Episode 379 - r/Paranormal | Appalachia, Grim Reapers & Ghost Reddit Stories

Summary

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Two Girls One Ghost – Episode 379

r/Paranormal | Appalachia, Grim Reapers & Ghost Reddit Stories
Hosts: Corinne Vien & Sabrina Deana-Roga
Date: June 28, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Corinne and Sabrina dive deep into the world of Reddit’s r/Paranormal and related subreddits, reading and discussing some of the creepiest user-submitted supernatural and near-death encounter stories. The episode explores tales from the ominous Appalachian wilderness, chilling brushes with the Grim Reaper, unnerving encounters with unseen bedroom entities, and disturbing aftermaths of Ouija board sessions. Throughout, the hosts blend their trademark humor and genuine fright, analyzing and riffing on each story, sparking personal memories, and mulling over the unresolved mysteries and emotional impacts of these alleged true encounters.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdowns

1. Why Reddit Scary Stories? (01:15–02:41)

• Sabrina hypes the episode’s theme: "Reddit is my dark web." (01:45, Corinne)
• Both hosts discuss the creepiness and addictive quality of scrolling through Reddit paranormal threads, setting the stage for the episode’s format—plucking stories from random users with chilling experiences.

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2. Story 1: Hiding from Scream and Footsteps in Appalachia (04:12–16:25)

Source: Reddit, Camping and Hiking Subreddit
Highlight: A solo hiker in the Appalachians describes hearing a scream deep in the woods at 1:30am, followed by slow, deliberate footsteps and a group carrying a torch—faces daubed with dark paint, no sound except for heavy footprints.
Memorable Quotes:

• "It did not sound like a movie scream... Someone who truly thought they were about to die." (08:04, Sabrina reading)
• "I spotted a faint orange glow... realizing they were carrying a torch. Like, an actual open flame carried by someone." (10:01, Sabrina reading)
• Paranoia escalates as no traces are left: "Not a thing was disturbed. There were no tracks and no signs of anyone passing through.” (11:57, Sabrina reading)

Host Commentary & Insights:

• The hosts debate if this was paranormal (like Hawaii’s night marchers or American Horror Story: Roanoke) or an IRL cult/ritual: “It doesn’t feel paranormal. It feels like these are real human beings doing something who sacrificed someone.” (12:46, Corinne)
• They discuss the chilling lack of closure from law enforcement, Appalachian legends, and the region’s overall “bad vibes.”
• Timestamp for story discussion: 04:12–16:25

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3. Story 2: Brush with the Grim Reaper (18:37–29:04)

Source: Reddit user Murphy Brock, on the 16th anniversary of his father's death
Summary: The narrator, visiting his daughter late at night, sees an 8ft tall robed figure gliding quickly across the dark yard. Days later, after a series of strange auditory events (a trumpet note at dawn, a mysterious doorbell at his father’s house), he learns his father died suddenly.
Memorable Quotes:

• "What I saw, I believe, was...the Grim Reaper." (22:56, Corinne reading)
• "Did [the Reaper] mistake me initially for my dad, then course correct at the last second? Is that how it works?" (25:49, Corinne reading)
• "I wish it hadn’t occurred, but it did." (26:13, Corinne reading)

Host Commentary & Insights:

• Discussion on the Grim Reaper as a possible “usher” rather than a cause of death.
• Sabrina: “I really do believe the Grim Reaper... is there to help you and guide you to the other side and is not responsible for taking lives.” (26:13)
• Host riffs on lore, personal reactions to seeing a tall, gliding figure in darkness.
• Timestamp for story and analysis: 18:37–29:04

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4. Story 3: The Nightmare Art of a Haunted Child (29:07–34:07)

Source: Reddit, u/failing2communicate; Son’s drawing of an entity above his closet
Summary: A father shares his 7-year-old son’s drawing—depicting a gray, eight-eyed, sharp-toothed creature seen nightly on the ceiling. The entity stays for 20 minutes each night before vanishing into the ceiling. Host Commentary & Insights:

• Both hosts react in horror, noting the extra details in the drawing: extra eyes, sharp teeth, a smiling child figure on the entity’s neck ("Is it a tattoo? Is it a child trapped in there?" – 31:08, Corinne).
• The father’s own history of shadowy encounters ties into the terror, reinforcing belief and prompting the family to try spiritual cleansing.
• “Why does it have so many eyes? Is this like a fallen angel? Biblically, angels are horrifying..." (33:32, Corinne)
• The hosts commend the parents for believing and empowering their child.
• Timestamp: 29:07–34:07

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5. Story 4: Surviving Catastrophic Injury and Seeing Beyond (36:43–41:52)

Source: Reddit user ipokesmot420; near-fatal childhood accident
Summary: At age 8, the author is nearly killed in a riding lawnmower accident, experiencing several minutes of clinical death. During these periods, he observes his own resuscitation from above and spends time with his deceased grandmother, before finally recovering, fully healthy. Memorable Quotes:

• "She kept telling me it was okay. They called my time of death 6:06pm...Then all of a sudden, I wake up." (40:04, Corinne reading)
• Sabrina: "That’s a goddamn miracle." (40:53)

Host Commentary & Insights:

• Shock and awe at the gravity of the injuries and survivor’s outcome.
• Reflection on the comfort of being “out of body” for trauma.
• Timestamp for this segment: 36:43–41:52

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6. Story 5: Ouija Board Invite — House Becomes Haunted (42:06–51:46)

Source: Reddit, user Juniorchellist3378; high school home haunting
Summary: After a Ouija board session in a cemetery, the narrator’s basement bedroom erupts in activity: heater moving on its own, metallic pencil sharpener spinning at night, mason jar sliding across the dresser (leaving gouges), scratching, whispers, TV buttons pressing, and feeling unseen “cats” walking on the bed. Both siblings begin having the same nightmares featuring four distinct spirits, and it is revealed one sibling sometimes sees the other whispering in her sleep with the spirits. Memorable Quotes:

• "I started hearing my name being whispered at night from my closet. And this was happening every night." (47:13, Sabrina reading)
• "He tells me he’s seen me sitting straight up in my bed, talking in my sleep to whatever was in my room." (49:15, Corinne reading)
• “But my mom did [believe us], because she told us sometimes she would hear whispers from downstairs and would hear someone yell, 'mom,' from my bedroom when she was home alone.” (49:36, Sabrina reading)

Host Commentary & Insights:

• Deeply disturbed by the escalation and the presence of multiple distinct spirits.
• Discussion of how the haunting ceased when the narrator moved out—suggesting the activity was person-focused.
• Reflection on how this “cautionary tale” is why they avoid Ouija boards.
• Timestamp: 42:06–51:46

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "Reddit is my dark web." (01:45, Corinne)
• "It did not sound like a movie scream... it was raw and real, like someone who truly thought they were about to die." (08:04, Sabrina)
• "I would never be able to sleep again..." (49:19, Corinne, after learning of someone sleep-talking to ghosts)
• “I really do believe the Grim Reaper… is there to help you and guide you to the other side.” (26:13, Sabrina)
• "That's a goddamn miracle." (40:53, Sabrina, reacting to the NDE survivor’s recovery)

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Episode Structure & Flow

1. Setting the Tone: Adobe banter, Reddit as a "black hole," listener expectations set for maximum creep factor.
2. Reddit Story Readings: Each host alternates sharing terrifying tales, followed by a blend of analysis, speculation, and personal anecdotes.
3. Reflection: The ongoing tension between skepticism and belief, and the emotional toll (and curiosity) such stories demand.
4. Community: Reinforced encouragement for listeners to submit their own stories, join Patreon, and continue the dialogue via email.

