GRAVEYARD SHIFT WITH GHOSTS | Nurses, EMTs & Night Workers Encounters (x314)

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Our radio signal went out, so I grabbed my phone. This is a horror movie.

No signal. Her phone. And there's a creature. No signal. [snorts] Something standing on the side step of the ambulance.

We're talking night shifts. We're talking graveyard shift shifts. Oh yeah.

Very spooky.

Howdy. Hello. This is Two Girls, One Ghost.

Two Girls, One Ghost. And we are your ghostesses. That is Karin.

Hello.

And I'm Sabrina. And tonight we're staying up late when everyone goes home.

Yeah. I'll be honest. I probably would still sleep on the job if I had to do this. Not if you're in emergency services. You couldn't.

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That's true. Cuz we're we're talking night shifts. We're talking graveyard shifts.

Night shifts.

Who checks in late at night

for work 10, 11 p.m.? You don't get to go home until the sun has already risen once more.

What happens when the night is out? When the spooky is the spookiest? This is after dark. Two girls, one ghost. After dark. [laughter] I kind of like it. I'm here for it. Okay. Okay. Well, the proof that I do nap on a night shift, it was when we went to Well, I guess I was pregnant during it, but like I was like, "Oh, when we had to stay until 4:00 a.m. at the Lizzie Bordon house, and I did sleep multiple times."

Well, also [laughter] I feel like if if you work a night shift, often times you kind of adjust your schedule where you're sleeping in the day to then go work at night.

But we were it was a one night. It's all job. Like I do not know how people do it. Who like nurses who have to do

the mix?

Just like the mix or like my is he technically my brother-in-law, my

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sister-in-law's husband?

Yeah, brother-in-law.

Okay. He is a police officer and he is doing it's like random overnights too for cops. Like

my sister when she worked in the emergency room, you had to do at least one night shift.

Mhm.

I can't remember if it was weekly or monthly. Yeah, I think that's what it what he's dealing with. It's like few times a week he has to do it because he's like bottom of the

of the totem pole.

So you there's no routine. You can't establish a routine.

No. No. And it's like

which is why my sister now works at a med spa, [laughter]

right? I know. I was like I mean obviously we need people in these professions obviously but

difficult

man. If I had to go into a medical, if I went and was like a PA or something, I would for sure go into dermatology or something where it's like because dermatologists, sorry to the dermatologists out there if you find this insulting, but I feel like this is the stereotype that like if you become a dermatologist or if you work in a dermatology office, you're working from

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like 9 to three.

Of course, why wouldn't you create healthier hours? It's not life dependent. You're not saving lives,

right? No one's going to die because you did not inject their lips today.

Yeah. With all that being said, we're going to honor those of you who stay up late. [laughter]

Either do it because you like it or because you have to. We're honoring you today with stories of graveyard shift ghost encounters. So, I'm going to start

graveyard shift at a haunted hotel

with one. It has two stories. I'll read the graveyard shift story first.

Okay.

And it is great.

Okay. Okay, so this is from our listener Danny, and she says, "Hi, girlies. First of all, first off, thanks for being my homies for the last few years. This is what my sister said once I got her on her pod. It's cool to just for once have like hot girls who love spooky who I can relate to." [laughter]

Wow. Oh my god, thanks. I don't think I've been called hot in years. [laughter]

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That was really nice.

Such a comment. Thank you. Hot girls who love spooky unite. [laughter] So, here are my ghost stories. The first one, which I'm reorganizing them, is my friend Kelsey's. And then the second one I'll read is from Danny. My friend was a graveyard shift employee at an old hotel in San Diego's historic Gas Lamp District.

Oh, beautiful. I love the Gas [clears throat] Lamp District. Fun bars, too.

And lots of ghosts. She was working as usual when suddenly the phone started ringing. So, she answered it only to be met by silence, but she described it as you could feel that someone was on the other line. Ooh, creepy.

She didn't know how to describe it, but you could tell that someone was on the other line whether they were talking or not. She said, "Hello, hello." several times before finally hanging up because no one was conversing back with her. The moment she put the phone back down, it rang again. Immediately, she picked it up. No one sets it down. It begins

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ringing immediately. She answers nothing. Sets it down. It rings again. This happened several more times before finally it stops. So she looks on the booking list to see who was staying in that room.

No one was staying in that room. [sighs]

Perplexed, still trying to think rationally, she asked the security guard at the hotel to go up to that room and check it out.

After a couple of minutes, she hears the phone ring again. She answers and it's the security guard. He says, "Hey, it's me. I'm in the room. No one's up here. So, I'm just going to unplug the phone from the wall." Moments pass and the phone rings again.

No freaking way.

