Would You Survive the Screaming House? | The LaChance Family, Witchy Moon Magic & Ghosts (Ep 308)

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would you spend a night in the screaming house would you spend 13 nights in the screaming house because 13 nights is the number of nights that the lechance family made it in the screaming house after that they left screaming and also to put this into perspective the Lutz family who is the amville horror house family they lasted 28 days so obviously the house is haunted because turns out the screaming house really is filled with screams oh great the terrified screams of a family plating for safety and a demon who took immense pleasure in using this home as its hunting ground it is a poltergeist episode

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very spooky hello hey this is two girls one ghost two girls one ghost and we your M Cyrus I really do and I'm Ken you really do it is so wild I told you I Happ give you a song request and I said can you please sing Jolene and you were like I'm trying and it's not sounding like my so I got her raspy boys I did not get her vocal cords the family over here the family I kind of like calling this the family feels more Covenant yeah we're ill and ironically you sound the sickest but I'm the one that tested positive for covid so we're both very ill it's weird how we seemingly are in sync with our illnesses but they often are separate illnesses I know it's like we didn't get each other sick and yet we both just at the same time like I texted you yesterday and I was like I'm going down down down and you oh it'll be fine and then you sent

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me a voice note this morning and you're like what is happening to my voice perfect for podcast right Smiley here you have a sexy raspy voice I have a awesome nasy one so thank you everyone for still listening yeah and we decided to record separately just to not make our illnesses worse it doesn't make me sad it makes me miss you I feel like this is not the same even though we did this for seven years it doesn't I don't like it as much I know now it definitely feels weird like it almost feels more performative for me like I'm like waiting CU we can't there's such a delay that like we can't just kind of like jump off of each other and go based on like Vibes and there's less like you know facial just like reading each other so it's definitely more clunky way more

Exploring Moon Magic and Witchcraft

awkward but I do have something witchy to talk about oh okay please so our coven brother sister witch Ash and I are doing a Wiccan witchcraft Beginnings class class together mhm and we had our

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first class this past weekend and it's so fascinating cuz we're learning so much and with any type of like spiritual practice or witchcraft there's so much to learn and I feel like I'm very much an Eclectic witch where it comes to what feels right I don't just follow everything yeah you're the grab bag witch exactly so I decided I was going to Once because this class is like eight months but it's once a month for six hours it's a long class but I decided I'm going to start to share the things that speak to me from the class and you and I Karen kind of briefly talked about this I don't know if you heard that but Leia is freaking out le moon magic I feel so attracted to the moon and moon magic yeah so I briefly wanted to go over what we learned yeah please do because when I did see you earlier this week you like pulled out this chart of all the Moon phases that

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you had drawn down from your class you mean this old thing yes yes that's it this is our 2025 moon cycles calendar and I'm a perfectionist so I'm definitely going to redo this one we did arts and craft in class but I love having this chart that you can just reference and I kind of want to look at where my period lines up with different Moon cycles and stuff yeah I mean that reminds me of the app that we used for so long to track our period Stardust yeah there's so many witchy things out there and it really is all connected so yeah I'm so curious what you're going to learn here it's so connected so with each moon cycle or phase it's supposed to be a good time for different types of magic practice so I thought hey why not share it with everyone I also love celebrating Moon magic and moon holidays is called espot and it literally means to frolic which I think is so fun and oh that is really fun everyone knows the imagery of which is under the Moonlight frolicking naked

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so right and like holding hands their hair braided together exactly how AO so we know that there are eight phases of the moon and with each phase there's different uses in terms of magic so I really wanted to go over it and then I'll let you know because this is coming out in February February 5th we have a waxing moon February 12th we have a full moon February 20th we have a waning moon and February 20 7th we have a new moon and we'll start with a new moon which is all about initiation rebirth Beginnings so it's really good for cleansing rituals and setting intentions a waxing crescent moon is great for growth so going outside and doing nature walks doing creative planning and setting up initial plans for the rest of the month it's a good time to do that on the waxing crescent the first quarter is good for Focus so good time for motivational reading staying active

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taking steps to achieve the goal that you set during the waxing crescent okay the waxing gibbis is all about

The Screaming House: A Dark History

refinement which is a great time to assess your progress and your goals and make adjustments also Karen apparently during this time it's good to do raiky work and energy work I know I was just thinking about that about how I still need to continue with my raiki practice and do raiki level two they have classes at this place about with raiki and then the full moon is culmination it's a phase where the Moon is the bright is in the sky showing all her glory so show your tides and all your glory and bask under the full moon and reap your Harvest of your manifested goals so it's a good time to charge your crystals and your tools and celebrate all the work you've done the waning gibbis is good for gratitude so it's a good time to journal and reflect and Express gratitude for yourself for your life and for everyone around you and kind of like share that gratitude universally I love this I also feel like sometimes when

