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Unexplainable

Talking to ghosts

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Why do so many people think they can see and hear ghosts, and what does that say about our conscious experience of the world? This episode originally ran on October 27, 2021. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So I'd gone to bed in my flat in southeast London.

0:09.0

I was lying on my side on a low platform bed and a man, a giant man hunched over,

0:19.0

wearing this kind of long black hooded cloak came into my bedroom.

0:25.4

I double-locked the front door so this was really scary. I thought someone had broken in.

0:34.8

He floated towards me. He didn't have a face, but I felt like he had a face.

0:39.3

I felt like there was a kind of a green glow coming out of the face,

0:43.3

and he had these kind of horrible teeth, which you can see.

0:47.3

He didn't have a face, but I felt like they were there.

0:51.3

He walked slowly towards the bed, almost kind of hovering. I was trying desperately

0:58.0

to roll over, to escape, to hit him, to attack him. I couldn't do it. And after a couple of seconds,

1:07.0

he leaned right over the bed and screamed in my ear, this kind of deep, guttural noise.

1:14.5

It was loud, high-pitched.

1:17.9

And I was trying again to move to cover my ears with my hands or my arms, and I couldn't do it.

1:23.6

It just seemed to go on and on and on and then stopped.

1:26.2

And he turned around and floated out of the room,

1:30.3

through the front door, out into the corridor and left.

1:34.3

... It's almost Halloween, and we thought it'd be a great time to reshare a favorite, ghostly episode of ours.

1:56.9

So what would you do if you saw a ghost?

2:00.2

When Sarah Cox saw that strange, faceless man hover up to her bed two years ago,

2:04.8

she knew exactly who to call.

2:07.6

I was trying at the time to remember all the details

2:11.0

because I wanted to tell Chris about the experience.

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