True Ghost Stories | Haunted Bodies of Water | Ghost Ships, Lake Monsters & The Titanic (x342)

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I see a boat, a rock, and a fire. They will think Josh is at work, but he's actually home asleep. Someone will need to save him, or he is going to die. I don't want him to end up like me.

Very spooky.

Hello.

Good morning.

M O U R N

Ooh, yes.

Mourn the dead, and we discuss them.

It's Two Girls One Ghost.

Two girls, one ghost.

And we are your ghostesses. That's Keren.

Hello.

I'm Sabrina. Why do I feel like we're forgetting something?

I don't know.

Do you feel that way?

Because we said good morning, and normally we say hi.

No, I don't know. Maybe it's just because we're just starting, and it's Monday, and I don't know.

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It feels like it's been a long time since we've recorded, even though it's been 3 days.

[laughter]

And we ran into each other in Boston. [laughter]

god, that was the craziest thing.

I sent Keren a text, cuz I was I was at the gym with my friend Madison, and I knew that you were going to be in Boston with Brian for your baby moon.

We did a baby moon in Boston.

And so I texted Keren, and I was like, "Oh, like if you're free, if you want to come stop by. We're going to be in Seaport." And you're like, "Oh, I'll be in Beacon Hill all day." And then after the gym, Madison and I were walking around, stopping to Lush, and who's there?

It was crazy. It was literally crazy, cuz it's like Lush of all places, too. Like we don't Like you didn't have anything to go in. Brian and I just went, cuz we happened to pass by it, and I was like, "Oh, let's get Noah a bath bomb." Like we were just like getting him like little things along the way. So our stop in was only going to be 90 seconds long.

Yeah. Wild.

Yours was, too, cuz Madison had something she was specifically looking for to grab and go.

Yep.

just hear Brian go, "Oh my god."

[laughter]

Hey, and I turn around and you're just

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there like, "What?"

That was crazy.

It was small world.

And it was also funny cuz I was telling Brian ahead of our trip. I was like, "What are the chances we like see someone we know?" I was like, "I feel like it's really low cuz it's such a busy Boston weekend and so many of our people that we used to do stuff with like moved to the burbs." I was like, "I wonder if we'll recognize anyone."

The one person we ran into was

Me, Sabrina.

[laughter]

That was great.

so small world.

was very funny.

And then I joined a soccer league. That was the news that I told you there. And I was very nervous because so I'm trying to be more active and also it's like warm out. I want to meet more people, too.

Yeah, it's a good way to meet

played soccer since like high school.

the rules?

Enough, yeah. And I it's a league on a smaller field so it's not like full regulations. But I got like I was a free agent and I was randomly assigned to a team and I got like a notification. The first game was on Sunday. I got a notification on Friday. It was like,

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"Your team schedule is ready to view." And it said team name, The Office Dogs. And I just immediately went to finance bros.

Yeah, it's going to be a bunch of like 24-year-olds.

Bro.

Yeah, you're like, "I don't know how this is going to go." But it wasn't that way.

No, it was not that way at all. I was very pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed the team. We were not terrible. We did lose, but the team we played against were like all D1 soccer players.

Oh.

And they all knew each other and we were all strangers that just met for the very first time. And for that, we played pretty well.

Oh, so this was like the first day that everyone was Oh, okay.

Yeah.

For some reason I thought you were like joining a group that already existed.

No, that's what I thought, too.

Mhm, okay.

But I guess it but I guess there was one person who had started the team with a coworker. It was a guy and a girl. The girl picked the name. And then she slipped her disc and she couldn't even play. She's no longer on the team. I know.

aw.

She do it to be ironic? I I don't know.

tell you that? Cuz you told me the name and I said, "What do you bet like it's

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two people that created the name?"

And you were right.

And the rest is just like it's going to be a mash posh of people.

It was a mash posh of people. I will say I had a psychic moment. So I was picking out my cleats cuz I had to buy new cleats for the dicks. And I usually like to have like colorful cleats. That's That was like a thing that I did in high school but I don't know I'm older now. I'm more sophisticated. I'm a lady now.

[laughter]

Um but I was also

white cleats or black cleats?

Well, I did. I got white cleats but I was I was like I don't want like too bright because I have this feeling that our uniforms are going to be like an obnoxious like gross yellow. And I was like that's probably not true but like that's just like what I'm envisioning. Then I'm walking to the game and I was like, "Why was I picturing yellow and why can't I get yellow out of my head?" Sure enough, our jerseys are the most atrocious gross yellow.

Oh my god. Now I want you to have neon pink cleats or just like be a highlighter.

But I had a psychic moment. I knew the color was going to

Yeah, that is weird. I feel like some of

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your psychic moments comes with come with clothes.

I'm the [laughter and clears throat] That's a very good observation.

That's true. Anyway, we're not here to talk about soccer but we're here to talk about

Yo ho ho.

the sea.

A pirate's life for me.

[laughter]

It's water. It's oceans. It's sea. It's hauntings in one of the scariest places that I feel exist in the world. I am almost more scared of the ski the the ski the sea than the idea of just like being in open space because we know more about space than we do about the sea.

Mhm.

And it feels like space is just like Like I picture if I got lost in space then I'm just floating. And it's like what are the chances that debris is going to hit me? I'm going to die immediately. It's going to be me just like floating and suffocating.

Mhm.

The sea can freaking kill you in so many different ways.

Yeah.

It's honestly horrifying.

It is.

And for that, I go knee-deep. And then I

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turn around. But for this episode, we go above

deep.

and down below.

deep.

But I also did lakes. Like we did bodies of water.

It was bodies. I keep saying the sea. I'm not even sure if I chose completely

[laughter]

sea-themed.

Cuz the chances of our of our listeners being out at sea getting haunted, we're pretty slim. But lots of bodies.

one, too.

Yeah. Um I have a really horrifying one to start us with.

