Homespun Haints: True Ghost Stories
True ghost stories are scarier (and funnier) when you hear them from the real people who experienced them. We’re Becky and Diana, and we interview people who have seen ghosts--so you can feel their fear with them. Each episode features true, personal stories of ghosts, demons, haints, hauntings, haunted houses, and paranormal experiences, sprinkled with humorous conversations about the random strange events in our own haunted lives.
Homespun Haints: True Ghost Stories
The Frozen Nose Hairs of a Dead Minneapolis Bootlegger: Ghost Stories from Haunted Minnesota
Three podcasters from The Activity Continues share their true Minnesota ghost stories with Becky and Diana and what makes them continue exploring the paranormal. Their experiences range from protective ancestral spirits to aggressive supernatural entities in the Middle East.
• Becky shares a recent experience she can't explain that happened at her new job as a violin teacher in Atlanta
• AP describes encounters with her grandfather's spirit, including a specific electronic device that started functioning a little differently after his death
• Amy deliberately bought a haunted Victorian house where she saw multiple apparitions; was one of them the ghost of Kid Can, a notorious Minneapolis bootlegger?
• Megan had a spirit named Frank attach to her in college. He followed her to Bahrain...but perhaps to protect her from something more sinister?
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The Activity Continues is a podcast where three soul friends talk about all things paranormal. Ghosts, hauntings, psychics, movies and TV shows (especially The Dead Files) and other spooky and spooky-adjacent things as well.
We also like to interview people in the paranormal community as well as past Dead Files clients and other interesting people.
Sometimes we even tell your stories.
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Do you have holes in the walls of your home? Few can claim pristine plaster throughout their abode. Oftentimes these indentations come from critters or an angry construction project, but sometimes they are made out of fear. Today, we speak with the hosts of the podcast the Activity Continues and learn firsthand what things they have experienced that could make them run screaming through a wall. Listen, laugh and lean into the scares today. On Homespun Haints Hello, hainted Loves, welcome to Homespun Haints. I'm Becky, hey, I'm Diana. Today on the show have we got a fun one for you? It is a fivesome. We've got the lovely ladies. What, what do you want me to call it A quintet? I mean, oh, I like quintet. We got a quintet. Yes, we have the wonderful host of the Activity Continues. Amy, ap and Megan are going to be on the show with us today and we're so excited because, as you can imagine, triple the guests, triple the fun, triple the ghosts.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, Five of us. What can we do with five?
Speaker 1:people that you couldn't do with three.
Speaker 2:You could play the Baccarini quintet, See that's the traditional meaning of quintet, I suppose.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of music, I had a little experience the other day at my new job.
Speaker 2:You told me you got haunted recently.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for those of you that don't know, I just got a new job I had been with with Diana as my sidekick, a web developer, for 25 years and yeah, it kind of sucks, like I hate it, but I just kept doing it because I was like damn it if I just try hard enough.
Speaker 2:I can actually work goes yeah, especially when you're an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:Yes, exactly. But an opportunity opened up and I decided you know what this whole web design thing isn't working out. Being a professional musician surely must. Plus, it keeps your fiddling fingers fit. I like that. That's a lot of alliteration. You're welcome. So I took a job teaching violin at a local music school, the studio that I work at. I actually have two locations that I teach out of because they have multiple locations throughout the area, but I teach at two of them and the first one that I spend most of my time at is just, you know, your typical like office-y kind of building. Like you know, your psychiatrist might be in that type of building. It's like an office park and they've got it subdivided into different rooms and things. When you go in there, it's fine. It's nice, it's close to home. But the other location, their original location, is a very old house of questionable age Questionable.
Speaker 2:How is this possible? I don't know. It just sprung up one night and the locals were like it's always been there.
Speaker 1:It could be, I have no idea. Okay, plus, it has one of those floor grates just like yours. I took a photo of it the very first time I was in this building. I'm in this little back room and you know, us musicians we're. I like to say that now, us musicians oh, that sounds so good. Oh, my God, I love this. We're not the most organized bunch and we like to collect things like recording equipment and instruments. So this room, literally, is like a storeroom slash music studio. I mean, there's an old piano that may even be older than the house. Sitting in the corner I saw some recording equipment from the 80s shoved under one of the tables.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I'm in this room with like an ancient piano and gobs of ancient gear and equipment and I'm teaching and it's getting darker and darker. I've been an old house, I am fine, I love my job, I love my students. I'm just tickled pink, well, anyway. So my last student finished up and there's still a little bit of light coming in through the windows and I get the lights turned off so I can still see, okay, but it is like it's around seven o'clock at night so, and it's summer, so you know, it's a little shaded in there by now. I gather all my stuff up and the room next to mine doesn't have a door and there's a lesson going on next to it, so I have to like tiptoe by them. So I don't, you know, don't disturb them.
