It’s time to get spooky with another group of listener-shared haunted house stories! DISCLAIMER: If you are triggered by death, crime, paranormal activity and general creepy stuff, then this is not the episode for you. We meant no disrespect to the deceased referenced in the show. With that being said we tell some seriously wild listener submitted stories and we have quite a few laughs. We had a hard time getting through some of these due to general icks and a few cases of the uncontrollable giggles. We learned a lot about our listeners including they are incredibly brave, sometimes to a fault, and are excellent writers. In honor of their writing prowess and the O.G. scary story teller, Edgar Allen Poe, we are bringing back our favorite game: “name that short story”. If Halloween week brings out your love for all things spooky then this episode is for you!

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Katy 0:02
Also at the same house. Days later, we found a deceased pig in the pool,

Alissa 0:07
in the pool,

Katy 0:12
remains remain with the home.

Alissa 0:15
Remains remains remain,

Katy 0:21
death, creepy things, bugs, gross things, I don’t know, dead animals, animals. Yeah.

Alissa 0:30
Hi y’all welcome to hustle. Humbly, it’s Alyssa and Katie, and we are two top producing realtors in the Baton Rouge market. We

Katy 0:36
work for two different companies where we should be competitors, but we have chosen community over competition. The goal

Alissa 0:41
of our podcast is to encourage you to find your own way in business, so stop comparing

Katy 0:45
yourself and start embracing your strengths. Hi, Alyssa. Hey, Katie,

Unknown Speaker 0:52
you’re here.

Katy 0:53
Welcome to episode 273. More haunted house stories.

Alissa 0:59
It was so successful last year we decided to revisit it.

Katy 1:03
Yes, that was episode 221, if anyone wants even more spooky stories, I

Alissa 1:09
was wondering if we were gonna get some repeats. But no, didn’t we have all new, fresh spooky stories. Can

Katy 1:15
I just say if I wasn’t sure if house hauntings were real before, after these past two episodes, I’m like, Oh God,

Alissa 1:25
it’s real.

Katy 1:26
I think it’s real. Yeah, I think goes to real. I’m like, so Yikes, but let’s do our disclaimer first. Okay, yes, hi, welcome if you’re new here, even if you’re not new here and you don’t like or are triggered by death, creepy things, bugs, gross things, I don’t know, dead animals, animals, yeah, please don’t listen. Move on to one of our more upbeat episodes, or just any episode. We

Alissa 1:51
have lots of happy episodes also.

Katy 1:54
We, of course, mean no disrespect to any person who is deceased and referenced in any of these stories, none. They are simply stories sent in by our listeners. We may laugh.

Alissa 2:06
Yeah, we tend to giggle. I giggle when nervous, so we

Katy 2:10
laugh a lot. And you know, we’re just, we’re just taking them for what they are. They’re

Alissa 2:14
stories. They’re just stories. And it’s Halloween, and it’s Halloween.

Katy 2:18
Also, last year, we played a fun little game. I don’t do you remember what game we played? We named the stories, a la Edgar Allen Poe. Oh yeah. As we went through, we would give them, like a short story name. Oh, gosh, okay, okay, so we can try again if we think of any. I’m gonna just remind you of some of the most famous Edgar Allen Poe stories to get your juices, your creative juices, flowing, the Fall of the House of Usher. Oh, I know the cask of a monteato, right? The Mask of the Red Death and the tell tale heart. Oh, yes, that’s the famous one, right? I mean, so many famous ones.

Alissa 2:57
And YouTube can see our lovely setup here. We’re very spooky today. We have our bats and our spiders and our skeletons, and I have a tennis ball in my head.

Katy 3:06
Yeah, you’re like tennis murder Barbie. I don’t know what’s happening. Okay, it’s a tennis accident. I get to be a witch. We’ll see. How long I stay a witch. Do I look okay? Yeah, you look great. If my hat flops over, I’ll take it off. Okay, I’m gonna start.

Alissa 3:23
Okay, great, okay.

Katy 3:26
Thank you again to our listeners for sending these in. This was Savannah in Mississippi, okay. Oh, before I start with Savannah, did you want to tell us about your shirt? Oh,

Alissa 3:33
well, okay, so I’m wearing my Magnolia shirt, and I just got it when we went to Waco to meet our listeners. Yeah. And I wasn’t sure when I made my purchase, because I felt rushed, but I love it. It’s your favorite shirt, so comfy. It’s very cute. And, um,

Katy 3:52
it’s like an athletic Jersey tea style, like, yeah, yeah.

Alissa 3:56
But I was like, I hope our YouTube doesn’t mind that, you know, your cash be more of it. Oh, they may see it only wears this green shirt. This is your go

Katy 4:07
to podcast shirt. I don’t know it’s very comfy. Well, great. We’re just happy you’re comfortable. I mean, you did just lose your life to a tennis ball, right? So you should at least be comfortable. It’s a good fall color for our Halloween

Alissa 4:18
episode. Perfect.

