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Feb. 4, 2026

The Lady | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #50

The Lady | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #50
The Lady | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #50
Madame Strangeways: True Paranormal Stories Podcast
The Lady | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #50

Join Madame Strangeways for this true paranormal experience by Tori about the ghostly apparition in her mother's home called only "The Lady." Eeeeek.

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0:03 So if I'm ever a. Ghost that's haunting you and you don't know what to call me. You have my permission to call me Henrietta. Welcome stranger to Madam Strange Ways, where I Madam Strange Ways narrate your true strange stories of the unexplained whether you're a. Skeptic, A believer, or. Some secret third thing. Stick around. After the story. Where I will. Share my strange thoughts and strange research about said strange story. Along the way, I'll also drag you down a slew of strange rabbit holes, kicking and screaming if needs must, before we get to today's true strange story or any sort of kicking or screaming. The strangest of shout outs to my Patreon patrons. TJ Hotter of the Tapes of Trepidation podcast, G Man Music.

0:55 Ted, Keith and Tori, thank you. So much to my Pharaoh. Fiendish. 5 for supporting the. Show hear your. Name at the beginning of every. Episode get a free sticker and get. Bonus Madam Strange notes episodes. Just for joining the. Patreon@patreon.com/madam Strange Ways. Oh, was that? Thunder, it must be about to rain Hellcats and Hell hounds outside then, so you know what that means. Settle in for a true strange story here with Madam Strange Ways, The Lady by Tori. As promised, I am taking some time to sit down and write you another e-mail with another story from my childhood home. When I was visiting my mom and granny in the early 2000s, I was sitting at the dining room table with my granny. I saw something out of the corner of my eye just outside of the window, but when I looked I didn't see anything. There is a big.

2:14 Crepe. Myrtle tree just outside. The window so I. Thought it might have been a. Bird or a squirrel? Then I saw it again and turned my head very fast and my granny noticed. She asked did you see her and motioned to the window. I told her I saw something move but didn't see what it was. She said it's her. I asked her to tell me more. She. Hesitated, but started telling. Me how they would see her walking outside the window or sometimes down the hallway. She told me that they didn't know. Who she was or where she came from, but that she always gave her and my mom bad feelings but didn't really do too much more than that.

3:01 She told me that they called her Henrietta once. After they had started. Seeing Henry around and they said that she got very upset and the entire room got cold and they both felt very sick. After that, they didn't know what to call her. And they just tried. To avoid her when she was around. I. Asked her how long. She'd been around and Granny said about four or five months. A couple of weeks. Later I was. Visiting again and I was sitting in the back of my mom's room talking to her and I heard my granny. Call my mom's. Name My mom was holding my daughter and giving her a bottle so. I told her that I would. Go check on her when I got up to my granny's room. She was.

3:44 Sleeping in her recliner. I. Quietly called out to her and she didn't move or acknowledge me. So I figure. She may have called out in her sleep. I went back to my mom's room and told her that Granny was. Sleeping my mom. Looked at me and said it must. Be her. I was like, who? The lady that walks around the house. She said yes, that she had been calling her name and when she goes to check. On her that. Granny was usually sleeping or just watching TVI asked how long this had been going on and she said about a week. I was on the phone a few days later with my mom and she heard my granny call her name and walked up to check on her and said she was sleeping and that the lady had been calling her more and more and it was getting more frequent since I had left the last time. She also told me that a couple of times she had felt someone pull her hair just a little.

4:45 I told. Her that I would look into it and see what I could do. I did some research and found that you can burn a black candle. And it can potentially trap a spirit. And then you can throw the wax into moving water and it should get rid of the spirit. So I decided that's what I would. Try. I went to an occult shop in Austin before my next visit and got a black candle. I told my mom what I wanted to try and she was open. To the idea. Since she was getting tired of hearing her name being called at all hours of the day and night, when I got to the house, I asked my mom where she had seen her, heard her. Last. And she said it was in her room so I told her to give me some time and I would be upfront soon. I lit the candle and sat there and watched it burn down to nothing when I looked.

5:29 At the wax. I saw something there and asked my mom to look and she said she saw a woman's face. My mom and I went down to the river that runs through the town and I threw the wax into the moving water thankfully after that day. None of us saw or. Heard her again. Tori, thank you so much for sending me. Yet. Another one of your. Tori stories. I love a good Tori story. Thank you so much.

