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Hey weirdos, I'm Alina. I'm Ash, and this is Morbid. Yeah, it is. It's a mini day. It is. It's gloomy. Yeah.

Can we say what we did last night? When does this come out? I don't know. No, probably not. No, I don't think we can. We did something spooky last night. It was really fun.

You'll find out about it. It just isn't. Yeah, we'll talk about it. Yeah. It's not for our feed anyways, but it was a fun spooky thing that we did.

And we got to go to Salem. We got to go to Salem in October, which was actually insane. Like, it wasn't that busy. No, because it was that night. It was probably night. But now I want to go back.

I know. But it also took so fucking long together. I did the trailer. I was crazy. I could go back for a little bit. But the Salem air. It's been a beautiful. Especially when we finished and we were walking back to the car.

It was just so it smelled so crisp. It did. And it felt good on the skin. It did. I think it de-aged me. Yeah, I think all of that. Yeah, for sure.

And then I woke up today. Because yesterday was like, it's sunny. Yeah. Today. Today. Gorgias. Overcast, raining, cold. I think I could thrive in Seattle. Yeah, I think I could.

Or is Oregon's pretty rainy too, right? I think so. I think they're like, yeah, next to each other. Yeah. That's geography of Ash.

I think I could thrive at a place like that or forks. Oh, yeah. It'd be perfect. Every time I watch the Twilight movies, I'm like, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I could do that. I would love it. Yeah, I could definitely do that. I crave it.

I do too. When I wake up and the sun is shining through my windows, I'm like, oh, stop. It's like a vampire. Yeah. Second, I walk outside.

I'm like, yeah. Honestly. Especially the older I get. Yeah. I'm so happy. It's not summer anymore. Oh, literally fuck summer. Yeah.

I hated this summer. I did. No, I actually, because you know, I'm usually like, Alina, like, don't rush my summer. Like I like summer and then you got mad at me and we have a whole thing. I was happy that you rushed myself. I said, keep brushing it.

Yeah. And then summer held on a little long this year and I was like, get the fuck out. No, I was not into it at all. Even the other day meteorologist hour. It was 76 degrees. And I said, oh, I said, no, thank you. 65 or below. Yeah.

I'd like goosebumps. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Goosebumps on my skin and goosebumps in my bookshelf. That's what I want.

I think you can watch on TV too. Yeah, you can. But I just want to read it. I haven't watched it on TV. So I just want to read that.

You know what? I don't know if I've ever read a goosebumps book. You should see her face right now. What? I mean, that's your failure. Yeah.

Did you know that? What? I think I ever read one. I legit. I lived with my mom for a long time.

That's true. That bitch would trade me like Daniel Steeler. And like, I think I read the other bullet. I think I've talked about this many times. I read the other bullet and I was like 11. I was like, damn, can't you read it at all?

I'm going to give you. I'd like to read one. Because you'll eat them up in like an hour. You'll just eat them up. Yeah. I mean, I can read like a regular book in like two hours.

There's so fun. Yeah. Especially the reader beware. You choose the scare ones. You used to send me into orbit.

I feel like I read one of those maybe. Those were my absolute favorite. Yeah. Because you are literally the main character in the story, which that's iconic. That sets you up for a whole life of wanting to do that. Yeah. And it, I loved it. I would do it over and over until I did all the endings.

Oh, there's various ones. Right. Because you get to pick all the different things and there's so many different variations. They're both making head. Aidan's over in the corner and it was in front of me. They're just making hand motions out of you like, you wear a bitch.

And then the Fear Street. That's like the level up. You would love Fear Street. Like we got a piece. Yeah. They're not really. They're not the same. Yeah, they're not the same. But you would love it. Okay. I'll do it.

We have a new journey. Period. We have a new journey. Are we going to Goosebumps book club? Yes. Like just like a fun together. We should do like a Fear Street book club. Okay.

I'm into this. I'm into this. You're going to enter the world of Arles Dine. I'm in such a spooky like reading place right now. So I get that.

I'm reading Hellbent right now by Lee Bardic. The second. I'm in the ninth house. I'm living with the rabbit in the cover. That rabbit is so sad. I fucking love this series.

Guys, is there like an alternate cover that I can have? No. It's such a sad rabbit. It's a fucking phenomenal series. I have the first one. I have the first one. I read it. Yeah. I really want to read the next in Richard Chizmar's book series. Becoming the Bookie Man.

That's a great series. These are all really good series for spooky season if you guys are looking for anything to pick up. I also got that book Bunny. It's like all over TikTok. Yeah, I've seen that bunch. Yeah.

Yeah. I also like to cover. I'd be interested. I'll read that and I'll let you know. I gotta get a little bit back into my reading jam. Yeah. I've been doing it every night with one of my kids. So I love that. I would sit quietly together in her bed and just read together. See, I'm kind of like trash. And right now, it's like a big season of reality TV for me. Kind of like trash. It's bravo is going nuts. They're going hard in the paint right now. Yeah, that's tough for you. It's New York. It's a new season of Below Deck. It's Salt Lake City. Oh, she sucks ass. You're actually stopped watching it. But it's like every night. Something is on. And then the Tretars. You've got a lot going on. There's Tretars regular people. And now there's Tretars celebrity coming back.

So it's to see your book to busy with TV. I'm so booked and busy. Yeah. But I should probably read that mind, especially given the brain route that I am consuming. Yeah. I can't stop singing.

I can't stop singing. I don't know what that is from Salt Lake City. Okay. I was like, why? I've had no one to talk to about it either. I know. I'm sorry that I can't be. I just wish you would bring up. I'll read a little more and you brain route a little more. I gotta pick one of the other. I can't. I don't have time for a cake. My German. I heart could never. I can't pick one lane. I gotta either read and write or watch TV. This is not room for a right. Yeah. And to write you have.

