Real ghost stories from real people.

This is Into the Paranormal with Tony Bruske.

There are certain stories that slip under your skin before you even realize.

They've taken hold.

They start with something small, a fleeting shadow, a voice calling your name when no one's there,

a face in a photograph that shouldn't exist. And before you know it, you're staring into a mirror,

asking yourself a question no one should ever have to ask. Am I the one haunting myself?

Tonight's story is exactly that, a slow unraveling of reality, memory, and fear.

It's the story of a woman whose life was shadowed by a ghost, in a blue dress, a ghost that

followed her through first loves, heartbreak, the birth of her children, and even the death of

her own father. But this ghost wasn't a stranger.

It was her.

What you're about to hear isn't a Hollywood ghost story with rattling chains and slamming doors.

This is the kind of haunting that works its way into the quiet spaces of a life.

The parts no one sees.

The fears we bury deep until they grow so strong,

they step out into the open and look us right in the eye. Is this a ghost, a fractured memory,

or something far worse? Let's get to the letter. They write, hey, Tony, I've spent years wondering if I'd ever write this down.

To be honest, putting it into words feels dangerous, like it might make everything real again.

But I can't shake the feeling that if I don't tell someone, this thing I've been living with will swallow me whole.

So here I am. I'm hoping you'll understand, or at least believe me enough to hear me whole. So here I am. I'm hoping you'll understand or at least believe me

enough to hear me out. This started when I was 17. Back then I was just a high school senior

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