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learning it and hearing about it it can feel kind of overwhelming because it's like oh my gosh there's so many different cycles and like you're supposed to do this or that and focus your energy and do different things it's not just like a standard kind of like here's like the one thing you do this one week but I feel like once you start to practice it it'll become second nature and it will feel so good to be like okay how am I feeling this week does it align maybe I should spend 10 minutes journaling this week exactly and also do what feels right to you you know know gr and I both are very intuition based and there might be some cycles of the Moon that you just don't feel like doing anything and that's a okay so the last two is the last quarter which is all about release so it's a good time to like release blame or mistakes or if you have any anger you're holding on to it's a really good time during this phase of the moon to do that and start your healing and then the last phase is the waning crescent and it's all about rest I like that healing that's good taking a bath listening to healing music well

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it's interesting that you say making a bath because I was almost thinking that for the week before when you're like trying to let go of things and trying to release I was thinking about you know like a night swim or something like that a hot tub under the full moon I'm all about a hot tub yeah I want a hot tub so bad I know you and I keep talking about it we need a hot tub put a hot tub in the studio yeah we're gonna start podcasting from a hot tub oh that would be so great actually sounds amazing H our editor would not agree but I think for us it would feel so good it it would feel really good for the first like 20 minutes and then we'd be so pruny and so hot dehydrated by the end of it that's when you get out and you take a lap around the cold snowy ground and then you plop back in of course do a little snow angel in your bathing suit in the snow and then get back in but yeah that was today's daily dose of Witchcraft and moon magic that's incredible and that's making me realize that I have so many different sort of like green witch apothecary Ure making books and maybe I

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should go into those books and see what we need to heal ourselves and then you can tell me what I need to do under the moon to help get better too we'll just kind of like throw all of the witchiness all at once are you going to put onions on your feet no I was telling you that I really wanted to put onions on Noah's the bottom of Noah's feet because he he has Co he gave it to us he got it from daycare anyhow no I didn't do onions but I'm not far off from slicing up some onions or potato and doing that you got to do your gut and your intuition when it comes to Magic but how cool that you and Ash are diving into this witchcraft Journey yeah is it just like basic witchcraft 101 or is it like do you kind of have like a focus like is this more like a moon magic or like a ritual class yeah so it's wickah beginnings and so we're focusing on learning about the sabbaths the holidays the wiccan holidays it's so each class we'll study

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one of the holidays and then we're focusing on moon magic and elements like earth air Wind Fire oh my God so cool well good that you're feeling so connected to Moon magic I mean how can we not be as women like I feel like or I guess as humans I mean we're how much percentage of water and the moon has direct control over water I still can't believe we haven't seen the backside of the Moon just give us a twirl just once let us see just spin it around let us see you in all your glory I want to see your butt okay well the episode I have today doesn't really have anything to do with witchcraft but ironically it is a poltergeist episode which you and I when we are planning out episodes normally we kind of like coordinate our topics but this time we didn't and we ended up just like both going dark this month I feel like you know what sometimes the universe just has its own plan and we just go we're just here doing what it wants and clearly it wants us to talk about demons

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so Sabrina would you spend a night in the screaming house would you spend 13 nights in I pulled up two fingers would you spend 13 nights in the screaming house because 13 nights is the number of nights that the lechance family made it in the screaming house after that they left screaming and also to put this into perspective the let's family who is the amville horror house family they lasted 28 days so 13 days versus 28 days um okay I want to spend one night there but I would not spend 13 nights and already this is reminding me of the book September house which we read for one of our patreon book clubs I think it was when you were on maternity leave but the book is all about like each month a different type of Haunting happens in the house yeah so wild honestly it reminds me a lot of what you had covered the previous two weeks as well there's a lot of similarities but the L chance

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family you know like they they lasted 13 nights in the screaming house in this quiet Suburban peaceful Midwestern town they moved into a home that was built at Top This like unassuming farmland and they thought everything was going to be great and it was not because turns out the screaming house really is filled with screams like truly so does the house itself scream or do the people in the house scream both oh great yeah I wrote the terrified screams of a family plating for safety and a demon who took immense pleasure in using this home as its hunting ground also screaming so this is the screaming House of Union Missouri it's just 50 Mi Southwest of St Louis and the Town of Union was founded in the early 1800s it was primarily used for farming and railroads it was very ordinary normal town but all of that changed in 1932 this modest Brick House was built on top of some old Farmland here and the land while vacant and seemingly totally appropriate place to

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start building and subdividing and making more homes for people this land had a very dark past for years the early settlers and Native Americans in the area fought violently over this land so kind of similar to The Conjuring house Origins as well that's literally where my brain just went yeah yeah so there was fear resentment anger just consistently poured out onto this land for those like grasping for power and it just festered and fered for many years and soon Whispers of a curse arose and the land and really the house it saw many owners and it was said that anyone who lived here in this house would succumb to the curse and experience immense Misfortune [ __ ] so is it just this one house or is it the land around her too cuz like are there other houses that are haunted it's the one house and I will get to it and tell you kind of like why the whole land should be considered haunted but but why specifically this one house ends up

