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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls take us into a soon-to-close haunted pub in Seattle, a father who visited two houses on the same night, a dead friend who wanted one more game of hide and seek, the most notorious stateroom aboard the Queen Mary, and a ghost who's never once missed a birthday party. Episode now available as a video on Spotify and YouTube.
Sonja calls in about a night at the College Inn Pub in Seattle's University District, where she watched a figure sitting in a dark, closed-off seating area vanish the moment she looked twice. The bartender confirmed it immediately: the ghost of Howard Bach, a fisherman said to have been murdered there long ago, who still lingers after closing time and, according to legend, once played a piano that's since been destroyed. The College Inn Pub, built in 1909, closed its doors for good on June 15th, 2025, making this one of the last true ghost stories anyone will collect from that building.
Khyelle from Los Angeles calls in with a story from the night his father died. Sleeping in his mother's living room while the family grieved, he saw a tall figure in a white T-shirt move past, then moments later what appeared to be his father's silhouette, unmistakable because of his long dreadlocks. He screamed loud enough to bring his mother running, and the two searched the house together, finding no one. That same night, at a different house entirely, his father's stepchildren felt someone squeeze their foot at the end of the bed, exactly the gesture his father used to do to anyone whose foot hung off the couch.
Evelyn from Fremont, Michigan calls in about playing ghost in the graveyard as an eight-year-old, a game her friend had loved more than anyone, until that friend passed away. Two years later, playing the same game in the same spot, Evelyn heard a familiar voice by the slide and turned to see her deceased friend's face, smiling, pulling handfuls of hair from her own scalp. Evelyn ran, and none of the other kids believed a word of it.
Christy from Los Angeles, who lives with lifelong hypnagogic hallucinations and has learned to tell the difference between those and something else entirely, calls in about a birthday stay aboard the Queen Mary. In the middle of the night, a beam of light shot down above her bed, bounced off the wall, and slid completely underneath it, unlike anything her usual hallucinations have ever done. The next morning she learned their room sat two doors from Stateroom B340, the ship's most infamous cabin, closed to guests entirely due to activity so severe people demanded refunds, and reportedly home to a spirit named Jackie known for playing hide and seek.
And Cindy Ketron from Avon, Indiana, closes the episode with an update on Little Rachel, the ghost of a young girl who died in a fire and has followed Cindy home for four years now. Rachel came along for Cindy's birthday shopping trip this week, picked out two new dolls, and, as always, refused to let her picture be taken by a single camera any paranormal investigator has ever brought around. She hasn't missed a birthday party yet.
Five real callers. Five true ghost stories.
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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.
Video Edited by Chelsi Johnston.
Production by Newman Media.
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