Speaker 1:And I come out into the main room, the waiting area, carrying two violin and a viola on one arm and my bag of music over one shoulder. And then on my other hand I have my purse and I do my cursory like wallet, phone keys, check no phone, what, like why would my phone not be in my purse? I know I had it because I had actually shown one of my earlier students. I had shown him Vivaldi's violin because I had seen that in Venice and I was like you want to see what Vivaldi's violin looks like, and so I pulled up a photo and of course he was like that's not really. Are you pulling my leg? And I was like no, I actually went to Venice and saw this damn violin. I'm not making this up. Why would I make this up? I'm your teacher.
Speaker 2:Remember when we were young and we trusted adults. I don't think that's the case anymore trusted adults.
Speaker 1:I don't think that's the case anymore. Right? So can't find my phone and I'm like I know I had it. I know I put it back in my purse Because I'm very careful about that Because, like I mentioned, this room is full of stuff I have to be very careful about, like putting things back exactly where they found them, otherwise who knows what could happen?
Speaker 1:Can't find my phone, put down my instruments, tiptoe back into the room, look around, look on everything, every surface, on the chair, on the piano. It's not a very big room, there's not a lot of places to search. I got the light back on. I'm looking around. Cannot find the phone anywhere. Tiptoe back out into the lobby. Maybe I set it down here, maybe I put it in another bag. Looking through everything, can't find it.
Speaker 1:Tiptoe back into the room. I'm like stunned. I'm like it's not anywhere and now I'm starting to freak out. I don't know what could happen. It's really weird, like I had it and then I didn't. So I'm spinning around, I put my purse down, I look at all of the chairs that we had all been sitting in. There's like two chairs. So I look on the surfaces of the chairs, don't see anything. Look at my bags again. Don't see anything. Turn around, look at this like really messy table that I've like kind of scooped stuff out of the way to like make room for a violin case open. It's not there. Turn back around to that chair that I had just looked at and there's my phone Not the same color as the chair, so it was camouflaged, nothing like that, no, hidden in the darkness.
Speaker 1:No, no no Anything.
Speaker 2:or stuffed in between the cushion and the arm of the chair.
Speaker 1:No, it was like it's got a shiny back and I saw it because it was like glinting the light and it's high contrast. The back it was like face down. So it was the back of the phone, not the black mirror side. So it was the back of the phone which is like a light platinum color. How?
Speaker 2:did the house get your phone there without you noticing or hearing something?
Speaker 1:think it was playing with me. Oh, it felt playful, but you know, it reminded me of that story that we had with a guest way back when with a guitar, pick same thing a musician. So I'm like I wonder if that like musician equipment stealing ghost followed me through the airwaves and settled in and when I saw it I I almost like had that like feeling where my heart skipped a little bit of a beat because it wasn't. It was like oh, that, that that I knew that wasn't there a minute ago. I know.
Speaker 2:So there was either something playfully hiding it from you or there was some reason why you could not see it.
Speaker 1:Oh, as if maybe me getting in my car a few minutes later avoided some tragedy.
Speaker 2:Perhaps, and your vision was clouded to the truth momentarily, so that you would stick around for a few more minutes. Going by the everything happens for a reason theory.
Speaker 1:Could be, though could just be, that a ghost wanted to play a joke on me. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Oh man, losing your phone is terrifying, especially when somebody might have taken it from you. I swear I felt somebody pickpocket me once and my phone was gone and I freaked out and I asked everybody in the building to help me call it. Nobody found it, and I finally got back to my car and discovered it was like underneath my seat and had fallen out of my pocket while I was getting out of my car. So somebody just touched my butt, which is a relief. Oh, thank God, I was just groped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was what I said literally to the people helping me look for my phone. But now that I've had that experience because what's the difference between actually experiencing a pickpocketing and thinking you experienced a pickpocketing Nothing for the first several minutes of it, right? So it's the same in your head and your heart, and so I still like my phone every time. Reach for my pocket, every time I feel something brush up against me like. I am so glad you found your phone, though, because that would have been a terrible place for it to spend the weekend with the ghost, imagine it would have gotten some good photos on it, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'd been a ghost party, or maybe it would just be scared, maybe, well you know, the thing is I knew.
