Growing Up with a Ghost: One Man’s Journey into the Paranormal | The Grave Talks
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Since his teenage years, David has been searching for answers—answers that began in a house forever marked by tragedy. As a child, he encountered the spirit of a young girl who perished in a fire on the property, an experience that quietly set the course for the rest of his life. While others moved on, David couldn’t. The questions followed him into adulthood.
Alongside his wife, David began visiting some of America’s most haunted locations, including historic inns and private residences steeped in mystery. What he encountered wasn’t always dramatic—but it was deeply unsettling. Subtle movements. Lingering presences. And one chilling discovery inside a private home that left him questioning everything he thought he understood about spirits and time.
From haunted inns to childhood trauma that never truly faded, this is a journey into a life lived alongside the dead—and the mysteries that refuse to stay buried.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, living in another time, a conversation with Dave Tricler. |
| 0:11.0 | Since he was a teenager, Dave Triesler has been interested in studying the supernatural. |
| 0:16.0 | David grew up in a house where he encountered the ghost of a young girl who had perished in a fire on the property. |
| 0:24.1 | Even as an adult, he persisted on his trip. |
| 0:27.3 | In the process, Dave and his wife checked out the Story Inn in Story Indiana, as well as the Talbot Inn in Barchtown, Kentucky, and a number of other residences. |
| 0:36.4 | On today's episode of The Grave Talks, we hear his account of life beyond death. |
| 0:41.7 | I grew up in a haunted house. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay. |
| 0:45.6 | So that started for me at an extremely early age. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, tell me about that. |
| 0:51.4 | What are your first memories of realizing that? |
| 0:56.0 | Well, let me give you a background a little bit on the house itself. |
| 1:00.1 | It'll help explain a little bit. |
| 1:01.7 | Great. |
| 1:03.2 | The house itself was in, just a few miles outside of Bloomington, Indiana, in Monroe County. |
| 1:14.9 | And on a little road, it was kind of just a little country road, Weimar Road. |
| 1:20.3 | And it was just an old single-story farmhouse. |
| 1:24.6 | Well, my parents bought that, and this all happened before I was born. |
| 1:31.1 | But I guess next to the house was a garage that my dad had converted into an apartment, |
| 1:38.0 | and his sister and his nieces lived there. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, he came home one day, and the whole thing was on fire. |
| 1:46.0 | So he rushed in and saved to try to save the two girls. |
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