6:10 If you're listening and you haven't. Heard the other stories that she has submitted. Tori has also done. Let me think. Off the top of. My head, How I Met. Henry and the girls and after this story there is actually a fourth Tori story that I. Haven't shared yet. I think that's it. Tori let me know am I wrong? Met on strangeways@gmail.com. I may be missing one anyway. Henry is. Also mentioned in this. Story. From How I Met Henry fame. Go back and listen to those stories after you listen to this episode. Not right now. You're busy right now. Don't listen now, lesson later. After you're done with this one, it'll be. Fun. Why is it scarier? Like not knowing. Her name and her very clearly not wanting you to. Use her name.

6:52 Why is that scarier? I can't explain. It but it. Is it's. Just it's just the truth. And Tori, good for you. You know what? You're taking care. You, you were taking care of your Mama. You were like, you know what? No, not in my house, not around here, partner. We're going to, we're just going to take care of this. You went. You got yourself a black candle. You. You. Figured out witchcraft. And then? You just witchcrafted you just you just did it. You know, witch witch. But like, cool. Witch, you know, like. You're not a regular witch. You're you're a cool witch. I guess all witches are cool. All witches are cool. I'm just going to say. What I like to do here on Madam Strange Ways is. Talk about not just supernatural explanations, but also mundane explanations.

7:34 So we like. To do both I. Generally have. Way more of 1. Than the other. And that is the case today. I have a lot of fun, interesting stuff to talk about. But what we're going to talk about first is the one that I have the. Fewest theories for. Which is. The mundane explanations. I I OK from a sceptical point of view, how could I possibly explain three different people seeing the same figures out of the corner of their? Eye and hearing grandma. 'S voice Let me start with the big Let me start with the grandma voice. Maybe she is just. Calling out in her sleep. You know, I mean, we'll never know because this was the. 2000s.

8:17 Ish esque. So now if this were happening now, I would. Say let's. Get a webcam. Let's set up a. Let's set up a. Granny Cam Live. Feed so you can. Watch her all the. Time and then when you hear the. Voice you can make. Sure, you can go back and look at the footage. Enhance. Enhance. That you can see was. Granny actually calling out her daughter's name? Maybe we'll never know. That's the thing. About some of these stories is you'll never know. I kind of like not knowing. I kind of like. I hate not knowing. Things, but I also in some cases I do. Recognize that it is better to not.

8:58 Can you hear the kiddies they want inside? But it's recording time. OK, we're going to continue. I guess like how you would how you would explain seeing things out of the corner of your eye. I mean, you know, Tori. And Granny and Mama. Tori. Are all kind of seeing all kinds of weird things. In that house, so. Are you just more heightened? Are you on edge? Is it also a situation where you're primed? To see. Things out of the corner of your eyes. Maybe. Honestly, I think those are my mundane explanations if. You've got a skeptical. Or a mundane or a naturalistic. Explanation that you would like to share. Let me know.

9:38 I'm out of strangeways@gmail.com. OK, now. It's time to get into the paranormal stuff. The cool. Fun stuff. All right, so right off the bat. What are we? Looking at here, what kind of haunting because. It's clearly a haunting. What happened? Is it a residual? Haunting. Or is it an? Intelligent, haunting. I feel like it added an extra. I feel like I'm. Throwing in some extra. Syllables. Syllables. In there. So let me start that over. Residual haunting or intelligent haunting, which one are we looking at here? All right. So as as we've talked. About before residual hauntings. Those are also called psychic impressions. It's. Basically like the clip of a. Movie playing on loop. Across time forever, ad nauseam.

10:20 Which is also basically the concept of the Stone Tape theory. The Stone Tape theory is a pseudo. Scientific claim that ghosts and hauntings occur when traumatic events are imprinted on certain stones or other materials. Like, I guess plaster. Walls. Question mark. And are subsequently replayed. Similar to a magnetic. Tape recording. Besides residual hauntings or stone tape theory hauntings. You've got your intelligent hauntings, Beetlejuice, however stupid he may seem. Is an intelligent, haunting basically every horror movie with a ghost. Is an intelligent haunting. The 6th. Sense. Full of intelligent hauntings. Whether the Spirit?

