Hello and welcome to episode 139 of Real Life Ghost Stories.

To kick things off this week I would like to thank our newest Patreon subscribers.

I would like to thank Melissa Taylor. Love. Kim Abood.

Shan Taylor Noble. Amber Hans Bouchang. Jackie.

Alyssa Brunner. Haley Garenflow. Marissa. Anna. Lauren Fredricks.

Michelle Henry. Emma Batman. Dave Eganton. Nora Alginady. Laurie H.

Jean. Jennifer McDonald. Jules Quigley. And Mama Peculiar.

Thank you so much for subscribing to the Patreon. I appreciate it so much and I am thankful for

you every single day. And the Patreon is back tomorrow. That is the 6th of September. And I am back

tomorrow with a very special episode which features my friend Tim who is an incredible historian

and who also loves a ghost story and I'm very excited to be back on Patreon. I also apologise

if I pronounced anybody's names incorrectly. There were some particularly tricky ones in that

batch. So if I got them wrong I'm sorry I did try my best. And before we start today's episode

I just wanted to address something which has come up quite a lot. I think since I started back

making podcasts and making episodes I've had loads of comments from people and messages from people

regarding whether or not I will be doing like commentary after listener stories or after the

episodes or talking about them or kind of being a bit more interactive in that way. And the truth is

that no I'm probably not. There's a couple of reasons for this and I'm not going to really

I'm not really interested in airing my grief or how I'm feeling. Publicly it's just not it's just

not the way I do things and I also don't want the podcast to become sort of like my misery diary

because that's not what I want to do either. But I know that people wanted to hear my thoughts on

things and want to hear that little bit of interaction at the end of stories and actually I'm just

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