It's with the first holiday of the 4th and last quarter of the calendar year that is based around this ExtraTime story about something a bit unusual but linked in some way to what we've been having on Thursdays for the past couple years, and the nostalgia movement in the world of TV where networks are realizing that their viewers are so much tied to their past and are rebooting programming & starting new content based on their most valuable intellectual property. And this story also mixes in something that would make you want to, as the saying goes, "go bump in the night."
Two of those who are featured here have had encounters with the downright paranormal: one in America's heartland who made up with her ex after a fling with the new MTV King, and the other who is a Challenge champion from a renowned cast of an erstwhile MTV show of years gone by who invited some investigators to look over her house in the Pacific Northwest. If you love those stranger occurrences we have in this world of ours, then this post is just for you as we're about to go on this trip into the weird, and A Different Kind of Being Ghosted...
The thought and sight of watching exes invade Ex On The Beach over the course of its four seasons on American television and the many others airing on MTV channels in the UK and overseas brings into focus the show that helped inspire that series: Season 29 of The Real World from winter & spring 2014, which mixed things up late in its run on traditional cable TV by introducing a twist of exes of the seven strangers flying into San Francisco.
But back in San Francisco, Cory's tendency to became attracted to blonde girls was prevalent for the first time when he met a lady from the Midwest named Jenny Delich, and they hooked up on the first night in the confessional room wearing animal costumes. But when her ex from Kansas City, Brian Williams, came to town things would ultimately get tense in the house. In the end, Cory was left all alone and Jenny & Brian made up... to the point where they would eventually become parents of their own to not one, but two kids.
Jenny's hometown of Kansas City is a key place in relation to things related to unusual things going on. It was here and on the outskirts of town that served as the backdrop and filming location for the most-watched made-for-TV movie in history: 100 million tuned into the 1983 epic The Day After, featuring a fictional nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. It took place in between the times where both nations boycotted each other's Summer Olympics in the '80s, and years before the official end of the Cold War when the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991.
Because of its existence that dates back to when the Constitution turned 101 years old, Savoy grew a reputation for becoming the most haunted place in Kansas City thanks to hotel guests and staffers encountering strange oddities. This ranges from the ghost of 1800s guest Betsy Ward who is claimed to have killed herself in her bathroom, to a 32 caliber pistol being found sealed in the wall during a renovation, plus strange voices, shadows, doors being open & closed around her suite. There is also a odd case of a restaurant manager being stabbed to death in the kitchen, guests being followed on its second floor, and elevators being stuck when it reaches the fourth floor.
With that in mind, Jenny felt brave enough to go into the Savoy and see for herself what would turn out to be the first of three episodes of her very own Stranger Things, all with her mom by her side. And as is the case with this and the second video, it's best to let her do the talking instead of us...
Months before it was closed by that fire in 2014 and after the afterglow of Real World Ex-Plosion worn off, Jenny made a return visit to the Savoy... and once again she captured ghosts on camera.
And just last year and in a break from now doing real estate in a part of the country that now boasts the new Super Bowl champions as well as a 15-year Challenger who's a longtime vendetta of a rival Challenge Hall of Famer out west, Jenny returned with a different kind of investigation. This time, she and Mama Delich drove up to the northern KC suburb of Smithville, and they arrived at a historical museum that has been around since the Civil War, much longer than the Savoy downtown. And as fate would have it, for the third time she would encounter ghosts.
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As she's been the most socially-active of her original Season 12 Road Rules cast and having just chatted with Derrick Kosinski & Scott Yager in Nashville on their Challenge Mania Live tour, those expecting Kendal's TV return to be a Challenge season would instead be an appearance on Ghost Loop a few months ago. There, she & her husband Adam showed Sean and empath Kris Star around their house in the southern Seattle suburb of Auburn as they shared their story of their house and their 3-year-old son being frightened by a angry ghost he saw in their hallway.
In preparation for the Spirit Hunters to come to their neck of the woods, Kendal did plenty of research and went around the Pacific Northwest to try and find out why there's been such paranormal sightings and feelings around their house for two years. And given that those who know her personally know of her fascination with that intriguing part of life, it took for the scaries her young kiddo had to bring about outside help with cameras in hand.
In 2003, a serial killer dumped four dead bodies into the river during a time where he went on a rampage similar to the Night Stalker of murdering 49 people and was eventually sentenced to life behind bars. Many decades earlier in the '50s, a battle between whites and Native Americans led to an uprising by the ladder, and nine people were killed.
Through investigating the paranormal and the latest technology as well as evaluating all aspects of the houses they go to, the Ghost Loop team found themselves with their hands full in looking through every room in the house including the kids' bedrooms and a library where Kendal felt uneasy reading books there... their contacts with the ghosts left them shook every time they heard suspicious noises around the property.
It then culminated with the Spirit Hunters going outside to a bonfire to try and break the loop at last, which included that fire going out by itself and a successful crossover. And when they came up with the findings, a spirit named Joseph from the Puget Sound War of the mid-1850's was indeed the person who was terrorizing the 3-year-old. When she heard about it, Kendal told the group, "If we can go on living our lives and not worrying, like, thank you so much."
And below from Instagram @KendalSheppard, the site of the last scene of their episode of Ghost Loop in broad daylight, with the triangle that reminds them of the one thing that has haunted their 30-year-old house now being extinguished into the Pacific Northwest air. And if you thought that the term of being "Ghosted" is just of an internet user being deserted by a friend of theirs without any explanation (which inspired its own MTV show last year), then you have a second definition to this.
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