Sleep Paralysis Sleepover & A Haunted Hotel | True Ghost Stories | Ep #17

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That's MAD.
AM E Hello stranger, it's me,

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Madam Strangeways, back with two
new true strange stories for

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you. 1st, a monthly case of
sleep paralysis.

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Or is it?
And also a haunted hotel in

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historic Chicago.
And as always, solicited or not,

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usually not.
I share my insights and

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observations after each spooky
tale.

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Now it's time to dim the lights
and get cozy while I read you

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these true strange stories here
on Madam Strange Ways.

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Paranormal story from my
childhood by Eden 1st A little

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bit of background info to bring
the story along.

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I am an 18 year old girl and
until I was 11 years old I lived

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in a very old family home.
I always knew my childhood home

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to be built back in the 1930s or
around that time period and

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being lived in by generations.
This home was peaceful and we

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never felt threatened once, but
there is absolutely no denying

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that there was something or
things within its energy.

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I have two younger siblings and
have lived with both of my

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parents my entire life.
We all can remember the

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footsteps of heavy boots in the
hallways at night, the pull down

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ladder to the attic flinging
down at random, and the shadows

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flashing around the corners and
through doorways.

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My story starts when I was about
7:00 or 8:00 and would repeat

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about once every month or two.
I would be dead asleep in my

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childhood bedroom with my door
closed always for me and

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randomly would gasp awake almost
involuntarily.

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I would shift my sight towards
the doorway and my door would

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just crack open a little itty
bit.

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A small girl would slowly peep
in with her blonde hair and

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little white dress making her
way for what feels like an

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eternity to the bottom side of
my bed.

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She would sit down, very polite
and stare into my soul.

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Every single time it was the
exact same.

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She would whisper words to me
that I have never been able to

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recall.
But I sit there and it's almost

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like a telepathic communication
or understanding of her.

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It lasts for what feels like
forever.

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Then once she's spilled all her
words, she holds her dress down

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to her knees and hops back off
the side of my bed towards the

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door.
She leaves and my door clicks

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shut.
Immediately I shake out of my

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paralysis.
I know that sounds like the

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climax of the story, but just
please keep reading.

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So after a few years of this
girl occasionally popping in and

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out like she does, I finally
decide to tell my mom about

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these weird dreams.
I think I never really thought

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to tell her because I was never
scared of the young girl.

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She was always calm and polite
like I mentioned.

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So as I'm explaining to my mom
the details of my dream, she

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stops me after saying young
girl.

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My mom looks at me with the
weirdest expression and asks is

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this little girl blonde or does
she wear a white dress?

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I shook my head saying yes
quickly in disbelief and then

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she thinned out her lips saying
I saw her looking around my

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doorway. 1 morning.
I don't remember much of what

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happened after that conversation
me and my mom had but I

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continued to have the same dream
on and off until we moved.

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We own the land we live on and
tore the old home down and had a

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new house built in the same
place.

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I was 11 years old when we moved
into the new house and I

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remember a few months after
moving in the same girl she came

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to see me one last time and I
haven't seen her since that

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night.
It's been over 7 years and still

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no girl.
I've had so many other freaky

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things occur already so far and
truly believe that the energy

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sticks around.
If you've made it this far,

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thank you and let me know if
there could be any logical

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explanations.
Eden, thank you so much for that

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nightmare fodder.
You know, typically when we hear

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about sleep paralysis and when I
talk about it on the show,

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typically sleep paralysis is
involving scary shadow

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creatures, monsters, just an
ominous dangerous feeling.

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The stereotypical old hag, which
is just some sort of evil Crone

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looking woman, you know, an
emperor or a demon sitting on

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your chest or the old woman on
your chest.

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Or the tall hat man, everyone's
favorite, the tall hat man with

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his tall hat creeping on you,
staring at you as you sleep.

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Not ideal in any of those
circumstances.

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But you know, what I had never
heard of is a little girl with

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like pigtails and a little white
dress just hanging out like it's

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a like you're at a sleepover and
just kind of yapping.

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I have not heard of that.
And you know what I did?

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I did some research because of
course I did.

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And the amount of stories I have
found online of people talking

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about seeing a little girl
during sleep paralysis is, is

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way more than one.
It was way more than just your

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story.
There's stories on Reddit,

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there's stories on forums,
There's stories.

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Well, there's questions on
Quora.

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Like I see a little girl when I
sleep.

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Wow.
I had no idea that that was

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something that people typically
see, but apparently it is now.

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It's not always this blonde
little girl with pigtails and a

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cute little white dress that
y'all saw that you saw and your

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mom saw.
I've, I've read that, you know,

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oh, they have long dark hair,
They're wearing black or they

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have totally black eyes.
There's there's, it's a gamut.

