WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:04.679 Have you ever had a moment that made your skin crawl, 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:08.000 a shadow where there shouldn't be one, a whisper in 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:12.320 an empty room, or something you simply can't explain. If so, 4 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:16.120 we want to hear from you here at the Haunted 5 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.760 UK Podcast. We're always on the lookout for spine tingling 6 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:23.120 stories to feature in our end of season listener episodes 7 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.519 and our short Haunts series. Whether it's a chilling encounter, 8 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:31.440 a mysterious experience, or something that's haunted you for years, 9 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:36.079 we want your tale. 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You'll 27 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.480 get a copy of the finished production to use however 28 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.959 you like, and you'll retain full ownership of your work. 29 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.719 Admit your story to Haunted UK Fiction at hotmail dot 30 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:08.520 com and follow us on Instagram at Haunted UK fiction. So, 31 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:12.360 whether it's truth or fiction, if it's haunted we wanted. 32 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:18.719 Now sit back and enjoy the episode. This is the 33 00:02:18.759 --> 00:03:26.719 Haunted UK Podcasts Short Haunts. Welcome dear listeners to our 34 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.280 series of short haunts. A shot of scary just for you. 35 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:35.759 So grab a hot chocolate, maybe a tea, maybe something stronger, 36 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:40.199 because this is Haunted UK Podcasts Short Haunts. A life 37 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.439 of haunting experiences. So many times on this show we've 38 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.960 heard accounts of people who seem to experience the paranormal 39 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.960 or supernatural on multiple occasions. Many others go through life 40 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.800 never having any type of encounter at all. So what 41 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.479 makes these types of people so different to the rest 42 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.360 of us. Could it have something to do with the 43 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.439 effects that their body and mind have on the atmosphere 44 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:10.439 around them. Are they somehow able to influence these strange 45 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.960 phenomena to occur. Whatever exists beyond the veil of the 46 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.639 world of the living, if anything exists at all, is 47 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.120 it somehow attracted to the energy of these types of people. 48 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.000 The thing is, how would you know if you have 49 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.079 any influence on the paranormal or supernatural. It's not something 50 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.879 that simply shows itself to you, or does it. Perhaps 51 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.439 people who have numerous encounters somehow feel different to others, 52 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.680 feel that they are in touch with something that not 53 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.839 everyone understands, and maybe they don't fully understand it either. 54 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:52.920 Whatever the case, this short haunt seems to revolve around 55 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.560 one of these people, a person who has had experience 56 00:04:56.680 --> 00:05:02.399 after experience after experience. This listener wishes to remain anonymous 57 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.800 due to his past and current careers, and we will 58 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.120 respect that wish, so it just remains for me to 59 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:15.079 hand this short haunt over to our listener. Hi to 60 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.800 all of you in the Haunted UK podcast team. Keeping 61 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.839 myself anonymous, I wanted to let you know that I 62 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.959 accidentally stumbled over your podcast and have been enjoying it 63 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.800 so far. I'm at this moment listening to some listener 64 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.480 stories and thought it would be the right time to 65 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:36.199 submit some of mine. Before I go any further, I'd 66 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:39.480 like to give you a little background about myself. For 67 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.360 the past eighteen years, I've been a medic in a 68 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.079 large ambulance service, and previously to that, I'd served in 69 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.000 the Royal Army Medical Corps as a combat medic. I 70 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.639 can honestly say that ghost stories have been a part 71 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.000 of my life since I was a very young child. 72 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:58.439 My parents lived in a police house which was on 73 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:01.600 an estate built in the late nightnineteen seventies, and my 74 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.040 mother always told me that when I was a baby, 75 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:07.879 I would stare at certain places in the house. As 76 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.120 I got older, this went further and I would talk 77 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.519 to a stranger who obviously wasn't there, at least not 78 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:20.399 to anyone but me. One particular incident which frightened my 79 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:23.120 mother was when she came home to find the contents 80 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.160 of the kitchen all over the floor. At the time, 81 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.639 my father was a serving police officer, so my mum 82 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.639 immediately contacted him, which resulted in a number of officers 83 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.560 being sent to the house to ensure everything was okay. 84 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:41.480 Upon their arrival and after a thorough search, they didn't 85 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:46.000 find any sign of a break in. Unfortunately, this wouldn't 86 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:51.519 be the only time this happened. On two other occasions, 87 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.600 my mother would be out shopping or visiting family and 88 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.360 would return to find something thrown out of the kitchen cupboards. 