A ghost in the rear-view. A record player that starts itself. Footsteps climbing the stairs, lighting a cigarette outside, and doing it all again—without a body attached. We sit down with Jacob, a lifelong creative who refuses to look away from the strange, and trace how staying open can invite moments that bend what we think is possible. He takes us from a high school friend’s fatal accident to a split-second apparition in his backseat years later, then deep into a mid-century Ohio house laden with a tragic past and meticulously detailed activity: a door handle turning on its own (caught on video), a knee-wall door swinging open inches away, a dog transfixed by an empty chair, and a Willie Nelson record that somehow cues itself.

Beyond the house, the map widens. Jacob now lives on 23 wooded acres where a previous owner died in a tractor rollover, and the treeline feels alive after dark. He hears voices just out of view—two people in conversation who never step into the clearing. We compare notes on mimic hauntings and play infamous “samurai chatter” linked to Bigfoot, then unpack why his sounds are more human than cryptid. The talk ranges across Appalachian folklore, from woodboogers and “sand squatch” to missing-person cases and stories of families hidden deep in the hollers. We spotlight Ohio’s paranormal hotspots—the Ohio State Reformatory, Belair’s demon house, and the Lancaster infirmary—and Jacob lays out plans to investigate and report back.

What makes Jacob compelling isn’t theatrics; it’s precision. He knows the difference between dream and event because his dogs would have barked. He recognizes the cadence of his own home. He’s not selling fear—he’s advocating attention. If you care about ghosts, cryptids, skinwalker lore, haunted Ohio, or just the places where routine gets weird, this conversation layers story on pattern in a way that sticks. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves the unexplained, and drop your own tale in our hotline: 412-533-3483. Your story might be next.

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