina]

It reminds me so much of. Speaking of morbid, I read with them My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendricks, and it does kind of remind me of that. Where it, like, entered the body of the friend.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Ooh. I feel like this is the first time we've ever heard about, like, the actual experience of being entered and having a.

[Sabrina]

And also, like, saying, being entered.

[Corinne]

Yeah. And like, the fact that he was like, I'm sorry, I have to. It almost sounds. Well, I guess, like, I'm going off of your inflection where it's like, I guess we need to defer to Katie.

[Sabrina]

I'll say it differently this time.

[Corinne]

I'm sorry, but I have to. Right, exactly.

[Sabrina]

So it's like, not like, I'm sorry, you have to.

[Corinne]

I say he does this creature.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Guy, man, Demon and thing.

[Sabrina]

Bogart.

[Corinne]

Want to do it? Or is this, like, a forced thing?

[Sabrina]

Well, it also does. So I've been rewatching True Blood, and it does make me think about in the show, like, there are a couple characters who get turned into vampires, and they don't want to. They, like, want to be human, but they were unwillingly turned into vampires. And then in order to survive, they have to drink the blood of humans. But they don't want to. But they have to. Is this, like, in order to sustain your own life, you have to hurt humans? Like, is there some type of. Oh, yeah, you don't live if you don't do this thing right?

[Corinne]

Or. Okay, so what thing happened after Katie was entered?

[Sabrina]

I don't know. I really hate.

[Corinne]

Maybe nothing.

[Sabrina]

I really hate the term, the way.

[Corinne]

That I'm saying it, but, like, part of me is like, what if this is some sort of, like, alien research thing too, where it's like, I have to go. Or what if. Okay, let's totally spin it. What if there was something that Katie had within her that she needed some extra assistance in, and that was this thing going in and trying to, like, fix it for her? Like, I have to go in and change some things.

[Sabrina]

It's like a mechanic.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Gotta fix it.

[Corinne]

Or like, we accidentally left this behind in our last operation. You're gonna be a lot happier now.

[Sabrina]

It's a very. It's a very invasive procedure.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Wait, this is so random. But in a recent episode, apparently, and I own up to it, it's not even apparently. It's not allegedly. There's record of it. I kept saying modge podge instead of a hodgepodge of things.

[Corinne]

Oh, I would have never corrected you, because I think I also say mod podge now because of mod podge the product.

[Sabrina]

So everyone was commenting on the episode being like, mod podge is a product. It's like a glue that you use for arts and crafts. And I was like, nope. Now, that's just what we call.

[Corinne]

Okay, well, why is it mod podge? Because of hodgepodge. So now it's mod podge.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, it's mod podge.

[Corinne]

It's still. The concept is the same. It's like.

[Sabrina]

But so we say mod podge.

[Corinne]

Gluing things together.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Making things.

[Sabrina]

An assortment of things for crafting mod.

[Corinne]

Podge in your mind and thoughts for.

[Sabrina]

Our words, our vocabulary.

[Jonathan Van Ness]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Honestly, I forgot about hodgepodge until you just said it.

[Sabrina]

Hodgepodge sounds so wrong, you guys.

[Corinne]

We left that behind. Or modge podging it.

[Sabrina]

Okay, what do you got? A trick or a tree?

[Corinne]

They're all both, I believe. If I can remember correctly. I think I picked stories that happened on Halloween.

[Sabrina]

Oh, I just picked scary to be spooky, like Halloween.

[Corinne]

Okay.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Although I can't always remember what I do.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

So we're gonna find out.

[Sabrina]

Because I picked something and made you pick it.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Wearing Me as a suit. Hey, do girls when ghosts. We have some stories for you guys. We and for Ghost Tease. So you have our permission to use this and any other stories we send. Okay, so we're doing this talk to text because that's a lot easier. So a lot of these stories are gonna come from my mother. She was there for most of them and I'm still relatively young, so I was not there to put it into my perspective. But we are this multi generational family of witches.

[Sabrina]

Woohoo hoo.

[Corinne]

We're also gonna send this to Ghost Teas and see what they think, because why not? It's spooky season.

[Sabrina]

Hell yeah.

[Corinne]

So the first story is from the life of our mother and it's called Uncle Doug in the Graveyard.

[Sabrina]

Ooh.

[Corinne]

And oh, this is a fun one. So I have an uncle who passed away and he was trained by my great grandmother Barden. Everybody just called her Grandmama Barden. And she was also a witch. He was a witch when he passed away.

