Speaker 1: This is chapter six from the book Paranormal Bedtime Stories,
written by Todd Chapman. I did the first five chapters
a few podcasts to go, and I'm gonna pick it
up now with just one story in this podcast. Pick
up the book. Do a search for Paranormal Bedtime Stories
on Amazon. The author is Todd Chapman. You can pick
up the book. These are five to ten to fifteen
minute reads per chapter that are perfect for laying in
bed and putting yourself to sleep. Here is chapter six,
An Angry Ghost Get revenge, Don't touch the Roses. Our
story begins with a couple upon who moving into their
new rental home, decided to do some landscaping out by
the pool after discovering a rattlesnake out back. With their
pool party coming up, they focused on other backyard hazards.
That's when they noticed the overgrown rose bush next to
the fence. The thorny bushes extended dangerously close to the
swimming pool. The renters talked about cutting them back and
even digging up some roses so the yard looked more
presentable and spacious for parties and other pool side fun.
With her clippers in hand and about to begin, his
girlfriend felt the need to stop and go inside the house.
After she put her tools down and went inside, she
accepted the roses as they were and no longer wanted
to kill them. What's wrong, said her boyfriend. Nothing, I
want to take a break for a minute. She said, Well,
that was a lie and she knew it, but she
was trying to understand what had happened. Interestingly, he too
thought to leave the roses alone, but continued chopping and
cutting until he felt the job was done. The next day,
a series of strange things began happening inside the house,
in particular after sundown. The strangeness included overhead room lights
turning off and on by themselves. Flipping the switch didn't
turn them back on or off, and neither did replacing
a light bulb when it blew out, and the temperature
in the room would also drop or rise to where
he was so uncomfortable he wanted to go to another
room now. This continued for a period of time before
they concluded that he was being harassed. The question was
why was the house haunted. They had recently moved into
town and this was their first house. Before living there.
They never had this sort of thing happen, so they
weren't sure what to do. Their experiences sounded like classical
Poultergeist material. He heard things and he felt someone hit
him during a sleep. Lights blew out or flipped on
and off in temperature drops, and it forced him to
leave the room. Items such as the sunglasses and car
keys would go missing too. Someone seemed to have a
bone to pick with him, and only him. They soon
got the feeling someone didn't want him getting comfortable in
their home, and his girlfriend was fine and had nothing
happened to her or in the room she was in.
Then the opportunity came to discuss their situation with the landlord.
They learned that the landlord's wife had died while living there,
and that is why he moved out. He needed something
smaller and different and something that did not remind him
of his wife being gone. They detailed all the strange
things that were happening, but he didn't know what to say.
He had nothing happened to him before or after she died.
That's when it occurred to the girl girlfriend that it
was because of the roses. She interjected, maybe that feeling
I had to stop destroying those rose bushes came from her.
Maybe she was trying to tell me to stop cutting.
The landlord spoke up. She loved those roses and spent
many hours a day taking care of them. They were
her babies, that's what she called them. Well, what do
you mean you said you were just going to take
a break, Her boyfriend said, Well, I know, but I
didn't understand it. I wish you would have told me,
he said. I also thought about stopping, but I just
kept on pruning. After returning home, the paranormal activity continued
because of his transgressions. They took the hint to get out.
Apologizing didn't seem to matter. At that point. The depart
had wanted nothing to do with him. The couple found
a nice place across town and moved out as soon
as they could. Well how nice this was the new place,
as they discovered, not that nice. But we'll get to
that in a minute. Right now, I'd like to share
another story about roses that a tour guest shared with
me one evening while living in Staten Island, New York.
My husband and I had just purchased a home. It
was August, and working at an area school, I had
the months off during the summer break. On a random day,
I decided to tackle some yard work out back. The
yard had been neglected for some time, and I got
a little clipper happy whacking away at anything that looked
like a weed. As I approached a tiny rose stem,
I smelled a really strong perfume scent. It smelled like
perfume a woman over the age of seventy might wear.
The weird part about it was that none of our
neighbors were around, so the smell literally appeared from nowhere. Well.