And it does it again and again. Wait, this would make me concerned. I'd be like, "Someone needs to go check underneath the beds. What if someone was murdered there and then they're trying desperately to be found?"

The phone was literally unplugged from the wall.

Yeah, I know. From a spirit. Like, what if someone was murdered? That's [laughter] like the cleaning crews never checked under the beds.

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Yes, that happens all the time. That's how half the bodies are found.

That's how they're found. Yeah, cuz cleaning crew goes to and on day of people complaining about a scent

all the time.

All of the time.

It happens everywhere.

Every day.

Every day. She It keeps ringing again and again with the same presence of some sort of person on the other end of the line. It happens a couple more times than silence. Nothing was ever found out about this spooky situation. What gets me the most is how nonchalant she was about it. It was merely like, "Yeah, so this weird thing happened to me a couple weeks ago." [laughter]

Oh my god. Um, damn. Yeah. Haha. Not crazy. It's insane.

Although, you know what I like is that she does not have the position at work where she actually has to go check the room,

right? That's true. She has this safety behind the desk. She gets to be downstairs at the desk where all the lights are, all the people coming and going, security there, and gets to experience the paranormal kind of safely. Yeah. So, now this is Danny's

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personal story. So, my story starts off like this. I think I'm about 10ish, and that time of my life is kind of crazy and hazy. Hi. Traumatic upbringing and parents who should have gotten divorced.

Oh, sorry.

So, I'm 10. I'm in my bed and it's night time and I feel that oh so recognizable feeling of random fear as I lay in my bed trying to fall asleep. You know, haunted house So, I decide, it, I'm going to sleep in my mom's room. And as I open the door and I start to step across the hallway to my mom's room, I look left and I immediately greeted with the stairs down to the living room. I, for some ungodly reason, decide to look left down the looming staircase into the ominous living room, and I see a woman crouched along the back wall of the living room. Her face in her hands as if she's crying. I immediately think, is that my mom? Is she okay? Because she's the only woman in my house since my sister and I are still in elementary/ middle school.

Yeah. It's also like to see your mom

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cry. It's like you're already so taken back,

right? So I immediately I was like, "Oh what did I say?"

Was it common that you made your mom cry?

No. Like I probably remember like the three times I ever did.

Oh.

So I really stuck stuck

teaches you not to say mean things to your mom.

Uhhuh.

I immediately am concerned and slightly horrified as the thought of my mom crouching in the living room in the middle of night crying is super weird. Then I realize she's wearing a white night gown, which is something my mom never did. But still, I feel a concern for her take over. So, I decide to slowly creep down the stairs and I muster out, "Mom, also keep in mind Danny is leaving her bedroom to go sleep in her mom's room because she felt scared in her own room."

Mhm.

I come to about 5 ft away from this woman who I think is my mom and suddenly I'm just staring at a blank wall. She's gone.

Oh. The realization that I'm all alone in the middle of my dark living room in a creepy haunted house at nighttime sets in and I start to panic. And now something to note is I would never in a

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million years go downstairs at night in that house no matter what. Even if I'm staying there and dying of thirst, as a now 27year-old, I just do not go downstairs. I'd rather run to the bathroom down the hall and drink from the faucet. So why the did I go downstairs? Aside from the disappearing lady, the disturbing fact to ponder is how I was drawn to go downstairs, pulled to check it out. Yes, I do care about my mom, but I never would have gone downstairs, nor would my mom realistically be crying in a dark corner downstairs. I really felt entranced to go downstairs. And I didn't realize the gravity of what I had done until she was gone and I was alone. I've never felt more of a snap back to reality, entranced to clear-minded wake up than I did in that moment. I booked it upstairs and I don't know what I did after that. But after that happened, things started playing tricks on me in the darkness. Ooh, I don't like that. [sighs and gasps] This was vivid. As a rational person, I just chocked it up to a figment of my imagination. After all, that's what parents tell their kids when they're

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young. It wasn't until recently, after I had been more involved in listening to Scary Story podcasts, that I realized, huh, this is a classic ghost story. Looking back, that house was the creakiest house I'd ever been in. And I've lived in a house from early 1900s. This one was built in 1970s, but of course it was just the house settling.

Every member of my family has paranormal experiences from that house. And my room in particular was especially colder than any room in the house. Again, my rational child like mine accepted it was just that the heat didn't reach my room even though I was in the middle of the house and every other vent blasted warm air except for mine with a ventilation system that was sound always working correctly. I also had my most recent experience in the house about 3 years ago. I was working in the basement on my laptop just by myself at home. I wasn't listening to music. Doors and windows were all closed. The TV was not on. And I wasn't even typing on my laptop. I was just using the tracking pad to scroll

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through emails. Point is, it was quiet in the house. And then I hear a woman humming or three notes. It was coming from the middle of the room. You know how like spatially you can tell where a noise is coming from?

