Hello, I am here to ask you a favor.

Before we begin this episode, I would really appreciate it.

If you could vote for Real Life Ghost Stories

in the British Podcast Awards,

just go to British Podcast Awards.

com forward slash voting to cast your vote.

You can vote once per email address and you have to verify your vote via email for it to count.

It genuinely takes 30 seconds and you can vote from anywhere in the world.

Am I likely to win? No. But do I enjoy turning a look at an event? Yes.

And on a genuine note it is such good free

advertising for the podcast to have the name up there. So if you've enjoyed the

podcast, if I've kept you company on a long journey, if I lull you to sleep at night with my dulcid tones, I would really appreciate if you could cast a little vote for real life ghost stories and also please do vote for any other

indie podcasts that you listen to the place to vote is British Podcast Awards

dot com forward slash voting. Oh, Hello and I have four spooky stories for you today and the last story comes from the 24th of July 2024 and

Story number one comes from Abbey. I listened to mini episode 369 The Bear and I'm deeply honored that you covered my story.

I know you had some questions and I thought I might help answer them or add to the confusion. I also forgot a couple of stories but have

since chatted with a mate of mine which brought these memories to the forefront of my mind.

To answer some of your questions about the Bear and rug spider, I was never one to struggle

differentiating between waking and dreaming.

I lucid dream naturally, which has occasionally led to a death-like sleep paralysis that I've never heard anyone else describe.

But I'm always hyper aware of it and know that it feels so much different to being awake.

Dreaming for me either has an airy quality to it or is

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