I have to read exactly. Can't TV won't really help you with that. I'm such a TV whore. No, except I do. I still want to watch Carrie. I'm just struggling a little bit. I want to watch it so bad. But I can't. I'm struggling. Not because it's not good. It's because I the lead girl just breaks my heart. She's yeah. Summer. I think her name is in summer. How she's phenomenal. She's 22 years old. I did not know that 22 years old. I watched the first episode of Carrie and that's it. It is incredible. Yeah. I just have such a hard time with bullying. That's the thing. Like really I want to reach in and just tug her. Yeah. I want to get her out of there before they drop the blood on her. And she looks like somebody I love. Yeah. Like.

She's so much that I can't handle. Yeah. So it kills me a little bit. But I do want to watch the whole thing. When I heard that Mike Flanagan wants to make it three seasons. Yeah. And based out I don't want to spoil anything for anybody. But based off of something that happens at the end of episode one. I think I know. Yeah. I have a mic going with that. Yeah. And I'm like. I want to enjoy that. When I'm just I'm like I'm down for whatever Mike Flanagan wants to do. I mean, the thing is we all know Carrie ends with a good for her moment. So maybe I could have that scene. Yeah. That's what I think drew. Won't watch it with me though because we watched the first one together and he was like, no, I can't. Like it's too much. It gets way too upset. It's hard. It's hard to watch. Yeah. Um. Um. Um.

The book is wild. You know, I never had a Stephen King book after I see. I know you need to read a Stephen King book. What Stephen King book do I read first? I had John start with Salem's law. It's a lot. Um. And he loved it. I might have you start with something else. Yeah. But I have to think about it. People listening to this podcast right now. Are you qualified to host this? They're like nine years in. I feel like you're out of a lot of your secrets to me. Are you even. Are you even spooky? Are you even spooky? Yeah. Yeah. I see. And I was going to say, you know, that was my first thought. I've seen the movie confirmed then I was going to bring that up. Misery is a great book. Okay. The book is intense. The book is intense. The book is really. I love Kathy. But it's a great movie. Great.

Great book. I mean, okay. Misery. That's so funny. Even held up. Other side that said misery in my head. I was thinking misery and I was like, but I'm going to think through it. Okay. That confirmed it. So I guess I'm going to go into the bar today. That's books. Yeah. That's more. That's confessions. That's weather. That's reality TV. All right. I think we're good. So here, stopwatch. Cornelius. Cornelius. Go ahead. That's stopwatch. Here we go. Because we're going to talk about the Union screening house. Today. Everything. I've never heard that. If that doesn't hook you. The Union screaming house. Yeah. Just like a bunch of union workers yelling their heads off. That's exactly it. We can end the thing now. All right. Thank you guys for listening.

We hope you know that's not what it is. But shut up. So let's begin at the beginning. Sorry. When Steven LaChance divorced his wife in 1999. What's there? Obviously divorce is tough. I'm not a child. I'm not getting divorced. The Reddit threads.

Just bomb. You just confirmed it. I'm sure it's already still there. No, I'm a child. That's why I was like, I have a child. You didn't even see it. I literally don't go there.

Well, that was scary. You got to be careful. I know. I'm in the state comment you make and then we'll be used to. Absolutely. Well, I was not a child of divorce. No, you are not getting divorced. They really did. They do. I do. I always think that they are very much still alive. So, no, they they have always been in love. So I'm very lucky with that. But Steve will chance was not. I don't know that my parents ever love each other. Another confession. We should just name this episode.

Ash confessions. I don't know what I'm on today. I stayed up to late last night. You just let it all go. My dad is going to text me. I did love your mom.

Like once. Like for a minute. So obviously, Steve will chances life was kind of upended in ways that he never expected when he got divorced. Yeah. He was awarded Soul custody of his three children.

Oh, wow. He found himself in desperate need of a place for them to live on kind of short notice. So he found an apartment at the last minute and moved. The new place was not an ideal situation. It was small. It was cramped.

An apartment with three kids has got to be tough. Well, and it required his two boys, Eli and Elliot to share a bedroom. But with so much disruption in their lives, it was really just the best he could do. We was trying to start us. Now, the family spent two years in that apartment before Stephen finally accepted that he needed a larger space for his children, but in the small town of Union, Missouri. That was proving easier said than done.

Steve later said, I had answered just about every ad in the newspaper for rentals, but he was having to walk. Finally, after weeks and weeks of searching, he got a call from one of the landlords. He found through the paper. The house he called about on North Christina Avenue was still available and she suggested he come to an open house that was being held that weekend. Okay. Now, as soon as Stephen saw the house, he knew this is it. This is perfectly what we need. It had been well maintained. It was in a good location. And most importantly, it was very spacious.

His daughter Eliza said, I thought the house was really neat. I didn't have to be so close to my brothers. So valid. As they toured the house, Stephen and the kids couldn't get over how perfect this house seemed. I bet it's not. Stephen said, imagine if I'm like, and it was. Yeah, in the end. And they screamed with how good.

And that was it. Stephen said, it was more house than we ever imagined for the price. That's something. We immediately decided we had to have it. We have to have this house. Good luck. Now, the family was wicked excited to get moved in. He said, we had invested so much in this move emotionally. It wasn't just a normal move for a family. It meant something. Now, as they were moving, the last of their belongings were being moved into the house and a car slowed down alongside them. And from the passenger inside window, a voice called out, hope you get along. Okay, here. And then the car sped away.

