The Lakehouse | True Spooky Ghost Stories | Ep #28

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The Lake House by Anonymous.
For as long as I can remember

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I've had issues with sleeping.
I would cry and scream as a

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young child about not wanting to
sleep, which sounds pretty

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typical to every other kid, so
that didn't faze me too much.

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But as I got older, the
nightmares and fear of sleeping

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got worse.
In the 4th or so grade, I

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vividly remember two night
terrors that left me sleeping 2

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hours a night afterwards.
Only once the sun came up around

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5:00 AM was I able to get some
rest.

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But that's not the point of this
story.

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Eventually I was diagnosed with
a sleep disorder, but things got

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much better.
I still had some nights where

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I'd have so much fear of
sleeping that I lay in my bed

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covered in sweat and shaking,
but for the most part, all was

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normal.
I didn't have the night terrors

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or utter fear of falling asleep
for a long time.

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A few years ago I was in
university doing my

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undergraduate degree in a
beautiful city on a lake.

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I had decided to take a few
summer courses given that it's

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mainly a resort town.
During those months, the rent

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everywhere was ridiculously
high.

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Luckily, my second cousins
offered me their summer home

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right on the lake for a few
months while I completed my

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classes free of charge.
I was beyond excited.

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The house was on the other side
of the lake from the university

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and down a winding dirt road off
the single lane highway.

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I had one neighbor to my right
and three to my left, but during

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the first few weeks of summer
most of them hadn't arrived for

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vacation yet.
At the time, my boyfriend, now

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an ex thank God, moved in with
me because I was already uneasy

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about staying in a large house
alone in a pretty isolated area.

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Looking back at my childhood I
think I was pretty in tune with

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my senses and maybe hyper aware
of, as my mother would say,

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things that go bump in the
night.

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I always got an eerie feeling
going into the basement alone

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because it was one of those walk
outs that opens straight onto a

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porch and just a glass sliding
door that separated the inside

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and outside.
My first thought seeing that was

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oh great, this is the first
house I'd pick to break into.

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Just some shitty humor that I
used to try and alleviate my

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fears.
It didn't work.

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The first few weeks were
uneventful.

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Nothing odd happened at all when
I was home alone or up late

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studying after my boyfriend had
already gone to bed.

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I increasingly started to feel
more and more uncomfortable,

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like something was watching me.
I was hearing doors shutting,

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footsteps and random noises at
all times of the day.

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But since I had such similar
experiences as a kid, I didn't

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dwell on it too much.
I mean, the house was older.

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Anyway, the night that shit
really hit the fan was when the

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feeling of being watched turned
into feeling like something

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terrible was going to happen to
me.

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A very dark and threatening
presence.

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Anyway, my boyfriend had already
gone to bed and I was studying

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in the living room around 10:30
PM.

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The feeling became so
overwhelming that I basically

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said Nope and went straight to
bed and locked the door behind

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me.
I couldn't fall asleep for an

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hour.
My heart was racing and I felt

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like someone was in the house.
It wasn't until I heard knocking

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on the front door that I decided
to wake my boyfriend up and in a

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hushed voice I asked him if he
had heard anything.

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He groggily woke up and said no,
it's OK, just go back to sleep.

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So I sucked it up, threw my head
under the covers and tried my

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best to fall asleep.
The next thing I know my

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boyfriend is shaking me and
whispering wake up.

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What's the address to the house?
I'm on the phone with the police

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and I need to know.
Well if that isn't a way to wake

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up I don't know what is.
So I quickly recited the address

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and whispered what's going on to
my boyfriend while he stays on

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the phone with the police.
They proceed to tell him that

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the police will be there and 25
minutes the station is on the

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other side of the lake, but to
call back if we hear anything

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else.
Those 25 minutes were the

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longest 25 minutes of my life.
I sat there shaking

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uncontrollably as my boyfriend
began to tell me what happened.

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About 30 minutes after he dozed
back off from me waking him up,

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he jolted out of his sleep to
hear what sounded like 3 Hard

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Knocks on the garage door.
He then heard a door open and

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heavy footsteps moved into the
kitchen.

