Encounters x325 - Sports Superstitions & Game-day Ghouls

Summary

Podcast Summary: Two Girls One Ghost
Encounters x325 – Sports Superstitions & Game-day Ghouls
April 2, 2026 | Hosts: Corinne Vien & Sabrina Deana-Roga

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Corinne and Sabrina leap into the eerie intersection of sports, superstitions, and the supernatural. They share listener-submitted stories about personal and family sports rituals, athletic hauntings, and paranormal encounters linked to game days and sporting venues. The hosts also read out the weirdest superstitions and habits of their audience, ranging from the classic ‘lucky underwear’ to full-blown magical interventions for team success.

The tone is lively, playful, and candid, as the pair riff on locker room creepiness, haunted murals, mysterious voices, game-day rituals, and the emotional power sports hold in both life and afterlife.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sports, Superstitions & Rituals in Everyday Life

• The hosts explore why sports attract so many superstitions: from game-day clothing to elaborate family habits.
• Quote (03:05, Sabrina): “Sports are happening all around us. Can you feel it? Can you see it? Can you hear it? Do you hear those sneakers on the basketball court? ...Go sports!”
• Discussion about underwear-based rituals, voodoo dolls fashioned by a “witchy” grandmother, and the mystery of how these practices start.
  • Corinne (04:09): “My grandmother was a little bit of a witch and she used to make us voodoo dolls for the other team… That is some really serious sports shit.”
• The idea that energy and intention, built up by collective rituals or hopes, might actually influence the outcome of games.

2. Listener Tales: Hauntings in Athletic Spaces

A series of chilling stories from listeners link sports to supernatural disturbances.

a. The Strange Gym Encounter (John, ~04:40–12:47)

• Setting: Early morning, nearly-empty gym in Wisconsin.
• Experience: John encounters a bizarre, ageless man with unnervingly long arms and a faded smiley-face shirt in the locker room. The man’s presence unsettles everyone, then he vanishes mysteriously.
• Quote (08:37, John): “He puts his hands on his hips and says, ‘Looks like it’s just you and me, huh?’”
• Hosts debate if this was a malevolent spirit, a “flesh pedestrian,” drug user, or simply a run-of-the-mill creeper.

b. Haunted Murals & Shadow Men (“My Three Kids are Haunted”, ~12:47–18:19)

• Rose’s children repeatedly encounter supernatural phenomena in multiple homes, including:
  • A haunted kitchen with persistent “barbecue sauce” stains, later revealed to be blood from a murder.
  • Bloody ghostly apparitions in mirrors and a shadow man lurking in the house, even after a move and blessing.
  • A hand-painted mural of baseball players that the youngest son insists come out at night (“the baseball players would come out of the wall to watch him sleep” – 17:27).
• The mural story sparks debate: can art “invite” spirits inadvertently?

c. Stadium Specter: La Lechuza at Old Mission Stadium (Mel, ~22:02–25:08)

• Mel recounts how her uncles snuck into a minor league ballpark in San Antonio and, after ignoring mysterious noises, were chased by a giant, witch-bird entity (La Lechuza).
• The group’s grandmother’s matter-of-fact reaction: “That’s what you get for not listening to me in the first place.”
• Hosts jokingly speculate if the grandma was perhaps involved in some form of witchcraft herself. (“Was it your grandma? Could she transform?” – 25:08)

d. Ghostly Guidance at the Ball Game (Deli, ~27:39–29:32)

• A voice is caught on recording at a rainy youth baseball game, whispering, “It’s in the desk.” This clue leads to a deceased relative’s lost address for an old flame, fulfilling a dying wish.
• The recording is described as unusually clear: “It doesn’t sound like a normal EVP; it truly sounds like someone’s right there on the microphone.” (30:03)

e. Signs from the Afterlife Through Sports (Kevin, ~30:53–34:38)

• After his father’s sudden passing, Kevin details how a monarch butterfly followed him at a family hockey game, and later, his missing Patriots hat mysteriously reappeared before he went onto an NFL field—fulfilling their lifelong dream.
• Quote (33:58, Kevin): “It feels like he’s always with me, always watching over me.”
• Sabrina and Corinne highlight how intervention via lost objects (or animals) feels like classic spiritual messaging.

f. Basement Ghost & MLB Glass Smash (Lindsay, “Someone Call Ghostbusters”, ~37:01–43:33)

• Persistent poltergeist-type activity: TVs turn on by themselves, a dog freaks out, a female voice soothes the pet, and voices are heard by both Lindsay and a psychic friend.
• A glass from an Astros memorabilia collection shatters the day the Astros are knocked out of the World Series—leading the hosts to wonder if even spirits have strong team loyalties! (“So I’m curious what tie this spirit has to the Astros.” – 43:14)

g. Crossed Over Making a Run (Stix, “Spooky Child Spooky Adult”, ~43:40–49:03)

• After having a near-death experience during a childhood baseball game (“I had suddenly stopped breathing in the middle of the game” – 44:17), Stix believes a spiritual “door” opened, leading to lifelong supernatural encounters.
• Other stories include a spectral farm relative (“I’ve seen him at the farm!” – 45:40) and a violent, poltergeist-like haunting in their high school’s drama basement.

3. The Superstition Parade: Listeners’ Sports Rituals (~49:54–54:35)

The hosts share a rapid-fire selection of the best and weirdest fan/player rituals sent in by listeners—some practical, many just bizarre:

• Only wear a certain sports bra for games
• Don’t wash game-day outfits unless the team loses
• Left cleat before right, every time
• Homemade superstitions about sex, hair dye, and bleaching body hair in team colors (!)
• Never touch your jersey on game day
• Team “butt slapping” before ballet recitals for luck
• Yelling “hot dog!” during opponents’ free throws
• Refusing to wash a hockey jersey until the season’s end (hosts agree: “That is so nasty.” – 50:56)

Reflections

• The hosts joke about “manifesting” outcomes but also earnestly reflect on the collective power of intention and belief in rituals.
  • Corinne (55:07): “We’re laughing about it, but also believe in, like, energy and intention… If it works, it works.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Corinne on gym encounter (08:37): “He puts his hands on his hips and says, ‘Looks like it’s just you and me, huh?’”
• Sabrina on haunted mural (17:27): “The baseball players would come out of the wall to watch him sleep.”
• On La Lechuza (25:08): “Was it your grandma? Could she transform or was she into some witchcraft?”
• On the ghostly voice at a ball game (29:16): “You can clearly hear someone audibly say, ‘It’s in the desk.’”
• On sports energy (26:07): “To either win or lose is like… Like losing is so devastating and heartbreaking. And winning is also so exciting that like how much energy is left on the field.”
• On manifestation (55:07): “Willpower and manifestation is a very real thing.”

