Hey it's Michelle Newman. I took an extended break by accident. It was my birthday, and then I published a comedy book that has nothing to do with the paranormal. Now I'm back, and this week's three calls each involve seeing something that should not be there.
Brandy from Marysville, Ohio, calls in with a true ghost story from a girls' weekend in Yellow Springs, a small Ohio town with a long history as a gathering place for people with a particular sensitivity to the unexplained. Brandy bought a dark smoky quartz crystal and that night showed it to her friend Emily, asking if she saw anything in it. Emily said it looks like a guy wearing a hat. Exactly what Brandy had seen and had not said out loud. The next morning, a man in a long trench coat and a hat walked out of an antique store in town. She recognized him immediately. Emily walked up to him and said, " You were in our crystal last night." Extravorts, am I right?
Larissa from Texas returns with her second call. If you heard her first story about Frank the pocket watch ghost at the medical examiner's office, you already know Larissa has a particular attunement to the paranormal. Her daughter was three years old when they moved into an apartment in Brownwood. She told her mother there was a tall man in the closet. He waved at her. He was not mean. Then he started asking her to come into the closet. He cannot come past the carpet, her daughter said. He just says he cannot come. Then he started keeping her up at night and becoming more aggressive. What paranormal researchers call a threshold spirit, a liminal entity bound to a specific space or surface that cannot move beyond it, fits exactly what the three-year-old described. Larissa used holy water in the closet and her daughter's room, and prayed, and the man never came back. Her daughter is older now and still remembers him. She drew a picture of him, which is the episode art for this video.
Sapphire Sandalo calls in with a true ghost story from a regular Tuesday afternoon. At a four-way stop, a woman in a long, bright red skirt stood perfectly still at the corner holding white bags. Her face did not make sense, blurred and obscured like a filter, but her eyes were clear and glowing underneath it. Honey colored with very bright whites. Sapphire's husband turned left past her. He had not seen her at all. Sapphire drew the woman and sent the drawing to her cousin without explanation. Her cousin had just pulled an oracle card she felt compelled to pull. The card was of a woman with glowing eyes and dark skin wearing red. It was Kali. At the exact moment Sapphire texted her medium friend Stephanie about the encounter, Stephanie had been listening to a podcast about a woman who saw someone she thought was living and later realized was a ghost. Coincidence? Sapphire does not think so. Neither do I. She does not know yet whether the woman in red was a ghost or something considerably older. She thinks about her every time she drives through that intersection.
Sapphire hosts Stories With Sapphire, a paranormal podcast where people submit ghost stories she narrates or tells in their own words. Find her on Instagram at @sapphire_ sandalo where you can also see her drawing of the lady in red. Find her on YouTube at @SapphireSandalo and watch her horror short film BREEDER, currently making the festival circuit.
00:00 Intro
00:00 Brandy from Ohio and the man who appeared in her crystal
03:08 Larissa from Texas and the closet ghost who could not cross the carpet
05:20 Sapphire Sandalo and the woman in red with glowing eyes
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