EP01 The Childhood Paranormal Trauma

Welcome to Girls Just Wanna Get Haunted

In this very first episode, we're getting personal... and a little haunted. We're sharing our childhood paranormal "trauma" aka the moments that made us scared of the dark, closets, mirrors, and absolutely everything after 3:00am.

This episode is part get-to-know-us, part group therapy, and part "no one believed us be we know what we saw." From creepy encounters to lifelong fears we still pretend don't exist, this is the origin story of how we became two adults who talk about ghosts for fun.

Laugh with us, cringe with us, and maybe sleep with the lights on tonight. Just in case.

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Transcript

Lacey 0:51

You feel like this came a southern frog?

Jasmine 0:57

Yeah, sometimes. I'm a southern frog. Okay,

Lacey 1:01

fatter. Let's get around.

Jasmine 1:04

Yeah. Why are you judging me right now?

Lacey 1:09

You think this is judging?

Jasmine 1:13

Well, I did hit record,

Lacey 1:17

so that was your first mistake.

Jasmine 1:20

Lacey, are you so excited?

Lacey 1:24

No.

Jasmine 1:26

Oh, okay. It's really positive thinking for this podcast. Okay.

Lacey 1:32

Help, help. I'm being held against my will.

Jasmine 1:35

I don't even have a gun.

Lacey 1:38

You don't need one.

Jasmine 1:41

I have a gun. So Lacey, what's haunting you this week?

Lacey 1:51

I'm ready for the Super Bowl to be over.

Jasmine 1:54

Uh, yes. Sports ball is haunting you this week.

Lacey 1:59

Love me. Some sports ball. What's haunting you?

Jasmine 2:07

Probably this room that we're sitting in right now, you know, cleaning it, painting it, trying to, you know, have a comfy space for us to do this for now.

Lacey 2:21

For now,

Jasmine 2:21

for now.

Lacey 2:23

Well, we can't do it at mine because we'd get some ghosts

Jasmine 2:27

because then we would actually get haunted.

Lacey 2:29

Actually. Get haunted, yes.

Jasmine 2:32

Asmr. Okay, so what are we talking about today? That's a good look. Let's talk about our earliest childhood paranormal experience and memories

Lacey 2:51

and why we are the way we are.

Jasmine 2:54

Accurate. Let's

Lacey 2:58

take taking notes for this. I'm just like, this explains so much

Jasmine 3:02

dark that things are getting dark. So, Lacey, do you wanna start?

Lacey 3:11

I can. Okay. So I do have like a true first memory with ghosts, but like I was asking my mom, like if I ever did anything weird as a child.

Jasmine 3:28

Because she said everything.

Lacey 3:31

That's just who you are as a person. No. She's like, if you did anything creepy as a kid or if you had an imaginary friend, I wouldn't even thought twice about it. Like I just, it wouldn't have worried me at all.

Jasmine 3:49

Your head is spinning 360 and she's like, isn't she so cute?

Lacey 3:54

Like, 'cause she's very much into ghosts and spooky stuff, but like, nothing ever like scares her or does any like, she's just like, I don't know how to explain it. Like she's very much into this, but never like, oh no, like I'm gonna get scared. And she just does not, nothing ever happens to her.

Jasmine 4:14

It was a ghost.

Lacey 4:19

Because I thought surely, like with my brother and I, like we would've had to do something or say something weird. No.

Jasmine 4:26

It's all normal. It's completely fine.

Lacey 4:29

That's fine. But she did remind me that like when we were, I was in elementary school that she, and then my friend's mom and then her daughter, who was my friend in my grade, and then a younger sibling, they would take us to cemeteries at night with flashlights.

Jasmine 4:46

That's not creepy at all.

Lacey 4:47

As like toddlers,

Jasmine 4:50

you're still in diapers.

Lacey 4:52

Probably so my brother would've been four years younger than me, and if I was in like kindergarten, yeah, he would've been little. We were just in haunted cemeteries with flashlights.

Jasmine 5:10

His flashlight is a rattle

Lacey 5:14

glow in the dark bottle sippy cup, so there's that. Okay. But like my first actual like haunted memory is every summer we would go to my grandparents' house in the up and we'd spend, I don't know, weeks. A month, however long up there. But one night I like woke up and at the foot of my bed is this old lady and you know, she's not real like you just, there's a ghost quality about her

Jasmine 5:48

hard pass.