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Memorable & Emotional Touchpoints

• Audience engagement: Listeners’ stories range from hilarious (ritual underwear) to heartfelt (signs from lost loved ones), displaying just how deeply sports, ritual, and the supernatural intertwine.
• Hosts’ camaraderie: Corinne and Sabrina keep the tone upbeat and warm, even when stories are genuinely chilling (“I’m still so disturbed by the revelation”—16:36).
• Community: Frequent call-outs to the listener community, emphasizing “We want your stories!” and fostering a sense of shared adventure through the podcast.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:22] – Introduction to sports/superstition topic & rituals
• [04:40] – John’s Gym Encounter
• [12:47] – Rose’s Haunted Kids & Mural Story
• [22:02] – La Lechuza at Mission Stadium
• [27:39] – Baseball Game EVP: “It’s in the desk.”
• [30:53] – Kevin’s Fatherly Afterlife Signs
• [37:01] – Lindsay’s Basement Ghost & Astros Glass
• [43:40] – Stix’s Near-Death Baseball Awakening
• [49:54] – Listener Sports Superstitions Roundup
• [54:35] – Reflection on the power of rituals & invitation for more stories

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Final Thoughts

This episode of Two Girls One Ghost demonstrates how sports superstitions are a unique, sometimes spooky, but often deeply meaningful facet of human experience. From haunted gyms to spectral stadium birds, ancestral mishaps, and near-death play, sports serve as much more than games—they can be portals, rituals, and at times, conduits for something paranormal. The hosts welcome stories from all walks (and runs, and home plate slides!) of life, eager to hear more about the haunted corners of the locker room and beyond.

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“We’re laughing about it, but also believe in, like, energy and intention… Willpower and manifestation is a very real thing.” – Corinne [55:07]

Submit your own stories to 2girls1ghostpodcastmail.com!

Transcript

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Very spooky. Hi.

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But we just blankly stared and smiled for like a good 30 seconds.

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Really creepily at all of you.

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Okay.

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Hello.

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Two girls, one ghost. Two girls, one ghost.

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And we are your ghostesses. That is Corinne. Hi, I'm Sabrina.

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Hopefully you knew that because this is Patreon.

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So if you did, it's not Patreon, it's.

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What are we doing?

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We're doing the sports encounters.

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If you're not on our Patreon, you should be because there's some cool stuff over there as I'm banging my mic. Oh, my God.

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You know, you know what?

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I have it together.

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We got this. Shake it off. Get your head in the game.

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Get your head in the game. You gotta get your happy mlb.

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Happy sports week.

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I don't know what's going. Sports are in the air.

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Sports are happening all around us. Can you feel it? Can you see it? Can you hear it? Do you hear those sneakers on the basketball court? Do you hear those baseballs being whacked across the field?

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Yay. Go team.

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Go team. Go sports. Go sports. But yeah, we have not done an episode about not encounters about sports related hauntings.

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No. We had one episode a couple years ago about specifically baseball curses and I did one about. That's pretty interesting.

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There was like a basketball team that didn't never stayed at that hotel. But it was specifically about the hotel. But anyway, we were like, was it the Linkersham Hotel?

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Why does that ring a bell?

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No, it's not.

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It. Okay.

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I don't remember the name, but it's not that.

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All I know is you're wrong,

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but a lot of you have had encounters, not necessarily while playing sports, but while doing like sports related things or there's superstitions that you've heard and that your families follow. And so we wanted to pick stories related to that. And then we also asked all of our listeners who follow us on Instagram to share with us some of your strange sports related habits or superstitions. And I just have to say, the amount of men who choose to wear the exact same underwear, they wash them, but that they have to wear the same underwear for every game that they watch and play. It's a weird, like, why underwear?

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That is interesting because depending on what sport they play, sometimes they're like back to back games. Where do you have the time to wash a cycle between.

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Good question. I don't know. I don't have the answer. I didn't. I didn't get it.

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He didn't want to start a conversation about men's underwear with the men wearing the underwear.

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I did not. So tell me more about your underwear habits. And then there was one listener who sent an email and it was, this was just like one sentence of their email where it was like, my grandmother was a little bit of a witch and she used to make us voodoo dolls for the other team.

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Oh my gosh.

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And I was like, I love that so much. I wish this was a longer story.

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That is like some really serious sports shit where I feel like if people found out from the other team.

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Did it work? That's the question we have.

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Did it work? And what kind of voodoo stuff was happening? Like what, what were you guys doing to the dolls? How did it affect the question? Are they just tripping over themselves or are they like getting in a car accident?

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That's what we need to know. Just as a note, there's probably some background noise.

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There's cleaning happening.

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Okay. I picked a story that's not necessarily like it's sports related because it's a gym and a locker room. This is from our listener, John. It's called Gym Encounter. Hi, Corinne and Sabrina. My name is John. I love your podcast.

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I wish his name was Jim and it was called the Gym Encounter.

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Jim experiences the haunting at the Gym Encounter. I love your podcast. I listen to it sporadically mostly when I have to travel for work about four to six months at a time. Oh, what kind of work do you do? I wanted to get your take on something creepy that occurred not too long ago at my gym. I am a member of a larger gym in the Madison, Wisconsin area. And I have been a member at this gym for over 15 years. Recently, maybe around March of this year, I have been getting up really early and going to the gym for a 5am swim.

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Damn.

