We recently connected with Britt Kilpatrick and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Britt, thanks for joining us today. Everyone has crazy stuff happen to them, but often small business owners and creatives, artists and others who are doing something off the beaten path are often hit with things (positive or negative) that are so out there, so unpredictable and unexpected. Can you share a crazy story from your journey?

SkeleTales Podcast is all about telling true tales of the strange, unusual and paranormal.

One such story came to us from a listener, we’ll call her June, who had an experience she just couldn’t explain.
This happened shortly after the podcast started about two years ago.
June has a 3 year old daughter Elle. Elle had begun talking about her imaginary friend Jada. She said Jada was older than her, had dark skin and loved to have tea parties.
June having just listened to the podcast had the thought “what if this imaginary friend isn’t so imaginary” so she picks up her phone and searches “Jada, then the name of her neighborhood”.
The very first result shows an obituary for a 12 year old little girl who had passed away in 2005.
She clicks on the link and a photo of this smiling young girl shows up on her phone. It does not explain how she died but she had lived in her same neighborhood.
At that moment, Elle walks up, looks at the phone and says “mommy, that’s Jada!”
Chills ran up June’s spine. So of course she told SkeleTales this news.
Once shown the obituary, co-host Alissa decided she had to find out how Jada had passed away.
After some extensive research she found a short blip in a newspaper about a car accident involving Jada’s mom, Jada, and a semi-truck just a few short miles from June’s home. There was not a lot of details but we know that Jada’s mom survived and Jada did not.
Over the next few months Elle would hang out with Jada regularly. Once Elle got very upset with her brother who was sitting in the chair in the corner of the room. She began franticly yelling “don’t sit there! That’s where Jada is sitting!”
June never once told Elle that Jada was not alive or that she had died in a car accident. She was three after all and June didn’t mind having Jada come play with her daughter.

SkeleTales received a recorded message from June a few months later. Apparently Elle had woken very upset, crying and shaking. She had had a bad dream. In her dream her and Jada had been in a car together. She said it had been Christmas time in the dream because she saw the lights. Then there was a big truck and the roof of the car opened up and Jada’s mom said “oh no!” and Elle and Jada went through the roof. Elle said Jada’s mom was very sad. That’s when she woke up.
None of us could remember what time of year the car accident had occurred so we looked it up and it had taken place on January 3rd, just days after Christmas.

Over the next few months we would receive updates about Jada. Little things like how she didn’t like Elle’s dog but that Jada had liked her own small dog she had. Jada would talk about visiting her mom and her baby brother.
From our research we knew Jada didn’t have a brother but did have an older sister who happened to have a baby boy at the time.

Eventually I decided that it was time to contact Jada ourselves. With June’s permission, we gathered at her home with our mutual friend Heather and a Ouija board in tow.
I’d only done Ouija one time previously and knew that it could take some time to make contact with a spirit.
That was not the case this particular evening.
With our fingertips lightly touching the planchette we began asking questions and almost immediately we made contact with a spirit who confirmed they were Jada.
She said she likes it when June makes BLTs in the house, she confirmed she did not like June’s dog, she said she likes to play with Elle and that she’s cute. It got emotional in the room when she said she needed “help” and we asked “how can we help” and she writes “M O M”. She was worried about her mom.
June told her that she would try to help and that she would make her some BLTs very soon and we moved the planchette to the words “goodbye” said “good bye Jada” giving her permission to leave.

I recently reached out to June to see if she had any Jada updates for me.
She said that since the Ouija session Jada has not come back.
She said Elle, who is now 5, will still draw pictures of Jada and home and in school.
Elle says she misses Jada and wishes she would come back to play.

I like to hope that Jada was able to find peace in communicating with us and that she’s been able to move on, untethered from this earthly realm.

Britt, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Britt Kilpatrick. I co-host a podcast SkeleTales with Alissa Williams. Each week we gather to share true tales of the strange, unusual and paranormal.
Listeners are encouraged to share experiences they’ve had by phone or email.
Although the topics can be a bit macabre, we keep the mood light and fun.
We’ve covered topics ranging in ghost stories to UFO encounters, each week is something fun and different.

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

I first met Alissa in Colorado at a rally car race back in the early 2000’s. Her boyfriend Mitch and my husband Mike were both driving in this race and Alissa and I had gone to be supportive. We decided to spectate together and found a spot near the offroad track to watch our partners.
We ended up getting so caught up in our conversation that we didn’t end up paying any attention to the race at all!
From then on we became friends and would hang out regularly and party it up.
Eventually we both moved from Colorado but we continued to keep in touch.
In 2020 Alissa reached out to me saying she was thinking of starting a podcast. She knew I listened to podcasts and asked my opinion on names and logos, etc. Then she asks if I would like to be her co-host? I said no. I don’t like the sound of my voice and I’m not witty or clever. Then I thought to myself, “we’re in the middle of a pandemic so why the F not!”. So I agreed and it has been one of the best decisions of my life.
I get to hang out with one of my favorite people in the world, share mind blowing stories, and just have fun.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

Our social media presence started at first with directing our friends and family to follow and like our pages. We then encouraged them to share our pages with their friends.
Early on we did a merch giveaway to encourage others to share with their friends.
That increased our followers by about 25%.

The biggest advice I can give to increase followers is to post! post! post!
Daily posting, creating content, and doing video reels/stories will get you more visibility.

It takes time and is not always easy but worth it in the long run.

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