Katy 4:19
It’s very perfect. All right, Savannah. Savannah is in Mississippi. Oh, gosh. Wanna take a breath. Here’s my haunted house story. Several years ago, I was working as an admin assistant in my first real estate job right outta college. At the time, our office had a listing where an unnatural death had occurred. The house had been vacant for a while, so we had sent some guys over to make repairs and updates. Well, as the repair guys are working, one of them places their power drill in a windowsill. Moments later, the drill flies across the room. Oh, my, that’s not like, I mean anything, something that wind can move y’all, no, we. Later learned this was the same room where the death occurred. Oh my, also at the same house. Days later, we found a deceased pig in the pool. In the pool, the house was in a prestigious neighborhood, so pigs aren’t just hanging around or allowed in the neighborhood. That is bizarre, I know is that the end, that the end, no, no answers, no. The answer is, I don’t know. Some ghosts didn’t that I don’t know. Wow, right. So that one’s called the pig in the pool. Mm, hmm, but, but weird, very

Alissa 5:35
strange. Okay, go. Do you want a good one? Yeah, um, I’m gonna save this other one for a minute. So let’s, let’s go to Catherine in Georgia. Great. My sister and I were staying in a cabin in the north Georgia mountains with our aunt and uncle. We were preparing for bed in the loft when I noticed a really cold wall of air at the head of my bed. We both investigated by pulling the bed out from the wall to check for an AC vent, and then we checked the thermostat to discover that it wasn’t even on. I being no fool to this sign, crawled into bed and prayed for my safety. Oh, my God. I also slipped out of my pajama bottoms before sleeping well, when I woke up the next morning and leaned over the side of the bed to get my pajama pants back on, they were missing, I heard my sister waking up in the bed next to me and asked if she was playing a joke on me, and did she hide my pants? She said, I haven’t even had my diet coke yet. I don’t play anything before that, so I went into the bathroom, and lo and behold, my pants were nicely folded on the table in the bathroom. We freaked out and later discovered that the sweet old lady who used to own the house and land liked to visit the guest. So now, when we go to this cabin, and yes, we went back, we greet her, and we promise to be tidy. She has never messed with us since

Katy 7:12
this ghost did not like a mess. She’s like, be you.

Alissa 7:14
If you were a ghost, you’d be like tidying everybody’s house. No pajama pants on the floor. No, let me fold these like when you get up at a nice restaurant and go to the bathroom and you come back and your napkins folded, yeah, yeah. The ghost. The ghost came Mm, hmm, the Katie ghost. Oh, my

Katy 7:31
God, that’s weird. What would you call this story? And it always has a wall of cold air. For the record, I don’t like the cold air. What are you gonna call it? Scaredy

Alissa 7:40
pants.

Katy 7:43
Okay, good. First.

Alissa 7:45
My first one

Katy 7:46
was the pig in the pool. Oh, the

Alissa 7:49
pig in the pool.

Katy 7:49
I need a pen because I need a

Alissa 7:50
rarity pants. Okay, yes, grab your pen. Okay. Check our Instagram this week for a list of all the names. We had a cute graphic last year. Jay

Katy 8:01
pants is funny. I like that. Oh, but you write it on yours because I don’t have your stories. Oh, I see, I see, just write the title on it. Okay. Are you ready for another Yeah, Candace in Maine. You know, I’m very fond of Maine. Oh, yes. Okay. A few years ago, my business partner Katherine and I had one of those experiences that you just can’t shake. We were out on an evening showing Catherine was considering buying the house herself, and since it was vacant, we thought we’d just take a quick look around. It was one of those dark, chilly nights where everything seems a little more unsettling, and from the second we stepped through the front door, something felt wrong, cold, probably as real estate agents. We’ve been in plenty of old houses. We’ve heard all the creeks, groans and settling noises. Usually we laugh it off, because that’s just what old houses do, right? But this house, this one, was different. It didn’t just feel like an old house. It felt like someone or something was watching us. We brushed it off. At first, trying to act normal. We walked through the main rooms, commenting on the potential we but as we moved deeper into the house, that weird feeling only grew stronger. The air felt thick, heavy, almost, but still, we kept going, trying to shake the nerves. Then we headed down to the basement.

Alissa 9:23
Why? Why would you do that? Why would you do this? Now, I

Katy 9:27
know basements have a reputation for being creepy, but this one, it was on a whole different level, the kind of basement that makes your skin crawl the second you step foot on the stairs. It was dark, cold, and only partially finished with exposed beams and random dim lighting that cast long shadows across the room, the kind of place where the air just feels thick, like it’s pressing down on you. Every sound echoed, making it feel like you weren’t alone, even though we knew we were, or at least we thought we were. We did a quick walk through, both of us moving faster than usual, not wanting to linger any longer than necessary, but we were about to head back upstairs when we heard it clear as day, footsteps, but not just the typical creeks or grounds that come with an old house settling. These were heavy footsteps, deliberate, slow coming from directly above us, there was no mistaking it for pipes clanging or the house shifting. It wasn’t that kind of sound. It was the sound of someone or something walking right across the floor above our heads, we froze, eyes wide, hearts pounding, Catherine always quick to assume it was something logical called up, hey, sorry. We’re still down here, just finishing up thinking maybe another showing had overlapped with ours. But as the silence stretched on, the realization hit, there was no way this was another agent or buyer. The front door hadn’t opened. No one had come in. It was just us in that house. At this point, our hearts were racing, and we bolted for the door. We didn’t even look back until we were in the car pulling away, and that’s when we both saw it, a curtain in one of the upstairs windows. It moved, not like a breeze caught it or anything, but as if someone had pulled it aside just slightly, like they were watching us leave. Oh, my God. Katherine and I have been through a lot of houses, but that one, it still gives me chills just thinking about it. Needless to say, she didn’t buy the house, and to this day, we still talk about that night as the one showing where we weren’t sure if we were alone in the house or not. Do

Alissa 11:33
you think it was a spirit or a squatter?

Katy 11:38
Either way, I’m freaked out. Either way.

Alissa 11:40
I know so scary a

Katy 11:42
human in the house, yeah?