[Sabrina]

In what way? As like a witch?

[Corinne]

Witchcraft.

[Sabrina]

Ooh.

[Corinne]

So my uncle was a witch when he passed away. And because he did not marry or have children, my aunt, his younger sister, was. Was his heir. And she is a minister and her husband is a minister as well. Or I should say was, because her husband has since passed away. But the Book of Shadows that belonged to my uncle was now something that my minister aunt has and uses as a coffee table book. She then gave it to my mother and I knew where it was. And this was in the early to mid-90s. And what happened was my brother found the book quite by accident. He was just rooting around the house and came across it and didn't know what it was. We thought it was interesting. And so he and a few of his friends decided to take it to a cemetery on Halloween night.

[Sabrina]

This is so hocus pocus.

[Corinne]

Oh my God. My brother was around 16 at the time, and they brought a ton of candles. They do a chant. And then all of a sudden the grave starts opening, dirt starts coming out and they freak out. So they snatch the book, they go to the nearest payphone, they call my mother, who called me at the time, and. And my daughter was still very young, so I left her in the care of my husband, her dad, and his grandparents. And I met my mom at the cemetery. The first thing I noticed was there was no salt circle. So I had brought some salt with me. And so I put out the salt circle because calling the witches, literally. And then my mom went through the book really Quickly found a spell to counteract whatever had just been performed by my brother. And we walked around and did this ritual, which I absolutely hate doing. And then we made my brother and his friends push and shovel the dirt back onto the grave. We went home. My mom took the book, she threw it on the grill and lit it on fire.

[Sabrina]

No.

[Corinne]

No. So because of this, we lost a wonderful family artifact.

[Sabrina]

Oh, that breaks my heart.

[Corinne]

I had not been able to get all the way through it or get any sort of copy of it, which really upset me. So the only thing I have left now is a ring from my uncle and some stories. And nobody will get that ring until I die. See you on the other side. This is from Marie. Marie.

[Sabrina]

That, like, broke my heart, right?

[Corinne]

And it's so upsetting. Cause it's like the book. Like, you did.

[Sabrina]

It's not the book's fault.

[Corinne]

You, like, counteracted and, like, did good from the book. Like, you used it to also protect. It's the fault of an adolescent teen who doesn't understand what they're doing.

[Sabrina]

Oh, that breaks apart or what the book is. Okay, Marie, let's have a seance and channel Uncle Doug and rewrite automatic writing.

[Corinne]

The Book of Shadows, version 2.

[Sabrina]

I would literally kill. Like, I will truly kill someone for a Book of Shadows. This is my confession.

[Corinne]

Yeah, my dad had, like, a. He didn't have it, but it was like, his great grandmother kind of had a version of it. It was like a Book of Shadows meets, like, one of the, like, death books, where it's, like, where it has.

[Sabrina]

Like, family members, photos of dead.

[Corinne]

Yeah, they called it the Black Book. And it was all, like, kind of more French style spiritualism. And I have no idea what happened to the Black Book, but, like, this was the thing of his childhood, the Black Book.

[Sabrina]

I just feel like starting one now is so not legit. It will be legit for my future generations and stuff, but I want to inherit one, right?

[Corinne]

Or maybe just start one. Because this is also, like, think about your future generations. If you include all the spooky stories of, like, trying to understand what's going on with your own dad and the spirits that have been, like, plaguing him. Like, that is the freaking scariest lore you could ever start for future generations.

[Sabrina]

No one's ever gonna figure out my.

[Corinne]

Father, but this is like, my great, great, great grandmother Sabrina's dad was possessed, and she started a journey into witchcraft.

[Sabrina]

And this is actually how to break generational curses.

[Corinne]

Yeah, I mean, I think that that sounds really cool.

[Sabrina]

I don't know. I'm gonna talk about me in my book of shadows. I will talk about all my dreams and stuff.

[Corinne]

This show is sponsored by BetterHelp and October 10th is World Mental Health Day. And this year we are going to say thank you to our therapists.