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having so much activity gotcha okay so as the lore goes one of the families that moved in sometime in the 1940s they had a young child and the young child had an accident and ended up drowning in the creek nearby and consumed with sorrow the mother just roamed the property screaming in anguish for her child and she eventually succumbed to her depression and this experience and she ended up losing her life on the property oh that's so sad yes her spirit remains there which contributed to kind of this like dark energy this trauma that just kind of like festered here and the hauntings that would permeate the grounds for decades and what we'll learn is really centuries so this home was a bit part of the rumor mill obviously so there were rumors that this place was cursed it was super haunted but like rumors are rumors right and so just a little bit of local folklore someone who's not a part of the town or maybe someone who's not even like you and I

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might never know this about a house in their own town so some people might have moved in totally not knowing what they

The Dark Past of the Land

were getting into which is definitely what happened to the lechance family and we will get there soon but before we get into what the lants experienced over the horrifying 13 days that they spent in the screaming house let's talk about the land and why the land itself aside from the conflict that happened between the native people and the settlers why this is so dark and so haunted please let me know tell me Well the land was previously owned by Captain John T Crow he was the first captain of the first Missouri militia in the Civil War so of course there was also a lot of civil war deaths snare by the Civil War was fought and there's plenty of death very similar to The Conjuring house again right here on this land but really I think a lot of this is relating back to John T Crow so the captain he and his wife moved in but then soon and very

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suddenly after moving in his wife ended up dying and there was a rumor that Captain Crow actually killed her [ __ ] so the reason behind it was that she had an affair with another man who lived on the property and that is not doing Justice to the story because really the crows were slave owners and they had enslaved a ton of people that were living there on this land with them and apparently his wife and someone who was enslaved had an affair and Captain Crow lost his mind he killed that man he killed his wife and supposedly all of the slaves like went missing so he probably killed them too what yeah and I have no idea if there's like record of this but in the articles that I was reading this is like basically what it was saying that like they believe that Captain Crow killed everyone in this like fit of rage but of

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course it was of the era and of the time where people didn't ask many questions and like he was a man of power and position and could get away with a ton of things so who knows if it's true or not but the hauntings and what we'll learn from the hauntings make me believe that it is well it I mean yeah I believe it's true I mean yeah look at our history also I've been watching the new Dexter series original sin I think that's what it's called and it takes place I think in the 9s and the police used to have a term called nhi for specific cases and it's an anagram for no humans involved and it applied to cases where sex workers or like addicts and stuff were the victims no humans involved are you kidding like actual pure evil I can't believe that that's the most disgusting fact I've ever heard isn't that crazy oh oh my God I know

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that it's true but like what the [ __ ] I

The Screaming House's Curse

know and it also blows my mind cuz I'm like I can't even fathom like you and I are both very empathetic people I think we take the time to see things from other people's perspectives but I cannot connect to anyone who views another human life as lesser than their own like I just cannot understand it it's unfathomable no it is although I will say I think there's only one scenario where I would and that as if someone was actively trying to kill me and I had to basically like separate them from being a person I couldn't think about like they have a mom and a dad and probably siblings and co-workers I wouldn't be able to think about that because I'd have to be able to try to save myself and maybe survival yeah hurt them okay so obviously Captain Crow is a [ __ ] [ __ ] me seriously huge dick and not in the good way no no no he had the worst dick ever probably had a small dick but was a huge dick yes he he was

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awful just a terrible terrible person and oh oh my gosh I'm forgetting one of the things so like some of the rumors and stuff about the people that he had enslaved and I think that like him having slaves is almost a rumor in and of itself but he has a descendant like one of his relatives is like no my great-grandfather or whatever was a slave owner like his own family was like no no no like he he did this interesting so that's kind of where some of the rumors and and stuff come from okay so obviously he had a ton of land and he originally had a large home on this land But as time progresses and people move to the area the land is sold and it starts to become subdivided and this house the screaming house is the super haunted house because this house was built at top the old slave quarters so that is why this house has the most amount of activity right it's like all this land already has negative energy

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but in this specific place on top of that dark energy has even more dark history right and if what is was said is true if Captain Crow murdered all of these men and maybe his wife in the slave quarters too like that is a that's almost like a mass grave right there that this house BL there's also a mass grave nearby that was used for those who died during the Civil War and those who were housed at the county poor house and really just like a ton of people that were buried there I read in one of the articles that was saying that like the local thing to say is like if you don't know where one of your relatives are buried then they're probably in this Mass grave that reminds me of Portsmith when we did the ghost tour and they talked about that one street where like in the 2000s or I can't remember the specific date but it was more recent where they realized it was a mass grave yeah there's a lot of that too like even

Moving In: The First Signs of Haunting

in one of the cemeteries in Boston there's like almost this little Mausoleum and underneath it it's just like like thousands and thousands of

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Bones of various people wow which is horrifying because then it's like you know that means there's times that so many people died that they just didn't really know what to do and right had to throw them all together yeah it's so sad also nearby a street across from the screaming house is where they did a reenactment of the Lizzy bordon case for theater and this was in 1974 for a theater so they literally like reenacted her murdering her father and stepmom okay that's interesting that it's in Missouri I know so weird I don't really know what was going on there but anyway weird energy weird Vibes so many of the neighboring homes have also experienced tragedies untimely deaths and suicides so it does seem like the whole land itself does carry this curse but the actual Poltergeist activity seems to be centralized to the screaming house okay the origins of the screaming house date back centuries but this story that we're going to talk about today begins 2001 when Steven lechance was searching for a

