7. Unlocked Memories | True spooky ghost stories

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The stories in this podcast may
not be suitable for all

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listeners.
Listener discretion is advised.

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If you have a true strange story
you'd like to hear narrated on

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the show, submit it now on
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it to
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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That's MAD AM E.
Oh welcome, come on in out of

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the rain.
I am always glad to see you.

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Would you care for some
enchanted elderberry shortbread

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still warm from the oven?
I had some elderflowers and

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berries leftover from a light
mild exorcism earlier.

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It's perfect for unwanted
spirits.

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Oh, here's Cleocatra come to say
hello.

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She missed you.
Now you 2 make yourselves

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comfortable while I share some
new strange stories here on

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Madam Strange Ways.
Story #1 by Sean My story takes

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place when I was in
kindergarten, about 5 or 6 years

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old I would guess.
I'll preface my story by

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explaining a little about my
family's life situation at the

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time.
We didn't have a lot of money,

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my mom worked 2 jobs and my dad
had a full time job when he was

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in college working on his
nursing degree.

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Because they were so busy, my
sister and I spent a lot of time

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with my great grandmother Granny
and her husband Jim, who took

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care of us while my parents were
out grinding the American Dream.

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Since we spent so much time
together, we became very close

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to them, and I specifically
became close to Jim.

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Though he wasn't my biological
grandfather, he still treated me

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like I was his grandson better,
even, if I'm being honest, more

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like a son.
We did a lot together and I was

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pretty attached to him.
Unfortunately, at some point

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during my kindergarten year, Jim
had a heart attack.

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My only real memory of the day
it happened was the whole family

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in the parking lot of the
hospital waiting for news on how

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he was doing.
It sounds like an odd place to

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wait, but it was the early 90s
and everyone still smoked.

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Sadly, we didn't have to wait
long before we got the sad news

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that he had passed away.
Here is where the weird part of

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the story begins.
It's evident now that his death

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had a big effect on me.
The events that followed that

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night I had completely pushed
out of my memories until about

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5:00 or so years ago when it
came up in conversation during a

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family get together.
It was a very stomach dropping

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memory unlock moment for me with
all of the events flooding back

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into my mind.
As it turns out, my mental state

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after his death was very
depressed.

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I would randomly start crying
and asking for Jem.

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I missed him a lot apparently.
My parents figured it would pass

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with time, as most things do,
but things got weird for me.

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And this part I still don't
actually remember completely,

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but my parents said they would
be woken up by me laughing out

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in the hallways of our house or
just talking.

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Sometimes when they asked me
what I was doing out of bed, I

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would tell them Jim woke me up
so we could play together for a

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few weeks.
Apparently not every night, but

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often the same thing would
happen.

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They would wake up and find me
playing in the halls with Jim in

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the early hours of the morning.
It didn't take long before my

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parents made use of my school
counsellor and these are the

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memories that are very vivid now
that it was brought back up.

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I would spend probably an hour
or so each day with her talking

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about Jim and my feelings.
I remember trying to express how

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I felt while using one of those
old school sand Zen gardens that

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you run the little Rakes through
or some other small fidgety toy

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to help keep me calm while we
spoke about it.

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This probably persisted for
about two or three months if I

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had to guess, but I can't be
sure.

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I suppose it worked talking it
all out with the counsellor,

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maybe too well since I was able
to purge it from my memory for

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20 plus years.
To this day I keep a piece of

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him with me always.
My granny passed his wedding

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ring on to me when I was older
as I was the closest thing to a

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son that he had.
So I wear it with pride and love

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as a memento to him.
Still though, since I've

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remembered it all, it has me
wondering if it was all just an

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odd extreme coping mechanism or
if there is such a thing as

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ghosts or maybe angels.
Was it all in my head or were we

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that close that Jim didn't want
me to feel how I was feeling so

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he wanted to help me through it?
Who knows?

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Sean, thank you so much for
sharing that story with me about

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what a creepy little child that
you were.

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I mean, you had your reasons.
You had very valid reasons for

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being a creepy kid.
I'm so sorry that you lost Jim

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the way that you did and that
you didn't have more time with

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him.
Although it sounds like you were

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getting some extra quality time
with him at night playing with

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him in the hallway.
I'm also happy that you got your

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ring from your granny to
remember him by think.

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That's super sweet.
Of course you blocked that out

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of your memory.
I think that's understandable.

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And it sounds like along with
the counseling that you were

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getting and obviously the love
and support of your family, that

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may be that combined with the
peace that seeing Jim a few more

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times, well, probably more than
a few more times.

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The peace that continuing to see
Jim now and again after losing

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him.
Sounds like that brought you a

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lot of closure as tiny baby
Sean, whether or not that is

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actually his spirit visiting you
or an Angel, like you said, you

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know, whatever it was, it
brought you comfort and it did

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what it needed to do and it
served its purpose.

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I cannot imagine being one of
your parents waking up like, oh,

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there's little tiny Sean again
talking to his recently deceased

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surrogate grandfather.
No big deal.

