A haunted mansion and more haunted hotels on this edition of Campfire.

Welcome to our gathering tonight.

Here we share stories of ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary things.

Sit back, relax and warm yourself by Jim Herald's campfire.

Welcome to the campfire. I am Jim Herald and so glad to be with you once again and happy

Halloween everybody. And if you are here to listen to some spooky tales, be it ghosts,

be it strange cryptic creatures, maybe even UFOs haunted places and spaces, guess what?

You're in the right place and I'd appreciate it if you would share this show and this spooky

season with a friend. And with that, let's not dilly dally any longer. Let's get to the first

campfire story. Ashley is on the line from North Texas and we're so glad to have her on the

program. And she has a story that involves her son and boy, she's got my curiosity peaked.

Ashley, welcome to the show. Tell us when happened.

Okay, thank you so much for having me today. And I guess my story starts in about 2016

and my younger son was born in 2014. Prior to his birth, the permanent lived in, we didn't have

any experiences. And it started off as my younger son had this little boy that he would play with.

He would tell me who was a little boy and he was in our hallway. When I told him about him,

they would assume, oh, it's an imaginary friend, which I'm a skeptic. I tried to debunk and rationalize

everything. And I said, well, if it's a imaginary friend, then why isn't he anywhere else we go?

He's not anyone else's houses. He's nowhere entry way of our apartment.

It's a good point. Nothing was malicious. Nothing odd happened. Now there were times in that apartment

where I was by myself where I would wake up at night. I don't know. I've listened to a lot of

stuff about sleep paralysis. I'm not sure if that's what it was, but I would feel that there's

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