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168. The Scariest Reddit Stories We’ve Heard (feat. Kris & Celina from Can't Sleep)

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168. The Scariest Reddit Stories We’ve Heard (feat. Kris & Celina from Can't Sleep)

Kayla Moore shares a collection of chilling and emotionally resonant stories from Reddit, focusing on paranormal experiences rooted in childhood and personal history. One story involves a girl who, as a child, saw her friend’s Barbie doll with a brush moving through its hair, later confirming that a real friend had vanished. Another recounts a young girl who saw a ghost named Mary Agnes, whose identity was tied to a historical figure who died of scarlet fever. Multiple listeners report similar childhood ghost encounters, such as a figure with no face appearing in a bedroom, which mirrors a sibling’s experience, reinforcing the idea of shared spectral memories. A particularly disturbing story involves a man at one in the morning knocking on a stranger’s parents’ door, claiming to be searching for a high school boyfriend with a unique name, which sets off a chain of investigations and theories. This mystery is later linked to a similar incident involving another person’s ex-boyfriend, suggesting a possible emotional vendetta. Another story centers on a couple’s refusal to buy a home due to haunting fears, only to discover a tragic murder occurred in the basement. These narratives highlight how personal, emotional, and psychological factors—such as unresolved relationships, trauma, or sleep paralysis—can explain or amplify supernatural experiences. The episode underscores the deep connection between human emotion and the perception of the unexplained, showing how seemingly random events can feel deeply personal and real to those who live them.

