Love Beyond Death | Ghost Stories of Soulmates, Past Lives & True Love (x181)

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very spooky hi getting married soon we're going to the chapel and we're gonna get married I feel like we were a little I think uh laggy there so I was holding out them it sounded good yeah I mean I I think it sounded good people are like yikes um but yes I have I'm having a springtime wedding and so it is coming up and so love is in the air and so we decided I decided that we should we we

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should say yeah we should say some things about love in the form of your ghost stories because this is an encounters episode and we pulled some that have to do with love and do you want to introduce our podcast oh this is two girls one ghost and we are your ghostesses that is Corinne hello the bride to be and I am Sabrina the friend who will be at the wedding the bridesmaid the bridesmaid the one to distract the spirit away from Corinne so that they don't curse her exactly that is my full purpose on your wedding weekend you can wear your wedding dress to my wedding to confuse the spirits that's uh and maybe confuse all the guests too yes I'm sure you would love that yeah Sabrina and I were just having a conversation about how so many people hate wedding planning and I'm like the one person that doesn't

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I've enjoyed it I am my own wedding planner it's crazy to me and I've had a great time but it's because I like things to go my way and to be controlled and this is my opportunity to control all aspects that whole world here's the thing I hate surprises so I can't be surprised if I plan the whole thing right except for at this point I have surprised you yeah you in this very moment have not been surprised yet but when this episode comes out you would have been surprised on patreon on patreon at my virtual Bachelorette correct I really have no idea what to expect so everyone if okay

Patreon updates and plans

this is a great time um if you see the table or camera shaking it is because earthquake Leia just entered an exited the room room as in the table but this is a great time to tell people with multiple things we have so many exciting things happening on our patreon Karin and I this past year and

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the time ahead of us looking forward into the future are just going to be content creators full steam ahead we have look at us influencer Sabrina influencer Karen I didn't mean it like that I more meant podcast content because we're not influencing on anything no we must believe in spirits yeah influencing a cultural little bit but we have two episodes a week that come out encounters and a regular episode and we've started doing Crossovers and collabs with all of our favorite podcasters a lot of your favorite podcasters as well so those are coming out once to twice a month and now on patreon we are also having campfire stories weekly every single Tuesday night at 5 PM Pacific 8 P.M Eastern so if you join us on patreon you can listen to every single campfire stories live with us you can come share your story with us watch us on video you can join with video or without to share your

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story you can also if you join patreon listen back to all the previous campfire stories and then if you join at the middle tier we have an extra special bi-weekly episode called in paranormal news where we discuss all the things that are coming out in the news about the Paranormal or things that are just new to us that we've just discovered so if you're like hey I want to learn all about alien conspiracies and weird things celebrities have said about spirits that's the place to go it comes out every other Friday on patreon if you're an ill-gotten booty popper or up and then for overactive stagers we also have a variety of other benefits including all ad-free content and Sabrina and I are really hoping to go on the road again and if you're in that tier you'll get a lot of behind the scenes footage some Vlogs do you mean only Phantoms what did I say overactive sages which is

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an old tier sorry I meant only Phantoms I'm all confused that's okay we basically the whole point is that we have so much more content if you want to hear if you if you if three plus hours a week is just not enough for you don't you worry Kurt and I have so much more airspace that we are taking up yes it wasn't enough for us either so we started doing more but we also I feel like on the podcast yes we kind of talk about our personal lives and we have fun banter but it's also very podcast I mean it's very paranormal uh focused and so on our patreon we're starting to add a little bit more of our personal interests and spending more quality time with us type of things so our live streams month our monthly live streams with patreon the only Phantoms and above like in May for corins wedding we are doing a bachelorette a