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Episode Segments & Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamps (MM:SS) | |------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------| | Chat about Reddit/scary content & choosing stories | 01:15–04:12 | | Story 1: Appalachia woods/night hikers/possible ritual | 04:12–16:25 | | Story 2: Grim Reaper/near death, mysterious trumpet, father dies | 18:37–29:04 | | Story 3: Child’s drawing/horrifying nightly entity | 29:07–34:07 | | Story 4: Near-fatal accident/NDE/visitation by grandmother | 36:43–41:52 | | Story 5: Ouija board backlash/escalating home haunting | 42:06–51:46 |

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Style & Tone

• Signature mix of horror and humor: Hosts sprinkle levity into the spookiest content, making for both an entertaining and chilling listen.
• Engaged, community-focused: Frequent encouragement for listener participation, validating both belief and skepticism.
• Analytical yet empathetic: Both hosts delve into plausible explanations and emotional impact, while showing deep empathy for storytellers (and their families).

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Summary Takeaway

This episode delivers the quintessential Two Girls One Ghost experience: true (or allegedly true) horror tales, personal vulnerability, and smart, sensitive analysis laced with self-deprecating humor. Whether it's mysterious footsteps in the Appalachian dark, a brush with death, or a spirit tormenting children, Corinne and Sabrina bring Reddit’s weirdest and scariest to life—all while gently warning: some doors (and Ouija boards) are better left closed.

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Transcript

[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Sabrina]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

Hi everyone.

[Sabrina]

Hello.

[Corinne]

This is two girls, one ghost.

[Sabrina]

Two girls, one ghost. We are your ghostesses. That is Corinne. Hello, I'm Sabrina and I'm being a little ominous and spooky because I'm stoked for today's episode.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

And I know those of you freaks on YouTube go nuts for this Reddit, baby.

[Corinne]

It goes dark, it goes scary, it

[Sabrina]

goes creepy, weird, unusual.

[Corinne]

Reddit is my dark web.

[Sabrina]

No, it feels like it for sure is. I was scared of Reddit for so long because it felt like the dark web.

[Corinne]

Yeah, there's just too much and you

[Sabrina]

just get lost in it. Yeah, like people talk about doom scrolling. We gotta start talking about the black hole that is Reddit that you go

[Corinne]

down if you don't have your like safe graphic thing on. Yeah, I've accidentally seen some things that have almost made me throw up and faint.

[Sabrina]

Like what?

[Corinne]

Gross fights and like.

[Sabrina]

Oh, oh.

[Corinne]

To like real life human beings.

[Sabrina]

I thought you were going to talk about West Wilson's willy.

[Corinne]

Who?

[Sabrina]

The summer house drama.

[Corinne]

Oh, no, I don't know about Bravo, Dick, but I do know about ghost stories. Yeah. And people's creepy ass encounters on Reddit. And that is what we did for today's episode. We were like, okay, let's just go on Reddit and pull some stories from random ass people that we don't know that have no idea that we plucked their stories.

[Sabrina]

Reddit.

[Corinne]

This is not scary stories. Girls one ghost. Reddit. Scary stories.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. One of our favorite topics.

[Corinne]

Do you want to start?

[Sabrina]

Sure. Do you know what I picked first?

[Corinne]

No, you don't.

[Sabrina]

You don't know.

[Corinne]

Is it alien? Is it possession? I didn't look at.

[Sabrina]

It's Appalachia.

[Corinne]

Oh, perfect.

[Sabrina]

Of course. Because Appalachia plus Reddit scary stories, that's so good.

[Corinne]

One of the darkest, spookiest places.

[Sabrina]

And I feel like I really wanted to find camping and hiking things too, because it's getting warmer and I feel like spring into summer, people are being outside a lot more and.

[Corinne]

Oh wait, you're already triggering yesterday. There's no way I'm gonna. It's one of those videos that I probably scrolled and like didn't actually click on anything, so I'm not gonna be able to find it. But there's a woman who posted on TikTok and she was in a single person tent. The tent is like right on her body. And she was like, oh, I didn't sleep at all last night because of this noise. And it was the creepiest noise. And she was like, it might just be the. It was probably just the wind or whatever whipping against her tent, but it was like intermittent, which is kind of wind like too. And it was so loud and it was like right above her head. But then everyone started commenting and she started freaking out because the comments are like, don't you hear the footsteps coming up to your tent? Before one of those moments she was like, well, I didn't in the moment. But now that I look back on the video, you. You literally hear like crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.

[Sabrina]

What a perfect lead up to this story.

[Corinne]

Ooh, okay.

[Sabrina]

Very similar energy. I mean, this is why I, I know that a lot of people are being. Are going outside and stuff, but this might sway you from doing so specifically. Not in Appalachia. Okay. This was posted 10 months ago on Reddit camping and hiking subreddit by a user whose username is now deleted. But it was titled I hid all night in the Appalachians after hearing a scream and footsteps. Very similar. Yeah, this is what they wrote.

[Corinne]

Also them saying that they hid. Immediately my mind goes to Hunger Games Peeta painting himself as a rock, just like.

[Sabrina]

Which we don't talk about how long that must have taken him.

[Corinne]

Right? Like no one else found him when he was painting himself into the side of the creek.

[Sabrina]

He's not like a chameleon. It doesn't happen instantly. Actually, I was on a walk yesterday in nature, but in a city, so it's not scary.

[Corinne]

So the public carts.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, basically. But it was so quiet. It was like early. It was midday, so not lunchtime yet. But not early in the morning where people are commuting. And I felt very alone. I was listening to the birds and I was like, every time I hear birds. I picture myself in the Hunger Games.

[Corinne]

Do you? Well, that's so the opposite of what birds are supposed to make you feel.

[Sabrina]

The Mockingjay in the Hunger Games. I always think of that. Yeah. So anyone else? Okay, they wrote. I have never posted on Reddit before. I literally just made this account and signed up with my phone number. I also posted this story a few minutes ago in the Appalachian Trail subreddit, but it's still waiting for moderators to approve it. So I figured I'd also share it here since this community seems active and experienced with camping. What happened to me a few weeks ago on a solo hiking trip has been stuck in my head ever since. I mentioned it to a couple of people and every single one has brushed it off. Said it was probably nothing. But I know what I heard, I know what I saw and I know it was something because no part of it felt normal. I'm a 28 year old male and I live in North Carolina. I've been hiking and backpacking solo for years. I work a pretty normal 9 to 5 desk job doing graphic design and so I use the weekends to get out into the woods and reset. I have hiked and camped this section of the Appalachian Trail before. It runs through southwest Virginia. It's remote, quiet, barely any foot traffic and I have had never had a reason to feel unsafe out there.

