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Take heed to our previous Ghost Tales episodes:
Episode #58: Ghost Story Particular
Episode #59: Ghost Story Particular (Half 2)
Episode #118: Halloween Particular (Ghost Tales)
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Episode 207 Transcript:
Emma: You’re listening to the Lovely Mess Podcast, your cozy consolation pay attention. Tomorrow is Halloween. So, it’s time for some spooky ghost tales. We’ve gone by all of your submissions, and listed here are a few of our high favorites.
Elsie: That is considered one of our favourite episodes of the yr. We love studying your ghost tales each single yr. So, thanks a lot to each single one who despatched us a ghost story.
Emma: We learn all of them, even when they didn’t make it within the episode, they very a lot entertained us, so thanks.
Elsie: It’s pure pleasure. I believe we should always determine do extra episodes which have reader, sorry, listener submissions as a result of I believe it’s, it’s so enjoyable.
Emma: I really feel like one yr we did two episodes with ghost tales too, however we sort of weren’t organized sufficient this yr. Like we sort of like are working out of time earlier than.
Elsie: It’s as a result of I needed to do three Halloween motion pictures and I needed to.
Emma: It turns on the market’s just one episode each week and you realize, as regular, we’re nice planners. So right here we’re, we’re doing our greatest. However earlier than we get to the listener tales, I needed to ask you and I’ll share too. Since we’re each in new homes, I’ve been in mine for a yr now, just about precisely a yr, and also you’ve been in since June. So do you assume that your own home is haunted? Have you ever had any haunting issues occur?
Elsie: Dun, dun, dun, dun. So our home is from 1904. It’s very outdated. Nonetheless, I’ll say, that our final home undoubtedly had some ghost experiences and it was constructed within the 90s. I’m not a type of individuals who imagine every little thing outdated is haunted or it must be outdated to be haunted. I believe ghosts go the place they need, they do what they need. Not each ghost is a Victorian-era individual. what I imply? However yeah, I’ll simply rapidly say sure. I did have one expertise thus far, and it was like, it was fairly brief. It wasn’t something loopy, however it undoubtedly occurred. I instantly advised Jeremy, only for just like the, you realize, you gotta like have a witness, or it didn’t actually occur kind of vibe. Did I ever inform you this? I can’t keep in mind.
Emma: I do keep in mind a few of your stuff out of your final home, your 90s home.
Elsie: Our final home had the ghosts that got here at some point after we gave ghost tales. We recorded a podcast episode and we talked about ghosts all day after which that subsequent evening it began taking place and it occurred for one yr, after which it stopped. It was so bizarre. So anyway, this home, I requested the earlier homeowners, like, I’ve no disgrace, and I knew I used to be going to and I needed to. I requested them if they’d any ghost experiences. If I ever meet any of the opposite earlier homeowners, I’ll ask them too, each single time. I simply assume it’s attention-grabbing and like, if individuals aren’t too embarrassed to say, it’s simply enjoyable to know.
Emma: It’s a dialog starter. Strive it at your subsequent social gathering.
Elsie: Yeah. So I requested them they usually mentioned, nope, nothing, nothing occurred, which I really feel like when somebody’s promoting you a home.
Emma: Yeah. They could lie trigger they don’t need you to be scared or one thing.
Elsie: Yeah. And we had learn on our home itemizing it was like an outdated itemizing that we may nonetheless see that there’s this type of little cool characteristic. There’s like on the entrance door of the home on days when it’s tremendous humid. These letters seem from this outdated signal. I believe it was as soon as like a vinyl signal or a painted signal on the door and now it solely reveals up. It’s truly solely occurred in all probability two or thrice when it’s tremendous, tremendous humid, which is raining. And it says one thing architect on it. And I truly don’t even know if it was, I believe that the door may need come from a distinct location. And I don’t assume that that’s a ghost, by the way in which, however I simply assume it’s, it’s cool.
Emma: No, that’s extra like a magic trick {that a} child would purchase at a magic retailer sort of factor. It’s actually cool, however it’s probably not, to me, a really haunted factor. It’s identical to a cool parlor trick.
Elsie: Sure. Okay, so for my ghost expertise thus far, nothing a lot, you realize, I by no means get to see a ghost. It’s my future that I’ll by no means have an excellent one as a result of I would like it too badly.
Emma: Yeah, they’ll odor your desperation.
