Real Ghost Stories For Walking the Dog On A Lonely Night - Mixtape Vol. 7 (Encore)

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From Orange County, I have another story to share with you. This happened in Pomona, where my grandparents used to own and when they. Were alive, and I was awoken up at least I. Want to say, ten o'clock at night and I look over the window. Something had told me you need to look up the window, and. It was a gentleman in the phone move and somebody had just drove by and just shot him straight up. I guess it was like the drive by between gangs. And he was caught up in the middle. So my grandparents and my parents saw me go through the window, and they noticed that I witnessed it because they witnessed it as well. My grandma my mom grabbed me from the window and they basically were trying to reconsole me because I didn't know really. What was going on. So things didn't get a lot weirder until a couple of nights afterwards to where I was awoken in the middle of the night and I saw a gentleman by the. Window, and I freaked out because I. Was sleeping at the time with my grandparents in between them, and I woke up in the middle of the night and I told my grandma. And they said, Grandma, Grandma, wake up. And my grandma goes what happened? And I said, there's a man setting out the window, and my grandma was like, what are you talking about? And she looks over at the alarm clock. As alarm clock was three o'clock in the morning, and I told my grandma. I was like, I think it's a man from the phone booves and my Grandma started getting goose lfs and she's like, you don't know what you're talking about. And it's my grandma, and they said no. Grandma like what she looks out and this is my grandma. Didn't believe in having preak back then in the nineties. My Grandma looks out the window and she says, the gentleman just poking his hands in the window. Like a he's trying to appear to see who's in there. So my grandma freaks out. She wakes up my grandpa and tells my grandpa, hey, get up right now, there's a man outside the window. So as my grandpa wakes up, he's freaking out because it's like the slumber he's snoring, and he sprints up and says, what what what are you talk What are. Guys talking about? What man? So my grandma and I look at the window and the man is out there. Any morning, he just disappeared, so we were like, what the heck? So I kept reoccurring every night at the same time of three in the morning. My grandma decided to have my mom make curtains for her because she said she was really uncomfortable with the gentleman poking his head in the window. So there was one time where we were playing with all the neighborhood kids. And the peop were renting their rooms with the motel and we. Used to go buy the phone booths and one of the kids was. Like, oh, you see ghosts, maybe we can go ahead and you know, go. Around the phone booths. So we would go mess around near the phone booth. The phone started to ring and the kids were like, what the heck? And mind you, this was around five o'clock in the afternoon, so the kids were looking at me and they're like, did you like. Who is that? So I told one of the girls. I was like, well, if you don't believe me, go. Pick up the phone. So she went and picked up the phone and she started running and I said, what happened? So the other kid picked up the phone that was that she dropped, and then he started running crying. So I was left alone, and I'm like, what is going on? So I picked up the phone, and the phone was staticky, and then it sounded like somebody said. Help me, and then the call dropped. And so I ran in the house and I told my parents. So my parents were like, you're not allowed to go go to that phone booth. And of course, being the ignorant kid that I was and curious that there was, I would go to the phone and noticed that the phone would ring at that's the same time went out, like at five o'clock, and then at that time you would hear it exactly at ten o'clock ringing over and over again. So I honestly don't know what happened to the man. I don't know if he's still lingers there, but the phone booth is no longer there. But after the phone booth incident, I kept hearing somebody walking. With their boots like outside my window, and I. Would walk around from my grandma's room to her bathroom and then to the office of the motel, and so my grandpa had to perform like a ritual to kind of calm and eat. The spirit down. So this is one of my scary stories that I have to share. I also have many more. Thanks for your story, Rock, I'm glad your grandma got curtains. Anyway, shows, this is Jacobs and I got one for you. So I worked on a show up in the Denver, Colorado, and it was an old historic mansion and to thank you for the show, we have a host that come in and do a meet and greet with the owners and see what kind of activity they had in the area, and then we would go. Once they're done, we would come in. The crew come in and they set up all the cameras in the designated spots that they're going to be focusing on, and so they'll do the night investigation, see if they capture anything, and then present their review. Once they're done, we come in and we take everything apart. And so they did the investigation, we had to come in take everything out, and there's like a couple levels to this location. And while my team was on the first floor taking. Everything apart, I decided to go up to the third floor by myself and see if I can get ahead of things. And once I get up there, there's a big room in front. Of me, another room to the right of me, and like a small little office to the left of me. So I decided to