Psychic Dread

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Definition

A sudden, intense feeling of fear or wrongness with no obvious cause. Paranormal researchers sometimes see it as an intuitive warning that someone or something is not what it seems.

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Paranormal investigator and author Michelle Belanger joins the hosts to explore whether a recurring type of eerie encounter has a name. Three listeners share true stories of meeting pairs of unsettling young women, at a Southern California mall, during a Los Angeles rideshare pickup near a freeway overpass, and near a Chicago-area cemetery in 1988. This final installment of the show's annual true Halloween stories series asks what links these strangely similar encounters.

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