[Corinne]

Okay, so already very familiar with the drainage, which makes you perfectly unsuspecting victim.

[Sabrina]

The hike itself was normal. I started early and did about 12 miles and did not see a single other person the entire time. Around 6pm I found a good spot off trail and set up camp. Nothing fancy, just a hammock, a tarp, bear bag, gear, you know, all that. The weather was perfect and I turned in a little after dark. I woke up around 1:30am needing to pee. So I grabbed my headlamp, slipped on my boots and and walked about 15 or 20ft to behind a tree just slightly away from camp. My phone was in my backpack back at camp. I didn't bother bringing it because I thought I would just be out for a wee and back real quick.

[Corinne]

Oh man, that's like such a tough thing too because like having your phone on you is also a lifeline. If something goes wrong I in the

[Sabrina]

middle of the night if I'm home, take my phone with me to the middle to the bathroom if I wake up in the middle of the night.

[Corinne]

Yeah, like you never know. Like you're back anywhere. Like having your phone is a safety thing. But I also understand if you're familiar and you're, like, just going on a quick. Like, I have definitely left my phone at home. Going on a walk around the neighborhood or whatever, sending my husband into a panic when, like, he's like, where's my wife and toddler? They're missing and no one's picking up.

[Sabrina]

But then also he has a headlamp, because I feel like a lot of people use their phone for flashlight. But he has a light source, so I get it. That is when I heard it. Somewhere deep in the woods, not close, but not far. A scream. A woman's scream. A long, loud, terrified scream that echoed through the trees. It was the scariest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. It did not sound like a movie scream. It sounded raw and real, like someone who truly thought they were about to die. It cracked at the end, like her voice was breaking. And then silence. Complete heavy silence that made me freeze. At first I thought maybe an animal. I don't know. I was trying to rationalize it. But about a minute later, I started hearing footsteps again. Far but close. They were steady, not rushing or running. Just slow, heavy footsteps walking through. Through the forest.

[Corinne]

I haven't seen the movie Apex, but this is what I'm picturing, like, the guy, like, doing his little dance and pump up before going and hunting a woman in the woods.

[Sabrina]

No flashlight, no voice, just walking. And it wasn't coming directly toward me, but it was close enough that I did not feel safe where I was. Like, they might find me. So I dropped low behind the tree. There were some logs and dry leaves at the base, and I laid down 4 flat next to them and did not move. I didn't dare make a sound. I stayed there, terrified, frozen, listening. After a couple of minutes, I saw something in the distance through the trees, maybe 75 to 100 yards out. I spotted a faint orange glow moving slowly through the woods. At first I thought it was someone with a lantern, but it got brighter, and I realized they were carrying a torch. Like an actual open flame carried by someone.

[Corinne]

What the fuck?

[Sabrina]

And they were not alone. There were.

[Corinne]

Oh, okay. Cause at first I was thinking of the one example from Ted Bundy where he was, like, going and trying to visit a body of one of his victims in the woods. And there was that couple that was, like, making out by the tree, not knowing that they were by a body, not knowing that Ted Bundy was, like, walking up and everyone was, like, completely silent. And it's like one of those famous stories from that case.

[Sabrina]

This is A group.

[Corinne]

This is fucking nuts. This is so scary.

[Sabrina]

Yep. There were two or three figures walking behind whoever was carrying the torch. So either like three or four people total. I couldn't make out a ton from the distance I was at. And to be honest, I didn't really want to move to warn them of where I was. But what I did see will stay with me forever. The person holding the torch had something dark smeared all over their face, like face paint or mud. It looked like it covered everything but their eyes. They weren't in any sort of uniform or hunting gear either. Just baggy clothing. Carrying that torch, walking slowly through the woods in the middle of the frickin night. They were just moving. Calm, deliberate. It didn't look like they were looking for anything. They were just moving. Eyes focused forward. I didn't dare move an inch. I was terrified they'd hear my breathing. My phone was still in my bag at camp. No way to call anyone. I had turned my headlamp on. I didn't want to signify where I was. All I could do was lay there and pray that they didn't come closer. They eventually moved out of my eyeline. But I didn't. I stayed there all night. I did not sleep. I did not go back to my hammock. I didn't even stand up until the sun was fully out. When it was bright enough to see clearly, I did then make my way back to camp. I grabbed my gear and hiked straight back to my car. I didn't stop to eat, I didn't stop to drink. I just wanted out as soon as possible. But here's the thing. Before I did leave my camp, I noticed that not a thing was disturbed. There were no tracks and no signs of anyone passing through. But I know what I saw. I did go to the local sheriff's department the next day after I got back to town and I told them everything. I told them where I was camping, what I saw, what I heard. Even marked the general area on a map that I gave them. I gave them my name, my contact info, and they said they'd check it out and follow up if anything came up. It's been a while and I've heard nothing. No one's reached out, nothing. But I really can't stop asking myself, who were they? What did I hear? What the hell were they doing that deep in the woods at 2am with torches and face paint? And what was that scream that I heard? Has anyone else ever seen anything like this while hiking or camping? Because I genuinely do not know how to explain what happened that night.

[Corinne]

Neither do I.

[Sabrina]

Isn't that horrifying?

[Corinne]

I like keep going back and forth. It doesn't feel paranormal. It feels like these are real human

[Sabrina]

beings doing something who sacrificed someone.

[Corinne]

But then it's creepy that there's no evidence of footprints or anything like that.

[Sabrina]

It's terrifying.

[Corinne]

In a way, it reminds me a little bit of Hawaii's night marchers.

[Sabrina]

I was thinking also American Horror Story, Roanoke.

[Corinne]

Oh, yes.

[Sabrina]

Like those people who live across the woods and are lurking in the woods. But then there's also like the paranormal group that walks through the woods with the lantern.

[Corinne]

In my opinion was the scariest season.

[Sabrina]

I started re watching it recently because I really, I loved it.

[Corinne]

Yeah, it's messed up. Kathy Beets was genius in it.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Did you see that? They're re. They're doing Coven. They're bringing back Coven for American Horror.

[Corinne]

I did hear that, but I didn't read anything else about how they're doing it.

[Sabrina]

I don't know.

[Corinne]

A continuation. Another season. Interesting. Well, Coven was a very. We have an episode of American Horror Stories, Hauntings, and a lot of it was from the Coven season.

[Sabrina]

Terrifying.

[Corinne]

Yeah. I'm very curious. I know we're not gonna get an answer, but I'm so curious about the park rangers and police in the area. If they get told stuff like this all the time, right? Where they're. It's either like a cover up or it's like a known paranormal thing where like they're taking everyone's accounts down who are scared shitless, but they know that there's nothing that they can do about it. Like it just gets filed away.

