Art Bell’s late-night ghost stories dive into chilling encounters, from a 1980 demonic Viking figure in Castro Valley to a drowned child’s Ouija board message in Michigan, where a father returned 13 days early after a black-clad apparition appeared. Callers describe poltergeists moving objects, glowing tombstones during full moons, and a haunted Pahrump house with voices and shadows—later verified online. A Long Island caller’s childhood basement haunting involved physical attacks, while a San Diego story ties a pool panic to messages from spirits named Seth and Steve. Bell grapples with trapped souls, especially innocent children, questioning whether hauntings reflect divine fairness or something darker tied to locations, leaving listeners unsettled by the blurred line between memory and the supernatural. [Automatically generated summary]
Eastward to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands, south into South America, north all the way to the Pole and worldwide on the internet.
This is coast to coast a.m.
Good evening, victims.
That's what you all are as victims.
Right?
There is no question in my mind, nor has there been for years, about the existence of ghosts.
I know there are ghosts.
And I think most of you, the majority of you actually, know there are ghosts too.
So every now and then we stop what we're doing.
Whatever that is.
What is it we do here anyway?
Anyway, we every now and then stop and we do what we call ghost to ghost instead of coast to coast.
Actually, it's same thing, just new name.
And we tell ghost stories all night long.
Now, you may hear it in my voice.
But if you would like to see it in my face as well, then you're going to want to be absolutely certain you check out tonight's webcam photo, which I took just a very few moments ago.
Then there's rules about, boy, we have a lot of rules, huh?
Ghost photos.
Yes, we will accept ghost photographs, as I think now we have probably, I think we have the best collection of ghost photographs on the web.
If not, then we're certainly getting close, you know, to the best.
And that's thanks to all of you.
The same ones that are going to provide the quality ghost stories tonight, I would like to provide, I have provide quality ghost photos as well.
So only the good ghost photos need apply.
Now, what does that mean?
That means any obvious cigarette smoke ghost photos are out.
They've got to be better than that.
That means a ghost photo with a camera strap blurring the front doesn't count either.
Occasionally, we get the real thing.
You know, last night, or was it?
No, the night before.
That was the night before.
Somebody led me to, I think it's the fifth page in the gallery.
A ghost photos, a fifth page, I think.
And there's this picture of this.
God almighty, there's an arm coming right out of the television.
And it looks, you know, if it's a fake, it's a really, really, really good fake.
If it's not a fake, it's everybody's nightmare.
I mean, it's just everybody's nightmare.
You look at that picture, some caller led me there.
You know, I slowly, thought, plottingly made my way there on my own website, and I got to that one.
And I, oh my God, look at that.
And I'd never seen it.
I guess it's been up there for a while, but I hadn't seen that particular one.
That's a real heart stopper.
Absolutely no question about it.
So we want only quality ghost photos sent to webmaster at artbell.com.
That's Keith.
He is standing by to review and judge your photograph.
And if it's up to par, if it's really scary, we're going to put it up tonight.
In fact, we've already got new ghost photos up there for you right now.
As the collection continues to grow, I mean, there is no doubt.
There is simply no doubt in my mind about the fact that ghosts are real.
They are.
They're as real as we are.
There may be questions about what a ghost is, whether it's a human soul trapped here.
Surely sometimes it is, right?
Human souls do apparently, for at least a period, if not longer, get trapped here on earth.
And then there may be the memory, the sort of.
I don't even know what the right phrase would be.
The memory, the I don't know what it is that's left of a person when their soul has departed, but something that seems to stick around.
Maybe that means we have more components than we thought we had.
I mean, soul goes this way.
The lingering memory of the person goes that way.
I don't know.
Have you ever thought about that?
have more components than you thought oh this is really good for any program you do up here this this way of coming back into the show It's good for any program you do.
All right, so you know what we're gonna do tonight?
He said, not only that, he said Apollo 13 didn't happen the way it said.
There was no accident in space.
I asked him why this would happen.
They said the country's morale was down, Vietnam War.
He said, if you look at when they came back to the planet, the whole world stopped, sat on their seat, on the edge of their seat, and held their breath.
He said they done it for financing, and they done it for the morale of the country.
Anyways, he went on and on.
I asked him what he'd done.
