Two True Hauntings: The Old Farmhouse & Get Out Now

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[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_02] Today's episode of True Scary Story includes two features, one story right after the other.

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_01] It almost looked like a white orb. It looked like it was the size of a human.

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_02] In 1990, a family bought an old farmhouse in rural America, hoping to restore it and make it their home. What they didn't expect was the chilling presence of something that had been there long before them. My name is Edwin, and here is Paul's true, scary story.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01] This story takes place in Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1989 through 1991. My parents were in the process. They wanted to buy a home that had more property. So they were looking and they found this old farm. The farm, it was an older home. It was probably built around 1927.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_01] It was a Sears and Roebuck kit that this family put on. I think it was over 100 acres that they had for the farm. By the time my parents bought it in 1989, 1990, it needed some renovations. You know, there are a lot of things that they added like running the water and things like that that, you know, homes back then didn't have specifically.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_01] My mom and dad started the renovations on it. And my dad was going over just about every day to do painting, to do minor repairs. I think he was remodeling some parts of the house. And I think this is one of his earlier trips over. It was a really hot summer day, which probably added some confusion or gray area to what happened.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_01] But he was painting the stucco in the main living area. Just to frame everything, my dad is not, he doesn't believe in this stuff. He didn't believe in ghosts, you know, very pragmatic guy. And so as he was painting, he caught something out of the corner of his eye and he looked over to the hallway.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01] And as he looked over to the hallway, he saw something and he said it looked like a demon. He looked back down because he thought, OK, maybe it's just really hot in this house and maybe the heat's playing tricks on me. And he looked back up and there were two there. There was a taller one and then one that was shorter, like an adult and a child.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01] He stared at them for a few minutes and then realized, OK, I'm going to probably get out of here. So he packed up his stuff and left. When he got home, we had a lake house. And so he went out to the dock and I think my mom came home from work later that day and she could tell he was really shaken. She said, hey, what happened? And he told her the story.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01] For whatever reason, they decided they wanted to continue to remodel this home and move into it. Fast forward, you know, they got the house remodeled. No other events happened. And they moved into the home. It's a really, really neat farmhouse. It's got a pond on the edge of the property. It's the highest point in Spartanburg County. So it's just a really, really cool home. You know, beautiful views.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_01] When they moved into it and then they started having some other events happen. My dad would go to sleep. He would feel something sit on the bed. And then he'd wake up and there would be nothing there. And he wouldn't see an impression on the bed or anything. He just felt something sit on the bed.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_01] They would hear voices in and out of the front room. And then there was a series of rooms upstairs that they rarely used. I think there were one, two, three rooms that they didn't use very often. But they would hear voices there.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01] On one event, my mother, she was putting curtains up in the front room. And they had an old stand-up piano. And it started to play some notes. My mom is super religious. And so she turned around and she looked at the piano and she goes, You know, I don't know what you are, but we're going to love this house and we're not going anywhere.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01] It stopped. And she never heard or saw anything again throughout the time they lived there. The conversations with her was kind of like, she felt like it was someone that was trying to protect the house. Somebody that didn't want someone living in the home that maybe wouldn't love the home like they did. You know, this went on for a few years.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_01] And my dad still heard voices or he would feel something sit on the bed and he'd wake up, there'd be nothing there. And they found out from the previous owners, the people that built the home, that a few people had died in the home. There was also kind of an interesting dynamic. There was a pole barn behind the house. And there was an uncle that lived there that was, I guess, had mental issues. And they would lock him in that room.