11:02 Has you know. Like something unresolved. From their life. When they died. Or maybe they just didn't. Get the memo to. Head towards the light I. Whatever the reason, the the ghost is sticking around and it's making it your problem. It's your problem now, so they're going to be making noise. They're going to be. Possibly tugging on your hair. However lightly which that. Feels like an escalation. I don't love it. So I would say though. As far as hauntings go, this is a. Pretty classic clear cut. Intelligent. Haunting. But not only was the lady talking, the lady was. Mimicking. Which brings me to mimics, which some of you may have been wondering if I.

11:44 Would mention in this. Specific story mimics so hot right now I feel like every 3rd. Post on Reddit. Is about mimics and. Also mimic stories all over tik. T.O.K, I get it. They're super scary. It's incredibly unnerving. But this isn't giving mimic. I guess because like typically you don't see a mimic you typically you. Just hear a mimic mimicking your family. So there is a mimicry about, but I don't think. It is a mimic TM, but I think it's safe to say it's not a mimic because you were seeing her from the corner of your eye. Tori But OK, you know how I just mentioned like mimics are so popular. Why are they so popular So. Here's a rabbit hole.

12:25 That I just went down because I had. To know why are they so popular? What shot them into popularity in the past few years? Because it's crazy. So I pulled up Google. Trends. Which is. It's such a fun tool. I've wasted a lot of time. On Google Trends. Like such as now. I pulled up Google. Trends and I looked up Google. Searches for. Mimic ghost as the term because like I feel. Like mimic wasn't enough. I could have done some other ones. It's fine, don't worry about it. So the term mimic. Ghost shot up in popularity, like way high in popularity in February 2022, which apparently, apparently I did not know this. If you're listening and you know what? I'm going to say Gold Star to you. Gold Star, apparently.

13:12 February 2022. Elden Ring. The video game. Elden Ring came. Out and there's a. Mimic monster in the. Game, which I assume is a reference to the Dungeons and Dragons monster of the same name, but cannot be sure. Then interest dipped back down, but it was still higher than it was before 2022. And then? It spiked a little bit again and I looked up what? Game. Came out around the time that the new spike happened and it was DLC. For Elden Ring, it's still Elden. Ring. So I. Blame Elden Ring for. Just bringing it into. Like, I don't know. The cultural zeitgeist. Am I using that? Term properly? Who knows? We may never know. Do you know why? Mimics have. Suddenly become so popular. Let me know madamstrangeways@gmail.com. Are you a mimic?

13:54 Let me know, we want to have you on the show. Madam Strangeways at Gmail. Dot com. Anyway, enough about mimics, because this is not a mimic. OK, let's just let's. Circle back. We're coming. Out of the we're we're escaping the rabbit hole we are getting. Back to the main story. So since Tori, Granny and Mama. Tori. All saw the lady who shall never henceforth be called Henrietta. Which, by the way, I love. The name Henrietta, I think it's so cute. Like do you guys? Remember Mr. Rogers? And he had his little what was it? Imagination land or fantasy land or something like that. With all the puppets. And he had a puppet that was called Henrietta Pussycat. She was so. Cute. She was my favorite. So if I'm ever a ghost. That's haunting you and you don't know what to call me.

14:34 You have my permission. To call me Henrietta. I'll allow it. That's fine. All right, now we're. Actually out of the. We're actually out of the rabbit hole. Back to the story, anyway. If I were a. Paranormal investigator and I had to make a. Call remotely without being there to actually. Investigate, I guess. I would say that. This is an intelligent haunting of some kind. But then I would also want to know. What had changed or happened around the? Time that the lady showed up. Like anything emotional, anything. Stressful. Or like, were you? Guys moving? Stuff around the house. Were you doing construction? On the House. Like did someone pass? Away was someone. Going to pass away. You know, just. Just those. Or hey, did you bring a cursed? Object in the house.

15:16 Did you buy a Haunted Objects object? Or plural objects, either one. Those are questions that I would have for you. And the moment. In the early 2000s. So. If we can figure. Out how to. Time travel Tori, I think we can get those answers, so keep me updated, OK? I wanted to keep this. Episode short, but I am only not even halfway through my notes so we're going to just we're going to move we're going to quick we're going to move quickly. What I thought was really. Interesting was the black. Candle and I didn't want. To just talk about like. You know, Wiccan magic or. Any kind of specific magic? I kind of was like, why are they? Black. What? Why? Why are they black candles like specifically for this purpose?