Yeah. Yeah, this was in the middle of the room, clear as day, a woman humming. I immediately laugh and text my sister because was this the same woman I experienced when I was 10? Everyone else's experiences in that house felt male, but mine always felt female.

H, so I wonder who she is. I don't live there anymore.

She's [clears throat] not always crying that sometimes she's like happy and humming and just like wandering around,

just living,

putting around the house.

Yeah. I don't live there anymore. And every time I visit, it's for Christmas or an event. So, there's always a whirlwind of chaos and family. I wonder if I were able to hold the space for whoever this woman is, if I would be able to get more information on who she is and why she only appears to me. Love you sexy ghost girls. Love Danny.

Dang. Dang. Danny.

It is interesting that Danny was getting

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like female energy and female spirits.

But everybody else

gets male.

Yeah.

Maybe it's Danny's like guardian of some kind. Yeah, because it does seem Yeah. like it has to be only attached to Danny or for some reason is only appearing to Danny, right? Cuz you would think other people would at least experience it once or twice. But then it's also interesting that Danny's never experienced male energy.

True.

Which is so weird. Like that's the confounding thing about the paranormal is multiple things can be existing in the same house, but people are having different experiences.

Oh, you know what I don't like about that now that I'm thinking about it is that it does remind me a little bit of Haunting of Hill House. Like the red room,

like the house creates what you specifically should see

or what it thinks.

Well, I I jump to is it Danny like grown up?

Oh, have you ever cried down in the living room as a grown woman in a white night gown

against the wall? [clears throat]

Just cuz you that's a good place to cry.

Also, I need to know what hotel that is in San Diego.

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I know

cuz the Gas Lamp District is super haunted. Well, San Diego in general is haunted, but they do a lot of ghost stores in the gas district.

So curious.

It's not like the most giant section of San Diego either. It's like pretty Yeah.

Yeah.

Although still too many hotels for us to now try to with colleges.

Yeah.

the night I searched for death

Okay.

As it's called, the night I searched for death.

Interesting.

I used to be a CNA, a certified nursing assistant at an assisted living facility. I worked the NOOCC shift, which was the overnight night shift from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Usually, nothing happens. Everyone's asleep. I'd have to change some people throughout the night that couldn't get up to use the bathroom due to mobility issues, but generally pretty quiet. But one night, something happened that had never happened to me before. Usually at nursing facilities or assisted living facilities, there are hauntings because a lot of death happens. So, you hear weird noises and it's not unheard of to see shadow

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figures. I love that it's just like no big deal. It's typical part of the job.

Yeah. I'm curious if anyone who works at a assisted living home has not experienced anything. Like I feel like

Mhm.

it's more common that you do,

right?

Let us know. Let us know if you work.

I also feel like probably half of the hauntings happen when this person's still alive. Like I'm thinking of my Grammy and how many times she kind of like dipped for a minute and then came back and people interacting with other people that certain people can't see.

Yeah, the veil is thin at nursing facilities. That's for sure.

This night was a little bit different. The facility had a gated fence around it that when you opened it at night, it would set off an alarm because we had people with Alzheimer's and dementia. So, if they tried to leave in the middle of the night due to sundowners and some confusion, we could escort them back inside. Same with the front door. One night, I was doing my rounds around 2:00 a.m. and I heard the front gate alarm go off. Now, I knew everyone was in bed because I had checked all of the rooms. But I also had experiences of the wind

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blowing so hard and rattling the gate that it would set the alarm off. So, I went outside to check and the gate was closed. No one was in the parking lot. Before I headed back inside, I heard the alarm to the front door go off as well. I go back inside and I turn it off. Thinking maybe somebody did happen to leave their room. I started walking around the facility. It was two stories, so I started making my way up the stairs and then there's this long hallway that goes to the laundry room and then this little nook with a couple of chairs and a table for reading or for catching up with family members. Well, as I turned down the hall, I saw what seemed to be someone walking around the corner. All I saw was what looked like the end of a dark blanket on the floor dragging behind someone as if they were turning to where the nook was. And then I knew if that's where they were headed, there was nowhere for them to go. So I sped walked over to the nook, but when I turned the corner, no one was there.

No one was there. Then I started to hear one of the residents screaming from her room down the stairs. So I ran down to

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go see if she was okay. She was screaming, "Get out. I don't want you here. Get out. Get out. When I opened the door, let's call her Pat due to HIPPA laws. I can't really say her name. I said, "Pat, is everything okay?" And she said there was a man there, a tall man dressed in black robes in her room. She didn't know why he was there, but she wanted him to leave. I looked around the room and I said, "Okay, Pat, I think you're just having a nightmare. I'm the only one here tonight. I didn't see anyone around."

