The Ghosts at Grandma's House

[00:00:07] Welcome to True Scary Story

[00:00:10] From the very start, at the age of 9,

[00:00:12] Danita started experiencing things that she couldn't logically explain,

[00:00:16] considering them normal.

[00:00:19] After the passing of a family member, things picked up.

[00:00:22] She became aware that there is more out there than we know.

[00:00:27] My name is Edwin

[00:00:29] and here is Danita's True Scary Story.

[00:00:40] I was 9 years old.

[00:00:42] We lived in a small city in Tennessee.

[00:00:46] Most of the things started happening after my grandmother passed away.

[00:00:51] It was a really glowy day.

[00:00:54] I was standing in the kitchen looking out the window.

[00:00:57] I got this little inkling, like she's gone.

[00:01:01] She had just visited her in the hospital.

[00:01:03] She wasn't doing the best.

[00:01:05] By the time I got home, I got this feeling like she's gone.

[00:01:09] I was overcome like grief.

[00:01:12] My mom came in, but there her and my mom was like,

[00:01:15] my mom's gone.

[00:01:18] We had the funeral and a couple of days after

[00:01:24] I was getting ready for school.

[00:01:27] I had my uniform shirt out, laid out on the bed.

[00:01:30] I was like, oh, I forgot something and I ran in the closet

[00:01:35] to grab what I needed.

[00:01:37] When I returned, my clothes were gone.

[00:01:42] None of my siblings in the house.

[00:01:45] My mom was in the kitchen.

[00:01:47] I look at the bed, confused like where are my clothes?

[00:01:53] I look under the bed on both sides of the bed and drawers.

[00:01:57] I go into the living room and I'm looking there,

[00:02:01] thinking maybe I time jumped or something.

[00:02:03] I don't know.

[00:02:03] I didn't know what to think.

[00:02:05] I was standing there confused.

[00:02:08] Where are my clothes?

[00:02:09] I know I put my clothes right here on the bed.

[00:02:14] Someone was whispering in my ear.

[00:02:16] It was a feeling by going to closet.

[00:02:19] I'm following the filler.

[00:02:21] I say out loud, alright, my clothes bag for something to

[00:02:25] that effect.

[00:02:27] I count it to five.

[00:02:29] One, two, three, four, five.

[00:02:35] I go back out into the room.

[00:02:40] My clothes are right there on the bed.

[00:02:44] It freaks me out.

[00:02:47] I wasn't crying screamer.

[00:02:49] So my mom freaked out.

[00:02:52] I was more curious like what just happened?

[00:02:56] The weird part is my clothes are on the bed.

[00:02:58] I laid them neatly when they were placed back on the bed.

[00:03:04] It's looking like they're grown there really quick,

[00:03:07] not neatly placed like how I had just laid them.

[00:03:11] I knew, alright, I'm not losing my mind.

[00:03:14] That's a nine year old.

[00:03:16] I find it so odd that after my grandmother passed away,

[00:03:20] this happens in the back of my head.

[00:03:22] I'm like, she was playing a joke on me.

[00:03:25] Maybe she hadn't crossed over yet.

[00:03:28] She just wanted to let me know I'm here.

[00:03:32] She wasn't a jokester when she was alive or anything,

[00:03:35] but I feel like that was her way of letting me know I'm here.

[00:03:41] I hope that's what it was.

[00:03:42] That's what I tell myself to come for.

[00:03:45] She did it.

[00:03:45] She was playing a little joke on me.

[00:03:49] They say you get a new body and new spirit when you cross over.

[00:03:52] Maybe she's her young self again and just like,

[00:03:55] I'll play a little joke on you.

[00:04:00] I didn't tell anyone in my family.

[00:04:02] I don't even think I've told my mom.

[00:04:05] I've told friends.

[00:04:07] Of course, everybody's like, what?

[00:04:11] I'm like, no, this really happened.

[00:04:13] I'm not crazy, but I've never told anyone in my family.

[00:04:19] Well, you're that young or something like that happens.

[00:04:22] It was just like a part of the kid imagination that really just

[00:04:24] like shrugged it off.

[00:04:30] She had a house.

[00:04:32] Shortly after she passed away, we ended up moving into her house.

[00:04:38] My bedroom had a mirror like the mirrors that built into the doors.

[00:04:44] I don't know if they still do that nowadays, but the mirror was

[00:04:47] built into the door as a full body mirror.

