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Exclusions apply. (dramatic music) - Today on Real Go Stories Online, imagine starting a job as a caregiver, only to realize you signed up for more than just helping out the living. - Welcome to You Go Stories Online. Call in your Real Go Story now at 855-853-4802 or write in at realgostoriesonline.com. - You are about to enter the world of the unknown. If I possibly, the undead, this is Real Go Stories Online. - That is 855-853-4802, our phone number. If you wanna share your Real Go Stories with us, of course you can write in at realgostoriesonline.com. We'd love to hear your Real Go Stories. Starting and talking to you on today's episode of the program, what's going on? - It is, it's bitterly cold up here in the North Country, my friend. - Oh, it's bitterly cold here too. - Wow, you know the difference. Come on now, what do you got down there? Come on, let's play battle. Let's play battle of the temperatures. I'm sure you're gonna win this, but it's still pretty freaking cold. Pulling up the weather app right now. - What do we currently have here in Northwest Arkansas? - 24 degrees. Windchill is feeling like 18. - Okay, do you want me to beat your ass? - I'm sure you will, yes. - It's minus one and it feels like minus 19. - Oh, I hate that. - And the low tonight, air temperature minus 16. - I'm good, I'll take my 18. I mean, I just, I went out and I just let the dogs out a few minutes ago and I didn't have a jacket down here. So I just, I'm just wearing my t-shirt. I'm like, oh, it's not horrible. - I don't wanna stay out in it, but it's like recently it's been like you really, I think we were like in single digits this weekend and yeah, I'm not a fan, but yeah, you guys are gonna get the brunt of a lot of this over the next few weeks. - Yeah, yeah, at least the next couple of days and it'll start warming up to like normal temperatures again, but my God, this is horrible. - Yeah, that's, I'll take the heat any day over the cold. It's just, yeah, you can't like function outside of your home at all. - Yeah. - And sometimes your cars don't function, you know, it's yeah, horrible. Back to the conversation in just a second. First, I wanna thank our supporter today, Acorns. Acorns makes it easy to start automatically saving and investing so your money has a chance to grow for you, your kids in your retirement. You don't need to be an expert either. Acorns will recommend a diversified portfolio that fits you and your money goals. You don't need to be rich either. Acorns, let's just start investing with the spare money you got right now. You can start with just $5 or even just the spare change. That's what I love about it. I do the roundup feature where I use my card and the extra spare change goes right to Acorns to be invested. Basically, Acorns does a hard part, so you can give your money a chance to grow. I absolutely love Acorns. Head to acorns.com/ghost or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today. Again, head to acorns.com/ghost or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today. Pay client endorsement compensation provides incentive to possibly promote Acorns. Tier one compensation provided investing involves risk. Acorns advisors LLC and SCC registered investment advisor view important disclosures at acorns.com/ghost. 855-853-4802 is our phone number here at Real Go Stories online. Let's go to our first call. Hi. - This is Sandy from Texas. I used to be an elderly caregiver and I worked for this one lady. She lived in a really huge house. Her and her husband had built the house probably 30 years before and it was a rock house. It was two stories and the ceiling went all the way up. There was no attic. And so when you walk in the front door and you look up, it goes all the way up two stories in like this grand living room and then there's like a balcony to where you can see upstairs and there's like another living room upstairs. And then a master bedroom upstairs to the left and a bedroom to the right that also had a bathroom that they use like an office slash bedroom. So anyway, I worked for this lady and at first, I didn't really notice anything. And once I started working there, there was other girls that also worked for her. But they weren't really doing as much as they could. So I'm the kind of person I like to stay busy. I like to clean, I like to do stuff so I asked her. I was like, do you mind if I clean up a little upstairs? It's a little messy. She also had three cats and the cats used the bathroom upstairs to the right in the office. Whoever was taking care of her wasn't really cleaning, you know, the bathroom was disgusting. And they were just putting new litter and not cleaning anything. And she hadn't been upstairs for like two or three years because she had a hip replacement. So she wasn't able to go upstairs. And she's like, yes, please clean. I didn't know it was so dirty. So I did. I started cleaning and I just cleaned the whole bathroom. Then I moved into the bedroom where the office was. And I started noticing that there was a lot of things in that room that belonged to her husband who had passed a few years prior to me being there. Maybe about four to five years previously, he had died in that room actually of a heart attack. So he had a lot of like personal items in that room. That was his office. He had pictures on the wall of his favorite dog and airplanes and just everything. It was like his personal room. So I was dusty and just cleaning the pictures. I found a nameplate with his name on it. I cleaned it. It just didn't really move anything around. But just cleaning things, picking them up, dusting underneath, putting them back down. And the cats were really happy. They were like, nay, it's clean. I washed all the sheets on the bed. And just everything felt a lot fresher. So time goes on. I was