Strangetober Macabre Minisode #3 | True Paranormal Stories for Halloween

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Welcome stranger, it's strange
tober.

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So it's time for another
Strangeoween mini sewed with me

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Madam Strangeways.
Before we get to our true

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strange stories, just a quick
reminder.

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If you're watching or reading a
whole lot more spooky stuff

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lately and you're feeling kind
of anxious, remember that you

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can feel afraid and not be in
danger.

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Nothing in these stories can
hurt you.

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Probably, almost definitely,
probably not.

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And a very special thank you to
my Patreon patrons who helped

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make the podcast possible.
TJ Hotter of tapes of

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trepidation, G Man music, Ted,
Keith and Tori.

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Now it sounds like it's about to
rain Hellcats and hell hounds

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outside, so you know what that
means.

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On to the true Strange Tober
stories here on Madam Strange

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Ways.
I work in a haunted prison by

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Rumble Skunk.
I'm a corrections officer in a

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really old prison.
The instructional grounds were

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built in the 1850s and we're a
boys industrial school for about

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100 years before being converted
into a state prison.

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I work a one man post on 3rd
shift in an old dorm built in

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the 1880s so it's already a
creepy place.

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There's two or three ghosts
running around the place.

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The first one is the key man.
I hear him a lot, just the sound

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of jangling keys.
Some old time CEO still making

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his rounds I suppose.
Second one is the shadow man.

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I've seen him a few times.
It flows when it moves like

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coffee spilled on a table.
I don't know if the shadow man

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and the key man are the same
entity or not.

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The third one is the boy, a
little boy, maybe 10 years old,

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with dark hair and a white
T-shirt.

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He's always on or near the
stairs and moves real quick,

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like seeing a mouse scurry away
out of the corner of your eye.

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I've never felt threatened by
any of them.

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I just felt like sharing my
nightly experiences with you all

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and see if any of you have had
similar experiences.

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My grandparents house by Leah.
So I'm back at my grandparents

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house, this really peaceful
place I grew up in, tucked in a

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quiet area in town.
It's always been filled with

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people, always felt like home.
But honestly it's always had

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this weird energy too I think.
Like it's comfortable but never

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completely settled, if that
makes any sense.

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This was built in the 80s but
barely used for the first decade

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or so, only a few months a year
until my grandparents and the

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rest of the family moved back in
around 98 or 99.

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Since then it's never really
been empty.

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It's a big house and someone's
always been here.

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Cousins, uncles, someone living
upstairs.

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But even with all the life and
noise, weird stuff just happens

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and it never makes any sense.
Like one time I brought this

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huge glass jar of honey, put it
in the cabinet and a few days

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later it was just gone, nowhere
to be found.

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Another time I woke up to three
slow and precise knocks on my

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door.
Then the heavy wooden door

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creaked open by itself and you
guessed it, no one there.

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Same thing happened again.
Same pattern on the door leading

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upstairs to my uncle's
apartment, which literally never

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gets used at all as there's
another door that my uncles and

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their kids use to get to the
upper floors.

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And there's this one apartment
upstairs that really has a vibe,

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if that's a correct word to use
in this case.

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We used to live in it for a bit
only during summers before my

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uncle took it over.
It's small, just a hallway with

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rooms branching off.
But I used to have the strangest

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dreams there and it is actually
a horrible place in my opinion.

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I always saw this young teenage
girl in my dreams sitting on the

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kitchen table in the rooms or
just standing in the hallway.

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It was never comfortable unlike
the rest of the house and

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floors.
I used to dread sleeping there.

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Then there was a summer of 2022.
Only a few of us were staying in

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the house, and we'd hear what
sounded like footsteps around

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the yard.
Not animals, actual human

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footsteps crunching through soil
and leaves.

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The house is surrounded by trees
and open space, so sound

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travels.
But this was different.

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It was like something was moving
around us at night.

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We never saw anything, but we
all heard it and there's no

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hesitation that it ever tried to
harm us.

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But you know what?
It's just weird.

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Another time, just last year, I
went up to the third floor.

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It's an apartment where one of
my uncle's lives, a huge one,

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like a whole floor, unlike the
smaller ones below.

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He and his family were
travelling, so my brother and I

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went up to turn off the
electricity.

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The moment I stepped back in,
the air just stilled.

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It felt wrong.
I shut off the power as fast as

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I could and went back
downstairs.

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Later that night, while folding
laundry in a bedroom that

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overlooks the huge front yard, I
heard hissing.

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At first it was faint, like it
came from far off, and well, I

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ignored it.
But it got closer, even louder,

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as if someone was right outside
the window trying to get my

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attention.
It went on for a few minutes

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when I finally turned around and
checked nothing.

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Thing is, my family is
religious, the area is safe, the

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neighbors are kind.
It's not the kind of place you'd

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expect anything strange, but
there's just something about

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this house.
It doesn't feel evil or

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threatening.
I don't know how to explain

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this, but it's as if something
is present.

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I've had really weird stuff
follow me elsewhere too, but

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this house I have no explanation
at all.

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I'm staying over for a month and
well, I don't like the fact that

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I don't understand what's
happening at all.

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CD track 2 by Anonymous.
My ex was a practical joker.

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About a year after they died, I
came home from work and turned

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on the vanity light in the
bathroom to get ready for bed.

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Midway through brushing my
teeth, the light multiple bulbs

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shut off.
Flipped the switch several

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times, Nothing turned on the
overhead.

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It worked fine.
I thought I had nicked a wire

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drilling holes for a shelf the
day before, so I went to the

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basement to turn off the breaker
so I could deal with it after I

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got some sleep.
When I opened the panel it was

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already off.
Flipped the breaker a couple

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times, went back up and tried
the light again.

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Nothing.
Went back to the basement,

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turned off the breaker, go back
upstairs, made sure the lights

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in the bathroom were dead,
walked into the bedroom and

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realized that breaker killed all
the lights and outlets in my

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bedroom as well.
Muttering a string of

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obscenities, I went back to the
basement.

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The breaker was already on when
I opened the panel again.

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By this point I was so exhausted
and pissed off I just said screw

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it, the house can catch fire, I
need sleep.

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I flipped the breaker off and
on, then went back up.

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I reset my alarm clock, crawled
into bed.

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Literally the moment I pulled
the duvet up over me, I see a

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light come on in the hallway.
I get back out of bed and that

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damn vanity light was lit up and
working fine.

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Later that afternoon, as I drove
to work, I heard a song start

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playing.
I thought it was odd because I

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had never heard that song on the
radio ever.

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The first time I heard it was
when I was somewhere with the

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XI, bought the CD, and it had
gotten stuck in my car stereo

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months before they died.
It wouldn't play or eject and I

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didn't care enough to spend the
money to get the stereo fixed.

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After they died, I either
listened to the radio or drove

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in silence.
I looked over and instead of the

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radio station I always listened
to, I saw CD track 2 on the

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screen.
I let the song play through and

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it just stopped.
After that song I tried to eject

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the CD.
It wouldn't eject or play again.

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I eventually sold the car with
that CD still stuck in it.

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And if you're curious what song
it was on that CD, the CD was

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Robin Trower, Bridge of Size.
Thank you for joining me.

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For more true strange stories of
the unexplained, remember that

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you can feel afraid and not be
in danger.

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You're safe here with me,
probably.

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tell your friends and foes about
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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.
Madam Strangeways

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thememusicisbymarina.ryan@marinamakes.co
Cover art is by Andrea Chisel

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Roldan at Cult of Teddy on
Instagram.

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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.