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home for himself and his three children he had a daughter and two sons so the family had kind of endured a tragedy of Their Own It was said that his wife had left him and also their children and so they were kind of going through this grieving period and wanting to start fresh and finding a place that like they could be a family and not have all of these sad memories and like try to move past what had happened to them similar to Jackie Hernandez and the San Pedro Poltergeist she was starting over yep so they're trying to start over they had been living in an apartment it just wasn't working it was too small for them and he wanted Stephen wanted more space he wanted something that felt like a home with a yard and like a place of security and feeling like a little bit more permanent for his kids after being kind of completely rocked by what had happened so he received a call from a local Realtor about a large old home in perfect condition with an open porch and a yard and he was like oh my God this sounds perfect so he goes that next

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weekend Sunday to the open house and when he goes to the open house he brings his daughter who's the eldest of the children with him and they walk in and the place smells like cookies you know like the realtor put out cookies and it's just it's such good vibes when they first go in they're like oh my gosh this place is beautiful it had a really homey feel and Steven was also just really appreciating the original Woodwork and just like all this character that it was brimming with inside of this home there's just so much charm yes we love charm also upstairs there were enough bedrooms for all of his kids to have their own room his bedroom would be on the first floor the basement had a fruit seller and an old butcher shower and just like there were just really interesting things and and yeah it was Charming right and it was also dirt cheap for the size and the condition of the home so the place was perfect for him so Steven submitted his rental application and they were selected a week later and then they moved within a couple weeks they moved Memorial Day weekend of 2001 he and his three kids

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they pull up to their new home ready for their fresh start and on that very day as Steven is unloading boxes into their home a sedan pulls up and stops in front of the house and Steven looks up and the window in the car rolls down and the person inside calls out and says hope you get along okay here which is a nice thing to say sure but then they slammed on the gas pedal and zoomed away and so Steph's daughter who was outside with him at the time was like Dad what do you think of that and he was like I don't know like maybe it's just a nice neighbor and the daughter was like I think that that was odd yeah cuz if it's a nice neighbor they would stop and be like hey welcome to the neighborhood we're we're the Smiths nice to meet you exactly yeah so his daughter's clocking like there was something odd about this interaction there's more to that message so the first night in the home is great the kids are getting used to sleeping in a new place Steven is dreaming of his new life here but he did notice

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something the next morning so when they woke up as he moved around the house he noticed that every interior door was fitted with this oldfashioned hook and ey latch so basically a lock an oldfashioned lock but none of the locks were placed on the inside of the doors they were all on the exterior so it was like you could walk around through the halls and lock all of the doors lock inter something or someone in can someone tell us what the purpose of that is that's rational and not creepy I know right very weird it'd be different if there were locks on both sides because then I could think like oh just for airflow or something like a really old house like rattling trying to keep the door secure so it doesn't like pop open with a drafty old house but there weren't locks on the inside it was only the exterior right and soon the house would reveal that it was hiding something in all of those empty rooms from the start the lebrandt family

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wondered about the faulty electrical that seemed to be happening around the house at night they would frequently see these incredibly bright lights flashing Through the Windows which again reminds me so much of The Conjuring house even like the warning that they got on moveing day is very all the conjuring house yeah but there were these really bright lights flashing Through the Windows it was almost like a spotlight and so every time it would beam inside Stephen would walk outside and be like what is that what is going on and in investigation he would be met by nothing but Darkness he couldn't find anything there were no lights no telephone wires that seemed to be sparking or or weird no neighbors no kids no one like playing a prank so he couldn't see anything but whatever it was could see him exactly and it wasn't just Stephen that noticed this his kids were also experiencing it and they would feel this electrical charge with it too so it was like this burst of energy right outside their home and so Stephen was like we have to figure this out this could be dangerous so he goes and he calls a contractor to

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come check out the electrical work in the home and the exterior and to walk around the property and find if there's anything weird but you could feel the electricity he said it was almost like a tickle on the back of their necks like a buzzing throughout the property and like you know the feeling of your hair standing up on the back of your neck it was like that but feeling like something was causing it versus just like the feeling of a presence o if that makes sense yeah so Stephen is like okay well light anomalies are one thing but how do I explain all the doors in the home suddenly opening and closing on their own Stephen certainly could not explain it and his poor kids were so scared living in that house they would rarely move through the Home Alone they preferred like the buddy system so if they had to go to the living room it was like they moved as a pack like you have to go to the bathroom everyone's going to the bathroom and escorting you everywhere in the house so they were terrified so obviously the house is haunted and Steven is clocking this very quickly and as a reminder they only last did 13 days so this is happening like

