Encounters x314 - Ghosts on the Graveyard Shift

While the rest of the world is asleep, first responders, hotel workers, and night-shift warriors of all kinds are keeping the lights on… and apparently keeping the ghosts company too. In this episode, we’re sharing chilling graveyard shift encounters from people who go to work when everyone else clocks out—and quickly realize they’re not alone. Stories include: A haunted hotel phone that keeps ringing, even after it’s unplugged A CNA who may have witnessed Death itself during an overnight shift A medical alert and 911 call activated by someone who had already passed away A foggy late-night drive that lead to an encounter with Hawaii’s Green Lady A terrifying ambulance ride through the desert where time—and reality—seem to disappear 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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• 2:08Corinne Vien?

  Howdy.

• 2:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hello.

• 2:09Corinne Vien?

  This is Two Girls One Ghost.

• 2:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Two Girls One Ghost. And we are your ghostesses. That is Corinne.

• 2:15Corinne Vien?

  Hello.

• 2:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And I'm Sabrina. And tonight, we're staying up late when everyone goes home.

• 2:22Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. I'll be honest, I probably would still sleep on the job if I had to do this.

• 2:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Not if you're in emergency services, you couldn't.

• 2:30Corinne Vien?

  That's true. Because we're talking night shifts. We're talking graveyard shifts. Who checks in?

• 2:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Late at night?

• 2:37Corinne Vien?

  For work, 10, 11 PM. You don't get to go home until the sun has already risen once more.

• 2:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What happens when the night is out, when the spooky is the spookiest?

• 2:49Corinne Vien?

  This is After Dark. Two Girls One Ghost After Dark.

• 2:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I kind of like it. I'm here for it.

• 2:55Corinne Vien?

  Okay, well, the proof that I do nap on a night shift was when we went to, well, I guess I was pregnant during it.

• 3:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 3:01Corinne Vien?

  Like, I was like, oh, when we had to stay until 4 AM at the Lizzie Borden house, and I did sleep multiple times.

• 3:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, also, I feel like if you work a night shift, oftentimes, you kind of adjust your schedule where you're sleeping in the day to then go work at night. But we were, it was a one night.

• 3:20Corinne Vien?

  It's all job. Like, I do not know how people do it, like nurses who have to do

• 3:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The mix.

• 3:26Corinne Vien?

  Just the mix. Or like my, is he technically my brother-in-law? My sister-in-law's husband?

• 3:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 3:32Corinne Vien?

  Okay. He is a police officer, and he is doing, it's like random overnights, too, for cops.

• 3:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So, my sister, when she worked in the emergency room, you had to do at least one night shift.

• 3:46Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 3:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I can't remember if it was weekly or monthly.

• 3:50Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I think that's what it, what he's dealing with. It's like a few times a week, he has to do it because he's like bottom of the

• 3:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 3:56Corinne Vien?

  Of the totem pole.

• 3:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So you, there's no routine. You can't establish a routine.

• 4:00Corinne Vien?

  No, no. And it's like, how is this so...

• 4:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which is why my sister now works at a med spa.

• 4:04Corinne Vien?

  Right? I know. I was like, I mean, obviously, we need people in these professions, obviously, but...

• 4:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Difficult.

• 4:12Corinne Vien?

  Man, if I had to go into a medical, if I went and was like a P A. or something, I would for sure go into dermatology or something where it's like, because dermatologists, and sorry to the dermatologists out there if you find this insulting, but I feel like this is the stereotype that like, if you become a dermatologist, or if you work in a dermatology office, you're working from like nine to three.

• 4:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Of course. Why wouldn't you create healthier hours?

• 4:35Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 4:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's not life depending. You're not saving lives.

• 4:38Corinne Vien?

  Right. No one's going to die because you did not inject their lips today.

• 4:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. With all that being said, we're going to honor those of you who either...

• 4:47Corinne Vien?

  Stay up late.

• 4:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Either do it because you like it, or because you have to. We're honoring you today with stories of graveyard shift ghost encounters. So I'm going to start with one. It has two stories. I'll read the graveyard shift story first.

• 5:03Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 5:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it is great.

• 5:05Corinne Vien?

  Ew.

• 5:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so this is from our listener, Dani, and she says, hi, girlies. First of all, first off, thanks for being my homies for the last few years. This is what my sister said once I got her on her pod. It's cool to just for once have like hot girls who love spooky shit who I can relate to.

• 5:25Corinne Vien?

  Wow. Oh, my God. Thanks. I don't think I've been called hot in years. That was really nice.

• 5:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Such a comment. Thank you. Hot girls who love spooky shit unite.

• 5:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So here are my ghost stories. The first one, which I'm reorganizing them, is my friend Kelsey's. And then the second one I'll read is from Dani. My friend was a graveyard shift employee at an old hotel in San Diego's historic Gaslamp District.

• 5:52Corinne Vien?

  Oh, beautiful. I love the Gaslamp District. Fun bars, too, and love the ghosts.

• 5:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She was working as usual when suddenly the phone started ringing, so she answered it, only to be met by silence.

• 6:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But she described it as you could feel that someone was on the other line.

• 6:10Corinne Vien?

  Ooh creepy.

• 6:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She didn't know how to describe it, but you could tell that someone was on the other line, whether they were talking or not. She said hello. Hello. Several times before finally hanging up because no one was conversing back with her. The moment she put the phone back down, it rang again. Immediately. She picked it up. No one. Sets it down. It begins ringing immediately. She answers, nothing, sets it down, it rings again. This happened several more times before finally it stops. So she looks on the booking list to see who was staying in that room. No one was staying in that room.

• 6:46Corinne Vien?

  Dun dun dun.

• 6:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Perplexed, still trying to think rationally, she asks the security guard at the hotel to go up to that room and check it out. After a couple of minutes, she hears the phone ring again. She answers and it's the security guard. He says, hey, it's me. I'm in the room, no one's up here. So I'm just gonna unplug the phone from the wall. Moments pass. And the phone fucking rings again.

• 7:08Corinne Vien?

