Ghosts Among Us | True & Terrifying Hauntings and Heartfelt Spirit Visits (x253)

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very spooky hi we want to tell you about something a couple of things there's a few things because it's October and this is two girlman ghost so we have some updates and the first one is something that we do every year it's a Halloween costume contest and we give out trophies yeah we do I don't even know what the trophies this year look like I should have opened them and debuted them that's okay no it's G to be a surprise It's a Spooky surprise I can see them out of the corner of my eye it's exciting we love seeing the costumes every single year and so we're going to choose three of the best costumes this year and you'll get something special from us and

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a trophy to enter into the contest there's really nothing much you need to do other than tag us in your costume photo on Instagram yep whether it's your story or your feed Post Feed post will be able to look at probably better better for considerations definitely so that we can actually go back and it doesn't disappear after 24 hours but yeah get your game on go play all right Allstars we have another update for you as well and that is that on our patreon every single Tuesday we do something called campfire stories where we all show up to this live event on zoom and we bring people on stage and they tell us our ghost stories our ghost stories they're ours on they tell them to us they tell collect your ghost stories they tell us our ghost they tell oh my God they tell us their ghost stories and it's super fun we do it every single Tuesday and so we thought for that Tuesday right before Halloween October 29th can open it up to everybody

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so everyone can join and we can just have an immense Gathering of haunted people an immense Gathering so we will post that on our socials and it's a zoom link that you will be able to join Campfire story is just so much fun actually one of my favorite memories from campfire stories is one of our listeners came on probably a year and a half ago or maybe more and they told us about all these hauntings that they were experiencing and everyone that was on that campfire stories set intentions it was like a group manifestation we were all witches we are all witches and we sent Good Vibes to our listeners way and we were like let's cleanse the space only positive energy is surrounding you no hauntings or nothing dark or evil is allowed to enter her space she came back four or five months later and said since that night not a single haunting has happened which is so wild I mean I believe it cuz it's everybody's energy together yeah we're powerful over there my favorite moment was when our listener

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Emma was telling us about her haunted apartment complex and we were like do you think your roommates and your neighbors would be open to a seance and Emma came back that very next week with everyone from her apartment building gathered around a Ouija board and we all watched them connect with the dead yeah we had a live Seance that we watched Emma do so we never really know what's going to happen on campfire stories and then we had another Emma who came on with ducks one time I think it was while on we have tarot cards being pulled there's so many different things so if you want to get rid of some dark energy and call upon the energy and power of the two girls one ghost Community or if you have any ghost stories that you want to share with us please come join us on campfire stories it will be available for everyone and then after that if you if you like what you see join us on patreon every Tuesday for live ghost stories at 800 PM Eastern yes we live on the Eastern

Lady Finley’s Near-Death and Haunting Encounters

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5m Pacific and it's always available for replay as well on patreon love we are seated we are s begin welcome this is two girls one ghost two girls one ghost and we are your spooky witches that's Ken and I'm Sabrina and this is an encounters episode in the month of October MH and oh my BR strap is showing oh scandalous we're getting I'm dressed already oh my goodness in the first two minutes I'm going to expose myself to all of you just like Sven is yeah look at that pelvis fully exposed well your head is blocking his pelvis for privacy sake you know we can't get banned on YouTube right yeah nudity my goodness come after used R this episode actually we're taking a different

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approach this week because we know we traditionally do a lot more of the scary especially in the month of October we've in years's past we've gone a little bit hard being like well it's spooky season so let's just go dark and scary and honestly that has kind of opened us up perpetuated some hauntings that we weren't anticipating having so this year we decided to do a sweeter episode yes I think all of the October were episodes like the research ones are spooky and then we're doing back and forth with the encounters so you get a little bit of everything yeah first they're spooky then they're sweet right that's breath of uh I can relax and then the demons are like haha you think so but you can't but today you can right well maybe maybe we don't know where you live we don't know if people have demons no but hopefully Sven our our resident ghost will come and visit you and protect you

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correct at least today we hope so would you like to begin yes thank you for asking okay I also have the sticky blood you were eating earlier on Mak yeah because you touched the brain I touched the brain I'll rub the blood off no big deal oh [ __ ] the blood is all over my thing I'm back get there oh it dripped it's a bloody bloody Tuesday over here we let the blood drip down here petunia you can sit on top of the brain oh petunia

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behave okay that's how that will be okay I have one from our listener lady Finley lady Finley a proper name sweet episode in our witchy Cottage Love It of the basement in the cellar in the cellar hello ladies okay I just want to say that I came from a long line of witches from across the world and have had ghost experiences since I was a little kid most of the women in our family have dreams of what is going to happen like I