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So this goes back to what I was
talking about in the last

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episode.
Kids are scary, kids are freaky,

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children are just creepy.
So that must be why it's in

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everybody's subconscious that
this is what comes out during

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sleep paralysis.
Or since your mom saw this

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little girl with her little
pigtails, I think there are

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pigtails.
I'm picturing pigtails.

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It might have been a ponytail.
I'm going to go with pigtails as

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it sounds cuter and more
innocent, which is scarier.

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So this little girl, her little
pigtails, her little white

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dress, she's just coming and
hanging out while you're

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paralyzed and telling you little
secrets.

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Scary.
So your mom also saw her while

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she was not sleeping, while she
was awake.

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Wow.
That's and as always with these

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stories, I love it when someone
that has experienced something

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doesn't come out and give all of
the details like, oh, I had a

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dream and there was this girl
and she had, she was white

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dressed and she no, no, you just
mentioned a little girl and then

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your mom provided those extra
details that you already were

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very familiar with because of
all of the scary paralysis

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visits.
So rather than you saying, I see

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this little girl, she has a
white dress, she has blonde

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hair.
Your mom provided those details,

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which I always love when that's
happens, when that happens in

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these dreams.
So for anybody that experiences

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anything paranormal and they
share a house with someone, I

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really recommend going about it
in that way if you're going to

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discuss it with them, which you
should like, are you

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experiencing this thing too?
But don't give them too many

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details because you don't want
to lead the witness right?

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And you want to make sure y'all
are both seeing the same thing

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because from that point, then
you can start working on

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troubleshooting.
Like what unexplained phenomena

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are we experiencing?
Everyone's favorite game in the

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home in which they live?
I'm, I'm almost a little bit sad

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that she stopped visiting you
when you moved.

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But I'm sure that you were
probably not that sad because

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I'm sure that was exhausting.
And even if she didn't make you

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feel scared, you know, it's
just, it's just inconvenient.

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So we're working with what
sounds like, you know, three

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different ideas, but you don't
know.

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Yeah, I'm going to tell you #1
sleep paralysis.

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Classic.
We know it.

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We love it.
It easily explained.

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Except then how do you explain
that your mom was also seeing

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the same little girl?
And then there's the sounds that

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are coming from the house and
the, the shadow figures that

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y'all are seeing, you know,
peeking around corners.

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So, OK, all right, we're just
going to leave that there.

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Put that, put a pin in that
sleep paralysis question mark

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then #2 You know, the fae like
fairies, but like, you know, not

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Disney fairies like scary,
stealing children and whisking

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you away to the fairy land,
which is also sort of synonymous

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with the death.
But those kinds of fairies, the

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fae apparently communicate with
children more often than adults.

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And then also they prefer to
communicate with humans during

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dreams.
Is the fae lore because we're

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more open to the concept of
talking to fairies.

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So, you know, maybe it was some
sort of fae.

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I, you know, I'm not, I'm not a
fae expert, but I do know that

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the fae folk are mischievous and
cheeky And if any of them are

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listening to me right now,
they're also amazing and I love

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them and they're so cool and
great and I would never ever

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suggest otherwise.
So there's that.

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There's that option.
Is it a fae?

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It's not a brownie, which is a
type of fae, a delicious

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sounding type of fae.
It's not a brownie.

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It's not a brooding dark haired
anti hero main male character in

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a romanticy novel.
We know that.

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We definitely know that.
Otherwise I don't know.

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So #2 possibly Faye #3 the
specter of a child who used to

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live in the home but has been
trapped there in the house and

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now is, is is destined to wander
the halls and have have

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sleepovers with little girls who
live there that have not

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necessarily given their consent
to having sleep paralysis.

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Sleepovers.
Oh, there's something there.

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Sleep paralysis, sleepover,
sleepover paralysis.

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I don't know.
We got a workshop, then we'll

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come back to it.
You know, So maybe she's, maybe

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she used to live in the house.
I know y'all own the land, but

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maybe at one point she did live
in the house and she had some

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sort of tragic death and she's
really just looking for, you

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know, friends.
So of course, a little girl

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that's there.
I mean, she's lonely, you know,

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So she wants to just hang out
and tell you ghostly secrets

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that you don't remember in the
morning because they're they're

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ghost secrets and you're not
supposed to have them.

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And she used the last of her
ghostly battery energy reserves

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to go visit you one last time in
your new house as a sort of

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farewell.
And that's why you haven't seen

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her since.
It takes too much ghost juice.

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But as always, I really hope
that it was just sleep paralysis

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and it never happens again.
Vacation to Chicago by Ted I

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visited Chicago recently in 2022
to attend graduation for my

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master's degree that I completed
remotely.

