Paved Over (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

Today, I'm going to tell you two very disturbing stories that are, you know, they've been published in a couple of different places. They're fairly well-known stories. But in many ways, they've been passed down from generation to generation because of how disturbing they really are. And so as a result, it's not entirely clear where the truth ends and the fiction begins. But what is true is that these stories are centered around things that did happen. So it's up to you, as you hear my rendition of these stories, what to believe. But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do. And we upload two, three, even four times every week. So if that's of interest to you, the next time the follow button gets up to get themselves a glass of water, tell them, "I got it," and then go get them a glass, but fill it with toilet water. Also, please subscribe. Subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads. Okay, let's get into today's stories. On the afternoon of August 12th, 1901, a middle-aged medical doctor named Adolph Brunrichter was sitting at his dining room table inside of his house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, across from a young woman that he had just met. Dr. Brunrichter had gone out of his way to make his house feel really inviting. He had opened up all the windows to let in all the natural light. He had turned on all the lights in the house to make sure there was no dark spots in his house whatsoever. And he'd also put some food out on the table, and he turned on a record, so there was some cheerful music playing in the background. But even still, Dr. Brunrichter was feeling pretty anxious about this. He was worried about his health, and he was worried about his life, and he was worried about this meeting. Because this young woman was here to interview for a job as his assistant, and he was desperate for this interview to go well, because this was going to be his fifth time hiring for this position. And now, as he was sitting across from this young woman, he kept noticing that she, you know, was smiling and talking to him, and doing all the things you would expect in an interview. But she also kept sort of looking past him, like she was, you know, sort of inspecting the house, looking deeper into the house to see if there was anything else there. But for Dr. Brunrichter, this behavior was not surprising. No one really ever relaxed inside of his house. Because his house had a reputation for being extremely haunted. So Dr. Brunrichter's house had been built in the late 1860s by a man named Charles Congelier. It was this beautiful big two-story red brick building with a finished basement. And after it was done, Charles and his wife and their maid, they all moved in, and for a few years, it was amazing. Like, they loved the house, and in many ways, it was sort of like the nicest house in the neighborhood, and everybody knew it. But then, a few years after it was made, so in 1871, we're talking roughly 30 years before Dr. Brunrichter moved in there, Charles's wife had caught Charles cheating on her with the maid that had moved in with them. And they were also in the marital bed. They were in the master bedroom. So this is like, horrible betrayal. And so in a fit of rage, the wife grabbed a knife and proceeded to hack Charles and the maid to death. And she even cut off the maid's head. And then after they were destroyed, the wife took the maid's head and went and sat on their rocking chair and just rocked, carrying this head until the next day when a neighbor found her. And so legend would have it that this house became haunted. Basically, from this point going forward. And it was haunted by the angry spirits of Charles and the maid. And people in the neighborhood, they all reported seeing dark figures in the windows of this house, and people said they would hear screams coming from inside the house. But the reality was, Dr. Brunrichter, who had heard all these stories when he purchased this home, you know, he didn't know if they were true or not, but it actually was the ghost stories that drew him to this house. It's why he bought this house. Because in addition to being a medical doctor by day, Dr. Brunrichter by night was an amateur paranormal researcher. And so he bought this supposedly haunted house to basically look into it and see if it was actually haunted, like do research on the house. And he had gotten so carried away with this research as soon as he had moved in that he actually wound up building this entire paranormal research laboratory in his basement where he began conducting additional experiments, you know, to, you know, do research on the house. So he was able to look for proof of life after death and other paranormal ideas. He was just researching it all in his basement that went well beyond his haunted house. He's now just like full-fledged making this his main focus outside of medicine. Now, so far, despite his enthusiasm for this paranormal research, Dr. Brunrichter had not had any significant breakthroughs. He