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day two he's like oh [ __ ] this place I think might be haunted right but maybe they just have to get used to this old house right like there's flashing lights there's doors that open and close and Creek and his kids are scared but these are all kind of livable hauntings if you will mhm but then things ramped up and it ramped up quickly the living room had these cherubs in it that Stephen and his daughter found like quite amusing when they were touring it during the open house the little angels yeah yeah these like little cherub statues I think and so they thought hey we have a painting of two angels we should put it in the living room to go with all these cheres like that makes sense it's kind of cute and silly a little angel room so Stephen hangs up the photo the picture painting with the angels he turns around and the picture crashes to the floor Stephen then turned around he rehung it up and then boom it crashed to the floor again and Stephen could not get this picture to hang it just kept falling down and as he's kind

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of battling with this picture and trying to figure out like what the [ __ ] is wrong with the walls or the nails or like my picture hanging thing his daughter calls to him and she and her two brothers they're out on the porch playing and she's like Dad Dad you have to come out here Dad come out here so he goes out and she points to an old man who is walking down the street and she is like watch this guy watch how he moves and they notice that when he gets to the point of the sidewalk where he would have to walk in front of of their house he crosses the street to continue his walk and she said that she had noticed every person do that and so her dad is like there is no way like people are not avoiding this house like that's weird that's bizarre this can't be so he sat out there this makes me think that like everyone else who went to that open house to potentially rent this house were really just looky L who were like oh my gosh it's our opportunity to look inside the Haunted House in town yeah or it also kind of reminds me of Haunting of Hill House where it's like did everyone else go and see this house and

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it's actually this like horribly decrepit creepy home but the Le chances were given this like beautiful sunny warm fresh cookie smell and they were seeing something totally different cuz

Unexplained Phenomena

it was calling them in yes so Stephen sits out on the porch with his kids and he stays there for three hours watching as every single person who is walking by crosses the street when they get to the front of their house a few times he said he caught the eyes of people wandering by and tried to like wave a hello and catch their attention yet every single person even if they started to see stevenh would then ignore him which is weird and not quite like the Midwest Hospitality that we hear about no so they clocked that so now it's Sunday of Memorial Day weekend the weekend that they moved in so they've been there a few days and on Sunday they go to church and when they come back they begin to tidy up some of the yard and stepen is staring at this one big tree in the yard and he's very confused because it is spr and so the trees should be budding

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flowers or leaves and yet it almost looks as if it's November for this tree like the leaves are dead and falling off and so he's like that's really weird he's like okay I'm going to have to bring that up to the landlord which was this kind of odd old lady that they had interacted with once before it's very American Horror Story season 1 yes yeah it totally is so Stephen then asks his one of his sons to go grab a garden house from the basement because he's like I'm going to just wipe down like wash the front walkway and probably some of like the front of the house just to get some of the dirt off make it look a little more flashy and and nice and so his son runs inside and a few moments pass and then screaming bloody murder our first Scream the first scream and it is his son he's screaming in fear so Stephen rushes inside and he finds his son in the kitchen his son is quivering in fear and peed his pants so something terrified him oh he said that something chased him up the basement stairs that

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he didn't know what it was but it was big and there's also a description of what his son would experience which was this wild frazzled haired being with a long white face with no eyes razor sharp te very creepy but kind of predictable now that we know that it's a poltergeist because often the first move of a demon is to Target someone usually it's a child or someone that feels innocent and feed off of them isolate drain destroy right and it seemed like perhaps this boy could have been his Target so stepen probably should not have asked his young child to go into the scary basement where monsters are right that's what Stephen's thinking he's like I bring my kids to this big old house and a town that they never lived in before like I understand that he has some real fear but you know it's probably like child imagination right like typical kid stuff right but then he's also like but he peed his pants and that's a pretty intense reaction to right just being startled and running up

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the stairs clearly he's terrified and things keep happening Furniture started moving around rooms would be entirely rearranged and it wouldn't just be one specific room it was like any room in the house the kids's rooms his room nowhere was safe nothing was off limits completely rearranged like Furniture completely moved yep interior design it's the Sims this thing is just constantly moving things around wow so now it's Monday they have now been in the house for a full three days and once more they return to the home from running out and they find every light in the house turned on and Stephen had experienced this before the previous few days when he would like run out to grab something he'd come back and the lights would all be on and he would tell his kids like hey guys you have to turn the lights off we can't just have all the lights in the house on and they were like we didn't do it we didn't do it but this time on Monday Stephen had all of his kids with him so when they return to the house and all of the lights are on he starts to realize oh [ __ ] my kids were not doing that something or someone is in the house so he goes in thinking

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that there's an intruder looks around and cannot find any evidence of someone breaking in any evidence of anyone being there but the house is freezing the thermostat is set to 30° warmer than what it is in this house it's 30 degrees colder jeez and Steph's neck as he's walking around suddenly has that feeling of the electrical current running all over his body he was buzzing and he was scared and so so was his family so that night and for every night following the entire family would sleep in Steven's room together on the first floor yeah I don't blame them I would do that too a few days pass and the family is in the living room the kids are all turned with their backs to the doorway but stevenh is facing it and he watches in silent horror as something moved through the kitchen doorway it was a dark shadow looked to be the figure of a man and he was moving against this sort of like