Lacey 5:50

And like, I'm young, so like seven, eight young, and I'm like, oh my god. Terrified. So I covered my face with my hand. And I felt cold. Like soft old lady hands.

Jasmine 6:06

Oh, no.

Lacey 6:06

Trying to heal my hands off my face, like trying to see who I was and, I was so scared. I just, I passed out.

Jasmine 6:16

Oh my God.

Lacey 6:16

That's, that's the whole like,

Jasmine 6:18

and I'm dead

Lacey 6:20

pretty much. Like I just remember

Jasmine 6:22

now I'm the ghost trying to pry your hands off of your face.

Lacey 6:26

I just remember the cold hands on. My hands trying to remove them. And I'm like, please go to sleep. Please go to like, I'm just like, ready? I'm done. And I pass out.

Jasmine 6:36

Oh my God.

Lacey 6:39

And so in the morning I'm like telling my grandma who like doesn't believe any of this, right? So then I call my mom and she's just like, that's weird. Believes me. But like

Jasmine 6:50

that's weird that. Suspicious,

Lacey 6:54

So she believes me when my grandma clearly doesn't. But it was like the next night, my grandpa's like, Hey, let's watch some slides of like from like when they first got married. And I was like, Hey, who's that lady? And my grandma's like, oh, that's my mom, rose. And I was like, that was the lady at the end of my bed who I've never seen. I've never met, like I never met her. She died when I was really little. I am just like, Hey, yeah, that's, that's the lady

Jasmine 7:23

that's Rose. She visited me last night

Lacey 7:27

and she was cremated and her remains were at that house.

Jasmine 7:30

Were they like under the bed?

Lacey 7:32

You, I have no idea.

Jasmine 7:33

Like, oh yeah, we put her under there for you.

Lacey 7:36

Well, my grandma was always like really weird about where her ashes were. 'cause I was like, I'd like to know where my grandma is. And she's just like, she's at the house, but like never where.

Jasmine 7:48

Under the floorboards,

Lacey 7:51

a telltale heart.

Jasmine 7:55

Yeah. So that's a little traumatizing. Are you still, do you still like the paranormal?

Lacey 8:04

Nope. And then I was thinking back, and I wholeheartedly believe that every house I've lived in has been haunted.

Jasmine 8:13

Is it the house or is it you?

Lacey 8:15

That's a very good question because I remember, the apartment on the same block as you. I had this like cassette tape, which ages me.

Jasmine 8:28

Yeah. I had this, uh, eight track,

Lacey 8:32

every once in a while, like it would just like start playing music. I've never heard,

Jasmine 8:36

oh, that's gonna be a no.

Lacey 8:37

And like sometimes there are voices to go with it,

Jasmine 8:40

like singing or just like talking,

Lacey 8:42

like talking. And I'm always like, I'd like pick it up and be like, nothing's pushed, but like, it's clearly making noise. And then I moved. And that house, I had the basement room first and we hung up curtains to separate me from the rest of the basement. And like sometimes a face would peer in the curtains in that fabric and then like come back out I moved rooms a lot in that house. I'm not sure.

Jasmine 9:06

Is it because you had creepy things just pushing against the walls?

Lacey 9:10

Like it was just curtains that hung like along the whole like fabric that just draped down and like a face would press through through,

Jasmine 9:17

no, thank you.

Lacey 9:18

And then to the very upstairs, even when that was my room and then when I was like in the living room, you could hear it. It sounded like someone walking down the stairs, coughing. And I'd always think it was like my dad coming down for work and I'd look and he'd be gone already for like hours. And then when I was, that was my room, you could hear the people coming up and down the steps all night.

Jasmine 9:42

Why did they all have a cold?

Lacey 9:44

I don't know. But it was just like a, When I lived in, in Pennsylvania, that house, which is probably the worst. Shadow people would like peek into my bedroom door if I had it open, like, just like a whole head and very tall, like by the, the frame would just peek in.

Jasmine 10:06

Yeah, that's terrifying.

Lacey 10:08

Um, and then one time I was going up the stairs and my mom was at the bottom and she saw like my shirt get pulled and I came flying down the stairs,

Jasmine 10:18

like you fell down the stairs.