Almanis. And Stephen couldn't see who it was or even acknowledge the comment because they just like sped away. But he figured like, oh, that's probably one of like the neighbors welcoming us to the area. And they just they just meant like hope you get hope you have fun here. I mean, before anything happens, you wouldn't you would never think twice about that.

You just kind of like that was weird. Yeah. Now, the first few nights in the house proved pretty uneventful. And they just, you know, unpacked stuff got into setting up the house. But as he walked through the house unpacking boxes, he noticed something unusual. All the interior doors had hook and eye latch fixtures on them. Like the kinds you might find in an old cabin or an attic.

Okay. A lot of my doors have those because of my cats. Okay. And the thing was the latches were on the outside of the doors as though they'd been put there to keep something from getting out rather than keep someone from coming in. Okay.

That's weird. Now, the first sign of trouble came a few days later. Yeah. As Stephen was putting away the last of their stuff in the living room, he had just hung a large framed picture on the wall and turned to walk away when he heard a big crash behind him. And he turned to find the picture had fallen off the wall.

Okay. Now thinking nothing of it. That should happen. He was just like, damn, I was stuck at the wall. He rehung the picture and started to walk away when he heard a crash for the second time.

Sure enough, the picture had fallen to the floor and said, we don't like your choice of art. It took four tries for that picture to sit in place without falling. That's actually wild that he tried that many times. I think he was like, I want this art on the fucking wall. I'm like, did you pay a lot for that?

And to be honest, I probably would have done the same thing. I'd like, I chose this. I put something in the shut up. Maybe I would do well. Because I was a bit too. I'd be like, all right. I'd be like, your people, please. You don't like it. That's cool. Yeah.

I'm like, this is my house. I want that. I don't even struggle with the picture in the living room. The children were having their own unusual experience on the front porch. It was Eliza who first noticed it. Anytime someone passed by the house, they appeared to become very uncomfortable. Eliza called out to her father and told him to come outside where she told him about the strange behavior.

He said, they don't like walking in front of our house, dad. Isn't that weird? Huh. Stephen wasn't sure what to make of this. Like her claims really was like, what? What do you mean? Yeah. So he sat outside for a while and watched. He was like, okay, I'll see.

And sure enough, anytime someone passed by the house, they appeared too quick in their pace. No. And a few times he called out a greeting, but they just kept their heads down and continued walking as we hadn't said anything. Okay, that's rude. That's really rude. Also, this real estate agent knew what the fuck was up. It's fake of them not to share. Very fake. Stephen thought the whole thing was strange, but he chalked it up to just like an unfriendly neighborhood and tried to put it out of his head. Yeah, you'd be like, damn. Yeah. Now, when the weekend came, the entire family spent the day in the backyard mowing and just cleaning up, having lived in an apartment for years, they'd never had a yard to play on. So Stephen was determined to make it as clean and inviting and like kid friendly as possible.

So far, I love his vibe. I know. Once he'd finished the mowing, he asked Elliot to go down into the basement to get the hose so they could wash down the walkways. I love it. Although they'd fall in love with the house immediately, the basement was the one place the kids, especially Elliot, seemed put off by.

Oh, watch as Kim. Maybe he didn't make it known before that. Okay. Like many older homes in the region, the basement had a fruit cellar for storing jars, but it also had an old butcher's shower that the men would use at the end of the day. What the fuck? So like to not track the water, other debris into the house. Besides the, beside the shower was a bench in a large sink and a spot traditionally used to butcher animals.

Cool. Now the darkness and the mustiness of the basement was enough to make it a spooky place. In the addition of the shower and sink, it made it feel a little more unsettling. Yeah. Weird vibe. I don't love it. Now a few minutes passed and Stephen was just about to check on his son when he heard screaming coming from inside the house.

So he ran and he found Elliot in the kitchen, wide-eyed and terrified. Elliot told his father he had just grabbed the hose and turned to come back up the stairs when he sensed something was behind him. He dropped the hose and ran up the stairs as fast as he could, knowing that whatever was behind him was chasing him. Fuck that. He said, I heard something come up after me coming up the steps. I just freaked out. So I took off.

And Stephen and the other two kids went down to the basement to look around, but there was nothing there. I can't breathe out other kids. But they found the garden hose on the floor where Elliot had dropped it to run. And just to, there's different varying reports about how old the children are. I don't think it's been like bully confirmed in case you're wondering.

I believe they're somewhere in the ages of like 10 to 13 between three of them. You know what I mean? But I'm not positive. So I don't want to say it without. Now moving to a new home is obviously literally listed among some of the most stressful experiences in life. So Stephen naturally just assumed his son's imagination had gotten the better of him.

He was sympathetic. Yeah. Also still dealing with like the fact that they're going to work. And also I'm a grown ass woman. Yeah.

And if I go in the basement, I run up the stairs and every time I feel like something is chasing me. Every time I finish. So like that's legit. Oh, bitch. Mom, Papa's basement. Oh fuck that place. I won't even go in there. It's so vast. Oh, it's so scary. Oh, it's this.

Okay. Now by June, they've been in the house for a few months. But aside from Elliot, the LaChance family had found ways to dismiss the odd occurrences and occasional discomfort as nothing more than just adjusting to a new house.

That's a cool big mechanism. One night on the last day of the school year, Stephen took the kids out for dinner. He was fairly certain they had turned off all the lights before they left the house. But when they returned home, it appeared that every single light had been turned on in the house. That's so rude because electricity is not cheap. No. And he said, when I walked into the house, I was a little shaken. There was no logical reason for all the lights to be on other than someone in our house. So thinking someone might have broken in, he searched every room, every nook and granny in the house, but every door and window was closed and locked.

