S2 Ep.2: Antique Clocks, Burnt Face Man &Ghostly Calls

What if the past refuses to stay quiet, the phone won’t stop ringing, and something with yellow eyes waits at the end of your street? We dive into three chilling, first-person accounts that test our nerves and our logic: antique clocks that roar to life in unison despite being unwound, a possible call from beyond a grandmother’s grave, and a relentless, burnt-faced figure that seems to feed on a household’s pain. We open up about our show’s changing direction, why the fun of fear matters, and how to keep curiosity sharp without falling for every shadow.

The clock story hits like a timebomb—mechanical relics suddenly synchronized at night. Is it temperature, vibration, or a house becoming an instrument? We unpack the mechanics and the meaning, because the scariest part isn’t just the noise—it’s history waking itself. From there we tackle grief and technology with a question that splits the room: if your loved one calls from a number that shouldn’t exist, do you answer or call back? Between carrier glitches and genuine anomalies, we talk through how to evaluate what you hear without dismissing the comfort, terror, and intimacy in that moment.

Then we face the burnt-faced man, a yellow-eyed presence that appears to grow stronger amid abuse and conflict, only to recede when healing begins. Whether you see an attachment feeding on negativity or a mind under siege from trauma and sleep disruption, the pattern matters. We trace the timeline, compare folklore with psychology, and share practical ways to investigate responsibly: document conditions, invite multiple witnesses, and treat storytellers with respect. Along the way, we trade notes on local legends like Pittsburgh’s Green Man and tease our next steps in the field, including plans around Haunted Hillview Manor and guiding safe, thoughtful investigations.

If you’ve lived through something impossible—or want us to test your theory—subscribe, share this episode with a friend who loves the uncanny, and leave a review with your wildest question. Your stories keep the dark talking, and we’re listening.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:04

Welcome listeners to Something's Watching from the Dark. If you have any experiences or creative tales you would like to share, call our hotline at 412-8533-3483 or email us at something's watching at outlock.com How are you doing today?

SPEAKER_01 0:28

I don't know. I don't know. My day is just overwhelmed. Yeah. No, it's not. Uh what about you? It's not bad.

Show Reset And New Direction

SPEAKER_03 0:49

Scam. Besides all the technical technical difficulties we had before we hit the recording button, but it's all good.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Yeah. I don't know. I we were talking about what kind of you know what we want this podcast to look like. And it's it's going through a change. It's gone through many changes at this point, and this is probably the biggest change that it's gone through. Yeah. And it's it's like I don't know what the vision is for the podcast, dude. I'm gonna be honest. Nah, I get that. Like, I know what we listen to, and that's kind of like what was what our podcast was kind of modeled after.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

But it's not at the same time. And it and it makes me what is that? Oh, because it's blurred out, and I thought something was in the background. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe maybe I'm just too too uh too worried about it. I think I think just just having fun with it because it's lost its I don't know what the word is. Okay, entertaining aspect to us, or at least to me.

SPEAKER_03 2:22

Yeah, I got that. Um we want it to be.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Yeah. But tonight we have three terrifying stories to to keep you guys on the edge of your seats. Uh these are all stories that come from Reddit. So these are all stories that these people have uh you know lived through and experienced themselves. Uh so the first one here is actually quite interesting because they were old clocks and they shouldn't they shouldn't have worked. But this is this is the antique clocks.

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The Antique Clocks Erupt

SPEAKER_04 3:08

Okay, so this is the story of my dad's antique clock. When I was 14 years old, my dad went out for the night and left me home to babysit my younger brother. He was around a, I think like seven or eight. Now, my dad collected all kinds of antiques, especially these old clocks. The living room had several of these antique clocks sitting on top of an antique radius. These are the kinds of clocks that were made before. It's been about it's been over like twenty years, and my brother and I still talk about it. And what we experienced in that house. Yeah, it was it was wild. But that's my story. I guess.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

That was an interesting story.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

That would freak me out right in the middle, right in the middle of the night. All these alarm clocks going off.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

Yeah, that would be wild. That'd be loud. Sound, yeah. That would be wow. That would be freaky as hell.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

That would be freaky. Have you ever had anything that was like either broken or made noise or something and they go off?