Speaker 1:I knew I never had that feeling that had been stolen. I knew it hadn't been stolen. I knew I mean I was. There was absolutely no way unless a ghost. Yeah, hi, I know, come here. Come here, say hi to the camera. Hi, dear.
Speaker 2:Ella, I hear you've been bulking up on your new diet.
Speaker 1:She's been doing good. She says I've gained a whole pound, I'm getting a pooch.
Speaker 2:That's wonderful.
Speaker 1:Well, listeners, what do you think? Was it a kleptogeist? Or was it my guardian angel or spirit guide, keeping me in the studio for a few minutes longer to avoid something?
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Speaker 5:Continues. It started during the pandemic, of course, like most podcasts do, or have I started watching this show called the Dead Files and I had never heard of it before. It had already been on for like 12 or 13 years by then and I was texting Megan like every couple days and being like you have to watch this show, the show is so good. She finally did watch it, and then we would watch it and then text each other what we thought about it. And then I was like why don't we just record ourselves talking about this and make it a podcast? And she was like I'm in that's awesome. That's how that started.
Speaker 4:She had to twist my arm. She really had to convince me.
Speaker 3:And I'm pretty sure right after that Megan's like hey, we're starting this podcast, you should listen.
Speaker 1:You all are in Minnesota. I've only been to Minnesota once. I just gotten out of a terrible relationship and I decided I was going to drive. I was living in Chicago and I was like I'm going to drive to Minneapolis in my piece of shit car with no cell phone reception. This is the 90s, with, you know, in a 1986 Corolla that I have to like constantly pour brake fluid in through.
Speaker 3:Western Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:I mean it was a very, very unsafe. What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong In Chicago?
Speaker 1:it was April, it was maybe like 50, 60 degrees, so of course, chicago. I'm like in a sundress, right, because it's 50 degrees and I drive to Minneapolis. I have never had my snot freeze before.
Speaker 4:It's the worst when your nose hairs freeze and it feels like you have like snot in your nose, but it's just your nose hairs frozen.
Speaker 1:I mean, I had my hair freeze once in Wisconsin but this was my nose. I was like what the hell? I'm a Chicagoan.
Speaker 4:Welcome to Minnesota. You guys are tough.
Speaker 1:So, I understand that each of you have some experiences. Who wants to go first?
Speaker 3:I can start.
Speaker 1:Okay, ap, let's do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know. One that really comes to mind was when I was younger. We moved into the house that I live in now, july 25th of 2000. And my grandpa had been in a coma and passed away the night that we we actually the first night was the 24th into the 25th and he passed away that night A couple months later.
Speaker 3:I was in my room and this was before I had any dogs or anything sleeping in my room with me. I heard and I felt like something sit on the edge of my bed and then I felt that depression go up and then I heard that kind of shuffling sound and I had a box still by the door and I remember the sound of something hitting that box and I didn't feel like overwhelmed but I was just kind of like what was that? And I I was blind as a bat, like I have had my eyes corrected, but I was squinting and like wear my glasses, trying to flip on the light and open the door and the cat's laying outside going what the hell are you doing? Turn it off, lady. Never figured it out, but I think it was my grandpa that was there, just like letting us know, like hey, I know where you guys are now Like I'm okay and I know where you guys are, and then every time we have a doorbell that would plug in to the downstairs area and you could be standing next to the door and the doorbell would ring, but there's nobody there and it was not consistent.
Speaker 3:One of my cousins was like, oh, it's somebody's garage door opener causing that to happen. But it always happened when my grandma was sick, his wife when it was a holiday or a birthday, and after she passed it barely rang again. And my parents had. When I was off at college. They had all of our pictures up on the mantle and they were sitting downstairs and one by one they fell off. The glass broke out of them. They weren't touching each other, they all just went chunk, chunk, chunk, chunk, one by one off the mantle. I don't remember the timing as to when that happened, but I remember I was in college, as was my sister, and it was our high school graduation pictures that the glass broke out of.
Speaker 1:With a doorbell? Was that after your grandfather had passed? Yep, okay, so it was almost like he was coming by to check on your grandma.
Speaker 2:And it wasn't like you'd gotten a new doorbell since he passed away.
