258. The Wicked Witch of Monroe

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very spooky I wanted to check in real quick how is FAL February going everyone I forgot we were doing that it's hard if you're in New England and it's cold out and you don't want to go outside FAL can be inside there can be many feral indoor activities I can speak to those How's feral February going for you Sabrina pretty feral pretty pretty feral are you maxing out on being feral no I think I'm really I think I rock feroc ferocity for rail

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ity what's the pl like I'm just great at being feral God I'm just stuttering now I can't I don't know I can barely think that's okay your brain is being kept very warm by your adorable Beanie I'm freezing so cute my ears hurt because I have like my blue lay glasses touching my ears my hat and then my headphones so at some point I'll probably strip all of my clothes off as result and be like [ __ ] this get naked get get naked you know before we did YouTube there were naked recordings there were but now that we're on now that we're on video it's like we really just got to get a hold of our body temperatures and by we I mean me also hi Welcome to our show this is two girls one ghost two girls one ghost and we are your ghostesses that is Karen I am Sabrina if you're just catching up

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with us feral February is the new dry January it's where you do whatever the [ __ ] you want yeah it's the opposite of dry January dry January insinuates that you have some sort of self-control and feral February is just letting your freak flag fly yeah there's no rules do what feels good to you don't hurt people be be like a good human I think that's yeah part of it but a good example of feral February is something that I don't know if you said this just on the regular podcast or if it was like a patreon special but you talked about how when you were painting you just thought about what if you put your forehead in the paint yeah I put and then you did it face so it's it's kind of like intrusive thought February as well yeah intrusive thought feral February if you really want to eat that Acorn off the ground do it yum crunchy be a squirrel be a squirrel if you want

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to travel the world do it if you want something just take it take Life by itss big old big old titties milk it baby I'm here with my hairy styles mug oh it's so cute to get comfortable and tell you some updates please get cozy or maybe go be feral and listen to us tell you about part of our feral February is yeah reading fairy smut oh yeah fairy smut so we are doing on patreon we have quarterly book club and we are reading a court of thorns and Roses which is by Sarah J mass and we are going to have our discussion of just the first book on March March 3rd at 400 p.m. Pacific 700 p.m. Eastern we'll post about it on patreon there will be a link but if you're a patreon member you can join us for that com conversation I'm sure there

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are plenty of you out there who have read the entire series or have gotten a jump start on books 2 three I just started book two because I couldn't wait you did I almost bought the full series the other day when I was when I went to one of my favorite book stores which is in the North End I am books but so fun I didn't because I still have to read the first one but I really like our book club it's so fun so we'll discuss this book I think our next book we won't continue with the series but I think we can private and by privately I mean like on patreon still all continue the series we have like a discussion thread but the next book club if you're not into the fairy smut you can still join for the fun discussion and then help us pick our next book which we always do at the end of that meeting yeah meeting it's so formal it's a book club meeting it is formal to me formal it also feels so personal too because I was even talking to Brian the other day and I was like there are people that we just see

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every week whether it be at campfire stories or these various meetings and I was referencing people and not to call out litha but litha I was talking about you and your home projects and things going on in your life and then he was like who is litha and I was like one of my friends I was like wait a second we know so much about everybody us that I start talking about people's personal lives to people around me and so I'm sorry that I know so much about all of you but it is really fun to all get together to be fair they know a lot about us They Know true now it's even you have a salami nipple so and if you're lucky I'll give you a little snake Pig no I won't I really want to see I'm curious to see what it looks like they're dark it's like cured meat I will show you okay the last update we have is a couple encounters ago in the New Year the beginning of the year we mentioned the Glamorous ghost which which is the Perry Mason novel and we were talking

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about reading it on patreon and all this stuff that was before I knew that Ken was pregnant so Ken I could tell was like little does she know how much work we're about to do so yeah I was like ha we're going to be recording 10 episodes every single week every to continue because while we've referenced I think before maybe maybe in a future episode too because we've been recording so much but I will be on maternity leave but that means absolutely nothing for the podcast because we are doing all the work now to make sure that all of the episodes still come out and it's life as usual for all of you yes so because of that we are not going to be recording Perry Mason novel but also it's really sexist and like super outdated if you want an update I'll read it and tell you what happens you can also watch the Apple TV series but there is a surprise that I am planning for Karen and for all of you on patreon when Karen is on maternity leave and so so that will be coming in the summer and

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that's all I'll say about that for me but I'll be gone mhm I'm intrigued good I like to Intrigue you will you intrigue us I will a few weeks ago we had mentioned that we were going to over the holidays dig up some old writings from our childhood and that we would read them I found none of my this is follow through February too this is follow through February as we just told you that we're not going to follow through with the other thing but we'll follow through with this but hey like this is proof we what like this is basically like nine weeks later and we are following through with the promise we're doing it so I did not find any writings like creative writings but I did find a couple things and I'm going to read you two things one is my writing one is not okay this is from my second grade Journal I think I said first grade before but I think it was my second grade Journal we had writing time every single week and so we'd have to take like 30 minutes or or something to write

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and I figured I would read you guys what I would consider to be my very first Yelp review oh my gosh it was June 3rd yesterday I went to the hairy bear Express and I got my hair cut short like with layers in the back I had about 3 to four inches cut off my hair and it was really hard to see that much hair go so I had to close my eyes a lot oh my go after I got it's funny cuz I don't remember having that issue with haircut that's so cute it did but here's where here's where I get upset after I got my haircut we went to Burger King to have lunch I ate the same thing I always eat a burger which makes Burger King in McDonald's so boring my brother chose to go to Burger King I think he only chose that because of the toys the toys are getting boring too because all they have are the Lord of the Rings and they just never get anything different they took about 10 or 15 minutes minutes to get our food

