A Painter, A Shadow, And The Stone Tape Theory

Ever blink and find a figure closer than before? That’s where we start—inside a Ray Township house that feels wrong from the moment the door opens. A painter hears footsteps above an empty second floor, sees a woman in a floral dress advance with each blink, and later watches a shadow spin in a lit bedroom where no fan exists. A neighbor adds a thread about a German family, misplaced keys, and a stern ultimatum that stops the pranks. From there, we widen the lens to ask a bigger question: what does a place remember after years of fear, grief, and hope?

We unpack stone tape theory in plain terms: high emotion leaves a mark, certain materials store it, and the environment pushes play. That lens reframes everything from a UK hospice built on children’s hospital grounds to the Idaho murders house—structures that became trauma landmarks, not because of demons, but because of replay. Blessings, exorcisms, and demolitions read differently when you see them as community tools to reset an emotional loop. We compare intelligent hauntings to residual echoes, lay out practical signals to tell them apart, and share why thresholds, stairwells, and windows often stage the strangest moments.

Along the way, synchronicities stack up: a cemetery first visited in a dream appears months later in waking life; a listener’s wish to see the dead manifests as hologram-like glimpses and restless shadows. We talk safety in meetups, why investigators thrive in community, and how objects—antiques, heirlooms, thrifted finds—can carry energy the way water carries memory. If you’ve ever walked into a room and felt it breathe back a story, this conversation will give you language, tools, and context to understand why. Hit follow, share this with the friend who swears their house is “just weird,” and leave a review telling us the one place you’ll never enter alone.

Chapters

• 0:00 Music Intro And Fresh Start
• 0:58 TikTok Connections And Safety Tips
• 3:16 Paranormal Mitten’s Ray Township Encounter
• 6:40 Shadow Dancing And The Haunted Neighbor
• 9:20 Seeing His Father Like A Hologram
• 12:08 Attachments, Shadows, And Waking Wishes
• 15:12 Dreamed Cemetery Turns Real
• 18:03 Synchronicities And Meant-To-Meet Moments
• 20:55 Future Collab In Ray Township
• 23:30 Hospices, Hospitals, And Residual Energy
• 26:00 Stone Tape Theory Explained
• 30:40 Idaho House As A Trauma Landmark
• 33:54 Platform Shoutouts And Text Us
• 34:20 Exorcist Hospital And Demolition Motif

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:31

Welcome back, everyone, and this is your host, Melissa, at Strange Deranged Beyond Insane. That was an original song that you were listening to, and that app is called Cineva Music. It is an AI music generator. And I also have a full original song that I will always try to throw into my podcast episodes. Now that it's 2026, I like to kind of keep things fresh and new. Alright, so you guys know how I love TikTok, right? And I've actually met quite a few people like in person on TikTok with, you know, the same likes and you know, we share this, you know, same passion for paranormal and crime and conspiracies and yada yada yada. So, anyways, um we did meet this person and his friend out in a cemetery in God, I can't remember. I think it was close to Port Huron, but his name on TikTok is the Paranormal Mitten. Um, this guy is super cool, super friendly. He loves going out in the field and exploring and investigating. So I opened up my messages today because I had quite a few, and he sent me like a butt-load mini book of something that happened to him. So I did ask him if I could talk about this on the podcast. And I love again, you guys, I love engaging with my listeners. I want these stories. I want you guys to either hop on here and talk in person, or if you want to talk over the phone and you know, we record like hanging out, or if you just send them to me, I love to record on the podcast. So I asked him and he said, Yes, I can talk about this. So before we start, again, um, when you're engaging with people online and you're gonna go meet up with people, always take a friend, right? I mean, come on, this is uh again 2026. We're older, better. Um, but don't let the shitty world stop you from meeting people, especially like like-minded people, right? You need to get out there, you need to meet people in the field and see the way that they investigate. Everyone does things different, you can learn from one another, and of course share experiences, right? So I just want to put that out there that I still have faith in humanity, and I'm glad that I do because again, I would not have met these people. So I briefly skimmed this. Um, so I'm basically reading this as a blind, a complete blind item. I don't know the details, um, but as little as I read, the the only thing I asked on the bottom was, can I tell this story on my podcast? He