89 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.720 The last time something occurred in my old family home 90 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.439 was a few months after my grandmother had passed away. 91 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.199 By now I was married and had set up home 92 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.360 with my wife. During the process of sorting out my 93 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:15.480 grandmother's effects, some furniture had been moved into the family home. 94 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.000 One of these pieces was kept in my old room, 95 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:23.480 and one evening, while myself and my wife were visiting, 96 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.639 we both had a very strange encounter. It was a 97 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:31.040 Friday night and I woke to feel something sitting on 98 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.480 the end of the bed. At first I thought it 99 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.680 was the cat, but remembered that we had shut the 100 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.240 door to stop the grumpy thing from getting into the room. 101 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.560 I looked at the door, which was still closed, and 102 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.759 then to the end of the bed, and there, as 103 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.439 clear as day, was an indentation on the douvet, as 104 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:55.800 if someone or something had sat down on it, but 105 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.000 there was nothing in the room which could have caused it. 106 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.399 I didn't feel scared or feel anything bad in the room. 107 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:06.920 I simply went back to sleep. I told my wife 108 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.040 the next morning about this strange incident, and her reply 109 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.360 surprised me. She told me that she had also been 110 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:16.319 woken up that same night to the same feeling of 111 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:19.959 something sitting on the end of the bed. Again, as 112 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.680 with my experience, she also initially thought it was the cat, 113 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.879 so she sat up to take a look, but was 114 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.680 shocked to see something that definitely wasn't the cat. It 115 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:34.399 was a woman who was sat on the end of 116 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.519 my side of the bed. My wife said she was 117 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.759 dressed in a white night dress, she had long hair, 118 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:44.559 and sat with her back towards us. My wife also 119 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:48.399 didn't feel scared or experience any type of unpleasant feeling. 120 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.480 According to her, it was as if someone was checking 121 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.960 in on us. Now, whether this was my grandmother or 122 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.159 the person I interacted with as a small child, I 123 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.320 could not say I know. The house was a nineteen 124 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.919 seventies build and it was constructed on old farmland. There 125 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:12.159 were stories dating from Victorian times which still circulated around 126 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.639 the area that told of a young woman who drowned 127 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:18.440 in the nearby pond. Her ghost is said to visit 128 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.200 the estate. When I left home and joined the Army, 129 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.559 my ghost encounters continued. My first home was an old 130 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.080 RAF base which had been used during World War II, 131 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.240 then handed to the Army after one of the post 132 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:38.120 Cold War restructuring programs. This led to various changes in 133 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:44.200 military strengths and capabilities. We shared the base with a 134 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:48.200 cavalry regiment who had all the nice, shiny accommodations and 135 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:52.279 working spaces, but my unit were initially given the old 136 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.399 Nissan huts, which had been condemned for habitation until they 137 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.759 sorted something more appropriate. Think of ans hut as a 138 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:06.679 sort of half tube like structure and you'll get the picture. Luckily, 139 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.440 I joined the unit just after they were given what 140 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.559 was essentially a new version of Nissen huts. The guys 141 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.600 who were in the old accommodation would joke about strange 142 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.480 noises and rooms suddenly becoming cold, and they would tell 143 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.320 me of the tower being haunted as well. Now as 144 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:27.320 a new guy, I was listening to these stories, but 145 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:30.440 felt they were simply tall tales being fed to the 146 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.279 newbies to set them up for some sort of prank, 147 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:39.679 as is universal in all military service. The tower in 148 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.080 question was the old control tower next to an old airfield, 149 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.000 and we used the top part as offices for the 150 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.159 unit sergeants and the two lieutenants. The bottom part of 151 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:53.679 the tower was used as storage for medical equipment and 152 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.279 we were constantly in and out of the storage space 153 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.679 to check the equipment. As anyone who has been in 154 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:03.320 the mid will attest, if there is nothing constructive to do, 155 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.159 the seniors would get you to check all the equipment 156 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.480 and vehicles, even if they had been checked the day before. 157 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.960 I recall one of the rooms used as storage always 158 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.759 being ice cold, and I would get a horrible creepy 159 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:22.399 feeling of being watched. At night, the tower was always 160 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.440 locked and the keys were left in the guardroom. Most nights, 161 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.559 the guard commander would have to send the quick reaction 162 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.960 force to the tower as the lights would mysteriously be 163 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.879 switched back on Luckily for me, the QRF were normally 164 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.080 guys from the married quarters, and they would always report 165 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:46.279 that same icy feeling in the tower, but worse, much worse. 