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together because it was slow Service I looked in the back at the workers and they were all just talking and it took about 3 to 5 minutes just to scoop one bunch of french fries I never want to go to that place again but we probably will at Christmas time so that we can pick the name off of a tree to get a present for them which was in reference to every my parents would go you know McDonald's would have that tree that charity the charity and we would each pick someone to get gifts for nice but McDonald's and Burger King never my thing as a kid so but did you like the haircut I did like the haircut but I think it was like my special reward after the haircut was to go get fast f burger and it was like oh what are my options what am I going to get oh the same thing I always get cuz there's only one option for me a burger pissed you are so cute I can picture it so perfectly oh my gosh toet tapping in the in the side like how does it take five minutes to scoop one bunch

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of french fries I want a picture of you from that age next to you on the screen while you read that just so that so that people can like picture you that age saying this I feel like I had like a bull cut ter and then the other thing I wanted to read was from the Williston Observer newspaper and this was my friend Lauren who she was one of my best friends in elementary school and so she slept over all the time she had a haunted experience at my house and years later when she was in 10th Grade she wrote about it and it made the newspaper so I'm going to read that that is amazing did you know that she was writing it into the newspaper or was this a surprise to your family it was a surprise to my family did you know that she had this experience before this point yes and what's interesting is my memory of her experience and what she wrote is different which of course I

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mean we were in fourth grade yeah when the experience happened I think or something like we were really young we it was sometime in elementary school and this was years later this was 10th grade so you know either of us could have changed the story in our minds by then yeah but here's her version of events and then I'll tell you what I remember the haunted Sleepover by Lauren M Lauren I'm so sorry I'm reading this my friend Karen's house is haunted and it has been since she moved in which also we built it so yeah since we built it Karen's been haunted since she was born is the footnote there she told me that it was the Ghost of a seven-year-old girl who wore her hair in pigtails she also told me about a time when she accidentally grabbed a foot thinking it was her younger brother but instead found a three-year-old boy's ghost I didn't believe her house was haunted until one night it was in fifth grade I was spending the night at kin's house it was

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Friday after school and my mom brought some things over we had dinner we played a few games and we talked for a while and then Karin's mom came in and said we needed to go to sleep so we got ourselves into bed and tried to go to sleep then Karin said she didn't really feel good so we both got up and we went to go get her mom her mom told us to go back to bed and said Karina is fine an hour later I was still up Karin was fast asleep everyone was asleep except me I just couldn't sleep I tossed and I turned all night long all of a sudden I heard a little girl's voice Karin Karin calling your name yeah I thought I was just hearing things so I went back to trying to sleep but then I heard it again Karin Karin I thought I was going crazy and then I remembered that little girl ghost so I started to panic and I didn't know what to do I'd never seen a ghost before and I wasn't sure that I wanted to so I pulled the big comforter over my head faster than

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you could say banana The Voice kept getting louder and louder and I was so scared then I felt a sudden chill over my body and I saw a dark shadow through the comforter the shadow left and went over to Karin's side of the bed I decided right then that I would shut my eyes before the ghost could pull the comforter off of me and I just tried to go to sleep and eventually I did the next morning I told Karen about it and she just laughed and said the ghost likes to play with me at night sometimes I guess she wanted to play with you too oh my God yeah you are such a you were like such a creepy kid yes okay so my recollection of it I think there's been like a couple things that probably were either in my own explanation or confusing to Lauren but the little girl ghost that I was referencing was the girl that was in my brother's closet when he was like four he was dressed up in his bezet year costume my mom and I were upstairs too when we were in the

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hallway and he ran into his room to grab something into his closet to like bring it back out for all of us and there was a girl hovering and she had her hands she was like going like hum hum like I don't know I didn't see it but like she was like humming or like making some sort of vibrating noise with her mouth and I believe that's the girl that I was referencing to Lauren did she have pigtails I don't remember the big the pigtail detail maybe my brother does but however I had explained it to her it must have been just however Christian had explained it to me at the time yeah and then when she heard Karin Karin I didn't realize that she had thought at that sleepover that it was the little girl ghost because I had been experiencing and this was something that I hadn't told anyone before I think I told my mom but I definitely did not tell any of my friends Lauren did not know this and Lauren experiencing this was like holy [ __ ] I'm not imagining things which is funny that in the morning I played it off was like ha really I was like Brain Blast but I had

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for like a year or two been hearing a couple like a woman a young woman and a man they probably sounded like they were in their 20s or 30s outside of my bedroom door at night and they would discuss me and they would talk to me like is she awake can she hear us no no no she's fine Karen don't say her name right now it would be conversation like that and I would hear it and I'd be so freaked out because it was like right outside of my door and they were discussing me but I was like I must just be imagining it or I don't know it's your Spirit guides but then when Lauren heard the Karin Karin I was like oh my God Lauren experienced it wow and the shadow thing was interesting because I definitely even do this day sometimes in my childhood home I'll feel like a presence like a shadow I won't see it but like I can feel it coming to the side of my bed sometimes it's my dog sometimes you can tell cuz he's to the ground and you hear like the clicke clicke coming in and like staring at me

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and by my dog I mean my dog who passed away years ago right right but anyway that was Lauren's haunted sleep over at my house and my review of the McDonald's near Wilson Vermont I have a request for myself and I think all of our listeners would want this as well can you and I do an overnight slumber party cuz I've never been to your house in Vermont yeah and I really do mean that like I will plan before your creepy child comes into this world I will plan a trip and we can go to Vermont and do this honestly should we wait until the creepy child is here because maybe that will trigger more activity oh that's a good point because the thing with my house is there's LOLs like there's there's periods where it's really really active and then there's periods where it's dead quiet and it's silent and you won't experience anything at all and so I think right now in my experience it's been pretty quiet I know my parents have had like little things happen here and there but it's not anything consistent but sometimes when someone new comes in

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things pick up okay well we just have to do it because I know you're saying that your parents might be moving at some point in the future and in the next few years yeah if anyone wants to buy my old haunted house I'll let you know when it goes on the market my bucket list is to visit this house and stay the night there so okay yeah and if anyone wants to house swap with my parents they're looking to move to I think the Portsmith New Hampshire like Sea Coast area which is where my mom's from and where half my is also can we just admire how cute Leia is right now just sleeping just having a good time being cuddly lounging She Looks So Soft so so cute I love her although I wore all black and so I will be covered in her hair yeah but this will be great she'll get to relax to your own voice because you're telling us a story this week I am and I did wear all black in honor of my story today okay because in honor of pharoh February and 2024 being the year of the witch I