That's so fucking weird. Now, Stephen wandered through the house, checking each room. He heard a lysack call out to him from the living room asking why it was so cold in the house. In the excitement of checking, he hadn't noticed the temperature. But now that she pointed it out, he was like, actually, yeah, it is actually really cold. And it was like late spring. So he was like, it shouldn't be this cold. Checking the temperature, he noticed that it was almost 30 degrees colder in the house than it was outside. What the fuck?

Yeah, you can't even like make that happen with a thermostat. Stephen said that was the first time I felt its presence. It felt like an electrical current running through my body, bringing tears to my eyes and bumps to my arms. Oh, wow. When the feeling finally passed, he noticed that the temperature in the house had started to rise again. And within a few minutes, it was as though nothing had happened.

Weird. Yeah. That night, the kids were watching a movie with their dad in Stephen's bedroom. He sounds like something. He's so scared. You know what? When Elliott told his father he needed to go to the bathroom. By that time, Stephen had accepted that his children were struggling to adjust to the new house. But at the age that Elliot was, he insisted you can go to the bathroom by yourself, especially since it was right down the hall from the hall from the hall.

When you're trying to teach independence, he was like, I don't want to go to the bathroom. He's like, we actually did that for a long time. We need to stop doing that. And Elliott reluctantly accepted that and nervously began walking down the long hall to get to the bathroom at the other end. Just before he reached the bathroom door, Elliott was startled when the hallway light blew out, plunging him into relative darkness.

He had almost no time to react to that surprise, however, because he was immediately terrified by the distinct sense that he was no longer alone in that hallway. Stop saying that to me. Before he could turn to run or even call out, the presence made itself known in the form of a large and menacing clown. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The thing that Elliott was most afraid of. No. It's like it.

Ew. Literally just his fears. Oh, I think of widow's babe when he's chasing him. Oh my God. That shit fucked me up. And he said of that moment, I was never that scared in my whole life.

I don't blame you, little buddy. So he turned and ran screaming back to his father's bedroom, bursting through the door and yelling about a monster in the hall. And he told, and again, he's like between 10 and 13. Yeah. And he told his father and siblings what had happened.

But despite having had his own experience earlier that night, Stephen was still unable to accept that there was a clown in the hallway. Is that it? And that, you know, he might be something wrong with the house. For that matter, Eliza and Eli had also yet to have any frightening experiences. So they just kind of thought that Elliott was like being irrational.

Yeah, going through it. You know, that said, they could see how truly frightened he was by whatever happened in the hall. So they did, they didn't tease him. They like, that's comforting him. Yeah. Although they said, you know, they were like, at the time I wanted to.

Of course. No two days passed without any incidents, which led Stephen to hope that whatever it was that was making everyone uncomfortable. It had passed. Yeah. The next morning he was still to leave to work to go to a trip across the state and the kids were going to be staying with their grandparents until he returned.

And as I sat in the living room going over the plan, Stephen thought he saw something moving in the kitchen out of the corner of his eye. At first, he thought it might have been a shadow or just like a trick of a light. But then he realized it wasn't a something but a someone in the kitchen fixing his gaze on the darkness in the kitchen while trying not to alert the children that he was seeing something. He saw what he later described as quote, a dark figure of a man. He was solid in form except there was a moving, churning dark gray, black smoke or mist that made up his form.

What the fuck? He looked down and rubbed his eyes because he was like, I'm hallucinating. He was just hoping that when he looked up, it was going to be gone and he could just chalk it up to having like a stroke or something. He was like, I'm just hoping that's what it is. But when he looked back at the kitchen, it was still there and it was moving towards the living room until finally disappearing before he crossed from one room to another.

What? It was in that moment that Stephen was like, yeah, we can't ignore this anymore. We got like, I've seen it out of here. And he said, you remember telling himself, I have two choices. We could run out of the house screaming into the night like those crazies. You always see in the movies, do it, or we could get up quietly, leave the house and figure all this out. Okay.

So not wanting to frighten his children. Stephen stood up and said, why don't we just like get out and you know, let's go get a soda somewhere before we go to grandparents house. Here it is. Let's go get a soda. Yeah. Let's go to a soda.

Yeah. Let's go to a soda. Dang. Not having seen the thing in the kitchen. All kids were like, oh, yeah, let's get a soda.

Yeah, bitch. And he's just ushering them quickly out of the house being like soda. So pop, let's go. He was like, he came up to the house. He was like, what is it, the Sajibwe? Yeah, the Sajibwe.

Grabbing his keys as he all but pushed the children out of the house. Stephen could hear what he described as a loud, painful scream of a man coming from inside the house. What? That was when the children realized that they were not leaving for a soda pop, but were in fact running from a fucking threat because they also heard it. A man screaming?

Yep. And then we got the sound of the wailing coming from inside the house. All four members of the family broke into a fucking run and jumped into the car, sobbing. Stephen backed like Tokyo Drift style out of the driveway. But before they pulled away, Elliot said, are you ready for your hold on?

No, no, no, no. I know. Elliot said, daddy, the basement monster is standing in the upstairs window. Oh. Her kid's so gross and weird.

This is even worse. Stephen said sure enough when he looked turned to look, he saw the thing from the kitchen looking at them from the second floor window. I'm literally a goose bump. Oh my god. I'm covered.

Ew. Ew. Yeah. Gross. And it's just screaming.

Like painful wailing. Get the fuck out me window. Yeah. That night they all slept at the grandparents house. Oh, I would never go back.

I'm expecting literally demolition derby by house. And he had to go to the trip the next morning because it's work. Like he can't afford, he's in charge of all three of these children. I can't breathe. So he can't afford to not go on this trip.

Yeah. And so he's got to know and luckily they can stay with the grandparents. But he also has to tell his parents like, yeah, there's a menace to society in our home. And I don't even know if he did. I think he was just like, holy shit.