Okay. What a lovely way to like be in summer. Like, "Ah, I just want to go float in the water." And we're like, "Really? It could kill you."

Yeah, and there might be some creatures by the lake that want to haunt you.

Mhm.

Bosnian SW

This actually came in her inbox like 2 days ago. It's from our listener Layla. And it's called Bosnian SW. Flesh pedestrian.

Why did it never cross my mind that they could enter water or lurk around it?

Or be in Bosnia.

Or be in Bosnia.

We're about to find it all out. Okay. Hello girls. I've been listening to your

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podcast for about 3 months and I want to share my story. My name is Layla and I'm actually from a small country located in South Europe called Bosnia. It's a really beautiful country with lots of rivers and mountains. And we have one of the oldest forest in the EU called Perućica. I might be saying that wrong. Or Perušica. Perušija? I don't know. I Perućica. P E R U

six different ways

A.

[laughter]

I definitely mispronounced like three of them. But this forest is based around a river Drina and lake Perućac. Peru

[laughter]

Perućac. God. I'm sorry.

Guys, if you could just hyperlink a pronunciation [laughter]

Yeah.

guide to your emails

Uh

if you can.

Our editor, Jamie, should just like listen to the pronunciation do a voiceover.

[laughter]

That was wrong.

but it's Jamie's voice.

It's dubbed over.

It's like you keep trying to pronounce

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it. It's like 30 extra seconds long.

[laughter]

But, we're by a lake, by one of the oldest forests in Bosnia.

Jezero Perućac

in Bosnia.

My grandparents were from a small village near the lake, which I used to visit all the time when I was little. First, you do need to know that the area has a really sad reputation. There was a genocide that happened in 1995, and even before that, that area was a really spooky place. Like we're talking about miles and miles of forest, tunnels, underground rivers, etc.

Underground rivers. Ooh, why did I say give me a chill?

My granny used to tell me all kinds of stories about weird beings and weird stuff that was happening to her and her family, and a lot of people who lived in the area. I was really into all of that, but I never experienced anything until one night of 2015. It was my mom's birthday, mid-July. We were sitting inside, my mom, my aunt, my grandfather, my grandma, and my two cousins. Since we have two houses divided by only 15 m of space, we

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decided to sleep in the second house. We were preparing to leave when we heard two loud bangs. [clears throat] We thought, "Oh, it's probably just hunters." Basically, we didn't think anything of it. About 10 minutes passed when we decided to get our stuff. It's me, my grandma, and my mom, cuz we're going to go sleep in that second house. When all of a sudden, we heard a loud, bloodcurdling scream that couldn't have been less than a mile away.

I feel like every time I see a haunting or hear a haunting that has a bloodcurdling scream, I've been conditioned by skeptics to be like, "It's a mountain lion. It's a bobcat."

Oh, that's not where I go at all.

[laughter]

Well, that's a first thought because I feel like that's what I've told constantly. And then

like you, Satan.

the true me comes forward.

you. [laughter]

I'm like, oh my god, what the

The paranormal believer you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Even if it's a mountain lion, that's a horrifying sound just to hear.

run. Or actually, I'm not No, you better make yourself big. That's what you're supposed to do to survive a mountain

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lion.

Is that

You do not run.

Okay.

Yeah, and if there's two of you

Is that a bear, too?

person It It depends on what bear it is. Black bears you're big. You're challenging. You stand your ground. You fight. Grizzly bear, you play dead. Polar bear you are dead.

You are dead.

No matter what, you die.

Sayonara. Why were you in Alaska?

[laughter]

Um okay. So, it's about a mile away, the scream. My grandma just looked at me and my mom and slowly walked to the house without increasing her speed. As we're walking to the house, this thing is still screaming and it is getting closer and louder. I ran inside with my mom and we were just looking at my grandma like, what the [ __ ] girl? Meanwhile, she went right to the door, locked it, and proceeded to go to her bedroom. My mom was like, what was that? And my grandma just said, we should lie down and don't leave the house until morning.

Okay, so they're still in the house because in my mind they're like on the porch or something and

No, they walked outside to the other house and then locked the door. And grandma's like, just go to sleep. Ignore it.

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[laughter]

I was thinking they were still outside. Like, okay, just lay down. Like, to be praying? What?

This thing continued to scream and it got closer to our houses. We had to sit there and listen as it passed our houses and went into the forest beneath our houses until sometime later we didn't hear it anymore.

[sighs]

God, that's so freaky.

The next morning I woke up to my mom and grandma talking in the living area and when I came in they just stopped talking. I started asking questions and they ignored me. So, I got dressed and I was going to go over to the other house. When I opened the main door, I saw my grandpa with a bucket washing a trail of blood that this thing had left overnight. My mom tried to tell me that it was probably just a dog or something, but based on the stories I know, I know exactly what that was.

I mean, it would might have been a dog's blood that was getting dragged and trailed and this thing was walking off with, but I don't know. The blood curdling scream

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scream for like hours? Moving through the woods past her house into the forest? I know exactly what it was. America has flesh pedestrians, or I'm going to say it once, skinwalkers. We have something that has many names, but the name we call it is Drekavac. There are many names for it, but here's the Google explanation. A Drekavac, meaning the screamer or the crier from the Slavic word drekati, is a malevolent, shape-shifting creature from South Slavic and Balkan folklore. This was not my only encounter with the thing. There are also stories about gigantic snakes, souls of people that died in the Balkan War, ghosts, fairies, paranormal encounters with probably demons and all kinds of things. But yeah, I think that's what I experienced and I think that's what my grandma and the people of the town have been experiencing for years. Thank you for reading. I love you guys. See you on the other side.

Wow.

Oh, then she said, "Forgot to mention, it didn't sound like a fox or dog or

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wolf or anything else that I've ever heard. But it was a mix of a baby crying and something undefined, like feral, but not a wild animal."