[Sabrina]

I know, but also if they do investigate it, like, what are they gonna find? As far as we know, yes, we heard a scream. But otherwise all this person saw was a group of people weirdly, creepily walking through the appalachias late at night. Which is not a cell phone.

[Corinne]

No, it's not. But like if you ever questioned in that moment if it was actually a woman scream. If you're like, okay, well maybe it's. Maybe it was just a mountain lion. And I haven't heard mountain lion screaming because that was.

[Sabrina]

A lot of people in the comments were like, it's just an animal. But I'm like, well then how do you explain this group of people?

[Corinne]

If you couple it with this group of people? Yeah, like how are the certainty or like the question. The percentage, the chance of it being an animal goes down.

[Sabrina]

Well, significantly, especially the timing.

[Corinne]

So it's not to say that, like, a woman's getting murdered. Like perhaps someone felt.

[Sabrina]

Or they were doing a ritualistic scream. Get rid of all your right anger.

[Corinne]

No one's around. You're right there. Like coven.

[Sabrina]

Like, run around the bonfire, scream to the moon.

[Corinne]

Where was this? Do we know?

[Sabrina]

We don't know specifically, but a trail in North Carolina. I know this was in southwest Virginia of the Appalachian Trail.

[Corinne]

Honestly, the Virginia area. Virginia is the worst part of the Appalachian.

[Sabrina]

It's the creepiest.

[Corinne]

It's the creepiest. Virginia, then the Carolinas are next. But. But really Virginia. Yeah, bits of Georgia occasionally, honestly.

[Sabrina]

But really Virginia, the southern portion of the Appalachian Trail. It's got it going on and does

[Corinne]

not feel like we're part of the Appalachian Trail because I feel like not much happens up here in comparison.

[Sabrina]

No, it doesn't have, as people say, Appalachia.

[Corinne]

But I'm like, is it Appalachia or is it just like, south? Like this area of the South? Is it the mountains?

[Sabrina]

It's Appalachia. And then there's Appalachia.

[Corinne]

That's why people should allow us to pronounce the northern part.

[Sabrina]

Appalachia.

[Corinne]

Appalachia.

[Sabrina]

But you know when you start to say something differently for so long that you start to question how you like, for example, Noemi. Before Noemi, my niece existed, I only knew of Naomi. But now when I try to think of Naomi, I can't say it. Like, it. It takes so much effort to say Naomi, and it feels so wrong because

[Corinne]

your brain's constantly trying to autocorrect to Noemi.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. So now Appalachia feels so wrong.

[Corinne]

I know I have to, like, think about how I had said it for 30 years.

[Sabrina]

Yeah. Anyway, that's story number one.

[Corinne]

Starting off poorly, that was a very strong start. I think I went a little different.

[Sabrina]

Well, this is the benefit of Reddit scary stories is there are so many different types.

[Corinne]

Yeah, I kind of got trapped in the rabbit hole of, like, death, like experiences related to death, near death experiences, grim reaper experiences, like things like that where people almost died or chance encounters with death.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

Such a bird girl.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Corinne]

okay, this was Posted by Murphy Brock 1 year ago they write Today, Wednesday, February 19th, marks 16 years since the death of my dad. I saw the topic question and I was going to skip past with no contribution to the query until I realized what today was and as a result, I feel compelled to share this incident. What I chronicle in the following is true. It happened 16 years ago in February of 2009 in the northeastern US. That's where we are. Appalachia in Apple, Apple. Appalachian. Appalachian what?

[Sabrina]

You're short circuiting.

[Corinne]

I am? Okay, here we go. I went to visit my daughter and her family one evening. They live in a rural area that is quite dark at night due to the lack of ambient lighting. I exited my car and I began the walk across the yard toward the house.

[Sabrina]

Can I just say a weird thought that I thought of recently?

[Corinne]

Yeah?

[Sabrina]

Is that even when we're seeing moonlight, it's technically sunlight that we're seeing because the moon is reflecting, it's lit by the sun, so we're technically still under the sunlight. Isn't that crazy?

[Corinne]

What are the UVs?

[Sabrina]

I mean nothing, because it's a reflection it's like bouncing.

[Corinne]

Is there something like it's not zero.

[Sabrina]

It's probably such a fraction that it's close to closer to zero than it is one Interesting tanning under the moonlight.

[Corinne]

Like if every structure was white, every man made structure was white, would we be able to always see at night because there would be such a reflection? Oh, interesting that it would. The world would be lit up more.

[Sabrina]

If the moon is full, maybe. But if the moon is. If there's no moon, then no.

[Corinne]

Or if everything was painted black, would we be able to even see anything even on a full moon? Because black absorbs it. I've got questions about color theory and how light interacts in space.

[Sabrina]

Okay.

[Corinne]

I exited my car. I began the walk across the yard to their house. The darkness was such that I couldn't see anything before me. However, I was familiar with the property. As I was walking, I came to an abrupt stop, raising my arms in front of me. Not by conscious choice, but my body suddenly sensed something before me. Oh, it was instinct, thinking maybe there was a yard toy in front of me. I kicked outward, but nothing was there. I immediately heard a light rustling, distant, but approaching my position. And rapidly the initial sensing of my path being blocked grew stronger. I then saw from across the opposite end of the darkened yard, a figure moving swiftly towards me. The figure was moving so rapidly that it appeared as a blur, approaching and darting. It was only when it passed me and was for a split second aligned with me on my left that I got a closer glimpse. And for a nanosecond, it was headed straight at me and only veered to my left in the last possible moment. And I would describe it as 8ft in height.

[Sabrina]

Great start.

[Corinne]

And this is based on comparing my height. I'm 6 foot 3. However, the figure glided and was leaning forward. It was almost like at a 45 degree angle. It did not contact the ground. It wore a classic monk type robe, brown and black smudges.

[Sabrina]

Grim gr. Is that you?

[Corinne]

I think it might be Grim Reaper. The material was worn. It was tattered. It had a hood drastically draped down over the facial area, obscuring any facial features. In passing. It. It never looked at me. Its body posture and head remained straight ahead, but again in a leaning forward slanted position. Its movement in passing me created an audible swishing. I stepped forward while looking in the direction of the house. The one step triggered their motion lights, which snapped their floodlights on. But I kept my eyes on what had just passed me until it disappeared into the darkness. The total time after passing me and then losing sight of it maybe three to four seconds. When I entered the house, I attempted to tell my daughter what had just happened and she held her finger up to her lips and in a low voice said, don't say anything around Steve. He's already nervous about us living so close to the old barn note. Steve, who lived with them, grew up believing that the barn was haunted. Still trying to get a grip, I said, okay. I gave her what I came out here to take. After a little time I said I had to scoot. I had to go run a few more errands. We hugged. I walked this time across a well lit yard to my car.

[Sabrina]

Don't blame you.