Elsie: I’ll pay additional for a home with ghosts, you realize. So we transformed our third ground, which was beforehand an attic and our home has a bizarre historical past that it burned down at one level virtually utterly. And was rebuilt within the Twenties, however nobody died within the hearth, however a lot of individuals died within the dwelling. I’ve seen all that historical past, there are many deaths. I imply, it’s an outdated dwelling. It’s regular. None of them had been unusual. They had been simply common regular deaths.
Emma: I really feel like dying at dwelling looks as if truly a extremely peaceable technique to go.
Elsie: Yeah. It’s very impolite to not need individuals to die of their properties as a result of then you definately’re simply not letting them have one thing good on the finish of their lives.
Emma: Yeah, it sounds peaceable versus being within the hospital, you realize, or I don’t know.
Elsie: And it doesn’t essentially make your own home haunted. Anyway, I had this at some point after we had contractors continually in our dwelling. And I walked up the steps, I regarded across the room, I noticed a person within the nook, after which I stored going and regarded once more, after which I noticed there was nobody there.
Emma: Oh, such as you thought it was a contractor?
Elsie: Yeah, I believed it was a contractor, at the moment, that might have been regular. Yeah. And I identical to noticed an individual, after which I noticed that there wasn’t an individual. Like moments later. After which I took like one million photos. I attempted every little thing I may to love see what occurred or what, you realize, and it simply was a second and that was all it was, however thus far that’s the one factor that has occurred within the dwelling. I don’t actually assume that that’s even essentially like something, however it’s just a little one thing. What about you?
Emma: Not likely, and I’m a type of individuals who like, I wouldn’t say I don’t imagine in ghosts, however I additionally wouldn’t say I imagine. I’d simply say I don’t really feel the necessity to have a robust opinion both approach. It looks as if doable to me and it additionally appears doable that, you realize, perhaps it’s identical to an alternate dimension that folks can really feel at instances or, you realize, I really feel like there may very well be quite a lot of explanations. I really feel extra certain there are aliens than I do ghosts, I suppose is what I’d say. And I don’t actually really feel certain about that.
Elsie: I imply, aliens for certain. However why ghosts?
Emma: I don’t actually really feel like, no, that’s simply it’s. I simply don’t really feel the necessity to have a robust. Typically there are quite a lot of issues in life that I actually, assume a really like Zen issues, however I simply assume when you don’t have to have an opinion on one thing, why?
Elsie: I like that. You’re simply staying open.
Emma: Yeah, I’m identical to, why not simply keep open and be curious and like listening to individuals’s tales and like, I don’t know, however I’ll say our present home was in-built, I believe, I imagine 1978 and the earlier dwelling that I used to be residing in was our, we referred to as it the vacation home and it was older. It was like 1920 or perhaps even earlier than that. So you’ll assume that that home, the vacation home, can be very creaky and identical to an outdated home. And if considered one of them was haunted, perhaps that one can be. However I truly by no means felt like that one was very creaky or very spooky. It simply was very regular to me. I actually solely lived there for like just a little over a yr, I suppose. However anyway, this present home that I’m residing in, that’s not tremendous outdated, however it’s from 1978. It feels very creaky at evening, like there are many instances I get up within the evening and I’m like, is somebody in my attic? Is there like a raccoon within the attic? Or like, you realize, identical to noises the place I’m like, oh, is somebody downstairs? However I do know that nobody’s downstairs like my husband’s out of city or he’s like already in mattress or one thing. So I’m like, no, no one’s downstairs, you realize. There’s simply sort of like quite a lot of creaks and noises and I believe that has to do extra with in all probability the constructing than anything, however it’s creepy, however I don’t essentially really feel like, oh, there’s undoubtedly a ghost. I’m like, I don’t know, there may very well be. It’s sort of loud at evening. One thing’s happening, however it may simply be our HVAC is outdated. I don’t know. Beats me, however it’s a surprisingly creaky home in comparison with my final one due to how completely different the ages are.
Elsie: Yeah. Our home is loopy loud at evening. Nevertheless it was fast and it’s very constant. So we all know that it’s identical to, it’s simply loopy loud evening. Identical to issues taking place. I don’t know, within the yard subsequent door, there’s a practice monitor close by. I don’t know what precisely is all of the banging and booming.
