[Listener Tales: Paranormal Encounters, Haunted Objects, and Unsettling Entities]-[Listener Tales 103: Halloween 2025!]

Morbid · B2 · 2025-10-30

📋 Summary

Listener Tales: Paranormal Encounters and Haunted Legacies

This episode of Morbid features a special Halloween edition of "Listener Tales," where hosts Ash and Elena dive into chilling, listener-submitted stories of the supernatural. The episode explores themes of spirit communication, cursed objects, and the haunting reality of entities that seem to follow the living.

The Lingering Presence of "Bart"

In the first tale, a listener named Manda recounts a childhood experience from the early 2000s in Australia. After creating a makeshift Ouija board with friends, they made contact with an entity that identified itself as "Bart." The session quickly turned sinister, causing physical distress among the children. Years later, as a teenager, Manda experienced a terrifying recurrence when a friend at a party began channeling the same entity, "Bart," despite no prior knowledge of the original event. The entity’s presence was confirmed when another friend, who had recently lost her sister, claimed her sister had "gotten rid of him" for Manda. The story concludes with Manda’s lingering unease, as she continues to carry the memory of this entity that seemingly followed her into adulthood.

The Void with Eyes: A Cursed Mirror

A second listener, Chris, shares a haunting experience involving a "seer's glass"—a blackened mirror—given to him by a mentor named John. Despite John’s explicit warning, "Do not look directly at yourself in this mirror," Chris eventually succumbed to curiosity. Upon looking into the glass, he witnessed a "wicked smile" on his reflection that did not match his own, followed by terrifying visions of a Cenobite-like version of himself. Chris describes being followed by a "translucent white, hazy creature" with red eyes, a presence later confirmed by others. He characterizes this as a "semi-symbiotic relationship" with a passenger entity that he feels is tethered to his being, leading to a lifelong aversion to mirrors.

The Chilling Encounter at Chillingham Castle

Chelsea, a listener living in Scotland, shares her traumatic experience at the notoriously haunted Chillingham Castle. During a night tour of the castle, the group learned about "John Dragfoot Sage," a brutal 14th-century torturer. While sitting in the grand dining room, Chelsea felt as though she were being physically choked by an unseen force. She describes the sensation as having "all oxygen leave my body," an experience she later attributed to the residual, malevolent energy of Sage, who was known for his sadistic methods. The intensity of the encounter left Chelsea shaken, reinforcing her belief in the thin veil between the living and the dead in such haunted locations.

Possession at Pennhurst State School

The final story, submitted by Matt, details a terrifying trip to the abandoned Pennhurst State School and Hospital. His friend Lawrence, a self-proclaimed skeptic, began exhibiting signs of possession while inside "Quaker Hall," a room associated with severe historical abuse. Lawrence claimed he could hear a voice inside his head and felt as if something was "grabbing his heart." The behavior persisted even after they left the location, with Lawrence appearing catatonic and distressed. Although Lawrence eventually returned to normal, he remained deeply scarred by the event, refusing to discuss the incident to this day, leaving Matt to wonder what exactly followed them home from the ruins of the hospital.

Conclusion

The episode highlights the profound impact of these "listener tales" on the hosts and the audience alike. Whether through Ouija boards, cursed antiques, or historically charged locations, these stories serve as a reminder of the unexplained phenomena that many individuals claim to have encountered. The hosts conclude by reflecting on the "spooky" nature of these experiences and the importance of respecting the unseen, while also promoting their new limited-run Morbid tarot deck, encouraging listeners to continue "keeping it weird."

🎯Key Sentences

I mean, a moment.

Shout out to Drew.

It's iconic.

Welcome to the club.

It is a hard knock life.

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📝Key Phrases

burn the shit out of

hard knock life

missed opportunity

put it in our pocket

dodge a bullet

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📖 Transcript

Welcome, foolish mortals.

Hey weirdos, I'm Ash.

I'm Elena, and also Pennywise's sidepiece.

Yeah.

And this is Morbid.

Thank you.

This is from Chris. greetings morbid mistresses queens of the cast wonderful weird women of the interwebs oh i love when people come up with very elite names i do too it's fun love that yeah queens of the cast is fun queens of the cast yeah wonderful weird women of the internet interwebs i like it i like it all yeah My name is Chris and you can use my name.

Keep it weird, but not so weird that you go into a locked room in a locked cabinet with a locked mirror and you look into it, even though john told you not to, and then you get a dark passenger for the rest of your life, unless maybe he decides to leave at some point when you spritz yourself like blanche devereaux with holy water.

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