Alissa 11:45
And then to not be, like, hiding from the window, like, if you were a squatter, you

Katy 11:49
wouldn’t be like, you wouldn’t be like, yeah, just like, that’s creepy. I think this one’s gonna be called curtain call. Mm, that’s a good one. Also, how good of a writer is our friend? Such a good writer. Hello, Candice.

Alissa 12:05
Her listing descriptions are on point. Such a good writer. Okay, you Well, I think I shall give another basement one.

Katy 12:14
Oh, great.

Alissa 12:15
I’m so glad we don’t have basements here. Me too, especially after all these stories, yeah, it comes up a lot. Yes, this is Joan in Indiana. Two years ago, I sold my sweet older neighbor’s home that he shared with his adult son. The home was a modest little ranch, somewhat outdated, but well cared for and maintained. We went under contract right away with an agent from my office, and three days in, the agent called me and said, I just got off the phone with the husband. He hasn’t slept in three days. The basement freaks him out. They want to cancel. The basement has been partially framed out many years ago, my client was planning to put lots of little playrooms in it for his children. So he was going, so it was going to be a project for someone to take that all down and redo it. We went back on the market and under contract again, this time with an agent I did not know. About three days in, she called me and said, I just got off the phone with the husband, and he hasn’t slept in three days. Dun. Dun, dun. He’s really scared of the basement at first, I just laughed because I couldn’t believe the coincidence. So I asked her, What is it about the basement that scared your buyer? She responded, oh, he thinks it’s 100% haunted. I immediately called the first agent back, my friend from the office, and asked, What was it about the basement that her buyer didn’t like? And she confirmed that the husband felt the same way. I was shocked, because I had never had that feeling in the house. It was super cute, and the seller and his family could not be sweeter. About this time, the seller and his son decided to move to Indiana, where they were moving, to be closer to family. As soon as they left, the house started to smell really bad. It was a nondescript smell that was just everywhere. How strange that it never smelled weird until the house was empty. I hired a cleaning crew to deep clean the home. That didn’t work. We replaced the carpet, painted, had the ducts cleaned by two different companies. No matter what I did, the smell got worse every day. I even tried an ozone machine, and the smell was so much worse, I said out loud to the house, well, I can tell you hated that this realtor is that her within

Katy 14:35
I could tell you didn’t like that. Yeah,

Alissa 14:38
I started this habit of going to the house in the morning before showings, opening the windows and running the house fans. The smell would disappear immediately. Then I’d run back over five minutes before the showing, close the windows and turn off the fan. I would always get a call from the showing agent 10 minutes later asking, What in the world is that Tara. Will smell what is we felt like we’d been punched in the throat. Weird, okay. About this time a neighbor said he knew of a medium and that he would like her to come check out the house. Of course, I said yes. Immediately done everything I can. She was actually totally adorable, a cute girl with a blonde ponytail, the medium, the medium, not what I pictured at all. She said there is an angry male spirit in the house. She communicated with him, and he said he’d been there longer than my cellar. He enjoyed the activity of the house with all the kids, and later, he enjoyed the quiet days after the kids had grown up, but once the seller moved out, he loved the quiet and did not want anyone else to move in. She told him he could stay, but he would need to be nice, or she would find somewhere else, or he would have to find somewhere else to go. She said he was annoyed, but agreed to leave. She was standing there telling me this in the house as she held a candle that was about four inches tall, the candle was lit, and she said, The spirit is gone. He has left, but his energy is still here. Once the candle goes out, the energy will be gone as well, and we will be done. We stood and chatted for a few minutes while she held the candle. Of course, I had a million questions for her. At one point, we both looked down, and the candle flame started getting smaller and smaller, just going out by itself, and then all of a sudden, poof smoke. It gave me chills, but it wasn’t scary. She was such a sweet, nice person. She just said, Yep, he’s gone now. But here’s the kicker, the next morning, I went over to open the windows for a showing, and the smell was completely gone, not even a hint of the leftover rotten, horrid smell from before. We ended up with multiple offers that very next week, I am now a believer that is for sure.

Katy 17:01
Oh, my word

Alissa 17:02
that’s wild. It

Katy 17:04
was a stinky ghost. Yeah, he

Alissa 17:06
was using his stench to repel people.

Katy 17:11
But why only the husband’s I know it’s fascinating. Yeah, that is fascinating. And he was in the basement, I guess.

Alissa 17:23
Whoa, yeah, what should that

Katy 17:25
be with the candle? Oh, I um, no,

Alissa 17:30
smells like trouble. Smells like trouble.

Katy 17:33
Here’s the pen, okay, here’s starlet in Louisiana, when me and my roommate were students at LSU, here you go, Alyssa, we both can relate with this. We rented an apartment in Tigerland. Oh, Lord, here we too many of those. She was a fan of the Ouija board, so we would pull it out and play. Every now and then, we had friends over and decided to play, but they only wanted to watch as we put our fingers on the planch. It is that really what it’s called? I don’t know, planchette. It started to figure eight, and when we asked a question and immediately went to yes and stopped, our friends said, We know you’re pushing the plan shit, but we were both freaked out by the whole thing. So I know I wasn’t pushing it, and I don’t think she was either, but upon my friends saying that that they were pushing it, his nose started to profusely bleed. O, M, G, nope. He left pretty quickly. I’ll say I like about wait. We asked if it was an evil spirit, and immediately it went to Yes. Just about that time, I heard something fall from my bedroom off of a window sill. Shocker. The window was closed and there was no one in my room. We asked the Ouija board if we threw it away, if the Spirit would leave and not haunt us. We immediately walked to the dumpster and tossed it. Oh my, not a haunted house, but a potentially haunted apartment.