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bachelorette we've done baking cookies what else have we done we've just done so many things in book club painting we tried to be abducted one time it didn't work sadly but here's my alien there you go so it's just been really fun and we just really appreciated the platform of patreon and also all of you guys who are there too because it's really nice to actually get to know everyone on a more personal level too we respond to all of your messages directly on patreon I know people try to message us on Instagram and we love that and we try to respond when we can but sometimes it gets uh lost in the sauce me I'm lost in the sauce me too my brain is not working which is why I'm trying to drink Miracle carrots I'm like come on Green Let's Get it going with your eyes too what's wrong with my eyes carrots are supposed to be good see my brain isn't working about my eyes today all right well maybe

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let's stop using our brains and let's just read yeah great great do you want

Grandfather's protection

to go first sure thank you okay this is titled my grandfather died to see me get married wait that's mine oh trying to steal up my stuff okay this is called my dead grandfather saved my life and love from the other side sorry it's just all they are grandpas okay clearly we were on the same wavelength though okay hey ghostesses one of my favorite things to do is to drive through mountain roads in the middle of the night while getting spooked by some good stories long time listener first time emailer I emailed you once last year but I can't find record of it anywhere in my sent folder perhaps it wasn't time for you to hear my stories yet but I have two so buckle up the first involves a near-death

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experience I was 18 years old and had been hanging out at a friend's house playing Mario Kart until 3am instead of crashing out there I decided to drive home thinking that I wasn't tired and I was nearly dead wrong I had been nodding off the entire drive home but staying awake just enough to keep driving I was less than a quarter mile from my house when I heard my grandfather who had been dead for nine years at this point screaming my name telling me to wake up oh my gosh I had just enough time to Swerve out of the way before hitting a tree head-on going 80 miles per hour my passenger side got scraped up terribly and my side view mirror had been knocked off but there wasn't a scratch on me this was my first experience with the Paranormal and this would not be my last oh this is I'm one Zach I'm so glad you're okay and I'm glad that your grandfather was able to help you but this is just to me like if you're tired it's just as dangerous to

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drive and it's always safer to just wait I know get some sleep pull off the road if you're tired get some sleep before driving home well and there's also that statistic and I'm gonna butcher it but it's something like eighty percent of accidents happen within one mile of your home because you're so close you're like your body starts to relax yeah yeah you're you think you're almost there I was driving to work a couple years ago and the person in front of me was falling asleep as they were driving and I just had to keep I like truly had to follow them and beep every time they started to Swerve it's so scary it's so scary and also it's like what if someone's having a medical emergency too like that happened to my aunt my cousin luckily was in the car when my aunt had a seizure while driving oh my gosh and my cousin ran over jammed the brake on and everything and luckily they were okay but it's like sometimes things happen and there's no indication that this is gonna happen and it just does

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and it's terrifying yeah driving scary and then my aunt when she had her seizure she peed her pants and she could not wait to tell us in the emergency room that she got there yeah I almost died too girl oh my gosh okay a few years later I had moved and was living with my parents in their pool house when we toured the property before moving there was a distinct coldness to the pool house but seeing as the house was less than 10 years old I thought nothing of it for the next year I fell asleep with my TV on I started dating this person and the first time they spent the night I turned the TV off before going to sleep in the other room less than an hour later roughly 3 A.M my TV turned itself on and then turned the volume all the way up my girlfriend asked me what was going on and in my grogginess I said oh that's just Doug and then I rolled back over and went to sleep the next morning they asked me who Doug

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was and I had no idea what they were talking about Doug would bake two more appearances over the next decade that I lived there one morning I was trapped in a bad sleep paralysis episode I couldn't speak and felt like something was holding me down eventually I was able to scream for help and movement came back once other people entered the room I forgot about Doug for a few years after this incident but looking back I think part of Doug's Darkness was keeping me trapped in the house without being able to move forward in my life we moved out of that house about a year later and I wonder if Doug is still there and if his long game was to trap the next spirit so he could move on thank you guys so much for everything you do and giving us this place to share our stories next time I will tell you about my multiple work ghosts I have a Spooktacular day Zach okay Zach well well the first story was very loving and kind and I'm glad that your grandfather helped save your life I'm very confused