[Sabrina]

Oh, I don't say it enough. I, I don't know where I'd be without my therapist. And I have been using BetterHelp for years. We're going to give you a couple stats because Better Help therapists have helped over 5 million people worldwide on their mental health journeys, including me. That's millions of stories, millions of journeys, and behind every single one is a therapist who showed up, who listened and helped someone take a step forward. BetterHelp therapists work according to a strict code of conduct and are fully licensed in the US and I love that BetterHelp does the initial matching work for you. So you take a short questionnaire. It helps identify your needs, your preferences and their 12 plus years of experience in industry leading a match fulfillment rate mean they typically get it right the first time. But if you aren't happy with your first match, you can switch to a different therapist at any time from their tailored recommendations.

[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

L P.com TGOG how are you unwinding and finding me time for you?

[Corinne]

Corinne, that's actually a great question and.

[Sabrina]

I'm so glad you asked.

[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

Down all the times we've haunted our listeners because this is a story about how we finally haunted Peyton Hello, I'm Peyton. She heard they and I'm definitely obsessed with your podcast and I think y' all have potentially haunted me. If so, I'm honestly surprised it has taken this long, but how fitting that it finally haunts me on Halloween. This was sent from last year's. It was sent November 1st, so the day after.

[Corinne]

So yeah, truly.

[Sabrina]

Okay, fresh little background. Probably not necessary, but I've listened to your podcast since 2021, starting by literally binge listening to your podcast. I haven't had many ghostly experiences in my life, at least nothing major. But I was definitely a very creepy kid. So now I'm 24 years old and I love all things creepy, spooky, ghosts, cryptids, et cetera. I also dabble as a witch here and there and I'm definitely affected by energies and can feel when a space is off or if there's something there. Usually with your episodes, I play them out loud while I'm cleaning, while I'm working or driving. Basically when I'm doing anything. The only time I don't tend to play them out loud is when I'm dog sitting because I'm usually at other people's houses and I don't know what other creepy shit is in their home so I'm not about to fuck around and find out. But sometimes I do listen just in my headphones because obviously the ghost can't haunt me if they can't hear the podcast. Right?

[Corinne]

Right. That's easy logic.

[Sabrina]

So I've been listening in my spaces for years at this point, both when I was still living at my parents house and now in my own apartment. And I also set intentions on the extra creepy episodes and I've been fine. But then I got to the Smurl Family Possession Part 1 Episode A few days ago. I set my intention, I listened to it out loud and everything was normal. Until yesterday, Halloween when I Finally got around to listening The Smurl Family Possession Part two. I set my intentions again. Don't worry. I listened to it during the day while I was working from home and I didn't notice anything strange until last night. Halloween. We have a medium sized skeleton, probably one to one and a half feet tall that we had sitting up on our bench by our apartment door. That way when we open the door, it's low key. The first thing the trick or treaters would see. This thing has been up for a day or two now in the spot with no issues. Trick or treaters had slowed and my partner and I were chilling on the couch. Oh my God, you guys. As I'm typing, more things are happening. I'll add them at the end, but we're chilling on my couch. That's crazy. All of a sudden we hear something fall somewhere in our kitchen by the front door. I asked my boyfriend to get up to see what fell as we both literally jumped in our seats and he tells me that the skeleton had fallen off the bench. My partner, not knowing I listened to a potentially haunting episode that will possess people earlier in the day, was immediately freaked out. Before he picked it up and put it back, he took a photo of it and the photo wouldn't focus. And the photo he did get while standing completely still is so blurry. It kind of looks like Mr. Skeleton had a rough night out partying.

[Corinne]

It's like you doing the splits. Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Anyway, he puts the skeleton back where it was, we settle back down on the couch and 20 minutes later it happens again. So we put the skeleton on the counter because we didn't want to be that upstairs neighbor who sounds like they're tap dancing every two seconds. I 10 out of 10 did not tell my partner that the episode y' all had covered came with a pre warning, but he does know that I listen to Creepy Ghost's podcast and True Crime. So he sits down on the couch again and he starts to tell me he's feeling nauseous, to which I just stared back at him blankly and hoped he had eaten too much Halloween candy, even though I knew I had been the one eating the Halloween candy. Anyway, a few more things fell before we went to bed, but these were like pens rolling off the counter, etc. That could be explained away. So I try not to think about it. But here is what prompted me to write this email instead of after work like I intended. It was because I was listening to and that's why we drank and I paused it on my phone to better reread a message on my work computer. And then I continued to work without hitting replay. It was probably a solid 10 to 15 minutes when I was reading a different email and the podcast started playing again on its own. Well, Ghosty, it looks like I'm pausing my work so I can write in. So as I'm typing that and said something happened, I literally heard something else fall. Nothing else has fallen this morning until I literally start writing this to you, I'm too scared to check what it was.