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chose to cover an icon a hero a witch this woman we're about to talk to is a ferocious feral female the triple threat the triple F the ultimate compliment yeah and I I've literally wrote I say it with the utmost love and respect because I feel like some people could be like oh that's me to say someone's like Ferell but like no like this is a story about someone who was ostracized misunderstood and despite all of that defied all social norms and refused to diminish herself for the comfort of others good someone that we should look up to maybe this is the legend of Hannah Hy AKA Hannah crana The Witch of Monroe Connecticut Connecticut so close I always just assume stories like this are from the UK from like the 1400s or

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something so okay as a disclaimer it's really difficult to find any information that goes deeper into the history of Hannah her birth or any actual records aside from a gravestone that exists in Connecticut so most of which I'm about to share with you can't actually be verified as fact but is absolutely delightful and unlike most stories of witches in American history and in New England hist hisory around this time which ended in false accusation and executions this ends and leaves you or it left me a little pickled vegetable and craving a pet rooster what in the world did you just say it left you a little pickled vegetable if I were to go back 10 seconds and relive a feral moment I would say it left me a pickled vegetable and craving a

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[ __ ] honestly the part that I'm most confused about is the Pickled vegetable oh I just love pickled vegetables and I think it would be delightful to be pickled like you know instead of being tickled I'm pickled it's just like a way to bring up that you love pickled vegetables just writing like a weird things in your research so I'm like wait what is that and you're like oh by the way I love pickled veget I love pickled vegetables I'll mark that in my notes for gifts for Sabrina pickles vegetables okay I know there are plenty of people out there who love getting like flowers and roses and stuff as gifts I don't I actually like it's one of my least favorite things and I I think it's sweet it's a nice gesture but I really don't like it because they die and they smell really bad if you're going to get me flowers get me a plant that I can like continue to cultivate and let it live yeah or get me eucalyptus because I love like dried eucalyptus but I'm not a flower gal not a flower gal get me a

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book or pickled vegetables Brian's Valentine's Day tradition for me is he gets me a plant like an indoor house plant so nice and then half the time they live half the time they die I think I told you this but growing up at my house my parents like got us all a tree and we planted a tree in our backyard oh yes yes and I like the idea of like planting a tree for the new life I'm pretty sure mine died I agree everyone that I've told this thinks I'm crazy but I'm going to attempt to keep my placenta and then I want to bury it in my backyard oh okay and put a blueberry bush on top of it wa I love that why is that weird well I don't think I've told people that part people still think that anything with placentas can be weird but I also was telling everyone I was just going to sling it over a tree branch and let it dry out like fruit leather so listen you could do weirder things you could do like like Mary Shelly did and wrap your lover's heart in your desk

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drawer so it doesn't matter what I'm going to do with it okay like I just need it do whatever it's your placenta it's the babies I think but like you grew it true and now it's going to grow blueberries and I'm going to feed to everybody what's your secret I'll sell one placenta blueberry on only fans for $100 a pop wow that's actually brilliant okay anyway why am I like tearing up back to Hannah crana Hannah crana once again leaving me a pickled vegetable and craving a I know I said [ __ ] earlier but it's a pet rooster the night was struck by a storm the wind carried Whispers secrets and Terrors it wailed through the small town of Monroe Connecticut and proved treacherous and vile the town's people sought shelter in their humble modest homes the rain pounded the Earth's extinguishing red hot flames they were no match and no match would light a fire

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all they could do was huddle beneath blankets hope their roofs held up and prey morning wouldn't bring any morning when they woke the skies were blue the sun was bright and all was all right but they should have known not to trust it the tides turned ever so quickly a man was dead Captain Joseph hovi was discovered at the bottom of a steep Cliff his neck a skew did The Honorable late Seaman take a fatal fall or was he pushed murdered at the hands of an old true also I feel like now is a good time for me to address for some reason when I first heard of Hannah cranon this was like months ago I was going to do this last year mhm my brain was like racking itself for memory of a Nursery Rhyme or like a schoolyard rhyme that we used to say about Hannah crana similar to Lizzie bordon oh really I swear I swear I know it like I SW I

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can hear it in my head I can hear like the beats and the rhythm of it yeah and I cannot like truly there is part of me that is convinced that Hannah crana and myself are experiencing some type of Mandela effect because I'm convinced there was one so that is why I wrote that whole beginning thing kind of like in a poey rhymey yeah in a rhymey cuz I was trying to satiate this like I literally it feels like there's an ice cream scoop taken out of my brain because it's missing I have no clue what you're talking about someone El there it does exist no not at all and I tried looking this is the first time I've ever heard Hannah cr's name okay and regionally we're not too far away from each other for where we grew up so right I don't know maybe someone else knows maybe it is a Mandela effect thing I don't know if anyone knows the Hannah crana nursery rhyme please tell me are

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you thinking of like the Hannah Nana bonana Banana Nana Fe okay it's like the Lizzy bordon one it was like a like kind of violent morbid but like witchy type of thing anyway if anyone can find it I will be so thrilled and if not please anyone if you would like to submit a Hannah crana riddle rhyme poem to us after this please do we'll post them on our social medias and maybe but you you have to record it in the voice notes so that we have your voice doing the the beat the Rhythm with the beat everyone rap in everyone rap anyway I it's like truly I thought like by the time that I finished researching that like that feeling would go away but it has not so did you ask chat GPT because I feel like that scrubs all of the internet I did not ask chat GPT but I asked everything like I truly scour the internet and it doesn't exist