Alissa 18:55
Oh, a haunted apartment that would make sense. Well, I’m not surprised in Tiger land. No, lot of people. Have you seen the funny meme that says zoom meetings are like the modern day? Ouija board? No, like hell. Can you hear me? Are you here? Hey, you’re muted. Hi, okay, yeah, you can hear us. Yeah, give me a thumbs up if you can hear me.

Unknown Speaker 19:20
Oh, that’s so funny.

Alissa 19:23
And they’re evil, yeah, nobody likes a meeting. Nobody likes it. Okay,

Katy 19:29
do you want me to do another I think I have a couple more than you. Okay? Karen in Texas, oh, but be thinking of a name for the Ouija board. Okay? Karen in Texas, I listed a house off of Main road, but hidden from the street. I was asked to do so from a local bank that had the property as part of a trust. Basically no seller’s disclosure. I had to line up a cleaning crew, someone to fix some sheetrock and some small repairs so it would go FHA or rd. When I was in the house, I always had a weird feeling sometimes the light and the entryway. Would flicker. An electrician looked at it and said it was fine. Most of the time when I left the house, I was trying to hurry and lock the door and get out after turning off the flickering light switch in the entry hallway, it was winter and dark earlier, overall dreary. I was asked to do an open house there, and as long as people came in, I felt fine. But when the house was empty with just me in it, the hair would raise on the back of my neck. I could not shake the feeling. I finally would just go sit on the fireplace with my back against the brick wall.

Alissa 20:32
If you’re watching on YouTube, one of our bats just as fell. Yeah, maybe I’m a little jumpy right now.

Katy 20:39
Definitely fight or flight was going on in her bloodstream. One of the repairmen said that it was a little different being in there, but he couldn’t explain it. I called one of my friends that worked at the local bank to ask what the true story was on the house. They let me know that the seller had died on the back porch. Oh, honestly, the feeling in there was like being in a haunted house, but 10 times worse.

Alissa 21:00
I wonder why he’s just there still, why?

Katy 21:06
I don’t know. I’m not the flickering light. Oh, I

Alissa 21:09
was following one of our listeners that’s in Florida, and she was going through Hurricane Milton. Okay, and her power went out, except for two lights, two state on one, why? How? Like, if the power’s out, like a certain powers out,

Katy 21:26
are they battery operated? I

Alissa 21:28
don’t know. They were, like, recessed lights. That’s weird, creepy, very okay. You

Katy 21:33
want to do one, yep. Okay.

Alissa 21:37
I wanted to share. This is Shanna in Tennessee, Shauna Shanna in Tennessee. Okay, love it. I wanted to share a chilling story from my second ever listing, yeesh, an experience that left me quite shaken. This particular house had some history. The previous owner had taken in stray cats, and things had spiraled out of control. At one point, there were up to 30 cats living there, and the neighbor’s complaints led to law enforcement getting involved in the inside, in the inside. By the time I took over the listing, she still had quite a few cats, but I managed to talk her into finding new homes for all but two of them. Okay, despite this effort, the House still had a strong lingering cat smell that was impossible to shake. As we got closer to closing, I needed to install a new dishwasher to meet the buyer’s requirements. My father offered to help, so we went to the property to get the job done. While we were pulling out the old dishwasher, we made a discovery that sent chills down my spine, a CAT skeleton entirely intact, wedged behind the appliance. Oh

Katy 22:50
no. It

Alissa 22:50
was as though the cat had gotten trapped, lost, never to be found. Oh, my goodness. Suddenly, the mysterious smell that had been haunting the house made sense, yet there were so many unanswered questions. How long had it been there? Why hadn’t anyone noticed? Probably because there was 30 cats. Yeah, the realization of what had happened was deeply unsettling. It wasn’t a ghost, but that discovery certainly haunts me till this day. It’s a reminder that sometimes the scariest things are hidden in plain sight.

Katy 23:21
Here, kitty kitty Oh,

Alissa 23:22
kitty kitty kitty.

Katy 23:23
Please don’t hide behind the dishwasher.

Alissa 23:27
Yeah, that’s creepy. Oh, that’s very creepy.

Katy 23:31
I would Oh, what if you saw that with your own eyes? Do you know what I mean? I would be freaked out any type of full skeleton of anything I don’t want to see a skeleton, yeah, in the in the wild, okay? Jessica, in Colorado, I showed a house once that belonged to the leader of a cult who unalived himself off the banister.

Alissa 23:56
Oh, my God, unalived I’ve never heard it stated that way. That’s what

Katy 24:00
she said. It was such a weird house in the basement. Oh, Lord, of course it’s the basement. Was the entrance to a garage, and they had closed off one of the bays and painted it all white, like white. It also only had a bench and a light flickered when we turned it on and suede. Obviously there was no wind. One of the other bays, the three car of the three car garage was converted into a weird spa room. It was painted totally black and had fake trees and a sensory deprivation tank that came with the house. Oh

Alissa 24:34
no, thank you. Upstairs, there

Katy 24:36
were dead flies everywhere. I mentioned this to the listing agent, and he said they were cleaning them up daily. No daily.

