This is a real ghost stories online extra.

It's Bliss and it's been a coonage since I've called just so I thought I would call in.

I'm listening to some older episodes of EPPs and people are talking about the prevalence of

picking or scratching or tapping to, like, indicate a paranormal

presence. And I thought I would tell you about my first memories of the paranormal, because

they're tied into that. As I mentioned before, I had a fairly paranormal childhood. And the first time I remember really experiencing something that seemed odd and not quite right, I was about five years old.

And we lived in this really old cabin on this piece of property in the northern backwoods of California and the Redwoods that used to be a hippie commune.

And it was a commune in the 50s and the 60s,

and then it was sold to this Christian couple who actually turned it into a Christian commune. So, like,

they would have churches and church groups and seminars and families and reunions and all sorts of

Christian groups come into the property and stay at all the

different houses scattered throughout the property.

And my mom was a caretaker of those homes, and we lived on this tiny little cabin on the

back part of the property.

And it had an addict and an open floor plan below, and I had a little bed on the floor with a bunch of stuffed animals.

My sister was in the crib, and I remember laying down at night and starting to doze off,

and I would hear ticking in the wall.

And this is an outside wall with no roof over it, no other rooms or extensions to that

portion of the house.

So there was like nothing there inside the wall to tick.

The only clock we had in the house was on the stove downstairs and I would hear this ticking.

And at first it started out basic normal rhythm of your heart ticking. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. But the more attention I paid

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