The Watcher - Classic

Speaker 2 There are times when you're supposedly all alone

Speaker 3 and you feel someone,

Speaker 3 something watching you.

Speaker 2 You see her, him,

Speaker 3 it out of the corner of your eye. You hear

Speaker 4 whispers, the almost voices, and you try to believe that you're imagining the whole thing.

Speaker 5 But

Speaker 6 what if

Speaker 7 you're not?

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Speaker 2 When I was 10 years old, I read a book, a very famous story, that Harry Houdini and his wife, they made a pact. Whichever one of them passed away first, let the other know.

Speaker 2 Some way, somehow, if there is life after death.

Speaker 4 So I told my brother, only one year difference between us, the neighbors called us Irish twins.

Speaker 2 I told him the story, and we made the same vow that Houdini did.

Speaker 2 And over the years, as we grew older, this pact turned from a conversation among boys to a promise between men.

Speaker 2 Bruh, remember, I know.

Speaker 3 Somehow, some way, whoever goes first has to let the other know.

Speaker 5 Dinny grew sick,

Speaker 2 started to remember things that never happened.

Speaker 2 Dark things.

Speaker 2 Angry things.

Speaker 5 No,

Speaker 2 I never stole from you, brother.

Speaker 2 How would I hide your child from you, brother? I have no hidden plans, brother.

Speaker 2 Brother,

Speaker 6 please get better.

Speaker 3 Please get better.

Speaker 3 And one day,

Speaker 6 he did

Speaker 15 get better.

Speaker 2 As if the fog lifted, he looked at me.

Speaker 5 smiled like old times.

Speaker 7 Man,

Speaker 2 I was saying some crazy stuff, right

Speaker 2 dude it was like someone

Speaker 2 something else took over I saw another me

Speaker 29 and another you

Speaker 29 like

Speaker 2 I was here and there at the same time

Speaker 2 he said

Speaker 29 remember

Speaker 2 remember our promise right

Speaker 11 yeah I remember

Speaker 19 well right then

Speaker 30 I then

Speaker 5 We laughed together.

Speaker 2 It'd been so long since we laughed, but we laughed.

Speaker 25 A week later,

Speaker 3 I picked up my phone and heard my sister screaming.

Speaker 2 Then I heard myself

Speaker 29 screaming.

Speaker 2 I knew he had passed, felt myself

Speaker 2 falling, curled into a fetal position on the ground, praying that the universe was a liar.

Speaker 2 Silently, reaching for my other self, my twin,

Speaker 2 touching nothing.

Speaker 29 I don't recall months.

Speaker 2 I don't remember the funeral. I don't remember collecting his things.

Speaker 5 I don't remember any of it.

Speaker 5 And only later,

Speaker 11 when I saw my

Speaker 1 shadow

Speaker 3 waving back at me

Speaker 5 of its own accord,

Speaker 5 that I remember our promise

Speaker 5 brother

Speaker 2 is that you

Speaker 2 brother

Speaker 2 later at the San Francisco Powell Street Bar station riding up the escalator I saw a dude with Dreads just like his wearing an army jacket just like his right down to the Grand Valley State Laker patch on the left shoulder,

Speaker 2 like his.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 29 Then my brother turned around and smiled

Speaker 25 before he vanished. Brother,

Speaker 2 I almost peed myself.

Speaker 5 And you think,

Speaker 2 you think I am seeing my own sorrow. And I understand that but you're wrong

Speaker 29 I've seen him

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 I want to know about this veil about this ribbon between here and there between us and them between the lost and the living

Speaker 2 you see mysteries abound

Speaker 2 Things go bump in the night. And the only way I know to navigate this road is to ask people their stories.

Speaker 2 Is it scary sometimes? Do I get scared?

Speaker 2 I do.

Speaker 18 But I know this.

Speaker 18 He promised

Speaker 5 and my brother always kept his promises.

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Speaker 2 Imagine, it's the middle of the night, you're not even 15 years old, you're home alone with your little brother, waiting for your mom to come home,

Speaker 7 waiting and waiting to hear her car pull into the driveway.

Speaker 7 And you're wondering,

Speaker 5 what if

Speaker 2 she doesn't make it?

Speaker 24 She had a night shift job in Salt Lake, which was about 70 miles south of where we live, soldering electrical components.