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dreamed I had twins when I was in Middle School and I dreamt of them again the year before I had them my mother had a dream of her mother who died when she was 23 coming to her to let her know that she was having a girl me my mother also thinks that I might be her mother reincarnated because I look and talk just like her WAOW but let's get to my ghost stories when I was 6 years old I fell out of my Treehouse and CED cracked my head open ooh once my parents got me to the hospital I died and they brought me back what holy [ __ ] this is not this is so casually just like dropped in here I thought okay wow but the she's alive you're alive we know that cuz you're emailing us but my God this is that's why I didn't think that they were going to die right no no one expects to die and then come back no after that I would have episodes that doctors could not explain

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it always happened at night and it was really scary for me and my family okay this does get sweet I promise there's just some spooky things my mom said my entire eyes would turn black kind of like blackeyed children and I would scream and I would remember every episode because I would be in my room but I couldn't see my mom or dad and weird things would happen like snakes would come underneath my door or men in black suits or little men would talk to me in the ceiling what in the world and then once I was a teenager the episodes just stopped and then I started to feel a presence of spirits wherever we lived now this is the weirdest experience I've had with the spirit if it even was a ghost I'm not too sure I moved to San Francisco when I was 18 and I lived in a studio flat with another girl we met for the first time the day we both moved in I arrived a couple hours earlier than her and the building manager showed me the flat walking through the door I immediately got a chill and a bad Vibe but I chocked it up to moving to a new city and an old building I noticed the windows were brand new which was weird cuz the entire building was from the early

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1900s and then the manager told me that there was a driveby shooting a month prior and only this flat had the windows broken jeez should have been a warning yeah but also you're like well it happened once what are the chances it's going to happen again okay so the sweeter part of the story is the fact that she died and came back to life CU okay well we tried but we're already in it to I do think the other two I picked these so long ago that I forgot but the other two definitely are sweet this feels CL classic we we create like

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a rule and then you somehow just are like I'm not doing that I swear I tried I really like thought I had done everything sweeter okay I'm so sorry oh man anyway this should have been a warning but walking around I noticed a large Closet off the bathroom so you have to walk in then pull the string down for the light to come on mhm when I say I knew something lived in that closet I mean it it was Pitch Black

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and ice cold I never wanted to open it again started moving in anyways and a couple hours later I meet my flat mate she's from LA and we become instant friends that's sweet that is really sweet that's sweet that's a sweet one a couple months go by and I leave for the weekend to see my family and when I get back I notice that no one's been home so I called my flatmate and she told me that she stayed at a friend's house the entire weekend that night we were both sleeping when I started to feel something pull my blankets from the end of my bed at first I wasn't fully awake and I just pulled my blanket back up but something yanked then back down and I shot up in bed right then from the room next door my flatmate screams stop jumping on my bed what ew I hate this I jumped out of my bed I turned on all the lights and at this point we're both shaking and don't know what to do I asked her if she noticed something wrong with the flat when she moved in and she told me she hated The Vibes the moment she stepped in and also she told me that while I was gone for the weekend that

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first night she woke up to something breathing on her neck which is why she went and spent the weekend at a friends oh my God oh my God we moved out that week whatever lived in that flat was pure evil yeah thanks lady see you on the other side lady Finley hey lady Finley survived and moved out the entity didn't follow that's true and well in the beginning was sweet with sort of like the premonitions and dreams about children next Generations we have that there's a and then fell out of a treeh house cracked her head open survived died and came back to life although the dying and coming back to life triggered a lot of this other unexplained phenomena I am curious though if like okay this is only because my mindset we've heard multiple stories where people have been sick and then see aliens or believe that aliens have come and saved them and doctors can't just can't pinpoint what's wrong with them and then all of a sudden they have this Alien Encounter and then they're

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magically better what if these little green these little green species yeah we're like we'll save you but we're going to keep visiting you it just makes me wonder about the eyes going black though cuz like I feel like there were a lot of alien sort of encounters where like that potentially could be part of it but the black eyes and just it feels it feels like there's feels like what's what's this person's name lady Finley I wanted to say lady inton which I think is from uh bridon bridon yeah lady L I'll call her cuz I'm not going to remember Lady Lady F my bra guys I'm pregnant that's my excuse I'm literally Dory I have no excuse for why I didn't follow it does make me feel like they were just thrown into everything in the Paranormal all at once it was like oh yeah like I almost picture like the Alice in Wonderland where she's falling down the kind of like psychedelic hole and it's all trippy I just like picture that where it's like aliens and little

