11. Welsh Hospital Encounter + The Haunted Barn 2 | True Scary Paranormal Stories & Ghost Stories from Reddit

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AM E Greetings, traveller.

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It's me, Madam Strangeways.
And Cleocatra, of course.

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Thank you for joining me.
I'm always glad to see you.

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Today I've got 2 new true scary
stories for you about haunted

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places, the catacombs, under a
hospital and a haunted barn.

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And as always, solicited or not,
usually not, I share my thoughts

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and observations after each
spooky tale.

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Now it's time for you to dim the
lights, get cozy, and maybe even

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get yourself a little snacky
snack while I read you these

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true strange stories here on
Madam Strange Ways.

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A night Shift in Radiology by
Josh Turner I worked in the

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radiology department in a
hospital in Cardiff, Wales, UK

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for about 3 years as an admin
and clerical officer before

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getting a promotion working in
medicine.

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During these three years I saw a
lot of things ranging from

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patients dying in the MRI
scanners to patients having an

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X-ray or inserting a meat
thermometer into their urethra.

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Knights always seemed the
craziest.

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One time a patient came in with
armed police after an

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altercation which involved a
knife in the middle of the city

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center and just so happened the
person he had the altercation

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with was having an X-ray too.
This caused a second altercation

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right in front of me.
Chairs were thrown, a trash bin

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or two, and then a wheelchair.
So I have seen things, some

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funny, some stressful, some sad
and many bonkers.

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But this one night something
scary.

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I would start a night shift
about 1900 then would work till

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8:30 the next morning.
This was the standard night

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shift for our department.
We would usually do three nights

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in a row before doing 4 days
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After the third night you were
ready to sleep for a week.

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The strange thing was this was
my first night of the three, so

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not tired at all.
It started off normal, I arrived

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at the department, took over
from the day staff logged into

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my PC.
During this time we usually

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would set up our phones or
tablets to watch movies or the

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latest TV series as there would
be a lot of downtime between

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patients.
Like I said the first few hours

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nothing that interesting, just
your average run-of-the-mill

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might and radiology.
Then it came to my break.

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Now before I tell you more, I
should probably explain the

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layout of this hospital.
This hospital is the largest in

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Wales, it's a teaching hospital
and it's pretty old.

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Now the best way to get from A
to B in this hospital is through

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what we call the tunnels or the
catacombs.

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These consist of very dimly lit
corridors, old abandoned rooms,

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tunnels, and other creepy
decrepit areas.

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The morgue is also found in
these corridors, so it's not a

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nice place to be during the day,
let alone the middle of the

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night, but it's the quickest way
to get places if your staff.

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There's always been rumors and
mumblings of strange things

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happening in these tunnels.
Some people say they saw ghosts

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in old fashioned Porter uniforms
taking wheelchairs to pick up

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patients.
Others say they've seen shadows

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following them from the corner
of their eyes.

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But one person has claimed they
were attacked by a person

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wearing an old nurse's uniform
from the 70s.

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This place is creepy even at the
best of times, but for me never

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really fazed me.
I've been down there hundreds of

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times before and the worst
experience up to this point was

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having a sluice pipe drip human
waste on my head.

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That in itself was a horror
show, but tonight would be

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something altogether different
and maybe not even of this

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physical world.
Like I said before, very quiet

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night.
I had been watching the latest

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series of One Piece because I'm
a geek.

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A radiographer or radiology
technician for my American

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friends out there came to take
over and cover for me.

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For my break.
I decided to go to the fifth

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floor where the Sanctuary Multi
Faith Chapel was located.

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On a night shift.
It was one of the most peaceful

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places in the hospital, but to
get there I had to walk through

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the tunnels to reach the nearest
elevator.

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I set off on my journey which
would usually take about 15

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minutes, scanned my key card on
the main entrance to the

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tunnels, then proceeded to walk
through. 2 minutes in, I started

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to feel like someone was walking
behind me.

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It being a busy hospital and
basically the tunnels acted like

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a highway.
I didn't think anything of it.

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Suddenly I heard panting like
someone was trying to catch

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their breath after going for an
intense run.

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So I turned around to check and
saw nothing.

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A bit strange, but I thought it
was nothing, maybe just one of

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the pipes above my head creaking
or a generator pumping.