I took it as a sign from the woman who
used to live in the house that we should leave
the little rose stems alone. The rose stems were scattered
all about the yard too. What made me think or
feel that way, I don't know, but the message was
pretty strong within me, so I left them alone. Flashing
forward to mid October, while raking leaves one Saturday afternoon,
there I saw, among the dead and decaying leaves, the
most perfect and beautiful rose I'd ever seen. It was
especially weird because from what I knew, roses didn't bloom
in the fall in New York City. My thought was
that the woman who lived in the house prior to
my husband, and I thanked me for saving her roses.
Now let's get back to the couple and their next home.
They experienced many paranormal things there too, this time though
his girlfriend was included, and so was her daughter. In fact,
everyone who spent the night in this house came away
with their own stories, and a lot of them. What
follows are some of those experiences. Number one porcelain dolls.
The daughter collected porcelain dolls and displayed them atop her dresser,
which was located inside her closet. You may already know
many people have reported these types of dolls to be
haunted or possessed. In this case, there was one particular
doll in her collection that did strange things. Once, the
doll fell over all by itself and lay motionless for
a while before it sat back up again. The three
girls who watched it do this ran out of the
room screaming, and more than once. Their daughter heard a
thumping noise from the inside of the closet, and when
she opened the doors to see what moved or made
the noise, she found all of her dolls on the
floor below the dresser, well, all but one looking back
at her from atop the dresser. Was that one doll?
Did it push the others off the dresser? Number two
soccer balls? Her daughter signed up for the school soccer team.
One night, ran down the long hallway dribbling the soccer
ball between her feet, and she kicked at it at
an angle and it bounced off the wall into her
mother's bedroom. When she rounded the corner to enter the bedroom,
the ball rested at the base of the sliding glass
door on the far side of the room. She couldn't
help but notice the reflection in the glass of a
girl wearing a dress. She didn't know what to think.
She looked down at herself to confirm that she was
not wearing a dress. No, she was in shorts and
a T shirt, not a dress. She took a couple
of steps backward without taking her eyes off the girl.
The girl in the dress then bent over, touched the
soccer ball and rolled it out to her. A while later,
she found me and told me about it. For whatever reason,
she didn't talk to her mother about this sort of stuff.
Once she went back to her bedroom, I told her mother.
Her mom chuckled in disbelief. She just pulling your leg,
She said, well, this was why she didn't tell her
mom about things happening in the house. The next morning,
her mom pulled me aside and told me that she
was up all night and couldn't sleep, and when I
asked what kept her awake, it wasn't because of the
soccer ball. She told me that someone was in the
corner of her bedroom by the sliding glass door and
was flicking the vertical blinds all night, only a foot
away from her bed. She looked in the corner, but
she didn't see anyone. She added that she first suspected
when coming through the window to be the cause, so
she got up and made sure the windows were closed.
Nothing was open and she didn't feel any draft. Then
she got up and went through the house to check
the sliding glass door in the living room and the
one in the dining room, and all of them were
at the back of a home and all were locked. Also,
none of the other blinds moved like the one in
her bedroom. It was like a child trying to aggravate
her by flicking her finger against the vinyl blinds and saying,
you still don't believe I'm here, do you? Number three
The disappearing snake While cleaning out the garage. One afternoon,
the boyfriend discovered a bright yellow and red striped snake.
It was alive in his hand, and he called us
out to look at it, and while doing so, it
vanished right before our eyes. Actually, we were all within
two to four feet away when it disappeared. I was
closest to it. There was no pop sound. It just
vanished from his hand, like it blinked out of this reality.
Number four, all the girls felt sick once more. A
daughter came to talk to me. Her friends and her
were feeling sick that day, and a few minutes before
she came to talk to me, someone entered her bedroom
through the closed door. Here's what she said. This person
actually came through the closed door and stood inside my room.
All three of us saw him. He was tall and bald,
but he didn't appear to look human exactly like us.
After he turned around and left the room through the
closed door, we all felt better and felt fine for
the rest of the night. Number five there's the laughing woman.