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by Doug and it almost feels like a lovely relationship happening with Doug and why does Zach or why did Zach's astral sleeping subconscious self know about Doug but that his waking self did not until later I mean maybe that was the only way for the spirit to make itself known and well not known but like it's name known maybe it had no other I hadn't really thought it through or perhaps the opportunity just presented itself to be like oh wait now there's another person his girlfriend is here so now I can just announce myself and maybe Zach and I will grow closer see this is why I liked the story is because some when we think about love oftentimes people think about romantic love but it's also the love between your your household spirits and you yep and also love from loved ones who've passed on that are just like fully looking out for you and yeah

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and intervening whenever they can I love that you are

Soulmate connection story

picturing Doug and Zach in love because it sounds like Zach doesn't want didn't want the love that Doug was giving I think Doug views it as a bromance and Zach kind of trap Zach in the house and keep him forever is Doug trying to trap me here forever or perhaps the next poor soul and Doug's just like man me and my best friend we used to watch TV every night together [Laughter] oh man okay well I have a story well I have a story that is a little bit more of the love love soulmate Wedding Marriage that kind of thing but it is also a little creepy okay it is from our listener Jay they them and it is called soulmate and

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soul fracture healing story hi ladies I've been listening since the fourth episode and never felt I had a relevant enough story to email until now I just finished encounters 168 and needed to write it my stomach flipped when you all were talking about fractured souls and having someone fill those fractures when you find them this might be a little long but my name is Jay they them I'm a very sensitive person both to the other side and to inclinations about things that will happen in the future I experience significant childhood trauma and spent most of my childhood and young adult very inside my head which helped me get in touch with my gifts and my guides I am also a twin from a very young age I knew I had strong psychic connection with my twin our emotional connection is very limited and difficult though our difficult relationship was part of why I never thought Soul might surreal I assume that if any human was going to be

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linked to me it would have been my twin after my twin and I finished high school we both hightailed it out of our hometown and away from our Dysfunctional Family when I stepped foot on campus everything felt perfect I finally fit in I was super involved with a bunch of different clubs and was even able to come out as bisexual to my closest friends one of my close friends let's call him B was nearly a perfect match for me he was one of the first people I met on campus we had the same major we were both Latin American we both left our family's religions we had the same struggles with coming to terms with our bisexuality B and I took classes together did research in the same lab trained in the off season together and even got on-campus jobs at the same place I started trying to connect more with my ancestors because bni's relationship felt so strong and special and I had questions there was one big downside though BNI

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had zero physical chemistry he was like a brother oh but that's okay like Korean you and I I feel like our soul mates and we have a lot of similarities but not physically attracted to each other and you don't have to be physically attracted to all of your and that's not to say Karen I do think you're beautiful I really I really think you're no I'm meaning there's very few people that I've ever been sexually attracted to so it's not a beautiful thing only one of them if I looked more like Bigfoot I would expect you to be attractive oh I need therapy [Laughter] don't we all okay the summer before our senior year we got internships at the same research lab and stayed in the city he was going into the last semester of his sport in the fall and was training anytime we weren't working so I was very much left out to dry on a random Thursday night I was dead asleep and had a literal voice scream

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from the void of my sleep to wake me up I sat right up heart racing sweating and I reached for my phone something felt super urgent in my soul I checked my phone and had a screen full of texts from B they restrained but absolutely not urgent or panic-educing they look like drunk texts maybe but even his English hispanish and his Spanglish weren't phrased the way he normally typed so I called him back to back at least a dozen times no answer and at this point I'm starting to worry is that why my heart told me to wake up is he in trouble I started throwing clothes on to go to his apartment when I got a video call from him he was drunk happy drunk not scary I need help drunk okay with a bunch of his yeah and he was with a bunch of his teammates and they were all laughing and dogging on him for calling me I scolded him for scaring me and I could feel my body relax knowing he was fine just before hanging up I hear the voice