Even though she had just seen

Yeah. Yeah.

What she thought was Yeah. Yeah. She said, "Okay, okay. I'm sorry for screaming." I said, "It's okay. Nightmares can be really scary. Just let's get some more sleep." After talking to her, nothing else happened for the rest of the night. So, I come back the following the night for my night shift. And as I'm getting a report from the CNA from the previous shift, she said that Pat went to the hospital because she had a small heart attack earlier that day. Luckily, she did survive and she came back to the

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facility a few days later. But I do think that I was following death itself around the facility. He was coming to collect Pat from her time on Earth. But for some reason, maybe me being there had stopped him. I am a witch and I work with the goddess Hate, who was one of the goddesses of death. And working with her, I've seen many things, spirits, shadow people, and I don't feel scared of them. But seeing death itself is something I never planned on doing until my time on Earth had come to an end. Hopefully he doesn't scare me as much as he scared Pat. And this is from Marshall.

Marshall? This scares me. I'm glad that Pat was okay.

Yeah.

But it is scary.

Mhm.

It's really scary to like basically see death. Like to see the Grim Reaper,

which if you've listened to our Grim Reaper episode, you know that we think the Grim Reaper has bad rep. I think the Grim Reaper is like guiding people. Actually, I think I scheduled us to do an encounters themed grim reaper in the

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future

cuz as I was like going through emails, I found I found another one that was like

like this

another encounter with the grim reaper and I was like, let's just reaper theme. We should do a grim reaper.

We definitely have some.

Damn. [sighs]

Well, that is scary. But I'm glad that everyone's okay.

I know. But so wild too to like see the the robe to think it's the blanket like someone's just dragging their blanket behind them and then realize like you just saw the dark robe of of the grim reaper

of the grim reaper. Reaper be reaping.

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did a ghost call 911?

I have one from [snorts] our listener Avery and it's called Did a Ghost Call 911? Mhm. Hey TG ghouls. My name is Avery. Yes, you can use my name. I'm a

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longtime listener, first time writer. I [clears throat] love the show and listen every chance I get. I'll keep the intro short so I can get into the story, but I was listening to Encounters 277, which was all about first responders, and he read a story from Australia detailing a dispatcher's life alert call from the beyond, which made my ears perk up because I thought I was the only one with a story like this. Oo, I already have chills. I've heard about phone calls from the beyond, but I never thought one day I would have a story of my own. Anyway, I've been an EMT for four years and I have hundreds, if not thousands of 911 calls that I've run. Of these calls, many of them are to respond to a medical alert device activation. Think life alert. 98% of the time, the caller pushes a button on accident. We respond to find no emergency and then we leave. That being said, it was a normal night at the station when my agency received a 911 call for service to respond to an unknown medical problem. Medical alert

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activation. Some of the medical alert systems will come with a speaker/radio system that automatically dials 911 when the pendant was pressed. This allows the user then to speak to 911 without having to find or use a phone. In this case, the dispatcher didn't get any other information from the radio system and could only relay that the device itself was activated. And I recognized this address almost immediately because earlier that month we had responded to the resident who was an older gentleman who had fallen and possibly had a stroke.

Man, the reason I remembered him and his home was because he was the town's local strawberry farmer.

Oh my god.

So I What a sweet life.

I know. I lovingly referred to him as the strawberry man. He lived alone and had a history of falling, which is why he used the medical alert pendant. So, I figured it would be another routine call where we'd respond, scoop him off off the ground, take him to the hospital for evaluation. However, when we arrived, we

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quickly realized this was not the case. There were no cars parked in the driveway. Some of the windows were open and so was the garage. We entered the home and to our surprise, it was empty. Completely empty. Like, no furniture, no appliances, no pictures on the wall. empty.

Oh, Strawberry Man disappeared, took all of his belongings.

Team and I were dumbfounded. It looked like nobody lived there. So, I continued to make our presence known as we routinely did and shouted out, "EMS to alert a potential victim that we had arrived." But the home continued to be dead silent. We began to walk up the stairs and I started to get a very, very bad feeling in my stomach. Now, when you work in this field long enough, you develop an intuition. This is the same feeling I would get when we would receive a 911 call for an unknown medical problem to find someone fully in cardiac arrest when we arrived. We made it up to the top of the stairs and again I call out, my heart pounding in my chest as my mind is starting to wander to the worst case scenario. And then I'm

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thinking, are we being set up? Are we about to be ambushed? We look in every room.

That was a scary thought. I didn't even think of that.

So scary. Meaning that happened.

Yeah.