Emma: I really feel like mine is extra when my husband’s out of city, which is pretty typically, and I do know, which makes me assume that it’s simply me being just a little bit in my head of like, Oh, I’m just a little scared as a result of nobody’s right here however me and my son who’s two. However you realize, I’m like, you actually hear noises or are they all the time there? You simply don’t discover them when your husband’s dwelling since you’re like, I don’t care. The assassin will get him first. , I don’t know what I believe. I don’t know. No actual ghost tales, however my home is creaky.
Elsie: Okay, I’ll all the time be hoping for one, so we’ll examine in once more subsequent yr.
Emma: And I’m open, however don’t care. Both approach, you realize, what time period would you give that, both approach? It’s not that I don’t care. It’s that I’m impartial. That sounds worse in a approach. I don’t know.
Elsie: Okay. So on this episode, we’re going to learn our listener-submitted ghost tales. These are just about all firsthand tales that occurred to considered one of our listeners. I believed they had been very entertaining. I hope you get pleasure from it. They’re not tremendous scary. I don’t assume there are any tales which are tremendous, tremendous scary this yr. So don’t be scared.
Emma: When you already listened to the Rosemary’s Child episode, that is nothing.
Elsie: We are going to hyperlink to our previous ghost tales episodes within the present notes. And there have been some in there that received fairly scary. There’s this one that can keep in my mind ceaselessly. Yeah, it was superior. Yeah, total, I believe that listening to all of the ghost tales yearly has made me imagine that ghosts are, for essentially the most half, like, enjoyable, attention-grabbing, and sort of candy, they’re virtually all the time good, which I believe is a really comforting approach to think about ghosts. When you assume they’re in all probability actual, to assume that nothing unhealthy goes to occur, like no hurt goes to return to you, I’ve by no means seen a narrative the place anybody was harmed, it’s identical to little spooky shit that occurs, and it’s enjoyable.
Emma: Yeah, which if you consider it, like, let’s say, we die and you probably did find yourself a ghost, you realize, to premise. I don’t assume I’d spend my time making an attempt to freak individuals out. I believe I’d spend my time, like, making an attempt to do one thing good. Making an attempt to love, Oh, look out, you’re about to again your automobile into one thing, you realize, I don’t know.
Elsie: Or a loving message. Numerous them are loving messages.
Emma: And yeah, be like, I miss you. Want we may discuss, however you possibly can’t see me, or no matter, you realize. Yeah, so it is smart to me that it’s identical to, you realize, good stuff. Anyway. Let’s do the tales.
Elsie: All proper. Let’s do it.
Emma: Okay. Our first one is from a listener named Emma. It was the yr 2008 and I used to be school roommates with my finest pal, Fern. These are two issues that it is advisable know earlier than I inform the story. First, we had been members of a sorority, and we lived in a large dorm room with all of our sorority sisters.
Elsie: Scream queens.
Emma: Scream queens, yeah. The sorority that we had been in has a previous and well-known serial killer, and all present nationwide chapters of the sorority observe a really strict no-boys-on-the-floor coverage. Huh. Is it associated to the serial killer, or is it simply normal? That’s attention-grabbing. It was each a measure of security and respect for our slain former sisters. Yikes! She answered my query, and in addition, Ooh, okay, wow, alright. I don’t even know really feel about that. Okay. Second, our dorm constructing was allegedly haunted by one other former sorority sister named Suzanne. No relation to serial killer incidents. Nobody in my present chapter knew the story of her life or loss of life, solely that she handed away younger. We knew that she lived amongst us, and we knew which room had been hers. Now Fern and I had been all generally known as the category clowns of the home. Alright, they’re the enjoyable ones. We like to play sensible jokes, and our time was largely spent goofing off. I really feel like that’s sort of what school is for. Okay. We had been by no means actually bothered by something, so when room assignments got here out and we had been in Suzanne’s room, we didn’t assume a lot of it. She wasn’t something that we had been afraid of and even believed in. Okay. The premise is All proper. We set a robust basis for this story. It’s excellent storytelling, Emma. Okay. Not me, the listener, Emma. Appeared like I used to be speaking to myself. One evening, we determined, to screw the principles, and we snuck just a few male pals and a boyfriend. We frolicked had some drinks and reveled in being rule-breakers for the night. Nobody caught us and we rode the hive, pulling one over on our sisters into the evening. Class clowns and they’re mischievous. Yeah. The following morning, I had an early class, and once I got here again to an empty dorm room, I used to be shocked once I noticed contemporary, moist blood on my pillow. Eww. I used to be completely dropping my thoughts, checking my hair and physique to see if I’d been lower in my sleep, solely to seek out myself utterly unhurt. The blood was nonetheless vivid purple as if it had solely been there for minutes. Ugh. There have been no different indicators of blood on the ceiling, blankets, or something amiss in all the room. Simply the one contemporary pool of blood immediately on my pillow, the place my head had been solely hours earlier than. Yikes. Fern got here again from class shortly after, and we had been in full disbelief. We requested round just a few women, considering somebody had lastly gotten again at us for our pranks. However everybody thought we had been loopy and making an attempt to tug a prank on them. That’s the drawback with doing pranks. Everybody doesn’t imagine you. Alright, we went again to our room, much more confused, after which checked out one another and immediately knew it was Suzanne. We had dedicated the cardinal sorority sin in her room and she or he had one thing to say about it. We felt so unhealthy for hurting her emotions, we each apologized to her profusely, we by no means snuck one other boy in, and we by no means slept there alone once more as a result of we had been afraid of what would occur. After that incident, we went on to dwell in concord along with her, and man, did we respect her, and the principles, after that. Suzanne received them.