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of someone in the background that I've never heard before slurring some version of sleep tight sweet dreams and my chest clenched like when you get a spike of adrenaline when you narrowly avoid a car accident oh I feel like it's in a good way like in a like oh my gosh my like there's like a fluttering in my body from that oh oh I was totally picturing it as like something was that person was about to do some harm no no this is a good story okay I ended up pacing my kitchen through the wee hours of the morning trying to figure out if I was having some weird version of a panic attack developing some bizarre crush on me or if maybe I had confused an ancestor sending me some mixed messaging on what I was supposed to be doing with my life I don't know Friday B and I both show up for our internship looking like the living dead he was more hungover than I'd ever seen him and I was incredibly sleep deprived from the weirdness of the previous night

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at lunch we both headed off site and I finally grilled him on what the hell happened the night before he said the guys had been celebrating because one of his teammates who had graduated a few months ago was accepted off the waitlist at the very last minute and would be starting graduate school at a nearby University in the fall at the party he lost a drinking game and one of the guys got to steal his phone and text whoever he wanted without damage control until B finally won a game which is weird but okay at this point I'm leaning towards my gift woke me up out of an abundance of concern maybe for bullying that evening while I'm up to my eyeballs in MCAT prep books and studying I get a flirty text from a number I don't recognize I ignoring all previous virtual safety lectures text something back even bolder and then all night we text back and forth relatively tame shooting the [ __ ]

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kind of messages and then we text almost every day after that doing the hey how are you in small talk I love that Jay doesn't know who this person is and is yeah talking but but they know who Jay is yes okay secret admirer yeah we texted about graduate school

Reincarnation and healing

applications pressures coming up to senior year and family pressure it was actually really nice towards the end of the summer I get a text that makes my chest clench just like the night of the video call it says you look great in white you should wear it more the shoes with the flowers are a nice touch that is exactly what I was wearing and I was out to lunch with B and his phone was in his pocket the entire time what the heck I would be freaking out that I had a stalker at this time it feels like it

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up to this point I mean I know the end of this story so I have a different yeah feeling but yes that's exactly how I felt at the beginning up to this point I had a lingering thought that it could have been B and he had been texting me this entire time but no because his phone was in his pocket I start looking around and I don't see a single familiar face B questions me so I flip my phone and tell him I have no idea who it is he Chuckles and assured me that everything was fine and that the texture was probably stupid and harmless I waited until I was home to finally text the number back that feeling in my chest was setting alarm bells in my head I decided to put my foot down and text the number that I would stop responding altogether if they didn't tell me who they were they caved and gave me a name let's call him h I searched online and it was one of B's teammates who I had never met he played two sports double majored in nothing close to what we studied and worked far off campus yes my internet sleuthing

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skills rival the FBI I invited him to meet now that I had a face and a name lo and behold H's internship was two blocks from bni's internship we met up after work and the second he hugged me and kissed my cheek to say hello I felt that heart clinch adrenaline rush our first date felt nothing like a first date should we have been talking for most of the summer so all of the awkward get to know you stuff was done and we just dug deep right off the bat our first date lasted the whole weekend our connection was unlike anything I'd ever experienced playtonic or romantic we talked almost every waking hour about everything from music to childhood pets we candidly opened up about our traumas mistakes and fears the trust felt innate and natural after that weekend we were nearly Inseparable within weeks I was certain he was special I had intense dreams and

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callings from my guides that I hadn't experienced before one night during our first few months together I had left a Black Mirror I used for communicating out on my desk with a corked bottle of sand nearby not on but near the mirror the way my tiny bedroom was set up was that my desk was butted up against the headboard of my bed age slept over that night which was common because we were inseparable when I tell you I had the Wildest Dream I couldn't even begin to describe how real and terrifying it was I was conscious of everything I knew who I was I knew I wasn't in my current body and I was actually a guy I was so panicked and I stood behind a counter in a very old timey shop I had the scratchiest suit on and I couldn't stop touching my bearded face when I found a mirror I realized I was short and slender a white man with reddish brown hair and a full beard I sat on a stool and internally panicked when someone cleared their throat it was