says, sure. All right, so this reads, I was trying to paint a house out in Ray Township. I went out there, walked in the house for the first time, didn't really like the feel of it, kind of weird, felt very heavy, kind of blew it off, then I went back out a couple days later. I was painting by the front door and I just did not feel right. It just felt heavy. I could hear walking around on the second floor, kind of just let it, you know, just kind of pushed it to the back of my head, kept painting, and then I stopped. I was looking at the stairs coming down from the second floor and standing there with my own two eyes. I see a lady, 56, maybe 57, short hair, a long flower dress, almost like a moo moo. She's standing in the doorway. I'm looking at her. I blink. She gets closer, I blink again. She gets closer, I blink again. She finally disappears. Talk about getting the fucking shit freaked out of you. It was crazy. Same house I was driving down the street. I left the second floor light on, and I'm driving down the street and I'm looking up into the window. The light is on and I see a shadow spinning in the bedroom. I thought maybe the ceiling fan was on and it was something hanging from it. It was just throwing that shadow on the wall. I stopped in the street. I'm looking up, it stops, so I go in the house. I walk upstairs. I walk into that room. Now the whole house is empty. There's nobody living in there. I walk into that room. There's no fucking fan. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a shadow being cast from a fan to me. It was almost like maybe somebody was dancing or two people. People were just dancing and they were trolling each other. Now I went across the street and talked to the neighbor. He told me that the original homeowners who owned the farm were a German family. They both died in the house, and there was actually a third person who died on the property. But he was living in a trailer connected to the house, and he had passed in there. And talking to the neighbor, he tells me he has a ghost in his house that stays on the second floor. Kinda hides things that they do. He'll come home for work. He puts his keys down. You know, he'll go watch TV. He comes back and then he can't find his keys. They'll be gone for two days, and then he'll find them in the dresser, like underneath all of his clothes. He got really mad. He yelled that if ever, if they ever did that shit again, he would burn the fucking house to the ground. And he said, ever since he said that, to whatever spirit on the second floor, they stopped hiding his shit. But a year ago, I was at my mom's house. Me and my brother had to move back because she had a stroke four years ago. Like she needed 24-hour care. She was in the hospital for a UTI. I was cooking, and a friend of mine was over. She was standing next to me. It was Wendy. She's the one that was with me when we met. So that's his friend Wendy that I met. That's who he's referring to. The cemetery in Plymouth standing, staring at the microwave above the stove. I look over at her, beyond her, between the stairs, going down to the basement, and the stairs going up to the second floor. I see my dad standing there. He had died in 2003, but I see my dad standing there looking at me, and I kind of froze. I wasn't shocked from what I was seeing now that he died. I was in the hospital with him. My mom was there. I was there, my brother Bobby was there, and the two of them had left, and about 10 minutes later, my dad had a massive heart attack that killed him. But this time I have weird dreams. But that was the first time in 24 years or 22 years that I had it, and it took me to see him. He was just standing there looking at me. Looked just how he was when he died. As soon as I blinked, I tried to hold on as long as I could. As soon as I blinked, he was gone. Now they weren't solid figures. You could have definitely seen through them. It was almost like a hologram. Even the lady was like she was solid, like a person standing there, but she was see-through. But I don't know what's happening. I mean, like with go shit. My shit's getting crazy. I was sleeping on my friend's couch. I got a bag at the end of the couch that I keep my socks in, and I keep like all my loose change, and I was sleeping on the couch, and I went to when I woke up to the morning of all my socks were out of the bag, and they were all on top of me above my covers while I was sleeping on the couch. I've seen shadows moving in her house before, Christmas, when I was laying on the couch. A shadow came out of her front door, walked into the Christmas tree, and then disappeared. And then I was watching TV from across the couch. It was a door in the kitchen. I saw another shadow move. I'll tell you this shit drives me crazy. I don't know if I got an attachment, or you know, I've always said over and over and over, I wish I could see dead people. I wish I could see dead