Episode 184: Ventriloquism for Dummies

Odd Trails

Cryptic County

True Crime, Arts, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Stories in this episode:

- The Dummy, by Josh
- Four Spooky Stories, by Trish the Fish
- I Think Something Came Home With Me by, xN4kedP0tat0x
- Energy is Felt Even After Death, by Cindy
- Reappearing Objects, by twYstedf8
- Strange Light in the Forest, by mike-row-paynus

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0:00.0	Odd Trails is a true paranormal podcast.
0:02.7	If you have a story to share,
0:04.2	send it to Stories at oddtrails.com.
0:06.8	Enjoy the show.
0:10.5	Forget facts.
0:12.3	Forget logic.
0:14.3	Forget everything that seems real.
0:17.2	You just trust.
0:21.7	Believe. Believe. You know your life is just a dream, don't you? The Dummy by Josh
1:00.3	This happened when I was 11.
1:04.5	I'm now in my 30s and am still unsure of what really happened.
1:10.1	I had a friend named Kyle who lived next door to me, and our
1:13.6	bedrooms faced each other directly. We would converse via our windows most nights, making faces at
1:20.6	each other trying to make each other laugh at night. We were pretty good friends. One day I went over
1:26.3	to Kyle's house, and he had something new to show me.
1:29.7	He had been to his grandparents' house and found this old ventriloquist dummy in their attic.
1:35.4	He had convinced them to let him keep it so that he could practice, and apparently be the next
1:40.5	Jeff Dunham.
1:42.2	The dummy was wearing a red and white shirt and light blue pants
1:45.6	and had stringy hair that was somewhat combed over. Kyle was excited, but I was not. I never liked
1:54.2	those things. They gave me the creeps, as I told him. They really freaked me out, and this one particularly gave me these bad feelings.
2:04.1	I can still feel it today, thinking about it, all these years later. I asked if he could put it away
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