Elsie: That’s a spooky story with an excellent ethical ending.
Emma: I additionally sort of wish to know, did they only wash the pillowcase? Did they only throw that pillow away? As a result of like, whose blood was it? Do ghosts have blood? Ugh.
Elsie: I imply, if it was a prank, then it was an excellent one. It was nicely performed.
Emma: Perhaps one of many sisters knew that they’d snuck in boys.
Elsie: And if it was a ghost, it undoubtedly labored. Both approach, it really works that, you realize, perhaps it was like their dorm mother, you realize, and she or he did know that they had been sneaking round.
Emma: Is {that a} factor of sororities?
Elsie: I don’t know, truthfully. I don’t know what a sorority is, barely.
Emma: Just for motion pictures, which in all probability doesn’t rely.
Elsie: It’s a terrific story and I like it. Okay. This subsequent one is from Evelyn. After I was a younger school scholar, I traveled with my dad and mom and older sister to Tombstone, Arizona. We had been staying one evening at a quaint mattress and breakfast, one which historical past says was as soon as a thriving brothel through the Western growth of the 1800s. I lay down and closed my eyes. We’ve, like, very proficient writers this yr.
Emma: I do know. I really feel like they’ve actually nailed the story.
Elsie: Yeah. Thanks, everybody. I’m blown away. After a quiet second, the mattress all of the sudden lurched beneath me as if somebody had forcefully stubbed their toe towards the footpost upon getting into the room. I opened my eyes anticipating to see my sister however noticed nobody. I used to be alone, muzzled. I rose to examine the hallway however discovered it equally empty. And but, the proof was earlier than me. The nook of the threadbare rug beneath the mattress lay folded, disturbed. Ugh, I contemplated the oddity of the second. I like that when there’s like a fizz, such as you hear one thing or really feel one thing and then you definately truly see one thing additionally.
Emma: And then you definately’re like, no, I used to be simply dreaming. And then you definately’re like, no, I wasn’t. I can see this proof right here.
Elsie: Yeah. That’s even creepier. I contemplated the oddity of the second solely briefly earlier than letting it move intrigued, but additionally unconcerned. The following morning sitting on the breakfast desk was a visitor e book. I started to flip by it, studying the various entries of years value of earlier company. After just a few pages, a way of unease stole over me. Scattered amidst the standard entries had been studies of visits that had been extra curious. There have been footsteps within the empty stairwell. I heard a piano taking part in faintly, however there was none in the home. Who was the soldier standing behind me within the rest room mirror? He disappeared once I flipped on the sunshine. There was a definite moaning coming from the uninhabited room subsequent to mine. I regarded up and located our hostess me with a figuring out grin. I sat nonetheless incredulous however relayed my very own small but unusual incidence to her from the afternoon earlier than. She merely nodded, saying that the constructing was initially an outdated brothel in spite of everything. She confessed that she by no means places the guestbook out till her visitor’s closing morning in order to not forewarn them or predispose them to conjure up false expectations. I believe that’s good as a result of yeah, like the issue with a haunted resort is that you simply’re anticipating it the entire time. I’d approach moderately have a shock haunted resort, proper?