people. I want to see dead people. I want to be able to hear and talk to dead people, and it slowly seems like it's coming to a reality. Wow. So um that cemetery that I was talking to you guys about that I met up with him and his friend, um, that was in Plymouth. I thought it was like Port Huron. Um, but yeah, that so I'm actually gonna have to. I was gonna type this to him earlier while reading this. I mean, like right after I'm done with this podcast episode, but I'm gonna let him hear this. So the craziest thing about this story that he's telling me is that I had a um dry spout of you know, ghost hunting, paranormal investigations where I wasn't like really feeling or seeing or hearing. And I had kind of wished for things to happen too, right? So about three years ago, um, I had a very well I had uh I had like a whole group of dreams that were not dreams, they were definitely real. But one of them was um I astro projected and I didn't mean to. And obviously I talk about this on the podcast. I think it's an episode from probably just over a year ago, and I was literally in the corner of my back room, um, where the fireplace is, where I sleep a lot, and I'm looking around this room, and I'm thinking, how did I get up here? And I look down and I see myself sleeping, and it scared the shit out of me, and I must have like went right back in and I woke right up, and I knew that that wasn't supposed to happen, right? Okay, so fast forward a couple months later, I go to my friend Teresa's, which Teresa has been on the podcast quite often, and um, we were supposed to go out that night. Her kid, her little baby was sick, so we didn't. So me, her, and her cousin were hanging out on the porch. Now, this is about the ghost car that we all seen. It's another episode of mine. Um crazy shit happened. But, anyways, I fell asleep. I did not know I was sleeping. Um, I was having a full-blown conversation with Teresa and her cousin. I'll get to the point of how this all correlates with this guy. And anyways, I'm walking down this path of the cemetery, and I'm thinking, wow, this is a really nice cemetery. I've never seen an entrance like this. It was really wide, just very clean, very nice. Um, I really liked the, you know, I guess geography of it, I guess you would say. Like the it was kind of hilly but flat, very wide roads, um, very well kept graves. Excuse me. So um then next thing I know, Teresa's like, hey, are you good? And I go, what? And she's like, Where did you go? And I was like, how long have I been sleeping? And she's like, What do you mean, how long have you been sleeping? Like, you just got done talking, like literally maybe a minute ago, I didn't know you were sleeping. And I'm like, Well, I was in a cemetery walking just now, and she's like, What the fuck? And her cousin was like super freaked out. I'm like, but no, I'm like, it wasn't even scary, like it was a beautiful cemetery. Okay, so then say six months later, fast forward, Christina and I go to this cemetery to meet this guy and his friend Wendy, right? So we got there a little bit early before they were coming. And as soon as I start driving in, I, you know, like I always do, grab Christina's arm and she's like, what, what, what? And I said, Holy shit, this is the cemetery that I dreamt of on Teresa's porch like six months ago. Because it was like deja vu. It was a warm, very warm, welcoming feeling. Like, but then it, I don't know, halfway into the entrance is like when I remembered the dream, and I'm like, holy shit, you know. So I thought that was really cool. Well, this guy and I have been communicating for a while on TikTok. Um, he's been wanting to get on the podcast. He's, you know, sent me quite a few clips of evidence. I've sent him some stuff and um whatever. So, anyways, I just think it we must have known each other like in a past life, or we were meant to, you know, collaborate, right? Because that was the cemetery that I dreamt of, and then I met them there. Um, so I just think it's I think it's extraordinary how many people are linked together. And I know that sounds, you know, super cliche, but um, Teresa and I were just talking about this, going on and on about this the last you know week, that I think there are certain people that you meet that okay, you've already met before, right? In another lifetime. I think there are certain people that are in your life that you have known for many, many lifetimes, right? And you know, you don't really, again, you don't want to go too much down a rabbit hole and you know, freak yourself out and get paranoid, but once you start, you know, getting into your mid to late 30s and then so on, everything kind of starts to make sense, right? And then you you even like notice patterns about yourself and about your past, and you really understand that like there are certain people that you're meant to meet. Oh, and and on top of this, so this guy, okay, um, a par