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Welcome back to Hearts I It's Founding. As always, I'm your host, Kayla Moore. I, like many of you, spend a lot of time trying to find terrifying stories on the internet to scare myself with. Why do we do this to ourselves? Well, that's probably for a therapist to figure out one day. But today, I wanted to share with you some of the creepiest tales I've found from Reddit with my dear friends, Chris and Selena from the Can't Sleep channel. And this is actually perfect timing for a listener appreciation month, because Chris and Selena are probably two of the most requested guests that I've gotten from you all. And speaking of listener appreciation month, just a reminder that we have free shipping on all of our merch and our merch store. You can find that at heart starts pounding dot com. I've also been sending some free goodies to you guys who are posting on Instagram where you listen. You can tag me in your Instagram stories and hashtag where I listen, HSP, and I might reshare some of those and also send you a code for some goodies. Also, this week I did want to shout out another one of your small businesses. This time it's welcome to the club clothing. I heard from listener Jesse who is the founder and the co-owner, so I ordered their famous oversized black t-shirt that says still emo and rhinestones, and you guys I'm not kidding when I say I have gotten so many compliments on this shirt. I was just in Austin for South by Southwest, and I wore it around downtown one day. And I swear I was like an emo whisperer. One guy even stopped me on the street to talk about Hawthorne Heights for like 20 minutes. I was cracking up. I'm gonna include a link in the description so that you can get your own still emo shirt if you are, like me, still emo, or really anything from their collection. And just a huge shout out to them and truly all of our listeners that are putting in the work on their own small businesses because you guys are rock stars. Alright, back to the episode with my friends Chris and Salina. Chris and Salina, welcome to Heart Starts Founding. Hi, thank you. Thanks for having us. I am so excited to have you guys. I told you this before, but probably the most requested guests per my audience. So I think everyone's going to be really excited that you're here. Yeah, absolutely. Well, because you guys kind of cover it all like Chris, you have your true crime channel. You guys talk about a lot of ghosty stuff. You go to a lot of ghosty places. It's really just like a per, it's kismet that we're all here. Yes. Yeah, actually, it just makes sense. Yeah, we had a little talk before we met here right now and yeah, it's just made sense. Good to give. Have you guys gotten anywhere ghosty recently? Salina has. I've been out being spooky. Chris, I need to get back together. Yeah, we have plans though. We're heading back out into the ghost wilderness in the next couple of months. Yeah, do you have like the first place on your list that you're going to hit like right away? No, not yet. Not exactly. We're like not really get up planning. We're just like two weeks before we're like, we should break this out and then we figure it out. It works. Yeah. No, that's the best way to do it. That's the best way to do it. I. One of the episodes I did for the show, I went to Salem and we stayed in the Henry Derby House. Henry Spooky, 10 out of 10, highly recommend. And me, I'm like, I'm a planner, so I like to go in with a plan and I like to, okay, what are we going to film first, like, what do we want to do first, like, how are we going to do this? And then I went with two girls one ghost and they're like, let's just vibe. Let's just feel it out, like, see where, and that was the absolute right way to do it. Yes. You can't have too much of a plan because things go awry in those situations. You're going to have a beach sheet. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we go in. What room is what? We do a little tour first and we're like, this room seems weird. Let's try this room. It has five. Yeah. So it is vibes. We base it off vibes mostly too. Yeah. When you walk into a place, do you feel like you get a vibe immediately because some people are more sensitive than others? Salinas, the vibe, pick her up her. Oh, definitely. Definitely. But I feel like, Chris, you're getting more and more into it every time. I feel like you bring it up now before even I do. I like to watch her and see and I can like see the shift in her and I'm like, she feels it too. I'm her padawan basically. Yeah. She's like, she learning. Yeah. No, it's cool. Salina, where do you feel it if you walk into a room and you immediately know something's up? Like, how do you feel it in your body? So for me, I get like a little visual, like, you know, static on a TV. It's static in the roof for me. So it's almost like my eyes get a little pins and needles in my eyes up top. And then it's usually goosebumps or my neck gets hot. So those are the order and that what kind of goes in. Ooh. Okay. Yeah. I definitely feel the face getting hot. That's something. You're ringing? Left ear ring. I know it's not biological. She's just got tenitis and having a stroke. It's like something don't feel right in this room. We have a paramedic on side. It's fine. Yeah. Just in case. Yeah. But we were talking about it on our, we were filming right before this. How excited we were to actually talk to a different person. Yeah. Well, good night and cloud. We can't sleep with anybody. It's fun. Yeah. You're first collab. Oh my gosh. No way. Yeah. Wait. I'm so honored. Yeah. Thank you so much. This is great. I'm so excited. I mean technically we're on your channel, but we will have you on our channel. Yes. No, that's great. No. Honestly, like so excited you guys are here. So excited we were able to plan this. We have some really scary stories that I'm excited to get into today. And so I'm going to kick it off. I want to tell you about this because like the stories I found honestly were just me on Reddit at one in the morning in between feedings being like, let me just scare myself. Yes. As I was coming through, just scary stories. And I found, so the first thing I want to read you is I found this threat. This is from four months ago in our slash ghosts and the threat. These are my favorite threats on Reddit. But someone just asks, what is that one story that not only made you believe in the paranormal, but also sends chills down your spine to this day? And I'm not talking about, I heard something move in the kitchen. I mean something disturbing. And so this first personal experience story that someone wrote out comes from a poster called the Clementine Yeah. And they wrote, not a story, but a personal experience. I had a friend when I was little, probably age 7 to 10 given how well I remember her. She was older than I was and she had long brown hair. She always wore the same thing, black jeans and a red polo shirt. She would just show up and play with me, usually we would play Barbies, we would play together for hours, and then she would tell me she would have to go and she would leave. One night when I was 10, I woke up and one of my Barbie dolls was standing on my dresser and her little purple plastic brush was going down through her hair. I couldn't see anyone holding it, but somehow I just knew that it was my friend. I sat up in bed and I strangely told her that I didn't like what she was doing and that she was scaring me. The brush stopped, the Barbie laid down and then all was quiet. I laid back down and I went back to sleep. I never saw my friend again after that. I spoke to my parents about it a few years later, and while my mom was incredulous, my father confirmed that he had seen her too, but they both told me without question that she was not a real person. Fast forward approximately 10 years, I'm moving out of my childhood home, I had already been gone for a couple of years but hadn't actually moved any of my things out. The day after I had mostly cleared out my room, my dad called me and said, "I have kind of a weird request for you. Could you come by and tell your friends that you're all right?" I was taking a shower and I saw her walk through the bathroom, then your bedroom door opened. I called to her but I don't think she listens to me. So I did just that, I went home, I went to my old bedroom and I swear I could smell her there. My room smelled like incense, despite none ever being lit in there. I sat down in the middle of the floor and just talked for a while. I told her I wasn't sure if she could hear me that everything was okay and that I had moved out into a nice apartment near my new job. I told her about my new job, I told her how old I was just in case she never knew. I thanked her for being my friend and I told her I was sorry about how our friendship ended, that I never forgot her and I found some comfort knowing she was still here. I told her that my parents were moving soon so I probably wouldn't be back to this house ever and I said that I didn't want her to be lonely so I hoped if she ever wanted to move on she could. Then I stood up, I turned off my light and I said goodbye, shut the door, I headed down the hall to tell my dad that I had done what he had asked and then my bedroom door clicked back open and I heard a very clear "see ya" I turned around to look but decided to leave the door open and I just wait. I'm 36 years old now and I had my daughter last year. One night early in the newborn trenches I was operating on almost zero sleep and rocking the baby quietly in the dark when I got the urge to talk to her. I introduced my baby out loud and I talked about my birth experience, I told her how old I was now and how I was told I couldn't have children but here we are and I swear I heard her laugh, sigh and then whisper like she was trying not to wake up my baby. Beautiful. I haven't spoken to her since but I still think about her. Oh, that one gave me goosebumps when I read it. That is. I love that. Cute. Yeah. Yeah. I love a sweet or like a friendship ghost story or like ghost romance. They're not all bad. Yes. I agree. Oh wow. I like how chill she was about a Barbie just being like having a brush go through her hair. Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing your Barbie standing on the dresser which is just terrifying and jollable. I would die. That's like the furbie. So when the furbie is in the middle of the night, she's like, "Chelsea, go to bed. Start brushing her hair." That's crazy. That's how I picture Selena's life growing up because she said she goes all the time. She sees dead people. Mary Agnes. That was my best friend. Yeah. As a little kid you would see who's Mary Agnes. So my parents bought this house and it was only two years old and they had bought it in the summer and they would hear like music box sounds and stuff. my mom was pregnant with me, or in all the way. Windows were closed. They'd still hear like this like tinkling music box. And then as soon as I was born, like it was really clear I was always following things like a newborn. But as I got older, there was this little friend who lived in the space of the wall between the two closets in my bedroom. I called her Mary and as I started to learn words better, it became that her name was Mary Agnes. And then when I was about four, my mom saw like a little girl under the table for a split second. She's like, oh, might not be an imaginary friend. So she ended up getting the historical society to come in. And one of the like families that found our town had a daughter named Mary Agnes and she died of scarlet fever. So that was-- - You're kidding. - That was my friend. And then years later, they owned so much land in our town. My first house was on what still would've been their land, but separate house. And we had an EVP recording and it was just someone went, it's me Mary and you could, it was so clear, but it was like in this whispery sound. And that was the last time I ever heard of her, but she was still around it. I don't have memory at all of what she looks like. It's just living through stories that my family told me, but interesting. So when you did that, I was like, 'cause when I left my old house, I did that. I'm like, Mary, I'm moving out of town. That was kind of the last thing I said to the house. So that was weird. I'm like, listen to this story. I'm like, they oh, my resonate. I never mind if it be a view. - That is crazy. Do you remember how old you were when it started? - Honestly, it's like one of my first memories. So I would say I was like three. And I remember really little, always seeing a woman in a black dress out of my peripheral all the time in the hallway. And it was like, I'd sit at the table, I'd see her when I'd look, she wasn't there. But my earliest memories as like a human and like being alive is of spooky stuff. - You know, we did, it was one of the bonus episodes that I did where we talked about past life regression. And one thing that was so interesting that I learned while doing that episode was how sacred the age of three is and a lot of other cultures around the world, because they fully recognize that age three is when kids have like the clearest vision and to what other spirit realms are out there. So they will take three year olds around and they'll ask them like, what do you remember from your previous life? And kids have like straight up solved murders. Been like, I was a person who was killed by like this guy in town and yeah, because at three years old, you just have like the ability to connect. - I'm not ready. I'm not ready. - True. - So it makes sense that you were three years old. That's, oh, that's cool. - So spooky. - That's cool. - I would have been diabolical. I would have just made stuff up. (laughing) - You would have. - I would have, I was a bastard at three. That would have been terrible. - You were just like a horrible toddler just out there. - Yeah. - I was just like guys, I know everything. - Oh my gosh, yeah. Just accusing everyone in town. - Exactly. - Murder. - Pitting people against each other. Well, I steal cookies from the cookie jar. - Yeah. - So I was reading through the comments. Actually, let me read you some of the comments that people wrote because I was very like unsurprised at the amount of other people who had like kind of spooky go see things happen when they were young that commented on this thread. So one of the comments was when I was around 11 or 12, I used to share a bedroom with my sister who was around nine. One night, some sound woke me up and I sat up and saw a human shaped thing sitting on the padded storage bench at the end of our room. I thought I was my sister at first, so I called her name a couple of times. She wasn't in bed. I started to freak out as it was looking in my direction, but had a black space where the face was supposed to be. The rest of the body was white, but it was solid as a person and moving its arms, but there was no sound. It felt like about two to three minutes staring at it and then I had this overwhelming feeling of exhaustion come over me and I fell back to sleep. I woke up the next morning, summed over in bed, but in the same sitting position and I realized I had wet the bed. This has not happened to me since I was three. Sister was still gone. I ran to my parents' room and my sister was in their bed and they said she had come running into their room scared in the middle of the night, saying a ghost was in her room. She described the exact same thing as me. We're now in our late 40s, but still remember it as clear as if it happened last night. Legit the most terrified I've ever been to this day. - Hmm. - I'll pass it through the head. - Hell no. Yeah, two accounts of the same thing and the same night. That's crazy. - No, I hate that because I have sleep paralysis and so my initial thought was like, oh, does sleep paralysis, some people think it's supernatural, some people don't, but you can write it off as sleep paralysis. But then when someone else sees it, it's always when someone else experiences the same thing. - It makes it so much more real. Yeah, guy at sleep paralysis is a kid and I remember it just being the most horrifying thing ever, but you still have it? - Mine didn't start till college. - Oh, interesting. - What was yours like as a kid? 'Cause I have never heard of children having it. - Oh yeah, I had it and then I started getting migraines very shortly after I get chronic migraines. So I don't know if that correlated or what it was, but mine was around like that I can remember four or five and then I continued till I got into high school and then I just kind of, I still have only nightmares. Like I only have nightmares every night and I still talk in my sleep. Like Selena, yeah, you know this? - Yeah, I didn't know it was every night. - Yeah, it's every night. And it's funny 'cause so does Kayla. We both have chronic migraines. - Anyway, but I used to-- - Do you have a gas leak? - Yeah, I would. - Have you checked for a carbon monoxide? - Maybe, but we both have had it since we're like six, seven, eight. So we just both grew up with it, but yeah, sleep paralysis, I would just, you know, you just will think that you wake up and there would just be always somebody like sitting at the end of my bed or sitting on top of me or in the closet and you just can't move. And it is like the most horrifying thing ever. And I would wake up screaming, my mom would come in and that I'd always get like migraines around that same time and I didn't understand what they were or I just knew my head hurt. It was just a bad time. - That's spooky. - I was very confusing as a kid, but I think as I got older, I just started understanding that my sleep paralysis was like just nightmares. So like I could, and that migraines are migraines. So, but as a kid, it was terrible. So I'm sorry, you still have sleep paralysis. - No, but at least as an adult kind of what you were saying, you can understand that it's a nightmare or you can at least understand like if I breathe, I had heard somewhere that on average that it only lasts three seconds and I actually don't think that's true. But I've been able to, now when it starts, I can count. And my sleep paralysis demon will still come into the room and we have a whole sweray, the whole thing we do where he'll get into bed with me, start crushing me. Whisper in my ear that he's gonna kill me. - All right, well, they'll remove it onto the next round. - Yeah, do you wanna read yours? You have the next round? - Yeah, you direct me. - Go for it. - All right, okay, so this is my story. It is weird guy shows up at my parents' house at one a.m. looking for me and using details of my life that were valid 20 years ago, help me figure this out. - I already hate it. - This is post, it's no sense, but okay. Posted by Lampro Capnose, one, three, two, four in R/RBI, what's RBI? - Oh, Reddit Bureau of Investigations. Are you on that subreddit? - I have a new one, no, I'm so excited. - It's really good, it's just like a bunch of Reddit, there's like lawyers in there, but it's just people who are like, this weird thing happened, can you help me solve what's going on? There was someone who was like, I think the woman upstairs is running a cult, and people will help search what cult they could be, like what area are you in, like I'm looking up now, it's really cool, you should check it out. - I'm so excited. I have a new rabbit hole, fantastic. All right, this was October 5th, 2022, trigger warning, possible stalking. This happened three nights ago, and I'm going crazy trying to figure it out. I just moved into a new apartment one month ago, and I am still unpacking and settling in. I have been using my parents' address as my mailing address, who live a few towns over 20 minutes away, all my life. Three nights ago, my parents called me at 2am, freaked out and proceeded to tell me the story. Oh my God, 2am, okay. Apparently, 1am someone started banging on their front door and repeatedly ringing their doorbell. My stepdad walked downstairs and opened the door. That's a man, man, leaving the front glass door closed and locked. There was a man standing outside, who looked to be in his 30s, with a black hoodie on, with a hood pulled up around his face. He didn't have any distinguishing facial features, facial hair or tattoos. Neither my stepdad or my mother, who was watching the whole thing out a window, recognized the man. The man said, "I'm so sorry to bother you, but I'm looking for my full name." My stepdad played dumb and said, "Who?" The man proceeds to state my full name again and says that my boyfriend is worried because I didn't come home that night. He claimed to be a friend of my boyfriend and told my stepdad that they are both out looking for me, worried because I didn't show up at home. I don't have a boyfriend. I live by myself with my three dogs and haven't been in a relationship in the past five to six months. Here's the weird part. My stepdad asked the guy what boyfriend he was talking about and the man told him the name of the boyfriend I had when I was in 10th grade, nearly 20 years ago. My boyfriend in 10th grade has a very, very unique Italian name. - Sorry. Sly did I read a story right before we came on in this guy named Mario and it just made me this Mario. - Look at Mario. - It's like, "It's me!" - Mario. Very, very unique. Sorry. I hate my brain. Anyway, I've never met anyone with a full name even close to his. He said my high school boyfriend's name a few more times to ensure my stepdad heard him and repeated that they are very worried about me is my stepdad sure I'm not inside. At this point, my stepdad was weirded out and closed and locked the door in his face. The man did not leave. You've lingered in front of my parents' house. for the next ten minutes smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone. Finally, my parents called the cops about five minutes before the cops arrived, the man walked down to the dead end, on their block, and drove away in a silver car. My step-dad was unable to get the license plate, my parents filed a police report, and nothing else happened. After I heard the story, I was going nuts over the weird details. How would someone know who I dated nearly twenty years ago, and what would the motive be to make up a story that included that weird detail about my past? I have not had contact with the 10th grade boyfriend in over a decade. Yesterday, I decided to message him on Facebook to