1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,220 You have been led to believe that everything you have experienced isn't real, that there's 2 00:00:10,220 --> 00:00:11,220 an explanation. 3 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:14,220 But what if they're wrong? 4 00:00:14,220 --> 00:00:18,920 What if something reached out to you from beyond? 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,560 Let me tell your true stories. 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:30,840 Let me tell them until they all believe. 7 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:36,000 Hello and welcome back to Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories. 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,960 We have a fantastic story today 9 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,880 I'm calling it The Unseen Roommate. 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,600 This story is sent in from Linda from here in Pennsylvania. 11 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,640 This is a shining example of how we tend to rationalize everything without seeing the 12 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,760 paranormal reality of it. 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:59,720 It makes you wonder how often we have experienced similar situations as Linda and Stacey, but 14 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,880 we just explained it away. 15 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:08,520 Okay, please remember to send your story to mytrustory at myyahoo.com. 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,800 You are welcome to send any thoughts, questions, or even ideas that you have to that email. 17 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:19,120 I wanted to mention that for the time being there is only one tier of membership on Patreon, 18 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,040 but coming soon there will be three, with lots to offer on each tier. 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:28,880 And my website is upcoming as well, and there you will find some fun things to read and 20 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,760 learn about and vote on. 21 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,240 With that being said, I invite you to subscribe at Patreon. 22 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,160 Let's build ourselves our own community. 23 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,820 Also, I want to thank Lisa for signing up this week. 24 00:01:39,820 --> 00:01:42,760 Your support is endlessly appreciated. 25 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:43,760 Thank you. 26 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:50,200 Okay, let's get into our story, Beyond Scene Roommate. 27 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:56,240 My name is Linda, and this story begins in July of 1995. 28 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,560 Stacey and I grew up together. 29 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,080 We were best friends. 30 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,800 We had always planned on getting our own place to live, so eventually we moved into a duplex 31 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,680 when we were in our early 20s, and so excited to be on our own. 32 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:15,920 Just that feeling of independence and your first steps into the adult world of responsibility. 33 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:20,160 I want to mention that we had no thoughts towards the paranormal. 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,480 We didn't seek it out, nor did we really believe in it. 35 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,400 I guess you would just consider us skeptics. 36 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,640 Also, it's important to know that even though we were young adults, we really were not interested 37 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:33,360 in the party scene. 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,600 We didn't have traffic through our home. 39 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,440 Our house was clean, quiet, and well organized. 40 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,680 We were happy to hang out at home watching movies while other people our age were throwing 41 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,960 parties or out at bars. 42 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,760 We were the homebody type, but we were very content. 43 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,380 And at this time, neither one of us had boyfriends. 44 00:02:52,380 --> 00:02:54,600 It was just my best friend and me. 45 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,280 Oh, and Carol. 46 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,580 Well, Carol was the older lady that lived on the other side of our new duplex rental. 47 00:03:01,580 --> 00:03:05,760 She did not bother us, and we hoped we didn't bother her. 48 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,320 Our new landlady, Kathy, had told us that she would rather us not use the front door 49 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:11,800 as an entrance. 50 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,320 She explained that the carpet was new, and she would appreciate us using the side door 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,920 for entry. 52 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:22,300 We had no issues with this request, and so the front door was left locked. 53 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:27,560 With deadbolt, chain, and door knob, our bathroom was located in this cellar. 54 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,840 And we didn't care about that. 55 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,060 But I know it would have been a deal breaker for a lot of people. 56 00:03:33,060 --> 00:03:37,040 We fixed it up real nice to take away from the drab cellar environment. 57 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:41,800 Our bathroom was cute and cozy, considering where it was located. 58 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,840 About a week into our residence there, my roommate yelled for me to wake up. 59 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:52,080 She was on the stairs, halfway to the living room, and I knew she sounded worried. 60 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,560 There was concern in her voice, and I wasn't sure I wanted to know what the problem was. 61 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,200 But I reluctantly went to see. 62 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,680 Stacy was sitting on the couch, but staring intently at the front door. 63 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,240 I followed her gaze, and seen that the front door was completely opened. 