Four Dark Figures: Hauntings in the Midwest

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

From a childhood marked by horrifying sleep paralysis, to encounters with ghostly apparitions and unexplained phenomena in historically haunted locations like the Granger House in Marion, IA—this is not a tale of a single haunting, but of a life shadowed by the unexplained.
Thank you, Aiden, for sharing your experiences with us.
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0:00.0	Do you want to hear true paranormal stories, stories that will terrify and stick with you?
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0:09.3	monsters among us. It's a podcast where you get chilling true stories from real people every week.
0:15.8	Like, there was one from Julie, who drives past a car accident and then realizes that a spirit has
0:20.6	just joined her in the
0:21.9	passenger seat. And then an anonymous caller shared an eerie story about a time slip after seeing
0:27.3	three strange entities in the woods. So whether you're a skeptic or a true believer, this is
0:32.3	the perfect podcast to fuel your fascination with the paranormal and send shivers down your spine.
0:44.3	Listen to Monsters Among Us podcast now on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. And I look up and I see these four figures.
0:52.3	The face area was so dark,
0:56.0	I just couldn't see a face,
0:58.0	even when the headlights went in that direction.
1:01.0	I kind of looked at him and I'm like,
1:04.0	did you see that?
1:06.0	In homes across Iowa and Illinois,
1:09.0	Aiden has faced chilling encounters with the paranormal,
1:12.6	from terrifying sleep paralysis to unexplained footsteps and face-to-face meetings with the unknown.
1:18.6	My name is Edwin, and here is Aidan's true, scary story.
1:32.1	My name is Aiden.
1:34.7	I'm originally from Illinois.
1:38.4	A little small town called Warsaw. It's right across the border from Iowa.
1:43.9	When my mom was a teenager, they would play the Ouija board in my grandparents'
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