But while he was away and out of the house, and this does make sense. Like when you really think about it. Oh god. What are you going to say? While he was away and out of the house, he said it became a little easier for him to convince himself like something else is going on.

Yeah, I got that. Because he said time away, he's on the trip. Like he's away from it all. I think it's easy to be like, you know what? I think we're all being crazy.

Well, your brain like naturally wants to run. And you want to leave this. Yeah. And he's like, you know, pissed off my dad came back home. I was like, you know what?

I didn't see that. I was like, you do that.

So why do I do that? Landlordy. He called up the land. Because it's a landlord. But then like land lady.

You're just kind of a landlordy. So he called the landlordy to ask some questions about the property. Super duper fair. Yeah. The house had been rented through a realtor.

And aside from signing the lease upon moving in, he had really never had a conversation with the homeowner. Might I say? I'll fake ass. And he didn't quite know how to ask about what was going on without sounding really strange. So choosing his words carefully, Stephen asked about whether the previous tenants had ever complained about anything unusual happening.

But when it was clear, she didn't quite understand what he was getting at, which I was like, you did. You absolutely did. He asked outright whether anyone had ever reported seeing ghosts in the house. You want me to say that? I'm not fucking around.

To his surprise, the landlode took the questions and stride and hesitated before saying, there was one tenant that claimed her dead father had come to visit her. The landlode had always thought the woman was a little strange. So she didn't think much of it. She's like, now I think you're weird. And it turned out that the woman who claimed her father had visited had left some things in the shed behind the house.

So she could roll up and take them on out. Oh, yeah. And also she refused to come back to get them. Also, which tells you something. She doesn't want to come back to that property.

That should tell you something right there. When people leave all their shit and say, I'm not coming back to get it, that's not my responsibility, though. Landlady, that's your responsibility. Get that weird shit out of there. Yeah.

What's left there? Now, when Stephen Shack, he found them exactly where the previous tenant had left them hadn't touched it. There were several items left behind by another tenant before her as well, a man who lived there years earlier and had left in the middle of the night. And the landlady is like, yeah, no, she's a fake bitch. She's like, that's crazy.

But otherwise she couldn't recall anything else strange happening. It's just like people leaving in the middle of the night with all their belongings. They go, OK, that's fine. Nothing to see here. So needless to say, this phone call did very little to alleviate Stephen's anxiety, but he had no other choice but to return to the house.

What is it going to get so bad that they leave all their belongings? We'll get there. So when the weekend came to an end, he picked up the kids at his parents' house and they all returned home. The dread with me if I had to drive back to that home. Now that night, Stephen was downstairs on the phone while the kids were upstairs.

He had a deep, he was like deep in conversation with his mother when he heard the French doors that led to his bedroom being shaken, thinking the kids were playing in his room because kids do that. He yelled out for them to get out of his room and leave the door so low. I also can say I love a French door. I do too. I love a French door so deeply.

There were a few moments of silence. Then he heard the doors rattling again. This time harder and louder than they had before. So annoyed. He's like, hey, guys, when Eliza replied to say she was in her bedroom reading and Eli and Elliott were asleep in their room.

Gross. Now Stephen's heart dropped into his fucking stomach at this point and he nearly dropped the phone. And before he could respond to Eliza, he noticed the temperature in the kitchen dropped down again, followed by the feeling of the electrical current running through his body, quitting him in place. This time the experience was accompanied by a terrible, putrid smell. Oh, I don't like when that happened.

He said something was dead and rotten in the room with him. Then the screaming started. Not again. At first it was quiet as though it was coming from somewhere deep in the house, but it quickly picked up momentum until it drowned out every other sound in the house. It was terrible agonized screams.

What the fuck happened in the house? It was full screams. But not long after it began, it felt like the whole house started to shake like they were experiencing an earthquake. I'm not a religious girl, but call a priest. Yeah, call someone.

Call the deacon. Yeah. I don't know. Call the pope. Yeah.

Now, Stephen was able to drop the phone and begin to move when he heard what sounded like footsteps. That sounded like they were coming from an impossibly large man coming down the stairs. Never an impossibly large man. Each one was coinciding with like a jolt that shipped the house. There's a fucking jolly green giant up in this bitch.

Like then the children had been alerted and Eliza was calling out to her father from the second floor. And the terrible sound of this man's agonizing screams were mixed with Eliza screaming out in terror. I am so overstimulated. And he said that's the reason he could move finally because he wasn't able to move at first. He felt like, here Eliza.

He heard my daughter screaming in this entity screaming. I was able to move right now. I'm really in a place of Stephen forever. Like feeling like something was pursuing him through the house. He ran to the stairs.

I'm also like, sorry, is his mom hearing this on the other end of the phone? I don't know. Okay. But he's like skipping steps as he's like running up to get the kids. And when he reaches the second floor, Stephen yelled out to Eli to grab his younger brother and get outside to the car.

Eliza on the other hand was frozen in place with terror and would not move. She just always like paralyzed. Literally tag yourself as she desperately tried to get his daughter to snap back to reality. Like we got to get out of here all the while listening to those loud footsteps and screaming happening. I'm like, just throw over your shoulder.

You got to get out of there. Now, by then the screams had morphed into something truly unnerving. Bitch, that wasn't truly unnerving. It sounded like the man's agonized screams had mixed with the voice of a child. Get the both of them screaming at the same time with the same intensity.

What do you mean? What do you mean? So knowing that they need to get the fuck out of there right then, Stephen could think of no other way to motivate Eliza, which you might be like that guy. I scream. He slept.