166 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:51.879 They would also quite often hear bangs and creeks as 167 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.120 they were doing a search of the building to make 168 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:59.039 sure no one was in there. Now long departed from 169 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:02.759 the armed forces and in the ambulance Service, my encounters 170 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:07.360 with the paranormal continued post army. My wife and I 171 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:10.639 first set up home in a nineteen thirties ex council house. 172 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:14.840 We began to experience strange phenomena from the off, like 173 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.200 drawers being opened and a strange smell that would follow 174 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.519 us throughout the house. I always thought it smelt like 175 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.799 burnt hair, while my wife described it as smelling like 176 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:29.120 roast chicken. We mainly noticed this smell in the back 177 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.399 bedroom or on the stairs, but I had also noticed 178 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:34.399 it whilst sat in the dining room or in the 179 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:38.799 living room right after it had been noticed upstairs. At 180 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.919 the time, we had a very grumpy tabby cat which 181 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:44.879 seemed to be tormented by whatever was in that old house. 182 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.320 The cat would be asleep on the small landing of 183 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:51.519 the stairs and would often wake up suddenly and bolt 184 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:56.679 down the stairs as if he'd been kicked. Often I 185 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.080 would also see from the corner of my eye a 186 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.519 blurred figure s shoot across from one side of a 187 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.200 room to the other. My first time noticing this was 188 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.960 on the day that we moved in. I can remember 189 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.240 being in the kitchen emptying boxes and placing the contents 190 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:14.840 into the cupboard. The entrance to the dining room was 191 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.559 missing a door, as the previous owner had tried to 192 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.360 turn the space into an open plan type of affair. 193 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.320 This was to my right, and I initially thought that 194 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.440 the cat was moving past in the dining room, but 195 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.279 was heading towards the wall, which I thought was odd. 196 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.759 I stucked my head in the room, but found no 197 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.879 cat until he came in from outside using the cat 198 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.720 flap in the kitchen, which was now behind me. To 199 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:45.159 this day, I have no idea what this thing was, 200 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.879 but I saw it a number of times. Maybe it 201 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.360 was the spirit of a previous inhabitant of the house, 202 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:55.440 or possibly someone or something that was tied to the 203 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:59.320 land before it was developed. We ended up leaving this 204 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:04.519 house to our growing family. So back to my job 205 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:08.840 in the ambulance service, I've had two strange encounters which 206 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.720 really stand at The first front took place when I 207 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.480 was part of a fast response unit. This is basically 208 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.759 a car which is used to get to the most 209 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.720 life threatening cause before the ambulance does. I was on 210 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.639 a night shift and sat at the station by myself. 211 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:30.799 The station I was based at was a small satellite 212 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:35.399 station with two ambulances and the response car. On this 213 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.440 particular night, I was truly alone, as the ambulances were 214 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:42.720 being utilized a lot more than the car. I was 215 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:45.320 sitting in the mess room at around two thirty am, 216 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.720 watching a police reality TV show as there was little 217 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.960 else to watch at the time. Next to the mess 218 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.600 room was the garage where the trucks were parked at 219 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.080 the end of a shift for energy saving reasons. The 220 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.360 lights in the garage were motion activated and it was 221 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.240 as dark as can be. While I was sitting there, 222 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.960 I suddenly heard a scraping noise coming from the garage, 223 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.320 so I went to check it out. I opened the 224 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:16.120 connecting door and popped my head in and the lights 225 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:19.000 came on, but there was no one there and no 226 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.039 obvious cause for the noise. I returned to the mess 227 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:26.440 room and sat back down. The lights went off, but 228 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.960 soon after the noise started again. I got up and looked, 229 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:36.360 but again nothing as before. I sat back in the 230 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:41.600 mess room and tried to ignore it. A short while later, 231 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:44.279 the radio went off to indicate that a job had 232 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.320 been sent to me, so to save time, I went 233 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.519 out through the fire exit and into the car. I 234 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.240 rolled out and onto the street and had gone just 235 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:56.559 a meter or so when the call was downgraded. With 236 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.320 no call to run on, I reversed back into the 237 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.600 station and went through to the garage, which can only 238 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:08.480 be accessed via a keypad system. As expected, the lights 239 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.759 pinged on, but instead of the usual sights of the garage, 240 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:16.240 I was instead confronted by a large clinical waistbin which 241 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:19.519 had been dragged across the entrance to the female changing room, 242 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:24.960 its locking brakes still firmly on the atmosphere of the garage. 