2. Phantom Typing & Hotel Chelsea | True Strange Stories of the Unexplained

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My Experiences Part 1 My

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Childhood Home by Nicholas
Kaminsky My family have always

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been sensitive to spirits.
I thought I might share my more

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intense experiences through the
years, grouped by location.

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Here's the first my childhood
home.

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I'm soon to be 34, male now.
Back when I was just over a year

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old, my mother and father moved
in with my mother's parents.

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They had built a second story
apartment on my grandparents

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ranch home in New Jersey.
My mother still owns the home to

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this day and I typed this story
now while visiting there for

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Memorial Day.
The original house was built in

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the 1940s as part of a Levittown
style development for GIS.

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My grandparents bought it in the
1960s when they came here from

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Germany.
As far as any of us knew, no one

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had died in the house ever.
However, from a pretty young

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age, me and my brother who is 4
years younger than I would have

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odd shared experiences in this
house.

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The most common one was a
feeling of being chased up the

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steps to the second floor.
Any time either of us stood at

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the bottom of the steps, we both
felt inexplicable dread and a

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presence behind us.
But sure, just a feeling, quote

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UN quote isn't an experience in
itself.

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Tangible things began to happen
after my parents divorced and my

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father moved out of the house.
It started when my brother and I

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were sharing a room with wooden
bunk beds.

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I had the top bunk.
Late at night, after my brother

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would be long asleep, I would
hear our computer, a late 90s

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desktop computer typing It would
do this every night.

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I remember at the time not being
scared of it, but rather just

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frustrated with the noise.
Occasionally I would ask

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whatever was typing to stop and
the sound would cease.

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One time my brother and I were
playing with our Hot Wheels in

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the room and both of us saw a
grotesque face appear in the

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wood grain of the bed.
The face was legitimately

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terrifying, locked in a
tormented scream.

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It appeared for a few seconds,
but both of us saw it, yelled

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for our lives, and ran out of
the room.

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We never could find that face in
the wood again, or anything that

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even could resemble what we saw
by making odd shadows against

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the wood with a flashlight.
That was my catalyst for asking

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my mother to let me have my own
room, replacing what was our

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den.
When I moved out of the room, I

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mentioned to my brother the
typing of the computer.

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He said he had never heard it
before and he didn't believe me.

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How could something happen in a
room he slept in every night

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without him noticing?
I shrugged and once I was set up

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in my new room, he took the old
top funk and our new rooms were

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complete.
The next morning I found the

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computer in the living room on
the floor.

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The first night he was alone in
the room in the top bunk, he

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heard the typing.
That was enough for him to throw

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away the computer and never have
one in that room again.

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I would also have a recurring
nightmare that only happened at

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that house.
A little girl, malevolent, would

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find me in the kitchen and laugh
before attempting to stab me in

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the stomach.
Later, the dream would include

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me desperate to find out who she
was and why she was in my house.

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I would wake up in a panic from
these nightmares, with the odd

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sureness that this was connected
to the typing, the stairs, and

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the face in the wood.
But who could it be?

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No one had died there.
Eventually my brother did some

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sort of Pagan cleansing of the
home and the spirit never

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returned.
It wasn't until long after I

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moved out on my own that I found
out my mother had a miscarriage.

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When I was little she was having
a baby girl.

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I wonder if the spirit of my
never born sister was angry and

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jealous that my brother and I
got to live.

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The second spirit that gave us
experiences in the home was my

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grandfather.
As I mentioned, they lived on

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the first floor of the home.
My grandfather wound up dying

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after a long battle with
Alzheimer's in the house when I

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was 14.
That left my grandmother living

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by herself downstairs.
Generally, there was no activity

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related to him in the home,
except when my grandmother would

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visit her sisters in Germany.
These trips were infrequent,

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maybe every three or so years,
but they would be lengthy, two

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or three months at a time while
my grandmother was away.

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Boy did my grandfather's spirit
get active.

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He likely missed her and didn't
know where she had gone.

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My brother and I took piano
lessons from the guy, Bob, who

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would come over one day while my
grandmother was away.

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I needed to stay late after
school, so I told my brother to

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just take a double lesson as I
wouldn't be home in time.

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When I did get home, Bob and my
brother looked terrified and

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asked if I was just getting in.
Then apparently during the

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lesson, both Bob and my brother
heard a male voice speaking in

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the other room, as well as
footsteps and a door opening and

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closing.
They thought it was me, but

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indeed they were home alone.
Bob was especially shaken by

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this.
Another time, when I was around

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19, I was home alone and decided
to take the opportunity to

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practice guitar extremely loud
without bothering anyone else.