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a tall man with dark brown hair and he smiled with the same lopsided single dimple smile that H has he quietly said finally found you here my heart felt warm and full and I knew it was age this scenario in different versions genders nationalities and time periods happened all night me and H again and again and again finding each other in different lives whoa oh my God I am too listen from me being scared they had a stalker thinking full-on soulmate I know that night I slept 16 hours age had woken up gone for a run showered done some homework and made lunch by the time I woke up I don't know if this means anything but when I got up the Black Mirror on my desk was shattered where it had been like it was still a square but it was like a shattered pattern you get when you take a glass dish from a super hot oven to a

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cool fridge too quickly in the small jar of sand had spilled all over the mirror despite the jar being Unbroken from my understanding I am certain that this was my guides communicating that H is my soul mate and that our souls have found one another over many many lives and regardless of what social norms existed we are a queer couple in this life so it's so cool to know that we've been hetero and queer in other soul iterations if you don't get it by now H and I are still together 13 years and happily married five years we are still Inseparable and make all of our friends gag with how stupidly lovey-dovey we can be B is still one of our closest friends and was a groomsman at our wedding I wanted to mention was about our soul fractures and the healing we have found with one another both he and I have been through some really traumatizing things in our lives I know for my own soul that some of my experiences have impacted me so deeply

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that I know I hold deep cuts I'd love to say that when we met everything healed and I sailor mooned into a perfectly healed and happy person as cool as that would be it isn't how it went we both go to our therapy to deal with our issues but we have both had these truly inexplicable moments where it feels like our bond heals an old wound an example I experienced was a few years into dating I have a reoccurring nightmare I've had I've had since I was a child that is a flashback to a traumatic experience the details aren't important and I don't want to traumatize or trigger any listeners so I was sleeping that night with h who was also used to having very vivid dreams and is very good at controlling his dreams flashback style dreams had never ever deviated from what actually happened for me they replayed and I couldn't change it no matter how conscious I was that I was dreaming that night while the bad person from my flashback had a tight

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grip on my shoulder I could hear H and feel that fullness in my chest that I feel with him the dream didn't continue and I slept without dreaming for the rest of the night the next day H excitedly told me about a weird dream he had and that I was there he recounted my own flashback dream but for some odd reason the bad person wasn't a person but a small octopus in H's version of the dream when the octopus started to attach to my shoulder he cheerfully told me how he just pulled it off and threw it back into the ocean oh my God he's rewriting and oh my gosh this is just reminding me Sabrina of some of the things you said in our ladies and EMG entrance Crossover with EMDR and having your safe team come in and react and like take down the perpetrators rewrite your story with the people that are in your

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safe space and I love that this wasn't even something Jay did it was something that H did H came in and did this yes in his own dream and Jay said still to this day at least seven years later I have yet to have that flashback dream ever again I'm not sure what y'all believe but to me it feels like he was able to heal an old wound oh my gosh yes oh my gosh I have like I have Goosebumps on my shins that's when you know a story is really getting me when it's like oh my God everywhere I've shared with age how I believe our soul connection manifests for me in that tightening clenching in my chest H has had something similar happen to him but it feels like someone blew a bunch of bubbles that are popping on his face oh it gives him the chills when it happens so I'm lucky that I can see him physically react to it when it happens when we first met he later told his

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brother it was like a hundred fairy kisses his brother his brother looked at him and told him it sounded like a mini stroke [Laughter] wait that is so love you love y'all Jay Jay what a lie it's beautiful it's so beautiful I just love Jay's dream of of going through and seeing all the different iterations of their lives together and having that recognition that it's the same person despite what they might look like you know that their soul like you are soul mates you guys over and over and over over and over again I also love okay because not only does this story require Jay for for Jay to not be weirded out by this unknown person texting them and then continuing to respond and talk and communicate without knowing who they are but it also required h