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I get to the gym 10 minutes before 5. I check in, I get in the locker room, I change into my swimwear, rinse off in the showers, get into the pool and swim half a mile. It usually takes about 20 to 30 minutes for me to swim this half mile. I do wall push ups and treading water sets and when I'm done I go sit in the hot tub for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then I shower again, change into my work attire and head to work by around 6, maybe a little bit after. There is usually literally practically no one at the gym. When I get there before five, I have the locker room, the sauna, the shower, the pool and hot tub to myself occasionally. Yeah, there are a few younger dude weightlifters in the locker room, but really only ever two maximum. And they mostly don't show up until I'm done with my routine. So it's around 6am and by younger I mean younger than me. I'm 40. Yikes. That's not old. We're all young. Anyway, this particular morning about three weeks ago, I was in the locker room finishing my workout. I did as usual, got there before 5, did my pre workout stuff, got into the pool at 5, did my workout, got into the hot tub for 15 minutes, got in the shower and then I was in the locker room drying off. It was around 5:45. Two younger weightlifting dudes are in the locker room changing and laughing, flexing their muscles in the mirror, you know, doing that whole song and dance because if you flex your muscles they grow bigger. Duh. Then this older gentleman, probably mid to late 60s, comes into the locker room and I had never seen him before, which is not unusual. It's a big gym, lots of new members that, you know, common. He walks into the back locker room area where I'm drying off, changing into my work attire. He walks past the two young weightlifting dudes past me and then just stands in the corner by the television and by the emergency exit. He has no gym bag. He's wearing super tight and super short shorts that weren't necessarily gym shorts, but they weren't street shorts either. He was in a faded yellow shirt with a smiley face on it, you know, one of those like shit happens shirts or whatever. He had short brown and gray flecked hair. His arms were really long and gangly. Like, almost too long for his torso. I didn't really see any body hair on his body. Like nothing on his legs or arms. And he's just standing in the corner, not staring at the TV, staring at us. 3. As we're doing the things in the locker room, I'm changing into work attire. Those other two gym dudes are, who knows, flexing their muscles still. But this guy is staring at us. I can't see him directly in my line of sight, but I see him out of my peripheral. His arms are down by his side. He's standing in the corner, not really near the lockers, but close to the emergency exit door. And he's definitely staring at us. The two younger weightlifting dudes must have got that same creeped out vibe because I pretty much ran out of the locker room half dressed, definitely feeling weirded out. So now it's just me and this guy. I quickly get my work clothes on. Even though I'm still wet from the shower. I just feel this, like, need to go quicker. I'm in the process of tying up my boots when I feel his presence inch closer to me. I tie my boots faster. I stuff my wet towel and my swimsuit into my gym bag and I stand up. I look over at him and he puts his hands on his hips and says, looks like it's just you and me, huh?

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That's a little creepy.

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A million thoughts race through my brain. Is he going to, like, expose himself to me? Is he going to stab me? Possibly. Is he going to pull out a taser and try to knock me out? What is happening? Side note, I should preference this by stating I'm a former correctional officer and former correctional supervisor. I'm now a trainer and I work in an institution in Wisconsin. But anytime I run into people that act weird around me, I do presume it's maybe a former inmate.

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Oh, that's a good point.

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Yeah. So in this moment, easier for them

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to recognize you than you recognize them. Yeah.

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So I don't know what this guy is going to do, but I do know that whatever it is, I don't want any part of it. And I have a very weird feeling. As reference, I'm 5'10, 230 pounds, so I'm not a little person, but this guy makes me feel uncomfortable. And he's about close to my height, but he's nowhere near my weight. He looked like he's £150 or something. Very sinewy, long, gangly. It really looked like his body was almost cobbled together. Like his arms were long and slender, but very little muscle in them. His torso was short, his legs were normal length for his height, but they were skinny, scrawny, and he really seemed out of sorts. Coupled with his attire, he didn't fit the type of person usually in this locker room or gym. The whole thing was odd and awkward. Now it's just you, I say as I grab my bags and head for the exit. I stroll down the short hallway, past the sauna, past the block of showers, around the corner, and into the bathroom area where there's a stall and toilet, two urinals and a couple of sinks, which is also where the door to the hot tub is. I travel down another short hallway and around the corner to another locker room. And then I head out the door of the locker rooms and into the hallway toward the pool and gym lobby. I'm in the hallway right outside the locker room door. This entire journey takes like 20 seconds. But I realize I don't have my phone.

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Fuck.

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I must have left it in the locker room. Double fuck. For a brief moment I really wondered, do I need it? But I did. I decided I needed to turn back and I had to travel through all of these rooms again. And I was expecting to see that creepy guy doing some naked jumping jacks or something. I don't know. I just expected something strange. And I was not looking forward to another encounter. Except I walk in and the room's empty. Not a soul. What in the fuck? I walk back to the locker I used to retrieve my phone. I walked back out the way I came, past the sauna showers, first men's bathroom area, past the second locker area, to the lobby and into the parking lot. He was nowhere. Now, sure, he could have gone out the emergency exit because he sure as hell did not go past me. There's no other way out of the locker room except the way I went. Did he duck into the sauna? I don't know, but I didn't see him when I passed the window. He could have ducked into a shower, but none of the curtains were pulled, no water was running, none of the stalls were closed. Maybe he was in the hot tub, I don't know. Or maybe he just disappeared. Today I was listening to your Hellhounds podcast and remembered you guys talked about the Tukaloosh Tokalosh. And I began wondering if the creepy dude I encountered in the men's locker room was that or like a flesh pedestrian or a spirit entity that was out of place, looking for something. I don't know. All I know is that it was really unsettling and creepy. And I'm glad that I didn't have to stick around longer to interact with him again. I would love to hear your thoughts. Let me know. Great job on the show. Can't wait to listen to you guys soon. Keep up the good work, John.

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I don't know what my thoughts are. I feel like this is just creepy.

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It's also like, so early.

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Yeah.

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I don't know. Is it a. Whatever it is. If it's a real human being was being creepy or a spirit. It's unsettling.

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Yeah. Just the fact that he. This person looked so out of place too. Like it's one thing, like people have all different body types.

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Totally.

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Whatever. But like, just like everything about this person, like, behavior, the way that they're

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dressed for the gym and their energy. Like it everyone. Granted there weren't that many people there, but everyone felt weird by his presence.

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Yeah.

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And the fact that he walked in specifically to that corner to stand and then turned around and stared at everyone.

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Was he on something?

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Maybe it's scary behavior. Yeah.

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Either he was experiencing some side effects of some drugs or this is like a paranormal encounter.

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Or just someone who likes to stare at people in the locker room.

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Or someone who's possessed.

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That's a natural conclusion. It was a possession. I'm glad you got out of there.

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Me too. Okay. I have a story from Rose. It's called My three Kids are Haunted. Hello, ladies. Love your podcast. Just started. Binge listening. Thanks to my oldest daughter who shares with me a love of the paranormal, true crime and. And drag queens.

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I love it.

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I feel like those three things go together.

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Oh, 100%.

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Like that's like a normal, like, interest group. Yeah. So I have never experienced any of the creepy things that my kids have. And I'm kind of disappointed slash jealous.

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Although it sounds like you have creepy kids, which is creepy in itself.

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You get the story still. Yeah. So my first kid. When we bought our first house, we all knew that this was an 80 year old solidly built house and the wife of the old couple who lived here had died. There were some odd dark stains in the wooden baseboards of the kitchen. I would clean them and they were thick, like old barbecue sauce. And they would always reappear after I got them out.

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Also saying barbecue sauce. And like just my brain goes to. Was it blood?

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Right? Like it seems like it could be. Or like I'm not even thinking of like, them dying there. Like, what if they were like butchering Something right there.

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Yeah. Things you do in your kitchen.

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Yep. Don't trust. What's that, like, little jingle. We don't eat at everybody's house. It's like something about.

