Episode Details

This is one of the original Tell Me A Ghost Story calls from the early days of the show. Short, raw, and exactly where it all started. These calls were later incorporated into a longer compilation episode with full host commentary if you want the complete experience.

Hey, it's Michelle, and this early episode has two true ghost stories that both involve the specific terror of something showing up in the night that you did not invite and cannot explain. One caller opened a door deliberately. One had a door opened for her without any warning at all.

Yamari calls in with a real paranormal encounter that starts exactly the way every horror movie about teenagers and Ouija boards starts, because those movies exist for a reason. A group of teens. A Ouija board. The specific combination of curiosity and bravado that makes young people try things that older people have learned not to. What happened to Yamari when that board was opened is not a movie, though. It is a real ghost encounter that she has carried with her ever since and that she describes with the kind of detail that only comes from something you actually lived through rather than something you watched on a screen.

Ouija boards have one of the most documented paranormal histories of any object in American supernatural culture. What makes Yamari's story sit differently from the standard teen Ouija board narrative is what came through and what it wanted, details that the episode delivers far better than any description could.

Then Lia calls in with a haunting experience that required no board, no ritual, and no deliberate invitation of any kind. She woke up at the witching hour, that specific window around 3 AM that appears in paranormal accounts across cultures and centuries with a consistency that researchers find difficult to attribute to coincidence, and she was not alone in her room. Whatever was there with Lia had not been summoned. It had simply arrived. And it was standing there waiting when she opened her eyes.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories about what finds you in the dark, whether you go looking for it or not. This is where Tell Me A Ghost Story began.

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Theme music is Sexy Sax by Cool Cascade.

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