Encounters x270 - Ghost Stories from Haunted Colleges & Universities

This week, we’re diving into chilling tales from haunted colleges and creepy dormitories—because apparently, student loans aren’t the only thing haunting students these days. Get ready for: A possible possession in a New Hampshire frat house attic—complete with winter flies (yikes) and holy water. Footsteps echoing from a non-existent fifth floor—seriously, who’s walking up there?! Shadowy figures sprinting across dorm rooms, mimic spirits pretending to be your friends, and a crying girl no one can explain. Plus, an abandoned university that used to be an asylum—French doors slamming, mysterious janitor encounters, and spirits who love to mess with students. And if that’s not enough, meet Bethany, the sweetest haunted doll (who may have met the devil?!) and a sassy nun ghost who has opinions about bathroom cleanliness. 💬 Which campus ghost would scare you the most? Have any creepy college encounters of your own? Drop them in the comments—your story might be featured in a future episode! Watch the Video Version Here. Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected] Encounters episodes are released every Thursday at 9am PST/12pm EST. 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! This episode is sponsored by Quince and Orgain Protein. Orgain is famous for their Organic Plant Protein Powder. It packs 21 grams of complete protein with all nine essential amino acids. Head to Orgain.com/TGOG30 and use code TGOG30 for 30% off your order. Quince offers a range of high-quality items at prices within reach. Give yourself the luxury you deserve with Quince! Go to Quince.com/tgog for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. 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 and produced by 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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• 2:36Corinne Vien?

  Hey, this is Two Girls, One Ghost.

• 2:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Two Girls, One Ghost. And we are your ghostesses. That is Corinne. I am Sabrina.

• 2:44Corinne Vien?

  Sup.

• 2:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And our ghost's name is Sven. If you're wondering where he is, he's probably haunting you.

• 2:52Corinne Vien?

  Probably, though.

• 2:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Probably. So one of you, someone or multiple of you are probably getting haunted by listening to our podcast, and you can blame Sven. This is an encounters episode, so basically you email us your ghostly, otherworldly, paranormal, supernatural tales, and we read them back to you. So if you have stories and you have not emailed us, shame.

• 3:12Corinne Vien?

  Shame.

• 3:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ring the bell.

• 3:13Corinne Vien?

  Shame, shame, shame. Shame.

• 3:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Email it to us now, and we'll stop shaming you. To two girls, one ghost podcast at gmail dot com. We are starting to do themes for our encounters to try to have episodes feel a little bit more cohesive. And if there's a specific type of ghost story you like, you'll find it in a categorized, organized

• 3:36Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 3:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  manner.

• 3:37Corinne Vien?

  But then, you know, occasional kitchen sink episodes.

• 3:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes.

• 3:41Corinne Vien?

  Every once in a while.

• 3:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We'll do a grab bag one in the next couple of weeks.

• 3:44Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 3:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Where we just throw some keywords in a hat and blindly pick emails based on the keyword.

• 3:50Corinne Vien?

  Throwback to our campfire.

• 3:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm hmm.

• 3:52Corinne Vien?

  Campfire stories days.

• 3:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 3:54Corinne Vien?

  Wait, was it campfire? Why don't we do that?

• 3:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, campfire stories.

• 3:56Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 3:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The grab bag.

• 3:59Corinne Vien?

  Mmm, memories.

• 4:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why'd you say it's so sexy?

• 4:04Corinne Vien?

  Was that sexy?

• 4:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mmm, campfire story days. Yeah, it was, it was pretty sexy.

• 4:09Corinne Vien?

  Let's move on. Do you have a story to tell us?

• 4:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, so the theme for today is haunted colleges and dormitories. I think I found one that had a lot of different elements because I'm a spooky bitch and I wanted something scary. So this is from our listener Chrissy called self-taught medium, possible possession.

• 4:29Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 4:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And crossing over. So.

• 4:31Corinne Vien?

  Possible possession.

• 4:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's where my, my spooky heart was tingled and loved.

• 4:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay. Hi, Corinne and Sabrina. I just found your podcast a couple of weeks ago and I love it. Now, into the ghost stories. Ever since I was a little girl, I would see and hear people that were not there, slash that nobody else could see.

• 4:49Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 4:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I've learned that my great-grandmother was a medium and that gift, or potential curse, has been passed down to me. I have so many encounters, both good and bad, and I guess I'll tell one of each. I know you girls like to end the pod on a good note, so I will start with one of my worst experiences and end with a good one.

• 5:07Corinne Vien?

  Smart.

• 5:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Depends on who you ask.

• 5:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, first story. When I was in college, I would visit my boyfriend's house in Manchester, New Hampshire. At the time, I was living in Salem, Massachusetts.

• 5:20Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 5:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So I was very in tune.

• 5:22Corinne Vien?

  Manch-Vegas is what they call it.

• 5:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Do they?

• 5:25Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 5:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, it's also a frat house in Manch-Vegas. This house was a total frat house, but the only thing scarier than the mess was a ghost in the attic. My boyfriend's room was right underneath the attic and we would always hear footsteps up there. We would go to see if one of his roommates was drunk up there, wandering around, but no. Every time we went to look, nobody was up there. One morning, I woke up and my boyfriend had already left for work. I heard a buzzing sound and immediately set out to see where it was coming from. I opened the curtains in his room to see they were covered with hundreds of adult flies.

• 6:00Corinne Vien?

  Ew! What?

• 6:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The dread I felt seeing adult flies covering his windows in the dead of winter. After a quick panic and spraying the windows with bleach, all of the flies were dead. But the spirit upstairs came to life even more after this. I immediately left the house after killing all the flies and I came back about a month later. And that's when things really turned for the worse. When my boyfriend and I went to bed that night, I shot up from my sleep, looked him dead in the eyes and said, "We're not alone."

• 6:29Corinne Vien?

  Oh my God, that is the scariest.

• 6:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I don't remember doing this. Terrifying.

• 6:34Corinne Vien?

  Oh my gosh.

• 6:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe 15 minutes later, I woke up with an indescribable pain in my chest. My upper body was convulsing, so cute, and I was crying, saying it hurt. And then suddenly something overcame me and I was not myself anymore. I felt like I was pushed to the side and fell into a dreamlike state. I kept trying to go into the attic alone, which my boyfriend and his roommate, who had found holy water in his car, kept throwing it on me. And they went up to the attic with me. I kept yelling at them to leave me up there alone. The spirit wanted me to be up there, just the two of us.

• 7:07Corinne Vien?

  Holy shit. Also, I'd never really thought about the initial possession hurting, like the entity creeping into your body and trying to push you out.

• 7:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I thought the pain kind of came after. That's wild. The best thing I can compare this to is the mom in the show, Haunting of the Hill House. The boys picked me up and carried me out of the house and then to the church across the street. And I felt myself again. So we went back into the house and fell asleep. The second I walked back into the house, however, I was once again in that dreamlike state, wanting to go into the attic alone. I yelled at my boyfriend, telling him to go to sleep so I could be alone in the attic.

• 7:44Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 7:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Eventually, and somehow, I fell asleep. My boyfriend apparently stayed up the entire night watching me. The second daylight broke, he picked me up, put me in his car. We went to my parents' house, which was in Massachusetts, and we never went back to that house again.