  No freaking way.

• 7:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And does it again. And again.

• 7:13Corinne Vien?

  Wait, this would make me concerned. I'd be like, someone needs to go check underneath the beds. What if someone was murdered there and then they're trying desperately to be found?

• 7:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The phone was literally unplugged from the wall.

• 7:22Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I know, from a spirit. Like, what if someone was murdered?

• 7:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's like, the cleaning crews never checked under the beds?

• 7:29Corinne Vien?

  Yes, that happens all the time. That's how half the bodies are found.

• 7:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's how they're found, yeah, cuz cleaning crew goes to.

• 7:36Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, on like the seventh day of people complaining about a scent.

• 7:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  All the time.

• 7:41Corinne Vien?

  All the time.

• 7:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It happens everywhere.

• 7:43Corinne Vien?

  Every day.

• 7:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Every day. She, it keeps ringing again and again with the same presence of some sort of person on the other end of the line. It happens a couple more times and silence. Nothing was ever found out about this spooky situation. What gets me the most is how nonchalant she was about it. It was really like, yeah, so this weird thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Oh my god.

• 8:06Corinne Vien?

  Um, damn.

• 8:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, haha, not crazy, it's fucking insane.

• 8:10Corinne Vien?

  Although you know what I like is that she does not have the position at work where she actually has to go check the room.

• 8:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right, that's true. She has the safety of behind the desk.

• 8:19Corinne Vien?

  She gets to be downstairs at the desk where all the lights are, all the people coming and going, security there, and gets to experience the paranormal kind of safely.

• 8:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. So now, this is Dani's personal story. So, my story starts off like this. I think I'm about ten-ish, and that time of my life is kinda crazy and hazy. High traumatic upbringing and parents who should have gotten divorced.

• 8:40Corinne Vien?

  Aw, sorry.

• 8:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So I'm ten, I'm in my bed, and it's nighttime, and I feel that oh-so-recognizable feeling of random fear as I lay in my bed trying to fall asleep. You know, haunted house shit. So I decide, fuck it, I'm going to sleep in my mom's room. And as I open the door, and I start to step across the hallway to my mom's room, I look left, and I immediately greeted with the stairs down to the living room. I, for some ungodly reason, decide to look left down the looming staircase into the ominous living room, and I see a woman crouched along the back wall of the living room, her face in her hands as if she's crying. I immediately think, is that my mom? Is she okay?

• 9:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because she's the only woman in my house, since my sister and I are still in elementary/middle school.

• 9:28Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. It's also like, to see your mom cry, it's like, you're already so taken aback.

• 9:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right. So I immediately-

• 9:34Corinne Vien?

  I was like, oh shit, what did I say?

• 9:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Was it common that you made your mom cry?

• 9:38Corinne Vien?

  No, like, I probably remember like, the three times I ever did.

• 9:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 9:42Corinne Vien?

  That's why it's really stuck, stuck with me.

• 9:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Teaching you not to say mean things to your mom.

• 9:46Corinne Vien?

  Uh huh.

• 9:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I immediately am concerned, slightly horrified, as the thought of my mom crouching in the living room in the middle of night crying is super weird, that I realize she's wearing a white nightgown, which is something my mom never did. But still, I feel a concern for her takeover, so I decide to slowly creep down the stairs, and I muster up. Mom? Also, keep in mind, Dani is leaving her bedroom to go sleep in her mom's room because she felt scared in her own room.

• 10:11Corinne Vien?

  Mm-hmm.

• 10:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I come to about five feet away from this woman who I think is my mom, and suddenly I'm just staring at a blank wall. She's gone. Oh. The realization that I'm all alone in the middle of my dark living room in a creepy haunted house at nighttime sets in and I start to panic. And now, something to note is I would never in a million years go downstairs at night in that house, no matter what. Even if I'm staying there and dying of thirst, as a now 27-year-old, I just do not go downstairs. I'd rather run to the bathroom down the hall and drink from the faucet. So why the fuck did I go downstairs? Aside from the disappearing lady, the disturbing fact to ponder is how I was drawn to go downstairs, pulled to check it out. Yes, I do care about my mom, but I never would have gone downstairs, nor would my mom

• 10:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  realistically be crying in a dark corner downstairs. I really felt entranced to go downstairs, and I didn't realize the gravity of what I had done until she was gone and I was alone. I've never felt more of a snap back to reality, entranced to clear-minded wake-up than I did in that moment. I booked it upstairs and I don't know what I did after that. But after that happened, things started playing tricks on me in the darkness. Ooh, I don't like that.

• 11:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This was vivid. As a rational person, I just chalked it up to a figment of my imagination. After all, that's what parents tell their kids when they're young. It wasn't until recently, after I'd been more involved in listening to scary story podcasts, that I realized, huh, this is a classic ghost story. Looking back, that house was the creepiest house I'd ever been in, and I've lived in a house from early 1900s. This one was built in 1970s, but of course, it was just the house settling. Mm-hmm. Every member of my family has paranormal experiences from that house, and my room in particular was especially colder than any room in the house. Again, my rational child like mine accepted it was just that the heat didn't reach my room, even though I was in the middle of the house and every other vent blasted warm

• 12:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  air except for mine.

• 12:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  With a ventilation system that was sound, always working correctly. I also had my most recent experience in the house about three years ago. I was working in the basement on my laptop, just by myself at home. I wasn't listening to music, doors and windows were all closed, the TV was not on. And I wasn't even typing on my laptop, I was just using the tracking pad to scroll through emails. Point is, it was quiet in the house. And then I hear a woman humming two or three notes. It was coming from the middle of the room. You know how like spatially you can tell where a noise is coming from?

• 12:42Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 12:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. This was in the middle of the room, clear as day, a woman humming. I immediately laugh and text my sister, because was this the same woman I experienced when I was 10? Everyone else's experiences in that house felt male, but mine always felt female.

• 12:58Corinne Vien?

  Hmm.

• 12:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So I wonder who she is. I don't live there anymore.

• 13:01Corinne Vien?