We look in every room of the second floor and again it is empty. But the feeling doesn't go away, and I nervously laugh and say to my crew, "Something is not right here." Then we hear movement and footsteps on the first floor. We make our way back down to find two men dressed in work clothes with tool belts around their waist. I give them a confused look and say, "Did you call 911?" With an equally confused look on their faces, they informed us no, they hadn't called for us. I ask who they are and where the owner of the residence is. They go on to explain that the strawberry man had died earlier in the month and his family moved all his things and sold the home. Oh, strawberry man. So, my mind is like, what? Then I come to learn that the strawberry man had died in the hospital the last time we had taken him in. It's one thing to get a random 911 call from a phone number. It's totally different to get a

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911 call from a medical pendant that doesn't exist anymore. Oh Yeah, cuz it's not like it's just in the house.

It's not in the house

like it was with him when they brought him in last time.

So, here are a couple things that you have to know. In order to have a Life Alert system, it has to be set up and plugged in somewhere in your home. And you have to push a button to activate it. The system, the button, life alert in total and no Strawberry Man to activate this pendant were in the home. Damn. Was it his ghost? Love you guys and thanks for reading Avery. Maybe this was his way of getting some closure too or just wanting to like thank the people who brought him in for his final time by like calling them back to the house.

Or is it residual like the energy from that moment?

Oh, I hope not because it's because he residual doesn't feel him.

But it's also like the last time he fell.

Yeah.

And he died. [gasps]

But the strawberry man.

Poor Strawberry Man.

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He made such an impact.

Yeah. What a sweet reputation.

Yeah. But it is wild how again confounding about the paranormal world like what is happening just that energy is so strong.

Yeah.

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late night commute

Okay. This is from our listener Eden.

Okay. Hello ladies. I'm a huge fan and I hope you read this story. I was laying in bed feeling like crap when I started listening to your podcast and I started writing this story the very next day. Love. I was driving home from a late night shift at the hospital. The fog rolling off the gulch like a damp blanket. I took the usual shortcut through Wahiwa despite my colleague's warnings about the road being really sketchy at night. As I rounded the curve and my headlights illuminated on a figure standing in the middle of the

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road. Oh,

at first I thought that this was a pedestrian who'd wandered into the road. But as I got closer, I realized that this was a woman in a long flowing dress, her face deathly pale, her eyes glowing with an eerie green light. I slammed on the brakes and my car skidded to a stop just a few feet from her, but the woman didn't move. She didn't even react. She just kept staring at me with an unblinking gaze. Wait, is this not like the story of what's the hitchhiker in Hawaii?

Oh, it's Ple. Like Ple is known to hitchhike.

I tried to wave her out of the way, but this woman would not budge. But then suddenly, she vanished into thin air. And I just sat there in shock, wondering, did I just hallucinate this whole thing? But as I looked around, I noticed that my GPS had stopped working. My phone now had no signal. The fog seemed to be closing in around me, and it was making it hard to see more than a few feet in front of me. I tried to shake off the feeling of unease. I was

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telling myself that maybe it was just my imagination playing tricks on me. As I drove away, I just could not shake the feeling that something was off. The rest of the drive home was uneventful. But when I got home, I couldn't sleep. I just kept thinking about this woman in the road and that strange feeling that I had. The next day, I mentioned the incident to my colleague who told me about the legend of the green lady of Wahiwa. According to local lore, she's a spirit of a mother who lost her child in the Gulch. and she's doomed to search there forever.

That's awful. I know.

Wait, did we cover this?

It sounds familiar

because there's another woman very similar like in a wooded area of Hawaii that I think I did cover.

It might have been in my green lady episode.

Oh, then maybe you did

cuz the story is like, yeah, she lost her kid and she's stuck. Oh, that's horrible. Some people claim to see her on the roads around Wiiwa, often on a night with fog. Others say if you see her or you're cursed with bad luck until you show her respect. I don't know what to believe, but I do know that I will

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never forget that encounter. And if you're driving through Wahwa at night and you see a lady in a long dress standing in the road, don't be afraid to slow down and maybe show her some respect. You never know what might happen if you don't. from Eden, which is not something Eden experienced on the night shift, but is a good example of what happens when you work the night shift and then you have to drive at like

the hours that no one else is on the road.

Yeah.

And the weird things that you can still encounter in the dead of night.

Um, our Ghost Ladies and Green episode is 264, but once again, we've done one of those things where we failed to mention the names of the green ladies in the description.

Um,

but I do think weren't like a full eight

years in and like 500 600 episodes, I'd be like, "Let's just go back and correct it all." But like there's

it's too much.

If there's anyone who has the stamina or ability

Yeah. If anyone wants like real details of what we covered, we'll go back and

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and correct our in our Excel, but we just didn't we weren't thinking about SEO.

Yeah. Think about searchability and how the people who are searching us, me and you searching in the future for to reference episodes wouldn't be able to find them.