[Corinne]

I got in and instead of going in the direction of what passed me, I decided to go the opposite way. After a few minutes I saw the lights of a sheets store. I whipped in, I found a parking spot and I started off thinking about what I just experienced. This I knew what happened, really happened. What I saw, I believe, was what we've seen in all of the pictures and literature throughout my life that depicts the Grim Reaper. Grim how am I still alive? Why did it turn at the very last second after getting to me? That was Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, I woke up at exactly 5:30am which was unusual for me. Also unusual that I awoke fully. No momentary grogginess, just bright eyed fully awake. I moved to the edge of my bed and I watched the early sun streaming in through the half closed slats. The room was silent. Before I could stand, a long single musical note from a trumpet came directly from the right corner of my room.

[Sabrina]

Oh.

[Corinne]

I did not have to look outside to determine the source. The trumpet sound was generated within my room. The acoustics, the sound it made, it was unmistakable. But no one and nothing was there to visibly generate it. I went through Sunday encountering several people who I almost told about the trumpet note and even the sighting of the entity. But I thought better of that. At 6pm Sunday, I watched the movie the Untouchables. Oh my God. A cry fest. Halfway through, I called my dad who lived in the family home 45 minutes away. I knew he liked the movie and so I checked in. After talking for a while, I said, hey, I want to tell you about something that happened to me early this morning. You're the first person I've told and you're going to think I'm nuts. Surprisingly, instead of laughing, there was a short pause from his end. Okay, he said, you tell me what happened to you. And then I'll tell you what happened to me this morning. He told me around 3am he was awoken by the doorbell. But it had an unusual sound to it, like it was only partly pressed and then released. It was followed seconds later by the identical sound. I said, well, who was it? He said, he didn't go and see. He stayed where he was.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, don't answer your door at 3am

[Corinne]

yeah, he said it was damn odd. I wasn't gonna move from my bed. Okay, well, very unusual for dad. He's a very unparanormal guy. Five days later, I received a call from my stepsister telling me that dad had just died. No, he had not been ill. He had not been diagnosed with any conditions.

[Sabrina]

Oh, that's so Sad.

[Corinne]

He was 79 and he had a heart attack. So now I'm left with questions. My dad and I were the same size. We very closely resembled each other. We also shared the same first, last, and middle name. Did this entity resembling the Reaper mistake me initially for my dad, then course correct at the last second? Is that how it works?

[Sabrina]

Oh, it was like, wrong one.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Ooh, I have chills. Was the doorbell ringing at his house, the Reaper entity waiting for dad to answer the door, at which point dad would have died? Then was the trumpet I heard in my bedroom an announcement of dad's impending death 16 years later. And the answers, I surmise, only caused confusion and discomfort. I wish it hadn't occurred, but it did.

[Sabrina]

That's so sad. But I really do believe, and we've talked about this before, we did a whole episode on the Grim Reaper, like an Encounters episode. I really do believe the Grim Reaper, despite its appearance being really terrifying, is there to help you and guide you to the other side and is not responsible for taking lives. It's more of, like, in some way in the universe. They are informed that someone is going to die soon. And in preparation, they show up to be there. Oh, my. That scared me so much because the cord moved the curtain.

[Corinne]

Oh, the curtain.

[Sabrina]

And it literally looked okay. Corinne has a. A charger. Charger plugged in, but it's plugged in behind the curtain to Corinne's left. And all of a sudden the curtain just moved as if something was behind it.

[Corinne]

It does look like someone's kicking out by pulling it. Sorry, Grim. He's coming for him.

[Sabrina]

I want a black cat and name it Grim. Like a grayish black cat and name it Grim. How cute would that be?

[Corinne]

Oh, very.

[Sabrina]

I just want a ton of cats, like lots of them. But all to say, I Don't think that the Grim Reaper is the reason that this user's dad died. I think the Grimm was there to help Usher. But yeah, probably did get confused at first.

[Corinne]

Right? And it's also like, well, how does Grimm not have all the information getting confused, showing up to the dad's door like five days before he actually is going to pass, trying to be let in.

[Sabrina]

But I do think we, in the Encounters episode that we read, like, there was like one story about someone in an assisted living home. So, like, older, who for days was complaining about this grim, like, entity.

[Corinne]

That's true.

[Sabrina]

Like that they show up days before to not be as terrifying. Or maybe they're trying to do their own due diligence and, like, understand what their life is like.

[Corinne]

Or like usher in other people who've already passed for like a life review or just, I don't know. They're the event planner.

[Sabrina]

They're the event planner. Yeah. It's got to. It takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. They need at least five days in advance.

[Corinne]

Right. They need to coordinate a lot of moving parts, a lot of different entities and spirits and people coming through either way.

[Sabrina]

That's very sad.

[Corinne]

It's also very scary to be rushed in the dark by five foot tall, hooded, hooded figure. Figure that's gliding in a tattered robe

[Sabrina]

that you became aware of their presence before you ever saw them. Like, right.

[Corinne]

Like, kicking out and like being like, what is in front of me.

[Sabrina]

So scary. That part's really scary.

[Corinne]

Which maybe. Okay, here's a little twist. Maybe there was whoever is actually responsible for death on the other side or maybe has some part of it that he couldn't see was right in front of him about to take his life. And Grim was like, at the last second. No. And that's why I, like, rushed and pushed him. Wrong one. Because that's why he ran right at him.

[Sabrina]

Maybe. We don't know. We have no answers.

[Corinne]

We don't.

[Sabrina]

But one day I will be on the board of Grimming and Reaping and I will usher you to the other side. Okay. I have. And I. I went down this rabbit hole because I had researched Harold the Doll, like, just prior to researching this episode and was obsessed with how in part two, there was that kid Vincent who was drawing and getting all of these, like, premonitions and stuff. So I wanted to find creepy kid with drawings.

[Corinne]

Oh, okay.

[Sabrina]

And Reddit delivered.

[Corinne]

Oh, which just immediately reminds me of when we were at the conjuring house too.

[Sabrina]

This will give you that energy. Okay. So this was posted on the paranormal subreddit two years ago. By failing number two, communicate, he posted a very unsettling photo and wrote, My 7 year old son says he sees this on the ceiling outside of his closet at night. When he first handed it to me, I said, nice Venom, buddy. Which I had to look it up. I guess that's a character from Spider Man. And the kid said, that's not Venom. So the user asked, well, what is it? And his son responded, I don't know, but it's what I see in my room. Here's the photo.

[Corinne]

Are you effing kidding me?

[Sabrina]

There's a lot to unpack here.

[Corinne]

Okay, first of all, if you've ever seen like a lamp ray, that is kind of what the mouth is giving. It's like jagged teeth all the way around.

[Sabrina]

Horrifying. Okay, so yeah, for people who aren't watching on video, I'll do my best to describe it. It is a human sized face shape looking thing.

[Corinne]

Yeah, it's a portrait of a head, of a face.