15:57 So. I wanted to know I've gone down a rabbit hole. You're coming down with me. Here we go. Black candles and magic. You typically see them used as spiritual cleansing or hex breaking shadow. Word protection. And of course. In this case, banishing. Now red candles are for Passion White. Candles are for purification, purple candles are. For psychic insight, obviously. You see, there's like there's different things that are. Assigned to different color candles. But then I was like why and when? Who, what, when, where, why, and. How all of the? Questions. I like to. Ask every episode. So here's something from in. Morning, cult.com. Morning Like MOURN. Which is like a candle store they're.

16:39 Super cool gothy candles, but they have like a shockingly well sited blog. Entry about candle. Magic written by Travis Lasafray. Let me know, Travis. Did I say that right? We'll find out, but here's this entry the origins of. Candle magic traced back to the earliest civilizations where fire was revered as a divine force. Ancient Egyptians as early as 3. 1000 BCE used early forms of wicked candles made from beeswax. And animal fat, often burning them as offerings to gods and spirits. Similarly in ancient Rome. Candles were lit. During ceremonies and religious rites symbolizing the presence of. Deities and guiding the. Spirits of the deceased. So you've got spirits deceased all right.

17:21 In many cultures, fire. Was seen as a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds. Spiritual. This is me. I've added this in Jewish culture. For instance, when a loved one dies, you have a candle lit during Shiva. The seven days of. Mourning, and again every year on the anniversary of their death. So. Again, we have like. Spirits, we have the. Deceased. So here we go. During the Middle Ages, candle magic was deeply intertwined with folk beliefs and Christian traditions. Candles were often blessed and used in religious ceremonies while everyday people. Turn to them for protection and divination. Holy. Candles blessed by clergy were believed to ward off evil spirits. And misfortune. And folk. Magic known as cunning. Craft or hedge witchery? Which I love. Hedge Witchery.

18:04 Colored candles were used in spells for love, prosperity, and healing. The belief that different candle colors carried specific energies likely. Emerge from medieval alchemy. And and. Astrological traditions which connected colors to planetary influences and you know. I was like. I'm in. We're here we go, medieval alchemy rabbit hole. I just shot down that. So what you see in a lot of medieval alchemy, you've got colors yellow, white, red, black, right? Well, those also align. Those colors? Align with the four. Humors of Greek. Medicine. Ancient Greek medicine, to be clear. Yellow. Bile phlegm, which is white, Blood which is red, obviously. And black bile. Famously, everyone knows black bile. And if you're curious, what are the humors? Humorism.

18:49 Was a system of medicine. Detailing a. Supposed makeup and. Workings of the human body adopted by ancient. Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. It fell out of favor in the 17th. Century and was definitively disproved with the discovery of microbes. So microbes displaced the humors. Microbes killed the humorism *. There's something there. The concept of humors may have origins in ancient Egyptian medicine or Mesopotamia. Although it was not. Systemized until Greek thinkers. So the word. Humor is a translation of Greek chimos chimos chimos, which means literally juice or SAP, or metaphorically.

19:30 Flavor, which is weird. Early texts on Indian Ayurveda medicine presented a theory. On 3 or 4. Humors Doses. Which they sometimes linked with the five. Elements 5. Earth, Air, water, fire. And space, apparently. Does this kind of sound like magic to you? Because it kind of sounds like magic. To me, earth, air, fire, water, space and then all the blessings and the spirits and wanting to. Ward off spirits. It doesn't. Doesn't this all kind of sound like magic to you? Of course it's not. Magic because they didn't like magic. But it sounds kind of like magic. That like I love. Especially that this is. Basically like a science to them, since the microbes unseeded the humors anyway. And of course.

20:15 All four humors exist in everybody and if. They're out of balance. That's when you have problems. You can have too much yellow. Bile or. Like too much. Blood, I guess. Oh, I guess that's when you would. Do bloodletting. See if you have. Too much blood. I didn't go this far down the rabbit hole. But I've also heard and kind of read a lot about humors, but not to understand the process just. Do you know what? I mean like you, you, you're. Exposed to something, but you don't actually do the research to fully understand the concept. And now I'm kind of putting this all together, I guess if you. Have too much blood? Leeches. I bet leeches are kind of for. All of the humor problems anyway. Black bile was associated with a melancholy. Nature and get this. The word. Melancholy itself. Derives from the Greek word for.