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That's when he decided to call.
By no means was he an irrational

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person.
Little noises and things that

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gave me the chills never
bothered him too much.

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So when I found out he had
called the cops, my blood ran

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cold.
The police came and proceeded to

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move through the house and check
every room, finding nothing.

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They said there weren't any
signs of forced entry and

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suggested it could have been a
bear.

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We both knew it was inaccurate,
but at this point we were

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feeling pretty stupid and didn't
say much.

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They left and we were wide awake
lying in bed, both still feeling

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uneasy.
That's when my boyfriend told me

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that it was the first time in
his life that he thought there

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was no way to protect us.
That really worried me because

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this guy made me feel very safe
despite many poor qualities.

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He was 6 foot 3 and pretty
jacked.

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We didn't sleep for the rest of
the night.

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The next day we were both pretty
shook up but he went to work and

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I went to school.
When we both got home he brought

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up the night before saying he
still doesn't think it was a

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bear.
What kind of bear makes 3

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distinct knocks and can open a
door?

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We tried to rationalize the
situation by saying maybe it was

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kids just screwing around but we
both knew it wasn't.

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The feeling in the house was
still heavy and dark.

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I had been having nightmares for
about a week of an older man

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missing teeth, climbing up the
stairs and smiling in a sinister

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way prior to the night before.
That's why this next part pushed

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me to my breaking point and I
never slept in that house again.

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My boyfriend said that he kept
picturing a man crawling.

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Exorcist like with a smile.
When he awoke to the knocks, he

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felt that the man wanted to hurt
us.

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I was shocked, his description
missing teeth and all lined up

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with mine.
As soon as I told him, he went

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white and told me that we needed
to pack up an overnight bag and

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go to a friend's house.
The next time we returned to the

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house, the feeling was there but
darker.

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We decided to move out
instantly.

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The only time I returned was
when my mom and grandma came to

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help me clean up the house
before giving the keys back to

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my cousins.
I never mentioned it to them.

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I searched online to see if
there were any incidents within

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the area, but I couldn't come up
with anything.

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I didn't bring it up to my
cousins because I didn't want to

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come across as ungrateful for a
place to stay.

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But even today, I can still
picture that man smiling and

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remember the feeling of dread
and overpowering worry that I

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was in danger.
OK, so new rule.

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No more lake houses.
They're out.

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Not happening.
A house on the lake.

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No, thank you.
I think you mean a haunted house

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on a haunted lake.
OK, that's not it's not

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happening.
Anonymous, thank you so much for

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letting me share the story.
Very scary.

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This story is actually four
years old and I this is how

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dedicated I am to finding the
most Primo spooky content for

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you listeners.
I went into the Reddit archives

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and I found a four year old post
and man, it's just, it was so

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good.
I was so relieved when anonymous

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approved allowing me to read it.
So thank you very much for that.

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So scary, you know, like you're
you're a woman, you're living

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alone.
You know, it's summer.

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So, you know, lots of slasher
films happened in the summer.

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So it's maybe it's not
Halloween, but like, come on,

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you know, like this.
The scene is set, especially a

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lake house.
Which one is it?

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Which of the slashers?
Yeller screaming at me?

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Mike Myers.
You know, I can't keep them

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straight.
Who was the one at the Crystal

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Lake?
See, I'm like, I'm like on the

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peripheral.
I am aware of these things that

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are that have happened in a
fictional universe.

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Well, whichever 1 is on the lake
is that though.

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It's OK.
Sorry, pause.

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Is the one on the lake Jason
Voorhees?

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Which one's wearing the mask?
That's the.

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I'm losing so many points with
so many people while I'm saying

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this.
It doesn't matter.

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It doesn't matter.
It's not the point.

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The point is, it was really
scary and you're living alone.

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You're a woman.
You're living alone in this

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house and there's a lot of
people around you.

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And then in this house in which
you're staying alone, you are

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just hearing noises in the
house, even at all times of the

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day, doors shutting, footsteps,
random sounds.

