Hey, gender listeners, it's Andrew, and welcome to Scary Stories to Tell on the Pod, a podcast all about scary stories, urban legends, and spooky things you tell us about.

And rejoining us for this week's episode is our wonderful guest, TV writer Anna Thorup.

Hello.

Welcome back, Anna.

Thank you so much.

We've just been sitting here for 30 seconds, but for all the rest of you, it's been a full seven days.

So welcome back.

Anna, last week you were telling us about growing up in a haunted house and running a prospective ghost hunting service.

Yes.

But one moment in particular from your story has stuck with me, which is the ghost pulling

down the sheets of your household beds while you guys would be out like a way on vacation.

And I was wondering, because you grew up in the South, right?

Yep. I wonder if there's some like heat explanation because I was wondering, because you grew up in the South, right? Yep.

I wonder if there's some, like, heat explanation.

Because I was thinking about there's, like, I remember it in a bunch of, like, weird

almanac books that I had as a kid, that there was a desert of stones that traveled on

their own.

Well.

And that it was like over, like, you see in the sand paths of these stones like moving

and squiggles.

Yeah.

And that it took scientists a long time to figure out what was going on.

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