  She's not always crying, that sometimes she's like happy and humming and just like wandering around, just living, putzing around the house.

• 13:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. I don't live there anymore and every time I visit, it's for Christmas or an event, so there's always a whirlwind of chaos in family. I wonder if I were able to hold the space for whoever this woman is, if I would be able to get more information on who she is and why she only appears to me. Love you sexy ghost girls, love Dani.

• 13:25Corinne Vien?

  Dang.

• 13:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Dang, Dani.

• 13:26Corinne Vien?

  It is interesting that Dani was getting like female energy and female spirits.

• 13:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm hmm.

• 13:32Corinne Vien?

  Everybody else.

• 13:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Gets male?

• 13:34Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 13:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe it's Dani's like guardian of some kind?

• 13:37Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, because it does seem, yeah, like it has to be only attached to Dani or for some reason, it's only appearing to Dani.

• 13:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right.

• 13:45Corinne Vien?

  Because you would think other people would at least experience it once or twice.

• 13:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But then it's also interesting that Dani's never experienced male energy.

• 13:52Corinne Vien?

  True.

• 13:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which is so weird, like, that's the confounding thing about the paranormal is multiple things can be existing in the same house, but people are having different experiences.

• 14:01Corinne Vien?

  Oh, you know what I don't like about that now that I'm thinking about it, is that it does remind me a little bit of Haunting of Hill House, like the red room.

• 14:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Is it her?

• 14:07Corinne Vien?

  Like the house creates what you specifically should see, or what it thinks you'll.

• 14:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I jumped to is it Dani, like grown up?

• 14:17Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 14:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Have you ever cried down in the living room as a grown woman in a white nightgown?

• 14:23Corinne Vien?

  Against the wall.

• 14:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Just because that's a good place to cry? Also, I need to know what hotel that is in San Diego.

• 14:30Corinne Vien?

  I know.

• 14:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because the Gaslamp District is super haunted. Well, San Diego in general is super haunted.

• 14:35Corinne Vien?

  But they do a lot of ghost stories in the Gaslamp District, so curious. It's not like the most giant section of San Diego either. It's like pretty, yeah.

• 14:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Although, still too many hotels for us to know.

• 14:46Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, way too many.

• 14:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Tried to with colleges.

• 14:49Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Okay. This is called "The Night I Searched For Death."

• 14:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Interesting.

• 14:54Corinne Vien?

  I used to be a CNA, a Certified Nursing Assistant, at an assisted living facility. I worked the NOC shift, which was the overnight night shift from 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM. Usually, nothing happens. Everyone's asleep. I'd have to change some people throughout the night that couldn't get up to use the bathroom due to mobility issues, but generally, pretty quiet. But one night, something happened that had never happened to me before. Usually, at nursing facilities or assisted living facilities, there are hauntings because a lot of death happens. So you hear weird noises, and it's not unheard of to see shadow figures. I love that it's just like, no big deal. It's typical part of the job.

• 15:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I'm curious if anyone who works at a assisted living home has not experienced anything. Like, I feel like it's more common that you do.

• 15:43Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 15:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Let us know. Let us know if you were.

• 15:45Corinne Vien?

  I also feel like probably half of the hauntings happen when the person's still alive. Like, I'm thinking of my Grammy and how many times she kind of like dipped for a minute and then came back. And people interacting with other people that certain people can't see. Yeah. The veil is thin at nursing facilities, that's for sure. This night was a little bit different. The facility had a gated fence around it that, when you opened it at night, it would set off an alarm because we had people with Alzheimer's and dementia. So if they tried to leave in the middle of the night due to sundowners and some confusion, we could escort them back inside. Same with the front door. One night, I was doing my rounds around 2:00 AM, and I heard the front gate alarm go off. Now, I knew everyone was in bed because I had checked all of the rooms.

• 16:28Corinne Vien?

  But I also had experiences of the wind blowing so hard and rattling the gate that it would set the alarm off. So I went outside to check and the gate was closed. No one was in the parking lot. Before I headed back inside, I heard the alarm to the front door go off as well. I go back inside and I turn it off. Thinking maybe somebody did happen to leave their room, I started walking around the facility. It was two stories, so I started making my way up the stairs. And then there's this long hallway that goes to the laundry room and then this little nook with a couple of chairs and a table for reading or for catching up with family members. Well, as I turned down the hall, I saw what seemed to be someone walking around the corner. All I saw was what looked like the end of a dark blanket on the floor dragging behind

• 17:11Corinne Vien?

  someone as if they were turning to where the nook was. And then I knew if that's where they were headed, there was nowhere for them to go. So I sped walked over to the nook, but when I turned the corner, no one was there.

• 17:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No one was there.

• 17:24Corinne Vien?

  Then I started to hear one of the residents screaming from her room down the stairs. So I ran down to go see if she was okay. She was screaming, "Get out! I don't want you here! Get out! Get out!" When I opened the door, let's call her Pat due to HIPAA laws, I can't really say her name, I said, "Pat, is everything okay?" And she said, "There was a man there. A tall man dressed in black robes in her room. She didn't know why he was there, but she wanted him to leave." I looked around the room and I said, "Okay, Pat, I think you're just having a nightmare. I'm the only one here tonight. I didn't see anyone around."

• 18:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Even though she had just seen what she thought was...

• 18:05Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Yeah. She said, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry for screaming." I said, "It's okay, nightmares can be really scary. Just let's get some more sleep." After talking to her, nothing else happened for the rest of the night. So I come back the following, the night for my night shift, and as I'm getting a report from the CNA from the previous shift, she said that Pat went to the hospital because she had a small heart attack earlier that day. Luckily, she did survive and she came back to the facility a few days later. But I do think that I was following death itself around the facility. He was coming to collect Pat from her time on earth. But for some reason, maybe me being there had stopped him. I'm a witch and I work with the goddess Hakate, who was one of the goddesses of death.

• 18:49Corinne Vien?

