In this episode, we explore a firsthand childhood account set in a remote Colombian town, centered on a centuries-old colonial home with a long and troubled past. As Gabby’s family settles in, unsettling encounters begin to unfold, witnessed not just by her, but by visitors, relatives, and neighbors. Strange figures, unexplained sounds, and lingering presences tell the stories of something far older embedded in the walls themselves. It eventually forces the family to confront what the house is holding onto and why leaving may be the only way to survive it.
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In a rural area of Columbia, there is this colonial house
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where the experience that I'm about to tell you comes from,
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and it's one of the most haunting stories that I've heard
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to this day. I think you're the end.
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You're going to know exactly why I find it this way.
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You ready? My name is Edwin and this is
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Paranormal Club. Welcome back Swoopies, to
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another episode. This time we have this campfire
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style story. And it's true, this one was
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submitted to me by Gabby a long time ago and it showed up in one
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of our podcasts. But I find this story so
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immersive and so haunting. I still think about it to this
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day. So what happened was back in the
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90s, Gabby was a little girl and she was going to be moving into
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this colonial house. This house is 200 or 250 years
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old, so it's pretty old. There's terracotta tiles,
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there's white clay walls, old roofs.
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And sometimes it's so peaceful there that you can also hear
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pigeons kind of making their nests in the different areas of
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the house. You kind of hear them doing the
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whole in the middle of the night.
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Another thing that happened there is that since it was rural
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and it was those areas that sometimes are hot and as you're
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walking down, you feel that coolness of of the tile on
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against your feet. There was a sense of this house
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feels cool, feels nice, right to be out there.
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And I've always imagined houses like that being a part of nature
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itself, right? Like those those kind of
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colonial houses. And this one was was kind of
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large, right? You had a kitchen, guest room,
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an old kind of smoking room, magazine.
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They used to smoke meats there because it was dark and like
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ashy and they had a courtyard there.
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So it was like a childhood dream, right to to live there.
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But in that same place that felt and looked so happy, so joyful,
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so peaceful, also had a very dark secret.
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And the thing was that this house had seen a lot of
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different important events, right?
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Cholera, war from the Spanish colonial times and all those
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unsettling things that happened during those era, you know, the
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era. So there was a lot of memories,
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a lot of stories that were engraved inside those walls.
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This is where it gets interesting, right?
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Because Gabby's family moves in to get settled and everything's
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fine, right? They they like the place, they
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like the area, but as they start exploring more of their
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surroundings and living the day-to-day life to find out that
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they might not be alone at the house.
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Now, Gabby Gabby had this luck that her mom was spiritually
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sensitive. So if there were any kind of
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ghosts around, any kind of spirits that were lingering, the
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mom wouldn't be like, you're just making that up.
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No, she would be like, oh, like, let's let's find out what this
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is, right? This is where it leads to the
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very first event, right? Gabby had this cousin Javier
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Small. And as he's going in there, the
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like he he's in the house already.
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He sees this man in black come in and he thinks it's the uncle.
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So he's like, hey, uncle, Hey, Theo.
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The uncle ignores him, completely ignores him.
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So he's like, OK, that was weird.
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Later on, he tells a mom, like Gabby's mom.
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It's like, hey, I just saw my uncle, but you didn't say hi.
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Like, is everything all right? Now remember the uncle here,
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like, Javier's uncle is Gabby's dad.
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But Gabby's father was a way for work, so he wasn't around.
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Who did he see? It was an actual stormy night.
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How typical scary story begins normally.
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Right there is Thunder, lightning, and rain, and every
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single time there's lightning, it lights up the entire room of
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Gabby. Gabby's right there in in her
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bed. Now while she's looking out the
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window of, you know, the the storm going about, she suddenly
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sees this man, a black figure, large frame standing right
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outside of her window. Annoyed, Gabby just gets up,
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closes the curtains and goes back to sleep.
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You would think, wow, what a brave person, right?
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Well, in the morning Gabby wakes up and she starts feeling
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something itchy and she notices there's something in her, in her
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hair. Turns out there's twigs and
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sticks and grass and dirt. She looks down at her feet and
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they're muddy and the the sheets are dirty with mud.
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And that's what she realizes that she might have slept walk
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and been out in the rain early in the morning.
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She's trying to clean the sheets, right?
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She's like, oh, jeez, I'm gonna get in trouble.
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So she tries not to tell her mom, but the mom finds out,
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right? She sees the bucket with soap
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and everything. Her trying to clean and wash
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the, the the sheet right there. She's like, what happened,
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right? That's what she tells, like she
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might have slept a lot. So the mother decides to lock
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the doors at night like so that she doesn't leave again.
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And where did Gabby go? What happened?
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And who was that man? Unfortunately, that was not the
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last time that she saw this man. Turns out, in another dark and
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stormy night, everything's happening again.
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Thunder, lightning, rain. And all of a sudden, when the
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lightning strikes, she sees the inside of her room.
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But she realizes that she's not alone this time.