Mhm. Okay, yeah, cuz it's supernatural. There's something stalking the woods in that area.

way that grandma responded being like, "Let's lock the doors.

Yeah.

Do not leave the house until morning.

Right.

And we will not talk about this."

I am curious if the Drekavac or what Sorry, I

Drekavac.

Drekavac. if there are reports that it does have like blood following it or blood is associated with it. Because if not, that makes me think that there was some sort of kill and it was dragging something or someone. Because why else would there be a blood trail? Like I'm just thinking of our of the American version and if there is not a blood trail.

There is a blood trail connection. It often mutilates sheep and livestock in the regions and they often find mauled carcasses and a visible gruesome blood

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trail leading off into the dark.

Oh god, that's so messed up.

That's like literally with this entity. That is a quality that goes with [clears throat] it.

yeah. You know, the perk of this experience is that you know exactly what you experienced.

And it's right by a lake and that's why I read it.

And it's [laughter] and it's regional to you.

Terrifying.

Which is pretty cool.

Yeah, scary. Stay inside. Lock the doors. Do what grandma says. Trust your grandma.

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Titanic encounter

Okay, I have a submission from Gary, who we've read an email from

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Gary before.

Recently, yeah.

Gary has sent us some incredible submissions. I was cruising Gary's entries the other day and I was like, most haunted friend, for sure. Up there.

And I really appreciated Gary took the time to write like 20 emails.

Mhm.

The subject lines are so straightforward, we know what we're getting.

Yeah.

And I think I don't know, Gary, did you spend like 2 days and just like, I'm going to write to my girls?

My girls.

I think Gary could start his own podcast, potentially a book.

so many of our listeners.

I know.

Like, we'll hand you the keys. Here's the castle.

it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Gary's story submission is caught called woke old a Titanic encounter.

Oh, where's Danielle from National Park After Dark?

Right, I think of her immediately now.

She is Titanic to me.

She Yeah, she is.

Not all things that take your breath away are necessarily warm and welcoming. Every now and then, I am blatantly reminded of how I must have been born as

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some kind of strong magnet, and not just any magnet, but one that specifically attracts all that's bizarre and paranormal and spiritual and ghostly, as well as creepy and crawly and shadowy and things that go bump in the night. Just recently, I was once again reminded of this condition, or whatever you want to call it. Another example of drawing in the dark and unseen, and then, once again, being hit smack in the face with the cruel, otherworldly visions and vibrations of the past. Happened while I was attending a business conference in Kansas City, Missouri. This happened recently, February 20, 2026.

So recent.

Just a couple months ago.

Wow.

I had the opportunity to pop in and make a brief visit to a nearby venue, which was offering up a very unique and historically accurate Titanic disaster fully immersive exhibit adventure.

Wait, does that mean like they like recreated the crash?

That's what it sounds like.

Huh.

You're harnessed to something and you experience the drop.

Or do you like get to go on the ship and

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like pretend you're fancy and like dine and then you experience the crash?

god.

Cute.

Not only were there countless photos, videos, artifacts, and other paraphernalia from this doomed and cursed steamship available to gaze upon, but there was also a very large room where, thanks to a spectacular special effects and an ominous mid-ocean atmosphere, made you feel like you were actually sitting right there, bobbing in a lifeboat alongside the ill-fated Titanic.

Woah.

And then, experiencing firsthand what it might have felt like in those final moments. Another optional experience, for a nominal fee, gave one the opportunity to wear a VR, or virtual reality, headset, allowing you to feel like you were actually able to walk aboard the Titanic just before and during the time of the iceberg hitting and the Titanic sinking. It was truly awesome. Walking along both above and below deck and seeing such things as passengers' living quarters, the passageways, the dining room, the majestic carved oak staircase, for

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example, it really did make you feel as if you were actually right there. And lastly, you're submerged as if sitting in a submarine to watch the Titanic's final moments it plunges and ultimately the frigid barren sea bottom.

Damn.

All of this was historically accurate and completely fascinating to me. And to think of how many poor unfortunate souls perished that night and who were at any given moment either lying warm in their beds enjoying an exquisite meal in the dining room or maybe just laughing and enjoying their time aboard and then desperately treading in icy cold water that would take their breath away and rendering their limbs non-functional. It's just so sad. There were also some examples of some crude early cork-filled buoyancy life vests that were used which were surely saturated with the lingering fright and stress of all of those who had to use them. After having truly enjoyed this immersive experience and just after exiting the exhibit, I had to use the restroom which was located down in the basement. There was nobody else around

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so I made my way to the back of this old bathroom where the urinal stood. While standing there, I suddenly caught a glimpse in my peripheral vision of someone quietly slipping through the entrance. Not wanting to look like [laughter] some kind of creep or be too obvious, I just sort of side-eyed this individual as best I could. Something about him just seemed strange, very off. And then I noticed that this rather tall, well-dressed gentleman was wearing period clothing. He seemed to be wearing a vintage-looking suit, tweed perhaps, a long woolen overcoat and a top his head stood a tall black top hat.

Which at first like you wouldn't think too much of cuz you're at like this Titanic exhibit. Maybe there are people who dress up.

And Gary literally says right away I thought to myself, "Damn, how the hell did I miss this guy? The period actor. He must have been part of the Titanic exhibit. He looked so authentic." And then as I darted my eyes back and forth not wanting to be noticed or to have him think that I was just staring at him, he proceeded to pull a gold pocket watch out from under his jacket which was

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attached to a gold chain. He looked down at it briefly, appeared to be deep in thought, and then in one quick motion placed it right back into his inner jacket pocket. Then he just kind of stared blankly ahead into space before walking straight over to where the toilet stalls were. I finished up. I walked over to the sinks to wash my hand and as the toilet stalls were directly across from the sinks, I snuck a quick a quick peek a quick over to where this guy was. And that is when I had a true what the [ __ ] moment. Because the stall doors are all wide open and there's absolutely nobody in there. So, where the hell did this guy go? He didn't flush himself down the toilet and there was not another exit in there. So, what just happened? There's absolutely no way that he could have snuck by me and then slipped back out the same way that he'd come in. As I exited the restroom, still scratching my head and trying to make sense of what I just experienced, I once again had to ascend from the bowels of this ancient structure aboard the slow-moving escalator and then right out

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of the blue, my damn internal paranormal magnet, of course, once again did me dirty. I suddenly felt a horrific shiver down my spine as if someone had just poured a large glass of ice cold water down my back. The first thing I experienced was hearing the sound of what sounded like water splashing, kind of like when you're swimming in a pool and treading water.