see if he had me in sight. I told him the whole story, he was just as confused as I was, and claimed to have no partner. I am at a loss. I am also freaked out that some strange man is going through that much trouble at one AM to look for me. Any insights or ideas would be greatly appreciated. No, nothing else weird has happened since then. What? What? What? I agree with what you said about the, it's man to walk down and open your door and do in the morning because there's no way I would have ever. Looking through the windows. Oh, that is it. I'm calling the cops. I'm not even an aracting with that person. I'm just waiting to see if they leave in the next two minutes and then I'm calling the police. Not even trying to see who it is at that point. In a black hoodie? Horrifying. Horrifying. Yeah, at least he pretended not to know who she was. He had that foresight at least, but my goodness. What even, what kind of trolling? This is what I would do when I was three years old. I just go to people's houses. But is she inside? Show me your daughter. Is this something like, is this somebody, is somebody who she went to school with who's like trying to like 20 years later? Right? Is this guy just figure out he has free will? That is so weird. I'm curious. Were there any updates? Did they write anything else about that? Okay. The edit update. Sorry, I got ahead of myself update. Wow, this really blew up. Thank you so much for all the kind words and precautions that I should take. I want to add something here that a few people commented that might shine some light on this mystery. First off, I am not in any legal trouble and have no reason to think someone would be suing me. God, I mean, I guess it's always in the realm of possibility that I'm being sued by someone, but I really don't think that's it. She's being served at 1 a.m. at her parents house. That doesn't make any sense. But I just chain smoking cigarettes outside of her house. Yeah. I did take a personal loan out, took, took it about a year and a half ago. It wasn't for anything too crazy. And I was really good with making payments on time until about 6 months ago when I had a medical issue. I called the loan company. They claimed to have nothing to do with it. All my friends and family also noted that the 1 a.m. factor kind of rules that out anyway. Nothing else strange has happened at my parents. I went there for the first time last night and kept a close eye out for anything. Didn't observe anything out of the norm. So this remains a mystery. I'll be sure to update if something else happens. Oh my goodness. There is another update. Should I just go? Yeah. Yeah. Because now I'm so invested. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Just keep going. All right. One year later, I finally have an update to this insane mystery. I will include the original story here first. Okay. We already read that. We don't need that. Okay. Recent update. After everything this happened. Me and my family and a couple of close friends have been talking about this mystery in depth to try and put our heads together to figure it out. We all have our own theories, but ultimately no definitive answer as to what happened or who this creeper was. So we pretty much put it to rest and only continue to joke about it once in a while. Here's the update. My step sister, my stepdad's daughter and her fiance were at a house party right after the holidays around early January of this year. While they were there, they started talking to a girl that neither of them knew. After some time talking together, the girls started talking about her ex-boyfriend and how they were going through a really rough time together. They had just recently broke up and she felt really bad because he was a wreck over it. Somehow, it came up that this girl's ex-boyfriend was my 10th grade boyfriend. The one with the really unique Italian name. Maria. Maria. Maria Luigi. Very unique. The whole way. So yeah, the whole thing. I'm gonna, I was gonna keep making, I'm gonna keep making jokes. The whole situation wasn't that big of a coincidence. Since I went to high school with my step sister's fiance, and we have a lot of mutual friends, so it makes sense that they were at the party that would include some people I went to high school with. As soon as my step sister and her fiance hear this, they both start freaking out and without revealing too many details, they tell the girl about the whole mystery and how weird it was. As they are telling this story, the girl's face starts to go white and she looks like she's about to cry. My step sister and fiance try to console her and ask her what's wrong. The girl starts to tell them that a few nights ago she was sleeping and someone started banging on her door. At get this, one a.m. Just like what happened to me at my parents' house. The girl jumps out of bed and says she was absolutely terrified by how loud and aggressive someone was banging on the door. She said she literally thought it was going to break in. Let's see how the woman reacts in the situation. The girl has a ring camera, so looks on her phone. Already smarter. It doesn't just answer the door. They're on the camera. It's a guy in a black hoodie banging on the door. She obviously pretends like she isn't home and keeps all the lights off. We love to hear it. There we go. As she is getting ready to dial 911, the guy stops and leaves. She said, she was absolutely terrified for whatever reason she didn't end up calling the cops but may have went to stay with a friend that night or night after. My step sister and fiance are shocked by the details and how similar it is to my story, especially because of the mutual ex-boyfriend we share. Except this girl literally just broke things off with him. They asked the girl if she has any idea who the guy is and she said no, but that it definitely is not the actual ex-boyfriend, okay? She said that this guy was much taller and heavier than our shared mutual ex. How weird. This mystery is still unsolved and these new details honestly just make my head spin even more. No one else has showed up to my parent's door since the actual incident a year ago. What? Why is messing with people? Is he just like, is this ex crazy and he's just like just a hated guy? Yeah, a pady guy to go. That's exactly where my brain went. What? Yeah, he's just a disturbing maybe. Wow, that's so scary. Why? It's so dark. So we, I've covered like hitmen before on "Harser's Founding." We have an episode where we talk about hitmen and like the vast majority of hitmen are just like cousins of people who want their wives killed. They just ask someone they think will do it. It's not really a professional hitman ever, which is why it's often so messy and that's how you hear about it. But I'm like, yeah, did the ex-boyfriend just ask like his cousin or some guy that they knew to like go, I don't know, take out his ex-girlfriends? For the first girl though, why 20 years later? Well, I don't know if something broke in him. Like maybe he broke up with the, well, I guess it was maybe a year later, but yeah, if he like got dumped and then was like, I'm just gonna take out all of my ex-girlfriends. Yeah, I think he just had a breakdown. Yeah, yeah, it was taken or just like to scare. Hopefully it was just to scare, but yeah, it could have been worse. I don't know. Yeah, that's crazy. There is extra, there's extra info for comments. I love context. So one, 10th grade boyfriend and I had a horrific breakup. I met my high school sweetheart while I was dating him and broke up with him, messy in a pretty messed up way. Okay. He held a grudge over it all throughout high school. It was extremely nasty to me to a point of bullying. At one point, I had to go to, to a security guard to escort me to classes because of him and his friends were bullying me so badly. The bullying was only severe for the rest of 10th grade, but he definitely hated me all through high school. At one point, he did end up apologizing to me and explained that he was just heartbroken over me breaking up with him, but at that point, I was way past the point of forgiving him. After graduating high school, we ran into each other maybe once or twice while I was at home from college and he was totally cordial and nice to me. And we laughed the high school experience off. Oh, he was inside. He was just like, boy, like even though he was acting cordial like that. Oh, yes, it's like he has a hard time being broken up with like a history of that. He's a bitter little, he's a bitter little man, bitter little Italian man with a very unique name, Mario Luigi, little Mario Luigi. Oh my god, that's crazy. The comments say, I don't know what's going on, but your father should never open to her yet. I am for a damn stranger again in life. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, another comment says, this is really unsettling. If this had happened to me, here's what my first theory would be. My parents also still live in the same house I grew up in. Everyone I went to school with would know the address. It's a nice house and one would assume that there's nice things in it when I was a teen. I briefly got mixed up with the wrong crowd who at the time wasn't too bad, but nowadays most of them are addicts and complete low lives who have done time and jail. If my parents told me this story, I would immediately assume that someone I knew in high school who's now an addict was causing houses or was casing houses in the neighborhood or even purposely targeting my parents house because they already knew layout and rang the doorbell to see if anyone was home and when they answered they had to make up a lie. So they went with that because knowing the details might give possible deniability. So what their real intention was robbing the house and they just claim they were confused if caught. But the story is so weird because he's talking about stuff like from 20 years ago. Why is that the default? That's so weird. No, yeah, I actually don't think it's that because also why I don't need it. Like if you're going to case a house like you just see if there's cars in the driveway and then you just don't go to that. Like it seems like I don't think he was case in the house. Yeah, and if somebody knocks on the door, I would just like ran. Yeah, I've been like, no, thank you. Yeah, that I don't buy that just because of what his default was. No, looking for your daughter of 20s. I just found some weird yearbook. A like you threw a storm. I was like, I'm going to target this place. There's enough info in here. Okay, but actually that's something I'm so scared of is someone just randomly picking me or my family. Just something like that. Like, oh, I just saw your picture in this thing and now like you're my wife and I'm going to come get you. I don't know. That just freaks me out so much. Yeah, yeah, it is freaky. Yeah, stalkers. I don't know. Stalker stuff in general. That's all freaky. I know Selena and I have had our plethora of stalker stories of issues. Have you ever anything like that? No, no, good. I'm glad. I'm glad. Is it, I mean, you guys both have such massive followings that it just, I fear that it just happens to everyone. Yeah, it's from that, but also without without, Chris has had a lot