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I saw the most disturbing thing on TikTok. Oh, my God.

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Do I want to know?

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Well, you don't stay at hotels often, so you'll be. I think you'll be okay. But it will make you question. It will. It will make you never want to use a hotel coffee maker ever again.

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Well, I don't. I've never. Because. Who cleans them? No one.

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Well, a woman on TikTok created a video. And the reason I saw it was because someone was like, this is insane. Like, it was like a commentary on the video. The original video was a woman being like, have you ever been on a trip and you run out of your underwear and you don't have any way to clean them? And she proceeds to show that she puts her underwear in the. Where you would put, like, a Keurig cup in the coffee brewing machine and lets the hot water run through her underwear. Her dirty underwear.

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Why the fuck wouldn't she just have it in a cup and then the hot water goes in the cup and then she can.

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Why the hell wouldn't you just wash it in the fucking sink like a human?

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Turn the hot water on in the sink.

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Isn't that disgusting?

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That is so disgusting. Who was that?

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It.

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Was it Tom Segura, the comedian that, like, made a joke in one of his standups about, like, rubbing his balls on the curtains in the hotel rooms or something? Just keep your hands to yourself.

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So gross.

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Lay there in the hotel. Wake up and leave.

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Yeah. When you really think about what else has happened in places that are not your own.

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Yuck, yuck.

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Yak, yak, yak, yuck.

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Okay. In the basement, there was a huge storage closet that had a large butcher block table on it, and it had the same stains.

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Okay, butcher block. That makes sense.

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Something's getting butchered. The closet was always extremely cold. Way colder than the rest of the basement, even in the summer. And it gave me the crepes. Okay, here it comes. At the entrance of the closet was a full sized mirror on the wall. My oldest daughter would always see a bloody old lady wearing pajamas in the mirror whenever she was alone in the basement.

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Bloody pajamas in the mirror.

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None of my kids ever wanted to go down there without my husband or me. We did some investigating, and it turns out that the old lady was murdered in the kitchen.

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In the kitchen.

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I couldn't Find more details, but I'm guessing she was probably just chopped up on that butcher block table in the basement closet. So we moved. We got a brand new house. We built it in another state. We had it blessed. And now in the new house, kid number one would always see a shadow man at the bottom of the stairs looking up. So she would always run up from the bathroom to the top of the stairs, straight into a room at the end of the hall. Never go pee in the middle of the night.

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I'm like, I'm still. I can't speak. I'm still so disturbed by the revelation. And like, that absolutely was the continuous, like, bloodstain seeping through. So, like, residual haunting her, putting back

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the memory of being killed. The evidence of her death.

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Oh, my God.

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Terrifying. All right, so my second kid would see the shadow man at her bedroom door, watching her sleep. When she was too scared to sleep in her room, she would sometimes sleep with my son, which is my third child. But the shadow man would still watch her, but closer now from the foot of the bed. My third kid, I had painted a baseball game mural in my son's room. And from age 3, he started covering the faces of the people in the mural with his notebook paper. When I asked him about it, he said that the baseball players would come out of the wall to watch him sleep.

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Oh, my God.

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So of course I painted over it.

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Wait, this is like, wild. Because she literally created. She painted the first mural.

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She made it.

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Meaning she birthed a haunting from just, like, artistic expression.

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I guess so. So of course I painted over the mural. It worked. And he didn't see anything else until when he was a young teen and he saw a large shadow creature with red eyes and horns at his bedroom door and experienced a moment of sleep paralysis where he could not move or scream when this happened. All of my kids are grown up now and haven't experienced anything lately. My husband and I never saw any of these things, and I feel that blessing our house kept some of these beings from truly harming my children. We still live in the home, and I listen to your podcast at night, so I hope I'm not jinxing myself. Love you, ladies. Keep up the good work. From Rose.

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Rose, I know that you personally have not experienced anything, but why would you want to experience anything, any of the things that your children have experienced?

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I know.

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And also, Rose was cleaning up the sauce. So, like, sorry, the blood.

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You're cleaning up blood that keeps reappearing. That's blood. That is paranormal.

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Yeah.

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You created a Haunted mural. That is paranormal.

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Well, I'm very curious about the mural. Like, Rose, did you model the players in the mural after real people?

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How would she even know? Maybe it was just channeled through her.

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Right. We need to know your process.

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Like, what if she was.

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You created spirits or conquered them through

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the art, unknowingly drawing all the spirits, like, of the land. Because they built the house. Yeah, my parents built their house too, so it means nothing.

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Damn. Wow. That is wild.

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Wild.

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Oh, my goodness. This episode is sponsored by Better Help. And you have heard us talk about Better Help so many times in the past.

[A]

Like, is it this episode or is it just us?

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[A]

Wow, what a combo.

[B]

Okay, so this is from our listener Mel, who had emailed us back in 2019. And it like, at the end of the email was like, back in 1964-1974, across the street stood old Mission Stadium baseball field, and my uncles used to sneak in at night until they were chased home by La Lechuza. I'll save that for another day.

[A]

What?

[B]

And so I immediately was like, wait, can you please don't save that for another day?

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This episode, this is everyone's lesson. When you're like, oh, I have so many more stories to share. Let me know if you want to hear them. We do.

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We do.

[A]

And oftentimes when we're like searching keywords and looking for stuff, there are so many emails that are like that sentence where it's like, oh, well, that's a story for another day. And then it's like, well, it would have been a perfect story for us to read for this episode, but now we don't have it.

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But Mel came in clutch and responded immediately.

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Great.

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Which I also love because that means Mel is still listening even though they started back in 2019.

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Or maybe Mel wasn't. But we've just recaptured a new old story.

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Hey, Mel. Hey, Mel. Welcome back to our lives. Um, okay, so Mel said, hey, goals. A lot has happened since 2019. This really felt like a fever dream. I remember telling my girlfriend Emma that I've sent you something, so it was exciting getting an email from you. Here's backstory. Growing up on the south side of downtown San Antonio, our Minor league baseball team called the Missions had its stadium in this area during that time. My mom and Tios were growing up. The stadium was one of the few things near them. So my uncles were nesios, which we just looked it up.

[A]

We Google. Translated it means fools. Foolish uncles.

[B]

So they were foolish uncles. They were always getting into things or places that they shouldn't be. Per usual. My mom said they all snuck into the stadium and were playing some baseball. Like, this is a minor league baseball team stadium, which is wild, and to

[A]

just like have it unguarded.