had not found anything irrefutable. But in his opinion, that was because he just hadn't found the right assistant yet. I mean, his house had a reputation for being really creepy. I mean, in particular, his paranormal research lab in the basement of the haunted house really rubbed people the wrong way. And so his other four assistants had not been able to hack it. And so they just didn't stick around for very long. And so today for this interview, Dr. Brunrichter had gone way out of his way to try to make this house as not creepy as possible with the lighting and the food and the music. I mean, obviously there are a lot of things going on in the house, and there are a lot of things going on in the house, and there are a lot of things going on in the house, and there are a lot of things going on in the house, and there are a lot of things going on in the house, and there are interviewing for an assistant job with somebody who looks into the paranormal, but he's thinking, you know, maybe my approach with the others has been wrong. I need to soften this role. And so that's what he was doing. However, the young woman he was watching, she didn't really appear to care much for the decor and the mood setting that he had done. She actually seemed like she was pretty interested in looking around the house, like as if she was looking for a ghost. And she didn't seem scared. She seemed excited. She seemed interested. She seemed like thrilled to be in this house. Like, forget the mood. I want it to be dark. I want to get into this stuff with you. And what kind of sealed the deal for Dr. Brunrichter, that that was how she really felt, was as they're having like their initial conversation, and as she continues to look past him, like she's eagerly looking around the house, there was a floorboard that creaked somewhere in the house. Like someone had just stepped on it. Even though Dr. Brunrichter and this girl, they were the only ones here. And they both knew it. Like they're alone and there's, there's footsteps somewhere in the house. Now to Brunrichter, noises like that were so common that he didn't even react. But to anybody else, even someone who was interviewing for this role, like to work within the paranormal, like this could be a little bit unsettling. But he looked over at the girl to get her reaction, and she broke into this big smile. And she told him she'd always wanted to, to be inside of a real haunted house and to see a real ghost. That's why she was here. This was so fascinating. And hearing this, Dr. Brunrichter knew that he had found the right fit for this role. I mean, this young woman was clearly different. I mean, the others, they had, you know, basically been into this, but she seemed, you know, passionate about this. She was eager to work in the shadows, so to speak. And so Dr. Brunrichter just got right to the point. And he said to the young woman, you seem like a great fit. Do you want this job? It's yours if you want it. And the young woman was like, absolutely, absolutely. Yes, I want, I want this job. And so Dr. Brunrichter is like, great, I'll give you a tour of the house. A little while later, Dr. Brunrichter was now standing in his basement laboratory with his newly minted assistant. By this point, Dr. Brunrichter had given her a tour of the house and given her a whole rundown of the house's history. And at some point, they made their way into the bedroom upstairs where Charles's wife had hacked Charles and the maid to death all those years ago. And once the assistant had been inside of that bedroom where the murders actually happened, Dr. Brunrichter noticed that she seemed more serious. Like the whole situation of being in this house was less exciting and maybe a bit more frightening to her. She was less giddy about it, you know. And she was also very quiet. And she had this, this grave, almost sad expression on her face as she's, she's standing in the space where this horrible thing happened. But for Dr. Brunrichter, this felt like an appropriate reaction. This was a serious place. This was a place with really intense history. And as much as he wanted someone who was so into it, he also wanted someone not to treat it like a game. You know, this is, this is serious. You know, this is a serious scientific endeavor, at least in Dr. Brunrichter's mind. And so now, down in the basement, Dr. Brunrichter led his new assistant past his, his simpler ghost hunting equipment like Ouija boards and dowsing rods, and then past his more higher tech phonograph that allowed him to record and playback sounds. And then finally, he stopped them in front of this electric machine that he had actually built himself that was very high tech. It looked like this big metal cube-shaped container with a bunch of wires leading in and out of it. And this machine was something Dr. Brunrichter was very, very proud of. In many ways, it was sort of his shining accomplishment within his paranormal research. And today, he planned on using it with his assistant to conduct their next experiment. Like, this was the next thing they were going to focus