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_01] And they locked him in the room. They would let him, you know, they would feed him and obviously, but that was basically his asylum. You know, probably pretty normal for the time, but, you know, wouldn't be acceptable in current, you know, modern time. But the big issue that happened was one day my dad got home from work.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_01] He walked into the house and he went into the bathroom off the master bedroom and he heard people talking outside of the house. When he came in, he realized that my brother and his friend's cars were there. And so he said, oh, they're trying to scare me. He went outside. He looked all the way around the house, didn't see anything because he was going to go out and try to scare them. And he didn't see anything.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_01] And so he came back inside. But what he didn't realize is that my brother and his friend had gone fishing down at a pond on the property. While they were down there, they said that they were fishing at this dock and they saw something come over a terrace row, which is basically just built for farming and irrigation. They said it was, it almost looked like a white orb.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_01] And they said it just kind of drifted. And he said it wasn't walking. It was just kind of drifted down over the terrace rows, came out and then just went across the pond and then into the woods on the other side of the pond. They said that it was, it looked like it was the size of a human. And they, you know, obviously were kind of shaken by that. And so they packed up and they left.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01] When my dad had gotten back into the house, they came up. And so he's like, hey, you guys are trying to scare me. And they're like, Dad, you don't understand. We were down at the pond and they shared their story with them. I mean, we were down at the pond and we saw that something came down the terrace row and then basically floated across the pond. And my dad could see visually they were pretty shaken. Then he realized, OK, they weren't even out here.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_01] And he said, well, while you were down there, I heard people talking outside of our window. But I went out there and no one was there. I thought you guys were playing a trick on me. So it was like both these events happened at the same time. And there was no good explanation for either one of them. That event happened in which was completely freaked everyone out.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_01] But again, my dad being as level headed as he was, they didn't move. You know, they stayed in the house. I was in the Marines at the time. And so I would come home on the weekends. And I never really had any noteworthy events happen. But then again, I was only there for the weekends. After that, I think my dad had had some minor events, but nothing else.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01] And they eventually ended up moving not because of the ghosts or what they've been seeing in some of the events that have happened. But they wanted to build a newer home because of the maintenance and everything of an older home was just too much. So they decided to build on that same property, but further down away from where this property was. And then they ended up selling that home.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_01] When they sold the home, the people that bought the home never had any issues whatsoever. At least if they spoke up. And I don't know if the people that bought the house just weren't as comfortable. You know, because things can be misconstrued if you say, I'm seeing things in my house. In retrospective too, I think, if I think about my mom and dad, I don't think they told a lot of people outside of the immediate family that they were seeing anything.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_01] So I can see where also some of that can go un-communicated. It basically started and ended with my family moving into the home, which was very odd. And then my family also knew the family that owned, originally built and owned the property. There wasn't anything unusual there other than, you know, there are people that passed away in the home.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_01] Around 1955, I think a tornado took the kitchen off. No one was hurt. So nothing evil. And again, you know, the events that my mom and dad witnessed, there was nothing evil there either. It was just an entity. Something was there. My dad, unfortunately, has passed away. But this would come up probably every late night when we were outside chit-chatting, this story would come up.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_01] And they would swear by it, that all of this happened. I've never seen anything, but I totally believe. I mean, like I said, I wasn't joking. My dad was a hardcore Southern guy. He was like, I only believe what I see. And my mom said, when I got home from work, the day when he saw the two demons, she said, I have never seen. He was shaking.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01] You know, again, my dad did not believe in these things until he moved there.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_02] In 2004, she was spending the night at her sister's new home. And what begins as a rational explanation quickly unravels into one unforgettable, unsettling truth. My name is Edwin. And here is Jessica's true, scary story.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_00] I've been born and raised in Southern New Mexico. Growing up, you heard all the stories of La Llorona, the women in white. And there's like the witch's grave and all sorts of stuff. Like it's, Hispanics tend to be a little more superstitious. It's just what you grow up with. When I was younger, when I was 16, my sister had just divorced her husband. She was living with us again, my parents. And I'm the youngest of the family. She was working in an office and her boss was a very kind man.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_00] He knew living with your parents wasn't ideal. He had a house that was going to be vacant for about six months to a year because his son had inherited it from his grandfather, this man's father. He had recently passed away after being sick for a really long time. And so he gave it to the son in his will. So he offered it to my sister to be a caretaker, basically.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00] If you live in the house, make sure no one squats and keep it up for us. Like you can stay there rent free, which I mean, to a single mom with a kiddo who's wild, that sounds amazing. My parents were not so keen on the idea because it was my sister alone with my nephew who was like six or seven at the time. Even into my 20s, we would ask our parents for permission. Hey, I'm going here. I might not come home. Is that okay? The deal was either me or my brother would have to stay with her.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_00] I was still in high school at the time and it was getting closer to the summer because I had already been to prom. I was only staying on the weekends. I grew up in a household that was very attuned into horror, if that makes sense. My parents loved scary movies. I've been watching Halloween and Friday the 13th and all of those since a very young age. Obviously covering my eyes and maybe not watching, but they've been around.

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00] My parents' first date was my dad coming to town to take my mom to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And then being terrified driving home because he lived like three hours away. And so he said that whole night on his drive home, all he could hear was chainsaws and he had a Ford Falcon. And so he said he got there in two hours instead of three. Keep in mind this is like in the 60s where there wasn't really cops on the highways.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00] We would always joke with my sister because we heard that the man who lived in the house was sick for a long time and that he was, he became bitter, that he wasn't a very nice man, especially towards the end. And of course, us being annoying siblings and even my parents a little bit were like, ma'am, that house is going to be haunted. Like, he's going to pull your toes at night to remind you he's there because he died there. And I asked my sister recently, did he die in the house?