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You were feeling like someone
was watching you.

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And this is something, this is
like, I feel like this is youth,

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you know, like when you're
young, you're in college, these

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things happen.
And you just put your fingers in

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your ears and go la, la, la, la,
la.

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Like, just just just pay
attention to what I'm doing.

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Just focus, put my blinders on
and try to ignore it, right?

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Because I would hope that if
this happened to you today,

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Anonymous, that you would be out
of there.

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So you'll be out of there.
That's just so scary.

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I hate the feeling of feeling
like someone's watching you,

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that eerie, eerie feeling.
But I'm OK.

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This is all a preface to the
thing that if you, if you know

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me, if this is not your first
episode, first of all, welcome.

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If it's your first episode,
welcome.

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I'm so happy to have you.
If it's not your first episode,

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you may or may not have clocked
what I'm going to say, which is

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your boyfriend being like, oh,
no, it's fine.

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Just go back to sleep and going
back to sleep when you're like,

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hey, wake up.
Someone is knocking on the front

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door.
Like there's a knock at the

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front door and he's got he's
going to just say that this 6

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foot 3 jacked man is going to
tell you just go back to sleep,

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Sir.
No, I'm going to tell you what,

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my dad not jacked, not 6 foot
three.

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He would do the same thing.
And I bet there's, I bet there's

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people that are listening that
are thinking, yeah, my dad's the

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same way or like my partner,
whatever.

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Someone, you know what?
Get up, get up.

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If you are a partner or a dad
who is the one that's like, oh,

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just go back to sleep.
You didn't hear anything, No,

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stop, get up.
Go check.

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Maybe it's a ghost, in which
case maybe it's a murderous

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ghost.
OK, but a that gives you the

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opportunity to die doing
something heroic.

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So you're welcome and #2 maybe
it's not a ghost, maybe it's a

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human, because that's one of my
theories for this story is that

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it's that really creepy
situation called frogging

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spelled PHROGGING.
And if you have not heard of

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frogging before, I'm so sorry
for the nightmares that you're

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going to have potentially,
hopefully not.

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But maybe, and I really am sorry
because you just can't unlearn.

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You can't unlearn it.
So you know, it's like maybe

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it's a ghost or you know what,
third case, it's a friendly

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ghost and nothing happens and
then you get to go back to

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sleep.
But at least you're sure now

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you're not going to get murdered
in your sleep by an ex murderer

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or by a scary old man ghost
without any teeth who's going to

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gum you to death.
You can see him coming if you're

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awake if your eyes open and not
30 minutes later after this

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jacked 6 foot 3X decides that he
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Oh, now it's an emergency.
OK, wasn't an emergency before

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and how it is hint, spoiler
alert etcetera.

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It was an emergency then and it
it is now as well, because

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knocking at the front door is,
I've said this in a previous

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episode, knocking at the front
door in the middle of the night

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is genuinely something that like
just the thought of it gives me

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goosebumps and not in like a fun
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The thought of it.
I don't like it.

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So if it was the middle of the
night in a house where I've

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heard footsteps and doors
closing and I feel like I'm

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being watched and I'm laying in
bed and my heart is pounding and

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I feel like something bad is
going to happen.

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And then there's three solid
knocks on my front door and my

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boyfriend tells me to just go
back to sleep.

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What a nightmare.
Like a waking nightmare.

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Anyway, it was an emergency
before and now it's an actual

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emergency and he actually calls
the cops.

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I agree.
That would be really scary that

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like, if someone who's like,
whatever, just go back to sleep

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so I don't have to deal with it,
actually calls the cops.

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That's a big deal.
That's I, I couldn't understand

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why you'd be scared.
So obviously he heard.

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OK let me get this straight.
You heard the knocking at the

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front door.
Boyfriend, ex-boyfriend heard

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the knocking at the garage door
and then footsteps walking into

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the house.
Now luckily you had said that

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you locked the bedroom door
behind you because you were

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feeling like someone was
watching you.

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So girl, good job following your
gut, listening to your gut.

