This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.
Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has two true ghost stories that share something I find endlessly fascinating about the paranormal. Neither of these encounters happened in a place you would expect. Not a cemetery. Not an abandoned house. Not a famously haunted hotel. A bank. And a fort made of cushions. The supernatural does not wait for the right setting.
Dave from Connecticut calls in with a real ghost encounter rooted in a childhood fear that followed him all the way into adulthood when he ended up working in the very building that had unsettled him as a kid. The bank had a presence that Dave felt long before he could articulate what it was, the specific unease of a building that holds more history than its walls want to contain. Working there as an adult gave him a different kind of access to that history, and what he learned about the building did nothing to ease what he had felt there since childhood. Some buildings carry what happened inside them, and Dave's bank was one of them.
Then Brittany returns with her second call to Tell Me A Ghost Story, and if you heard her first episode about the translucent men tapping on the bay windows at midnight, you already know that Brittany's childhood was unusually eventful from a paranormal standpoint. This time, she takes us back to a fort she had built out of cushions, the kind of enclosed childhood space that is supposed to feel safe and protected, and the shadowy figure that appeared inside it. The figure looked like a cowboy. It was specific enough in its appearance that Brittany has never forgotten what it looked like and never found a satisfying explanation for what it was doing in her cushion fort in the middle of the night.
Two real callers. Two true ghost stories from a Connecticut bank and a childhood bedroom that prove the paranormal has no interest in waiting for a dramatic location. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.
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[00:00:00] Welcome to Tell Me a Go story.
[00:00:15] The late night call in podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore
[00:00:20] the eerie and unexplained.
[00:00:23] I'm your host, Michelle Newman.
[00:00:27] This podcast features true stories from our callers
[00:00:31] that will send shivers down your spine
[00:00:34] and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife.
[00:00:39] So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights.
[00:00:45] Hey, it's Dave from Connecticut,
[00:00:47] who lives in Zufaal again.
[00:00:49] All right, so when I was a child,
[00:00:53] driving up Route 1,
[00:00:56] I would remember stopping at a light
[00:00:58] and we'd go to the McDonald's or the doctors, I don't know.
[00:01:02] And on the left, there was like a town green,
[00:01:04] Fairfield, Connecticut.
[00:01:06] There was an old bank building,
[00:01:07] which has been like 15 different banks
[00:01:09] in the last 100 years.
[00:01:11] There was an old timing movie theater,
[00:01:13] which left I Tech to Second Run Theater.
[00:01:16] And on the right, there's a strip mall.
[00:01:19] And I remember that strip mall is a multi-layer,
[00:01:21] you know, like offices above,
[00:01:23] and like on the right, no problem.
[00:01:25] On the left, I always would look up at that building and look away and I'd be terrified.
[00:01:29] I don't know why, or at least I didn't as a child.
[00:01:32] So, you know, I get to grow up and I get my own license and one day I'm driving my sister
[00:01:37] and her son.
[00:01:39] And we stopped at that light and I didn't look.
[00:01:41] But when I get to see the building over there, you know that building?
[00:01:45] Yeah, that's where we've watched your crib when you were a baby. Well, interesting.
[00:01:50] So I asked one, the other one about my first crib. She said, yeah, you wouldn't sleep in
[00:01:54] that thing. You were terrified of that crib. We had to put you somewhere else to get you the sleep.
[00:02:01] I'm assuming that I'm terrified of the crib, that same reason that, you know, to the day I left Connecticut, I was terrified of that building.
[00:02:07] Across the street, people tell me they saw things in the movie theater, I didn't.
[00:02:12] Um, tempting in the bank 25, 20 years ago, I do remember that in the finished part of the bank, there was a basement, there was, um, in a break, where, you know, the Thames and the employees would talk, and there was not gonna break, where the Thames and the employees were talking, there was this unfinished area.
[00:02:27] Really spooky, almost early 19th century vibes
[00:02:30] when it was first built.
[00:02:32] And like we need you to do some filing,
[00:02:34] and I guess shredding and stuff in a long time.
[00:02:37] And then a couple days go by,
[00:02:39] and every so often there'd be a shadow
[00:02:41] walking in the corner of my eye.
[00:02:44] Real spooky stuff.
