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. This call was 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 belongs entirely to David, who called in with a true ghost story from his childhood in Connecticut that has stayed with me since the first time I heard it. It starts with a near-death experience. It ends with a question about the woman who appeared after it that David has never been able to answer.

David had an early brush with death as a child. What followed in the wake of that experience was the appearance of a woman he came to think of as his babysitter. She watched over him. She was there when he looked for her and sometimes when he did not. She caused a specific kind of distress in his siblings that she did not seem to cause in David himself, which is one of the details that makes this story genuinely difficult to categorize. Whatever she was, she did not treat everyone in that house the same way.

The relationship between near-death experiences and subsequent paranormal encounters is one of the most consistently documented phenomena in supernatural research. People who have come close to death report seeing, hearing, and being visited by presences that were not accessible to them before at a rate that researchers across both the medical and paranormal fields have struggled to explain away. David's babysitter appeared after his brush with death and never entirely left. Whether she was a guardian, a spirit attached to him specifically, or something with intentions that were never fully revealed is a question this episode raises and deliberately leaves open.

What was her true purpose? Why did she linger? Why did his siblings fear her when David himself did not? One caller. One true ghost story from a Connecticut childhood that begins with almost dying and ends with a woman in the shadows who would not leave. 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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