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very interesting like it causes like a physical pain anyway oh my God back to the Shrew so Captain Joseph hovy was found dead and the towns people were like this is strange how did this man go from the top of the hill to down below his neck cracked and his soul no mo I didn't really rhy I was trying to rhyme and then I was like so his death left his wife Hannah a widow but she was not alone because she was kept Company by her trusty companion a big old [ __ ] old boras her rooster oh my gosh I love it it's like Moana yeah you love to reference Moana but so Hannah and Her [ __ ] live up on this hill by themselves and she kind of becomes a little bit of a recluse and rumors begin chatter Begins the

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Legends Begin so as I said there's not much known about Hannah prior to the death of her husband Captain Joseph hovie and there's hardly even anything really known about her at all there's just this legend about her so the legend goes that Hannah initiated herself into witchcraft following the mysterious death of her husband because her husband's death remained a mystery people were like some people say that she became a witch afterwards some people say that she was always a witch and that her husband wasn't drunk or that she just like was bored of him and so she hexed him and caused him to in this like super days during a stormy night truly just walk off the cliff oh wow it is sometime in the late 1700s Hannah is now widowed stowed away at top the summit of heavin Hill and she was not seen for weeks maybe even months until one evening two men were driving along the hill when they spotted a woman

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her hair wild eyes crazed standing in a swamp staring at them wearing a long gown Fiona is that you it was Hannah and there's some discrepancy here in one of the Articles it said she was wearing like a white gown that someone in you know with Legends like someone was like it was her wedding gown but then other people say that once her husband died she only ever was seen wearing black which is why I'm wearing black today but I don't know why that would be weird because I feel like it was common practice as widows to wear black so and also it's like we didn't they weren't just freely dying different garments left and right with various colors like the majority of clothing were the neutrals right I I guess the weird part is that it's the middle of the night she's standing kind of scarily

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looking in a swamp staring at these men as they're driving up the hill and these men fled frightened oh I love her in the months that followed she was only seen a couple times she became a recluse living at the top of her Hill kept company only by her rooster who after Joseph's demise apparently only crowed at the witching hour at midnight every single night oh what a spy little [ __ ] mhm even the name of her Crow insinuated Hannah was a witch because oh it was a crow in my mind it was still a rooster it is a rooster I'm confused it's like doing the like crowing calling and what's it called okay uh Barnyard Co was cockadoodle doing it was cocka doodling anyway instead of like instead of Sunrise as most roosters would do this rooster would only do it at midnight every night so it's like

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this haunting noise emanating from the top of the hill where there's this like recluse woman who's widowed wearing all black and potentially caused the death of her husband which it's also like why why is it alerting her or just like responding to something every single day at midnight so the rumors that started to spiral was that Hannah was performing like satanic r ual at that time and that was like the beginning of her rituals and the name of her rooster old boreas and I might be saying that wrong but it was he a named after a purple winged Greek god of the north wind and winter so it's really interesting that she has a pet named after like a pagan God another yeah check mark for is this woman a witch poor pagans yeah but this rooster was her famili Amar and this like the story of her and her ruer like is so

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beautiful it's very tragic but beautiful and sad and I'll tell you at the end but so Hannah is racking up witchcraft suspicions like she's checking all the boxes her husband died mysteriously she's now a recluse with a pet coock who I just I keep I have to say it it's I don't know I'm 10 I'm feral we can call borus Rue little Rue Rue and I'm going to put this in quotes because I think it's just like a vile misinterpretation of this woman she had a contener personality meaning that she was like a shrew yeah I would be too if my husband died on the bottom of a cliff and everyone just assumed it was me and ostracized me and continued to make rumors about me and my only companion my pet rooster yeah seriously so then more rumors circulated and they became more absurd like there was one rumor that her home is surrounded and guarded by an army of snakes which [ __ ] badass if

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that's true and that the birds on her property could not be hunted like a hunter could like shoot an arrow at the bird and it would hit the bird and like no damage would happen to the animal I love it she lives in a protective bubble she's magical um and then she only wore black draped clothing and I'm sure maybe okay so it's the 1700s I'm sure people are thinking and are reminded of Salem which tribe which is very close to this area is Hannah in danger is she at risk of being persecuted yes and no right yeah it was only like a couple decades before that all of the Salem Witch Trials were happening and it happened all over New England too so Connecticut saw all over the world yeah but so Hannah this is why I love this story because Hannah decides they think I'm a witch okay I'll be a witch brilliant and she out witch their

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witchy wishes befriend a witch you'll reap many rewards betray thy witch and sow many Sorrows this is Hannah crana The Witch of Monroe Connecticut people going to pay then it begins Hannah Embraces her witchiness when she does go into town doesn't even bother to comb her hair she has this massive grin but she's I will preface this she is a very from what I understand she's a very kind human like yeah she just if people are going to be mean to her she's going to be like okay you get what you get I picture Moira Rose from the crows Have Eyes the croning yeah kind of like that crows are following her yeah looking a bit feral you know you know what's really interesting interesting is that the birds the Hitchcock movie has

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no music in it it doesn't and it is such an incredible movie there's no music are there any dead silent parts or is it just I've never seen it is it just like the sounds of the birds like there's no you know how like I feel like with horror movies the music adds so much to the horor element yeah and even like any movies like music is such a powerful component the birds has no music wow I think that's really cool I gotta watch that movie it's great but also like when you look into the history of it and how it was made you're like Hitchcock was a was a [ __ ] Loney Tunes okay so there are a couple of Legends that have really kind of transcended time when it comes to Hannah crana and the Witchcraft practices that she practiced uh so I'm going to share a couple so it is said that there was a neighboring farmer who had a large crop of potatoes one season he was thrilled he was like hell yeah I

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get to pickle potatoes I mashed friy definitely better french fries than McDonald's oh yeah don't but one morning Hannah wakes up to find the farmer's cow destroying her garden and the farmer comes to retrieve the cow and is kind of like really rude to Hannah and doesn't really apologize and laughs I need details on how the cow destroyed because I understand that it probably was just eating the crops but my very first imagery in my mind was the cow just like doing a little jig like stomp stomp stomp like at a Spite and staring at her making dead eye contact yeah it was probably just eating it right I think it was eating things it probably did a little stump stomp stomp he do a little dance a little dance a little cow dance and Hannah what I love about this is that Hannah is like this is a cow she understands it's not the cow's fault but she was expecting the

