Real Life Haunt: Nick and Joe
We share two stories that were sent in to The Unrest Podcast. Kaitlin tells us a very sad story about the loss of a neighbor and how her death impacted Nick who lived next door...and still does even to this day.
Then to round it out we hear a story from Joe...who lived in a refurbished old house and had many experiences that made the childhood tale about it being haunted a reality.
Do you have a story that you think we would like to hear...email us at theunrestpodcast@gmail.com
Unrest In Peace
Real Life Haunt: Nick and Joe
We share two stories that were sent in to The Unrest Podcast. Kaitlin tells us a very sad story about the loss of a neighbor and how her death impacted Nick who lived next door...and still does even to this day.
Then to round it out we hear a story from Joe...who lived in a refurbished old house and had many experiences that made the childhood tale about it being haunted a reality.
Do you have a story that you think we would like to hear...email us at theunrestpodcast@gmail.com
Unrest In Peace
Real Life Haunt: Nick and Joe Transcript
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The unrest, the unrest, the Unrest Podcast podcast podcast.
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Welcome to the Unrest podcast.
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I'm Madeleine Greene.
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And I'm Caitlin stansell.
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Thanks so much for joining us back here for the Unrest podcast.
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We try to be good and do it each week, but you know, life happens.
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Life happens and you know what?
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Sometimes life requires a little bit of alcohol, so tonight we've sport ourselves, some spirits.
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Spirits to talk about spirits and my spirit of choice.
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Tonight is champagne.
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What about you, Caitlin?
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Yours is like a little celebratory.
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Mood kind of spirit.
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It's the holidays.
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I have a Pinot noir here which kind of gives me some Gothic vibes, I think.
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Kind of perfect.
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For what we're talking about.
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If I drink too many more spirits, it'll be turned into a show about family and the holidays.
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Nothing can get spookier than that.
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So cheers, cheers.
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To you, if you don't know, we record this via zoom because Madeline's in North Carolina and I'm done here in Charleston.
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So this is like our weekly girls night get together to record and I was telling Madeline these glasses that.
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Or the glass I'm drinking out.
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Of it's like this little.
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Kind of an.
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Espresso sized glass, but not a mug.
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And I got this at a vintage store and it's so funny.
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When I went in there and I'm like looking around vintage stores.
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I love like I love the vibe.
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I like vintage things but always in the back of my mind.
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I'm like I don't want to buy something that's like.
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Haunted right, like you don't know who's lips have been on that cup.
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So far so good.
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Maybe they had the same sort of Gothic pinot noir vibes, so I think we we're getting along just fine here, but.
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I don't know.
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I saw this like creepy little doll and I was like Nope walking past that.
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Yes, for sure.
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We used to watch this show about artifacts and stuff like that that had spirits connected to them, so that could be why you're a little more scared about this.
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Like don't even touch that creepy looking thing right.
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So for today's real life hunts, we had two people write in their stories.
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Caitlin's gonna read one and I will read the other one. So Caitlin do you wanna start with yours?
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Yes, so this one comes from Nick and.
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He lives all.
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The way in India so cool that he's letting us share this story with everyone listening out there.
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But he has titled this.
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Window hmm.
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In the words of Nick.
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This happened when I was ten years old in our earlier neighborhood.
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There lived a couple who were newly married and the lady was pregnant, me, my mom, and my newly born sister used to visit her every now and then and we used to enjoy our time together for them.
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It was all about pregnancy, talking about how to take care of the baby and all of that stuff.
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And I was just kind of hanging around.
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I remember though it was a Monday night.
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And it was raining.
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Heavily and there was a thunderstorm.
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I was in my room finishing my homework.
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My mom was in the other room with my sister and my dad had gone somewhere and whenever we used to go out at night he used.
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To lock our door.
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So these are the days where we did not have cell phones.
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Imagine that there were landlines, but you.
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Know sometimes they.
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Used to be dead because of the weather.
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So back to the homework, I was doing my homework and I saw through my window a glowing yellow light coming from our neighborhood window.
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Someone was on fire and I saw that it was no other than the pregnant lady from our neighborhood.
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I was frozen and there were just no thoughts running in my mind for a minute.