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to be the person to take Bee's phone at that party and start texting random people and choosing to take Jay's phone number because there was something about Jay that H was interested in right and then start communicating I mean Jay described it before I forget the exact words that they used but some sort of like buzzing and tingling and excitement and nervous pit in the stomach hearing his voice and H described it as a bunch of fairy kids a thousand fairy kisses and so I wonder if they both just it's nothing that we can even control it's just like they they knew they were like buzzing and Drawn Together like two little magnets in love it's so sweet it's so sweet and I just think you know there are a lot of people like Jay and H it sounds like who have been through such dark traumatic events in their lives yeah but to know that

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there's someone out there not that they can heal you but that they can help you grow and bring light and love into your life despite the things you've been through is just one of the most beautiful and heartwarming Notions of life I know and just even thinking about reincarnation too like you you're talking about of what they had gone through and Jay said that they had very similar experiences traumatic experiences in their child tenant it just makes me think we've we've heard there's many different theories about what happens after you die and souls and reincarnation and it really depends on people's personal beliefs and religious beliefs but in many of the near-death experience cases that you and I have either covered or just watched documentaries listen to other podcasts it does seem like your soul signs if you go back to Earth there's a purpose right like you sign up for some lesson that you need to learn and the fact that J and H had such similar experiences when

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they were younger and that they're helping each other process and and grow from their trauma it makes me think that they're even more bonded as a pair that like together their arm and arm waiting for their assignments on Earth and they're like let's do all of our lessons together yes yep oh my gosh this was such a good one okay thank you for sharing that with audio Sabrina thank you for reading it it's all Jay it was all Jay wow can take zero credit

A spirit attends a wedding

man oh man okay this is called I Now Pronounce You Mr and Mrs haunted oh one of us one of us or two of us I guess yes or four of us if we have Mr and Mrs haunted or five of us because I think this is about the ghosts we're just getting the oh and infinite number of ghosts really all of you it's a collection of everything hey guys I've been listening since my friend Morgan told me about you guys back in

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2019 and I'm so proud of how far the podcast has come oh thank you I've been sensitive to the Paranormal for my entire life and have had too many stories to count I am an empath with some Clairvoyance which gives me the ability to feel what Spirits are feeling and use that to link to commute and use that link to communicate with them I've been meaning to write you guys for the longest time and I finally decided that today is the day and I'm starting with my most wholesome story ugh love it this story revolves around my friend who all refer to as Maggie Maggie is one of my girlfriends from high school and their friend group has stayed very close over the years Maggie comes from a very close-knit family and was especially close with her father he tragically passed away unexpectedly in the spring of 2021. Maggie is the oldest of her siblings and her wedding was set for fall of 2021. he had been so excited to see her marry her high school sweetheart and she was completely heartbroken when he wouldn't be able to be there to walk

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her down the aisle little did Maggie know it would take more than that to make her father miss her wedding as we all know the veil is thinnest around Halloween so it was actually very convenient that her wedding was just a few days before that I had never met Maggie's dad but I knew that he would be there and I knew that there was a chance that I would be able to connect with him the wedding was absolutely beautiful and we all cried as Maggie's brother walked her down the aisle and that was when I first felt her dad's presence this deep Pride that I can only describe as a Father's Love Oh after the ceremony we moved to the reception venue and the sun began to set that's when things began to get funky oh we love a good Funk Maggie lives in a small town and her family is very active in the community there were tons of people at the event and I'd never met any of them the only people I knew were the bride and groom and our small circle of friends however as I looked through the crowd I would

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have vivid memories with these random strangers I saw a middle-aged bald man with a striped tie and remembered standing side by side with our arms over each other's shoulders while we laughed and drank beers with another random Patron I remembered us chatting at a church event with another person I saw at a backyard barbecue and could even smell the smoke coming from the grill certain people would give me positive neutral or even negative feelings I felt like I knew everyone in this crowd but I knew it wasn't me it was him wow oh as the night went on I began to feel these emotions and connections more intensely it became more difficult to separate my own feelings from his I was inexplicably drawn to people the first was a tiny little old lady and every time I saw her alone on the Dance Floor I was overcome with sadness and I made a point to go and dance with her and chat with her she turned out to be the life of the party at one point I was dancing with her

