Oct. 1, 2025
Strangetober Macabre Minisode #1 | True Spooky Stories for Halloween
All October long, Madame Strangeways celebrates Strangetober and Strangeoween with bonus mini episodes! These macabre minisodes are narrations only, no commentary, but full episodes will still be released every other Wednesday as usual.
Thank you to Burtthebaker, Anonymous and Ryan for granting permission to read their story from Reddit. Remember, Strangers & Strangelings & Strangecetera: you can feel afraid and not be in danger.
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Produced by: Madame Strangeways
♫ Theme Music by: Marina Ryan at marinamakes.co
Cover artwork by: Andrea Giselle Roldán at @cultofteddy
Every true strange story narrated in this podcast was read with permission from the original author.
Follow the podcast and explore strange, spooky and true paranormal stories as narrated by Madame Strangeways.
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Welcome stranger to a mini
Strange O ween episode with
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Madam Strangeways.
That's me.
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It's officially Strange Tober,
which means it's also officially
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spooky season, even if spooky
season is a 24/7 365 thing.
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Here in the Strangeways
household, I'm celebrating all
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month long with bonus mini
episodes every Monday and every
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other Wednesday.
So you get 350% more strange
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stories than usual. 350% That's
math.
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These many episodes will just be
story narrations, but every
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00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,120
other Wednesday I'll still
release a main episode with my
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usual commentary after the
story.
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And of course, I will get back
to dragging you kicking and
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screaming down endless rabbit
holes before we get to our true
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strange stories.
Just a quick reminder, if you're
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ingesting a lot more scary
content lately and you find
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yourself getting spooked easily,
remember that you can feel
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afraid and not be in danger.
And a quick shout out to my
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Patreon patrons who helped make
the podcast possible.
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TJ Hotter of tapes of
trepidation, G Man Music.
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Ted, Keith and Tori, Thank you
to My Fiendish 5 for supporting
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the show.
Now it sounds like it's about to
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rain Hellcats and Hell Hounds
outside, so you know what that
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means.
On to our true Strangeoween
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stories here with Madam
Strangeways.
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Strangeoween is good, right?
Like Strange Topper, fine.
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But like, come on, Strangeoween,
I don't know.
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Let me know.
UK chef who's a huge skeptic but
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can't explain what happened this
morning by Bert the Baker.
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I work as a chef in the UK so
have worked in a lot of old
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English pubs that are supposedly
haunted throughout my years in
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the trade.
Various colleagues have even put
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the most silliest things down to
paranormal activity, but I've
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always been able to debunk or
come up with rational
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explanations for them.
Fast forward to this morning,
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6:00 AM, cold and rainy as it
always is over here, and I'm
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putting away my delivery in the
walk in freezer.
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Now for context, our walk in
freezer where we store all our
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bulk stuff is not directly
connected to the kitchen and is
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instead around the back of the
building that requires an
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additional key to get through to
the security gate.
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I'm just mentioning this so that
we can rule out any members of
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the public or other staff as a
reason as it's only me that
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would have access at that time
anyways for convenience.
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When putting away my delivery I
always propped the door up with
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a large slab as the doors on a
lot of the older walk in
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freezers are very heavy and are
designed so that if you don't
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fully shut them they will
naturally lock into place from
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the weight.
So I'd just finished putting my
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last box away, knocked the light
off and had just removed the
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slab as the door slowly started
to shut when I could hear
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footsteps clear as day coming
from inside the walk in freezer.
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I turned around and I could see
a figure moving in the back.
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I instantly put my hand out to
catch the door to stop it from
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fully shutting in that moment
assuming that one of my
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colleagues or the owner had gone
in whilst I was getting my next
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box and I shouted out I'm so
sorry I didn't see you go in
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there.
But as I knocked the light back
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on and walked in, there was
nothing, nobody there, no sign
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of anything.
And it just baffled me.
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At the time I kind of just tried
to put it in the back of my mind
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and get on with my work.
But sitting here now on my
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break, I just can't explain it
and I can't think of any
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rational way of debunking that.
It's just the fact I heard
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footsteps as well as seeing
something that's making it
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really hard to interpret.
Wow, sorry for such a long post,
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I just wanted to get as much
info down as I could.
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I guess the question I want to
know is if it's paranormal, what
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exactly was it?
I never felt threatened during
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the moment, just confused.
Thanks all, have a good day.
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There's a woman in my car, I-24
female pass by the same stretch
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of Rd. almost every night for
about 5 years off and on.
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I kept feeling like someone was
in the back seat of my car as I
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drove at night, always between
9:00 PM and 12:00 AM without me
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knowing.
My mother was also experiencing
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this as well as my best friend.
Only recently did we figure this
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out and my mother and I started
talking about this only to find
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out that we often have the same
image in our mind of what this
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woman looks like late 1800s to
early 1900s clothing.
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She's got a high collar, button
up shirt, a long Plaid skirt.