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Or so I don't know exactly how long this lasted.
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But I stood there watching. And then I ran into my mom's room trying to scream, but I was hardly breathing so I took my mom's hands and I just uttered one word fire. And then she came to my.
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Room saw the horror.
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And we knew it was our neighbor.
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So my mom and I started screaming for help as there were more neighbors.
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Nearby, but nobody could hear us because of the Thunder and the rain, and her phone was dead, which was common during the rain.
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We couldn't go out because our door was locked from outside as my dad wasn't home so we stood next to our window shouting and screaming helplessly.
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All of a sudden there was no movement.
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The fire was still on.
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My mom was crying and I knew in my heart that our pregnant neighbor was no more.
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She was gone and burned to death right in front.
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Of us.
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After the rain stopped, the neighbors heard our noise and they all gathered and.
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They did what they.
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Could they called the ambulance the fire police and they managed?
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To put the fire out.
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When they brought her out, her body was covered with a white sheet and it was obvious that she didn't live through that.
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She had died.
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After a few days, the police inquiry was over and they came to the conclusion that she committed suicide by pouring kerosene on her because her husband was having an affair with somebody else.
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The funeral took place and I was sent to my grandparent's place because my parents didn't want.
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Me to go through all.
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Of this they thought.
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I was just too young for all of these things.
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When I came back to my house though.
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Everything seemed to be normal and my parents.
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And friends, they didn't really speak a word about it.
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So a few months passed and I had kind of forgotten about the incident.
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And it was there, but it had kind of faded into a memory.
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But one night, something supernatural happened that really shook me from the inside out.
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So one night while I was having a dream in that dream, I was in my neighbors house all alone.
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I was looking for my mom.
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There was no one in the house.
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It was dark even during the day.
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I could smell something though smelled like it was burning and the smell was getting stronger and stronger and after some time I.
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Could hear a baby.
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Crying from that same room where my neighbor was burned alive.
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So I went to the room even.
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In my heart.
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Or consciousness.
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I don't know what it was I.
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I knew it's not what I should have done, but I entered the room and someone caught my.
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Hand and I started pulling the run but I was not able to even scream.
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My voice was just gone after a few attempts I pulled my hand and freed myself and at that point I started screaming shouting and that ended the nightmare.
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But I was doing the same thing in real life.
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I was screaming in real life.
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I woke up to that my parents came running in my room and my mom hugged me and slowly I sort of came back to reality and finally was able to take a breath of relief.
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My mom, she had brought me a glass of water and she paused and asked.
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What happened to your hand?
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She held my hand and as we both looked at it, we saw that my.
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Hand was.
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Covered in red marks.
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It was as if someone had been holding my hand.
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Tightly for a long period of time and.
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We were all sort.
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Of shocked and didn't really know how to react.
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From my heart and soul, I knew it was her, our pregnant neighbor.
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He says I used to sleep with the window covered with black curtains because I just didn't want to see any orange glow, which would give me anxiety.
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And then there were dreams in between.
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But at this point I can't really recall them now.
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And after a few months, those dreams finally stopped.
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She was gone.
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Dream was gone.
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She left in her memory, eventually faded too.
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I can't even recall her face now.
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Now as I was so young, when it all happened, it's hard to remember now, but few things do come with you even after you move on, they stay with you and they die with you.
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It sounds like a story that is going to linger with him for the rest of his life.
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He like tells it perfectly because it was something that really stuck with him, but also being kind of young.
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You know.
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Obviously those feelings and those memories do kind of fade with time as well.
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And I can just imagine as a young child, like seeing that happening and understanding what happened that this woman killed herself.
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And in such, like a horrifying.
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Fashion, but as a.
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Young child, it's like your brain almost can't comprehend what's happening.
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I mean, I I can just imagine.
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How this memory has stuck with?
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Him through the years.
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Today I was in Hobby Lobby and I passed this roll of beaded like Garland for a tree and instantly I was nine years old again and my mom was putting those beads on a tree.
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So imagine being his age and and seeing such a traumatic thing.
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And I mean just looking out a window a certain way could send you right back into that moment so.
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Or even just like smelling someone blow out a candle, I mean.
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That's pretty terrifying to to think about.
