Encounters x303 - True Appalachian Hauntings & Horrors

We’re once again heading deep into Appalachia, where shadow figures crawl out of mirrors, faceless entities ride bikes at 2 a.m., and crosses flip upside down just to prove a point. It’s chilling, it’s bizarre, and in Appalachia sometimes inside is just as scary as outside. Stories include: A childhood spent with a shadowy girl in the mirror who didn’t stay trapped for long. An unseen presence in a haunted Virginia town that left a listener drenched in dread and clinging to protective charms. A late-night drive turns terrifying when a pale, blank-faced cyclist blocks the road—and the dashcam conveniently erases the footage. A horrifying Air bnb experience that sends a family packing at 4am thanks to clapping in the walls, locked rooms with glowing red light, and crosses flipped upside down. Cryptids and possible government secrets lurk around mysterious cabins, strange animal behavior, and something watching from the canyon shadows. These stories remind us that in Appalachia something is always lurking just beyond the veil. Lucky for us (and unlucky for our sleep schedules), you keep sending the proof. Watch the video version here. Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected] New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! If you enjoy our show, please consider joining our Patreon, rating and reviewing on iTunes & Spotify and following us on social media! Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Discord. Edited by Jaimi Ryan and produced by Emma Leventer and Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo! Disclaimer: the use of white sage and smudging is a closed practice. If you’re looking to cleanse your space, here are some great alternatives! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 1:18Speaker 02

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• 2:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, we're so sad.

• 2:12Corinne Vien?

  Yes, our poor husbands.

• 2:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They have died.

• 2:15Corinne Vien?

  Of dysentery.

• 2:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  With dysentery.

• 2:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I also want to do like a. Singing in the rain. Um, if you're like, listening, if you're like, listening. If you're like, listening. And you're like, what the fork are these bitches talking about? Yeah, um, we added props to our set today and. It's October, so things change and shift and we buy a lot of things. And we shift into vampires and werewolves.

• 2:44Corinne Vien?

  On the full moon.

• 2:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because this is two girls, one ghost. Two girls, one ghost.

• 2:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we are your morning ladies. That is Corinne. Hello. And I am Sabrina. And this is an Encounters episode. And as you know, in October, we get a little weird. We get a little spooky. We get a little haunted and so do you. So, well, you guys get haunted all the time. It's not.

• 3:09Corinne Vien?

  That doesn't change.

• 3:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Not a seasonal thing.

• 3:11Corinne Vien?

  As if our podcast changes seasonally. We just had props.

• 3:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We just add props and maybe characters. It's a different mindset.

• 3:19Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 3:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes. We become possessed.

• 3:22Corinne Vien?

  I should put my hands on the, oh. What if I just like whipped out a Ouija board right now?

• 3:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I would, I would absolutely believe you were possessed. Because that's not like you.

• 3:33Corinne Vien?

  No, something would be wrong.

• 3:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Something would be very wrong. And we'd be on Tiffany Reese's podcast.

• 3:38Corinne Vien?

  Something was wrong.

• 3:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Something was wrong. It was the moment she pulled out a Ouija board and that was when I knew.

• 3:43Corinne Vien?

  Her first season, all based on possession.

• 3:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Honestly, Tiffany, let's talk.

• 3:49Corinne Vien?

  Idea.

• 3:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Idea. But, okay, so today's theme for the Encounters episode is, uh, what lurks outside? What lurks maybe perhaps specifically in one region that has been terrifying us and haunting us in all of your ears for the last year? Appalachia.

• 4:09Corinne Vien?

  Appalachia.

• 4:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  How dare she say it.

• 4:13Corinne Vien?

  I'm gonna burn in hell.

• 4:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm melting.

• 4:17Corinne Vien?

  I like, we went a full eight years saying Appalachia.

• 4:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Appalachia.

• 4:21Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 4:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Now you can't even say it.

• 4:23Corinne Vien?

  How did we say it? The Appalachian Mountains, because that's how we pronounce it in the Northeast.

• 4:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We were raised.

• 4:28Corinne Vien?

  But I think we got bullied into saying Appalachia. It took eight years for us to finally succumb to it.

• 4:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we succumbed.

• 4:35Corinne Vien?

  You guys won.

• 4:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's not how you say it.

• 4:36Corinne Vien?

  We succumbed.

• 4:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We succumbed.

• 4:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Um, Appalachia.

• 4:41Corinne Vien?

  Appalachia.

• 4:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Can I fix your shawl?

• 4:43Corinne Vien?

  What about this? If we start like that.

• 4:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, my gosh. Yeah, bitch.

• 4:48Corinne Vien?

  Sorry. Sorry, I don't know.

• 4:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, bitch.

• 4:51Corinne Vien?

  That looks good. This is definitely what they did. They should have made it. Around their little seance morning circle.

• 4:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They boob thrusted.

• 4:59Corinne Vien?

  Well, I will.

• 5:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Unveil yourself?

• 5:01Corinne Vien?

  Bring my veil up.

• 5:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, that's the vibes.

• 5:04Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 5:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 5:05Corinne Vien?

  We found it. We found it. Great. And this is called Growing Up in Deep Appalachia.

• 5:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Great. Perfect.

• 5:10Corinne Vien?

  You have my permission to read all of the names. Did everyone else give permission?

• 5:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I feel like if they don't say to change it, or they don't personally change it, you're giving us permission.

• 5:19Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Okay. Be right. Enjoy my childhood trauma. LOL. Hello, my name is Megan. I grew up in a little town in West Virginia. We lived in a cheaply built one-story house with three bedrooms. I had heard from my mother that I'd always been an odd child. According to her, I would tell people that I could see their feelings.

• 5:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, my, that's so beautiful.

• 5:42Corinne Vien?

  She could see auras, maybe, and like the colors would change. And I would tell them what color it was.

• 5:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wow.

• 5:48Corinne Vien?

  I was always overly empathetic, and I had an uncommon understanding of death at a young age. I have always felt more connected and sensitive to the unknown energies around us. I began to experience sleep paralysis at a very young age, and at about 10 years old, I would find myself frozen in bed in the middle of the night with the comforter pulled halfway over my face, leaving only my eyes exposed. Unfortunately, as a 10-year-old, I was unaware of the rule about mirrors in a bedroom. So my vanity was placed directly against the wall at the foot of my bed. Oh, my God, just a portal at the end of the bed.