[B]

It was way past midnight and they were playing baseball. My grammy always said nothing good comes after midnight. But there they were, playing around in the field, just having fun, when all of a sudden they started to hear noises. Like any other mischievous bunch, they chalk it up to just noise around the stadium. They continue playing and mess around on the field when next thing you know, my TO Johnny starts screaming that something is flying around. My other tos, Javier and Bobby, do not believe Johnny. And my mom thinks Johnny's just trying to get them to go home because he's scared. So they keep playing, ignoring Johnny. But later on, they all heard a loud bang. Everyone stayed still, quiet, in case something else was sneaking into the stadium. Her brothers were ready to protect her. That is when they saw something. They thought it was another human or other humans. But quickly they all started screaming. My mom swears they all saw this big bird chase them, come at them. Oh my God. It truly chased them until it was no longer in their sight. They all believe it was Le Lachuza. That morning, they all went home to tell my grammy what would happen. And instead of really believing them or talking about the entity that they saw, My Mexican grammy said in Spanish, but the English translation, that's what you get for not listening to me in the first place.

[A]

Was it. Was it your grandma?

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Love you forever, Mel.

[A]

That's what makes me think, like, could she transform or she into some witchcraft?

[B]

She's like, I'm gonna go.

[A]

She was like, I'm gonna go warn them. Or like, had a little friend, you know, just call out to the woods.

[B]

That is scary.

[A]

Also, it makes my kids a lesson

[B]

that whatever the entity was was like, watching them for a while. Especially because Johnny first saw something flying around and no one believed him.

[A]

Right?

[B]

It gave them a fair warning. Just no one listened to Johnny.

[A]

Yeah. It also brings me back to what you were saying in the beginning, where you saw someone say that, like, they had the voodoo dolls or whatever. And it makes me wonder, like, are Certain stadiums or teams like do they do work and using the paranormal to protect themselves.

[B]

You know, I guarantee there is probably a couple of people who do. I just.

[A]

I don't know how commonplace on staff witch.

[B]

If not, maybe you should consider it.

[A]

That's an idea.

[B]

These would be places that I feel like would, would and should be very haunted. Think about how many people. Like, I think about this all the time so much. I'm not a big sports person, but when I watch the Super Bowl, I cry for both teams because I'm like, there are some of these players who have dreamt their entire lives for this one moment. Like it's such a big thing. And to either win or lose is like. Like losing is so devastating and heartbreaking. And winning is also so exciting that like how much energy is left on the field.

[A]

Plus all the fans, things feel out of body and then yeah, from a fan perspective, people can feel. People can be fighting. People can be having emergencies in the stands. Emergencies getting drunk, getting proposed to their favorite team the first time ever. Getting to see them play in a championship, winning. Like there's just an array of fas.

[B]

We should do a paranormal investigation of TD Garden in Boston.

[A]

Oh, my God. Why you still live right above it.

[B]

I know.

[A]

I think I absorbed some of the hauntings probably. I actually was just talking to one of our listeners, Elizabeth, who was also a heated rivalry fan, and I was like, thank God I don't live in my old apartment anymore. Because when I lived there, it was above TD Garden, which is where the Bruins play, which is where Ilya Rosenoff from heated rivalry played. I was like, although, what do they call them?

[B]

Like the Ravens or something like that?

[A]

Oh, got it.

[B]

It's not the Bruins.

[A]

No. Yeah. I don't remember what it was, but I was like, my delusions would have been so much worse. I would have like nonstop been able. I wouldn't be able to move on because I'd just be walking around my

[B]

apartment and just seeing Ilya. Yeah.

[A]

See the rink. Okay, I have a story from our listener deli. Hello, pretty ghouls. I have changed the name in this story or the names. Sorry. My aunt's mother in law, Grandma Bell, had a brother to whom she was incredibly close to. We are going to call him Tim.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

No, sorry. She wrote Tom. It doesn't matter. All the names are changed. I can change it too.

[B]

What if his real name is Tim K?

[A]

We'll call him Tom. When they were younger, Tom fell in love with this girl named Kate. However, he was called to duty, to serve. And he wasn't able to ever tell Kate how he felt. Tom had always tried to write letters to her to say how strongly his feelings were for her, and he had her address, but he could never work up the courage to actually send these letters to her. Tom's dying wish was that his sister, Grandma Bell, would find Kate's address in his house and inform her of his passing.

[B]

Grandma, that's so devastating.

[A]

Grandma Bell went through his entire house searching for this address to no avail. A few days after Tom's death, my aunt was at her son's baseball game, and she filmed a video from her car because it was raining and her husband wasn't able to go watch their son play. My cousin. She was alone in her car. The car was off. No one was near her. And I am going to attach a snippet of the video where you can clearly hear someone audibly say, it's in the desk. The voice sounds so close to the microphone. But my aunt didn't hear it when she was there, only when she was re watching the video. We had my other cousin amplify the sound to find out what was actually said. And it does sound like it was saying, it's in the desk.

[B]

Isn't that where the letters were?

[A]

She told Grandma Bell about what she'd heard. And although Grandma Bell had extensively searched the house already, she went went to the only desk in the house, and there was Kate's address.

[B]

Oh, the address.

[A]

See you on the other side, Deli. Okay, I'm going to play the video. It's so wild because it, like, it just. I would have assumed it was the aunt saying it, like whispering something or like talking to herself out loud, because it sounds. It doesn't sound like a normal evp. It, like, truly sounds like someone's right there on the microphone. And we'll include the video if you're watching on YouTube, but you don't need to watch the video at all. It's really just audio. And all the kids are blurred out from the baseball game.

[B]

It's a male's voice. It's so clear.

[A]

Yeah, it's him.

[B]

It's a desk.

[A]

Wade.

[B]

That's really. Oh, it's like heartbreaking and tragic, but also I'm so glad that his final wish was able to happen. Oh, I have one that is a little bit sad as well. Does have to do with loss. It is from our listener, Kevin, and it is called dad is Always Watching, even in Death. Hello, my favorite ghostesses and Queen Leia. My name Is Kevin. I'm a new fan of the podcast. Thank you for sharing everything spooky and giving me good background noise while I game. And my wife does arts and crafts. Clearly, as you saw from the subject line, I have a story about my dad that maybe involves reincarnation to start off. Growing up, my dad was my hero. We lived a very simple life growing up in a small town in. I'm not going to know how to say this. Massachusetts. Winchendon.

[A]

I think it's Winchendon.