Emma: Plus, like, if nothing occurs to you, I really feel like I will likely be on edge the entire time being scared one thing’s going to occur when it’s doable nothing may occur to me. So when you simply don’t inform me, typically ignorance is bliss. So perhaps that’s what I’m making an attempt to say. Okay, that is from listener Marilyn. My companion and I had been working nights patrolling the Pacific Coast Freeway. PCH in California. I don’t know if anybody calls it that. I’m simply being a dork. One evening round 2:00 AM there was a report of a doable accident at Satan’s Slide, a highway set above the coastal cliffs the place many accidents occurred. We drove to the realm and commenced looking out within the darkness utilizing our automobile highlight. Wow. I’m already sort of nervous now. I hate automobile accidents. Okay. As I drove across the nook, I noticed three distinct clouds drifting throughout the highway every manufactured from white wispy smoke in a spiral form, every the peak of an individual. My eyes grew huge, breath caught in my throat, however I rapidly determined to not say something to my companion. Hmm, attention-grabbing selection. After some extra time, we had been unable to find any accident down on the cliffs within the darkness, so we determined to show round and head again to our patrol route. I rapidly mentioned to my companion, let’s take a distinct highway again, and he mentioned, do you see them too? Do you imply the ghost? So he did see them. My companion mentioned the tallest ghost had the face of a person. Ooh, we completed our shift, the subsequent shift through the daylight officers positioned the crash. Three individuals had died within the car, together with a person.
Elsie: I like that one. I like for ghosts to be little, like, tornado-looking clouds is superb.
Emma: Yeah. Additionally, I suppose, like, contemporary ghost, you realize? Presumably, she’s saying it’s the individuals who had simply died on this automobile crash that they had been searching for however couldn’t discover at nighttime.
Elsie: So that they’re wandering round.
Emma: Yeah, or simply rising from the crash or no matter I don’t actually know however which may be very tragic too as a result of I really feel like ghosts it’s all the time tragic as a result of it’s presumably somebody who has died. I suppose it may very well be when you imagine in angels or demons or no matter, I suppose However I believe most time individuals consider ghosts as somebody who’s died. However one thing about somebody who very lately died in a tragic approach sounds even worse. Like in some way I’m like, Oh, I really feel so unhealthy for these ghosts. They in all probability had plans for the subsequent day. ? Anyway, good story.
Elsie: It’s an excellent story. The following one is from Elizabeth. After I was a child, my mother labored at a present store decor retailer downtown. Someday we had been all down there whereas we had been switching out stock. They had been shifting quite a lot of huge issues between the showroom and the cellar, which had a type of typical cellar doorways that opens out of the ground, leaving a giant gap that drops down into the basement. I wasn’t paying consideration and was working round taking part in, and ran proper over the open gap within the ground.
Emma: Okay, that’s horrible.
Elsie: A mom’s worst concern. My mother was upstairs, and she or he noticed what had occurred and shouted to my dad who was within the basement. However she knew that he wasn’t shut sufficient to catch me, nonetheless, they each raced over there to the place I used to be to say that I used to be hovering in mid-air like somebody was simply holding me simply lengthy sufficient for my dad to have the ability to catch me earlier than I hit the concrete ground. Perhaps it was an angel. Perhaps it was a ghost, however it sounds fairly spooky to me. Whoa. Love that one. That’s bizarre.
Emma: See, that’s the sort of stuff I wish to do if I used to be a ghost. That’s like one of the best. You’d be bragging to all of your ghost pals instantly. She’d be like, guess what I did right now? It’d be like so significant on your afterlife expertise. That’s wild although, too. I ponder what it felt like for her. I suppose she was a child, so perhaps it’s laborious to recollect now. Nevertheless it’s attention-grabbing to consider being floating within the air. Wouldn’t it really feel like water?
Elsie: I imagine this story 100% although. As a result of I believe that like, in case your child randomly fell, you wouldn’t be capable to catch them it doesn’t matter what. It’s simply unlikely. So I imagine the floating factor for certain. It’s actually attention-grabbing.
Emma: Plus, we sort of have three witnesses, so if all of them three say this occurred, which we’re solely listening to from Elizabeth, however I assume her dad and mom would agree, then I’m like, nicely, that’s three individuals who say this occurred, so it’s fairly good. Okay, this subsequent one is from a listener named Lucy. We simply moved away from a cute little home in the midst of the historic downtown metropolis of Winchester, Virginia. The home was constructed within the late 1800s. The homeowners have accomplished a lot of renovations to modernize it, however it nonetheless has the unique wall on the staircase with the logs cemented collectively. The cellar is the unique cellar with a dust ground, vines rising by the partitions, and other people in all probability buried within the ground. Wow! That’s an attention-grabbing guess. , that kind of factor. I by no means assume there are individuals buried in a cellar. That’s attention-grabbing. Ah, okay. Wow. Okay. After we moved in, we fairly instantly started having issues with ghosts. We didn’t really feel like they had been tremendous indignant or something, simply there. They might knock issues off cabinets and most significantly make tons and plenty of noise at evening, so we couldn’t sleep. Wow.
