Oct. 20, 2025

Strangetober Macabre Minisode #5 | True Paranormal Stories for Halloween

Strangetober Macabre Minisode #5 | True Paranormal Stories for Halloween

All October long, Madame Strangeways celebrates Strangetober and Strangeoween with bonus mini episodes of spooky paranormal stories for Halloween! These macabre minisodes are narrations only, no commentary, but full episodes will still be released every other Wednesday as usual.


Thank you to Standard Debate, Anonymous and Avanoon for granting permission to read their stories from Reddit. Remember, Strangers & Strangelings & Strangecetera: you can feel afraid and not be in danger.


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Welcome strangers, strangelings
and strange cetera to Strange

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Tober here on Madam Strangeways
with me.

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Madam Strangeways, it's time for
another Strange O ween mini

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sewed before we get to our true
strange story.

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So just a quick reminder, if
you're watching or reading a

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whole lot more spooky stuff
lately and you're finding that

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you're a little bit more anxious
than usual, 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, probably, probably,
definitely, maybe, definitely

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can't hurt you.
And a quick thank you to my

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Patreon patrons who helped make
the podcast possible.

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TJ hotter of tapes of
trepidation.

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G Man music, Ted, Keith and
Tori.

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Now it sounds like it's about to
rain hellcats and hellhounds

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outside, so you know what that
means.

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On to our true strange Tober
Strange Oween mini stories here

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with Madam Strangeways.
The moving janitorial cart by

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standard debate.
This just happened about 1/2

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hour ago.
I work in a hospital as

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security, my shifts being 12
hours overnight on weekends when

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less staff are here.
There's been stories about

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hauntings and I've seen some
stuff through cameras and in the

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properties secondary building,
historical building built in the

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late 1800s, but I've never had
this happen in the main

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hospital.
I was in the basement with a

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housekeeper and we were just
chatting, shooting the breeze

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and whatnot.
Now for context, the tunnel

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connecting the main building to
the secondary is down here, as

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well as the morgue and a very
important detail, the lights

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down here are motion activated.
Anyway, while I and the

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housekeeper were just hanging
out for a moment, we heard the

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sound of a janitorial cart
moving in the tunnel hallway.

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Not uncommon as housekeeping is
here until 2300 or zero 100

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hours.
The housekeeper said.

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Oh, that must be the supervisor.
We peeked around the corner into

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the tunnel hallway and the
lights were off.

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Very strange.
Being security, obviously I have

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to go check it out.
I stepped into the hallway and

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the lights came on.
There in the center of the

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hallway was the janitorial cart,
unattended.

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The housekeeper freaked out.
This specific janitorial cart

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has supplies needed for waxing
floors on it and only surfaces

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maybe once or twice a month and
is supposed to be against the

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wall beside the housekeeping
office.

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Instantly we got goosebumps.
The hairs on our arms in the

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back of the neck are standing.
Housekeeper nopes the heck out

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of there, leaving me standing
there staring at this cart.

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After a moment I went back to my
office and told my partner about

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it, knowing he'd get a kick out
of it.

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My partner tells me oh we had a
code blue during the day that

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ended in a morgue Gadment.
I wish I could say I'm used to

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these things happening but it
always scares me.

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I saw my brother in my room but
he wasn't home by Ave. noon.

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Back story, This happened when I
was 12 years old.

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I am a female and my older
brother Caleb was 16.

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I've never written a Reddit
story before so apologies if my

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writing isn't perfect.
I was alone in my room when my

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brother Caleb came in to ask me
something.

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I don't exactly remember what we
talked about, but the

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conversation only lasted about
two minutes.

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I do remember saying thank you
before he left my room.

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A few minutes later, my parents
came home after being out for

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dinner and called out for Caleb,
but there was no answer.

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My mom asks me, is Caleb home?
I told her yeah, he just came

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into my room.
We both called out to him and

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looked around the house, but we
quickly realized that, well, he

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definitely wasn't home.
My mom ended up calling him and

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he said he was at a friend's
house and had been there for

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about two hours, but considering
I had just seen him in my room

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15 minutes ago, that didn't add
up.

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When Caleb got home, I spoke to
him about it and he told me he

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didn't remember coming into my
room at all.

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He insisted that he'd been in
his friend's house the whole

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time.
Keep in mind, Caleb is usually

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very kind to me and definitely
not the type to prank anyone, so

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I 100% believe him when he says
he didn't come in.

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Needless to say, I couldn't
sleep for a while after that.

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This story has become a bit of a
family legend.

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If anyone has any insight into
what could have happened, I'd

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appreciate it.
I'm really into the paranormal

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and have heard about mimic
spirits or demons but I haven't

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read much into it.
Could this encounter be

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something like that?
Paranormal experience at work by

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Anonymous?
I worked at an assisted care

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living facility.
It was the original hospital for

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the town so it was old.
I had known people that said it

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was super haunted but I never
experienced anything weird and I

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worked overnight sometimes.
One night I was sitting in an

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alcove where the computer was on
the 1st floor.

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It was right around 1.
AMI hear a blood curdling scream

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like right outside my space.
It sounds like a lady.

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I jump up thinking Oh no what
happened and it's obviously one

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of my patients.
No one.

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There was no one there, there
were only two patients on that

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floor.
So I ran into their rooms

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seconds after the scream,
thinking maybe sound carried.

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Weird.
Both were completely asleep.

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OK, weird, but carry on.
I go and sit in the gathering

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room, about 20 feet from the
alcove, still main floor.

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Same hallway, another scream.
I could see in both directions

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of the hallway and no one was
there.

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It was so loud and piercing.
It was extremely unsettling and

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I still have no clue what it was
about.

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I called my brother to settle
myself weird.

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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 afraid and not be in

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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, was that not?

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Was that not clear?
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See you soon, she said

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ominously.
Housekeeper nopes the heck out

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of there, leaving me standing
there staring at the plane

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overhead.