  And working with her, I've seen many things, spirits, shadow people. And I don't feel scared of them, but seeing death itself is something I never planned on doing until my time on earth had come to an end. Hopefully he doesn't scare me as much as he scared Pat. And this is from Marshall.

• 19:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Marshall, this scares me. I'm glad that Pat was okay.

• 19:11Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 19:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But it is scary.

• 19:13Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm. It's really scary to like basically see death, like to see the Grim Reaper.

• 19:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which if you've listened to our Grim Reaper episode, you know that we think the Grim Reaper has bad rap. I think the Grim Reaper is like guiding people.

• 19:26Corinne Vien?

  Actually, I think our schedule does to do an encounters themed Grim Reaper in the future. Cause as I was like going through emails, I found another one that was like.

• 19:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like this?

• 19:35Corinne Vien?

  Another encounter with the Grim Reaper. And I was like, oh, well, just do a Grim Reaper theme.

• 19:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We should do a Grim Reaper theme.

• 19:40Corinne Vien?

  We definitely have some.

• 19:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Damn. Well, that is scary, but I'm glad that everyone's okay.

• 19:45Corinne Vien?

  I know, but so wild too, to like see the robe.

• 19:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 19:49Corinne Vien?

  To think it's the blanket. Like someone's just dragging their blanket behind them and then realize like you just saw the dark robe of.

• 19:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Of the Grim Reaper.

• 19:56Corinne Vien?

  Of the Grim Reaper.

• 19:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Reaper be reaping.

• 20:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm so excited. I'm getting my whole body MRI scan from Prenewvo in a couple of weeks. 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. I recently had some medical issues in my family and everyone in my family is like, let's just do everything we can to get ahead and take our own health into our own hands. Prenewvo's whole body scan is a radiation free MRI designed to help provide a detailed, non-invasive look at your body in under an hour. And it helps evaluate across major organs and systems, including the brain, spine, abdomen, pelvis, and more. Prenewvo's whole body scan can help detect many cancers, aneurysms, and hundreds of other conditions.

• 20:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And they have memberships that bundle MRI scans, blood panels, and a personalized results review to track your health year after year. To learn more.

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  About Prenuvo and get $300 off your whole body MRI. Go to prenuvo.com/tgog and use code TGOG. That's P R E N U V O dot com slash TGOG. Terms and conditions apply.

• 21:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Receive $300 off Prenuvo whole body scans and executive and comprehensive memberships through January 31st. For full details, visit Prenuvo's website to read their terms and conditions and privacy notice. Prenuvo gifted me a whole body scan. A Prenuvo scan is a screening service, not diagnostic. Diagnosis and treatment are determined by your healthcare provider.

• 21:18Speaker 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.

• 21:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, I have one from our listener Avery, and it's called, "Did a Ghost Call 911?" Hey TGOG ghouls, my name is Avery. Yes, you can use my name. I'm a longtime listener, first time writer. I love the show and listen every chance I get. I'll keep the intro short so I can get into the story. But I was listening to Encounters 277, which was all about first responders, and you read a story from Australia detailing a dispatcher's life alert call from the beyond, which made my ears perk up because I thought I was the only one with a story like this.

• 22:23Corinne Vien?

  Ooh, I already have chills.

• 22:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I've heard about phone calls from the beyond, but I never thought one day I would have a story of my own. Anyway, I've been an EMT for four years and have hundreds, if not thousands, of 911 calls that I've run. Of these calls, many of them are to respond to a medical alert device activation, think life alert. 98% of the time, the caller pushes a button on accident. We respond to find no emergency and then we leave. That being said, it was a normal night at the station when my agency received a 911 call for service to respond to an unknown medical problem. Medical alert activation. Some of the medical alert systems will come with a speaker/radio system that automatically dials 911 when the pendant was pressed.

• 23:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This allows the user then to speak to 911 without having to find or use a phone. In this case, the dispatcher didn't get any other information from the radio system and could only relay that the device itself was activated. And I recognized this address almost immediately because earlier that month, we had responded to the resident, who was an older gentleman who had fallen and possibly had a stroke.

• 23:31Corinne Vien?

  Oh, man.

• 23:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The reason I remembered him and his home was because he was the town's local strawberry farmer.

• 23:39Corinne Vien?

  Oh, my gosh. What a sweet life.

• 23:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know. I lovingly referred to him as the strawberry man. He lived alone and had a history of falling, which is why he used the medical alert pendant. So I figured it would be another routine call where we'd respond, scoop him off the ground, take him to the hospital for evaluation. However, when we arrived, we quickly realized this was not the case. There were no cars parked in the driveway. Some of the windows were open and so was the garage. We entered the home and to our surprise, it was empty, completely empty. Like, no furniture, no appliances, no pictures on the wall, empty.

• 24:15Corinne Vien?

  Oh, strawberry man disappeared? Took all of his belongings?

• 24:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  My team and I were dumbfounded. It looked like nobody lived there. So I continued to make our presence known as we routinely did and shouted out EMS to alert a potential victim that we had arrived. But the home continued to be dead silent. We began to walk up the stairs and I started to get a very, very bad feeling in my stomach. Now, when you work in this field long enough, you develop an intuition. This is the same feeling I would get when we would receive a 911 call for an unknown medical problem, to find someone fully in cardiac arrest when we arrived. We made it up to the top of the stairs, and again I call out, my heart pounding in my chest as my mind is starting to wander to the worst-case scenario. And then I'm thinking, are we being set up? Are we about to be ambushed? We look in every room.

• 25:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's a scary thought. I didn't even think of that. So scary, meaning that happened. Yeah. We look in every room of the second floor, and again, it is empty. But the feeling doesn't go away, and I nervously laugh and say to my crew, something is not right here. Then, we hear movement and footsteps on the first floor. We make our way back down to find two men dressed in work clothes with tool belts around their waists. I give them a confused look and say, "Did you call 911?" With an equally confused look on their faces, they informed us, "No, they hadn't called for us." I ask who they are and where the owner of the residence is. They go on to explain that the strawberry man had died earlier in the month, and his family moved all his things and sold the home. Oh, strawberry man. So my mind is like, what?