He told me he was a history teacher, and he kind of grinned and gave a belly laugh.
He started telling me all these tales.
And sometime a guy up went to use the outhouse that was about 200 feet from my tent.
Trying to talk you into copping a soda pop or God knows what else.
You see, could have been your own inner voice tempting you, you know, the little guy that sits over on the, does he sit on the bad one, sit on the right or the left?
Then there's a good one.
But the good one doesn't get to speak up that much.
That sounds like the bad one.
Only fools pay in 7-Eleven.
Take it, bud, and run.
First time caller line, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Mr. Art.
This is Frank.
I'm calling from Orlando, and I'm listening to you on the internet.
I don't suppose when you sold that house that you disclosed to this happy little honeymoon and couple that was going to get it next that there was an entity in there that would tend to show up by your bed in your window at night.
unidentified
Well, at the time, I wasn't old enough to have that kind of contact to give me that information.
We know that ghosts, particularly those produced by suicides, especially suicides, and that is worrisome, seem to hang around the place where they committed suicide, where they took their own life.
So I suppose had you had a chance to, you know, check into it a little bit, you might have found that somebody may have done themselves in on that property somewhere.
These days, you've got to disclose that kind of thing when you sell a house.
But you and I all know, we both know, don't we, that you would never disclose that, would you?
And oh, by the way, you're buying an entity as well.
Me and a friend both had this same experience at different times.
It's pretty wild.
Not only do we have the same experience, we had been friends for several years, and then all of a sudden we found out while he was retracing his roots that we had the same grandfather in Ireland, the same great, great, great, great, great-grandfather in Ireland, which was very weird because we're both from different areas of the country and we met each other through work.
But anyway, what happened one night is I'll get right to the story.
I woke up and what I saw was really, really scary.
There was a big entity in my room at the foot of my bed, and it was huge, and it had horns, great, huge horns on its head.
And I'll get to the clincher of this in a minute.
But it had great horns on its head, and it had red eyes, bright red eyes, and it was just standing there in my doorway.
Well, what I did is I said, of course, and I'm not really, I believe in the Bible and I believe in Christianity, but I'm not a big practicing Christian.
But nevertheless, I said, in the name of Jesus, be gone.
And the entity walked back through the door and faded away.
I was just going to say, though, and this will argue a little bit with your belief system, I know, but you might as well have said, in the name of our bell, the paranormal talkshalls, be gone.
It might have, and it certainly would have told us a lot.
Now, somebody out there should try.
Now, I'm not going to be responsible for any lawsuit, for any bloody pulps just sort of lingering and soaking into the bed that are left after this is tried.
unidentified
But there's a great other part of this story, though.
I'm with you all the way, and I can't think of anything that I would less like to see than something with glowing red eyes.
That creeps me out.
That always creeps me out.
Glowing red eyes, I know, are bad.
Very bad.
No matter what else, what other form the creature has, the glowing red eyes, oh, they're very bad.
And by the way, just so there's no mistake about it, if I ever encountered one of these things and I had to invoke a name to get it gone, you can bet your bottom dollar wouldn't be my name.
Chuck Yeager had a lot of things to do with his time, but interviewing people who had donned cheerleading uniforms in basic training while getting fondled, that would not have been high on his list.
I don't buy it, bonk.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
Miss Bell?
unidentified
Yes.
Sorry about that.
It's a little slow on the trigger here.
I'm not a Canadian, so I really enjoy you.
It must be Air Force Night tonight.
I'm retired Air Force.
Are you?
I was stationed at Effie Warren Air Force Base the last few months I was in.
And since I went retired on active duty, they gave me a position in babysitting in the dormitories.
Well, here's something that I've thought an awful lot about, and that is battlefields.
I, too, was in the Air Force to pile on here, and during Vietnam, and a lot of people died.
And, you know, there are a lot of ghosts on battlefields.
And I've been, if a ghost is really a human soul still here on earth, then there would be, in my mind, zero righteousness in the world and a very unfair God to take any soldier who had died in defense of his country and keep him trapped, keep his soul trapped on earth?
I have a kind of a freaky story to tell that happened to me.
Actually, we've had several things happen to us in this house.
And anyway, my husband and I had just watched a movie.
It was the Amityville Horror.
And we're getting ready for bed and went and got in.