go in the right to the room to the right. And as I go in to take away the camera that we get set up behind me, there is a door that I believe led either a closet or a shaft or something, but it was crept open and it was dark and I couldn't see inside, but I noticed it. While I take away the camera. We had set up a cable put some paper tape on to keep it in place, and so I decided to pull on the cable to detach it. And so when you do that, it makes a noise. It goes right, and so when I did that, a delayed echo occurred right behind me that really made me jump and just ended up staring at it. So I pulled it up and about a second year behind me, freaked me out. I stayed there for a second wait to see if it was my team coming up the stairs and nothing. Then I pull up on the cable again, just staring the door, and he goes and comes right out of that closet door. Freaked me out, and I was like, nope, nope, nope, nope, puts heel back down and walked out that room. As I'm kind of like running down the stairs. My team was coming up, and I completely paid it off, and I'd like, hey, guys, I was just striking everything upstairs, turned around and went at the opposite room, and just to carry out. Of all the years that I've done, go something shows by far, that one was the one that impacted me the most. Thank you Jacob for your story. Who knew a ghost mimicking the sound of pulling tape would give me the chills? Next message, Hey, Michew, let's stay just fold again. Growing up, my brothers were ten and eleven years older than me, and they had a really close friend named Bobby, and Bobby passed away in what would have been college age in that car accident. And well, my brother swore, my brother, who doesn't believe in the paranormal, here Bobby calling his name the next time he went to work and was alone. We grew up in a restaurant. We all worked for my father. So a couple of years later, I'm washing dishes, I'm going up to the storage attic and organizing and bringing down can goods or pizza. Boxes or whatever. And every so often I'd be up there working same place I'd worked yesterday, no problem, and I would just know someone was there watching me and I couldn't see anyone, and it didn't make any sense. But I go downstairs and clean something else. I can't explain it. So, you know, years go by, and it's like, not every day, it's like every fourth or fifth time up there, or only in parts of the attic, and it was always a feeling, you know, chicken skin or the hair in the back of the neck kind of thing. Anyway, fast forward, he closes, he reopens long stories. I can't explain it. Ten fifteen years. Go by, and we had an a paranormal night. At the restaurant, actually, which was a failure when we reopened and couldn't gain business. But a friend of mine from work brought in this woman I had never met who claimed to be a psychic. I went, okay, I need to test this, because not everyone who claims to be something is something. I met people who claim to be a doctor that never finished. High schools or whatever. And she said, yeah, we're in a haunted restaurant. Bobby's okay. He says he's watching you guys. He's doing good. She didn't say, Robert, She pulled the name Bobby of all names, out of the air, and he was doing fine. If that doesn't give you the chills. Thanks for calling in again, David. Keep those stories flowing. Next message, Hey, this is Artemis from Los Angeles, California, and this is my ghost story. So when I was in my mid twenties, I was living in New York City and me and my ex girlfriend were working in the hectically fabulous world of fashion or adjacent to fashion, and we were living together in Brooklyn and we'd had a really particularly busy month and a half, both of us, and we really wanted to do a vacation, but we couldn't really leave the city. So we said, hey, let's do a staycation. And my ex kind of took it upon herself to figure out where we were going and where we'd be staying. And there's a hotel in New York called the Bowery Hotel, which is a really lovely hotel that looks really old but is actually new. They did a great job making it seem old, but they have a sister property that is sort of like a townhouse that's affiliated with the Bowery Hotel that you can rent, but it's kind of like you have to know to know to rent it. One of these things. And it's the same principle as the hotel, except there's no staff on site. You go and check in at the Bowery Hotel and then you go to this townhouse and it's like really beautiful, and you know, it's kind of like a it's a thing. So she picks that place. I'd never really heard of it. I didn't do any research on it, you know, which is kind of like, let's have an adventure. So we decided to like meet after work in the city, get some drinks, go check in, have a night in the hotel, really really nice, you know, order. In food, do the whole nine. So we go for drinks, we go to the hotel afterwards to pick up our keys, and the bellman who gives us our keys kind of goes, oh, that's a good room, with this kind of like weird, mischievous vibe, and we were like, all right, weird man, that's fine. We thought it was like he was just being So we go to the hotel and it's really beautiful. It's an old Victorian building and you check in by yourself, and you go in and we were the only people in there that night. So there's only like four rooms, one on each floor of this thing. And we were in the top room on the top floor, and it is set up like you're in someone's house. Like you enter and it's just a staircase and a weird little foyer and really beautiful in art and YadA YadA. But we go upstairs. We went in. We joked, this looks like a haunted