Nope.

Like we can't find our own episodes.

And that's why sometimes we like with the [laughter] Bennington triangle, I did it again.

Okay.

Okay. But when you did it, it was like it was so much of that information was like new to me again. [laughter]

I think you've covered it in like the first year of our podcast.

Yeah. It was so long ago.

It was so long ago. Okay, I have another

firefighters are very spooky

one. This is from our listener who is anonymous. I can't wait to read one of these sentences. Okay, it is called, "Firefighters are very spooky."

Mhm.

Hey girlies, first I have to gush about you being my absolute faves. I've been listening so much that I've caught up with every single episode. And now moving on to the spooky. Get ready because I hope this email blows your tits off clean.

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[laughter]

That's the sentence. Oh, please. No. I need my boobs.

I don't have boobs. So, I once had them and now they're gone. [laughter]

I've mourned them.

I actually in high school I had bigger boobs or I wore push-up bras or wore bras generally.

I wish I'd taken nudes before having a child.

Could have made one of those Kim K

hilarious

coffee table books. Actually, back when that they should take like you should as you're young like go take like sexy photos.

Yeah.

Wasn't that like a

I say that now, but like I would never look at them or like I don't actually care. But

when you're 90 years old, look at that.

Look at how hot your grandma was.

My my epidermis. That was it was tight taut. [laughter] No, but wasn't that like a wedding trend where like the brides would give the groom like a little sexy photo shoot? Actually, my

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photographers who do literally all photography in my life, City Lux photography, they did my engagement.

They did our Christmas photos last year.

Christmas photos. They've done my maternity, every holiday card, wedding.

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Um, okay. For context, I am a fighter fighter/medic in a busy city in Arizona. It may or may not rhyme with schmottzdale.

Oh, Scottsdale.

Yeah. Anyway, being in this line of work has taken me to some strange, eerie, and downright creepy places. And this first story is about the downright creepy. About 3 years ago, I was on Can you just Oh, man.

Oh, you don't have a hand to hold.

It would feel weird if I were doing this to you.

Yeah. Oh, I would hate it. [laughter] I think I'm not a physical touch person.

No, I don't think you are.

No, I know for a fact not. [laughter] Oh god, I can like remember the times people have tried to cuddle me. Sick.

The other day I I asked my sister if she could h like the other day in like a year ago. I asked my sister. I was like, "Can you hold me?" And she's like, "No." And

yeah.

She was like grossed out by it. And I was like, "Okay."

That's like my little in college Alison. She'd always want to like when we when

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she'd sleep over, she'd want to like snuggle and like don't touch me. In theory, I would love to have a friend that I could do that with, but I could never initiate it.

Oh,

like it needs to be something that they like are the ones like, "Yeah, I want to do this." Okay. Anyway, sorry. We're we're putting off our tits being blown off.

So, this is the downright creepy. About 3 years ago, I was on an overtime shift, meaning I was working 12 hours the whole shift. It was early in the morning, about 7:00 a.m. when we got our first tone out for this place. It was nothing out of the ordinary, just a welfare check. We hopped into our apparatus and got on route to the address. When we arrived, the police department stated we could stay in service because there was no need for medical. Cool. Best outcome. So, we go back to our station, went straight back into station chores. Shortly after we got back, we heard our bay door open, but all of our crews were in the station. A few of us stepped out to check, and the bay door was indeed open, but no one was there. I ended up

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closing the door and just going back inside. Chocked it up to a mechanical disturbance. As soon as I got back inside, the siren turned on in one of our vehicles in the bay. So, I sent the assigned crew out and they said nothing was there. The truck was plugged into the shoreline like it was supposed to be. The siren switch was in the off position and nobody was out there. Weird, right? The station tones, as in we were called, again, went off. I immediately recognized the address as the same one from earlier, but now there was being a medical alarm activated.

You've picked medical alarms.

Yeah.

Did you search like life alert?

I searched 911 calls.

Okay.

Yeah. So, we got in route again only to be cancelled prior to arrival. We make the trek back to the station. Somewhere between the address and our station, that medical alarm was activated again and we were sent right back out. We finally made it on the scene and the police department had determined they would force entry into the home. As soon as they opened the door, the smell hit

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all of us. Decomposition. PD cleared the building for medical to enter. I walked through the front door into the hallway and into a bedroom. And there, wedged between the wall and a bed, was the patient. Oh, I hate that. The patient was deceased, wearing a medical alarm necklace. The medical alarm was in plain view, not wedged between anything. So, it could not have been activated from the pressure of like being between the bed and the wall.

Here's the thing. Nobody else was in the house. Nobody else lived there. Nobody else could have pushed that button. And the person who lived in the home was deceased and had been there for days.