And I started getting this really icky feeling like something evil was in the room with me.
Yes.
And my husband had gone to sleep.
And we had our one-year-old son in the same room.
And he started fussing and fussing and wouldn't settle down.
And I was starting to doze off.
Every time I doze off, I'd jump awake like something kept bothering me or, you know, and I had this real evil feeling.
And about three o'clock in the morning, I had dozed off, and I jumped awake again because it felt like something had taken a finger and run across my feet at the end of the bed.
That's interesting because I've never heard of anybody coming back from I Want You.
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
Well, when we moved into this house, we had to clean it out, and upstairs there were stacks and stacks of witchcraft books, and we kind of think that had something to do with it.
That's really, you know, that's another thing that I found really strange because, you know, after the house fire, we rebuild the house and then nothing happens again.
Okay, so in my house in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where I actually rented the apartment above an accounting office, and at one night, at about 10 o'clock at night, all of a sudden I heard some loud noise, which sounded like somebody was down there slamming one of the doors.
Then I heard what sounded like somebody going into a file cabinet and just ripping through the files like you could just hear papers flying through.
And I was scared.
I said, well, I yelled down to it.
I said, who's down there?
And I said, I have a gun up here.
And no response just started tearing through them even more.
So I went and I called the local police.
They showed up in three minutes.
The noise stopped pretty much right as they showed up.
I went out and greeted them and they were like, well, what's going on?
And they went and they checked all the doors to make sure nobody had broken in.
And then, you know, sure enough, they said, oh, there's nobody in there.
They shine their lights in there, whatever, and they left.
Well, the next morning, or later that night, I heard nothing more.
But then, you know, the next morning, the accountant came in and said, I went down there and said to her, this was my landlord.
I said, you know, I thought I have to tell you, I called the police last night.
I thought someone had broken in and been going through your files.
She was like, well, nothing's out of order.
And she's like, that's really weird because I couldn't tell.
It felt like somebody was holding the door when I tried to come in this morning.
There were these enormous safes with brass and steel and iron.
And they were just open, several of them.
And so we filmed some footage down there.
And this banging continued.
And so then we, after having found out that no one was in the building, the banging persisted and we started really getting nervous.
And yet at the same time, we were intrigued.
We wanted to see something almost.
We wanted to go up and have some experience, I guess, at that age.
And so we kind of sneaked up there and looked around, and there was, again, no one there, nothing there.
The electricity was on, so we could work the lights.
And we came back downstairs, and I noticed that all my papers, my script in my little folder, was not on the bench where I left it.
And I was looking around for it.
Maybe I left it over where the safes are or somewhere else.
And so I searched for it, couldn't find it.
And then went back upstairs carrying all the equipment with us.
And I noticed that, of all things, my camera strap was gone.
Someone had actually taken the camera strap, unsnapped it off of the camera, the movie camera, and it was missing.
So we carried everything up into this gigantic courtroom.
And lo and behold, on top of the bench, on top of the judge's table or desk, there was my book and the camera strap neatly folded across it.
And, you know, there was only four of us.
The girls were really reluctant to come upstairs at all.
And so there was me and my friend.
And I would have noticed if either of us had been carrying the book or the camera strap.
And I went back down and asked the girls, you know, how did the camera strap get off of the camera?
And they said, oh, we don't know.
We've just been sitting here the whole time.
They were down there, you know, having sodas and eating food or whatever.
And so I'm like, okay.
So we went back upstairs, and we had turned off all the lights because we wanted to see if we could do filming in the dark, you know, with the present light coming in through the windows.
You know, when you look up at a statue and the eye opens and then closes, it's really time to go.
I bought the whole thing, and the only thing that could have caused me to reject that entire story would be if they'd have, you know, climbed up to investigate the statue or gone in the house.
So now years go by and I'm in the kitchen and he's in bed sleeping and my brother is upstairs sleeping now in that room and I heard walking around and I went by the stairs and I says, Jimmy, what are you doing walking on?
What are you doing?
So I went upstairs and my brother was sound asleep.
So I got a chill went up my back and I says, geez, this is what my father's been hearing all these years, you know?
There you are.
And so that's been going on for, you know, that happened.
And I looked over again, and now they were in the door.
They were about a foot inside the door.