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Um, I don't know if it I had anything in particular like that. Like I used to have a video whenever we were younger that would like randomly tag on like full blast. That's weird.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

It's weird, but it isn't at the same time. Like it's an electronic, so there's a possibility something about it's off.

unknown 5:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

But those are like mechan well, see that kind of mechanical. We go back to that thing. We talked about that one day with that music box going off.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

Yeah, I mean, it'll randomly go off. Not even like on a padding, or just like randomly go off. Like on full blast. And we never listened to it on full blast. It's one of those old like um videos from like the 90s, where like there's like you can put like six different discs in them. Yeah, and it would like pick a disc and it look like it's pretty big and bulky.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Yeah, I think I had one.

SPEAKER_03 6:19

It's like blue and gray. Yeah, that's wild. But nothing like an antique clock.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

No. What why do you think that they would go off though? Because I think she said that they don't they only it only happened whenever her dad was was gone. Do you think maybe he was like setting them all to mess with them or something?

SPEAKER_03 6:42

It's possible, but I don't think no, I don't think so. To all of them go off.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

I would probably I would I probably do something like that. Probably not consistently, because if there's that many clocks, I don't I don't think that I'd want to have to do that to that many clocks.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Yeah. But to be a they say he wasn't held.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Well maybe he said him before he left.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

Yeah. I don't know, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

I had one of them clocks whenever I was younger. But anyways, this next story. A call from the other side.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Interesting. Let's listen to it.

SPEAKER_05 7:39

Yeah, so my story is in 2016, uh, my grandma passed away from cancer. We were we were incredibly close, and it was mostly just the two of us.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

That was my fault.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

Um, I had phone calls from the other side. I never played on the cowboy, I don't think. Like, um, I've had a bunch of stories about them.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

So you wouldn't call that voicemail that you got a phone call from the other side. What I call it?

SPEAKER_03 9:34

Yeah, I'd probably call it back and see what happened.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

No, I'm not saying call it back. You would call it back? Yeah, why not? I guess it would depend on what it sounded like on the on the voicemail. I don't know. What it it depends on what's being said too. If grandma's calling me from the other side and she's saying some things that I don't know, if she's like trying to like lure me in or something, what if you like call back and then get cursed or something? Now now grandma's haunting you.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Um I don't know, because I'd be interested to see what happens after you call it. Yeah, I'd probably call it back too. It'd be interesting, because that it'd be like, what if they pick up?

SPEAKER_01 10:33

Yeah, what if they pick up? Then what? I don't know. I don't know either. I don't know what to say at that point. Why did you die?

SPEAKER_03 10:49

Yeah, I don't know. That would be very strange.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

That would be very strange. That would be very, very strange. But uh unless I think this next story is uh even stranger, even scarier. And this is the story of the burnt-faced man. Hi.

The Burnt-Faced Man Arrives

SPEAKER_00 11:17

So for most of my life, I believe something dark was attached to me. So I grew up in a Mexican household where stories like that weren't unheard of, but living it was different. Now I don't know exactly when it started, just only that it seemed to have fed off the constant negativity that was in my home. So the environment that I grew up in was verbally, mentally, and physically abusive. And with every incident, it felt like it grew stronger. In my 20s, when my partner would drop me off late at night, I'd see something at the end of my block slowly moving toward my house. Now we had four locks on the door, so I panic trying to get inside before it reached me. It obviously never did, but one night my partner saw it too, and we heard invisible footsteps and crunching leaves as something walked toward us, and that just it just freaked me out. Now, the moment this stuck with me the most happened during what felt like what I would say was an out-of-body experience, because what I saw was I it was peering over my loft bed. It was staring at my sleeping body, and its eyes were bright yellow, and its face like burnt like like melted flesh, and that's why I call it the burnt face man. Now, years later I moved out and my family began to heal, and when the negative, you know, the negativity stopped, it felt like whatever it was had nothing left to feed on. I haven't felt it, I haven't felt it since. So I don't know if maybe it moved on, or I hope it moved on. But that's my story about the burnt-faced man, and I hope you guys enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Yeah. I'm good. I don't want that. I don't want that at all.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

