Spooked The Paperboy - Classic
Nov 28, 2025
Dr. Ray Christian, a clinical professional and captivating storyteller, shares his haunting childhood experience as a paperboy. He recounts the eerie deliveries to a notorious house, inhabited by a reclusive man whose peculiar habits and unsettling demeanor raised serious questions. After a year of strange encounters, Ray's world turns upside down when he learns the man had been dead for some time. This chilling tale explores guilt, reality, and the silence that envelops unsettling truths.
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The Creepy Paper Route
- Ray Christian describes taking over a creepy paper route on North 25th Street and entering a dark, newspaper-stuffed house.
- He meets a filthy, reclusive man and narrowly collects a large roll of change wrapped in a used scarf as payment.
Childhood Jobs and Risk
- Ray frames paperboy work as dangerous in a rough neighborhood and explains his mother's single rule: be safe at all times.
- The job made him more vulnerable, forcing a tension between earning money and staying alive.
Weekly Rituals Behind A Closed Door
- The man never came to the door but always left $1.50 in change inside a handkerchief on the table each week.
- Ray learned to announce himself loudly and leave the paper through a narrow path of stacked newspapers without ever seeing the man again.