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goblins like like the fun house like where every mirror is a different thing and all these enties are just like coming through oops oopsie sorry to us got violent got violent sorry sorry I'm see I'm sweet violently sweet got violent sorry that's me okay well I think I did pick sweet ones although I guess we'll find out cuz I too picked this a while ago so I'll start out with one that doesn't sound sweet and it's called I knew my mother was going to die no that doesn't sound sweet but I imagine there's there's something something hopeful hi Karen Sabrina and Leia I recently discovered your podcast on a recommendation from one of my co-workers and I'm obsessed heyo par game I love how you would no way you do what we asked I've slowly started binging at work and

Premonitions About a Mother’s Death

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let me tell you that it has made the days go by so much quicker it's so amazing and spooky and your title always gives me a checkle anyways down to the story when I was 13 me and my parents lived in Guatemala and we had just moved down there since my mom wasn't in very good health and her treatment was a lot cheaper down there I was done with school for the year and I begged my mom for us to go back to Denver where we were from she finally agreed to it and decided to come back for my brother's birthday we came back but my mom became very ill almost immediately no we were supposed to stay for 3 months but about 3 weeks in my mom just couldn't take it and she told my dad that we had to go back they figured that the easiest way would be to drive back my mom dad and I were supposed to hit the road on Tuesday Monday night my mom pulled siblings one by one and said goodbye to each of them that night I dreamt of my mom she was in our kitchen at the table drinking coffee and told me get ready it's all going to change the next morning on our way to get the cars that we were going to take I told my dad that I didn't want to drive with them and me and my mom got

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into this huge fight about whether or not I should go with them my mom and I were extremely close and I wasn't really rebellious at 13 years old so the simple fact that I argued with her was really out of the norm the entire time I was fighting with her I had this overwhelming feeling that I just couldn't leave with them she finally gave up she told me to stay with my brother and as she pulled away I had this feeling that I was just never going to see her again oh this was on a Tuesday the next night I dreamt of a wake I didn't know whose wake it was but I saw one of my older sisters paa and my brother and people were giving them condolences I kept asking who had died but the people just didn't know that I was there the next day I dreamt of a funeral in our small town in Guatemala and I saw my dad's two older sisters Wendy and Veronica and my dad I heard them talking and asking where I was it was like again they couldn't see that I was there we got a call the next day my mother had had a heart attack on the road she had refused used to let my dad take her to the hospital and they were

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on the road to Guatemala I stood there in shock I thought to myself I think my mom is going to die after our fight she wasn't very happy with me we'd not left things on good terms whatsoever so I freaked out I tried to call her but she told me that it was fine we were fine but she had to go at this point my family was in a panic and Wendy decided to meet our parents in Guatemala she booked a flight that very same day and the next day we get a call from my dad they had me it to Guatemala but my mom had another heart attack and now she was in intensive care my other two sisters and I booked flights the very next day when we got to the airport paa wasn't able to get on the plane because her passport had expired I looked at her and I told her to take care of Eduardo our brother the entire flight I was very uneasy and at exactly 6:10 I had this sharp cramp on my side so sharp I began to throw up oh my gosh when we landed we were greeted by my auntie with a very somber face telling me my mother was no longer with us she told us her official

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time of death was at 610 a few days so connected I know I have like chills all over my body look I yeah yeah everywhere a few days went by and we had the funeral we get to the cemetery and it was straight out of the dream that I saw Wendy Veronica my dad looking for me in the crowd of people everything was exactly the same down to what everyone was wearing whoa that night I jumped of my mom and she was in a pink dress her favorite and she told me she was sorry that she had been short with me but she knew her time was coming and she knew that she just couldn't let go of this world if I was still in her mind she told me that she loved me and she would always be there for me I think back to this a lot and I like to think that she just was ready for heaven and I played my role in passing her on to the next life oh see you on the other side Jackie Jackie I'm so sorry that's so so tough but you clearly have this like beautiful beautiful connection with your mom to

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understand and know as much as you did to to know the outfits right the dream of the detail it was multiple days long basically like picking up on what was about to happen and the universe like prepping yeah what was to come and I do wonder if the reason Jackie had the feeling of like not going in the car with him was because like her mom said it would have been harder for her right like it was almost a an intuition and a gut feeling that her mom was almost giving her right she needed to pass when she passed yeah and if Jackie had been there maybe they would have actually gone to the hospital that first time and maybe her mom would have passed but it might have been a few weeks later and there might have been more pain and more yeah more emotion emotion yeah and it was supposed to be when it was supposed to be oh it's so sad it is really really horribly sad but my God I'm curious if anyone else in Jackie's family had dreams or if it was just Jackie yeah if any one else felt something at 610

