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Soodapod Episode 788 December 10, 2021.

This week's story, The Stories We Tell About Ghosts, by AC Wise.

Hey everyone, welcome to Soodapod, the weekly horror podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host and this week's story originally saw print in Looming Low Volume

1, and was reprinted this year in AC Wise's new collection, the splendidly titled The Ghost

Sequences.

You're in a rage this week is the equally fantastic Alithia Contas, so get ready, because

we have a story for you, and I promise you, it's true.

The Stories We Tell About Ghosts, by AC Wise, narrated by Alithia Contas.

Growing up in Jelliceva, my friends and I told stories about ghosts, the Starving Man,

the Sleeping Girl, and the House at the end of the street.

The summer I was 12, I saw my first ghost for real.

That was the summer my little brother Jen disappeared.

The first official day of summer, the day after school ended for the year, we gathered

in Luke and Adam's Clubhouse, me, my little brother Jen, and Holly and Heather from across

the road.

Luke and Adam live next door.

By the time Jen was born, Luke and I had already spying years passing through the hedge between

our houses.

That didn't change immediately when Jen was born, but it changed when he got old enough

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