• 25:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Then I come to learn that the strawberry man had died in the hospital the last time we had taken him in. It's one thing to get a random 911 call from a phone number. It's totally different to get a 911 call from a medical pendant that doesn't exist anymore. Oh shit, yeah, because it's not like it's just in the house. It's not in the house. Like it was with him when they brought him in last time. So here are a couple of things that you have to know. In order to have a Life Alert system, it has to be set up and plugged in somewhere in your home, and you have to push a button to activate it. The system, the button, Life Alert in total, and no strawberry man to activate this pendant were in the home. Damn. Was it his ghost?

• 26:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Love you guys and thanks for reading, Avery.

• 26:34Corinne Vien?

  Maybe this was his way of getting some closure too, or just wanting to like, thank the people who brought him in for his final time by like calling them back to the house.

• 26:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or is it residual, like the energy from that moment?

• 26:46Corinne Vien?

  Oh, I hope not, because it's because he

• 26:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But residual doesn't mean it's him. But it was like the last time he fell.

• 26:52Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 26:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And he died.

• 26:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But the strawberry man.

• 26:57Corinne Vien?

  Poor strawberry man.

• 26:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  He made such an impact.

• 26:59Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, what a sweet reputation.

• 27:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, but it is wild how, again, compounding about the paranormal world, like what is happening? Just that energy is so strong.

• 27:10Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 27:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, this is a call to action because I want, I love these types of stories. Please send us more, send us more. Graveyard shift, overnight hauntings, and make sure you like, make sure the search terms are in your email or the subject line.

• 27:26Corinne Vien?

  Okay, this is from our listener Eden.

• 27:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 27:29Corinne Vien?

  Hello ladies, I'm a huge fan and I hope you read this story. I was laying in bed feeling like crap when I started listening to your podcast and I started writing this story the very next day. I was driving home from a late night shift at the hospital. The fog rolling off the gulch like a damp blanket. I took the usual shortcut through Oahu despite my colleagues' warnings about the road being really sketchy at night. As I rounded the curve, my headlights illuminated on a figure standing in the middle of the road. At first I thought that this was a pedestrian who'd wandered into the road, but as I got closer, I realized that this was a woman in a long flowing dress. Her face deathly pale, her eyes glowing with an eerie green light.

• 28:15Corinne Vien?

  I slammed on the brakes and my car skidded to a stop just a few feet from her. But the woman didn't move, she didn't even react. She just kept staring at me with an unblinking gaze.

• 28:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wait, is this not like the story of, what's the hitchhiker in Hawaii? Oh, it's Pele, like Pele is known to hitchhike.

• 28:36Corinne Vien?

  I tried to wave her out of the way, but this woman would not budge. But then suddenly she vanished into thin air and I just sat there in shock, wondering, did I just hallucinate this whole thing? But as I looked around, I noticed that my GPS had stopped working. My phone now had no signal. The fog seemed to be closing in around me and it was making it hard to see more than a few feet in front of me. I tried to shake off the feeling of unease. I was telling myself that maybe it was just my imagination playing tricks on me. As I drove away, I just could not shake the feeling that something was off. The rest of the drive home was uneventful, but when I got home, I couldn't sleep. I just kept thinking about this woman in the road and that strange feeling that I had. The next day, I mentioned the incident to

• 29:17Corinne Vien?

  my colleague who told me about the legend of the Green Lady of Oahu. According to local lore, she's the spirit of a mother who lost her child in the gulch and she's doomed to search there forever.

• 29:28Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's awful.

• 29:29Corinne Vien?

  I know.

• 29:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wait, did we cover this?

• 29:31Corinne Vien?

  It sounds familiar.

• 29:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because there's another woman very similar, like in a wooded area of Hawaii, that I think I did cover. It might have been in my Green Lady episode.

• 29:41Corinne Vien?

  Oh, then maybe you did.

• 29:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because the story is like, yeah, she lost her kid and she's stuck wandering. Oh, that's horrible.

• 29:47Corinne Vien?

  Some people claim to see her on the roads around Oahu, often on a night with fog. Others say if you see her, you're cursed with bad luck until you show her respect. I don't know what to believe, but I do know that I will never forget that encounter. And if you're driving through Oahu at night and you see a lady in a long dress standing in the road, don't be afraid to slow down and maybe show her some respect. You never know what might happen if you don't. From Eden.

• 30:13Corinne Vien?

  Which is not something Eden experienced on the night shift, but is a good example of what happens when you work the night shift and then you have to drive at like the hours that no one else is on the road.

• 30:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 30:24Corinne Vien?

  And the weird things that you can still encounter in the dead of night.

• 30:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Our Ghost Ladies in Green episode is 264, but once again, we've done one of those things where we failed to mention the names of the green ladies in the description. But I do think.

• 30:40Corinne Vien?

  We weren't like a full eight years in, in like 500, 600 episodes. I'd be like, let's just go back and correct it all. But like, there's.

• 30:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's too much.

• 30:49Corinne Vien?

  If there's anyone who has the stamina or ability.

• 30:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, if anyone wants to help do that.

• 30:55Corinne Vien?

  Just like real details of what we covered. We'll go back and, and correct our descriptions.

• 31:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's in our Excel, but we just didn't, we weren't thinking about SEO.

• 31:03Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 31:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Anyway.

• 31:04Corinne Vien?

  We didn't think about searchability and how the people who are searching us, me and you, searching in the future for, to reference episodes, wouldn't be able to find them. No, like, we can't find our own episodes.

• 31:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And that's why sometimes we, like with the Bennington triangle, I did it twice. Okay.

• 31:24Corinne Vien?

  Okay, but when you did it, it was like, it was so much of that information was like new to me again.

• 31:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I think you've covered it in like, the first year of our podcast.

• 31:33Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, it was so long ago.

• 31:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was so long ago. Okay, I have another one. This is from our listener who is anonymous. I can't wait to read one of these sentences. Okay, it is called firefighters are very spooky. Hey girlies, first, I have to gush about you being my absolute faves. I've been listening so much that I've caught up with every single episode. And now moving on to the spooky. Get ready because I hope this email blows your tits off clean.