• 7:58Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, good. Don't.

• 8:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We did look up the history of the home and apparently a teenage boy had died in the house of a rare lung disease. So I don't know, but there was definitely something or someone luring me into the attic.

• 8:11Corinne Vien?

  Hmm.

• 8:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, my second story, this is more heartwarming. I went to Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a couple of friends in 2021, and we had met up with some girls one of my friends knew. So I didn't know any of them, which is important because the second we got there, I felt a father's presence and this man would not leave me alone. So I looked around at this group of girls and my eyes narrowed in on one of the girls. And I asked her, "Did your father used to call you baby girl?" She started to cry uncontrollably.

• 8:39Corinne Vien?

  No.

• 8:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We went into the bathroom and her father talked through me, talking about things the two of them used to do, which I would never know, since I just met this girl.

• 8:48Corinne Vien?

  Oh, my gosh, I like feel the panic in my heart of her, like the anxiety and just.

• 8:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know, but how Chrissy, you are magical.

• 8:55Corinne Vien?

  I know. To tap into that and also be able to have a whole conversation just beyond that, like,

• 8:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right.

• 9:00Corinne Vien?

  I think your dad's here, I'm getting baby girl.

• 9:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And to know which of the girls it was for. I don't remember much of what I said, as I had kind of just let him take the wheel, as I like to call it, but I do remember an immense feeling of guilt, that I was feeling like I had left my whole family behind. Turns out, her father had died in a sudden car crash and really felt guilty about leaving everyone behind. Eventually, after talking with the daughter, I told him to seek the light and find peace. I truly sensed his presence depart, and then I felt warm, which to me, meant he had crossed over to a better place. I got to give him and his daughter some peace and closure. I hope you enjoy my stories, love the podcast, keep up the great work, see you on the other side, Chrissy.

• 9:39Corinne Vien?

  Whoa, Chrissy, holy shit. I mean, like.

• 9:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Magical.

• 9:43Corinne Vien?

  So magical, so incredible, but also it was so dangerous, too, to be like that sort of conduit, because it's like, well, what are you channeling?

• 9:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You get both sides of the coin.

• 9:51Corinne Vien?

  Exactly.

• 9:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we literally, these two stories prove that.

• 9:55Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, which I guess is the importance of trying to understand how and when to like protect yourself or block yourself off from certain things, but my god, well, you survived a near possession and you helped a father get closure.

• 10:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right. I'm so curious about this entity bringing her up to the attic, like, it's obviously something negative, like something weird was happening, especially because she lost all control and it was like this entity pushing her soul aside completely, whereas with the father, it was, he took over, but it was.

• 10:24Corinne Vien?

  It was almost like with permission.

• 10:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it was also like to do something good and she knew that, whereas the other one was so ominous and not clear.

• 10:31Corinne Vien?

  That one was forced, too, because she did say that it hurt.

• 10:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 10:34Corinne Vien?

  Like there was pain.

• 10:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  There was pain.

• 10:36Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 10:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I'm curious, like, what would have happened if she went to the attic alone?

• 10:40Corinne Vien?

  And I'm glad you didn't, I'm glad you don't know, but.

• 10:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was like a Beetlejuice situation, you're suddenly married and forced to be.

• 10:48Corinne Vien?

  You swap places with the spirit on the other side.

• 10:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, oh, I was thinking the first movie, I was just thinking, you just get married and you have to live in this little.

• 10:56Corinne Vien?

  That's still pretty bad.

• 10:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Weird world.

• 10:58Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 10:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 11:00Corinne Vien?

  But you don't, you're here.

• 11:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You're still here.

• 11:02Corinne Vien?

  Okay, well, um, I have one called St. Andrews spooky student flat, which didn't you cover St. Andrews? Because I'm pretty sure I pulled this back then.

• 11:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Nope.

• 11:12Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 11:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or I don't know.

• 11:14Corinne Vien?

  I don't remember either, but I do remember I pulled this email a long time ago.

• 11:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 11:18Corinne Vien?

  Okay. Hey, Corinne and Sabrina, my name is Liz and I've been listening to your podcast for around two weeks after it was recommended on an episode of Morbid. Thanks, Ash and Elena. I absolutely love it. I listen while I'm running in the dark and it makes me run faster. So, thank you.

• 11:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Liz, are you okay?

• 11:35Corinne Vien?

  If you're running outside in the dark, I feel like that's almost more okay than imagine being in a, on a treadmill and just turning off all the lights.

• 11:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, that, that is a little bit more concerning.

• 11:45Corinne Vien?

  For like your mental sanity, but maybe.

• 11:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And for your physical safety, too.

• 11:48Corinne Vien?

  Well, yeah.

• 11:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In the dark on a treadmill?

• 11:51Corinne Vien?

  Outside at night.

• 11:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's just bad. Stop running.

• 11:55Corinne Vien?

  Just sit and listen to our episodes. I haven't had many paranormal experiences and I've never truly believed until I moved into my second year accommodation at university. I went to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. And when I moved into a small terraced flat in my second year, it was the creepiest year of my life. The flat was built around 1910, but the decor was stuck in the seventies. The flat was split into two floors, me with my flatmate Catherine on the top floor and Millie and Charlotte on the bottom floor. Although not as old as the neighboring building in town, it was generally creepy looking. In the hallway, there was this wooden altar that had a random red light bulb just stood up on it. My room was in the attic, which had a built in cupboard for storage. And what I didn't realize was that there was also

• 12:39Corinne Vien?

  a crawl space there that was boarded up.

• 12:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Nice.

• 12:43Corinne Vien?

  You can never have enough storage, so I pried it open and I found various vintage looking plushies staring at me.

• 12:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Plushies, like stuffed animals?

• 12:51Corinne Vien?

  Stuffed animals, yeah. And some old sleeping bags. I instantly noped and I boarded it up again and I placed my bookcase in front of the door for good measure.

• 12:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay. Yes, creepy, but it makes me think of like a young child making like a fort in there.

• 13:05Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 13:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like I lived in my closet for so many years because I loved, like. Well into high school.

• 13:10Corinne Vien?

  Because sometimes it just feels like safety and secure.

• 13:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it was just like a fun place to play. Like it was my little like.

• 13:15Corinne Vien?

  Your nook, your own little private nook.

• 13:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Exactly.

• 13:18Corinne Vien?

  I lived with three other girls and we all had the same feeling of intense unease and various things would happen around us. It actually got so bad that we would be scared of taking a shower alone with the door closed. We would take turns or one person would shower whilst the other would sit and talk. This is like early days of our podcast where after we would stop recording, you always had to be on FaceTime with me while I showered.

• 13:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 13:38Corinne Vien?

  We would do this just so we weren't alone, as we always felt like there was someone there watching us. I had moved in first on my own in the summer for work. One evening, I heard footsteps going upstairs. I didn't think anything of it and I assumed that it was the flats next door. I went upstairs to go grab something and it sounded like someone was walking in my room, creaking at the floorboard. I instantly felt sick and I ran downstairs thinking that there was an intruder. I called my mom on FaceTime for comfort and went back to check, but there was no one there. Thinking it was next door again, I just shrugged it off. And this would happen regularly. I would be sitting downstairs, I would hear footsteps going on upstairs and then walk in the room above the living room, my room, and there would be nothing. I then met my neighbors when term started and St. Andrews is a small university, so I actually already knew most of them.

