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I Don't Believe In Ghosts...But

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A monk warned that an order from above demanded her beheading after she stopped being a medium.

This episode features a submission from a listener nicknamed Bear, a Thai scientist living in the U.S. who describes himself as a reluctant believer. The host presents Bear's detailed account of supernatural events spanning his family's history and his own life. Bear's great-grandmother reportedly awoke in her coffin days into her own funeral, describing an encounter at a large gate with two strangely colored men. His mother experienced an astral projection and was once attacked by an old woman spirit in a haunted childhood home. Bear's grandmother was an unwilling medium, regularly possessed by distinct spirits like an old man and a young boy until her sudden death after refusing the role. The family also cared for a Kumanthong, a traditional Thai spirit amulet made from infant remains, which later manifested as a visible child to a terrified house guest. Bear himself consistently saw a woman in white in his childhood bedroom, a detail his mother later knew without being told. At a religious retreat, he dreamed of a towering, mouthless "hungry ghost" near a broken wagon, then physically encountered that exact location the next morning. Monks told him he could see such spirits due to a past life as a soldier who burned people. In a U.S. university building housing human remains, he felt persistently watched. While working in a hospital, a dementia patient fixated on something behind Bear, repeatedly describing a "red plaid shirt" shortly after Bear glimpsed a body in a similar shirt at the morgue. Most recently, in a Chicago hotel, Bear was awakened at 3:49 AM and 4:49 AM by a cold touch and a visible, veiled woman in a polka-dot dress, events corroborated by his sleep-tracking device. The episode is structured as a narrated personal story, delivered in a serious, atmospheric, and suspenseful tone. Listeners who enjoy deeply detailed, multi-generational paranormal accounts with cultural specificity will find this compelling. Those seeking skeptical analysis or debunking may find the presentation too credulous.

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A family haunting that seems to move with the amulet.

This episode follows a family story in which a kumanthong amulet is treated like a demanding invisible child, and the unease seems to move with its owners from an apartment into a new house.

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You want a haunting that follows the family, not the house.

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