64 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,480 All three locks undone, and the door was wide open. 65 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,440 I checked the storm door, but it was still locked. 66 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,160 Whoever opened this door had done it from the inside. 67 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,740 I looked at Stacy and said this was not like this when we went to bed. 68 00:04:25,740 --> 00:04:27,280 Someone was in here. 69 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:33,920 It sent chills up my spine to think that someone was in our home while we slept. 70 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,400 We decided to do a safety check. 71 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,960 We checked all windows and other doors. 72 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:39,960 All secure. 73 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:40,960 All locked. 74 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,240 Then how, we both thought, as we looked at each other in confusion. 75 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,000 Our brains already grasping for something rational. 76 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,400 Well, I said one of us must have done it in our sleep. 77 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,480 Stacy said, but neither one of us have ever sleptwalked before. 78 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,440 Well I said one of us must have. 79 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,240 There is no other explanation. 80 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:07,560 It was good enough for Stacy, and after locking the front door, all three locks again, we 81 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,440 went about our day as usual. 82 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:16,200 The next strange event was the appearance and odd placement of a white towel. 83 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,760 I'm going to add here that our washer was broken, so we each had to go to our parents 84 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:22,980 house to wash clothes. 85 00:05:22,980 --> 00:05:28,240 When I found the white towel on our couch folded, I figured Stacy accidentally brought 86 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,040 it home from her parents home from washing clothes there. 87 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,840 But then she approached me and asked, Oh, is this your towel? 88 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:37,360 Maybe from your mom's? 89 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,560 The thing was, we both knew that we didn't have any white towels at our home, so it had 90 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,440 to be from somewhere else. 91 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,360 I told her, No, it's not mine or my mom's. 92 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,320 I thought it was yours. 93 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:56,440 We stood facing each other, completely perplexed of the origin of this towel. 94 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,800 Why was it folded and in our home? 95 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:04,920 This towel really bothered me because I could not think of how it came to be. 96 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:10,960 Not long after the towel, I began to hear footsteps, occasionally in the house. 97 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:16,260 Now yes, there was a lady living on the other side, but we never heard her unless we were 98 00:06:16,260 --> 00:06:22,400 upstairs and in Stacy's bedroom as her bedroom abutted Carol's bedroom and apparently they 99 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,800 had thinner walls in that particular area. 100 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,560 Other than that, we never heard Carol on the other side. 101 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,400 One day I was in the shower and our bathroom was directly below our kitchen when I heard 102 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:42,800 footsteps, in our kitchen, and then the cupboards in the kitchen opening and closing as if someone 103 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,120 was searching for something. 104 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,960 I was home alone when I got in the shower and when one of us entered the house from 105 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,400 being away, we always, without fail, yelled, Hey, it's me. 106 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,000 I'm home. 107 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,740 Just to let the other know that it was safe and not some stranger. 108 00:06:59,740 --> 00:07:03,440 So I yelled up, Stacy, is that you? 109 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:04,560 No answer. 110 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,440 I yelled again, literally screaming, Stacy, is that you? 111 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,640 No answer. 112 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:16,840 The noises continued in a bit of a panic, I jumped out of the shower, wrapped the towel 113 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:22,760 on myself and ran up the stairs into a silent kitchen. 114 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,720 No more sounds. 115 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,320 I checked all the locks on all three doors. 116 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,280 All secured. 117 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,560 Later when Stacy got home, I told her about it and she thought maybe I was hearing Carol 118 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,080 next door. 119 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,980 I hesitantly said maybe, but I am positive. 120 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:42,640 The sounds were directly above me from our kitchen. 121 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:48,240 However, it just made more sense that maybe it was Carol and somehow I had just heard 122 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:49,680 her that day. 123 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,680 Just not any other day. 124 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,880 We decided to talk to Carol. 125 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,680 We asked her if anything weird had ever happened on her side. 126 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,960 She said no, but she thought maybe we were just scaring ourselves, you know, two young 127 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,960 girls out on their own, but we knew better. 