paranormal mitten, the paranormal mitten guy on TikTok. We'll just leave him, we'll leave him as a blank, you know, and just talk about his TikTok name until he comes on here and wants to talk. And I he he definitely all the time, he's like, When can I get on your podcast? And I'm like, whatever, you know, let me know. But um, okay, so Christina and I went to one of our favorite um cemeteries a couple years ago, and we did some really cute pictures. Like, we went and bought pumpkins and like some props to do like around the graves. Uh, it was my birthday, so that's what I wanted for my birthday with her, was to take some cute spooky pictures. So we wrote all over um a couple pumpkins, like the date, my birthday. I put like my podcast on there, and I was like, hey, if anybody comes to the cemetery and visits and does what we do and likes to investigate and likes, you know, ghost and spooky and Halloween and blah blah, you know, look up my podcast, blah blah blah. So I get so we get so we do all that. We went out to dinner with some friends, and then of course, Christian and I hit the road and we're out in the boons in the woods looking for something spooky, and I get this text message from this number, and it's like, hey, I found your pumpkins. That's crazy. My son's birthday is the same day, and I'm like, who the fuck is this? You know, we're all like freaking out. We're like, oh my god, like what if it's a ghost? Like, um, it's not like I put my number on these pumpkins, like blah, so I didn't realize that it was him, you know, our new friend that's in the paranormal field, this guy, the paranormal mint, right? And I was like all nervous, and he was like, hey, it's me. And I was like, oh wow, I'm like, that's so crazy. We went to the same place the same day, too. But he, I guess he said that he had just missed us because he must have showed up at the cemetery maybe an hour after we left. So again, I think it was meant to be for us to meet him and his friends that do this, and you know, it's like this story that he's talking about. So Ray Township, that's funny. Um, anyone that's from Michigan, you know, Ray Township is kind of like boon-ish, woodsy. Um, my husband is now getting a lot of jobs in Ray Township in the last few years. So um, I would love to do a collab with this guy, and especially with the neighbor, because he knows so much about this house with the German family, and he says that you know, he claims his house is haunted too. So this may be a future collab that we can do and do some investigations. But again, you guys, I love hearing your stories. Um, I have to told many stories on here, even people on TikTok that have messaged me like one woman was from Port Huron, um, another one's from Michigan that sent me some cool stuff. Always want to know your experiences. Like I said, I can get on here and tell the story. You can come on here and tell your story. If you want to be anomalous, that's fine too. But I love spooky talk and I love hearing about what happened, even to like the finest details, because that's what really makes true storytelling spooky, right? Like campfire vibes. But, anyways, yeah, this is uh thank you again, Paranormal Mitten. And when you listen to this, um, I'm sure there will be a lot more stories that you can come on here and talk. A hospice facility in the UK recently made headlines after reports of so-called paranormal activity. This was so unsettling that clergy were called in. But here's the part that stuck. The building wasn't just a hospice, it was built on the grounds of a former children's hospital. What does a place absorb after decades of grief, fear, hope, and death? And why do hospitals and hospices show up in ghost stories across cultures? Okay, so this location is in Priscilla Bacon Lodge, and that's in the UK. Um, the land history is real, and that has been verified. Staff feel uneasy and always feel like they're being watched, and this has been reported um several times, and it has been confirmed that a blessing occurred, not a confirmed exorcism. No one officially called this place haunted, but no one denied something felt very off. When multiple people experience the same unease in the same place, we stop asking, is it paranormal? And we start asking, what's happening here? This is where Strange Durange Beyond Insane shines. We love talking about residual hauntings, trauma in printing, stone tape theory, energy memory, and why children's hospitals especially linger in folklore. If energy doesn't disappear, if it only changes form, what happens to it in places designed for suffering? So blessings can become exorcisms. Um I guess you can say a little different chat, but same font. Sometimes the media amplifies fear instead of understanding. I feel like we do need a supernatural explanation when discomfort is terrifying, right? And a lot of people, you talk exorcism or quote unquote blessing, and it like scares