A Life Surrounded by Spirits, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For John Olson, ghosts weren’t a campfire story—they were part of everyday life. Growing up in a house where strange noises, shadowy figures, and unshakeable feelings of being watched were the norm, he learned early on to accept the paranormal as simply a part of reality. But acceptance soon gave way to curiosity.
As he grew older, John’s desire to understand what was happening around him deepened. His search for answers led him beyond his own home, as he investigated the haunted lives of others and uncovered just how common it is to grow up with spirits. The more he learned, the clearer it became—his story was just one of many.
Today on The Grave Talks, in Part Two of our conversation, John shares his personal experiences from a lifetime spent surrounded by the unexplained.
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| 0:00.0 | A Better Help ad. |
| 0:02.3 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:07.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:13.0 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:17.4 | But I do it because I realize how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:21.8 | Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:24.9 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:28.7 | A better help ad. |
| 0:30.6 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.2 | Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:55.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. Welcome to part two of our interview with John Olson, about growing up |
| 1:03.8 | in a haunted house. You'd be wanting to look for answers as far as who is this little boy, especially |
| 1:10.4 | when you come across the ghost of a child. |
| 1:13.0 | I think a lot of us are like, how can I help you? What's going on? Sometimes it's not even really a |
| 1:18.2 | child. It's something that's looking like a child. When you were hearing these stories, |
| 1:22.4 | were you able to do any sort of investigation to try and hone in on who this might be at all? |
| 1:30.7 | You know, I do try to look into it when I get a story, especially like this, |
| 1:35.4 | and I've never been able to find the story of a lost child in that area. |
| 1:43.2 | When you go back so far to the original pioneers that came across the plains and settled all of the West, |
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