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Something about the sound of
children laughing at times and

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places in which they should not
be laughing.

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You know, there's just something
about that that's incredibly

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creepy.
But thank you so much for being

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vulnerable enough to share that
sweet memory that you only

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recently remembered.
So thank you so much for sharing

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that with us.
If anyone has a similar story

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that they would also like to
share, please feel free send it

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to madamstrangeways@gmail.com or
submit it on

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madamstrangeways.com.
That's MAD.

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AM E
The Poop Ghost in the Woods by

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Nicholas Kaminsky Early in my
career I taught music at a

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private school in New Jersey.
One of my favorite things to do

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when I worked there was to go on
field trips.

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I always signed up to chaperone
them.

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One trip that I insisted on
going on every year was for the

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6th graders in September to a
camp in the woods in

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Connecticut.
The camp was all about

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sustainability and had great
farm to table food.

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Plus there was hiking and
kayaking.

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Really a great time.
However, it was also most of

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these kids first time sleeping
away from home.

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Some took the opportunity for
unsupervised mischief at night,

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some brought out the tears and
begged to be brought home.

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My last year there I was staying
in a cabin I had not been in

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before.
The layout of the small building

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was 4 bedrooms arranged in a
square, each with an entrance

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door to the outside wrap around
porch and each with their own

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bathroom.
There was also a heavy door with

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an old school iron slide lock
conjoining my bedroom with one

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other.
The cabin was pretty old, and I

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remember being surprised that I
didn't sense any spirits in my

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room.
It felt remarkably unoccupied.

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So we had our first day of
activities and sent the kids to

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bed.
I had a pair of known

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troublemakers in other bedrooms
of my cabin, but I didn't have

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any problems with them at night.
However, the next morning I went

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to wake everyone up and the boys
in the room that happens to

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connect to mine.
I kept the heavy bolt locked on

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my side, complained of not being
able to sleep because the boys

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in the room next to them
wouldn't quit banging on their

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bathroom wall at night.
Of course, that was the room

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with the troublemakers, so I
admonished them for being

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annoying, but they swore they
didn't do it.

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The kids who couldn't sleep were
very upset though, so I didn't

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believe the troublemakers.
Later on in the early evening,

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the kids were on a long hike
with the camp staff and us

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chaperones were given a few
hours off.

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The science teacher and guidance
counsellor went to the main

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lodge to watch some movie while
I was feeling a little sleepy,

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so I went back to my cabin about
1/4 mile through the woods from

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the lodge to take a nap.
When I got to the cabin, I heard

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an alarm going off.
Realizing it was in the

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adjoining room to mine, the room
where the kids couldn't sleep, I

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knew I wouldn't be able to nap
without going off, so I opened

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their door to turn it off.
As soon as I entered the room,

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the alarm immediately stopped.
I was also met with some of the

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most oppressive energy I've ever
felt.

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The room was way darker than
mine and also way colder.

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The rooms didn't have individual
thermostats either, that was

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controlled for the whole cabin.
This room was bad news.

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I closed the door and walked
around the porch to my

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blissfully pure room and take
off my jeans to get into bed.

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Though before I settle in all
the way for my nap, I decide to

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poop.
I go to my bathroom and right as

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I was about to sit down on the
toilet, a very large black

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spider crawls over the seat and
then under it.

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I immediately flip the seat up
to kill it, but it was just

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gone.
Thinking that maybe I just

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missed it crawling under the rim
of the bowl and not wanting to

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find out where it had gone mid
poop, I decided to just use the

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bathroom in the adjoining
bedroom.

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The kids were going to be out
for hours.

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I was fine.
Being lazy and not wanting to

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put my pants back on, I decided
to use the heavy door with the

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iron slide lock to get into
their bedroom instead of walking

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across the porch.
The door was heavy and old.

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It hung a bit against the lock.
I had to lean against the door

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to give the lock room to slide.
Once it was open, I stepped into

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the familiar dark and cold
bedroom with the bad vibes and

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went to its bathroom to poop.
As soon as I sit down on the

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toilet, I hear a banging on the
wall behind me.

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My first reaction is to get mad
at my troublemaker students,

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because here they are having
lied to me about banging on the

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wall, and now I've caught them.
But then I remember they aren't

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here.
They're up on the side of a

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mountain on a 5 hour hike.
I am alone in the cabin.

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Or so I thought.
I start to try to find a

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rational explanation for the
banging.

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It only started when I sat down,
so maybe the pipes in the toilet

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are loose and move around when
you sit.

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So I wiggle about, trying to
correlate any of my movements

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with the bangs.
I'm still hearing nothing.

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The bangs were definitely not
connected to anything I was

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doing.
That's when I put it all

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together.
This was the banging on the

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bathroom wall that the kids were
complaining about.

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The alarm clock and Spider
seemed to both lure me into this

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other room.
The coldness, the darkness, the

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oppressive energy.
There was something malevolent

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in this room and it wanted me
there.