Speaker 24 I think she was actually working on missiles. I think she was, Sperry Rand had a

Speaker 24 defense contract from the federal government.

Speaker 24 So when mom went back to work, my older brother Kent had been babysitting us, but he had been drafted and was in Vietnam at the time.

Speaker 24 So

Speaker 24 after he left and went into the service, it was pretty much just Rod and I and my younger brother Rod. I was mostly in charge at that time.

Speaker 24 So, yeah, when I got off the bus every day, there was nobody there.

Speaker 24 We're responsible for making dinner, cleaning up, taking care of ourselves, getting ourselves to bed, and usually up again the next morning because mother would come home and she'd be sleeping. So

Speaker 24 yeah, that was the way it was. Remember, this is the 50s and a Mormon community.

Speaker 24 Nobody.

Speaker 24 Nobody that I knew of was getting divorced at the time. And it did.
It made me different because I was the one that was coming home

Speaker 24 to a house without a mother in it.

Speaker 24 So one night I'm sleeping and I'm suddenly awakened and I sit up in my bed and I look around the room and I try and figure out what it was that woke me up. And I'm thinking it was some kind of sound.

Speaker 24 And for some reason, My attention goes to my bedroom closet where I can see that my old tap shoe box has fallen from the shelf above the hangers.

Speaker 24 I thought that was quite strange, but nonetheless I went over and I picked the box up and put the black patent leather shoes back into it, put the lid back onto it, and then of course I went back and got into bed.

Speaker 24 But I couldn't lay down. I just really just sat there under the covers waiting because I was feeling like I was supposed to be up for some reason.
And I knew something was going to happen.

Speaker 24 I can't explain it except that I felt like I was waiting on something bad.

Speaker 24 And I would have gone and told mom if she'd been there, but of course she was at work. And so I was in charge and I was very well aware that whatever was going to occur was going to be in my lap.

Speaker 24 And then I heard this thud.

Speaker 24 And then I heard another thud and another thud.

Speaker 24 I knew they were coming from my left side as I was was positioned in my bed looking out my window.

Speaker 24 And that would have meant that they would have had to have been coming either from our garage or the ward's place

Speaker 24 on the other side of it.

Speaker 24 The wards place was right next door to us. Thud,

Speaker 24 thud, like that.

Speaker 24 I remember hearing that sound, you know, as it diffused out over our orchards to the west. Then I heard another one.

Speaker 24 And then I thought, well,

Speaker 24 I better get up and check the rest of the house out because I'm in charge now.

Speaker 24 I felt a real deep concern.

Speaker 24 So I go and I check out the locks on both the front and back door first.

Speaker 24 Then I go into the kitchen and I turn on the light above the sink.

Speaker 24 So I'm standing at our porcelain sink and it has windows all the way around it. I just stood there for a while and just like anchored almost, as if I was supposed to just be in that spot.

Speaker 24 It did seem at that point that something bad had taken hold of the night.

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Speaker 24 My first fear was for my mother.

Speaker 24 She had to drive that 70-mile drive, you know, all the way home in the dark, and she was always complaining about how tired out her eyes were after staring eight hours into a magnifying glass.

Speaker 24 How tired, you know, how tough it was to keep from falling asleep on that drive home. And I told God, would he please protect her and our black Chevy?

Speaker 24 Protect me from becoming an orphan. It was more just sort of maybe a dread.

Speaker 24 My breathing alters a little bit. I prayed off the dread of a call from the police.

Speaker 6 Right then, sirens,

Speaker 24 sirens come screaming down Highway 89 and four

Speaker 24 patrol cars screech to a halt in the Ward's driveway next door.

Speaker 24 And well, all I can think about is Donnie, the one with the wild reputation. But I can't understand why it would take so many cops to arrest one guy.

Speaker 24 The policeman gets out, they hide behind the doors of their cars, the sheriff gets out the megaphone.

Speaker 24 It was just like in the movies. And he started,

Speaker 24 he first

Speaker 24 called for mr. Ward to come out of the house and then he called for Mrs.
Ward

Speaker 24 and then he called for Donnie.

Speaker 24 But nobody came out.

Speaker 24 What I saw was a policeman. I saw him come out of the house and he was headed in our direction.
And this really worried me.

Speaker 24 I remember watching him walk over their lawn, crossed our double driveway, and then he selected the cement path that led to our front door.