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that's what's so crazy like to feel so sick you're throwing up to feel so much pain in your body it's like a piece of you being ripped away which it feels like it was because they had such a strong connection and then like I'm glad that Jackie both got the conversation with her mom where her mom's like don't worry about the fight we're fine yeah and then after she passed her mom being like I love you showing up in her pink dress and her favorite her favorite dress sorry I keep banging this in my elbow oops and I keep sticking my fingers in the blood the blood the two tiny spots of blood that you just keep getting they're perfectly where I want to be I have one from dear draw not Dedra that's literally what with the Emojis okay and it's called My Henry my name is deerra you can use my name in fact you kind of have to all will be revealed soon okay then it says before I start my entirely biographical tale I have two disclaimers that must be established one deardra not Dedra

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nothing against my poor misguided misnomer sisters but it is important to me I'm gonna start saying that to people who spell their name the same as me but pronounce it Karine yeah like double n baby it's in no offense to my poor misguided Mis and two I only have one fear in life and that is drowning and in particular being trapped underwater and not being able to surface to get air I have always had a spirit following me my entire life

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his name is Henry and he would talk to me when I was very young and would appear to me early in the morning I top my bookshelf as a floating head oh I can imagine that yes that sounds frightening to most people but to me as a toddler a small child or even a tween it was totally normal we would talk daily about life and he would always make sure that he made it clear he wanted me to be a good girl lucky for him those formative years found me a quite compliant child I didn't develop my Keen sense of SASS and smartassery well into adolescence after

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I wised up and started thinking hm why the actual [ __ ] is an old crusty man coming into my room to lecture me on the societal Norms of our outdated patriarchy I don't know it's a good question but reflecting back I can remember he actually resembled my dad so that's kind of how I thought of the old gezer my very own not at all creepy Guillotine victimized Jiminy Cricket grandfather great-grandfather Maybe great uncle just floating head fast forward to the pandemic I had lots of time on my hands and nothing better to do than Deep dive into Google researching any and all topics that struck my fancy into the we hours of the night as I'm sure a lot of us did during that time I have a degree in theater so naturally one of my Dives revolved around theater from the 19th century Ipson Shaw totoo you know nice light reading for Insomniac but why the 19th century who the hell knows but that's where I was and that's where I ended up and here is where things get interesting while I was

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slogging through this turgid dismal information I was startled to find an image of an actor from the 19th century named Henry Irving who was one and the same as my childhood bookshelf creeper what I knew instantly that this was the face of my friend there was even a painting of him peering at a young woman and it's just his head in the painting what the hell he's like the OG Elvis like when everyone dies and they say that they saw Elvis on the other side or is this a past life connection yeah this is so interesting a couple of factoids that I learned Sir Henry Irving does indeed look like my dear old dad with his stoic sober but benevolent gaze and he seemed to be a pretty cool dude in his time first actor kned and all that [ __ ] very famous indeed and had the paramor to back it up he had his own kids but he pretty much disregarded them and one of his sons drowned in a shipwreck e he actually much preferred the family

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of his professional comrades and the son of Ellen Terry Edward Gordon Craig Craig became pretty well known himself in the theater and peppered the world with his illegitimate children one of whom he fed with the famous dancer isidora Duncan now if I've lost you I wouldn't be surprised but truly hold on to your asses because that child that they had together was named dearra deardra deardra of the [ __ ] Sorrows herself another hor ancient tale from Ireland that you should read but does he haunt everyone named dearra I don't know in the painting of him floating as a head who was the girl in that painting dearra or is dearra I think dearra is the okay ready hold on to your butts so when dearra was seven and her younger brother Patrick was three or four they were on and outing with their Nanny and chaffeur on the River on the sen because their mother isidora was in Paris working while driving up a hill by the river their car stalled and the show Cher stepped out of the car to fix the problem when he did

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so he did not set the parking brake and the car rolled backwards into the river no drowning deardra Patrick and their Nanny all three of them oh my gosh so horrible it's hard for me to even write about this or talk about the terror that would instill in someone I an excellent swimmer and in fact I would say I'm a better swimmer than most people I know I am never afraid of my own abilities when swimming in open water or in a pool but I can't under any circumstances even watch shows where people go into caves underwater I can't watch any footage of people exploring ship wrecks I can barely go snorkeling because again it's not coming up to the surface to breathe being trapped underwater has to be one of the most terrifying ways to die so I do know that I will never explore a shipwreck and I will always carry a window shattering tool when I travel on Bridges Henry continues to be present in my life but mostly in very subtle ways I can't help but think that his spirit energy stumbled upon my soul saw my name