[Corinne]

Oh my gosh.

[Sabrina]

Well, everything that has happened so far has happened in my kitchen. And I just had a cord of an appliance, a handheld iron thing, think flat iron but bigger for clothes that was fully on my counter had fallen onto the floor. So either the cord was at a weird wrapped angle that was slowly stretching out and then it folded and fell onto the floor or something pushed it onto the floor. Also, I have no mischievous pets or animals messing with me. Anyway, thanks for hopefully reading my story and I will keep you updated if more happens. And I'll write in a different time to tell you about haunted dog sitting houses and how my partner saw a shadow figure watching him while he slept and how I'm convinced I was low key possessed by something as a child. And the time I talked to my dead grandpa. See you spooky bitches on the other side. Peyton.

[Corinne]

Oh my God.

[Sabrina]

Well, you're no stranger to the paranormal, right?

[Corinne]

Exactly. But I love that it is happening on Halloween. It's related to our podcast. And I do love that her husband does not know that there was a disclaimer and that like really she shouldn't have been listening to it.

[Sabrina]

And then he was getting nauseous because that was a common thing that people were experiencing while listening to the Smurl episode.

[Corinne]

I know the Smurl one had a lot, A lot. I feel like the PTD episode, the Smirrel one, and the Julius possessed were all like super triggering to people.

[Sabrina]

I feel like a lot of our episodes just haunt people.

[Corinne]

Well, remember when I tried to start PTD and I like couldn't.

[Sabrina]

You couldn't. And you took it over and I felt totally fine.

[Corinne]

How interesting. I have another one that I do believe happened on Halloween. Hello ghostesses. I was listening to your latest encounter episode and I was reminded of an experience or maybe experiences that I had with a Ouija board when I was a wee lass in sixth grade. First, let me say my babysitter bought me this glow in the dark Ouija board stop during the Summer leading into sixth grade. I love that it was from Toys R Us. I don't think she had any idea that these things could actually be dangerous. Luckily for me, nothing too bad happened. But here's the story. I love this. I remember clearly playing on Halloween with a girl from school who I had over, who was really cool and popular and who, looking back, I'm surprised was even hanging out with me on Halloween.

[Sabrina]

It was all that glow in the dark Ouija board.

[Corinne]

Anyways, we were up in my room with the lights dimmed and we called upon. I'm only gonna say the name once.

[Sabrina]

No Z or El.

[Corinne]

Maybe I'll just spell it Z O. Z O.

[Sabrina]

It's almost worse that you spelled it because that's what is.

[Corinne]

Okay, I'll just say Z from now on.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

I don't remember exactly how her and I became acquainted, but I do remember by the time this girl was at my house, I had some type of connection to Z. And this friend told me that she had actually died a brutal and tragic death a very long time ago. I always pictured her as this little brunette with wavy hair and a long white frilled dress. Not really a fancy kind, but a dirty and old looking dress. She told me she was part of a traveling circus and that a bad man had killed her.

[Sabrina]

Well, no duh. She's hanging out with you because she's like finally someone else who gets my spooky stuff.

[Corinne]

I vaguely remember the year 17 something. And that could also be something that my brain just randomly inserted. Anywho, back to the Halloween night. Me and this girl are in my room. Wait, now I'm confused. Was it this girl that was. Or if there was some like.

[Sabrina]

Sorry, I almost said it. Did Z tell her about the friend's life?

[Corinne]

This other? Or was Z pretending to be this person? Maybe we'll get answers as I continue to. Okay, anywho, back to Halloween night. Me and this girl are in my room. We're using the Ouija board with the lights dimmed and spooky Halloween sounds playing, which I'm sure did not help. It's not super clear what happened, but I remember the girl being really freaked out by the planchette moving and it looked like her hands were off of it, which I also did, so it was clear I did not know how real this game could get. Z came off to me as this innocent. Okay, here it is. Okay, Z came off to me as this innocent girl whose life was stolen from her and we had become friends.

[Sabrina]

Okay, so she didn't know it was Z.

[Corinne]

She didn't know it was Z. And this girl that was over for a hangout had no idea. So our listener was communicating through the board with Z, thinking it was just like some young girl whose life was tragically taken for like, oh, cause you're in the straight.

[Sabrina]

How are you supposed to know about Z?

[Corinne]

Right?

[Sabrina]

Ugh.