Wow.

I believe they wanted to be checked.

Yes.

And found.

That's what I was thinking. It's like you wait long enough for someone to find you and no one has and you're like, "All right, I got to do something." But it's also wild how many times they were called back and forth.

Yeah.

Which also makes me think the spirit of her like came back with them that first time and was activating things in the station.

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Oh, interesting.

Cuz they went they made it all the way there,

right?

They were told to leave, went back, hauntings happened, called twice more.

Yeah. I mean, that was a spirit who needed needed to get their attention and clearly did.

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ambulance loses time & cryptid encounter

For the second story, this is years later, and at this point, I've switched to working for private ambulance service somewhere in the middle of nowhere, southern Arizona. There are a few small towns and cities here, but otherwise, it's just vast desert. This particular night, I was working with a good friend of mine, and we had been sent to pick up a patient out in one of the county islands. It was just after 1:00 a.m. It was pitch dark outside. No street lights, no headlights, just our red and whites and our own headlights. We were about 45

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minutes from our patient and it's necessary to add that it was a particularly hot summer night. So, we continue our drive and we're talking about god knows what ridiculous laughing doing things to pass the time. When suddenly the mood shifted. I know you've heard Kayn Moore describe the heart starts pounding feeling. It's that when everything starts to feel wrong. It suddenly looked darker than usual. The moonlight was no longer visible. There was an eerie stillness around us. Our lights no longer lit up everything around us like they usually do. It felt like the night was swallowing all light and I started to feel like something was with us. I felt watched from everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. I asked my partner if she was feeling it too and she said she started to feel like we were driving a loop, like the scenery had just started to replay itself. As we were discussing this, I felt the sudden sensation of weight being dropped onto our truck or like something very heavy had been pushed onto it. But that was impossible because

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we were still driving. That's such a weird feeling too to like feel it on the thing that's carrying you like

Right. Like I almost so palpable that it's like you Yeah.

It like makes a monster thinking about it

like clawing into it. Right. My partner looked at me and said, "Please tell me you felt that, too." I lied. I said, "No, cuz I didn't want to scare her or myself. I wanted to feel like everything was fine." And then I looked in the rearview mirror to try to see into the dark box of the ambulance, but I couldn't see a thing. I looked in my side view mirrors. I saw nothing. But then I realized the lights weren't illuminating anything beyond us. And that's when I saw it. something standing on the side step of the passenger side of the ambulance. It almost looked human, but it was entirely too large to be human.

Creepy.

It was standing on two legs like a human would. But there was no way this was human. We hadn't slowed. We hadn't

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stopped. We had been driving. Speed limit but fast. I swerved as a natural reaction. And this thing never swayed. It had no discernable features other than being vaguely human shape, and it was darker than darkness. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest, and I was now full-on panicking. My god. I was also shivering as the air around us had suddenly become ice cold. As I was trying to explain to my partner what I was seeing, she undid her seat belt and tried to get out of her seat. I debated just stopping, but I opted for calling for help on our radio instead. Here's the kicker. Our radio signal went out.

That is so scary. What the So, I grabbed my phone. This is a horror movie.

No signal. Her phone.

And there's a creature.

No signal. [sighs] My god.

Stranger yet, because our radios always work. Also, radios like operate such different like so different than our phones.

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Yeah.

Like those are supposed to work in emergency,

right? I activated our dash cam in hopes that it would cover our butts for speeding and that it would later show the reason, aka this entity. But our camera didn't work either. At this point, we had been driving about 30 minutes, so we should have been close to our destination. Damn. Wait, you know what this is reminding me of really quick? Just like the infrared thing. I forget what episode we talked about it, but it was like something that had having to do with like a military base and people were looking through infrared cameras and only on the infrared camera could they see like a giant creature like [gasps] coming and stalking

but like you couldn't see it to the naked eye and they were like screaming at the people to get out of there cuz they could see this thing like stalking the soldiers.

[sighs]

I suddenly felt the weight drop and the whole ambulance swayed as it did. Just like that, the moonlight was visible again. Just like that, the red and white beacon on the ambulance was brightly

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illuminating everything again, and the temperature became Satan's butthole again. And all of a sudden, our radios began to chatter to life. Dispatch was trying to get a hold of us, asking us to respond because we had been on route for over an hour.

What the

We lost time on that road and I cannot explain. We should have been 15 minutes from our destination when all of this happened, but we were still 30 minutes out.

Oh my god. We eventually made it to our call and stated poor road conditions were the cause of our delay. But I'll never be able to explain what happened on that dark desert road. Was it a flesh pedestrian, a demon? Did we drive into a time warp? I have no idea.

Into another dimension. Into the upside down the Twilight Zone. Maybe you can make sense of Stranger Things.