on. Dr. Brunrichter's was that this machine of his would eventually allow him to communicate with the dead via electric signals. However, it required someone to be literally hooked up to the machine, namely the assistant, to actually receive these signals. Now, so far with every assistant who had helped him do this experiment, the machine had not worked yet. But Dr. Brunrichter felt pretty optimistic that this fifth assistant was the right one for the job. You know, fifth time's the charm here. She had the right attitude. You know, she was very serious while also being excited to do this type of research. She felt like the right person for this. And he was also going to change some of the settings on this device to sort of pump more signals into the machine than he ever had before. Basically, more electricity was being pumped in. So he led the assistant over to the machine and got her all hooked up. And then after, you know, she was situated, he looked at her and she had a very serious look on her face, like she was, you know, ready to do this, ready to pass along whatever came through this machine. And then when he felt like she was ready to go, Dr. Brunrichter walked over to the wall and he threw a switch, which sent electricity into this machine. And remember, this is like a higher level of electricity than ever before. And so he flips the switch and immediately he sees this huge flash of light. And then he heard something explode. Minutes later, a team of firefighters rushed to the front door of Dr. Brunrichter's house. All the windows have been blown out and there were flames raging inside and black smoke was billowing up out of the side of the house up towards the sky. One of the firefighters tried the handle. It was locked. So they kicked the door in and then they go inside and one by one, they begin breaking off, trying to put out the different fires. And at the same time, they were all looking for the middle-aged man that neighbors said lived here, Dr. Brunrichter. The firefighters pretty quickly got the flames on the first floor under control. But as they did that, they never found Dr. Brunrichter or anybody else for that matter. The first floor was vacant. But they eventually got to the basement door and they opened it up and they got hit with this wave of heat and flames. And obviously, there was a huge fire burning downstairs. And so the firefighters charged downstairs. They start spraying water everywhere. They're fighting this huge fire down there. And eventually, they get that under control. And after the fire has been put out and it's just smoke and ash everywhere, they began looking around for Dr. Brunrichter. Because at this point, the assumption is he must have died down here. And so they're looking around, they're sifting through the rubble, and they can't find anyone, at least not at first. It would turn out that Dr. Brunrichter really was fascinated by ghosts. That was his main pull into the paranormal. And more specifically, he was just really interested in this idea of is there life after death, which is sort of how ghosts became the focal point. But Dr. Brunrichter was not just researching ghosts. He was not just trying to learn about whether or not there is life after death. He was actively researching something known as reanimation, which in its simplest form is the practice of trying to make something that is dead come back to life. And so what Dr. Brunrichter was doing is he was hiring these assistants, the four assistants that he had had before his fifth one, and he was immediately murdering them, cutting their heads off, and then putting their heads in that metal cube he had built with the wires coming out of it. And once the head was in place, he would fire all this electricity into it in hopes of reanimating them, bringing them back to life. However, his first four attempts at this, his first four assistants that he had, they did not come back to life. They just died and stayed dead. But enter his fifth assistant, and Dr. Brunrichter is optimistic this is going to be the one that works. And so he gets this young woman to commit to being his assistant. She's excited. He brings her on the tour through the house. They get up to that bedroom where he details how this is where the murders all took place of the previous owner, like his wife killed him. And it was very likely in that room that Dr. Brunrichter kills this assistant. And then he takes her decapitated head, goes down into the basement, and he puts her inside of that device, her head. And then he throws that switch, except he increased the electrical current into this machine. And as soon as he threw that switch, it basically exploded and everything caught on fire and the whole house basically burned down. And so the firefighters, they go into the house, they put out the fire. And when they get to the basement and the fire is out, what they find is amongst the ash, they find five severed human heads, including the fifth head, which was the most recent assistant who was still positioned inside of that cube, which had not been destroyed by the fire. And