Speaker 24 I went and turned on the porch light, or turned on the foyer light, and I opened the door, and there were two people standing there.

Speaker 24 It was him and a woman.

Speaker 24 Now, I assumed she was a plain-clothes policewoman because she wasn't in uniform, but nonetheless, she was with him.

Speaker 24 I told him my mom wasn't at home you know hoping that that'd make him go away but he said no he still wanted to come in and I let him because he was holding a baby.

Speaker 24 He came into the foyer and she followed him in and then left us and I had the notion she had just gone into our kitchen.

Speaker 24 But anyway I didn't have too much time to process it because the policeman was trying to inform me what had occurred next door.

Speaker 24 Some people had been shot. One of them was this baby's mother.

Speaker 24 She was dead and so was the baby's father. The kid was about three months old and I could see blood on her pajamas.

Speaker 24 He said they were waiting for the relatives to some relatives to come and get her, but they were coming from a ways away. It would take them a while.

Speaker 24 They happened to be short on personnel. They needed everybody over at the Ward's house.

Speaker 24 So they didn't really have anyone to watch the child. He said he'd seen the kitchen light on.

Speaker 24 He'd seen me standing in front of the kitchen sink, and he wondered if I would take her in.

Speaker 24 I don't even remember saying yes before he ditched her with me and gave me her bottle and I noticed it was only half full and wondering what I was going to do if they didn't get there in time.

Speaker 24 I was wondering if the kid came with diapers. I was thinking I might have to go swipe one off one of my old baby dolls.

Speaker 24 And that caused me to think about this woman that had gone into the kitchen.

Speaker 24 I had never seen her leave.

Speaker 24 When I walked into the kitchen, I did see her, but I could see

Speaker 24 through her.

Speaker 24 And that's when, and that's when I understood

Speaker 24 the woman wasn't with the cop, she was with the baby.

Speaker 24 She's very, very shook up

Speaker 24 and she is standing in the corner.

Speaker 24 She was apologizing. That was the first thing.
She was apologizing for being there, but she also told me that she was going to be there for a brief time.

Speaker 24 This was the baby's mother.

Speaker 24 My curiosity more or less kicks in at that point and I don't really feel a sense of fear. So then I told her that I knew she was there and that it was okay.

Speaker 24 And after that, she seemed to relax a little bit. She relaxed actually a lot because it wasn't because I gave her permission to be there, it was because we could communicate.

Speaker 24 And that seemed to be of tremendous relief to her.

Speaker 24 So after establishing the identity, I got all practical.

Speaker 24 I realized I wasn't going to be able to hold that baby all night, that I was going to have to go make it a bed.

Speaker 24 She follows us into the living room. Then she walked right across that living room to the opposite side and stood in front of those plate glass windows.

Speaker 24 And I remember looking out those windows and seeing those stars shining over those huge

Speaker 24 rocky mountains. And she would stand there the rest of the night.

Speaker 24 She was focused on me and the baby. And There didn't seem like a lot of time to be fearful because

Speaker 24 I felt felt that she was there for a reason.

Speaker 24 I don't know, I think

Speaker 24 she was communicating her thoughts to me because I felt a lot of emotion and I felt her concern about what had just happened and I knew she was troubled because she didn't know who I was or if she could trust me with her child.

Speaker 24 And I wanted to alleve her concern. So I told her, hey, don't worry.
I babysit all my nephews and nieces, and I've got 11 of them.

Speaker 24 And then I told her how sorry I was that she had just died.

Speaker 24 Maybe it was my own fears that were feeding into things. I mean, I had just prayed off not becoming an orphan myself, and there I am holding one.

Speaker 24 But I suddenly felt the pain of a mother and a child divided.

Speaker 24 I was was

Speaker 1 sad.

Speaker 24 I was very, very sad.

Speaker 24 Then I felt her disappointment.

Speaker 24 And then I felt her hope.

Speaker 24 She really hoped that her child would be able to hear the story and not let it ruin the rest of her life.

Speaker 24 Our relationship

Speaker 24 was

Speaker 24 quite practical, it seems. But most of the time, yeah, I held her really close next to my chest.
I was quite protective of her. Just rocked her,

Speaker 24 kept her safe. It was really important for me

Speaker 24 that she felt safe because she kind of wasn't.

Speaker 24 The baby was really quite a good baby.