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So I carried on walking, but I
kept feeling like someone or

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something was watching me and
was walking behind me out of

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sheer confusion and fear.
I missed my turn towards the

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elevators and found myself in a
large section of the tunnels

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that I have never been before,
littered with old stretchers,

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beds, hospital furniture and
equipment.

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Some of this stuff was over 50
years old, maybe older, just

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left a decay in a dark, smelly,
decrepit and dusty corridor.

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This was starting to really
creep me out because in all of

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the confusion I realized I was
lost.

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It almost felt like I had fallen
into the back rooms.

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Everything looked the same.
I could feel a tightening in my

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chest and could feel the start
of a panic attack.

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I remember clutching my chest
and running down a corridor

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trying to find a signpost or
something to tell me where I

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was.
The sense that something was

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watching me got stronger.
Suddenly I felt something hit my

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arm in force, almost like
someone using a baseball bat.

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I remember falling to the
ground, pulled myself across the

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floor towards the cold dusty
wall, and looked around

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frantically, trying to find an
explanation to what the heck

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just hit me.
Then something caught my eye.

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It was almost like a black mist
with glowing red eyes.

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It was about 20 meters away from
me, just hovering in the middle

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of the corridor.
Was this the thing that had been

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stalking me the entire time?
I got back up and sprinted.

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I ran down what it felt like 100
different corridors until I

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found a housekeeper janitor.
He asked me what was wrong

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because I looked pale, but I
couldn't get any words out.

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He then grabbed me by the arms
with a firm grip and said, did

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you see it too?
This was the last time I ever

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stepped foot in the tunnels.
To this day I hear rumors of

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strange things.
I'm not sure what I saw that

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night.
Maybe I was tired, maybe I was

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stressed, maybe it was
something.

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Why else would the janitor ask
me if I had seen it too?

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What else is down there?
Well, I can tell you one thing

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for sure.
I won't be going to find out.

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Thanks for taking the time to
read this.

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First of all, why are there so
many catacombs?

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First of all, let's.
OK, let's let me let me take a

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step back.
If you work somewhere and in

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this place where you work, there
are catacombs.

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No, you just you know what?
That's what you ask in the in

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the interview.
You know, it's it's an interview

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is for both people, right?
It's for you to determine if

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they're a good fit for you and
vice versa.

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So maybe your first question,
wherever you go, I'm going to

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start doing this to every all of
y'all can start doing it when I

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first interview somewhere.
My very first question is going

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to be does your place of work
have an area called the

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catacombs or anywhere that could
be confused for catacombs?

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Perhaps a tunnel?
Because apparently Cardiff is

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filled with with tunnels and
secret catacombs.

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OK, so on willsonline.co dot uki
found this list of creepy

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underground tunnels that were in
Cardiff.

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So and that list here's just an
example of things that go on

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there in Wales is the churchyard
that had a graveyard with bodies

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buried in it was inconvenient.
And so they actually paved over

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it to make it more convenient to
get to the market quicker.

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And so they've named that road,
Dead Man's Road or Dead Man's

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Alley.
And if you look on the ground,

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on the paving stones, there are
metal numbers embedded in the

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stones to mark burial places of
dead bodies.

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So, you know, I guess creepy
catacombs is just kind of a

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thing that happens in Cardiff.
So it's not shocking to me now

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to hear that about the hospital,
but it is still terrifying.

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OK, so Josh, your experience
where you're in fight or flight

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and flight with a capital F,
where your body is sending

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adrenaline, it's telling you run
for your life and you know you

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can't even see anything.
You know you've barely heard

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something, but you just feel
like something's watching you.

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Just horrifying.
And I, I, I don't even know how

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you continue to work there after
that.

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I mean, of course you never went
back down there.

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I would never go back down
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But you know, you mentioned
those abandoned like stretchers

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and wheelchairs and, and just
General Hospital furniture

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that's just been allowed to sit
down there and, and rot for

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possibly decades.
It makes me wonder, is there

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something, is there like mold or
spores?

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I mean, I guess mold spores, but
like, is there something that

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has been released into the air
and then you're breathing it and

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you're getting some sort of, you
know, hallucinogenic or just

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general paranoia?
Like is there something like

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that that's happening down
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Or I know that humans are more
sensitive to electromagnetic

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frequencies.
EMF And so sometimes that's

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what's happening when you feel
like you're in a haunted

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situation.
I mean, that's not even counting

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carbon monoxide.
I mean, that is a pretty quick

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reaction to carbon monoxide.
But is it EMF?

