Real ghost stories from real people.

This is Into the Paranormal with Tony Bruske.

There's a certain kind of fear that only comes when you realize you've stepped into something you can't step back out of.

It doesn't happen all at once.

No loud bangs or dramatic screams.

Instead, it begins as a whisper

at the edge of your mind. A feeling, a knowing, the sense that something is watching you,

and has been for a while. Tonight's story is about a house, but not just any house. It's about a girl, but not just any house.

It's about a girl, but not just any girl.

And it's about a moment, that dangerous moment, when curiosity crosses a line and something

long buried stirs awake.

When the living touch, the unseen, sometimes the unseen touches back, the events you're

about to hear took place in a quiet town, in an ordinary house during an otherwise unremarkable

afternoon.

But what started as a simple day of cleaning unlocked a chain of events that followed our

storyteller far beyond the front door all the way home and into her very dreams.

Is it possible that a spirit could cling to a person? Not out of malevolence, but out of desperation,

a story left unfinished, a name left unspoken, and what happens when the living aren't ready to listen?

Let's get to the letter. They write,

Tony, I never expected to write something like this. I've always been the kind of person who could explain away the strange, a draft in a window, a creek in the floorboards. But this,

this wasn't one of those times times and I was 15 when it happened

my mom cleaned houses for a living and I spent a lot of my weekends

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