You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast.

And now, presenting, rattled and shook. I'm going to be able to be. I'm Meredith, and this is Rattled and Shook, a podcast where we tune into scary stories and discuss our deepest darkest fears, but in a fun way. I hope you all are recovering nicely from Halloween.

I went as Blue Origin Katie Perry.

And if you didn't know, because I did learn that some people didn't know,

Katie Perry went to space this year, guys.

Katie Perry was in space.

I actually thought everyone knew this. I had to tell

a few people that they're like, what is, what are you? And I was like, I'm Katie Perry in space.

What do you mean? What am I? Um, but if you want to see pictures of my outfit, they are on

Instagram now along with a rather unhinged video we made. But anyway, anyway, that is not the theme of this episode.

This episode's theme is...

Cowboys and or, like Western-y spooky vibes.

Haunts on the ranch.

There we go.

That works.

So I've pulled together some stories have gotten over time that I actually really liked.

They all had like a weirdly spooky Western horror vibe, which I find is hard to find, but when you do find it, it's perfect. I kind of love the melding of those two genres. So without further ado, let's get into our first story.

I was raised in a mining and ranching town in rural Colorado, not too far from Telly Ride.

We lived in town in an old Victorian house from the time I was born until the time that I was about nine years old. And then we lived on

a ranch outside of town. As a small child in the house in town, I didn't know ghosts were unusual

or supposedly scary because we had always had one. This man was always around, watching my brother and I play.

He showed up sometimes at night, right after we went to bed,

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