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Her face is pointy, sunken eyes,
aged features but not older than
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70.
A few months ago I was driving
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home from my friend's house and
got the feeling that she was in
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my car.
It was extra heavy, like she was
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inches from my face, and when I
passed by a house that had an
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outside light on, I could see
the outline of someone sitting
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in my passenger seat.
It was like a grey fog or mist
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and then an almost clear face
and she looked exactly like how
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my mother and I described her
now, because I do believe in
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ghosts, but I also believe in
seeing faces and things that
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might not be faces.
I made sure every night that I
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felt her I'd look and see if it
had just been the light from the
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house but there was nothing ever
there.
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I haven't felt her in a while
and I can't find anything about
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a death or records that are
available from that time period
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to see if I'm actually seeing
someone that once lived in the
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area.
So right now it's just me
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driving by and hoping she
doesn't jump scare me again.
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Full body apparition by Ryan
When I was 8 I saw a full body
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apparition.
I was sleeping at my
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grandmother's house on a pull
out sofa next to my father.
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I woke up at one point and
noticed my grandmother standing
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in the corner of the room.
It was weird on many levels.
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It was very late at night.
That was a random place to
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stand, and why would she just be
standing in the corner instead
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of trying to talk to us?
Well, as I rubbed the sleep from
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my eyes and looked closer at
her, I had the horrible
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realization that this old woman
in the long nightgown was in
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fact not my grandmother at all.
I didn't recognize her at the
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moment I realized that it wasn't
her.
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She started to move towards the
bed.
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I started elbowing my father and
trying to get him to wake.
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I was absolutely terrified to
the core of my being.
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He was slow in waking as this
thing approached the bed.
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She turned and walked around the
foot of the bed, through the
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adjacent sunroom and out into
the hallway of the house.
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My father finally awoke and I
frantically told him what I saw,
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but he dismissed it.
Oh, it was probably just Missus
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Pearl.
She doesn't mean any harm.
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And he went back to sleep.
I couldn't believe it.
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So many things happened in that
house.
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I saw ghosts at other times,
including one case when I was
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too young to remember it.
Most people who spent time there
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had some paranormal experience,
and others reported seeing
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ghosts too.
I was never comfortable being
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alone in that house even as I
got older, and even telling the
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story still gives me chills.
Thank you for joining me for
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more true strange stories of the
unexplained.
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Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.
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You're safe here with me,
probably.
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a rating on Spotify or Apple, or
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tell your friends and foes about
the show.
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It would mean the world to me.
The underworld, obviously.
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I mean, come on.
Was that not?
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Was that not clear?
Madam Strangeways is produced
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and narrated by me.
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thememusicisbymarina.ryan@marinamakes.co
Cover art is by Andrea Chisel
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Roldan at Cult of Teddy on
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You can submit your own true
strange story at
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madamstrangeways.com or e-mail
it to
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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
See you soon, she said
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ominously.
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Welcome stranger to a mini
Strange O ween episode with
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Madam Strangeways.
That's me.
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It's officially Strange Tober,
which means it's also officially
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spooky season, even if spooky
season is a 24/7 365 thing.
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Here in the Strangeways
household, I'm celebrating all
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00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,560
month long with bonus mini
episodes every Monday and every
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other Wednesday.
So you get 350% more strange
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00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,800
stories than usual. 350% That's
math.
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00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,160
These many episodes will just be
story narrations, but every
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00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,120
other Wednesday I'll still
release a main episode with my
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00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,360
usual commentary after the
story.
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00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,320
And of course, I will get back
to dragging you kicking and
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00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,400
screaming down endless rabbit
holes before we get to our true
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00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,680
strange stories.
Just a quick reminder, if you're
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00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,640
ingesting a lot more scary
content lately and you find
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00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,000
yourself getting spooked easily,
remember that you can feel
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00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,960
afraid and not be in danger.
And a quick shout out to my
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00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:20,040
Patreon patrons who helped make
the podcast possible.
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00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,880
TJ Hotter of tapes of
trepidation, G Man Music.
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00:01:23,960 --> 00:01:28,440
Ted, Keith and Tori, Thank you
to My Fiendish 5 for supporting
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the show.
Now it sounds like it's about to
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rain Hellcats and Hell Hounds
outside, so you know what that
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means.
On to our true Strangeoween
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stories here with Madam
Strangeways.
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Strangeoween is good, right?
Like Strange Topper, fine.
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But like, come on, Strangeoween,
I don't know.
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Let me know.
UK chef who's a huge skeptic but
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can't explain what happened this
morning by Bert the Baker.
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I work as a chef in the UK so
have worked in a lot of old
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English pubs that are supposedly
haunted throughout my years in
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the trade.
Various colleagues have even put
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the most silliest things down to
paranormal activity, but I've
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00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,920
always been able to debunk or
come up with rational
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explanations for them.
Fast forward to this morning,
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6:00 AM, cold and rainy as it
always is over here, and I'm
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putting away my delivery in the
walk in freezer.