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while Kesha blasted from the speakers and she said do you want to get low of course yeah done later with Kesha hell yeah Kesha yes I later confirmed that she was in fact mackie's paternal grandmother oh the second was the mother of the bride I had a deep longing for her that I can only describe as the feeling of loving someone you can't have Maggie's parents were high school sweethearts and very much fell in love even after Decades of marriage and three kids he missed her the most he missed her more than anything he knew his kids would grow up and that they would have their own lives but his wife had been left alone I have no doubt that they are soul mates I danced with her at one point and at the end of the dance I leaned in and said something to her what did I say I don't know I was not it was not a conscious action for me she looked a little bit taken aback thanked me and went off to do whatever the mother of the bride needed to do I feel like this

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is so wild because Bex just didn't even really experience the wedding for themselves it was very much but like channeling conduit Yeah well yeah I I guess spoiler alert this was sent in BuyBacks oh I didn't read the name oh this is from Bex okay Sabrina's reading along clearly yes I have not had a chance to ask her what I said since the wedding and honestly I'm a little scared too what if it was something really weird or creepy my girlfriend was the only one there that knew about my connection to the Paranormal I had never told anyone in their friend group and it's something that I mostly kept to myself I'd always planned to tell Maggie that her father was there but I wanted to wait I wanted her night to be about her but he was persistent tell her I'm here tell her I'm sorry tell her how much I love her after the guests had started to leave and the party was dying down I asked

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Maggie if I could talk to her in private for a minute of course the only place that was quiet enough to have a conversation was the bathroom which was a little odd but it would do I had not planned how to tell her so I just looked at her and said something along the lines of look I'll answer whatever questions you have tomorrow but I want to keep tonight about you I need you to know that your dad is here he loves you so much he's so proud and happy for you there's so much he wants to tell you and your mom and your siblings but tonight you need to know that he's here Maggie smiled and replied of course he [ __ ] is he's so stubborn I cried she cried and then we went back to the party from that point things took a darker turn the happiness and pride began to be replaced by a bitter anger why wasn't he there why didn't he get a chance to say goodbye why couldn't he walk his daughter down the aisle why couldn't he be there to see his son graduate high school why did his wife have to be left without him it wasn't fair

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I was dancing with my girlfriend to a slow song and suddenly it was all too much I started sobbing we went back to the bathroom and I had a breakdown I started venting to her everything that I was feeling and she did her best to understand it was so heartbroken for Maggie and for her family but especially for her dad it really wasn't fair they were a happy family he was a great guy but he would never get to meet his grandkids he wouldn't grow old with his wife he could only watch my girlfriend and I got together with Maggie after her honeymoon and talked a little bit about her dad I could feel that he was still present and watching over his family and his wife and his presence was very warm and comforting I didn't feel any of that bitterness that I had felt during the wedding he gives them signs that he's there he'll scoot plates around in the kitchen there's an obscure 80s song that will happen to come on the radio when they're missing him the most little things like that so let the takeaway be this always end

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conversations with I love you hug your loved ones a little tighter tonight and remember that even if they're gone they're still with you life is short and we don't always know which goodbye will be our last I've enjoyed I hope you enjoyed this story even though it carries some sadness alright soon with more stories including my scariest the time I spent Christmas with the corrupted spirit that tried to kill me oh I'll see you on the other side backs they them Becks this breaks my heart so much but is also incredibly incredibly touching and beautiful and I imagine that this is like clearly I mean Beck said that it became too much at a certain point but yeah having such a heaviness to carry with you it's a gift but it's also kind of a curse like I was saying effects didn't have any control over this and was saying comments and making comments