Alissa 24:45
Gross, gross. Why the what? All these bats. The

Katy 24:47
bats are just jumping off the walls, the White Room, The Black Room, the sensory deprivation tank, the cult leader. It’s all weird. Yeah. Who’s gonna buy that? You’d have to see that. How? Is that an amenity? No, get the sensory deprivation tank right? No, thanks. Ew. She has a second story first. Oh, okay. I also showed one in a rural part of town. I got there early and unlocked everything. I called out, even though it’s vacant, because you never know, hey, I’m here. No one answered, so I went in and started turning on lights and fixing the blinds. I looked at the counter in the kitchen, which was bear. This will be important. I went down into the basement to make sure everything looked good, and heard some scuffling. So I went upstairs, thinking it was my clients, and there was just a just put out cigarette on the counter. My phone dinged and it was my client saying they were running a touch late. I freaked out and called hello and heard someone going through the sliding glass door in the room behind me. I got the hell out of there and waited in my car, called my clients, and they passed on seeing the house. And now I don’t go into basements.

Alissa 25:54
That’s, yeah, that’s a squatter.

Katy 25:59
That’s scary even then is that this is a good safety episode. My is a good this is the second time I think could have been people

Alissa 26:06
vacant, yeah, I got

Katy 26:09
a name for it. Okay. Smoking kills.

Alissa 26:12
Oh, it does.

Katy 26:13
Oh, it does. I need a Ouija board name, though, trash day take out the trash. Take out the trash.

Alissa 26:25
All right. This one is from Caitlin in Louisiana. I have a spooky showing story during the COVID 2020, era. I was videoing homes for an out of state buyer. My daughter was only a few months old, and all the daycares were closed or had wait lists, so she came with me in her carrier for most showings, as long as the client did not object to her being there. I have an appointment to show this house across the street from one of my friends. I video the downstairs, and all is well, I get upstairs and my daughter starts screaming hysterically while we were in one particular room. As soon as we left that room, she stopped crying, and the door shut on its own. After I leave, I text my friend telling her I was sending her virtual waves and didn’t have time to stop because I was heading to the next showing. She says, Kate, I saw you waving in the window upstairs, so I already gave you real waves. She told me she saw a figure moving in one of the windows waving at her. I had her point out the window to me, and that window isn’t actually in a room that could be accessed. It was above the front door area on the second floor, but there’s no physical access to it because the staircase does not touch that area. I later found out the man died in the home, the room my daughter was screaming in was his office prior to him passing.

Katy 27:51
I This is why I like to live in new construction. Yeah?

Alissa 27:56
Just a friendly wave. Oh. Window wave, yeah. Window waiver,

Katy 28:02
yeah, I already told you Hello.

Alissa 28:06
I did wait. You did wave. The office closed.

Katy 28:10
Oh my gosh yes. Window waiver, waving, well you say new construction,

Alissa 28:14
but one of our listeners was saying that they actually check land for grave sites. Oh, my before, yeah, it’s fair. She said that the instructor for her broker’s license gave them an app. It’s called Find a Grave. Shut up, we were discussing the disclosure laws on stigmatized property in Georgia, and this app came up, apparently, find a grave is a thing. Is a thing. Okay? You never know what you may need. Should we add that to the buyer’s due diligence checklist? Right?

Katy 28:49
Search. Find a Grave.

Alissa 28:51
Find a Grave.

Katy 28:53
I’m not doing it. I don’t wanna think maybe ignorance is bliss until the ghost shows up and makes your house stinky.

Alissa 28:59
I think I’d be one of those people that’s like, I’ll be tidy. Go away, please, or I’ll keep it quiet. Just leave me be ready

Katy 29:07
for Sally in Georgia. Yeah, all right, let’s see what Sally has to say. I listed a house this spring. It was a divorce, and they had 90% moved out. The husband still had a bedroom in the

Alissa 29:18
basement. Yeah? Here we go.

Katy 29:21
Right before we listed, he used my cleaners, who I use for my own personal house and have recommended to many clients over the years. That evening, the cleaner called me. She had never called me, only texted. The cleaner asked if something strange had happened in the house. I thought they met like a leak in the basement. I said, not that I know of why did you find water? She was hesitant at first, but finally said, when my crew was in the they’re cleaning the basement, no one was in the house, and they heard doors shutting and footsteps above them. I wonder why always above them? I don’t know. Then, when they were in the kitchen, they saw a very shadowy face. Figure of a man standing there. They quickly finished and got out of there. The cleaner debated if she should tell me she didn’t want to lose my business, but she also didn’t want me in there doing an open house alone. Oh, that’s a good point. I made sure I was never in the house, never alone in the house, and took my husband when I did the photo prep, but I never saw anything strange.

Alissa 30:22
That’s creepy. I wonder why they bother some people and not others. I

Katy 30:27
don’t know. Hmm, I don’t know, but I’m gonna call this one the Shadow Man and the cleaners. I type some of them. Oh, okay, if I thought of one,

Alissa 30:38
okay, okay, you this comes from Madison in Louisiana.

Katy 30:42
Oh, great. I’m not loving the fact that most of these are in the southeast. That’s where it happens. Last time we had so many in New England, I feel like, okay, but go on same

Alissa 30:50
history, right? You know? Yeah, early calling Darden, yeah, dark history. I attending. I attended a wedding at Nottoway plantation when I lived in Louisiana, I booked my room late so there was only one room left. I thought I got lucky. We checked in before the wedding, and we thought it was pretty cool to stay in such a historic place. After a late night at the wedding, my husband and I crashed facing each other as we said, Good night in the wee hours of the morning, I suddenly awoke to the feeling of a hand slowly rubbing my back. I freaked thinking it was my husband. Why would that freak you out? I’d probably freak out too just like to find us still facing each other. I woke him up to tell him the weird feeling I had just had. I didn’t think much of it, but turned to the other side to make my back face him as I was a little freaked out. I don’t know who I quickly fell back asleep to suddenly awake a second time by the same feeling of someone rubbing my back. Okay, something was off. I scrolled my phone as I was scared and couldn’t sleep. I decided to Google the historic home we were in only to find multiple articles of the place being haunted, especially room 14, the only room available for the wedding when we booked I panicked. This was the room of the last owner, occupant had lived in while it was transformed into a resort. She peacefully passed away here in her room. She loved this place so much and all its visitors, she’s been friendly. Hi, welcome

Unknown Speaker 32:27
scratching your back.