Lacey 10:19

Like I had to grip on the railing, but like my body jolted back. Like, and you could see my shirt get tugged and I'd be sitting like at tables and I'm like, oh. And I'd like look at my leg and like you could see the scratches forming.

Jasmine 10:33

Why did you stay in Pennsylvania so long?

Lacey 10:37

I didn't stay in that one that long because this is the one when we lived with, when Bill was with us. And he said he woke up one night to like a crazy lady on his chest. Like she was sitting on him like with her hands around his neck. He was like, and she had like long black hair that just like draped around me and I was like, excuse me,

Jasmine 11:00

you didn't warn me about this before we moved in.

Lacey 11:03

I mean, well, he got like this for us to move into. So he didn't know either. Oh, he didn't know either.

Jasmine 11:08

Oh, no, no.

Lacey 11:10

Which by the way, the 12th of this month will be nine years since he passed.

Jasmine 11:17

That's sad.

Lacey 11:18

That's sad. It doesn't seem like nine years.

Jasmine 11:21

Yeah. Time flies

Lacey 11:22

when you're having so much fun.

Jasmine 11:24

Time flies when you're really depressed and sad.

Lacey 11:29

I don't really wanna talk about my house now, which definitely haunted

Jasmine 11:35

by an old man that likes to tinker.

Lacey 11:41

Yeah, every time we start a new project, something happens.

Jasmine 11:44

He's like, Hey, what can I mess up that you're working on today?

Lacey 11:49

That cupboard in the kitchen on the floor. You didn't want that fan, right? Just shattered. I mean, nothing's been as bad, I don't think, as Marysville, and I don't know if, like, I as a person was just like, I can't handle this anymore. And I like, shut down. Like I feel like people have always told me I like. Paranormal abilities or like I was an empath or I was sensitive and I feel like at Marysville I went, no, no, we're done.

Jasmine 12:20

No contact. See, I think I'm the opposite. I think, well, I think I was, I think were drawn to me when I was younger, and then I think as any, um, emo child that grows into an adult, they try to be normal for a few years. That's what your twenties are for. Yeah. So you try to be normal for a few years and then you're like, this sucks. I need to be who I am as a person.

Lacey 12:47

And it's not just a face mom.

Jasmine 12:50

You start being yourself again. I mean, I've always liked creepy, spooky stuff, but uh, you know, anyone who comes over to my house, there is just always. Some form of paranormal show on the TV at all times. I think it, uh, comforts my animals at this point.

Lacey 13:11

I would agree with that.

Jasmine 13:13

They just know it's time to chill.

Lacey 13:14

Watching your animals like they were everywhere. And then I turn on that show and then they just like. Powered down for the night,

Jasmine 13:25

h TV for the save. Thanks Samsung. So the first time I remember being in a place that I was like, this is haunted. I mean, I was probably kindergarten or elementary, like really early on.

Lacey 13:48

Oh.

Jasmine 13:49

And it's like an old mansion that's a museum now, which I'm pretty sure you can still go there and look at stuff. But like I'm a little kid and they're not like, oh yeah, this place is haunted. Like just the vibes as a child. I'm like, there's something wrong with this place. Like I just knew it. And that's like the first time I remember being like. Something ain't right here. This is really weird. As I've gotten older and kind of thought about that, that place is supposed to be haunted. Like I found stuff online about it. Just curious.

Lacey 14:21

Was I crazy?

Jasmine 14:23

No, no, no. Actually

Lacey 14:25

not this time.

Jasmine 14:27

I mean, and growing up my dad would talk about all of. His crazy things that he had happening in different houses that he lived at or places he used to babysit at. So he always kind of had stuff happen to him too. And then my childhood house, I kind of had reoccurring nightmares in this house and I know my sister did as well. And it was always the same nightmare where it was like I'm lost in our basement. So we have a laundry room and my mom used to hang clothes like on the rafters to dry in this laundry room. So like you're trying to fight through these clothes and you're like getting lost in them 'cause something is chasing me. And then when you go to scream for help. Nothing comes out, it's just like a silent scream. And then I, you like get caught and wake up like startled a terrible scream.

Lacey 15:23

I hate that.

