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 frustration of knowing something is wrong and not being able to convince the people around you of it. One caller brought something home with him from Hawaii without realizing it. One caller knew her mother's house had a problem and could not get her mother to take it seriously.

Dave returns to Tell Me A Ghost Story with a real paranormal encounter that began in Oahu and followed him back to the mainland. Hawaii has one of the richest and most layered supernatural traditions of any place in the United States, a living Indigenous spiritual culture that predates Western contact by centuries and that treats the relationship between the living and the dead with a seriousness and specificity that mainstream American culture rarely matches. When people visit Hawaii and bring something home with them, it tends not to be something they chose to carry. Dave did not know he had picked anything up until he was already back, and things in his own space began to feel different in ways he could not attribute to jet lag or imagination.

Then Chelsi calls in with a haunted house story that has an additional layer of difficulty built into it. The house belonged to her mother. The vibes, as Chelsi describes them, were profoundly off from the moment she set foot in it. Something in that house was not right, and Chelsi felt it clearly and consistently every time she was there. Her mother did not feel it. Or did not want to. The specific dynamic of trying to convince a skeptical family member that their home has a paranormal problem while that family member continues to live comfortably inside it is one of the most recognizable experiences in the ghost story community and Chelsi's version of it has a warmth and exasperation that will resonate with anyone who has ever known something was wrong in a space and been unable to make the people they love believe them.

Two real callers. Two true ghost stories about what happens when you sense something that the people around you cannot or will not see. 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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