A woman laughed in the hallway outside the bedrooms. More
than one person heard her, and it happened more than once.
Late at night. I asked if it was a girl
seen in the reflection, but it sounded like an older woman,
not a young girl. Number six, there was wood snapping.
One of the store employees was sleeping on the couch
when she awoke the sound of someone snapping pieces of
firewood behind the house. The sounds then entered the dining
room without someone first opening the sliding glass door, and
she swore someone walked right by her and went into
the kitchen. She was terrified, and as bravely as she could,
she called out the name of the homeowner, but there
was no answer. She covered her head with a blanket
and struggled to get back to sleep. Might this have
been the same older woman heard laughing down the hallway?
Number seven a confused girl again. I was sitting at
the backyard next to the fire pit with the dog
when their daughter and a couple of her friends came
out to join me. They wanted to talk. They told
me a girl was in her room and looked confused.
It wasn't the first time she appeared. The next time
she saw her, their daughter asked her what was wrong,
and the ghost girl responded, I'm waiting for my family
Lee to come home. I don't understand what is taking
them so long. The following evening, during their daughter's dream time,
she somehow ended up in kind of a waiting room
where a family was sitting down on a bench along
the wall. It was like a hospital waiting room or something,
she told me. While she was there, she learned that
the waiting family was her ghost girl's family, and that
they were already dead. A couple of nights later, the
ghost girl reappeared in her bedroom, and that's when she
told her what she'd seen, that they were waiting for her.
Then the unexpected happened. The family appeared in her bedroom
right beside the ghost girl. They all smiled back at
her and then faded away. That was the last time
she saw any of them. This ghost girl was not
the same girl she saw in the reflection with the
soccer ball. By the way, Number eight Alien crashes backyard Barbecue.
The events that followed took place three days into a
five day spree of paranormal activity. That evening, we closed
the store early for an old fashioned backyard barbecue. We
invited other researchers, friends, and employees. After dinner, we gathered
inside to watch a slide show of photographs by one
of the researchers. It was a mini presentation about UFOs
and aliens, with a question and answer session at the end.
Having given time for the sun to set in the
night sky to darken, it was time to go back
outside and SkyWatch using our night vision goggles. Several satellites
flew by overhead, but the spectacle was only beginning and
it wasn't limited to the night sky. We did a
group photo with everyone gathered together in the backyard darkness.
We placed a camera up to t the night vision
goggles and allowed us to take photographs in the near
infrared light spectrum. Now this spectrum is invisible to humans.
The first photograph contained a two legged visitor that we
could not see. We were not alone. In examining the photo,
you can make out a figure behind the second person
on the left. The figure had what appeared to be
a heart shaped head. I knew the second person from
the left to be in touch with a group of extraterrestrials,
so this did not surprise him. However, it stunned the
rest of us, and as amazing as that was, it
wasn't the only revealing photograph. Several other photos show the
being's left hand forefingers were visible over the shoulder of
a man. Using the flash on another camera revealed two
large orbs that were bright and solid and red in
color and appeared to be floating close to one another
near the group. And last number nine, there was a
handprint on body. Her daughter awoke one morning with strange
handprints on her body. Now this hand look familiar to
everyone that saw the photos from the backyard barbecue. It
also stayed on her body for a couple of days
before disappearing. Thank you for listening to this podcast. Just
one story and this one. Got a few things to
do today, but I wanted to jump in early this
morning and get one knocked out. I really love these
stories that Todd Chapman has written. He's experienced all of
this stuff. These are real experiences by him or people
that he knows or people that he's met. It is
a fascinating collection of stories. There are five volumes out
now Paranormal Bedtime Stories, and he's got another one out.
I don't know. The next time I do one of
his stories, I'm going to give you a list of
all of his books, but I'm going to put a
link in the description to book one, which is what
I'm reading from now. And you guys click on that
link and go buy the books and look at all
his other books that he has out. All right, I
appreciate you once again and we'll see you on the
next one. Thank you.