[Corinne]

I have vivid memories of that Halloween in the following weeks where I constantly had Z by my side. Sometimes we would hold hands. I would guide her wherever I went, comfort her when she shared small bits and stories from her previous life. But something always felt sinister and off about her. Like it wasn't really my choice that she was attached to me and sharing these strange memories. It was like they were being used to manipulate me and even me believing a certain narrative that she was pushing.

[Sabrina]

Like, to have that gut feeling. But it's contradictory to the story you've been told, right?

[Corinne]

And it's like all just bizarre too, because it's like you're experiencing something paranormal. So you're like, is this. Am I right to be questioning what's going on?

[Sabrina]

Like, it's all different.

[Corinne]

Oh my God. Eventually, I also came in contact with someone called Toby. Toby was a menacing presence. Not someone who was invited, but someone who took advantage of how naive we were to the game. I also don't have a super clear memory of when Toby and I came into contact. Besides that it was through the board and his presence was the most ominous and threatening. I know that Z was apparently evil, but in my memory, she was just being targeted and oppressed by Toby. But maybe that's what she wanted me.

[Sabrina]

To believe it almost like, just from what we know about Z. Like, is Z trying to make our listener scared of something else so that she trusts Z even more?

[Corinne]

Yeah. Ooh. That year, Paranormal Activity 3 came out. And the demon in the movie was named Toby. Anywho, to get to the spookiest part, one time, after I decided that I would no longer be frequenting the Ouija board, I got home after school. I'm still in the sixth grade. I walked home to an empty house every day and would be alone until around 6 or 7 o', clock, when my parents usually would get home. At that time, we had a cat who loved to be on the sofa. So we had this large sheet of plastic coverings head sofa during the time that we weren't using it. And one time I got home from school ready as hell to blow off my sixth grade steam by watching some Phineas and Ferb Love I pulled up the plastic sheet, I threw it dramatically in the air, and as it came down, it formed onto the shape of a very tall, skinny man.

[Sabrina]

No. Oh my God. I hate.

[Corinne]

But also, can you imagine just being like a ghost standing there, being like, oh, are we about to watch tv? And just getting like, assaulted with a sheet just covered. I can see the plastic moving with each breath that this guy took. No, I stood there paralyzed, but maybe only for a second before I smacked that plastic sheet like a. And it crumpled down to the floor. I only used the board once more after this, and it was at a hotel for my friend's 12th birthday. One of the girls there had lost her father not too long before, and apparently we did come in contact with him. She asked him to prove it, and he called her this weird ass nickname that I don't even remember, but it was really, really unique. But apparently it's what he called her as a kid. That night I felt someone touch my foot and my mind suddenly went blank, only to see this bright white exploding earth. I don't know what it meant, but I cried after a while. Fast forward around 12 years later and I still have that board. It's in my closet somewhere.

[Sabrina]

I hope you closed out the assessment.

[Corinne]

I've never gotten rid of it due to fear of it showing back up again. Hearing other stories of how horrible the interactions with Z can be, it made me question whether I encountered the same being. But there's no doubt in my mind that the guy living in a cage in my room is evil. Okay, what the fuck? I just came back to these notes that I was going to email to you, and I don't even remember writing anything about a guy living in a cage in my room being evil. There's no guy in a cage in my room. Anyways, that's my story.

[Sabrina]

What?

[Corinne]

See you on the other side. Love, Georgia.

[Sabrina]

Georgia.

[Corinne]

So it's supposed to end with. Has me question if I even encountered the same being.

[Sabrina]

And then it literally said, the guy in red, the guy being kept. I was wondering, but there's no doubt in my mind.

[Corinne]

I know. I was like, is that just like a metaphor for like the Ouija board being like, closed in your car, tucked away? Yeah, but then that sentence, there's no doubt in my mind that the guy living in a cage in my room is evil.

[Sabrina]

Well, okay, that makes me think there's some other entity that was like, I need to make it very clear that the man. Yeah, Toby, is evil and that he's still living in her room.

[Corinne]

Right. Or is it Toby? Or is it the little girl that pretends gave bad energy? That might be it could be even Toby. Or it could be Z. Or all of them could be Z.

[Sabrina]

We might need to get rid of that Ouija board.

[Corinne]

But the fear of it showing back up, if it hasn't done anything so far, except for maybe write really scary notes on your phone's app, then I'd.

[Sabrina]

Say at least it's in a cage. It's trapped.