[B]

You never know with Massachusetts towns. I could be wrong, but my dad and I had a very special bond through our shared name and all of our shared interests. That bond lasted until the day he passed. In 2017, I met my now wife and I decided I was going to change my path of being a townie and and make the move to St. Cloud, Minnesota, a move my dad was so excited for. Okay, so dad was still alive. We talked almost every day on the phone or through Facebook and he even was able to go to my wedding. In 2021, I got a call from my sister that my dad was in the hospital for a swollen foot that was so bad he couldn't get his shoe off. He apparently had an artery problem that was really bad. And he had never taken care of it because he didn't think anyone would be able to take care of our mom. The doctors decided they were going to amputate two toes and do artery surgery, but sadly there was a complication where there was a cut that happened in his lower intestines that caused a really bad infection. And sadly, he passed a week later.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

But we were all able to be by his side.

[A]

I have, like, chills. It's so devastating when it, like when it's just so quick. It's so sudden.

[B]

Yeah. Now, because I'm autistic, I do deal with life differently. And for me, sports is that outlet. Specifically hockey. I coach it, I watch it, I play hours of video games about hockey. It is my lifeblood, really. Well, we went to go to my niece and nephew's ball hockey game to try to heal somehow with the game that I love most. And the entire time, there was a monarch butterfly just following my niece and nephew. There were no other players out there that this monarch went to, just my niece and nephew. I had no idea about the lore behind it until my wife told me. Then the butterfly even came over to us for a little bit and then left.

[A]

Aw, Monarchs are so beautiful.

[B]

A few months later, I went to a Minnesota Vikings game Football. And it was an appointment. Yes, it was an appointment event because we had on field, sweet passes. And growing up, my brother DJ and I had always told my dad that one day we're going to be on an NFL field. And in a way, I was finally achieving that dream. I preface this by saying my dad and I had the same style, pretty much always wearing something. Boston sports. He wore all Patriots stuff. I wore Patriots gear and Bruins gear. And I had a favorite Patriots hat that I had lost and I couldn't find it anywhere, so I gave up. As we were sitting in the car, we got to the Vikings stadium for the game, my mother in law tossed the hat up to me. I found that and figured you'd want it. She had no idea how important it was to me or how long I had searched for that hat. It made me realize and make me think that my dad got to be with me and be on the field with me doing what I told him I would do growing up, be on an NFL field. It's been three years since he's passed on. And I have my good days, but I also have my bad days. But I do know, no matter what he's around, whether it be when Hallow Notes or REO Speedwagon plays on the radio, it smells like a fresh open beer. It feels like he's always with me, always watching over me. Thanks so much for reading this story. Thank you for allowing me to share it. Love you both from Kevin.

[A]

I love that so much.

[B]

I know.

[A]

And it just feels. I'm glad that Kevin is like recognizing something that very much could be a sign and paranormal that I feel like so many people write off, which is like intervention. Whether his mom or Was it his mom or aunt that found the house? Yeah, yeah. Found the hat. And you know, like, his aunt might just be like, oh, I found this. I need to like give the hat back. But there very well could have been some spirit intervention where his dad is like directing well and also like, where

[B]

did she find it?

[A]

Yeah, right. Because something that could so easily be written off.

[B]

Right.

[A]

But I very much feel like it's a sign and I'm really glad that he is choosing me too, to recognize it as a sign as well.

[B]

Oh, and the monarch butterfly following around the new scene of you playing ball hockey and then also for it to then go over to them. Ugh. So beautiful.

[A]

Beautiful.

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[B]

That's unsettling.

[A]

This past year, I have really noticed much more activity. My room is in the basement. And earlier in the year, for about two months, we had issues with our TV turning on by itself. Every day I would come home from work. It would be on, even on days that I knew no one had been home. No one was watching the tv. And it got so bad, like turning on multiple times a day, that I would really do triple checks to make sure everything was turned off. Until finally I got so fed up I just decided to unplug it.

[B]

Every night, the ghost just want to watch tv.

[A]

I know.

[B]

What are they watching?

[A]

I wonder what's up? Is it the same channel that you leave it on, or is it. Yeah. SpongeBob Rewinds eventually, that stopped, and it hasn't happened since. And for a while, nothing really was happening. Until one day when I was home alone. This was probably a few months after the TV problems had stopped. My family had all left the house for the day, leaving me home by myself. I was woken up to my dog freaking out inside of his crate, which happened to be in the guest room above my head. At the time, he was still a puppy, and my mom had put him there so that he wouldn't destroy anything while I was asleep. He was never really a fan of his crate, and luckily, he's a good boy now and he doesn't need his crate. But he never freaked out this bad. The only way to describe it was he sounded like he was trying to get out and go after someone.

[B]

Trust your pets.

[A]

Knowing that I was home alone after reading a text from my mom, I started to freak out a little bit. I started to climb the stairs to go get my pup, only to stop dead in my tracks when I heard a female voice say, it's okay. At that point, I was not okay. But I still managed to go up there into the spare room where my dog was. I got in there. He seemed to be way less freaked out now than he had been he stopped barking. And when I told my family what happened, of course they just laughed it off. So I tried to let it go.

[B]

Rude. We believe you.

[A]

We do. A few weeks after, my friend was sleeping over. This friend had a very strong connection to the paranormal. And the next morning when I woke up, she told me that in the middle of the night she had gotten up to go use the bathroom. And when she was about to walk back downstairs to my room, she heard a female voice. She can't remember what they said to her, but she specifically remembered it being female. And. And when she said Lindsay, my name, no one answered.

[B]

So two times. Female voice.

[A]

She said she thought I'd woken up and was maybe just sitting in the living room. But nope, I was in my bed fast asleep. So she and I agreed that my house must have a ghost. Yeah, after that, nothing really happened except for the usual misplaced objects, things disappearing. Until last week. I had woken up to start getting ready for work, having had a weird dream about some sound of glass breaking. And when I walk out of the room to head upstairs, one of my dad's collector's MLB glasses was shattered on the floor. We have an opening over our stairs where my dog likes to stick his head, and my dad said that maybe he probably dropped his toy and the glass had fallen off the counter. However, the glass was everywhere and there were no dog toys in sight. And I know my dog, and if that was the case, he would have left the toy and not chanced walking over the glass because he's tripping. Truly scared of everything.

[B]

Oh, poor baby.

[A]

My dad started helping me clean up the mess and goes, wow, that's crazy. This is an Astros glass. The Red Sox just kicked them out of the World Series last night out of all of the glasses to break. And we have the whole MLB collection and many more. It was that one.

[B]

Wait.

[A]

Call me crazy, but I don't think it's too crazy to be a coincidence.

[B]

Yeah, that's more than a coincidence.