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I stayed at a hotel near the
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When I pulled up in the Uber,
the hotel did not look like what

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I expected.
It was a thin and long building

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with a historical looking outer
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I figured it's in historic
Chicago and probably an older

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hotel.
I was pretty tired from the

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flight so I was eager to just go
up to my room and crash.

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My wife came along with me for a
mini vacation as well, so she

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could attest to it.
Although it looked narrow from

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the outside, the lobby was
surprisingly wide and spacious.

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I took the elevator to my floor
and I was talking to my wife

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about the plan for tomorrow's
activities.

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I didn't really pay attention to
the interiors of the elevator.

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We'll revisit this detail later
in the story.

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I got off the elevator and
looked for the signage to our

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room.
The first thing I noticed was

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how wide the hallway was.
Usually the hotel hallway is

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barely wide enough to fit two
people walking side by side.

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This hallway was a good 8 foot
in distance and it reminded me

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of one location I encountered
daily.

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My job I'm a laboratory
scientist working in a hospital

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and the hallway with was about
the same as that of a

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hospital's.
I remarked this to my wife who

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was in the same profession and
she concurred.

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We passed the door frame on the
way to our room and it also

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reminded me of the large safety
double doors that the hospitals

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would have.
We finally made it to our room

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and went to sleep soon because
it was a late night.

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I was fast asleep and heard the
Bah Bah beep alarms and I

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recognized the heart monitor and
EKG alarms that I would hear

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from medical dramas and in
patients rooms when I would pass

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by at work.
In the background I heard people

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talking and yelling.
I woke up to this noise, opened

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my eyes and the monitor alarms
were gone, but the background

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talking noise echoed for a
second before it too

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disappeared.
I went back to sleep because the

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room was still dark and quiet.
In the morning I told my wife

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the air vent must have carried
the voices of people in other

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adjoining rooms and I got woken
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We got ready to go to breakfast
and went down to the lobby.

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I once again remarked how wide
the hallway was and joked that

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they should make this the
standard width so people

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wouldn't feel so claustrophobic
in hotels.

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We got in the elevator and went
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This time I felt fresh and awake
so I was able to read the poster

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on the elevator.
My jaw dropped to the floor.

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This hotel used to be the
infamous Cook County Hospital,

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one of the first hospitals
established in Chicago with

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claims to fame such as being
opened early in 1832, serving as

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an Army hospital in the Civil
War, and establishing the first

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medical internship in 1866.
I'm a blood bank and transfusion

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specialist and new Cook County's
reputation as the first

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institutional blood bank in the
world.

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The wide hallway, phantom
monitor alarms, the speaking

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voices, they all made sense now.
I felt moved and emotional to be

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staying at such a historic
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No other paranormal events
happened for the rest of our

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stay and we thoroughly enjoyed
historic Chicago.

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One last thing is that we
mentioned the experience to one

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of our Uber drivers and she
confirmed that her other guests

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have told her they encountered
similarly creepy stories at this

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hotel.
Ted, thank you so much for

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another one of your stories.
This one is travelling the

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United States.
Edition jazz hands.

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Chicago.
It's a Cook County hospital that

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then became your hotel.
I just learned apparently has

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two hotels.
The whole hospital got turned

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into two hotels, a museum and A
food hall, which is crazy.

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I mean, I guess that's how big
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But wow, 2 hotels.
So you stayed in one of the two

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hotels, and I found several
stories from people saying that

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they had stayed there and they
had scary stories to share.

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One of them kind of reminded me
of what you were talking about,

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where you were hearing voices
and you thought, oh, it just

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must be the neighbors, like,
adjoining rooms coming through

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the vent or somehow moving
through the vent sort of like

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that, where they were hearing
voices, like disembodied voices

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that did not seem befitting of a
hotel.

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What's absolutely wild, you
know, is that you were saying

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you weren't even paying
attention, like you're tired,

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you weren't really looking
around.

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You were just like, wow, these
are really wide halls.

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And OK, so that's weird.
And then only the next day after

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hearing the beeping, like from,
I was going to say like ER, but

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that's from the 90s, so probably
Grey's Anatomy.

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Like you're, you're hearing
Grey's Anatomy sound effects as

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you're sleeping.
And then you wake up the next

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morning and you go in the in the
elevator and oh, hey, used to be

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a hospital.
Now you you could say, one could

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say, one could argue that even
though you were tired and you

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weren't paying attention, that
maybe you did see the poster and

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you just didn't, you know, put
two and two together.

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Also, just the fact that, yeah,
you're so familiar with

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hospitals that that width and
and seeing the doorways, like,

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you know, your brain just kind
of put two and two together.

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Like, was this that this used to
be a hospital, but you just

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hadn't really consciously
thought about it?