Elsie: All the time with the sleep disruptions.
Emma: I do know, I’m like, pay attention Ghost, I do know you don’t should sleep, however a few of us are nonetheless alive and we have now to sleep. There’s a picket door on the very outdated staircase that shuts off the underside ground from the steps. From our bed room, you’ll hear it all of the sudden bang open and slowly creak again shut. Oh, that’s terrifying. We’d additionally hear many individuals strolling round on the principle ground. It was so loud that we even purchased the sound machine you really useful. We’ll hyperlink it within the present notes. Simply kidding. Do you’ve issues with ghosts? You want this sound machine. No, I’m simply kidding. Okay. They are saying we like it, however the sound continues to be too loud to be drowned out, so the ghosts are nonetheless too loud above the sound machine. My son was one on the time, and we might typically stroll into his room to seek out him child discuss chatting on the wall. That isn’t irregular one-year-old conduct, actually, however it was just a little regarding mixed with all the opposite stuff. Yeah, I agree. We tried quite a lot of various things to attempt to deal with the ghost and nothing actually labored.
Elsie: Questioned.
Emma: Yeah. What else did you attempt? Yeah, yeah, I do, undoubtedly wish to know what else they tried. Sure. We introduced a priest out. Lastly, I did a sage cleanse. My husband thought I used to be loopy whereas I used to be doing it, however that appeared to work. Issues had been quiet after that and we may lastly sleep and no extra child speaking to the nook. Sage cleanse.
Elsie: Yeah. My children love doing the sage. Like, they like it. However I’ve by no means accomplished it to do away with a ghost, so I’m that that labored for somebody. I often do it like, sort of like after the final day after contractors go away or simply one thing, you realize, identical to, to me it’s like clearing the power.
Emma: It’s a really dusty odor proper after renovating.
Elsie: No, no, I imply just like the power of individuals.
Emma: Oh, yeah, it does odor good although, proper? I’ve by no means accomplished one.
Elsie: It’s it’s sort of like weed. It smells sort of unhealthy truthfully.
Emma: I like weed, however I don’t love the odor of it.
Elsie: Yeah, you’ve by no means smelled burning sage?
Emma: No, I’ve by no means accomplished it and I don’t assume so. I don’t assume I’ve ever been with somebody whereas they had been doing it.
Elsie: I’d say It’s a potpourri odor for me.
Emma: I imply, I do know its sage smells like I’ve cooked with it earlier than.
Elsie: We additionally do the Palo Santo It’s like just a little tiny piece of wooden, and it smells just a little bit higher than the sage, however nonetheless not like an air freshener.
Emma: Do you assume it counts when you make Thanksgiving stuffing with quite a lot of sage and perhaps simply stroll round the home with the stuff after it’s cooked as a result of it’s a fairly robust odor?
Elsie: Damned if I do know I like how would I do know I don’t even know if I’m doing it proper, however I identical to like making an attempt issues. I believe the primary time I did it was after we first received the pink home, I do know there have been all of the tales about allegedly the lifeless cat and all this.
Emma: Oh, yeah. It had like a spooky image within the basement, too.
Elsie: That had been happening in there earlier than it was transformed, so I simply thought it perhaps wanted just a little sage. It’s a really loud home. Jeremy’s had some like, doubtlessly ghost experiences there.
Emma: On the pink home? They all the time like Jeremy.
Elsie: They love Jeremy. Ghosts love him, and I’m so jealous about it. I’ll by no means forgive him.
Emma: No purpose to not do Sage, I suppose, as a result of I suppose it’s like, you realize, you’re a mother, too, like if it’s maintaining you up at evening, it’s like so loud that it’s over the sound machine, and it’s like maintaining your child up. I’d attempt something to make the noises go away. Yeah, so I’d be like, we’ve gotta sleep, my child’s gotta sleep, I’d do something. So I’m like, yeah, I’d get the sage out, I’d get something out. I’d name the Ghostbusters, I’d name a priest, I’m not catholic, however I’d be like, get in right here man, my child must sleep, I gotta do one thing.