[A]

Then just last Friday, I texted my mom around 2:30am to let her know that I was sleeping over somewhere so that she wouldn't worry. When I got home, my mom asked if I'd come home to grab all of my stuff, which I replied no. She then goes on to tell me that right after she read my text, she heard a girl giggle, the TV was turned off, my dad was asleep, and when she looked outside, there was no one. She said that she took it off, looked back at her phone to reply to my text, and while her head was down. She felt our smaller dog walking up towards her, all on the bed. But when she heard her sneeze, she looked up and the dog was all the way on the other side near my dad's feet. Feeling a little freaked out, she replied to me, turned off her phone and closed her eyes. She said a little while after closing her eyes, it looked like someone flashed a light in her eyes and when she opened them, her room was pitch black. So she is no longer calling me crazy.

[B]

Finally. I'm glad. That's like multiple hauntings all at once. Finally the spirit revealed themselves to someone else in your family and went all out.

[A]

Just the other night, me and her somehow got to talking about psychics and mediums. And she often tells me that she is skeptical of them because before I was born, one told her that there was a little girl with her, but she had never known a little girl who died. I had never given it much thought, but now I'm starting to think that maybe my mom does have a young girl attached to her. Is that the little girl in our house? Let me know what you think. Much love, Lindsay.

[B]

Damn. I mean, all of the hauntings, like the voice related and sound related ones, seem all tied to this girl. But I'm so curious about the Astros glass. Cause that sounds like a moment where you're so pissed your team lost that you're like, I can't be a fan anymore.

[A]

Throw this team.

[B]

No more Astros.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So I'm curious what the tie this spirit has to the Astros.

[A]

Right. Because it's not like this family was an Astros fan.

[B]

No, it's just like an MLB sports.

[A]

Sports.

[B]

An MLB cup. And there was like a whole collection of them.

[A]

But it's interesting. Yeah. That it was like perfectly aligned with what was going on in the series. In the series. Huh.

[B]

What do you all think?

[A]

Interesting.

[B]

I don't think it's a coincidence. Okay, I have one more and then we'll look at the superstitions that you all have.

[A]

Great.

[B]

This listener asked us to call them Sticks S T I X. Oh, okay. Their nickname. It's called Spooky Child Spooky Adult. Greetings, ghostesses. I'm a relatively new listener, which is surprising considering my spookiness. I've had experiences since I was 6 years old, and I'm pretty certain I know why. Because when I was six years old, I was playing in a baseball game. I hit the ball, ran toward first base, and then nothing. Until I woke up in my parents car. They were taking me to the hospital because I had suddenly stopped breathing in the middle of the game.

[A]

Oh my God.

[B]

While like running towards first base. I believe I crossed over briefly and since then is why I have seen, heard and felt spirits. I have several stories to share, but I'll share three in this email. The first one is called Sunday Lunch Guest. When I was younger, almost my mom's entire side of the family would gather at my great grandmother's farm on Sundays after church. That sounds magical. Like a whole family brunch on Sundays on a farm.

[A]

It just makes me think of what's that righteous gemstone.

[B]

Yes. I wasn't particularly comfortable being around that many people at that age, which hasn't changed much. I get you. So I would go sit in my great grandmother's bedroom and watch TV with the door open until it was time to sit down and go eat. A menagerie of family members would stop in the doorway to say hi to me as I sat and watched Nickelodeon, including one man with thick rimmed glasses. He would smile and tip his hat at me before walking off. The only thing is, he was never at the table for lunch. I figured he was just a shift worker and maybe grabbed a plate before heading back to work. Years later, my mom was unpacking some family pictures she had gotten from her mother and she pulled one out and there he was. I go, I know him. And my mom went pale. You know him? Yeah, I said, I've seen him at the farm. It was at this point my mom told me that that was my great grandmother who had passed away before I was born.

[A]

Oh my God. But I also love this. It's amazing that he's still going to the family gatherings.

[B]

Yeah. And he's saying hello to her and

[A]

what a big family too. Where she's like, never questioned talking to him.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Or not. It's just like, oh yeah, yeah, that guy's always at the farm.

[B]

And it took years to figure out that she was seeing a ghost. Okay. The second one is called Haunted High School. I attended a fine arts school from the time I was in sixth grade until I graduated high school. The rumor had been that the school's structure was original to the factory that stood there before. Furthermore, the school basement was said to have been the factory's infirmary, where injured and possibly dying employees would go. The basement also happened to be home to the drama department's costume shop. One day in drama class, we split into groups to put together a scene, and I was chosen as the sacrificial lamb who would go to the basement alone to find costume pieces. I left the classroom, went down the hallway to the stairwell, steadied my breath, and I opened the door. I stood at the top of the first flight of stairs, and I made my way down. Pulse racing, I turned to complete my journey and saw that the door to the basement proper was open. Strange, that's usually closed. I pressed my back against the cinder block wall as I slid down the second flight of stairs, Inching my way to the open door, I looked down the long white hallway and saw that the door to the costume shop was also open. And there was a chair sitting in the doorway. But then the chair moved. It slid violently from the doorway to the other side of the hallway, striking the wall. I ran faster than I have ever run in my life, Feeling like I was being chased the entire time.

[A]

Right. I'd be so scared that the chair was about to slam into me.

[B]

When I reached the top of the staircase, I sprinted through the open door, and it was slammed behind me, meaning that the entity chased.

[A]

Oh my God, this is so aggressive.

[B]

All the way back up.

[A]

This is really scary.

[B]

Yeah, stick said. I never went down there again. Okay, my third story is called thank you. Just over a year ago, I was doing a show at a local black box theater. And after about 10 years of performing at this black box theater, in one way or another, several people have heard about and now know about my spookiness. So we were all taking a break at rehearsal when a relative newcomer came into the theater building and started talking to me about the vibes there. I told her that while the building wasn't necessarily haunted, that the area downtown definitely was, and I listed some random experience that I had had. She was very interested in my stories and asked if I'd always been open to seeing spirits and what other abilities I had. Can you speak to spirits? She asked. Not necessarily, I answered, explaining that I only ever get random words that pop into my head. And she goes, what word are you getting now? I explained that it doesn't really work that way. I can't just turn it on and off like a light switch. But as I'm telling her this, another cast member walks up, joins the conversation, and I catch her up on what we've been talking about. So I continue, yeah, I can't just turn it on and off. But wait, I am getting a name right now. I'll change the name for privacy's sake. But the name I was getting was Ben, and I asked if it meant anything to either one of them. Before I could finish my question, the second woman who had joined us ran off crying. After a few minutes, the woman walked back to us red eyed and said, ben is my husband's name and he just passed away this summer. I didn't even know that she had been married, let alone widowed. I apologized deeply for frightening her and she said, no, no, thank you. I think I needed to know that he's with me.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

From Styx. See you on the other side.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah. Also, theater is a sport, so that works for the theme.

[A]

How did that. How is it actually?

[B]

I mean, dancing. If you're like doing musical theater and you're dancing.

