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Hello Empaths, we hope you're joining us again even though we scared the pants off of you last week.

And we're back to do it again this week.

But don't worry, after spooky season is over, we are back to our normal schedule of shows that we've got some great subjects lined up for you

But we thought we would conclude spooky season with some really scary spine-tingling stories that you can just snuggle up with a blanket and the

fire as you listen to us and think about, I don't know, I think it's fun to scare ourselves sometimes do you I guess it depends on the degree of scared that's true that's true

well Stephen King wrote a wonderful essay on why we need to be scared.

And if anyone wants to look it up, it's called Why We Crave Horror Movies.

And the whole point of his essay is that we push down all of our negative emotions all the time.

We're always taught to not be angry and not be afraid and be strong and be tough and be happy and be positive and he says that our negative emotions get get lost and we push them down and what we repress tends to be like the alligator in the basement I think he calls it and it's always trying to get out

so he says that when we listen or read or watch scary stuff it it's a release for us.

See, I think that's really interesting because I can read this stuff.

I can't, but I don't like to listen to it or see it on a movie or or anything. I've read all of Stephen King's work. I've read other horror writers and it doesn't impact me the same way.

I'm reading one of his newer books right now called Fairy Tale.

Okay. It's so good. I'm having like I have to actually work and you know go out and do things but I just want to sit and read this book. It's really good. It's about a a shed in a backyard that's a portal to other worlds

All right back to our topic this week of scary stories now this first story was

emailed to me years ago by a listener but I've saved it I've never forgotten it I'm

excited to share it with you, Denise, and get your thoughts on it.

And this is what she wrote.

The pre-civil war home in New Oxford, Pennsylvania summoned us with an ulterior motive.

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