April 15, 2026

I Painted a Witch: Haunted Painting Horror Story

I Painted a Witch: Haunted Painting Horror Story
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What if the scariest thing in your home wasn’t a ghost… but a painting you created yourself? In tonight’s Weekly Spooky episode, a casual girls’ night turns into a chilling supernatural nightmare when a woman discovers that her strange new artwork seems to know too much about her house, her life, and what is about to happen next. Haunted paintings, witches, cursed art, ghosts, and home invasion horror collide in one eerie tale that keeps getting darker every time you look closer.

If you love scary stories, witch horror, haunted house tales, paranormal fiction, and stories where everyday life suddenly slips into something impossible and terrifying, this one is for you. “I Painted a Witch” blends domestic unease, occult mystery, creepy imagery, and supernatural dread into a nightmare about art that doesn’t just reflect reality… it changes it. Lock the doors, leave the lights on, and look away before the painting looks back.

I Painted a Witch — by Bruce Haney

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It started with kitchen cabinets opening by themselves, then a

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painting that seemed to know the house the future, and

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the two women standing in front of it. By the

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time the figure inside the painting started moving, well, it

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was already too late. What's that you want to be scared?

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He Come with me. You will experience tales over our room,

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ghosts and death. It is not recommended for the week

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at Heart listeners in the dark, it's more fun at

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that way. Way. This is Weekly Speaking. Hello, my spooky

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is It's Wednesday, and you know what that means. It's

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time for a little spooky in your weekly. I'm your

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host and narrator, Enrique Kuto, and thank you so much

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for joining me for another Terror tale as we make

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our way toward our four hundredth episode, which honestly is

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kind of surreal but very exciting. And I want to

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mention if you're in the Columbus, Ohio area this weekend,

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a lot to me, believe it. But now, as for tonight.

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A house can feel safe for years, familiar walls, familiar rooms,

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familiar routines, and then one day something changes. A cabinet

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opens on its own, a strange feeling settles over the room.

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A painting appears to hold details no one should have

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known to put there, And once you realize the thing

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staring back at you from the canvas is staring back

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for real, there's no pretending it's just your imagination. Anymore,

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So get cozy as we get spooky. I Painted a

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Witch by Bruce Haney. How does a house just become haunted?

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We've lived here for almost ten years. The house is old,

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but you wouldn't think a ghost would be shy and

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wait nearly a decade before showing itself, Jenny told her

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neighbor over on their weekly girls' night. Tell me again,

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what do you think you saw? Danielle asked. Danielle wasn't

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like Jenny's other friends. They shared a similar education and

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were close in age, But just like that old song,

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Danielle was a little bit country while Jenny was a

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lot more rock and roll. Jenny had blonde hair and

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Danielle was a brunette. They were even opposites in their

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choice of partners. Danielle was married to a fairly conservative man.

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Jenny was married to a woman who used to spray

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paint anarchist symbols on the sides of buildings in her youth.

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They made friends through their partners who were in the

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same bowling league, so while their partners were out knocking

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over pins, they would stay home watch reality TV, share

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TikTok videos, and kill a box of wine. When they

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first met, Danielle was wearing pink camo cowboy boots and

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a Miranda Lambert t shirt, while Jenny was still rocking

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her worn Doc Martin's and a bikini Kill shirt. So

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neither thought they would get along. But now Girls' Night

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was the highlight of their week, a time when they

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could relax and complain about the previous week. Jenny once

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explained it to her husband, it's like therapy, but you

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get to drink. I already told you what happened, Jenny said,

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via text, that doesn't count. Come on, I want to

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feel the spookies. Danielle replied, fine, I'll tell you again

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what happened. Jenny said, okay, tell it slow and dry

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out the tension. Danielle laughed while turning off the lamp

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next to her. It's not funny. I know, I know,

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but it's been a boring week, Danielle said. I was

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in the kitchen and the cabinet opened up behind me.

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Jenny said flatly, that's not how you tell a scary story.

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Danielle complained, let me tell you your own story properly. That way,

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when you tell others, it won't bore them to death.