[Sabrina]

But on the top of the head there's this like shape with tons of eyes. I would say, okay, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 eyes. And then it does have like where an eyeball of a human would be. And that one looks like it has a spider inside of it. Then there's the mouth, which are the teeth that you were just describing. It's super jagged and sharp and like almost open. Then below it in the neck is a little person.

[Corinne]

Oh, I didn't notice that before.

[Sabrina]

Who is smiling?

[Corinne]

Is it a tattoo? Is it a child trapped in there?

[Sabrina]

And then the nose is very voldemort. Like it's like two little slits. Yeah, so that's the description of the photo. But so the user failing to communicate asked his son a lot more questions because he was very curious. Like if his child is saying that there is this entity that he sees at night outside of his closet, you ask questions of your child. So the child said that this is on their ceiling at night. It was gray with sharp teeth and lots of eyes. And the area where the eyes are, are flesh colored, but everything else is gray. His son.

[Corinne]

That's creepy.

[Sabrina]

Said it pops down and stares at him for like 20 minutes every night before then disappearing back into the ceiling.

[Corinne]

Excuse me. It pops down every night?

[Sabrina]

Yep, for 20 minutes and just stares.

[Corinne]

What is the kid doing? Just paralyzed with fear in the spine for sure.

[Sabrina]

Failing to communicate. Wanted to think it was just his kid's imagination. But prior to meeting his wife and Having their kid. He too had seen something. Growing up, it didn't look like this, but it was like a shadow figure that would lurk in his bedroom. So it made him want to believe his kid even more.

[Corinne]

So also he saw it as Shadow Farm. It could be the exact same thing, but his kid is actually seeing the full, full figure exposed.

[Sabrina]

Right. So he wrote, over a decade ago, I was laying in bed and woke up to my dog growling. I looked where my dog was looking and I could see this shadow figure standing in the hallway at my bedroom door. It looked to be wearing a long coat, but I couldn't see the head. I out loud asked, what do you want? Then this entity's head ducked under the top of the door frame, stuck it into my room. This thing was so tall it had to duck and to peek its head inside. Once it did that, I was so terrified and I yelled, get out. Leave me alone. And it faded away. All to say that when his seven year old son came up to him with this, he believed him. So in response, they nailed a blanket up to the ceiling where the entity was lurking. The next morning, his son said to him that he could still see the spirit, but just one eye, like it was peeking through the curtain.

[Corinne]

Oh my.

[Sabrina]

They eventually saged and salted the house and taught their son to if they ever saw it again, tell it to go away and set boundaries. And it seems to have subsided.

[Corinne]

It's just creepy. Like what's it doing?

[Sabrina]

I don't.

[Corinne]

Just for 20 minutes coming down and staring.

[Sabrina]

And why does it have so many eyes?

[Corinne]

The eye part reminds me a little bit of like the. Is this like a fallen angel? Cause you know, like angels biblically are kind of like horrifying. A ton of eyes and a bunch of like looping rings.

[Sabrina]

Or are these eyes? Like every time it collects a soul, it adds another eye to the flesh.

[Corinne]

There is a little person stuck in the throat somehow.

[Sabrina]

It's like a deformed collection. It's like deepest creepers.

[Corinne]

Fuck.

[Sabrina]

Terrifying. But as far as we know, that was two years ago and there's been no update. So hopefully it did subside.

[Corinne]

Oh my gosh, this poor child. Yeah, that's really terrifying.

[Sabrina]

I am glad that kids are creepy. The kids are so creepy. But I'm so glad that both parents took it seriously.

[Corinne]

Yeah, that's true.

[Sabrina]

And helped the child like set boundaries and get rid of it.

[Corinne]

And actually get rid of it. Yeah, there's like, well, we're different. We're different as parents because we come in immediately believing the paranormal for sure. I feel like the second anything is said, I'm like, let me go get my arsenal of spiritual weapons to combat this.

[Sabrina]

Oh man, do you have another death one? I do and then I'm gonna end on a Ouija board one.

[Corinne]

Oh hell yeah.

[Sabrina]

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[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

So what do you do?

[Corinne]

Well, you should order Little Spoon.

[Sabrina]

I have actually introduced my sister to Little Spoon as well because they have multiple stages so it grows with your child. So they have the baby stage which supports babies from the very first feed. They have the toddler stage. They have biteables that are cut to size, pinchable meals that make that transition to table food much easier. And then they have the Big Kids stage which they have plates that have hidden veggies and kids, even picky eaters,

[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

lot of times they're automated like auto generated so people don't even pick them.

[Corinne]

Oh yeah, I have no Idea what mine is. I don't even know if I have an official account or have. I just am some anonymous user.

[Sabrina]

If you might be logged into the. It's Sven the ghost. Sorry, two girls. My ghost. Oh, the two girls.

[Corinne]

Oh, maybe I am.

[Sabrina]

Sven the ghost is looking at gardening.

[Corinne]

Why is my child doing this? And then gardening advice.

[Sabrina]

Yeah, okay.

[Corinne]

When I was 8, I learned how to fix small engines. That being said, my dad had an old Flathead Briggs and Stratton 5.5hp engine that. What is nonsense.

[Sabrina]

Is that a motorcycle?

[Corinne]

Yeah, I guess.

[Sabrina]

What's it called? It's a spring and Stratton.

[Corinne]

Flathead, Briggs and Stratton 5.5 horsepower engine.

[Sabrina]

Classic engine. Oh, it's a lawnmower. Or go kart.

[Corinne]

Oh, it's 5.5 gross torque. I don't know anything about motors.

[Sabrina]

I don't know. But now I'm going to Bob's. Bob is the oil guy. The Internet's number one Reddit does it

[Corinne]

just sends you on a wild goose chase.

[Sabrina]

All right, we still unclear. It's an engine.

[Corinne]

It's about to be extremely clear because the next sentence says he also had a riding lawnmower that had no engine nor blades. So I think it was one belonging to a lawnmower.

[Sabrina]

Gotcha.

[Corinne]

He gave me the task of getting the engine running again so I could put it into the riding lawnmower and have fun wherever. Which is so funny. It just like immediately brings me back to when I would pick up my brother from, like, a playdate or whatever in our neighborhood. But I wasn't old enough to drive, so I would drive the lawnmower and he'd hop on the lawnmower and we'd drive on.

[Sabrina]

So. That's so cute.

[Corinne]

Oh, man.

[Sabrina]

It's like a tractor.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Basically, he gave me the task of getting the engine running so I could put it in the riding lawnmower and have fun wherever. And I was so anxious at school the next day. Well, that day I tore apart the motor and I had it running by bedtime. The next day, we had this thing mounted and riding around and flash forward a few weeks, me and my older sister were out riding when my shoelace got caught on the back spindle. It pulled me off and it was dragging me, mind you, only going as fast as it could go. My sister stopped and went in reverse, which caused her to go right on top of me, the chain. And the chain wheel caught my lower back, ripping my skin open, pulling my large and small intestine out. What severing my right lung, breaking my spine in two places, shredding my right kidney. I felt the thing roll onto me. And then everything went black. After that, I couldn't see, move, speak, or anything. No pain as well. All I remember was blackness. After my father got my heart beating again. I remember laying there in so much pain. Also, I remember feeling my back and the shortness of breath. I felt what I still believe was my stomach in my hand while I was feeling my back.