The House Screams

blackish smoke so his figure was kind of coming and going being formed and not formed by the Mist

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that kind of Flo about him and this thing started to move closer and the Mist started turning into a defined face with Hollow eyes and it was now walking into the living room where Steven and his kids were it approached the family and stopped just before the kids would see it and then finished oh and this is when Steven realized this is not just a haunted house I need to make a plan we need to move so this was not the place for his family to recover and Thrive and he was not going to be like oh we got to stick it out it's a rental F that but before that he needs to figure out a way to get his family out of the house sure so he says in this very moment after seeing this man approach him and his family he says hey kids let's go get a soda and see Grandma come on guys it'll be fun like he's just like oh my God we have to get out of the house this very second so he's basically shouting this at his kids and moves to the door quickly he's like come on guys let's go let's go the kids are confused but probably also scared seeing their dad like like this so they are getting up and they are rushing down the steps of

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the porch Stephen turns to lock the door and as he's turning with his hand on the front door the house screams a loud agonizing scream like a man in pain and it just echoed throughout the whole neighborhood all the dogs start barking it is Wailing the entire houses well doesn't this make you feel so sad given the history of this land that like there's just so much unrest here yeah it needs help it does but I I don't know I think it's the Poltergeist kind of doing I almost hope it's the Poltergeist doing this and that it's not some of the people whose lives were who just experienced like immense torture and pain throughout their lives just giving a part of their soul to this place right so the house is screaming and Stephen screams he screams get in the car and they all collectively run and as the car is pulling out one of Steph's Sons says daddy the basement monster is standing in the upstairs window and so stevenh looks back at the house as they're

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pulling out and the black Misty figure that he had seen approach the living room is now in the window glaring down at the car it's so haunting a pill house oh my go chills horrible timing Stephen had a business trip that he had to leave for for a week he keeps the kids at his parents house they don't return after like the iceam at Grandma's they go and they stay at Grandma's house for that entire week Stephen very quickly rushed that following day in the early morning to the house to like grab what he needed super fast for his business trip and then took the trip and during the trip Stephen is Wrecking his brain about what to do with the hauntings like what is he gonna do because this is this is only a few days in and it is horrible it's this bad right off the bat like what's it going to turn into yeah exactly the business trip ends he goes to his parents house he picks up the kids and they go back to the house so far so good nothing happened right away Steven mom suggests to him that he should call the landlord and ask her some questions

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about the house like basically say were there any experiences that the previous tenants brought up with the energy of the home or like anything unfavorable happened in the past like basically she wants him to call and understand why is this house haunted so he calls and this lady is a little bit odd to begin with she's super dodgy about the questions that Steph's asking so then he point blank asks have any previous tenants mention mentioned a ghost and she actually answers this one she says yes one of them did only one just one apparently she said the tenant was a woman who said that her dead father had come to visit her there so it wasn't the type of Haunting Steven was experiencing and also that woman was kind of saying like she didn't believe the tenant essentially interesting it almost feels like this house is a mirror for what you're experiencing in your life and it's oh interesting creating a a spirit that reflects it you should write that

Seeking Answers

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write that movie that's that's a good one it's not What's Happening Here although it's so cool are we GNA get answers yeah we do okay because my biggest question right now at this point is how did no one prior to Stephen's family living here experience what they're experiencing well so that brings me to the point that the landlord made where she did say there was another tenant who did not say anything about ghosts but left in the middle of the night and a Abed all of his belongings and never came back for them I mean you don't have to say ghosts and know that that's ghosts right and she also told Steven that she had a really hard time keeping any tenant for more than a year so a lot of people didn't talk about it I guess not so not quite the answer Steph was hoping for but it did provide context and suggested that yeah people were probably all experiencing hauntings here before the lebrand family moved in a week ago so Stephen is now trying to make moves and he's got to make moves quickly right they're a weekend and things are horrible got to go there's been very little ramp up period for the hauntings it just seems like everything

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was thrown at them immediately and so he needs help not only getting out of the house but also just trying to figure out like what the [ __ ] is going on in the house so he frantically sends a bunch of emails to a ton of paranormal groups including Ed and Lorraine Warren but apparently he didn't hear back and I don't know if that was he didn't hear back from the Warren or he didn't hear back from anyone that almost makes me think that however he reached out the spirits intercepted it very The Conjuring house right and also the SML possession remember when she has the whole conversation with the priest and it was the demon on the other end of the phone oh my God that's another episode that we we have a smor possession two-parter that came out we can link it yeah so now it's Monday night they have been in the house for a week and a half and Steven is on the phone with his mom and the kids are playing in the background the doors then begin to Rattle and Stephen interrupts his call with his mom to yell at his kids they're all in his room and he's like guys stop like be quiet the rattling continues so