• 14:23Corinne Vien?

  I said to them, you guys should have come around during the summer. I was in the flat on my own. Turns out, they weren't in St. Andrews during the summer, so yeah, there actually wasn't anyone occupying any of the flats next door.

• 14:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You were alone with some ghosties.

• 14:38Corinne Vien?

  Near the start of my term, my next door neighbor, Michael, texted me asking if Catherine was okay. I said, why? And he replied that he just saw Catherine crying on the steps of our front door. Catherine was away at home in London. So I asked what the girl looked like. He said she had long brown hair covering her face and her head was in her hands. She was sobbing.

• 15:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, that makes me sad.

• 15:01Corinne Vien?

  I know. He tried to ask her if she was okay, but she wouldn't reply and therefore he texted me.

• 15:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's also very creepy.

• 15:08Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, that's very creepy.

• 15:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But that makes me think that it's like a residual energy that's not interacting.

• 15:13Corinne Vien?

  But like, what is residual energy? Is it still like a piece of a soul? Like, is anything chipped off or is it just like a stain in the, in memory? Or is it a glitch in timeline? And like, do I feel sad about residual energy or am I indifferent? Am I blasé? I don't know.

• 15:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I think I feel sad just because anyone crying. I mean, I guess it depends on what the residual energy is.

• 15:32Corinne Vien?

  Right. And how, how does it affect the person?

• 15:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like that person's soul?

• 15:35Corinne Vien?

  Right, yeah.

• 15:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Great questions.

• 15:37Corinne Vien?

  Good questions, good questions.

• 15:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No answers.

• 15:40Corinne Vien?

  I went outside to check and there was no one there. The entrance to the flat was situated down a dark dirt path off the main road. So someone would have had to go out of their way and sit on their steps.

• 15:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hmm.

• 15:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

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• 17:16Corinne Vien?

  Weird things then started happening in the flat with all of us together. Batteries would go missing, personal items would be moved around the flat. And we all asked each other, please, just stop messing around. We were already creeped out by the flat itself and the crying girl incident. My next door neighbors would also have these weird feelings and weird things happen to them. Plates would go missing, cabinet doors would open overnight, and batteries would also go missing. I don't know what the significance of the batteries are. It's just so weird that we both experienced that.

• 17:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's also interesting because it's like, it doesn't sound like they saw these objects physically move. It was like they were pulled through a time warp. Of some kind.

• 17:50Corinne Vien?

  Was it Last Encounters or maybe recently where it was like we realized through someone else's story?

• 17:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was about a brush in a room. They had like booby trapped the zipper with a piece of hair. And so like that hair was still intact. The zipper of the suitcase had not been unzipped, but the brush had been moved.

• 18:07Corinne Vien?

  Right. So it just like dematerialized and re-materialized. It wasn't actually like floating through space for us to physically see.

• 18:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 18:15Corinne Vien?

  I'd lived in many houses and flats over the years and I never felt like someone was watching me before, especially when I would get undressed. And my boyfriend never believed any of this, but actually did admit that he started hating staying overnight because he always felt uneasy. Myself, Millie and Catherine would get really scared and worked up to the point that we just could not sleep alone. But luckily Charlotte would always be there to calm us down and be the voice of reason. It was near the end of the year when we were ready to move out and we were in Catherine's room. I mentioned how this year had been really fun, but I can't wait until we move out. Catherine turned to Charlotte and said, should we tell them? Yes. They then proceeded to tell me that Charlotte actually experienced the worst paranormal activity out of all of us.

• 18:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Poor Charlotte.

• 18:58Corinne Vien?

  In the early hours of the morning, Charlotte walked into the bathroom, past the stairs. She felt someone staring at her and so she turned around and there was an old woman in a nightie standing on the stairs staring forward. She then turned around and continued to go upstairs towards mine and Catherine's room. Charlotte said she didn't feel threatened, so she just remained calm. She went to the toilet and then she went back to bed. This would happen quite regularly and decided she should keep this quiet as it would probably scare the rest of us.

• 19:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Was it always the same old lady?

• 19:28Corinne Vien?

  I think so.

• 19:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And always in the bathroom? Like when she went to go pee late at night? So sad.

• 19:32Corinne Vien?

  In the middle of the night. Very scary.

• 19:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Pee your pants next time.

• 19:36Corinne Vien?

  Get a bedpan. I guess that's why she was always so calm as she knew the presence that was making us feel so uneasy and watching us was just this harmless old lady. Anyway, since then, I have lived in a 220 year old listed mansion. And I currently live in a 120 year old tenement in Edinburgh. I'm so bad at saying, I can't, I'm decent at pronouncing other words.

• 20:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You are.

• 20:03Corinne Vien?

  Don't take me to the UK. I have not felt anyone watching me or any of that unease since. Saying that, I was listening to one of your early episodes on children and black eyed kids. And as I was listening, there was a knock on my next door neighbor's door. I looked through the peephole because I'm nosy. There was no one there.

• 20:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That is creepy.

• 20:22Corinne Vien?

  But that was the neighbors. So I'm not counting this as my house or my experience overall.

• 20:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They, they were trying to go to your place, but they were one door off.

• 20:31Corinne Vien?

  Yes. Yeah.

• 20:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 20:32Corinne Vien?

  Also, I don't trust you knowing that it was your neighbors because you also thought that sounds were neighboring flats.

• 20:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, they were, but it was.

• 20:40Corinne Vien?

  Oh, yeah.

• 20:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A ghost. Yeah.

• 20:41Corinne Vien?

  Okay, then I do trust you. Overall, there were happy times in that flat. It's actually where myself and my now husband first started going out. And we had our very first photo taken together in Charlotte's room.

• 20:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I would look at that photo to see if the old lady is like in there.

• 20:56Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Just want to say thank you for reading my story. I truly appreciate the amount of effort you put into this podcast. I'm going to be so sad when I finish binging all the episodes. If you're ever in the area, let me know. I'll organize a ghost tour that goes into vaults below my city. Wishing you the best, Liz.

• 21:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, we have to.

• 21:14Corinne Vien?

  Are you pulling up the photo?

• 21:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I'm looking in the window reflection.

• 21:17Corinne Vien?

  I'm starting at the feet. I'm looking in cupboards. Ooh, I like your heels, Liz.

• 21:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know, cute outfit.

• 21:22Corinne Vien?

  I don't see the old lady, so.

• 21:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Me neither.

• 21:25Corinne Vien?

  But she's there. We know it. But I'm sure she was on the other side of the camera smiling as you guys took your first photo together. Cause she probably knew you were going to end up together.

• 21:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know. She has the knowledge. But so there's multiple spirits here very clearly. Like there's a girl crying. There's this old lady. But I don't think the old lady is necessarily the one who's making them all feel uneasy.

• 21:44Corinne Vien?

  I agree with that. Like, and there's also a lot of noise and activity happening and things that just feel like beyond. Cause almost Charlotte's view and what she sees of the old lady is just like the old lady kind of like wandering up and down the stairs or whatever.