20:58 Black bile? What? Also depression was attributed to excess or unnatural black bile. So melancholy depression? Come on, this is weird. A Swedish. Physician suggested that. I'm sorry I didn't give enough. I'm still. Stuck on the melancholy the the word melancholy itself deriving from the Greek. Word for black bile. What do you mean? That's wild. OK, I thought this was really. Interesting too because I guess I did wonder like where do they even come up with? This stuff. Well, here you go. A Swedish. Physician suggested that. The four humors were. Based. Upon the observation of blood. Clotting. In a transparent container. Like. Glass because they didn't have plastic back then. When blood is. Drawn in a glass container and left undisturbed for about an hour. 4 different layers. Can be seen.

21:44 A dark clot. Forms at the bottom the black bile. Above the clot is a layer. Of red blood cells. The blood, duh. Above this is a. Whitish layer of white blood cells. The phlegm, as they called it. And the top layer is clear yellow. Serum the yellow bile. Oh, OK, that actually you. Know what? I'm going to give it to him. I kind of see where they were. Going with this. So anyway. We've got black bile, right? And then going. Back to alchemy. I looked it up. Pluto. Is the planet associated? With black. How do we know Pluto? Let's see. It's almost like we were really familiar with. Pluto, not the planet. The God. And that's. Because in. Ancient Greek religion and. Mythology.

22:24 Pluto. Was the ruler of the underworld. But you. Probably know him as Hades. No, they're the same person. So again. Spirits deceased. The underworld. Black Pluto. Melancholy. This is crazy. Even in modern. Wicca black candles represent. Loss, Sadness, Discord releasement. I don't know if that's. A word, negativity, etcetera. I mean, doesn't that sound? Crazy familiar like. Is this where we got black? As a banishment color for candle magic I you know I honestly don't have a definitive answer because I had to rein myself in because otherwise I will spend an entire week researching.

23:04 One single episode. And I got to stop. It's a. Problem I have a problem. It's the Yapper's dilemma and also. The Google's dilemma. The researcher's dilemma. It's a problem. I'm just surrounded by dilemmas. So I. Had to stop myself from going further down this rabbit hole. But do you have any insight into this do? You have any? Thoughts on? The specific use of colors with specific. Candle magic. Let me know Madam Strangeways at Gmail. Dot com. Also if you want to. Learn about candle magic to perform your own. Candle magic. I hear a fellow Madam has the best. Guide around which is called the Book of Candle Magic by. Madam Pamita. She actually has a fun. Experiment that she challenges you to do early in the book. I couldn't find any.

23:46 Libraries that have it in Libby, so. I only got to read the preview. So the candle experiment is basically. You take two birthday. Candles. From the same pack, and then you charge one of them with your energy and you don't charge the other one. And you charge that one with your energy by like rubbing. Your hands together and. And holding the candle tight and kind of like. Picturing and imagining putting your energy into it. And maybe. You have a specific. Thought that you have like you you want to. Charge it. With the positive good. Luck, energy, and then you think. I don't know. Lucky thoughts anyway. You have to. Spend a few minutes doing this. She's very. Specific you have to. Spend a few minutes doing this. This is. Extremely important. You only do that. To the one candle, though, you leave the other candle alone. Then you use a flame to soften. The little butt of both of the candles. I don't know what else you call that. I think it's a butt you.

24:31 You like the little candle, but just enough. So that the candle melts. And then you stick both of those candles straight up on a plate. Or a surface, probably a plate, and then you light. Both and then. You watch how they act now, Madame Pamita. Says. That the one you energetically charged should burn brighter or have a stronger flame or something like that. Something impressive. Maybe it burns quicker? But she does put the onus on you. That if. You didn't put in. Real effort into infusing the one candle with your energy. Then it won't work. Which is kind of. What you hear a lot of like snake oil type salesman say like if. They're selling you something and it doesn't. Work. It's your fault. It's your fault. Obviously it's not their fault. It's your fault you didn't believe hard enough or pray hard. Enough or spend enough? Money or yada yada. Yada, but I'm not.