Speaker 3:Nope, it was the doorbell that was here when we moved in. He never saw this house and she didn't live with us or anything. They had some things that happened there. My grandma swears she saw him in the hallway one time.
Speaker 3:And my aunt at the time saw the salt and pepper shaker, lift up the table and move across the table and come back down. None of my experiences I've ever felt afraid in the things that I've had. I've had excitement, I've had confusion, but I've never had fear, except for one time, but that was not related to my grandpa.
Speaker 4:Don't forget the Lutzen one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so Lutzen, totally unrelated. This was a couple years ago. Lutzen Resort was a resort lodge that was up on the North Shore of Minnesota and it's a. It was for three nights. First night I woke up, no issues. The next morning, saturday morning, I woke up and I heard no. My TV came on. The remote was on the other bed under some clothes that I had thrown over there, and the TV came on loud to a channel not to like. The menu source page.
Speaker 1:Oh weird.
Speaker 3:I was like, okay, who's doing that? And I just like, can you not wake me up like that again please? That was really rude and just went back to bed Later that day. I was getting ready for the wedding, was wearing a t-shirt that said Girls Trip 2021 is cheaper than therapy. It was one.
Speaker 3:My sister, my mom, my cousins and my aunts we all got when we went to Nashville the year before and came back that evening getting ready for bed, went to go grab that shirt. Can't find it. I look around, I look around, I'm like, fine, I'll just sleep in a different shirt tonight, whatever, go to bed, get up the next morning I hear hello whispered in my ear. I had my window open and I went out to go look to see if anybody was outside. And there were some people at the parking lot but you couldn't hear them because the waves of the water was coming in off of the lake and I always put a towel underneath my door so that nothing can come in underneath the door and I don't like having that crack available or hearing, and it was an old place so it had a big space underneath the door.
Speaker 3:Was not anybody in the hallway? And so I was like, okay, do you know where my shirt is? Like no, nope, I packed up that day. I looked everywhere. I tore the room apart. I looked in the fridge, I looked in the ice bucket, I looked under the beds. I found a lot of dust and hair that wasn't mine. I looked everywhere. I never found it.
Speaker 1:Never.
Speaker 3:Never found it. I lost it that weekend, May of 2022. I guess some spirit wanted my shirt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's better than therapy, Exactly.
Speaker 3:That wasn't the scary time. No, that wasn't the scary one. No, the only scary one I have was I was sleeping one night and I don't know if I was in like that dream world where you're in between the dream and awake worlds, but I remember looking up to the corner and there was this big black splotch and I remember looking at it and then all of a sudden it came flying at me. I flipped my covers over. It felt like it was in a movie. At that point I flipped my covers over and just went like my heart was in my chest and I was like, okay, okay, okay, I'm just going to turn over now. And I went back to sleep.
Speaker 2:But that was the only I know Total Becky move. That's what Becky does too. What did you do then?
Speaker 3:I fell asleep. There was not an AP size hole in the wall. There should have been, but that's the only time I've ever felt like scared of anything. But again, I don't know if I was fully awake or if it was in the dream world, but it was just like as it came at me.
Speaker 1:I don't think it matters, I think I think we're able to perceive things in that, like in between space. Yeah, so was this in your, in your house where this happened? Yeah, the same house where the pictures fell off the mantle? Yep, okay, years separation Sounds like there was something in that house that was not just your grandpa.
Speaker 3:Could be, and it's never come back, so maybe it was just something that was passing through. I think the picture thing was an attention seeker. But you no longer live in this house, right? No, I live here.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, okay. So this is okay. And you didn't move when you heard the crazy blast Okay.
Speaker 5:No no.
Speaker 1:Like I said, people in Minnesota are tough.
Speaker 3:We have to weather 94 degrees with 100% humidity and negative 50.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:With windchill.
Speaker 1:So, ap, those are terrifying, but you seem to be fine with it. You know, know, you just rolled back over and went to sleep, so but that's just ap too.
Speaker 4:Like ap, it takes a lot to rattle her like it really does, like that would have kept me up for a month. And ap is like, oh, you know, I just I gotta work tomorrow I talk about this all the time.
Speaker 3:It's my logic brain, or the rational brain rationalizes what something might be, and so it's like Might be.
Speaker 1:So Amy.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 1:You also have some stories.
Speaker 5:I do Mostly just little things, like I lived in an apartment where my cat I had one cat and she used to see things that weren't there and she would like play with, like she was playing with another cat, but there was nothing there.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's creepy.