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farmer to at least apologize and say sorry and be like oh my bad let me help recover your garden because also keep in mind at this time women are were very very dependent on the men in their lives Hannah is now a widow her husband is dead he didn't leave very much money behind for her she's unable to work or make money for herself she's dependent on living off of what she is planting in her garden and what people are willing to give to her and the growing season in Connecticut is short exactly so she's expecting human decency and instead this farmer laughs and Hannah stares at him she does not laugh she does not join him in this cackle that he's doing she looks at him feral ferocity in her eyes and she spoke with Vindication my curse upon you and my curse upon your crop she turns and she leaves Farmer's like what

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the [ __ ] he goes back to his farm he goes to bed the next morning every single crop in his field has blackened and died I mean he [ __ ] with the wrong person if you think about it if all the birds aren't dying there's some impenetrable bubble like whether it's her or something else looking out for her you Don't Mess With the Energy around Hannah crana you don't I will say this is one story where I appreciated Hannah was very much about she was willing to forgive so this man he's now you know he's aware of Hannah crana and the rumors of her being a witch and he's like I made a grave mistake I wronged The Witch of Monroe and so he goes to her and begs for her forgiveness and Promises to repay her for his wrongdoings Hannah deciding to be in a forgiving mood accepts the man's apology

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and the next season Hannah appears at this man's door one evening and she tells him to go to his field at 10 p.m. that night he does as he is told and right before his eyes his crops grow they grow from like small little corn crops all the way to 18 to 20 Ines before his eyes which I'm like Hannah I want to know your spells like what are you what is like this magic is wonderful I know you could Heal the World yeah and apparently as he's watching this happen he can hear The Whispers of Hannah's voice although she is not there she is back up on her Hill but he can hear her voice it's a whisper with a little high pitched cackle beneath it always remember that as others do to me even so I do to them good for good evil for evil I mean that is a lesson in and of itself treat people the way you want to be

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treated Mr farmer Mr farmer so now it's no longer a rumor it is in the town known as a fact that up on the hill There lives a witch her name was Hannah crana she had powers not to be messed with but of course there were many who uh did and then they got what they deserved this is just so wild to me because I feel like if I had lived in this time and I had heard what happened and yes she had the ability to wipe out someone's crops but she also had the ability to grow them so quickly I would be like this is a Healer this is a magical woman that we should go to for help yeah like I my initial reaction would be like she can heal yes so it's wild people are like oh let's just mess with her again scary witch right and it's also just like very it's a lot of selfish greedy people is what I am am interpreting this as because Hannah never used her powers for greed or for

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evil she was very diligent in using them for justice and like she said good for good evil for evil yep I also said she had very little money she was in need and she asked for very little like occasionally she would ask people for food or firewood and ultimately she asked for respect I do also wonder if I like to think of her as just this like all powerful magical woman who probably maybe well in my mind I say probably but like I know in actuality living through the winters in Connecticut and being alone during that period of time she probably did have to rely on people for help but in my mind I like to picture that she didn't have to ask anyone and these were just like small little tests to see who was good around her and for her to then like bestow some of her good positive energy there way you know that's interesting she's just testing people yeah well this is sad

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because there are a couple stories that are people being greedy and rude so prior to the death of her husband Hannah was known by the community and the neighbors I'm not necessarily sure how welcomed she was like she still might have been a little bit more on her own but she was known and then afterwards now in need they just completely cut her out so she one afternoon visits a neighbor who loves baking and she's really well known around the town for baking Delicious Pies Hannah goes over and asks if she could part with just one pie she was like I'll take the smallest one even if it's burnt I'll take one that you won't eat because you're not happy with how it tastes the woman scoffs belittles Hannah and tells her to be gone so Hannah instead of cowering and feeling rejected which I for sure would have felt especially because like it is really really hard to ask people for help when

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you need help and the fact that she was like I'm this desperate and this hungry that I am asking for one pie right so it's like catniss in The Hunger Games wanting the one piece of bread to feed her family and then Peta throws it to rain Hannah stops stares at the woman and says you selfish woman may you never bake another good pie in your life and the woman never did bake another good pie in her life no matter how hard she tried dang there's also a story of a man who trespassed on her property this is where it gets like kind of complicated because she lives at top of hill but then in this story there's a man who trespasses on her land and is fishing in her stream and I'm like what is this property what is the landscape like she's got a massive Hill a stream anyway someone trespasses on her property and is fishing and Hannah asks him to leave and he says no refuses to leave so she

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looks him in the eyes and speaks the following May curses fall upon you in your fishing she turns and walks away the man never caught another fish in his life she's so powerful she says one sentence and just for that person's lifetime they're cursed with her seven words and it's also what I appreciate about her is that clearly she's so powerful she could she could wreak some major Havoc like she could [ __ ] some [ __ ] up but she's like you know what I asked you for one thing you didn't do it I'm going to be very very specific in what I am cursing you right because it's like okay well is fishing on my property the most important thing to you apparently in this moment it is so I'm going to make sure that you don't come back here and fish again yeah and you won't because you'll never catch a fish again so why would you come here bye-bye she also was very giving so there was a really harsh summer one year where there

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was no rainfall and the drought was very threatening to the Harvest of crops which would affect the entire community and there was one farmer who did seek Hannah's help very kind of like you were saying like this person was like I acknowledge the power of this woman I know that she can help me so a farmer goes up to Hannah and asks if she would help him he's like I'll give you any anything in return and Hannah says I don't need anything in return because you asked I shall give you what you want she says by Sundown on the tomorrow your wish shall be granted the next day a heavy rain soaked the Earth and made the farmer's land Bountiful so there are a lot of tales similar to this again they're all very similar in nature where if someone was rude to her she would kind of curse them very specifically in that way or if if someone was kind to her she would bless them with like a good happy gift it's really interesting