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You don't need another dead person haunting you. We don't

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know if it's the ghost of a dead person, Jenny added, right,

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it could be the ghost of a living person. Danielle joked. No,

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I'm not saying that. I'm just Jenny gave up. Okay,

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let me tell you the story. Let me know if

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I get anything wrong, Danielle said. Jenny agreed. Danielle slouches

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her shoulders. So my name is Jennifer, but most people

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call me Jenny. I'm a beautiful and powerful woman in

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the prime of my life, Danielle said, which made Jenny laugh.

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What are you doing what I said to interrupt me?

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If I got a fact wrong? Are those not facts? Fine? Fine? Continue.

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Jenny poured herself a glass of pink rose from the box.

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I had just arrived home after a grueling day at work,

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and all I wanted to do was drink a glass

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of water, prepare a light snack, and get out of

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my power suit. I do not wear a power suit,

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Jenny declared. It was black pants and a blouse. Danielle

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cleared her throat as I was getting ice from the

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ice maker built into my fridge. Because I'm a bougie bitch,

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Jenny laughed. I'm not bougie. I'm a punk rocker. Danielle continued.

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I felt an uneasiness that I couldn't quite place, so

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I looked around the room just in time to see

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the cupboard creak open on its own. I walked over

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to inspect it to see the cause. Maybe it was

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too full and something had shifted. This isn't any spookier,

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Jenny interrupted, you're just adding details, sh I'm just about

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to get to the good part, okay. So I was

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at the cupboard looking at it. It was only half

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filled and with cups. Nothing had shifted, nothing could have

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opened it. Jenny made a yawning motion with her hand

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and over her mouth. Then I felt it. It started

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at the base of my back, as if someone had

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rested their palm there. I looked behind me, expecting to

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see my beautiful wife Jenny burst out laughing. Maybe Jenny laughed.

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Danielle got up and walked to the kitchen, miming as Jenny,

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But nothing was there, said as she walked to the

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cupboards and touched the last one on the right. It

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wasn't that cupboard, it was the middle one, Jenny said.

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Danielle walked over and touched the middle one. Jenny shook

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her head, yes, and Danielle continued to tell Jenny her

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own story. So I looked back at the cupboard and

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it was now closed, but then it popped back open.

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Danielle made a dramatic opening of the cupboard. Ah, she yelled,

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and then laughed, that's what happened, right. Jenny set her

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glass down and joined Danielle in the kitchen. So I

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thought maybe I had closed it already, and maybe I had,

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but then it popped open again, So I was relieved.

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Jenny said why. Danielle asked, well, I thought if it

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happened again, it must just be a bad hinge or something.

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Makes sense. Danielle said, do you want me or you

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to finish the story? Danielle asked, you can do it,

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Jenny said. Danielle mined the actions as she told the

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last part, but then the next one popped open, and

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then the next, Danielle said, paused the storytelling to open

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every cupboard. Then the rest popped open all at once.

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Danielle said, while making a big opening gesture with her hands,

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that's what happened, right, Yes, Jenny said, that is spooky.

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It scared the hell out of me, Jenny added, and

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this just happened today. Yep, so did the other thing,

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Jenny said, can you show me sure? The two turned

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around to make their way to her study. Behind them,

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they heard a loud noise, and without even looking back,

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they knew all the cupboards had popped open again. Danielle

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and Jenny both dropped their glasses and screamed. Moments passed

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as the two waited to see if anything else would happen,

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but nothing did. They both laughed nervously. That is quite spooky,

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Danielle confessed, I told you, Jenny said, while grabbing a

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broom She handed the dustpan to Danielle, who helped her

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clean up the broken glasses. Once that was done, Danielle

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made moves to close the cupboards. Leave them. It's just

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going to pop them open again. Don't give it the satisfaction,

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Jenny said, Okay, let's go look at your hobby room.

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I prefer to call it my study. Jenny corrected, you

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are a bougie bitch. Danielle and Jenny opened the door

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to the study. It was a small room, but well organized.

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On the right wall was a bookshelf that housed all

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their books, her art books and her wife's books. Her

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partner's sections were full of graphic novels and young adult

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books from the eighties and nineties, lots of R. L.

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Stein and Christopher Pike. On the left side were two

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nine cube shelves filled with plastic containers with various art supplies.