Oh no.

And I looked around assuming that there was a speaker somewhere because this is an exhibit about the Titanic, but there was none. It felt like people were in the throes of violently shivering and gasping for air. I suddenly and clearly heard the [laughter] faint stutter type whisper of a young man's voice in my ear saying, "I'm [laughter] so cold. Please help me. I'm so cold."

got chills. Wow.

[sighs]

Me too. Yeah, so this freaked me out and I had the hair on my body standing straight up. Once I reached the ground level, that was that. Nothing more. Everything went back to normal. And once having returned to my hotel room, I decided to Google this Union

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Station where I just left from to find out a little bit more about it. And oh man, what a history did this place have. Firstly, in 1903, the original Union Depot train station suffered a major flood, which resulted in a much larger Union Station being built to replace it. As to whether anyone drowned here, who knows. But the peculiar thing is, Union Station was constructed between 1910 and 1914. The Titanic disaster occurred in 1912, smack dab in the middle. Coincidence? And then in 1933, the Union Station massacre happened here, making one of the most infamous cases in Kansas City history. A convicted mobster by the name of Frank Nash was being escorted by both policemen and the FBI to be placed onto the train, which would then take him to prison. But before that could happen, a mob family apparently drove up in their car, started shooting their Thompson submachine guns, and in the process, Frank Nash was killed along with four FBI and police officers.

Geez.

So with all of that being said,

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was the ghostly apparition of the man that I saw in the bathroom, or the water splashing around, or the voice of a young man stuttering that he was freezing to death, all somehow related or associated to the Titanic exhibit? Or to the 1903 flood, or to the 1933 Union Station massacre?

Gary, why are you asking us? You know more than we do.

From Gary. Haunted Gary.

Well, I'm also just so curious because a lot of these Titanic exhibits do have like artifacts or things

Right. And he said that there were actual authentic artifacts from the ship.

Could there also have been something specifically down in the basement level that like wasn't on display for whatever reason?

But I don't know, cuz even the man the man in the bathroom felt so like he was very much interacting with that space.

Mhm.

Which makes me think he's more Again, I'm pulling things out of my butt hole because I don't know how ghosts work. But like it makes me think he's used to this space and maybe [clears throat] has

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interacted with it in life.

Yeah.

But I don't know. Whereas the other stuff very much feels like the Titanic.

Right. It could be, but to your point it could be two separate hauntings.

Yeah.

Like time period-wise, location-wise, separate hauntings. Because also the feelings that feel more associated with drowning and water and the Titanic didn't happen in the bathroom.

Right.

on the way back up the escalator.

Yeah.

Uh.

But the way Gary explained it like it hit him.

Yes.

Like all of a sudden.

Like a feeling like cold water down his back.

Yeah. He felt it then heard it.

The splashing.

Wow.

The treading of water.

The man saying

I'm so cold. Cuz it also doesn't The way that he was saying it feels like you know, when you're just normally treading water, it wasn't like a frantic It almost feels like it's towards the end.

Yeah.

Like where the lifeboats are trying to see who's left.

Also, that water was so cold it like shocked everyone, right? Like

Yeah.

4 day haunting

Okay, well, I have one that's kind of like heartwarming-ish.

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Mhm. Okay.

Okay.

That's a good one after Gary's Titanic.

I mean it's like we'll go up and down with it. It's called a four-day haunting and a warning that saved a life. Hi Karen and Sabrina, my name is Jasmine. I recently found your podcast and became a Patreon member. I absolutely love Two Girls One Ghost. Actually, one of the girls on my soccer league, Jackie, shoutout to Jackie, we were like talking about what we do cuz we were grabbing a beer afterwards and she was like, "Oh my god, I'm going to listen." She joined our Patreon.

Oh.

That's great.

"You don't have to join the Patreon like"

And she was like, "No, I'm like I'm excited." I was like, "Wow, love that."

Thanks.

So, hi Jackie. If you're still here, if you didn't cancel your membership. [laughter]

That's Well, now she can't until after the baby's done.

We'll be stalking her. Okay. I wanted to share an experience that has stayed with me for years. I've changed the names of others in this for privacy, but for some background, I live in Virginia. I have four siblings, two older sisters and two younger brothers, and I am the middle child. And we are no strangers to the

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paranormal. My mom has always been able to warn or comfort strangers about things that only they would know.

Wow.

My siblings and I have seen ghosts. We've experienced doors shutting on their own, feeling a hand play with our hair, feeling someone sit on our bed when no one was there, seeing a figure go from one room to another, realizing nobody else is home. This is just to name a few. It always scared us, but my mom always told us it was a good ghost and that we shouldn't be afraid. So, one summer, four of my cousins came down from Maine to spend the week with us. When they first arrived, everything was normal. But as the week went on, things started happening. My family and I experienced what we call a four-day haunting because the energy in this house was incredibly heavy.

Damn.

Lights

The four-day haunting.

That could be a movie or a book.