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just to go back to like the fact that she was Pagan and just the fear of paganism sometimes at that time and then how it has lent itself to Christianity or not really lent itself but you know Christianity has taken aspects of paganism it's interesting that like this is a description of Hannah crana where she can do so so much good but she can also do so much evil and there are such big parallels between that and you know having been raised Catholic like one day Jesus can heal you and cure your eyesight and the next day God will pluck your eyes out like yeah well they're extremes there are extremes but it's kind of like Hannah has her moral code where it's good for good evil for evil and when we talked to Foo too Foo was like which is curse and there are people who deserve to be cursed to be taught a lesson or to stand stand up for other people or themselves you know yeah so

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she continues to live by her moral code good for good evil for evil and kept mostly to herself living in her house at top of hill more at peace at home by herself with her old rooster old boreus and as his name May hint at old boreus was old sweet little old rooster and he is it what is it not Crow honestly I have no idea you're probably right let me look it up okay you're absolutely right it's called Crow and crowing okay and they also will Crow at 3:00 a.m. it says your rooster may mistake a bright light for Dawn and start crewing because he thinks it's Dawn interesting interesting so don't shine a flashlight near rooster CU they're too dumb we're confused little roosters so old Bas crowed his final crow in late December 1859 taking his last little dinosaur breath in the arms of his bestest companion and friend Hannah it is said

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that she cried throughout the night replacing the familiar crows of old braas from Midnight all the way through the morning that people through the town heard Hannah crying she buried him that night break my heart digging for him a grave in the center of her garden laying him to rest beneath the starry night she wrapped him in cloth lit candles and said goodbye to her dearest familiar a beautiful funeral a beautiful send off and this is even more beautiful because when morning came Hannah no longer cried she found a neighbor and spoke very clearly with a lot of knowing I now will soon depart this life and she had a few simple requests my coffin must be carried by hand to the graveyard and I must not be buried before Sundown she died the very next day oh it's so there's something so spooky about when when that happens when people just know when they're going to pass and she was like now that my

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familiar has passed like it was her best friend and companion like it her time her husband gone her familiar gone so she died and she gave very I mean simple-ish instructions as to how she would like to be buried and how she'd like her body to be taken care of and again there's some like different versions and variations of the story but some say that there was a snowstorm that made it really difficult to like carry her casket down but then given how the community treated her like I very much believe that they were like we're not going to hand carry her casket we're going to do this the easiest way possible but instead of hand carrying her casket to the graveyard like she had asked they strapped her to a horse drawn sled they depart her house during daylight hours and remember she asked like do not bear me before Sundown as they're bringing her down was out of nowhere the straps that were secure become loose and the casket fell off the sled so now they're like this is weird

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they secure it once more and they to ensure that it stays on they have like their heaviest men kind of like stand there and hold it in place yeah as they start moving again the casket starts like shaking violently throwing the men off of it no way it took so long to finally get Hannah down to the graveyard in her casket that by the time it all happened she got everything she wanted they had to hand carry her it took so long that they were not able to bury her until sundown so despite asking for all of these things oh and despite the town's people refusing to honor them Hannah made sure she got what she wanted good I'm glad and then just as a cherry on top when a couple of people returned to her home to clear her belongings they found it completely engulfed in flames

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devoured by a fire nothing but a few pieces of stone were left behind oh my God I kind of love that though because that was her Sanctuary that was her place then to have these people who never really showed her much respect anyway to then enter her personal Abode and God knows what they would do with it or grab or take or use like I like that it went up in Flames like she got to have the life that she lived only for herself I also like to imagine that she had like a lot of secrets that she was like I'm not letting any of them find it mhm like her grimoire was in there the power of being a witch Hannah was buried in what is Gregory's Four Corners burial ground at Spring Hill Road her grave still exists what I love is that people so often bother themselves with how to make a grand entrance but I want to take a page out of Hannah's book Hannah crana

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knew how to make an elaborate departure yes she did her reputation lives on and it's safe to say that she is a badass witch who took no [ __ ] she asked for very little and demanded respect but here is the part of this episode that maybe we can have some discussions because if she made such an impact in this town of Monroe wouldn't there be more documented details of her life and wouldn't we know more than just these Legends is it just like a bunch of Hocus Pocus because there is part of me that's like okay this could be some type of Story spurned by the Salem Witch Trials you know there's just like another version of it a 100 years later that some people start saying or is it like the PTA parents of students get together with the teachers and they're like our kids need to treat people like they want to be treated and they made up this tale

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of Hannah crana The Witch of Monroe who right sought respect good for good evil for evil I don't know what is true what's not is life even real is Hannah crana truly I am like so convinced is Hannah there no records of Hannah crana so is life even real is this all the simulation even real is the nursery rhyme that I remembered does it exist or is this all part of the Mandela effect because I swear it existed or am I man just a feral out of my mind crazy lady there's also a lot of discrepancies about this story because the only documented publication I could find was from a newspaper called The Bee which was published on Friday December 7th of 1900 so it's a lot it's old it's an older article and it does say many years ago so so many that only one or two of the oldest current inhabitants of the Town ever saw her in the house on the

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hill lived Hannah crana so basically indicating that she was alive sometime between the late 1700s and early 1800s but this article from the 1900s states that she was married to an alcoholic named silus crana and that Hannah ushered in her initiation to Witchcraft by murdering him in a startingly novel and Sensational manner this article tells the story as like people saw her push her husband off the cliff whoa but there's a picture I'll put in the YouTube video of this newspaper article it does have a lot of similarities to the stories that are now on the internet today but there are like small details that're just like different enough where you're like okay it's a game of telephone things change over time similar to your friends story in in the newspaper right mhm but the biggest difference is the name of her hus husband Silas crana or Captain Joseph hovi who was Captain Joseph and

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so there's a gravestone at Gregory's Four Corners burial ground at Spring Hill Road it reads Hannah crana 1783 to 18596 wife of Captain Joseph hovi the gravestone I'll put a picture right here it appears newer than you would expect not too new but not like old old and there might be a ghostly reason for that but is her last name hovi or crana if you ask the internet people would say it's hovi and that was her married name but that crana was her like witch name either given to her by the people because it Rhymes or that she adopted herself because crana is Scottish for rocky place and it was said that right next to Hannah's home there was this large massive frck that kind of had this chip out of it that looked like like a footprint of a hoof like almost like Satan's hoof mhm and people said that

