The Boy Who Played with Spirits, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!
Most kids have imaginary friends. Frank Cinelli had something else. For years, he thought it was normal—seeing things other people couldn’t, hearing voices no one else acknowledged. But as he got older, Frank realized his so-called “imaginary friends” weren’t imaginary at all. They were spirits. Some kind, others not. And his childhood wasn’t just unusual—it was haunted.
In this spine-tingling episode of The Grave Talks, we dive deep into the real-life paranormal experiences of Frank Cinelli. From a terrifying accidental exorcism to discovering the dark energy behind a haunted painting in his home, Frank’s life has been anything but ordinary. These aren’t stories pulled from horror films—these are true stories of a man born with a connection to the dead, struggling to make sense of it in a world that told him it was all in his head.
What happens when the dead reach out to the living, not just once, but over and over? Can haunted objects really hold power over a household? And how does a child cope when the line between the living and the spirit world never existed in the first place?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, Living with the Dead, a conversation with Frank Sinelli. Everyone sees their imaginary friends, right? |
| 0:26.7 | That's what Frank Sinnelli thought for many years, until he realized that was not the norm. |
| 0:33.1 | This and several other childhood experiences involving the dead would lead him on a path of trying to |
| 0:37.9 | understand the dead better and seek answers. |
| 0:41.4 | Brank's experiences are utterly unique, from being part of an accidental exorcism to removing |
| 0:46.4 | a haunted painting from a home and much more. |
| 0:49.2 | Today on the Grave Talks, we hear his story. |
| 0:51.8 | You know, after talking about this for years and years and years, paranormal apparently has |
| 0:58.5 | always been a part of my life. I remember as a young child, maybe four or five, I had an |
| 1:06.9 | imaginary friend. Oh, okay, there's nothing weird about that, except he was all gray with blonde hair. |
| 1:14.8 | You know, who knows? |
| 1:16.7 | The other thing that was odd about my imaginary friend was his name was McTavish. |
| 1:23.9 | Now, to preface this, I grew up in an all--italian community i i didn't know somebody's name |
| 1:29.9 | couldn't end in the vowel in my team sure so i i have no idea where that that name came from |
| 1:37.0 | but um it was weird it's he wouldn't leave the house he wouldn't like if we were going to the grocery store, he wouldn't come. |
| 1:47.4 | And I would have like these long in-depth conversations with McTavish. |
| 1:53.1 | So that was like the first memory of something being weird that I have. |
| 1:59.1 | And of course, as I grew older, I always had this interest. |
| 2:03.4 | I remember I was about nine. |
| 2:04.8 | I'm the youngest to five. |
| 2:06.6 | And my sister at that time was, you know, like everybody else, was into doing |
| 2:10.4 | seances and cool things like that. |
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