[Sabrina]

How do you survive this?

[Corinne]

I don't know. Once I was in the ambulance, everything went blank. Except this time, I saw myself laying there and the medics were shocking me. I felt a hard pull and I was back into myself. A few minutes later, I'm on a table with strangers in white all around me. And I remember them in a panic and then standing next to my grandmother. My grandmother who'd passed when I was 3.

[Sabrina]

Oh, my gosh.

[Corinne]

She told me that she was my Nana. And we were there together, watching them jolt my heart with tiny round paddles. She kept telling me it was okay. They called my time of death 6:06pm I'm chills. Then all of a sudden I wake up. I'm all fixed, I'm stapled up. My parents told me I died three times. The first time for five minutes. The second time, 12 minutes. But the last time was astonishing to the doctors. My heart stopped beating for 20 minutes, but my parents made them continue jolting my heart. They told me the doctor kept telling them that I would have a 98% chance of being brain dead. I'm now 25 years old, healthy as ever, fully capable of walking as well.

[Sabrina]

I mean, that's a goddamn miracle.

[Corinne]

Isn't that crazy? It's like the whiplash of, like, being in and out of your body and then your Nana coming.

[Sabrina]

Also the terror that your parents must be feeling.

[Corinne]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Oh, honestly, like, for this person personally, best case scenario, to be just kind of unaware.

[Sabrina]

Right?

[Corinne]

Or like, out of body for this experience with Grandma.

[Sabrina]

Just hang out with Grandma.

[Corinne]

Yeah. Okay.

[Sabrina]

Oh my God.

[Corinne]

Isn't that crazy? Very, very.

[Sabrina]

What Reddit thread was this on? Were you on, like, near death experiences or paranormal?

[Corinne]

I think they were on different threads, but I was searching, like, brushes with death, like paranormal accounts of, like, crossing over.

[Sabrina]

That is so, I mean, amazing, but also horrifying. Yeah, Small intestine and large intestine ripped

[Corinne]

out, like kidney shredded. Just. It was like their torso was just like, chopped up, basically. It's crazy that they're alive.

[Sabrina]

I can't even believe that. Wow.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

Okay, well, this.

[Corinne]

Which is why they poke smart.

[Sabrina]

Now this is. Well, this next story is just going to go back to scary. So there's not much reprieve here. We're going back to creepy. But hey, that's what people want with scary Reddit stories. This was posted.

[Corinne]

You don't want to survive a survival story.

[Sabrina]

I mean, it's still haunting.

[Corinne]

Yeah, it is.

[Sabrina]

It's terrifying in a different way. Okay. This was posted on Reddit paranormal one year ago by Juniorchellist3378. They wrote, I just found this group and I have to talk about the scariest things that have ever happened to me. This all happened when I was in high school in my parents house. And I feel like I've always been sensitive to the paranormal, but this house took it to an entirely new level. I've always believed in ghosts. I've always been obsessed with ghost shows like Ghost Hunters and A Haunting. I've always loved scary movies and I've always said Halloween is my favorite holiday. So when two of my best friends asked if I wanted to play a Ouija board, of course I said yes. Now, in hindsight, this is definitely not one of the best decisions I've ever made.

[Corinne]

Usually that's how, especially in high school,

[Sabrina]

these stories go when you don't know how to set intentions right.

[Corinne]

So if you don't have a healthy respect and fear, then you shouldn't play because probably something is gonna.

[Sabrina]

Here's a story that will prove that to you. We went out late at night and the small town we lived in had a cemetery right in the middle of town. So obviously that's where we went, which I feel like was definitely just stacking the odds against us. But like, hey, we're in high school, whatever. I'm not gonna go into too much detail about the experience because it's more about what happened afterwards. That is spooky. But just know while we were playing the Ouija board, we heard creepy children laughing and spoke to the known Ouija board demon.

[Corinne]

Oh, okay, Zozo.

[Sabrina]

It was enough to make me never want to touch a Ouija board again. But like I said, it's what happened after that really terrified me. Almost immediately, activity started in my house, like truly that night as soon as I got home. So I have to believe that these two things were connected. In my parents house, my brother and I both stayed in the basement and our rooms shared a wall. This is a small town in Nebraska. It was dead of winter, super cold, and Our basement had one of those infrared heaters that went on wheels. That night, I heard the heater rolling around on the linoleum floor. Having seen enough scary movies, I knew that the last thing you should do is get up and check out the spooky noises or even acknowledge them. So I stayed in my room, super freaked out, and hid under my blankets. That was the first night. But as time continued, things got progressively worse. Do you guys remember the old metal pencil sharpeners that you had to spin the little handle?

[Corinne]

Oh, yes.

[Sabrina]

Which also my mom.

[Corinne]

God, I want one now.

[Sabrina]

My mom has one in the basement. You go down the stairs, and then on the left is a storage room on the wall. That's how often people needed to use them.

[Corinne]

Oh, my God. Actually, you know what? I think my parents had one in our old house.

[Sabrina]

Right? It's just like in the storage area.

[Corinne]

So much better than the little plastic ones that you'd put in your.

[Sabrina]

I know. Little, because they always break.

[Corinne]

Do people still have pencil cases? Is that a thing?

[Sabrina]

Good question. God. Getting pencil case. Do people even do handwriting in school anymore? Are they all on computers?

[Corinne]

How do you pass notes to your best friends?

[Sabrina]

Good question. Gel pens. Bring those back. Okay.

[Corinne]

I have some.

[Sabrina]

Do you?

[Corinne]

I think so, yeah. Wow.

[Sabrina]

Love that. For you. Okay, so they write. Do you guys remember the old metal pencil sharpeners? For whatever reason?

[Corinne]

Yes, we do.

[Sabrina]

We had one of those mounted on the pillar outside of my room. Every night, in addition to the heater being rolled on linoleum floor, I would hear this pencil sharpener being rotated. And that's like a noisy, thick sound. It's metal.

[Corinne]

It's, like, creaky. All of everything moving inside of it. And then the handle was always loose, so it would wiggle and shake the whole thing. Yes, it's a very noisy contraption.

