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The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Against the Forbidden Darkness, Part Two | Guest Michelle Lemke-Budke

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories

Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Spirituality, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From childhood, Michelle Lemke-Budke was visited by spirits. But what once felt like a terrifying burden became her life’s calling. Today, Michelle is the founder and lead investigator of First City Paranormal of Kansas, a psychic medium, and intuitive empath dedicated to guiding both the living and the dead. She enters homes, businesses—even prisons—confronting the lost and restless to help them find peace. Her journey, chronicled in the book Against the Forbidden Darkness: A Medium and Her Struggle to Save Souls, reveals the chilling encounters that shaped her path. In this episode, Michelle shares her most powerful experiences with earth-bound spirits, the battles she’s faced with darker entities that refused to let go, and how she helps others connect with their spiritual guides and angels. This is Part Two of our conversation.

You can find the book, Against the Forbidden Darkness: A Medium and Her Struggle to Save Souls, on Amazon. For more information on First City Paranormal of Kansas, click here. For Hauntoff Solutions, click here and for information on Guiding Light Intuitive Empath and Spiritual Guide Messenger, click here.

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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.

0:54.1

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. to feel good because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:57.9

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

1:03.3

Today on the Grave Talks, part two of Against the Forbidden Darkness,

1:06.4

a conversation with Michelle Lamke-Budkey.

1:28.0

With a book being, I think you said 85% is your story. And I don't want to give away all of the stories in the book, but that makes it even more interesting to read, knowing that these are actual stories. So I want to ask you about one of the stories in the book, and I hope you don't mind talking about it, is about Alice. Alice is my favorite, actually. So in the book, most of the people's,

1:37.2

the names are their real names, the real people. They've, you know, because like all my family, that's their real names my brother you know that's all

1:46.1

their names the place that this took place is actually my uncle's antique store and i work there

1:53.7

i help him out when he needs needs help but i had known that there was a presence in that place and I had felt it actually I felt more than one

2:05.8

and I had asked him if I said hey would you mind if I bring the group in and we do an investigation

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