This whole story could be, yeah. Lights would flicker on and off. Doors would open and close with no one there. We could hear people talking in rooms that were completely empty. DVDs would be

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flying across the room. But each day, the activity seemed to pick up. During this time, my older sister had a vision of fire, but she didn't understand what it meant. On the fourth day, a very intense thunderstorm came through and knocked the power out. My mom lit candles and placed them around the living room, and everyone gathered together in that room to wait out the storm. As we were sitting there waiting, things escalated. A door down the hallway kept opening and slamming shut. The lights would flicker on briefly before cutting right back off. We were all so freaked out, holding onto each other as tightly as we as we could. Literally storming, all the lights are off, and they're lit sitting by candle as these hauntings are just going insane.

That's so creepy, but also like kind of a dream. If you're with other people,

It Yeah.

It's still horrifying. This this story is the one that you would want based on like the end of it because it's not a nightmare even though it feels nightmarish.

It feels like fake in the beginning, right? Like this feels like you're the

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start of like a Stephen King

Yeah.

adapted for television series.

Adapted for Two Girls One Ghost podcast. We're holding on to each other's tightly as we could when we start to hear footsteps going from up the stairs down the hallway. The living room connected directly to the hallway. So these footsteps are getting closer and closer to us. We're all freaking out and then everything went silent. After a minute or two, we start hearing jazz music coming from down the hallway. Along with the music, we could hear people talking and dishes rattling. It would honestly sound like a party was happening in that room. Keep in mind, power is out. Nobody wanted to move, but my sister and I grabbed a candle and went to go check it out. As we got closer, everything suddenly stopped. We looked inside the room and no one was there. There were no dishes, no signs of anyone having had been there at all. We ran back to the living room and told everyone what we saw or what we didn't see. And then is when something strange happened.

Even more strange than what's already happening?

I began talking, but my voice changed.

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And I was saying words that didn't feel like they were coming from me. This is what I said. Keep in mind, this is Jasmine. Jasmine says, "Jasmine is such a pretty little girl. She's so smart. I see a boat, a rock, and a fire. They will think Josh is at work, but he's actually home asleep. Someone will need to save him or he is going to die. I don't want him to end up like me."

I would calmly place my things down and I would exit the house and say, "So sorry about your possession. I'll catch you tomorrow when it's lighter."

But the message, "I see a boat, a rock, and a fire. They will think Josh is at work, but he's actually home asleep. Someone will need to save him or he is going to die. He's home asleep. This is This is a riddle. But then a rock-a-boat it makes me think water. But if he's asleep Okay, keep going. I am clearly not saving him. I can't figure out the riddle.

My mom immediately grabbed me. Once it stopped and I came to, I had no memory

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of saying it. Everyone had to tell me what I said. My voice was back to normal. My family was completely freaked out. But my mom kept saying it had to mean something. All of it had to mean something. My mom and aunt were able to piece it together. So my sister had that dream about the fire.

Mhm.

And I was talking about Josh to warn Josh. Josh is my cousin's cousin. He has two sisters. One of his sister passed away in a car accident when she was very young, around 14 years old. The message said, "I don't want him to end up like me." My mom and family believes that she was speaking through me.

Wow.

them about what was going to happen. Because 4 years later here's the event that took place.

4 years?

Josh's house, which is by a lake with a large rock where his boat sat caught fire. That day Josh was not feeling well, so he went home from work and fell asleep. Everyone thought he was at work and that the house was empty. But at

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that moment, they remembered what my mom had warned them about 4 years earlier and realized he had to be home. Because they remembered, Josh was saved.

[gasps]

Oh, I have so many chills.

That experience was so intense and emotional. I still get chills every time I think about it. When I found your podcast, I knew I had to share it. Thank you both so much for giving me and other spooky people a safe place to share these experiences. Stay spooky. Much love, Jasmine.

Well, thank god they remembered it cuz when When you said 4 years later, I was like like you forget so many things.

But I feel like it was like Josh's sister picked this weekend because everyone was together and spent four whole days

continue to talk about the weird thing that happened.

four days increasingly like picking up energy and haunting to deliver this final message

and make it super memorable. I mean unreal.

It's also just like a cousin's cousin.

Mhm.

Like I don't even it's incredible that the family is spreading news and

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information quickly enough that he was able to be saved.

What?

I think if something happened to my cousin's cousin, I would learn about it like two months later.

I guess, but if like your cousin if your cousin's cousin was with you. So your cousin's with you and hears this whole experience. They're going to go back and tell their other cousin that it's about

Okay, so it wasn't necessarily like her family being like you got to make sure he's not in the house. So like the news had spread enough

Because Jasmine

haunting and so

Jasmine's four cousins came down. So it was like eight people in this house. They were all together and I feel like Josh's sister who had passed away knew how powerful her mom were that they needed them to be like the deliverers.

That's why it had to happen four years earlier. Cuz

so wild.

Dang. Ooh, for her to just be like possessed in that way?

Jasmine's so pretty. What a pretty little girl. Um I see a boat, a rock, a fire and Josh is going to die. Save him.

Literally.

It's like you start with a compliment.

sandwich.

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[laughter]

Like everything is fine here. Oh, she's so sweet.

Murder.

He's going to die.

Fire. Imminent [clears throat] death. That Yeah. It does sound like a riddle, doesn't it? Even though it's really just a description.

I was like it's kind of straightforward.

But like

a boat, a rock, a fire. Everyone will think he'll he's at work, but he's actually at home. Someone needs to save him.

Yeah.

I feel like it's pretty straightforward. [laughter]

With the context of knowing that he lives on a lake with a boat, has a rock. But I was thinking like okay, well I was thinking that there are two parties involved. It's like there is a big crash somewhere of a boat that is on fire that crashed into a rock. Almost like Mothman, I was thinking. Like that is the sign that something else is going to happen and Josh is going to die when that other event happens, which I was like, that's so complicated. You know? But

A life was saved.

was saved. That's like incredible.

And that's so when I was looking up stories for this episode, it reminded me so I kept thinking about that one story

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we read, oh my gosh, so many years ago and I'm going to butcher it, but basically I think there was like two people camping by a lake and they were on a boat and they kept getting like intuition like hits of like, you have to go left, even though they like would typically go right and then they found like a mother and son

people they needed help.

drowning. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh my god. Ooh.