• 32:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's the sentence.

• 32:02Corinne Vien?

  Oh, please, no, I need my boobs.

• 32:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I don't have boobs, so.

• 32:06Corinne Vien?

  I once had them and now they're gone. I mourn them.

• 32:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I actually, in high school, I had bigger boobs, or I wore push-up bras. I wore bras generally.

• 32:17Corinne Vien?

  I wish I'd taken nudes before having a child. Could have made one of those Kim K coffee table books.

• 32:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Actually, everyone always says that, that they should take like, you should, as you're young, like, go take like sexy photos.

• 32:33Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 32:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Wasn't that like a trend?

• 32:36Corinne Vien?

  I say that now, but like, I would never look at them or like, I don't actually care, but like.

• 32:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  When you're 90 years old, whoa, look at that. Look at how hot your grandma was.

• 32:43Corinne Vien?

  My, my epidermis, that was, it was tight. Taut.

• 32:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No, but wasn't that like a wedding trend where like the brides would give the groom?

• 32:54Corinne Vien?

  Oh, yeah, they do like the little sexy, sexy photo shoot. Actually, my photographers who do literally all photography in my life, City Lux Photography, they did my engagement.

• 33:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They did our Christmas photos last year?

• 33:06Corinne Vien?

  Our Christmas photos, they've done my maternity, every holiday card.

• 33:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Does she do that?

• 33:11Corinne Vien?

  Wedding. Yeah, she does. So it's Sarah and Peter, they're a couple who do the photography together, but Sarah.

• 33:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm sure Sarah alone.

• 33:20Corinne Vien?

  Sarah does the like boudoir shoots, if you want something sexy. And she's like the best person that makes you feel so comfortable.

• 33:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe I'll do that with her.

• 33:28Corinne Vien?

  You should. I might be making this up, but I think they do it in Boston, like at the.

• 33:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, that's fun.

• 33:32Corinne Vien?

  Studio.

• 33:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like a cool, like sexy place?

• 33:34Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Anyway, City Lux Photography.

• 33:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so this, yes, is gonna blow our tits off clean. So, for context.

• 33:42Corinne Vien?

  Go get your tits photographed by Sarah.

• 33:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Before listening to this story, before they get blown off.

• 33:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm really, I'm.

• 33:51Corinne Vien?

  She never asked for this ad.

• 33:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, [BLEEP] is about to blow our tits off. We didn't ask for that either. Um, okay, for context, I am a fighter fighter slash medic in a busy city in Arizona. It may or may not rhyme with Schmottsdale.

• 34:09Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 34:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Scottsdale?

• 34:10Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 34:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Anyway, being in this line of work has taken me to some strange, eerie, and downright creepy places. And this first story is about the downright creepy. About three years ago, I was on.

• 34:22Corinne Vien?

  Oh, man.

• 34:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, you don't have a hand to hold. It would feel weird if I were doing this to you.

• 34:28Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. No, I would hate it. I think I'm not a physical touch person.

• 34:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No, I don't think you are.

• 34:33Corinne Vien?

  No.

• 34:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know for a fact.

• 34:37Corinne Vien?

  Oh, God. I can like remember the times people have tried to cuddle me. Sick.

• 34:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The other day, I asked my sister if she could, like, the other days and like a year ago. I asked my sister, I was like, can you hold me? And she's like, no.

• 34:51Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 34:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She was like grossed out by it. And I was like, okay.

• 34:55Corinne Vien?

  That's like my little in college Allison. She'd always wanna like when we, when she'd sleep over, she'd wanna like snuggle. I'm like, don't touch me.

• 35:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  In theory, I would love to have a friend that I could do that with, but I could never initiate it.

• 35:09Corinne Vien?

  Oh.

• 35:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like, it needs to be something that they like are the ones like, yeah, I wanna do this. Okay, anyway, sorry. We're, we're putting off our tits being blown off. So this is the down right creepy. About three years ago, I was on an overtime shift, meaning I was working 12 hours the whole shift. It was early in the morning about 7:00 AM when we got our first tone out for this place. It was nothing out of the ordinary, just a welfare check. We hopped into our apparatus and got en route to the address. When we arrived, the police department stated we could stay in service because there was no need for medical. Cool. Best outcome. So we go back to our station, went straight back into station chores. Shortly after we got back, we heard our bay door open, but all of our crews were in the station.

• 35:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A few of us stepped out to check and the bay door was indeed open, but no one was there. I ended up closing the door and just going back inside, chalked it up to a mechanical disturbance. As soon as I got back inside, the siren turned on in one of our vehicles in the bay. So I sent the assigned crew out and they said nothing was there. The truck was plugged into the shoreline like it was supposed to be. The siren switch was in the off position and nobody was out there. Weird, right? The station tones, as in we were called, again, went off. I immediately recognized the address as the same one from earlier. But now there was being a medical alarm activated.

• 36:32Corinne Vien?

  Hmm. You've picked medical alarms.

• 36:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 36:36Corinne Vien?

  Did you search like Life Alert?

• 36:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I searched 911 calls.

• 36:39Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 36:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. So we got en route again, only to be canceled prior to arrival. We make the trek back to the station. Somewhere between the address and our station, that medical alarm was activated again, and we were sent right back out. We finally made it on the scene and the police department had determined they would force entry into the home. As soon as they opened the door, the smell hit all of us. Decomposition. PD cleared the building for medical to enter. I walked through the front door into the hallway and into a bedroom. And there, wedged between the wall and a bed, was the patient.

• 37:14Corinne Vien?

  Oh, I hate that.

• 37:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The patient was deceased, wearing a medical alarm necklace. The medical alarm was in plain view, not wedged between anything, so it could not have been activated from the pressure of like being between the bed and the wall. Here's the thing. Nobody else was in the house. Nobody else lived there. Nobody else could have pushed that button. And the person who lived in the home was deceased and had been there for days.

