Hello, I'm historian Greg Jenner, host of the BBC podcast You're Dead to Me,

and I've written a children's book. It's called You Are History. It's a funny,

fact-filled look at the amazing history behind 50 of the things that you use every day,

from the alarm clock that wakes you up to the bed that you collapse in at night.

Because no matter how modern you feel, you're doing the same things that our ancient ancestors did too.

You just have cooler shoes. Get your copy of You Are History written by me,

Greg Jenner, and illustrated by Jenny Taylor from all good booksellers. Thank you!

Hello and welcome to many episode 170 of Real Life Ghost Stories. Before we begin today's

episode, I just wanted to let you know that I am in a different recording location at the moment,

so I am cat sitting for some friends, so if you hear any background noises that you think,

oh that's a strange noise, I haven't heard that one before, then don't worry about it,

I'm just in a different location. And I have four spooky stories for you today,

and the last story comes from February 18th, 2022, and story number one comes from Jennifer.

When I was about 21 years old, a friend of mine was getting married. She decided she didn't want to

have the normal night out on the town for her hand-do, with the penis straws, the costumes,

and the usual shenanigans. She decided instead to have a fancy pants meal at her house,

and book a couple of psychic mediums to come and do readings for people. I'd never visited a medium

before, but I was game for it, even though I was a bit of a skeptic. Being 21 and only having a

par time bar job, I didn't exactly have a lot of spare cash, so I only paid to see one, as it was

30 pounds a pop. Earlier in the evening, I'd said to my friend that I'd have to do a lot to impress me,

as I didn't really know any dead people so there wouldn't really be anybody to come through to see me.

I was interested to know if he'd try and potentially go down the dead,

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