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. This call was 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 belongs entirely to Brittany, who called in with a true ghost story from her childhood that is one of the most visually specific and genuinely unsettling real ghost encounters in the entire early archive. The image she describes has not left me since the first time I heard it.
Brittany woke from a nightmare in the middle of the night and did what children do. She got up to find her parents. The route to their room took her past the bay windows, and that is where everything changed. Outside the glass, in the dark, were translucent figures of men. Not shadows. Not shapes. Translucent men with enough visible form that Brittany could see them clearly and could see what they were doing. They were tapping on the glass. Deliberately. Insistently. As if they knew she was there and wanted her to acknowledge it.
One of the figures was slightly behind the others. He was pushing a bicycle. That detail, the man with the bicycle lagging at the edge of the group, is the kind of specific and inexplicable image that cannot be manufactured by a frightened child's imagination because a frightened child's imagination does not produce something that mundane alongside something that terrifying. It is too specific and too strange to be anything other than something Brittany actually saw.
She did not stand there and watch them. She got down on the floor and crawled across the room to get away from the windows, staying below the line of sight the entire way. That is not the behavior of someone who is embellishing a dream. That is the behavior of someone who is genuinely trying not to be seen by something that is already looking for her.
One caller. One true ghost story about translucent men tapping on a bay window at midnight and the child who crawled across the floor to escape them. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.
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[00:00:02] Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story. The late night call in podcast where we delve into the world of the supernatural and explore the eerie and unexplained. I'm your host, Michelle Newman. This podcast features true stories from our callers that will send shivers down your
[00:00:32] spine and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife. So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights. Hey Michelle, it's Brittany. I have a ghost story. So I was woken up from a pretty terrible dream.
[00:00:54] I had, I was at the top of my bunk bed, crawled out of my bunk bed in anticipation to go up to my parents' room. The problem is we had to cross through down a long hall and a living room in order to get
[00:01:08] to the base of the staircase that led to my parents' suite upstairs. And I began kind of walking down the hallway and stopped at our front door. And just as I was about to enter into the living room, I felt, I felt like I was being watched.
[00:01:28] So I look up and I see a group of men tapping on the glass just outside of the bay windows within our living room. And they were absolutely translucent. I couldn't tell at first if it was just like my imagination kind of building, but I looked
[00:01:51] up again and it was just like, it was so clear that they were not human. Like there were, there were people but they were translucent men and they were all peering in with their hands pressed against their cheeks looking into the living room staring at me.
[00:02:09] It was a group of four men pressed against the window and one man that was kind of like straggling along in the back pushing his bike. It was just such an odd like coupling of people but clearly not there. I could tell that they were ghosts.
[00:02:28] But it was the tapping kind of like up against the window. Like hey, like they knew they were speaking to me. It wasn't a general knock, you know? And I immediately fall to my knees because my knees and feet had begun to like feel
[00:02:48] like sandbags like just so, so heavy in my body. So I fell to my knees and began to crawl again across the living room floor. And I could see them in the corner of my eye peaking at me and tapping on the window.
[00:03:07] And as I finally got to the base of the stairs of my parents' stairway, I charged up the stairs and we looked out the bedroom window and found nobody there. There's nobody in the driveway, nobody for a long way and there's no way that they could
[00:03:26] have escaped without being seen at some point. Thank you, Brittany, for your story. And I'll be closing my curtains from now on. That's all we have this week, folks. Do you have a ghost story? Call 701-484-2666. Or go to tellmeagostory.com and leave your story there.
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[00:04:18] And as always, I'm your host, Michelle Newman. Signing off. See you next week.