the shit out of them. You know, maybe there was no ghost, maybe there was no demon, but when a place holds enough endings, enough unfinished goodbyes, sometimes the living are the ones who feel haunted. I mentioned a little bit ago about the stone tape theory. The stone tape theory suggests that emotional or traumatic events can be recorded by physical materials, like stone, brick, wood, or even landed self, and later replayed under the right conditions. Think of a building as a broken tape recorder, not a conscious ghost. According to the theory, witnesses might report. Footsteps with no source, voices repeating the same phrases, crying, laughter, or screams, doors opening, closing in the same way every time, figures that don't acknowledge observers. The key detail is that there's no interaction. The event plays whether someone is there or not. Stone tape theory does not require a soul, a spirit, an afterlife, or even intelligence. Instead, it suggests high emotion equals strong energy, certain materials equals better recording surfaces, environmental triggers, humidity, temperature, EM fields equals playback. Hospitals, prisons, asylums, and battlefields show up constantly in these reports. If stone tape theory holds any weight, then hospitals wouldn't be haunted because people died there. They'd be haunted because of how much people felt there. Children's hospitals, especially, with fear, confusion, pain, hope, and sudden loss. That's a lot of emotional charge in one place. This theory was popularized in the 1970s, very on brand for paranormal lore, and it was named after the 1972 BBC play The Stone Tape, rooted in earlier ideas about residual hauntings, never scientifically proven, but never fully dismissed either. Science has not proven it, but science also has not figured out what consciousness is yet. So let that hang in your brain. So if you connect the dots, you will basically tell yourself, okay, this is not an intelligent response or a haunting. There's no possession, nothing, no physical thing to pos to possess, no moving objects violently, just repeated unease and atmosphere. This classic residual energy is not a ghost story. A blessing in this case becomes a way to reset emotional space, a psychological grounding ritual, or if you're spiritual, a way to quiet the playback. Maybe nothing followed that staff home. Maybe nothing was even watching them. Maybe the building was just remembering. So while talking about the stone tape theory, I do have to add in so everybody knows this story. Um, I would be really surprised if you didn't, but the Idaho killings. Um, so in November of 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. The case shook people, not just because of the crime, but because of the silence, the timing, and the ordinary setting. The victims were attacked while asleep. There were no signs of forced entry. So this case lingers because the house, I guess, always felt wrong. Friends refused to enter afterward, obviously, with you know, slashing going on in this house and all the blood. Um, a sense of heaviness tied to the space itself. By the way, these stabbings that this one person did to all these students were extremely heinous. Um, they were stabbed multiple, multiple, multiple times. And it was literally a blood scene in this house, okay? And a lot of pictures have been released in like the last week. So yeah, very, very heinous crime. A sense of heaviness tied to the space itself. The house eventually was demolished, not for evidence, but for closure. Now, okay, I guess, but it was crazy when I seen that they had completely demolished the house. I was like, okay, this sounds like a very familiar story. So stone tape theory suggests that places don't remember who, they remember what. So the reason why this house had to go was because um they demolished it more because it was such a huge discussion and there was so much lack of evidence being told to the you know public because they had to really keep a lot of things in, right? Because they needed the suspect. Um, it was about ending the imprint. Communities sometimes remove structures because they become trauma landmarks, they replay events psychologically, they trap people in a loop of remembrance. So this really aligns with the stone tape ideas perfectly. So when places remember violence, it really brings on grief and emotional residue. Um, you know, memories do imprint again in materials on buildings, and the Idaho house um really needed to be erased, and I do believe that because you would have had a lot of people trying to get in there and investigate, and then there would have been all these stories told, and I think the families were trying to heal. I mean, that is shocking news, right? But there was no speculation, no glorification, just why space matters so much. Sometimes the most haunted thing is not a ghost, it's a place where something should have never happened. Okay, so when I first um heard about this crime, of course, it was all over the news and social media, and I remember telling my cousin I called her and it really freaked her out. So the Idaho killings happened November of 2022, which is 1122, right? 