Jasmine 15:23

So my sister also had a reoccurring nightmare. I don't know if she's had it since. She would be attacked by the tickle witch in her dreams who would tickle you to death, which is kind of silly. Uh, but also a reoccurring nightmare that she had. She was terrified of this thing and I was kind of mean and they would be like, oh, the tickle man

Lacey 15:45

completely tracks,

Jasmine 15:48

you know, and try to traumatize her. 'cause I'm the older sister, that's what we're supposed to do. But also there were just parts of this basement, which I spent a lot of time in this basement because, you know, computers and the internet.

Lacey 16:02

Is this the basement you had a birthday party in?

Jasmine 16:04

Yeah.

Lacey 16:04

Okay. Yeah, that basement was creepy.

Jasmine 16:06

Okay. But it was like a finished basement. Like it doesn't, to, to the unknowing eye, it doesn't seem that creepy.

Lacey 16:12

Right. But you get down there and you're like, the vibes are off.

Jasmine 16:15

But like there's, I don't know if you knew, but there's a crawl space, like there's a wall with shelves, like when you walk down, it's a really long wall. It has like shelves and cabinets attached to it. Behind that was a crawl space for like storage. And I would never go in that space because I found it so creepy. Like I cannot remember a time that I ever went in there. I've looked down there and got creeped out and it's like, Nope. Never.

Lacey 16:41

Nope.

Jasmine 16:42

And then there was another room that's like on the opposite side, like the back corner. I would never go in that room either, cause it just. Creeped me out. I have no idea why. I just would, if I had to go in there to grab something, 'cause it was kind of just like a storage room. I'd like grab it and run out. But that was like, a reoccurring thing in that basement. The feeling of being like something was chasing after you. 'Cause I would stay up late into the night on the computer as one does as a teenager. Back in those days

Lacey 17:14

writing MySpace code?

Jasmine 17:15

Yes. Uh, writing code, being on MySpace in chat rooms. Yeah, chat rooms. And then, you just get a feeling that's like, okay, I need to leave. And you go to run up the stairs and you're like, I have to run up the stairs really fast 'cause something, or something's gonna catch me. And there are times where like the laundry room light would like flash. On and off. So like, just the vibes in that basement were kind of creepy. It's good to know that You also thought so. But then there was another time that I was sleeping in my room, so I was a little bit older, I believe at this point. And I was sleeping and I woke up. I can't remember if it was in the morning if I took a nap. 'cause I love a nap. But I wake up and I can't move. So you're like, oh, it's just sleep paralysis. No, there was a translucent guy standing above me, staring down at me while I'm in the bed.

Lacey 18:09

Totally normal.

Jasmine 18:10

Yeah. And like I just close my eyes really hard. I'm sorry I don't pass out like you did. But it was kind of those situations where like a child is scared and. Throws their blanket over their head. Right. To try and make the monster go away. Which me squeezing my eyes shut really hard.

Lacey 18:29

Look, the old lady was touching my hands.

Jasmine 18:31

Yeah. That didn't happen to me. I just had someone leering at me. When I eventually opened my eyes again, he was gone. So that's always creepy. And then me and my sister rented a house

Lacey 18:43

murder room.

Jasmine 18:44

Yes. Uh, the basement was also very creepy. We titled one of the rooms, the murder room,

Lacey 18:50

very aptly named. This looked like there had been a few murders.

Jasmine 18:57

We had a light just hanging from the ceiling to illuminate this when we needed it. Um, yeah. Murder room. Still, still our wifi name to this day. But like I didn't go with her to see the house at first. She found it. She's like renting it. Perfect. Cool. But I walk into this house and I'm like, okay, we live here now. These vibes are totally cool until the first night I'm sleeping in my. Bedroom. And again, I wake up and there's an old lady watching me from my closet and I can't move. And you're like, you in that darn sleep paralysis. But like the only time this has ever happened to me is in places that feel very haunted to me and something is leering at me from somewhere.

Lacey 19:51

Do you think though it's the places, or do you think it's you?

