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This week we're sharing our annual ghost story episode.

Every year we read listeners submitted ghost stories, and it's so much fun.

If you're easily scared, don't worry.

Most of the stories are typically pretty cute, but we will give a warning if anything's going to be too scary.

Yeah.

We might give a warning.

We might give a warning.

I feel like people don't always listen to this with their kids anyway.

I know.

I don't know.

Every other year, there has been like one scary one and all sweet ones. So we'll see how it goes this year. But that's how it almost always is. I think this is like our probably fifth time to do this. Yeah. What I've learned over the years is ghosts are mostly sweet. Yeah. I know. But then there's one bad egg and I guess it gives them all a bad name. I don't know. Maybe that's how they feel in the ghost community. They're like, we're not scary, except for him. And then that's where all the movies come from. One person's ruining it for everyone. Exactly. As usual. In the afterlife, it's no different. I don't know. No, I love it.

Let's just jump in.

Okay, our first story is from Laura.

She says,

I used to work at a children's shelter during the graveyard shift, which is 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.

This particular shelter was the off-site shelter for when the original was too full. It used to be an old

folks home turned into this children's shelter. Okay. Nobody liked going to this off-site

shelter because everyone knew how haunted it was. Oh boy. Well, both were very haunted, but this one,

this one had to be exercised.

Yes! Okay, we're starting off strong. Go ahead. This is. Good setup, Laura. Good hook.

Okay. It didn't matter if it was day or night. It haunted employees all day long.

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