so there's like this human head that's still smoking with wires protruding from it. But despite finding all this carnage and realizing what Dr. Brunrichter had been doing, killing all these people in his house, Dr. Brunrichter himself was never found. His body was not found in the rubble of his home. And they searched extensively for him, because at this point they're thinking he's a killer. He's got to be here. But he wasn't. And so it's believed during the fire, Brunrichter escaped the house and fled and successfully evaded capture until whenever he died, he was never, ever caught. And so that story began to percolate across the neighborhood and across the country. And so nobody bought the house that this all happened in. I mean, the fire basically ruined it, but it was still standing there. It was just kind of abandoned. And for the longest time, it stayed that way. It was just this abandoned, horrible place that nobody wanted to go near. And stories continued to build of people walking by, claiming they could see, you know, dark shadows wandering around this already notoriously haunted house, which was made far worse by this horrible tragedy that was discovered in the basement. You know, screams were heard and all this weird stuff around this house. It continued to be sort of this infamous place. And then 30 years after Dr. Brunrichter had disappeared and this fire all happened, 30 years after that, there was a gas leak in the house, this abandoned house, and it literally blew up. So the house just got blown to shreds and they ultimately just paved over it. And today it is simply a parking lot. Our next and final story of today's episode is called "The Neighbor." One night in the winter of 1991, a young college student whose name was Jihoon walked down the hallway of an apartment building in the city of Pohang, South Korea. He'd been studying basically all day long, so he was really tired and eager to just sit down and eat dinner. And he knew there'd be a home-cooked meal waiting for him as soon as he walked in the door. So he was really excited. So Jihoon had recently moved to Pohang to attend a university nearby. And while he was in class, while he was a college student, he was staying in this spare bedroom of this nice elderly couple's apartment. It was basically like his dorm room. Now, he'd only been going to the school and living in this pseudo dorm room for about a month now, but so far it had been great. School was great. City was great. And the couple, they were, like, so nice. They kept him well fed. They were very understanding of his schedule. They were very easy to live with. However, there was one thing that Jihoon did not like about his current life setup, and that was the apartment building itself, where he was staying. So this building, which from the outside was, you know, a new, nice-looking building, had sort of developed this reputation for being a really almost dangerous place to live, just through lore alone. Because there had been a number of unexplained deaths in these apartment buildings of, like, young, healthy people who just suddenly had heart attacks. And so people were, like, kind of fearful of this building where he was living. And it was not just outsiders who felt this way about the building. Residents themselves had grown very paranoid about living here. You know, there were, there were fears that there was something happening in the building itself. Like, there was some hazard in the building, like a biohazard or something that was slowly killing people. And so residents were fearful of that. And then also, there were these theories amongst residents that, you know, maybe this is because somebody's doing something here. Like, maybe there's someone responsible who lives here. Like, a killer is in our midst who's somehow responsible for these heart attacks. Like, it didn't make any sense, but people were paranoid. And as a result, Jihoon found none of the residents wanted anything to do with each other. You'd pass by somebody in the hallway, and it was like they went out of their way to not look at you and not interact with you. And so, again, that really contrasted to the… the newness of the building. This is like a bright, nice place to live, and everyone's like closed off and skittish and paranoid. I mean, even the couple Jihoon was living with, they, for the most part, were, you know, fairly warm to him. They didn't show, like, the anxiety that other residents would show him as he passed them in the halls. But they, despite being very calm and sensible people, they had quickly warned him when he moved in. Like, "Don't even talk to your neighbors. Like, this, this is a bad place to live. Like, just keep to yourself." "Come in and out of here, and don't interact with anyone." And for Jihoon, this environment was like even harder for him than most people because he was from a small town where everybody sort of knew each other and were generally very neighborly. But it was like this was the opposite and he just felt awkward. But this was the situation he was in and he felt like at the end of the