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to people that Beck said no knowledge of and didn't even still to this day doesn't know what they said and then was overcome with all these emotions and feelings and had to carry them for themselves which must be really really hard but then also at the same time for Maggie's dad it was probably such a gift to be able to communicate with his family through backs I know it's interesting too how they share the space it feels almost like a possession but it's not right like Bex is absorbing everything that Maggie's dad felt and has all of his memories but they're they're sharing the same space Bex is still recognizing all of the memories that aren't theirs and all of the feelings that aren't theirs but they're still together in this one body and Bex gets to be that vessel for him to experience the wedding which is so beautiful yeah

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yeah and I love that his presence is so strong that when they went to tell Maggie Maggie was just like of course he's here like no [ __ ] of course my dad is here yeah sad but sweet I know there's also such a sweetness too to him just remembering all of the things that he experienced with all of his friends there too right like he was clearly drawn to the wedding and wanted to attend the wedding for his family for Maggie but still got to think of the time when he was arm and arm with his buddy drinking beers and having a good time or at a barbecue with some of the other people but all of that is so I mean I can put myself into that mindset and understand how Maggie's dad could then shift later in the night and and become upset and angered by it because it's like here I am looking at all these people I love

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and reminiscing and all of these feelings and moments and they can't see me and I don't actually get to be there and touch them and physically interact with these people that I love like that is heartbreaking I just started reading the book in five years and I'm not very far into it oh okay well I'll spoil the first two chapters because I'm not very far in but this woman is I think she's engaged or she's about to be engaged or whatever and she's so excited for her and her Lover's future and she goes to bed one night and she wakes up and it's five years later and she's in a completely different area of town in a new romantic relationship and then she wakes up again and she's back with that that other the like first person that she's with she's going back and forth so real feels so visceral that she knows that whatever happened in her dream it couldn't just be a dream so I'm in the part of the book like literally in the first couple chapters of her trying to map out she's trying to figure out what will happen between those two

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moments yes yes yeah oh I'm so gonna read this Lauren told me to read it our friend Lauren she was adamant that I read it okay I got it some one of our listeners and I'm so sorry that I don't have your name right off the top of my head but they had tagged us in a story and they're reading the southerners or the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires oh that keeps coming up I keep seeing people review that book so I started reading it it must be good because everyone's reading it right yeah yeah um I'm only on chapter three so I don't have like a ton of knowledge but good books also this has nothing to do with the books that we've been talking about but you know how everyone talks about Jody picolt books yeah Jody has her own Tick Tock now and it's Jody Pico so just for everyone to know we've all been saying her last

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name wrong Jody Pico oh that's how you say it that's how she she says it said yeah so that's how we say it oh whoops it's kind of like when I thought Riley Sager was a woman yeah it happens it's hard when you're reading you make a lot of assumptions and to be fair Riley Sager writes all of his main characters are females so it's like I don't know he's mastered the female narrative and so that's awesome he's channeling someone in his life some or some Spirit who knows yeah um um well Corinne happy wedding Sabrina thank you happy life and per bex's uh message I would like to end this episode and every episode with Corinne I love you Sabrina I love you thank you I'm like serious about it you

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were more gentle I'm like I really love you well I really like to absorb it um feel it we have a love I feel like my hair went a bit like 70s over here I know you look like a rocker it's pretty sweet you're going back to the side part it was truly just momentarily when I went to go pee and now it's I like it though you can rock it we have grunge Sabrina entering the chat um anyway we love all of you as well thank you for joining us so much love to Karen and Brian as they get married and start this new chapter of their life as husband and wife that rhymed and I did not mean for it too we won't be married yet when this episode comes out but almost but almost it's coming it's coming it's imminent thinking about it now um love you all and thank you for joining us if you have ghost stories please email them to us at two girls one ghostpodcast gmail.com you

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can also like we said in the beginning this episode join us on patreon for so many more hours of our voices and some exciting news and updates about I don't know potential shows in the future access to tickets earlier than everyone else access to recordings of those live shows everything like that and thank you to Christina for editing this podcast every episode because we truly could not do it without you it's very very helpful to have your expertise thank you and we will see you on the other side