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Next to them was the painting. Jenny had started painting

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only a year ago. Before that, she made small polymer

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clay sculptures, and years previous to that, she put out

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a punk rock zine called pit Girl, a zine about

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her life as one of the few punk rock girls

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in her town. The tone of the zine changed after

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she met Sarah. Her stories of isolation transitioned into stories

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of a budding romance and their adventures as they built

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their life and careers together. Each issue came out with

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a bigger gap in between releases. Eventually a year had

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passed without an issue coming out, and she let it go,

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always swearing to go back and make a final issue.

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The painting was what they were in her study to

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look at. Wow, Danielle said, yeah, it's Danielle began way

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better than my skill, Jenny finished, I wasn't going to

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say that. Danielle gave her a little smile, But, yeah,

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that is an incredible piece of art. I painted it

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this afternoon. That's incredible. A painting like that should take

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days at least, not an afternoon, and not at my

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skill level. What does it mean, Danielle asked, I don't know.

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The painting itself was an image of a woman in

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white sitting at a table in a mid eighteenth century

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home reading a book. She has various small containers all

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around the room. In her time, she would have been

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called an herbalist or a witch. Every detail was clear,

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including the titles of the books on the shelf behind her,

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books that neither of the two women knew were real

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publications or not. That is strange, Danielle stated, Yeah. She

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pointed at the painting. Did you notice that, Danielle asked,

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pointing at the mirror that hung on the wall in

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the painting. Jenny had to move closer and squint her

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eyes to see that in the mirror reflected were the

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two of them looking in? Why would you paint us

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into the painting, Danielle asked, I I didn't know. I did, sure?

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Really look again, you're wearing the exact outfit you're wearing

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right now. How would I have known that? Danielle looked.

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She was right. She didn't tell Jenny at that moment,

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but the top she was wearing was new, and in

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the paintings she was wearing her opal earrings, which she

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was wearing now. They too were new. Her husband had

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bought them on their trip, and this was the first

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time she had worn them around Jenny. She was hoping

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that Jenny would notice and compliment her. Then she would

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tell her the story of the little shop they found

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and how kind it was for him to get them

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for her. The other strange aspect of the painting was

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the art hanging up in the background. The woman was

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a painter as well, it seemed, and all of hers

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were of different homes, some modern, some ancient. The longer

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I look at this painting, the weirder it gets. This

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might be your masterpiece, Danielle said. Maybe. She stared at

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the painting some more, But is it really mine? Jenny asked,

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did you paint this before or after the kitchen incident?

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Danielle inquired, why look at her paintings that one on

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the left looks like your kitchen with the cabinets open.

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Jenny looked again, what the hell you're right? Then she

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looked at the other two paintings in the background. One

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was of the strange woman sitting on a couch, which

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looked like hers. But the last image was the worst,

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Jennifer gasped after looking at it. The woman stood over

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a body that was lying on the ground. Because of

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the style represented and the shadow work, it was hard

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to tell whose body it was. Jennifer knocked the painting

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over in frustration. Woe there, Danielle exclaimed that woman painted

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herself in my house. Jenny yelled, calm down, Remember you

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painted everything on that canvas. How could Jenny said, before

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stopping after hearing a sound in the other room, A

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squeaking sound came from another Is it ten already, Danielle asked,

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thinking that Jenny's partner was home now, Jenny said, looking

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at her fitness tracker watch in a whisper, Jenny said,

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that sounded like somebody sitting down on the couch, right, yeah,

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Danielle agreed. They both looked down at the picture to

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see the small painting within the painting where the woman

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was on the couch. They both gulped when they noticed

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that the woman who had been sitting at the table

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reading was now looking up and smiling. Now it was

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Danielle's turn to freak out. She slammed her foot through

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the painting, ripping it nearly in half. The couch squeak

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was heard again, followed by the sound of feet hitting

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the ground and then footsteps. Jenny looked over at Danielle.

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What do we do? I don't know, Jenny replied flatly.

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They both listened, trying to figure out if the steps

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were heading in their direction. They, of course were. Okay, Okay,

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let's get rational. Danielle said, I think we're past the

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point of rational. My house is now haunted, and I

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believe the woman from the painting, who is what a

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time traveling witch from the seventeen hundreds somehow, is now

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in my house. Rationality left the building a long time ago. Okay, sure,

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but we have one thing on our side, Danielle said,

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what's that? Have you ever heard of someone being killed

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by a ghost. Jenny opened her mouth to speak, but

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Danielle cut her off. Outside of books and movies. Jenny

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thought about it for a minute. No, No, I haven't

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see We're dealing with some supernatural power. We don't understand,

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but it doesn't mean that we're going to die, Danielle said.