Speaker 24 I only remember her waking up once and crying and then she slept the rest of the time. So, you know, I've often wondered if her mother's presence, if the child felt her mother's presence.

Speaker 24 And I think that was the whole point of her being there. She was sticking around until she was sure that the baby was in the right hands.

Speaker 24 Well, I remember when mom got home and pulled into the driveway. I was at the, you know, I was at the door waiting to tell her what had happened.

Speaker 24 And it was probably about an hour or 45 minutes after she arrived home that the relatives came and picked her up. They were very kind to me and, like I say, very appreciative.

Speaker 24 There wasn't a big transaction.

Speaker 24 We gave them the baby and it seemed like they were off.

Speaker 24 As soon as the relatives had departed and the baby was gone, so was she.

Speaker 24 So I'm sure that she went with the child.

Speaker 24 And by then we had learned what had happened.

Speaker 24 This young woman had been having an affair with Donnie

Speaker 24 and she had just asked her husband for divorce so that she and Donnie could carry, you know,

Speaker 24 forth their lives together.

Speaker 24 And her husband was a Brigham City policeman. And after his shift, he had gotten drunk and then drove down to our little town to settle the score.

Speaker 24 He shot Donnie,

Speaker 24 and then he shot the mother, and she was holding the baby.

Speaker 24 They were standing in the kitchen, and she was holding the baby at the time, and the baby fell with her to the floor, which, of course, explained the blood on the pajamas.

Speaker 24 And then the shooter turned the gun on himself.

Speaker 24 So the thuds that echoed over our peaceful orchards had been bullets.

Speaker 24 This sort of thing just didn't happen in our part of town, and it had given me some celebrity to have it happen right next door. So, the next day,

Speaker 24 when I returned to school, I was a center of attention because everybody wanted to hear this story. You know, it had made the Box Elder Journal by then.

Speaker 24 So, and I told them about the policeman, I told them about the gunshots and the baby, but I left out the ghost.

Speaker 33 Why didn't you want to tell them

Speaker 24 at 12? You crave ordinary.

Speaker 24 I didn't want to be seen as unusual or different.

Speaker 24 And the other part of that is, this was a private, a very powerful experience that I was hesitant to share.

Speaker 24 It was mine.

Speaker 24 Now,

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Speaker 2 From the creators of Snap Judgment, welcome back to Spooked.

Speaker 2 Now, I'm pretty sure it was Mulder or maybe Scully who once said that running parallel to our existence is the world of beasts, of others, of the dead.

Speaker 20 That it's right there, right here,

Speaker 1 next to us, all the time.

Speaker 19 And yet, occasionally,

Speaker 2 these two overlapping worlds collide.

Speaker 33 It was quiet and calm, and you could see all the birds, you could hear the frogs. It was just beautiful.

Speaker 33 It's wherever I went when I just needed some time to be by myself or just to think clearly for a while.

Speaker 33 And I ran into one person ever, a lady walking her dog, and I'm pretty sure I scared the life out of her that there was another person in the park that day.

Speaker 33 So I remember I had been on the phone with my then-boyfriend and I don't remember what we talked about, but I remember he said something that made me think he was a chauvinistic, not nice person and i remember yelling at him and telling him that if he knew anything about me he knew exactly where i was going to go and i hung up the phone and got in my car

Speaker 33 i drove off to the park the sun was already kind of down behind the tree line but it wasn't dark yet

Speaker 33 and i pulled into the parking lot And I thought it was weird that there was two cars there. And you know how police cars will sit side by side so they can talk out their driver window?

Speaker 33 it was like that so they were talking to each other

Speaker 33 and when i got out i remember the the man in the truck just staring at me in in this horrible way like like you know when when someone just looks at you like like they're looking through you like you don't exist or don't matter

Speaker 33 This is weird. No one's ever here.
It's late. Why are these two men here? And then I thought, ah, they're leaving.
I don't care. I have my own problems to deal with.

Speaker 33 I'm going. And I only took my keys with me because I don't want to have a big clunky purse banging around with me.

Speaker 33 So I headed across the field. I didn't look back at the parking lot.
To get into the woods, you really had to cross through the field to find an opening because there's no trails.

Speaker 33 You kind of just have to know where there's places you can cut in without going through thorn bushes and getting torn apart.

Speaker 33 I headed into the woods where the opening was and I started to walk towards that little spot in the creek.