house, Like it looks like this would be your classic haunted house. But you know, we were in our mid twenties and it was New York City, and like, what is haunting in New York City? You stepped, you know, there's busy, there's people outside, it's everywhere. So we go in. We get into the room. We immediately crack a bottle of wine. We're enjoying. We're exploring the room and it's really of those rooms where it's like they've redone everything but everything is still really old. So it's beautiful, but it's like old, Like the faucets are old, those classic ones you got to crank on for like the sink and the shapur and the bath and the windows are like beautiful, but you really got to like yank them up and then like they lock in and then you gotta yank them down. And you know, the lights are very like old and the way that they kind of turn on is they like that's the only thing I can talk about, Like the light kind of turns on, you know, in a So we were there and we're kind of investigating. We're like this is really beautiful and this is really cool, and we start drinking. The wine. And it there's this like kind of like unsettling feeling in the room. I don't like really know what it was, but it just kind of had this like lingering thing. And we were kind of putting it down to like we were just like exhausted from the month we'd had and we were just kind of like zoning out or whatever. But it kind of felt like a little trippy in there, like nothing really was like settled, Like it all kind of felt like, I don't know how to say it, Like it was like shimmery almost, but like not. Everything just kind of had this weird vibe. So we're drinking wine and uh, we're sitting on the edge of the bed talking and just like, oh God, this is gonna be so nice. And my ex goes, yeah, I'm definitely gonna like draw a bath in a little bit, because like we don't have a bathtub in our place, and like I'm gonna have a serious bath. And I was like, hell, yeah, that sounds great. And then she kind of like we go on to another topic and we're talking about work and I'm like telling you about about my day, and then out of nowhere, the bath turns on. This is about five minutes later, so we've already changed into a different topic. And I mentioned before like this isn't like a bath, like a modern thing. We're like, ooh, you bump it and these are like old things you gotta crank on, and it just like turns on, and we both were like from the other room, we just sat there like stopped talking and just kind of like looked at each other like that's that's a little weird. But we were like, you know, like whatever, like maybe there was a kink in the pipe, like New York places are old, whatever, the radiators that creak. So we go in and like sure enough the water is. Gushing out of the tub and we're like, oh cool, So we turn it off and then we go back into the room and we're kind of like that's weird. So we're sitting or whatever. We order our food delivery, you know what I mean, and we're like drinking more wine and we lose track of time and we're hanging out and then I hear like a noise in the hallway, like outside of the door, and I was like, oh, that must be our food. So I go out into the hallway. There's no food, and I'm like oh, and I'm I kind of like look over the railing down into like the next floors, and I you know when you like you just miss seeing someone, but like I didn't really see them, but I know someone was right there. I get that feeling like around the corner of the staircase, and I was like okay, so I kind of yell out. I was like, hey, didn't mean to disturb you. If you're staying here. We thought we were the only ones. No response, but I'm like, I think there's probably someone else checked in, you know, it's last minute check in. So I go back inside and I'm kind of like, Okay, that was weird, but no food yet, or she like checks the app she's like, oh, it hasn't arrived yet, so we're kind of like, okay, go back to drinking our wine, and you know, we're like, okay, it's starting to feel a little like like a little warm in the room, a little bit like it's old school, you know, it's like the radiators and whatever. So it's like we should probably, like, you know, open the window. So we're like great, so we like open the window to get a little air in. And again, these are windows you got to up. So we pull the window up and we kind of like it locks in place, and we go back to talking. And then the food comes and I go downstairs to get the food and I, you know, meet the guy. And then I'm coming back up the stairs with the food and I swear like my ex was on the landing up above, so like I registered someone, but I had my head down and walk up the stairs. So I started talking to her and I'm like, hey, like, okay, I'm so excited to eat this. Yeah, like I thought she was leaning out looking and waiting for me. And I get to the top of the stairs and she's not there, and I'm like oh, And I go to the room and I open it, like so she's not even like at the front of the stair and I was like, hey, did you just like come out and you know, were you And she was like, no, I've been in the bathroom. Now I'm kind of a little more on edge than her, and I'm like, okay, that was a little weird. I'm getting these weird vibes in the hallway and she's like, don't freak me out. And I was like, no, like every time I've gone to the hallway, and she's like, it's someone's probably just like staying there, you know what I mean, Like someone probably checked in, Like you're just catching the residuals of someone opening their door closing their doors, like there's other it's a hotel, you know. And I'm like, yeah, no, this