• 21:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But it does sound like the woman like appears right behind her and then turns and it's like making her see that she's there and then turning away and doing things.

• 22:05Corinne Vien?

  But then what of the crying girl?

• 22:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right, exactly. Yes.

• 22:08Corinne Vien?

  Exactly. I think there are more than one. That was a good story though. Thanks Liz.

• 22:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Thanks Liz. Okay, I have an email that is from our listener Lexi, and she is an RA.

• 22:22Corinne Vien?

  Oh, a very scary job.

• 22:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So this email is called Haunted Dorm Stories From An RA.

• 22:27Corinne Vien?

  Are all RA students? I just assumed they were. You have so much responsibility and you're only like a year older than everyone else.

• 22:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right. But you get free room and board.

• 22:37Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 22:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, and ghost stories. The ghosts come for free. Hi ladies, my name is Lexi. Yes, you can use my name. I have compiled a list of stories for you. Some are my own and some are from my coworkers. We are resident assistants of a haunted ass dorm.

• 22:52Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 22:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So I've been listening to you spooky ladies for a while now, and you've always been a shining light during my darkest days as I have been transitioning into adulthood. And for that, I cannot thank you enough. I also cannot thank you enough for giving me the confidence to finally start my own journey into becoming a witch.

• 23:09Corinne Vien?

  I feel like we didn't do that. We were doing it, that was you.

• 23:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it's, oh yeah, oh, I thought you meant like for us becoming witches. Yeah, you already were a witch.

• 23:17Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 23:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You're just giving yourself the permission to explore it. Okay, so here's some context. I am currently a sophomore in college, about to start my second semester as an RA. The building I am an RA in is actually two separate buildings. The building I live in, we'll call it Building A, was built in 1959. The second building, we will call Building B, was built in 1935. And also, Lexi did tell us the school, but out of sake of staying somewhat anonymous, we're not gonna share it on the podcast.

• 23:45Corinne Vien?

  Not like me Googling and speculating what colleges other people could do.

• 23:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I had a feeling you'd wanna know. And you were about to ask. Well, you can, you can look.

• 23:54Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 23:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's at the very bottom of the email. Which, that's a note for all of you. If you wanna share a story but like hide locations or specific details, even change names, you can do that and be more anonymous.

• 24:05Corinne Vien?

  But I'll only say one thing about this location. Whatever is about to happen, it makes sense.

• 24:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's a spooky place.

• 24:11Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 24:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so now for some layout information because it's important for later. Building A is shaped like an H with four floors in total, counting the ground floor. It also has a rec room in the basement. And Building B, on the other hand, is a royal clusterfuck of a layout. When Building B was built, it was used as a men's dormitory up until World War II, when it was then conorted into Air Force barracks. So there's tons of cool history surrounding the building. And even now, you can see the original metal doors and dents where drill sergeants would take the butts of their rifles and bang on the doors to not to wake people up. But like I said, this dorm is a clusterfuck. Building B does not have a normal layout in the slightest. It is all suite style, meaning the rooms connect to a shared bathroom with two to six other people. But there are no hallways.

• 24:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  There's a stairwell that leads up to each suite. So instead of having floors, we call them entries. So there are entries A through K with a common area underneath entries A through B. It's kind of like apartments.

• 25:08Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 25:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. So my first story, and each story is titled, which I love. Black Orb. During my fall semester, there was a day I was sitting in my room on FaceTime with my mom. I was sitting at my desk, which is pushed up against a wall on the one end of my room. As I was talking to her, I suddenly saw a black orb the size of a silver dollar shoot across my room, up into my storage space above my door. It was so real, I turned my head as I saw it and my mom saw me react and asked what I just saw. I genuinely thought it had to be a big bug. So I got up on a stool to look into the storage space, but there was nothing there. Hmm. Someone, question mark, holding the door shut? As an RA, we have nights that we are assigned to work. This one night, we were doing our second community walk,

• 25:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  which we mainly do to make sure no one's passed out or doing drugs in a common room. Side story, I busted a resident with 10 grams of weed in one of the common rooms, which was one hell of an incident report to write. I also feel like Lexi has so many RA ghost stories, but just RA experiences is probably a whole other email.

• 26:09Corinne Vien?

  A whole other thing.

• 26:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. You can send that to us, Lexi. I'm just curious.

• 26:12Corinne Vien?

  Where was my RA when I tried smoking weed and fainted and had to army crawl back to my dorm room? I could have used some help.

• 26:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, there was also that time we took gummies and you fucking.

• 26:21Corinne Vien?

  That, that was it. That was it. Well, I guess I wasn't smoking, I ate a gummy.

• 26:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 26:26Corinne Vien?

  And it did not go well.

• 26:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You were like passed out in my room.

• 26:28Corinne Vien?

  And I was like hearing shit.

• 26:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You were having a bad experience.

• 26:31Corinne Vien?

  I was somewhere else.

• 26:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. I was worried about you and a little scared of you.

• 26:34Corinne Vien?

  I probably almost died.

• 26:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But you didn't.

• 26:36Corinne Vien?

  No. I woke up and army crawled back to my dorm.

• 26:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So while on this community walk, I go into entry A in building B, and I go down the stairs to the common room that is under that entry. To get into the common room, you have to open a door that is so old, it doesn't even latch shut. I walk up to the door, twist the handle and push, but the door doesn't budge. So my first thought is that someone was holding the door shut. Again, I tried to push it open and I put some weight behind it this time, but again, it doesn't budge. For a third time, I throw my shoulder into the door and it pops up in easily. Mind you, I was fully expecting to see a human person on the other side of the door, but nope, I opened the door and it was pitch black in the common room. The room had always given me the creeps, but after that experience, I will not walk through there in the dark. Story number three, fifth floor footsteps.

• 27:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  As I mentioned earlier, in building A, there are only four floors. One of my really good coworker friends lives on the floor above me, which is the fourth floor, but she always hears footsteps above her.

• 27:36Corinne Vien?

  Ooh.

• 27:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  There is no fifth floor. There is no attic, just the roof that no one has access to.

• 27:42Corinne Vien?

  I'm so curious if this could be all the same haunting or like it is a dorm that has seen so many different people over the years that this could just be so many different energies too.

• 27:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right, and it has a rich history too. Story number four, shadow person. Me and two other RAs often see black, full human figures walking in our rooms out of the corners of our eyes. Personally, I mostly just see it by my doorway. However, one of my coworkers before she was an RA thought she saw her roommate sprint from their door to her bed. The kicker, her roommate was fast asleep in bed.

• 28:15Corinne Vien?

  Ew, ew, the sprinting, that makes it so much worse.

• 28:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, okay, there's so many theories that could be with that where it's like, did the roommate's soul momentarily astral project and like ran back to her body? Or was there a spirit running to her roommate's body, which is scarier?

• 28:29Corinne Vien?

  That's scarier. I really hope it's just like a astral projection thing.

• 28:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 28:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I have always struggled with where to put eyeshadow, but I just discovered Thrive Cosmetics new Focus Eyeshadow Palette. And it has changed the game because it has four essential shades. And then it's each labeled with where they go, like the lid, the crease, the fine or highlight. And now I have the perfect eyeshadow routine every single day.

• 28:55Corinne Vien?

