From Grief to Ghost Hunting, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!
Losing someone you love as a child can leave questions that never fully go away. The wish for one more moment, one more conversation, one more chance to see them again can stay with you for years.
For eight-year-old Jon Kozuska, that impossible wish may have come true.
Late one night inside his grandparents’ old Victorian home, Jon headed downstairs for a glass of water. As he reached the landing, he stopped cold. Walking past the bottom of the stairs was his grandfather—solid, full color, completely real. The only problem was that his grandfather had already passed away.
That single encounter would stay with Jon for the rest of his life, sparking a fascination with the paranormal that grew from childhood ghost books into real-world investigations and experiments designed to uncover what may exist beyond death.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, Science of the especially as a child, it is heartbreaking. |
| 0:27.2 | If you only had one more day, one more hour, one more second, to say what you wanted to, |
| 0:35.0 | it could make the whole thing a little easier to bear. However, |
| 0:39.9 | that's usually not how it goes. When you're a child, you're still learning what is possible and |
| 0:45.2 | impossible. So is it really all that impossible when you see your deceased hero walking around |
| 0:52.7 | the downstairs entry to your home. That's where it all |
| 0:56.3 | started for John Kazuka as we hear his story today on The Grave Talks. Well, I was always kind of |
| 1:02.7 | that weird kid that liked hearing about ghosts, but it really kicked in actually when I was a kid. |
| 1:08.3 | My grandfather had passed away. And, you know, after things settled down, my grandma wanted to have me and my brother over there. |
| 1:15.2 | And we went over there. |
| 1:16.1 | We slept on the second floor, this older Victorian-styled house. |
| 1:20.5 | And my grandfather passed away on the main floor. |
| 1:24.5 | And to get water, obviously, you had to come down stairs. So you come down six stairs, |
| 1:29.5 | you hit this flight or landing, and then you have to go down another flight of stairs to get to the |
| 1:35.0 | kitchen area. And it was late at night. I don't know what time it was. And I was coming down the |
| 1:41.6 | stairs. I needed water, and I really needed to go to the bathroom because I drank a lot of water. |
| 1:46.3 | So I came down the first flight of stairs, hit the landing, and I watched my grandfather walk past the bottom of these stairs. |
| 1:53.6 | And I remember flying down these stairs, I started crying. |
| 1:57.2 | I mean, the guy was my hero, right? |
| 1:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:58.7 | He came to every one of my hockey games. |
| 2:01.2 | He was my rock. right? Yeah. He came to every one of my hockey games. He was, he was my rock. |
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