day, it was temporary. He was basically just using this as a dorm room to get through college and then before long, you know, at the end of school or maybe even the end of the semester, who knows? He would move somewhere else and this would be a thing of the past. And so Jihoon, he reached floor seven, which is where the couple's apartment was where he was staying. He got off the elevator and he began walking down the long hallway and his door, 705, was all the way at the very end. And as he was walking along, he noticed at the end of the hallway, walking in his direction was a young woman who he didn't recognize, but he figured she had to be a resident and invariably as they passed each other, she was guaranteed to, you know, turn away from him and make every effort not to interact with him because that's just how it was in this apartment building. But as they walked past each other, Jihoon did not do that. He never turned himself away from people. He just walked down the hall, you know, ready to be receptive to conversation if they happened, but not expecting anything. And he's walking down the hallway and right as they're about to pass each other, this woman does not turn away from him. She instead looks right at him. She smiles and says, Hello. And Jihoon, he was, you know, despite being kind of ready for some sort of interaction with anybody he passed by, this really caught him off guard. But he quickly recovered and stopped and said hello right back and introduced himself. And before he knew it, the two of them were just chatting in the hall, something he never did with anybody. Now, the woman did quickly say that she had actually just moved in, which to Jihoon, he didn't say this, but he's thinking, you know, that probably explains why she's out here talking to people because nobody does that. In this apartment building, you know. But she did say to him that it was a pleasure to meet him and she seemed very genuine. And Jihoon, he said the same thing right back to her. And, you know, as he's having this conversation, he felt relieved. I mean, this was how, at least in his opinion, how neighbors should behave. They should be neighborly. And he was glad to have finally met someone who wasn't acting so weird. Eventually, the pair wrapped up their conversation and as the woman was walking past Jihoon to continue to talk to him, she said to him that she'd like to get to know him better. And he was welcome to come up to her apartment anytime if they wanted to chat some more. And she told him her apartment was number 1301. And then she walked down the hallway and disappeared. And Jihoon, he's watching her walk away and he just had this immediate feeling like something is off here. He felt really unsettled because he had heard about apartment 1301 before. It was at the center of some of the many strange stories about this apartment building. That apparently there was like this strange woman who lived there and everybody who interacted with her, like horrible things happened to them. And so the idea that he just happened to run into a young woman in the hallway who actually wants to talk to him when nobody else in the entire place ever wants to talk to him and she's staying in apartment 1301, that was just really creepy. And suddenly Jihoon just wanted to get to his apartment and just get away from this woman. And so down the hallway he hustled, opened up the door and went inside, shut it and locked it behind him. Now inside the apartment, Jihoon, who again is still feeling like not good here, he immediately walked into the kitchen because he heard the sound of the elderly couple. They were clearly getting ready for dinner and he's got this look on his face of just something's off. You know, he just had this weird experience and he's not feeling right. And the couple, they turn and they look at him and they immediately sense something is wrong. And they say to him like, hey, are you okay? What's going on? Like, you know, tell us like what's happening. And Jihoon, he just looks down and just shakes his head. Like he was at a loss for words. He didn't even know what to say. You know, he couldn't tell if he was, you know, combining details of stories and scaring himself or if this was, you know, he was just like, actually genuinely bizarre what's just happened here. And so the woman of the elderly couple, she just becomes very motherly and she walks over and she takes Jihoon and guides him over to the couch and she sits down with him and she says like, hey, are you okay? Like, tell me, you know, something's on your mind here. Tell me what's going on. And meanwhile, the older man, he went and he got a cup of water and he brought it back. And Jihoon, he's sipping the water and he's clearly still very upset. And at some point he just says, I met the woman who lives in apartment 1301. I just met her in the hall. Please tell me the story about her is not true. And then he looked at the couple expecting them to be like, oh no, no, it's of course this place is weird, but there's no truth to that. But the couple, they just exchanged this look of