[A]

Oh, the answers. I was like, wait, are you declaring it as a sport?

[B]

Well, actually, in high school, you had to either play a sport or do like a gym class. And the musical counted as a sport?

[A]

Well, because you're up, you're moving, you're.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, we were dancing for hours a day doing rehearsals and stuff. Yeah.

[A]

Dang.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I can't believe she died on the baseball field.

[B]

So scary. I can't even imagine, like, as a parent watching that happen. Geez.

[A]

Terrifying.

[B]

And now let's talk about your superstitions and underwear things.

[A]

Let's talk about your underwear.

[B]

Honestly, I didn't ask about your underwear. You told us about your underwear. That's. That's on you. Okay. I would only wear a certain sports bra in high school and we won states. I wear the same outfit every time the Pats play. And I can't wash it unless they lose. I always used to put my left cleat on before my right cleat. Same with my shin guards. Okay, yeah, wait, this is the.

[A]

I understand that one. Cause the. The like, kind of OCD part of me is like, there's a particular order and if you do that, like, everything is going to crumble and the world's going to end.

[B]

Okay, these two are funny. No sex before the game. Interesting choice. And then this one. Bleaching, then dying. My landing strip. Red and white, which is my team colors. I'm dead. That's amazing. How did that start?

[A]

Yeah, why did you think of that?

[B]

I played softball. Don't touch the white chalk lines. It's bad luck before the game starts. This is gross. But it also makes sense because hockey just has a smell. When I played hockey, I would never wash my jersey or socks until the end of the season.

[A]

That is so nasty.

[B]

It's so gross.

[A]

Oh, my God. Hockey equipment is so disgusting.

[B]

Wait, some of these are hysterical. My daughter swears I'm bad luck. Begs me not to come to important games.

[A]

I mean, that's kind of real where people are like, every time I watch a game with you or something, they lose. You're the bad luck charm or you're the good luck charm. Yeah.

[B]

Okay. I actually did this. I don't wear my team's shirt on game day unless I'm going to the game and I take it off if losing. I did a very similar thing where I wouldn't even touch my jersey the day of the game. Like, I would pack my bag the night before, and then I wouldn't even touch it until, like, I was at the field ready to play.

[A]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

And I don't know that it was like, a good luck thing or anything.

[A]

Where did that come from?

[B]

Weird fixation of mine. I don't know. I would keep a five dollar bill in my sports bra every time I played a game. Okay, where did that. See, this is why I'm like, where do these start? Who? Yeah, how do you learn this?

[A]

I didn't have any of these.

[B]

I didn't do.

[A]

I don't think anyone. If anyone had any on any of my sports teams. I didn't know about them either. Yeah, I think, like, the closest I had to something was, like, for one year of snowboarding, every time I got on the lift, I'd listen to the same song on the lift.

[B]

Oh, I like that.

[A]

I had, like, the first song.

[B]

It's your pump up song.

[A]

Second song. And then I'd have the song that was like, my first run, but that's just, like, routine. And it was. If anyone can guess the year, I'll tell you the songs.

[B]

Okay, what are the songs?

[A]

And it's gonna be all over the place. Okay, the first one, get on the lift. Grills.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Halfway up the lift. Is it Eric Clapton? Like, would you know my name if I saw you in Helen? So you slowed it down.

[B]

Wait, that's like. Yeah, real big shift.

[A]

Then hop off the lift. My humps, my humps. My humps, my humps. That was it?

[B]

That was your first song on the run. What year was this? If you want people to guess, you guys can guess.

[A]

I mean, I think it's pretty clear.

[B]

Okay. I can't guess. I don't know anything about music. Also, apparently there's a curse of the Philadelphia Eagles, which now I want to look up. This year, my best friend slash soulmate couldn't watch football with me because of the juju. Okay, what's the juju? My friends and I would slap each other's butts as hard as possible before every ballet performance. For good luck, when shooting a free throw, you must dribble the ball four times and say, I can make it. I like that.

[A]

I like that. That's cute. Yeah. Little affirmations.

[B]

Oh, I like this one. I'll remote start my car at hockey games if we're too close to going into overtime. Like, kind of as like a. Nope. Yeah, I gotta go. My brother always wore mismatched shoes. His basketball team went to States twice. I yell hot dog during free throws to make the other team miss.

[A]

That's just heckling.

[B]

If I don't listen to Big Booty Mix before a race, I will. What's DNF mean?

[A]

Did not finish.

[B]

Oh, so not finish the race.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. In sports and racing indicates a competitor did not complete the race or eventually.

[B]

So always listen to your Big Booty Mix. Okay. The one I'll end on is hilarious. My ex knocked on wood so much that while he did it, I started wishing something bad would happen to him.

[A]

Oh, my God. Reversing it.

[B]

Well, he's your ex for a reason, so something bad did happen to him. He lost you.

[A]

But that's true. Yeah, but that's kind of like a funny idea that someone's trying so hard for, like, their own luck and superstitions, not knowing that the person next to them is actively working against them, Just, like, trying to try harder.

[B]

Amazing.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah. Let us know. I'm sure there's so many of you who are listening who have little superstitions or tics that you would do when you played sports growing up, or if your family watches it's Big Patriots fan and they have superstitions. I always think about what's the dinner for Lawrence movie, Silver Linings playbook, and how the dad always had to sit in the same chair. The remote had to be in the same spot. It was very. You follow the superstitions?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because what one fan does, it makes

[A]

a difference for an entire team.

[B]

For an entire team. Yep.

[A]

We're laughing about it. But also believe in, like, energy and intention and feeling. And if it's like everyone has their own thing, but it's like contributing to a particular end, and that end is all the same for everyone. Like, if it works, it doesn't work.

[B]

Right. Willpower and manifestation is a very real thing. So keep doing your weird things. We love them and we want to hear them, and we didn't really have

[A]

enough emails about sports and things that were happening. Like, did you go? Did you have an away game somewhere and you stayed in a haunted hotel or you know. Tell us all the stories. We want to Hear them at 2girls1ghost

[B]

podcastmail.com and if you want episodes one week early and ad free, join us over on Patreon. We also have so much bonus content over there so you can check it out. You can get like witch classes book club. You can meet with us every week live on Zoom to share ghost stories.

[A]

Our weekly meeting.

[B]

Our weekly meeting. Put it in your calendar and tell all your friends and family and strangers about our podcast. Because the more that listen, the more stories we have to share with you.

[A]

Shout out to Jamie, Ryan and the team behind two Girls and Ghosts and thank you to all of you. We love you and we will see you on the other side.

[B]

Very spooky.

[A]

Thanks for listening.

[B]

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