Strangetober Macabre Minisode #4 | True Paranormal Stories for Halloween

0:05 Welcome stranger, it's strange tober. So it's time for another Strangeoween mini sewed with me Madam Strangeways. Before we get to our true strange stories, just a quick reminder. If you're watching or reading a whole lot more spooky stuff lately and you're feeling kind of anxious, remember that you can feel afraid and not be in danger. Nothing in these stories can hurt you. Probably, almost definitely, probably not. And a very special thank you to my Patreon patrons who helped make the podcast possible. TJ Hotter of tapes of trepidation, G Man music, Ted, Keith and Tori. Now it sounds like it's about to rain Hellcats and hell Hounds outside, so you know what that means.

0:48 On to the true Strange Tober stories here on Madam Strangeways. Working at an old Blockbuster by Megan. I worked at a Blockbuster. I'm old I know back in 2008 or 2009 and when I got started they talked about how it was haunted. I thought they were just giving me a hard time being the New Girl.

1:35 They said in the right back corner of the store once in a while you'd hear someone who would sound like your Co worker say your name but it wouldn't be them who did it. And that once in a while a customer would come in at night, go to that part of the store and disappear. Then one slow night as my manager is training me, a man walks in. We greeted him and then my manager went back to discussing the pop machine with me. He was the only customer in the store at that time. My manager was going to take me to the back room to grab more soda and refill the cooler. We were standing right by the soda machine in front of the checkout this entire time, so between both entrance and exit doors no one could get in or out without us seeing. He said let's make sure he doesn't need anything before we go to the back.

2:30 So we walked over to the corner where he went and he wasn't there. We did a loop around the whole store and he wasn't there, he was just gone. Mind you no matter where in the store you are you can still see the doors so he didn't circumvent us and exit without us seeing. My manager looked perplexed for a second then said huh usually it's a woman and just headed for the back room. Another night we had a staff meeting and we were sitting on the floor in that back corner and I very clearly heard and felt someone behind me whisper my name right in my ear. I whipped my head around because I thought my Co worker who was sitting behind me was the one who had whispered but they were sitting reclined back on their hands. No way they could have moved fast enough into that position after whispering in my ear without me seeing. My manager stopped what he was saying and asked if I needed something.

3:36 I just looked at him and said no, and his mouth kind of quirked up in an educated guess sort of smile. And he continued on. It's a Jimmy John's now and I always wonder if they have any weird happenings there at night. Remembering the Ouija Board 35 Years later by Chris Way back in 1990, my wife and I were renting a small house way back in the woods of rural Maine. We got one station, PBS, and we could only watch so much red green.

4:28 We went to a yard sale and my wife bought a Ouija board. I didn't have any problems with it because my mother frequently used one as a form of entertainment while growing up. Well, we eventually got around to using it and I do remember that we treated it as a game. And at first, that's exactly what happened. It was entertaining enough each time we used it. We had some laughs and left it at that. But one night that changed. My wife asked the board if it could tell us if something important was going to happen. The board for the first time seemed to work and spelled out you're pregnant. Come to find out she was a month pregnant at that time.

5:12 This was a long time ago and I'm trying to remember as best as I can, but I also remember that she engaged in a conversation and was told that we were talking to the spirit of a child who had passed away many years before and that we would eventually understand why all this was happening. Unfortunately, the next few times we used the board, there seemed to be an aggressive tone, as if we were no longer engaged with the same spirit. My wife actually got so frightened that she put the board in the wood stove and burned it. Anyways, we no longer live near there, but we were passing through a few weeks ago and decided to drive by where we once lived.

5:57 The house is no longer there, replaced with a new home. Right before the house there's a small graveyard and for some reason she got out and walked over to it. After I had pulled over. She walked up to a small marker on a child's grave and the name was Miles Myles, the same name we gave our son. I don't know, maybe it's just a coincidence. She turned around immediately getting very emotional, grabbed my arm and said we have to leave now. She started crying on the way home and she still won't tell me what happened to her there.

6:40 Am I reading too much into this? I honestly have no idea what to make of it all. 11 years ago I lived in a haunted house by Kawaii demon Bunny. I've never posted this anywhere before but I still think about this regularly when I was 14. I'm 25 now. The house my dad lived in, well it was more of a shed converted into a tiny home. I'm convinced it was haunted.

7:23 A few different things happened. Each one solidified my belief that something was really happening there. It started with what I first passed off as sleep paralysis. I would not be able to move anything other than my head. One night I couldn't even open my eyes and it felt like something the size of a fully grown man sat with his full weight on my chest. Another time I saw something dark and shadowed crouched in the corner of the room and after about 15 or 20 minutes I was finally able to move just enough to turn on my lamp and there was nothing there and nothing that could have cast a shadow or be mistaken for what I saw.

8:08 Another time I heard what sounded like a bird or a bat flying around my room. The flapping noise was very loud and definitely was not coming from outside. I also want to mention that my room locked from the inside and the window was closed. The reason I know that this wasn't just a case of sleep paralysis was that it only ever happened in this house. Not at my mom's or grandparents or friends. Only ever at my dad's. And honestly, at first I thought I was losing my mind. But then something happened that made me realize that whatever was happening was real. My dad and I were sitting in the kitchen with the door to the outside open.

8:55 It was night so you could only see as far as the kitchen light went when all of a sudden I saw something or someone walk past the door. It looked like a young teen girl in a white dress and semi long black or dark brown hair. At first I thought I'd imagined it but then my dad said did you see that? Chills. I asked what he saw and he described exactly what I saw. I still get chills thinking about it even now while writing this. I never saw her again but I will never forget it. She didn't look fully there, not completely see through, but like she was only 95% there.

9:42 I felt wrong. I kept seeing, hearing and feeling things when I was in bed until he moved. Thank you for joining me for more true strange stories of the unexplained. Remember that you can feel afraid and not be in danger. You're safe here with me, probably. Please follow the podcast, leave a rating on Spotify or Apple, or tell your friends and foes about the show. It would mean the world to me.

10:25 The underworld, obviously. I mean, come on. Was that not? Was that not clear? Madam Strangeways is produced and narrated by me. Madam Strangeways thememusicisbymarina.ryan@marinamakes.co Cover art is by Andrea Chisel Roldan at Cult of Teddy on Instagram. You can submit your own true strange story at madamstrangeways.com or e-mail it to madamstrangeways@gmail.com. See you soon, she said ominously.