• 6:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You know, I've done that because aesthetically, it looked pretty.

• 6:24Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, right? Sometimes it's like, mm, portal that could enter the other realm and let in demons or feng shui. Well, actually, that's probably not feng shui.

• 6:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 6:33Corinne Vien?

  It's just aesthetically pleasing.

• 6:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And also.

• 6:35Corinne Vien?

  But not maybe energetically pleasing.

• 6:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, exactly.

• 6:38Corinne Vien?

  And in this mirror, I always saw her in it staring right at me. I couldn't close my eyes. I was forced to look at the black and gray shadow of this young girl with long black hair, standing in the center of the mirror, looking right at me.

• 6:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In the mirror.

• 6:54Corinne Vien?

  All night long.

• 6:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You legit had a portal in your room.

• 6:58Corinne Vien?

  Yes. The only way that she went away was if I had passed out from exhaustion after hours of heart pounding fear.

• 7:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So she never actually went away?

• 7:07Corinne Vien?

  No, no, you just passed out.

• 7:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 7:09Corinne Vien?

  Because I was kept up most nights. I started falling asleep in school and failing my classes. The same thing would continue to happen for years, slowly evolving into a more interactive experience each time. Interactive is such a kind word to say.

• 7:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 7:23Corinne Vien?

  That you were probably being more attacked.

• 7:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And interactive usually implies like both ways.

• 7:30Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 7:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But this seems like, no, like this is, you're not an active participant or willing participant in this interaction.

• 7:38Corinne Vien?

  This girl would come out of the mirror. She would kneel down at the foot of my bed with her greasy black hair over one eye, and she had this menacing smile staring right at me through her brow. Her face was so close to the bed that I could hear the sounds of her sharp breaths against the blanket. The sound continues to haunt me to this day. Eventually, after begging to move the mirror, my grandfather helped me remove it entirely. But apparently, she didn't need a mirror anymore.

• 8:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No, you, she got in.

• 8:08Corinne Vien?

  Yep.

• 8:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I mean, she was kneeling at the side of your bed.

• 8:11Corinne Vien?

  She was already out.

• 8:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 8:12Corinne Vien?

  She crawled out.

• 8:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe if you moved it when it was just her standing in the mirror, looking at you, maybe, but she got out.

• 8:18Corinne Vien?

  I knew she was still there, but this time I couldn't see her. I would go to sleep, and instead of being woken up and forced to stare at her, it would begin before I fell asleep. I would lay down and my mom would stand at the doorway reassuring me that the many dream catchers that I'd hung up would start working, and then she would turn out the lights before closing the door and leaving. I would lay as still as possible and listen for any strange sounds as I squeezed my eyes shut. And then, before I even had a chance to doze off, I felt it tugging, slow, inch by inch, the blanket moved to the foot of the bed, forcing me to keep pulling it back up. It was subtle at first, but after a few months, I'd wake up and the blanket would be completely down by my waist. I'd be too frozen in fear to try to retrieve it.

• 9:04Corinne Vien?

  Every night until I grew up and moved out, I would have to tuck the blanket under the mattress to feel comfortable enough to get in bed. So not only are we not safe outdoors, we're not safe indoors either. No. Update, I am 26 now with two babies and a husband. We traveled back to our hometown last year and ended up having to sleep in my old childhood home in this very room. And she probably was so excited to have you back. Mm hmm. My husband had heard my money stories, but never really believed me until the first night in the house. Oh, God. We were laying in the old bedroom. Our two babies were sleeping between us. He sat up, looked at me without a word, and I asked, you feel it, don't you? And then we stayed on my parents' living room floor for the rest of the trip, lol.

• 9:49Corinne Vien?

  Geez. I was so freaked out about my bedroom growing up that I convinced my little brother to switch with me at around 12 years old, making him, the 10-year-old, move into my bedroom. Hmm, oh, poor guy. My thinking was his room would definitely be better than mine. All I'd heard my brother complain about was having nightmares and sleepwalking out of the house. Okay, so he has some stuff too. What? So we moved all of our stuff to opposite rooms and I was ready to sleep my first night in this new room. I laid in the bed. I tried to get comfortable, but I still had a sense of unease. Except in this room, it was more of a deep sadness that I was feeling. As I was trying to fall asleep, I started hearing a faint whining coming from the ceiling corner in the dark room, just above my head to the left.

• 10:30Corinne Vien?

  It sounded so close, yet so far, as if we weren't in the same dimension, but maybe the veil was just thin enough, enough for me to spot or hear this thing. And this sound did not stop for hours. I was once again frozen in fear and eventually I passed out from exhaustion. When I woke up, the sound was masked by birds outside the window and some morning traffic. I looked up in the corner where the sound came from, and it was as if I could see the energy moving around, like it was this glowing static. I left the room and I went to go tell my brother about my experience and he just looked at me and said, you can hear her too?

• 11:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So he'd been experiencing the same.

• 11:09Corinne Vien?

  Oh, that's why he was probably like, hell yeah, I'll take a new room. We never spoke of it again.

• 11:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What? I can't believe you never spoke of it again. I'd be like, okay, let's sit down and debrief and go through every experience we ever had.

• 11:20Corinne Vien?

  I'd also be like, let's share a room, which I did with my brother. I don't know if Christian wanted to, but I moved in.

• 11:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You had to.

• 11:26Corinne Vien?

  He was like three when I moved into his room. I got my old room back and now that I think back to it, my brother always complained of not being able to fall asleep at night and feeling a deep sadness. His exhaustion ended up having some major effects on his life. I continued to deal with the horrible energy in my room for years to the point where

• 11:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 11:43Corinne Vien?

  my family even raised money to help renovate my room in an effort to get me comfortable in there. So we began repainting and getting new furniture and decorating it to my liking. We were in the middle of the process and I made temporary curtains by draping a throw blanket over the curtain rod until my grandma would finish making my new ones. And one night, my little cousin was sleeping over and we were about to go to bed, so we made our way to the room. And we changed into our pajamas and we stood in front of the dresser, which was under the window and the makeshift curtain. And I was pulling my shirt over my head when I saw between the blanket and the window. The mesh screen on the outside started lifting up as if someone was trying to get in. I froze. I watched it jaggedly pull up on one side at a time.