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Is there something down there
that's not wired correctly?

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And it's, you know, messing with
the electricity in your brain

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And your brain is saying danger,
danger.

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Something's chasing me.
But then what hit you?

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Like, you know, I wonder, like,
were you bruised?

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Were you injured?
Did it just hurt?

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Like how could something slam
into you if nothing's there?

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And and then the janitor.
And then was the janitor real or

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was the janitor part of the
haunting?

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Was that the twist is you found
out later that janitor hasn't

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worked here in 50 years.
Is that the twist?

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Josh, thank you so much for
letting me Share your story and

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if you have any other creepy
hospital stories, I would love

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to hear them.
Oh, and I almost forgot to

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mention that apparently they
filmed at least one Doctor Who

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creepy scary scene in the
tunnels underneath that hospital

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according to people on the
Internet.

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And they never lie.
OK, just one more bonus thought

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when I was on the Wills
online.co.uk site looking at

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this list of creepy underground
tunnels.

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The front page.
The front page.

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The breaking news story was live
updates as unsafe building

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incident shuts Cardiff Rd.
A plant going through a wall has

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threatened to make it collapse
and people are being prevented

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from entering the area while
experts work at the scene.

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Or I guess in Welsh it would be
live updates as unsafe building

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incident shots Cardiff Rd.
This is front page news in Wales

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and I want to move to Wales now.
So here I come, I'm on my way.

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Another terrifying experience in
the barn by Daddio.

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You couldn't ask for a more
beautiful spring day 1984.

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I had just started as a drummer
in a school rock band.

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The night before, my older
brother and two friends of ours

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were practicing our new songs in
the barn.

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I was really excited that they
said I could be their drummer.

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I was just dying to get back to
practicing that day.

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The only problem with that was
the drum set was in the barn and

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no one else was home.
I normally wouldn't even think

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about going in that barn alone
because of the strange and

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terrifying things that would
happen in there and especially

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when there was no one home.
But because I was so excited

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about getting back to practice,
I decided to go ahead and go in.

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I had a plan to go in the front
door that was close to the drum

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set.
If anything weird happened, I

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could get out of there fast.
That was the plan anyway.

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When I got to the door and try
to open it, I noticed that it

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was off the track and could only
open about 5 to 6 inches.

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That's all right, I thought, I
can squeeze through here.

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So with a bit of effort I
managed to squeeze myself in.

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It took some time though.
Great, now I can get to

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practice.
And practice I did for at least

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an hour or so.
Then I did a rim shot on the

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snare drum a little too hard and
the drum head just split open.

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Now I'm frustrated to say the
least.

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I threw a tantrum, so to speak,
by throwing a drumstick.

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It flew up to the hay mow on the
other side of the barn.

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I watched it bounce into the
back edition upstairs.

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I calmed down pretty quick since
I came to the realization that I

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have to go up there and get it.
But practicing was over till I

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got a new drum head anyway.
So I moved the high hat out of

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the way and began to walk toward
the ladder to retrieve the

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drumstick.
I looked up toward where the

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drumstick landed and it was
flying right towards my head.

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I had to move out of the way or
it would hit me.

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Now remember, I was alone in
there.

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It hit the wall behind me,
making a loud noise that

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startled me on top of already
being terrified by the flying

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drumstick.
Without hesitation, I went

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straight to the door.
I forgot that I had to squeeze

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in.
I was just terrified and wanted

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out, but I was going to have to
take the time to squeeze back

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out.
While doing so, I mistakenly

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looked over at the drum set.
The bass drum mallet that his

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foot operated went down like
someone had stepped on it.

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Seeing this move by itself was
bad enough, but it also hit the

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drum hard enough that I could
feel it in my chest.

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I actually thought that my heart
had stopped.

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I was so scared that I forced
myself through the door, tearing

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my clothes up and putting big
scratches on my back and chest.

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Once I was out, I ran toward the
house about 15 or 20 feet, then

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just collapsed.
We never practiced in that barn

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again, not because of what
happened to me, but because the

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lead guitarist bumped into
someone or something in the dark

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the night before and we got done
practicing.

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There was nobody there and he
knew it.

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He told my mom about it a few
days later.