• 37:38Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 37:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I believe they wanted to be checked.

• 37:42Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 37:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And found.

• 37:43Corinne Vien?

  That's what I was thinking. It's like you wait long enough for someone to find you and no one has, and you're like, all right, I gotta do something.

• 37:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But it's also wild how many times they were called back and forth.

• 37:52Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 37:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which also makes me think the spirit of her like came back with them that first time, was activating things in the station.

• 37:59Corinne Vien?

  Oh, interesting.

• 38:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Cause they went, they made it all the way there.

• 38:03Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 38:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They were told to leave, went back, hauntings happened, called twice more.

• 38:08Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. I mean, that was a spirit who needed, needed to get their attention. It clearly did.

• 38:15Speaker 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.

• 38:45Speaker 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.

• 39:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  For the second story, this is years later. And at this point, I've switched to working for private ambulance service somewhere in the middle of nowhere, southern Arizona. There are a few small towns and cities here, but otherwise, it's just vast desert. This particular night, I was working with a good friend of mine, and we had been sent to pick up a patient out in one of the county islands. It was just after 1:00 a.m. It was pitch dark outside. No streetlights, no headlights, just our red and whites and our own headlights. We were about 45 minutes from our patient, and it's necessary to add that it was a particularly hot summer night. So we continue our drive. And we're talking about god knows what ridiculous shit, laughing, doing things to pass the time, when suddenly, the mood shifted.

• 39:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I know you've heard Kalen Moore describe the "heart starts pounding" feeling. It's that, when everything starts to feel wrong, it suddenly looked darker than usual. The moonlight was no longer visible. There was an eerie stillness around us. Our lights no longer lit up everything around us like they usually do. It felt like the night was swallowing all light. And I started to feel like something was with us. I felt watched from everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. I asked my partner if she was feeling it too, and she said she started to feel like we were driving a loop, like the scenery had just started to replay itself. As we were discussing this, I felt the sudden sensation of weight being dropped onto our truck, or like something very heavy had been pushed onto it. But that was impossible

• 40:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  because we were still driving.

• 40:44Corinne Vien?

  That's such a weird feeling, too, to like feel it on the thing that's carrying you, like...

• 40:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right. Like I almost...

• 40:50Corinne Vien?

  The energy is so palpable that it's like you... Yeah.

• 40:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh. It like makes me think of a monster.

• 40:56Corinne Vien?

  Thinking about it, yeah.

• 40:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like clawing into it.

• 40:58Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 40:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  My partner looked at me and said, please tell me you felt that too. I lied. I said no because I didn't want to scare her or myself. I wanted to feel like everything was fine. And then I looked in the rear view mirror to try to see into the dark box of the ambulance, but I couldn't see a thing. I looked in my side view mirrors, I saw nothing, but then I realized the lights weren't illuminating anything beyond us. And that's when I saw it, something standing on the side step of the passenger side of the ambulance. It almost looked human, but it was entirely too large to be human.

• 41:34Corinne Vien?

  Ooh creepy.

• 41:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was standing on two legs like a human would, but there was no way this was human. We hadn't slowed, we hadn't stopped, we had been driving, speed limit, but fast. I swerved as a natural reaction and this thing never swayed. It had no discernible features other than being vaguely human shape and it was darker than darkness. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest and I was now full on panicking.

• 42:03Corinne Vien?

  My god.

• 42:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I was also shivering as the air around us had suddenly become ice cold. As I was trying to explain to my partner what I was seeing, she undid her seatbelt and tried to get out of her seat. I debated just stopping, but I opted for calling for help on our radio instead. Here's the kicker, our radio signal went out.

• 42:23Corinne Vien?

  That is so scary. What the fuck?

• 42:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So I grabbed my phone.

• 42:28Corinne Vien?

  This is a horror movie.

• 42:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No signal, her phone.

• 42:31Corinne Vien?

  And there's a creature.

• 42:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  No signal.

• 42:33Corinne Vien?

  Oh my god.

• 42:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Stranger yet because our radios always work. Also radios like operate such different, like so different than our phones.

• 42:42Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 42:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like those are supposed to work in emergency.

• 42:45Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 42:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I activated our dash cam in hopes that it would cover our butts for speeding and that it would later show the reason, AKA this entity. But our camera didn't work either. At this point, we had been driving about 30 minutes, so we should have been close to our destination.

• 43:00Corinne Vien?

  Damn. Wait, you know what this is reminding me of really quick? Just like the infrared thing. I forget what episode we talked about it, but it was like something that had having to do with like a military base. And people were looking through infrared cameras and only on the infrared camera could they see like a giant creature like coming and stalking.

• 43:21Corinne Vien?

  But like you couldn't see it to the naked eye and they were like screaming at the people to get out of there because they could see this thing like stalking the soldiers.

• 43:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I suddenly felt the weight drop and the whole ambulance swayed as it did. Just like that, the moonlight was visible again. Just like that, the red and white beacon on the ambulance was brightly illuminating everything again. And the temperature became Satan's butthole again. And all of a sudden, our radios began to chatter to life. Dispatch was trying to get ahold of us, asking us to respond because we had been en route for over an hour.

• 43:57Corinne Vien?

  What the fuck?

• 43:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We lost time on that road and I cannot explain. We should have been 15 minutes from our destination when all of this happened, but we were still 30 minutes out.

• 44:07Corinne Vien?

  Oh, my God.

• 44:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We eventually made it to our call and stated, "Poor road conditions were the cause of our delay, but I'll never be able to explain what happened on that dark desert road. Was it a flesh pedestrian, a demon? Did we drive into a time warp? I have no idea.

• 44:21Corinne Vien?

  Into another dimension, into the upside down Twilight Zone.

• 44:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe you can make sense of it.

• 44:26Corinne Vien?

  Are you watching the Stranger Things?

• 44:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, yeah, I binged all of it.

• 44:28Corinne Vien?

  Okay, well, don't tell me I'm, I still have the fourth one of the first half.

