She Got Sober… And Something Didn’t Like It | After Midnight

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories

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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

She never thought of herself as sensitive—just practical, cautious, and aware of her surroundings. But growing up as the daughter of a pastor who quietly performed exorcisms left marks she didn’t recognize at the time. Certain rooms felt heavy. Certain places demanded escape. And sadness followed her long before she understood why.

Years later, after getting sober, she realized something unsettling: the despair, the crushing cold, and the urge to drink all returned in one specific place—her home. On deployment, surrounded by routine and people, she felt clear and stable. At home, the cold waited. It moved with her. Watched her. Fed on isolation and weakness.

When objects began moving—lifted, not tipped—she understood it wasn’t a haunted house or cursed antiques. Those items had only given something permission to lean closer.

The truth was harder to face: whatever lingered wasn’t interested in walls. It was interested in her boundaries. And once she stopped feeding it fear, exhaustion, and escape—the cold began to lose its grip.

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0:00.0	Midnight has passed, and in the stillness of these hours, the hauntings are never silent.
0:08.9	This is Real Ghost Stories Online.
0:13.1	After midnight.
0:15.2	She never thought of herself as sensitive.
0:17.4	If anything, she believed she was practical, cautious in certain places, sure, but not
0:22.4	someone who went looking for meaning in every strange sensation. There were locations that
0:28.0	unsettled her, places where she felt an overwhelming urge to leave, but she assumed that was instinct.
0:35.5	Nothing more. Looking back, though, those instincts had always been specific.
0:40.8	As a child, her father was a pastor in a small town, known for handling difficult cases,
0:46.1	people who came to him when things had gone far beyond normal counseling. Many of them were
0:51.1	deeply troubled. Some struggled with addiction. Some believed themselves cursed.
0:57.6	A number of them came from local Native American communities carrying stories of generational trauma and spiritual fear.
1:05.4	Her father performed exorcisms, not loudly, not theatrically, quietly,
1:11.2	methodically, behind closed doors.
1:14.8	There was one room in the church she avoided at all costs,
1:17.3	her father's study, and she couldn't explain why.
1:20.3	She only knew that stepping inside it made her skin prickle.
1:23.4	The air felt wrong, thick, heavy, cold.
1:27.0	On Sundays, when she needed a book to read during services,
1:29.8	she would force herself inside just long enough to grab one.
1:33.6	Her heart racing, hair standing on end,
1:36.9	then sprint out as if something might follow.
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