Yeah, I know that was hugger. Yeah, that was like the uh game. The guy off that man, two-faced, two-faced, yeah. So that reminds me of like two-faced, or like whenever I hug it too, it kind of made me think of like the myth up in Pittsburgh, like the green man, the green man, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

That's funny. Oh, I wonder. So uh that escape room that we went to, they're going to be switching out the Bigfoot one and putting in a new theme. And they said they couldn't tell us exactly what it was, but it was very Pittsburgh themed. So I wonder if it's like the Green Man or something like that. Probably not.

SPEAKER_03 14:30

But that'd be cool, though. A green man escape room.

Trauma, Negativity, And Attachments

SPEAKER_01 14:33

That would be cool. That would be really cool. But um, yeah, if you are listening to this and you yourself have had an encounter, you can email us at something's watching at outlook.com, or you can call us or text the number here at 412-533-3483, and you may just be featured on the podcast. Luke and I will listen to your story and share it with everybody and sit here and talk about how much we either you know don't want that to happen, or you know, maybe we debunk it a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

You're always among us to try to debunk it a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

I am. I that's what that's I hate to be that, I hate to be that guy because I would love to believe in every story. But here's the thing I will take you for your word. I if you say it happened, I believe that you believe that it happened. But in order for me to believe that it actually is what it is, I have to experience it for myself. Because we are human, you know, we experien we experience things and we go, oh, you know, it was a goblin. No, it was the wind. You know what I mean? But nonetheless, I will never make fun of anybody. I won't make fun of anybody.

SPEAKER_03 16:12

Take all call serious.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

I do. I take everybody's account seriously.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

Yeah. I mean, that's how you get how people feel comfortable is to make them feel comfortable sharing their call. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Yeah. And that's uh I hope people feel comfortable enough to you know send in their story. Because without their story, Luke, we don't have much of a podcast. Right. Yeah. I don't think that I have any more for this.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

No, I don't think either. I'd like to get back to go ghost hunting or something.

Local Legends And Green Man

SPEAKER_01 16:54

I would also like to get back to doing the ghost hunting as well. I'm waiting for Haunted Hillview Manor to get back to me. Haunted Hillview Manor, if you're listening. Um, I'm waiting on that interview date so that you know we can make this happen. Because I'm ready. How cool would that be, dude? That would be cool. If if you guys don't know, or if you guys haven't listened to the previous episodes, I may have talked about it. Did I talk about it last episode? I might not have. I applied for uh to be a paranormal tour guide at the Haunted Hillview Manor in uh Pennsylvania in Newcastle. So I already kind of had a first interview, I guess it kind of was. It was like a group event, and we got to meet with the owner of the uh the uh the manor, and um now I'm just waiting for them to set up a time for me to actually meet in person, but I would be the one that would be accompanying you on your investigations and just kind of chaperoning the whole thing while also giving you the uh the tour of the place and the lowdown on the history. I think that would be cool. That'd be really cool. Watch out for Jeffrey, watch out for Jeffrey. I'm gonna be calling Luke. We're at we we might have to do an episode of me like closing close it up. Luke, stay on the phone with me while I walk through this.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

Yeah, that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

But yeah, yeah. Alright, guys, I think that's it. Yeah, that's all that's all I got. All right, thanks for listening, and until next time.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Uh yeah, maybe, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Nope, not anymore. Nope. Now it's something's watching from the dark. Yes. Alright. Bye guys.