Elsie: Yeah. I like to recommend letting your children sage each nook of each room as a result of it’ll preserve them busy and it’s a enjoyable exercise. Okay, this subsequent one is from Sandy. Years in the past, when shopping for our first dwelling, I used to be completely taken with a corridor tree that was within the entryway after we first toured the house. Okay, so I googled this, and like, a corridor tree can imply, it’s like a coat hanger, principally. Like, you realize, just a little coat hanger with a mirror with the hooks.
Emma: Type of like a butler pantry.
Elsie: Sure. As a result of once I first learn the story, I believed, I used to be considering of a tree. Some homes have a built-in planter, however I believe that is truly like a bit of furnishings. Okay. My bestie and I had been at an enormous flea market in Texas, jealous to seek out one. Early in our search, we got here throughout a fairly, primitive, tall, whimsical, mirrored umbrella stand. That sounds superb. With a small open shelf and coat hooks. It was barely warped and approach over my value level, so we determined to maintain trying. All one of the best ones are. I really feel like if the flea market tag doesn’t make you cry, then such as you’re not going to be interested by it later. what I imply? Like these are those you all the time, they stick. Due to the price, I made a decision towards it. Really talked about to her that my finances was lower than half of the price, so it was actually out of the query. We headed towards the loos and on our approach out, turned the nook and there it was, Sunday evening particular at 75 % off. It was mine.
Emma: To date I’m loving the story despite the fact that there’s no ghost and it’s only a story of getting a deal on the flea market and I’m like, sure, triumph! You may be like, the tip, and I’d be like, nice story.
Elsie: Sure. I do know the place that is in all probability going, however I like the story already. Okay. I used to be nonetheless new to our 30-year-old home. Okay, so a 30-year-old home, that’s not outdated in any respect. And simply starting to get used to our new properties, quirks, and sounds. Okay, we’re cheap. We’re setting the stage. We’re cheap. We’re not freaking out. We’re not seeing males in our rest room the place there are not any males. Our first indicators that one thing was amiss had been delicate. Lights flickering, shadows passing. Okay, that’s vital. There was a pair of double doorways on the facet of the entryway that may very well be locked from the lounge, they usually had been repeatedly locked, irritating anybody who walked into the room as a result of they needed to all the time go all the way in which again round. Everybody denied locking them, and it drove us all nuts. We ultimately eliminated the locks. Quickly, photos had been falling from the partitions and we may hear muffled voices. Okay! That is getting escalated and I’m into it. I’ve by no means had an image fall from a wall in my life.
Emma: I’ve, however it’s as a result of I exploit command strips once I shouldn’t have.
Elsie: Okay, I’ve on the primary day I hung it, however not like months later. I really feel like that’s the distinction.
Emma: Our nice grandfather’s portrait fell the opposite day and it had been up for practically a yr.
Elsie: Oh, wow.
Emma: And I truly had forgotten that I’d used command strips. After which I used to be like, why did I exploit command strip? I don’t know.
Elsie: However right here’s the factor. Command strips should not good for hanging heavy artwork in any respect. I don’t perceive why everybody else in our DIY group is so into command strips. In addition they can rip up your wallpaper.
Emma: I’m not with Elsie on any of this. I nonetheless love command strips, however I simply shouldn’t have used them on this explicit factor. I don’t know why I did. Nothing to do with the sandy story. I’m inserting myself. I’m sorry, Sandy.
Elsie: I simply needed to disavow them for no purpose.
Emma: Okay, I stand by them.
Elsie: We got here to imagine that the home we moved into was haunted. We had been unnerved, however we weren’t able to promote it till I transferred to a different metropolis. A story as outdated as time, proper?
Emma: Financial horror, my favourite. That’s all the time the haunted homes.
Elsie: Sure, it’s all the time like we spent our final penny shopping for this stunning outdated dwelling renovating and we will’t transfer. I’m so sorry, Sandy. I’m actually not doing you justice on this.
Emma: We’re simply idiots. Don’t fear about us.