Jasmine 19:56

I think it's the places, because this, this home I've never had an issue on. I mean, watching your animals one night, like there was definitely something that felt like it crawled into bed with me. Okay. I I, that might be you. But I've never, okay, maybe I haven't had like, a bad experience in this house. Like nothing really creepy I feel has happened here. Yeah, old lady watching me from the closet, uh, super creepy. Again, I don't think this was a close my eyes and hope she goes away. Situation. I think she just eventually disappeared and I could move again and went back to sleep. Or maybe I was dreaming the entire time, who knows? But that was not the only time weird stuff happened in that house. So there would be like days I wouldn't go into the kitchen. And then when I finally would go into the kitchen, a cabinet would be open, or a drawer would be open. And I was the only one in this house 'cause my sister would travel for work. So it doesn't make any sense. And I didn't have cats at the time, so you can't be like, oh, it's just the cats. No, it, I, I had a dog, but he's not climbing up on a counter to get to the cabinet. To open the cabinet to be like, whoa, this one's really gonna get her. So yeah, that was kind of weird.

Lacey 21:11

And then I kind of would love it though, if he would.

Jasmine 21:14

Catch frisk around the counter. Like, oh,

Lacey 21:18

if he could open anything, it would be the fridge

Jasmine 21:21

accurate. There'd be no food in the house ever, ever. And then there was a time my dad had come over to help me move something out of the car. Because it was too heavy for me to move by myself. So we're just hanging out in the living room talking after we moved it, and then we hear like a bang and a sliding noise and we both just look at each other like, you heard that right? And he, he's like, yeah. Uh, I'm gonna go walk the perimeter of the house to make sure there's no one out there

Lacey 21:54

and not be me.

Jasmine 21:55

Um, exactly. And I'm like, okay, I'll, uh, I'll walk the inside of the house to see if anything fell.

Lacey 22:00

I'll stay right here.

Jasmine 22:02

No, he's like, I got the outside. You got the inside? No. I said, okay. I'll walk around the inside to see if anything fell. Nothing fell, so I have no idea. It was just really weird. And then there was another day. That, like I said, love a nap. Love a nap. I was trying to take a nap on the couch. My sister had a friend staying at the house for work and so he was staying in one of the other rooms. They were both at work, and every time I would be like on the brink of falling asleep, I kept hearing a slam noise and I'm like, oh, I was just dreaming. I try to go back asleep. Same thing like right on the brink of sleep, slam get woken up. So that happened three times before I get up and decide to start exploring to see what the heck is going on. And I think I recorded it too. I don't know if I have it still, but I was like walking down the hallway with my phone, like, okay guys, I keep hearing a slamming noise, so when I get to the end of the hallway. The door is cracked. So I'm like, oh, her friend cracked a window or something like that. And the airflow was making the door open and close. The window wasn't open, the fan wasn't on. There was no reason for this door to be moving and opening and closing when I was sleeping. So like didn't make any sense at all. And I actually. Know the people that lived in the house before me. 'cause they also rented it. And just recently, they came into my work and we were kind of talking about the house a little bit and I was like, oh yeah, this room in the basement. I called the murder room. And she's like, that was my bedroom. It was so creepy down there. We need to talk, she's like, it was so haunted there, like it was, yeah. So when we moved outta that house, I wasn't upset about it. Um, nothing creepy has happened in this house. Maybe it's because I'm creepy and I just like it, but

Lacey 23:57

it's a ghost sign. And you're like, she's creepier than I am.

Jasmine 24:00

Yeah. I just want. My house to be comfortable and cozy. Maybe I protect this house more though, 'cause I'm much more into that. 'cause I would say if now anything, I am pretty sensitive to that kind of stuff, especially when we go places. So I'm pretty sensitive, so I feel like sometimes things can be drawn to me and I haven't necessarily felt that in this house, but I'm also like. Go away. This is my safe space. Not allowed.

Lacey 24:31

I've definitely gotten rid of some mirrors. I've made sure that none of them are facing my bed anymore. I'm also very careful about my desk chair in my room. It is never facing my bed and it's never empty. Like I'm never inviting someone to come sit and watch me sleep

Jasmine 24:48

because he would, he would,

Lacey 24:53

I mean, like I've cleansed the mirrors I brought into the house. But like, yeah, there were some mirrors that were left there that I'm like, absolutely not.

Jasmine 24:59

Just throw them in a dumpster fire. Honestly,

Lacey 25:03

that's what happened. Not the fire part, but the dumpster. I was like, absolutely not.

Jasmine 25:08

This mirror is not safe.

Lacey 25:10

Yeah. I don't, I don't trust mirrors. Certainly not ones that were left.

Jasmine 25:15

Yeah,

Lacey 25:16

so that, that's, that's our tails. That's why we are the way we are

Jasmine 25:21

the end.