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then he calls out again and this time he gets a response and it's his daughter's voice and she's very scared she calls out and says Dad my brothers are asleep she's been reading no one's touching the doors the temperature then drops 30° ice cold the electrical charge is pulsing through Steven and this time the sensation is accompanied by a very foul stench yikes it's stuck in the air it's burning Steven's nostrils and then he hears a voice it's distant at first but it's screaming and the screaming is building and building and building until it becomes this loud fullon shriek it's coming from nowhere and everywhere all at once it's filling every space in the house the house is screaming jeez the house then begins to shake and then there's a loud noise from upstairs it sounds like huge heavy feet boom boom boom descending the stairs and a man's voice is screaming over and over again

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and Stephen's daughter is now screaming she's screaming in fear for her dad so stevenh is moving through the house he's making his way to his bedroom to collect his kids he gets there and he can feel something right on his back the whole time it's like something is chasing him breathing down him watching him as he tries to find his kids the screaming continues and now he hears two voices there's a man and a child both shrieking over and over again horrendously loud the air still freezing cold a third voice now added to the mix it's Steven he is now screaming he is so scared of course and so Steven gets to his bedroom to where his kids are but the door is shut and he cannot open it something has locked the door okay so it does lock from the inside but only if there's ghosts apparently so it's not budging an inch and he's turning the door knob he's pushing pushing pushing finally he just starts slamming all of his body weight

Desperate Escape

boom boom boom over and over again and the door is not moving like literally no

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movement just more screaming everyone's screaming the house is screaming entities are screaming his kids are screaming so he just keeps slamming himself and then he yells out God help me and then the door flings open so he call just by calling upon God like that apparently I feel very sad they experienced all of this but like I really wish that this was like recorded or experienced by others because how do you write this off you can't well and it also makes me curious because he does have a book which I'll show at the end and tell everyone what it's called he wrote a book about his experience with the 13 Days living in the screaming house but it does make me curious if there have been since publishing the book other people who've reached out to him who've spent time in that house or like oh my gosh I thought I was losing my mind damn so the door is now open he is access to his room in the kids and he yells to his middle son to grab his youngest and then head for the car the footsteps are still descending the stairs they hear the boom boom boom and the screams are still

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slicing through the frigid air his daughter is Frozen in panic and fear Stephen said that he literally had to slap her to get her to move and I'm like couldn't you have just picked her up and carried her yeah there's other options here Stephen yeah but I think he was also panicked so so slap your daughter the whole family then runs outside the entire house is shaking and screaming as they race for the door they could feel this evil presence chasing them just one step away from catching them and Stephen and his kids get to the car they quickly drive down the street but they don't continue they Park and they turn the car back around and they watch the house and as they watch the house to their horror they can see this Misty black figure of the man that they had seen before moving room to room looking in every corner frantically searching every section of every room as if it was looking for them interesting this is really reminding me of September house I need to read that that book I highly recommend it if you haven't read it to everyone it's really

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fascinating and there is like one main dark energy that is trying to trap people there okay so Stephen makes the decision while they're in the car watching this man pace around the house looking for them this entity he makes the decision right then and there to never return that image the demon trying to hunt them down in the house it just felt so incredibly unsafe and it was something that he would never want his to experience and that was actually the last thing that his children would ever see of the home is this thing looking for them Steven did returned to collect their belongings but he never went alone his brother went with him and took photos of the house as they were packing up and down in the fruit Celler one of the pictures showed something it was the face of a man and they were thinking that this was the face of the entity that was terrorizing them I could not find the photo I wish I had it I wonder if it's in the book yeah I know maybe I'll rent it from the library really quick and see if uh see if I can see it

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so during this final trip to the house Steven said quote I remember what the old lady said as I turned over the key standing there the whole side of my arm and torso still bruised from having

The Aftermath and Ongoing Hauntings

thrown myself against that bedroom door she said some people are meant to live in an old house like that and some people aren't I never thought you were the old house type which is rude it is rude and also like that doesn't dictate a haunting or not well and most people were not set up to endure this house no after moving out a friend sent Steven a link to a picture of a man and it was the same man that Steven's brother had captured in a photo in the fruit seller the man in the picture was John T Crow the slave owner the suspected murderer I hate that he is still running a muuk he did enough in his life go away I know about a year after they moved out another friend reached out to stevenh and said that he

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had witnessed a police car race up to the home and a family all rushing out in their pajamas in the middle of the night so maybe a medical emergency or maybe they thought it was an intruder not of this realm perhaps so people were still experiencing things and the home has become kind of a hot spot for paranormal investigators and it really always has been because apparently in the 1950s and 1956 the Catholic church was brought in to investigate the home and it resulted in a 156 page report declaring this house indeed haunted but I have no clue if an exorcism was performed or what they did but it is documented by the Catholic church that this property is evil essentially are people still living in it like is it rentable um I couldn't see anything I was like trying to go on Google Earth and and see rumor has it it's a dog kennel now oh those poor doggies I know I know oh I hate that yeah they said nothing's happened since it's been transitioned to a dog kennel but it's like okay well maybe not to you but probably to the dogs or maybe the dogs