• 12:26Corinne Vien?

  My cousin had spotted it too. She was now frozen with me. I finally worked up the courage to tell her to run, go get my mom, and she did. I grabbed the baseball bat next to my bed and I pulled the blanket down, exposing the rest of the window to look for someone, probably running away. But there was no one, just a mesh screen halfway lifted and a street lamp right outside illuminating the suburban street.

• 12:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Especially knowing that this is Appalachia.

• 12:53Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm.

• 12:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That reminds me of so many stories we've heard of SWs, flush pedestrians, trying to get in through the window.

• 13:00Corinne Vien?

  Yep.

• 13:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 13:01Corinne Vien?

  I ran to my mom. We called 911, thinking maybe it was an attempted break in, but they did nothing.

• 13:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They did nothing.

• 13:09Corinne Vien?

  That was kind of a similar story when I lived in L.A. Every time I called. Yeah. Literally was attempted kidnapping and they were like, okay, thanks. Yeah. Okay. Like until something actually happens. Basically escaped a car, but sure. A few weeks later, after gaining the courage to sleep in my room again, I was sleeping in my bed and for some reason I was facing the window, which still had the blanket for a curtain. I was woken up by a light flooding my bedroom around 3 a.m. Of course, so I opened my eyes and I'm instantly frozen by the sight. The blanket had suddenly fallen from the rod, which was weird because I had zip tied it in place and it had never fallen until now. It wasn't dangling on one side or drooping, no. The whole blanket was now on the floor as if it had been pulled down with force. The fact that it was zip tied. Mm-hmm.

• 13:53Corinne Vien?

  Because of the street light right outside the window, I could clearly see the mesh screen was already more than halfway raised and again, no one was there. Why does this feel like such a different energy? Yeah, I don't think this is the girl. No, because the girl's already inside. Mm-hmm. I had never been so terrified in my life. I couldn't physically bring myself to move. It felt like a half hour had passed before I even managed to move my legs. And then I ran to my mom. We once again called the police and then they came and searched for signs of anyone walking nearby, but they found nothing. No fingerprints on the windows, no shoe prints, nothing. They patrolled the neighborhood, they parked a cop car in front of our house all night to reassure us and make sure no one came back. Mm-hmm. The last part of the story gives me chills to this day.

• 14:36Corinne Vien?

  More chills than you've already given us? Mm-hmm. I was in high school at this point and one day I sat at a new table for lunch. At this table sat one of the school's quote unquote weird girls who I actually loved. Ugh, high schoolers are so judgy. Mm-hmm. Who happened to be doing readings of people at the round lunch table where we sat. Love her. Right? She's not weird, she's amazing. Yeah. And weird is good. I sat and I listened to her go around to everyone and tell them if they had attachments or loved ones following them. And it was really interesting despite my skepticism. When she came to me, she skipped me and instead did my best friend who was sitting next to me. After finishing the last person, I asked, what about me? She took a deep breath to compose herself.

• 15:21Corinne Vien?

  I don't really want to tell you, she said without making eye contact. But of course, everyone at the table is now insisting that she go on. I told her, it's okay. You can say it. I reassured her. So she took a long pause and asked me a question. Do you have two closets in your bedroom? My best friend looked at me, knowing that in fact, I do have two. This girl would never know that. I confirmed it to the table, now filled with wide eyes. Okay, are they right next to each other on the same wall, though? And one is a double door closet, right? She asked. My friend and I snapped our heads to me eyes in shock, once again wondering how she knew that. I told her, yes, and I'm now shaking.

• 16:03Corinne Vien?

  She continued with a shudder and nauseated look on her face, as if she was seeing an image in her mind's eye. And she said, well, it's in one of those two doors and it likes to crawl.

• 16:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ah, oh, why is that specific such a, oh, oh.

• 16:20Corinne Vien?

  The entire table shuddered and let out squeals. But she was right. I had seen it myself. And she definitely likes to crawl. From Megan.

• 16:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, I don't like that she liked to crawl.

• 16:32Corinne Vien?

  No, no.

• 16:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Good old classic West Virginia, filled with hauntings in and out. Yeah, I, I just don't like any of it.

• 16:41Corinne Vien?

  Right? It's so scary. Cause it's like the hauntings are inside, but they're also in a portal. And then the portal gets closed, but the hauntings are still there. And then when you think that you're escaping, like something is trying to come in.

• 16:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which we have no answers to that.

• 16:53Corinne Vien?

  No.

• 16:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Neither does Megan, which I'm so sorry. But let us know if more things happen to you there. Do you still live there? Do you want us to come investigate?

• 17:01Corinne Vien?

  No, she doesn't. Remember her husband and her kids, they went back and they stayed.

• 17:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, that means they still have access to the house.

• 17:07Corinne Vien?

  They still have access to the house, yeah.

• 17:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 17:09Corinne Vien?

  I wonder if her kids are gonna experience anything.

• 17:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, this listener, Isabella, experienced some things. I actually found this story when I was trying to pick stories for the demonic possession encounters that we recorded last week. And this one has both Appalachia, demons, possessions.

• 17:28Corinne Vien?

  I have a good stuff.

• 17:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  All my favorite, all my favorite things. These are a few of my favorite. Whoa, why did I sing like that?

• 17:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  These are a few of my favorite things. Okay. Hi ladies, recent listener here to give you some context for the story. While I don't consider myself a witch, I am a strong sensitive. It's not something that I consider a strong part of my identity or everyday life, but it exists. Most of the women in my family have some type of skill, but mine is the strongest. Wow. I am the sort of person who can walk through any antique store and sense the haunted object in the corner. I don't actively practice, but since finding your podcast, I have been trying to pick up on the supernatural on command, and I'm getting much better.

• 18:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Lately-

• 18:15Corinne Vien?

  Which actually, you know how when I was at the antique store and I saw all of those dolls? And I was like, one of these is haunted? The one that you were like, it's definitely her?