Speaker 5:Sweet. And then there was one time when I was sitting on the couch and I had a coffee table in front of me. I was watching TV and the remote was sitting on the table. Nobody was touching it, cat was sitting next to me and the remote just slid across the table and then, like like, it accelerated and took off and slammed onto the, onto the floor.
Speaker 4:Just so you guys know, diana and Becky, I've heard this before, but every time it just gets me. It sounds like I'm hearing it for the same with AP, like it sounds like, but I just every time I'm just like holy cow.
Speaker 5:It wasn't scary to me. I mean, I was weird, I was like what, the? I'm sorry, what? But? But I didn't feel scared and I lived in that apartment alone with just me and my cat and I. I never felt unsafe or anything. How long did you live there? Maybe a year and a half, two years maybe. So you actually renewed?
Speaker 1:the lease.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, I loved that apartment.
Speaker 4:It was super cool, it was in a really cool part of town and it was big and it was cheap.
Speaker 5:I loved it.
Speaker 4:That's my drag name big and cheap.
Speaker 5:And then after that I lived in another house which didn't really have anything. But that's when I was living there is when I started getting more and more interested in paranormal stuff and really starting to kind of dig into it. Then by the time we were moving out of that house and into our what I call our haunted house. I was actually looking for a haunted house and we ended up in an old Victorian built in 1887. And the second we toured it a second. I walked in. I was like this is haunted and I want it. And we asked the realtor if it was haunted and she said I don't think so, not that I know of. And I was like, oh, I was kind of, oh well, and then she realized that I wanted a haunted house, and so she did tell me that the owners had told her some stories, but she didn't tell me exactly what they were.
Speaker 5:Oh, when we first moved in, when you walked into the house, it had a really nice big foyer with, like you know, wood paneling on the walls and a big staircase that went up to the second floor. And I was walking up to the second floor and just as I got up there, out of the corner of my eye, so what would be right? Hanging over the rest of the staircase, I saw a woman hanging, just hanging from the ceiling, and when I like spun to look it was gone. But I definitely saw her and I didn't have my hair like this.
Speaker 3:And it was not a Halloween decoration, no, no, we moved in August. It'd be even creep, and it was not a Halloween decoration, no, no. Because it was gone.
Speaker 2:We moved in August. It would be even creepier if it was a Halloween decoration that just disappeared. Yeah, exactly I had expected from a ghost.
Speaker 5:And that's where I was like oh okay, so yeah, there's something going on here.
Speaker 2:What made you so sure she was a woman?
Speaker 5:You said specifically a woman, even though you just barely I feel like I saw long hair and like a flowy nightgown sort of oh even creepier. So it felt like I don't know. I mean I don't know how much of it I registered, but like I saw it. And then when I went, you know double take, it was gone In that house. This repeatedly happened.
Speaker 5:I would hear somebody yelling in my ear when I'm sleeping or laying in bed trying to sleep. I would hear, and it sounded like Amy and I couldn't tell if it was a whisper that was real close or if it was shouting from far away. Kind of was hard to distinguish that and I told my husband about it and he's a skeptic and so he was like, oh, you probably just dreamed it. And then at one point he heard it. He heard somebody calling in his ear. He thought it was me. I was sleeping in the guest bedroom because he had been snoring, and so he got up to see what I wanted. And he found me in the in the guest bedroom because he had been snoring, and so he got up to see what I wanted and he found me in the guest bedroom fast asleep. But he still doesn't believe in anything.
Speaker 1:I have the same problem with my husband. They can't handle.
Speaker 5:They can't handle the truth.
Speaker 1:It's easier to deny it than to like come to terms with the fact that it actually happened to along those same lines.
Speaker 4:It's hard to to acknowledge that the unknown and something that you don't have control over that's true, that's definitely.
Speaker 5:he's an engineer and he's uh, he's, he knows everything, and so if there's something he doesn't understand, it doesn't exist. It's a struggle. Give him time. It's been 30 years, but 31, is that lucky number?
Speaker 2:How many years in the haunted house?
Speaker 5:specifically, we were in that house for 13 years.
Speaker 1:Exactly 13.