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Jenny sighed a sigh of relief. True, you might have

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to move though. They both began to laugh, but they

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stopped when they heard footsteps. The sound of something hitting

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the door made Jenny scream. The two hugged each other,

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waiting for the inevitable the door to open and reveal

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the woman from the painting. The two watched in horror

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as the doorknob turned slowly and the door creaked before

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being slammed open. The woman in white stood in the doorway,

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giving them the same evil smile from the painting. She

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stared at them while she reached under her white shawl

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and pulled out the book from the painting. This was

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not a mass produced book. Its cover was worn and

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it appeared to be bound using a leather cord sewn

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through the paper. When she opened it, they could see

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that all the pages were handwritten. What the fuck, Danielle

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whispered to Jenny, I know. The woman began to read

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aloud from the book. It was in a language neither knew.

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Then she stopped. They both watched her, waiting for something

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to happen. Then she gave her evil smile again, and

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in one violent move, she grabbed Jenny's blonde hair, ripped

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a sizeable chunk out of it, then placed it in

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the book and closed it. The blood from where the

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chunk was pulled stained the hair around it. Jenny couldn't

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help but scream. After a moment, the volume of her

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shriek went down. Danielle turned towards her, but Jenny was gone.

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She still heard her wailing, but not as loud, and

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it came from another direction. Danielle looked behind her at

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the toy horn painting and saw Jenny inside it. She

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was frozen, but her screams could still be heard coming

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from it. Shit Danielle yelled as the woman in white

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ripped out a chunk of hair from the back of

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her head and placed it in the book. When Jenny's wife,

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Sarah arrived home, everything was back to normal in the house.

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The cupboards were closed. She expected to see Danielle and

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Jenny on the couch watching trash TV one if not

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both passed out from over indulgence in wine, but they

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weren't on the couch. Sarah trusted Jenny, but she did

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check the bedroom first, Nothing, Jenny, she yelled. Down the hallway. Danielle,

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she yelled. As she approached Jenny's study. The door was cracked,

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and this made Sara feel better. She had found them.

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When she entered the room, everything seemed normal, except that

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neither of them was there, and there was a strange

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painting in the middle of the room. To Sarah, it

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didn't look like Jenny's style. In the painting was an

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old woman in white wearing an obvious blonde wig. In

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one of her hands there appeared to be a decapitated

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head with brown hair that covered the face. In her

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other hand was a large blade. She appeared to be

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getting ready to scalp the head. Ghastly, Sarah said, and

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left the room to continue to look for her wife.

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And that, my spooky is is why you never trust

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a painting that seems a little too detailed and a

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little too interested in your personal life. Because a ghost

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in the attic is one thing, a bump in the

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night is another. But a witch who can paint herself

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into your house, step out of the canvas and start

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making edits no, thank you. That is not my kind

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of art appreciation. So tonight maybe don't stare too long

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at anything hanging on your wall. And if somebody in

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a portrait suddenly smiles when they weren't before, I'd say

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redecorating time is over and now it's time to run.

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And if you like your horror intimate, uncomfortable and crawling

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under your skin in all the worst ways, then don't

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miss cutting deep into horror. This Friday. We're going to

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dive into the found footage nightmare that is creep. It's awkward, funny,

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deeply unnerving, and the kind of movie that makes every

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strange little interaction feel like a warning sign. That's this Friday.

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And I want to say an extra special thank you

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and Craig Cohen. And if you want to hear your

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now it's time for me to get back to work,

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because I have lots to do before I head off

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to the Oddities and Curiosities Expo in Columbus, Ohio. So

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for myself, for my executive producers Rob Fields and Bubbletopia

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dot Com, my producer Dan Wilder, and of course my

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creepy composer Ray Maddis, I'll be talking at you very

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very soon, and until then, don't decorate with ghosts. Talk

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at you soon. Thank you for listening. To make sure

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to find your way back next week week. But for

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now you are safe, trust me,