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00] And she said no, that he was taken out. It was the end of his life. They took him like to hospice care. So us being our little family unit, cause it's us five, we moved her in. It was in the newer part of our city. So it was, I live in a valley, so it was getting closer and closer to the mountains. It was new and it was clean and it was pretty, but it was just like, it wasn't impressive. It just, it felt off when you walked in.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00] Cause like when you walked in, there was a little entryway and then directly you walk into this big, huge square open living room. Because no one who was living there, there was very little furniture. And like my sister didn't take the furniture with her when she left. So we weren't bringing much other than what their belongings were. Directly to the right, when you walked in, there was a staircase that led up to a loft. It was literally just probably five feet by like 10 feet.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00] And it had a couch and a TV, but it was open. Like it wasn't a room. It was literally like a balcony in the middle of this living room. It was weird. And that was the only place there was a TV in this house. Across from that in the right corner was the master bedroom. And then the master bathroom. And then on the left was like a little entryway. And it was a hallway that had two bedrooms and a bathroom. But the weird part about this house was like, is that the kitchen was so far away.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00] And I know that sounds weird because I consider the kitchen like the heart of a house. And you couldn't get to it. It was at the very back. You walked straight into the living room from the front door and you walked straight back. And there was like a breakfast nook informal dining area. And then there was a weirdly formal dining area that was super furnished. It didn't make sense. And then there was the kitchen. To get water at night was a task and I just did not do it. And so we traded off.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00] So like my parents would be like, you're gonna go stay with your sister. And I'm like, you're 16 years old. You can't really tell your parents no, whether or not you're just not about this creepy house. The first few nights I would stay in one of the bedrooms. And this is like the early 2000s. So smartphones weren't a thing. So I would text friends after nine o'clock until I could, I'd stay up as late as possible because I didn't, I wanted it to be where I couldn't keep my eyes open. Because if something weird did happen, I didn't want to be awake for it.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00] Like I just wanted, I wanted whatever it was to just not nothing. And like, I hated, the rooms were always really cold. And I always attribute it because the whole house was tile, but it was, it was cold even when it was really hot. And that's not how that happens in Southern New Mexico, unless it's an old house. There was one night, it was probably closer to the summer, probably in about in May,

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00] we had just gotten a puppy and he had just been weaned off of mom. He was tiny. He was a little Shih Tzu. And he would wail if you put him into bed without letting him fall asleep first. It was like a baby. You had to rock him to sleep. And so he would sleep on my chest. My sister and my nephew went to sleep, obviously, because like she, I think she might've been working. Honestly, I went upstairs because I was like, I can't stay in that room with no noise. Nope.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_00] So I had resolved to sleep on in the loft on the couch because the couch was pretty comfortable. And there was cable. I'm mindlessly there. And like, I wasn't in the best frame of mind because at that point in time, I had just broken up with my first like serious boyfriend. And I'm a terrible with emotions sometimes, especially when I was a teenager. And it felt like a failure and I didn't tell anybody. It had been a while and I hadn't told anyone. So I was trying to figure out how I would tell my sister so she could tell everybody for me.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00] Cause she's, she's way older than I am. She's 11 years older than me. And my brother is seven years older than me. I was being a teenager mindlessly flipping through the channels and have a puppy on my chest fast asleep. And I, I was flipping through the channels and I found a movie and it's called Hush. It's like a thriller. Basically, there's just a terrible woman who just, who's obsessed with her son and does really crappy things,

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00] including hiring someone to do a home invasion to convince them to move in with her on this horse ranch. And I normally wouldn't tell you about this movie, but it's like important to another part of the story. So it's finally getting late enough and I'm finally sleepy enough that I think like I can put the dog to bed and then I can go to sleep. And I'm, and I have to gather the courage cause walking around in this house in the dark was just, and turning on a light. If you turn on light, you turned on all the lights.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00] It had like recess lighting. So it wasn't like turning on a lamp or a fan. Like it would light up the whole house. I get up and I'm like cradling him in my arms and I'm carefully going down the stairs. And he, at the time we had him sleeping in like a big, like a U-Haul box, the ones that you use to pack and had blankets and stuff inside of it. And as long as he was asleep, when we put him in, he was okay. If he was not asleep, he would lose his mind.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00] But it was big enough that like I had to stand on my toes to get over the edge to put it in the box cause it was deep. It was at least, it was a little bit higher than my hips. And so I'm trying to do this as quickly and as quietly as possible because I don't want to be downstairs. I'm trying to keep the dog asleep and get back to the safety of the couch so I can go to bed and hopefully survive another night in the creepy house without anything pulling my toes or anything like that.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00] As a teenager, I was a chicken and I, but I still loved scary movies. So I finally, I cradled him and I just started to put him down into the box and I was about to place him in the blankets. And I heard in my right ear while I was still holding him, Get out now! And it was a man's whisper. And I can't say it, like it doesn't feel right to say get out. Like I have to whisper it because it was raspy and it was loud.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00] It was like someone was standing right behind me telling me to get out of that house. And I froze! But I didn't freeze because I was scared. I like, cause I, I have very good self-preservation. I was gone. I didn't care that I couldn't drive. I didn't care that I know where the keys were. Like if I had to, I was going to walk home. I was, I froze because I needed to figure out like how to get my sister and my nephew out of the house because I was not going to leave them there if I left.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00] Like absolutely not. And so I'm standing there and I have these thoughts and like, I have like this cold sweats because of the adrenaline. And I'm trying to figure out like how do you wake up your adult sister and be like, hey, something just whispered in my ear for me to get out of the house. We need to go. And so like, it feels like it's so much time is passing and I'm sure it was only just a few minutes.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00] Like I'm still bent over the box, holding a sleepy pup, sleeping puppy, trying to figure out how to save myself and my sister. And as I'm like trying to figure out what to do, for some reason she woke up. And I don't know why. I haven't, I actually haven't had this conversation with her. I need to. And she walked in the living room and she just looked at me. She's like, what are you doing? And I told her, like, I'm pretty sure like it was vomit of the mouth. Just like something just whispered in my ear to get out.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00] I don't like, and I just like panicked. And being a true older sibling, who's just seriously like it's three in the morning, one in the morning, because it was really late. She's like, you're stupid. Just come and sleep with me and me and my nephew. And I was like, what? No, like in my head, I was like, absolutely not. I want to leave. But like, again, I was a kid. I couldn't be like, no, we need to leave now, lady. Okay.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00] So all four of us, because I wasn't leaving the dog by himself. Absolutely. Like, I was so protective and terrified at the same time. It didn't make sense. So we're in her bedroom and in the master bedroom, it didn't have window, like big windows. It had like small sliver windows near the roof that would just let in, that would let in light, but not like direct sunlight. And there was a mirror in that room. And I remember thinking seriously, I'm never going to sleep again.

