This is the podcast where the dark and creepy things we don't talk about discover a voice.

This is Into the Paranormal with Tony Bruske. So imagine this for a moment. You're a writer,

pouring your heart and soul into your latest project, carefully saving every chapter, backing it up

religiously, and your trusted friend, Susan, she's the one keeping the

final safety net for you. A flash drive and a fireproof safe locked away like some literary Fort Knox,

but here's where things take a turn from the mundane to the unsettling. You sit down, ready to wrap up

the last chapter of your book. You know the drill.

You save everything in a meticulously organized way because, well, you're a writer. You're

detail-oriented, careful, methodical. And then, out of nowhere, you find something, something that

shouldn't be there. A file you never created,

a chapter you never wrote with a cryptic title that doesn't fit your system. But that's not all.

The file holds a number that holds deep personal significance to your friend. Something you didn't know.

Oh, and did I mention that your friend was visiting her sister's grave at the time?

A grave where the headstone had mysteriously vanished?

Now, I'm no expert in graveyard etiquette, but when markers disappear and ghostly chapters

show up on flash drives, it's enough to make anyone wonder.

And just when you think things can't get weirder,

your computer, a machine, mind you, that should only do what it's told,

starts acting like it's got a mind of its own.

It asks you if you want to replace a file that doesn't exist

with a name that ties directly to a personal connection you had no

idea about. So here's my question. What's really going on here? Is this some kind of bizarre

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