Oh, yeah. I binged all of it.

Okay. Well, don't tell me I'm I still have the fourth one of the first half.

This shift also ended up being our busiest and most lethal shift ever after this happened. We had a few cardiac arrests, which unfortunately didn't survive.

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Two fatal traffic collisions and an adult drowning under the strangest circumstances. Wow.

Stay spooky and see you on the other side.

Anonymous. Bleep

from Anonymous. We realized at the end of this uh story that we were not supposed to say their name. So if you're confused why we're bleeping, it's cuz we're trying to keep

Yeah.

anonymity.

And also maybe just a helpful thing for us if you want to be anonymous, can can you try to say it at the top?

Yes, please.

Cuz otherwise we might say your name 30 times throughout the episode.

Yes. [laughter] Um but this is terrifying.

That is so terrifying. It's so interesting because I was thinking about how like desert landscapes like this

to me feel equivalent to Appalachia.

Yeah.

I feel like it's worse in my mind.

Like I'm scared of the desert. I'm scared of I could never live in Arizona. Like there is something eerie and creepy about that landscape. It feels like you're too exposed.

Totally.

Like you're at the same time it's also

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like an inhabitable terrain. [clears throat]

Mhm. Like we as humans shouldn't survive there.

No, I mean people have, but

there's a reason we shouldn't live there. No. Yeah, but like if we didn't have modern advances and stuff like

Yeah, there were like native tribes and stuff in the desert chilling by the the water sources.

Yeah.

But yeah, just like willy-nilly out in the out in the desert. No thanks.

Nope.

Oh my gosh. You know what videos like are the creepiest videos to me? The iron ore. Have you ever seen that? It's in Africa. Where is it? The iron ore. It's a train in I'm going to butcher the name of this. Mitania. It's this like really extremely dangerous train that travels across the desert for like eight or nine hours or something like that. And the like winds and the sand and just like the ore coming off of the back of the train, it's like just horrendous. But you can basically like buy a ticket to

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sleep on the train. And so people do it and they like put like their like bandanas and masks and like goggles and stuff to try to like be there and you're like

I'm looking at photos of this and this does not look like a enjoyable experience. Like you're literally sleeping on top of the iron ore.

But I think people say it's beautiful like

the I think like this people do it for like the sunrise. But I'm like so many other places to go watch the sunrise. [laughter]

It's like crazy. Every time I watch a video of it, I'm like terrible.

I don't know how you do it.

This is also called a man. You just whip out your penis and pee off the side.

But like if you're going that fast, it's going to like blow back into your face.

That's true. And they're going pretty fast.

Yeah.

Also, one more social media thing that I've been seeing, which is actually like pretty morbid of a trend, and I don't love that it's a trend, but I watch every video. So, you keep getting more of them.

So, I keep getting more of them. It's um not a bad place to bleed out is like basically the trend, which is like so

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dark and morbid. I don't know if it's like based on video game characters or something cuz people like videotape themselves as it's like as if it's their own eyes like your POV like falling down.

Our algorithms are so different,

but then it turns and it's like the most beautiful landscape. It's like showing like amazing beautiful scenery.

Okay. I mean, you said that that was the trend. My mind first went to like oh, like a target cuz you have supplies to help people.

Oh, you're thinking of like how to survive.

Yeah, but no, like they're just saying like where to die.

Okay. Area 51.

I bet they have great desert. Too much desert.

They might have great sunrise and sunset. And aliens [laughter] might take you up. Anyway, I don't know what the heck that crypted was or creature.

No, but that's messed up. That like this literally sounds like a horror movie.

Yeah. like literally onto the side of the ambulance

and you can like feel it it the pressure of it like weighing down the car slowing it down

and the fact that it could jump onto a

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moving ambulance.

Yeah.

Poor road conditions. Sorry we were late. Actually, there was a giant creature latched onto the ambulance slowing you down and stopping time, delaying you by another 15 minutes. Like was it a full moon? Cuz also everything that happened afterwards. M I don't know. And also, wait, do we know how many people were there? How many other witnesses were there?

It was just the two of them driving.

Just two or in the front of the car.

Yeah, scary. Scary. Very

terrifying. I love that. Um, but I love these stories. So, please share more with us. Again, put them in the subject line like graveyard shift, overnight shift, whatever. We love them so much. So, we're actually going to read one more on our Patreon. So, if you want another overnight graveyard shift ghost story right now, if you're itching, craving, you need it in this moment, well, you're in luck. There's another one on Patreon. Um, but until then, we'll see you next time. And, uh, we love you all. [laughter] Thank you to Jamie Ryan who edits and

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produces our podcast. Thank you Emma Leventter who does our social media and produces. And we will see you on the other side. Very spooky.