like, uh-oh, something really bad has happened here. And for maybe like 20 seconds or so, it's just silent. And Jihoon realized like, they believe that story is true. Like, I'm in trouble. So over the past year and a half, this apartment building had had all those unexplained deaths. There was more than a dozen people, young, healthy people that just dropped dead in this apartment building. And that's obviously what spawned the bad vibes here and people thinking this place was haunted. And that was all, that was all true. But there was actually a core similarity amongst these seemingly disconnected, disconnected deaths that was pretty difficult to ignore. But so far, no one had really looked that closely into it. And that was the story of the girl in apartment number 1301. So this apartment building was fully occupied except for one apartment on floor 13, 1301. It was not occupied and it never had been. However, all these people began claiming to have met a young woman who lived in 1301. And wouldn't you know it, the very people who all claimed that are the ones who died. They all died after telling their loved ones and friends that, yeah, I had this weird interaction with this young woman who claimed to live in 1301. And all of them who died, died the same way. They all died from a heart attack. And so now Jihoon is like, I just met the girl who claimed to live in 1301. Am I about to have a heart attack? Now, the elderly couple, at first, they definitely had their initial pretty obvious reaction, which was fear. They clearly saw that this is bad. Yeah, you might've met the ghost and you might be dying of a heart attack. They had that reaction, but quickly they softened. And the woman, she says to Jihoon, don't worry about it. Like, there's no way that story's true. You know, I'm sure people are making it up. And honestly, because this seems to be sort of this made up story, people are passing around. I bet that was just a prank. I bet that girl did that to you on purpose. I bet she just wanted to freak you out. I mean, people here are weird. That seems like something somebody would do here. So don't worry about it. I'm sure you're fine. But how about tonight? Just don't sleep in your room. Sleep in me and my husband's room. You can sleep on the ground and we'll be right next to you and we'll make sure you're okay. All right, does that work for you? And Jihoon's like, you know, he's thinking about it. He's like, yeah, it does sort of feel like that could have been a prank. You know, this whole thing, it's so ridiculous. He even started to feel kind of embarrassed that he clearly had been so worried when he walked in here, like, oh my God, this ghost is gonna kill me now. And now he's sort of embarrassed and he's like, okay, great. You know what? I'll sleep in your room and you're right. I'm sure it will be fine. And so shortly after that, they got up, they had their dinner, they went about their evening routine. And sure enough, that night, they went into the elderly couple's room. They climbed into their bed and Jihoon, he lied down on a mat on the floor. And then before long, they had drifted off to sleep. Or at least Jihoon and the husband drifted off to sleep. The elderly woman, her name was Soon Hee. She didn't fall asleep because she was just laying there feeling genuinely terrified. She had lied to Jihoon. She told him that this was very likely a prank, but inside, she felt the way her initial reaction gave off. She did believe that that woman, she had interacted with was a ghost, that the ghost was real, that they occupied apartment 1301. And they were the harbinger of doom here. They are the reason that all these people are having heart attacks and dying. And now she's laying here thinking Jihoon is gonna die. Like any second here, he's gonna have a heart attack. He's gonna die. And so she's laying there in bed and she's listening to Jihoon breathe, to make sure he's still alive. And she's thinking to herself, like how crazy this is. The residents of this apartment, the apartment building had repeatedly gone to the police to say, you need to look into this. There's a connection amongst all these deaths. They're not just accidental, random heart attacks or something. All of these people claimed to have met this person in room 1301, which is not occupied. You gotta look into it. But the police never did. They just ruled all these deaths as heart attacks. It happens. And nobody was looking into it. And so it was like this horrible truth that the residents lived with. with, at least she lived with. She really believed it. And so Soon-Hee, as she's lying on the bed here, just listening to Ji-Hoon to make sure he's alive, she tells herself, I'm going to make sure he's okay tonight. Like, I'm just going to stay up all night. I'm going to lay here and I'm just going to make sure he lives through the night. At least if he gets through tonight, it'll feel like maybe this was a prank. Maybe this was a close call. And so all night, Soon-Hee is laying there with Ji-Hoon down on the floor and she's just listening to his breathing. She's totally