Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

Listen or discretion is advised.

Usually I start the podcast with a scary story. I guess this could be perceived by some

is scary but I couldn't talk about this location without telling the story that in retrospect taught me a lot about standing up for myself

So years ago I was investigating this location in Atlanta Georgia Georgia with Ghost Hunters.

The TV show many of you were introduced to me on.

Though I'd been active in the paranormal for quite some time,

I was still fairly new to the Ghost Hunting on reality TV game, so I tried to keep my head low and do what I was asked to do without much fuss.

This was reality TV in its heyday so crossovers happened. Sometimes crossovers that made little to no sense. And on this night, we were doing a crossover with the real housewives of Atlanta. Big wig producers were milling around as one by one Nini, Kim, and

Shirei all rolled up in identical range rovers. Again, I expected to not be any part of

this save for the big group introduction shot.

The idea was they would say hello, and then Jay and Grant, the two lead investigators on the show,

would take them inside to investigate.

Then the ladies would be on their way and we would carry on with our normal investigation.

Except that's not what happened. The ladies rolled up. We discussed what was happening and as they were walking inside with Jay and Grant,

Nini loudly said, where are the girls? The producers all looked around like,

what is happening here? Again, Nini said, no offense.

I don't want to investigate with the guys.

I want to go in with the girls.

So just like that, me and the only other girl on the show, Chris,

were hurried up with microphones and rushed in with the housewives

while the dudes stayed outside. Truthfully, it was really fun. The ladies were so kind,

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