Can't tell you what episode that was. Don't know how to search it in the box because those are the details I remember. Maybe someone else does.

Uh, but I love all that stuff where it's like spirit intervention and you're just in the perfect place where you're like not questioning things, you're just kind of going with it.

Yeah.

And people are safe.

lives. Yeah.

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haunted lake

Okay, well, I have an email from our listener Justine about a haunted lake. Lovely.

Hi ladies.

Love your podcast.

I've been into the paranormal since a young age having my first experience with a ghost when I was in second grade. And then I have been visiting haunted places and requesting to live in haunted dorm rooms in college.

And just

creeping people out ever since.

I love that.

I'm sure it's not an official request, but it's like

I guess most people wouldn't request it so they'd be like, "Sure, I guess if you want it."

any haunted rooms here that you could assign me?" Like, "Who's this Who is this freshman we admitted?"

I wouldn't want to give it to someone who requested cuz I'd be like, "You're going to do a Ouija board or something in here."

Yeah.

I don't think I have any special gifts, but I do feel things and see things all the time.

That's

I feel like that's the special gift.

[laughter]

But the story I wanted to share is one that is about a lake

that my family has lived on for almost 45 plus years. Lake Oh. Sacandaga in Upstate New York.

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Sure.

Hold on. Let me do a a pronunciation thing. Sacandaga. I think I did it right.

Nice.

Yay!

[laughter]

Watch me be wrong. I'm celebrating too early. All right. Lake Sacandaga was previously known as the Sacandaga Valley and it only became a lake in the 1920s when the Sacandaga River was

Good thing I looked it up because not saying it

100 times, yeah.

when the river was dammed to protect the area from constant flooding. Many people, both living and dead, were displaced by the flood. People had to move their lives, their homes, everything to higher ground. While they were given ample time to make this move, they did have to dig up some graves and move those graves to higher ground as well. On a clear day, on the boat, you can see all the way to the bottom of the lake. You can see railroad tracks, house foundations. It is super eerie. Anyway, here is my story. My grandparents bought their house on the lake in the '70s after stumbling upon the lake after vacationing in the a bit more populated Lake George area about 20

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minutes away.

Mhm.

They purchased their house for 10k, which is insane to begin with, but it came with all the furniture. It was a super quick sale and they were delighted that they could have a summer home to share with their six kids and the generations to come. They moved in the next week and the furniture remained there. And up until just a few years ago, it was all the same furniture.

Wow, that's a long time to keep

Wow. Furniture that you've inherited.

I bet like the couch had like a permanent like indent where people sat.

I've been going up to the lake my entire life. My sister and I loved going up there, especially loved spending time with my grandparents and baking and boating and hiking in the woods, going into the town, shopping for antiques, and my grandpa was a true handyman and loved to repurpose items that he found around the property and create fun rustic projects around the yard.

So cool.

He stumbled upon a pile of what appeared to be pavers or like cobblestones a quarter of a mile into the woods of the property. He saw this as a great opportunity to create a perfectly

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manicured pathway leading up the side of the house to the back patio. My sister and I eagerly agreed to help him. Helping grandpa usually ended with a special trip to the local Creamy Freeze.

Five.

And we were 10, so we really weren't that much help.

[laughter]

But we would carry one flat per trip. And on the second trip, my sister was selecting her paver to carry down the yard when she noticed that there was a writing on one of the stones.

Oh, that's a cool.

She couldn't make out what it said and asked my grandpa to take a look. And now thinking back, the pavers were all different sizes, different shapes, different colors of gray and brown. Some had words on them, some were rectangles, some were very small ovals, some were broken. My grandpa could not make out what the stone said either and just told us to lay them down writing side down on the hill. And we sure wanted ice cream so we continued to do exactly that and then carry the pavers and create this pathway. And now, again, to be honest, looking back, I believe that that house and the surrounding woods was a hotbed of activity. However, it wasn't until my sister and I helped my grandpa with that

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project that I started to notice more and more. I was always scared to sleep alone there. It's so funny to be like, this place was scary, like there was something off about this place and I was scared to sleep there, but I have the best memories and loved going there.

Right. You can have both.

Yeah, you can. I was especially scared to sleep by myself and not accompanied by a sibling or a cousin. My grandparents were always downstairs and I would dread the night when I would have to go upstairs to my usual room to sleep. Every night I would fall asleep, I'd have terrible dreams, which would result in me being up at all hours of the night just laying in bed listening to the sounds of the woods. And each night I would hear this sound, which I can still hear in my memory today, which sounded like someone hammering a chain. And the timing was always the exact same time.

Interesting.

Each morning I would wake up, I would look for some sort of explanation outside, anything, like a branch on a pipe, something hitting a swing, something that could make that noise. But I could never find any rational explanation.

Scrooge, is that you?

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My sister and my grandparents never heard the sound either. It was only me in the middle of the night hearing this chain, having these nightmares. And I'd have nightmares of my sister drowning in the lake and then running home and then the house being on fire.

Oh my gosh.

So, I spent many nights upstate New York sleepless. And this went on for years.

A few years later, one summer Friday morning, a car pulled into our driveway. It's not the type of place where someone's just going to make a U-turn in our driveway. So, they pulled up, got out, started to walk towards us. It was two older men and a girl around 10 or 11. They were the house's previous residents. They moved out suddenly after tragedy had struck the family, and they were forced to sell the house quickly.

Was there a fire?

We welcomed them into the house and sat and talked to them for a bit, and they told us the history of the rocks on the fireplace. And they were so happy to see that a family like ours had moved in and was enjoying the house as much as they did. My grandpa then took them to the backyard to show them everything we had changed, pointed out the outhouse that

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was still standing, and of course was happy to show them his new crafty walkway that he'd added a few years back that we helped with.