Speaker 5:Yeah, isn't that weird. Yeah, there were a bunch of things in there too. I also saw a full body apparition in our dining room just standing there, a man in like a tunic and like floppy pants, and he was just standing there kind of like looking down, pointing down at the ground, and he disappeared pretty quickly too. And then I mentioned something to my neighbors and they were like oh, I bet that was one of the guys that lived there when this was a rooming house and he was probably one of the guys that worked on the property somewhere. Oh sure, I think everybody in that neighborhood had hauntings. It was. Every time I brought it up at neighborhood get-togethers people were like, oh yeah, yeah, I got this over here, whatever it wasn't. Like, oh God, that lady, she's crazy.
Speaker 1:Everybody believed me because they all had stuff going on too. Well, amy, you said that you also had a story that wasn't yours but took place in the house.
Speaker 5:Yes, so when we were moving out of this house which I did not want to leave because I did not want to leave my ghost but um, my ghost but um, but we, we had an open house and my friend Melissa was our realtor and she and her husband were were our realtors. They were doing an open house. And she told me about this, not even right away, because she wasn't sure if I was, you know, a believer. And so one day she was just like um, I have a question for you. This was in between the haunted, the open house and when we actually sold. And she's like do you believe in like spirits or ghosts and stuff like that? I'm like uh, yeah. And she told me that she's a sensitive and I didn't even know that until this.
Speaker 5:But her story is that she was getting ready for the haunted house, she's getting ready for the open house, and she was just sort of walking around and looking at the room and stuff and she saw a man in the dining room doing something. It looked like he was handing out something, like he was. He was. She said it looked like he was serving something or giving people something, and she said it seemed like less like a party and more like a business transaction sort of thing. And so she, just sort of with her mind the way she describes it, asked him what his name was and he said he said what sounded to her like Jim, cam and she or can. And she was like oh, cam and she or can. And she was like oh, cam, cam, and he's like no, can, can. And so then she was like she goes, oh, I must be just thinking like Jim the, jim Cameron, that director you know, I'm making this up in my own head or whatever. And then people started coming in so he disappeared.
Speaker 5:Then, after everybody left, she was going around turning off lights, closing up things, and she was in the dining room again and the dining room had wallpaper like it had wainscoting on the bottom, so it was wood on the bottom. And then this really like kind of almost garish red wallpaper it looked like a brothel. I loved it, sweet. And she was like had her hand on the wallpaper and was like touching it where I loved it, sweet. And she was like had her hand on the on the wallpaper and was like touching it where it met the thing, and she felt this spirit, come over, lean over her and whisper in her ear. You'll never find it. And she was like what? And she said she never felt scared. He had more of an attitude of like kind of wink, wink, smarmy, kind of thing. And then the second thing he said to her was I'm a bootlegger.
Speaker 5:Okay so we know what she will never find. He disappeared. She was on her phone and she Googled bootlegger Minneapolis cam or something like that and up came this very notorious gangster in Minnesota named Kid Can. His real name is Isidore Blumenfield, his nickname, his gangster name, was Kid Can. Real name is Isidore Blumenfield, his nickname, his gangster name was Kid Can and he was a bootlegger and he was like the godfather of Minneapolis back in the bootlegging days and she had never heard of him before. But when she pulled it up on her phone and she saw the picture of him, she's like that's him, whoa.
Speaker 1:Wow, so you never found the entrance to the speakeasy in your basement?
Speaker 5:No, I mean we had. It was a big basement, it was a full, like you know, it wasn't finished, but it was a very tall basement, like you absolutely could have done something down there.
Speaker 3:How close were you to like Nicolette or Harriet or any of those islands? Because there's a lot of tunnels that ran through Minneapolis. There's a lot of tunnels that ran through Minneapolis.
Speaker 5:We were not super close to any of those. However, we were half of a block from the synagogue and I do remember he was a Jewish gangster and I do remember hearing later, when I did a lot of research on this, that there were tunnels from the temple to a bunch of the nearby homes. So there very well could have been a tunnel to our house.
Speaker 1:Well, Megan.
Speaker 3:Let me go get some popcorn quick.
Speaker 4:I feel like they've really hyped me up.
Speaker 5:Megan won't even tell the story we're thinking of. She'll tell all the other ones.
Speaker 3:No it will involve a Megan shaped hole in the wall. At some point they should all honestly.
Speaker 4:So I actually a spirit. So I went to school in Wisconsin. I went to school in Stevens Point and I rented a house and a spirit attached itself to me at that house and it followed me everywhere. I mean, I would have dreams where everything in the dream was the way that it was in real life, down to the clock changing, but I couldn't move. So I hate those dreams. But he followed me. Oh my gosh. He followed me overseas.
