Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a dream that matched a historic inn's most famous tragedy detail for detail, a preacher who saw a shadow in a room with no light source and has never gone back, a childhood friend in red whose footprints stopped mid-step in the snow, and mysterious sage candles that appeared the moment someone finally admitted their home felt haunted.

An anonymous caller shares a dream from a weekend trip to the Bush House Inn in Index, Washington, in which her husband died and she chose to take her own life rather than live without him. The next morning, lobby literature revealed the inn's most famous ghost story: a woman who once believed her husband died in a mining accident, took her own life before learning it wasn't true, and has haunted the building ever since.

Emily from Chicago calls in about repeated tapping on her foot one night, initially dismissed as her cat, only to find the cat sound asleep downstairs and the front door standing wide open.

Sabrina Wu, calling in again from Los Angeles, revisits a childhood spent dreading specific corners of her Michigan home, a feeling she now suspects may have been validated when her mother mysteriously filled the house with sage-scented candles the moment Sabrina finally admitted, as an adult, that she'd always believed the home was haunted.

Elijah, a preacher of over 20 years from Tennessee, calls in about a house near the railroad tracks locals call cursed, where he was asked to pray after a young couple reported heavy nightly footsteps stopping outside their bedroom door. Walking room to room reading Psalms, he encountered a man-sized shadow moving across a wall with no light source anywhere nearby, and hasn't returned to that stretch of road since.

And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana closes the episode with a fifth-grade memory of a friend named Sarah, always dressed head to toe in red, who followed her home from school daily until one winter afternoon her footprints stopped abruptly in the middle of the schoolyard, disappearing entirely. Cindy later learned Sarah had died in a car accident near the school, despite never having attended it.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a man whose soul left his body nightly for months, footsteps and children crying from an empty ceiling, a bright, unexplained light that raced toward a building and vanished, decades of restaurant hauntings from a longtime worker, and children's laughter echoing across a locked, empty playground at midnight.

Comedian Sabrina Wu calls in again from New York, sharing experiences from her ex's apartment, constant footsteps overhead despite being on the top floor, unexplained baby crying from the ceiling, and a bathroom light that flared unnaturally bright the moment she walked past it during a night already spent deep in ghost story research.

Brett calls in about living beside a school playground, where the familiar daytime sounds of children playing continue to echo across the field at 11 pm and midnight, long after the lights go dark and only teenagers occasionally pass through, a detail his dog reacts to as well.

Jessa, a medical courier in Pennsylvania, calls in about a delivery to a nursing home built on the site of a former school, where a glass door slammed shut on its own and a bright white light sped toward the entrance exactly like headlights, only facing the wrong direction to belong to any real vehicle, before vanishing entirely in seconds.

Linda, a 73-year-old lifelong restaurant worker, shares three separate encounters from her decades in the industry: a smiling man visible only in a bar mirror, a chair that shot across an empty floor with an audible scrape and no one nearby, and a woman in a red dress who faded from a corner booth as Linda approached to tell her they were closing.

And Khyelle from Los Angeles closes the episode with a lengthy account of what he later identified as recurring astral projection, beginning with his eyes and mouth forced into position, full body paralysis, and his consciousness leaving his body accompanied by a loud buzzing sound. Over several months, Khyelle experienced nightly out-of-body travel across the globe and into space, culminating in one deeply unsettling episode where he was forcibly pulled back into his body the instant he attempted to step onto the dark side of the moon, accompanied by an overwhelming sense that he was not meant to see whatever was there.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a pale floating face pressed against a window and witnessed by two skeptics at once, a recurring precognitive dread that came true twice, blurry human shapes appearing in photos inside a haunted Irish church, an imaginary childhood friend who sounds like anything but imaginary, and unexplained crying circling an empty lake in Seattle.

Mark from outside Des Moines, Iowa calls in about a night at his friend Dan's house, where both men simultaneously saw a pale gray face pressed directly against the window glass, shoulders too high and head seemingly floating, eyes unnaturally dark. It vanished without a sound in seconds, and when they ran outside, the wet grass held no footprints anywhere, despite the only approach being a gravel driveway that would have made noise.

An anonymous caller shares two separate experiences of overwhelming, intrusive dread focused on specific people days before their deaths, first as a child fixated on a classmate named Molly who died in a car accident, and again years later, unable to recall the name of a well-liked schoolmate the exact day he was fatally struck by a car in New York.

Harriet, calling from London about a trip to a church outside Galway, Ireland, shares the local legend of a preacher who reportedly dropped dead mid-sermon in the 1800s just before revealing a secret to his congregation. While photographing the church, she captured a run of images with an unexplained blurry human-shaped light in the center, despite no bright light source present.

Rebecca calls in after reconnecting with her sister about a childhood imaginary friend named Dodd, only for her sister's unprompted description (splotchy, patchy hair, sickly pale skin, dark black eyes, and a perpetually wet appearance) to leave them both realizing Dodd may not have been imaginary at all.

And Dan from Seattle closes the episode with an unsettling walk around Green Lake, where he heard crying seemingly surrounding him from every direction with no one visible anywhere nearby. Later research led him to the 1926 case of Sylvia Gaines, a young woman murdered and thrown into the lake by her father, whose translucent, weeping figure has reportedly been seen wandering the area ever since.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a doppelganger that impersonated a caller's own mother, a five-year recurring cryptid encounter finally caught on camera, a dead grandmother who waved hello from across a bedroom, a spirit that arrived the same moment a medical examiner van pulled into the alley, and a bleeding phantom driver who chased a car down a rural road.

James from Wytheville, Virginia calls in about a spirit throughout his childhood home that impersonated his mother so convincingly it once relayed instructions she'd never actually given, and appeared in silhouette one night before turning and walking directly through the bedroom wall.

Jorge calls in about a bipedal, hairy, dog-snouted creature with long claws he's observed around his property for five years, growling at him and finally caught on video scaling a ten-foot privacy fence hand over hand before leaping sideways off the top.

Evelyn from Fremont, Michigan calls in about waving at what she believed was her grandmother standing in her bedroom as a young child, later realizing the woman had died four years before Evelyn was ever born. Years later, at eleven, she heard the same voice greet her by name from an empty room.

Christina from Phoenix, Arizona returns with a story from a Tempe rental that never felt right, where she felt an angry presence standing directly over her on the couch during a fight with her husband, who remained in bed the entire time. Moments later, she spotted a medical examiner's van parked in the alley behind their house.

And Cindy Ketron closes the episode with a terrifying encounter on a rural road in Southern Indiana, where a red pickup truck aggressively tailgated her and her brother, cursing and gesturing, before pulling alongside to reveal a hatchet lodged in the driver's head and blood covering his face, fading from view entirely moments before they passed a roadside cemetery.

Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.

If you have a real ghost story of your own, a haunting experience, something you heard, something you cannot explain, I want to hear it. Call 1 (701) 484-2666 or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmeaghoststory.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to share your story.

You might end up on the show.

And if this episode moved you, leave a comment on Spotify. I read every single one, and your comments help new listeners find the show.

Support us with official merch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠newmanmedia.shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, catch us on YouTube at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @tellmeaghoststory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow along on Instagram at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tellmeaghoststorypodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Production by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newman Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.