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Now for context, our walk in
freezer where we store all our
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00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,800
bulk stuff is not directly
connected to the kitchen and is
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00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,600
instead around the back of the
building that requires an
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00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,800
additional key to get through to
the security gate.
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I'm just mentioning this so that
we can rule out any members of
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00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,080
the public or other staff as a
reason as it's only me that
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00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,920
would have access at that time
anyways for convenience.
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When putting away my delivery I
always propped the door up with
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00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,960
a large slab as the doors on a
lot of the older walk in
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00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,880
freezers are very heavy and are
designed so that if you don't
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00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,480
fully shut them they will
naturally lock into place from
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00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,000
the weight.
So I'd just finished putting my
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00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,840
last box away, knocked the light
off and had just removed the
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slab as the door slowly started
to shut when I could hear
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00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,720
footsteps clear as day coming
from inside the walk in freezer.
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I turned around and I could see
a figure moving in the back.
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I instantly put my hand out to
catch the door to stop it from
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fully shutting in that moment
assuming that one of my
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colleagues or the owner had gone
in whilst I was getting my next
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box and I shouted out I'm so
sorry I didn't see you go in
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there.
But as I knocked the light back
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on and walked in, there was
nothing, nobody there, no sign
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of anything.
And it just baffled me.
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At the time I kind of just tried
to put it in the back of my mind
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and get on with my work.
But sitting here now on my
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break, I just can't explain it
and I can't think of any
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rational way of debunking that.
It's just the fact I heard
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footsteps as well as seeing
something that's making it
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really hard to interpret.
Wow, sorry for such a long post,
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I just wanted to get as much
info down as I could.
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I guess the question I want to
know is if it's paranormal, what
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exactly was it?
I never felt threatened during
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the moment, just confused.
Thanks all, have a good day.
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There's a woman in my car, I-24
female pass by the same stretch
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of Rd. almost every night for
about 5 years off and on.
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I kept feeling like someone was
in the back seat of my car as I
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drove at night, always between
9:00 PM and 12:00 AM without me
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knowing.
My mother was also experiencing
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this as well as my best friend.
Only recently did we figure this
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out and my mother and I started
talking about this only to find
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out that we often have the same
image in our mind of what this
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woman looks like late 1800s to
early 1900s clothing.
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She's got a high collar, button
up shirt, a long Plaid skirt.
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Her face is pointy, sunken eyes,
aged features but not older than
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70.
A few months ago I was driving
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home from my friend's house and
got the feeling that she was in
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my car.
It was extra heavy, like she was
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inches from my face, and when I
passed by a house that had an
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outside light on, I could see
the outline of someone sitting
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in my passenger seat.
It was like a grey fog or mist
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and then an almost clear face
and she looked exactly like how
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my mother and I described her
now, because I do believe in
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ghosts, but I also believe in
seeing faces and things that
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might not be faces.
I made sure every night that I
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felt her I'd look and see if it
had just been the light from the
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house but there was nothing ever
there.
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I haven't felt her in a while
and I can't find anything about
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a death or records that are
available from that time period
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to see if I'm actually seeing
someone that once lived in the
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area.
So right now it's just me
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driving by and hoping she
doesn't jump scare me again.
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Full body apparition by Ryan
When I was 8 I saw a full body
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apparition.
I was sleeping at my
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grandmother's house on a pull
out sofa next to my father.
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I woke up at one point and
noticed my grandmother standing
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in the corner of the room.
It was weird on many levels.
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It was very late at night.
That was a random place to
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stand, and why would she just be
standing in the corner instead
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of trying to talk to us?
Well, as I rubbed the sleep from
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my eyes and looked closer at
her, I had the horrible
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realization that this old woman
in the long nightgown was in
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fact not my grandmother at all.
I didn't recognize her at the
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moment I realized that it wasn't
her.
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She started to move towards the
bed.
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I started elbowing my father and
trying to get him to wake.
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I was absolutely terrified to
the core of my being.
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He was slow in waking as this
thing approached the bed.
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She turned and walked around the
foot of the bed, through the
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adjacent sunroom and out into
the hallway of the house.
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My father finally awoke and I
frantically told him what I saw,
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but he dismissed it.
Oh, it was probably just Missus
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Pearl.
She doesn't mean any harm.
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And he went back to sleep.
I couldn't believe it.
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So many things happened in that
house.
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I saw ghosts at other times,
including one case when I was
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too young to remember it.
Most people who spent time there
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had some paranormal experience,
and others reported seeing
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ghosts too.
I was never comfortable being
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alone in that house even as I
got older, and even telling the
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story still gives me chills.
Thank you for joining me for
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more true strange stories of the
unexplained.
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Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.
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You're safe here with me,
probably.
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The underworld, obviously.
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I mean, come on.
Was that not?
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Was that not clear?
Madam Strangeways is produced
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and narrated by me.
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See you soon, she said
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ominously.