So I just laid down straight.
I could not believe what I was seeing.
I just wouldn't, you know, I just would not believe that there was something in the room.
And with that, something grabbed my feet, and I shot up through the covers, and I went for the light, and I put it on, and there was nothing in the room.
Bad enough to see things, hear things, walking about, and then see things.
But the line is drawn at the grabbing of the feet.
If something physically yanks on you, that means it's strong enough to have manifested itself physically in this world, and if it wants you, it's going to have you.
Easter the Rockies, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello?
Art?
Yes.
Hi.
I'm from Indiana.
I'm a private in the U.S. Military Army.
Oh.
And my sister had a story quite like the females before.
But, you know, I had just a little bit to add to that myself because I had one of the experiences somewhat in the same time.
We were young living in an Army base out in Fort Meade, Maryland.
And my sister was up all night frequently, and she was always scared, and she was always running to the bathroom.
And we just thought she was having bad dreams.
Well, what the young lady had described earlier was exactly what my sister was talking to us about and still continues to talk to us to this day.
Something was literally scratching at her feet and grabbing at her feet and she would run into the bathroom, shut the door, and just cry her eyes out.
Now, during that time, I was also having things waking me up by breathing up in my face, and it would scare me so much that it would wake me up.
Right in your face.
Right in my face, and it just scare me completely.
And mom did not know what was going on with her kids.
Now, at one time, I had felt something actually grab me, and I thought I was sleeping.
I thought it was a dream, and to this day, it still feels like a dream, but I don't know, you tell me, but it almost felt like I was lifting up out of my bed and floating down the hallway.
I am from Hollywood originally, and when I was about 20, I'm 34 now.
A girlfriend of mine was, I had a very successful father who bought a mansion up in the Hollywood Hills, and it had been empty for about, I don't know, eight to ten years or so, whatever.
And the first night he bought it, he was very excited.
He told his daughter, and we went to go check it out.
And it had a pool.
And I'm a swimmer guy, you know, from Hollywood.
Anyway, it was a really creepy pool because all the plants and everything had kind of overgrown.
This four-year-old, I mean, really, despite, and my, you know, hair was standing on by my arms.
I was like, I don't like, I don't like this.
This is weird.
So there were these two boys, and the older one, who was seven years old, explained that they, when somebody lived there about 12 years ago, they were not supposed to be hanging out there.
But there was a very high wall on the other side of the pool.
And they went, and the little four-year-old fell.
And the seven-year-old jumped in to save him.
And the four-year-old dragged him under.
They both drowned.
So they told us this on the Ouija board.
So the next day, the girl's sister came over to the house to hang out by the pool, and we were all out by the pool.
She wasn't going to tell her dad either.
And she said, hey, Amy, did you know that two little boys drowned in this pool?
And that's why it stood vacant for so long.
And we looked at each other.
I mean, we didn't tell her.
So then here, I've never broken a bone in my body ever once.
And I still haven't to this day.
But the dad, all of a sudden, the next day, comes home from his, you know, London trip 13 days early.
It's like he went there and turned around.
And he shows up and found me there.
And we were up in his master bedroom.
Just, you know, oh, it was not pretty.
Anyway, threw me out.
But I was going out and I ran out the bath and I was like in underwear and a t-shirt.
And I went, oh, no, no, no, no.
The Ouija board, the Ouija board, if she finds the Ouija board, it was under the bed.
So I ran back up and I got the Ouija board.
And as I was running out, something tripped me.
I mean, there was nothing there.
I was running down the, but I broke my foot.
And I've never broken anything.
But I know that little brat, that little four-year-old, had tripped me.
One time my brother, this was before he moved out, my older brother, he's reading a book and all of a sudden he calls me upstairs and he's like, Matt, he's like, something happened.
I'm like, well, what do you mean?
I smelled this awful smell.
And it started burning his hair.
What?
Like, seriously, went in the room and you know that disgusting smell when hair's been burned?
I mean, how can you stay there, even one more night?
Um, burning hair, that's way over the limit for me.
unidentified
I know I'm here every night and usually by myself.
And yeah, I'm here right now by myself and, sure enough two, three in the morning it starts up.
I record music quite a bit for a living and it seems to enjoy playing with my equipment, whether it be turns it off, turns it on resets, different banks and and my synthesizers.