without, which is without, but before all this happened too. And then, I mean, it's happened. I've had to move now since like, yeah, being a public facing or whatever, but yeah, even when I was just like 16, 17 working in certain places and there would be like a lot of male people that would come through and there was always like middle aged men and they would like follow me around and leave like gifts on my car or like one person did and then one person tried to like, sorry, it's just so ridiculous. It's just like a 45-year-old guy who like got obsessed with me and like invited me to come on his helicopter and like go to a place north of where we were. And you're as a teenager. No. Yeah, no, no, no. Just a bridge coming out to the mountains in the middle of nowhere. I was gonna say like he wanted to take you like deep into like the Canadian wilderness, like literally. Yeah, like, I don't know. Anyway, just crazy stuff like that, but this just, it's just creepy. Like people can just show up at your house. People are crazy. This doesn't make sense. I don't understand. I feel like it was, it's just a vendetta thing. I know. I followed this one girl on TikTok who she was telling her soccer story and it was this guy that she had gone to school with. She didn't know until like six years of him being obsessed with her that he had been following her for that long because he had never tried to interact with her. But he like saw her in I think a college class became obsessed with her. And then for like six years was like saving her stuff and taking pictures of her and just keeping little momentos. And then eventually did start trying to make contact with her and tried to like, befriend her dog before he went and talk to her. So that I imagined so that the dog wouldn't bark when he would come to her house. That's so scary. I hate it so much. Serial killer level stuff. Yeah, that's scary. That's scary. Horrifying. Oh, that is horrifying. That is horrifying. It's almost, it's almost worse just not knowing who is doing shocking. Yeah. It's very weird. Like, I guess, I guess I haven't known. Like, I've gotten mail that have like flash drives in it. Or they're like, we know where you live. We're going to come. I never looked at the flash drive though. I gave it to the police. I wonder what's on it though. Yeah, you should ask them. I'll follow up. All right. What do you got, Selena? Yeah, read, I'm very interested in what yours is now, Selena. So my 20 female fiance 21 male is refusing to buy our dream home. That is an amazing area and super cheap because he thinks it's haunted. So this is posted in Reddit relationships by Oh, Siloomba. And this is 10 years old. Sold. Selena would move in immediately. I feel like I don't want to live. I don't want to. When I bought my, when I bought this house, the second time we walked through, the lady's like, don't worry. It's not haunted. Why would you say that? Yeah, why do you have to say it, ma'am? It's a haunted house. That's what I have. All right. So me and my fiancee have been together for five years. I'm a nursing aid and he's an electrician. He has always been a straightforward guy. He doesn't lie. And he says what he means. And he means what he says. Anyway, we are expecting our first child soon. And we currently live in one bedroom apartment. So naturally, we agreed that we should buy ourselves a home. Now we live in a semi-rule Australian town. Okay. Lots of spiders. Sorry. Houses aren't overly expensive here compared to houses in the cities, but they certainly are not cheap. So we're looking around and we find this beautiful old home in the central business district of our town. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, big shut out back, which would be great for my fiance. I really cannot express how beautiful this house is. I'm so upset that we probably won't be buying it just because of what my fiancee thinks of it. And before I get into the details of why he doesn't like it, I would understand if he didn't like the look of the house. He didn't like the location or didn't like the functionality, but no, he has one issue at the house. And that's what bugs me. So I show my fiancee the house on our laptop. He loves it. Can't believe the price. And may I say, due to the generosity of my late grandparents, we wouldn't even need to get alone. We could buy the house and we could have it made for the rest of our lives. Plus, my fiancee said that he used to always walk past the house when he was back in high school and that he always loved it. So we set a date for the walkthrough. I'll give my perspective first. So we arrive. Houses stunning. I mean, it looks better in person than it does in pictures. So much light gets into the house as well because of the amount of windows, big beautiful windows, just how I like them. Then you get to the second floor and go out onto the balcony from the master bedroom and you see the view. Oh my god, the view. You can see half the town from it. Now, while I am trying to contain myself, here's my fiancee just walking around the house with a really sour look on his face. I asked him what's wrong and he said he wasn't feeling well. Around 20 minutes into the walkthrough, the real estate agent had to take a call. That's when my fiancee pulled me aside and particularly freaked out. He looks when dead in the eyes and tells me that the house is haunted. He said the moment he walked in, he could feel how dark and depressing the house was and said the final straw was when we walked past the basement and he said it was like a bottomless pit of darkness and felt like there was something evil waiting down there for him. And just go down there. Yeah, the rest of the house of big windows. There's a kitchen island shut up, Steve. All right. And hey, I saw how upset he was and because we were going to get married, I sympathized with him. I asked him if he wanted to leave, expecting he'd say no because he's the kind of guy that likes to finish what he starts. But he immediately said yes, so we'll leave and that was that. I asked him if he would even consider the house and he said absolutely not. At first, I thought he was having a moment like he was afraid of finally being an adult/father, moving into a house and so on, but he kept looking at other houses for sale. We found another house that's pretty good but doesn't come close to the other house and he's ready to buy it. So we're going to settle for a decent house instead of the amazing one because he felt like it was haunted. So yeah, I want to know what to do. And this isn't a deal breaker for me by any means, but I'm still upset over it. So yeah, also sorry about the quality of this pose, it's 1 a.m. I'm angry tired and upset. You know what? Maybe he's like super in touch and he hasn't told you and he knows and maybe he just knows the future is bleak. It's like it's so beautiful why is it for sale? That's true. It's like who's died in this house? Which don't they have to legally say, I don't know about Australia, but don't they have to legally tell you if somebody's died in the house or something? A certain amount of years. And I think certain reasons. I think if it was something that could leave an impression, something like murder, but I think if it was just like a simple die in their sleep, I don't think that they don't they don't have to. I know there was like the the poltergeist lawsuit that was in New York where a guy had advertised the house as being haunted. Yes. He had like publicly told people was haunted and then he didn't include that when he sold the house, but then the people who moved in found out it was haunted the hard way. And he got in trouble for not disclosing that. So like now, I guess if you ever publicly say that the house is haunted, you have to disclose in the listing that is haunted. Which I feel like makes sense. Like I'd like to know, I think. I would want to know. Do you think you would want to? Well, I was going to say, would you want to know if someone died in the house? But yeah, I think I pretty much across the board. I guess like yeah. If it was just that someone was old and passed away in the home. Yeah. I'd still want to know, but I'd be fine. They didn't tell my parents when they bought their house. They found out a couple years later, but we knew that the guy they bought the house from in a state where someone had died, but we didn't know it was in their bathroom. And then they found out later. Like the real stage agent didn't tell them. Oh wow. How do they find out? I think they ended up. Oh, neighbor, neighbor. Oh, it was the neighbor. So he retired. Three days later, he was going to go on a road trip with friends. I packed the car. No. The friends show up. packed on the driveway, doors locked. They end up getting in. They can hear the shower running. It was on the floor. My parents master bathroom stepped out of the shower, fell over and died of heart attack. Three days after retiring. I know that's like one of those stories they tell about like don't give too much to your job. Like don't wait to retire to travel because you that's like literally one of those stories they tell. So true. Wait, was there an update on this one? Okay, so there weren't updates, but there were comments. Oh wait, no, there is an update. I'm in total life. Come on. Okay. I took the posters advice. Couldn't call the real estate agent because it's like 2am. So I looked up the address on the internet. A woman who lived in the house with her husband in the 50s pushed him down the basement stairs and the fall there it is. Killed him. He was allegedly abusive. That is enough for me. I do not believe in ghosts, but I am not living in a murder house. The murder actually had a huge court case for a small town. Surprise, I didn't know about it. I was just when you when you talked about the basement, I was like the staircase, the show. Yes, you see that? Yes. Oh, I've seen the documentary. I thought about that immediately. Yeah, the documentary. Yeah, it's and the I think there was a documentary series or was a documentary. Anyway, I ended up when I thought I would talk to about. Yes. When they talked when he talked about it being in the basement, I was like somebody got pushed down the stairs. So that's interesting. There are some comments too. So this person said pardon me, I'm a bit of a cynic, but did you ask the agent about the history? Because I wanted to know why this gorgeous house is going for so cheap. What's the catch? Have you inquired? And then there's another one here that says, so there is a theory about why humans sometimes get creeped out in seemingly arbitrary arbitrary or 25 cent word. Right. He doesn't know. It might be a low frequency vibration sound you can't hear caused by nearby machinery or a busy roadway. Supposedly, it is left over from hunter days because some predators growl at sub audible levels. Your fiance might be subconsciously picking up a frequency you can't hear. An apportion of his lizard brain is tripping his fight or flight reflex while he's in that house. This will not go away and cannot be fixed. He has a right to be comfortable in his own home, no matter if it's scientifically explainable or not. Either way, he would never be able to relax, keep looking for another. Interesting. That's like a whole other perspective. That's interesting. Yeah, I had heard about that too. It's like, I think it's 18 hertz is like the specific frequency that will make people kind of like hallucinacus, but it sounds like he heard a ghost. It was just like fully reading something from the basement. She said someone was murdered in the house where he was uncomfortable. Yeah. And he didn't do you think there was a reason why it was him picking up the energy as it like maybe it was the man that got pushed down the stairs like warning him about or like trying to reach out to him. It's just going to make your wife push it on his there. Yeah, stop repeating history. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe he's a little guardian angel ghost. Yeah. I don't know. It sounds like he was a bad guy and maybe deserved to be pushed on the stairs. Oh, maybe actually. Yeah. True. True. Maybe it was a different ghost in the house who was also killed. She was crazy. Yeah. That was kind of like the new conjuring movie rate. It was about like there's oh, there's ghosts in the house, but really there's like a demon who's like controlling the ghosts. Yes. I haven't seen it yet. Yeah. It's not really as boiler. It's right. I had a baby. I haven't been able to watch a single movie. That's fair. Tell me about it. I've been trying to see weathering heights for like a month. And I'm never going to see it until it comes out on until I can just watch out my TV. I did go to the movies and see that. I don't watch anything unless it comes to streaming. I'm so lazy now. So I don't even have excuse. I don't have a baby. I just don't want to do it. Yeah. Has your baby noticed anything spooky? Like babies are notorious for kind of picking up on spooky things? I have had two things. He's six months old now. There's only been two things when he was really, really, really little. I was laying in my bed and he was in my arm and I was looking at his eyes. And in the reflection of his eyes, I saw the headboard of the bed in my head, but then just a dark figure and he was looking past me and I looked. Nothing's there. Nothing's there. But like I look back at his eyes. It's there. I look it's not there. I look back. It's not in his eyes anymore. So I'm like, so that was weird. But every once in a while, I'll be holding him and he'll be like jumping on my lap. And then he'll just he'll be like smiling at me and then he'll like look up over my shoulder and be like, nothing. I look at my eyes doing it. But it's only been that's only been one time really. So I just hope he's not like me. I really hope. And if he comes and he's like, there's a man in my bedroom. I will immediately put him in my bed or just the house. She said that before he was even born. She's like, I hope he's not like me. Dude, I used to go into my parents room all the time. Like my dad hated it. He'd come home from work one o'clock in the morning. I'd be three, four years old. He just hears me full conversation. Opens my bedroom door. I'm just standing on my bed and he's like, who are you talking to? And I'm like the people in the walls. And he just and he told me he would just shut the door and go to bed. All right. Yeah. He's like, that's none of my business. No. He would tell the guys at work and the guys were just like, yeah, we don't want to know that. Don't tell us. No, that is kind of scary because you know, as parents, you're kind of expected to be like, there's no monster under your bed. Like, let's look together. See? And I could totally also see being like, I'm not checking. Maybe there is a bad guy in your closet. Like, come sleep in my room. The sage and the salt. Yeah. And Wixelina and I and you have like proof that we're into all this stuff. Like we go ghost hunting all the sorkens. You can be like, yeah, the seats. Yeah. There goes monsters. Yeah. You just pull out all the equipment and you're like, well, let's actually see if there's a ghost in here. Yeah. Let's prove it. That's awesome. Yeah. My son. He in terms of spooky things because he's so little. He's only, I mean, I guess seven weeks this week. He's like, not even really tuned into what's happening ever. But right next to his changing table, we have, we put a picture because my husband's father was a painter and he passed away two years ago. So we just have one of his paintings up. It's like beautiful. It's the Swiss Alps and there's cows that's gorgeous. And the way that my son like locks in on that picture, it's like he's he's like spiritually connected to the picture. It's really cool to see. Like he doesn't really like, I don't know, focus on things yet. But there's something about that picture that he just focuses in on. And so that's it's really cute. It's like a little connection. Yeah. That's much better than Solina's story. The demon shadow. I don't know what is going out in your house. There really isn't like in my house. Like if we know who it is, it's it's me right now. And the right was one who kind of built the house. And like I guess he still has family. When we were doing renovations, he was he was around a lot. And that was like on the main floor. And I've even been live and people have heard it like heard it upstairs. I'm like, what is that? And I'm like, Lee Roy, but he's he's a great spirit. There was something nasty, but it really seems outside of the property because we've learned that our property was a dump and that the hells angels would come out here. And this is where they would sink stuff. And then in the 60s, they brought in Phil and brought the land up. So everything's lower than 20 feet below the ground. Oh wow. They can use it for farming and all that kind of stuff. So we know it's deep down there. And it's more so outside like I will not in the dark. Outside my house in the dark, Chris kind of does horrifying. It's a nightmare. And when you say hell's angels, we're talking about like for those who don't know like the biker gang, yeah, motorcycle gang who like also would kill people like when you say things, Steph, you're talking about actually, well, we heard what yeah, from a local, a local man who actually their family owned a lot of land around here. There was like a husband and wife with an abuse situation in the woman left ran away from her husband but was never found again. So she's the woman in white up on the hill in the back who we've seen, but there's people here like and you know, for how into this I am a lot more people than me. I I don't know if I've ever physically seen Lee Roy, but my brother who was a big skeptic, saw Lee Roy, a contractor working in our house saw him where I haven't physically seen him. So he doesn't reveal himself to me, but I've seen the woman and on the Alice box out in the forest, some really, really dark stuff in the forest here. Yeah, we we salt ring to her house. Yeah, we did. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like you need to because it sounds like there's a lot of stuff out there. You don't want that coming in. We do it every season. Do you feel like you need to every season? It doesn't the salt. What's the life cycle of a salt ring? It kind of expires and people can come back in. When I start forgetting I did it. I do it again because I feel like intention is a lot, but to be honest, I don't do any goes hunting on my property anymore. I don't think I ever will again. I feel like we got it to this really good healthy point. I wouldn't call it like super haunted anymore. I feel like the energy is a lot better here than it was, but I don't think I'll ever crack a Ouija board or an Alice box again in my house. My house is like my sacred place. We got a really great feeling. So yeah, you don't want to like invite anything else into it. Yeah. I have one final one and this is a fun little side story that I found while I was like perusing Reddit late at night, but this comes from Glitch in the Matrix subreddit, one of my favorite subreddits just about like weird stuff that happens that people can't explain. Kind of like living ghost stories. Someone described them as because it's like ghost stories, but everyone's alive. It's just like, I don't know, weird stuff popping up. So this came from a thread and it's kind of like internet folklore because someone said that they had copied this This story from another thread they found, and when they went back to check it, that thread was gone. So no one knows where the story originates from, but it's been passed around. And so this one starts. So near where I grew up, there was a large amusement park. One half of it was rides and coasters, and the other half was a water park. Obviously the summer jobs there were a great pull when you were a teenager, and they employed a huge number of my friends on summer break from college. The jobs over in the water park were generally considered more desirable, though I was never able to get them because I'm about swimmer. Basically, the water park opened later and closed earlier, so the shifts were nicer, and they had to pay you more because you had to be first aid in CPR and lifeguard certified. A lot of my friends worked there, and I know about three of the people involved in this story. So it started at a water slide, one of the huge tube slides that you had to walk up seven flights of steps to get to the top. One lifeguard was posted up top, telling people when to go down, and one of my friends was a lifeguard at the bottom, who helped people off the slide. They also gave them the all clear for the next person to go. A family had to come with their child, who was very young, and apparently barely the height limit to go on this ride. The family was in line, it was the father first, the kid second, and the mother last, and that was so that someone would be with the kid both at the top and the bottom of the slide. So the father goes down the slide, gets off, and the lifeguard gives the all clear, and then they wait. You can't really see what's going on up top, but finally the next rider comes down. But it's the mother, who walks over to the father, and then asks where their son is. There's a moment of confusion, and my friend is pulled over by the family. The kid had been the next one to enter the side of the top, before his mom, but had never come out the bottom. My friend was really confused at that point, so he calls up to the lifeguard, who verifies that the kid went down the slide. Neither my friend nor the father saw the kid come out of the bottom. While this is figured out, they shut down the ride. The top lifeguard calls the security guard, and reports this as a missing child, while my friend calls a supervisor. The supervisor shows up, and is apparently afraid that the kid is wedged in the tube somehow, and in a way that the mother failed to dislodge him coming down the slide. The parents are upset at this point in freaking out, and the super has the upper lifeguard go down the ride himself, spread out to make sure that there's no child jammed into the turns of the slide. It comes out of the bottom having not dislodged the child, and everyone is more confused than ever. Meanwhile, security called the lifeguards, saying that they just turned up a missing kid near one of the coasters. Could they get a description of the missing child? The