24: Little Stonehenges

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Following her father's death, a ghost appears in Natalie's childhood home and refuses to leave. Natalie has spent the last few decades attempting to decode the ominous messages it left behind. ~41~

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0:00.0	Spoke Media
0:06.0	Hello, Ghost Family. Welcome to Family Ghosts.
0:17.0	As alert listeners have probably noticed, the ghosts in our show are usually figurative.
0:23.0	As I sometimes like to say when people ask about family ghosts at bars or in elevators,
0:28.0	on our show, the families are real, the ghosts are metaphorical, and the truth is always relative.
0:36.0	That said, on today's episode, the ghost in question is relatively spooky.
0:43.0	So with that in mind, I'm going to take my dad jokes back to the nearest elevator
0:48.0	and let you listen to this story from a woman named Natalie.
0:59.0	The Ghost Family
1:08.0	Growing up in West Michigan, my early childhood was pretty idyllic.
1:15.0	We'd go to carnivals with my family, I'd play Ghostbusters with my mom.
1:20.0	She was super duper fun to be around.
1:24.0	She would tell us stories where we were the protagonists.
1:29.0	I remember one where the atoms family moved to the next door.
1:34.0	She would become Clyde the magical fish when we were taking a bath and she would grant wishes.
1:41.0	I had a little sister.
1:44.0	We had a good time. We would do this thing where I would play D&D with her,
1:48.0	but it would be like out loud D&D outside, where I would give her little quests to go fight,
1:53.0	and I would make up riddles for her to solve.
2:07.0	Most of my memories about my dad were told to me way after the fact.
2:12.0	He was very distant with us as I guess a lot of dads at that time were.
2:18.0	That show The Wonder Years was popular and the dad energy on that show kind of matches my dad.
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