wired, you know, she's just so scared. But at some point, maybe three, four in the morning when, you know, it's very hard to stay awake at this point and Ji-Hoon is clearly still alive, Soon-Hee, she drifts off to sleep. But then suddenly she wakes up and she thinks she hears whispering coming from down below on the floor, like it could be Ji-Hoon and he's saying something. And she immediately sits up in bed and she turns and she looks, but, you know, Ji-Hoon, he's just sleeping. He's not. He's not speaking. He's not saying anything. The room is completely quiet and her husband, he's asleep too. And she's telling herself, like, did I just, did I imagine that? And she also couldn't help but feel like the whispering she heard, it almost sounded feminine. Like it didn't sound like Ji-Hoon. But again, she's thinking, you know, maybe I was just imagining that. I'm scaring myself. And so Soon-Hee, she lied back down on the bed, now determined to stay awake, like it was an accident falling asleep in the first place. I'm scaring myself here. I gotta stay awake. And just, it's almost the morning. Just lay here and make sure he's okay. And so she's, she's laying on her bed, fully awake. And then she hears it again. It's whispering. And it's definitely coming from the ground right next to her. And it's not Ji-Hoon. It is a woman's voice. And as Soon-Hee is laying on the bed listening, she's, she's frozen. She can't even move, but she can hear what the voice is saying to her. It's whispering, almost like it's, it's talking to her. It's saying. "I can't wait to get to know you." And then Soon-Hee, after she heard that, it's like her whole body went tense and then everything just went black and she passed out. A few hours later, Soon-Hee came back to life. She woke back up with a start. And at first she was just confused. Like she'd come out of a much deeper sleep than usual. And she was just having a hard time remembering where she was or what was happening. But then the events of the previous night came rushing back to her. And so. She leapt out of bed, praying that this had all been some kind of horrible nightmare. But the second she turned and looked at the ground, she screamed. Because Ji-Hoon was lying there and he was clearly deceased. He was on his back. His eyes were wide and his mouth was wide open. Like he was screaming. It was like something had terrified him right before he died. Shortly after his death, authorities were called. They came in. An investigation was done. And it was determined that Ji-Hoon had died from a heart attack. Just like all the others who had died in the building after, according to people who knew them, who had seen this woman from apartment 1301. But after Ji-Hoon's death, the remaining residents of the building had had enough. You know, they weren't going to stick around anymore and in fear they might be the next victim here. And so most of them attempted to sell off their units. But, you know, trying to sell an apartment in this building was really hard. It was really difficult considering the stories about the hauntings and the deaths. And so nobody would buy them. And so the residents were so upset that they banded together and they complained a lot. And they were finally able to get the developer who had built the apartments to pay for them to relocate because they couldn't sell their apartments. And so in 1995, all the remaining residents, including the elderly couple, finally moved out and the building was abandoned. And eventually, Ji-Hoon died. After the building was reduced to dirt, officials never really looked into it again and never offered any explanation for any of it. A quick note about our stories. They are all based on true events. But we sometimes use pseudonyms to protect the people involved and some details are fictionalized for dramatic purposes. The Mr. Ballin Podcast, Strange, Dark, and Mysterious Stories is hosted and executive produced by me, Mr. Ballin. Our head of writing is Evan Allen, produced by Jeremy Bone and Cole Lacascio. This episode was written by Kate Murdoch. Research and fact-checking by Shelley Hsu, Samantha Van Hoose, Evan Beamer, Abigail Shumway, Camille Callahan, Alex Paul, Ben Faciano. Research and fact-checking supervision by Stephen Eare. Audio editing and post-produced by Whit Lacascio and Jordan Stidham. Production support by Mr. Ballin. Support by Antonio Monada and Delaina Corley. Artwork by Jessica Clogston-Kiner. Theme song, Something Wicked, by Ross Bugden. Thank you for listening to the Mr. Ballin Podcast. And just a reminder, every new and exclusive episode we put out on the Mr. Ballin Podcast, you can also now watch on the Mr. Ballin YouTube channel that very same day. And trust me, some of these stories you truly have to see to believe. Again, my YouTube channel is just called Mr. Ballin. If you want to listen to episodes one week early, and ad-free, you can subscribe to SiriusXM Podcast Plus on Apple Podcasts, or visit SiriusXM.com slash podcast plus to listen with Spotify or another app of your choice. 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