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I was playing and singing
something when I heard clear as

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day, my grandfather's voice,
German accent and all, scream my

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name in admonishment like he
used to when my brother and I

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would misbehave as children.
I ran out of the house and drove

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away in my car, too spooked to
even put on shoes.

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I stayed away until my mom got
home from work.

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I guess I didn't realize my
grandfather might not appreciate

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the loud music.
Those were the big experiences

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that happened at that home, but
little things like the piano

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playing on its own, footsteps in
empty rooms, voices down the

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hallway and items going missing
only to show up in plain sight

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later were all common.
Excited to share more with you

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all coming up, including
physically violent encounters,

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full body apparitions and a dark
entity that turned my sceptic

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friend a believer.
Nicholas, I know that you have a

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lot of terrifying things in your
story, but I have to open with

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how sweet and creepily romantic
it is that your grandpa was

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super active when he didn't know
where your grandma was when she

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was in Germany.
Like very scary for you and your

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family, but for me, Aw, so
sweet.

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I love how Bob the piano man was
the most affected by hearing the

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presence of a man in the house
when it was just him and your

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brother.
Your brother's like, oh, this

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is, this is just normal.
This is everyday.

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No big deal.
But Bob is shook.

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It would it would it would shake
me as well.

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So I understand.
I do want to address, you know,

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it's terrible that your mom lost
your baby sister.

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I think, though, that that can't
be her.

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It can't be her that was in your
nightmares chasing you with a

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knife.
It certainly wasn't her trying

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to scare you, you know.
If anything, it's possible,

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isn't it?
That her presence was in the

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house and was keeping these
things like the nightmare and

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the typing in the middle of the
night and the presence chasing

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you up the stairs.
Maybe she was keeping that at

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Bay and doing her best to
protect you, and that it might

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have been worse if she wasn't
there and you might have felt

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her, but she didn't.
I don't think that she would try

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to scare you and stab you with a
knife in your dreams.

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That's just my two cents.
But hearing that keyboard

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typing, you know, especially
since you could only hear it

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from the top bunk, I wonder if
that was an actual keyboard

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typing or if there was something
else that you could only hear

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from up there from the air ducts
that maybe sounded like a

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keyboard.
But I understand those 90s

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keyboards.
I think they were mechanical at

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that point.
They were very loud.

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I personally prefer a loud
clacky keyboard, but I would not

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want to hear it in the middle of
the night when I'm trying to

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sleep.
Though that is nice of whatever

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it was typing to stop typing
when you asked.

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So good job managing that.
And to everyone else, we do have

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more stories from Nicholas to
share in future episodes, so

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stay tuned.
I spent a night at the Chelsea

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Hotel.
Let's talk about it by Worried

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Basket 23.
It's been a few weeks since I've

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returned from my trip to New
York City and I think I've

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finally gathered some of my
thoughts about my stay at the

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legendary and notoriously
haunted Chelsea Hotel.

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Apologies if this is a bit all
over the place, mostly just

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wanted to share my thoughts and
hear others thoughts.

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A little background info for
you.

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I've always had a huge
fascination with this building

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and its history.
So five years ago, while the

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building was still being
remodeled, I dragged along some

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friends to see the outside of
the building.

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I will never forget the wave of
emotion and energy that hit me

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as I turned the corner and first
saw it.

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I started crying and just felt a
great sense of contentment.

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The following months and even
years, I started having these

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bizarre dreams about the
building despite never having

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them before.
Some were scary, some were just

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weird.
As this isn't what this post is

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necessarily about, I'll skip
detailing those for now unless

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someone asks.
Anyway, anytime I describe that

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first encounter with the
Chelsea, I would explain it as a

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sort of energy trade off.
I'm not sure exactly what it

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would be called, but it always
seemed like there was some sort

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of exchange of energy that day.
Parts of me were terrified of

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the building because it felt
very dark and heavy.

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There was another part of me
that felt very protected and

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like it was balanced by the
artistic and historical energy

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there as well.
Point being, I ultimately

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decided that at some point,
whenever the opportunity arose,

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I would spend a night there no
matter the cost.

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It seemed necessary in my head.
For whatever reason, the hotel

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reopened a few years ago and I
saw the cost and gave up at any

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chance of staying there anytime
soon.