128 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,340 We were not the flighty young girls jumping at shadows. 129 00:08:11,340 --> 00:08:15,320 We just wanted to rationalize some of the events. 130 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:21,080 So a couple of months go by with only the footsteps occasionally happening and we just 131 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:22,520 went on with our lives. 132 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,480 We didn't waste time trying to think about anything strange. 133 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,520 We kept all of our bills that were due in a basket in the kitchen. 134 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,640 This was from a time when your bills actually arrived in an envelope on a monthly statement. 135 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,240 So to keep them organized, we put them in our bill basket. 136 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:41,840 I want to mention our work schedule here. 137 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,880 I would leave very early, like 6 a.m. and Stacey would leave around 8 a.m. 138 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:52,320 So she was briefly alone in the mornings and I was home a couple hours in the afternoon 139 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,280 alone before she came home. 140 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,380 Okay, so one day I get home from work and notice that the bill basket was in the living 141 00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:01,820 room on the coffee table. 142 00:09:01,820 --> 00:09:06,720 I knew it had been on the table when I left that day, but I figured Stacey was maybe going 143 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,320 through the bills and just forgot to put it back. 144 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:14,320 When she got home, I asked her if she moved the basket and she said, no, I thought you 145 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:15,480 did. 146 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,400 That's where it was when I got up this morning. 147 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:22,980 We both knew that neither of us had moved the basket and we both were getting concerned 148 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:25,840 about how things were being moved in our home. 149 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,760 I said, I think it must be that Carol next door. 150 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:34,520 Somehow, she must have a key to this side and she's just over here nosing around. 151 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:35,520 We aren't home. 152 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,480 Yeah, definitely Carol over here nosing around. 153 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:44,520 So at this point in my story, Stacey and I both have boyfriends now. 154 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,080 Our boyfriends would come over and of course nothing would happen when they were there. 155 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,200 And needless to say, they laughed at us when we told them about the strange footsteps and 156 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,680 other incidents. 157 00:09:54,680 --> 00:10:00,000 They figured, like Carol, that we were just scaring ourselves, two young girls on their 158 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,600 own. 159 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,980 But my mother expressed a growing concern for our safety and she said that I should 160 00:10:05,980 --> 00:10:11,360 bring our family dog to the duplex for a few days and see what happens. 161 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,600 So we brought the dog over and nothing happened. 162 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:17,920 He slept, he ate, he acted normally. 163 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,760 He was only with us for three days and then I took him back home. 164 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:28,000 Stacey worked for a major food chain grocery store and we had lived in this area our whole 165 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 lives. 166 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,200 She knew a lot of her customers and would chat with them as they were going through 167 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,040 her checkout lane. 168 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,000 One day someone asked her how she was doing and that they had heard that she had moved 169 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,760 from her mom's a while back. 170 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,560 Where are you living now? 171 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:42,560 She asked. 172 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:48,640 Oh, Stacey said, I live with my roommate Linda over at Barlow's Duplex back on Jasper Lane. 173 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:54,040 The lady's face went near expressionless, like an almost shocked expression. 174 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,440 And she said, wait, you two live in that house? 175 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,440 Really? 176 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,120 Yeah, Stacey said. 177 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,120 Why? 178 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,340 What's the big deal? 179 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:07,680 The lady said, oh my, haven't you ever heard the stories about that place? 180 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:09,400 No, Stacey said. 181 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,120 I have never heard anything about that house. 182 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:17,320 Well, the lady said, I thought everyone knew that place was haunted. 183 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:24,600 Stacey looked at her in disbelief and maybe even quiet consideration. 184 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,580 Stacey came home that evening and told me about this encounter with the lady. 185 00:11:28,580 --> 00:11:31,360 And I told her, that lady's nuts. 186 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,160 I don't believe what she says. 187 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,400 Well, Stacey said there was more to the conversation. 188 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:43,400 She said the lady also told her that our house was on the same property as a cemetery. 