Speaker 4:So I lived in the Middle East for two and a half years and my first apartment that I lived in there was super duper haunted with something very negative that clearly wanted me out. I would have terrifying dreams where a black shape would emerge from like my closet and scream this house is mine and like fly at me the doors in that house. I would close them and I would wake up and they'd be wide open and my cats would be in the room. And they weren't the pull down handles where you're like well, cats could do that. They were the round ones that you need a poseable thumbs to turn Right.
Speaker 2:Which cats notoriously lack.
Speaker 4:It's one of their few flaws. They would look at areas and like they'd wake from a dead sleep and look out this same area every night, just like stare at it. This is your house in the Middle East.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this was my apartment in the Middle East, so would it say this is my house in English, or was it in?
Speaker 4:Yeah, it said. It said this is mine, this is mine. And it was this huge, very menacing. And after that dream I was awake for a week. I couldn't sleep for a week after that and unfortunately horrible coincidence there was a, an earthquake, I think, in Pakistan and we felt tremors of it in Bahrain. So I was laying in bed and my bed shook right after I'd had this dream. I almost cracked my pants.
Speaker 4:I almost joined the spirits because I was petrified. I had the light on in my room all night. So I get back to America and when I was in Minnesota, I was living with the guy that I was dating and I was in my apartment that I shared with him and I will swear on a stack of Bibles. I was in the shower and I heard the door open and close and he started. We started talking. We had a conversation. I said, oh, I'm glad you're home. Like I'm glad you're safe. Bleep, bloop, blop, whatever. So I'm like, okay, well, he just went to watch TV and I finished drying, you know, the shower. I get out and the door opens and closes again and I'm like that's weird. I, you know, went out and I looked at him. I'm like, well, where did you go? And he goes what are you talking about? And I said, well, you came home and we talked and then you left. Where did you go again? And he's like I just got home? And I said, no, you didn't. I said you came home and I was in the shower. We had a conversation through the bathroom. It sounded just like you. I said what are you doing? Like stop playing with me. And he was like no, I swear, I just got home.
Speaker 4:So I lived all over the United States. I married somebody in the Navy and when I was in, when I was living in Texas, so the way that the bedroom was was the bed was here and then there was like kind of a wall and then the bathroom you would walk out to. And so one night a man walked out of the bathroom, stood at the end of my bed, turned and looked at me and had long hair like to my shoulder, like my length. Hair was very thin, dark hair, and I like blinked and he was gone and I don't know why there wasn't a Megan shapes hole in the wall at that point. Like I was just like too, like what the hell's happening, to be scared.
Speaker 4:So then I went to Madison with this guy that I was dating and we were sleeping and I was in the wedding and do you remember from the 90s those like twirly things, the gems that you would twirl into your hair? So I had a bunch of those in my hair and I put them on the nightstand and my then partner had gone up to go to the bathroom, I thought, because he came back and walked around the bed and next to me and reached down to the nightstand and I thought he was just grabbing chapstick. So I'm like whatever. There was a very defined man shape and he very clearly reached down to grab something. So I was like, oh, it's just him. Well, imagine my shock when he walked through the door a couple minutes later and I said I was like what the hell? I mean, this is so cliche. But like I never got like when that happened, it was curiosity from this thing Like what are these? I don't know what they are.
Speaker 4:There was a medium, a group of paranormal mediums, here in the Twin Cities and I found them in a meetup and I contacted them and I'm like I have X, y and Z happening at my house. I'm watched all the time. Like this happens. Frank, he was from the 1800s and I reminded him of his sister and so that's why he kind of attached to me and was protecting me. But there was one time when I had first moved back to the States from the Middle East and I was at a stoplight in Madison, wisconsin, and this girl jumped in my car and she said Can you give me a ride? And I was young and stupid and I said Sure no problem.
Speaker 3:Why were your car doors not locked at this point in time? That's my question.
Speaker 2:I want to ask she shouldn't be already in the car when she asks you that?
Speaker 4:Because my car was old and it didn't automatically lock.
Speaker 3:Okay, Okay, fair.
Speaker 4:I don't have the push start car, I still have a key like a peasant. So she got in my car and she had a backpack and she put the backpack on her lap and we're sitting there at the red light because it's still stopped, like we're still at the red light, and she paused and she looked at me and she said I don't think this is a good idea and she left, she got out of the car and I think that that was Frank protecting me from whatever she was going to do to me.
Speaker 2:Ooh oh.