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as deerra attached himself to me for my protection guiding me to the theater and ultimately to the picture I stumbled across or maybe maybe dearra you are his daughter from a past life it feels that way I hope you enjoy this story I'm always available to clarify or add if needed have a wonderful spooky Halloween yours till Niagara Falls dearra till Niagara Falls another place where people die in the water dearra in freaking barrels traps yeah speaking of being trapped oh my gosh well this Feels So Many Lives Many Masters where like de's current fears of being in the water and just like these sort of things happening are because she was dearra in a past life in a past life like her soul is the same she has already lived this that is so crazy too I'm I'm so curious well okay here's a question for you dearra how did your parents pick out your name that's a good question was it random to them the dreams and say d is a good name I'm also curious okay so here's another

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theory Henry Irving had a son who died in a shipwreck who he wasn't that close with but what if now in the afterlife he does want to kind of still be with that soul and like kind of make up for not being a great father and deardra is that child reincarnated because the Shipwreck that's also another one of his children yeah so dearra isn't deerra dearra is yeah the other the other or maybe just I don't know maybe you'll always be a dearra in every life that you're in it also makes me wonder too like because he was so kind so I almost feel guilty saying this but it makes me wonder if like there's some sort of curse where like he can't move on with his life until he has proved himself to be like the good father that he could be like we don't really know exactly how he was in his life and his relationships he did seem very focused on his career yeah I wonder if this is like a little bit of a curse through many lifetimes you have to find de again and blessing because he's learning oh but this is a happy episode

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with silver linings why we we've turned into old ladies but us in a basement for two hours and uh we lose our mind down here it is the air is thicker it's damp Dusty I have one called my familiar came to visit me a ghost cat for me for you thank you hi Sabrina hi Karen my name is Sarah pronounce she her they them I've been wanting to write to you guys for a while and just really haven't known where to start first things I know you've heard this a million times but I do love yall so much and I can't even express how much I appreciate what you guys do your podcast is the first that I've ever really listened to and now it's on usually anytime I stick my earbuds in or get into my car I love it I wanted to listen to every single episode so I did start at the beginning oh God sorry Sarah I found y'all while searching for a spooky podcast but also a witchy podcast not me picking my JW off the floor when I actually realized I'd found it what such a

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compliment this is a sweet episode this is thank you that's actually this episode we're going to Pivot we're only going to read compliments compliments about us No One log in read slly over the course of the episode our heads just get bigger and bigger and bigger and just pop they expone into the bra this feels like that SNL skit where Kristen wig has to repeat exactly yeah yeah I really wanted to thank you both for the inspiration that I needed to really dive into my practice and being there for me whenever I just need to distract myself from the things in life that I would rather not address at the time I've really struggled with anxiety and depression and panic attacks and undiagnosed ADHD until this year I'll be 30 in September o we are all there hey you guys always bring me back down and keep me grounded when I'm really going through it so thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you for being here L seriously I've been listening to you guys for the better part of 2023 and I've now reached the point in your podcast where you made it to 2023 woohoo

Guardian Father

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woohoo almost caught up my husband bought me tickets for my birthday to go see you guys at Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club in San Antonio Texas back in October and it literally made my year a yall did so amazing you had me cackling the whole time I brought my best friend who heard me talking about you guys all the time and thought that yeah it would be fun and she left with the biggest smile saying wow that was amazing and I was so captivated the whole time that they talked I agree since I haven't stopped listening to you after your very first episode the best compliment that's so nice especially a stranger who has no idea what they're going into yeah thanks thanks Sarah pyramid scheme pyramid scheme my therapy is literally just doing my mindful meditation listening to your podcast taking notes when you have guest speakers the nicest this is so nice and I'm working on my crochet projects K if you haven't really gotten fully into it you got this well I did one project I gave up so yeah that's okay I'll try again you'll get back into it maybe if you want I bought all the

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things I spent like hundred bucks on crochet materials if you want one gave up if you want you can it's always there for you I've always been spiritual intuitive Etc I was raised in a very divided household in every sense of the word between an atheist father and a Christian mother I've always been empathetic clar cognizant clar sentient and at times clear audient but never been able to see things which could be confusing or scary growing up in a religious household which which you're a witch witch witch you're a witch best compliment I've been trying to understand that more and in turn have opened myself up to a lot of encounters that make absolutely no sense to me sometimes I grew up in New Orleans and some of the most creepy or taboo sites and feelings would make me feel so happy and so peaceful when I had every reason not to be at times my childhood wasn't easy but I always knew I had someone or something at my side when I really needed them I've recently been embracing my witchy side and I have been practicing as an Eclectic Pagan lunarg

