The Creature in the Vanity

We’ve got three listener submissions this week that each hit differently — starting with a birthday trip to the Stanley Hotel where flickering lights, a disembodied little girl’s giggle, and a mysterious cigar smell in the elevator made for a haunting you’d actually want to have.

Then we dove into Kevin’s story out of Santa Fe, where an ornate family vanity became the home of something tall, impossibly thin, and very much aware of him — and the second time he saw it, this thing was done just standing there.

We wrapped up with Sarah, a girl from a Mescalero Apache family with a long line of seers, whose mother had a dream so terrifying it sent the whole house into lockdown mode the next morning — and the missing necklace that started it all was never found.