Two strange encounters. Two women marked by the color blue.

First, listener Troy shares an experience from Ferndale Cemetery on California’s North Coast, where a distant woman in a blue dress seemed to vanish among the graves. What happened next — including a photograph and a whisper from an unseen voice — turned a casual cemetery visit into his first paranormal experience.

Then, we head into the Sierra National Forest near Shuteye Peak, where a three-year-old boy reportedly saw a blue-haired woman in a remote meadow. His description would soon be connected to the disappearance of Sandra Johnsen Hughes, a missing hiker whose case remains unresolved.

Two haunting stories, hundreds of miles apart, linked by one unforgettable detail.

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This week on The Ghost Collector, two firsthand stories take us into places that felt wrong long before anyone could explain why.

In “The Mail Slot,” Romel remembers a badly burned house in his childhood neighborhood and the day a group of kids found one small way to look inside. What they saw in the charred living room became even more disturbing when they learned what happened next.

Then, in “Please Feed the Animals,” Dennis recalls a late-night drive into the mountains near Hecker Pass, where an overgrown road led to a lit cabin, roaming animals, a hanging dummy, and a strange handwritten sign. When they returned later to find the place again, it was nowhere to be found.

Two strange memories. Two places that left behind more questions than answers.

Two firsthand encounters. Two very different kinds of strange.

In The Light in the Orchard, a listener remembers a mysterious light moving among the trees during childhood—only to encounter it again years later on a foggy night when he was lost and trying to find his way.

Then, in The I-5 Encounter, Mark recalls driving near Firebaugh, California, when traffic slowed to a near stop as motorists watched an enormous, dark, rectangular object hovering beside the freeway before it suddenly rose and disappeared.

A wandering light. A massive object in the night sky. And two experiences that still resist easy explanation.

This is The Ghost Collector.

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