[Corinne]

It's trapped. It's in a cage. Maybe this is what it wants. It wants us to be scared to release it.

[Sabrina]

Okay, don't release it.

[Corinne]

And then someone finds trash or the antique store, and then it becomes a thing again. But right now, it's trapped in a cage. The evil's trapped. Okay, we're good.

[Sabrina]

We're good.

[Corinne]

Keep it in the closet.

[Sabrina]

I mean, I'm not good, but. Wow, Georgia.

[Corinne]

Creepy.

[Sabrina]

I'm so. I don't trust this. This feels like a trick.

[Corinne]

It does feel like a trick.

[Sabrina]

This is a trick. Okay, what do people think we should do? Should we. Georgia, what do we think Georgia should do? Leave the board or get rid of the board? Let us know in the comments, wherever you're listening.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Okay.

[Corinne]

And then, Georgia, it's your choice to listen to people or not. Don't. Don't let us influence you. Do what feels right. But people are very intuitive who listen, so maybe there'll be an overwhelming suggestion, and then that might feel.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Like the right path.

[Sabrina]

I have.

[Corinne]

Not that Georgia was asking for advice, but we're trying to solicit. Give some.

[Sabrina]

Georgia kept that portion in because, like, you very easily could have been like, oh, that's weird.

[Corinne]

Why'd that delete go?

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

Nicole Ernest Pate was 21 years old when a predator assaulted her in her own home.

[Corinne]

He is kind of the boogeyman. In the night that you are truly.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

Afraid of, she went straight to the cops.

[Corinne]

She said, this sounds like some sort of movie plot.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

No one believed her. Until one day, the man who helped put the Golden State Killer behind bars helped figure out the serial predator's pattern.

[Sabrina]

This is a serious offender.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

He'd been hiding in plain sight. But even when the attacker was unmasked, Nicole still had questions.

[Sabrina]

The why? The what? The why me?

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

She wanted to meet him. From Sony Music Entertainment and perfect Cadence. This is hunting The Boogeyman. Coming November 1st to the Binge. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

[Sabrina]

All right, well, I have one that's kind of silly to end us on.

[Corinne]

Okay.

[Sabrina]

This is from our listener, Andrew Hi Ghostesses. My name is Andrew and I've been a listener since mid 2023 when I stumbled upon your podcast while looking for some haunted stories to listen to to help me get through my long workday at a hospital. I've always had a bit of a paranormal sense, as it were, and you two helped fill my day with creepiness and joy. That's such a compliment.

[Corinne]

I know.

[Sabrina]

I've got countless stories from astral projection, time dilation to a hat man haunting my old apartment. Though if I were to list all of my experiences, we'd be here for days. So I'm going to share a couple short ones. I'm going to save the Halloween one for the last one. This one story is less of a one off and more of a couple of experiences than one. I live in the middle of nowhere in the upper Midwest and because of that I see deer every so often. Some of these deer, though, are, for a lack of a better term, wrong.

[Corinne]

They're not deer.

[Sabrina]

Some of them just don't behave like deer should. Like they don't freeze up when I end up in their presence. Or they'll just act more carnivorous than they should.

[Corinne]

Ew.

[Sabrina]

Such a weird way to describe it. Or I'll get that feeling that something dangerous is nearby. One time I saw a set of hoof prints turn into something like human prints. Like watching them like oh, so creepy. Seeing them evolve on the ground. Do we know upper Midwest? I don't know. I don't think they're flush pedestrians, since those aren't really a thing up here. But the other options are just as bad. Thankfully nothing has happened yet with them, but I can just tell that there is something out there. Now this story takes place on Halloween 2024. I had to work that day, so I started the day with my usual routine. I Woke up at 4:45am to get ready for a 6:45am call so I could receive the night shifts report, only something fell off. Now I chalked it up to just being Halloween and the veil being a bit thinner as a result. So I finish getting ready and I start walking to my car when all of a sudden I feel a whack on my ass. Like something spanked me. Obviously, I whip around ready to rip someone a new one, since that's very much not okay. You don't just smack someone's ass.

[Corinne]

Absolutely not.

[Sabrina]

But no one was there. So I did what any sensible person would do and I told whatever it was that it was not okay. Got in my car and locked the door. Because, you know, a locked door obviously keeps non corporeal entities out. After I got to work.

[Corinne]

Black Eyed kids at work.