My gosh.

One of the men was speechless. He said, "Where did you get these stones?" My grandpa explained that he'd found them in the backwoods. This man knew exactly where they were from. He had come across them years prior. And that is when he told us they were gravestones.

[laughter]

Are you serious?

them there, ran away, and never looked back. He assumed that they were moved there before the flood, that no one had created another cemetery for the misplaced graves. And after learning this information, my grandpa decided not to move the stones. And yeah, paranormal activity certainly continued. I could even see figures walking in the woods, and the doors would open and slam, and the house would creak and the dreams.

gravestones.

Gravestones. They would walk on gravestones on their way up to their door.

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Present day, the house was redone. The stones were returned to the woods.

[laughter]

Activity has finally stopped or maybe I just don't notice it anymore. Well, that's the story of the creepy lake. I hope you enjoyed it. See you on the other side, Justine.

[laughter]

I'm speechless.

Not where you thought it was going to go?

Not at all. Cuz one of the dreams that she was having, was it related to the family and how they had to leave under tragedy? I don't know, but the tombstones, I mean that's

Or could have been like anyone who

Who died?

Who died there. Yeah, that there was like a fire and the drowning cuz there's so many different tombstones.

Which also just makes me sad for all of those spirits that they're just stuck in their tragedies.

That's true. Or maybe this was like their attempt at being like, "Hey, do some investigating."

Can you realize you're walking on my grave every day?

[laughter]

Or that you're going to solve my murder.

Solve my murder. [clears throat] Or just yeah, bring some awareness to the little stepping stone pathway to the graveyard.

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I love that that was used as like a or just like that they were repurposed. Maybe not as a walkway, but like

But in a way it's like representing being brought home. Like a pathway home.

Oh, that's Oh, that's sweet. But I guess they didn't love it cuz they were haunting [laughter] them like crazy.

And then once it once the papers were or I keep calling them papers, once this the gravestones were returned to the woods

Mhm.

activity stopped.

Interesting. I think if I were a ghost attached to one of those headstones, I would make my headstone almost be like a whoopee cushion. So anytime like someone stepped on it Yeah. [laughter] Cuz I'm a teenage boy. I have one more story to end this episode on, but we also have bonus story to read on Patreon. So I'll read a story here for everyone.

Um but if you want more

with Sabrina.

If you want one more, there will be another on Patreon.

Perfect.

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working on a haunted steam boat

right, this is from our listener Heather, and I was looking for a story about like haunted cruise ship because I knew that would be your horror. But I found from Heather, I work on a haunted steamboat. Ooh, yeah. Very cool. I feel like steamboats are kind of rare. No, it's like a super historic. It's like got an awesome story. Okay. Hi ghostesses. Let me just tell you that your podcast changed my life. I found you in 2023 after you were on Celebrity Memoir Book Club, which they rebranded to Good Notice Things Podcast, I think. I think that's the new name, the rebrand. Ashley and Claire. But I spent the rest of the summer binging your archives. Okay, I'm going to I'll by saying I have the best job ever. I work on a haunted steamboat. It is called the

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Belle of Louisville and it's located in Louisville, Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Derby and all the bourbon. The Belle

of a lot of hauntings.

So many hauntings. The Belle was actually built in 1914 and she started out as the Idlewild. That was what she was named.

[clears throat]

In the 1940s, she had a captain named Ben Winters who was known for having some slightly shady friends and these friends were doing illegal gambling on the boat one night which resulted in the police raiding the boat. The shock of this gave Ben a heart attack which he later died from. And it was his dying wish to name the boat the Avalon. It is considered bad luck by some to rename a boat but considering we're the oldest steamboat of our kind in the world, things are going okay for us, knock on wood. Ben Winters is rumored to haunt the boat. But that's not even the story. The story that I ran here to tell you. Okay, a little more context. Our boat was the Avalon until 1962. And then the city of Louisville bought her and eventually restored her to her adorable

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turn of the century greatness. And this is when she got her third name change to the Belle of Louisville. And you will see her all over our city, murals, logos, and in random memorabilia and antique shops.

I feel like normally I don't love a name change when it has to do with something that's like super historic but I love this name.

Yeah, the Belle of Louisville.

Cuz it it comes with so much adoration.

Yes. Every year we have a big steamboat race that's a part of the Kentucky Derby Festival.

How fun.

We're kind of Tik Tok and Instagram famous for an instrument we have on our boat called the steam

calliope.

It's this really loud organ type of instrument that steamboats would have back in the day in order to announce their presence before the internet existed.

Wait, what?

They would start to play

the organ?

Basically, yeah. The calliope.

like Phantom of the Opera music.

nautical.

Which is very Pirates of the Caribbean on David Jones David Davy Jones' boat. Okay, so they would start playing when they got close to the destination and you could hear it for like 10 miles

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or so. People in these river towns would flock to the shore to watch the steamboat coming in when they hear it from far away. So, I love this. There's this beauty and nostalgia of it. So now we play musical requests and some pop music on the

Calipe.

And I'm probably saying that wrong. And people love it. They also love our player who's an actual angel named Martha. So when the boat was leaving the dock today, I ran into one of our mates and he asked me if Martha had told me what happened to her over the weekend.

Ooh.

And I had just spoken to Martha and she hadn't mentioned it. So Martha and I were texting back and forth to coordinate some new songs for her to play and later that afternoon she mentioned that someone told her she had to tell me the story. So here it is.

to know her setlist though because I'm like what do they play?

They play pop music.

But like is it pop music from like the 70s and 80s or is she playing Pink Pony Club?

I bet we're doing Pink Pony Club. Belle of Louisville. They play modern and pop hits. They play Golden by K-pop Demon

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Hunters. Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. Here, this is the K-pop. That's so cool.

I love it.

Yeah, when you get to like the upbeat part Yeah. I'm like okay, that that's like fine. But the beginning of it I was like oh my god, this is like the opening to like a like campy 70s

horror movie.

horror movie.