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There's a man out there. That man that was outside of the
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window, he's now inside and standing right there holding the
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door open. She doesn't feel scared, She
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doesn't feel irritated and panic or anything.
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Instead, she gets up, closes the door, kind of annoyed that she's
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she's being woken up. The man's gone.
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She goes back to sleep. The thing is, even the first
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time that she saw him, she saw this man with like white
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yellowish glowing eyes. And this is the same thing that
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she was seeing inside of the room this time again, who was
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this man in black? Now I want you to remember like
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she and her family like really like that house, right?
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It was peaceful, it was joyful, felt nice, like it was like a a
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beautiful place. And, and they really seem to
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enjoying their, their time there.
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The strange things were happening and everybody was
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noticing. And this next one is about the
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children. So by this time, Gabby's little
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brother is like playing with stuff like a toy trucks and, and
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you know, soccer balls and stuff like that.
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He's old enough for that now. And every once in a while they
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could hear like out of the corner of the room, a soccer
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ball bouncing and you can actually see it.
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It's straight up just bouncing by itself until it finally
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settles on the floor. Stay still.
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Also, there were sounds of trucks, like little toy trucks
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that they were normally normally filled with pebbles and rocks
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and stuff to play around. They would you, you could hear
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them. And there was one time when this
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got really creepy and it wasn't just Gabby experiencing this.
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This is someone else. So by this time, right, it's
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Easter, it's Easter time and it's a big deal in Colombia,
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right? You have to it's like a Catholic
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kind of thing. So you can only eat fish.
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There's different traditions that you do right?
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And Gabby's grandmother was there with her and at the house.
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And one time they went out and when they were coming back, they
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saw, they saw the grandmother just kind of looking very
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uncomfortable standing outside, sitting outside.
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They're like, what's wrong? And then she explains, hey, I
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was in in near the kitchen and out in the courtyard.
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I hear the sounds of balls bouncing around, plastic toys,
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you know, being moved around. But the lights are off, so she
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says hey, thinking that it's it's Gabby and the little
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brother still there. But like, hey, you guys like,
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turn on the light, like, what are you?
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What the heck are you doing right?
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But they still keep playing. She goes out to scold them.
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She realizes that the courtyard is completely empty.
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And it's what made made her think that, you know, all these
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things that were happening maybe weren't bad or evil.
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They were intending no harm. It was just sad, the ghosts of
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children playing around in the courtyard by themselves in the
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dark. Now this this house had wooden
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walls that were so old and so cracked that you could see
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through them. And there was one other
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situation where this friend that was there, it turns out, First
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off, the mother was pretty much taking classes at the library
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because the technology that was around the area, it was kind of
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lacking, right? So that they, they had no, they
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didn't have a landline. So in order to learn, you know,
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stuff about the Internet and everything, the mom was taking
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night classes. One time this friend was over
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over at the house and through the cracks the friend could see
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there or could hear and kind of see the shape of this old woman.
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I was praying and the whole time they felt like they were being
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watched through the cracks of the walls.
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So they started researching what could this have been and later
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on as they start asking around, they find out that this elderly
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couple had died in the House of cholera.
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Unfortunately, all these thoughts of, hey, maybe this
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thing is peaceful, this thing isn't going to harm us.
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It's not doing anything to us. It's just this old lady and
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little kids playing around late at night.
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Nothing's going to go bad. Suddenly things start turning a
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little bit dark. So one night they are at home
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and all of a sudden all the lights go off, like they're
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watching TV and everything just goes blank.
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They hear a chair being dragged. It's hearing noises out there in
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the middle of like imagine like the you're out there in in this
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colonial old house. These noises aren't stopping,
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right? It it's like violent.
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Now things are are happening. Things are are the they're
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freaking out. So the kids, they run outside.
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They have no other choice. They're out there freaking out,
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waiting for everything, like for everything to pass.
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But the sounds are still happening.
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Chairs dragging, noises in the kitchen, kind of like pots and
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stuff. It's it's like violent.
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It's like something going on and there's something's rattling,
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kind of like an earthquake. The power comes back on and
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everything goes silent. And that's when the support
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comes in from the mother, right? The mom is like, yeah, something
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weird's going on here. We need to get some help.
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So they, they find these like what they call like white
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witches, right? It's people that can offer
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spiritual help around, around this house.
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And she decides to like this person comes in and they they
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stay over for the night. So as she's staying there,
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she's, she mentions that she had her own experience at the house,
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a presence being their footsteps being dragged.
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Something is in that room, and she's like her.
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Her final verdict is like, hey, you know what?
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Something's here, and it's territorial and it doesn't want
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me here, so I'm leaving. And she never went back.
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So it's Easter night now, and Gabby's mom is praying.
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Everything's quiet, doors are closed.
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Everything's seems normal when all of a sudden it gets
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strangely quiet, like something's about to happen.
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And that's when they start to hear children playing outside in
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the corridor. Toys are moving, things are
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happening. The house is active now.