• 18:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 18:25Corinne Vien?

  I was checking my DMs yesterday and multiple people took like screenshots specifically of her out of the like eight dolls and was like, it's her.

• 18:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Am I tuning in?

• 18:34Corinne Vien?

  I think you are.

• 18:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hair flip. Okay. Isabella says, lately I've been scaring my sister with my spooky, accurate questions about her day and trying to read her aura. So anyway, here's a story that happened early this year. I am a senior university student in Winchester, Virginia. My university is about 45 minute drive from the Appalachian Trail, meaning that she's probably in Appalachia. We are a historic colonial town, and Winchester is not plagued by cryptids or violent supernatural beings. However, it is my personal belief that the ghosts of soldiers who occupied Winchester are still active soldiers. They will not let the cryptids near the city. I have no proof of this, but it's such an old town that it's nearly impossible that I haven't heard of any haunting in the four years I've lived here.

• 19:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So this is the story about what I believe was a demonic presence that slipped through the town barrier. Oh, that's such a creepy way of saying it. I live in a dorm room, solo. It's just me and my dog. I walk her to the back of the parking lot to use the bathroom multiple times a day, and I have done so for years with zero problems. Then it was later in the afternoon one day. It was still bright outside when I took my dog outside. I'm standing there on the edge of the parking lot when I started to get the feeling that someone was behind me. I didn't think much of it at first, considering it's a busy parking lot. But when I glanced over my shoulder, I quickly realized it was deserted. And it was then that I realized how quiet it was outside. No bugs, no birds singing,

• 20:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  and that feeling that something was near was growing more and more intense. And then, once that realization hit, I realized my sensitive abilities were giving me a warning. It was a feeling of something so strong, I could feel dread wash over me like oil on my skin. Fear and darkness that I couldn't shake. It was so close, it felt like it was just paces away from me. I mustered all the assertiveness I could, and I turned on my heel to look at it. Sure, I couldn't see anything, but I knew it was there. It seemed shocking that I could sense it. And I felt hesitant, but I yelled in a frustrated tone, "You are not welcome here. Leave now. Go away." And it was like I could sense it take a step back, not used to being acknowledged or perceived. It stopped for a second, but

• 20:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  then it reached out towards me. Before I could get close enough, I pulled my dog close to me and marched back to my room, trying to go as quickly as possible without looking like I was scared out of my mind, even though inside my head, I was. Soon, I reached my door, I locked it, and I ran to my jewelry cabinet. I put on every single lucky piece of jewelry and religious symbol I had, and for the next hour, I sat in bed staring at the door, trying to wipe away this feeling of demonic energy off of my skin, because I knew it wanted me. I try not to think about the way that that thing's presence made me feel, but when it comes to mind, I can truly feel the vague remnants of that encounter creeping over my shoulder. Like, it's still there, waiting. Oh, I hate that. Oh. Hope my story didn't scare you too much. And in case you're wondering, my

• 21:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  dog seemed oblivious to the whole encounter, so great. What the heck? Zero help. Love your podcast. So much for trust your pets. I know.

• 21:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's not after me. Isabella's so in tune that her dog is like, "Trust Isabella." Yeah, yeah. You got this, girl. Isabella has this. Keep doing what you're doing. Love your podcast from Isabella. I'm so excited. I'm getting my whole body MRI scan from Prenewvo in a couple of weeks.

• 21:56Corinne Vien?

  It's honestly so important. It's like one of those things where getting older and aging has provided me so many anxieties about like what's going on.

• 22:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

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• 22:37Corinne Vien?

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• 22:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

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• 23:09Speaker 02

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• 23:37Corinne Vien?

  Oh my gosh. I don't like this. Like so far, we've had two stories that really lean on the concept of like something following at you, something always lurking, something breathing down your back.

• 23:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, isn't that Appalachia? Just that is.

• 23:53Corinne Vien?

  That's the energy there.

• 23:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Feeling there, especially with the cryptids and the kind of ominous energy. Yeah, sure, there's positive spirits, and then there's the soldiers, you know, kind of throughout the whole Appalachian regions, which I like this theory that the soldiers of this town. Are still protecting the town in a way. But how can you protect everywhere?

• 24:14Corinne Vien?

  Wait, have you seen?

• 24:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What?

• 24:16Corinne Vien?

  The nine one one call that's been released and is going around where there's this man who calls. I think he's like in Virginia or somewhere, somewhere that like, you know, is right near wars and people like specifically dying. He calls and he's like, oh, my God, I I just passed this man on the side of the road. He's looks like he's covered in blood. I think he's like in a uniform of some type. And he gives like direction of where exactly he was. And then as he's driving, he started screaming, oh, my God, oh, my God, that's not human. That's not human. And the the person's like, what's going on? What's going on, sir? And he's like, it's in my truck bed. It's in my truck bed. And he's like, freaking out.

• 24:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, my God, I thought you were you were gonna say it disappeared. But anyway, it's now literally in his trunk bed.

• 25:01Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 25:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I I'm not okay.

• 25:03Corinne Vien?

  I have chills too. It's been circulating online and someone looked up the exact location and did some research into the history. And right there, there had been a man who died during one of the wars and was shot in the head or like had some really traumatic injury that like would have placed him in uniform.

• 25:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Completely like that?

• 25:25Corinne Vien?

  Bloody. Yeah, and like he was crossing over a river and like the guy died right at the river. And it's like the water adds power to the spirit realm. And so people were like, he's like, this is the ghost.

• 25:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But the fact that he jumped in the trunk bed is scary.

• 25:39Corinne Vien?

  Yes, yeah.

• 25:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because that feels active. That doesn't feel like a residual energy.

• 25:44Corinne Vien?

  I know, it is really scary.

• 25:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I am curious how many calls there are like that that we just don't know about because especially in a place like Gettysburg, and I'm sure like the police get that a lot where they're like, oh, it's just a ghost, you know?

• 25:58Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 25:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I imagine that people see spirits like that all the time.

• 26:03Corinne Vien?

  Because even like my parents had worked for someone who like in their ring cameras had.

• 26:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What?

• 26:08Corinne Vien?