Alissa 32:32
The staff know this is the room that females tend to check out swiftly after encountering a ghost. The staff say she loves her guests, especially guests with long hair. I have very long hair. After reading this article filled with pictures of room 14, the bed in which I was currently laying in, as I read the article, was pictured and I started to panic. I woke my husband up, still dark outside, and told him, We have to go now. I told him there was a friendly ghost caressing my back. This was her room, and she’s excited. We’re here. I quickly packed my bag as he continued to ask me questions, in which I then packed his bag. Listen, we don’t have time to talk. I’m gonna pack your bag too. I needed to leave. I didn’t care how friendly the ghost was I needed out. My husband thought it was so cool and wanted to stay to see if the ghost was going to keep making his presence known. Needless to say, I grabbed my bag and walked to the car. There was no way I was spending another minute in that place.

Katy 33:35
Friendly ghosts are just as creepy as non friendly ghosts,

Alissa 33:39
so like a husband to be like, let’s see if she scratches my back right? Like we’re out, dude, we’re

Katy 33:44
out. We’re out. Casper,

Alissa 33:46
the Friendly Ghost. But it’s a lady. It’s a lady

Katy 33:49
long hair. It’s got to be something with a long hair. Don’t care. I love your long hair. Let me, let me, let me pat you to sleep. Can I pet your long hair? Do you mind if I brush your hair?

Alissa 34:02
I love all these friendly lady tidy ghosts, yeah, the

Katy 34:06
lady ghosts are friendly and the man ghosts are mean, yeah. So far, so far. Okay, it needs to be like, what kind of shampoo is that? All right, Caitlin and Georgia, are you ready? Oh, gosh, okay. I had a friend call me after they had visited an open house, and they decided they wanted to make an offer. We met for a buyer consultation. They started telling me about the house. Turns out I had previously lived in the neighborhood and knew exactly which house it was. We submitted the offer, and the next morning, I decided to go check the house out, since it had been flipped and I needed to familiarize myself with the property. Anyway, it was vacant, and I was on the phone with my mom, checking things out. I went upstairs and was at the end of the hallway facing a window. Oh no, suddenly I heard someone running up behind me. I. Turned around, ready to throw hands, and as I turned, there was a rush of cold air, and nobody was there. Oh my Here we go. My God, I immediately ran outside and left. I kept laughing at myself, saying I was super paranoid, and my imagination just got the best of me, and I didn’t think anything else of it. Fast forward to the final walk through, and the wife and I are standing in the kitchen talking. When her husband came walking up to the back door, her whole demeanor changed, and I looked around the corner and saw her husband holding what I thought was a vase. It was an urn. Oh, no, we both stopped him at the door and told him not to bring that inside and put it back. He takes it back, and I start calling funeral homes to see what to do with the remains. We opened and confirmed it was ashes. The tag had apparently there’s a tag inside. I don’t know the tag had personal info and funeral home info, but no luck reaching them. When the husband came back, he looked like he had seen a ghost and said, there’s a second one.

Alissa 35:59
I had completely forgotten second one, huh?

Katy 36:03
I had completely forgotten about what happened when I went to see the home for the first time. And I no longer believe it was just my imagination

Alissa 36:13
that’s creepy, so creepy, I did not realize how much of a process there is to move urns around. I mean, obviously you can keep a piece or all of your family member if you want them to live on the mantle and things like that. Yeah. But the church that I went to, oh, right, right, right, just burned, burned down, and the only thing that remained was the wall of remains, of remains, each little my grandpa is in there. You know, it’s a really pretty Steel Wall, which is why it’s the only thing that was left standing. Or the remains work together to, like, yeah, like, block the fire. Yes, yes. So you could, you had, each one had a key, and you can open it. But anyways, we had to, I volunteered to help the church send out, like a DocuSign or electronic signature to all the family members. Okay? Because they had to have, like, this huge procedure on, where do you want us to put the remains? We can’t just, while they rebuild the church, yeah, while they rebuild the church, we can’t just move them without your permission. This is a big deal because it

Katy 37:23
because it’s an entombment, yes, not like you have to ask for permission to remove remains that were always in your possession. That’s true, they were in the church’s possession. Yes, the church had to go find the people who would have been the next of kin. Yes, and it seems like

Alissa 37:36
a lot of words, it was like they were all in the church office, like stacked up and I had to go through and, like, check off the name and then send the email to the next of kin right on which one they wanted to do. It was either they stay here in the office, okay, you come get them, okay? Or we transport them to an actual funeral home until they put them back in the church until the church is rebuilt and they bring them back. But it was crazy, because I got to my grandpa and was like, Hey,

Katy 38:05
grandpa. Oh, that’s sweet. Yeah, all this talk of remains I named mine, oh, remains remain with the home.