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A few months back, I was
planning a trip to New York City

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for a different occasion and
talked with a friend who was

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equally interested in the
hotel's history about the

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chances of us splitting the cost
of a room at the Chelsea.

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Long story short, it worked out.
And before I get into these

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notes from my actual stay, I
would just like to state that

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after my last experience with
the hotel, I was expecting some

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huge experience and to be a
little scared the whole time

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even.
I haven't dove into it much, but

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there's always been some sort of
connection with myself and the

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spiritual and supernatural.
I am very impacted by the energy

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of places and I've had a good
amount of encounters with

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spirits in my life.
All this to say, there was no

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huge encounter.
There was nothing visually that

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I saw.
I even at times felt a lack of

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energy.
But back to that later.

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Calling it lacklustre wouldn't
be fair, but after years of

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building it up in my head, I
felt mostly fine.

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And sometimes it just happens
like that.

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So on to the things I noticed.
I was in a 6th floor balcony

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room.
The room itself felt sort of

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energetically empty most of the
time anyway.

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I didn't feel overwhelmed by any
specific emotion or energy, it

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just felt like a fancy hotel
room, which is nice, but not

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what I expected given its
history.

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As I mentioned earlier, the
hotel has undergone significant

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renovations over the years.
Walls torn down, lots of the

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inside of the building gutted
and renovated to fit more of a

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luxury bohemian hotel of sorts.
Which is a history buff.

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Always kills me a little seeing
the drastic changes in places

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over time.
All of this renovation made me

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feel like maybe the lack of
energy in the rooms themselves

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came from the renovations
causing the spirits or whatever

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is there to feel confused and
lack a sense of place.

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Which leads me to the next
thing, the hallways and the

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staircase.
While my friend napped, I

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decided to take the steps from
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I really wanted to get a sense
of the vibe of each floor and

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just take it all in.
The walls of the stairway are

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decorated with Chelsea Hotel
related art, some of which I

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believe is from former and even
current residents, so it was at

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the very least worth a gander.
But something I noticed was how

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full the hall and staircase
felt, despite being empty.

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I really felt more on my toes
and like at any moment I'd be

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approached by someone behind me.
I wondered if the halls and

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staircase, remaining mostly the
same as it's always been, played

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a part in this.
I think this is when I started

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to really get a feel for the
energy of the hotel, the one

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I've heard and read so much.
It was honestly a little

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overwhelming and until typing
this I hadn't made the

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connection.
But now seems like the right

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time to mention.
One of the dreams I had involved

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me walking the halls of the
hotel and for some reason

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everyone was sitting outside
their rooms, lining the hall and

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staring at me, almost waiting
for me to talk.

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At the time this seemed really
confusing to me, but as I type

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this it seems like the perfect
description to what I actually

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felt.
We ended up testing out a spirit

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box, which resulted in a few
interesting interactions, a lot

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of activity, but much fewer
clear words and phrases.

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One of the clearest things that
was said was skin color.

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Note.
Friend and I are white if that

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is relevant.
This was really interesting to

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me but I haven't been able to
place this into a bigger

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picture.
Other words I could make out at

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the time included hair pic.
My name is Leap multiple times

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and I was wondering if this was
connected to a woman who jumped

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to near death at the hotel.
Be nice Bailey and bitch leave.

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There was a spirit or two that
seemed irritated with the

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contact and others that seemed
to want to talk, but we did take

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a break after that one.
At some point I heard my name so

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clearly through the box.
My name is extremely uncommon so

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this freaked me out.
At some point.

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We poured some wine and whoever
we were speaking to was

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insistently saying drink.
I think they just wanted to be

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included in a way.
So we made a toast to the former

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residence and the hotel's
history.

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This seemed to please the
spirits.

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I revised some audio when I got
home and found some things we

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missed the time.
Stuff like listen, believe,

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etcetera.
Something very clearly said

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blue, BLUE, or BLEWI heard this
at the time and asked to

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confirm, which was followed by
two more instances of blue,

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which I did not hear at the
time.

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As a literature nerd, I was
curious if any of my favorite

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writers were around.
Obviously interacting with dead

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celebrities is way less common
than the average person.

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However, for what it's worth,
when I was talking about writer

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Herbert Hunke, something came
through and said I'm here and

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hello, which I thought was sort
of amazing regardless of who it

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was.
The names Anna or maybe Hannah

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and a possible Emma.
Although I'm wondering if this

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was possibly just one woman with
one of those names.

