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Eight years ago I was hunted
by an evil spirit.

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I was 25 at the time and I was living
In a tiny house behind other house in L.A.

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Is this guest house, kind of lapidaded
Not taken care of for a long time

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And one night I was sitting there and got
this truly spooky feeling

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Kind of the feelinglike you are
being watched, but no one was there

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Except my two dogs, they were just resting
I look around and no one was there

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I thought "Ok this is just my imagination"
But the feeling just kept getting worse

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I started to feel pressure in my chest
Like the feeling when you get bad news

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But it's starting to sink lower and lower
Over the course of that week

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This feeling got worse and worse
And started to become convinced

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That something was there
In my little guest house haunting me

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And I started to hear this sounds (Woosh)
Kind of whisper like something passing by

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I called my best friend Claire and said 
"I know this is going to sound crazy"

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"But I think there is a ghost in my house"
(Laughs) "I need to get rid of it"

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She's very open minded and said
"I don't think you are crazy"

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"¡I think you just need to do
a cleansing ritual!" (Laughs)

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"Get some sage and burn it
And tell it to go away"

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So I said ok, I went and bought sage
And I have never done this before

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So, set the sage on fire, waved it about
and said "¡Go away! This is my house"

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"I live here, you don't live here!"
But the feeling stayed nothing got better

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Then I started to think "Ok this thing
Is propably just laughing at me"

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Because it hasn't laughed and I probably
just look like this impotent and powerless

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Thing that couldn't get it to go away
So, everyday I come home and realize

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This feeling got so bad that, I mean
I'm laughing about it now

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But I would sit in there in bed
And cry every night

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The feeling on my chest got worser
It was physically painful

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I even went to a psychiatrist and tried
To get her to prescribe me medicine

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And she wouldn't just beacuse 
I dont have schizophrenia (Laughs)

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So finally I got on the internet 
and googled hauntings

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I came upon this forum "Ghosthunters"
But these were a special kind of hunters

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They were skeptics. They believed that
every case of ghosts that they had

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Investigated so far had been
explained away by science.

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I was like "Ok smart guys, this is what's
hapenning to me, and if you have

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an explanation for me I would love to
heart it" and one of them said

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"¿Have you heard of carbon monoxide
poisioning?" Yeah... like gas poisioning?

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So carbon monoxide poisioning is when
you have a gas leak in your home

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I looked it up and the symptomps of
carbon monoxide poisioning include

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A pressure on your chest
auditory hallucinations (Woosh)

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And unexplained feeling of dread.
So that night I called the gas company

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I said I had an emergency. "I need you
to come out, dont wanna tell the story now

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But I need you to come out" (Laughs)
They came, I said "I suspect a gas leak"

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They brought their gas detector
and the main said "It's really good thing

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that you called us tonight because 
you could have been dead very soon"

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37% of americans believe in haunted houses
and I wonder how many of them

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have been in a haunted house
and how many of them in danger.

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That haunting story has led me to my job
I'm an investigator in two senses

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I'm an investigative journalist and 
investigator of the claims of paranormal

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In claims of the spiritual and that means 
a few things, sometimes I'm pretending

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To need an exorcism so that I can go
to an exorcist and see if he is using

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Gimmicks or psychological tricks to try to
convince someone that they are possesed.

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Sometimes it means that I go undercover on
a french group which I report on a podcast