Speaker 33 And I was taking my time because I was calming down and I was just listening to the birds and sounds and just

Speaker 33 calming. Like that's all I was thinking about and you know, the argument I just had and what I wanted to do and should we break up and all those stupid things that go through your head.
And

Speaker 33 then I started realizing it got really quiet.

Speaker 33 Like, I didn't hear the birds anymore. I didn't hear the squirrels bouncing around the leaves.

Speaker 33 And then I heard something big moving through the woods.

Speaker 33 And I was thinking in my head, I'm like, maybe it's a dog.

Speaker 33 And then I heard the voices. And the first voice is a male's voice.
And he said,

Speaker 33 I know I saw her going this way. She couldn't have gotten that far.

Speaker 33 And then the second voice comes and it's quieter and it says,

Speaker 33 shh, she'll hear you.

Speaker 33 Okay,

Speaker 33 so there's two men in the woods now and they must be looking for something, obviously.

Speaker 33 They're looking for something. And I kept thinking, it must be a dog.
They're looking for their dog. That makes sense.
Of course.

Speaker 33 They must have lost their dog and they're driving around looking for it. And then I thought, they wouldn't be being quiet.
They wouldn't try to sneak up on it. They'd be whistling.
They'd be calling.

Speaker 33 And I stood there frozen because that's the kind of person I am. I'm the deer that stands in front of your car staring into your headlights and doesn't move.

Speaker 33 And I could still hear them coming closer to me through the woods. I could hear the trees, the snapping of twigs as they were walking and leaves crunching.

Speaker 33 I don't even know how long I stood there, but I was completely frozen, waiting for them to to get to me.

Speaker 33 And then

Speaker 33 I heard the other voice.

Speaker 33 It was distorted like

Speaker 33 if you heard somebody talking through a closed door or talking underwater, like you could hear what you could understand kind of what they were saying, but

Speaker 33 the voice wasn't right.

Speaker 33 It wasn't in my head because it had like a volume and a pitch that changed. That

Speaker 33 my thoughts don't do. Maybe other people's thoughts change in volume when they get upset, but mine are very monotone.
So

Speaker 33 I could almost feel where the voice was coming from. Like if someone yells, you can kind of feel where they're standing at, like where the sound comes from.

Speaker 33 And

Speaker 33 it was behind me and a little above, like it was taller than me.

Speaker 33 It just said, go to the river now.

Speaker 33 And I don't know if I was more scared of the fact that there's some disembodied voice talking to me, or maybe there's a person behind me now, and there's two men coming towards me in the woods.

Speaker 33 I don't know which scared me more. I mean, I guess I listened to the voice because

Speaker 33 I don't know. I didn't really have other options.

Speaker 33 I took off towards the river and I was making a ton of noise because I was just running as fast as I could.

Speaker 33 And the voice came back right away and said, no, quietly, quietly, and almost almost like it hissed at me when it said it. Quietly.

Speaker 33 And I got to the where the river was and where this little embankment was, and I just jumped down it instead of climbing down like I should have. I ended up cutting my legs up in the process.

Speaker 33 And I squished myself against the embankment and squeezed down into the smallest, tightest little ball I possibly could.

Speaker 33 And the voice just kept saying really quietly to stay.

Speaker 33 And I just sat there hoping that whoever else was in the woods was just going to leave and that I wasn't having some kind of breakdown.

Speaker 33 And I kept hearing them moving through the woods and getting closer and closer. And then I could tell they had split off because one sound was going further away and one was coming much closer.

Speaker 33 And as I sat there, that voice just kept telling me, stay, stay, and quiet

Speaker 33 over and over again, like it was almost trying to comfort me.

Speaker 33 I could hear what sounded to me like someone was right above me.

Speaker 33 And I knew if I leaned out,

Speaker 33 if someone was up there, they'd be able to see me. And I couldn't help myself.
I had to look to see if something was there.

Speaker 33 So I just tilted my head up just a tiny tiny bit and I could see the tips of these construction boots hanging over the edge of the embankment.

Speaker 33 And then I could see hanging down next to them this dirty old rope just swinging there.

Speaker 33 And I don't, I don't even know if I even thought anything at that point. Like I was just so scared.
I just tilted my head back down and just tried to not breathe.

Speaker 33 It felt like hours, but I know it couldn't have been that long, but it just seemed forever. And even then, like the voice even was completely silent.