super sort of dismisses it off-hand and says that it couldn't have been the same child. The coaster they found the kid by was clear across the park, and the child was only missing for a few minutes at this point. Instead, the super has a bunch of lifeguards run up the stairs and calm down the slide, still hoping to dislodge the kid while the other employees quietly look around the bottom. Just in case, the kid somehow managed to fall out of the tube. Meanwhile, upper management gets called in, and the parents of the kid are alternating between yelling and blaming each other, panicking, and threatening to sue the park. Upper management calls security, and decides to ask them to pull the security camera footage from the top of the slide to try to figure out what happened. A kid a few years ahead of me in high school happened to be working security, and he was there when they pulled the footage, and one of the security guards said that he was almost positive that that was the kid they had in the room, the kid that showed up across the park, missing their parents. They get the kid's name, and sure enough, he is in the missing children's room, safe and sound. And here's where things get weird. The footage shows the father, the kid, and the mother entering the slide. It's also timestamped, so they know when the child went on the slide. The incident report for when the kid was found clear across the park behind the rollercoaster shows that he was discovered less than five minutes later. And if you've ever noticed, nothing in an amusement park is laid out linearly. There's always fences and bushes and buildings between you and where you want to go. The idea is to make you ramble about between rides and cut down the ride, wait time. Weirdest of all was that the incident report said that this child seemed disoriented and was at first not able to respond to questions. It also stated that the kid, who was apparently in a water slide five minutes prior, was bone dry. This was the talk of the park for about a week, with everyone trying to come up with explanations. Guards searching the other security footage to try to find the kid going across the park, people trying to get from the slide to the coaster, and then upper management came out and basically hushed the whole thing up. Supervisors told the lifeguards that if they heard anyone talking about it, that they would be fired. Pretty soon the park moved on to whatever the next drama was, and it got swept aside. But yeah, the child goes down inside into time and space portal. It's like I've read stories about this, or like covered stories about this in Appalachia specifically, where there's like a kid that is found six miles away, disappears immediately. And he's unscathed to like he could not have gone up this mountain, all these things. It makes no sense. So you just can't make sense? Like that simulation man, but no, this one there's cameras. Like is it real as their footage? Yeah, I guess in this telling of the story, there is like footage of them going down and then the kid just showing up across the park. So weird. That is so straight. I don't even know what to make of that. I know I covered a story where this woman, so this was a woman that I interviewed back in the day during her search planning when we were like just interviewing people telling their scary stories, but she went to a park in New York and upstate New York and went on a trail with her boyfriend. There were two of them together. They're like walking around for 20 minutes, and when they get off the trail, her boyfriend's family was like yelling at them like, oh my god, you've been gone for three hours because they were having like a family party that day. And apparently like she and her boyfriend disappeared for three hours and they were really concerned and they drove around and they were like shouting their names. And they went down the trail and they shouted for them and they didn't see them there. And she was like, it's so weird because I swore that I had only been gone for 20 minutes. And then the more you like research the park, the more you realize like other people have had that same exact experience there of like these weird time lapses and not necessarily showing up in other places. But I don't know. Sometimes there's just like a portal or whatever in a place they say glitches in the matrix. Oh man, that just makes you want to give up. Not if it's real anyway, why do I have to go to work? Everything's fake. Yeah. And somebody's controlling us with the hell. But I like think too hard about us being in a simulation. I like start to panic a little bit and get into space once beyond everything. What is everything? Don't makes me freak out. We're freak out. I know. If we're just in some like Sims simulation, some kid is playing on their computer. Right. I don't want them to see what I've done. And it just glitched and that kid just went across the park. We're in just like a roller coaster tycoon. This is a type situation. Yes. Yeah. Literally is roller coaster tycoon. That's it. Somebody just picked up a little guy. Just dropped him. He dropped him. He dropped him. And he's like, it's going. Yeah. I just want my mom. We're a little guy that I guess he's going to need therapy for the rest of his life. Yeah. I would be curious like what his perspective was on what happened. Like, did you just wake up and you were across the park and you don't remember? Come out of slide and you're just standing there. Right. Because well, they said as he was disoriented and had nothing to say. But that's been the same stories that I read in the Appalachia with specifically like little kids going. They're like, how did you get up here and they just don't really know. And it's like, I had read about ones in Appalachia where the kids, there was one specifically that I read where the kid was like, a big bear helped me. And they were like a bear didn't help you. And he was like, no, a bear picked me up and ran away with me. Yeah. What? Yeah. Bigfoot. Kids are scary. Yeah. No, it's weird. Yeah. And I know that. And then like, they find him like totally fine like in a log or something or in like a little cave. It's creepy. It's weird. It's so weird. I know. It's always. Yeah. And it's always kids. I don't know. Whatever it is, it's like moving kids around. Right. The innocence. So creepy. I don't know. I don't know. Especially in the middle of nowhere. Those ones are like what? But it's just as creepy, there's footage of that and it's like, you know, supposedly. Yeah. When it's inside a public of a place, did you ever, it just made me think of this. But did you ever, there was a time where my TikTok algorithm was just like water slides in Dubai that looked like they were in the back rooms. Like there's carpet around them and they start inside. And it's like fluorescent lighting. It literally looks like you're in an office. And that, but there's like an opening and you go down the water side and then it's like psychedelic. Once you're in there and there's like flashing lights and it goes pitch black. And then you like swirl around something and go down. It's honestly horrifying, but my whole algorithm was this one guy that was like traveling the world like just going on all these watersides. But I feel like this would happen in one of those watersides. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Start Dubai and end up in like Kansas. Yeah. That's so interesting. Not for bad. Somebody goes there and after they take or something. RIP. Yeah. Just like rip. RIP to them. That's crazy. It goes. Wow. That's great. Well, I'm not going to sleep tonight. So spooky. I'm thinking about that. I know. It's very strange. I'm going to use a lot of my free will today. I'm going to try to demunk that. Yeah. Just make sure they can never predict your next move. Exactly. Just go absolutely wild. Spinning. Yeah. Spinning. No. Well, thank you guys so much for joining me for this episode today. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Oh, this is so fun. I appreciate it. - Sorry for our nonsense. - No, this is perfect 'cause I love just getting spooky with other spooky gals. - Yeah. - It's my dream. It's how I wanted to spend this day. It proves we're not on the algorithm 'cause they could have never seen this coming. - Absolutely, absolutely. Yep, it's very exciting. But yeah, we're very excited to-- - To help the club again. - Yes, absolutely. - It's a lot of stuff, it'll be awesome. - So for my listeners, where can they find you guys? - Yeah, we're on, what's our channel name? - Can't sleep, can't sleep channel. - Is it? - Can't sleep channel, yeah, ever. Just look up Can't Sleep, Solina Spooky, but we can't sleep, call me Chris, and it'll show up. - It'll show up. - It's us with some candles holding them. - It'll be like this. - That's us. And we just basically do this. We just yap, we just yap and gab and whatever. - It's our weekly catch-up. - It's just fun, you know, it's just a hangout session. - That's it. - Yeah, I love it. I'm gonna put all that in the description. So anyone listening, you're gonna know exactly where to go to get more of this. And thanks, guys. So exciting. - Yeah, absolutely, thanks. - Catch you later, bye. - "Heart Starts Pounding" is written and produced by me, Kayla Moore. "Heart Starts Pounding" is also produced by Matt Brown, our associate producer is Juno Hobbs. Sound design and mixed by Red Room Creative. - Special thanks to Travis Dunlap, Chris and Jernigan and the team at WME. Have a heart pounding story or a case request? Check out heartsartspounding.com.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Kayla shares eerie stories from Reddit, including a haunting childhood experience where a friend’s Barbie doll was seen with a brush moving through its hair, later confirmed by her father.
  2. A young girl recalls seeing a ghostly figure named Mary Agnes in her bedroom, later linked to a historical figure who died of scarlet fever, adding a spiritual layer to the story.
  3. Multiple listeners report similar childhood experiences of ghostly encounters, with one describing a human-shaped figure with a missing face in their room, verified by a sibling who had the same experience.
  4. A stranger at a parent’s house in a black hoodie claims to be looking for a long-gone high school boyfriend, using highly specific personal details from two decades ago, sparking suspicion and investigation.
  5. The story is later connected to a similar incident involving a woman who had a boyfriend from high school, who also experienced a nighttime door-banging incident, suggesting a possible psychological or emotional vendetta.
  6. A couple’s dream home is rejected due to fears of being haunted, only to learn the house had a history of a murder involving a fall down basement stairs—proving that some "hauntings" are rooted in real tragedies.
  7. The episode highlights how people react to spooky experiences, with some attributing them to sleep paralysis, while others believe in the paranormal, especially when personal and emotional connections are involved.
  8. The stories illustrate how childhood memories of the supernatural are common and often tied to emotional trauma, unresolved relationships, or deep-seated fears.