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And before I managed to actually
poop, I run from the bathroom,

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through the heavy door back into
my room and go to close the

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slide lock.
To do so, I need to press all of

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my weight on the door.
That's when something on the

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other side of the door pushes it
so hard I'm knocked back.

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This is again while I was
putting all of my weight against

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it.
I was not a small man at the

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time either.
I was 5 foot 11260 lbs.

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I panic.
My shoulder hurts from the force

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of the push, but I managed to
slam the door shut, get the lock

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slid back into place, and run
out the front door of my

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bedroom, grabbing my shoes and
jeans in the process.

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I whip them on in the porch and
then Sprint back to the lodge

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out of breath.
I meet up with the science

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teacher and guidance counselor
and tell them everything that

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happened.
Frustratingly, the guidance

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counselor doesn't believe me,
but the science teacher does.

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Either way, I stay with them
until the kids get back from

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their hike.
We have our closing program for

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the day and I lead my group
through the woods back to the

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cabin.
I, of course, do not mention the

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thing that pushed me to the
kids, but I do apologize to the

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troublemakers for admonishing
them in the morning.

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I know it wasn't you, I say.
They look at me a little

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puzzled.
I don't know if a teacher ever

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admitted they were wrong to them
before before.

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Just saying.
OK, Mr. Kaminsky.

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Thanks.
And go to bed.

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Once I'm sure all of them are
safely in their rooms, or as

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safe as they might be, I settled
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I'm a little uneasy, but I feel
like maybe this room is a safe

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place.
Whatever resides in this cabin

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in the woods is confined to that
dark room on the other side of

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the wall.
But not wanting to be alone in

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that moment, I call my
girlfriend to chat a bit before

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bed.
I tell her the story about my

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shitty encounter that day, and
she just laughs at me.

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She doesn't believe that kind of
stuff, and she thought the image

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of me waddling away from a ghost
with my pants around my ankles

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was truly hilarious.
I remind her that I wasn't

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wearing pants at the time, but
that doesn't stop her laughing,

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and it's honestly contagious.
It was nice to laugh about

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something that had scared me so
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However, maybe I shouldn't have
acknowledged the spirit's

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existence aloud while on the
phone in that room, because

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suddenly I watch as the wardrobe
in the room has its doors flung

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open with a very loud bang.
I'm frozen in place on the bed,

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just staring at the wardrobe,
waiting for any more movement.

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The room is still.
I hadn't placed anything in that

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wardrobe the entire weekend.
Nothing fell out of it to open

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the doors like that.
It was just empty.

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Terrified, I slept with the
lights on that night.

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OK, I don't know about anyone
else, but my two big questions

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that I have at the end of this
story #1 where did that spider

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go?
Was it a real spider?

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Was it a ghost spider?
Was it actually summoned?

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This is all one question.
OK, hold on, I'm getting to #2

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#1 where did that giant spider
go?

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And how do the worst insects
just disappear like that?

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They're just gone in the blink
of an eye.

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I don't understand how physics
works around them.

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I hate it.
So #1 spider #2 did you actually

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get to poop that day?
Because it sounds like no.

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Which can't be good for your
bowels or your guts.

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You know, it's important that we
keep a regular schedule,

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everybody.
So make sure you're eating both

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insoluble and soluble fiber.
You can do a quick little Google

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search, figure out the
difference between those two,

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but they're both important for
gut health.

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So, Nicholas, I am so sorry that
this happened to you.

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But you also understand that
it's funny, even though it

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sounds terrifying, and I would
never, ever want to have

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anything like this happen to me.
I'm with your girlfriend.

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On I would be right there with
her laughing, laughing at your

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pain and suffering.
I I do feel like you're on to

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something though, that as soon
as you start talking about it in

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the room now your haunted
wardrobe that had previously

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been not haunted, now swinging
its doors open and, you know,

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scaring the life out of you.
And what a good job that entity

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did luring you into that other
bathroom.

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It said, I know exactly how to
get this guy into my web of

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demonic mischief.
I will mess with his toilet

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time.
That's what I'll do.

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He's going to have to poop
eventually.

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So let's just mess with that.
I find that very sophisticated

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and good for you for not letting
on to the kids what you

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experienced because I can only
imagine the chaos that would

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cause for them to hear from a
chaperone that there is a

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haunting in the cabin.
I'm really curious if this is

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something that occurred before
or after.

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Like is this an anomaly or is
this a known situation that

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happens year after year at the
camp?

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Or possibly it only ever happens
on certain anniversaries of

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spooky things, like some kind of
urban legend that you would hear

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at a summer camp, for instance.
Thank you again, Nicholas.

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Your stories are always a
delight to read, even if they

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were horrifying for you at the
time.

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If anyone else has a summer camp
story or anything similar to

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this story, any thoughts or
theories, please go ahead.

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to madamstrangeways.com.
And again, MAD AME,

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thank you to Sean and Nicholas
Kaminsky for your strange

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stories, and thank you so much
for stopping by for such a

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lovely spooky time.
Now remember, if any of the

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strangeness scared you, remind
yourself that you can feel

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afraid and not be in danger.
You're safe here with me.

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