The Girl Who Lived with Ghosts, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Some people grow into the paranormal slowly. Tory Smith Westhoff never had that luxury. Her first brush with the unexplained struck when she was barely old enough to tie her shoes—an age when most children fear the dark, but Tory learned the dark could fear her back. In a house where everyone else slept soundly, she saw the things that moved when the lights went out. She felt the cold brushes of unseen hands. She heard what no one else could hear.
And because no one believed her… she faced it alone.
Those quiet, terrifying nights didn’t fade as she grew older—they followed, shaped, and ultimately forged her into someone the haunted could turn to. Decades later, Tory founded The Paranormal Help Desk, a lifeline for people living the same nightmare she once faced without support.
This isn’t just a haunting. It’s the origin story of a woman the spirits never left alone.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, Growing Up Haunted, a conversation with Tori Smith Westoff. |
| 0:14.0 | Tori Smith Westoff is waded in the waters of the paranormal from the age of five. |
| 0:20.0 | Growing up in a haunted house, where she was the only one experiencing the paranormal, |
| 0:25.2 | the events she endured defied explanation. |
| 0:28.2 | Yet she was unable to share these moments with her parents because of that disbelief. |
| 0:33.4 | These experiences eventually led her to open the paranormal help desk, |
| 0:37.4 | helping to match professional investigators to people experiencing hauntings. |
| 0:41.8 | Today, we hear her story on The Grave Talks. |
| 0:45.8 | My interest in the paranormal started when I was a child. |
| 0:49.4 | I actually grew up in a haunted house. |
| 0:54.1 | It's quite interesting, actually. I remember when we, actually grew up in a haunted house. |
| 0:56.1 | It's quite interesting, actually. |
| 1:04.1 | I remember when we moved in to this house, I remember looking at this house with my parents whenever they were getting ready to buy it. |
| 1:06.0 | I was probably around five or so, right in there. |
| 1:11.6 | I remember walking into this house and it looked like people just like up and left. |
| 1:18.6 | There were cobwebs everywhere, there was stuff all in it. |
| 1:23.6 | I mean, it was probably something, if you could imagine it off of like a horror movie, |
| 1:29.8 | that would probably be it if I had to guess. |
| 1:36.2 | But yeah, my whole paranormal journey started when I was just a kid. |
| 1:40.8 | I remember seeing shadows in my house. |
| 1:52.0 | I remember distinctly one of the more scary experiences that I had. And I think this is probably more scary because in my five-year-old brain, it was really scary. |
| 1:59.0 | As an adult now, looking back on it, I don't think it would |
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