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00] So I sat, I laid, curled around the puppy with my back to my nephew because he was like six or seven and he slept like a wild human. And all I could think of was like, if he squishes this puppy on top of everything that's happened tonight, like, I can't. And so I basically was awake all night. I think that was the first time I ever stayed up for 24 hours because I did not go to sleep until I saw the sun like peek through the windows. And then I finally felt safe enough to close my eyes and be able to function.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00] That was the last time I ever stayed in that house. Like, my parents never told me I had to go back. And I'm pretty sure fairly recently, like fairly shortly after that event, she moved out because I think the sun came back. It was weird. And so in the morning, like, things are far less scary. The sun's out. You're fine. Nothing happened. Did you really hear something? And so I rationalized it because the TV was still on when I, when I went downstairs.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00] So I was like, oh, that line's probably in the movie. Like, I heard it from the, like, it just, something was thrown from the speaker. I'm crazy. Like, I was so focused on putting the dog in the box. Like, that has to have been what it was. And so I just didn't think about it again for a while. And I didn't really tell my parents or my siblings because, again, like, I was super young and they were like, they're going to tell me you're dumb. Like, you stop watching scary movies.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00] About 10 years later, I worked at a convenience store. And so, like, at the end of the night, you fix the store and like you, and you talk and you tell people your stories and things like that. And so a friend asked, has anything ever happened to you? And I was like, yeah, okay. Yeah, this happened. And then I told them, like, my explanation. They're like, yeah, probably. So this was around 2016. I went home and at this point, like Netflix had just started streaming. Like, they were still doing the DVD thing, but you could watch movies at home now.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00] So I worked really late hours. I would usually work from 3 to 11 and normally I wouldn't get home till like midnight or once sometimes, depending on how busy it was. And so I got home, I turned on my TV and I saw that the movie was playing on Netflix. It was part of their catalog. And I was like, in my brain, I was like, oh, this is great. Like, I'm gonna watch this movie. I'm gonna see that line. And then the story is going to be put to rest. It's great. I watched that movie in its entirety. And that line does not exist in that movie.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00] Anywhere. I watched it twice. I stayed up till 4 in the morning to make sure that I did not miss it. I don't know. Like, I... It wasn't the movie. So... Was it him?

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00] After listening to the podcast, I asked my brother, I was like, do you remember that house? And he's, yeah, it was creepy. And I was like, did anything ever happen to you when he stayed there? And he's, I never stayed there. And I told him, what? What are you... He said that he told my sister that it was creepy AF and that he was not gonna stay there. And he never did. I, like... Until I'm 36 now, this happened 20 years ago. From that point, I thought that he had stayed there too.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_00] And apparently it was just me with my sister. And so I was the only one that ever experienced anything.

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_02] Thank you, Paul and Jessica, for sharing your experiences with us. And if you have a story that you want to share, fill out the form over at truescarystory.com. We respond to everyone. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Editing and sound design for the first story was done by Sarah Borges Wendel of VW Sound. The second story was edited by me, Edwin Covarrubias. Scheduling by Bianca Chavez with additional production by the Scary FM team.

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