  It's so great. It's such a good cheat sheet. And then even if you don't want to do the full routine, I love their brilliant eye brightener. Because I just slap that right on. Like I wore one of the shades of that to a little seance we did the other day.

• 29:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh, spooky. Also, their Liquid Lash Extension Mascara, I'm wearing it right now. It's so good. And all their products are 100% vegan, cruelty free, and made with clean, skin-loving ingredients that work with your skin, not against it. Every time I use it and I'm around my mom, she's like, "Ooh, will you do my makeup for me?"

• 29:24Corinne Vien?

  Someone asked us the other day if we had our makeup professionally done when we were wearing a bunch of Thrive. And we're like, "Wow, no, but thanks."

• 29:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Toss, toss.

• 29:30Corinne Vien?

  So get your new everyday favorites with 20% off your first order at thrivecosmetics.com/tgog. That's thrive cosmetics, spelled C-A-U-S-E-M-E-T-I-C-S dot com slash T-G-O-G.

• 29:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Story number five, the boy in the cry cut room, which is their machine that cuts things for them. I don't know, that's what it was called.

• 29:50Corinne Vien?

  I've never seen a one of those.

• 29:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Me neither. But here is where things start to get a little crazy. These next two stories are not mine. This is one from my coworker who we will call Aspen. In Building B, we have the room called the Cry Cut Room. And we call it that because it's where we house all of our supplies to make our bulletin boards and our Cry Cut, which is a little machine that cuts things out for you.

• 30:11Corinne Vien?

  Oh, oh, the Cricket. It's called Cricket. It's like a printer.

• 30:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 30:15Corinne Vien?

  People use it for like wedding planning and stuff. You can make signage, you can make decals, you can...

• 30:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's literally called a Cricket?

• 30:20Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 30:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay. It's a Cricket room.

• 30:22Corinne Vien?

  You know, get one at Best Buy, Target.

• 30:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Never even seen one. Aspen is a full-blown witch. They practice with deities and are very in tune with their spirituality. Which this is cool that like you brought, you and Aspen were connected. And now Aspen could be your little guide into witching.

• 30:36Corinne Vien?

  I also like that name. I love that name. Calling that one.

• 30:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I chronicled Millie from earlier.

• 30:40Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 30:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Last story. Aspen has lent me a book about spells and I'm trying to convince my coworkers to have a Ouija board session with Aspen's board in the abandoned dining hall under building B. Lexi, you creepy. Anyway, Aspen went into the cry cut room to make a bulletin board as one does. The desk with the cry cut is on the wall opposite the closet that has most of the materials. This means your back is turned to that little closet at all times. FML, fuck my life. Aspen turns around from the cry cut to cricket. Shit.

• 31:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's okay. The printer, the printer. Okay, yeah, I might need to change it. Aspen turns around from the cricket to get something out of the closet and sees a tall, blonde, blue eyed boy around our age peeking out from the closet. Huh. I get chills every time they tell this story. With the building being 90 years old and the campus being 157 years old, there have been a number of deaths in the building and in the surrounding areas. We think he is a trapped soul of a college student who used to live in the building or one of the frat houses next to the dorm and is just curious what we're doing. He likes when we play our music out loud and I always stay high when I go into the cricket room. Side note, everyone on staff, even ones that are religious and don't believe in ghosts, feel his presence in the room.

• 31:56Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 31:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it's more intense in the closet. He means no harm and is just curious.

• 32:00Corinne Vien?

  I wonder why he chose the closet.

• 32:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why are closets paranormally active?

• 32:05Corinne Vien?

  Maybe it is kind of like a weighted blanket for the

• 32:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 32:09Corinne Vien?

  For you in the paranormal world, just kind of like having that like quiet, dark, close space. You feel almost like cocooned in a way.

• 32:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or is it accidentally creating like a vacuum of energy?

• 32:20Corinne Vien?

  Hmm.

• 32:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like a little like tube to keep them.

• 32:22Corinne Vien?

  Interesting.

• 32:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, six, our mimic. Hold on to your butts, everyone, because this story freaks me the F out.

• 32:29Corinne Vien?

  Uh oh.

• 32:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This story also involves Aspen, but it happened to Aspen's best friend, who is also an RA, who we will call Mal. Mal, Aspen, and one of their friends were in the rec room in Building A one night doing homework. Mal had to go up to her room for a bit and left Aspen and the friend in the rec room. Mal was gone for long enough, so when she went to find Aspen, she assumed that Aspen would be back in their room in Building B. So Mal walks down there, and when she gets to the door, she hears Aspen and the other friend talking from inside the room. Mal knocks and suddenly hears the voices go quiet and then say, "Shh, she's here, be quiet." Mal, obviously a little hurt, thinking her friends are trying to ignore her, gets out her phone and texts Aspen "door" to say, "Come answer your door and stop being a dick."

• 33:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Aspen responds, "What?" Mal texts back saying, "Answer your door, I can hear you in there." Aspen then says, "Mal, we're still in the rec room."

• 33:23Corinne Vien?

  So creepy.

• 33:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So there's two spirits, and it sounded like Aspen. Another thing about Aspen is they always leave their door unlocked. So what does Mal do? Like the total crazy would die first in a horror movie person she is? She opens the door, and there she finds the room pitch black with no one in it.

• 33:40Corinne Vien?

  Oh, God.

• 33:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And that's how they found out we have a mimic in the building.

• 33:43Corinne Vien?

  Holy crap.

• 33:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Although some of these stories are a bit off-putting, everyone here agrees that none of the spirits feel malicious in any way. No one in staff lives in fear. We're all weird and love talking about paranormal and exchanging stories with each other. I work my duty shifts with Aspen and Mal, which is when I asked them if they had any ghost stories, and that's when they told me these. It was a great way to start off the year. Welcome to your new home. By the way, there's a mimic loose in the building. Living in luxury here. Here are some honorable mentions that don't have full stories, but I have heard knocks from inside rooms when there are no residents in the building. I've been in the shower and heard the bathroom door open like someone walked in, but it never opens again for someone to leave. Also, the ghost cow in the school's bell tower.

• 34:28Corinne Vien?

  What?

• 34:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  #CowsCan'tGoDownstairs, so it's not a funny prank to lead a cow up the bell tower. But you would think that a school that was founded as an agricultural college would have students that know that as a little fact, but they were rude. Poor cow, how'd they get it down?

• 34:43Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I know, oh my gosh.

• 34:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Thank you for reading this. Hopefully I'll be able to write in more with some more stories soon. I mean, this is second semester of that building, so that's just one semester of stories.

• 34:53Corinne Vien?

  That's so wild.

• 34:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Lots of love, RA Lexi.

• 34:57Corinne Vien?

  Thank God, though, that there's, the whole RA group does believe in experiencing, because can you imagine if you were the one RA? And also, like, you have to do a lot of stuff solo as an RA, which is very scary.

• 35:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I love this. Now I'm imagining like they have their weekly RA meetings to talk about things that have been going on with residents, but then like there's a subsection of the meeting where they talk about paranormal encounters.

• 35:18Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Also, being an RA, you just basically get an excuse to gossip all the time.

• 35:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  About the other students.

• 35:23Corinne Vien?

  You're gossiping about everyone else.