I know the exact smell he's talking about and I'm sure you do too, you've.
You've smelled burned hair, haven't you?
It's, awful, but to have your hair self-ignite, that's a really strong sign.
Wildcard line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi Art, this is Andy from Largo, Florida.
Hello Andy, how are you tonight?
Fine good, got a story about a glowing tombstone up in Michigan.
Oh it it, it's really good.
Up in Michigan.
You know, each town has their little local legends.
Uh, there was a story about uh, off at 100th Street out in Byron Center, there's this little cemetery and they say well, there's a glowing tombstone in it.
And I remember in high school going out here and yeah, you'd see it glow and through the years it had vandals.
One year some kids took the stone.
Well, the post farm family that mains that maintains the yard replaced the headstone and my friend Mark, that still lives up there, said every year it's around Halloween, it's there's a big attraction of a big group of people that go out there, but anyway it only glows during a full moon on a clear night.
Oh, well, yes, you know, though, I've seen a lot of movies, and in all the movies, college students who take chips of glowing tombstones die in puddles of mush.
unidentified
Yeah, really.
Hey, before you hang up, one more quick story that you'll appreciate.
Remember you telling about the car that stops in a railroad tracks and you can see like handprints on the back of it if you put powder on it?
It would always bother me, and it still bothers me today.
Why?
Because of all those souls that you would not expect to remain on earth, there would be the children, right?
The innocents, the really young ones.
If their lives were taken tragically by a train hitting a school bus, there's no way my mind can grasp the concept of a God that would allow their souls to remain, you know, to push cars every now and then.
It just doesn't add up.
Either that or the nature of things is not as we would have it be in our world.
You know, maybe there's nothing fair about death at all.
I mean, has that ever occurred to you?
Everybody thinks, well, death has got to be fair because God's fair and God's good and God wouldn't allow anything bad to happen to our souls, right?
But maybe the truth is there's not anything.
There's not a damn thing fair about death.
Even the innocent children and the most innocent of adults, maybe there's nothing fair at all.
That's something to think about.
The dark of night, huh?
East of the Rockies, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello, Mr. L.
Yes.
Hi, I'm really glad to have you back.
Thank you.
Okay, and before I get started, this is a good ghost story about my brother.
I wanted to shout out to everybody on FNet there in the Art Bell channel.
This is the source, guys.
I had just told him my story in there, and they said, you got to call her and tell him this.
You know, but I did later because when we got the film back, we forgot to develop it.
Yes.
And I forgot all about it.
So when we got the film back, there was this giant white glowing around me, and I had two St. Michael's medallions, one in each hand, because I was going to give them as gifts to people, and I put one in each pocket.
And my hands look like they're on fire.
And this giant form is radiating above me, and you can see a face.
Now, I have a friend who's a graphic artist, and she went looking for faces.
And I said, I'm not going to tell you where the faces are.
You tell me.
So she went looking for faces.
And she does like layouts for magazines.
She's an editor.
So she's got a very detailed eye.
And she found another face which is directly above the cross in the steeple of the mission of Santa Barbara, which looks like a little bit like, you know, the picture that you have on your web of Jesus at the Vatican.
It looks a little bit like that.
Yes.
And it was just, it was really overwhelming.
And then I went and I showed this picture to a friend, and she said, I never believed you about your ghost until I went and visited a friend who went to Santa Barbara, and I walked to that graveyard.
Well, Zeno, there's another aspect, thank you, of all this that bothers me.
And that is graveyards.
Again, I'm going to say this, and I don't know how you all want to be disposed of when your time on Earth is gone.
But graveyards don't sound too good to me.
I mean, in terms of where I think I would like to go when my time comes.
I'm leaning toward the ash idea.
This graveyard thing, I don't know.
Don't want to think that there's any consciousness left, and if there is, that it's stuck anywhere near a graveyard, because that wouldn't be a good place to spend a lot of aftertime.
We're going to have our, by the way, our electronic voice phenomena people on again soon.
They record voices in graveyards.
So you see what I mean?
Think about your own final disposal.
Do you really, really want to be down six for at least part of the day?
Okay, one is on a school night back in high school, there was, I had a grand, I had a stepmother that I had to pay my lich on her car to use her car to go somewhere.