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green/ death witch for a little over a year so we were right when we were like witch wit sah can you teach us I know I have many encounters that I plan to write in soon including ghosts Shadow People ashle projection da work mediumship and so on most of these are actually pretty recently since my father did pass away this past July and he wasn't always a good person so I've been doing a lot of Shadow work to deal with that I have been contacted by him several times as as well and I'm still processing everything with it being so fresh so I'll write in about that once I've gathered those thoughts completely but my story today is about what just happened this morning I woke up to my husband telling me that it was almost noon I had slept in again after staying up pretty late the night before and I've been dealing with a lot of insomnia with this increased energy and experiences that I've been letting in trying to journal as much of it as it happens I know I was definitely awake this morning though I was laying there just waking up even grabbed my phone to check the

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notifications scrolled for a minute on Facebook and then I set my phone to my side I just closed my eyes for a moment listened to my 2-year-old son babbling to my husband down the hall and rolled over towards my husband's side of the bed letting my arm fall to that side it was dark in our room and the curtains were drawn and I felt the fur of what I presumed to be our cat Cosmo he just turned a year old in December December 22nd Sol's baby a and he's a bigger black cat I could just make out him sitting in this loaf position on the edge of the bed pointed towards the foot of the bed but closer to me so I gave him a few pets and some scratches on the head and his head was already tilted back some when I opened my eyes and I said good morning Momo and I noticed his hair was so thick it was scruffy and his head was tilted towards my hand as I was petting him and I thought wow this is nice I could stay here forever I just gave him his final pat on the side I rolled back to my side got out of bed slowly and walked towards the bathroom just next to our bedroom and I find Cosmos standing in the doorway to the room tail poofed looking at me strangely

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in the hallway how dare you be petting another cat to the bed I stopped thought that's weird how did he just run past me I didn't feel or see him leave the bed and he was practically asleep moments ago in the bed so I turned back towards the room I saw nothing our other black kitten Wanda was in the hallway too just watching me intently like I too spooked her H she's a smaller kitten only about 4 months old now and she just generally do does care a lot about things unlike my snuggle bug Cosmo who can be jumpy at times another thing I thought is that Cosmo will normally want to sit on me not just near me at the very least he will be facing me while pawing to ask if he can sit on me A not at an arms length turned away like the other cat I Shrugged it off making breakfast SL lunch for everyone and some ginger honey tea since I was dealing with a head cold the lightheadedness had subsided now and I stood in the entryway to our small apartment kitchen looking into the

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dining space where my son was noming away at some chicken nuggets smiling at him and enjoying my tea I just was savoring the morning when I glanced up at the pet altar space just into the living room on the built-in bookshelf to find that a small art piece I had purchased at the Ule ball that I went to a couple weeks prior had been moved I suddenly got a heavy dizzy feeling out of nowhere I'll attach a picture it's a picture of a black cat sitting on a window window sell peacefully taking in the glow of the Moonlight I saw it it had reminded me of my Emma who had passed over just a few months ago and she always loved sitting in the window sills or near windows so I set it on the top level of the memorial altar next to her N I distinctly remember and can find pictures of it from where I had put it when we' put up our tree this year and my husband confirmed the placement too but now it was sitting not one but two levels below leaned up against our dog Chico's ear and they were in fact very close on this plane wait that's so cute

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they want to be together and I like the idea that Emma like kind of jumped off the shelf from where her ear was yeah oh we had some family over for dinner the night before but I didn't see any of them go over to the altar space this time if they had looked at anything I know that they wouldn't have just picked anything up let alone move something to the wrong shelf on accident right so it took me a moment to realize but maybe I had not been petting Cosmo all along intuitively I realized throughout the day that Emma had come to visit me and more likely thank me for the beautiful picture that I offered her to connect with remembering what it felt like to sit with her in this life it was exactly like it felt this morning oh she would always be at my side or be following me around I just got chills I know goosies she lived to be nearly 15 years old and I now truly believe her to be my familiar she showed up to our house one day out of the blue in the fall of 2007 on the military base that we were living on I noticed her just sitting in the