On the steamboat?

Yeah.

I love it. Okay. So Martha tells me the story. It was right before a cruise and Martha was playing a selection of songs like she usually does. She'll come on board, play a few numbers, and then head home. She was on her way downstairs to kick off a peaceful evening and cool off from being on top of the deck of a steamboat in Kentucky humidity when she ran into one of our engineers. Our engineers are in charge of checking the steam pressure

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and running the engines during a cruise, as well as maintaining the engines, which date back to the 1890s. This is like wait Yeah, the bell wasn't even built in 1914, so these engines are older than the bell itself. When it's safe to come down and check things out, people are welcome to come down and explore and chit-chat with the engineers. However, when we're taking off, turning, and docking, we use a yellow rope to signal the people that the engineers are busy and they can't go down to the engine room yet. So, the engineer asked Martha if she could put the yellow rope up on her way out so that they could do some work. So, she went to the top of the staircase to the engine room to do so. At the top of the staircase is a closet. And as Martha got closer to the closet, she heard someone kicking and pounding on the inside of the door of the closet screaming, "Help me out! I'm stuck!" screaming. Martha ran to go get one of our engineers to unlock the closet because they have the key. They went back, got the key, opened the door, and found nothing.

What?

This is actually a linen closet full of shelves that a person cannot fit into.

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I have heard so many stories that our engine room is home to one angry ghost on the bell. It's the ghost of a deck hand who we call Floyd. According to legend, before a moonlight cruise many decades ago, Captain Winters sent Floyd down to the engine room, and he was somewhere where he wasn't supposed to be, so when the boat was ordered to go full steam ahead Yes, that's where the saying comes from. Floyd was crushed

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, I hate that.

Exactly one deck below where the closet that Martha heard the trapped entity. I'm curious if it was like a male voice saying I'm stuck cuz he literally was crushed.

Oh.

I went on the boat right after getting Martha's text, and let me tell you, I got chills and goosebumps and the hairs on my arms went standing straight up. This is only the latest of a long list of ghost stories, and the ghost I feel the most connection to is Gladys, a beautiful young woman who sadly disappeared right off the side of the boat in the 1930s. And no one knew the name of the warm female spirit who haunted our ballroom, but I was able to

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piece Gladys's story together through old newspaper reports.

You're a historian, too?

So cool. Maybe next time I'll write in with her story. Yes, Heather, please. Um if anyone is interested writing the haunted steamer Belle of Louisville, you actually can still go. We go out on the water several times a week, so if you're ever there, I would totally have you on board to see if you get the same spooky vibes that I do. Keep on doing what you're doing. See you on the other side, or hopefully on my haunted steamboat where we could do a little seance.

Heather,

Can you imagine?

How fun.

Wait. We got to save this email for later.

[laughter]

Let's not forget about this offer.

That's the like a historic steamboat getting to do an investigation on it. That seems so like one-of-a-kind opportunity.

has to play Kesha.

We're going to give Martha a setlist to [laughter] to play during our seance.

Actually, that's amazing. Yeah.

Aw, this is so cool.

That's so cool.

I hope you meant it when you invited us, because I think we're going to take you

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up on this.

we have it in writing, so

We do.

This is a contract.

Yeah.

Legal.

[laughter]

Get it notarized.

of your word?

Well, but you're like mad at Heather.

[laughter]

We're like already questioning

keep your promise.

[laughter]

Wait, that's so fun. The Belle of Louisville.

Wow, that is so cool.

Yeah, bodies of water. This wasn't that scary. I mean, we had some like haunting moments.

No.

We started out scarier than we ended.

Yeah.

The Bosnian

SW

Walker.

Yeah.

Flesh pedestrian, that was scary.

Walker.

Ooh, that's a scary title. It's like night walkers.

Yeah. But I mean like the sea itself I just like a video of like the sea.

That's The letter C itself is terrifying.

C

[laughter]

I start with C.

I actually like the letter C. Q is my favorite letter though.

I [laughter] like Q too.

It's so cute.

It is.

And it's not used enough. There's not enough words with the letter Q in it.

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It's like the the person at the party like never really speaks up but then when they actually do you're like oh my god you've got such like amazing zingers and like you're you're hilarious.

a great story.

Let's be friends.

We love Q.

We love Q.

[laughter]

What's your least favorite?

I've not put thought into this.

I could skip an S and an R.

Okay. Rude.

I don't dislike S and R but I just

Get rid of the S and the R and

I forgot about [laughter]

I hate C.

You know what you know what I hate

I hate S O R I [laughter] N D N R. I don't hate any letters.

Yeah, numbers are a different story.

I actually quite like all numbers I think. Eight's my favorite. I love eight.

Interesting.

So satisfying.

Just a

Eight.

Mhm.

It eight.

[laughter]

Eight eight baby.

All right we're going to get the we're going to cut it cut ourselves off.

Colors colors

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[laughter]

what are colors what else?

[gasps]

Days of the week.

Oh man.

Thursday.

[laughter]

Shout out.

All right if you want another story another ghost story if you want to get rid of our ramblings join us on Patreon. We're going to read one more story and I'll give a little teaser it's about a sunbathing ghost a boy at the pond and the hat man trying to get our listener.

Mhm.

Got it all. So see you on Patreon it's for our only phantoms and it's it comes out 30 minutes after the normal episode is. So, [laughter] see you over there. But until then, we love you all. Thank you for being here. We're very grateful for you. Please rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts. Subscribe to us on YouTube or watch on YouTube. Join our Patreons and

Our Patreons?

Yes. Patreon Well, it's kind I was going to say Patreon and subscriptions because they exist other ways, but Patreons. We we recommend Patreon.

And thank you Jamie Ryan for editing and producing our podcast.

We love you all.

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And we will

See you on the other side.

Very smooth.