Speaker 33 Like there was nothing but me hearing this man breathing above me. And I guess he didn't look down because he started to walk away at some point.

Speaker 33 And that voice came back and it kept telling me to wait. And

Speaker 33 I didn't want to. I wanted to go so bad.
And I just said, well, I'm already hearing voices.

Speaker 33 I have people in the woods with a rope looking for something, which I assume is me at this point. And I might as well just listen.
So I waited and I waited.

Speaker 33 And finally, the voice said, go now to the field. Go!

Speaker 33 And it was screaming at me so loud. I jumped just from how loud it was.
And I climbed up the embankment and I ran through the woods. And I didn't care about being quiet.

Speaker 33 I'm torn up by thorn bushes and tree branches and everything and I got out to the field and I'm far far far away from the cars and from the street and at this point the sun's starting to go down.

Speaker 33 It's getting dark and I could see the parking lot but it was so far away and I knew there was limited chance that anybody on the street could see me.

Speaker 33 And I'm running and I start hearing footsteps running. And I mean the field's loud so I can hear them.
And they're first they're farther away but much faster than I am. So much faster than I am.

Speaker 33 And they're barreling down on me at this point.

Speaker 33 And the only thing I have is my car keys. And I'm like, you know what? I'm not going down like this.

Speaker 33 So I put the car keys and I did what my dad always used to tell me to have the keys between each one of your knuckles. And I had my fist all balled up.

Speaker 33 And I'm like, I'm going to at least see this person. I'm not going to just let them take me.
And I spun around with the keys in my fist. The footsteps are right on top of me.

Speaker 33 and there was nothing

Speaker 33 nothing I fully expected to see the at least one of the men there

Speaker 33 but it was silent no no more footsteps no anything

Speaker 33 and the only thing I could think was

Speaker 33 the footsteps must have belonged to the voice somehow

Speaker 33 And then I hear the voice again just screaming at the top of its lungs that I need to run right now.

Speaker 33 And I immediately hear the footsteps again. So I'm looking as I'm running now, but I can't see anything.

Speaker 33 And the footsteps are literally in pace with me now, like something is running next to me through the field.

Speaker 33 I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, I have no idea. This is how people die.
Like, I mean, I have like a thousand crazy thoughts running through my head because none of this makes any sense.

Speaker 33 Finally, I break out of the field, I get in my car, got my keys in the ignition as fast as I could.

Speaker 33 And I see both the cars that have been running that were leaving are now parked in different places with nobody in them.

Speaker 33 I had like cuts and scrapes from, you know, the embankment and climbing back up all the rocks and running through the thorn bushes.

Speaker 33 And I definitely remember my tires making squealy sounds as I backed up way faster than I should have.

Speaker 33 And I just sped out of there and I refused to look behind me in the rearview mirror.

Speaker 33 I just kept picturing, like in every bad, scary movie, there's that person that you see in the rearview mirror, and I'm like, I'm not going to have an image of them haunt me.

Speaker 33 No, no, I don't ever wish to hear it again, because I assume if I do, I'm in a really bad place. I assume if I ever hear it again, something really terrible is happening.

Speaker 33 I mean, don't get me wrong. If there hadn't been a voice, I probably wouldn't be talking to you.
I would probably be a missing person's case somewhere in somebody's drawer.

Speaker 33 I can only assume it meant good things. I mean, it got me out of there.

Speaker 2 Those are the stories we have for you. We want to hear the stories you've got for us.

Speaker 2 Please let us know your story. Record onto your phone device, Dingy, and send it to spooked at spookpodcast.org.

Speaker 2 Big love to our guest this week, Janet Larkin. Thank you for taking care of the baby.
Janet's book is Surrounded by Ghost.

Speaker 2 And thanks so much to Shelly Shaffery for sharing your story with Spooked.

Speaker 2 Shelly has not heard that voice since it's recorded. You'll have links to more information about those stories at spookedpodcast.org.

Speaker 2 This episode was produced by the Ghostbusters at Snap Judgment with special thanks to Mark Ristich, Anna Sussman, Eliza Smith, Nancy to the Lopez, and Jody Colli.

Speaker 4 Original music by Pat Lacidi Miller, Leon Leon Murimoto, and Renzo Gorio.

Speaker 5 And especially, if you're afraid, huddled in the corner, waiting for the ghouls to kick open the door, always remember, and don't forget to never,

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