243 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.679 Didn't feel good at all. In fact, it was like 244 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:32.279 stepping into a walk in freezer. And this was August. 245 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.919 It had been a scorcher of a day, so the 246 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.960 night was worn too, and I'd been off station for 247 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:43.000 a minute. If that. I immediately turned around and spent 248 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.440 the rest of the shift sitting in the car instead 249 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.840 until my relief arrived in the morning. When my relief 250 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.960 did turn up, a conversation immediately started with why the 251 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:58.200 bin had been moved. I relate to them the events 252 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:01.840 of the previous evening, the noises, and they told me 253 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.680 that on their last night shift they'd had a very 254 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.119 chilling experience. They'd been on a rest break and had 255 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:11.960 nodded off, but was suddenly woken up when they felt 256 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:16.480 the sensation of someone blowing breath into their face. They 257 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:20.640 also now preferred not to sit in the station by themselves. 258 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:27.359 My last strange encounter happened during COVID and the first lockdown. Obviously, 259 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.440 it was a strange time for everyone and nobody really 260 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.440 knew what was going on, and the general public felt 261 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:37.000 a real fear of going into hospital for the first 262 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.759 time in a long time. The call raid had dropped 263 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.279 off drastically, and we were rarely sent out after midnight. 264 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:47.559 During this period, I was on an ambulance and on 265 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.720 this particular night shift, I was taking the opportunity for 266 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:54.240 a little quiet time. As all X forces will know, 267 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.559 eat when you can and get some sleep if you can. 268 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:00.799 I was in the back of the ambulance, laying on 269 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.079 the trolley and probably snoring like a walrus at the time. 270 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.240 If anyone has been in the back of an ambulance, 271 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:10.680 you'll know that they're quite top heavy, and the type 272 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:14.920 of suspension means they rock quite easily. I woke up 273 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.759 to the feeling that something had shifted in the ambulance 274 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.640 and I was no longer alone on the trolley bed. 275 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:24.880 Something very heavy was now sat on the edge of 276 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.880 the bed. There was an oppressive atmosphere in the truck, 277 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.519 and I felt as strong urge to get out of 278 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:36.279 there as quickly as possible. Once outside, the oppressive feeling 279 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:40.359 quickly faded away. My crewmate asked if we had a 280 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.039 call when he saw me walk into the busy mess room. 281 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.519 I replied no, but that I'd had a strange feeling 282 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:50.480 when I was in the truck. Another crew member in 283 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.920 the mess room overheard my conversation with my colleague and 284 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.039 asked what fleet we were on. I told them what 285 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.519 the fleet number was, and they said they'd had a 286 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:04.359 similar experience not too long before. This started a conversation 287 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.440 about various ghost stories the crews had experienced over the years. 288 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.240 Thank you so much for the background noise as I 289 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.519 do my housework or when I'm on my commute to work. 290 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:24.880 Best regards anonymous, and that is where we bring this 291 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.559 shorthorn to a close. But what an amazing and chilling 292 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:33.160 set of experiences. We must ask the obvious question first, 293 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.359 which is how can one person have such a high 294 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:41.039 number of varied experiences throughout their life so far? It's 295 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.920 not as though their career has been spent in one place, 296 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:49.039 or even in one profession. The different environments, the different settings, 297 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:55.880 the different phenomena, all experienced by the same individual. We've 298 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.839 mentioned several times on this show how some people seem 299 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:01.839 to be a type of psychic beacon for the paranormal 300 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:05.759 and supernatural, but we're no closer to discovering why this 301 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:09.279 is the case for such a few choice souls. What 302 00:20:09.400 --> 00:20:15.119 do they possess that we don't an understanding, a sympathetic subconscious, 303 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:21.279 a gift, or is it something else Entirely? These questions 304 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.960 and many more remain unanswered for now. But if you 305 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.319 feel that you are one of these extremely sensitive people, 306 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:32.759 then why not reach out to the show, tell your 307 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:38.839 story and maybe, just maybe the next person whose experiences 308 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:41.200 could be put in the spotlight of a short haunt 309 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:43.000 could be you.