189 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,120 Immediately I said, no way. 190 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,840 I told you she's nuts. 191 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,440 There's no cemetery here. 192 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,760 Stacey, we grew up around here. 193 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,320 There's no cemetery behind this house. 194 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,520 And Stacey said, beyond our property, way up the hill there is a cemetery though. 195 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,680 Maybe that's what she means. 196 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,600 Stacey admitted that lady freaked her out and was slightly concerned. 197 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,360 And I told her to relax. 198 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,200 That lady's crazy. 199 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,640 She's just trying to scare you. 200 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,480 That cemetery is far off over the hill. 201 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:19,200 I don't think we should be so worried about something so far away. 202 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:26,080 So again, a few months pass with the normal footsteps occasionally and nothing else really 203 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:27,080 happening. 204 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,120 I was out all day and Stacey was home alone. 205 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:37,240 I arrived home around 6 p.m. and gave the obligatory, hey Stacey, I'm home. 206 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:42,320 And from the stairway, I heard Stacey say, you have to come up here. 207 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:47,920 Her voice sounded weak, like she didn't have the energy to speak any louder. 208 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,880 I told her I don't even want to know. 209 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,520 But Stacey was insistent. 210 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,880 And was that fear I heard in her voice? 211 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:01,360 Again, Stacey said, you have to come up here. 212 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,980 Come to your room. 213 00:13:02,980 --> 00:13:06,280 So I headed up the stairs and went to my bedroom doorway. 214 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:12,280 I could see Stacey sitting on the side of my bed staring intently towards my dressers. 215 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:18,280 My dressers were against the opposite wall, but now they weren't. 216 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:25,920 They were pushed across a carpeted floor towards my bed and all the drawers opened and all 217 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,760 of my trinkets and belongings were knocked to the floor. 218 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,760 My head snapped back to Stacey. 219 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:32,760 Did you do this? 220 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,140 Of course I didn't. 221 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:38,280 Don't you see I'm terrified, she said. 222 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,700 This was like this when I got home. 223 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:46,840 I instantly said this was Carol and this time she's gone too far. 224 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,920 Stacey looked at me and said, Carol didn't do this. 225 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,340 Then who I snapped? 226 00:13:53,340 --> 00:13:58,080 Stacey had no answers and she looked too defeated to even think of any. 227 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,360 I began moving the dressers back and cleaning up the mess, my mind racing to come up with 228 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,480 something, anything. 229 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,480 Should I call the landlady? 230 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:08,720 The police? 231 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:09,720 My mom? 232 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:15,840 Well, I had no answers either and that's when Stacey added that she found this mess. 233 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:22,560 She immediately checked all the doors and windows, but yet again they were all secure. 234 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,760 In March of 1997 I got engaged. 235 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,640 Our lease with the landlord was up in June and I wanted to move in with my fiance. 236 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,720 But I didn't want to leave Stacey in that house alone. 237 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:38,160 But Stacey said she would have to ride it out there alone because she had nowhere else 238 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:42,240 to go at the moment and didn't want to move back home yet. 239 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:47,080 So I moved out but was sure to speak with Stacey at least once per day. 240 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,600 And for weeks everything was great for her. 241 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,080 No events and Stacey was happy. 242 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,960 It is now May of 1997. 243 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,120 The lease was up in a month. 244 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:07,080 Stacey called me at work and she was hysterical, crying, sobbing into the phone. 245 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,320 When she calmed down enough to talk, she explained what was wrong. 246 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,160 She said, I'm moving today. 247 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:20,360 She said that she had to be up extra early for work that day, around 6am. 248 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:25,280 I would like to interject here to explain that we have never ever closed our bathroom 249 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:26,280 door. 250 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,280 There is no reason to close this door as it is already private and tucked away in the 251 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:31,280 basement. 