Elsie: After we bought our home, the entire furnishings went into long-term storage. After we moved into our little furnished condo for a short time, whereas we constructed our new home. We held our breath, hoping that the ghost didn’t observe us. It didn’t, and we put all of it behind us. As an attention-grabbing, unnerving story of the previous. I used to be working in another country when our home was full, and my husband and sons moved into the home whereas I used to be gone. Though we had a terrific entryway, once I got here dwelling, the corridor tree was in our bed room, angled close to the wall and the door. My hats and scarves had been hanging from it, and it made me tremendous comfortable. The actions from our earlier home picked up rapidly. Shadows, flashing lights, voices. The TV would activate. My sister-in-law visited, got here into the bed room the subsequent day, and broke it to me, Sandy, you’ve received a ghost. And it sat on my mattress this morning and she or he truly felt the mattress transfer. Love this story. In some unspecified time in the future, it grew to become an open truth. It appeared like after we spoke it, we gave it power, so we determined to not communicate it. I noticed it as soon as within the type of a male in a white t-shirt passing by the corridor. And it hesitated for a beat after which disappeared. At this level, my home was available on the market and we had been prepared for one more transfer. Oh my gosh. Just like the shifting is, that is like how a lot I transfer. I employed a pal’s school scholar son to assist me. After I advised him my plight of the ghost and the 2 objects that I felt had narrowed down, we talked about burning them to that after we received the concept to promote them. However solely after telling the customer my considerations. So she thought she ought to disclose the ghost factor. The plant stand, which turned out to be a wig headstand, was rapidly snapped up by our next-door neighbor they usually had been delighted by the prospect of proudly owning a haunted wig headstand. That seems like me. So good for you. You bought what to procure. Later, I went inside to indicate a headboard, leaving my helper to man the sale. He ended up going to the toilet and leaving one other neighbor who had stopped by in control of it. And after we returned, the haul tree had been bought with out our plan or discover. It wasn’t till later that it occurred to me that the haul tree had chosen its new unsuspecting proprietor, simply as years earlier than it had chosen me. Love the story. And it undoubtedly, for certain, was the corridor tree. Yeah. I imply, don’t you assume?
Emma: Effectively, she says, facet be aware, I’ve been in two properties since, and my resident ghosts and comfortable to report that they had been each ghost-free. So I believe it was. He’s moved on. He was part of the corridor tree. I really feel like this may be an excellent Goosebumps e book. The haunted, you realize, merchandise. And I like the concept that like she’s prefer it had chosen so like she wasn’t even making an attempt to promote it identical to this faculty child who she left in cost or no matter she says helper I suppose we don’t actually know however somebody was left in control of the storage sale they usually didn’t understand they went to the toilet or one thing after which they didn’t understand that this factor wasn’t on the market and it received. So it’s virtually just like the corridor tree was like making issues occur. After which on the flea market, she advised us it was too costly, however then she rotated and noticed an indication and it’s like, what if the corridor tree made the signal as a result of it needed to go dwelling along with her, you realize?
Elsie: I like that it may very well be the one factor in your own home that you simply simply love, you realize as a result of she liked this one merchandise. And so it’s like, you’re going to maneuver a lot of issues with you to your subsequent dwelling, and the way would you be capable to slim it down? I’m shocked that she even was capable of slim it down.
Emma: It doesn’t sound like she was. She wasn’t making an attempt to promote the corridor tree. It simply received by accident bought, and she or he was like, oh, nicely, however then she realized the ghosts had been gone, and she or he was like, wait, it was that factor. Additionally, she did some nice storytelling, as a result of she sort of units up the corridor tree, after which she retains going along with her story, so we sort of neglect about it, after which it comes again, you realize? It’s like, actually good. Attention-grabbing. You nailed it, Sandy. We like it.
Elsie: Everybody who despatched tales this yr was a ten out of 10. So, thanks a lot for the tales. I hope that we get a ghost go to this yr. That’s my want for the brand new yr.
Emma: Now we’re prepared for a joke, or a truth, or perhaps a meditation with Nova.
Elsie: Hey Nova, what do you’ve for us this week?
Nova: A joke.
Elsie: A joke? Is it a ghost joke?
Nova: Sure.
Elsie: Okay.
Nova: What did ghosts use to scrub their hair with?
Elsie: What?
Nova: Sham… Boo!
Elsie: That’s good. Thanks a lot for listening. If in case you have any questions or podcast concepts, e-mail them to us at podcast@abeautifulmess.Com or name our voicemail at 417-893-0011. We will likely be again subsequent week with a deep dive into maintaining our home clear and our e book report on All Good Individuals Right here by Ashley Flowers.