[00:04:50] There was this imprint of a shadow of a person in the mirror

[00:04:57] from the shoulders up.

[00:05:01] It was almost like the person peeking.

[00:05:05] They just stay there imprinted in the mirror.

[00:05:10] There was a lady chair, this little top bun.

[00:05:13] I didn't pay it any mind that the weird ever happened in that house.

[00:05:19] No funny noises or anything like that.

[00:05:24] We moved from Tennessee to a different state.

[00:05:27] We did a little moving around and then we finally settled.

[00:05:30] We got this little one story house.

[00:05:34] It was a really simple layout.

[00:05:35] You walk in the door, deliver rooms to the right, but you can

[00:05:39] also walk in the living room and go to the other side of the wall

[00:05:43] and walk through to the kitchen.

[00:05:44] So it was a circle, right in door, deliver room.

[00:05:48] You can go to the kitchen.

[00:05:49] You just go around like that to the left was the hallway.

[00:05:55] My room was on the left.

[00:05:57] There was a quarter room.

[00:06:00] My mom room on the right in the bathroom across from my one night

[00:06:06] I was in the house.

[00:06:08] There was a lamp that set on the opposite side of the living room.

[00:06:12] Anything in front of that lamp creates a shadow to the other

[00:06:16] side of the room.

[00:06:19] Before you enter into the kitchen from the opposite side of the

[00:06:22] living room, there was a back door and short lines on that

[00:06:26] door.

[00:06:27] I look up one night and there's that same shadow of the top

[00:06:33] of the leg.

[00:06:37] I look at older this time.

[00:06:39] 15.

[00:06:41] I was like, okay, this isn't normal.

[00:06:44] There's no way that whatever it is could follow me.

[00:06:49] I think it's following.

[00:06:51] I never had a ill feeling about it.

[00:06:53] Never felt scared or anything.

[00:06:57] Maybe it's my grandma.

[00:06:59] Maybe it's her protecting me.

[00:07:05] I did everything to erase this shadow, moving stuff around

[00:07:08] creating the shadow because I don't want to be crazy.

[00:07:11] Nothing removed the shadow from there.

[00:07:15] A little bit after that, I was in the house looking at the

[00:07:20] hallway.

[00:07:22] I look up and see the face in the corner of the hallway

[00:07:28] very light transparent.

[00:07:30] I call this ghost George Washington.

[00:07:34] That's exactly what he looks like.

[00:07:38] I never seen like his whole body.

[00:07:41] It was just the face there in the corner.

[00:07:44] I'm trying to register what's going on and I'm like, I didn't

[00:07:47] see that.

[00:07:48] Now didn't see it.

[00:07:49] I don't know what that's about.

[00:07:52] After that, I'm in my room while I was asleep.

[00:07:57] My room always gave me weird vibes not enough to freak

[00:08:00] me out.

[00:08:02] They say don't sleep with a mirror facing your bed.

[00:08:06] And I don't see this day.

[00:08:09] I wake up one night for no reason.

[00:08:11] I open my eyes.

[00:08:13] The George Washington ghost is right there in my face

[00:08:18] looking directly at me.

[00:08:23] I shut my eyes and I started praying.

[00:08:31] I never seen George Washington again after that.

[00:08:36] I'm hoping he was a friendly ghost.

[00:08:38] I don't know.

[00:08:43] After that, there was a corner room in the back of

[00:08:46] the hallway. My mom turned into a small dead area.

[00:08:50] Had a TV and a lounge couch.

[00:08:53] Me and my mom are in that room one night.

[00:08:55] There's a window in that room that faces the road,

[00:08:59] the neighborhood street.

[00:09:02] There's a cul-de-sac right there in that cul-de-sac on

[00:09:05] the start of the next street with the with the

[00:09:07] row of houses.

[00:09:09] On the opposite side, I don't know what to call this.

[00:09:13] It wasn't a ditch, but it was really deep.

[00:09:15] It was a really steep hill.

[00:09:19] It was a great sledding hill.

[00:09:21] But once you get down in there, it will be hard to

[00:09:23] come back up out of there.

[00:09:26] In that little ditch area, it was these pipes and white

[00:09:30] pipes and then ran to the other side of the neighborhood.

[00:09:33] I don't know if that was electrical or water.

[00:09:36] I have no idea.

[00:09:37] All I know is it was a really steep hill.

[00:09:43] Me and my mom are in this room one night.

[00:09:45] I was prompted to look out the blinds.

