Fleeing the Entity, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

For Stephanie Smith, childhood wasn’t defined by toys or bedtime stories—it was defined by shadows. The house her family called home was alive with something unseen, something that moved through rooms, whispered her name, and filled every night with dread. But when she tried to talk about it, her parents brushed it off, desperate to protect her from the truth: their home was haunted.

Years later, Stephanie would learn just how real those fears were. One terrifying night, the haunting escalated beyond denial—forcing her and her mother to flee the house in pure fear. Whatever was inside had made its message clear: get out.

That experience would change Stephanie’s life forever. Instead of running from the paranormal, she chose to confront it. As an adult, she became a paranormal investigator, determined to uncover the truths that once terrified her—and to help others understand the forces she grew up with.

Today on The Grave Talks, Stephanie Smith shares her story of fear, awakening, and empowerment. It’s proof that the things that haunt us as children can shape the paths we take as adults—and that sometimes, facing the darkness is the only way to take back control.

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0:00.0	Today on the Grave Talks, Being Watched, a conversation with Stephanie Smith.
0:26.9	Growing up in a haunted house can be a terrifying event for a child.
0:32.5	It can be even more confusing if your parents to protect you refuse to discuss the haunting with you.
0:41.3	Only to have all your fears confirmed one day when your mother and you flee the house in fear of an unknown entity that demands you leave. That's what happened to Stephanie Smith.
0:43.3	Today we hear her story of making sense of her childhood paranormal experiences and taking that knowledge into paranormal investigating as an adult.
0:53.3	I was actually seven and definitely remember it like it was yesterday.
0:59.0	We, my mom and I and her boyfriend at the time, we had moved to Grafton, North Dakota,
1:03.9	small town, and we were looking at a house to rent.
1:08.1	Immediately I noticed that the landlady and her dog, she had a little poodle,
1:12.4	would not go in this house to show us, you know, what the house looked like or anything. She just
1:16.4	let us go in on our own. And I remember thinking as a child, that seemed odd to me. And, you know,
1:23.7	we went ahead and obviously rented the place. My mom's boyfriend was a truck driver,
1:28.7	so he, you know, had to leave right after we rented the place pretty much. So he didn't even
1:32.2	get to sleep there yet. But the first night that we were there, I was in the upstairs hallway
1:38.3	with my mom, which was right outside my bedroom door. And it was daytime, but I was like,
1:43.3	mom, there's somebody outside that we had a
1:46.3	little shed out there and i could see a woman looking up at me from the inside of the shed and i was
1:52.4	you know mom look you know and she's like there's nobody there's nobody there of course she didn't
1:56.0	want to believe me but finally i was like mom like i drug her face. And I'm like, look, look out this window.
2:01.1	And she was, well, damn, there is somebody.
2:04.1	You know, so we go out there and the shed door is wide open, but the padlock is actually
2:09.5	still locked on the door.
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