Three unsettling encounters with presences that could be heard, sensed, and even smelled—but never fully explained.

In “The Crying Beyond the Mine,” two friends travel into a remote mountain mining camp to test a powerful new flashlight. When one remains behind while the other explores an abandoned gold mine, a strange sound begins drifting through the darkness from somewhere farther up the road.

Next, a Lost Ghost Story called “The Smell of Someone Else.” A man living in a newer Patterson home repeatedly returns to find the unmistakable smell of body odor in his empty living room. The odor comes and goes without explanation, accompanied by fleeting movement and objects that refuse to remain where he left them.

Finally, in “Two Hours Away,” a long-distance relationship leads to frequent visits to an ordinary San Jose apartment—one where a young woman usually believes she is alone. But a series of strange incidents raises a disturbing question: when no one else is supposed to be there, who—or what—is inside with her?

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Sometimes the safest place to hide is the last place you want to be found.

In “The Hiding Place,” a childhood game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn when a young boy crawls beneath a stranger’s bed, falls asleep, and wakes to something pale and impossible staring back at him from the darkness.

Then, in “The Face Between the Posts,” another childhood memory unfolds at an old family cabin. Sleeping outside on the deck in a green sleeping bag, a boy wakes in the night to a woman’s whisper — and sees a bone-white face watching him from between the deck posts.

Two childhood encounters. Two frightening faces in the dark. And two memories that never really went away.

The Ghost Collector shares firsthand paranormal experiences, strange encounters, and true stories from people who still remember exactly what they saw.

In this episode of The Ghost Collector, two unsettling encounters leave behind questions that are difficult to explain.

First, in The Mortuary Coin, a young boy is left waiting alone after dark in a quiet 1970s downtown when two coins suddenly roll out of the darkness near a closed mortuary—one stopping directly at his feet.

Then, in The Boy in the Pajamas, an adult has a strange encounter with a young boy whose appearance seems ordinary at first... until something about the experience makes him question exactly what he saw.

Two encounters, decades apart. Two moments that seemed ordinary until they suddenly weren’t.

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