Let’s Not Meet || Scary Reddit Stories || Ghosteas || Paranormal Podcast

“You can see her too, can’t you?” That question, whispered by an old woman on a Chicago L train, opens the first story in this episode of Ghosteas. Hosts Acey and Natalie dive into a batch of Reddit posts from r/ghoststories and r/paranormalencounters, collecting encounters that left the original posters hoping they never cross paths with whatever they saw again. The throughline is the “Let’s Not Meet” feeling—not just human creepiness, but encounters with something that might not be human at all, where the rules of reality seem to bend.

The Ghost on the L Train and the Smiling Roommate

The first story, “Encounter on the El,” features a man named Chris riding Chicago’s elevated train. He notices a stunningly beautiful woman in a short skirt board the car. He’s staring, but an old woman next to him asks if he can see her too—because no one else is looking. The old woman claims to be a professional medium and warns him the woman is a ghost, a “nasty one” who likely died violently nearby. She tells Chris not to look her in the eye. The ghost approaches, and he squeezes his eyes shut. When the train stops, the medium says it’s safe: the ghost has “found her prey,” a good-looking young man she’s leading off the train. The old woman disappears into the crowd. Acey and Natalie speculate the ghost was hunting for energy or someone to cause suffering, mirroring her own unresolve