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But in the back of your mind,
your subconscious, your

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unconscious brain, however you
want to look at it, maybe it put

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2, two and two together and it
said 2 and 2 + 2 in this

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instance means hospital.
Maybe we're working under that

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assumption.
When you went to sleep and then

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you did have hospital dreams,
You know, that's one.

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That's one explanation.
Another explanation is that

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hospitals are hot beds of
paranormal activity because of

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all of the suffering, all of the
intense emotions, the pain, the

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of course, the dying, sure.
But you know, to me, the the

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thing about the energy that you
the thing about energy that you

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feel at hospitals.
And if you've ever read stories

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of nurses or doctors or anybody
that spends a lot of time at a

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hospital, if you have ever read
any of their ghost stories and

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encounters, they are, are
horrifying.

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And there's so many of them.
There are so many stories and

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you just don't hear the same
amount of stories from people

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that work in retail.
Well, in retail you're getting

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different kind of nightmare
stories.

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Whereas in a hotel.
Nope.

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In a hospital.
Hmm.

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In a hotel turned hospital
turned hotel.

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I'm I got there in a hospital
turned hotel.

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You do have ghost stories.
You have a lot of ghost stories

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in hospitals, so I think that it
stands for reason that in these

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hospitals turned hotels that,
yeah, you're going to be seeing

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some of that activity that
people that work in hospitals

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also experience.
I mean, that just makes sense

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just because you break it up
into a bunch of little rooms.

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I guess the hospital already has
rooms, all right?

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Just because you Reno the place
and you slap a nice carpet on

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the floor and you put some
cookie cutter drapes that don't

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fully close on the windows.
And like you have to go and hope

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that the hangers in the closet
can be removed from the rod so

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that you can take one of them
off and hope that it's a pants

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hanger, right with the clips.
Then you have to go take that

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hanger with the clips.
If you can get it off the rod,

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you have to take that over to
the curtains and then you have

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to clamp the curtains shut,
which is insane.

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You are paying to sleep.
You're paying to sleep there and

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you are having to MacGyver the
curtains closed.

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It's absolutely is bonkers.
Anyway, the point is they put

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those awful curtains up.
They give you a little, a little

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work desk with a little lamp
that has a little USB charger

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plug on there.
You know, they do all that.

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It doesn't get rid of the goats.
Unfortunately, none of that gets

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rid of ghosts.
I mean, maybe, I guess it's

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possible that there is a
construction company that does

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specialize in ghost removal and
construction renovation.

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That's if that's not a thing,
First of all, I call dibs.

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Second of all, if it is a thing,
I want to hear about it.

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Somebody tell me.
So hopefully one of the ghosts

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at this hospital turned hotel,
Cook County Hospital.

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Hopefully one of the ghosts that
was there is not the ghost of

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serial killer, well, mass
murderer Richard Speck.

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So if you haven't heard of
Richard Speck, he was active in

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the mid 60s.
He murdered 8 nurses who were

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all living in a a shared home.
So there's this big manhunt for

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him.
Obviously someone that was

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staying at the same hotel as
him, different hotel.

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Remember this was a hospital
back then.

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Someone who was staying at the
same place as him recognized him

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and Richard Speck thinking, oh,
the jig is up.

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He's going to tell the police
and the police are going to

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catch me.
He attempts suicide, then the

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cops actually don't do anything.
Why is that so common in these

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in these older true crime
stories?

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Why is that so common?
The police do nothing.

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But because of his attempted
suicide, he's taken to the Cook

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County Hospital on July 17th,
1966.

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Then one of the doctors, I think
he was actually a surgical

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resident physician, specifically
Doctor Leroy Smith, 25 years old

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hero.
He noticed that he had this,

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that Richard who was brought in
Richard Speck.

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Let's not call him Richard Dick.
Dick has a has a born to raise

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hell tattoo, which was all over
the newspaper stories during the

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manhunt.
So this doctor, Doctor Smith,

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recognizes it.
The police are finally called

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and they actually respond.
And then Richard Speck, the mass

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murderer, Chicago's first mass
murderer, I think is what he's

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touted as.
I was finally arrested because

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he was taken to the Cook County
Hospital. 1 can assume that his

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ghost is probably not there
because that's not where he

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died.
He died later in prison,

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although his sentence, his
sentence rightfully so, he was

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convicted of all 8 murders and
his sentence was 400 to 1200

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years.
You know, not long enough,

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probably not long enough.
So for anyone listening, if you

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take a trip to Chicago, you know
where you need to stay.

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And if anything happens to you,
if you stay in either of the two

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hotels that are now in Cook
County Hospital, you know, I

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want to hear about it.
Thank you so much for joining me

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