252 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:37,560 So she said she was walking down the steps to the bathroom and she could hear water running 253 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,880 and thought, Carol's up awfully early. 254 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,680 How unusual. 255 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:49,320 With each step she took, she could hear the water getting closer, louder. 256 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,780 Instantly, she thought, oh, that's not Carol. 257 00:15:53,780 --> 00:15:58,400 She wondered if the hot water tank may be broke and was leaking everywhere. 258 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:03,320 As she reached the bottom of the stairs and turned left to go toward the bathroom, she 259 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,840 immediately saw that the door was closed. 260 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:12,440 This door had never once been closed since she moved in there. 261 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,840 And now that she lived alone, there was no excuse for this door to be closed. 262 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:22,320 Stacey assumed someone was actually in there. 263 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:29,080 She quickly opened the door to find the hot water turned on full blast, pouring into the 264 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,080 sink. 265 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:37,000 The room, the steam, the mirror, fog, and the toilet was running as if someone had just 266 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 flushed it. 267 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:45,800 Stacey was frozen in fear, couldn't move literally for a minute or more. 268 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:53,400 And as her brain tried to again rationalize this, but realizing there was no logical reason, 269 00:16:53,400 --> 00:17:02,680 she ran fast to the top of the stairs and quickly locked the door to the bathroom. 270 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:08,860 Stacey could not continue to live here with this strange event, especially alone. 271 00:17:08,860 --> 00:17:12,880 She was moving today no matter what. 272 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:19,160 I advised her to call the landlady immediately to explain why she was moving out. 273 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,640 So Stacey called the landlady and explained that she was sorry but she can't honor her 274 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:28,860 end over the lease and needed to move immediately that day. 275 00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:33,260 When Stacey told her it was because of strange events happening during the nearly two years 276 00:17:33,260 --> 00:17:42,200 she lived there, the landlady never even acknowledged the reason, never even asked what was happening. 277 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,780 She just said, okay. 278 00:17:44,780 --> 00:17:46,100 And that's all. 279 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:51,400 I told Stacey that she didn't care because she seemed like she maybe wanted someone else 280 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:52,400 living there. 281 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,600 Maybe she had someone already picked out. 282 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,080 Stacey said, I don't know about that. 283 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,600 She always gets her rent from us. 284 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:00,600 Our house is clean. 285 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:01,600 We take good care of it. 286 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:05,120 I don't understand why she would not want me here. 287 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,720 Still though, I insisted that was the reason. 288 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,840 Either way, it didn't matter. 289 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,640 Stacey was leaving. 290 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,360 So out she went. 291 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:19,320 You would think the story would end here as we both did not live there anymore, but we 292 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,160 were both moving on with our lives. 293 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:22,400 I moved away. 294 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,140 Stacey moved away. 295 00:18:24,140 --> 00:18:26,400 Not far, but away. 296 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,240 We were both married now and our time in that house seemed to fade away as well. 297 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:37,140 It was now 2007 and I was working as a recruiter to hire people for work. 298 00:18:37,140 --> 00:18:42,200 During one of my interviews, I noticed that this girl's last name was Barlow and was the 299 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,760 same as our old landlady's and she was also from that area. 300 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,240 So I wondered, hmm. 301 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:55,120 So I asked her, hey, I know this might be a long shot, but I know this last name from 302 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:56,360 that area. 303 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,600 By any chance, are you related to Cathy? 304 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,960 The girl said, oh, oh yes, yes. 305 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:02,960 That's my aunt. 306 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,280 Oh my, I said. 307 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,680 Some time ago, my roommate and I lived in that duplex she owns. 308 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,520 What a small world. 309 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,960 She asked me how long I lived there. 310 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:19,280 I told her about a year and a half, but my roommate stayed almost two years. 311 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:26,140 The girl looked a little bit like she didn't believe me or maybe confused and went, hmm. 312 00:19:26,140 --> 00:19:28,760 I asked her why she was reacting like that. 313 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:36,480 So she says, well, can I ask you if anything weird ever happened when you lived there? 314 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:42,240 Her question instantly took me back. 315 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,400 Back to all the strange things. 316 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,360 Flashbacks of the footsteps. 