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He wouldn't even go in to get
his equipment.

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My brother and I had to go get
it for him.

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This drumstick event was without
a doubt the most terrifying I've

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ever had in my life.
I always considered that barn

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beyond haunted and into the
realm of evil.

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So for anyone who has not
listened to the episode previous

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to this one, episode 10 Daddio
does have another haunted barn

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story that talks about some
other activity that he has

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experienced that he and his
brother and his brother's

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friends and also his friends
have all experienced in the

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barn.
Just to give some back story

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into the some back barn story,
which is why I am so shocked

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that you went into this barn
alone.

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Daddy O like drum setter.
No, the motivation to be a

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drummer in a band or not, man, I
mean, that's dedication.

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I hope you're still playing
drums and that you're a

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successful musician now because
that's a good origin story.

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I was so dedicated to being a
drummer.

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That I willingly put myself into
a dangerous haunted barn

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situation.
Just there were so many chances

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for you to turn around and not
go in there.

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You you could have said the door
can't get it open.

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Oh, well, you said no, not me.
I'm not being deterred by a

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silly thing like a door not
allowing me in.

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No, that's not going to stop
you.

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And then I guess everything went
well, went well for a minute,

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for an hour.
I think everything went OK for

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an hour.
And then I get the tantrum.

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I mean, I think, you know, who
doesn't love a good tantrum

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still, But in in your teen
years, you know, they're super

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common.
And there's also something to be

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said there, which I didn't
mention last episode.

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There's something to be said
about, you know, the

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teenageriness that's attached to
a lot of spirit activity.

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I know typically you hear like,
oh, it's, it's specifically like

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girls, it's teenage girls.
And that's what you're seeing a

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lot.
OK, well, I think we can just

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take that out of the equation
and just say that it's hormones

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in general because there's a lot
of those flying around.

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So maybe that has something to
do with it.

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But the fact that this drumstick
just flies back out at your

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head, like, was there someone
like a drifter living up where

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you threw the drumstick?
I mean, it's not completely out

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of the realm of possibility, is
it?

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I don't really know that, you
know, I don't know the

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intricacies and the insurance
and outs of of a barn layout.

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I don't know what a Hey MO is or
if I even pronounce that right.

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But it sounds to me as if
someone could have been living

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up there and maybe they threw
the drumstick back down at you.

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Maybe you threw it at them and
then it hit them.

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And then I, you know, I don't
know.

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But even if that was the case, I
don't know how to explain you

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seeing and hearing the the bass
drum foot thing hitting the

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drum.
Like I mean OK, just like I

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don't know the intricacies of of
how barns work.

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I guess I don't know how drums
work either.

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I can picture it, but I don't
know the the mechanics.

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So to me it does seem strange
that it moves on its own hard

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enough to actually make the drum
beat.

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But, you know, maybe there's an
explanation.

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Maybe maybe there was a Rat and
it ran over the foot pedal.

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Possibly.
I mean it.

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This coincidence would have had
to have also timed itself with

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the drifter that's sleeping up
in whatever a hey mow is.

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You know, I could I could have
googled it at this point and

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then I would be speaking more
confidently about whether or not

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this is possible.
The point is, there's a lot of

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strange coincidences that have
to all align to explain

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everything, so I sure wish that
I had a way to explain this.

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I don't, but hopefully, just
like your brother's friend, you

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never had to set foot in that
barn after that moment.

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I bet that you did, but I hope
that you at least aren't having

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to go in there now.
Hopefully your parents sold the

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house and the barn is gone.
I still can't believe that your

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brother and your brother's
friend didn't warn you about

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what they saw or, or what your
brother's friend ran into,

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physically ran into like it like
there's.

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Oh, hey, Daddy.
O just thought I'd let you know

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that last night I ran into a
corporeal ghost.

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Like I couldn't see it, but I
could feel it and there was

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nothing there.
And you should probably not ever

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go back in that barn again.
Definitely don't go in the barn

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the next day and spend an hour
alone practicing on the drum.

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That would be dangerous.
Can't believe they didn't warn

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you.
Anyway, I hope you never have to

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go into that barn again.
But you know what, if you do, I

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would be happy to read your new
story on the show, but hopefully

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you don't have any more foreign
stories.

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But if you do, I'm ready.
Thank you so much for joining me

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for such a lovely spooky time.
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