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she would do her rituals and like call upon Satan right by this rock oh so did they name her Hannah crana because of that yeah in terms of her headstone too being just like cleaned and looking good I do like the idea that maybe she's a relative that whether they know they're related to Hannah or not just feels this draw to come and occasionally take care of The Headstone oh people do leave pennies yeah like my friend Allison who lives in Marblehead she's from Alabama and she had this big draw to Marblehead lived there and felt so at peace and so like fulfilled with life and was just like everything feels easier Everything feels like I've been here for a long time she recently did an ancestry.com like genealogy it turns out they have a [ __ ] ton of relatives that all lived here so she's gone and visited all of their graves that's so beautiful not all of them but she's been tracking down their graves no indication prior

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like her and her family members had no clue but it was centuries back that she had ton of ancestors in this area and she felt it it makes me wonder if if someone maybe related to Hannah cran is experiencing something similar that's a beautiful story there is a another possibility which I'll share in just a minute but to wrap up Hannah and like if she really exist and having any evidence there was so because I couldn't find any like records about Hannah like there's no records of when she was born or where she was born or anything I was like okay what about Captain Joseph hovi I did find record of a Joseph hovi who was born in ipswitch massachusett which we went to the little castle up there the little castle you mean the giant crane estate massive massive beautiful castle 1800's italianate mansion on Rolling Hills looking over Crane Beach yes so this Joseph hovi was born in 1653 but he also married a woman named Hannah

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together they had seven children and died in the late 1600s but the only thing is that this is far too close both in physical proximity and in date proximity to Salem Witch Trials which took place in 1692 in Salem so there's a possibility that maybe Hannah hovie this one was like somehow involved in the Salem witch trials stories and like the story got manipulated in some way like obviously we know she's not a big part of the Salem Wich trials that we know of but like she was around in that time is there something that she wrote that got passed down through family and then was found in Monroe Connecticut I don't know but I just thought that was an interesting possibility or there's another possibility that Hannah's husband did die and people began to accuse her of being a witch and I love to think that she was like yeah [ __ ] all of you I am a witch and I'm going to do whatever I want and I'm going to stay up on my hill

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with my beautiful [ __ ] and I'm gonna curse you when you don't give me pies and don't worry cuz I've got a [ __ ] I'm good I also Jesus Christ I also like the idea that maybe she never was a witch in the beginning but the everybody's energy that they were directing towards her supercharged her and so she's living life on the hill and her and her little rooster hey hey is the name of the rooster in Moana what's his name borus old borus old borus that like they're just looking at each other and it is like a Disney movie and they're like oh my God what's this tingling in my Palms oh my God why is my tomato growing three times the size in one hour and they're just there together like whispering and figuring out her magic as people continue to think and like send energy and thoughts her way she she's just like powering up it's like creating a haunting the community created a witch

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and she was like oh W this is cool but yeah I like to think that she embraced this and she was like you know what I'm just going to take this on and I'm not going to let people mess with me but okay it's interesting I finished my research last night and then I was going to bed and this came up on my feed I love this account called we the urban I post them a lot on my story they just share lot of like not sure who needs to hear this type of thing this came up last night before I was going to bed not sure who needs to hear this but you are not responsible for the negative perceptions others create about you in their minds don't let their fiction become your truth or your burden to carry and I read that and I was like it felt so apropo to The Story of Hannah crana where I was like yes I think she's such a badass and like she was like [ __ ] all of you but it is really sad that she almost had to become what they perceived her to be she made the most of it but

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this is a story of a woman who was ostracized and ridiculed and made to be someone that maybe she never herself wanted to be I know and it's it's curious too because it's like that is very sad but my hope is that she felt like she was free and could be whoever she wanted to be when she was on her own property and that hopefully she had the only interactions we're hearing about that tend to be more like witchy with Hannah are just because those are the few that stood out and I hope that she did have a lot of interactions that were good and positive and maybe she had a book club of her own and a lot of friends and you know yeah and things like that but it is sad it is sad but I I do love her and I admire her and I think there's a lot of Beauty in her her story in the sense that like she didn't fit in and she wasn't going to fit in

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and so she was like well I'm not going to like just fit in because you want me to right and guess what her ghost is still haunting and this is potentially why her gravestone looks so new so people believe she haunts the cemetery in which she is buried Gregory's Four Corners burial because people will be driving along this road and all of a sudden like a woman will appear standing in the middle of the road this is horrifying right we've talked about this before she like dis appears and so many drivers have veered off the road trying to avoid hitting this spectral woman they all apparently Veer directly into one tombstone in the cemetery every time the same one Hanah cras that's why her tombstone is new they keep having to replace it cuz people keep hitting it that is the legend oh [ __ ] oh my God so that is the legend of

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Hannah crana I wonder not to turn this into like a investigation but I'm curious about the people that go off the road like what sort of connection they had to Hannah or like parallel to the life that she led is it just random and people are just going off the road or is there like a specific time of day a specific type of person what did they all look like they all look the same like I'm trying to figure out the mo here I'm curious I couldn't find specifics about it but I like to think that she's targeting specific people like she's still good for good evil for eving I hope so too I hope no one is truly harmed in those incidents but no and if any of you want to just come up with a Hannah crana rhyme please do because I I just need one sain is begging you and I feel like this story is like ripe for a rhyme it is I feel

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like we're going to get some chat gbt suggestions just like that Bigfoot Musical one cuz you can like talk about her rooster you can talk about her husband and the crops and how her how like you like her whole story is I will submit one for us as well okay yeah the final verse has to be about her like body being carried down the hill yeah something spook spooky oh of course spooky for our spooky Queen okay well I have a listener story from Haley and it caught my attention because in the title it well the subject line is life is a childhood medium SL a wicked witch story fun so and I I knew nothing about Hannah crana going in so I was like a wicked witch that sounds fun yeah people did call Hannah crana the wicked witch of Monroe Connecticut and I was like I refused to call her that so I did not call her that okay and this one's not about Hannah this is about somebody else okay so I think we're okay here yeah

