This is a real ghost stories online extra.

Yes, my name is Dawn.

I am from St. West Missouri.

I have a whole lifetime's worth of encounters.

I'll call and leave them.

I don't want to stay here and waste, you know, everything.

My experience I'm calling to tell you about, I'll get right into it.

I was about eight years old.

I grew up in a very abusive environment.

It was my stepfather.

He was very abusive to me, so my mom dropped me off with my grandmother to raise me because

it was so bad that I stuttered so bad and I didn't socialize.

I kept to myself, I played in myself, and I'd always have marks all over me, so I was

constantly, the services was being called on them all the time.

So my mom just eventually dropped me off with my grandma.

My grandma left Missouri and went up to Indiana.

And my mom dropped me off there, and then I started getting better.

I started opening up and socializing

and coming out of a shell that I was in and started being able to say the cat without taking

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.

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

posters it was nothing and when I came to stay I they got me a balloon and it was a

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