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are just bringing too much love and joy and that I hope they CH that man away can't do anything yeah I hope so the investigators and Ghost Hunters who've gone there have captured many EVPs during their time in the home there was one report that said they captured a voice saying over and over please help a man's voice saying I like little boy ew and investigators have also captured photo evidence they said that they feel really nauseous and dizzy when they're in there they feel oppressed some have been bitten scratched chased out of the home but despite everything that's happened at the screaming house and despite escaping the screaming House of Union Missouri Steven lechance said that he still feels haunted by the Home Steven said quote I still don't sleep very well in my dreams I see a faceless man standing at that basement washing away blood from his naked blood covered body grunting panting breathing yes I do

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believe in ghosts and maybe you should too holy [ __ ] most of the information from this episode came from an article written by Steven lechance himself from Legends of America but he also has a book The Uninvited the true story of the Union screaming house if you want somewhere juicy demonic details but that is a screaming ass of Union Missouri well that's horrifying and yeah I didn't know that a house could scream but clearly it can apparently it can and apparently bad people who do bad things may never leave which part of me is like if they did what is said that they did I hope that they're trapped there forever but I also want the house to be inaccessible that they have to just like live there forever alone in their misery well my thing is like is it even that Spirit of that person anymore or is it just manifested into become something so much worse in like tar and molasses Darkness

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I don't know but I feel like this is the shortest haunting stay we've ever heard of 13 days and I'm so glad that they had the opportunity to leave and I'm glad that it was a rental because most of the time it is people who purchased a home and you can't just easily leave yeah you have like a mortgage and you put all your money into it yeah well I was between doing a listener story from Missouri or a haunted house and I found a Missouri haunted house oo okay perfect okay this is from our listener Britney and it's called spirits in Missouri hey girls I've been thinking about writing this for a while but I always forget because I listen while I'm at work I absolutely love the podcast and I tell all my co-workers who are all men and who totally insert sexual jokes after I say the name but I tell them all the lesson yeah that's okay we did it to ourselves we knew what we were doing all of my experiences come from the same house several of them are mine and others are from various family members so several years ago my family and I

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lived in a house in a super small town in Missouri whenever I went to visit my dad would say that he experienced spirits but he never really would elaborate well after dealing with a bad landlord I moved back in with my family so this house was built around the turn of the 19th century it had a made staircase a formal dining room a Butler's Pantry a swinging door with a window that a maid would watch your dinner if you needed anything grand staircase pocket doors and all original hardwood floors beautiful so after I moved back in my dad tells me that the room I'm staying in is the one that he's heard children playing and laughing in oh great thanks he also saw my nephew's toys move around the room I didn't think anything of it so I went about my day a month or so later my parents go out of town and they come home and they hear a buzzing noise in their room H and they find that my mom's vibrator had been turned on oh wow something's curious yes

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my sister had been getting ready for school one morning when I was not there and she went to go down the back staircase where we had a large island in the kitchen and there at the island she saw a woman all in black sitting on the island weeping she called my mom in hysterics crying about this woman and apparently my sister had seen this woman a lot so now my stories I went to work Christmas party and during a I've never heard of it this way Britney says Rob your neighbor gift exchange which is like white elephant oh yeah yeah I've never heard it called that either yeah I got one of those feet massagers that vibrates I came home from work to hear that vibrating foot massager turned on and it was in my closet it had been turned on while I was gone I was quite shocked so the ghost like vibrating objects apparently another time I was playing with my nephew in the living room and he was maybe a year and a half at that time and my mom was in the kitchen mopping she called me into the kitchen frantic I walk inside and I see

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in the freshly mopped floors our bare footsteps smaller than mine and larger than my nephew's that's creepy and we could tell that the footprint was clearly missing a pinky toe could it be the Wailing woman it could be jeez oh my last experience was when I was home alone one night and us living in a small town I was just watching something on PBS I heard footsteps going up or down the grand staircase and not just bare feet but heavy steps like boots belonging to a man I called on my brother-in-law's name thinking maybe he stopped by for something but it was quiet no answer then it hit me I got goosebumps and I called my mom in a panic I went upstairs to the safety of my bed and laid under my blankets until my parents got home late that night that's just some of the stories but next door please make a stop in Kansas City I would love to see you guys see you on the other side Britney I'm curious who the spirit is or like many spirits I don't know because there's that poor wailing woman

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who's so upset and potentially walking around if those are her Footprints but yeah I don't know it almost feels like there's multiple here yeah it feels like perhaps these are previous tenants of the house a man a woman I'm sad that they're sad or the woman's sad I know I know and at least they have some entertainment through vibrating objects you know at least there's that hopefully she's massaging her feet even if she's missing her pinky you don't need it I'm curious if so this was the house that she lived in growing up but I'm curious if her parents still live there yeah I'm curious cuz it was like a brief period of time that she moved back in with her family so yeah I'm curious Britney we have questions yeah and also some suggestions for gifts for the spirits because I feel like if they're enjoying some of the vibrating objects maybe you need to get them some toys and things to enter right if you know anything more about the screaming house in Missouri or if you have ghost St from Missouri or from anywhere in the world please email them to us at two girl1 podcast

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