So that's what I was doing.
On a school night, I went to a friend's house, supposedly, to study, and I went over and I picked up two girls.
I was able to, and we all realized something did transpire there, and they wanted to go home, and I took them home.
And to this day, I didn't even go home and share that with my parents or my mother or my stepmother because I had to borrow her car and I'm supposed to be out studying.
There's a whole lot of this that really is genuinely scary because it's just unimaginable to me that people would be sentenced to these horrible eternities.
That brings chills to me because it was very similar to what I saw and heard and felt.
Anyways, I kind of turned to my left and I saw something flash on the corner of my eye and that really frightened me.
And I turned to the right and kind of swung my feet out of the bed and I saw a figure move from our bathroom into the doorway.
And I turned, immediately looked to the doorway and saw a figure move.
Well, that frightened me.
I jumped out of bed.
I stood in the doorway and I saw a figure running down the hallway.
And at first I thought this was my wife's son.
But like I said, I trust my senses.
I knew something wasn't wrong or wasn't right.
So I go to my wife and push off the bed and scream at her.
There's somebody in the house.
There's somebody in the house.
Do something.
I start running down the hallway thinking that someone's trying to harm our children.
Sure.
And as I get almost to the hallway, across from my son's room is our bathroom.
And I would be directly facing our daughter's room.
Yes.
And when I got in the hallway, a figure, a small figure, about the size of my son, about three, four feet tall, run across the doorway from the bathroom into his room.
And of course, I ran into the room, and both of my children are sound asleep.
If this house that you're in right now there are things able to physically manifest to the point where they can slap a face, you are in significant danger.
unidentified
Well, my mother has called a parapsychologist out in Cleveland State University, and the parapsychologist has told her that, by the symptoms that we have named, that he believes it's some kind of child that likes to play games, and he told us, whatever you do, please do not tell him to go away, or it, or whatever it may be.
Tell him to go to the light, because if you tell him to go to go away, he will just go to another household.
So what i'm saying is, careful, be really careful.
unidentified
Oh, trust me, we will be.
Um, like I said, I am trying currently to get a hold of the psychic from WTAM because we would like to just try to bring the spirit to peace.
I mean um, like I said, I mean you're right, if this thing can do the things that i've named, then you know what danger can can lurk.
I mean, like I said, we're the first owners of this house um, and I don't see, you know we I, I just don't understand this, and it's quite frightening at times.
I'll be sleeping in the middle of the night and I will feel something sit on my bed.
Oh really um oh, I have a dog and a cat.
My cat notices, of course, your cat knows it's there.
Sir, i'm sorry we're out of time, but you, you'd best get out of there.
I, I wouldn't stay in a house like that, there's no way, especially not the sitting with uh sitting on the bed with me part of my lesson,
unidentified
under the sky long.
I Feel someone pull on the extended leg of the tripod behind me, which I figured was one of the members, Roger, just fooling around teasing me.
I actually grabbed onto the tripod, so I gave the tripod a hard jerk to pull it away from his hand, which pulls loose, and I turned around to look at him.
And he was there, back about 15 feet.
There was no one else around me.
Wow.
So whoever or whatever grabbed it was something invisible.
So I came back on a subsequent investigation just shortly after that and decided this would be a good place to do some videotaping, see if I could get some infrared ghost lights there.
Set up the camera at the top of the stairway, focusing down along the stairs.
There was a little light, a little ambient light in the place, but not much.
And as I'm focusing down there and watching the screen on my camera, I notice out of the corner of my eye that I see a silhouette, a shadow silhouette come up behind me, just shining on the wall off to the right of the stairway, which is a very enamel, glossy kind of wall.
So even in the dim light, the shadow shows very well.
Didn't think too much of it.
I suspected really was probably, you know, Brent, I don't want the other guys coming up behind me.
Turned around to look, and no one's there.
No one near me at all.
But there's the shadow, perfect silhouette of a male figure still there.
Well, that figures, I mean, after all, with what you do, by the way, I'm going to be interviewing Brendan and company, I don't know, in this week or two.
So, yeah, that's very typical of what you're going to get involved in.
If you go traipsing and looking, trying to look this stuff up, eventually you're going to find it.