[Sabrina]

Then inside my room, I had a Mason jar that sat on top of my dresser in my closet. This also started moving around at night, like, back and forth again on top of a wooden dresser so I could hear it. Like I said, I had already decided I was never going to acknowledge the spooky ghost, so I wouldn't even look in the direction of the sounds. But this would go on for what felt like hours at a time. And the longer I ignored it, the more aggressive it got. I never looked at it, not until morning. And then after one particularly rough night, when I looked at my dresser in the morning, there were literal scrapes on the top of the dresser from the Mason jar being moved back and forth. So this had Me totally fucked up. But I still at this point had not said anything to my family about it because they do believe in the paranormal, but had already told me the house was fine. So I didn't want to bring it up. But then began the tapping on my walls at night. My bedroom has wooden paneling and I would hear these taps next to my head. Now also, you know how it feels when your cat jumps on your bed and starts walking around trying to find a spot to lay down. Well, I would feel that at night too, but there would be no cat, which was sufficiently creepy. To make matters worse, I started hearing my name being whispered at night from my closet. And this was happening every night. And even though I was not acknowledging it, it was getting worse. Then on the left side of my bed I had a huge wooden bookcase that my grandparents had made for me because I love reading. And on top of that bookcase was an old flat screen TV with buttons on the back of it that were super loud when you pressed them. These buttons started being pressed at night too.

[Corinne]

Hell no.

[Sabrina]

So at this point I'm hearing the heater, the pencil sharpener, taps on my walls, whispering in my closet, TV buttons being pressed, something crawling onto my bed, and naturally I was a frickin mess. My breaking point was one specific night when I had a super vivid nightmare. In the nightmare I was in my room. I'm looking around and as I look around I see a little girl huddled in the corner of my closet and a little boy standing by my bed, pressing on my bed. Then I also see a third spirit, a shadow man behind my bookcase, right next to the tv and another spirit. So four spirits.

[Corinne]

What in the haunting?

[Sabrina]

A hill house in the corner, tapping on the wall. So it's like each, there's four spirits and they each have like a haunting house.

[Corinne]

They have their own thing.

[Sabrina]

It's not one entity.

[Corinne]

Oh my God.

[Sabrina]

It was absolutely freaking terrifying. The next morning when I woke up, I was like, I have to talk to someone about it. And I started a conversation with my brother about the nightmare I had. But this is where shit gets extra creepy. As if it wasn't already bad enough. As I'm telling him about this nightmare, his eyes go super wide. He interrupts me and describes exactly what the little boy who had been pressing on my bed looked like. Because my brother had had the exact same nightmare about the exact same four

[Corinne]

spirits, they're showing themselves at least now you know, creepy that there's confirmation it's not just like a nightmare built from the noises that you're hearing around the house?

[Sabrina]

No, it does feel good to have someone else experiencing it, but. So then I start telling him everything that's been happening to me. And he's nodding along, telling me that, yeah, he hears the heater, he hears the pencil sharpener, he hears the whispers. But to make matters worse, he tells me that he has been hearing me whispering along with the ghosts.

[Corinne]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Sabrina]

I'm completely dumbfounded. And I ask him what he means, and he tells me that he's seen me sitting straight up in my bed, talking in my sleep to whatever was in my room.

[Corinne]

Oh, no.

[Sabrina]

I personally have no memory of that.

[Corinne]

I would never be able to sleep again.

[Sabrina]

They write, it gets worse. Right across from my brother's room, across the basement was a storage room that didn't have a door. And this room has always given me this, like, yucky, creepy feeling. Like, the kind of feeling where I never want to be near it or even look into it in the dark. But I never knew why my brother's room faced this storage room. He told me that he would wake up at night and see a dark shadow that looked like a man standing in the doorway of that room. Some nights he'd be in the doorway, but other nights, he'd be closer to his room, halfway between the storage room and his room. Other times, he said that he would see this entity standing in the doorway of my bedroom, watching me.

[Corinne]

Hell, no.

[Sabrina]

He said that the man never stepped into either of our rooms, but I had never seen him. I was terrified, but if you can believe it, I felt a little bit better knowing that I wasn't alone and experiencing it. We told our parents, but my dad didn't believe us. My mom did, though, because she told us sometimes she would hear whispers from downstairs and would hear someone yell, mom. From my bedroom when she was home alone. As I started telling people things, I. It started happening less and less frequently, which is so weird, because most of

[Corinne]

the times when you talk about something, it, like, gives it power. And then more paranormal activity happens, right?

[Sabrina]

Which I almost wonder if these are not evil spirits, but they just wanted to be acknowledged. And then when they were starting, like, an acapella group with, you know, natural noises.

[Corinne]

One thing I know for certain, this person should never download unless they want to be absolutely terrified. Like, download one of those apps that records you sleeping.

[Sabrina]

Oh, but I kind of wish that they did.

[Corinne]

Like, what would it catch?

[Sabrina]

I know. So I don't necessarily know how everything stopped, but I ended up moving out into an apartment building and experienced a couple of things. Like all three of my clocks that were in different rooms fell off the walls and shattered at the same time. But I have not experienced anything of that magnitude or the magnitude of what I experienced in my house ever since my mom and brother told me that the second I moved out of the house, all activity stopped. Like the first night I was no longer living there. They have not experienced anything since, which

[Corinne]

is so interesting because the brother also had the dream. So I was just thinking it was a haunting of children, but really it was a haunting of this particular person.

[Sabrina]

Because of the Ouija board.

[Corinne]

Well, I forgot it started with the Ouija board.

[Sabrina]

They brought spirits home. So if you made it this far, I'm so thankful that you took the time to read it. I hope it gave you a little spook the way it did when I was experiencing it. It was terrifying.

[Corinne]

I'm so curious. All the comments underneath that Reddit post, I can't remember.

[Sabrina]

I think it was a lot of like, this is why I never use a Ouija board, or people being like, oh, I had a similar experience. We love Reddit scary stories.

[Corinne]

Yeah, Love and hate.

[Sabrina]

I am going to do for our next bonus episode in July, I'm going to do Reddit scary stories again.

[Corinne]

Oh, fuck. Yes.

[Sabrina]

So if you want another one like this, join us on Patreon. That comes out July 14th. You'll be on maternity leave.

[Corinne]

Yeah.

[Sabrina]

But you'll be here for the recording of the episode.

[Corinne]

I still have to be here for the recording, so I'll still be spooked in spirit just a month or two ahead. Damn. All right, well, some people take to Reddit with their scary stories and some people email two girls, one ghost podcastmail.com email us. Please email us your goodies or do

[Sabrina]

both go to Reddit and email us. Yeah, 2girlsmyghostpodcastmail.com if you're like, what's the email? And you didn't hear us just say it. It's in the show notes or it's on the video on YouTube if you're watching.

[Corinne]

Yep.

[Sabrina]

Yeah.

[Corinne]

You can also join us over on Patreon if you want. Episodes ad free one week early. We have a bunch of other stuff like weekly campfire stories where we tell each other.

[Sabrina]

Well, you tell us.

[Corinne]

You tell us. Not us telling each other ghost stories, but other people come on and share their stories live with us. We book club, witchclass. So many different things over there.

[Sabrina]

Very fun and thank you. We're switching right now, but it feels weird, but I'm going to do it. And thank you so much to our editor and producer, Jamie Ryan, who makes this enjoyable and listenable and watchable for all of you. So thank you and thank you to all of you.

[Corinne]

We love you and we will see you on the other side.

[Sabrina]

Very spooky.

[Corinne]

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[Sabrina]

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