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Today's story is one that I told several years ago back on YouTube, but during my 2024 live tour,

I brought this one back out and gave it a complete overhaul and ended up telling it live,

and the audience really liked it.

The story is about a family, a father and his two daughters, whose lives are turned upside

down after their mother passes away.

But their grief would soon turn to horror as they began to hear tapping coming from their

walls at night.

But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the Strange, dark, and Mysterious,

delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do

and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.

So, if that's of interest to you, please tell the Amazon Music Follow button you're going

to gift them tickets to my first ever

live storytelling tour. But don't tell them, you got them tickets that are mid-row floor seats

to the Indianapolis show. Okay, let's get into today's story. In the fall of 19th.

In the fall of 1986, Frank Bowen, along with his two daughters, Tina, who was 15, and Karen, who was nine,

they experienced just a terrible loss. So Frank's wife and the girl's mother suddenly passed away from cancer.

And so that in and of itself was obviously tragic and terrible, but what made it even worse

is that, you know, she had been a working mom.

And her income was a vital part of just making ends meet in the Bowen household.

And so as soon as she passed away, as much as Frank just wanted to be

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