317 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:50,360 The towel. 318 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,360 Basket. 319 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,560 The door unlocked. 320 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:58,260 The moved bedroom furniture in Stacey's final encounter. 321 00:19:58,260 --> 00:20:01,200 Things I had rationalized and nearly forgotten. 322 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:08,640 And now all these years later, someone might be validating that I, I had been wrong. 323 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,360 Goosebumps raised on my arm. 324 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,760 So I said, yes, yes. 325 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,940 So many things happened there. 326 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:17,720 She wanted to know exactly what we experienced. 327 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,580 And I gave her a brief short story of our time there. 328 00:20:22,580 --> 00:20:28,240 She looked at me and said, well, that's, that's our grandmother and she lives there. 329 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,400 She's been there many years. 330 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,040 She's harmless. 331 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,520 She does scare people though. 332 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,060 And I said, well, she sure scared us. 333 00:20:37,060 --> 00:20:41,920 She said that most people that rent that side of the duplex don't usually last to fulfill 334 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,760 their one year lease. 335 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:50,400 Oh, I thought, well, that explains why Kathy didn't even ask about what events made Stacey 336 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:57,360 decide to leave because she'd already heard it from who knows how many people. 337 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:02,880 I asked her whatever happened to the house and she told me that it continues to be a 338 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,080 rental. 339 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,200 I was amazed at everything she told me. 340 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:12,840 And I think I went from skeptic to full believer the moment she validated without prompt that 341 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:18,320 this house was in fact haunted by her own grandmother. 342 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:26,280 I am now convinced that we do not fully understand everything about the world we live in or the 343 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,840 beings that share our space. 344 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,360 Thank you so much for sending in this story, Linda. 345 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:38,160 You know, we really do rationalize things so much. 346 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:44,040 On the other hand though, we can't blame everything that happens on the paranormal. 347 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,280 I guess the question here is where do we draw the line? 348 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,540 I know we rationalize because we have to. 349 00:21:51,540 --> 00:21:55,200 We have to because it's what our brains do best. 350 00:21:55,200 --> 00:22:01,480 Trying to make sense of extraordinary circumstances so that we can get on with our day as if nothing 351 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,040 is out of order. 352 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:12,000 To live in what we perceive as normal versus paranormal because normal is comfortable. 353 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,800 I also love how the validation came so many years later, like keeping you safe from the 354 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,800 truth all those years. 355 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,200 Since my interview with Linda, I have had a little update about the house. 356 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,960 The following day after my interview with Linda, she sent me a Google Maps pic of the 357 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,840 house she thought I might like to see what the house looked like. 358 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,160 I thanked her and I looked at the picture. 359 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,720 Just an average, ordinary looking duplex. 360 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,560 Nothing super scary. 361 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:45,640 Until I zoomed in and I thought I saw something in a window. 362 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:50,160 So I zoomed in again and I froze. 363 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,440 Seriously I thought, no way. 364 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,080 I saw what appeared to be an old lady peering out the window. 365 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,200 Surely this is a joke I thought and I texted Linda to say so. 366 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:07,120 To ask if it was a joke and she laughed but then she realized that I was serious as she 367 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,840 thought I was joking. 368 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:15,440 So her text was, Jesus, I think I see it too. 369 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,120 I will upload these pics to my Facebook page for everyone to see. 370 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:23,200 Thanks again for the story and have a great day everyone. 371 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,180 I want to thank you all for spending your time with me today. 372 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:30,940 If you care to send questions, ideas, thoughts or your own personal experience, please feel 373 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:35,200 free to email me at mytrustoryatmyyahoo.com. 374 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:40,480 I will see you all next time on Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories. 375 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,080 Thanks for being here today. 376 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:50,120 I hope to see you next time on Paranormal and Supernatural True Stories. 377 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:53,120 Will your experience be the next one I tell? 378 00:23:53,120 --> 00:24:00,040 I will send all communications and stories to mytrustoryatmyyahoo.com. 379 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:27,040 In the meantime, leave the lights on.