The Woman in White

In this listener-submitted episode, we share three unsettling paranormal encounters sent in by our audience that range from dimensional displacement to possessed dolls.

We start with Sophia’s story from West Virginia in 2008, when she was just 10 years old and chased her normally calm dog, Chance, across the street—only to find herself completely transported to an unfamiliar place with nothing but grass in every direction and a single brick house she’d never seen before. Despite knowing her neighborhood like the back of her hand, Sophia suddenly couldn’t recognize anything around her, and when her dog mysteriously reappeared and led her in a different direction, she eventually found herself returned to her frantic family who had been searching the entire neighborhood for her.

Our second story comes from Charis and her grandmother in North Carolina, who dealt with a baby doll that continued crying and laughing despite having no batteries—until Charis hit it in frustration and muttered “stupid doll,” causing every light and the TV to shut off instantaneously while the air grew thick and heavy.

The final encounter involves Marissa from Texas whose family’s 2013 Halloween party decorations included what her father called a “fake” Ouija board in their exorcist-themed guest room, which seemed to summon a faceless Woman in White with long black hair who appeared in dreams, touched guests with freezing hands, and eventually threatened Marissa’s father with a baking tray while radiating joy at their fear.