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Hi, welcome to your Hollywood crime scene mini episode. Hello!

Desi was like, Rachel, I'm about to scare the shit out of you. Oh, really? I mean, I feel like it's

really creepy. Oh, really? You just said that. Well, now I'm worried about overselling it.

Thanks. I find these very creepy because I reread them and I was like, oh, these are creepy. So I

have some creepy stories from you today. I'm sorry for you today. And then I have a few funny

news stories afterwards that will hopefully, hopefully, like, take the scary edge off. Thanks, Desi.

You're welcome. So sort of, I honestly was struggling with what I was going to do today.

So we got to listen or email though that I'm going to read first, and that kind of inspired

my choice today. So I will read you this email. It is from an anonymous. He wants to remain anonymous.

So anyway, here we go. I don't know if you're still welcoming ghost stories from listener,

but this one is kind of unique. It's not just a ghost story, but a true crime story.

I went to college in the early 90s in upstate New York. I lived in a building that was built in the

1860s. There was a lot of ghost stories floating around, room as if dorm rooms permanently sealed due

to grizzly suicides, strange sounds at night. I did see a ghost there one morning, but that's not what

the story is about. I was close friends with a girl that lived next door in my dorm hallway.

Let's call her Alice. We had a mutual friend that I'll call Sarah. The three of us thought it would

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