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Religion & Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Science, Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When she was just eight years old, a pink balloon in a newly built house became the source of one of the most terrifying moments of her life. What started as a simple gift turned into something deeply unsettling—floating with purpose, making noise, and leading her toward a dark basement with an ominous warning: run. In a house built by her abusive stepfather, this wasn’t just a haunting—it was a moment of survival. In this episode, we explore the strange journey of a balloon that moved with intelligence and the invisible presence that may have been trying to protect—or harm—an innocent child.

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0:00.0	This is a real ghost stories online extra.
0:05.3	Yes, my name is Dawn.
0:06.9	I am from St. West Missouri.
0:09.5	I have a whole lifetime's worth of encounters.
0:14.3	I'll call and leave them.
0:16.3	I don't want to stay here and waste, you know, everything.
0:20.0	My experience I'm calling to tell you about, I'll get right into it.
0:24.6	I was about eight years old.
0:29.6	I grew up in a very abusive environment.
0:32.6	It was my stepfather.
0:34.6	He was very abusive to me, so my mom dropped me off with my grandmother to raise me because
0:43.0	it was so bad that I stuttered so bad and I didn't socialize.
0:48.0	I kept to myself, I played in myself, and I'd always have marks all over me, so I was
0:52.7	constantly, the services was being called on them all the time.
0:58.0	So my mom just eventually dropped me off with my grandma.
1:02.0	My grandma left Missouri and went up to Indiana.
1:05.0	And my mom dropped me off there, and then I started getting better.
1:10.0	I started opening up and socializing
1:11.9	and coming out of a shell that I was in and started being able to say the cat without taking
1:18.8	two hours of saying the cat. But anyway, my mom wanted me back. So my stepdad is in construction and he built this house. And it was in like a housing complex in St. Louis.
1:35.3	And my room was pink, pink walls, pink blind. And there was just a bed in my room I had nothing else there was no
1:45.5	posters it was nothing and when I came to stay I they got me a balloon and it was a
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