still working there. And I would go there every morning, about seven o'clock. I had to be there at seven o'clock every morning. So in the summertime, seven o'clock, it's daylight. But once it started to get fall and winter, you would arrive at the house at that time, and it would be really dark. So every time I would arrive in the dark-- and this was a lady who doesn't like lights on. She felt like you're wasting energy. So every light in the house was off, except there was a little night light in her bedroom and then her bathroom downstairs, and that was it. So when I would arrive at the house early in the morning and it was dark, I would feel something was looking at me from the top of the stairs. Which, when you walk in the front door, you look straight ahead and about 20 feet away from the front door is a stairway to go straight up. And there was how I felt the presence there and always freaked me out. But I just tried not to look up there, and I just tried to go about my day. I had chores to do since I arrived. I had to let out her cats and start the coffee pod and things like that. And she would always wake up about five to 30 minutes when I would arrive and I would help her and do stuff. But I would always feel that presence upstairs. And especially after I cleaned, I feel like the activity started increasing once I cleaned and moved things around. I don't know if that angers the spirit or what, but something caused it to be more active. Another day, I was just fixing things. And she had a cabinet in her kitchen that was a little loose. One of the hinges was coming off, so I asked her if it was okay if I get a screwdriver from the garage and fix it and she's like, "Yeah, sure." And so I did, I went out to the garage. And again, all her husband's things were still in the garage. He had everything organized really nice and but it was covered in dust. So I just grabbed the tool and went and fixed the pantry. And then I kind of got busy with other things and I left the screwdriver in the kitchen for a while. And then something told me, "Take that screwdriver back "to the garage." Like in a kind of angry upset boy. So I was like, "Whoa, that's weird." And so I took it back and when I was in the garage, I was just feeling like, okay, hurry up, get out of here. You know, it's just an uneasy feeling. And I am a sensitive person. I have had other experiences. A few months later, I would feel other things happening. I would smell tobacco, I would smell roses. I would smell like candles burning, but she never had candles. She didn't smoke cigarettes or tobacco and she didn't ever have roses. She didn't even like, you know, those glade plug-ins or whatever to be around. She just wanted everything to be, you know, normal, bland, no smells. So I would smell these things. One night, I remember I served her dinner. And then I just made her dinner and I put it in front of her on the table. And I asked her, I was like, "Do you smell of candles or anything?" She's like, "No, I don't smell anything." So I was like, "Okay." Another night, there's a lamp that we would keep on upstairs just for the cat so that when they do go to the bathroom at night, there's a little lamp on in that bedroom upstairs where her husband's office was. And I went up there before I was going to go home, which I would work until like nine or 10 at night. The light was out. So I went downstairs to the garage, got a light bulb, walked back upstairs, put the new light bulb in, clicked the lamp to turn it on. It still didn't work. So I was like, "Okay, it's an old lamp. Maybe it's just broken." So I turned around to go walk out of the room, take a couple steps, and the light turns on by itself. And so I didn't tell her about it. I just went ahead and left and I was really freaked out. So after this, I feel like the spirit knew that he knew that I knew. And so I believe it was her husband, but I could be wrong. After that happened, I would be alone in the house every Sunday when she would go to church. Her daughter would take her to church. So I would be alone and I would usually take that opportunity to mop the area in the dining room where she would usually spend all her time watching TV. And I would move her chair, mop, real good, clean everything real good around her area while she was gone. And I would hear bangs on the ceiling. Anytime I would go upstairs and I would be in her bathroom upstairs and I would hear bangs right above the toilet three times, bang, bang, bang. So I would just hurry up, use the restroom and leave. And this happened over and over again. Every time I would go to the bathroom, like your bang, bang, bang in the bathroom. So I think that something was saying, "Get out of here, get out of here." Like, he didn't want me upstairs or something, I don't know. And so any time I would be alone, I would start hearing bangs above my head. Yeah, so that was my experience with that house and I apologize if I rambled. I hope this was a good story and keep up the good work. Thank you. - Thank you for sharing that experience with us. Thoughts on all that? You know, older houses, you have an older person living there but they're not really getting into certain parts of the house 'cause they're older and et cetera. It's not uncommon for energies to kind of hide in certain places of the house that aren't bothered. And so maybe her going up there and doing some cleaning or whatever that was, just kind of spurred the whole, hey, what the heck's going on kind of thing. So everything about that story was creepy. Starting with the old lady who lived in the house and needed some help and didn't like smells, but she was smelling stuff. It's like, "Ugh." Yeah, there's a lot going on in that house. I'd be a fun one to try and sell. (laughing) I can just imagine there'd be a lot of cleanup you need to do and really just kind of a lot of rearranging