feels like way more intense than that. So there's a little table that's like off to the side where you can like a dining room table. So we like go and we're sitting there and we're like sinking back into Oh, this is really nice, and we're gonna, you know, just let's listen to records and like hang out tonight, maybe smoke some joints. And so we're like sitting there and we lay out all the food and we're sitting and we're all just like getting really comfortable, and she goes, fuck, you know, it's like now it's getting a little cold in here, Like you know, I mean the window has been open. Let me go and shut the window. But we've just sat down and before she can like get up and shut the window, and it's like to her side, it just clanks shut. And we both were like, well, that's very strange. And now she's on my level of like, okay, this is really really weird. We eat our dinner, we're like, okay, let's go, you know, back outside, like, smoke a joint outside, go for a little walk, remind ourselves that we are in fact, in Manhattan. There's millions of people here. It's not scary. So we go outside, we go to the front, we smoke a joint, We walk around the block, walk off our dinner, and we're like back to kind of being chill because you see hundreds of people in the streets and it's very chill and there's cars and you're like, oh, it's we're not haunted. We're in New York City. We get back to the house, the you know, hotel house thing, and we go inside, and she's ahead of me and she opens the door and I hear her go oh hey, like you know, up the stairs, and I was like, oh good, she's like met the person that has been you know, I've been freaked out by. So I'm shutting the door and then I go to come up and she's just like frozen there, and I was like what happened? And she was like, I just swear someone had been there and I just missed them. So I yelled after them. But then I turned my head and there was no one in the hallway, and I was like cool. Great, So now we're right. It's like it's like going in the place and like the sound dampens, and then now we're back in the haunted house again, and it was just like cool. We go back upstairs. We're like trying to enjoy ourselves. She's like, I'm gonna go have that bath. I'm gonna you know. I'm like, great, I'll like sit in the bathroom and read while you're in the bath. It'll be very cute. So she goes and draws the bath and we're in the bathroom, both of us. She's in the bath, I'm sitting like next to the bath reading. We got candles. It's very cute, and I hear in the hallway someone like running down the hallway behind the bathroom, just the very distinct noise of feet, and I was like, and we both hear it, and we just keep talking. And then I hear it come back down the hallway from the opposite direction, and I go outside again and I'm like, there's no one in the hallways. And I'm like, now I'm holding on to like sanity. I'm like, no, no, like someone has checked in. You're not. You haven't seen this person. They're just going about their night. Get a hold of yourself. But now I'm a little wrecked. We're both wrecked. She gets out of the tub. We go to get into bed, and we're in bed and all the lights are on, and it's one of those things where you have to go and click all the lights off. It's not a master switch. You got to go around and click the different lights off. And we're like, okay, let's go click the lights off. And I stand up and go to the one side of the room to click the lights off. And as I'm turning that side, like the entryway lights off, I literally hit those ones and then the lights on the other side of the room go off and me and her are like nope, and we ended up leaving the hotel room and going home. We didn't even spend the night in the hotel, and the next morning we kind of woke up laughing like I can't believe we just spent this money on this and then didn't stay, Like what was wrong with us? Like we were so so I call the hotel and I was like, hey, we left early totally. Our fault was really wrong with the room. We were just kind of feeling. A little off. So sorry about that. But like here's me checking out from my apartment in Brooklyn, you know, like weird. Sorry. And he was like, oh, no, that's totally fine, totally, that's you know, We'll love to have you guys back sometime. And I was like, yeah, and like apologize to whoever else was staying there, because I you know, I think I like yelled out for them a few times, and I don't want to disturb them. Like I just was like, was checking in to see if someone had come in, and there's this like long pause and the guy goes, there was no one staying in that you guys were the only ones there last night. Thank you Artemis for calling in. Here's a short epilogue to that story. It turns out that it had been an orphanage a million years ago. Okay, so that's terrifying, Like it was like a nunnery orphanage thing. And then in our room when it became a hotel, the first it was like before it was like officially a hotel, it was like a you can rent floors of this short stay. And these two really famous artists overdosed in our room in what and it had been set up differently, but they had a crazy night in like nineteen ninety nine or two thousand and three or something and die one in the bathtub, not even kidding, and one in the in the the living room area. That's all we have this week, folks. Do you have a ghost story? Call seven oh one four eight four two six six six. That's seven oh one four eight four two six six six, or go to tell me a Ghoststory dot com and leave your story there. Go ahead and leave me a five star review. 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