  Oh, yeah.

• 26:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  How do we get that footage? I want to see that.

• 26:12Corinne Vien?

  I'll look through my texts with my mom. She might actually have it. I feel like maybe she sent it to me.

• 26:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You guys, I want all of your Ring camera footage of ghosts.

• 26:20Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, but it was like they they had the soldiers from the Revolutionary War just like captured. Like you could hear them. You could see them going across their backyard.

• 26:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Can we please go to Gettysburg?

• 26:30Corinne Vien?

  I would actually love to do that.

• 26:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 26:32Corinne Vien?

  I feel like there's no way we wouldn't get some sort of activity.

• 26:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, and also, like, no matter where you are in Gettysburg, like, if you stay in a hotel that's like outside of like the Gettysburg field, like, you probably still are getting stuff.

• 26:45Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 26:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  To be planned one day in the future.

• 26:47Corinne Vien?

  All right, this next one is called Appalachia Cryptids Can Ride Bikes. Hey, ladies.

• 26:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's like E.T.

• 26:53Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Ed and phone home. Hey, ladies, my name is Rye. They, she. I have a spooky story, which I believe might be about a flush pedestrian. Let me set the scene. I went to go hang out with my best friend, but was on my way back home. It's 2:00 AMish at this point, and I have my dash cam on because it automatically turns on when I start my car. It was late January, Upper East Tennessee slash Southwest Virginia area, so middle of nowhere Appalachia. And it's cold as fuck. I'm on a back road. It's very hilly and curvy. I'm less than five minutes away from my house. I top a hill, definitely speeding because I was comfortable on the road.

• 27:33Corinne Vien?

  And as I'm about halfway back down the other side, I see a man, or what I thought was a man, on a bike. He's just sitting on it in the middle of the road, not moving. I obviously slam on my brakes and I slow down super fast so that I don't hit him. But I know the rules of After Dark, so I make sure my doors are locked, my windows are rolled up. I'm going super slow, but I so vividly remember what this thing looked like. And it still haunts me almost two years later.

• 28:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, no.

• 28:01Corinne Vien?

  He was tall, sticky pale, concerningly bony, and had very lanky extremities. He had on a thin, black zip.

• 28:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 28:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We have a trash bag in our studio that something shifted in there.

• 28:20Corinne Vien?

  Which?

• 28:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why?

• 28:21Corinne Vien?

  That trash bag, not to be gross, but like that trash bag has been in here for weeks.

• 28:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it's not like, it's like studio trash. So it's like unwrapped things.

• 28:31Corinne Vien?

  Food or whatever. Yeah. It's just like packaging.

• 28:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I did, I did move it yesterday.

• 28:34Corinne Vien?

  Oh, you did?

• 28:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When we were reorganizing.

• 28:35Corinne Vien?

  So maybe there's just a little extra shifting? I'm not sure.

• 28:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Something in the atmosphere made it shift? Ah!

• 28:43Corinne Vien?

  He had on a thin, black zip-up jacket and shorts, but it was January, so that was crazy, if you ask me. I was worried a little bit until I saw his face.

• 28:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, no.

• 28:53Corinne Vien?

  Or maybe lack thereof, I suppose. He literally had no facial features. It was just blank skin covering the whole area. His neck snapped to quote-unquote "look" at me, and I booked it out of there as fast as I could. I got home. I've never ran in the house quicker. I made sure every window and door was locked, all curtains were closed. I got in my bed. I didn't sleep until the daylight. And when I got in the car the next day, I went to go look at the dash cam footage to make sure I wasn't crazy or hallucinating. And the camera got all of my drive except for the last seven minutes. Convenient, considering I saw him around four or five minutes away from my house.

• 29:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Chills.

• 29:32Corinne Vien?

  As far as I know, my camera has never done that before or since. I avoided that road for the next few days, but I had to go down it to get to my granny's house. And you guys will never believe me when I say this.

• 29:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No.

• 29:43Corinne Vien?

  But the exact same bike was laying on the side of the road with no one around it. So that confirmed it for me. I hated everything about that night. My mom has since moved from that house, so I don't even live in the state of Tennessee anymore, but I will never, ever forget that night. I have some other small things that happened to me because I did live in the middle of nowhere my entire life, but nothing compares to that night. Mr. Faceless Man will live rent-free in my head forever, and I truly hope to never cross paths with him again. Love you guys more than you know. Thanks for being the best. Until next time, Rye.

• 30:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm not okay. Because at first I was like, okay, maybe it's, and this is so sad, or this is more sad than it is scary, I guess. Maybe it's like a residual energy or like an entity, someone who did tragically pass away on a road while biking. You know, it's like a spirit. That's stuck there in some way. But then the way it snapped its head to ride. And then the bike being there like on the ground the next time.

• 30:44Corinne Vien?

  It's yucky. It's icky.

• 30:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And the whole footage disappearing.

• 30:47Corinne Vien?

  The footage disappearing is like that. That's just like so much proof. Like you can't even, just, yeah. It actually reminds me, I guess they were in other seasons of Wednesday, but you know, at Nevermore Academy, they will pan to like different students and there's like specific students that have no face. It's just skin. That's like what I was picturing this whole time.

• 31:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But we also see a lot of, or we hear, we don't see, fortunately, knock on wood, don't ever want to see. We hear of entities like that, where sometimes I think it's a spirit who just cannot fully form, like what they looked like in life. But also you think of like Slenderman and like some of those dark entities that are faceless creatures.

• 31:27Corinne Vien?

  And like geographically speaking, but it is weird, like wearing clothes and riding a bike and just presenting in such a strange way.

• 31:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It reminds me of From, that show. It reminds me of that because the scary monsters in that show look like us. Until they don't.

• 31:45Corinne Vien?

  Oh, it's such a creepy concept. It seems so scary when it's on screen, but it's even scarier when you realize like, in just our inbox, there's a matching story for every single thing depicted.

• 31:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 31:56Corinne Vien?

  On screen.

• 31:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, this is a story about a place that if you seem intrigued after the story, you can stay at. Because it's an Airbnb. And we read this story on a Patreon bonus episode back in August. And I was like, it has stuck with me so much. And then our listener actually sent us the Airbnb listing. So I was like, oh, I'm going to read it on our main feed and include like actual photos to go along with the story.