• 35:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 35:25Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. If you like good gossip, apply to be an RA. Okay, I have one that's called, "My university was once an asylum."

• 35:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, that is quite terrifying.

• 35:34Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, that's...

• 35:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And also sad.

• 35:35Corinne Vien?

  I'm just asking for ghosts.

• 35:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 35:38Corinne Vien?

  "Hi ladies, I just started listening to your podcast and I'm loving it. Thanks for the stories to make my commute not so boring. I went to college at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo, California, which is formerly known as Camarillo State Mental Hospital."

• 35:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Is it on the Channel Islands?

• 35:51Corinne Vien?

  Maybe. I don't know anything about this. There's a bunch of islands off of Camarillo.

• 35:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, like people go do like a bunch of like outdoorsy kayaking and like, there's a bunch of like...

• 36:01Corinne Vien?

  Is it like a Catalina Island thing, or is it smaller?

• 36:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The Channel Islands are, they're near there. I didn't realize that there are buildings on them.

• 36:07Corinne Vien?

  Like Alcatraz.

• 36:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 36:09Corinne Vien?

  My gosh. I don't know. Well, we don't know. We're theorizing. Yeah, okay. "It was operated as a mental hospital from 1933 to 1997, so you can imagine a mental hospital in that period of time was just not a happy place for these patients. Then in 2002, it became a university that is obviously known as being extremely haunted. It's a beautiful campus, but many buildings are still abandoned and were left in their original state from the time of the hospital." I'll attach pictures.

• 36:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so it's not on the actual islands. It's like near Oxnard and Camarillo.

• 36:39Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Okay. "I was a student assistant there, and in the summer, it was absolutely dead, but I was still working 40 hours a week. We talked a lot to the campus police, who visited our office a lot for midday chats, and also if you hear any background noise, there's some vacuuming happening outside of our studio."

• 36:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  If you see the shadows, that's, because people are gonna see shadows in the doorway. It's not a ghost.

• 37:02Corinne Vien?

  It's not a ghost. The campus police ended up unlocking some of the abandoned buildings and would show us the padded rooms and old creepy places on campus. The janitor also visited us often during the summer and told us a good creepy story.

• 37:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I love that.

• 37:17Corinne Vien?

  I know. Also, can I just say, I have this memory, it's not even a memory, this is just a fact. It made me so sad freshman year, living in Wayland. The janitor at the time, like, basically wrote us all a note and posted it all over the dorm, saying how grateful he was for like this group of students to come through because we always stopped and talked to him, smiled at him and like communicated with him. And he said that he had been used to basically just being completely ignored for years. Like, no one would look at him.

• 37:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's heartbreaking.

• 37:44Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 37:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's so sad.

• 37:45Corinne Vien?

  I know. The janitor also visited us often this summer and told us a good creepy story. One night, he was vacuuming a long hallway down Bell Tower. Bell Tower is now where our classes are held, but you can tell it was once a hospital ward. And I definitely hated using the bathrooms there because there was just such an unsettling feeling. The janitor said that he was vacuuming when all of a sudden the machine shut off. He thought it was weird and he looked down at the long hall and realized that it had been unplugged, even though there was still plenty of slack in the cord. He didn't really get creeped out at this moment. He just walked back down the hallway, plugged the vacuum back in, and then went back to work. And then it happened again. Again, he walked back down the hall, he plugged it in, double-checked this time. It was definitely plugged in and he was definitely a little creeped out.

• 38:29Corinne Vien?

  He went back to work and for a third time, the vacuum turned off. He looked down the hall and sure enough, it had been unplugged for the third time. The janitor was so scared at this point because it was one in the morning and he was alone in the creepy building. So he just respectfully said, can you please stop? I have to get work done so I can provide for my family.

• 38:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 38:51Corinne Vien?

  He said after that, it never happened again. And he has many more stories, but this one was my favorite from him.

• 38:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's also really creepy. I mean, being alone in a building by yourself late at night is already... Creepy.

• 39:03Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 39:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But to feel like something that is not physically visible to you is messing with you in some way is just like, I'm glad it respected their boundaries.

• 39:11Corinne Vien?

  I agree. My coworker and I decided to go ghost hunting on campus one night because we loved talking about the history of the campus and we were really into paranormal at the time.

• 39:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's what you and I would do.

• 39:22Corinne Vien?

  I know.

• 39:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, it sounds like you're still into the paranormal.

• 39:24Corinne Vien?

  We rented a nice camera from the library to take photos and decided to walk around the campus at dusk. We got to the north quad, which was honestly the creepiest place for me. On one side of the quad was new buildings, that's where the classes were. And on the other side were all the abandoned buildings that were still a little unsettling. You and I would be so breaking into that.

• 39:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm like envious of the fact that you have abandoned buildings at your school.

• 39:47Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 39:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That we didn't like.

• 39:49Corinne Vien?

  No, we still were breaking into.

• 39:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. Locked buildings.

• 39:53Corinne Vien?

  Locked buildings.

• 39:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 39:54Corinne Vien?

  People always forget at least one door.

• 39:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or window.

• 39:58Corinne Vien?

  We walked around the north quad and we tried taking pictures of this one building. It had a door that had a ramp going up to it. And on the second story above the door was a balcony with three French doors. Remember these.

• 40:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Remembering.

• 40:10Corinne Vien?

  For some crazy reason, the camera would not take a picture of this building. You would just click, click, click and hear the photo being taken, but the screen would stay black and nothing would happen.

• 40:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Damn.

• 40:18Corinne Vien?

  And then you would turn the camera to the right, stamp a picture, no problem, it would come up. And that was a warning, but we definitely didn't listen and did not leave this building alone. Instead, my coworker decided to try and open the door. She walked up the ramp, she jiggled the handle, nothing happened, it was locked. So she started walking back down the ramp to us. And when she was halfway down the ramp, we all heard the doorknob jiggle by itself. Everyone froze. And my coworker decided to try to open the door one more time. Maybe it had unlocked itself? She went back to the door and I swear as soon as she put her hand on the doorknob, a loud bang was heard from inside and all three of the French doors on the balcony above swung open and shut by themselves all at the same time. Terrifying.

• 41:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Terrifying, but also hilarious if it's a ghost messing with them.

• 41:04Corinne Vien?

  Oh my god, yeah. Y'all, I ran for my damn life.

• 41:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Everyone for themselves.

• 41:08Corinne Vien?

  I have never experienced the paranormal so clearly. I tell the story and I forget it was real, but recently I saw one of my old coworkers and she brought it up when we were all together and it was just so terrifying to remember and realizing that, yeah, this isn't just a story because five of us really did see this and experienced it together. It was terrifying.

• 41:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Jeez.

• 41:28Corinne Vien?

  There were also several times automatic paper towel dispensers would go off by themselves in the middle of my lab lecture classes. There was a story of a woman on the campus asking where the chapel is and she'll disappear as soon as she starts to walk away from you.

• 41:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Interesting. So you have a full conversation with her?

• 41:43Corinne Vien?

  I guess so. She'd say, where's the chapel? I'd say, oh, it's over there. And then she walks by and disappears.

• 41:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And multiple people have experienced that. That's wild.

• 41:49Corinne Vien?