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Always listen to your gut, guys.
Did you hear this?

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I heard I heard someone on
TikTok say it.

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But then I actually did kind of
lightly browse a study that said

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that.
I don't know what the comparison

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is.
I don't have it in front of me.

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But your brain has something
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Nope.
Your stomach, that's of course

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your brain has a lot of neurons.
Wow, great.

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This is going really well.
Your stomach has neurons and it

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millions of neurons in your
stomach and neurons are things

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your brain uses and they're in
your stomach.

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So there's something to
listening to your gut.

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There's something there.
You know what?

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Fact me fact checked me.
Wow.

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Oh my God, guys, I'm struggling.
OK, So I appreciate you being

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patient with me while I
struggle.

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Fact Check me on this, please.
So then not only, OK, not only

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does your 6 foot 3 pretty jacked
ex gaslight you to go back to

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sleep, but then when the police
show up, they gaslight you too.

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Oh, it was probably a bear.
Hmm, was it?

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I mean, why?
What was the evidence that you

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had?
What was the evidence that they

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had to say that it was a bear?
I mean, I'm sure they wanted to

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just tell you.
Oh, it was probably fine.

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Go back to sleep.
How are you going to sleep after

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that?
How are you going to sleep after

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that?
Like, OK, first of all, though,

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if you call the police and you
live in Canada, are you calling

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the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police?

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Are they the Mounties?
Is that who showed up?

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I genuinely don't know, but I
really want it to have been the

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Mounties.
So you're just, you know, so

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like everyone that you're asking
for help is like, oh, it's

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nothing.
Just go back to sleep.

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How how are you supposed to do
that?

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You know, because not only have
you been having this recurring

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nightmare, which I will say you
have established Anon you have

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established that you have a
history of like a sleep disorder

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and night terrors.
You know, so OK, but how do you

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explain that the ex-boyfriend
has the same old man in his

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dream and it happens on the same
night as the knocking on the

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doors and him hearing footsteps?
How?

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Like he doesn't have a history
of sleep disorders and night

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terrors?
I would assume that detail not

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having been included in the
story.

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That is so eerie.
So I, I mentioned, you know,

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like maybe it's a Frogger, maybe
it's someone, it's like a, you

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know, a squatter and they were
living in the house before you

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showed up.
And then you showed up and they

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didn't want to leave.
And so they just kind of kept

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hiding and living alongside of
you the whole time.

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And that's why you felt like you
were being watched.

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I think if you were looking for
a mundane explanation, I think

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that without knowing all the
other details of the house and

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whether or not that seems
possible, I feel like that

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sounds the most, Oh my God, I'm
telling you, I'm struggling.

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That sounds the most plausible,
but it's not the least scary.

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Like when I when I am offering
plausible mundane explanations

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for people's paranormal
experiences and unexplained

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stories, when I'm trying to say
here's what I think it could be,

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that's mundane.
I am saying that to spare them

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more psychological trauma.
I'm saying that to set their

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mind at ease.
But to me, learning that it's

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not a ghost and learning that it
was a human man living in my

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house alongside me and I didn't
know he was there, to me that's

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way scarier.
So I don't love that.

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I think I would rather it be a
ghost.

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So there's that if it's not
frogging.

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So knocking, as I've talked
about in in earlier episodes,

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knocking can be a few things,
Like for instance, it can be a

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harbinger of doom or it can be a
portent of death.

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Like if someone close to you
died recently, you will hear

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knocking and then you'll find
out later someone had died right

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around the time that you heard
the knocking.

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Since that detail wasn't
included, I have to assume that

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that wasn't that wasn't
designed.

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But it's possible that somebody
passed away after the story and

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you haven't put two and two
together.

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So let me know.
But it could be that It could

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also be apparently a
poltergeist.

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I just learned that poltergeists
specifically not only make

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knocking noises or like doors
opening or closing or cabinets

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opening and closing and just
random sounds in general, but

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when they knock it is associated
with three, three knocks

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Poltergeist.
I've been doing some research on

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my next deep dive episode, which
is about one of the other

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Conjuring movies or specifically
the Ed and Lorraine case file.