Summary:

Kayla Moore shares a collection of chilling and emotionally resonant stories from Reddit, focusing on paranormal experiences rooted in childhood and personal history. One story involves a girl who, as a child, saw her friend’s Barbie doll with a brush moving through its hair, later confirming that a real friend had vanished. Another recounts a young girl who saw a ghost named Mary Agnes, whose identity was tied to a historical figure who died of scarlet fever.

Multiple listeners report similar childhood ghost encounters, such as a figure with no face appearing in a bedroom, which mirrors a sibling’s experience, reinforcing the idea of shared spectral memories. A particularly disturbing story involves a man at one in the morning knocking on a stranger’s parents’ door, claiming to be searching for a high school boyfriend with a unique name, which sets off a chain of investigations and theories. This mystery is later linked to a similar incident involving another person’s ex-boyfriend, suggesting a possible emotional vendetta.

Another story centers on a couple’s refusal to buy a home due to haunting fears, only to discover a tragic murder occurred in the basement. These narratives highlight how personal, emotional, and psychological factors—such as unresolved relationships, trauma, or sleep paralysis—can explain or amplify supernatural experiences. The episode underscores the deep connection between human emotion and the perception of the unexplained, showing how seemingly random events can feel deeply personal and real to those who live them.

FAQs

Many people report encountering strange events as children, such as seeing a figure in a room, hearing unexplained noises, or noticing their possessions behaving oddly. These experiences often involve feelings of unease, like a chill or a sudden awareness of something not quite right.

They rely on intuition and physical sensations—such as goosebumps, a tingling sensation, or visual static—when entering a room. They also emphasize the importance of 'vibing' with the environment, often choosing to explore without a strict plan to remain open to unexpected experiences.

One person recounts how a childhood friend, who wore black jeans and a red polo shirt, would appear to play with them. Years later, when the person moved out of the house, they saw their Barbie doll with a brush going through its hair, and later smelled incense in their old room. They believe the friend remains present and connected.

Yes, sleep paralysis can cause people to feel like they’re being watched or see a shadowy figure, with a sensation of being unable to move. It often includes vivid dreams and feelings of fear, which can be mistaken for paranormal activity, especially if shared by others.

A man in a black hoodie knocked on the door at 1 a.m., claiming to be looking for the person’s former boyfriend from 10th grade. He knew the boyfriend’s unique name and said they were worried about the person. Later, it was revealed that the person’s step-sister had a similar experience with a stranger at the same time, indicating a possible connection or coincidence.

People may believe a house is haunted due to emotional connections, personal experiences, or stories passed down through generations. In one case, a couple refused to buy a home because their fiancé felt it was haunted, only to find out a past murder had occurred in the basement.

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