I'm Already Scared with Dr. Adam
Aug 14, 2026 · 32 min · 15 segments
THIS IS A VERY GOOD EPISODE. VERY GOOD. VERY SCARY. Not joking, love this as the PRS team goes to help a possessed man struggling with the paranormal, his past, and perhaps his own emotions. Chip…
So here is a story submitted by Heather.
She says, "You said you love benign hauntings, so I thought I'd share the most benign one I have." And she says, "You are welcome to share.
Thank you.
I grew up with a Southern mom and grandmother who had a very Southern comfortable relationship with the paranormal and death.
I guess if you know, you know, but as a child it was completely bizarre to me.
When I was very young, we had this brown leather recliner.
The cats would often just stare at it in the creepy way that only cats can.
Occasionally, we would hear a very distinctive squelching noise that the footrest part would make when it was propped up." I know exactly what noise you're talking about, Heather.
She continues, "When I would hear this, I'd go to the room expecting to see my dad with his feet propped up, but the chair was always empty.
The footrest was in the up position and sometimes the cats were staring at it too.
After being freaked out by this numerous times, I finally asked my mom if the recliner was broken because why would it open all by itself? 'Oh, that's just your grandfather,' she mentioned casually one day while working on the laundry.
My dead grandfather that I'd never met? 'Yes,' she said, that she assumed he was just coming by to visit.
That was the end of the topic as far as she was concerned.
No big deal.
It was a few years later I learned my grandfather had actually had a massive heart attack and died in that recliner.
No one in the family except me seemed to think that it was weird that the chair continued to prop itself up after his death.
But as an adult, I kinda love that he was still coming back to claim his chair." Thank you so much, Heather.
That is a wonderful benign haunting.
I bet that was your grandpa just popping a squat, chilling out with the family, doing whatever, making sure everybody's doing good and reclaiming his favorite seat and making himself comfortable in the process.
That is so cool.
I love that kind of thing.
I'm envious of that kind of thing.
More and more as I read about and see on shows benign hauntings, I kinda want one.
I don't know that I want to invite that energy into my life because I feel like that could go pretty bad pretty quickly.
Also, based upon what we see, including in this episode, by the way, no spoilers yet, but if there's any episode that makes me not want to have a haunting, this is gonna be one of 'em.
So here is a story submitted by Heather.
She says, "You said you love benign hauntings, so I thought I'd share the most benign one I have." And she says, "You are welcome to share.
Thank you.
I grew up with a Southern mom and grandmother who had a very Southern comfortable relationship with the paranormal and death.
I guess if you know, you know, but as a child it was completely bizarre to me.
When I was very young, we had this brown leather recliner.
The cats would often just stare at it in the creepy way that only cats can.
Occasionally, we would hear a very distinctive squelching noise that the footrest part would make when it was propped up." I know exactly what noise you're talking about, Heather.
She continues, "When I would hear this, I'd go to the room expecting to see my dad with his feet propped up, but the chair was always empty.
The footrest was in the up position and sometimes the cats were staring at it too.
After being freaked out by this numerous times, I finally asked my mom if the recliner was broken because why would it open all by itself? 'Oh, that's just your grandfather,' she mentioned casually one day while working on the laundry.
My dead grandfather that I'd never met? 'Yes,' she said, that she assumed he was just coming by to visit.
That was the end of the topic as far as she was concerned.
No big deal.
It was a few years later I learned my grandfather had actually had a massive heart attack and died in that recliner.
No one in the family except me seemed to think that it was weird that the chair continued to prop itself up after his death.
But as an adult, I kinda love that he was still coming back to claim his chair." Thank you so much, Heather.
That is a wonderful benign haunting.
I bet that was your grandpa just popping a squat, chilling out with the family, doing whatever, making sure everybody's doing good and reclaiming his favorite seat and making himself comfortable in the process.
That is so cool.
I love that kind of thing.
I'm envious of that kind of thing.
More and more as I read about and see on shows benign hauntings, I kinda want one.
I don't know that I want to invite that energy into my life because I feel like that could go pretty bad pretty quickly.
Also, based upon what we see, including in this episode, by the way, no spoilers yet, but if there's any episode that makes me not want to have a haunting, this is gonna be one of 'em.
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