Hey, it's Michelle Newman, and tonight's four calls each involve something quietly, patiently making itself known.
Lacey from Whitesburg, Kentucky calls in about renting a studio space in a renovated artisan center, working alone on weekends in a building with motion-activated lights. She began hearing things overhead, something like a bag of bricks dropping, then whispering with no one around. On her final visit, she looked down a hallway and saw a woman's dark, stringy hair hanging over the bathroom sink, positioned exactly the way someone tilts their head forward to wring it out. She left immediately.
Gary D. from Ontario, Canada returns with what might be his most quietly devastating story yet. As a kid walking home from school, he used to sneak behind a friendly taxidermist's house to watch him work through the back window. For over a dozen visits, an older couple always sat nearby watching, leaning forward, clearly proud. Months later, the house went up for sale. A neighbor told Gary the taxidermist had moved, and that his parents had died fifteen years earlier in an accident. He'd been living there alone the entire time.
Larissa from Texas calls in about something that happened in middle school, lying awake around 2 or 3 AM with the feeling of being watched. A dark mist appeared in her peripheral vision, turned sharply toward her, and dropped under her bed like a black bedsheet. Her bed physically shook. Nobody else in the house heard her screaming. Her family has reportedly experienced spirits for two to three decades, going back to before she was born.
Cindy Ketcher from Avon, Indiana, closes the episode with her annual October tradition, using a Ouija board to interrogate the spirit of Lizzie Borden about the 1892 axe murders of her parents. This year, Lizzie declined coffee, laughed hysterically, insisted on her innocence, then threw an actual kitchen knife at Cindy and missed. Some years she confesses. Some years she doesn't.
00:00 Intro
00:00 Lacey and the hair over the sink in her Kentucky studio
00:00 Gary D. and the taxidermist's parents who never left
00:00 Larissa and the black mist under the bed
00:00 Cindy Ketcher interrogates Lizzie Borden
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