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driveway watching me take out the trash and slowly I shuffled back inside to get some turkey slices for this thin little kitten a that couldn't have been more than eight or nine weeks old and had to be hungry and she was in that exact same place when I came back out I crouched down to offer her a hand for sniffs and she looked at me with her head tilt as if to say why are you doing that I noticed right away that she looked at me differently than most cats we've had growing up she always had more knowing she had a tender look in her eyes wise kitty cat yes she watched me lurching forward to get that turkey when she noticed it not afraid of me at all she allowed me to pet her a little she purred loudly and rubbed against my legs after and of course I tried to pick her up and bring her inside assuming that she had to be lost or astray to my surprise she quickly jumped out of my arms and sat in the same place on the driveway as if to say I don't know you but I know you are where I want to be hesitant and scared I beckoned her to come inside with me she looked past me and then back at me and meowed deep l i meowed back I do that all the time we

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went back and forth for a moment and my mom came outside to see what was going on and she couldn't believe the strange interaction between this stray cat and myself just meowing to each other meow meow she smiled and said we can talk to your dad about it but it is going to storm soon and she seems to like you I pretended not to care anymore and I turned around to go inside while holding the screen door open behind me and she lurched towards me meowing as if to say wait for me and she ran inside to sit by me once again and we were inseparable ever since a up until she became ill due to a growing Mass on her belly I know she would still be at my side at all times meowing only to me nine times out of 10 and I've attached some pictures resembling what I saw in my room this morning and a picture of how Emma would lay by me before also I did include a picture of my cuddlebug Cosmo and Wanda for comparison Emma was

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a tuxedo short-haired cat but turned to the side you wouldn't notice all the white so much there wasn't much white on her face like some Cosmo only has one little white toe and a subtle crust going around his neck that couldn't be seen in the dark this is so cute I know our three babies were inseparable but after our dog Annie passed in 2020 due to congestive heart failure Emma and Chico became even closer so it did seem right she would want to give him a piece of her altar I'll wrap this one up and say thank you again for everything you do I'm curious what you girls think I don't get the feeling that this was Fay related or anything like that I definitely do think it was our baby girl additionally we did have an experience with Chico and his altar back in August of this year Chico's earn plate had been falling off for some time but it was just his which was weird to me since they all get the same sun exposure in the apartment so very little and none that is direct light and I decided to prop it up towards the front front of the Altar and after doing the dishes that morning I turned around and saw it

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again in the Sun and I will say that boy loved to sunbathe and be the center of attention for sure he was everyone's best friend nobody who met him had anything bad to say about Chico of course not my dad had just passed a couple weeks prior and I really do think Chico came to check on me and bring me some sunshine back into my life if only for that day that's really sweet until next time keep on keeping on until you don't love you Sarah I also love the pictures of Chico and Emma together it's so cute they love each other little sweeties Emma does have Wise Eyes yes those green eyes so sweet I thought Emma was playing hard to get to in the beginning in their encounter she was like oh I'm not going to go with you right away I don't need to be picked up we're still susing each other out right but then as Sarah walked in she was like wait wait hold on wait I coming yeah this is just pretend this was for fun it's so sweet I love visits from pets I also am curious if Emma and the other

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two cats had much inter if they had much interaction with each other if at all because Cosmo was so like spooked that which is a reaction that cats have sometimes to another cat coming in but if they didn't know each other that makes sense that would make sense yeah I mean it makes sense either way I'd be startled you know if like a human walks in or like you haven't seen your sister in years and suddenly she's just like casually on the bed being Pat excuse me you're like what what it's a very Patrick Star okay I have a story to end us on and it is from our listener anthia and it is called Daddy are you there daddy hello you fabulous ladies hey I love your podcast and huge congrats to Karen on announcing your pregnancy thank you my name is anthia from Lisa in the UK you can use my name if you would like I was told about you guys by a mum friend last year and I've been hooked ever since pyramid scheme mhm I started watching the

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episodes from when you guys got back from tour and oh my God I flipping knew Karen was pregnant it took me days to get used to your voices at normal speed because I usually listen at 1.5 speed honestly when we listen back to edits and stuff I I can't listen at one it's so slow yeah like freaking talk faster Karan oh I feel that way about myself all the time yeah I listen to two time speed same I hate listening to myself period so I've been wanting to email you guys but I haven't sat down until now I've been incredibly sensitive to the spiritual realm even as a baby right up until my teens where I closed myself off after a horrifying experience you'll have to read on to find out why I didn't only pick scary okay there are a few stories here all sweet and heartwarming for those times that you do get freaked out and need a little grounding back to your happy place so this first story I was only two it was a few weeks after my dad had died in a car crash obviously I didn't understand any of this at this age but one particular night I woke up