Oh, see, I'm only laughing because you were just like, I am so first. But you know what I said? I made sure. You said that. I know this is the 90s.

I'm going to be in a place of with what I know right now. It's the 90s and you got to get around to the house. I'm not saying I would slap my child. I'm just saying like, there's a lot going on. I don't know if he tried.

Do you even lift bro? I don't know if he tried doing, could lift her like if she was like stuck in the face or something. I do not know what was actually happening. Listen, it did finally wake her up. He said she was in like a trance.

Yeah. So he was doing the thing you see in movies, which is like, I thought I'm out of it. She's a star. I'm not going to be slapping my child in the face, but I am also not in this situation. Yeah.

So she was wrapped back to reality, taking a lie about hands. He fled down the stairs and out the door as the house was shaking violently and cries of pain were echoing all over in a man's voice and a child. Yes. Like screaming at the same time. Not to not honestly.

It's not to not. It's not to not. It's not to not. It's not to not. It's not to not.

It's not to not. It's not to not. It's not to not. It's simultaneously. No outside.

He packs all his children into the car and just drives down the street parking at the top of a hill where he could still see the house but were far enough away out of danger. Like to the neighbors here. They were like, Hey, you should bring the kids to our house and we'll all figure out a plan together. I'm glad they like believed it. They were like sure.

Now, before driving away, he remembers seeing the swirling mass through the window going room to room as though we're still hunting for them. Unaware that they had fled from the house. Oh, yeah. The chance the chance children never returned to the house after that. I'm so glad to hear that.

Good dad move. We're back. We're back. Stephen went back a few more times to collect some of their belongings, always bringing someone with him. He never went by himself.

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I never thought you were the old house type. Fuck her. Fuck that bitch. I would have a hard time not like spitting in that bitch. Just slap her.

I would have a spit on her women. But like, no, that's fucked up. He has children. You're an asshole. I thought you were cut out for this, but I guess not.

You're like, what a good thing you have in there. You're on the property. You had him with three children moving to that house. You asked, I was like, it's just old. I'm like, yeah, I've lived in old houses.

They never screamed at me. They never screamed at me. They never read it and screamed at me. They never read it and screamed at me. Now, Stephen and the children stayed with his parents for a few months until he was able to find something new.

Of course, Stephen. In the meantime, the owner of the house on North Christina Avenue began showing the house to new potential renters. She should stop doing that. By the end of the month, Linda Marsh, Emmett Rice and their daughter Ashley moved into the house. Not Ashley.

Not Ashley. Linda said, we thought we did the jackpot. You did it. It just felt so comfortable in there. And it was like home.

It's weird how it almost seems like it welcomes them. It welcomes them. Yeah. It gives them a false sense of security. This is a man.

It is. No, during the day, Ashley is a way at school and Emmett's at work. So Linda was home just unpacking. Viden. And just as in the case of Stephen Lechance, the unusual activity started almost immediately.

One afternoon, just a few days after moving in, Linda was unpacking boxes in the living room when she started hearing noises coming from the floor above her, as though someone was moving furniture around. She immediately is very uneasy as though she's like, I feel like someone's watching me now. Like she could get that weird feeling. And she was like, but I knew no one else was in the house. So what am I hearing and why am I feeling like someone's watching me?

And she said, most of my thoughts were that someone was in the house. I didn't know what I was going to run into. It was scary. I was just putting away her things in her bedroom when she again started hearing noises. Now the daughter is this time they were coming from the hallway to directly outside the bedroom.

She said it sounded like slamming doors that started softly and grew louder. The longer it went on. Okay. So she's terrified. So she runs downstairs and finds her parents sitting in the kitchen and she told them about what she'd heard and her father immediately was like, no, like you didn't hear it.

He's no Stephen. Not Stephen. Until Linda, his wife, shared her own experiences about what she heard when she was alone in the house for Ashley. Her mother's support was validating, but it didn't do a lot to make the anxiety go away. Now on the other side of Union, Stephen LeChance was trying to get settled into his new home with his children, but he was plagued by dreams of the night they fled the screaming house.

That's called traumatized. He's PTSD. He can't help but feel like the dreams were some kind of warning. Like he had an obligation to inform the new residents of what they experienced. He's a good man, Savannah.

No, after a few weeks, Stephen finally got up the nerve to introduce himself to Linda and Emmet. But you know what is so cool? All these other fake ass bitches were just scooting by. He went back. Yeah, he did.

And he helped a friend. Yeah. But he said now he was going to have to choose his words carefully so as not to frighten them or give them reason to dismiss his story. Okay. So then Emmet listened politely as Stephen recounted what happened to his family.

It was only Linda who believed him. Imagine him rolling up on your property. Yeah. And being like, Hey, this is what me and my three kids experienced in your house. I don't want to let you know.

That's a movie. And imagine your husband being like, I don't believe you. I would fuck them up. Even though you and your daughter have already had experience. I'd be so pissed off.

Now, and she thought he could help. And she even later said my advice to Linda from the beginning was to get out. I mean, it made a whole house shake. If it can do that, I know it can hurt you. Yeah.

And he's right. Now the more time they spent in the house, the worst the activity became, especially for a teenage Ashley who was already struggling to adjust to a new home and a new school. One night while Ashley was in the backyard talking to a friend on the telephone, she spotted something unidentified by a Bible hanging from one of the tree branches. When she got close enough to identify it, she was this is like, yeah, animal. This isn't real.

Okay. But she saw it. Okay. Trigger warning. Ashley was horrified to see it was the body of an infant hanging upside down by a rope tied around its ankle.

She dropped her phone. She ran inside to get her mother screaming, but when they returned to the backyard, there was nothing there. What the? So she just been like shown this. What the fuck?