• 32:22Corinne Vien?

  Great.

• 32:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hold on to your butts. Okay. Holding.

• 32:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This is from a listener Natalie and it is called, "Appalachia Airbnb That Didn't Want Us There." Hi Sabrina and Corinne, I'm Natalie. Yes, you can use my name. I also shared this story on Campfire Stories. This happened about five or six years ago and to this day, I still think about it, especially when I hear stories about haunted houses or the Appalachian region. So my brother and I had just arrived in Ohio from Florida to visit our dad for winter break. He thought how fun it would be to go skiing or snowboarding, so we made a trip to West Virginia. This drive was about four hours and we found an Airbnb roughly 45 minutes from the ski resort. The house is old, built in the 1920s, according to my dad, but it wasn't just old. It had a feeling.

• 33:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The second we got there, something felt off. And when you look at the picture on Airbnb, and we won't post the Airbnb listing itself necessarily, I'm sure you can find it if you want, but we'll post some pictures. Yeah, like the exterior of the house. There's just something about it.

• 33:26Corinne Vien?

  It's like you want to say it looks like an ordinary house, but there is a feeling.

• 33:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 33:30Corinne Vien?

  That it's a little creepy.

• 33:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We entered through a side door that led straight into the kitchen. And the first thing I noticed was a narrow, almost sinister-looking staircase leading upstairs. It was steep, shadowed, and even with the lights on, it made my skin crawl. The layout of the house was just weird. From the front door, you were met with the main staircase. To the right was a hallway that led into the kitchen and beyond that, another staircase and a second door to the outside. The living room was to the left with a fireplace and a master bedroom attached to a bathroom. Everything smelled stale, like dust and something faintly rotten. Kind of like an old, dirty vacuum. I went upstairs with my brother to go check out the bedrooms. There were four total, two doors on each side of a long, dimly lit hallway, and one door at the very end.

• 34:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When I tried to open the second door on the left, it wouldn't budge. Every other door opened easily, but that one was stuck, like it was locked. I assumed it was maybe a storage room for the Airbnb owner, but standing in front of it made me feel like something was watching me from the other side.

• 34:29Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 34:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Then I noticed the upstairs bathroom door was wide open, revealing another staircase that led down into the kitchen. The whole layout really made no sense to me. That evening, we're in the living room watching Daredevil when my brother got up to use the bathroom. While he was gone, the fireplace made this deep, ragged breathing sound, slow and unnatural, like Darth Vader exhaling underwater. My dad and I just stared at each other. That was weird. We laughed it off. My brother came back and we told him and he just shrugged it off. That night, I didn't want to sleep alone, so I shared a room with my brother. I actually slept fine, but my dad didn't. The next morning, while we're getting ready to head to the slopes, my dad told us he had woken up in the middle of the night with this heavy feeling like something was watching him. Then he heard dogs barking outside of his window.

• 35:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But when he looked, the street was completely empty. He laid back down, and then he heard clapping, loud rhythmic clapping, like people were partying in his room. He sat up. It went silent.

• 35:28Corinne Vien?

  It's so wild because it's just like multiple different, like the sounds feel so unrelated, but it's just like something's putting on a performance and trying to get his attention.

• 35:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  100%.

• 35:36Corinne Vien?

  I'll try this. Now I'll try this. Now I'll try this.

• 35:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  After skiing, they came back to the house and decided to explore it properly in daylight. We started opening everything, cabinets, closets, drawers. And then we got to that locked door again. But this time, it opened. Inside, it was pitch black. The air felt heavy and suffocating. And there was a single wooden chair sitting in the center of the room. The only light came from a dim red glow, like an old radio or alarm clock. But the only thing is, there were no electronics in there, just the chair. Where was this light coming from? We all agreed, let's close this door. We slammed it shut and ran downstairs. Oh, I think it was just her and her brother who did that.

• 36:15Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 36:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  My dad didn't believe us at first, so he went upstairs to go try opening it. But now, it was locked again. No matter how hard we tried, that door would not budge. So that night, my brother refused to share a room with me, so I went and shared a room with my dad. As we were laying there, he told me, "You might hear things, but don't be scared. It's Saturday night, probably just people outside." And at first, it was quiet, but then I heard it, faint barking. Then the clapping again, louder this time, echoing through the walls like there was a whole invisible crowd in the home. My dad sat up, looked out the window, and whispered, "Natalie." Come here. I got up. He asked, do you see anything? I looked, nothing. There were no people, no movement, but this sound didn't stop. The clapping kept continuing.

• 36:58Corinne Vien?

  Oh. My dad- It reminds me of the Tower of Terror. It does. Like just like the party always happening.

• 37:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  My dad had had enough, so he grabbed his coat and said, I'm going outside. The moment he stepped outside, everything stopped. The barking, the clapping, even the air felt like it was holding its breath. And then, the bathroom door slams. I screamed, but I tried to reason with myself. Maybe it's just something with the air, like, you know, my dad coming inside, closing the door, caused the air to close the door here. But when he came back, I told him what happened. His face was pale. And he said, I never touched that door. There was something in his voice that made my stomach drop. He woke my brother up, made us all pack our things. And at 4:00 AM, we got the hell out of there. But before we left, we noticed something crazy. As we were walking in and out to grab our things and take them to the car, the crosses that had been hanging above the doorways when we arrived,

• 37:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  they were now upside down.

• 37:51Corinne Vien?

  That's when you run.

• 37:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We had not touched them. No one had, but somehow they were flipped. We didn't say a word, we just left.

• 38:00Corinne Vien?

  I hate that, because that's like the classic demonic mockery of

• 38:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm-hmm.

• 38:03Corinne Vien?

  a symbol that you feel is there to protect you. And then it's like, protect who? Because I can manipulate this too.

• 38:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I want to see if there's a picture of the crosses in the Airbnb listing.

• 38:14Corinne Vien?

  Which also makes you think about the people that own the Airbnb. Like, are they truly religious? And that was just a part of their home and their decoration choice? Or was that there because of things that were experienced?

