The Fun House, Attached

[00:00:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Something very demonic was whispering into my ear.

[00:00:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Tell Me A Ghost Story, the late night call in podcast where we delve into

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_01]: the world of the supernatural and explore the eerie and unexplained.

[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host, Michelle Newman. This podcast features true stories from our callers that

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_01]: will send shivers down your spine and leave you questioning the existence of the afterlife.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So grab a cozy blanket, turn down the lights.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: My name is Phil. I'm from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And what I'm about to tell you happened in Rome, Georgia. I'm a contractor and I take care of and

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: manage foreclosed vacant and abandoned properties. In this particular property in Rome, I was sent

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_00]: a work order to go there and do a regular first time visit. And when I got there,

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I found out from the neighbors that the house had been a funeral home and it hadn't been

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: used in over five years. So it was a two story red brick, very, very ominous, just creepy look.

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Once you find out it's a funeral home, it just makes it more creepier.

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Well anyway, we go in and we do all of our supposed to do. Then I

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: find a set of stairs that will take me down to the basement. And down in the basement is

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: where everything is done. Where the bodies are embalmed, prepped, and everything else.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_00]: The equipment was still there. And there was a room off to itself and inside that room,

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_00]: there was some stuff that you would typically find in a funeral home. That's chairs,

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: cans, but there was also two coffins. So I called the mortgage company and said,

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_00]: hey, I have two coffins in this place. What do you want me to do with them?

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, take them to the landfill. We don't want them. Okay, cool.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So I got them out and I was about to have the guy store it on a trailer when one of

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_00]: said, hey, my uncle has a big spook house in Chattanooga and he would love to have

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: these two coffins. I said, we'll call him. I need them out of here today.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: He called him. His uncle came, picked them up and took them back to Chattanooga.

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And the spook house opened a month later and I get a call from him and he says,

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: where did you get these? I mean, were these coffins in there for the whole time?

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I said, I don't know. They were in there when we went there.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I'm having some issues with these things. I cannot get any of my actors to

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_00]: go into these coffins. I said, well, you know, they are coffins. It's really not

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: normal for a living person to want to go in a coffin. Kind of claustrophobic and it's just

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of weird on top of that. And so we, I went to the property again, another trip,

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: and there was a gentleman that came walking up and he was, he was about five, 10, six feet

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: slender build and he had a fedora on. And he was asking my name and everything. So I told him,

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: introduced myself and he began to tell me that he had worked at that funeral home

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: about 10 years earlier and he was probably in his seventies.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And I began to talk to him about the place. I said, what about those two caskets

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: in the, in this basement? What's that all about? And he said that those two caskets were used

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: if people were going to be cremated, they would put the bodies in those caskets. They would have a

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: normal memorial for people who were going to be cremated and what they would do that place

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the body in there, take it to the room. It was going to be in and after the service, they

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: close the lid and they would put the coffin in an elevator, lower it to the basement,

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: remove the body and put it into a cardboard box to be sent off to be cremated.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And these two caskets were used over and over and over and over again.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And the guy from the spook house who came to pick them up to use them in a spook house,

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_00]: he had complaints that his actors would not get in them and that there was crazy things

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: moving around, doors slamming stuff falling in that space that one or two of his actors said

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: it's got to be that coffin. So I relayed that information to him and all of a sudden it made

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: him excited because now he had two coffins that somehow another had something attached to it

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and they were in his spook house. And that's my story.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for your story, Phil from Chattanooga.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You really put that haunted in Haunted House. Next message.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So my name is Rachel and I currently live in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02]: When I first started to experience paranormal things, I was about four years old and my

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_02]: family lived in South Point, Ohio. My brother said that our great grandma actually appeared

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_02]: at his window one night and this was after she had passed away. And I've always wondered if

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_02]: it was actually our great grandma or since the activity in this home

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_02]: appeared to be more demonic, was it a demon portraying themselves as our great grandma?

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I definitely feel like something has attached itself to me and has never left me because 30

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_02]: years later I still have paranormal experiences happen to me and I can almost get like a vision

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_02]: of who it is and it's always the same person. When I think about it, they appear in my mind

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02]: or if something happens, this person appears in my mind.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I have had a lot of experiences with sleep paralysis. My first episode of sleep paralysis,

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I remember being so freaked out that after it happened, I text my mom and by this time I'm

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_02]: probably about 32. That was when the first time I had my first episode of sleep paralysis

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_02]: and when I realized what happened to me, I have a makeup vanity that sits right next to my bed

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and once I could finally move my body, I turned over and on my makeup vanity there were these

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_02]: three long scratches that were never there. So I text my mom, told her what happened,

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_02]: she came over and when I was describing what happened, it's like her face went blank

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: and I stopped talking and I asked her what was wrong, what was going on and she said that the

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_02]: wall behind me was turning black and it was almost like a portal was opening up as I was

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_02]: talking about my experience. So I quickly ended the conversation and I never spoke about it

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: again. Throughout the years, I've had a few more episodes of sleep paralysis,

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_02]: the last one happening about three weeks ago. This was probably the shortest episode but maybe

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_02]: the scariest. I actually woke up and what sounded like something very demonic

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_02]: was whispering into my ear and I don't want to repeat back what it said to me.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm afraid if I do, maybe I will intrigue it even more. Thank you Rachel for your story.

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