[Sabrina]

So it does true. After I got to work, the feeling went away and the rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Though I occasionally do still get that same feeling that I got that day. Meaning there is a ghost waiting to spank you at any time, Andrew. Anywho, those are just a couple of the experiences I have. Thanks for reading. I will see you both on the other side. Andrew. That's the story of the handsy spanking ghost on Halloween.

[Corinne]

Can you imagine? It's like you wait for Halloween night. The veil is thin from the perspective of a ghost, and that's how you.

[Sabrina]

Choose to wind it up.

[Corinne]

Just ready.

[Sabrina]

Ready to smack the ass.

[Corinne]

Waiting 365 days.

[Sabrina]

Been waiting. Yeah. For years. To smack Andrew's ass.

[Corinne]

Jesus, Andrew. I'm glad that you were setting boundaries. Like, hey, don't. That's inappropriate.

[Sabrina]

I would totally smack ass as a ghost.

[Corinne]

Only people you know, right?

[Sabrina]

No.

[Corinne]

Sabrina. A ghostly assault.

[Sabrina]

I'm a ghost. I'm gonna do anything I want as a ghost. No, actually, I realize I'm gonna fight crime.

[Corinne]

I'm gonna arrest you for smacking ass.

[Sabrina]

Ghost crimes.

[Corinne]

Ghost crimes.

[Sabrina]

I want this to be like a. Actually, there's a new show on Netflix called I think it's like, Haunted Hotel or something like that. And it's a cartoon, and it's with Will Forte in it. And everyone on Patreon during Campfire Stories kept saying to watch it last week. So I was like, oh, this will be a fun thing to put on. And I do enjoy it, but it's almost like ghosts the show but as a cartoon.

[Corinne]

Oh, maybe I should watch it with Brian then, because he likes ghosts. That's the only paranormal thing I could do with Brian.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, he might like that then. Yeah, but it is fun. It's a whole hotel that they are having very hard time getting guests to stay up because it is so extremely haunted. And each ghost kind of has its own thing that it does its own backstory.

[Corinne]

I like that. You know what I've never watched that I really want to is now I'm going to blank on the what it's called. But it's like the two guys that are haunted, and it's like they, like, go ghost hunting. What are their names?

[Sabrina]

This is a real show or.

[Corinne]

Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. It's fake. It's, like, kind of funny, but it's also a little bit like Men in Black.

[Sabrina]

I don't think I've heard of this or know it.

[Corinne]

No, you do. You do. Oh, it's called Supernatural. I didn't. I didn't see this on here, but Jen is, so. I didn't do it right.

[Sabrina]

Like you described it as. If it's a comedy.

[Corinne]

They're funny, Sam and Dean.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, but Men, Men in Black is not an association I would make with Supernatural. But okay, yes, I have heard of Supernatural.

[Corinne]

I feel like the lines, like what they say is silly.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. But it is more horror serious. Yeah, it's got like a Bewitched vibe to it. But it's two dudes.

[Corinne]

But I feel like Bewitched is light in terms of what the paranormal has to offer in comparison.

[Sabrina]

Dark shit too.

[Corinne]

Okay, well now I want to watch Supernatural.

[Sabrina]

And now I want to watch Practical Magic.

[Corinne]

It's Halloween.

[Sabrina]

What are you doing? How are you celebrating? What are you watching? And how are you inviting the ghosts into your home? And were you spanked by a ghost on Halloween? And was it me from the future?

[Corinne]

If you want that manifest it.

[Sabrina]

Manifest me smacking your ass, I'll do it.

[Corinne]

Got my hand ready.

[Sabrina]

No. I have realized like in middle school it was very much a thing like you like smack your friends asses. And I think it still has like stuck in me that sometimes I feel tempted to smack my friends asses and I'm like, wait, that's like not appropriate. I can't, like I shouldn't do that.

[Corinne]

At this old age.

[Sabrina]

Like I don't think I have a relationship with anyone where I could just smack ass.

[Corinne]

I mean, this is so funny. I saw a TikTok clip of someone who, I don't know what they do, like maybe eyebrows or like lashes or something, but they were filming. They're like a tech and clearly they were playing to the audience and were close to the person and she was just filming herself. And she's like, before I begin, do I have permission to touch you? And the woman goes, yes. And then she reaches over and just really quickly honk. Honks her boobs. And the woman is like, you gave permission. Because it's like, you know, it was so funny, but I feel like it's a. Yeah, yeah.

