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Hey, it's Michelle, and this week's five calls include a seemingly ordinary neighbor whose deterioration became genuinely terrifying, a skinwalker encounter on a remote Alaskan island, an unexplained touch in the shower, and a hostel in Ecuador with a ghost every employee had already met. (This episode was formally titled "Real Ghost Stories For Cooking Dinner - Mixtape vol. 9").
Elijah from Moscow, Idaho calls in about a new neighbor named Deborah, a recently divorced, entirely unremarkable woman who slowly began speaking in different voices, wandering the neighborhood at night claiming to hear people screaming her name, and scratching at the thin duplex walls. The situation culminated with Deborah marching in place on Elijah's stairs, breathing heavily, eyes rolled upward, answering every attempt to say her name with a single demonic-sounding word until she finally screamed "Satan." After being pushed outside, she banged her head rhythmically against the door for several minutes before walking backward down the stairs and disappearing around the building. It was one of the only times in Elijah's life he's ever called the police.
Nicole from Anchorage, Alaska, calls in about a camping trip on a remote island near Homer, an area known among cryptid researchers for unusual activity. Alone by a bonfire, she was overtaken by a sudden, overwhelming sense of dread and the specific thought that she wasn't going to make it out of there. Later in her sleeping bag, she felt a breath against her ear and heard her own voice whisper her name, at the exact moment her dog leapt up, hackles raised, barking more aggressively than she'd ever witnessed. Locals later told her the area is known for skinwalker activity.
LaSondra from a small town south of San Antonio calls in about an eerie feeling that had followed her since moving in with her partner. While showering, she felt a full hand drag down the length of her spine, from her upper back to her hips, and instinctively swatted it away, thinking it was her partner joining her, only to find the bathroom empty when she finished rinsing her hair, with both sliding glass doors still shut.
Edwin Covarrubias, host of Scary Story Podcast and True Scary Story, recounts his time managing a hostel in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, and shares his first full apparition sighting: a man standing behind the reception desk who vanished the instant Edwin stepped closer, later identified by staff as Chiquito, a presence multiple employees had already encountered throughout the building. What followed included flickering lights that resisted every repair attempt and, weeks later, an entire restaurant's worth of light bulbs discovered deliberately unscrewed just enough to prevent them from working, in a building formerly owned by a convent of nuns. Staff eventually made a small offering to the building itself, after which the activity stopped entirely.
Four real callers. Four 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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