Yeah. Little Elliot sees a clown and she sees a dead infant. Hung upside down by its ankles from a tree. How do you ever come back from that? And who would make that up?

Yeah. How do you even make that up? No, I actually expected you to say it was like a cat or something. That's what I would have been. And I was gonna be still upset.

Now I'm even more upset. Now for Linda, this was very alarming and more than a little unbelievable because like what the fuck? Yeah. And she said at that point, I was really concerned that she was having some kind of mental problems. Yeah, that's a health crisis.

And my first concern was drugs. I accepted the fact that she was hearing noises because I did too. But as far as seeing things, I was not seeing the things that she was. You're tripping. She said what's going on?

It wasn't just that Linda hadn't seen what her daughter saw, but it was all part of a noticeable shift in Ashley's behavior as well. She was angrier than she'd ever been in the past. She stopped sharing things with her parents and she was becoming defiant because they moved her into a haunted house. Yeah. Now a few days after Ashley told her mother about the baby in the tree, Linda received a notice that Ashley had been skipping school with surprising regularity.

When Linda confronted her, she didn't deny skipping glasses and deflected by telling her how much she disliked their new circumstances. Because they were talking, Linda noticed a cut on her daughter's arm just above the cuff of her sleeve. And when she pulled up the entire sleeve, she noticed and triggered warning again. She discovered that Ashley had been cutting herself extensively in order to deal with this stress and negative feelings. Oh, that's awful.

Fearful that this could lead to something a lot worse. Emmett and Linda took her to the hospital where she was admitted for psychiatric observation. Now, although he still refused to accept that their new home could be haunted, Elliot could see how the experience was affecting his family, obviously, and reluctantly agreed to allow Linda and Steven to invite a local paranormal research group to the house. Okay. Because he, I think that seeing that must be like, okay, something is wrong here.

A few days later, local psychic medium Betsy Bellinger and her group, the St. Louis, Ghost Search, arrived at the house to see what they could uncover. Now Bellinger said, when we first walked into the home, we felt spirit activity. I could tell that it was not human and that it was something otherworldly. And exactly what it was, I had no idea.

As they walked from one room to the next, the team used a boom microphone to record any sounds or incidents. And it was while they were searching one of the bedrooms that the audio engineer began hearing a man's voice speaking softly. But the sound is muddled and he couldn't make out what the voice was saying. At the same time, Betsy began to sense the presence of an older man in the corner of the room. And so, he was just trying away from us.

He was just observing what we were doing while we were there. So the group stood like perfectly still for a few minutes. And eventually, they were able to make out what the voice was saying. I don't even know if I want to know, but I do want to know. This is my house.

I have it. I'd be like, yep, correct. Bye. I'll you. When they were finished walking through the house.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. I don't know. No, it's my phone. Oh my God. How dare you?

Oh my God. I think I just peed. Oh. You have to keep it. That was so scary.

I just went silent. I just looked at my whole body. It was like, this is the seal I did. Holy shit. I was so sorry.

Because it shook the floor. And I was like, oh, yeah. It was loud. It boomed. It shook the floor.

Fuck you for that. Fuck you. Fuck you. Oh my God. All right.

Holy shit. I'm so scared. You know what I mean? I know what I mean. I was fucking.

Fuck. All right. When they were finished walking through the house. Oh my God. My stomach out.

That's you reported back to Linda what they discovered. And she believed the male spirit was out of a former occupant who had not moved on. The more concerning problem though was a national room. That's he said it was not pleasant. It was not a pleasant place to be.

Although she couldn't be sure whether the force in Ashley's bedroom was a spirit or poltergeist. She felt relatively certain that Ashley had telekinetic abilities and at least some of the or psycho kinetic, excuse me abilities. And at least some of the phenomena they had been experiencing had been a result of her negative feelings like feeding on it. Oh, okay. It was one of those things where it like draws on the we've talked about cases before that happens with teenage energy, especially puberty.

There was also the matter of the spirit and the basement. The team believed was that of a former owner as well. The spirit was extremely negative and angry and it too seemed to determine to force Linda and Emmett out of the house. Given everything they'd experienced so far, Betsy predicted the activity would only get worse and suggested that if they don't think they can live with that reality, then they should seriously consider moving out of this house. So there's two former owners.

Yeah. That are this is like a demonic. It really is a demonic age or just a regular one to be quite honest. I think this is just the show. I'm researching her houses.

I was like, I will not do it. I will. I will find out. Now up to that point, Emmett had still not had any of his own experiences with the paranormal. It was convinced his wife and daughter were misidentifying ordinary phenomenon, which I was like, I don't like him.

Babe, I don't like him. That all changed though. Good. A few nights after Betsy and the St. Louis coach's go search team visited the house.

He and Linda were asleep in bed when he was awoken by sound by some sound in the corner of their bedroom. As his eyes adjusted to the dark, he could see something moving by the foot of his bed though he couldn't tell what it was. The site caused him to bolt upright and when he did the figure at the end of the bed, darted back into the corner and disappeared. And he said, so now I've seen it and I believe it because I've seen it myself. You should, which also is pretty fucked up to say that like your daughter and wife have also seen it.

I was going to say, believe your family asshole. He's like glad that you believe in that. I've seen it. Okay. You want to see it?

Happy you believe in that. You're the end all be all buddy. Now, well, Emmett and Linda considered their options for dealing with the house. Stephen decided to do his own research in a local records. He was not done using the information provided by Betsy.

He discovered that the property dated back to the Civil War. Oh no. And had been the home of John Crow, a captain in the Confederate army, checks and an owner of enslaved people. It had also been the site, which I can imagine is where those agonized screams might be coming around. Oh no.