  Weird that you were talking about a cow because I have, there's an old dairy factory on the property, an old abandoned bowling alley and an old courthouse for the criminally insane. Creepy. Anyways, I have much more where that comes from, but I'll email another time. Maria.

• 42:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Please do, because clearly there's a lot of stories here. This makes me like want to go back to college purely so I could pick a school with abandoned buildings that I could investigate.

• 42:15Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, just make it a million times creepier.

• 42:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. Although granted, I guess like depending on the university, some of them are public, like we could walk onto a campus and do that.

• 42:23Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. It's hard to get in buildings, though.

• 42:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I've definitely tried to like just use the bathroom on Harvard's campus. Like you're locked out of everything.

• 42:30Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 42:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Key card, student.

• 42:31Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Well, that's also a private school.

• 42:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I guess.

• 42:34Corinne Vien?

  Let me pee on your campus, Harvard.

• 42:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Truly. Come on.

• 42:38Corinne Vien?

  Can I get a walk to one of the coffee shops?

• 42:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  See, that's a situation where I would just be like, I need to find an alleyway because this girl can't hold it and I am not willing to try another couple of doors.

• 42:47Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. See, the problem is there's a million people because everyone's walking through Harvard too, to see it. So it's, there's no private place.

• 42:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Public peeing.

• 42:55Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Drop and trawl.

• 42:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Girl's gotta pee.

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• 43:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I wanted to end us on, and you might be like, what does this subject line have to do with college?

• 43:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You'll find out. This is from Lee and it is called, I miss my haunted doll. Hello, my name is Lee. I use they/them. I've been listening to your podcast since my freshman year of high school and I am now a freshman of college. During my freshman year of high school, I moved into my mom's house. For context, the house used to be my papa's house, but he passed away in 2020. The house has been in my family for generations, so I'm quite used to it and all of its hauntings. As I spent more time in the house, I picked up on the energies of different spirits. And I knew that there were two different spirits in my room and several in my basement. And I wanted to communicate with them. This was also around the time that my mom gave me three porcelain dolls that she had collected when she was in high school.

• 44:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  One day I had my friend who sees spirits and monsters come over and we talked to the spirits in my house. We started in my room and I already had dowsing rods, so we used those. Me and my friend were listening to emo music at the time too. And when he held the rods, they started swinging to the music.

• 44:36Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 44:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We started talking to one of the spirits in the room and we learned a lot about her. Her name was Bethany and she was six years old. She apparently used to live in my bedroom when it was an apartment and she loved my friend. After talking to Bethany for a while, my friend started to see and feel her. Bethany would run around my room, dance, tap him on the back, and we could feel her energy. She made us feel giggly and she was so very sweet. I asked her if there was anything I could do to make her feel more at home. And I asked if she liked toys since she was only six years old. She told us that she wanted one of the porcelain dolls my mom gave me, so we let her pick out which one she wanted. She picked the doll with long curly blonde hair and blue eyes. The doll was wearing a long blue dress and a blue hat that matched.

• 45:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Then we asked her where she wanted the doll and she pointed to my closet. So that's where we left her. I couldn't personally see Bethany or communicate with her on my own, but I would always say hi to her and tell her about my day. Whenever my friend came over, we would always talk to Bethany. And we later found out that she ended up inside the doll. She would ask to be moved to different places in my room every time we talked to her. She once told me she liked to lay next to me while I slept. But I didn't like that, so I asked her to please stop, and she did.

• 45:49Corinne Vien?

  That's so interesting. Like, she left the doll's body at night and slept next to Lee? Which I'm glad that she has the ability to move to and from. And that she didn't just accidentally get herself stuck in the vessel.

• 46:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. She respected my boundary. One time, Bethany asked me to put her on my bed while I was at school so she could be next to the stuffed animals. And she was even able to show us which Squishmallow was her favorite.

• 46:11Corinne Vien?

  I would have a haunted doll if it had a Bethany.

• 46:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Same. I don't think she was actually in the doll, but I think she had formed an attachment to it. One time, we also did a spell with her, and she was able to answer questions we had about certain things. She also told us that she had met the devil.

• 46:26Corinne Vien?

  Creepy.

• 46:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Bethany! And Bethany told us that there was a demon in my closet, and the attic was the only safe place from him. She also could tell us if we were going to fail a test, like she could read the future. Girl was pretty powerful.

• 46:39Corinne Vien?

  Okay, this is...

• 46:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Doubting Bethany now?

• 46:43Corinne Vien?

  No, but after listening to the telepathy tapes, it makes me wonder just like about this. And if sometimes when we think we're seeing spirits, are we just seeing someone else's projected consciousness spending time?

• 46:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  With us?

• 46:58Corinne Vien?

  With us.

• 46:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Interesting. A few months after talking to her, I got Bethany a bunny, and she loved him. He would sometimes look like he was being pet, but there was no one there. So I thought, obviously Bethany. I would come home from school to find the bunny laying next to her doll, and they became such good friends with each other. But here's the sad part. I left for college last month, and before I left, I explained to her why I had to leave. And I told her she could stay at the house, or she could choose to come with me, or go live with my friend. She said she needed time to think about it. Also, side note, this is not part of the story, but I'm out at my deck at night writing this email to you, and I just saw the shadow of a man in the corner leaning on the railing of the deck. He had a cowboy hat on and was smoking a cigar.

• 47:40Corinne Vien?

  Is Fenn a cowboy?

• 47:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I would love that.

• 47:44Corinne Vien?

  That'd be really cool.

• 47:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I feel like Sven is so cool.

• 47:46Corinne Vien?

  Sven, if you are a cowboy, can you just give us like an EVP of like an old western like whistle tone, you know?

• 47:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh, let's give, let's give Sven his moment.

• 47:55Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 47:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay. Back to the story. Uh, yesterday I had a friend come over and ask Bethany what she wanted to do. And she was gone. She's not here at all, nowhere in my house. And my friend said most likely she left because there's nothing for her to pull energy from with me being gone. But I'm sad. I had a lot of fun talking to her and her energy was delightful to be around. I'm gonna miss having her here. Anyway, here's my bonus story. My significant other is a witch and a medium. When they're falling asleep or in their half asleep state, spirits will often talk to them or show them things. On this night, I was in my dorm on FaceTime with my partner. I was getting ready to go to sleep and they were in that half asleep state. We were chatting about something random and then out of nowhere, my partner very calmly says, "There's a nun standing in your closet."

• 48:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I was like, "Excuse me, what?" And they just repeated, "There is a nun standing in your closet." I asked, "Why is she standing in my closet?" And got no answer. My partner proceeded to narrate everything that the nun was showing them. "She's out of your closet. She's looking at you. She's in your bathroom. She's looking in the mirror above the toilet." That last one really got me.

• 49:05Corinne Vien?

  This is so scary.

• 49:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Terrifying. I'm also imagining Lee's partner is totally in this trance.

• 49:09Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, like it zonked out.

• 49:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So this last one really got me because there is no mirror above my toilet. So I asked my partner, "Why is there a mirror above my toilet? I don't have a mirror above my toilet." To that, they responded, "Yeah, but you know what mirrors are, Lee. They're portals." After that, I was silent and my partner said, "Now she's looking in your shower." She's pointing out how gross your shower is.