• 38:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, well, this picture is really, really creepy. So I think this is the room that they went into, and it has only a wooden chair. In the listing photos, it has like two twin beds with it too. But I think maybe the beds weren't there in the moment. And look at what's on the wall with this chair. And the chair itself looks like it came from like a church.

• 38:46Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 38:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's given ominous vibes.

• 38:48Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, it's it's a little creepy. It almost feels like if someone was trying to make a music video, almost like mocking religion, they would choose

• 38:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That?

• 38:56Corinne Vien?

  That as a decoration and backdrop.

• 38:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. Oh, that story, it really sticks with me. Like, I can't forget it.

• 39:04Corinne Vien?

  It's so creepy. And there's so much to it. And

• 39:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 39:06Corinne Vien?

  They all experience it. And it's like even as a group, like normally you feel safer when you have someone else with you, but it didn't matter if her brother was with her, if her dad was with, like individually and together, they're all experiencing stuff.

• 39:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I want to see what the ratings. It has five stars.

• 39:20Corinne Vien?

  For best haunted stay, most activity.

• 39:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We will return.

• 39:25Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 39:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Peaceful place, apparently.

• 39:27Corinne Vien?

  What? What is happening?

• 39:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Who's paying you to write these reviews?

• 39:30Corinne Vien?

  I guess that's weird. Like, that seems weird.

• 39:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Not peaceful for Natalie.

• 39:36Corinne Vien?

  No.

• 39:39Speaker 02

  This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Football has a play for just about everything. You can go deep, keep it on the ground, or draw up something nobody sees coming. And whether you want to run a flea flicker or the tush push, you need a plan to fit your unique situation. That's why State Farm takes the time to get to know you, so they can help personalize coverage for your life and budget. Now that's a solid game plan. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

• 40:08Speaker 02

  This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Football has a play for just about everything. You can go deep, keep it on the ground, or draw up something nobody sees coming. And whether you want to run a flea flicker or the tush push, you need a plan to fit your unique situation. That's why State Farm takes the time to get to know you, so they can help personalize coverage for your life and budget. Now that's a solid game plan. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

• 40:37Corinne Vien?

  How do you want to end it? Okay, well, this isn't Appalachia, but this is related somewhat to the last story that I had because this is about a potential SW, a flash pedestrian. Great. And it just reminded me of, we had a, you just did a story from Campfire Stories. This isn't from someone that spoke about this on Campfire Stories, but one of our listeners, who was on Campfire Stories, she lives in Utah and she's had so many experiences, like, like really, really creepy stories where like their house was, their property was like literally under attack and they went out to all the ruins they had around to protect the property and they had all been smashed and broken. Like such an intense story. I hope that she writes this story into us so we can read it.

• 41:22Corinne Vien?

  Did I miss this one? Yeah, it was such a good one. I'm so sorry. It was such a good one. Damn. But she was like, I'm moving in a few weeks from Utah to, I think she was moving to like Kentucky or Virginia or something. So going from one creepy, scary place to another? Yeah, she was like, I'm going from like SWs to windy boys. So wish me luck. Damn. But this is SW, so a flash pedestrian and government secrets in rural Utah. Great. I love a government secret. Yeah, conspiracies. Hi ladies, I absolutely love your podcast and I've been aching to share this story with people who won't call me crazy. So to start, I would prefer that my name be left out of the story because I am semi-secretive, or sorry, because of the semi-secretive nature of this location.

• 42:07Corinne Vien?

  Oh, I prefer, I prefer that I am semi-secretive. I work for the government. I am this location. So semi-secretive nature of the location in which my story takes place. Okay. Last summer, I was looking for a job and it was my first summer away from home. I was looking for some character building and I took a job as part of a commission crew that worked for various government agencies. So BLM, National Forest. I was really anxious about the job search, so if someone was going to hire me, I was just gonna take the job. I didn't know prior to my interview that I would be camping in some of the most rural areas of Utah for nearly 12 weeks. What? 12 weeks? Read the job description. You are so brave.

• 42:51Corinne Vien?

  I was pretty nervous about that aspect when I learned.

• 42:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 42:54Corinne Vien?

  During my second hitch of the season, my group was assigned to an experimental range owned by the government. It was never quite clear that.

• 43:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What does that mean, an experimental range?

• 43:03Corinne Vien?

  I don't know. What are they experimenting? Maybe this is the government's secret.

• 43:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 43:08Corinne Vien?

  It was never quite clear what they were doing out there or why they were doing it. But after a short Google search of the area, I saw all of these conspiracy theories across online forums about many different things. People theorized that the range was built atop a UFO crash and the research, they say, that was going on to direct attention away from it. So the first day we go out there, I was trying to hide how frightened I was of this place. The reality is I was going to live and work there for a month. So any way I could make myself feel comfortable with the area, I was going to do it.

• 43:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Totally.

• 43:42Corinne Vien?

  The denial of how creepy this place actually was kept me sane the whole time that I was there.

• 43:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I mean, you have to do whatever you have to do to survive.

• 43:50Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 43:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 43:51Corinne Vien?

  It started with the cabins we were to stay in. Each cabin looks like those abandoned places where people leave in a rush and leave everything behind. The cabinets were filled with ingredients and unwashed dishes from years ago. And there were items left from researchers who had stayed there over the years. There was one cabin that had a basement straight out of a found footage horror film.

• 44:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yikes.

• 44:12Corinne Vien?

  I walked down there with a flashlight. I noticed a mop sink and inside the mop sink were hundreds of dead cockroaches.

• 44:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Eh.

• 44:21Corinne Vien?

  They had come out of nearly every drain in the basement and just stayed there to die.

• 44:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That is disgusting. And now, like, they're probably also, like, rotting.

• 44:29Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm.

• 44:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ugh, ugh.

• 44:31Corinne Vien?

  A little further back, I noticed something that set my alarm off. There were four doors lining the back wall. As I opened each door, I noticed each one had the exact same thing. Inside, they each had a chair and a mattress. All these closet-sized rooms had no lights, no ventilation, and locks on the outside.

• 44:51Corinne Vien?

