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Welcome back to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries. I'm your ghost for this very

haunted episode, Kalyn Moore. It's that time of year, once again, everyone, the time where we

follow the age-old Victorian era tradition of telling ghost stories around the holidays. And I am so

excited to share with you the scary ghost stories of Christmases long, long ago.

Maybe you're new here this year, and this is your first time partaking in this tradition with us.

I actually just looked at our Spotify wrapped numbers for the year, and I was honestly shocked to see how many of you are, in fact, new this year.

Well, each year, we all gather around inside of the rogue detecting society headquarters, the very old and very haunted mansion where I tell these stories from, and we light a fire and listen to some ghost stories.

And this year, these stories are coming directly from our community, you guys.

Now, we have a very darkly curious community here, people who work in morgues and hospitals,

people who like to spend their free time walking through cemeteries. So it makes sense that a lot of very scary and supernatural things happen around you all. So to start, I want to tell you a story from a

listener named Sky that stopped me in my tracks.

I had heard that paranormal activity can pick up if you spend a lot of time talking about ghosts.

You can attract a certain kind of energy, they say.

But Sky suggests that even the mere act of listening to hearts hearts pounding can increase the paranormal activity in your home.

So you might want to listen to this one with care.

Sky writes,

So I think my house might have been haunted from the start.

For some context to my ghostly encounters, me and my family live in a three-bed, three-bath,

two-story home and have for a while now.

My father's office is on the second story, and he has this window cut out that lets you peer down onto the first floor where my mom's

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