Alissa 38:14
Remains remains remain. All right, you got another one? Yep, I think this might be my last one. Oh, well, wait, then

Katy 38:21
let me do one more. Okay. Oh, I only have, I have two more, but I’ll do one, and then you can do Okay, all right, Megan in Arizona. Thank God, we’re out of the southeast. Okay, this is in your average haunted house story, but it’s pretty terrifying. So I’m showing houses to this new buyer I just met, right? Seems nice enough. Oh, wait, we’re

Alissa 38:41
gonna save this one for last. Yeah,

Katy 38:43
oh yeah, because it’s wild. Okay, all right, let’s do Wendy in Texas first Wendy in Texas. So this happened before I was in real estate, but it’s still a haunted house story. Let me preface by saying I love scary movies and scary things. Like, Wendy, you’re on your own there. I don’t know. I kind of you love it scary movies. I don’t know. I don’t love it anyway, one evening, during happy hour at a friend’s house, he started talking about how things had been moved around in his house, and he wondered if someone was living in his attic. I said, Well, maybe you have a ghost. I then said, on those supernatural shows, they always say, if there’s a spirit here, make your presence known. And no lie. At that very moment, we heard a loud crash, we looked at each other and said, What the heck was that? We ran outside, and it was a clear night, not a breeze anywhere. Then we see it. A large tree had fallen on my car. The tree was not dead. There was no end, nothing. Needless to say, I no longer utter those words out loud ever.

Alissa 39:52
Oh my gosh. What a weird coincidence.

Katy 39:55
A whole tree fell on her car. He’s

Alissa 39:58
like, I’m here. Ha.

Katy 39:59
Yeah, you asked, whoa. Speaking of that, have you followed any of this? I don’t know the outcome. Y’all so I’m sure people already know this Tiktok. I’m also not a tiktoker. Okay? Either people are talking about it everywhere, this whole buried rug situation

Alissa 40:20
with a therapist?

Katy 40:21
Is it a therapist? Maybe not. These people had some incidents, kind of like, that’s why it made me think of it. She had gone her laptop. She her laptop was closed. She went the next morning, in the room, things were moved around. She opens a laptop. It’s cracked. The screen is cracked, just like, weird stuff. Then they had been digging in their yard to plant a tree or a fence post or something, and they hit a rug in the yard, buried in the yard, a rug buried in the yard. And then they call the police, and they’re like, this doesn’t seem right, like they just bought the house. Maybe they had, they weren’t the original owner. The police come. They’re like, I don’t know, whatever. Just, it’s fine. Then they come back. Then something else happens. The neighbors, like, yes, there was something weird. They come back with the the cadaver dogs on two separate sets of dogs sat on the rug. So they were gonna have to, like, very they had, they’re gonna have to exhume, where is this great question. I don’t know interesting, Tiktok buried rug, that’s all I know. Okay, I’m sure they finished. By the time this airs, they have gotten to the end of the story. Okay, then we’re gonna dig up the rug. I’ll have to check it out. Okay, yeah, you go. Okay.

Alissa 41:35
This is from Tanya in Texas. This is actually from an article she sent to us. Oh, so we have our plantations, you know, not away, and all that. So this is from the article. Woodrow Manor is located just south of Lubbock, between a few fields with very few neighbors and direct site. The house was built in only 2003 but the youthfulness of the house does not take away from the looming ambiance. The House did not last very long without its first death. Oh, rumor has it that within the first few years, an unarmed man was shot dead in the driveway. A few years later, the front door was kicked in and a young girl was found somebody else was found dead on the catwalk. It is also said that every person who has ever lived in the house has gone insane. What perhaps the most disturbing legend the households is that a veterinarian who lived there supposedly performed experience experiments on dead and live animals in the shed. This is terrible, terrible. I’m there was details of the experiments that will not be shared. Okay, thank you. We

Katy 42:47
appreciate that

Alissa 42:48
the current owner had the house investigated by the Lubbock ghost investigation society. Okay, great. In 2018 All right, from the very beginning, the house began to speak to those present for the investigation. Immediately after entering the house, a report of a ghostly man was spotted crossing paths with the investigators. A panel of glass located at the front of the house was unexplainably suddenly broken. The remains of the window took the shape of a dragonfly, which is a symbol held very close to one of the investigators. There was many other stories about this plantation.

Katy 43:24
It was built in 2003 right? Why? Why? Why? I

Alissa 43:27
guess maybe that first veterinarian that was so psycho and doing experience that was the original owner. I think so. No, I don’t know. Maybe it’s like, maybe it’s built on top of some graves. They should have used that app. They should have used the app. Find a Grave. Yeah, Find a Grave. Talk. Find a Grave. Probably didn’t have that in 2003

Katy 43:47
Oh, my word. I have so many questions about the apps. I think there’s a giant database of all the graves. Yeah. Anyway, all right, here’s our last one, Megan in Arizona, hmm, okay, this is in your average haunted house story, but it’s pretty terrifying. So I’m showing houses to this new buyer I just met. Right? She seems nice enough until I notice a pattern. Every single house we toured, she treated it like her personal Porta Potty. She didn’t just want to see the bathroom. She wanted to christen it I cannot. At first, I thought, okay, maybe she’s got a sensitive stomach. It happens, right? But no, folks, this wasn’t IBS. She was a serial home pooper. And it gets worse. House number five, vacant. Oh no, not a soul around. She bee lines to the bathroom, of course. And suddenly I hear, uh, there’s no toilet paper. Ew. I’m thinking, thank God now she’ll leave the poor plumbing alone. But no, no, no, no, this woman, without a hint of shame, yells, can you go to my car and grab my purse? I’ve got napkins in there. Ew, I. At that moment, my soul left my body. I’ve negotiated deals and dealt with difficult clients, but this, oh, my God, I bring her the purse like it’s a bomb, trying not to make eye contact, and she just grabs it. She just grabs it and goes about her business like this is totally normal. Oh, my God. Meanwhile, I’m standing there questioning all my life choices. Oh, my God. Long story short, you’re gonna, you’re you’re gonna. She never bought a house.

