Hey it's Michelle Newman, and this week's five calls travel further than almost any other episode this season. Let's get into them.
Paige from Los Angeles calls in with a true ghost story from her middle school field trip to Gettysburg, one of the most extensively documented paranormal locations in the United States. In three days in July 1863 more than fifty thousand soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing on that ground. The concentrated grief and sudden violent death of that battlefield has been generating documented paranormal activity for over a century. Paige was there with her classmates and a packed lunch to learn about Civil War history. What she encountered on that battlefield went significantly beyond the curriculum and what she brought home afterward made clear that something on that ground had decided to come along.
Roc from Orange County returns with another call. If you have followed Roc's story you already know about the man shot outside his grandparents' motel, the spirit at the bedroom window at 3 AM, the phantom phone calls from a disconnected booth, and the woman crying on a sidewalk who was not what she appeared to be. This is Roc's latest chapter and it continues one of the most sustained paranormal narratives in the Tell Me A Ghost Story archive. Roc has more contact with the paranormal world than almost any other caller this show has received and every call he makes adds another layer to a story that has never fully resolved.
Dave from Sioux Falls returns with two calls in this episode. His grandmother Nonna whose love apparently did not end when she died, making herself known in ways that only someone who knew him deeply could have managed.
Chelsi from Los Angeles calls in with a haunted house story with an extra layer of difficulty built into it. The house belonged to her mother. The vibes were profoundly off from the moment Chelsi set foot in it. Something was not right and she felt it clearly every time she was there. Her mother did not feel it. Or did not want to. The specific dynamic of trying to convince a skeptical family member that their home has a paranormal problem while that family member continues to live comfortably inside it is one of the most recognizable experiences in the ghost story community and Chelsi's version has a warmth and exasperation that will resonate with anyone who has ever known something was wrong in a space and been unable to make the people they love believe them.
Jasmine from Portland calls in with a ghost story from New Zealand where the property had an elderly ghost who had decided the space was hers. Jasmine did not accept that arrangement. What she did about it and the consequences of asking a ghost to leave when the ghost has been there considerably longer than you have are something Jasmine describes with a pragmatic directness that makes her call one of the most memorable in the archive. Some ghosts do not leave quietly.
00:00 Paige from Los Angeles and the Gettysburg field trip
00:00 Roc from Orange County and the woman on the sidewalk
00:00 Dave from Sioux Falls and Nonna's love
00:00 Chelsi from Los Angeles and her mother's haunted house
00:00 Jasmine from Portland and the ghost eviction in New Zealand
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