  I would be sleeping in this house for a month. Do you sleep in one of those rooms? I hope not. The work I was doing out there was very simple. I was there with three other people to restore a hundred year old fence. There were miles and miles of this fencing and the temperatures out there reached a hundred and twenty degrees at the hottest and the coolest parts of the day would be about seventy five. And that was the very coolest. I got sick of one of my coworkers pretty quickly because he was a bit of a princess. And he had never really had any manual labor job before and he was pretty into his phone. So he wasn't really happy with the whole thing. Sounds like the job description was not clear to anyone. To anyone, yeah. He wasn't from the southwest like the rest of the crew. And might I note that there were only four of us, including me.

• 45:33Corinne Vien?

  I grew up hearing all kinds of stories about flush pedestrians and learned very quickly to take those stories seriously. This coworker, let's just call him James, he thought that it was funny to say the name of this creature out loud. Yikes. As loud as he could when we were out in the middle of nowhere, working and minding our own business. He would whistle at night, taunt us with the threat of saying the Navajo name for this being. He didn't know how serious we were about it. There was one time when I had to hike away from the work truck in order to fix a super remote fence. And this was about an hour walk away from our only means of transportation. James decides to shout the Navajo name for a flush pedestrian at the top of his lungs.

• 46:18Corinne Vien?

  I wanted to punch that jackass so bad, dude, I probably would have. Me and the only other girl on my crew were pissed. Yeah. We have all been together without much sleep for too long and James is just putting us over the edge. So we're arguing about how disrespectful it is. And in the heat of all of it, my supervisor tells us, shut up and tells us to look. No more than twenty feet away is an antelope staring at us unmoving for about ten minutes. And then, almost unprovoked, it ran out of sight with such speed. Each morning for about four days, we would see this antelope in the same spot by the gate in the range waiting for us. It would stay perfectly still until we passed in the work truck.

• 47:02Corinne Vien?

  And then it would run away as fast as it could.

• 47:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Honestly, it feels like it's keeping an eye on them because it knows James is naughty, naughty boy.

• 47:10Corinne Vien?

  I don't really know if this kind of behavior is normal for the animal, but that detail is worth saying, in my opinion.

• 47:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 47:16Corinne Vien?

  A few days after the antelope incident, me and my supervisor wanted to explore something that we saw a few days prior when the workday was over. We drove out to a small canyon lined in volcanic rocks, and it was super, super cool, and we wanted to explore it. We hiked through the canyon for about thirty minutes, and by that point, it was starting to get a little bit darker, so we decided, hey, let's turn around.

• 47:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yep.

• 47:36Corinne Vien?

  And just as we were about to reach the truck, we noticed a smell.

• 47:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, no.

• 47:41Corinne Vien?

  The sweet, rotting smell that cannot be mistaken for something else. It was decay. Something near us was dead and rotting. The smell makes us gag as we're searching for what the source could be. To our left, right next to the entrance of the canyon, is a gruesome sight. A completely skinned and bloated corpse of a cow is right next to us.

• 48:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Aw, poor baby.

• 48:06Corinne Vien?

  In silence, we both marvel at the sight. How did we both miss this on the way in? How did we not notice the smell? We both drove back to the cabins and agreed never to speak about this with the rest of the crew. We didn't want to scare them because this actually happened during our first week.

• 48:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, great start.

• 48:23Corinne Vien?

  Thanks for seeing you on the other, or thanks for seeing you on the other. I cannot reach it. Thanks, and see you on the other side. We'll call this person A.

• 48:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, if that's what happened in the first week, what happened in weeks two, three, and four?

• 48:36Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 48:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And did James finally, like, behave himself?

• 48:40Corinne Vien?

  I don't know, but James, I, sorry, this is, I would have been Lord of the Flies. You're gone, James. You're kicked out of the cabin.

• 48:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I honestly.

• 48:47Corinne Vien?

  You're locked away in one of those four little creepy rooms.

• 48:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Please never take a job where you're working with four people in the woods for four weeks, because I think after week one, it would turn into Lord of the Flies with you there.

• 48:58Corinne Vien?

  It would be solo. It would just be me. Not if if someone's doing that and taunting the paranormal, there's no way. I would have called and been like, this guy can't be on the crew anymore.

• 49:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I am curious if he-

• 49:09Corinne Vien?

  You have to fire him. He's gone.

• 49:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  If he learned his lesson. I hope he did.

• 49:12Corinne Vien?

  I wish everything was just targeted at him and not the whole crew experiencing things like I-

• 49:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  At least it was mostly just a watching, like observing them and keeping an eye on them. Because in my mind, I'm like, it seems like a lot of these entities, yes, we don't know their intentions, but it does have this like watchful, making sure to keep you in line situation in this story at least.

• 49:34Corinne Vien?

  I don't know if James learned his lesson.

• 49:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  James, where are you?

• 49:36Corinne Vien?

  James, you need to grow up.

• 49:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Grow the fuck up.

• 49:39Corinne Vien?

  I'm actually really mad at you.

• 49:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I love how we can say James's name, but we can't say our listener's name. And it makes me so happy because we were just like outing James.

• 49:46Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, James, do better.

• 49:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe you have done better.

• 49:49Corinne Vien?

  I know he was hot and cranky and it was a manual labor job and you were probably very frustrated. But but some things are not to be fucked with and you tried to fuck with it. You put four people, including yourself, your lives at risk.

• 50:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We're mad at you, James. Can you tell?

• 50:02Corinne Vien?

  I am mad at you.

• 50:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You know, I do hope to never be in any situation similar to any of our listeners that from this episode. Because as much as we love to talk about Appalachia and the outdoors, I think it comes from a I never want to experience it place. And I really hope none of you do either. But if you do, email us. Email us your stories, whether they're about Appalachia, the outdoors, demons, ghosts, aliens, whatever it may be, please email them to us at [email protected].

• 50:36Corinne Vien?

  Shout out to our team, Jamie and Emma. Thank you guys so much for your support and all that you do for Two Girls One Ghost.

• 50:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

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• 50:48Corinne Vien?

  And really creepy campfire stories told by the people who experienced them themselves.

• 50:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, and so much more. So many cool things over there. So check us out over there.

• 50:57Corinne Vien?

  And we will see you on the other side.

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