[00:09:48] I see this guy come up out of that cul-de-sac area.

[00:09:53] He has his white t-shirt jeans.

[00:09:56] He had dark hair.

[00:09:58] He stands in the middle of the cul-de-sac.

[00:10:00] I'm looking.

[00:10:01] What is this guy doing?

[00:10:02] He's just standing there.

[00:10:04] Looks frantic like he's panicking.

[00:10:08] He didn't look like he was on a neighborhood stroll.

[00:10:11] Where did he come from?

[00:10:12] There's nobody just casually walking around down in there like,

[00:10:17] I'm looking at him.

[00:10:24] I close the blinds.

[00:10:24] I was like, oh crap.

[00:10:25] This guy just seen me looking at him.

[00:10:28] I open the blinds and he's standing in the middle of

[00:10:32] the cul-de-sac still.

[00:10:34] Then I see the headlights from my car approach.

[00:10:38] He sees the lights and runs to the opposite side down

[00:10:41] the street with the roll of houses, but he runs into

[00:10:44] the backyard and the very first house.

[00:10:46] I open the blinds again.

[00:10:47] I'm curious if he's going to come back out of that backyard.

[00:10:50] I need to let my mom know there's some creepy guy in somebody's

[00:10:53] backyard running around outside.

[00:10:55] Maybe we should alert the neighbors.

[00:10:58] Of course, I see nothing, but he comes right back from

[00:11:03] the same side.

[00:11:06] It was like take two in a movie scene.

[00:11:11] Everything happened exactly the same.

[00:11:13] He looked at me.

[00:11:16] The car lights approach again.

[00:11:19] The same thing.

[00:11:20] You see the car lights, he takes off behind the same house.

[00:11:24] I do remember being at the bus stop telling my friends about

[00:11:29] it and they were like, oh, I'm like me too.

[00:11:39] One of my friends was like, there's a little girl in the

[00:11:45] house she calls my name.

[00:11:48] Tiffany.

[00:11:49] She had a little girl be in the house like Tiffany.

[00:11:54] It's calling her name.

[00:11:56] Another girl said a little boy running around her house.

[00:12:00] We just came to the conclusion we're on the aerial

[00:12:02] land or something.

[00:12:05] What's going on in this neighborhood?

[00:12:08] A year or two ago, my niece called me like, hey, I'm

[00:12:16] thinking you can come pick me up.

[00:12:18] Yes, we address.

[00:12:20] I'm driving and I'm like, oh crap.

[00:12:22] I'm going back to my old neighborhood.

[00:12:23] I never wanted to go back to this place.

[00:12:26] I didn't want my wheels touching the ground of this neighborhood.

[00:12:31] I get there and I'm taking her like, come on, please.

[00:12:36] She was like, why are you acting like that?

[00:12:40] And I told her the story creeped her out.

[00:12:44] Well, I'm driving to get out the neighborhood.

[00:12:46] Lo and behold, I'm coming down that same street and

[00:12:49] hit it right at that house that the ghost guy ran behind

[00:12:54] when he received the car light.

[00:12:57] I'm telling you, this is the digital you see what I'm talking about.

[00:13:00] You can't just walk down there.

[00:13:02] You can't just come back up.

[00:13:07] She was like, let's see, let's get out of this neighborhood.

[00:13:11] Yeah, let's go.

[00:13:12] Let's get out of here.

[00:13:13] I show her the house when I wrote past the house.

[00:13:16] Like my arms just stood up because I'm like, I left the

[00:13:19] energy here.

[00:13:20] I don't want to recognize me.

[00:13:27] The story continues right after this.

[00:13:28] Stay with us.

[00:13:34] After we moved to the new state, I had experienced sleep

[00:13:39] paralysis once or twice.

[00:13:41] I don't know is because we were adjusting and I was just

[00:13:45] susceptible because I was young.

[00:13:48] Mine was more of I'm sleeping, I'm waking up and I'm

[00:13:53] held down by something.

[00:13:55] I grew up Christian.

[00:13:57] So I would always call in the name of Jesus and it was stopped

[00:14:02] immediately after a while it stopped completely.

[00:14:07] I guess it was like this girl got God power.

[00:14:10] We can't mess with her.

[00:14:17] One experience that stands out the most.

[00:14:21] I was in high school.

[00:14:23] It was finals week.

[00:14:26] Finals week of stressful.

[00:14:27] It was senior year finals at that it was make or break.

[00:14:32] I was laying in my bed and felt something sit on my bed.