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Anytime I would try to talk to
anyone about the Titanic

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survivors who stayed at the
hotel upon docking in New York,

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there seemed to be an agitated
or even angry energy, so I tried

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to leave that be.
There was definitely at least

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one child present, but I
couldn't make out anything

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specific.
Toward the end of our final

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session in the room, there was a
shift in energy that felt

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negative, which I can deal with.
However, this felt beyond that,

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so I chose to end there.
Upon checking out, I tried the

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spirit box briefly in the lobby
and there was far less activity.

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I also checked it out at my
other hotel later and there was

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virtually no activity.
I at some point ran to the

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hotel's bathroom after check
out, which is in the basement.

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The energy down there was
similar to what I felt with the

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dark energy at the end of that
session, so I'm thinking this

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could be connected in some way.
I also heard the door to the

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bathroom open, but no one walked
out and no one walked in.

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This could be explained though,
but worth mentioning.

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And that's basically it.
I'm really curious to hear if

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anyone can make any sense of
this, find connections, maybe I

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haven't, maybe have had their
own experiences at the hotel,

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etcetera etcetera.
Sorry for such a long winded

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post.
Firstly, worried basket, I

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disagree, it wasn't long winded,
it was detailed and fascinating.

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Secondly, you are far braver
than I for staying at the

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Chelsea Hotel.
For anyone who was listening and

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has maybe not heard of the
Chelsea Hotel, otherwise known

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as Hotel Chelsea, this is not
the Cecil or Cecil Hotel where

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Elisa Lamb died.
This is a different haunted

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hotel across the country, so
still in the USA, this is in New

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York City.
As the story mentioned, it was

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built in 1883 and it has seen
far more than its fair share of

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death.
Murders, suicides, people

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setting their rooms on fire.
Some of the notable guests who

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have stayed there throughout the
years are Mark Twain, Arthur

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Miller, Janis Joplin, Patty
Smith, Madonna.

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All of them survived their trip.
Who did not survive their visit

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to the hotel are Sid Vicious and
Nancy Spungen.

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Nancy was stabbed to death in
1978, and four months later, Sid

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overdosed and died at the hotel.
That's just one tiny sliver, the

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tip of a death iceberg at the
Hotel Chelsea.

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Like Worried Basket mentioned,
Titanic survivors were brought

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to the Hotel Chelsea after the
Titanic sank in 1912.

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One woman named Mary supposedly
was staying there waiting for

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her husband, and when she found
out that he had drowned in the

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Titanic sinking, she took her
own life by hanging herself in

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her room.
Now, I mention that because

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Michael Imperioli of Sopranos
and White Lotus fame stayed

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there in 1996 and has a creepy
story of seeing this figure in

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the hallway when he stayed
there.

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And once he heard that story, he
promptly checked out and I

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really can't blame him.
Can't blame Christopher for this

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one.
So if you're curious about any

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more of the Hotel Chelsea,
Chelsea Hotel's history, it's a

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fascinating read.
I got a lot of good information

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from the Chelsea Community News
site, but there are so many

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places online, even YouTube
channels, that you can go and

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learn more about this morbidly
riveting history of the hotel.

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Now for those who are unaware, a
spirit box, which worried basket

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used in this story is a tool
used in ghost hunting to find

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Evps, otherwise known as
electronic voice phenomena, by

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scanning the AM and FM radio
frequencies looking for ghost

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voices.
So worried Basket, if you have

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any of these recordings, I would
absolutely love to share them on

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the show.
So please go ahead and send

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those over to
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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Now, it sounds like you had a
very emotional experience

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visiting the hotel, and maybe it
didn't quite live up to your

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expectations.
However, considering the heinous

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and bloody history of the hotel,
I think maybe it's best that

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nothing else happened while you
were there.

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I know it's a little bit
disappointing, but I for one am

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glad that nothing else horrible
or scary or potentially

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dangerous happened to you.
If you do decide to go back and

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try again, if the room rates
ever come down, which let's not

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hold our breath, do send in an
update.

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I'd love to hear it and share it
with everyone.

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Thank you to Nicholas Kaminski
and Worried Basket 23 for

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submitting your strange stories,
and thank you so much for

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stopping by for such a lovely
spooky time.

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You're always welcome here.
It's perfect timing really.

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Looks like the rain just stopped
now.

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Remember, if any of the
strangeness scared you, remind

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yourself that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

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You're safe here with me until
next time.

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and narrated by me.

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is by

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