Stormy Daniels Says 'Non-Human Thing With Tentacles' Haunted Former Home

Stormy Daniels has opened up about her paranormal experiences, claiming that a "very dark non-human thing with tentacles" haunted her former home.

She also claimed the spirit broke items, and affected her health and the mental health of her then boyfriend. Daniels, 43, is an adult film actress and director best known for being involved in a legal dispute with Donald Trump. She claimed she had an affair with him and was paid to hush money to keep her silent. Trump, 76, has always denied the affair.

Stormy Daniels and spooky imagery
Stormy Daniels discussed her experience with the paranormal on a recent podcast with former Playmate Bridget Marquardt. JC Olivera / Barry King/Getty Images / WireImage

Daniels, real name Stephanie Gregory Clifford, appeared on the podcast Ghost Magnet with Bridget Marquardt, hosted by the former Playboy star. On it, the guest discussed her intense experiences with the paranormal, which began when she moved into a 200-year-old house in The Garden District of New Orleans in 2019.

Daniels began by saying she hired two mediums to come to her home who informed her there were "multiple entities" in the house. Daniels proceeded to describe them to Marquardt, 49.

"Definitely one very, very dark non-human thing with these tentacles and that's what I caught on camera and [it] shattered my ex's guitar -- it just snapped in half one day sitting on the stand. It did not like him at all.

"One is a woman who lost a child and blamed herself and if I stood in a certain spot in the kitchen, I would just cry, and like a couple of people said like they felt like she was cutting herself," Daniels said.

The final spirit Daniels described was felt by a medium whom she talked to over Zoom. "The house is partially furnished and there's a very old mirror upstairs that I used to always feel like someone was watching me but it was kind of a protective feeling," she said.

Daniels confirmed the medium knew about the mirror without seeing it and could describe its look. She continued: "And they're like, 'There's a woman that used to get made up in that mirror. She was a lady of the night and she identifies with you because you're a sex worker and she's very protective of any man who gets in that bed with you.'"

Daniels went on to describe how the strange happenings in the house started to ramp up over time, affecting not just her but also the partner she was living with.

"The guy who was living with me at the time, we started fighting. He got real mean, would say horrible things to me for no reason. And then it escalated to him putting his hands on me which had never happened when we lived together in our previous place. And then he was gone."

When Daniels was left alone in the house, she said she installed cameras that caught shadows of things moving in the house. Eventually when her lease was up and she was preparing to leave, "the house got aggressive."

Daniels explained, "I started having these headaches and my hair was falling out and I have pictures of me with like blood coming out of my ears. Then like stuff would, instead of something just moving or tapping, fly at me. You could feel the hostility in the house."

After her boyfriend moved out of the property, Daniels said she has not spoken to him since.

The full episode of Ghost Magnet with Bridget Marquardt, titled "Stormy Daniels' Haunted New Orleans House and Spooky Dolls", is online and available to listen to now.

Marquardt is also the co-host of the Girls Next Level podcast alongside fellow ex-playmate Holly Madison, 42. Many of their conversations lift the lid on the inner workings of the Playboy Mansion when Hugh Hefner was alive. The pair also discuss what it was like being one of his girlfriends. Combining the two themes of her podcast, Marquardt has previously said she was visited by the ghost of Hefner, who died aged 91 in 2017.

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