It had also been the site of an unusual amount of crime and violence, including several murders in the execution of a Confederate officer by a firing squad. Are you kidding me? Yeah. I'm not. Stephen shared his findings with Emmett and Linda, which only confirmed that they needed to do something before things got worse.

Yeah. That night they had their local priest. It's about time. Come out to the house to perform a blessing. I think I feel like it's past that to be going on.

I don't think a priest is taking care of this. But from the moment he arrived, Linda could tell the man since something was wrong in the house. He said I don't have any holy water for this. Linda said he seemed like he was very uneasy the whole time he was in the house. He just seemed like all he wanted was to get out.

The priest blessed the rooms on the first floor. But when it came time to go upstairs, he started packing his things and told them it wasn't necessary to bless every room. It is though, baby. So he literally said, fuck that. A man of God.

A man of God. A man of God. A man of the cloth. So I'm not going up there. So I think I did a good enough job down here.

He just like tossed some up the hallway. Like up the stairs. He's just sprayed bottle. It's like, she's like, I think I think we're okay. It actually kind of spreads.

Like it's cool. That night, Linda went to bed, hopeful that the priest's blessing was enough to bring an end to their tight hair. How do you go to bed in this order? Or quarter blessing, I guess. Yeah.

But a few hours later, shockingly, she was awoken by the feeling of something heavy on her chest and a pair of unseen hands wrapped around her throat, cutting off her hair. Also, after a few seconds, she was able to wake her husband and the attack came to abrupt end. But there was no longer any doubt as to whether this house was dangerous now. Now, the next morning, Linda was still deeply unsettled by this attack in the night and called Stephen to tell him what happened to her. Like Linda, Stephen believed that unless they did something soon, someone was going to get actually hurt in that house or worse.

And Stephen told Linda, pack a bag and he said, I'll come and pick you guys up and I'll take you somewhere. But when he arrived, things were far worse than he imagined. He said, I saw the bruises on her body. At that point, she appeared suicidal. Like, just completely at the end of her rope.

Fearing for Linda's safety and health, he brought her to the emergency room where she ended. Yeah. I don't know if it wasn't home. Maybe it was at work where she was admitted for treatment and observation. And Linda told the psychiatrist that she was feeling hopeless and suicidal.

And she made no mention of what was happening in the house because she probably didn't want to be like, yeah. Well, and maybe she just didn't know the connection. Maybe there was like, like, sapping her. Yeah. Yeah.

Finally, after a few days, she began to open up to the doctor and was surprised to find that not only did he not dismiss her claims, but he actually believed her. So the doctor told her he definitely thought that she was suffering from depression and anxiety and he did prescribe for medication. But he also strongly suggested that she move the fuck out of that house as soon as possible. Really? Like that was part of his recommendation was like, move out of the house.

That's wild. That a doctor was like, you know what I think you should get out of there. Upon her release a few days later, Linda and Ashley moved in with family while Emmett stayed in the house until he was able to find a new rental a month or so early. Now, not long after Linda and Emmett abandoned what was their dream home, another family moved in, but they were gone within six months. Why are you like, stop renting out this place.

Well, according to Stephen Lechance, the house eventually developed such a bad reputation that the landlord was no was now struggling to find new tenants. And eventually she converted the home into a dog canal. I hate this bitch. I literally fucking hate this. If I see her, it's on site.

It's on site. Are you dogs? Yeah. We're going to put the most beautiful creatures on earth here. I say tear the house down and plant a garden.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, she's part of the problem. She loves this. I'm shooketh.

I'm shooketh by that. Steve did write a book called The Uninvited, the true story of the Union Screaming House. Yeah. And I think there's also an episode of that haunting. Are we done here?

Where? Yeah. That's it. It converted into a dog canal and that's it. What?

You said Steve did write a book about these. I have so many more questions, but still little answers. Is it still a dog canal? I think it is. That's what I was trying to look.

It might still be. It was a dog canal, but then some sources say that it's like a vacant lot now. Yeah. I plant a garden. Yeah.

Plant a plant there. Like Jesus Christ. Yeah. Plant a field of Saj. Isn't that a terrifying story?

I hate that story so deeply. That was one of the most diabolical hauntings I've ever heard. When the screamer. Thousand percent. The screaming really got me.

I get overstimulated by yard work. Yeah. It sounds like monlowers. Monlowers. Like land on it.

Yeah. Truly. A child and a man screaming from the same body simultaneously. And then like stinky smells. House is shaking.

I got to slap my kid to get out of there. I just slapped my kid. What the fuck? Yeah. I don't know.

I hate that story, but I like that's a good haunting. That is a good. I would not. If you wanted to investigate there, I would probably say no. Really?

Yes. I feel like I would. I know because you're crazy. I'm not going anywhere near Missouri. Wait, last week we were going to go to Missouri.

No, no, no, no. No, we're not going to Missouri, right? Missouri. Yeah. I'm not going.

You're not going. The whole of Missouri. Love y'all. I love y'all. I don't even drink beer.

I don't need to go to your caves. I like that Steve was a helping him. Was I helping him? He was trying to warn other people. Yeah, he warned a whole lot of us.

He did. He wrote a book. He really did. Holy shit. Why was anybody skeptical?

People are always skeptical. To that I say shush, shush, shush, baby. I'm so deeply affected by that story. I feel uneasy right now. I feel uneasy right now.

I feel uneasy. I feel uneasy. I feel uneasy. Yeah. Fucking a dude.

I'm saying. I guess we hope you keep listening. I'm like fucked up right now. I hope you keep it. But not to read that as a lot of logic.

You rent out to these people and then be like, I just don't think you're cut out for it. But I've got a bunch of dogs are. Fuck you. Fuck you.