1122, November 2022. Now, you ready for this? The address to this house is 1122-1122 1122 King Road, Moscow, Idaho. The details and the synchronicities are fucking insane, and a lot of people didn't catch this, but of course, with me being very detailed oriented, I knew right away. I was like, this something is so off. Alright, so Carissa and I, um about four years ago, we visited St. Louis. We made our rounds about and um stayed at a lot of cool haunted places, and we investigated and discovered and traveled and explored like two little crazy backpackers around there, okay? We made the most out of our little trip. Um we so we did go to the Alexian Brothers Hospital where the you know original exorcism happened, where the movie The Exorcist is actually made about. And so when we anyways, we will revisit that episode because we almost got arrested because they were so weird about us being on the property, and they knew that we wanted to like interview, they knew that we were taking pictures, but of course we were outside, we could not get inside the hospital because the original hospital was demolished, so there is a newer hospital that's out like in the front of the old hospital, but it's private, so same thing, okay? And we have a lot of evidence to back this up. However, we again we didn't have a lot of time on the property, but this hospital was demolished after this exorcism happened. There's reports of workers coming in, and you know, after they sealed off the room and they were doing this and they were doing that to the hospital and you know, doing construction. There was, you know, endless reports of construction workers, workers, nurses, doctors, bystanders, people in the hospital visiting their you know, loved ones of all these strange things that happen, and then boom, they demolished the hospital. Why? Because this is how I really do believe that theory, because a place can hold a lot of trauma, and I think it's so important to talk about this, especially someone in the paranormal field, because a lot of what we call so-called like hauntings, or you know, people are so quick to say demonized or demons, it's more of the atmosphere, it's trauma that's inside of a place, a building in the walls, in the floors, just like water holds memory. All these materials and places and things hold memory, which is probably a lot of times when you go and you buy things at antique shops, things that were already owned, or a garage sale, you know, you hear all these stories, or an estate sale, why you have all these things that happen because objects, material, anything materialistic holds energy. So let all this sink in, but I really enjoyed this episode. And by the way, you guys, this is the hundredth and ninety-ninth episode that I have aired. My next episode, the 200th episode, will be a banger. We're gonna go big or go or go home, right? So we're definitely gonna make it big. And um, again, I wanna thank all of you that have stayed listening to the show and my new listeners, and it's super cool to see that like I'm my podcast is reaching other countries, you know. I kind of had to gasp and um come up for air while saying that because again, like I've talked in earlier episodes, I never thought people would listen like they do. And to hear that it's or I'm sorry, to see that people are hearing me from other countries and all over in different states and cities, it's it's really, you know, icing on the cake and you know, fruit of my labor. And this isn't really labor for me, right? This is fun. Um, I always want to keep it a hobby. I like to keep it light, and this isn't, you know, this isn't life do or die the podcast, but I I have put a lot of time and thought and energy into it, and yeah, money too, but I'm definitely gonna continue doing this, and I hope one day to be on here saying that it will be my 1000th episode. As always, you can listen to Strange Durange Beyond Insane on any platform that you listen to podcasts on. Some examples are Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Amazon. Um let's see, what else am I on? Podbean, Pod Chaser. There's, you know, there's there's quite a few now. I actually, when I do look up the stats, um, and you know, I get emails, it's like at least one or two more sites the podcast shows up on about once a month. So every month it's like spreading and spreading and spreading, and that's great. So again, you guys, uh, you can personally text me through Buzz Sprout, and I will get it right away. Let me know your experiences, your stories, what you think I could do better at, or what you want to hear next time, or just a chat. Thanks again, you guys, for listening. Talk to you soon.