I mean, if you go, if you really want to find it, and there are a lot of people who write to me and say, hey, how do I find a ghost?
There was kind of a story that everybody had heard surrounding this place that when the Sherman, I think it was, one of the northern generals was coming down and they were freeing slaves in a lot of the plantation houses.
This one family was very adamant and against the idea of having their slaves freed and actually decided that they were going to, they would kill them rather than see them freed.
Wow.
These guys, they went back there, just started slaughtering people, had them chained up to the walls and just killing them.
A few of the people, the slaves, managed to get themselves free, get a hold of some weapons, and started just slaughtering the family.
I'll bet.
In all, I think something like 50, 55 people just murdered brutally in this one little house in the area surrounding it that night and the rest of them just took off.
So you can imagine the angry souls that would be hanging around this area.
A great bunch of people were, you know, getting involved, raised a little money for the community, and they pulled me in because they knew I was a makeup artist.
And of course, when you're doing a scary haunted house, you want someone who can do the blood and the gore and all the fun stuff like that.
So I got pulled in.
So I went to a meeting at this building, and I pull up in front of this thing, and it looked like the Adams family lived there.
It was an old abandoned school building.
Well, not entirely abandoned.
Some of the offices were still being used, but it had been built around the turn of the century, very Victorian.
But the clear implication is that somebody on the other side, if it's urgent enough, important enough, can come through in any way it must, telephone, electronically, or in person.
So I guess it is possible, if it's really urgent.
...the audio, you know, the streaming audio.
But apparently you're not having a problem.
unidentified
No, it takes about, well, a few more seconds for it to click in, and then it's on, just like a radio.
Cool.
I mean, perfectly.
I want to throw something at you real quick before I get into my story.
He's dressed just kind of like us, you know, hiking boots, blue jeans, a downfill jacket, but his eyes look like the eyes of an animal caught in somebody's headlights.
Yeah.
And so my buddy.
I know the look.
Right.
My buddy Paul goes, who the are you?
Yes.
And the guy continues to laugh, gets up, turns around, and walks about three steps away and just basically disappears.
Oh, my.
And being young, teenage bravado, right?
We're thinking somebody's trying to pull a little trick on us.
So we all jump up and we're going to go find this guy.
Well, it's too dark to walk in the secluded area without flashlights.
And that's what happened was, after a few minutes, we kind of came back to the fire, and the longer we sat there, the scareder we got.
Yeah.
And pretty soon it was, we think we better move our camp.
Right.
And so we did.
We actually got up that night and moved closer to where we knew there were some other people because the longer we sat there, the more freaked out we were.
But I just wanted to throw that in because none of us said, you know, in the name of Jesus, go away.
You know, when you're doing all this on a Ouija board and you're getting that much information back, and it's beginning to be contemporary, a town, you know, at this point, how are you accounting for what you're doing?
unidentified
Well, I'm really not sure, man.
This is the first, this was, like I said, the first and last time we ever played with anything like this.
Okay.
Anyway, she asked if it would make if it could make a presence.
My sister had about six cats at the time, and about three minutes after it went by, the cats were running wild in the house, and just, I mean, one of them went behind the refrigerator.
Yep.
And she had a clock that was made out of some exotic wood cut out of Panama, of the shape of Panama.
And the clock we had noticed had turned at a 45-degree angle.
Now, after that incident, we never, ever, ever brought out that Ouija board again.
Well, you know, you're lucky that what obviously decided to interact with you didn't decide to stay and or cross over.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
Well, it's just kind of funny.
You know, we're talking about Construction Day era, and it just kind of freaked us out a little bit because, I mean, you don't just see clocks like turning on the walls and things like that.
And we didn't physically see it turn.
We just happened to notice later on within about five or ten minutes.
I mean, I just can't believe in modern day, when we all know that if you go up to a door or a window where something like that has happened, a hand is going to grab you and drag you through the glass until there's nothing left of you but a shred when you go up to the window like that.
So I just can't believe in this modern day you would actually go up to the window.
How does it feel to be back in a little car after being in the truck all that time?
unidentified
Oh, kind of different.
Well, I've been doing it for so long.
I used to have a mail jeep back there in Nevada, and going from a big vehicle to a small one with steering wheel on the wrong side was all kinds of fun.