Speaker 4:Ooh, okay, I mean, he was with me. He moved with me everywhere I was in the Middle East. There was a lot of negative spirits that I had in the Middle East.
Speaker 1:Do you think that he protected you?
Speaker 4:in some way when you were over there. I do.
Speaker 1:Okay, but you eventually got him to go away.
Speaker 4:Yep, they helped him move on when they came to visit me. Well, do you miss him? I mean Sometimes, shockingly, it's funny because of the three of us, I'm the scarediest which is a word AP is very like okay, well, let's figure this out. And Amy's like okay, well, that could be something, but let's maybe try to narrow down the list. And I'm like, oh my God, it's real. Oh my God, we're all gonna die.
Speaker 3:But and I would have been as soon as I knew his name was Frank I'd been like Okay, frank, here's the deal and I would just talk through. I would talk to him constantly. I still talk to. All of my grandparents have passed. I talked to them all at different times. I lost a friend at uh suddenly from an accident and, uh, when I found out about that, I yelled and screamed at her and then I actually went to a medium shortly after that. I had already had a meeting scheduled and that medium said I've never had someone who has died this recently come back this strong. She was there and she's like. She wants you to know, she's sorry for all the things. She called you that you never heard. We had had a falling out at one point and we had just reconnected a couple months before her death. But that's where I don't know if you ever did, megan. But I always would have been like okay, frank, what are we doing today?
Speaker 5:What's going on? Never, no, I would have done that too.
Speaker 4:I know, but this was me, you know, 12 years ago, 13 years ago, because I went to the Middle East in 2010 and he was with me since college, which was 2006. So where did you pick him up? In this house that I rented, okay, and I know the night that it happened, because I was my roommate and I had been watching a movie in my bedroom and he had fallen asleep in my bed and I'm like, well, I'm gonna go take your bed then I'm not sleeping on the floor. So I went in his bedroom and that's the first night that I had that dream, where everything was the same, the clock was moving. I just couldn't move. And that's when, I think he attached to me, because a couple of nights later, I saw a black spot, a black cloud, um, up above my bedroom. So I think that's plus. He was from Wisconsin, he was a farmer in Wisconsin, I was gonna say he was probably a farmer I'm.
Speaker 3:I don't know why, but I keep feeling like he was german heritage, with all that too, just because I mean wisconsin is heavily in those areas too. Very german.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, so he might have lived in that house. I think he did, I think he probably lived on that land, or yeah, in your roommate's room.
Speaker 1:So then when you went in there, it was like oh, it's my sister, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:The scariest ones, though, were I think they were the djinn in the Middle East. They were very aggressive, so you think they were djinn.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I think they were djinn yeah, did you hear from your like landlord or anything? Did anybody else? Were you friends with your?
Speaker 4:neighbors. People in the Middle East, from what I've understood, are very superstitious, so they believe that if you talk about something you're kind of manifesting it, and so we didn't really talk about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, megan, you're very haunted.
Speaker 4:Yes, which is so unfortunate because I'm the scaredest of them all.
Speaker 2:Well, those are some ghost stories.
Speaker 1:This has been so much fun to talk to you guys. Thank you, it's been so great to get to know you and see your faces. After hearing your voices, you guys have some really, really scary stories, so tell people before we close out. Tell people where they can find you. The activity continues.
Speaker 5:Same for your podcast. You're available on all platform providers and YouTube, and you have a website Yep, it's theactivitycontinuescom and everything is there. So I mean that's like your one-stop shop for everything. And on our website too, we have our RSS feeds. So if you have like a kind of quirky app but you can add shows by RSS feed, you can copy that and use it that way.
Speaker 3:And if you go to our website, we have a spot you can share your ghost stories with and we will read them on our podcast at any point in time.
Speaker 5:And we also on our website have a little thing at the bottom of the screen that's a little microphone, and if you click on that you can leave a voice message.
Speaker 2:Ah so, hainted Loves, if you've always wanted to tell your ghost story but you're just a little too not cool with being interviewed live, this might be an opportunity for you to tell it. Just say no hard feelings. If you end up on someone else's show, just give us a shout out, we will find you.
Speaker 4:Thank you for having us. We really really appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks for entertaining our winding path of thoughts. Yes, appreciate you all.
Speaker 2:Well, Hainted Loves, what do you think If a strange woman leapt into your car and asked you to drive away? Would you ask Frank to scare her out, or would you just have a spooky day?
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