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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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0:00.0 | This is a real ghost stories online extra. |
0:06.1 | Hi. |
0:08.4 | I am from Pennsylvania, and my name is Jennifer. |
0:13.9 | And I grew up in a house that was over 100 years old, probably closer to 150, that has a really bizarre kind |
0:25.6 | of history where at one point it was part of it was a horse supply store. |
0:31.7 | And in Scrant, Pennsylvania, there's really kind of a depressive history there of a lot of coal |
0:36.4 | mining and iron ore mining and steam engines, just a lot of suffering on the backs of immigrants. |
0:44.6 | In fact, both of my great-grandfathers died in their 50s of black lung disease, unfortunately. |
0:49.7 | There's also a lot of history of alcoholism and just depression in that area. |
0:55.2 | Just kind of paint a picture of the culture. |
0:58.1 | And down at the end of the block where I grew up was a little cemetery, in fact, that had gravestones dating back to, I can remember, the oldest one I saw was the 1700s. |
1:10.7 | So many of them were kind of worn away, so you could barely see what they said, but you could still make that out. |
1:18.1 | So there was just so much culture that this city was steeped in, in my neighborhood especially, and my house where I grew up. |
1:26.5 | My family owned two homes. |
1:27.9 | We had a bigger house where I grew up and then a smaller house that we actually called |
1:34.4 | the little house that was down the end of our property, beginning with another property. |
1:42.0 | And the little house, I had several generations of family actually lived |
1:48.3 | and passed that down to us. And the bigger house my grandparents had purchased when they were a young |
1:54.0 | couple, raised their kids there. I grew up with my grandma and grandpa and my brother and my sister. |
2:02.7 | My grandpa died when I was about 10 years old and he's really the only dad I ever knew. |
2:08.5 | The big house that I grew up in was an old colonial style home. |
2:13.3 | And during the day, it was fine, very old, but fine. |
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