[00:14:41] All of a sudden I hear my daddy call my name.

[00:14:46] I'm laying on my right side.

[00:14:48] It comes on the left side spoons me.

[00:14:51] My dad used to be a pastor.

[00:14:54] I don't know if that was my angel or something.

[00:14:57] But I hear my daddy call my name and it releases me.

[00:15:01] I know this is an episode of sleep paralysis.

[00:15:05] I'm able to look over my shoulder and my door.

[00:15:09] I see this black figure open the door.

[00:15:14] It's shut it after that I was able to jump up I go out into

[00:15:21] the living room and I'm like dad dad.

[00:15:26] There's no one in the house.

[00:15:29] Not a soul.

[00:15:32] I call my dad.

[00:15:34] He's like I'm at work.

[00:15:36] Did you call my name?

[00:15:38] He's like I'm at work.

[00:15:41] Okay.

[00:15:43] I haven't been touched by anything ever before just seeing

[00:15:48] stuff that will really freak me out for sure.

[00:15:55] All my senses freak me out when I think spoon me.

[00:15:57] I was like what is this real now that I'm older.

[00:16:04] I know like to not give it your energy.

[00:16:07] Don't acknowledge it.

[00:16:09] Don't give it anything.

[00:16:11] I just pray I keep God for my task and to protect me.

[00:16:14] That's what he does.

[00:16:17] I think the last sleep paralysis episode I had was three

[00:16:21] years ago.

[00:16:24] I battled between sleep paralysis and astral projection.

[00:16:29] I'm gonna be in my room one night.

[00:16:32] I never lay on my back.

[00:16:34] I was laying on my back.

[00:16:36] I remember feeling like I was floating.

[00:16:39] I could see my bedroom door, my wall and like why are you

[00:16:44] not floating after that?

[00:16:49] I woke up.

[00:16:54] Why was I floating if it was sleep paralysis?

[00:16:57] I would have noticed something holding me down.

[00:17:01] I legit felt like I was floating.

[00:17:04] Maybe it could have been a dream when I've heard stories.

[00:17:11] Maybe it wasn't that.

[00:17:12] Maybe I was just sleeping.

[00:17:14] I loved your stories.

[00:17:20] I was even debating for a while to do it because I want to

[00:17:23] feed my experiences.

[00:17:26] I'm telling my boyfriend.

[00:17:27] I think this is the way to get it off my chest.

[00:17:29] There's a community of us.

[00:17:32] I was like, I just need to get this all out and tell my

[00:17:35] story.

[00:17:36] I'm not the only one.

[00:17:38] Ever since I've been listening to me immediately was hooked.

[00:17:41] I was like, maybe I shouldn't listen to these podcasts.

[00:17:45] I think you mentioned listening at your own risk.

[00:17:48] I was like, oh no, that confirmation is stop working,

[00:17:50] but I can't.

[00:17:59] I bought a lot of chapsticks because I'm always losing them.

[00:18:02] I lost one of my chapsticks and could not find this thing.

[00:18:07] I mean for weeks.

[00:18:08] I was getting ready and my chapstick just rolled across

[00:18:13] the floor to one that I lost.

[00:18:15] I heard it hit the floor and roll.

[00:18:18] I looked at the floor.

[00:18:20] Where has this been?

[00:18:21] This thing just hit the floor and I started praying because

[00:18:26] I'm like, we're not doing this.

[00:18:27] We are not doing this.

[00:18:30] Anywhere I move to before I bring any of my stuff in,

[00:18:34] I walk around, I pray bless my place.

[00:18:36] So I'm like, all right.

[00:18:37] It's kind of like walking around to pray and bless again

[00:18:39] because I don't know where this came from or who is here,

[00:18:44] but you are not welcomed at all.

[00:18:48] You can never show yourself.

[00:18:49] You can never reveal yourself.

[00:18:51] You have to go now.

[00:18:53] That was the most recent thing that happened and I was like,

[00:18:57] I'm definitely telling this story.

[00:19:08] I know I should listen to these pie cats at my own risk

[00:19:11] because you can't attract that energy.

[00:19:16] It's real.

[00:19:17] You can't attract it.

[00:19:21] We all have to know our way to repell it when it's

[00:19:27] through stones or prayer or say at the end of the day,

[00:19:33] it's just spiritual.

[00:19:37] You can get rid of it all to show your own story.

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[00:20:16] Keep it scary everyone.

[00:20:18] See you soon.