[00:02:45] And I mentioned it to people in the break room.
[00:02:46] And I got more than one, oh, that's
[00:02:49] why we don't actually go in that part of the basement.
[00:02:51] We come down to the break room and we go back upstairs.
[00:02:53] We never go in there.
[00:02:54] And the boss is like, yeah, it's the ghost of our predecessor,
[00:02:57] who knows.
[00:02:59] But that's how I mean, man, in Fairfield, Connecticut.
[00:03:02] Very as heck.
[00:03:06] Thank you, Dave, from Sioux Falls.
[00:03:10] I think I understand why you moved from Connecticut.
[00:03:15] Next message.
[00:03:17] Hey, Michelle, it's Brady.
[00:03:18] So I was around nine when I had my first encounter
[00:03:21] with Supernatural.
[00:03:23] My sisters and I decided that we were gonna embark on a mission to build the ultimate fort. So we decided to pull together all the dining room
[00:03:29] table chairs, the blankets, the pillows, anything that we could possibly find in order to create
[00:03:34] this ultimate adventure. And we decided this is the most epic thing we've ever done. We're going
[00:03:39] to sleep in the fort tonight. So we started kind of putting in our sleeping bags and what we could into the fort and found that only two of us were gonna fit. So I've decided
[00:03:49] that I was gonna fashion a bed out of the couch cushions just outside the walls of
[00:03:54] this fort. We kind of fell asleep pretty quickly after building this wonderful
[00:03:59] thing and around about one o'clock in the morning, I kind of woke up to a bit of an eerie feeling.
[00:04:06] I felt like I was almost being watched.
[00:04:09] I was a bit groggy and kind of disoriented,
[00:04:11] but I scanned the room a bit and kind of froze in terror,
[00:04:16] finding somebody standing just near the front door.
[00:04:19] A man.
[00:04:21] And...
[00:04:23] Sorry.
[00:04:25] I could feel his gaze on me.
[00:04:29] I could see him pretty clearly.
[00:04:31] He was this shadow with these deep dark edges.
[00:04:34] And he was just kind of eerie standing there.
[00:04:38] And it just gave me this gnarly and settling feeling.
[00:04:42] I felt kind of frozen.
[00:04:44] And at first I wondered, like, is that my dad?
[00:04:47] Like, it could have been my dad,
[00:04:50] but then I looked at his figure and he was too tall, you know?
[00:04:53] He was taller, he was translucent,
[00:04:55] and I could see through him.
[00:04:57] And his present kind of sent shivers down my spine.
[00:05:01] And he was grinning, like, he was smiling at me.
[00:05:05] I couldn't see his face fully,
[00:05:06] but I could definitely tell that he was smiling at me.
[00:05:10] His arms were crossed around his chest,
[00:05:12] and one of his legs was kicked up against the wall.
[00:05:15] He was leaning, and it gave me very much so like a cowboy feel.
[00:05:21] You know, he really felt like a cowboy,
[00:05:24] but without like a cowboy hat or anything
[00:05:26] silly like that, but he just like had that like presence of like, I've been here. And for a moment
[00:05:31] there, I felt like he's gonna charged for me, right? Like he's gonna come for me and he didn't,
[00:05:37] he just stood against the wall just relaxed and it kind of paralyzed me with fear. I watched and kind of remained motionless
[00:05:47] as I observed him for a moment
[00:05:49] and then a panic kind of surged through me
[00:05:53] and I sought refuge under the covers
[00:05:57] and just began wailing from my parents.
[00:06:03] My cries kind of caught their attention and I felt them barreling down the stairs with
[00:06:08] my dad swinging a bat at the time looking for who was here.
[00:06:14] And as I kind of frantically recounted what was happening, a man in the home, he began
[00:06:21] to kind of in a surgical manner go through every single looking cranny of the home in search for this person.
[00:06:27] With no one there, we kind of like recounted everything that had happened and no one was found.
[00:06:37] No doors unlocked, no curtains amiss. It was just silent.
[00:06:42] It was just silent.
[00:06:53] Thank you, Brittany, for your story. I bet that cowboy was really impressed with your blanket for it.
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[00:07:41] And as always, I'm your host, Michelle Newman, signing off, see you next week.