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Right, well thank you Nick for sharing that story with us.
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Next we have another story.
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We have time.
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For one more.
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Yes, I think we do.
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This one is from a man named Joe and it goes like this.
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Years ago I lived in this old house that had been converted into two apartments.
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One day while I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom, I heard what sounded like children laughing in my bedroom, which was right next to the bathroom.
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Instantly I looked out of the bathroom down the hall.
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In the direction of my bedroom and when all of the sudden my bedroom door slammed shut, which was odd because the door was so warped that I could never even.
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Get it closed.
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After seeing my.
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Door closed like that I was in.
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Many times I had tried to get the store closed, putting all my weight into the effort.
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I finally gave up trying.
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I had plans to go out that evening, but my keys, wallet and coat were in my bedroom with my adrenaline and full gear.
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I approached my door.
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Then I heard children laughing again.
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Slowly I reached for the door handle when all of the sudden the door lightly swings open.
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I enter my bedroom, quickly gather up my things to leave, and then I hear the window behind me that has been jammed shut since I moved slowly opening.
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I didn't even look back, just left quickly.
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And for the next few weeks I slept on the couch downstairs, which was not better because in the middle of the night I would wake up thinking something or someone was staring at me from the entryway by the front door.
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Always after this I would hear something going up and down the stairs.
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If these things were not enough late at night while driving home, I.
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Could see the.
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Backside of my house, across the field, and on numerous occasions I could see lights on in my apartment and a figure moving from room to room, always stopping in front of each window and then when I'd get home.
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All the lights would be off.
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I only stayed here a few more months and when I was growing up, this House had a reputation of being haunted and most of my childhood it was empty.
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I never felt that whatever was there was malevolent, but it was awfully creepy.
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With that story, he sends a picture though, and it's a picture of the house and there's the old article along with it, and the person who lived there before.
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His name was Edwin Goodwin.
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He died on the front porch and it just says drops dead on front porch.
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Edwin Goodwin expired suddenly Thursday afternoon, so maybe this Edwin is who he sees or saw through the windows visiting each room in this house.
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And maybe Edwin has kind.
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Of a creepy childlike giggle.
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Yeah, I don't know where the child, but yeah I don't.
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Know where the kids?
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They didn't seem to be making words anymore, but champagne.
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Yeah, I'm not.
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Sure where the children's laughter came from.
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But maybe Edwin had children as.
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What's interesting to me is you know.
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We hear a lot.
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Of stories like this and the perseverance of people to stay in their homes during these experience.
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I would be out of there.
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Well and like.
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I love older homes and the architecture and how there's just something about an older home that I really love and so ohh 100% and that was somewhere I could rent I.
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You're charming.
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Would totally rent it.
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And to think that you know it was converted into these two apartments.
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I'm sure he loved that part.
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Of it as well.
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But everybody knows with old homes comes ghosts.
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Thost and apparently really strong winds and they were slamming this door shut and then opening the window that had been jammed for years.
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Yours so yeah, we love ghost.
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We love talking about them and hearing your real life haunts.
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And guess what?
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You can share.
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Yours with us whenever you want.
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We're here to listen.
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You can share them.
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You know how you can.
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Get them to us Madeline.
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Tell them how.
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You can e-mail us at the unrestpodcast@gmail.com. We also have a Facebook.
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We have a.
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A group and a page.
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We have an Instagram we.
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Have a tik?
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T.O.K, but we also have something we mentioned probably a few months ago, but we're what you call procrastinators, and we never did anything with them.
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So we have a little mascot that Caitlin drew for us and it is the cutest ghost you've ever seen.
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And we're going to be doing a sticker giveaway.
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You have to try and come up with a name for the ghost because we're trying to come up with a name for our mascot and whoever wins will send them a little carrier.
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Package from the Unrest podcast full of stickers that are very own, Caitlin Stancel drew by.
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And yes, I did and we're.
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Telling you about it now because you're the lucky few who have listened all the way to the very end of this episode.
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Keep an eye on our Instagram on our Facebook for that contest to start and we can't wait to hear your name.
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Recommendations for our little ghost and then share some of these fun stickers with you.
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And until next time.
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Unrest in peace.