Strangetober Macabre Minisode #4 | 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

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Strangeways.
Working at an old Blockbuster by

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Megan.
I worked at a Blockbuster.

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I'm old I know back in 2008 or
2009 and when I got started they

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talked about how it was haunted.
I thought they were just giving

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me a hard time being the New
Girl.

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They said in the right back
corner of the store once in a

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while you'd hear someone who
would sound like your Co worker

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say your name but it wouldn't be
them who did it.

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And that once in a while a
customer would come in at night,

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go to that part of the store and
disappear.

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Then one slow night as my
manager is training me, a man

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walks in.
We greeted him and then my

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manager went back to discussing
the pop machine with me.

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He was the only customer in the
store at that time.

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My manager was going to take me
to the back room to grab more

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soda and refill the cooler.
We were standing right by the

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soda machine in front of the
checkout this entire time, so

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between both entrance and exit
doors no one could get in or out

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without us seeing.
He said let's make sure he

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doesn't need anything before we
go to the back.

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So we walked over to the corner
where he went and he wasn't

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there.
We did a loop around the whole

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store and he wasn't there, he
was just gone.

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Mind you no matter where in the
store you are you can still see

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the doors so he didn't
circumvent us and exit without

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us seeing.
My manager looked perplexed for

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a second then said huh usually
it's a woman and just headed for

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the back room.
Another night we had a staff

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meeting and we were sitting on
the floor in that back corner

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and I very clearly heard and
felt someone behind me whisper

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my name right in my ear.
I whipped my head around because

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I thought my Co worker who was
sitting behind me was the one

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who had whispered but they were
sitting reclined back on their

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hands.
No way they could have moved

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fast enough into that position
after whispering in my ear

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without me seeing.
My manager stopped what he was

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saying and asked if I needed
something.

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I just looked at him and said
no, and his mouth kind of

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quirked up in an educated guess
sort of smile.

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And he continued on.
It's a Jimmy John's now and I

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always wonder if they have any
weird happenings there at night.

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Remembering the Ouija Board 35
Years later by Chris Way back in

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1990, my wife and I were renting
a small house way back in the

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woods of rural Maine.
We got one station, PBS, and we

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could only watch so much red
green.

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We went to a yard sale and my
wife bought a Ouija board.

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I didn't have any problems with
it because my mother frequently

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used one as a form of
entertainment while growing up.

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Well, we eventually got around
to using it and I do remember

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that we treated it as a game.
And at first, that's exactly

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what happened.
It was entertaining enough each

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time we used it.
We had some laughs and left it

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at that.
But one night that changed.

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My wife asked the board if it
could tell us if something

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important was going to happen.
The board for the first time

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seemed to work and spelled out
you're pregnant.

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Come to find out she was a month
pregnant at that time.

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This was a long time ago and I'm
trying to remember as best as I

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can, but I also remember that
she engaged in a conversation

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and was told that we were
talking to the spirit of a child

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who had passed away many years
before and that we would

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eventually understand why all
this was happening.

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Unfortunately, the next few
times we used the board, there

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seemed to be an aggressive tone,
as if we were no longer engaged

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with the same spirit.
My wife actually got so

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frightened that she put the
board in the wood stove and

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burned it.
Anyways, we no longer live near

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there, but we were passing
through a few weeks ago and

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decided to drive by where we
once lived.

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The house is no longer there,
replaced with a new home.

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Right before the house there's a
small graveyard and for some

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reason she got out and walked
over to it.

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After I had pulled over.
She walked up to a small marker

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on a child's grave and the name
was Miles Myles, the same name

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we gave our son.
I don't know, maybe it's just a

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coincidence.
She turned around immediately

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getting very emotional, grabbed
my arm and said we have to leave

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now.
She started crying on the way

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home and she still won't tell me
what happened to her there.

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Am I reading too much into this?
I honestly have no idea what to

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make of it all.
11 years ago I lived in a

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haunted house by Kawaii demon
Bunny.

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I've never posted this anywhere
before but I still think about

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this regularly when I was 14.
I'm 25 now.

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The house my dad lived in, well
it was more of a shed converted

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into a tiny home.
I'm convinced it was haunted.

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A few different things happened.
Each one solidified my belief

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that something was really
happening there.

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It started with what I first
passed off as sleep paralysis.

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I would not be able to move
anything other than my head.

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One night I couldn't even open
my eyes and it felt like

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something the size of a fully
grown man sat with his full

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weight on my chest.
Another time I saw something

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dark and shadowed crouched in
the corner of the room and after

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about 15 or 20 minutes I was
finally able to move just enough

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to turn on my lamp and there was
nothing there and nothing that

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could have cast a shadow or be
mistaken for what I saw.

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Another time I heard what
sounded like a bird or a bat

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flying around my room.
The flapping noise was very loud

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and definitely was not coming
from outside.

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I also want to mention that my
room locked from the inside and

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the window was closed.
The reason I know that this

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wasn't just a case of sleep
paralysis was that it only ever

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happened in this house.
Not at my mom's or grandparents

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or friends.
Only ever at my dad's.

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And honestly, at first I thought
I was losing my mind.

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But then something happened that
made me realize that whatever

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was happening was real.
My dad and I were sitting in the

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kitchen with the door to the
outside open.

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It was night so you could only
see as far as the kitchen light

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went when all of a sudden I saw
something or someone walk past

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the door.
It looked like a young teen girl

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in a white dress and semi long
black or dark brown hair.

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At first I thought I'd imagined
it but then my dad said did you

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see that?
Chills.

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I asked what he saw and he
described exactly what I saw.

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I still get chills thinking
about it even now while writing

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this.
I never saw her again but I will

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never forget it.
She didn't look fully there, not

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completely see through, but like
she was only 95% there.

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I felt wrong.
I kept seeing, hearing and

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feeling things when I was in bed
until he moved.

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Thank you for joining me for
more true strange stories of the

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unexplained.
Remember that you can feel

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

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probably.
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It would mean the world to me.

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The underworld, obviously.
I mean, come on.

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Was that not?
Was that not clear?

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Madam Strangeways is produced
and narrated by me.

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Madam Strangeways
thememusicisbymarina.ryan@marinamakes.co

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it to
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See you soon, she said
ominously.