Alissa 45:42
She just wanted to poop in them.

Katy 45:44
No surprise there, and she was the first client I ever fired. Lesson learned, some clients are literally full of,

Alissa 46:00
oh my gosh, that’s insane. Like, how do you even say that? Like, hey, look, I just don’t feel comfortable working together anymore. What would you do?

Katy 46:15
Oh, my God, ghost them. Just don’t answer any more. Leave the Yeah. I don’t know how many showings I would have done before. I’ve been like, Wait a minute.

Alissa 46:25
Yeah, something’s What are you doing, right? I feel like at some point you’d have to say something like, Hey,

Katy 46:33
we’re actually not allowed to use the restroom in an in these homes, right?

Alissa 46:39
Do we need to stop at gas

Katy 46:41
station? Did you need a potty break before we get there?

Alissa 46:45
Like, I just feel like something would need to be said. I do feel like she had a health issue, though that’s not normal, no. But if you have a health issue like that, I feel like you need to be like, Listen, this is super embarrassing, but I’m gonna

Katy 46:59
have to poop in every house we go to,

Alissa 47:05
I’m not mature enough for this. Jay,

Katy 47:08
he’d be like, I can’t work with you. I definitely can’t bring you your purse so you can wipe ew. That’s disgusting. This agent, I love that she said she was her soul, left her body, my life choice. That’s the truth of real estate, right there. How did I get here? I

Alissa 47:35
wonder where that client came from, Zillow, probably this is what you get. This is what you get. That’s it. That’s all I got. I don’t want to buy a house. I

Katy 47:45
just want to poop in. I mean, wait, what did we name that one? I didn’t name it party pooper. Oh, my God. Terrible. Anything else you shared your personal scary stories in the

Alissa 48:02
last episode. I didn’t realize we would do an annual thing. I would have saved some Yeah, you

Katy 48:07
gave us all your stories. Yeah, maybe you’ll run into a ghost between now and next Halloween. I hope not. Yeah, I hope not. Maybe you’ll run into someone with with a poop problem though.

Alissa 48:19
Well, now I’ll be prepared to handle it. What

Katy 48:21
were you gonna say? I’m

Alissa 48:22
gonna say you can’t poop it.

Katy 48:31
You’re not even gonna say that though you’re not, you’re not. You’re just gonna be like, okay,

Alissa 48:40
probably not the first one, but if they were like on number two and three, I can

Katy 48:47
totally see you being like, hey, so and so. Agent. I need to send you a referral. I just can’t work with this person. They have a body problem.

Speaker 1 49:02
I so funny,

Katy 49:07
so so strange.

Alissa 49:11
Oh, my gosh, I’m glad you ended on that one. You have some comic relief here. Take

Katy 49:16
it up. I just keep thinking about this, you know, like, what would you like? Honestly, though, what are people thinking? I

Alissa 49:25
don’t know.

Katy 49:27
Go grab a purse. It’s got napkins

Alissa 49:33
when you can’t flush a napkin.

Katy 49:39
Surprising, honestly, that she didn’t have any clogged toilet

Alissa 49:41
issues, yeah, that would be embarrassing. Oh, my God, I had an agent, which I that she was just like a friend, actually in another market, and she was staging. House. Okay, her sellers had just moved out. Okay, so she’s like, I’m by myself in this house, staging it. Oh God, and it hits me. I have to go to the bathroom. It’s an emergency, right? Oh, my goodness, Paul falling. Okay, okay, so

Katy 50:21
she has an emergency. She went

Alissa 50:23
in the bathroom. She’s like, goes to flush it, and the water’s off at the house. And she’s like, can she do? She’s totally panicking. So she’s like, Googling and stuff. What do I do?

Katy 50:39
I don’t know what to do because she dumped her Stanley into the back tank, got

Alissa 50:43
one of the vases that she was using okay for staging, and she stole water from the neighbor’s homes, oh, my God, and filled the vase like three times To manually flush it. Yep.

Unknown Speaker 51:00
She was

Alissa 51:02
like, it’s not like, you can call for help in that situation. I guess you could. You’re on your own, but you’d have to say, what happened? You’re like, I’m

Katy 51:11
sorry, Mr. And Mrs. Seller, oops. I really had to go,

Alissa 51:16
Oh my gosh, it’s so funny.

Katy 51:18
I didn’t know this was gonna go this way. I

Alissa 51:20
know. Okay, that’s all I’ve got. Scare shitless.

Katy 51:27
Okay, perfect. Give me the pin. All right, that’s it.

Alissa 51:31
Are you ready for a toast? Let’s get into a toast. That was a good one.

Katy 51:35
Y’all have a great Halloween.

Alissa 51:36
Happy Halloween.

Speaker 1 51:40
Hey, it’s Ginny and Alyssa and I am from Baton Rouge, and

Alissa 51:43
we want to toast our incoming president, Christina Cusick. She is going to be such an amazing leader, and we cannot wait to have her over the greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors. She’s such a

Speaker 1 51:57
good friend and mentor and leader, and her message is to ignite others, and I can’t wait to see that hearing so cheers, Christina. Cheers, Christina. We love you.

Alissa 52:09
Thank you so much for tuning in to the hustle humbly podcast. If

Katy 52:12
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Alissa 52:20
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Alissa 52:36
see you next week. This

Katy 52:40
is the good life.