[Sabrina]

It's like an intrusive thought where I just want to tap, tap. And it's like a love tap. It's not like a full wind up.

[Corinne]

It's like, don't they do that in baseball? What's the sport? They all smack each other's booties.

[Sabrina]

I feel like all sports.

[Corinne]

Those men in their sports constantly. And their tight pants grabbing ass.

[Sabrina]

Why are their pants so tight?

[Corinne]

To make the sticker.

[Sabrina]

What were they wearing? What were they wearing?

[Corinne]

What were they wearing? Tight pants.

[Sabrina]

Actually, baseball pants have gotten looser and it's changed the viewing experience.

[Corinne]

Whoever, sorry, I'm not into sports, but whoever manufactured the uniforms for baseball, like last year or the year before. Atrocious job. They were all see through. They were so gross. I was like, I normally like to admire the amount of glute work that goes into a sport. And here I'm just distracted because I'm like, I see their pockets.

[Sabrina]

There was a change and I wasn't a fan. I don't like sports. So that's why we have a ghost podcast.

[Corinne]

Yeah, we are actually at the opposite end of very opposite. You either like sports or you like ghosts.

[Sabrina]

You can like both. We don't judge. But we like ghosts.

[Corinne]

But you're a little bit more of an anomaly.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

A little unicorn.

[Sabrina]

A little unicorn.

[Corinne]

Oh, we love you. We just want to have you so little and keep you in our pocket.

[Sabrina]

Okay, would you rather a unicorn in your pocket or a fae? Like a pleasant fae.

[Corinne]

Oh, my gosh. Pleasant fae.

[Sabrina]

I think I would like a unicorn.

[Corinne]

Really?

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

But I can talk to the fae.

[Sabrina]

You can talk to anything. You can talk to a wall if you wanted.

[Corinne]

Okay, but I want them to talk to me back where I. We don't know.

[Sabrina]

A unicorn could talk back to you.

[Corinne]

It's true.

[Sabrina]

What would you rather? Well, I don't know where we. How we got here.

[Corinne]

I don't know. That's because you're thinking of our two truths and a lie where we try to trick each other.

[Sabrina]

Also, what would you do as a ghost? Would you smack ass? Or would you watch from afar?

[Corinne]

Or would you have a really big juicy ghost booty where you try to tempt other ghosts to smack your ass? Oh, ghost trap.

[Sabrina]

Anyway, we love you all so much and we hope you have the best, the spookiest, if you want. And the safest Halloween. I can't wait to tell you all about Edinburgh. Do you have a family costume this year?

[Corinne]

Well, you gave Noah a cow outfit that was too big from last year. And that's my plan. If we can get all of you. All of our cows. It's in. Well, I was gonna do like, you know, farmer, cow, whatever. That's the plan. If we can get into the storage.

[Sabrina]

That's so cute.

[Corinne]

Unit. But the backup is maybe we're all just skeletons, which was a suggestion of a neighbor because Noah's so obsessed with skeletons.

[Sabrina]

Wait, that was Noemi. Last year, she was obsessed with skeletons and they all dressed up as skeletons.

[Corinne]

Oh, okay. This year, she. Maybe it's the skeleton.

[Sabrina]

Now she's obsessed with princesses.

[Corinne]

Oh, yeah.

[Sabrina]

The natural progression.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

Next year, Noah's probably going to be like the UPS driver or something.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Cute. Also, send us your costumes. We love to see what you dress up as and get ideas for next year.

[Corinne]

We love you all. Happy Halloween. Shout out to Jamie and Emma, who help our team in two crossf. We love you and we will see you on the other side.

[Sabrina]

Very spooky.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

Nicole Ernest Pate was 21 years old when a predator assaulted her in her own home.

[Corinne]

He is kind of the boogeyman in the night that you are truly afraid of.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

She went straight to the cops.

[Corinne]

She said, this sounds like some sort of movie plot.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

No one believed her. Until one day, the man who helped put the Golden State Killer behind bars helped figure out the serial predator's pattern.

[Sabrina]

This is serious offender.

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

He'd been hiding in plain sight. But even when the attacker was unmasked, Nicole still had questions.

[Sabrina]

The why? The what? The why me?

[Narrator (Hunting The Boogeyman Promo)]

She wanted to meet him. From Sony Music Entertainment and perfect cadence. This is hunting The Boogeyman. Coming November 1st to the Binge. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.