• 49:33Corinne Vien?

  Okay. All right.

• 49:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Now she's in your roommate's room. She is sitting on your roommate's bed. Now she is in your roommate's closet. Now she is laying in your roommate's bed.

• 49:42Corinne Vien?

  What a noisy, noisy, a nosey nun, but also maybe a little bit noisy.

• 49:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, is the roommate in the bed?

• 49:48Corinne Vien?

  Oh, gosh, I didn't think about that.

• 49:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I decided to ask what the nun looked like and my partner described her as being very ugly with a really long, pointy nose.

• 49:57Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 49:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When I talked to my partner the next day, my partner had no recollection of any of this.

• 50:01Corinne Vien?

  What the heck?

• 50:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A few days later, I had my first sleep paralysis experience. I had opened my eyes and there she was. She was standing by the door, just staring at me. That nun. I can't really describe her, but she looked angry and she did really have a long nose, too. During my paralysis, I couldn't move or talk. I wanted to yell at the nun. I wanted to tell her that she was not welcome here. I do have a witch's ladder that my partner made me for protection. And I wanted to grab it and hold it up to her, but I couldn't move. It felt like it lasted for hours. And when I actually woke up, my heart was racing and I was sweating. A few days later, after this sleep paralysis incident, my roommate went home for the weekend. So I was there by myself. While my roommate was gone, the bathroom light stopped working. So I had to use a flashlight when I went to the bathroom and my flashlight shut off on me.

• 50:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When it turned back on, there was a spider hanging from the shower rod.

• 50:51Corinne Vien?

  Ooh, ooh.

• 50:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When.

• 50:53Corinne Vien?

  But also spiritual.

• 50:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Very spiritual, very paranormal. I tried to change the light bulb, but I'm too short to reach. I tried to use my step stool, a chair, the step stool and the chair. So dangerously. And I also tried to reach it with a vacuum. I had some friends come over to try to fix it, but when they were there, the light worked fine.

• 51:12Corinne Vien?

  What the heck?

• 51:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When they left, it stopped working again.

• 51:15Corinne Vien?

  Well, clearly a sign for you, but, but not a great one to have to just be there in the darkness.

• 51:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But it's also like so weird. It's only when Lee is alone that light stops working. Lee said, my roommate got back and the light works fine.

• 51:27Corinne Vien?

  Wait, okay. Could this be sort of like the stranger thing, sensory deprivation, tank, water, shower? Like, are they trying to force you into?

• 51:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Lock yourself in the bathroom.

• 51:39Corinne Vien?

  Communicate.

• 51:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'd be too scared to even try, especially because the light works when other people are there. So you can't even have someone on standby outside of the bathroom.

• 51:48Corinne Vien?

  Right, that's true.

• 51:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Anyway, yeah, when my roommate is not there, the light does not work. So I didn't think to tell my partner about this because I didn't think much of it. But yesterday I told them I was having trouble with the bathroom light. They then told me that they had had a dream where I was having trouble with the light. They told me that in the dream, they were part of the wall. And they said they were watching me from the wall, watching me use my stool, then my chair, and then my broom while trying to change the light bulb, which is exactly what I had done.

• 52:16Corinne Vien?

  Whoa.

• 52:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They told me that while I was doing that, there was this purple orb in the bathroom with me. They said that in their dream, they watched the purple orb control the bathroom light and then fly into, again, a mirror above the toilet. Maybe the purple orb is also the nun? I don't know. I am terrified to go back to my dorm tomorrow, but oh, well. This was sent in September of 2022, so I imagine Lee went back to the dorm. Thank you for reading my stories. I love listening to you guys, and so does my bunny. When I put you guys on, he perks his ears up and listens. I'll try to include a picture of him. See you on the other side, Lee.

• 52:51Corinne Vien?

  I mean, it does kind of feel like there is some sort of like energy current going through here that people can tap in and experience things that they ordinarily wouldn't.

• 53:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right, but Lee almost specifically, and then I guess Lee's partner.

• 53:04Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 53:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But I'm curious if the roommate, because if the nun went and laid in bed, in the roommate's bed, one, Lee, I'm curious, was your roommate home? And two, does the roommate have any experiences?

• 53:16Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm. I'm like, who is the nun?

• 53:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, what's the history of your school?

• 53:19Corinne Vien?

  Why is she such a busybody? Checking everything out, having her opinions.

• 53:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, your shower's dirty. I love.

• 53:25Corinne Vien?

  I actually like that because, yes. And also, I feel like if it was this sort of like dark demonic energy, parading as a nun, it wouldn't have all these comments.

• 53:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It wouldn't care about a dirty bathtub. It would probably enjoy the dirty bathtub.

• 53:37Corinne Vien?

  Right, so I appreciate that there are these like little.

• 53:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It feels like a real nun.

• 53:40Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 53:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So this was sent in September of 2022. It is now February of 2025, meaning that Lee is a junior, three years? So Lee, let us know what more has happened. I'm always so curious.

• 53:55Corinne Vien?

  Right, like, how did this end? Did this fizzle out?

• 53:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No.

• 53:58Corinne Vien?

  Did you move off campus and everything got even worse?

• 54:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We do not have any more emails from Lee. Okay, Lee, well, let us know.

• 54:06Corinne Vien?

  And if any of you have been to a haunted dorm, stayed in a haunted dorm, visited a friend in a haunted dorm, or college,

• 54:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 54:13Corinne Vien?

  let us know your experience because it's a topic we'll revisit again. We've done it a few times now.

• 54:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And again, call to action, give us more keywords because we are somewhat capable as humans, but we like having your help coming up with themes and ideas for future encounters. Because I feel like sometimes we get like, because we're creating the themes so many times. And I feel like sometimes I'm like, what's another theme?

• 54:36Corinne Vien?

  I know. I'm like, oh, I can only do aliens, Sony.

• 54:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right.

• 54:38Corinne Vien?

  Every other episode can't be aliens.

• 54:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I could do aliens all the time, but they don't want to do me.

• 54:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Rude.

• 54:47Corinne Vien?

  Anyway, yes, email us any encounters with the paranormal.

• 54:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Did you say our email?

• 54:51Corinne Vien?

  No. It's [email protected]. You can find it in the show notes. You can find our website. You can find our social media. We're on YouTube. So if you want to watch, if it's more fun for you to watch episodes, we're now on YouTube.

• 55:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we're also on Patreon. If you want bonus content, or if you want episodes ad free or one week early, and you really like, if you're watching on YouTube and you're like, oh, my God, I got jump scared like 10 times in one episode because you don't control where you put your ads. Yeah, we're sorry about that. But you can listen ad free. And all benefits that we have on Patreon, we have one tier. So it's $5 a month and you get everything. You get every episode ad free and one week early. You get bonus content, bonus episodes every month. You get campfire stories every Tuesday where you can come share your story with us live. And you get book club, you get stickers, holiday cards, so many things.

• 55:39Corinne Vien?

  So many things.

• 55:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 55:40Corinne Vien?

  Shout out to Jamie, who edits our podcast. Thank you, Jamie.

• 55:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And thank you to all of you.

• 55:45Corinne Vien?

  We love you.

• 55:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we will.

• 55:47Corinne Vien?

  See you on the other side.