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 from two callers who both found themselves alone in historic buildings with something that wanted them to know it was there. One of them had a door open behind him. One of them was told to get out.

Jacob calls in with a real paranormal encounter from his time working on a paranormal television show, the second caller in the early archive has professional ghost hunting experience, and his story takes place in a historic mansion in Denver, where he was alone on the third floor. Jacob began noticing that the building was responding to him. Sounds that echoed his movements. An activity that seemed to track where he was in the room. And then a door behind him slowly creaked open with no one on the other side. What Jacob experienced is what paranormal researchers call ghostly mimicry, the specific and deeply unsettling phenomenon where a spirit appears to observe and respond to the behavior of the living rather than simply existing alongside them. Something in that Denver mansion was paying attention to Jacob specifically, and it wanted him to know it.

Then David calls in with a haunting experience from the Huguenot Street Historic Site in New Paltz, New York, one of the oldest documented settlement sites in the United States, with a history that runs back to the late 1600s. David was on a tour of the property when he heard a voice behind him tell him to get out. He turned around. There was nothing behind him but a wall. The voice was clear. The instruction was direct. David was not alone in hearing it.

The detail that gives David's story an additional layer is the painting. A portrait of a girl who died before her portrait could be completed hangs in one of the Huguenot homes, a piece of art frozen at the moment of her death with the specific weight that unfinished things carry when the person they were made for never got to see them completed. Whether the voice David heard was connected to that girl or to the four centuries of history compressed into that stretch of New Paltz stone is something the episode does not resolve. The voice was real. That is what matters.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories from a Denver mansion and a 17th-century settlement in New York, where something spoke out loud to a man standing alone against a wall. 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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