Presence in the Basement – Ep. 210
Odd Trails
Andy & Brandon Lanier
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
- The Missing 6th Friend, by Mr_Massachusetts
- Prophecy Saved My Family Line, by Starling
- That Thing on Crouch Mesa, by Ghosty_1617
- My Little Brother Could See Ghosts, by Zoe
- Train That Never Arrived, by DonEvanLee
- My Haunted Home, by Ashley
- There is a Presence in the Basement, by tansyuduri2
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| 0:00.0 | Odd Trails is a true paranormal podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | If you have a story to share, send it to Stories at oddtrails.com. |
| 0:06.8 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:10.5 | Forget facts. |
| 0:12.3 | Forget logic. |
| 0:14.3 | Forget everything that seems real. |
| 0:17.2 | You just trust. |
| 1:01.6 | Believe. Believe. You know your life is just a dream, don't you? The Missing Sixth Friend by Mr. Massachusetts. |
| 1:09.7 | I took a small fishing trip this weekend with four lifelong friends, all of us in our 50s. |
| 1:13.7 | We stayed at my boss's house, somewhere I stayed many times before, and it was just us. We spent most of the time eating, drinking, fishing, |
| 1:20.6 | and playing poker. Early on the first night, I kept feeling like somebody was missing. I couldn't put my finger on it. |
| 1:30.3 | It wasn't as though a specific person was supposed to be there and wasn't. It felt more as if |
| 1:37.2 | someone was there but somehow absent. The feeling came on randomly. I had been sitting there. I looked around at my friends and |
| 1:47.8 | counted. It was just the five of us. Every time I did this, always five. By the second night, |
| 1:56.5 | the sense that someone was missing became overwhelming. I finally mentioned it to the group. |
| 2:03.1 | One friend turned white and said, I can't believe he just said that. I've had the same feeling |
| 2:08.7 | all weekend. Another admitted that he had been counting heads more than once because he felt someone |
| 2:14.5 | wasn't there at certain times. |
| 2:20.4 | The other two didn't feel it at first, but as we talked, |
| 2:24.7 | one of them began noticing the strange missing friend sensation. |
| 2:29.1 | The fifth friend said that he never experienced it. |
| 2:36.5 | None of us are especially religious or inclined toward the paranormal, but we wondered if it might be the spirit of a friend who passed away a few years ago, though that seemed |
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