25:13 Trying to. Call a fellow Madam a snake oil. Salesman, you know, I mean she seems, she seems. Like a pretty cool gal. Because first of all, she's Madam, so you know I've got respect for her. Anyway, you should try this out. On your own because I want to try too, but hold on a second. You know what occurred. To me as I was reading. All this out loud. What are you warming the? Candle up. Like with your hand because she specifically. Says rub your hands together to get them warm and then you're holding the candle in your hand for. A few minutes. And then I feel like one of them is going to. Burn faster, don't you think so? I guess maybe part of the? Experiment is that. We got to charge it energetically. And then put it in the refrigerator. Let it. Like come back. To room temperature I don't know, but they both need.

25:53 To be the same. Temperature. Otherwise this isn't going to work. Oh, I guess you have to hold. Here's what you. Do nevermind. I've solved it. You hold both of them in your hands. But you only energetically charge. One of them. OK, you don't energetically charge the other one. You only charge this one. Maybe that's. I don't know. There's other thoughts I have like. You'd have to make sure you wouldn't. Want to just have one of each? You'd want to have like 3. Of each three energy candles and three normal candles. And you'd also want to make sure that you're like using the same. Color birthday candle. For all of them in case like a different color dye burns. Differently than the other ones. I don't know and. Also, you want to make sure there's no. Drafts in the area. So listen, I want to do. This for myself, I'm going to have to go out and buy some birthday candles.

26:34 I'm going to try it. I want you to try it too. Keep me updated, I'll report back. Let me know madamstrangers@gmail.com if you tried this experiment OK one. Last thing, one last thing. One last thing. Before we end. This is this is good. I should have opened with this. It's crazy that I'm ending with this. That's just the strange ways ways. That's just. The strange way way, here we go. Tori, you mentioned. Seeing a woman's face in the wax, that's kind of creepy. Right, but. Hold on a second. Hold on to your butts because. You might actually. Be on to something. There because look what I found when I was doing my research. On this story. What you might have. Actually been doing is. Called. Caromancy. It's a form of divination involving wax. What?

27:18 So listen. One of the most. Common methods of caromancy is to heat wax until molten like liquid. Then you pour it directly into cold water. The shapes and movements of the waxes it cools and solidifies can then basically tell your future. You can look at. It and. Glean things about. The future from it, but. Another method more commonly practiced in the contemporary era, which is now, is studying. The burning of an. Ordinary candle What? Tori, you're a caromancer. You're performing Caromancy, did you know that? Caromancy was widespread in ancient Russia. And is also known in modern Russia as one of the. Christmas rituals which I love. Caromancy also has roots in ancient Celtic and perhaps. Later in ancient Roman. Times, according to scraps of knowledge salvage from around the.

28:03 Period 500 CE. It appears that. The candle burned during a Druids. Vigil a druids vigil I feel like. Is that an album? Title A druids vigil. There's something there. Anyway, the candle burned during a druids vigil, was poured into a. Bowl. And then into a clear pool of cold. Water and the auguries for the future. Could then be read from the wax. How cool, How cool. So I guess. Here's here's here's the future that you were telling with the wax that looked like a woman's head is. You're you're like. I'm seeing something. As you throw it in the river, you know I'm seeing something. I'm. Seeing. This woman's face drifting away and I can't see her anymore.

28:46 Now she's gone and. Then she never came back so. I don't know. You fixed it. You fixed it. You're a caromancer now, Tori. You're a caromancer. I don't know if you knew. I'm happy to be the one to deliver the news. So there you go, those are my strange thoughts. On. The lady. By Tori Tori. Again, thank you for sharing that story with me. If you listening do. You have a true strange story that you want to hear narrated on the show. e-mail it to me. I want it. Give it to me now immediately, Madam. Strangeways at Gmail. Dot com and I can't. Wait to read it. Remember.

29:30 That you can feel. Afraid and not be in danger you're. Safe. Here with me probably. Thank you for joining me for more true strange stories of the unexplained. I'm. Running A1 Madam show here though so please do me a strange solid and follow the podcast. Or leave me a rating on Apple or. Spotify and or consider joining the Patreon at patreon.com. Slash Madam Strangeways. For more bonus content. And Please remember, tell your friends. And. Foes about the show. It would mean the world to me. The underworld, obviously. Madam Strangeways is produced and narrated by me.

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31:15 That's a ghost.