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in my cot and I escaped as I usually did by climbing out and using my teddies as a soft landing on the floor and I found my dad sitting at the end of his and my mom's bed looking at me with a smirk as if I had been caught oops he ushered me over and told me to go and tell my aunt who was babysitting me at the time that my brother was awake and was talking he was also in the car with my dad when it happened and was placed into an induced coma so I go off and toddle to my aunt who had just gone off the phone and I tell her with a huge grin on my face it's okay bro's now okay Daddy just told me I had no idea that my aunt had just been on the phone talking to my mom who was at the hospital with my brother telling her the exact same news that I was just delivering to her oh what do you even say to the child you're like oh my God okay how did you keep that energy keep that positivity let's go visit your brother in the hospital yeah that was my first ever memory of my dad and I remember it clear as day almost 30 years later okay so another year later I'm

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three still unaware of really understanding that my dad had passed on i' had woken up and waddled over to the bathroom to find a lighter on the side you know the good old days in the 90s when smoking around your kids in the house was completely normal and not frowned upon so what else does a three-year-old do but play happy birthday with said lighter and it was going well until it caught my hair on fire and in came my dad who told me how to put it out by covering it and P patting it out with a towel and dowsing my hair with water my mom came rushing in and wondering why everything was so Smoky to find me against the smoke laughing obviously she freaked out and my response was I was playing happy birthday and I ended up being the candle but it's okay Daddy showed me how to put it out a that's really lovely from thinking your child is possibly a pyro to to realizing their dad is actually looking out for them thank goodness yeah yep there's me at 3 years old like a creepy little pyromania kid laughing amongst the smoke with a lighter in my

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hands so let's fast forward a few decades I'm 21 and I'm in labor with my gorgeous miracle baby girl who's now 11 and the funniest spooky kid ever yes I won't go into too many details of my birth story but let's just say I didn't get my Airy fairy mother nature birth I wanted there I was 12 hours hooked up to all the machines zoning In and Out Of Consciousness and everything went quiet oh God I saw my dad standing at the bottom of my hospital bed and I remember him standing there with this incredible glow around him his face beaming with pride and then things went dark I woke up to him by my side holding my hand saying darling it's not your time your daughter needs her mother and you have to be strong I know you can do this and just like that the sounds and beeps of the hospital came rushing back to my ears and the light was back my dad was gone and I had a dozen doctors nurses and midwives around me turns out I had to be resuscitated God this making me feel nauseous I know jeez so scary

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despite not seeing my dad anymore I could still feel him holding my hand everything after that was a bit of a blur and I ended up having my daughter through the sunroof C-section I love that that's amazing came out through the sunroof even when I was in the operating room I could still feel my dad gripping onto my hand my daughter Bella arrived safe and sound and whenever things get tough even to this day I whispered Daddy are you there hoping to feel his hands squeezing mind to tell me he is oh my gosh thank you for creating such a welcoming Community I can't wait to see what you guys have in store in the future but for now Ken you focus on growing that beautiful little baby and Sabrina if you're coming to the UK sorry you're going to love it here see you on the other side anthia anthia Sabrina pivoted Marblehead but we'll probably continue on eventually to the UK yeah that will be my next book yeah yeah and now I'm scared for childbirth so things no it wasn't you it wasn't you it's already been here but my I've only been freaking out for four

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weeks and crying every day by the time this comes out baby will be here yes that is freaking incredible to have your dad just come into your life so frequently in these really big moments where you're end danger emotionally or physically yeah and just taking care of business and making everything feel lighter and safer it's amazing that's love baby your dad is 100% Your Guardian I'm also so curious antha said that they daughter Bella is now 11 and a creepy kid creepy kid so has your daughter seen your dad oh interesting or what encounters has your daughter had I want to know yeah was she looking around when she was little interacting with someone Grandpa it could happen it could be the putting out the fire I mean how terrifying as a little kid you're like playing around and then your hair catches on fire I know as a little kid you don't know what to do right but her dad was there instantly immediately and then she was laughing stop drop and roll baby yeah yeah then she it what could have been so scary for her becomes like this silly little experience because her

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dad swoops in and rewrites the story and helps her yeah right away so beautiful that is so beautiful wow well we hope that this gave you a little bit of a breather from some of the scarier stories but we will resume with the Spooks in uh next week in a couple days when the regular episode comes out yes and if you want more ghost stories we have bonus episodes on patreon every month and also you can join us on campfire stories every Tuesday night where people which is hosted on patreon on patreon where you can share your ghost stories and listen to listeners share their ghost stories yeah so there's a lot more over on patreon otherwise just tell everybody about us review on iTunes because then that way we get to collect more and more hauntings more and more ghost stories and that's why we're all here you know it may be October but we do this year round yeah we do never ends nope thank you thank you to our editor Jamie Ryan who edits and produces our audio and

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video every week and thank you to all of you for listening and we will see you on the other side very spooky