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yeah haey says so I've been listening to your podcast for a while now and I wanted to send an email in but my experience with the Paranormal is quite personal it's a little hard to talk about however I feel like I'm finally able to share my story so here it is and buckle up because this is a long one when you mentioned the Wicked Witch of the West appearing in the latest episode which I believe was a long time ago there was an episode called do you have a boo boo and I think we did like haunted doctors or hospitals and you talked about having a recurring nightmare when you were little that the Wicked Witch of the was coming for you I feel like I recently talked about this too yeah oh maybe okay so maybe it's come up in a few different episodes then I've talked about it a bunch of times cuz it it's like it's definitely one of the scariest things that I've experienced when you mentioned the Wicked Witch of the West appearing in the latest episode I knew that I needed to write in from the time that I was born I was um dot dot dot let's just say unique I would talk to people that no one saw and I knew things that I

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shouldn't have my parents actually got me tested for schizophrenia when I was a child because of my behavior and one night however I proved that this was something different than a mental illness I was around 5 at the time and I woke up in a panic screaming it's a tragedy he's dead he's dead he says it's an accident but he's dead my parents probably out of their mind responded who who's dead and I answered the man from pancakes which is what I called the local restaurant in town oh I then explained the man's appearance to my parents my mom took a short walk to the restaurant about an hour later once I had calmed down to see if anything really did happen and she found the restaurant surrounded by an ambulance and policemen and she promptly returned home knowing that I must have been right about something a few days afterwards there was a a report of a man's death in the newspaper he looked exactly how I had described him to and

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he had died of a heroin overdose in the basement of the restaurant oh I she's it's so sad that she was so afflicted by this man's death because he clearly like she was feeling his fear and sadness and like yes yes like she was there with him watching it all happen yeah oh my gosh but I'm also really glad that this happened so that her parents could understand what was happening that it it was right real yeah and I do appreciate her parents taking the precautions of mental illness and just like taking care of the health too because it's I mean while we're a paranormal podcast we always try to say like it's easy for us to blame everything on the Paranormal but there's also a whole another side to life that we should also pay attention to yes obviously Visions like this did not Comfort my childlike mind and I would often scream when my parents were driving telling them that they were going to run someone over I eventually realized that these people were ghosts

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the true horror that I experienced as a child came from my old house which was filled with a dark energy something that could shift forms into whatever it wanted this is where the Wicked Witch of the West story comes in when I would sleep in one specific room in this house I would have these vivid dreams of a witch with green skin large nose the whole nine yards stirring a cauldron and laughing hysterically oh I would feel my bed lift off of the ground turn in rhythm with the stir of The Cauldron and this is where it gets really weird whenever I would have that dream my parents would wake up to me sitting upright in bed laughing hysterically with my eyes wide open almost like I was in a trans-like state as you said sit up straight up in my bed Leia did exactly that she's listening she's into the story they would have to shake me until I came out of the dream on multiple occasions I wet

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the bed because I was just so scared I dreaded nighttime and I often felt sick and exhausted in my own house the rest of the family experienced the same effects on another occasion I was in the shower washing my hair when I saw what looked like a hand drag across the shower curtain I ran outside of the bathroom in a panic butt naked soap in my hair and all I ran down the hall towards my parents room but when I passed the steps I saw something that I will never forget a woman with dark and knotted black hair covering her face she wore a white night gown and looked filthy I'm aware that this is similar to The Grudge but I was around 8 years old I'd never watched horror movies for fear of inviting more activity into my life haha Look at me now I ran into my parents room crying explained what happened and they let me cry and my mom eventually came into the bathroom so that I could finish my shower without fear my parents were extremely supportive with the whole me seeing dead things and considering the things I knew

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they really couldn't deny it this torment went on longer until one night my dad and I decided to put an end to it for good I was around 11: at the time and all I remember from this night is a rosary going missing and my dad and I trying to find it we eventually did find it in the back of a sock drawer mind you we definitely did not put it there and I also remember sitting on the couch with my dad reading prayers once everything was over in between those two events I have no idea what happened I hypothesized that my childhood brain must have blocked it out because it was just so traumatic but after that event my parents contacted a paraschiena TV show dealing with kids who could see into the realm of the Paranormal I had multiple sessions with her to turn off my gift which is what I call my now muted ability and this happened when I was 11 years old old I'm now 17 my family and I have moved out of the house that I just talked about but I can't help but shake the feeling that

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I'm missing something in my life mind you not all of my experiences with the Paranormal were bad I have many other stories of me knowing details about things that happened in the past and also helping Spirits cross over but I can't yet allow myself back into that world until I fully understand what happened that night in my old house so I'll keep you guys updated until then stay spooky Haley wow Haley I can't even imagine what it was like going through that and how difficult it was and at 11 years old going to a parapsychologist to shut off your abilities like yeah I that probably isn't easy it's hard to understand like the fact that driving with her parents she would see people in the road and think that her parents were going to hit people but they were ghosts right and that they would look so completely solid it so freaky and also just the experience of like the hand in the shower and that woman the bottom of the stairs it reminds me of Haunting of Hill

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House where it's just like horrifying image after horrifying image and you're running and you're trying to escape it but you just can't you can't and it is so freaky too like I'm I'm curious if Haley has ever asked her dad what happened that night because it sounds like there was this sort of ritual performed to either try to like cleanse the space or something just horrifying happened in between the rosary and losing the rosary and sing prayers it is like I don't know it might be better for her not to know well they also don't live in that house anymore so I wonder if that would help a bit in terms of hearing what happened and knowing that you're not going back to that same space again I mean out of curiosity I want to know what happened but me too it kind of sounds like kayy does too yeah and this was sent in 2019 so Haley happy 21st or almost 21st almost 21st wow I hope you're still with us

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