and re-doing things to kind of fix that up again because there's gonna be a lot of stuff there. - Yeah, absolutely. - There was one really cool bizarre house that I looked at a long time ago. And I don't know who owned it, but I'm gonna guess somebody musically because there was a fucking pond in the side yard that we shaped like a guitar. Or at least at one point in time it was shaped like a guitar. (laughing) Erosion has kind of done its thing. But it was a house that had kept being built on too. Like initially it was just kind of this little regolish type big pillar thing. I'd almost say plantation-ish but smaller. And then it, they kept adding on. And you can tell like adding on different decade after different decade. And you could see the eras in the house. Like as you went through it initially, it looked very turn of the century. And then you get back a little bit and then suddenly we're kind of like to the 40s. And then you get to like the 60s area which I thought was really kind of cool. And then you get into the 90s. And that's the kitchen which is like up another set of stairs and around a corner. And it was like a fricking, it was like Pac-Man. It was like house on the rock as well. I think I've made two references to that now in the last week. But it just kind of, it kept going. And it had a really weird latinist to it that I really kind of dug. I'm like, this is, I like like this tunneling house that goes on and on and on and on. I'm sure like next to no one's cup of tea anymore. But then there was a whole other like upstairs that it was like a really weird way to get to like, get a go up a windy stairwell on the side of the house outdoors. And then that led you to this whole other like set of bedrooms. It was just fricking weird. It was so weird the way the thing was laid out. And of course I was like, I like this house. But you could tell like the roof was like more than done and you'd have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and fixing it up. And that part I did not like. - Right, but my point being you felt so much in that house from the different eras. And you could tell people loved this place. It was probably in that family for a very long time. The fact that they kept updating it and just building on because it was a one family home. And yeah, it was, it had different energies throughout that whole place. And I'm not one who usually picks up on that stuff, but. - I was just gonna say the fact that you're talking about it. It was kind of interesting because you don't normally talk that way. Yeah. - There was a room that literally had cheetah print carpet. - Are you sure it was an Elvis that will hang out there or something with the guitar out in the yard and. - You know what? It kind of reminded me of that in a way too. It reminded me, no seriously, it had that kind of, there was especially that sixties area of the house. There was like a giant dining hall and it was kind of like under a recessed floor and just the architecture. It was neat. It was very, very much that era. But I would say it was probably about the size of Graceland in terms of the interior, which Graceland is not that big. But I have no idea how big the upstairs feels 'cause nobody can go up there at Graceland. But I would say probably that may be even a little bit bigger. Like they just kept adding on more than even Graceland. - I, so now I'm thinking it wasn't Elvis, but it was an Elvis impersonator is what it was. - I like one of his guitar players or something. - You know? - Yeah, an Elvis impersonator that does it. That's a great idea. - I wonder if there, are there any Elvis impersonators that have a home that's reminiscent to Graceland? - That's a good, no, I thought you were gonna say if there's any still out there doing it, there are. But yeah, that's a good question. I wonder if somebody believes it enough that they have to have something similar to that just to, you know, yeah. - It's kind of like their lifestyle, like all encompassing. I would not be surprised if that exists out there. - Weirdest Elvis impersonator moment. Have you ever had an Elvis impersonator moment? - Oh, tons. 'Cause I used to go see him when I was younger all the time. - Yeah. - So did you have one? - I did at a remote broadcast near Wichita, Kansas at a grocery store called Apple Market. Just a small little like IGA-ish thing off in a smaller town outside of the city. And they would have the massive meat sale. And then the commercials were like massive meat sale. And then you gotta go out there and do the broadcast. And you know, you're standing like in the entry to the store and people getting their carts. They, one of their checkers, who I think had been there for damn near life, is an Elvis impersonator. - Oh God. - And he's a, he was a shorter Native American man. And nicest guy in the world. But every time you do the break, he's coming over to you to the mike so he can go, oh, and do like some Elvis. - Oh, Lord. Dad, you don't miss those days. Do you? - Oh, not one fucking bit at the massive meat sale with the Elvis impersonator that's not that good. And come on down, we got balloons and hot dogs for the kids. - Jeez. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, I do not miss that at all. That's my only Elvis. Do you have any weird Elvis impersonator stories? - I mean, well, yeah, I mean, I would go see some, some are good, some are really bad. And I remember a couple of new years ago, right before COVID went and saw one. And it was just, it was nasty. It was bad. They were trying, but they weren't very good. And I remember I got up and I had to walk out 'cause I was so embarrassed by the king. (laughing) - You know what, here's a funny one. I actually have, I have a ghost story about that, that grocery store as well. - Really? - Yeah. I wasn't even thinking this, but I do. I don't know what the fuck it was. It was weird. And this goes way, way, way back. And Elvis was there that day too. So I had to go do the remote broadcast and look, radio doesn't have a lot of leniency with their talents at all where if like something comes up in your life and you need to go and attend to it. It's more like fuck it, finish the remote and then you can go do your life. Which, it is what it is. Anyway, I get to the remote. It's about to start. And then I get a call and at the time, the woman that I was with had gotten into a car accident. And I didn't know how bad it was. Her mom is the one who called me and said, hey, she's going to this hospital, da da da. And it's like, of course I wanna just drop everything and leave, but it's a remote broadcast. And I even called my GM like, no, you can go after the bra. It's only two hours. She'll be fine. Like we didn't even know what the fuck was going on. Anyway, fucking radio. Anyway, so I'm like stressing. 'Cause I'm like, she's not going to understand this. You know, and I wasn't in a position at that moment in time to just lose my job either. So I find out that she's like in okay condition. I didn't like need to rush, but I didn't know that. But I find the doubt is actually I was driving over there. Why? Because for some reason, the power went out at the grocery store right before the remotes was supposed to start. And it was, and there was no estimated time onto when it was coming back. It wasn't their breakers. It wasn't anything like that. So I got the fuck out of there. - Nice job. So you didn't have to do the remote at all. - No, I came back about, it was like an hour or two later and they had the power back. But I was able to go and attend to life and what I needed to. I mean, looking back today, it's been like fuck it, I'm leaving no matter what. But again, you know, at the time it's a little different. You know, you're up depending on living and that paycheck and all that. But yeah, it was weird. And I don't know what the hell it was, but it felt like there was something there that like did this. There's a lot of spooky things around that person and their family that were- - Interesting. - Yeah, kind of weird. And then her mom always talked about like there was, she believed there was something that was following her that had things that would looking out for her and this and that. I don't know. - There was also a lot of mental illness in that family. - She'd give me a favor at some point and write a fucking book, please. - I should do that. I should do that. I'll do it when everybody's dead. (laughing) No lawsuits that way. - No lawsuits that way. But no, that was, yeah, there you go. Ghost Story from a grocery store with an Elvis impersonator. Who would have thought you can mix all that together? That's like Mad Libs. All right, if you wanna access to our bonus episodes, advanced episodes and everything else, check it out on Apple Podcasts or Premium channel there. Even try it for three days free or patreon.com/reelghoststories. Until next time, for Todd, I'm Tony. Thanks for listening to RealGhost Stories Online. (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Let me ask you something. Do your feet hurt after a day on the slopes? Well, they shouldn't. We can help. Just stop by Evo Denver, where our experts can help with custom boot fittings and help guide you through our unbeatable selection of top rated skis, snowboards and accessories. You'll find the best gear selection backed by our 365 day return policy. And as a podcast listener, get 20% off store wide when you visit us at 860 Broadway. Our friendly team with years of experience will help you find the perfect gear, whether you need a tune up, premium rental, or just new boots. Plus, Evo is more than just a store. We're a community hub. It's a gathering place for events, art shows and back country clinics. Come visit us or shop online at Evo.com. That's EVO.com. And remember, mention this podcast in store for your 20% discount, exclusions apply. (upbeat music) (speaking in foreign language) (upbeat music) - Let me ask you something. Do your feet hurt after a day on the slopes? Well, they shouldn't. We can help. Just stop by Evo Denver, where our experts can help with custom boot fittings and help guide you through our unbeatable selection of top rated skis, snowboards and accessories. You'll find the best gear selection backed by our 365 day return policy. And as a podcast listener, get 20% off store wide when you visit us at 860 Broadway. Our friendly team with years of experience will help you find the perfect gear, whether you need a tune up, premium rental or just new boots. Plus, Evo is more than just a store. We're a community hub. It's a gathering place for events, art shows and back country clinics. Come visit us or shop online at Evo.com. That's EVO.com. And remember, mention this podcast in store for your 20% discount, exclusions apply. (speaks in foreign language) (speaks in foreign language) Let me ask you something. Do your feet hurt after a day on the slopes? Well, they shouldn't. We can help. Just stop by Evo Denver, where our experts can help with custom boot fittings and help guide you through our unbeatable selection of top rated skis, snowboards and accessories. You'll find the best gear selection backed by our 365 day return policy. And as a podcast listener, get 20% off store wide when you visit us at 860 Broadway. Our friendly team with years of experience will help you find the perfect gear, whether you need a tune up, premium rental or just new boots. Plus, Evo is more than just a store. We're a community hub. It's a gathering place for events, art shows and back country clinics. Come visit us or shop online at Evo.com. That's EVO.com. And remember, mention this podcast in store for your 20% discount, exclusions apply. 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