• 44:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This shift also ended up being our busiest and most lethal shift ever after this happened. We had a few cardiac arrests, which unfortunately didn't survive. Two fatal traffic collisions and an adult drowning under the strangest circumstances.

• 44:47Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 44:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Stay spooky and see you on the other side.

• 44:51Corinne Vien?

  Anonymous.

• 44:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Bleep. From Anonymous, we realized at the end of this story that we were not supposed to say their names. So if you're confused why we're bleeping, it's because we're trying to keep anonymity.

• 45:02Corinne Vien?

  And also maybe just a helpful thing for us. If you want to be anonymous, can, can you try to say it at the top?

• 45:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes, please.

• 45:07Corinne Vien?

  Because otherwise we might say your name 30 times throughout the episode.

• 45:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes. Um, but this is terrifying.

• 45:14Corinne Vien?

  That is so terrifying.

• 45:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's so interesting because I was thinking about how like desert landscapes like this, to me, feel Equivalent to Appalachia.

• 45:25Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I feel like it's worse in my mind. Like, I'm scared of the desert. I'm scared of, I could never live in Arizona. Like, there is something eerie and creepy about that landscape. It feels like you're too exposed.

• 45:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Totally.

• 45:39Corinne Vien?

  Like, you're always crying.

• 45:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's also like an inhabitable terrain.

• 45:44Corinne Vien?

  Mm hmm.

• 45:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like, we as humans shouldn't survive there.

• 45:48Corinne Vien?

  No. And people have.

• 45:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  There's a reason we shouldn't live there. No, yeah, but like if we didn't have modern advances and stuff like.

• 45:55Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, but they were like native tribes and stuff.

• 45:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Living in the desert is not.

• 45:58Corinne Vien?

  The, the water sources.

• 45:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 46:00Corinne Vien?

  But, yeah, just like willy nilly out in the, out in the desert. No, thanks.

• 46:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Nope.

• 46:05Corinne Vien?

  Oh, my gosh, you know what videos like are this creepiest videos to me? The iron ore. Have you ever seen that? It's in Africa. Where is it? The iron ore. It's a train in, I'm gonna butcher the name of this, Mauritania. It's this like really extremely dangerous train that travels across the desert for like eight or nine hours or something like that. And the like winds and the sand and just like the ore coming off of the back of the train. It's like just horrendous, but you can basically like buy a ticket to sleep on the train. And so people do it and they like.

• 46:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why?

• 46:47Corinne Vien?

  Like their like bandanas and masks and like goggles and stuff to try to like be there. And you're like freezing.

• 46:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm looking at photos of this and this does not look like a enjoyable experience. Like, you're literally sleeping on top of the iron ore.

• 46:58Corinne Vien?

  But I think people say it's beautiful, like.

• 47:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The landscape.

• 47:02Corinne Vien?

  I think like this, people do it for like the sunrise.

• 47:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  There are so many other places to go watch the sunrise.

• 47:10Corinne Vien?

  It's like crazy. Every time I watch a video, but I'm like, this is terrible. I, I don't know how you do it.

• 47:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it's also called the world's longest train.

• 47:19Corinne Vien?

  You just whip out your penis and pee off the side.

• 47:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, but like if you're going that fast, it's gonna like blow back into your face.

• 47:25Corinne Vien?

  That's true. And they're going pretty fast.

• 47:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 47:27Corinne Vien?

  Also, one more social media thing that I've been seeing, which is actually pretty morbid of a trend. And I don't love that it's a trend, but I watch every video.

• 47:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So you keep getting more of them?

• 47:36Corinne Vien?

  So I keep getting more of them. It's um, not a bad place to bleed out. It's like basically the trend, which is like so dark and morbid. I don't know if it's like based on video game characters or something, because people like videotape themselves as it's like, as if it's their own eyes, like your POV, like falling down.

• 47:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Our algorithms are so different.

• 47:56Corinne Vien?

  But then it turns and it's like the most beautiful landscape. It's like showing like amazing, beautiful scenery.

• 48:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, when you said that that was the trend, my, my first went to like, oh, like a target, because you have supplies to help you.

• 48:08Corinne Vien?

  Oh, you're thinking of like how to survive.

• 48:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, but no, like they're just saying like where to die.

• 48:12Corinne Vien?

  Where to die.

• 48:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay. Area 51. I bet they have great sunsets too.

• 48:19Corinne Vien?

  Too much desert.

• 48:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But they might have great sunrise and sunset and aliens might take you up. Anyway, I don't know what the heck that cryptid was or creature.

• 48:26Corinne Vien?

  No, but that's messed up. That like, this literally sounds like a horror movie.

• 48:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, like literally hanging on to the side of the ambulance.

• 48:34Corinne Vien?

  And you can like feel it, the pressure of it, like weighing down the car, slowing it down.

• 48:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And the fact that it can jump onto a moving ambulance?

• 48:43Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Poor road conditions. Sorry we were late. Actually, there was a giant creature latched onto the ambulance, slowing you down and stopping time, delaying you by another 15 minutes.

• 48:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like, was it a full moon? Because also, everything that happened afterwards?

• 48:59Corinne Vien?

  Hmm.

• 49:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I don't know.

• 49:01Corinne Vien?

  Scary. And also, wait, do we know how many people were there? How many other witnesses were there?

• 49:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was just the two of them driving.

• 49:06Corinne Vien?

  Just two.

• 49:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or in the front of the car.

• 49:08Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, scary, scary, scary.

• 49:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Terrifying. Don't love that. Um, but I love these stories, so please, share more with us. Again, put them in the subject line, like graveyard shift, overnight shift, whatever. We love them so much, so we're actually going to read one more on our Patreon. So if you want another overnight graveyard shift ghost story, right now, if you're itching, craving, you need it in this moment, well, you're in luck. There's another one on Patreon. Um, but until then, we'll see you next time. And, uh, we love you all.

• 49:41Corinne Vien?

  Thank you to Jamie Ryan, who edits and produces our podcast. Thank you, Emma Leventer, who does our social media and produces. And we will see you on the other side.

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