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And everybody's kind of like staring at each other when all
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of a sudden they start hearing heavy footsteps start
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approaching. And then this loud voice, a male
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voice saying stop praying. And they start hearing somebody
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kicking at the door, like knocking on this door.
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By the way, this door is barely held together by this like
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silver latch. It's tiny.
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And it's, they're just hoping that it's going to hold.
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And as it's getting louder and louder and louder, they start
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hearing these voices of the children playing and, and going
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outside. It's kind of, you know, roaming
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around. And they start fading slowly.
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And the man or whatever that thing was that was outside goes
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away. And that marks Gabby's most
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terrifying night at that house. Later on, they started
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investigating, searching around, and it wouldn't have happened at
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this house. And they find out that there had
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been a well out in the courtyard, but it was sealed.
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And one thing that was strange is that nothing grew on top of
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it no matter what, right? But then they find out that two
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children had died there. They had passed away.
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So they were not in peace, right?
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Maybe because who, who knows, they might have been left there.
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Maybe it's because it was such a tragic death that they could
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never leave. When their souls are trapped
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forever in that house, you know, the stories of that kind of
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remain unknown, right? They later contacted a spiritual
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group to to help them move on. But it was then that actually
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marked the end of the family's time at that house.
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Now, you would think that this would, this is the end of the,
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of the story, right? But turns out years later, they
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start, you know, the, the grandmother passes away and they
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realize, you know, let's, let's get rid of the house.
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So they're going to demolish it. And sad times, right?
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When you, when you have a place like that with, with so much
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history, it's just going to be gone.
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So they start doing that and you know, the people that were
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helping, you know, working on it, supposedly, the story goes
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is that they found gold underneath the kitchen and it
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supposedly was valued like at 5 million or something like that,
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something like a huge amount. Now that would have been kind of
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cool, right, to find gold at your house.
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The thing was that they also found bodies in the walls.
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I remember looking into this when I heard this story.
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This actually happens. And it turns out there are a lot
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of stories out there about Indigenous people practicing
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that somebody passes away and they put them in the walls of
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the houses. You know, they had sold the
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house to a construction company. And there are there are things
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that, you know, people say when, when when you find a house with
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treasure in it or with secrets like bodies in the walls, that
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you get cursed. So you kind of have to stop.
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And some people actually believe that they will refuse to
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continue construction if they find anything like that.
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And I don't know if this was a coincidence, but they say that
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that construction company went bankrupt after that.
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The property, unfortunately, was just left abandoned.
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So Gabby grew up, you know, after a childhood realizing that
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there are spirits out there, that there are things, entities
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that can roam around a property if they haven't finished
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business. Things like, you know, dark
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things like somebody pounding against your door to things like
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little kids playing in the courtyard.
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You know, there's good things, there's dark things, evil
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things, things that shouldn't be there that people would normally
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want to get rid of. But if I ever changed her
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perspective of what's out there, and I feel like those of us who
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have experienced paranormal things, events, our own
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paranormal encounters, it changes your perspective in in a
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really strange way that you don't feel the need to prove it
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to anybody anymore. You just know it's real and you
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accept it that way. Sometimes, unfortunately, the
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only thing you can do when you encounter things like these are
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are to, to leave. And I'm glad that's what the
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family did. You know, the place where I'm
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recording from right now, if you're watching on video on
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YouTube or Spotify, this place was built under kind of similar
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circumstances. When they were building out the
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property, some of the people that were helping with the
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construction said that they found pots of gold.
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And The thing is, even though you know, you might be
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completely poor and broke and gold might seem like, wow, you
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just hit it big. A lot of these people refuse to
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take that because you know what it means.
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If you take that, you're going to be followed.
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Something's going to affect you. The thing is that at this
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property, it just not not even that long ago, out of my own
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paranormal experience here, I was downstairs.
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This is a 2 story place, right? I was downstairs, we were
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watching TV and in the kitchen TV and all of a sudden, clear as
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day, we're the only people in the house hear footsteps
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upstairs. Boom boom, boom, boom.
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The dog that was downstairs sleeping, she's this lazy dog.
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She looks up and starts barking. Woof, woof, woof.
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As I, as I get there, I'm like, what is she looking at?
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I go upstairs and there's no one there.
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The only people in the house, right?
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And that's not the only thing. Like sometimes and, and people
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say this like when they're downstairs, they hear footsteps
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up in a clear footsteps, right? People moving around upstairs,
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You know, am I terrified of being here, like with this swing
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set behind me and this old abandoned kind of part of the
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the property? Yeah, kind of freaking out.
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There's no Wi-Fi here, so I can't really read any of the
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comments that you say is I don't feel like, you know, I feel like
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completely alone here. If you have your own encounter,
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your own story that you want me to tell here, you know where to
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find me. Edwin at paranormalclub.com is
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the e-mail. You can also find me on Tiktok,
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Hope to see you next time. Let me know what you think of
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campfire stories and if you're a fan of them so we can make more
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of these. That's all I got.
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Thank you very much for listening or watching.
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Keep it scary everyone, see you soon.