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5 min readThe episode opens with a woman describing a decade in a haunted house where the ghost learned to weaponize her own fears. After she told her family how terrified she was of the movie The Ring, she woke from a nap to find a girl in a dirty white dress with long black hair covering her face—the exact image from the film—towering over her bed. She rolled away, covered her face, and yelled at it to go away. Her oldest son had a similar experience after watching something that scared him on television. She asks the audience whether this kind of mimicry is common and what kind of entity would behave this way.
The Forest Figure
A college student with chronic insomnia describes his habit of taking long walks at night around campus. One night, for no particular reason, he deviated from his usual well-lit loop and entered a forest path he only walked during the day. He had only his cell phone for light. A few minutes in, crossing a bridge, he heard a snap behind him. When he turned, he saw a formless figure at human height standing between two trees at the edge of his light. Every instinct told him to run, but he forced himself to walk calmly away.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:16) **Ghost Mimics Personal Fears** - A listener describes a decade-long haunting where a ghost copied the exact form of a movie monster (The Ring/The Grudge) she had confessed to fearing.
- 2 (04:02) **Night Walk in a Campus Forest** - A college student with insomnia takes a late-night walk through an unlit forest on campus and encounters a formless human-height figure.
- 3 (09:13) **A Childhood Home Full of Dread** - A narrator recounts moving into a house as a toddler that felt cursed from the first night, with a dream of fog and a black cat foretelling years of strange activity.
- 4 (14:36) **The Ghost Cat and the Halloween Mat** - The haunting escalates with sounds of wire hangers violently clashing in a closet and a furry presence rubbing against legs, despite no cats living there.
- 5 (16:15) **Racing Footsteps in a Dark Trailer** - A teen makes nachos for his girlfriend in a pitch-black trailer home, then hears heavy footsteps charging toward him from behind in the hallway.
- 6 Standout Quotes
- 7 "After talking a lot about how much the ring and the grudge scares me, I was taking a nap, and I felt something climb onto bed with me... I rolled over and looked, and I saw a girl towering over me with a white, dirty dress and long, dirty black hair covering her face."
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A collection of 4 creepy tales
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