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And I'm talking about
poltergeists.

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And if you know anything about
The Conjuring universe or Out in

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the Rain Warren, you may know
what that next topic is going to

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be.
And also fun fact, did you know

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poltergeist is, yes, a German
word.

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But OK, German, German listeners
or anyone who speaks German,

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please correct me.
But I have heard that when you

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are German and you're talking
about a ghost or a poltergeist,

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you don't say poltergeist, you
say spook, which so funny to me.

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Spook.
I don't know how you spell it.

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Probably an umlaut in there
somewhere.

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Let me know,
madamstrangeways@gmail.com.

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Let me know what you think.
So it could be a poltergeist.

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I mean, you know, the activity
that you were experiencing.

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Yeah.
I mean, that kind of sounds like

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a poltergeist, but I don't think
there's typically dreams or, or

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shared dreams.
So then what is causing this

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shared dream?
And then also, are we dealing

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with more than one entity,
perhaps like is the knocking a

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warning?
Like is there a benevolent

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entity in the home that senses
this malevolent entity and

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they're warning you kind of like
one of the other explanations

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for knocking.
Sometimes when you hear

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knocking, especially when you're
in mines or in towns near where

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there were mines, the knocking
is from a knocker or a what are

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they, Knacker or a Tommy
Knocker.

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Not like Stephen King, but
they're basically these little

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subterranean gnome creatures who
are knocking on the walls of

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mines to warn miners of an
oncoming mine collapse so they

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can escape.
Although of course, some people

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think that they're tricksters
and that they're actually

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causing the mine collapse.
But I prefer the one where

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they're helping us.
And then and then OK, also,

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here's some more lore.
Those like the the the knockers,

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the the knockers who existed in
mines, when the mines shut down,

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they didn't have anywhere to go.
So they like went out into the

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communities near the mines and
then they would be knocking in

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people's homes as a warning of
something bad about to happen.

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So, you know, I don't know the
exact area that this was

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happening, but you know, if it
was near a mine, maybe that's

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one of the folklore
explanations.

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They're warning you.
So you've got this benevolent

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entity who is knocking to warn
you of an evil entity who is

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entering your dreams as an old
man doing the like exorcist

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upside down spider walk down the
stairs.

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I don't know.
I'm, I don't blame y'all for

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getting the hell out of there
and for not spending another

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moment in that house.
I also understand not telling

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your older cousins about it
because I think you said in the

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comments that they had kids, so
you don't want to spook them.

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Maybe they haven't experienced
anything.

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Maybe y'all have like the
shining or something.

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And y'all were both just, you
know, really tuned in.

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I mean, we know you were, you
said that, that you know, that

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your mom said that about you
earlier, you know, hearing

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things that go bump in the
night.

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So maybe, I don't know, maybe
there was like osmosis happening

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with your boyfriend and that's
why he was able to have that

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dream.
I don't know.

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It's terrifying though.
And again, it makes me never,

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ever, ever, ever, ever want to
go to a lake house ever so

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again.
Anonymous, thank you so much for

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letting me share your terrifying
story.

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I hope nothing like this ever
happened to you ever again.

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And that also goes for anyone
listening, unless you do want to

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encounter something like this,
in which case, yeah, sure, why

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not knock yourself out.
If you have a story that you

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would like to hear read on the
show, please go ahead, e-mail

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that to
madamstrangeways@gmail.com or

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check out my website at
madamstrangeways.com.

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Thank you so much for listening
to these spooky stories.

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Remember that you can feel
afraid and not be in danger.

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So if you have a true strange
story that you'd like to hear

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read on the show, go ahead and
send it to me, Madam

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strangeways@gmail.com or Madam
strangeways.com.

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And since word of mouth is so
important for podcasts, if you

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could, to me just one little
weird, spooky, strange, solid,

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that would be amazing.
And that would be telling your

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friends about the show, I'd
really appreciate it.

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All stories are read with the
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original authors.
Thank you so much for listening.

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See you next time.